The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1851.

MM. Baca and de Sera proved that this proposition
of the Mountain was not in accordance with the
rules of the house. The previous question being put,
was rejected by assis-et-lere by a large majority.
The adjournment for a fortnight was thrown out by
a slight majority ; and finally the adjournment for a
week, from next Wednesday to Easter Wednesday,
proposed by M. Coquerel, was adopted.
ISo message made its appearance, nor was any de-
finitive cabinet announced.
The other proceedings of the Assembly presented
today no interest. It was agreed to pass to a second
delibCration on the law for constituting property in
Algeria; then the last deliberation on the bill for'
3lonts-dc-Piete.
The programme of M. Lamartine' set forward in
the Pays of to-day, advocates the legal revision of
the constitution, and the restoration of universal suf-
frage. M. Lamartine is persuaded that the latter
measure would regain for the President all his former
popularity, and tacitly implies that he might be re,
chosen President by acclamation, and thus armed
with an irresistible title.
If the government present no bill on the Avignon
Railway, the committee appointed to examine M.
'lance's proposition will demand that the committee
co the budget of 1831 should give up the old bill,
while the former committee would prepare a new bill
Ito bring as soon as possible into the Assembly.
The Moliteur contains the appointment of a com-
lasittee of inquiry to investigate the state of the mer-
chant marine.
There was a fall of 35c. to-day in the Fives, which
closed at 93.3. The Threes fell 13e. and closed at
37.41

CU Court.

The Queen will hold a Pricy Council on Monday
next, the 14th inst., at Buckingham Palace. Summonses
were issued yesterday from the privy council office to the
ministers and officers of state.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked yesterday in the
garden of Buckingham Palace.
The Princess Royal and the Princess Alice took a carriage
drive yesterday.
The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and the Princesses
Helena and Louisa, took their accustomed exercise yester-
day in the garden of Buckingham Palace.
The Queen had a dinner party yesterday at Buckingham
Palace. The company included the Duchess of Kent,
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, his :Excellency Monsieur
Van de Weyer (Belgian Minister), Monsieur de Marescalchi
(French Chargé d'Affaires), Lady Fanny Howard, Viscount
and Viscountess Barrington, the Right Hon Sir Charles and
Lady Mary Wood, Colonel Hon. Charles and Mrs. Grey,
and Sir Charles Lyell.

Lord I.yttelton had an interview with Earl Grey yester-
day at the Colonial-office.
A deputation from the Institute of British Architects,
consisting of Mr. Fowler (vice-president), Mr. Mocattt
(chairman of the committee), and Miami. Scotts and
Nelson (honorary secretaries), had an interview with Lord
Seymour yesterday at the office of her Majesty's Commis-
, 'Milers of Woods and Forests in Whitehall-place.
Lord Monteagle had an interview with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Down-
inf-street.
The Oxford University Commission met yesterday at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in
Doss fling-street. Present: The Bishop of Norwich, the
Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pembroke, the Rev. 11. G.
Liddell, J. L. Dampier Esq., the Rey. Professor Po sell,
the Rev. G. 11. S. Johnson, and the Rev. A. P. Stanley
(secretary).

BANQUET TO MINISTERS AT TILE
BIANsioN-RousE.

SPAIN.

DISSOLUTION OF THE CORTES.

The long-established custom, which requires the
chief magistrate of the greatest city in the world to extend
at least once during his year of civic sovereignty the hospi-
talities of the Mansion-house to the members of her
Majesty's government, was honoured lest evening. The
scene of the entertainment was, as usual, the Egyptian hall,
which was gorgeously decorated and brilliantly illuminated
for the occasion.
The company, which assembled at about seven o'clock,
included Lord John Russell, Lady John Russell, the lion.
Elizabeth Lystcr, Countess Minto Sir George and
Lady Grey, Marquis and Marchioness Of Clanricarde, Sir
Charles and Lady Mary Wood, Marquis Breadalbane, Vis-
count and Viscountess l'aimerston, Earl and Countess
Mul-
grave, Marquis of Aberconi,Viscount and Viscountess Mel-
gund, Earl and Countess of Effingham, Lord Brougivent and
Mi. Ilubhouse, bird Overetone, the American Mi-
nister, and Mrs. Lawrence, M, de Marescalchi, the
French Charge d'Affaires, the Right lion. lox
Malik, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Lady ileslop and Miss
Elliot, Admiral Berkeley and Lady Charlotte Berkeley,
Lord and Lady Marcus liill, Sir John ilerschell, Lady
Gifford, Count R. iteventlow, Right lion. Sir William
' Somerville, Dart., M.l'.' the Attorney-General, the Sobel-
tor-General, Lord and Lady Alfred Paget, Lord George
Lennox, the lion. J. E. Elliot and Mrs. Elliot, the lion.
W. G. Ilayter and Mrs. liayter, Mr. Cornewall Lewis anti
Ludy Theresa Lewis, Sir Thomas and Ludy Fremantle, Sir
Edward and Lady Buxton, Sir William and Ludy Moles-
, worth, Miss Stales, the Right Ron. J. W. Fitzpatrick, Mrs.
' and Miss Fitzpatrick, Sir De Lacy and Lady Evans, Sir
W. Gibson anti Lady Craig, Major-General Sir William
Morison, the lion. Mr. anti Mrs. Itaikes Currie, the lion.
Charles Nihon Villiers, Sir Benjamin and Lady Hall, the
Attorney-General for Ireland, Sir Moses and Lady Monte-
Sure, Sir John Guest, Mr. anti Mrs. Townley.
Upwards of fifty distinguished guests expected at the
banquet were prevented front being present from illness
and other unavoidable can-es.
After the dinner, the pledging in the loving cup—to which
Mr. Marker, the corporation toast-master, challenged, on
the part of the Lord Mayor, each guest in name, title, and
degree—and the chanting of the grace, "Fur these and all
thy mercies given,"
The loyal and routine toasts were drunk with the usual
honours.
Tlw LORD MAYOR then rove and spoke as follows:
My lords, ladies, and gentlemen, I am aware it is unneces-
sary for inc t call your attention at any length to the toast
am now shout to propose, I may however say that though
this is not at all a political meeting—that we arc not assem-
bled on this occasion fur any political purpose—but that it
is one of the most distinguished privileges of the chief
magistrate of this city to have the honour of entertaining
during his year of office her Majesty's :Moisten. (Hear,
hear.) I have availed myself ut this privilege thus
early in the year, and I assure the members of the
government who have done me the honour to accept
my invitation that they never were entertained in this Ball
with a more sincere and hearty welcome than on this occa-
sion. (Cheers.) It is my sincere belief, and I hesi-
tate not to declare it, that they are actuated by the purest
wed most patriotic motives, and that their most
anxious desire is to promote the best interests of
the empire. (Loud cheers.) Therefore it is that
1 have great pleasure and I feel it a high honour to have
the honour of proposing the healths uf my distinguished
guests—her Majesty's Ministers, and with thattoast I would
especially associate the name of the noble lord who is ut the
head uf the government, and at the same time one of the
representatives in parliament of this great City—my Lord
Julio Russell. (Much applause.)
The toast was responded to with much cheering.
Lord .1. RUSSELL, who was received with loud ap-
plause, said—l rise to return to you, my Lord Mayor and
this distinguished company, on my own part and on that of
my colleagues, our moot grateful thanks for the honour you
have done us, as a ministry, in proposing our healths this
day. I beg to assure you, my Lord Mayor, that we feel it
a great relief, as you have justly observed, that we are nut
here to speak of any political questions. I feel, therefore
that I am not at liberty to enter into any of those political
discussions which prevail in this country at the present
moment. Your lordship has said, and it is all 1
would wish you to say, that you believe we are
actuated by u sincere desire to promote the wel-
fare of this great empire. 1 trust I may be
allowed to say that as one of the representatives of this
city, it has always been my wish to promote the general
welfare, and even if at times I have appeared to have
differed from she wishes of the majority of this great cor-
poration, I trust they will still give me the credit of being
actuated by honest and sincere convictions. (Cheers.)
Here 1 might content myself with returning my thanks for
the honour of this uight, were it not that this day recals to
me the position in which we were placed three years ago.
We can all recollect that on the evening preceding the 10th
of April, 1815, there were doubts, misgivings, and fears that
there might be some violation of the public peace; and
many were apprehensive that loss of life even might ensue
on the following day. lint on the evening of that ensuing
day we found ourselves perfectly sufe—nafe, I will venture
to say, net from the armed force (small as it is maintained
in London, though that force would no doubt have done its
duty had there been cause for it—(hear, hear)—not on ac-
count of the presence of that armed force, but because the
people themselves rose. They rose not to cause, hut to
prevent, riot and disturbance. They ruse to maintoin, not
to subvert, the institutions of the country. (Cheers.) I
trust that on any similar occasion the sante spirit will be
evinced, and that knowing the benefits we enjoy under our
free government we shall always be ready to defend it in
its integrity, and to transmit the benefits of cur free insti-
tutions to our posterity. My Lord Mayor, we are now
about to see in this country a large number of foreigners
to assist in what, I trust, will be one of the most interesting
sights the world ever saw. I kuuw it has been said, and
rumoured—and your respected Recorder has mentioned
elsewhere the rumour—that advantage will be taken of that
occasion by some of those foreigners who will come to visit
this country, to disturb our internal peace; but I feel con-
fident that tent peace peace will be preserved, not only by
the strong arm of the law and of justice, but also because I
feel that any, who being our guests on such an occasion,
should attempt to disturb our internal peace, would be con-
demned by the universal voice of mankind as guilty of the
greatest violation of the sacred laws of hospitality. (Cheers )
On that great occasion which we are about to witness, when
those who are about to visit this country, never
having had occasion to be in England before, shall
see with admiration the extent of our trade
and commerce shall see a thriving population—
they will have reason to be convinced that there must be
something excellent in the laws, something excellent in the
spirit, something excellent in the traditions of a people who
exhibit such • spectacle. (Cheers.) In this city lain sure

Our Paris correspondent, writing last evening,
says the following news has just reached us by tele-
graph from Spain :
Madrid, April 7.—The Cortes have been dissolved
to-day, and in three months there will be a new
election. M. Bcrtrnn de Lys, Minister of Foreign
Affairs, is named Minister of the Interior ad intertm.
M. Arteta passes to the Public Works.
It may be supposed that this important resolution
taken by the cabinet has been determined on by the
adoption of the particular vote of M. Millare Alonzo,
seconded by MM. .Mon, Pidal. San Luis, and other
ancient ministers, who were to take a part in these
discussions.

The Madrid journals of the 4th state that in the
discussion on the bill for the regulation of
the debt, after M. Bermudez de Castro had con-
cluded his speech, M. Alonso, the dissentient mem-
ber of the committee on the bill, insisted, in a brief
but energetic discourse, on the necessity of making
radical reforms in the different departments of the
government, of clearly ascertaining the resources
of the state, and of fixing the estimates, before
proceeding to the settlement of the debt. When
he had concluded, the debate was adjourned. The
discussion was continued on the 4th, when the Count
de Fabraquer warmly supported the bill of the go-
vernment for the settlement of the public debt. M.
Bermudez de Castro again spoke against it, and had
not finished his speech at post-hour. In the com-
mittee on the estimates the president of the council
proposed that the salary of the vice-president of the
royal council should be increased to 120,000 mats,
but the proposition was not favourably: received.
Some friends of Count de San Louis, Minister of the
Interior in the cabinet of General Narvaez, had pre-
sented him with a gold medal, bearing a very flatter-
ing inscription, as a token of their esteem, and of
their admiration of his public services.

greathnaorteoniy
on plineasynroewninammaukunit,ghm akwlc
but on
onetnhnei,adrgmt
of my
colleagues, for the kind honour done us in affording us
an opportunity of being present this evening ; and on be-
half of myselt and those colleagues I thank you for making
me your guest at this banquet, given to her Majesty's minis-
ters. My Lord Mayor, you have alluded to a subject of very
great importance, not alone to this nation, but to the world
at large—the Great Industrial Exhibition about to take
place in this country. (Hear, hear.) My Lord Mayor, I
am one of those who believe that that design was conceived
in wisdom, that it has been carried out with great energy
1, and consummate judgment, and that those men who con- I
celled it, as well as those who have had the arrangements
of the exhibition, will have done great honour to
themselves, and, when it shall be finished, will have
brought great glory to England. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.)
I believe that design to have been a beneficent and a wise
one, I believe it will tend to cement the peace of the
world; and therefore I, as one of the corps diplontatique,
have taken a great interest in its success. (Hear.) I have
no doubt that peace and goodwill will reign in your larders
for the next six months ; and that when the great numbers
of foreigners, who will come to take part iu that exhibition,
shall return to their native countries, they will carry back
with them the kindest feelings towards this great nation.
(Cheers.) I believe nothing can exceed the pains that
have been taken by the royal commission executive com-
mittee, as well as by every person connected with this
great undertaking ; and I cannot sit down without
saying that I have evidences, as every foreign minister
must have, of the desire of not only the British govern-
ment, as well as the public institutions of London, but also
of noblemen—propris tors of articles of rare vertu, to render
every possible facility to the visitor to gratify his taste or
curiosity. (Hear, hear.) I believe the foreigners who will
come here will have every consideration as well as the kind-
est feeling that this great nation is capable of bestowing—
(lleous hear)—and that when you shall have concluded your
exhibition, when all shall have been closed, no man in Eng-
land will have cause to regret its having taken place, and
that no foreigner who shall have visited you will
depart without kinder feelings than those he en-,
tertained on coining amongst you. (" Hear, hear,"
and cheers.) But I have said sufficient. I therefore
thank you for your great kindness in inviting the
diplomatic corps to this festive hoard; and I assure you I
will always remember with pleasure the distinguished
honour of having been present at this banquet given to her
Majesty's ministers. (Cheers.)
The LORD MAYOR then rose to propose the " House
of Lords."
The Marquis of ABERCORN having returned thanks,
Lord JOHN RUSSELL proposes! the "health of the
Lord Mayor." lle believed there never had been a Lord
Mayor who discharged the duties of his high office more to
the satisfaction of his tellow citizens than the right hon.
gentleman who was their host on this day. (Hear.) As a
member of the executive government he felt that
the right discharge of those ditties was of the utmost
importance not only to) the nietropolis, but to the country in
general. (Hear, hear.) It was a matter of gnat conse-
quence to the ministry to have a Lord Mayor on whose cur-
, dial co-uperation they could rely, and to whose judgment
they could look for assistance in any emergency tint might
arise. (hear, hear.) From the right lion. gentleman whose'
health he now proposed, he was convinced should the urea-
sion occur, they would receive that valuable co-operation
and assistance. (Cheers.)
The toast was drunk with cheers.
The LORD MAYOR returned thanks. It had always'
boss his desire to do all that belonged to the functions of
his office in the way which most conduced to the interests of
, his fellow-citizens and the country ; and if, at the end of
his year of office, he should have succeeded in obtaining the
approbation of the citizens of London, he should feel he had
: done some good in his generation. (Hear, hear.)
After a brief pause,
The LORD MAYOR again rose and said—My lords,
holies, and geutleasii n, d feel particularly gratified in being
su fortunate as to obtain your hearty response to the toasts
have submitted to you ; and 1 am sure I shall be equally
, fortunate in that w Meh am now about to offer to your notice
—the " House of Commons," the more so because I purpose
coupling with it the name of that distinguished statesman,
the mention of which by his Excellency the American
nister has called turtle from you so warm a response. I
t propose to couple with that toast the " health of the Lord
Viscount Palmeniton"—(loud cheers)—to whose valuable
services, not only in the senate, but throughout the world,
we are deeply indebted. (Cheers.)
Viscount PALMERSTON (who was loudly cheered)
; rose and said: My Lord Mayor, ladies, and gentlemen, in
. the name of the House of Commons b beg to return you
t our grateful acknowledgments for the compliment which
you have just paid to that great and noble assembly. For
. myself I !nowt cordially and sincerely thank you fir having
t dome me the great honour of coupling my name with the
r Commons' House of Parliament. lam still more indebted
to you, my Lord Mayor, for the kindness, for the
flattering, and I am sorry to say the undeservedly
flattering. terms, as far as I ant myself eon-
t vented, in which you have introduced that toast.
t It is natural on an occasion on which you have
I assembled at your hospitable board so many of the most
. distinguished men of the country—men distinguished by
. services of every kind both civil and military--at a time
when you have also the presence of the most distinguished
representative, as he has called himself, of the world (hear,
r hear)—of the foreigu world—hut who, from the sentiments
which he expresses and the contial interest lie takes in all
t that conet.nis the welfare of this country as well as
his own, we can hardly call the representative of
I foreign ministers, we may claim almost as One Of
ourselves (cheers)—it is natural that you should
call to the reini.mbrance of the assembled company.the House
of Commons—that important branch of our legislature—
for you, my lord, who are the head of this great cot:unser- '
cial metropolis of the world—you who at this moment re-
present to us the commercial princes of England, must feel
the value of that legislation of which the House of Com-
' mons has been SU long the instrument. (Cheers.) Fur its
vain would the country be possessed of inexhaustible re-
sources ; in vain would be the vastness of the intelligence
of its people ; in vain the enterprise, the skill, and the
capital of its merchants—if the laws of the country did not
give freedom at home, and security for the enjoy-
ment of the fruits of industry. (Loud cheers.)
It is the dispensation of Providence that mankind should
be divided into rich and poor—that the rich should be com-
paratively few, and that the pour should he comparatively
many. No human legislation can alter that arrangement ;
but it is in the power of lawgivers so to enact that the poor
shall he protected from oppression by the rich; and that
the rich shall be defended against violence from the poor.
(Cheers.) That duty the parliament of England has amply
and successfully performed. (Hear hear.) Thence it
is, my lord, that while we 'have seen all the
nation+ of Europe convulsed with disorder while
we have seen industry suspended and commerce paralysed,
while we have seen institutions, civil anti political, over-
thrown—while we nave seen fields that ought to have been
trodden only by peaceful husbandman trodden by the
tramp of the iron heel of armed legions—while we have
seen those fields deluged with the blood of kindred people
or of hostile armies—the people of this country have ex-
hibited nn example of tranquil order and obedience to the
laws which, as lung as the history uf these times shallendure,
will command the admiration of mankind. 1 say then, my lord,
that it is natural you should pay to the House of Commons
the compliment you have bestowed; and I am sure that the
House of Commons will respond to the sentiment which
has animated your lordship in propos* it. After thus
performing my duty in thanking you for the toast you have
proposed, and for the honour you have done me, perhaps
you will allow. me to travel somewhat further, hut still, I
trust not departing from the character in which you have
called on me to stand; for although the Rouse of Commons
arc inure intent on its sterner duties, it is nut therefore re-
gardless of that respect which is due to the fairest portion
of creation. (Cheers and a laugh.) I hold that I am a
not less faithful representative of the feeling of the House
of Commons, when I invite the assembled company to
drink the health of my lady mayoress (Cheers.)
The toast was ~sunk with due honours, after which the
ladies retired.
I The LORD MAYOR next proposed " the English Bar,"
coupling that toast with the "health of the Attorney and
Solicitor-Generals." (Cheers.)
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL returned thanks, and
expressed his conviction that his hun. and learned colleague
the Solicitor-General would perform the task more worthily
than he could, fur he had, as it were, a hereditary right to
it. It would be always u source of pride and gratification to
the bar, and a great incentive to its members in the per-
formance of their duty, to possess the approbation of so en-
lightened a body as the citizens of London. (Cheers.)
The next toast was " The Members for the City of Lon-
don," to which Mr. Masterman responded. "The Magi-
strates of London" was next given ; after which the com-
pany retired.