The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-11 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, Nov. 10.

The Patric of this evening says :—" The state-
ment made by a Paris journal, that the Porte was
about to occupy Vonitra, is without foundation.
"Turkey has confined herself to concentrating
an army of observation on the frontiers of Epinal
and Macedonia."

RUSSIAN POLAND.
WARSAW, Nov. 9, Evimnio.

This afternoon M. Telkner, Chief of the Secret
Police of this city, was found stabbed to death on a
lauding in his own house. His ears had been cut
off. The perpetrator of the deed has not yet been
discovered.

FRANCE.

(nod OUR OWN

PARD3, SUNDAY EVERNO.

I have reason to believe it untrue that Russia
bas already adhered to the Breach proposal for a
joint intervention in America by Russia, France,
and England. There can be no doubt, however,
that France has made some proposition of the kind.
The Emperor lately had an interview with the
Confederate commissioner, Mr. Slidell, after which
he resolved to take the initiative in an attempt to
put a stop to the war by means of a triple media-
tion. The Pattie says it knows from a certain
source that what France proposes is, that the three
powers should demand from the United States a
suspension of hostilities for six. months ; that during
the armistice the European powers should offer
their good dikes to bring about a reconciliation ;
and that the blockade of the Southern ports should
cease in the meantime.

The first Maisons Laffitte Steeplechases came
off to-day, and were well attended, both by =risme
and foot company. This new racing ground is
prettily situated between the extremity of the park
of Maisons and the banks of the Seine. It has been
hired this year as an experiment, but Jerre is some
idea of purchasing it, and of establishing re-
gular steeplechases here to rival those of La
Marche. The Maisons station, within a mile of
the course, is only twenty minutes from
Paris by rail. On this occasion the races
were open to gentlemen riders only. The card
shows a goodly array of counts, viscounts, and
barons, besides one marquis. England was repre-
sented by a beautiful bay mare from the Badaworth
hunt, named Rugatone, the owner of which bears
the very Yorkshire name of Sykes. The principal
prize, 2,000 L, with entries added, was won by
Count de Cassette's Harry ; and the next, 700 f.,
with entries (for untrained horses never having
won a steeplechase of 1,000 f.), by M. Caillard'a
Glowworm. The leaps were not dangerously high,
but numerous • ' and the course laid out represented
a fair fox-hunting country, with occasional steep
dips, skimp awkward turns through trees and bushes,
and by no means very easy to ride. There were
no serious accidents, but two or three of the gentle-
men jockeys were unhorsed. The Marquis de
Galiffet and M. E. Leroy officiated as starters.

GARIBALDI'S LAST DAYS AT SPEZZIA.

The following is an extract from a private letter,
dated Spezzia, Nov. 7 :

Since the day of the great consultation Garibaldi has con-
tinued steadily to improve. Mr. Partridge strongly advised
his removal to a more airy and better ventilated room, and
a more rigid exclusion of all visitors. These measures have
been adopted, and with the best possible results. He sleeps
better, eats more heartily, and enjoys greater freedom from
pain than heretofore. He is, I believe, submitting with
more patience also to the confinement of a sick bed : not
that he was ever imp►tient in the ordinary sense of the
word—not, I mean, irritable or fretful—but depressed, and
low, at the thought of his helpless condition, and wonting
the hours for which he must continue to lead the same life
of inactivity.

To-day it is said that the surgeons have touched the ball,
which would imply that M. Naaton's opinia is the correct
one, and that it is at the extremity of the wound, and
about "two centimetres distance from the external ors.
flee." All the existing symptoms give promise of a sure
recovery, and his friends may feel satisfied that he is now in
no danger, and that he suffers comparatively little.
The win/Aber here is delightfully fine, warm ae in July at
home, and perfectly calm. The lizards, which only come
out in the hot dry days of the summer, are all sporting
about, and the flap of the ships-of-war are all drooping.
One cannot but wonder why this place is not crowdcd
with strangers, beautiful as it is, and so easily come at by
Lod or water.

TNs Comitracial. BLOCHADE QuawrioN.-31r.
Charles Robertson, at the meeting of the council of the
Liverpool Chamber of Commerce sterday, brought for-
ward a motion to memorialise her Majesty's government in
onler to ascertain whether any arrangements had been
made in concert with other powers both European and
American for effectiog the abolition of commercial blockades.
Mr. Robertson remarked that the position in which they
were placed by the resolutions of the Paris Congress was
virtually that all property afloat was to be protected with
one important exception, viz., that the ships of belligerents
carrying such articles of exports and imports were to be
sacrificed. Why was such au exception made? America,
France, and Husain were in favour of including ships also in
the exemption, cud the British government alone was re-
sponsible for so anomalous and destructive a regulation.
tr. Robertson contended that bolding the views
which the chamber did as to the non-iuterfereuce
with floating cargoca, they were bound also to advocate
the abolition of commercial blockades. Had our govern-
ment in 1856 acceded to the proposals made by the Ame-
rican President, and subsequently again introduced at the
outbreak of hostilities between France and Austria, we
should sot have been exposed to the calamitwhich bad
I now befallen us. It might be said that the Federal govern-
ment would not herself have observed these obligations,
but Mr. Robei Leon believed that she would not have dared
in the face of national public opinion to have violated •
treaty. Mr. Campbell seconded Mr. Robertson's motion,
giving • richaufe of Mr. Cobden 's arguments at the Man-
chester Chamber of Con.merce. The resolution was, after
some further discussion, adopted.
BONDING OF SALT AT CALCUTTA.—The council
of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce adopted a memorial
to government yesterday praying for • restoration of the
facilities for bonding malt at Calcutta. It appears that the
clearances during last month (October) from Liverpool
amounted to 27,000 tom, and that 35,000 tons are in course
of shipment. The restrictions imposed therefore by the
government are likely to interfere greatly with the trade
from Liverpool.
DirrsorourAit Fen HosPrrAL,
&num, Crrt.—The aggregate number of patients relieved
during the week ending Nov. 8 was :—Medical, 4268;
salawal, 843—total, 1,889: of which 669 were new wow
Dn. on JOIGH'IS LIGHT-BROWN Coo LITER On.
—The "Lancet," In an article highly eulogistic of Dr. do Joy"
researches. observes The composition of genuine end tow
oil Is not so simple As might be ntppoord. It la certain that oils,
which are anything but the oil of the liver of the rod, ars often
sold as such. We find Dr. de lough's Light-Drown Cod Liver
• 011 to be genuine, and rich in iodine and the elements of the
hild"—Fold only In capsuled beetles. L. MI., as. ed., and
Dr. de Joh's &genie, Anse:, Harford, and CO., 77.
London, ands chemists.—tidrertisementl

THE LORD MAYOR'S BANQUET.

Last night the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs gave their
customary banquet in the Guildhall, which, In consequence
of the coincidence of the majority of the Prince of Wales
with the assuming of office by the new Lord Mayor, was
decorated with more than usual splendour. Members of the
corporation who have been in the habit of seeing the Guild-
, hall on similar occasions to the present for a generation have
confessed that the hall has not been arranged with so much
magnificence as on the present occasion.
There were about 1,100 guests present, of whom
950 were accommodated in the Guildhall, and 150 in the
Exchequer Chamber. Amongst the company present were
the Duke of Cambridge, the late Lord Mayor, Viscount
Palmeuton, the Duke of Somerset, Fee Rural, Earl de
Grey Ind Ripon, the Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Brougham,
Earl of Hardwick., Earl Granville, the Bishop of London,
Mr. Cardwell, M.P., Mr. Cowper, M.P., Sir C. Wood,
ILP., Mr. Walpole, M.P., Mr. Brand, M.P., Sir W.
Dunbar, M.P., Mr. Gilpin, M.P., the Attar-
ner•Oeseral., Mr. Crawford, M.P., Lord Bury, M.P., Sir
W. Duke, Bart., Sir J. Paxton, M.P., Mr. Justice Wight-
man, Mr. Baron Martin, Mr. Baron Chime% Mr. Justice
Blackburn, and Mr. Justice Mellor, the minister of
Honduras, Mr. Aldei.nan and Sher'f Lawrence, Mr.
Sheriff Jonas and a large number of the other aldermen
aid oonnected with the oorparaties at as City.
The begmet was provided by Meters. Staples, of the Albino.
During dinner a selection of vocal mak was performed
under the direction of Mr. Glenn Wesley, the principal
artiste being Mdlle. Pampa and Mr. Lea ia Thomas. The
duties of toastmaster were performed by Mr. Harker.
After the loving cap had been passed round,

The LORD Mine amid—The first toast I have the
honour to propene is " The Queen," and it must be oon-
fessed that we enjoy a great blessing ,n having in this nation
• Quee• who hashes& a model to all other monarchs. (Cheers.)
She has been alike a model wife, a model mother, and •
model sovereign, and I am quite sure that in the recent die.
pensation of Providence she has had the deep sympathy of
all her subjects. (Hear, hear.) May she continue to rest
satisfied that she is surrounded by a free, enlightened, and
loyal people. (Loud cheers.)
" God save the Queen," the principal part being sung by
Madams biceps,.
The Loan MAYOR gave the health of the Prince of
Wales, fo"owed by the Army, Navy, and Volunteers.

The Duke of eamaainca, in responding on behalf of the
army, said—My Lord Mayor, you alluded to the special cir-
cumstances of the day on which this banquet takes place. We
inhere met no doubt to do honour to the Lord Mayor and his
election to an important post, which I bans no doubt he
will worthily fill. His lordship has told you that this is
the 21st anniversary of the birth of his Royal Highness the
Prince of Waft. This day, therefore, is a day not only of
immense interest, but of vast importance to this great cowl-
try. (Cheers.) flow much depends on the character and
position of that youthful and illustrious prince ! I can only
say—not simply because he is the Prince of Wales and a
relative of mins—that I firmly believe that the education
and general disposition of that young prince justify us in
hoping that he will be en ornament to this great empire,
and that during his career he will be, as head of this
nation, an object of pride to the country. (Cheeses)
There Is one circumstance, however, connected with this
day that moot he overlooked in eonnection with the
Prince of Wales—namely, that he is not at present in this
country. Why is be not here ? The reason that be is
absent on this day is the sad and painful bereavement
which the nation and the Sovereign sustained within the
last year. But for that sad event he would have been
here. Providence willed it otherwise, and though re-
joicing with the Sovereign on this happy day, we deplore
that her feeling and joy cannot be shared by one who
shared in every feeling of her joy and happinesa (Hear.)
My Lord Mayor, I beg to return thankaoa behalf of the army
for the manner in which their health has been drunk.
The Duke of Soseaccr returned thanks on behalf of the
navy, sad
Colonel IrMunno on behalf of the volunteers, who, he
said, were in a very efficient state.
The LORD MATOR next proposed the " Prosperity of the
Qty of London and the trade thereof."
His LORDSHIP next gave for acceptance the "Health of
the late Lord Mayor," for which Mr. Alderman Cubitt re-
turned thanks.

The LORD MAYOR next proposed the "Health of the
Foreign Ministers." The Minister of Honduras returned
thanks.

His LORDSHIP next proposed "The Church," coupling
therewith the name of the Bishop of London.
The Bishop of LONDON returned thanks, and compli-
mented the citizens of London on the readiness with which
they always came forward in the cause of charity and bene-
volence.

The LORD MAYOR next proposed the " Health of her Ma-
jesty's Ministers," which was received with loud cheers.
Viscount PALMIBSTON, who was received with load
cheers, said—My Lord Mayor, and Ladies and Gentlemen,—
For myse't and for my colleaGaes I beg to return you our
meet sincere thanks for the honour you have done us—you,
my Lord Mayor, in proposing, and you, ladies and gentle-
men, in so kindly accepting the toast which you have
drunk. I can assure you that there is nothing that can be
made a greater reward to those who are engaged in the
public service than to receive the goodwill and approval of
their fellow-countrymen for the performance of their duty;
and when I say the performance of their duty, I say all that
can be said of any public man, for there can be no higher
praise than the performance of duty, and no public man can
do more than perform the duty incumbent upon him ;
and although there are those men who are able to fulfil the
task, they must be presumptuous indeed who think they
have the power to do more. (Hear, hear.) It is peculiarly
gratifying and flattering to men who are engaged in the
public service to be honoured by invitations to these annual
commemorations ; for, in the first place, I may say, without
fear of exaggeration, that there is hardly any sovereign in
Europe who can give a more splendid banquet, when you
consider the company assembled, and the hall in which we
have met, than those we have the honour of being invited
to assist at. (Cheers.) But these meetings are also typical
of the British nation, for we hear men of all classes, men
of all political opinions, men engaged in very different pur-
suits, and we meet here in convivial fellowship, each for-
getting any differences which might exist between himself
and others, and only animated by &common feeling of brother-
hood and of pride in the nation to which we belong.(Cheers.)
There is one circumstance not devoid of interest

connected with these anniversaries, and that circumstance
is more peculiarly called to mind by what fell from my
Lord Mayor this evening, for it is a remarkable, and I trust
an auspicious, omen, that the day on which the municipal
corporations of this vast country are called upon to elect
what my Lord Mayor will perhaps allow me to call their
Sovereign for the year, is also the day on which this country
has been blared by the birth of a Prince, who one day—and
God grant it may be long distant—(hear)—will be the sove-
reign of this country, and who, by the qualities with which
the providence of God has endowed him, is, I trust, destined
to be a source of happiness to the nation over which he may
be called upon to rule. (Loud cheers). My Lord Mayor has
adverted to a topic which must excite the deepest feelings of
sorrow on the part of every man and every woman in this
country —I mean that distress which unfortunately prevails
in a part of our manufacturing districts. (Hear.) We may
trust, and it is to be hoped, that the canoes of
that distress may not be long continued—(hear)—
although it must be owned that there is not at present any
immediate prospect that more humane feelings and more
kindly sentiments are likely to prevail between the con-
tending parties on the Americin continent ; but we may
trust that India will, to a certain degree, supply that raw
material which is essential to the industry of our manu-
facturing population, and if this product which India may
send us shall be sedulously used in this country, and if we
An not tempted by the wants of other nations to send that
cotton away is tad as it arrives, I trust that India may
find the means of supplying in some degree the wants which
have been created by the civil war in America. (Hear) In
other respects it is satisfactory to know that the country
is in • good and sound condition. (Cheers.) We have been
told by his Royal Highness the Commsader-in-Chief and
my noble friend the Duke of Somerset, and by that dis-
tirignished °dicer Colonel M'Murdo, that our army and
navy and volunteers are in a state of great eMciency, and
although that array and that navy are comparatively
smell in pointof numbers, yet their discipline, sad allaisocy,

• and brave spirit, and the patriotic feeling by which they
are animated, make that small number equal to a larger
one in which these eminent qualities may not be equally
found. (Cheers.) Our harvest has not been bad, and
although the farmers are unwilling to confess that it has
bean good, yet at least it is a consolation that we do not
haw from them that their harslet has been bad. Our trade'
and commerce have found vent in one direction to Lesko
up for the drawbacks which have been opposed to then, in
others, and upon the whole balance of productive iodusrts7
we have no reason to complain that we are this year in •
worse condition than that in which we have been in years
which have gone by. (Cheers.) Our finances are also in a
sound condition. We are reaping in our intercourse with'
all the nations of the earth the barred of prosperous
trade which was sown infthose doctrines of freedom of trade
and unrestricted commerce which have won their way in
this country by force of reason, after long arid continued
dimension, and which, we trust, the example of
England is diffusing over other countries which have
hitherto been deaf to the voioe of reason, and
that we shall find that our prosperity serves as an
example to the other nations of the earth, that we are
really not only benefiting ourselves, but spreading over the
rest of mankind some of the advantages and some of the
blessings which our own wise policy has secured for ourselves.
(Loud cheers.) My Lord Mayor, and ladies and gentlemen, I
beg again to rotors you, for myself and my 00a11110110. our
most sinosre thanks for the honour which yes have dans us
in drinking our health; and more especially for the gratifi-
cation which you have afforded us in permitting us to
assist at the banquet which you have given us this
day. (Cheers.) I cannot, ladies and gentlemen, sit down
without asking your permission to propose to you a toast
in return, and I am sure that when I ask you to drink the
health of the Lord Mayor, that toad will be received
by you with all those honours which are dee, not only to
the office which he represents, but to the highly eted man
by whom that office is held. (Loud cheer.) ft,is one of the
great advantages arising from that municipal reform which
constitutes one of the greatest improvements of later times,
that the citizens of every greet town have annually con-
ferred upon them the power and opportunity of raising to a
distinguished post of the community one of the most valued
of their distinguished citizens. You, this year, have
exercised that privilege by electing your present
Lord Mayor, and I am confident that in the discharge
of the arduous duties of his office be will prove at the end
of his mayoralty that he is as much deserving of your ap-
proval as the distinguished individual who, two years in
succession, was elected to fill that office, has been proved
to have earned and deserved your appreciation. (Loud
cheers.) Ladies and gentlemen, I beg in conclusion to
propose to you "The health of the Lord Mayor." (Loud
and prolonged cheering.)
The Loan MAYOR returned thanks, and proposed " The
House of Lords," coupling with the toast the name of
Earl Granville. (Loud cheers.)
Earl Gall/emu returned thanks, and expressed the sa-
tisfaction which the House of Peers would feel in the
ensuing session in welcoming the Prince of Wales on taking
his seat for the first time. (Great cheering.)
The Loan ILLTOR then proposed " The Bench," which
WA responded to by Mr. Justice WLGHTMAN.
The LORD lIAToa next proposed "The House of Com-
mons." (Loud cheers.)
The Right Hon. E. CsanwELL, in responding to the toest,
said—My Lord Mayor, Ladies, and Gentlemen,—in obedi-
ence to your order, oe behalf of the House of Commons I
rise to return thanks for the toast which has just been pro-
posed. While on the one hand we do not yield to the House
of Lords itself in cordial loyalty to the throne and affec-
tionate devotion to the sovereign, you, my Lord Mayor, have
truly glanced at the sympathy by which the popular
assembly of this realm has always been sameiated with the
corporations of this country, of which corporations this great
corporation is the chief. (Cheers.) Whatever tends to
promote industry and commerce, and to advance the came
of legislation favourable to the interests of the
country, naturally finds its birth in that assem-
bly, which consists of members chosen by themselves.
(Cheers.) Every member feels that he enjoys an honour
which can only be conferred upon him by the free voice of
the people. We believe that, strengthened by your sup-
port aod animated by your confidence in every juncture of
difficulty, we shall be enabled to speak the sentiments of
the people, to sustain the honour of our country, preserve
the stability of our institutions, and promote the true in-
terests of the people. (Cheers.) On the part of the mem-
bers of the House of Commons, I beg sincerely to thank you
for the toast which you have so cordially drunk. (Cheers.)
The Loan MAYOR proposed the health of Lord Brougham
in a complimentary speech.
Lord BROUGILAX, in responding, said—l am deeply grate-
ful to his lordship for the kind manner in which he has pro-
posed my health, and to you, ladies and gentlemen, for the
kind acceptance of the toast. It is to well-regulated minds
a pleasing thing to look back upon acts of kindness re-
ceived, and I have for the long period at more than fatty
years had the distinguished honour of being a member of
this corporation. I am so much older than others in this
corporation that when his lordship proposed at first to
drink to the prosperity of the trade and commerce of the City
of Landon, I had some doubt whether it was not my duty
to return thanks. (Laughter.) But if it was a pleasing
thing to receive this great honour, the ground upon which
it was conferred was still more gratifying. It was from the
approval of my fellow-eitizens of this great City of
my conduct, politically and professionally, in supporting
the privileges and the honour of t hat renowned profession
of which I deem it the greet happiness of my life to be a
member—for having maintained those privileges and that
honour against the whole weight of the government of the
country, and the crown, as represented by the King. But,
independently of the causes, the honour itself is very great.
This City has long been reuowoed as the cradle of British
liberty, and of late it has become the tomb of her discoed'
and the fountain of her charity. My right hon. friend the
late Lord Mayor, and his worthy associates, including the
present Lord Mayor, have extended their benevolence to
all parts, even the most remote of the country, not consider.
ing distance to airoify anything, providing the necessity was
great. When we commend the givers of that benevolence.
let us not forget the admirable conduct of those who received
it. I look upon the working classes of Lancashire and
Cheshire and the West Riding of Yorkshire, par-
ticularly the cotton districts in Lancashire, as en-
titled to all possible commendation to praise and even
to veneration—for the warmer in which they bore their suf-
ferings. When I contrast their conduct this last year with
what I well remember in times 40 or 50 years ago, when
there was much less pressure, but when the people broke
out into disturbances is three distressed districts, giving
themselves up to strikes for wages, attempting the destruc-
tion of cotton mills, supposing the owners to be answerable
who were no more answerable than they
for their distress,
were for the wind and weather—when I contrast that with
the perfectly different conduct of the working classes upon
the present occasion, I cannot withhold my wonder and ad-
miration. (Cheers.) I am bound also to say, when I am
asked to what that difference is owing, that I ascribe it to
the progress they have made during the last 40 years in edu-
cation and in the acquisition of knowledge to enlighten their
minds upon their situation and upon the causes to which
, they are subjected. I have beard it said that their educe.
tion ought to have taught them to lay by fora bad day.
But ought education to have taught them what their
masters and their betters and the well-educated classes
knew nothing about—namely, to foresee the cotton famine
I They could oo more tomes, the famine from which they were'
suffering than their masters and betters, who did not fore-
see it nor provide for it. But as for ordinary wants, they
provided for them by savings banks, by insurances, by be-
coming members of co-operative societies ; and by scononde-
, ing their small means they did make provision for the ordi-
nary calls upon them. But so unexpected a crisis as
that of the cruel situation of affairs on the other ride of
the Atlantic they could in no way be expected to
foresee or to know. That cruel and unnatural
civil war is one of the most lamentable tweets
of our time. England and France have looked on with
feelings of kindness and friendship upon both the contend-
ing parties, for which reason they have perhaps not been
much liked by either. (Laughter.) Besides the ordinary
evils of wsr, beside the waste of blood and treasure and
suffering of every kind, beside the miseries and anxieties
in which ithaminvolved the whole country, which would make
us desire its speedy cessation, there is another feu, another
risk which they run more and more every month if this con-
test cos tinnee—l remade increased number of armed men

who beoome habituated to blood, rapine, and pillage. It hue
been said that there is nothing worse than the tyranny of
a mob. Yea, there worse, and it is the tyranny
of an armed mob. (Cheers.) With arias in their bands,
inured to war, incapable of peaceful occnce.tions,habituated to
pillage and bloodshed, that habit will become their second
and wage nature, and they will be the worst foes under
which owe could live. (Applause.) For the sake of
Heaves, for their own happiness, for the sake of humanity
let us hope they may avoid that situation of things which is
at once so deplorable and so degrading. (Cheers.) Ha
lordship concluded by proposing " The Health of the Lady
Ma crew."
rbe LORD Maros retuned thanks on behalf of the
lady Mayoress, and proposed "The Health of the Sheriffs."
Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Laintracs returned thanks.
Some other tomato having been drunk, the company sepa-
rated.