The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-09 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

13111THEIELD.—Meadow hay, 3/ Os to 5/ lOs Od ; clover
ditto, 3/ 3s to 6/ 10s ; and straw, 1/ 3s to 1/ 9s per load.
Supply tolerably good and trade rather dull.
CUMBERLAND. Meadow hay, 3/ Os to 5/ 10s ; clover
ditto, 31 Os to 6/ 6s ; and straw, 1/ 4s to 1/ 10s per load.
Both hay and straw were in fair request, at our quotations.
WHITEOHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 3/ Os to 51 lOs; clover
ditto, 3/ 3s to 6/ lOs ; and straw, 1/ 4s to 1/10s per load.
There was a fair inquiry, at full prices.

APOTHECARIEW-HALL—The following are the names
of gentlemen who passed their examination in the science
and practice of medicine, and received certificates to
practice on Thursday, June 7 :—Thomas Blake, United
States ; John Crake Webb, Shaftesbury-crescent ; John
Stoney, North Shields ; James Richard Lownds, New-
castle-on-Tyne; Charles Taylor, Nottingham; Robert
Perry, Egrernont, Cumberland ; Edward Thomas Tyle-
coke, Haywood, Staffordshire; Alexander Cooper Lee.

11,, 1. JUNE 9 1855

BANQUET TO THE LORD MAYOR

AT PARIS.

The Hotel de Ville has seldom seen under its hospit-
able roof a more distinguished company than Baron
Haussmann, the Prefect of the Seine, assembled on
' Thursday to meet Sir Francis Moon, Lord Mayor of
London, and the gentlemen of the Common Council
deputed to attend him. The guests comprised the most
distinguished persons in Paris, and scarcely a celebrity in
politics,literature, arts, or manufactures was absent. The
diplomatic corps, the Ministry, the senate, the Council of
State, the Legislative corps, and all the learned bodies
were numerously represented, and a casual spectator
would be embarrassed which mostto admire, the wonder-
ful variety of uniforms, the richness of the orders and
decorations worn, or the taste and elegance of the ladies'
toilettes. The guests were received with the most per-
fect grace by M. and .Mme. Hanssmann in the State
drawing-room, the banquet taking place in the long
Galerie des Fetes, the finest room in Europe for fes-
tive purposes. From one end to the other of this
noble gallery was laid out a table covered with the
most splendid plate, cut-glass, flowers, and ornaments.
At each end of the room a table ran across, and
the Salle St. Jean, which opens into the gallery, was
similarly occupied. Covers were laid for 350 persons,
and as a lady sat by the side of a gentleman down the
whole length of the immense table, the coup d'wil was
one of unrivalled variety and beauty. The dinner, as
was to be supposed, consisted of every delicacy that the
gastronomic genius of Paris could furnish, as will be
seen by the bill of fare which we subjoin. A find band
of music played appropriate airs during the evening, giv-
ing "Rule Britannia," as the Lord Mayor of London
entered the dining room. Wben the dessert arrived, the
Prefect of the Seine rose and said :

Gentlemen, I have the honour to propose the health
of their Imperial Majesties. To the Emperor Napoleon
lll.—to the Sovereign whose wise, pure, loyal, and
courageous policy—by triumphing over the hatred and
suspicions of ages, has founded in a cordial and in-
dissoluble alliance the two greatest nations of the world,
and thus preserved for ever the cause of justice and of
civilisation. (Applause.) To the Empress Eugenie ! Her
incomparable grace is the ornament of the Imperial
throne, and her inexhaustible bounty brings blessings on
her head. " Vive l'Empereur ! Vive l'lmperatrice !"
A numerous chorus here accompanied the band whilst
playing " Vive l'Empereur !"
The PREFECT, after a short pause, again rose and said :
"Gentlemen—l have the honour of proposing the
health of her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and
Ireland. May God protect the august ally of our be-
loved Sovereign. May we soon see the hope realised
that her Majesty the Queen has deigned to permit us to
conceive, that of being allowed to offer to her in this
very place, at the period of her visit to France, the
homage of the respectful felicitations of the municipal
corporation of Paris. Vive la Reine Victoria I"
The national air of "God save the Queen !" was here
given by the chorus, after which Lord Cowley rose to
acknowledge the compliment paid to his Sovereign :
" I beg leave to return your thanks for the very cor
dial manner in which the health of her Britannic Ma-
jesty has just been drunk. There is not, I am convinced
a single English heart that does not beat responsive to
the friendly feeling which is testified in France towards
the Queen of Great Britain andtowards all English sub-
jects. Her Majesty is fully alive to the importance of
maintaining the amicable feeling which now exists be-
tween the two nations, calculated, as it is, to promote so
strongly the welfare of both countrie•a." (Applause.)
M. DELANGLE, President of the Municipal Co m mission,
next rose and said :

"Gentlemen, in the name of the Municipal Corpora-
tion of Paris, I propose to you a warm toast of welcome
to his lordship the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and our
friends of the City of London. (Cheers.) The City of
Paris has not waited, in order to enter into relations of
benevolence and kindness with the City of London,
until an alliance offensive and defensive should unite
England and France. At the present day when the two
nations have united their flags—at the present day when
they spill the blood of their soldiers in the common
cause, it is not only as colleagues, but as friends and
brothers that we receive the magistrates of the City of
London and their families, and that we salute their ar-
rival with acclamations. Welcome to his Lordship the
Lord Mayor, and to our friends of the City of London.' "
(Loud applause.)

The Loan Mivott then made the following reply :
" Monsieur le PrMet, Messieurs les Ambassadours,
my lords, ladiee, and gentlemen,—The Lord Mayor and
the Municipality of London desire to express to you
their warmest thanks for the admirable manner in
which they have been received by this great city,
and for the kindness just manifested towards them
by this distinguished company. Permit me, further, to
asqure you, that we shall never forget the delightful re-
miscences connected with such a reception, calculated,
as it assuredly is, to excite, even in our northern breasts,
feelings that can never be effaced. (Cheers.) The mu-
nicipal body of Paris, by the inspirations of their wis-
dom, arrives at such grand results as to secure to them-
selves the po‘ter of giving such gorgeous entertainments
as this which we behold to-day, and they do the best
possible service to their country by bringing together
under this hospitable roof the most distinguished per-
sonages of every country, and so exciting a universal
feeling of genial amity and cordial consideration. (Cheers.)
This noble Hotel de Ville, in which we have been this
day so splendidly entertained, presents such mar-
vels of art and such wonderful efforts of human genius,
as exemplified by the stately hall in which we are now
assembled, as to make me and the gentlemen who have
accompanied me, feel as pigmies in our power of offering
a palace for municipal hospitalities ; yet the points, in
which we admit ourselves to be deficient in such mat-
ters, and which involve the cultivation of the higher
works of art and genius, we can only hope to make up
for, in the time to come, by the melns of that unity of
feeling, and that warmth of heart which, I think, I may
venture to declare, is never wanting in the English cha-
racter, and which cannot but be increased by such kind-
ness and friendship as we are proud to say we have ex-
perienced on the present occasion in France. (Loud cheer-
ing.) Such a reception can be worthily responded to only
by a cordial and heartfelt expression of acknowledg-
ment, and it is that which lam anxious, both in the
name of the city of London and in my own, to here con-
vey to you in the most marked, the most sincere, and
the most cordial terms. (Loud cheering.)
Shortly after the company left the dining-table, but many
of the guests remained until a late hour in the suite of
splendid rooms thrown open on the occasion. It was
universally admitted that the Hotel-de-Ville, famed as it
is for princely entertainments, had surpassed itself in
this banquet to the Lord Mayor, and amongst no part
of the guests was admiration expressed more warmly
than amongst the English visitors.

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SUN OFFICE, Six o' Clock.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN June 6.—Copies of the following Prus-
sian despatch, addressed to Count Arnim, under
date of May 23d, have been forwaraed to all the
representatives of Prussia in Germany to keep them
au courant of the sentiments at head-quarters)—

"Berlin, May 23.
"To Count Arnim,—My note of the 19th inst. ad-
dressed to your Excellency, was already on its road,
to
Vienna when Count Esterhazy had the goodness to
communicate to me the annexed circular of the 17th
inst., together with the despatch of thelsame date, direct-
ed to him, also annexed. Your Excellency will, there-
fore, have been already in a position to give Count Buol
the assurance, that the Russian despatch conaniunicated
by Herr von Glinka to the members of the Diet seems to
us also at present to call for no motion or declaration at
the sitting of that body, and that we are willing to
take this document, importantly affecting German
interests as it does, into deliberation only in connexion
with the detailed communications, which the Aus-
trian Cabinet has on different occasions led us to look
forward to. But although, and for the very reason that
we, for the 1 r.3strif, in compliance with the wishes of the
Imperial AuAri,m Cabinet, and on account of nego-
tiations still pending, rest rve judgment on the Russian
dec'aration, we cannot look upon it as salutary or even
well grounded to consider it forthwith in that light and
designate it in that manner which has been adopted
by Count Buol. I must confess myself unable to
agree with an argument which avers' that Russia
is only striving after the disunion of Germany,
whilst she is making to the whole of Germany
a declaration which, as the Austrian circular itself says,
has been a source of satisfaction to the Austrian,Govern-
ment itself, and is abiding by results, the acquisition of
which Austria herself claims as a merit, 'which I am far
removed from wishing to depreciate, although it would
be matter of easy proof to show that Prussia's incessant
exertions at St. Petersburg have also at least shared in
bringing about Russia's concessions with reference to
these points. I am inclined also to doubt that
the Cabinet of St. Petersburg purposed to as-
sure itself in advance of the determination of
the German Courts by means of the communication made
by Herr von Glinka, since, as faros I know and as indeed
the text of thecircular corroborates, no responsible decla-
ration was soughtfor or expected. When, in former stages
of the negotiations, the sincerity of the intentions professed
by the Western Powers was impugned at St. Petersburg,
Prussia openly declared herself opposed to such a course.
Uninfluenced by the currents of public opinion she has
done the same on similar occasions both in Paris and
London, and she, would think herself wanting in
the franknesss due to her German allies, if she did not
also, in the case before her, demand an impartial and un-
prejudiced examination of the Russian note, as demanded
by the honour and interests of Germany. We are ready
and willing, as stated above, to defer determining what
importance at the present conjuncture of affairs in
Europe, and what obligation may accrue to Germany,
shall be given to this incident, and not to take it
into serious consideration until we have obtained a
thorough knowledge of the communications that Austria
has promised. I will not stop here to inquire if the
degree of (at least intended) secrecy and reserve with
which Austria shrouds her negotiations with the
Western Powers—from us still more than from
other German Governments—exactly corresponds to
the degree -of confidence that she claims from us.
On the contrary, I beg expressly to state that his
Majesty's Government, duly appreciating Austria's
difficult position and the endeavours she is making
to surmount it, io incapable of wishing to drive
the Imperial Cabinet into making further commu-
nications. On the other hand, the Cabinet of Vienna
will certainly always bear in mind that, if we, out of
considerhtiou for Austria, suspend our deliberations
and determinations, we do not by so doing in the re-
motest degree renounce our entire right to a perfectly
free and thorough examination of the matter itself. We,
and with us Germany, take up our position on the
ground of the treaty of April and its additional articles.
Whatever lies beyond these that has been negotiated,
settled or stipu'ated without the knowledge and participa-
tion of the signers of those treaties (amongthese we reckon
the treaty of December 2, the protocols of the late nego-
tiations at Vienna, and any arrangements which the Ca-
binet of Vienna, in pursuance of its last confidential cor-
respondence with the Western Powers may make) , are facts
which we shall have to take into our seriousconsideration,
whilst forming our resolutions, but which cannot, of
right, exercise any retroactive effect on our obligations,
and, as we think, on those of Germany. We shall be
sincerely gratified if that which Austria has to commu-
nicate to us tallies with what we have so often de-

lineated as the position we take up. We shalLas I hardly
need repeat, whilst examining into the state of the case,
strive by wish, by feeling, and by resolution to prove that
Prussia, both as a European and as a German Power, is
wont to look upon herself as Austria's ally. But we claim
for ourselves and for Germany the incontestable right to
enter upon this examination, and, if Austria reserves to
herself to settle what, according to her views, Europe's
and Germany's interests require, so shall we decide at the
right time, what our own, Germany', and Europe's in-
terest seem to us to require. How far the Austrian
manner of viewing things, and what the Austrian Cabi-
net in consequence may have arranged without con-
sulting, can be brought into harmony with our own
conviction, and consequently how far they are calculated
to pave the way for that community of action on the part
of Germany and her two Great Powers, in which not
only the efforts of her Governments but also the wishes
and hopes of the nation must be considered.
"Your Excellency will hand to Count Buol a copy of
this despatch, and express yourself towards him in the
sense of the above remarks. We confidently hope that
he will find our frank language only commensurate to
the gravity of the moment, and will recognise in it a fresh
proof of our lively wish fo►•a genuine and sincere under-
standing, and for a solidarite based upon it.
"Receive the assurance, &c.,

" MANTEUFFEL."

STATE OF TRADE.

( From the Manchester Guardian of this day.)
MANCHESTER, June 8.---On Tuesday last, the Liver-
pool cotton market was reported fully d. per lb. dearer
than on the preceding Friday. The sales of Wednesday,
however, suddenly dropped down to 5,000 bales, and
yesterday the business was equally small at a decline of
-id. to id. This change produced a somewhat startling
effect upon the Manchester Exchange, where it was not
expected to happen so soon even by the cautious buyers.
At once, an altered tone was heard amongst spinners
and manufacturers, many of whom became wishful
to sell at a modification of their previous terms ; but,
naturally enough, the buyers were inclined to wait, and
see what course things would take.' There had been in-
dications, on the Tuesday, of an increased demand for
domestics, but the improving tendency was checked on
the following days. To-day there is a slight turn up-
ward again in the raw material.

BRADFORD, June 7.—Wool—There is no change daring
the week here. The market is badly supplied with
wool, and the backwardness of the season will cause a
later clipping time than usual, which is operating to the
detriment of the trade.