The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-02 00:00:00

AT FISRXONGEEff-BALL.

Yesterday, being the anniversary of the happy
seeessios of the family of her peanut Majesty to the
throes of Great Britain, the Wonhipful Company of Fish-
mongers, is wasowlases with their tourrhoooared custom,
witortained her Majesty's ministers at their ball, Loados-
bridge.

The PUY! WABDI2I (Mr. Jail. Spioer) presided, and
wee supported on his right by Lord Palmerston,
and as hie left by Earl Russell, both of whom wore the
Maud of the Garter. Be wee alto supported by wardens
Mesas. W. C. Vanning, F. B. Hinshaw, 8. Moore, W.
Kama," J. Fraser Smith, sad their clerk, Mr. W. B.
Tows&

Amoapt the peersl company present were the Right
Hoe. Loed Campbell, the Right Hon. Viscount Enfield,
M.P., the Right Hoe. Sir Charles Wood, Bart., M.P., Vice.
Chamonix. Sir W. Page Wood, the Attoceey•Geosral, the
Hoe. G. Waldepreve Leslie, the Right Hoe. the Lord
Mayor, Admiral Sir George Seriatim, LientemaabGesteral
Sir F. Smith, M.P., Wu S. Morton Pet*, Bart., ILP., Sir
C. W. bilks. Bart., Sir F. Currie, Bart., Mr. John Hib-
art, Yr. W. H. Bodkin, Aisistant-Judge ; Mr. W. F.
Pollock, Muter of the Exchequer ; Mr. Gather., ILP.,
Mr. John Abel Smith, M.P., Mr. J. R. Mille, ILP., Mr. J.
Whit*, M.P., the Governor of the Bank, M.P., Mr. A. W.
Kennard, M.P., Mr. Harvey Lewis, N.Y., Kr. C. Gilpin,
ALE, Yr. W. Qem. iiLP.. Rev. Thos. Seem the Deputy
Governor of the Bask, the Chairman of the Matropolitan
Board of Works, and the Racier of the Stationers
Company.
The banquet, which was of a most magnificent character,
was served ala Ruses, and the wines were excellent. The
proceedinp cd the evening were much enlivened by • selec-
tion of vocal mane under the direction of Mr. H. Buckland,
sinned by the Orpheus Glee Union, Yarn. Fiekling,
E. Bell, T. Cook, Fagan, Baxter, Carter, Pars; and J.
Distin. Yr. Harker, as usual, ably tilled the duties of
toastmaster.
After the anal loyal and national touts,

The PRINZ WA ADEN nest gave the toast of " her Majesty's
Ministers," which was received with loud cheers. He said
that it was one that always commanded a hearty reception
in that hell —(bear, hear)—for whatever might be the political
bias entertained by various parties, there was but one
feeling of desire to do honour to those who were charged
with the arduous and responsible admioistnition of public
affairs. (Hear, bear.) They were boarred by the pre-
ssing of the noble viscount the bead of the government.
(Hear, hear.) The name of Viscount Palmettos was more
than a household word among teem—(chews)—and be was
not using the language of flattery, bat simply expressing
what he knew to be the cobra feeling, when he mid that
rarely in the annals of our country did any minister of the
British Crown pores • popularity murrains that enjoyed
by the noble lord. (Cheers.) He rue sure they would all
concur with him that it was a most providential circumstance
that they should, at so critical • period as the presson have
snob • man at the head of the government as the noble
lord, and their prayer was thatolte might be long spared to
his sovereign and his country. (Cheers.)
Lord Pautinnion replied es follows : Mr. Priors
Wards*, my lords, and gestlemen—For myself and col.
leagues I beg you will receive our heartfelt treks for the
kind tonne in which you, Mr. Prime Warden, have been
pleased to propose the tout, and you, gentlemen, for
the very handsome and obliging manner is which you
have bra pleased to accept it I need not, 1 am sure,
say it must be a great eatiefertion, end I may tay, a
most corolla( reflection to • goverment which hie
to go through arduous labours and encounter great anxieties,
to find that their conduct has, when tally explained, met
with the mention and approval of their fellow-countrymen.
And permit me to my, speaking as Ido here—sot ea •
stranger invited to your board, but, is conjuactios with
many of my colleagues, claming ourselves as members of
this most wiriest and distinguished corporation—edlow me
to say that, knowing as we do the liberal 'ultimo/its which
have always animated this serer, an well as that liberal
radon which has always guided their action, we
attach particular veins to the approval and goodwill of the
corporation is whose hall we are sow usembled. Perhaps,
Mr. Prime Wards and gentlemen, as we have bad several
months of serious political discussion, you may suppose
that we should not be anions upon this, the first week of
our holidays, to premed in that laborious, and beaten,
and hard-trodden track is which we bare bees plodding ever
since the mouth of February. I will she follow the Priam
Warden through European affairs, but will esly assure
yoit thit, in guiding this country through differing of the
greatest magnitude, we have bees influenced by the coot-
bird consideration, on the one hand, to maintain the
honour and the dignity, and to defend the interests of the
country ; and, as the other hand, sot precipitately, or
without doe and great and overpowering cause, to
involve this country is the calendar of war
(Chests.) We trust we have sroseded in maintaining the
position of Engird among the satire of the world, while
at the emu time we base secured to the people of this
country the blessings sod the advantages of pesos. I have
mid that Ni is a most wised corporation. 1 believe it
or of the most ancient, and its functions, I stayer, are
particularly connected with the position of the ocaetry
to whir it beluga, bemuse in an Wand country it is
natural That one of the fist functions of an driest
civic corporation should be to replete the inunipation ogre
vast multitude of the inhabitants of the ocean that ore in
entail with the population (" Hear," end laughter.) That
duty has bees from time to time most worthily performed
by this sorporatioe ; and I am told that to this day the in.
habitants of this great metropolis are weekly end daily
indebted to the guardian are of this corporation ; for that
there ere multitudes of immigrants that 00100 ben, from the
depths of the ocean unfitted to mix with the population og
this island, and being unable to obtain, the sesseary pan-
. port are reford as entreat* through the vigilance of this
ancient corporation. (Laughter.) lam sure thee, retie-
men, you will carder that there is so society more &sere-
, iag of the respect, the gratitude, and the attachment of the
country, than the seeociation to which I flatter myself I
have the hour to belong. (Cheers.)
The belt tout gives by the Anne WARD'S was " The
Howe of Lords," which he said was • body they must ell
venerate, bolding as it did so important a Fart in our
glorious constitution. It was not so away acted upon by
the people as the Hour of Commons ; therefore was more
sabot sad deliberative. It looked at questions unswayed by
passion, and hence, though oft** it might appear to resist
the national will by rejecting some measure which was
popular for a time, yet in effect it did not do that, it only
said, " Wait • little, the country is more or less divided on
the question, therefore review its decision ," and thus time
and thought were gained for • reconsideration ; sad if that

reconsideration resulted in • asthma! seatimeot ia favour
at the measure, it WM randy found that the House of Lords
withheld their esactiou from it.

Furl Rosana., on risiog, was received with chews. He
said—Hr. Prime Warden and gentleman, I am thaakful to
you for the boocur you have don me in drinking my health,
coupled with that of tie Home of Lords, and ends( that I
have already had the hamar of being associated in your
toast with my noble friend at the bead of the goesrunteet,
es a member of his administration, a fact which I (*noel
too often regard as a wetter of pride mid gmtificatioa. I
most say that I feel myself doubly indebted te
you for your kindness. Sir, you h►ve recoiled
to my mind times which have long pared,
and you have coupled this theme with some very jest
reflections on the character and general conduct of the
House of Lords. It is quite true that the House of Lords
have sometimes thought that the opinioa of the people
was an opinion rather hastily taken up, and that it was
not founded soon a doe consideration of t►e various parts
of the constitution which it was desirable to preserm, and
that further time ought to be given for reflection. But
yea have always seen, as the Prime Warden has so justly
remarked, that if the House of Lords aseerteined that the
people, upon farther ocinaidetratioa, thought that the rasa-
sore was useful to the mummy, and would sot be
injurious to the happy constitution under whisk we km
that home has rover isterpoesd its ova special power en a
veto to the welloossidered declaim of the people at large.

(flew, hear.) That was the came with respeotto the Reform
114 and I particularly Wee to the Betas Bill, Wawa it
wan is the year when that meaner* was brought forward—
is 1831—sow 33 years ago, that I drat bad the hosour of
being media& Itoserory member el We sweirst corporstios.

[TWOPENCE

Is framing and in brink', forward that mown under
the auspices of Lotd Grey, we were careful to
frame a mamma by which all parte of the constitution
should be preserved. Stich was the declaration which Lord
Grey made in the speech from the throne at the time, and
inch you have found by experience the measure to be.
(Cheers.) Man of thew who in 1831 considered that the
Reform Bill was a measure which would deprive the so►e.
reign, of his crown, which would deprive the House of
Lords of their privileges, and reduce all the forma of gowns-
meet to a general state of anarchy and ruin, have lived to
see their error, and I am happy to find that 33 years
afterwards everyone admits; that we are im fully in the
enjoyment of the benefits of the constitution, that
there is as tench loyalty to the sovereign, that
there is as mach, if not greater, respect
for the House of Lords as • pert of the legislature of the
country as has ever existed at any period of its previous
history. (Cheers.) This being the case, let us be permitted
to hope that thirty. haw years hence, when the discesaions
which have bees sa well and so ably conducted during the
wawa year shall have partly passed into oblivion, that
those who live at that time will sek•owledge that the
ministry of 1864 did not ill consult the honour of their
country, did not ill consult the interests of their country, in
the course which they pursued during that year, entangled as
their path wee with many difficulties ; but that,
objected to as their course was at that time, future
tames will confirm and sanction acts which our imperfect
vision, coupled with • patriotic wish to Nerve our country,
betels! as to adopt (Cheese.) If that sheath be Weans,
and if the measures which have been alluded to, namely,
the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acta, the measures in
favour of religions liberty, the measure of parliamentary
reform, the measure of free• trade, have been found not
merely to succeed, but to increase the prosperity and
enlarge the freedom of the country, let me, by
your indulgence, venture to anticipate that what
we have now done, but which bu not yet had
the sanction of time, may hereafter assess it, and
then perhaps it will be acknowledged that we who have
been the ministers of this day were not altogether unworthy
of those rewards which the Prime Warden has gives this
evening to those who have striven well, and that a wet and
badge might in some respects be deserved by us. (Cheers
and laughter.) For my own part, my sovereign has graciously
conferred upon me and some of my colleagues valued re-
wards, but es I am a married man perhaps I might at some
period or other be thought worthy of • second bottle of
wine. (Renewed Leighton) At all events I am proud
of belonging to this company. (Cheer/) I have
always respected the companies of the City of
London, for I have seen in this city, as 1 have
seen is the couotry in general, how much there is of respect
for ancient institutions, how much there is of • conservative
spirit mingled with a desire for improvement and reform,
which I have never forgotten. (Cheers.) In th►t course I
trust you will proceed. N►tions on the cootisent which
have forgotten or neglected the duty of improvement and
reform, have encountered the evils of fire, and tumult,
and revolution, while those which have run tumultuously
and rapidly in the way of change have fared bat
little bettor. (Hear, hear.) I trust it will be the
future ooeduct of this nation, as it has been its past con-
duct, to comities as attentive examination of its institutions
with • determined resolution to destroy abuses whatever
they exist, to reform those iatitiztioss wherever they can
be usefully reformed, and further, that they will combine
that determination with an equally fixed resolution to
respect the greet framework of our constitution ; because I
am convinced that, imperfect as all hums institutions
necessarily are, never did man frame • constitution which
more cesubieed menace for religion, regard for liberty,
and loyalty for the throes, with the preservation of the
neigh' of every individual who lives either the Water sad
protection of the laws—(cheers)—l say, sir, that I am cos-
varied that so pinkie/Ter did cambia* the great and wean-
tail elements of prosperity and happiness so completely as
the English people law done. (Cheers.) Trusting that in
ras•rd to foreign •Lake, as well as in domestic matters, the
present admiaistralien has salmon unworthy of your ap-
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probation, I beg la =oak yen for the hollow you have doer
me. (Chien.)
The Pasta WARDEN than pee the "Hoene of Commons."
Sir C. WOOD, is returns( thanks, mid it gave him groin
satisfaction to wits= the manner in which the toast of the
House of Commons had be= received. It was a matter of
great gratification to him to till= that he had bees able to
take part in scar of those peat liberal measures which
had bees alluded to, and that he had had the hamar of
jiving his dent vote is parliament is support of
his sable Irwsd Earl Rumen as the repeal of the
Test sad Corporation Acts. The House of Commons was
ready at all times to support the commercial interests of
the country, sad it war the duty of its members to carry
oat these peat principles which were firmly rooted is the
c)nstitutioa sad feelings of the people of Erigised.
B.eforenoe had bats mad* to the boson:able position ►e
occupied with respect to India. AU be would my on th►t
point was, be believed the people of ledia were improving,
morally and socially, :in their ooaditioo every day, and that
the course of legislation which had be= pursued with n•
spat to them had ditties& oestestraest sad =ppm=
throughout the =entry. (Cheers.)
The seat least wan, " The Lord Mayor and the Corpora-
tist." which was drank with cheers.
The Loan MATON is raturaing thanks, ongratalated the
eautraay on he knows attsclunest to the cases of civil and
religious liberty. It was by mesas of greet and powerful
oorponitioes like these that the liberties of the City ware
smistaised, and be =premed the pleasure which he felt at
the onssifeet attnement which seined between the City
°impalaes sad the Corporation of Lando& (Cheers.)
The PURE WLIDJOIF, in giving the toast of " The Beach
and the Bar," mid that they were honoured with the coin-
' puny of ace of the judges of the Courts of Equity, a patte-
rn= whom they always delighted to as, among them
and of wham, ass brother fielinanger, be might my they
all felt proud. He had so distinguished himself, first at
the bar and sinews/a at the beech, that there was so
position st the law to whit► he might sot meet justly
aspire. Sir W. Pap Wood was is himself an =penman= of
the purity and isdepeeilence with which the laws in this
country are administered. (Hear, hear.)
Sir W. PAGE WOOD thanked the company for the honour
done to the beach, which, Ito sad, hid been well-daserved
by the viaduct of a long line of judges, reaching from the
time of the Revelation down wards, who had by their integ-
rity sad justice obtained the coublenn of all classes.
For himself he had always entertained the highest respect
for the ineeehantecif Loudon, who had ever beet foremost
in supporting useful reforms. (Cheers.)
The RTEGREET-OrmutAL acknowledged the toast on be-
half of the bar.

This oompsny Wm adjourned to this withdrawing rooms,
whore tat and ogles wars nem&

I. the ODOM of the evening the MOD who had
gained the prize for the livery and bodge given by hlr.
Thomas Dogget, dammed, were called up, and received their
rewards, each of the married men receiving from the
chairman two betties of wise to addition to the mousy
prim, which explains the allusion hi Earl Rewire speech.
The promediege did not tensimte till a late hour.

Doooll7'll COAT AND Bobo s. —This annual
mullets' race arson waterloo is the fast year alter their sp.
pr.stio.sbip was decided yesterday, over the warn between
the Old Swan at Lomb:is-bridge and the Old Swan at Chad.
ass. The ceimpetaten ere usually draws by lot at Fish-
' siossers' Hall, and the pins are • coat and bads', pre-
seated * the Iste Hr. Thomas Doggett (the celebrated
comedian) to the list Isom, to which the Fishmongers'
Company add can guinea ; the second sod third prises
are the gift of the late Sir William Jollies, left by will,
sad arising from the interest on 2601. 17.. 3d. Three per
Costa. Reduced, lanasrly 200/. South Set Stack—the
eesesd prise is 6ve.sighths of the interest, 4/. 17.. 9d. ; the
third is Os rentals* three-etchtliv, 2/. 18s. 9d. The
fourth prise is O. lia. 6d. ; and the fifth asd sixth, a saints
mob (provided they row the distance), the thres last prises
betas the gift of the Fishoioessn' Company. Mr. Dards,
bariesouter of the rishieoeuers' Ceeloesy, was mad sp-
ecie red aspire and stainer. The various body., whams, sad
the beaks an both irides of the river, were literally crowded
with spectators, sad the Thames was crowded with small
craft. The fellow*" were the six cesspelatsre, thsirstatiose
(counting from the meth shore), sad the order in whisk
they Geisha :—Suedes 4, David Coombes. Horsily dow s, 1
stataos 1, Freak /Libby, OW Desne-hoess, 2 ; station 2,
Thomas Wittiest's, Leeplinsys, station 5, Jams
Groves. Honislydown, 4 ; os 3, John iltur2 DochsT.
Sunny Caned, 5 ; statism 6, Glow Charles 100, Mortlake, 6.
Coosskes was after s good rue* shout tea Imeitha. The
others ass* a mile saws.

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Tinl Rte, BORN Vd-zooir LATE. Mr. D. Murray.
And THE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. J. W. Hay, David
Fisher, D. Murray, J. Nelson, B. Forrester. and H. Mellon
lira H. Marston, Misers Barnett and Gwynn..

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Mesdames Lone Int Constance. and Mr. H. Baker.-Dancing by
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