The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-18 00:00:00

THE LORD MAYOR'S BANQUET TO HER

MAJIIBTY•B MINISTERS.

Yesterday, the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress sa-
tertaised her Majesty's =Mister sad their ladles, and •
large party, la the Egyptian Hall, which we. prepared ter
the occasion in • style of great magnifies:ma Ammar the
company wens, Lord and Lady arta Eared sad Miss
Lyater, Maggio at Lansdowne, Lord sad Lady Palmerston,
Earl and Coaster Grey, Marquis of Bresdalbern, Lady
Grey, the Danish Minister sad Lady, the Preach
Ambassador and Lady, Lady Mary Wood, the Nether-
lands Aosbarador, Lord aid Lady Langdale, Mrs.
Fox Male, Lord and Lady Roesbery, Earl sad
Counter Zodiac', Earl and Countess Arundel, East
end Countess Clammour, Earl sad C,uousa Morley,
Earl and Countess Lietrrell, Mir Stone, the Earl of Essex,
L•cly Ann and Mies Tared, Lord Ebrington and Lady
Ebriogten, Lord Marcus Hill, Lord and Lady Lilfurd, Lord
and Lady Curls, Kir Thomas sad Lady Wilde, Lord K.
Grosvenor, Lord and Lady Dinorben, the Earl sad Countess
of Mularar, the Earl Grosvenor, Lord and Lady Alfred
Paget, Lord and Lady Wodeboue., Lord Elphirmone, Lied
dodeley, Lcrd Hscherton, land and Lady Ili.ford, Lard and
Lady l'4ltierre Lord and Lade Vivra, land de Meany,
Lied Howdea, Lord Littelion, Lord Clarence Paget, Lord
, Byron, &e., fie.
Tafrekii having bees removed, and the "loving cup" hav-
ing bean passed, the LORD MATox proposed the usual loyal
Waste of the Queen, Prince Alba c. toe Prince of Wales and
the other merbas of the Halal Family, which were drank
with the usual imams. -

Tb am tome ware tkes Army and Navy, veil* mem
respectiealy_ acknowledged by Lori Howoax and Sir
CHMLI.III 14•1•11111—the latter gallant °Meer a:pressing his
conviction that those changes is the law whims unshackled
the commerce of the Country would add a stimulus to the
@hipping interests, improse the chuactsr of our merchant
ships. and beet& the merchant mama.
l'bei LORD MAYOR then gave The Clergy," coupling
with the toast " Tie health of the Very Roy. the Dean ul
fle. Paul's.

Dr. MI LM !N. the Dean of St. Paul's, returned thanks.
The LORD MAYOR then gave " The ►e.lth of Lied
John Rumen and her Majes•.y's Ministate," whin wee
drank wit► three Uwe, three ahem.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL. is arksowledging the toast,
said—My Lard Mayor, I rise to retina you my grateful
thanks hr the honour you have done me, and the ministry of
which I am a camber, and permit um is the !het plate to
sty that I deeply regret that my noble and horned friend,
the Lord Chancellor, sod nay noble friend the President of
the Couccil, together with some other of ay colleagues, are
linable to attend at this hospitable hosed this day. Is re
selves the hosiitalitige of the City of Loath), I can
do so without reflecting es the mighty changes which have
taken piste in this coup try, and us.li which this Ares' city
is connected ; changes connected with the Hostiles of the
country at its very beginning, and sow uniting sll that is
civilised in its progress. I am happy to perceive that
while cities are growing up around you, even
larger than tits centre trim which they radiate, that you
00•1111110 those pursuits of commerce which, while they odd
to the wealth of the country, tend to promote every species
of social happiness, which at the same time connect us with
other nations of the gLbe in bonds of amity and peace, and
trod to the general improvement and happiness of mankiiid
blyL Msyor, you have dune ns the honour of drinking our
bashes as the members of • government who are entrusted
with the important task of sdouaatering the affairs of this great
country. During the time we have Lad the honour to hold
office, there have been times of difficulty, times of cons
sierra distr.'s, and times of famine. We have bad to
encounter in one part of the empire vanity of food, amount-
ing to abashes famine; we have bad to eat iunter cow
ntercisl digress in this great metropolis, and in the large
towns of this kingdom ; we have had to contend also • ith
'theirs at rebellion, and at the separation of her Majesty's
demiaions. Far be it from me, and it would be most im-
proper os this occasion were I to attempt to enter
sato political topies, or to &emus in any way the polity
which we have pursued; Jut this I will venture to say, that
we have never bees despoLding in times of difficulty, that
we have never gulled beim, the enemies of our sovereigc,
and that in times of commercial presser* we have at least
gives our best abets and our mast tartest attention to the
consideration of every nether that could possibh tend to
the relief of that distress and to the restoration of comma,
Wel proeperity. It gives me much pleasure to see again
beside me at this festive board, tee French Am-
bassador, who, I remember, as a late 04Xiliell, said
that Lis presence bete was a token of the intimate usioa
and friendly canes:toe existing between the two great
*countries of England and France. May that intimate union
aid connexion long continue. (Che.n.) I believe the
union owl alliance of two such mighty nations, nations who
have proved their prowess in arias, and who have shown
that they are set to be deterred by any power that may seek
is oppose them—l believe that the intimate connexion of
two natio= so renowned in arms, and which have attained
so high • petition in all the departments of science and chi.
Leiden, essimit but tend to the peace of the world, and
promote the welfare of mankind. (Loud cheers )
The LORD MAYOR mat proposed "the Foreign
Ministers" cesspits' with it the health of the French
Ambaeseder.
Ambmseidor.

Y. DKOUHYN DE LHUYB returned thanks. He aid:
I tug leers to return thanks in the name of soy colleagues
and myself, for the favour you have so ksidly bestowed upon
me in chinking our koalas. As I begin to be somewhat
familiar with aty legends, I remember having read in one
of your quaiat chronicles some strange eeniunta of the war.
like duties formerly imposed on your eorputations. At ate
time they were required (such are the words of the writer)
to get ready good, apt, and tall persons, of agility and honest
behaviour, covered with corelete, weeponed with pikes and
bile, and dressed in pillow woollen *loth, to fight is
Flanders. At another they were ordered to set forth elhips
to annoy the King of Spain ; and again they were summoned
to tit out pinnaces for the suppressing of Dankirkers. When
on such occasions the brave citizens assembled at Guildhall,
what bursts of patriotie wrath must have respraded to the
royal commands. Could Gag and Nam re-satio the threats
which were then poured out against the Wren ing foreigners,
what drsadfal things we should bear. Now, thank God, you
meet in this splendid pale's, sot to provide the means to @ap-
peaser to annoy your neighbours, but to greet them with •
castigate hearty welcome. At the Mansion Howse not a
uitter urop is to be found in the loving cup, it la therefore,
with the fresh st pleasure and the sincerest gratitude that
we acknowledge your cordial reererion.

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The LORD MAYOR thin
_Proposed, "The House of
Lords," coupliar with it " TM Health of Earl Grey," which
lava, Pen drink.
Bart GitEY acknowledged. He said, I to
thank you in the awe of the Reale of
and myself for the Moon you lam done Wm and myself.
I arum you that I feel it a high oompliment that you have
added my name to the toast of the house of paring.
mint to which I have the honour to belong. This
tubule of resped paid by the City of Loudon leads
oat's tkiughts back over the long seam of years
daring which the Home of Lords sad the City of
Loneos have held compimous parts in the Institutions of
the country. Both are sat lent corporations, both take
their origin from the earliest period of our history
and while wads. have rolled by, aad amid the social sad
poti.kal dames which those centuries have produced, the
How el Lords, and the Coporation of that City of London,
have preserved submit- n, from generation to g ion,
that great chain of esowsion which unites their past
with their present indetesee. (Cheers.) We who ere mem-
bars of me or the other, am like the btheritan of a proud
traditioa. The itemises which times two bodies to which we
respectively babas kw performed are worded Ice the
history et our country. I think its set inappropriate,
when I am maid epos to respond to this toset to call was.
tioa to those historian associations which are emenectsd with
W House of Lords and with the City of landoe.
The LORD MAYOR had now the honour and wish&
doe of proposing " The Members of the House of Com-
was," coupling with it the " heath of lard Peaterstoa."
The toast having been drunk,
Lord PALMERSTON, is acknowledging it, said—My
L ird Mayor, ladies, and gentlemen, I caa wire yos I as.
deeply sensible of the great honour you have dame me, to
'coupling my new with that body which his been well termed
one tittle noblest essenibliceof freemen, the Conmeee'Hewee
of primmest of this patted Ilindom. It is WIWI that
when you are assembled I. this WI, and its aekatthisthileg
mby yr kind reesithetises the wises piddle bodies end great
institivions et Oh Mollie% thee is Moen el Caw
was should net he Per Meows the City of
Landes aid the Comm How of Parliament there Is that
satyrs] link of esansthest whisk mites the pried* of riom.
tame with eall and polities! Itherty. For while you,
great inercilmelle of the City of lAmilen, are the
worthy represenestimis el the enthawdel principle, so
jai How of Clemssons ars the peeediar guardian'
1.4 the tatutitutionel liberty of die eirentry. (Hear, hear.)
Liberty and someone go hand is hand, and which ever
takes the lead is ears to be followed by he ethapthion sad
brother. Thus, while cosmoses lams the way to 'manta-
nivel liberty, coestitutioad liberty gives M itimaseme its
proper sew ity and stability. Commerce iaduose the eon.
shanties of tae value of freedom of action without which
we oar not prover, and commercial freedom gives to the com-
mercial =ea that Lberty without whisk commerce ward
be tally develop& It ie ou that 'swat that we
have seen that wherever political and civil liberty bait
misted, however confloed the territocy, however saw-
eosin the climate, • ever Itopromising the sal, that Uwe
commerce has taken its root and attained La fall growth,
sad that small slats. and individual eithe ham arisen to a
degree of ouniniernal wealth and polities& miasma whisk
nature appears to have denied to these—te wok greater
wealth and 'minima relatively speakag that has been
attained by boor and more reweriul empires. I beg
again to return you my men grateful tkusks fee the Loewe
you bass doe the Haw ci Cutuassas sod says.ll. sad to
wears you that that asses* will slireps feel swaiit.is of the
gnat obligati coot nod ups theta by being reetellwe I
as they have bees...-night In this boll. (Cheers )

The LORD MAYOR proposed the Bar of Ragland,
which toast was acknowledged by the Arroadat Oasiaact.
Sir GEORGE GREY dna proposed the health of the
Lad Mayor, whisk atter having duly ansowledged, IWLinton:l gave the health of Mr. Jae. Masteraaa 1114
the
netaben of parliaanat far the city. Mr. Restermen replied
to ft, sad the Rai of Carlisle proposed the Lady May.rata,
to whisk the Lord Mayor 'polio; and, altar amoothar tours
the company ektarated.

LY SETTLEMENT.

A public meeting wu yesterday held at St. Mar-
tia'e•ball, Lontscre, for the purpose of receiving inform&
tine concerning the objects, plans, progress, and prospects of
this new colonising enterprise.
The chair we taken by the Right Hon. Lord LYTTLB-
TON, who stated that the anociatios sought to plant •
settlement in New Zealand, in a x‘ct conformity with the
principles of the Church of B•gland. They had not, as they
right have tairly doss, placed in direct prominence the
berate to be derived to Ws country frogs such a line of
policy, but they did strongly point out the duty of the
rare, to plant is 1•s distant possessions institutions which
would include in them all that was good and gre►t la society
at home, and to exclude as far r poasible all that was evil.
They weld not, of course, ask from the goverment any
ptealiar benefiu which were not aceirded airily to the
other salmis,. Their own feelings end wishes, however, on
the abject were that the new colony should poems, is Me
fall!.' and beoadnt seamy the means of selivereament awd.

illEßVltenlf-developneni. The land whreVVes—lieid in
tract for the association amounted to about 2,000,000 acres,
the price over the whole of which would be 31. per
can. It night be considered by many that that price wee
esonsiderably too high, but the mode In which the money
derived from the ode of the lend would be apprepriced
would show that the price named wee not too Mgt., consider
tag the ad gee proposed to be given to the colonists.
Tne New Z island Conspeny would receive 10s. per acre for
the vale* of the land, 10s. would be devoted to the expense
of surveys end miscellaneous 4 smiles or forming *Utte-
rmost., roods, to., 20s. to provide a fend for the emigration
of labourers and Owe families; and the remaining une-third,
or 20e , would be applied t e the puree et ecclesiastical
and educational endowments In the colony. No attempt ban
been made to found a Church of Ragland colony, end the
qaestion now arose in what manner wee that object to be
secured ? This only WONT which he could give to that
question was the mode upon which the a s Mahon proposed
to au, v.s , by placing epos the lead its the isttlonent the
charge ed 11. per sere, to be applii d to the support of religious
and edueatimal establishment. in the colony. The &omen
tioa was now enabled to enter Into a positive engagement
that the first body of colonists would positively premed to
their destitution in the sunnier of this year, with their land
order, and take possession of the land.
' Theßishopof NORWICH then moved the first resoln•
lion "Teat this meeting views with great satisfaction the
minima which have been made to promote the extension
o British colonisation in New Zealand upon the sound prin.,
cipl-s adopted by the association for founding the Canter
bury Bet I. meat." The principle referred to is this multi-
tin, as h. ing those upon which the association was founded,
recommended themselves to every person, inasmuch as they
united the principle of colonisation sad evangelisation which
had too long been kept separate and distinct in the mode of
coloanation acted upon in th.. annoy. Lnking at the rise
and estension of the (Jolted States, and viewing their pro-
stream as a precedent, there was every ream to believe that
the colonies of this country would become mighty states and
empires. The British oak might be in that day but a nohow
end blighted trunk, while its saplings went striking their
roots deeper sad deeper, and looking forward still to mato.
rise of vitality and strength.
Lord COURTENAY cordially seconded the rtholation, '
bemuse he Mantel upon the association as one whisk wu
formed to carry oat emigration, not upon the principle which
had been styled by his late lamented friend, Sir C. Buller,
" a mere shovelling oat of paupers." but a traissteruce,ia its
integrity and effect, of the state of society existing In this
country. Colasioation bad been called "a great, a noble,
and a ph nothrome work ;" it rested with that association
and its friends to ray whether they should not from this time
forward be able to adi a still higher title to it, and to call it
" • religious and christien enterprise."
Mr. SIDNEY, who spoke from the body of the ball, in a
speech of cerneerable length, alluded to the failures of various
other plans of col Asizauon, particularly to that of South
Australia, attributing its cause to the inability of the
consists profitably to empl / labour, and warned those pre-
seat not to be induced to embark their property in this settle-
ment upon merely phileathropie grounds.
The motion was then carried unanimously.
The Bishop of OXFORD, in an able meaner answered the
objectless of the previous speaker, and denied that the colony
of South Aaerralia had been a Mho*. It was quite true,
that bk. all other colonies, it had its difficulties to contend
with ; but no colony of the same standing was in a state of
greater real prosperity then that of South Anstrelis, and there
was none in which there had been a more sure and steady
growth of a colonist population, resembling so much the
mother state which had sent them oat. (Hear, bear.) The
resolution which he had to propose to the meeting was fah•
manly connected with this subject of the prosperity of a colony
and was to this dim*. " That in the formation of a eolony it
is of the fleet importance, both to the moral welfare and to
the mated it prosperity of the community, that due provision
shcald be made for enuring to the ostlers the enjoyment of the
ordinances of their religion and the means of education for
their children." it was only by, founding the church of their
fathers in the colony, and by giving them the opportunity of
church education, that they could reasonably hope to ac-
asnplith that which Bacon said was " a heroical and priaan
rive operation." The question of colonisation was the great
question of the present day. The stream of increasing popu-
letion flowed in while they were talking. The mere tact
that the population was increasing rendered it necessary
that If England wu to continue u a nation it was neoessary
for her to carry out some extensive plan of emigrations •The
question was should it be, as hitherto, emigration or sole
citation. Should they continue to send forth the superfluous
blood which they did not want at boss and spill it on the
ground, or should they plant Ood's likeness is their distant
possessions ?
Mr. SIMEON, M.P., seconded the motion, which wee
carried unanimously.
Mr. S. HERBERT, M.P., moved " That sound prin.
ciples of colonisation demand that is the formation of a new
settlement all the classes and elements which constitute the
society of the parent state should be represented in their due
proportion." He trusted that, having overcome difficulties
which he did not believe to he insurmountable, they might
be able to produce a colony which would be, in some
respects, a type of the great society which existed in this
country.
Mr. ADDERLEY, II P., said it was not the object of this
society to iodine any moos te emigrate, bat finding that
there were many pence, emigratiog, finding the fact going
on, they sought to any it out upon an improved plan. Those
conaeeted with the enonation had oe pecuniary benefit
whatever in the remit of the anociatieo. The honour-
able gentlemen having wide an eloquent appeal in behalf of
the association, ausotaded by seconding the motion, winch
was carried walmouly.
J. HULL, Req., moved, end the Rev. R. E. HAWKINS
seconded, the following mullah's), whisk was also carried
unsainotesly, " That the recognition of the foregoing prin.
'Apia, together with the general arrangement made for the
foundation of the Canterbury anthems; afford the surest
prospect of the future prosperity of the colony."
A vote of thanks wee then paned to the chairmen, and
the meeting broke up.

SillfrorniCffB. KINOffroWN, APRIL 13. The
pilot beat gawk towed tab Kingstown a large plea as
wreck, the side of s vessel, found drifting between Lumbar
and the Kish ; it is block, with two narrow red mouldings;
• white flag was fastemed to a rope which was tied cm one of
the masthead says. The other pilot boats picked up 107
bass of sosp IS miles BE.byß. of Ltinbay. The schooner
Wonder, of Waterford, with wale Wonder, from Cardiff, was lost with
ell hands during the line storm.
IGNORANCE IN ENGLAND.— Taking the whole of
northern Swope— luelurhng Bealead—end France end
Belgium (where 'dustiest I at a low ebb), we And that to
every 21 of the population there le one child acquiring tbe
rudiments of kaowledge : while in England tbs.* is only one
such pupil to every 14 inksbitaats. -It loss bees osleulided
that there aro, at the present day la Reglad and Wales,
surly 8,000,000 perms who an neither read nor Wlll4l
that is to say, surly one quarter of the population. Also,
that of ell the shildnn between flee sad karma more tkaa
one half attend ao place of instruction. These statements
would be bard to believe if we bed not to enemata in ear
every-shy hie degrees of illiteracy which would be startling,
if we were not thoroughly used to It. Wherever we turn, is
nerence, net always allied to poverty, stares as is the few If
we look In the Giuctle,st the list of partnerships diesel red, sot
a month passes but some unhappy ma, Wasp perhaps is
wealth, but wallowing in ignorance, is put to the ape-
riesenfas craw,. ol " his mark " The number of pet:
javon—in rural districts espeeielly—who can only sign with
a eras, is worm as. Is is not unusual to see parish dont.
matte of gnat local import:wee defaced with the ease loan-
listing symbol by pompous whose ales shown them to be set
only' men of mask," bat ma of 'obstacle. We have
prated greedy epselmees of the partial igeonnee which
passes ander the has of the Pavane* sutheritise, and we
may venture to meat that such speciosa' of penmanship
se orthography are sot to be matched is say other MUM,
la Europe. A housewife in humble lim aced only taro Is
the AU of her tradesmen's bills to disease hieroglyphics
which render hem so many arithmetical puzzles. In that,
the unequal evideaces of the low ebb to •kelt the plants%
raduments of Wanda in this country have tam aro toe
eusemus to bear repetition. We cknout pass through toe
streets, we a. snot eat, r a place of public essemuly, or ramble
is the Gelds, without the gloomy sheo.,w of *amino ~„, p
log over o.—Dickene's !Machold Weide.