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and respectful attachment to tho person and family of the
beloved Sovereign of these realms." .
His ROYAL HIGUNESM replied in the following terms :

" My Lord Mayor and gentlemen, accept the expression
of my hearty thanks for your kind welcome and for the
gratifying assurance of your loyal and affectionate attach-
ment to the Queen and her- family.
"I have been much pleased by the opportunity which
your-kind invitatbn hrts afforded me of seeing' and ad-
miring this great work which you this day open to-the
Public—a work which not only deserves admiration in
itself on account of the excellence of the arrangements and the
m3,gnificence of the design, bat which willl trnstbe found
eminently conducive to the comfort and health of the city
of London . .

the
" That its Success will be commensurate with
.spirit in which it has been und:Ttaken and carried out, I
cannot doubt. A certain dislocation of habits and interests
must inevitably attend the•rernaval el.' the great city mar-
ket on the site it has occupied for so many centuries,
and this may P""iblY retard for the moment
the fullest development of the nutleltaking•
But any opposition arising from such catiAes will
soon cease, and the farmers will donbt;ess seen learn to
appreciate the boon thus conferred upon them by the
landed corporation in the increased facility which will be
afforded to themlor the tra.usaction of their basines, and
the Comparative security with which they will be e:1 bled
to bring up and display their valuable stock in this Great
Now Cattle Market."

Flis Royal ll7gliness and suite then partook of an ele-
gant cold collation (supplied by Messrs. Staplers, of the
Albion, in their usual excellent style).

na7,

could. not, be ig

The Right-Hon. the I. rd Mayor presided, and was sup-
ported on his right by Prince Albert, and among the dis-
tinguished cempanY present were—Sir George Grey,
Home Secretary, Sir Cornewall Lewis, the Chancellor or the
Excheqc,er, the Marquis of Abercorn, Marquis of Breadal-
bane, Earl St+enoer, Lord Stanley of Aldoiley, the Belgiau,
Bavarian, American, and Prussian Mini:stersp
Viscount Aff,Mcic, Viscount Dancannoo, Rear-Admiral
Berkeley, Duke of Newcastle, Marqnis of Salisbury, Mar.
quis of Westminster, Earl of Macclesfield, Earl of Yar-
borough, Lord Redestlale, Lord Berners, Lord Southamp-
ton, Lord Feversham, Lord Portman, lord Wenlock, &c.
The LORD MAYOR, iu appropriate language, proposed
the "health of the Queen,"—(cheers)—followed by that of
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and the other members
of the Royal family. (Applause.)

His ROYAL HIGHNESS, in rising to acknowledge the
toast, was again most enthusiastically received. He said—
My Lord Mayor and gentlemen,—For the very kind and
flattering manner in which you have received this toast I
most sincerely thank you. I assure you it has given me
great pleasure at being able to ac,cedt the kind invitation
of the Lord Mayor, and to be present at the opening of this
splendid and useful work—(cheers) —and I beg to assure you
that the oftener the Lord Mayor will invite me to similar
ceremonies the better I' shall be pleased. (Renewed
cheers.) Such works can only be undertaken by public
bodies and carried out with success by publics spirit
—(loud cheers)—and I hail the present instance as an
earnest of your (the Corporation's) determination to ac-
cept the duties which your position has imposed on you,
and as success in all things depends on the manner in
which it is undertaken and carried out, I beg to propose
"the health of the Lord Mayor and Corporation of
London." (Cheers.)

His Royal Highness and the other distinguished visitors
then retired, and the proceedings terminated.

Tho weather, which at the commencement of the day
was rather unpropitious, as the morning advanced cleared
off, and the sun, which shone out at intervals, continued
to do so till the termination of the proceedings.
During the morning the bands of the boys of the Cale-
donian Asylum, the boys froni Chelsea Hospital, and the
Foundling Society were in attendance, and played various
airs and pieces of music in a very masterly manner.
The prOceedings t3rmitiated about five minutes to three
o'clock.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

( From the Times of this clay. )

- .
Through a strange omission iu some quarter or another we
have not had the opportunity of giving till now a most in-
teresting, though very short, speech by Prince Albert at the
annual dinner of the Trinity Corporation last Saturday.
Brevity is the soul of wit," and his Royal Highness has put
more point into an address that cannot have taken three
minutes to utter than some of our Parliamentary orators can
accomplish in two hours. The Princejudiciously confined him-
self to one topic, and that a topic of the greatest importance.
He compared the operation of a constitutional and of a des-
potic Government at war with each other. The comparison
indeed is forced upon us by the facts, and is very striking.
There cannot be a more singular contrast. On the one hand
we see a profound policy, which we may suspect, but cannot
ascribe to Russia, till the Czar himself blabs it out, and puts
the world on its guard. We see unknown and infinite accu-
mulations of stores as if by the hands of Genii, or from the
subterranean workshops of the Titans and`Cyciops. We see
myriads of armed men suddenly presenting themselves through
the morning mist, whence and how conveyed no man can
tell. We see a vast fortress garrisoned by men whom we
once despised, but showing not only the desper to courage of
fanaticism, but the inspirations of genius and the depth of a
great system. Tho conduct of the war on the part of our foes
is subjected to no canvass, and has not even the benefit of au
historian. A few scanty notices in the Invalids RusEe are
all that posterity will read of the heroism and the tale,ts of
great armies. From that field of glory every ray of light is
concentrated on one mind. One man has to endure all the
uncertainties, all the suspenses, all the mistaken, and all the
disappointments of the awful conflict. On our side everything
is the contrary. Virtually, the whole British public fill the
, amphitheatre, and surround all the arena of the war. We
hear and see everything ; we discuss the trogramme ; we
canvass the belavionr and the plans of the generals ; we criti-
cis°, we condemn, and, what is more, wo inform, we advise.
We care not who listens. It is the British people not carries
on the war, and they will have it In their own hands. Such
i is the comparison which the Prince makes, more br!ely and
more tersely than we have done, between the character and
position of the two parties in the present war, and ho draws
the very proper conclusion that we ought to how great con-
sideration for the Government which has to carry on war
under such manifest difficulties—that is, a public against a
secret power, which is much as if a being of common mortal
mould had to wage a desperate battle with an invisible
demon.

M.P., M.

above the orcl;r

Such comparisons force themselves on the mind, and sug-
gest so many reflections, that the power of making them is a
great help to, the understanding. An Englishman might be
at a loss to describe the conduct of the war by his own coun-
try, and a Russian might see little that was distinctive or
worth particular notice in the military administration of his
own Government. But place these two things side by side
and they instantly become the measure and test of one another.
We see, then, what neither the Englishman nor the Russian
alone does, and we immediately arrive at a high degree of
negative knowledge. We see at once, for example, that Rus-
sia has not newspapers, in our sense' of the word ; it has not
" correspondents ;" it has not public committees of inquiry,
changes of the Ministry, debates on negotiations for peace,
and discussions before the eyes and in the hearing of the whole
world as to the best mode of carrying on the war, the proper
objects of that war, and the terms we might possibly accept
from the foe. This is, perhaps, only negative knowledge,
for, after all, it does not give us the true rationale of
either side in the comparison. But it is an immense
help to what may be called the infirmity of human knowledge
to have such a contrast, and to make one side the foil of the
other. Plntarch's Parallels has been a favourite book with
thousands in every age who would otherwise have cared little
to explore the several characters compared. What perhaps
is not always observed, but which imparts the principal charm
to these contrasts, is that the imagination assists at the pro-
cess, and gives a sort of dramatic affinity and likeness to the
two subjects 'of the comparison. We put them in one an-
other's place, to see what, they would do with a transposi-
tion of circumstances. We imagine, in this case, the Emperor
of Russia harassed, anticipated, compelled to change his Mi-
nisters, defend his policy, announce his plans, define his ob-
jects, and lay down his principles, by the public opinion of
his subjects. On the other hand, we imagine the British
Cabinet wielding immense armies with an unlimited power of
conscription, with privileged secresy, and an utter absence of
responsibility.

The purely dramatic parallel will satisfy few minds. It
will tempt them to that more particular study of each side,
which is necessary to a just and useful comparison. It is
true that we may learn something from the contrast, but so
also may the Czar. It is true that constitutional government
is tried in these days, but so, also, is despotic. Publicity
has its dangers, but, if it occasionally helps a foe, it is neces-
sary to a friend. Commissaries, Quartermasters, Generals
will not tell the truth either to War Ministers or to Empe-
rors; so, while the British authorities at home aro learning
the approach and progress of their disasters in the newspape—,
the Russi,n Government only discovers them too late even for
mitigation, In this country grand schemes of policy are
divulged, ventilated, condemned, and possibly prevented. In
Russia they run their course to actual catastrophes. An im-
mense secresy protects the designs and the administration of
Russia, but it protects those designs to the ruin and death of
their author, and that administration to its final breakdown.
The Emperor does not even know the strength or the
weakness of his own army, and learns only to distrust
' all returns with no other warrant than that of his
own servants. It is true that our councils of war are very
public, and our loyalty candid ; it is true that we expose oar
own sores to the eyes of all tho world
rrolde;brsut, to that
presentthatpu offi
publicity
alone we owe the correction of our

- -
ciency of our armies and their supplies, and even, perhaps,the defeat of Russian diplomacy. Possibly to her own in-
scrutable policy and impenetrable se3rcsy Russia now owes
that she has not one ship afloat in the Black Sea, nor more
than one fortress still in her hands. In this country it is,
indeed, rather the whole people that carries on war than the
Sovereign or the Parliament. Thus far, that people need not
be ashamed to compare its performances with those of its Im-
perial antagonist. Even by the te,t of success the people
wages war better than the despot. But success is not the
only test, for failure also is an hour of trial. We have already
turned our failures to good account. Will the Czar, like us,'
have either the necessarykuowledge or the means to profit by
his failures, to reform either his policy or his administration ?

(prom the Morning Herald of this day.)

We cannot help recurring to tho absolute necessity of some
independent member of the House of Commons moving for
the secret despatches now openly acknOwled.god to have lean
sent to the admirals in command of our fleets in the Rata-.
and Black seas, whereby instructions, • superseding, and 'di-
rectly contrary to those which were professed to contain the
intentions of the Ministry, were conveyed, and of ncceslity
acted on. . . _

Be it remembered• that these secret despatches being of a
nature which the admirals were boun'l to conceal, but t,
obey, directly put an end to Cftb:net and Ministerial ra
bility, the very n•amcs of which become a mocker
FVS,em is allowed to exist by which Ministers can profess' on,
object, then positively.prohibit its h4oing earr:cd out, and
throw the whole onus upon the unfortunate of ccr bi com-
mand, by recalling him as a SC tpcgont at the cad of the cam-
paign, aud refusing bhn au inquiry.

crosi.

y while a

sans

The public must now take earo of itself, and declare its 1
opinion so detcrminately, that independent mombc:rs ap.
pointed to investigate shall not find nal; they have scree Al
the Government by " burking" the inquiry they were ap-
pointed and volunteered to carry out. Our readers must re-
member that this present Government is composed of men
who were colleagues in the Cabinet with those who have ac-
knowledged themselves as implicated in these most dan-
gerous machinations, and as me cannot suppose that indivi-
dual members of any Government would dare to act in the
manner in which Sir James Graham is supposed, on good
grounds, to have acted, it is absolutely necessary to ascertain
whether Lord John Russell and Lord Palmerston aro not

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participes crintinis, as everything would lead an observer-to
Suppose must absolutely be the case.
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We have unmistakeable evi lence of the fact that the !by _, A v.. _
ciples which g,overned Lord Aberdeen's Cabinet are.t..C. ...r.;,;!'- 4, bi
the ascendant, and that while professing to make wat,a 1 142114:1-...1
Russia, our armies are wilfully paralysed and rendered a ~.V.,i2f pr.l Ei
effective. How else are vac to int3rpret the followintip..e .
.A.,77:7Tr- j,#
That the whole effective streegte of the British "A..Yit'l,'..l7'.t'' L C/: -, i „
,l .4:. the Crimea at this the crisis of its fate, amounts to pc e. 5.,,!1.6.e.,0itr !'ty
24,000 men. This force being without a reserve °few kk:,z•.•‘' .. •••••,,i- ;
That the cavalry is-so weak as to be almost tote, it -. .
_ie.:l:i
cleat —while regiments and detachments, which haVV*le7.- ":--- tm",
months under orders, are waiting, in the .middle of June, tor • \'\, pri.
transports, which are still in Balaklava Harbwer, ord2.rs
having just been despatched to send them home, if not want-
ing. there.
'That the militia force has been by ~ inexPliealie:: " neglect
tot Illy destroyed for any efficient purpose, and no measure of
from want of baggage-eattle at this moment
any kind even announced for its. restoration.
e
nearly, as :t was at Varies, We believe it
icsoiTatlidjaimnt otmht:pvoa'''srmnsbiblyely' move 2'5 miles from the coast without risk,
they the warahlyes of blet year, can-
certainty, of ll.)-in,i, left -without vnpell-,s,
no::::t lavc,laildl3t.l.:.te,s. 3 tn in.,rs,

VT? therefore, that is ordcr to get at tic (I,iiingaeneics
of the men now in potic•ar, we lutist inv,sti,:tto the proccA-

in,Ts of tlios3 w'hose crimes thou have
mischi>f Immo to Sir JaMCS Grahar. and. Wo
Lord Abrdeen's C " •

I;riug
entire of

a a not

bw--,7 were hot, and
lorivat of the course adoptc.l by their eel-

leag-nes.
Tto point out to whoever—if any one have the
eoiroas: wo—e h
i-is this :notion for "
,lineVac eat," thlt

it will not do to ask. To, k--- , ,„ -
---,eratuent in a
printe, o . We toll the people that the admirals them-
-1 to furnish the ori
, , ;finals, or
jetty 0-0 wined toed- Nvid them-
tinted copies for the autheLl, ..
that
the
selves ishfourl7l be calb-ll uP't ._
selves voncit. Be it kept in mint
rectly implicated iu these transactions is the great " letter-
onener," and the hero of the singularly-dated document in.
the ''great Mott
p,so," while the person whose complicity
we we wish to 04thlisli is the s,me who gave to the public
Burnes' resumes of Lord Auckind's despatches, as the an-
swers ~
oftlte dead diplomatist to the very documents so set
forth as containing his opinions.
14.°W, we ask, are we not justified in demanding that the
seerot despatches should be vouched for by the admirals?
That the documents exist no one 'entertains a doubt, because
the admirals have both deolarecl their willingness to produce
them if cal'ed , n so to do by the proper authorities-their
production in one case having been avoided by refusing a
court-martial to Admiral 71apier—in another by Mr. Roebuck
and Mr. Layard—we ta'le them as representatives of the
committee which they
managed—refusing to allow Admiral
Dundas to read tlte originals, when questioned as to his con-
duct with regard to Odessa. We shonld have thought that Mr.
Lavard,, at least, would have been anxious to give the man he
had accused of misconduct an opportunity of clearing himself,
but such would appear not to have been the view taken by
the honourable member for Aylesbury. -
We are earnest upon the su' ject of these despatches, because
we shall navel-an-Ivo
we believe, except through their means
at the real causes of our disgraceful failures and neeiects in
the last year, whereby our fleets were baffled in the Baltic,
a"el our armies starved by Lipraudi in the Crimea.
'We hope the public have had enough of purposed misman-
agement, and are anxious to probe its iniquity to the bottom,
and that they will do so in spite of the aid afforded to Govern-
ment by independent members, who denounce Ministers as
traitors on Tuesday, and vote confidence in them on Thure-
day, while they thrust themselves forward as leaders of in-
quiries for the put pose of refusing the only evidence of delin-
quency on which full reliance can be placed. Wo hope the
nation will force an inquiry into this matter.

from th') C

( From the Mornin7 Chronicle of this day.)
Drury Lane Theatre was last evening the scene of proceed-
ings such as this metropolis has not witnessed during the last
ten years. Since the great meetings of the Anti-Corn-Law
League, there has not been such a gathering for a political
purpose as that which Last night filled bores, pit, and galle-
ries of our National Theatre. The Association for the fur-
therance of Administrative Reform held, not their first public
meeting, but their first organized meeting—the commence-
ment, we presume, of a series—for the propagation of their
views among the great bulk of the people. It was satis-
factory to see so full an attendance, and that the occupants
of the platform, as well as those who could not personally
attend, bat who sent letters of sympathy and co-operation,
were of so respectable and influential a class.

Mr. Morley, the chairman, may be said personally to em-
body and represent that characteristic of this Association
which distinguishes it from any preceding organisation of a
similar kind. It is important not to lose sight of the fact,
that, this new movement is commenced, not in the interests
of a class or of individuals, but in those of the whole
community. Its detractors have not dared to insinuate
that its promoters are actuated by personal motives,
or that they have in view the promotion of personal
interests. It was originated by gentlemen who have some-
thing more profitable, if not more important, to attend to
than political agitation ; and their having left their counting-
houses to take part in it is the best proof at once of their own
sincerity and of the integrity of their objects. Mr. Morley
had already, on the occasion of the first meeting in the City,
explained the reasons which led gentlemen in his position
thus to step forward in the van of a great national movement..
It was not in the nature of things that he could add much to
the arguments he had already broue-ht forward, in vindication
of the course taken by the commercial classes. They have
stepped out of the circle of the pursuits which best become
them and are most aTreeable to them, in order to vindicate
the right 'of their fellow-citizens, and their own, to a more
honest and rational system of administrative government than
that into which the old vigorous practice of the country has
degenerated. Their position places them above all suspicion
as to the motives by which they may have been actuated.
Indeed, it wll have been remarked, that the opponents of
administrative refotra have never dared to inelunate that these
gentlemen have any other obiect in view than the public
good. Regerded with reference to these considerations, the
speech of Mr. Yforley will be read with an interest over and.
above that which would naturally be excited by his forcible
and sensible r, , e o', the r:,nerr.l cinestion
Th?, other Tin argil, Lindsav

--7_ Trim

Otway,

M. P.-

matims of

—are equally
)olltleal parti-

)11e men who may come co:

61%1 to for-

ther saint:llT reforms. In former cases of great public agita-
tions, it has often happened that the leaders had previously
been unknown men, and that they were open to the sugges-
tion of making the topic of their platform eloquence a lever
of their ambition. Such charges cannot be applied to the hon. •
members of the House of Commons who addressed the audi--
ence from the stage of Drury-lane Theatre last evening. Mr.
Layard is a man whose fame is already universal. Elected to
the House of Commons mainly on account of that reputation,
his co-operation has already been courted by successive Go-
vernments. If his ardour in the cause of reforni has some.
times led him into errors, that is a fate which he shares with
some of the most distinguished and influential statesmen of
the day. He has already shown a disposition to guard-
against a repetition of the mistakes into which he had been
led' by a natural indignation at systematic misgovernment; and
a strong reaction of public feeling in his favour has been
the consequence of the aUempts recently made in the House
of Commons to browbeat him and put him down. It will be
seen that in the course of his speech lad evening he gracefully
alluded to the parliamentary scenes in which he has latterly
been a chief actor ; and that; while he renews his protestation
that he is determined to persevere with the great question
which he has taken in hand, he has endeavoured to set him-
self right with public opinion, on the only point where his
enemies had any advantage.
Mr. Lindsay's speech will amply repay a most careful peru-
sal. The honourable gentleman speaks with a thorough prac-
tical knowledge of his subject. There aro few men in England-
-certainly not one in the House of Commons—more capable
of exposing the incredible apathy and wilful misconduct of
the officials of the Government in the departments whereon
the success of the war so mainly depends. The incidents
brought forward by Me. Lindsay will be found stated at
length in the report of the proceedings of the meeting. They
are all supported by documentary evidence, and they all
bear directly on the painful position in which this country
has so recently found itself placed. Surely, charges such as
those preferred by the honourable member—complaints
not vague, but , specific, and sustained by demonstrable
proofs—call for an equally specific reply on the part
of the Government. It is very convenient, no doubt, to the
delinquent heads of departments to be able to hide their cul-
pable and noxious neglect under•the blaze or our recent suc-
cesses in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azoff, but the public
ewe it to the memory of those brave men who were- so crificed
last winter not thus to "let bygone be bygones." They are
bound to institute -a searching inquiry into the past, in order
that a repetition of those evils may be guarded against is
Inture and it is here that'the evidence and the advocacy of
gentlemen like• Mr. Lindsay bccome of so much vale_
Mr. Tite appeared before the meeting as the representative
of the first great triumph of Administrative Reform. It was
certainly one of the most remarkable events of the kind on
record, that a gentleman of no strheing political antecedents,
and who was personally unknown to the electors, should have
succeeded in carrying wi h him the sympathies of a constitu-
ency so numerous, so intelligent, and so favoured in the
talents of past representatives, as that of the city of Bath.
Mr. Tits would be the last to assume, or to permit it to be
assumed that any personal merit of hie own could possibly
hare led to such a result. He rightly regards it as a conse-
quence of the overpowering importance and influence of tl:o
cause with which his name has been associated. In Mr. Ot-
way the as.sociat',on hal a valuable ally. The honourable
niernl-er has taken under his care one particular branch of the
• public service in which " Administrative Reform "is more
especially required. To his Parliamentary laurels he is ea'-
dently destined to add the more exciting and grateful te-:-
umphs o 7 the platform.
Upon the whole, this meeting Wi_llform an appropriate pro-
loeue to the discussion appointed for to-morrow evening. Mr.
Layeed pledgcs himself tobring forward the subject; nor wii
he sTirink from the very strong terms in which he had prev.-
ons'y couched his resolution. The amendment of Sir Bulwcr
Lytton is now before the public. Mr. Layard proposes to
call on the house to rc7olve :—" That this house riews with
deep and increasing corccrn the state of the nation, and is of
opinion that the manner in which merit and citicieucy have
been cact.iii,;ed, in public appointments, to party and family
influence, and to a blind adherence to routine, has given rise
to grea::, misfot:ures; and threatens to bring discredit upon
Majesty's
the national character, and to involve the country in grave
disasters." The Tory chief V. not go the length of this re-
trospective condemnation, but proposes to substitute for Mr..
simplify and. facilitate
Layard's proposal a resolution to the eact—" That this
11 sai ses7 and, Bibnly instituting judici-
ous recommends to the earliest attention of her
Ministers the necessity of a careful revision of our various
secure eser-
vicescountrye energyal'e
ot°h:escttialeastnesssatoacfbtmiloisnehrmlotf,ealr).tiibiwlwiEcdilb°as by removing obstructions to its
fair prOmotion and legitimate rewards, to ste,ei
vices of the State the largest proportion of
telligence for which the people of
adnidstiinn--
guished."

13:tween thcs2: two the ITOUS:::. of C011111,,!;tS NNi7l have to de-
They
this
ver will nrol:i.b!y do so v.lth. the aid of the light
by y h,port:lut meeting of the Adtainistra-

,V

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plavea on Mon-
in r of the Lord Mayor

Pput

SEuAsToror.f—A French
iu,t. from bef,:re Sebas-
some soldier., who were ro-
n,le wh:eb they had bc.m attack-
i their la3rei to t•di-e nivantar4fe
of ground. One of them in
hroi.e a small g'a,s tube. He looked at it
inakb. a E.joo to Lis corporal ; they searched far-
'her, found a .serie3 of these tubas, filled with
RCIII3 substance of a very pale yellow colour.
The
9-pecimens were ca,rr:el to the camp, when our engineer.;
examininz them foundthat the substance was a ni:x-
tore of fulminating powder, pho.whorcus, and saltpetre
Other soldiers were nest sent, and they following the
course of the tahes, found that they lel to woolen boxes
hurled about six inchel in the ground,
ae of thrce
boxes was remcved.and foutA to contain flasks of (xpio.
RiVe materials. In all forty-four of
Ilse',e boxes wcre
found, and connect,. d by means of tubs."

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