The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-22 00:00:00

EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 28, 1860.

SINOAPORE, Fla 6.—There bee been a great
deal of beetle sad preps/sties for the Imelda. of the
Oovernor-Oeneral, wise Is sew bawdy looked for.
This will be the seined time that a Ottramer.Osseral
has visited the settlement eines its foesdation. Oar
local news, this month, are mot of a nature to interest
distant readers.

Welearnfrcsm Lombok, that early in November a
whaling barque, aimed the (Spry, set a man in a
state of unsound mind mem on the beach at Lahti-
Hsji (marked Bally as Um darts), and immediately
Nasal!. The natives brought the man to the bone*
of a European resident at Piju, about *even miles dis-
tant, where he remained till he was taken en board
the think, Capt. Marsh, to be conveyed to Singapore,
where he arrived on the 14th of January. The master
of the whelk% barque is understood to be a man of
the name of Weelui: it is to be hoped that measures
will be taken to sift his story thoroughly, and if true
to punish such inhumanity.
We have papers from Manilla to the 19th ult., but
there is scarcely any news is them.

Thomas Balm, M.P. ; Mr. Charles Barry Mr. Thema
Bosley, Mr. Mimed Cobden.. ; Mr, atria, tioginear ;
Mr. Timm Field Mime, Mr. John Gott, Lord Overstone,
Mr. P Pawy, M.P. ; Mr Aldelloaa Tliosapema. M.P. ;Kr
J. P. Bedliall. Ban. ; Mr. Jas. C. Prairie, Ms. A. Y. Bee-
slay. Mr. William Cease, Sir J. W. Lorbsch, Ban. r_ Kr.
B. K Pete. ; Bann Liana de Rotheekild,A.P. ;
Mr. Peter Le Neva Footsie Mr. Joseph Payne Mr. flour
Wiakweirthr Mr. Henry COI*, Mr. O. W. Dlike, Mr. Geo.
Drew, Mr. Franck Faller, Mr Robert Ruphasees, M.P. ;
Mr. M. D. Wyatt, gad Mr. Scott Rom&
Ton ALDIUMIST. •—• Mr. Alderman Ferebrotker, Mr.
Alderman Oepelaad, XP., Mr. Alderman Kelly, Mr. Alder-
man Wilma, Sir Chapattis Marshall, Mr. Alderman Hum
otter', M P., Ble Wm. Magnay, Bart , Sir George Conch,
Mr. Alderman Hooper, Biz Janes Duke, Ban., M.P , Mr.
Alderman./luigrove, Mr. Alderman Hanka, Mr. Alderman
Challis, Mr. Alderman Sidney, M.P., Mr Alderman Moon,
I Mr. Alderman. Salomons, Mr. Alderman Finals, Mr. Alder-
! man sod Sheriff Lawrence, Mr Alderman Cards., Mr.
Sheriff N iflol4 Mr. Under 'beret Wire, Mr. Uoddrishoriff
Millard, Mr. Oismakirlaie, and the Town C.. eh.
Too Mamma or COMPANIIII.—The Maxtor of Nereus'
ampo,. hh_f.
_UMW of Grocen' Company, the Prime
Wair FlKKengen' Compton, the Prase Warden of
I GoidenKlWOlMpmry, the Mauer of the Skinners' Company,
tie Merin of the Mueltant Teflon' Compaoy, the Master of
the Sakes? Oempasy, the Master IA the Inamoogere Com-
ploy, the Master of the Clothworkers' Company.
Cit•tllltnn or COVIIIITTaIe or Collin:In Connetr..-10.
James Bailey. City Lands; kir. James Lew, BriArt Rotas ;
Mr. Depaty Pnoick, Commis.[ min of Sewers; Mr. Ednid
Sham, Navigation; Mr. Thomas White, Coal, Ciro, and
Finance; Mr. J. T. Norris, General Purposes; Kr. Thomas
Rowley, Markets; Mr. J. Blades, Library; Mr. Deputy
Hale, City of London School ,• Mr. H. Brows, Mears and
Clerks ; Mr. Thomas H. Hall Improrement ; Mr. D iputy
nankin. Freedom; Mr. R. Taylor, FAA., Sroondaries ;
Mr. F. Farrar. Law Bills ; Mr. Jain Wood, Consolidated ;
Mr. H. L. Taylor, Markets Improvement; Mr. Thomas
Dakin, Dusty Governor of Irish Society.
The Via Chancellors of Cambridge and Oxford, Lieut.-
Colonel Pitney. M.P. ; Sir J. H. Pay, Bat ; Bit A. L.
Ds Rothschild, But. ; Mr. John Masterman, M.P.; Wm
Cabin, Esq., M.P.; the Governor and Deputy-0 nunor of '
the Beak of Bastlud ; Deputy-Chain:eau of East India
Company; Mr. Forster, M.P. ; Mr. Deputy Lott, P.S.A ;
Janes Merriam. Esq. ; Joao Dillon, E•q ; Abel Smith,'
' E.g. ; Samuel Gurney. inn., E q,; H. Taeke,r q A.
Ceidecott, Req.; W. D. Strung; E D Stage, t.% ; Wm.
Finnan. Esq. ; George Peabody, Esq. ; Joseph Robinson, ,
Req. ; F. A. D lane, Esq.; W. Leaf, • James
Chit, Riq.; G. ergs Whitting, /11. • and the Rev. Charles
Marsh.ll, of Sycknham, Kent, Chaplain to the Lord Mayor.
The Egyptia& Hell, in which this grand display of cork
hospitality took place, is well-known to be one of the noblest
and meet appropriate spartmexts for such a purpose that can
anywhere be found. Ginn as it has been used ior purposes
of festivity, and embellished and decorated in various styles
of richness and splendour, there has, probably, never been
any occasion on. which it presented so striking and pio
eulia-ly munificent and appropriate an appearance as on the
present. The novelty of the occasion Reed has been taken
advantage of to introduce a style of ornament and decoration
at cues novel and pleasing in the highest dear, to, displaying
so muck ingenuity and good taste as to demon the greatest
connosudatt -a and praise.
The cloth having bests removed, and the loving cup passed,
The LORD MAYOR rose, and said—May it please
your Royal Highness, illy ',Ord', and Gentlemen, the
Sent toast I have the honour to propose to you this evening
is ens lam sure you will respond to, and that with enthu-
siasm. Iris the health and long-continued happiness of our
beloved and most gracious Sovereign Queen Victoria.
The toast was drunk with loyal honours, and was followed
by the national anthem.
The LORD MAYOR again rose, and said—My lords
and gentlemen,-1 hays the distinguished honour to
entertain this evening the consort of our beloved and
gracious Queen. In proposing the health of his Royal
Highness Pekoe Albert, allow me to connect with it an
expression of my desire that the great exhibition about to
take plan in the year 1851, and which his Royal Highness
takes so great an interest in, may benefit not only this me-
tropolis, but produce good and la.ting results through;ut
the United Kingdom, and a brotherly feeling towards all
nations. With these sentiments I beg to propose the health
of his Royal Highnesis Prince Albert, and success to the
exhibition of 1861.

His Royal Highaess Prince ALBERT than rose, and
spoke as follows:—My Lord Mayor, I am sincerely
grateful for the kindness with which you have pro
posed my health, and to you, gentlemen, for the
cordiality with which you hays received this proposal.
(Hear, hear.) It must, inde*d, be mist gratifying to
me to find that a suggestion which I had thrown out,
as appearing to me of importance at this time, should
have mot with such universal concurrence and appro.
Dation ; for this has proved to me that the view I took of
ttto peculiar character and requirements of our ago was in
accordance with the feelings and opinions of the country.
Gentlemen, I conceive it to be the duty of every educated
person closely to watch and study the time in which he lives,
sad, as far as in his lies, to add his humble mite of individual
exertion to briber the accomplishment of what he believes
providence to have ordained. (Cheers.) Nobody, however,
who has paid any attention to the particular features of our
present era, will doubt for a moment Vest we are living at a
period of most wonder ul transition, which toads rapidly to
accomplish that great end to which indeed all history points,
the realisation 01 the unity of mankind; not a unity which
breaks down the limits and levels the peculiar characteristics
of the different nations of the earth, but rather a unity the
result and product of those very national varieties and anta-
gonistic qualities. The diatoms which separated the different
nations and parts of the globe are gradually vanisning before
the achievements of modern invention, and we can traverse
them with incredible ease: the languages of all nations are
known, and their acquirements placed within the reach of
everybody: thought is communicated with the rapidity,
and oven by the power, of lightning. (Loud cheers.)
On the other hand, the great principle of divigoa of
labour, which may be called the 'analog power of
civilisation, is being extended to all branches of
science, industry, and art. (Hear, hear) Whilst formerly
the greatest mental energies strove at universal know-
ledge, and that knowledge was confined to the few,
now they are directed to specialities, and in these,
again, even to the minutest points,—but the knowledge
acquired becomes at ones the property of the community
at barge. (Hear, hear.) Whilst formerly discovery was
wrapt in secrecy, the publicity of the present day causes that
nos ions, is a discovery or invention made, than it is already
improved upon cad surpassed by competing efforts. The
products of ail quarters of the globs are placed at our dis-
posal, and we have only to choose which is the best and
cheapest for our purposes, and the powers of production are
entrusted to the stimulus of con petition and capital. So
man la spproaching a more complete fulfilment of that great
and sacred minion whisk he has to perform in this world :
his reason being crewed after the image of God, he has to
use it to discover the laws by which the Almighty governs his
ereation,and by peeking these law, his standar • of action town-
quer nature to his use—himself a divine instrument. (Hear.)
fiassnco discovers these laws of power, motion, and transfor-
mation—industry applies them to the raw matter, which the
earth yields us in abundance, but which becomes valuable
only by knowledge—art teaches as the immutable laws of
beauty and symmetry, and gives to our productions torus is
accordance with than. (Hear.) Gentlemen, the exhibition of
1851 is to give us a tree test and a living picture of the point
of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived
in this great task, and a new starting point, from which
all cations will be able to direct their further exertions.

I confidently hope that the first impression which the view I
of this vest collection will produce upon the spectator will i
be that of deep thankfulness to the Almighty for the bless- I
jags which he has bestowed upon us already hen below ,• I
and the second, the conviction that they can only be realised
in proportion to the help which we an prepared to render I
to each other; therefore, only by pesos, love, and ready
assistance, not only between individuals, but between the
nations of the earth. This being my conviction, I must be
highly gratified to see here assembled the magistrates of all
the important towns of the realm, sinking all their local
local, and possibly, political, differences---the representatives
of the differect political opinions of the country--and the repre-
sentatives of the different foreign nations—to-day represent-
ing only one interest. Gentlemen, my original plan had been
to carry out this undertaking wits the help of the B:ciety of
Arts of London, which th,d long and usefully laboured in
this direction, and by the means of private capital and en-
terprise. You have wished it otherwise, and declared that
it was a work which the British people, es a whole, ought to
undertake. lat once yielded to your wish, feeling
.that it
proceeded from a patriotic, noble' and generous spirit. On
your courage, perseverance, and liberality, the undertaking
now entirely depends. I feel the strongest emandence in
these qualities of the British people, and am sure that they
will repos confidence in themselves—coalidsase that they
will honourably sustain the contest of emulation, and will
nobly carry out their proffered hospitality to their foreign
competitors. We, her Majesty's oommisaioaers, are quite
alive to the innumerable difficulties which we shall have to
OMOOM• la carrying out the scheme; but having eimuldease
in you, sad Is oar own seal and pereeveranee at host, we
require only your confidence in as, to make us contemplate
the result without any epprehe linos. (Loud cheers.)
Prim ALBER again rose—Gentlemen, it is now my
duty tto propose to you the health of our host, the ar
Mayor, and ay to the City of linden—the
commercial metro not only of this conntry, but of the
world. (Cheers.)
The LORD MAYOR, fa returning thanks, said that he
felt himself placed in a proud position on the present maw
sion. His only difficulty was lest he should fail is *visa-
ing himself with satisfaction to those over whom he had the
Inmost to preside. Re trusted, however, that so far as he
had rose, that he had been successful. (Loud cheers) But
whether or not, he must he permitted to express the deep
=tit he felt to hie Royal Highness sad to the ether
ithed guests who had railroaded to the toast, sad
thank them for the honour they bad conferred apes him.
The LORD MAYOR again rose and said The toast
which I have now the honour to propose is, I am sure, one
which you will venend• saddrink with great pleasure. It
is the health of the AriabfahrielCastery and the clergy
of the United Kingdom alMseend and Ireland. (The
tout win drank with Nadia limps/)
The Archbishop of CANTEMBURY.—My Lord Mayor,
I thank you for the honour you have conferred ea myself
sad the body to which I belong in proposing this toast, sad
I thank this distinguished company for the manner
la which they have received it. lam gratified in having
this opportunity in thanking you for the justice you have
dose me is thinking that I should be happy to take a share
in the great object which is uppermost in our minds to-day.
In giving us credit for sympathising cordially with this
movement, I astute you you have only done justice to my
, own feelings and of those of the body I lien represent.
; I em sorry that some of my right reverend friends are
prevented from attending, as MOW they would dooleo, to.