The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-20 00:00:00

gOt er.preoA.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
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LONDON, FRIDAY. APRIL 20.

LATEST FROM ABROAD.

THE CRIMEA.

PROGRMS OF THE BOMBARDMENT.

DESPATCH FROM OEN. CANROBERT.

(ii mammas ►XD BRITIAN

DINT OP MI DAILY MVO
PARIS, FIIDAT MORPIIIPO.

Oren. Canrobert writes on the 14th that the stip.-
eiseity of the artillery of the Allies was becornin4
moss Ind mon certain. Our troops are now masters
of many strong positions on the enemy's left. We
ere approaching the place sensibly.

ZLZO7IIO TALIO3/.711.)
(IRON TEE COZZZIPONDIKT OP ?HI DLILT NSW.)
BERLIN, FRIDAY.

A despatch from the Crimea, dated the 14th, states
Irt ea the night bike° a great advantage had been
aimed y tbs Allies.
The /ram Zeilting states that Russia declines
Ong any specific proposals on the Third Point.

(FlOlll TI

MIMI )

EIIPATORIA. Aran. 6.

The Allis. have demanded 20,000 men to be sent
• dews to Sebastopol—it is imagined for the assault.
The embarkation begins to-day. Omer Pasha goes
I►sorcow.

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY

stitutions. How this can be cone is not for foreigners
to determine. The work demands r 1 *Keough and
intimate knowledge of the premailing opinions ask
social relations of the Free* petiple. Coostitation&
monarchy for Francs, titeagh Me peat Istsaag
principles mast coincide with those of ooasti-
tutional monarchy in England, or in any
other country, must necessarily vary much
in its details. In the peculiar position of
the EMPEROI. the extension of the political privi-1
leges of his people will require to be set about with
es much of caution as of firmness ; but it must be un-
dertaken, if his dynasty is to be permanent, and his
name honoured by Posterity.
The scene at °oddball was not without its lesson
for ourselves. With the exception of the diplomatic
and political celebrities who, with their fairer rela-
tives, occupied the space nearest to the dais, the
assembly consisted almost exclusively of the middle
classee—of the middle classes of the metropolis. They
cannot but have felt ti.at the appearance of the
EMPEROR among them expressed his anxiety to cal-,
tivate their good opinioa and their good will.
The most powerful monarch of the Continent
has thus borne testimony to the power inherent in
the middle classes of England. He has not forgot-
ten the 10th of April, 1848. He knows that the
middle classes of England, while jealous of their
rights, are still attached to order and possess courage
and energy to defend it. This ought to add to their
confidence in their own political influence, and in the
natural sound sense and business talent to which, as
much as to their wealth, they owe it. And this,
combined with the lamentable and humiliating weak-
ness and frivolity displayed of late by those who
have hitherto been exclusively entreated with the
charge of executive goveromeat, ought to urge them
on to amid their right to a larger share in the admi-
nistration of public business. They who yesterday
played the part of hosts to the Emperor of the
Facrtat are scarcely more than a drop in the great
ocean of the middle claws of England, and yet
their moral and intellectual power commands the
homage of monarchs. It behoves those who possess
such influence to exercise it for the common weal.
To allow themselves to be entirely engrossed by the
lucrative pursuits of commerce—to remain inert and
leave the political concerns of the State entirely in
the hands of an exclusive and not very capable class
—is treason to their country.—Doily Nan.

tARRIVAL OP THB BALTIC FLEET AT BIEL,

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KIRI., Tavaaaar, 2 p.m

THE DEAD DUKE AND THE LIVING
EMPEROR.
-0--

THE TERMS ACCEPTED.
At tae meeting of capitalists at the Treasury at
'to °Weak this morning—Barou L and M. Beho-
lding), Baron James Rothschild (from Perim), Sir A.
acklieskild, Mans. Gumtree, James Capel, T. A.
Hanby, &c., present—the Chancellor of the Bache-
goer stated that only one tender had been received,
via, the following:

The British fleet, under Admiral Dundee, twelve
'Were, with the Vulture. Bulldog, and Firefly, have
jut arrived here and anchored.

no OUILDHALL MANIFESTO.

eonformity with the public notice issued by the
Treasury, we have the hoaoar of submitting the following
of for the loan of sixteen

THE LOAN.

t

agree to take the whole of the sizteen millioar, Three
per Cent. ooneolidated Annuities, with dividend from the
6th January last, at par, payable, In instalments, at the
periods stated in the said notice, upon recemlng for each'
1001. en annuity of fourteen shillings end 4:pence—say
14s. 6d.—terminable in 30 years, to commence from the 6th

LONDON, APRIL 20, 1855.,

- . .
lastest, payable half-yearly ; and we an aceordlogly ready
to pay the required deposit upon the same.
We remain, Sir, very respectfully,
TOW' obedient servants,
N. M. ROTHSCRILD.

After reading the above, the Chancellor of the
F.zohequer stated that the government were pre-
pared to accept those terms; it was not neces-
sary, therefore, to open the paper containing the
minimum.

NOT three years have passed since a long, mournful
procession wound its way through the Strand towards
the City. The Duke of WELLINGTON, the conqueror of
NAPOLEON, was being carried to his last home. The
greatest General that England has ever seen was
borne, amidst the sighs of a nation, to his grave.
Thousands of the young and old, who witnessed the
oeremooial of the funeral of the Duke of WELLING-
TON, looked on, yesterday, with delighted eyes at a
procession which owed its interact to the fact that the
nephew of the man hom the Dose had vanquished
was proceeding to a banquet given in his honour by
those who were formerly his uncle's bitterest foes.
The dead DUES represents a dead era ; the living
EMPEROR, let us hope, represents something better.
We remember, at the time of the DUKE'S funeral,
being struck with the solemn, measured tramp of the
soldiers, the mournful wailing of the music,
the strsnge &admen which appeared upon the
faces of the spectators. Yesterday the contrast was
striking. The new EMPEROR'S antecedents can
scarcely be considered such as to make him popular
with the people of a free country. Nevertheless,'
there was evidently a deep impression amongst the
spectatori that here was the master of the position in
Europe. The dead DUKE went to his grave amidst
the tears of a nation, the living EMPEROR went to
Guildhall yesterday accompanied by the aspirations
of millions. The furcersl of the Dugs represented
the death of an antique state of society ;
the triumphal procession of the EMPEROR typifies
the advent of a new age. NAPOLEON the THIRD
in spite of his antecedents, the herald of a new order
of things. It is he who by his alliance with Eas-
t aid has given liberty to Europe. If he has abridged

To the Bight Hon. the Chancellor of the Ezohequer, &c

Tae reply of the Emperor of the Fauna to the
address presented to him yesterday, in Guddhall,wu
remarkably felicitous. Firm in tone, comprehensive
in intellectual grasp, lucid and simply elegant in ex-
plains), and evincing a thorough knowledge of the
sodience to which he spoke, the speech stamps him •
etatansan and a man of genius. If his future acts
peal his present words, he will occupy a prominent
lad brilliant place in history. With sound judgment
and tact he received the own pli wants paid to himself as
Istaided for the French nation, thus identifying him-
self with his people. With equal sagacity he pro-
*aimed his conviction that "England and France
an naturally united on all great questions
if politics, commerce, and human program,
ghat agitate the world from the Atlantic to
the Mediterranean, from the Baltic to the
Black Bee." He enunciated a great truth when he
declared that, "It is only by following the narrow
Sessiderations of political Melly that our union [i. e.
atomise of the nations] eau be dammed; whereas
Uwe follow the dictates of common sense alone, we
shall be sure of the future." Equally important was
his declaration that the address was " right in inter.
parting my presence among yon as a fresh and con-
sisting proof of my energetic massaged= in the
pramention of the war;" and that he believed the
imperially of France and England to their antago-
nists was owing to their standing "in the van of
!teams and enlightened ideas." Buch views
sad midmost§ bespeak a man who is a ruler
by mature, eau more than by position. And
the impression they were calculated to make was
deepened by skilful allusions to his pretreat reception,
ind to the feelings with wh:oh he had learned to re-
gard England when an exile. Nor ought it to be
immed over in silence, that the obvious bet anobtru-
aim sympathy with which the Farness hang upon
his wards while be was speaking enhanced to all who
*ere present the impressiveness of the Kew.

FREEMASONS IN TURKEY.

OAO3I

OP TEE DAMP POWS)

Although freemasonry bas for more than thirty
years been generally supposed to exist among the Moham-
medan*, and trues of it were fated In Turkey by the
Busies Man after the campaign of 1829, yet they were
too slight to prove the fact; and it fs only within the last
few years that it was satisfactorily demonstrated by a Ger-
man freemason chancing to pass through Belgrade, where
he di covered a manalili ledge, to which he erss invited,
and where he received a hospitable reception. It appears
now to be peeved beyond all doubt that the Tartish bro-
thers who exercise their masonic duties, under the name of
Dervishes, are to all intents end purposes the same as our
own order of freemasons, with but very little differenoe in
their customs and ceremonies, and making use of exactly the
same signs, words, and grips, to recognise each other. The
Turkish freemasons appear to be in a more elevated state of
civilisation than is usual amongst t►e Orientals aenersily ;
their views of religion are far higher than those imposed by
Idamism; they reject polygamy, contenting themselves
with one single wife, and at the masonic banquets the women
appear unveiled—a striking proof of the mutual cenhdenes
the masonic brethren repose in each other.
The Belgrade Lodge, called Alikotaeb, is compelled of
about 70 members. The Muter of the lodge, whose name
is Distil Ismael Zsholek Mohamed Feeds, is at the same
time Grand Muter of all the lodges in European Turkey,
and is directly connected with all those of the whole of I
the Ottoman Empire, Arabia, end Persia, in which latter
the freeenuou amount to more than 60,000 members. In
Constentinople there are no lea than nine lodges, the most!
numerous and important of which is that of the dancing
dervishes, called Birkedshi Ticker. The Turkish free-

masons wear as a'symbel of the brotherhood, besides a small
brown shawl embroidered with mystical figurer, a flit
polished, twelve-cornered piece of white marble, with red-
dish brown spots, about two inches in diameter, suspended
by a white silken cord round the neck. These spots repre-
sent the Mops of blood, and ere symbolic of the death of
Ali, the founder of the order in Turkey, who was barba-
rously put to death by the then Sultan, for refusing to
reveal the secrets. The above-mentioned Djani I-mael,
Grand Master of the Lodge of Belgrade, a venerable Turk
of the old school, is honorary member of the Lodge of
" Baldwin under the Lime tree " at Leipsic, several mem-
bers of which lodge have received diplomas frem the Ait-
ken& at Belgrade.

BARON OSTEN•SACREV AND THE WOUNDED

OFFICERS OF 11. M.S. TIGER.

The following is a translation of a testimonial pre.
slotted by Buon Oeten•Bseken to Henry Doraville, Beg.,
surgeon of her Majesty's late ship Tiger, a few days after
the deaths of the wounded of that ship:
_ Odessa, 18.1 t (28tb) June, 1854.

" Desirous of doing justice to the talent, seal, and courage
displayed by Mr. Henry Doraville, in his position of .urgiloa
of her Britannic Majesty'. Ist* steam frigate Tiger, during
and after the loss of that *Dip in the neighbourhood of this
town, I attest by this pretest that, according to
the testimony of the physician in chief of the
3rd Corp d'Arinfie, which is confided to me,
Monsieur the Counsellor of State Skriprahinsky, as well
as the physicians of the city, Messieurs Dietrich. and
Wegner, who participated with him at a constit-
ution requested by Dr. Domville, at the bed-
side of the now deceased Captain Hiffard, the
amputation of the thigh, and the dressing of the other
meet dangerous wounds of Capt. Gifted, were performed
soeceding to all the rule. of the art, and with a complete
success, which ought to have led to the cure of the patient,
if toe eircumstanees, independent of the operation end
mental.depreesioa, bad not neutralised the resources of
science, and all the efforts of devotion, of which Dr. Dom-
sill* showed proof up to the last hour of the deceased.
"I also certify that the midshipman John tithed, and the
sailor John Trainer, were also operated on, on board the
Tiger, during the aurae, but the severity of their wounds
was the only cause of their almost imminent death darieg
their transport to the Ql&S&Etillie Hospital.
(Signed)

constitutional freedom in France be has crushed for
'ever the possibility of universal despotism in Europe.
The instinct of a people is seldom wrong, and this
was manifested yesterday along the whole line of the
procession. The reception of the EMPEROR was

;, not load but deep." It was clear that in the minds
of the spectators the past events of the man's
life were merged is the deeper meaning of his
present significance. With the dead Duna let us
hope that our hostility to France died. With the
living EMPEROR let RE look forward to pesos and
freedom for ourselves and Europe.—Doily News.

A paragraph appeared in our yesterday's imp's,-
lee, is which oar Ruggeri& eorrespondent's litter was
stated to have hue copied by the Sun without acknow-
ledgment. This fa denied by the Sun of last night, in •
style of language which we should in veils attempt to
emulate. Oa liquify, we find that the somspondeat who
fitruislisd us with the information has misled us; that it is
not the latter of cut► Zapatoria corrisspoedent that was
sopied into the Sm. Bevies thus dons judos to our
ocatemporary, let us do justice to ourselves. Ist us tura
over the pages of our contemporary for the last week. Will
the Sam day that es the 12th iaata•t it task from the
Daily New without acknowledgment three odium of
translated composition, declaring that " the following is the
article referred to in our telegraphic despatch," while, in I
fast, it had received no telegraphic despatch on the subject ?
Will ft dewy the on the sums day, sad p the elms page,
it transferred from the Daily Mimi a letter on military
easkiserlas which filled ass of oar gleans. sad that it
again simeeeled its origis ? Will it deny that the telegraphic
dispatch, from Kiel, which it published on the 14th inst.—
that its fist column of news at the 16th, a past of it tele-
graph* wad this remainder special cornspowdesse—that

"L'Alde-duCesp (liberal de Ss Msjest6 l'Bmpereur
de toutes les Russia',

" BARON OSTIN-SACLEN."

Colonel Cadogan, who has been appointed British
Colaiewitoaer to the Sardinian head•gauters in the But,
pried through Tarts, oa Baader, on his way to Con-
wastinople.

The MessiaA is to be produced at Rotterdam rest
Fridey oft as extraordinary seal*. The choir is to be tessa.
posed of 200 penseas, bat that which gives peculiar interest
to the entortainraint. is tho intended performance of the
soprano solos by Jenny Lind.
M. Mises ham sent to his printers the manuscript
of the foulest volumes of his great work. L'Esstaire des
Caseulat et de r Ampere.
Flags of the various natioos who will take part
in tits Presek Exhibition ars now bring placed aroma the
central hall.

The fiat number et a now publication of some
promise, maid Revue Universe& des Arts, has Jest ap-
peered. It is to be published simultaneously at Brussels
and at Paris. The names of the eontribiten include some
distingaished writers in Frazee, Belgium, Italy, end
SwitaelleaS.
At the Royal Italian Opera, to-morrow evening,
the Royal bon, together with the whole of the doeorations,
will remain as ea t►e occasion of the state chit. The opera
is Foal* with Mille. Jimmy Ney as Leonora.
The Prefect of the Seine and him colleagues of the
ateeicipelity of Pads are invited too grand banquet at the
Msuafoa•hoese to-morrow. The provincial mayors are also
kilted to meet Baia Hausman and friends on this oo-
asalme.

t7i_ rome of the telegvaphie despatehes pkblishid is the

day made, the heed of its "latest saws•' were severally takes
from the Deus New without acknowledgment of their
ems, ? Finally, will it duty that may last night it trans
famed to its columns a short article from our impressin
of yesterday, sad evaded acknowledgment of its source
by attributiog it generally to 0 a noising paper"? These
are innings which the Sim, by the warm it has
takes, compels me to ask, and to which only one
newer h poseihn. They relate merely to the war-
noses of the lest seven days; otherwise more Mg-
vast examples of piracy might be exposed. Will any_
one, for instance, however inexperientred is the induct of
newspapers. say that oar recent paper re the death of
Currey Bell ought to have bon reprinted without Wiwi- 1
ties of iteseeree ? With or without en alteration of the stamp
laws we en, therefore, obliged, in eeltdefeairt, to sell for a
law of espyright and amtee.ible tsinaah to solaces it. The
claws proposed by Sir C. Lewis give us and other Lir
traders is newspapers so more protectios than masuiae-
t■Ars already enjoy la the copyright of their designs. Of
none those who live by piracy will object to such a law,
sad, satorally enough, they will pour out Billiergate
against these who ask for it. But luckily foe kneel moo
they on not leghlaten.—Deily New.

Holding the principles to which we are devoted,
we do not affect to repose implicit ematidence in
ittroixon UL ; bat we should have eared an

Akar to troth had we expressed •ourselves
lase warmly of hie appearance at Guildhall
au we have dons. And we ars disposed to
_ _

bail the proceedings of yesterday as of good
Awry for the future. The EittEsoa's visit to the
laity, and the whole tone and tenor of his dinar,
*ere an appeal to the public .of England--an oak&
oar to rot himself right in the eyes of the AO&
*mph; and his emphatic sllssion to his beteg
0. Owes ruler of the French nation, was a reoogni-
tioa of the people as the only source of legitimate
power- We lay stress upon these fasts because
among the u geserous and enlighteued ieses" which
Samm:am attributed to the Fres& and English
itatioos, we believe a deep-rooted /awe Odell liberty
is be the most important and inerefieshia We have
Q a previous coossion frankly miiirodApe our
etayletles that the majority of she Pm* poops
ors actuated to the vanuarehicel fors et gotormalt.
41.11 that the Nan's= Family is the only me
whisk bee a edam* hold oa the silbselmis call
41111111Emioni of the French to be able Is IMAM&
Agit so a dynasty. We are therefore autism that
head of this family should seek to establbk
.aitee on the only stable basis---thas et papist

Admiral Mackay, a distinguished officer is the
Preach service. is dangerously ill.
In the House of Lords, on Monday, the Earl of
Albemarle will move for certain rattans relating to the
trade with Russia, and will 'squire whether " hoe Ma.
j.aty'a tioverensoat latond, with a view to brims the wee
to a speedy coeolussoe, by prohibitory duties or any Mho
sweat, farther to restrict the trade with that ocentry."
M. Vrintland, formerly private secretary to King
Otho, bat who had bees 'bilged by the minister to noise
his poet sheet • year bask, has mum& his functions eau
the Mises pests.
Tms ARMY BIJOU Basanorou—Ma. Rommel;
COMMIT= —As there wee sot a asSoient number of hoe.
members ptomain yesterday to constitute a queen, so
regairod member beteg sena, the meaminee esguatesd to,
this day at twelve. The members peacoat were Mt.
Rios*. the ehriesee, Lord Seymour, Omen' Peel, mud
Sir J. flames; sad the winsome* is attendee's wee Sire.
'bo's'ns sad Mr. Osesmileary Smith.
&spinal': MILITARY Couioa—Ths ociessitiss,
es this stater met patents, for the ant time to imam
their mem of pressedieg.

Oa Wedassday, Baron James Rothsshild visikd
the Lag el tie Belgians, at the Chains is Leeks', se-
Maim is Peri fa the *ening.
. .

The sew Lord High Colsmiteloser of the lorriae
Ithods, Sit Jobs Moan, wind at Cads is the 9th.
wool was to Len out the 12th.

Linen kos Bt. Petenbtrg, of thelOth, date
ills N 4& was still avers. TM re-opealag of tbs as*
at tin Noti was awl anestal beton tbslosk of Mg.

1., APRIL 20, 1855.

VISIT OF THE EMPEROR AND
EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH.

THE IMP.

ME CITY.

such a time, will draw 4101 M the bonds of mutual friendship
sad cuitamou interests so happily uniting the two sosatrise.
The card's] slliance of two such mighty ping.; 0s
snouted and sealed by intimate and frank interment be,
tweet their rulers, must sway the destinies of all, will out
the pride of our common enemies, increase the confiding. of
our allies, and give new vigour to our arms.
_ .

(=OM THE conax mammas.)
Ha Majesty and Prince Albert acoompaoied by
their Imperial Mejesties the Emperor and Empire of the
heath, and the Prince of Lettingen, arrived at Bucking-
tam Palette at 28 Wastes past .twelve o'clock yesterday
tea Windier Castle, mated by a detachment of Life
guards.
In atteadesee oa the Emperor end Empress were the
Mimes d'Etsling, the Countess de Montebello, Baroness,
its Malaret, the Merchioness id Ely, the Hon. Mary Sey.
Miro the Marshal Count Vaillant, the Duke de Haman°,
NMI L 9 Comte Ney, Colonel Fleury, Marquis de Tun-
isians, Cooat Teacher de la Pagerie, Earl &mere, and
Lord Alfred Paget.
Ia attendance on the (Isms and Prince were the Duchess
of Wellington, the Viscosities Canning, the Hon. Cerolioe
Cavendish, the Hon. Flora Maclonald, Lord Ri , Lord
George Lennox, Lwd Charlie Fitzroy, and Colonel
Seymour.
The royal party occupied tea lathe Queen's carriages.
The Doke of Welliogt• a, Earl Spencer, the Marquis of
Bresdalbene, the Marquis of Abercorn, Sir Edward Bowa-
ter, Major-General Wylde, and tier Master of the House-
hold, received the Emperor and Empress and the Queen
and Prince in the Grand Hall, and her Majesty and hi,
Royal Highness accompanied their Imperial Majesties up
the Grand Staircase, to the rooms in the east front of the
Palates, prepared for their reception.
A Guard of Honour, composed of the Scots Fusilier
Gaud*, was ea duty within the quadrangle, and on the
arrival of the illastrious party the band played Portant
pour la Brie."
The Prises of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prises Alfred,
Prince Arthur, the Princesses Alice, Helens, aid I.,stor,
sad Prince Leopold, attended by Lady C. Berrie,.
ton, General Bir E. Bowater, and Lieutenant-Genera
Sir F. Stoat, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, the It of
the Household, and Mr. Gibbs, arrived at the Pekoe at a
quarter before 10 o'clock, having fled from Windsor
by a special train on the Great Western Railway.
The Emperor and Empress of the French left Bucking-
ham Palace for Guildiallost 20 minutes before 1 o'clock,
attended by their suite, escorted by a numerous detachment
of the Life Gaarda.

w. condom our narrative from yesterday's
'spree :

THE GUILDHALL.
At sine o'clock yesterday morning the sealant town resi-
dence of those civic notabilities, Messrs. Oog and Magog,
still resounded with the stroke of the hammer, and was
populous with paper caps and white aprons. The City
polies had been posted at their several stations, but had net
at that early hoar got up the ocessiozal fierceness lASI
makes them so terrific to apple-women and little boys es
days of great public festival or civic solemnity. A magma-
cent awning was in preparation in Guildhall-yard, and
within the ball itself the tasteful designs of Mr. Bunnies
were in progress of rapid development. The trophies of
tricolour and Union Jack had been placed at the bases of
all the Gothic spandril', and the walls were decorated with
medallion portraits of the Queen of England and the
Emperor of the French. Everywhere inscriptions sug-
gestive of the rather scarce successes of the Crimean
war were conspicuously posited, and miles of bales
were being laid down fur the accommodation of
the favoured ticket holders; and even then one
or two ladies end gentlemen who claimed relation-
ship with "the early bird" had taken their seats,
amidst sawdust and shavings, in the front of the unfinished
gallery. Gradually the bustle of preparation cleared away,
end the morning sun, shining thrt.ugh the gothic windows,
showed enough to indicate that the Guildhall was about to
become the scene of one of its most gorgeous pageants. The I
dais was a miracle of splendour, considering the short time
daring which its dhoorations had been prepared. TLe
salads was covered with crimson cloth, upon which were
placed two chairs of state, resplendent in gold sad velvet,
for the Emperor and Empress. Oa the Emperor's the
eyoher "N " was emblazoned, and a similar decoration, with
" E," was observable on that of the Empress. The canopy
was at once costly, native, and in good taste. The drape.
flee were of velvet of the imperial colour, and the upper
portion of white and gold, the whole having
• truly repal and imposing effect. The only things
wanting were the imperial Bees ; but it would have hardly
been possible to have prepared these Napoleonic emblem,.
As a consequence of the wise distribution of labour, which
is the rule in the corporation, there was a great appearance
of efficiency in the arrangements for the reception of the
company. The aldermen and common councilmen were
regularly brigaded, and, armed each with wands surmounted
by the imperial eagle, exercised • polite but at the same'
time iotl.•zible control over the perpetually surging multi- I
tude. Opposite the dais, on the right, was the compartment
allotted to the foreign ministers, sad this was at • very
early hour filled with diplomatic uniforms. The Price* of
Carini, Neapolitan minister, was conspicuous in light blue
and silver; the Turkish minister in his fez; and the Danish,
Brosilian, and Spanish ministers, in the colours of their
respective countries. The Turkish minister received en
ovation on bis entrance, and the cheering was sustained for
several minutes. Behind this diplomatic congress the
ladies mustered in great force, and gave great animation and
brilliancy to the scene, by their good looks and gay and
handsome costume. Opposite to the foreign ministers was
a space railed cf for the cabinet ministers, and other dis-
tinguished guests, and as each of its privileged visitors
arrived, their position in public estimatim was pretty
clearly indicated by the amount of the plaudits. Sir C.
Wood, for instance, was received with appalling silence,
the Earl of Clarendon with a fair amount of applause, and
Lord Palmerston with loud and lusty cheering. The Mar-
quis of Salisbury, Lord Canning, and Mr. V. Smith, were
allowed to instal themselves without notice. The
Duke of Cambridge, attended by the brave Captain
liaise, the hero of the night ride from M'Kenzie's Farm,
was late in arrival; between them they shared a very hearty
aid genial reception. Behind this distinguished group the
ladies again cumulated, and on the opposite side of the
gangway a vast gallery rose up to the feet of Oog and Ma-
gog. which was deesely filled with fashionable company.
Over the entrance to the hall the band of the Blues were
stationed, and daring the day performed the following se.
Intim of music:
Overture, .....
Selection. Le Chalet
Waits, Frublinerbotea
Select n. Preemie
War March or the Priests, Athens
Overture, Guillaume Tell rtominL
tlegeetion, Mina= de la Columns Sutter.
Welts, Pair Star
Overture, Zamps
Overture, Manilas ............
Select:as. Etats du Need
Welts. Tans Parka
beitieLias. t oases del Lass lterslnL
Packet Tars

The Emperor was hebited in the uniform of a Preach
g 10E6er—dark blue end gold, ant wore the Ribald
and George, and also the Star of the Order of the. Garter,
and the Scar of the Legio., of Honor.
The Empress wore a flounced green satin dreg, each
13111611 covered with whim Brussels lam, and a shawl ot
white Bremen Ism. Her Imperial Majesty wore a white
mope bonnet with Marabout feathers.

His Excellency the Count Walewski, the Ambassador of
Frown, and the Countess Walewski, and Marshal Count
Valliant, French Minister of War, accompanied the Em•
peror and Empress, who were also attended by the Princes.,
d'Esaling (Grande Mennen), the Countess de Montebello,
Baroness de 'Want, the Marchioness of Ely, the Hon.
Mary Seymour, the Duke de Bataan, Colonel Le Comte
Ney, Colonel Fleury, Marquis de Touhogeon, Cocci
Tascher de la Palen., Lieut.-Colonel 'toucher, Earl
Somers, Lord Allred Paget, and Sir Frederick Stavin.
All the gentlemen were in uniform, and Conan Wa•
nick! and Manhal Vaillant both wore the Grand Cordon
of the Lrgion of Honor.
The iUustrious party wen conveyed in sir of the Queen's
state carriages, and the carriage in winch the Emperor atm
Empress were seated was drawn by a pair of cream colnureo
horses, and was attended by four of her Majesty's footmen
in state liveries.
The Emperor and Empress rents-Ltd to the Palace at
a qaarter-past 6 o'clock, and were received by Lord Bruen
Bruce, Vice-Chamberlain.

Viscount Palmerston had en audience of the Queen in
the afternoon.
The Queen, Prisms Albert, and the Emperor and Em-
press of the French, left the Peace at 25 minutes put 9
o'clock, attended by a numerous court, to honour the liuyal
Italian Opera with their prisenos in state.
The Queen wore a dues of bine and gold brocaded silk,
trimmed with gold blonde. her Majesty wore a diamotia
crown.

The Empress wore a dress of whits oaths with flotsam

&rodeo de phones marabouts. sod edged with a Wogs of
the lama feathers. liar Imperial Majesty won a diadem

of diamonds and emeralds, and the insignia of the orders of
Isabel of Purtupl and Marie Louise or Spain.
—. _

The Emperor wore the uniform of a Frsneh general, with
the ensign, of the Order of the Outer.

Prier; Albert wore a Field Marshal's oviform, with the
ensigns of the Legion of Honour sad the Garter.
The Queen and Prince Albert and the Eatperer sad
Empress occupied the same carriage. the eighth.
The seventh carriage contained the Prisons d'Beding,
the Duchess of Wellington, Marshal Coeat Valliant. Ma
the Duke of Wellington.

The sixth carriage contained the Comes@ de Montebello,
the Viscountess Causing, the Marquis of Breadathane, and
the Doke de Bassdno.

The filth carriage contained Earl Bonen, the Mar-
chioness of Ely, the Countase of Elwin, sod Viscount Cons-
bemire.

The fourth carriage contained the Hos. Mary Seymour
the Barmen de Malaret, the Count de Montebello, and the
Maquis of Aberoorn.

The third carriage contained Earl Somers, Lnd Rivers,
and Viationnt Sydney.
Tho aimed carriage contained the Hon. Flora Macdonald
and the lion. Carolina Cavendish. and Lord George
Lennon.

1 "By lb* wiae policy of your Majesty's reign An 0" sa.
1 eientjealousies have been appeased, and the flags of bum
and England now mingle their colours alike in the Bade
and in the Eut. Ranged together in • righteous unise,
braving like hardships, and sheddieg their blood side by
side in victory, the soldiery of our united armies and the
seamen of our combined fleets have learned to regard each
other with the love of brave and generous comrades, moat
only to the love they bear their respective countries, and
while each are the feelings, tee rejoice that unthaws akin
Ito these are growing daily, and sinking deeply into dui
breasts of the people of these great and neighbourieg
nations.

" None can doubt that the allied forces thut animated,
led in perfect harmony by commanders of tried skill and
valour, and guided by united counsels ..t home, will achieve
by arms the just and unambitious object of the pewit
war; unless, as we may hope, the Pante of assembled states.
men shall yet avert the calamities of protracted warfare
by the speedier negotiation of an honourable sad enduring
peace.

The first carriage contained the Hon. Enamor Stanley,
Hon. bliss Bulks', the bedchamber woman to the Queen,
and Lord Cowles Fitzroy.
The Yeomen of the Gears were on duty in the Grand
Hall. A guard of honour from the Guards was posted in
the quadrangle with its band, which played the French
national air on her Majesty taking her sat in her car-
riage. The royal cortege was warted to the theatre by a
detachment of the household °every.
Previous to the departure of the Qamn and her illus.
trims pests, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal,
Prism Alfred, the Princess Alias, and the Prince of
Lefebvre, with Lord Cowley, Colonel the Hon. C. B
Phipps, Sir Edward Bowater, end Hr. Gibbs, proceeded to
the theatre.

Her Majesty was also preceded to the opera by Lord
Alfred Paget, Colonel Seymour, Calmed Fleury, Colossi
Coast Key, sad the Marouis de Tosloageoa.

This cordial reception, therefore, of the chosen ea
puissant Emperor of the French by the illustrious Atovereigi
who reigns over these realms, and lives in the hearts of the
British people, we regard as a type of a close and laws,
friendship between the two wimp., and the happiest SIM
of a returning time, when, undisturbed in the envoi
course of civilisation, the nations of Europe may agalu by
aside the sword, and resume their exalted rivalry is
works of beneficence alone.

Her Royal Highness the Disobeys of Kent, attended
by Lady Anna Maria Dawes, Lady Faaay Howard,
Barytes. de Speth, and Sir George Cooper, arrived at bar
residemee, Clarence Howe, St. Jame's, yesterday afternoon,
fres Frogmen.
The Cathedral Commission met at No. 1, New-
Won, 131•4125-Sardass, yesterday. The Colassissionen
preens were the Archbishop of Caaterbary, the Archbislop
of Teak, the MargaW of Btandford, M P., the H.■. and
Rev. H. M. Villiers, Sir Jobs Pattesoa, the Rev. Dr.
Wordsworth, the Rev. Dr. Hook, the Rev. C• 11111 Selwyn,
and Mr. Henry $10,011100411 (Secretary).
Mr. Craafard, M.P., had an interview with the
Chaatiellor of the Bachequer yesterday at his official reel-
dee*. is Dawalatetrest, to preens a manorial from the
Distillers of Cesepbeltos and Islay.

Despatches were sent from the Colonial-Mita* yes-
terday to tie Gotersees of Hong Hoag, Co7loo, sad the
Knoritioo.

RETURN OF THE EMPEROR AND

" We ere earnestly anxious further to express to you
Isapesiel Mejesty the lively pleasure and roes/Wel admire.
tion with which we have seen you accompanied os this
happy =Won by your illwtrious consort 11.. r Majesty
Empress of the French. We tender to your Majesty as
ezpreuion of our confident hope that you may ever fad is
the affections of domestic life the best a ,lace and eat
which this world can aired under the care§ and weight cif
the high &stilly you are now fulling wi h such comical,
power and moderation, and we hrvently pray that life sad
health may, by the blessing of Providence, be vottbsdid
to your Majesties for many years to come."

The Emperor listened to the address with deep iateme.
received it most graciously whin headed to him by the
Lord Mayor, and then read with excellent emphasis imam
pronunciation the following English reply :
" My Lord Mayor,—Afar the cordial reception I ham
experienced from the Queen, nothing could effect as wee
deeply than the sentiments towards tLe Empress and myself
to which you, my Lord, have given expression an the pet
of the City of London ; for the City at London represents
available resources which its wide commerce affords but
for civilisation and for war.

Flatteriog as are your praises, I accept them, beaus
they are addressed much more to Fr.nce than to Reef.
They are addressed to • nation whose interests are tally
everywhere identical with your own. (Immense cheetiag.)
They are addressed to an army and • navy united to year
own by heroic companionship in danger and in glary,
(Cheers.) They are addressed to the policy et the Ora
governments, which is based on tau* on moderates, ud
on Natio. (laud cheers.)
" For myself I hive retained on the throne the am
sentiments of sympathy and esteem for the English peoyle
that I professed as an exile, while I enj .yed here the his.
pitality of your country—(protracted cheers)—sad if I
have acted in accordance with my conviction!, it is that the
interests of the nation which Ina chosen me, no lea thin
these of univ:raal civilisation, have made it a ditty.
(Cheers.) ladled, England and France are naturally
united on all the great questions of politics end of haws
progress that agitate the world—(cheers)—fro-m the sham
of the Atlantic to those of the Mediterranean—lron the
Baltic to the Bleck Sea—from the dt si-e to abolish slavery
to the hope of amelioration for all the countries of Rem.
I see in the moral as in the political worll that than
an two nations, but one course and one end. (Lad
cheers.)
"It is then only by narrow considerations and pitiful
rivalries that our union can be dissevered. If we foie,
then the dictates of common sense alone we shall be son d
the future. (Great cheering.)
"Ton are right in interpreting my presence •mongetya
as • fresh and convincing proof of my energetic co•opemtlsa
in the prosecution of the war, if we fail in obtaining sa
honourable peace. (Great oheeriog.) Should we so fail,
although oar difficulties may be great, we may surely must
upon a successful result—(cheers)—for not osly are ea
soldiers and our teflon of tried valour—not only do the two
countries possess within themselves unrivalled resource,
but above all—and here lies their superiority—it is beaus
they stand in the van of generous and enlightened ideas.
(Cheers.)

Weber:
A. Adam.

It is understood that our Imperial visitors will
mem to Fames via Dover tomorrow. Tbs Baglish
sad neat& Royal Mail Steam Paakot Company ham
austonseed that two of their stamen ak mined as part
of the Imperial squadron will take of board excursion
parties, sad afford them the opportunity of witnessing the
ealsarkaties at Dever and the landing is Frames. The
Potash Admiral, Viacom Chabannes, hoe hie flea on board
the Dome, Stamm corvette, is Dover harbour. The sinew
ship of the line Austerlitz is ordered off Dover, to staled
Me embarkation of Um Emperor.

6triiii.
Weber.

In the opposite gallery, one or two unpretending-looking
gentlemen were stationed, armed with • small mysterious,
bat perfectly harmless, apparatus, whose business it was to
preserve, by means of the photographic process, a pictorial
memorial of the day's proceeding.. Although a little oat of
place here, we may mention that the Emperor en his arrival
speedily recognised the presence of this little group, and
with his national sympathy for art, give them frequent
opportunities for fultllliog the object of their attendance.
The C..mmon Council, wearing their gowns of masirine
blue, mustered en muss, and, as of right in their own hall,
a cured for themselves the best possible pieces; being
closely packed in two small railed-off spaces right
and left of the dais. So matters stood for •
long and somewhat weary period, during which
Cabinet Micisters chatted freely to the Aldermen, and
the Foreiga Ministers as freely to each other as their
various dialects would permit, and in the intervals the hand
played morceaux of its programme. At last the fanfare of the
trumpets was heard, every one was on the tiptoe of excite-
meet, and slowly the imperial procession passed up the central
avenue, sad deployed right and left of the dais. The ap-
pearance of the Emperor and Empress was the signal for
a loud, long, and %minims, demonstration of welcome.
His Imperial Majesty wore hie usual military uniform, bat
with the addition of the star and ribbon of the Garter, with
which he had been invested on the previous day. It is a
singular (act, that the ribbon worn by his Imperial Majesty
on this occasion was the identical one which had recently
been sent home from Russia on the death of the late
Emperor. The Empress, as soon as her position on the dais
permitted of her being generally visible, was not
only the observed of all observers, but the ad-
mired of all admirers. Her Mainly wore a white
honest, light and delicate as a snow flake, and a green dress
elaborately decorated with lace, and looked so charming
that any attempt at description must utterly fail in doing
jostles to the impression which her Imperial lifsjony's pre-
sence made upon the crowded and brilliant company that
on her entrance rose up ea all sides to bid her, City fashion,
a hearty welcome." She was In perfect health and good
humour, and sustained her part in the trying eareinotnal of
the day with winning grace and a most irencient queenly
dignity. The Emperor was also most gracious and conde-
scending, and the impressive manner in which he read his
remarkable reply to the corporation address was the snidest,
of general oommendatioo. Having now fairly seated them
on their chairs of state, we most endeavour to give, for the
benefit of those who were not present, some collective imprint-
*ion of the appearance of the interior of the Guildhall at this
culminating moment. At the top was the gorgeous canopy, and
beneath it stood before the chairs of state the Emperor sad
Empress of the French. Right find left veas a semi-etrele
of brilliant court uniforms worm by Marshal Valliant, Dee
de Buono, Lord Alfred Paget, lad the other members of
the French and Hagfish warts. The Domes d'Hossear of
the Empress gave life and lightness to this portion of the
picture, and the whole rested appropriately en the breed
rim of maiming blue *fantod by the oomprinsed Common
Councilmen at the s:dee. Immediately in front were the I,
brilliant cabinet and diplomatic compartments, and behind 11
these dense rows of gaily dressed company rose gradually
to the opposite end of the hall, and gave to the old interior
all the many-coloured brilliancy of a flown thew. The
band played "Partant pour la Syria," end after a short pause,
which the Empire, and Empress seemed good-naturedly to
prolong, is miller that the suriosity of the eampany might be
fully gratified, the Lord Mayor, in his robes of state, the
Recorder similarly attired, and all the aldermen ar d great
slabs officers, advanced to die dais, when the Recorder read
the following address t
" TO ins ntritizAz =MIT Tall 111E1101 or Till

" The eyes of all who suffer rite instinctively toward
the west, because our two nations are even more powerful
from the opinions which they represent than from their
armi s and their fleets. (Tremendous cheering.)
" I am deeply grateful to your Queen for 'audios
me this solemn opportunity of exprening to you my owa
sentiments and those of France, of which I am the later-
' preter. (Cheers.)
" I thank you in my own name, and in that of the Eta.
press, for the kind and hearty cordiality with which you
have received us. (Cheers.) We shall take back te
France with to the lasting impression mode on mini
thorouthly able to appreciate the very imposing spectsels
which England presents, where virtue, on the throne,
directs the destinies of a country under the empire of liberty
without danger."
The Lord Mayor then presented the aldermen in meas.

sion, and the Guildhall Committee, who were all most
graciously received by the Emperor and Empress, and then
a procession wu f.rmed, headed, with imposing effect, by
Mr. Sewell, the swordbearer—who looked u If he meld

take Sebastopol single-handed—from the dais to the canal
chamber. This comfortable but rather confined apartmeet
I had been for the two previous days under the entire astral
of Messrs. Staples, of the Albion, who now for the forutk
time have been the successful pur,eyors for royalty in tie
City. To show the extraordinary (frills that wee
made by the Messrs. Staples to do justice to this me
tr►ordinsry occasion, it may not be uninteresting to men
lion that the napkins were trimmed with lace, end ask*
dared with the imperial and City arms; the Doyleys were
of imperial green velvet, fringed with gold, and spangisi
with bees and the imperial cypher. The win* gismos ems
elaborately carved with appropriate devices, and the buoy
of their workmanship attracted the marked notice of del
Empress, who showed them to the Emperor, aid bilk
seemed highly pleased with the design. The down plates
were a spinal effort of the great Ckilebrooke Dale Pettseli
made is seven days, and were of a beautiful imperial psi.
tern on the celebrated turquoise ground, the groat digit:llff
of high-class porcelain. In addition to this, there w she
en thetable a service of the celebrated Da Bury pink, whiik
is fotended for the French Exhibition. -gor the Warta.'
sssnt Waif, the subjoiaed bill of fare will lid* with e&
dent eloquenos

TOTACIES.
Potap de tonne .lair.
• Bisque d'eorevisses.
Paige de nide d'oireaug Chin*.
Consommi de volatile.
11171111111 CHALIDZa.
Cantos aux lees herb.,. Ruffs en nines.
COtelettss d'agneiti woo berteola eerie.
Petites bosieblis I la Reins.
111T9318 FROMM&
Filets de truitts a. la ravigote.
Cbaud-froid de bicassioes.
Foies pas de Strasbourg.
Magoonnaise de turbot aux liftoff.
Gateau de ptarmigan aux Unfelt
Blanqutte de volaille a la geld*.
OROSIIIB PISCES.
Paianneaux eratriee.
Bore de ganglier I Is BoLimienng.
Gros galloon a. la Royale.
Diode en gelastine a la Pariaienne.
Cachou de leit Napolitaine.
limbos de Salisbury an ein de Madan.
Baron of beef.

•
r"
Miry it plisse your Majesty, MMIAAMM.P.
Daimon de truths de Perigord.
" We, the Lord Mayer, Alderman, sad Commons of the 811111106 Woes de pluviers.
As Seeidelt of a serious nature marred to Lord City of Loadoa, in Common Ornatail assembled, desire to ~_Pstftsi,„., B°ll f.,lui.,...itatursi• AsPstgs° sh Ws"'
Creme i N vaaills.
staabopo, son of tbs aael of Caemenaidd, yesterday offer to your Majesty our hurtful 000gratalations oa the 1.7". Ina ......
e. Compote transom.
imarsing. His lordship, a liousamenc ja tbp Royal Hem arrival et your Majesty sad the Empress of the Froash is allseaotes crabeisete. Golfo de hese,.
Glands. WS carmated oa a spirited ekerpr ; whoa in at. this country as th° Vs". of ear mast 8*".•• Qum: Bah. ilk Puhmatss• Brioche ila Snows&
Paelesiturehyard, opposite Mr. Fred. Goodymes, his bens sad oa behalf of oar fellow-eitinsas sad earselees, we 111111111 L
sUppsd is the side, and fell on its rider, breaking hi. ja i. humbly tender to your Majesties the wsrmiset o:peados of Rout &lasts. East beef.
Lord &alma was 'immediately amnia into Mr. Fad. our graiii". for the "Wilai 'lit by which you have Boat lamb. Beast camas
Goodyear's lieser,where the greatest Wadies Ira promptly deileed to bloom oar ele7 as this •lalliselhietiaY' Anosset the wises were Jchsanisberg, of 1822; BMW
paid. Mr. Bala, seeped, of Bemlase, was as lam sm. "The attention of Baron sad the world is already flied Crimea% of 1826; Malvoisie, made from rapes of Malt
mooed to Ns 401111161110. and sat tbo fast.,.. After ay. ,an the attitude of dignity sad malted strength displayed by Ida; sad Sherry of 109 years old. This wino, which too
minis( shoat two bears his ladahlp was swayed to his Freese sad Great Britain is the pressat we, sad the pinhead at the moderate figure of 8001. a bati. I,ol_l
bursas ma Repeat's-put. • • riming of yew Majesty, invited by um beloved Chess g$ validate' ipiallty sail 'Naar. The Empress est is 11°

=gaxe'• left heed, sad rat her eat the Fresh ambesse-
gee, Nest WalewelL Oa the right head of the Emperor
th• peke of Cambridge, the Deka of Argyll, the Ma-
ggie of Lasedewne, Lord .ad Lady Palmerton, Bid of
ainades; Gad opposite the Emperor and Empress, the
lard Mayor sad Lady Mayoress. His lordship, who got
through the very trying ceromoeial of the day with great
dignity mad self peression, proposed two toasts without
Olearestion: list, "The grins ;" and then " The Emperor
sad Empress of the French." The imperial guests stood
sad pledged the GIP taut in the most marked and Goer-
wow
than one greeter inclinaiun. Binh partook freely, and
with apparent satiefectioe, of the magnifiers' banquet,
sad chatted with tb. omapany in ;heir immediate
♦iaiaity is the •art frank and lane d . At the
termination of the fret, sod while the return procession
wee being formed, the Emperor came over to t►e Marquis
of Usurers, and chatted freely with him; and the
Empress referred the same honour on the Earl or Clema-
tis., coming down to where he stood and chatting with his
lordship in the art unreserved and friendly manner foe
several aerates. The Emperor also notieed Sir Charles
Pon arenget the spectators, sod beckoning him to his side
shook hands with him in the most friendly manner, sad
.rand mesh gratified when fiir C. Foe warmly capers'd
kis sedidection at wit/Arias so happy an event as this
a•eusesial onneemmatien of the candied union between
Pinar sad England. Another 'roof of the wish of our
imperial peens to gratify their English hosts was afforded
to the hall, when they stood before the dais °sa-
urus with the distiagnietted group around, evidently in
eider that thi whom of the orspests of the vast
Wirier right have full op,ortenity of seeing their
Moleellee. While en roses from the co►amil chamber to the
bon his Melesty's great eye detected the permit of Oren
Morsels epee Mr wall. Ha peered for a =meat, looked
at It, and imid, "This I. kind Indeed." Immediately after
skis little rehire the imperial party returned to their oar-
Nape, sad the pared emapany made a vigorous oulaeght
on the varier buffets wbi:b the hospitality of the corpora-
tics' had prepared fur their refeetion. It only remains to
le added that everything went off in the best possible man-
se.; that the iedsfetigatele lahoom of the ermmittees, soder
the able presidency of Mr. Deputy Harrison, were rewarded
with complete ricer; cod that the police, under the di-
rection of the Chief Commisatieer, sad sore immediately of
Mr. fisperintandent 11..e.gs en, performed their duty with
great gehtlei its r well sa firmness. The Re.. Mr. Moon,
*aphis to the Lnrd Mayor, had the honour of being pre-
sented to the Empress.