The Express.
London, England, 1868-11-10 00:00:00

MP

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ducted between your noble Secretary for Wedge Aisles
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know that the other was namely returned. (Oboes)
I speak wields the healing of my hied, the Foreign
Secretary, bet flops he will mot 'condo me as over-
napping the bow& of diplomatic propel* when I my
that, however dinetielied those at home or here may be,
they will goon find there is no ground for dheatinkedem.
I my, and he knows, that the differeness which have for
some time threatened the pesos of the two comistaise are
now—what shell I say-,4 absent panes for a word—ere
now at an end. (Loud cheers.) What that end is, and
how that end has been brought abort, I for-
bear to say, except that it has been brought
about without touching in the slightest degree the
rights or the honour of either nation. (Cheers.) And
if in the future, as in the moot peak, diplomats nego-
tiations shall be carried on in the ewe spirit as that in
which his lordship and myself have carried on our sego-
Saline, I say, in the presence of the world, that I am
perfectly confident wars will be next to impossible. (Re-
newed cheering.) What we luire dolmen dosonetzate that.
Prom 1846 to the present time, from see mass or sisother,
there have been during the whole of the intermediate
period down to the present clouds which alarmed the
people of this country. We have been enabled, as you
will soon discover, to remove these clouds, and we shall
show to other nations nothing but an uninterrupted
period of sunshine and peace. (Cheers.) Whether the
achievements of the army and navy—whether by your men
or cure—have been honoured in our country, I make bold
to say that if diplomacy shall in future be so an-
ducted that war cannot occur' results will be in-
finitely higher, and the glory which will accrue Ito
those who conduct them will exceed the glory
which have justly attended the achievements on battle-
fields. (Hear, bear.) And what is still more to be
valued, that which we, my brothers and colleagues, may
achieve will be undimmed by the horrors of the battle-
field, and will be acknowledged by the grateful thanks
which will be rendered to us by • all of the human
race who are alive to the devotion which men
and nations owe to each other. (Cheers.) On more
than one occasion I have indulged my own feel-
ings by saying that we, as Americans, bear witness
to the excellence of your monarch as fond as any of her
subjects can, and we pray not only that her reign may be
long and peaceful, but that the nation which she so hap-
pily reigns over may ever be governed by a government
founded upon principles of human freedom, and one
which knows how to preserve it by extinguishing the
licentiousness which is eaculated to destroy it. Before
taking my seat I beg leave to thank you on the part of
myself and my colleagues for the honour which you have
done us. (Cheers.)
The Loan Mayon—l have great pleasure in preparing
the next toast, which is "The Health of the lord Chan-
cellor of England." (Cheers.) He has earned the respect,
admiration, and, I may say, love of the members of that
profession to which he belongs, because he unites talents
of the highest order as a lawyer with the greatest courtesy
as a gentleman ; and no greater tribute can be paid to
him than to say that he has won the admiration of every
member of the profession of which he is at present the
head ; and I trust that his life may be long spared to
mortise the great talents which Providence has bestowed
upon him. (Cheers.)
The Loan CHANCELLOR—I rise to return my very sin-
cere thanks for the toast which you have just proposed.
and to your royal highness, my lords, ladies, and gentlemen,
for the manner in which that toast has been received. Not-

withstanding the flattering observations which your lord-
ship has made in reference to myself upon this occasion of
sumptuous hospitality, and as to the manner in which I
have discharged the duties of the office which I have
the honour to hold, I cannot for one moment
appropriate to myself the compliment which is due to my
learned colleagues in the law. It has always been the
custom in this ancient and illustrious corporation to uphold
and recognise the dignity of the law, and the confidence
which is happily felt by the public in the administration
of :justice in this country. I speak of others, not of
myself, when I Fay that I believe there never was •
period when that confidence wee more justly telt than et
the present. (Hear, hear.) I am reminded that even
within the last few months a most unusual and most
striking mark of that confidence has been given by the
House of Commons in relation to • subject upon which
they have been uniformly most justly tenacious et
their privileges—l mean the trial of controverted elections.
That house has been content to place those privileges is
the hands of others—to entrust them for • time to the
judges of the superior courts of law. My Lord Mayor,
you at least will agree with me that at the present mars
the best wish we can express for those upon whom the
responsibility of this duty has been cast is, that they
may have very little to do. But whether it be
little or whether it be much, I feel certain
that the duties will be discharged with ability
and with impartiality. I may mention a signi-
ficant mark of the willing and earnest manner
in which the judges of the courts of law have
addressed themselves to the discharge of the duty which
has been assigned to them by parliament. The duty is
one involving a considerable sacrifice of ease and comfort,
the expenditure of much labour—and labour of a very
unusual and somewhat disagreeable kind—and we should
not have been surprised if the duty had devolved upon
the judges who are junior members of the different
courts. I take this opportunity of stating in the presence
of some of the learned judges who perhaps might scruple
to say it themselves, that in choosing the rota of election
judges, with a spirit and devotion to the public service
worthy of all praise, the senior justice of each of the three
superior courts has been selected, and has consented to
place at the disposal of the public his great ability and
experience, in order to the most hopeful and suooessful
working of this great etperiment. My Lord Mayor, I
well know that the City of London is deeply interested,
not only in the perfect administration of the
law, but also that the system of law which is administered
should be the most perfect possible. And I must confess
that of recent years, owing to the pressure of public ques-
tions which are supposed to be of greater urgency, the
subject of the amendment of the law has not received from
the legislature that amount of attention which it deserves.
I regret that that has been the case when I think
of the millions of property which in this City
alone are at stake. and of the innumerable and
intricate questions which, in our complicated state of
society, are constantly arising as to ownership, and re-
quiring to be disposed of with facility and expedition;
end shin I remember, on the other hand, what remains
yet to be done in simplifying our too cumbrous mode of
Procedure, economising the time and money of suitors,
and in making the most of the strength of the judges of
the courts we possess, and arranging the largo and

undigested mass of tho Written and lidwritten

law of this country, in remodelling that which
is the standing disgrace of uur legal system
—I mean the law of bankruptcy. When I re-
member these things, I cannot avoid expressing a
hope that the time may not be far distant when they
will receive from the public and Irons parliament •
greater and more earnest degree of attention and interest
than they have ever yet done. (Mar, bear.)
The Loan MATOII, in proposing the health of her Ma-
jesty's Ministers, said—l have great pleasure in connecting
with this toast a name not only well known to the
citizens of London, but to the country at large. I
allude to one who by his genius has, in the mid st of great
difficulties, oondacted for many months the affairs of •
great party through difficulties and obstacles which
seamed almost insurmountable. I give you the health of
her Majesty's Ministers sad Mr. Disraeli. (Loud
cheers.)

Mr. ihmunrs on rising was received with cheers. He
said—My Lord Mayor, among all our public duties none
are more agreeable than those which we are called upon
to perform when her Majesty's ministers are in-
vited to meet the citisens of London in this
ancient ball. Although this is a custom that is
now conseasted by the practice of many generations, I
might &haat say centuries, it is one which has never de-
generated into mere routine. It is a day which the in-
habitants of the metropolis always look forward to with
interest and delight, and which sees us aseembled bore
together with feelings which year after year lose
nothing of their freshness. Indeed, I think I may
say there breathes here an sir of enjoyment,
I will almost say jollity, which pervades a festive meet-
ing when all parties sympathise, and particularly when
the two parties of the state can meet together in ,the
spirit of good fellowship, opposed to each other like those
two gigantic forms before me, but still meeting together
under the same roof. In the very bill of fare