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THE CORPORATION VISIT TO PARIS.

The Loan MAYOR upon taking the chair addressed
the court. He said that it would be very apparent to
the court, from the short time which had elapsed since
his return from the visit to France, and the nature of
his engagement on Wednesday at the 4,eremony of
opening the new Metropolitan Cattle Market, that
he was not prepared to enter into a particular state-
ment of the circumstances attending the former
event, but so strong was the impression made upon
his mind by the remarkable warmth and kindness of
his reception, that he could feel no hesitation
giving in
a simple outline of what had occurred.
On the arrival of the deputation on the shores of France
they were met by a deputation, and bailed with a wel-
come which it would be most difficult to describe. At
Boulogne an address, which would be read by the town
clerk, was presented to them, expressive of the strong
feeling entertained by the people of France towards the
people of this country ; and in Paris the Prefect of the
Seine waite'l till 12 o'clock at night in order to receive
the city of London visitors, thus proving that there was
no attention which could be paid by the municipality of
Paris to that of London that was not most liberally and
earnestly yielded. (Cheers.) His lordship then detailed -
the proceedings as they were represented in the accounts
in the newspapers, and, amidst the applause of the court,
called upon the town clerk to read the two documents,
which were as follows :
My Lord, Ladies, and Gentlemen—Delegated by the mu-
nicipal body of the city of Paris, we are happy, my col-
leagues and myself, to bs thus the first to welcome you on
your arrival amongst us,pace of four years, his lordship
and we rejoice ti see, for the
s
second time within the
the Lord Mayor, and his right hon. n aldermen of the great city of Londonf:en
d
s e
coming
th
wshFeriraffusceantcot
strengthen the ties of friendship and btotherhood by which
tov‘nltofi s
Boulogne, especially,
,mh
where
el oar d , adies and g_entla
France and England are and must be bound for ever.
column was erected at
ginning of the present century, men'thine the
y, which, °Hs c ecrated now to
peaceful recollections, will recall to future ages the alliance
of France and England, that my colleagues and myself are
happy to announce the brilliant prospects for
rwhichw
indebted to the progress of civilisation
and • e are
to the wisdom
of the great Sovereigns who rule over England anti France.,
"It was reserved to oar times to see thethree
nations-hitherto divided by the difference of their religions
Jog,inas—Eugland, France, and Turkey—united in thei tom_
[1:1011 interest of civilisation to- combat the giant of
the
-
North with as touch courage as disinterestedness in those
distant countries where the echoes of the Taurida resoud
to tile cries of war; whilst, rapidly embellished by the
arts of peace, Paris is about to offer you, at the invitation
of London in the year 1851, the reunion of the industrial
works of every country. One alone is expected, the pro-
ductions of which alone would not have been rejected bad
they peen sent. k'o true it is, that now in time of war
Feelings of union survive transient enmity, and protect the
future of the civilised world, in which the only contest
henceforth shoal(' be that of letters, of science, of indus-
try, and of mutual sympathy.
" In this pacific course conquest will turn to the profit
of all:. The prosperity of England will be the prosperity of
France, as the prosperity of Fiance will be that of Bog.
land." •

At the desire of the Lord Mayor, the Town-Clerk
lead the following, which was the address in answer to
she address from the corporation of London, delivered
by the municipal corporation o: Paris :

"My Lord Mayor and Gentlemen—The municipal corpo-
ration cannot express too warmly its own gratitude, and I
am certain that of the whole population whose interests
are intrusted to it; for the new marks of esteem and syur-
pathy which the city of London addresses by your organ
to the city of Paris.
"Ever the importance of the deputation that brings
them increases their signification.
"For centuries, and accqrding to the viAssitudes of our
history, this very hall has successively been the theatre of
fetes given to sovereigns and of popular agitations ; of the
conquests of factions, and soon after of their ruin ; the first
echo of all the joys as of aff the sufferings of France.
" After scenes so varied one would have thought that
its walls could never witness any of a novel character.
" What can be more unexpected, however, than to see
the municipalities of London and Paris, forgetting the tra-
ditional rivalries of their rations, united together by the
ties of the warmest, friendship, open in some measure a
common session so as to give a greater strength to the mu-
tual affection of the two cities.
" Is not this one of those facts which must be designated
extraordinary and unexpected—one of the signs of the
times which shall remain for ever imprinted in the memory
of nations ?

" Flom the moment that in France a powerful hand had
replaced each thing in its proper place, the Hotel de Ville
has been no more, it is true, the agitated abode of politics,
but the quiet and laborious seat of the administration.
" We cannot doubt, however, that this reunion borrows,
from the contrast of present and past deeds, a particular
solemnity, and we rejoice at it, inasmuch as a simple ex-
change cf cordial civilities may become a new and striking
testimony of the indestructible alliance founded by the
profound wisdom of our sovereigns, and cemented by the
solidarity of dangers and glory of both our armies.
" My Lord Mayor and gentlemen, the city of Paris will
ever remember the generous hospitality and the hearty
welcome which its ma3istrates have met with iu the city
of London.

" Recaive, we beg of you, the thank,: of the municipal
corporation for the kindly visit which you now favour us
with, and be assured that our warmest wishes are to
acknowl Age it by a worthy reception."

The two addresses were ordered to be entered on the
lournals of the court.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT AS TO THE METAGE ON CORN.
Toe following report was ordered to be taken into con-
tiderati,in at the next court :
" We, whose natlizs are he:eunto subscribed, of your
committee for general purposes, to whom on the Gth of
April, 1854, our report on the reference in respect to. the
metage of corn was referred back to supply an appendix
containing a financial statement of the probable effect of
the alterations recommended, do certify that we had a ro-
turn supplied to us from the corn-meter's office of the
quantity of grain, pulse, and seed measured in the years
1847, 1848, 1840, 1850, and 1851, and the quantities M 3•
terad and the gross amounts received for metage are as
follow :

Qrs.
847 5,352,268 £14,59615 5i
1843 4,676,390 .. ...... 12,736 10 46
1849 4,764,163 13,291 11 Ot
16.50 3,915,253 11,056 9 10,k
1851 , 3,741,282 11,481 02t
giving an average of those 5 years of 4,495,861 quarters
measured, and 12,0521. metage received.
" We find from the accounts of the City cash from the
Chamberlain during the same 6 years, that the sums paid.
into the chamber for metage were as follows :-
1817 £14,70617 si
1843 12,733 9 1t •
1814 13,396 2 11.
1850 11,064 2 `.lf
1851 10,481 0 2t
"And the charges and expenses upon the same fund,
during the same 5 years, were as follow :-
1847
1818
1849
1.50
1851
making the average for the five years of the sums received
in the chamber for metage 12,476/. 18s. 44d. and the ave-
rage of charges during the same period 1,41A.'65. 10d. Tak-
ing the average numoers of the quarters measured to be
four millions and a half (the only datum upon which we
can proced), that quantity, at 2d. per quarter, would pro-
duce 37 000 L
$

" It has been stated tothe committee that tho work could
be (lone. byloo meters, 9.nd 300 porters, as assistant-meters
(being a reduction in the number of each, but particularly
in the porters, from 7orB in each gang to 3). Taking that
statement to be correct, the following will be the result :-
4,500,0.0 qrs. at 2(1. per qr

d. per qr. for 100 meters 9,375
id. per qr. for 300 porters, assistant-meters
10. per qr. to the corporation, who are to provide
for the expense of management and necessary
implements £9,375
Deduct for expenses per annum 'l,ooo

,
" But the corn trade assert that the provision for a 233 n aso3d-
ditional payment on small and distant jobs, and tho in-
crease of the number of quarters which, under the arrange-
merit proposed by them, will be metered in grain and
otherwise, will afford to the corporation a considerable.in-
crease to the amount now estimated.
" The arrangement proposed contemplates that the as-
sistant meters will be received into the docks, and also that
the crews of ships will aid in the delivery, and that future
arrangements will be made for the systematic regulation
of the meters and porters, especially as to their privileges,
superannuations, and pensions. And as many of the sug-
gested arrangements are founded upon assumed contingen-
cies in any legislative proceedings, mutual provisions would
be necessary to secure a future adjustment of the metage
on the basis of its actual produce. as ascertained by the
accounts-to be mutually settled between the parties.
" All which we submit to the judgment of this honour-
able court.

"Thomas Pearse, Charles Sully, Thos. Barrowes,
W. Eathbone, Edward Hickson, D. Cock, IL
Lloyd, H. Matthew, T. J. Holt, Charles Hogg
Alfred Adlard, Bloomfield Burnell." ,

A Return of the Quantities of Grain, Pulse, and Seed mea-
sured in the years 1852, 1853, and 1834, with the amount
received for inetage thereon :-
Qrs.

1852
1876
1854

...3,917,351 £10,439 5 8i
..4,660,995 13,146 5 Ot
--.4,346,737 12,162 9
32
Cora Meter's-office, May 4,1855 DAVID LLEN, Clerk.
The sums paid into the chamber for ilietage, with the
charges and expenses thereon, during the years 1852,1833,
95
and 1854, as shown by the account of the Cit's cash : Amount pal.: in. Charges and expenses.
• ....4,96 7 8 ......... 13 0
..... hag 1 111 ......... 1313 12 10i
... . ... 12,645 4 31 ........ 2,,315 1 3
Tile court was cleared of strangers for the purpose,s as
we w, re given to understand, of discussing some pop:
.eef
difference between rnenaber3 of the court on thetrrt-'Jwa:
of the visit to Paris, but after some delay the co
counted out.

1852,
1853,
1854

COURT OF DANKauPTcy.—Yesterday, at this court,
the choice of assignees took place under the estate of
Mfr. D. L. Lewis. The persons elected were Mr. Rhodes,
of the London and County Bank, and Mr. Croysdell, the
accountant. The bankrupt having been connected with
Mr. Mackenzie, the contractor of the Westminster Im-
provement Commission, some claims associated with that
undertaking were discussed. An estimate of debts and
liabilities wa' presented, showing a total of 202,000/.
These are also secured creditors to the amount of
62. f.
27,5001., who, it is alleged,entitled to the surlu-
sa!:7lol.of rrorrt : 213 may
produce

EAPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.)
ROYAL COMMISSION.
The Royal assent was given by commission to the fol-
lowing bills :—Newspaper Stamp ; Sewers House Drain-
age ; Registration of Births (Scotland) ; Ecclesiastical
Property (Ireland) ; Brighton Incorporation ; Validity of
Proceedings (House of Commons) ; Newport Corporation ;
Kingston-upon-Thames Improvement ; Swansea Dock ;
Cornwall Railway ; Dundee, Perth, and Aberdare Rail-
way ; Banff, Macduff, and Turriff Railway ; Swansea
Vale Railway ; Bristol and Exeter Railway ; Hyde Gas
(No. 3) ; Invernry and Old Meldrum Railway ; Liver-
pool Corporation ; Leominster and Ledbury Road ;
Salisbury and Yeovil Railway ; Llynvi Valley and
Bridgend Railway ; Commercial Road ; , Kingston-
upon-Hull, Heple, and Ferriby Road ; Abinglon
Railway ; Plymouth Great Western Docks ;
Oldham Gas and Water ; Madras Railway ;
Birmingham Gas ; Hartlepool Gas and Water ; Kelso
Bridge ; St. George's Harbour Act Amendment ; Over
Darwen Gas ; Ulster Railway ; Londonderry Improve-
ment ; Kilmarnock Gas ; Lancaster Water and Gas ;
Ashton-under-Lyne Water ; Nottingham and Lough-
borough Railway ; Manchester Improvement ; Ren-
frew Police Improvement.
The Lords' commissioners were the Lord Chancellor,
the Earl of Harrowby, and the Duke of Argyll.
Their lordships met at half-past ten this morning,
when the Validity of Proceedings (House of Commons)
Bill was passed through all its stages, and received
amongst others the Royal assent, which was subsequently
given by commission.
SECOND READINGS.
The following bills were read a second time :
charm:my Road ; Royal London Militia ; Dundalk and
Black Rock Railway ; East of Abergavenny Estate.
THIRD READINGS.
The Waterford and Limerick Railway ; St. Helen's
Improvement ; Coomford and High Peak Railway ;
Limerick and Castleconnell Railway ; and the Neweas-
tle-under-Lyne Gas Bills were severally read a third
time and passed.
Lord BROUGHAM presented petitions against the
sale of intoxicating liquors on the Sunday.
GOVERNMENT OFFICES.
Lord REDESDALE called attention to the return
of all houses, buildings, &c., hired for official, purposes
laid before the house on the sth inst. The
noble lord said that the annual rental for
public offices was about 22,0001. It was, however,
quite evident that great economy might be effected if
they had in one huge official building all those public
offices concentrated. He believed Government was about
to bring in a bill to enable them to purchase Downing-
street and the buildings adjoining. He could not, however,
understand how this return was made out, and he ?vished
further information upon the several parts. The noble
lord having asked a question in respect of this return,
proceeded to urge upon the Government the importance
of considering certain details in respect to the purchase
of the property required for the public buildings.
Earl GRANVILLE, in reply, said that there were
many difficulties in the way of carrying out the
object which the Government had in view. A
bill had already been introduced into the other
house to enable the Government to purchase por-
tions of land in the neighbourhood of Downing-
street and Fludyer-street. The Committee that had met
upon the subject had recommended that the whole of
Downing-street and a portion of Flndyer-street should
be bought by the Government. They also recommended
that a portion of St. James's-park should be taken for
the purpose of the buildink. The Government, how-
ever, did not think it advisable to advise her Majesty to
assent to the latter recommendation, deeming it better
to extend the ground in the neighbourhood of Fluyder-
street rather than to encroach upon the park. (Hear.)
Plans had been laid before the Government, but the
precise plan had not yet been decided upon. In this re-
spect the noble lord had shown himself to be an admini-
strative reformer, and he seemed to have the advantage
over several others, as he appeared to have a tangible
mode of carrying out his object.
The Earl of HARDWICKE was understood to say
that if the whole of the offices connected with the Ad-
miralty were concentrated within Somerset-house, he
thought it would be a great advantage to the service.
The Earl of MALMESBURY asked whether it was
true that an offer had been made to build the whole of the
public offices ?
Earl GRANVILLE sa 1 ;t. was true that such an
offer had been made, but u. Government declined the
offer, thinking that, with the facilities of borrowing
money at a small rate of interest, they could build the
public offices much more economically.
After a short conversation the subject dropped.
RELIGIOUS WORSHIP BILL.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY moved the recommit-
ment of the Religious Worship Bill, for the purpose of
making an amendment, to the effect that nothing con-
tained in the act should prejudice or affect the discipline
of the Church, or the enforcement thereof by the bishop
or other ecclesiastical authority.
The Earl of DERBY thought that their lordships
should not abolislethe law, and sweep away all restric-
tions whatever, in the summary mode proposed by the
bill - they ought first to inquire into its practical work-
inw;secertmtt the -iiiririt actually produced, and the good
it really prevented. He was not prepareA to sanction
the doctrine that every man in the Church of England
was entitled to take on himself those functions, which
divine authority in the first instance, and legal sanction
afterwards, had placed in the hands of men specially set
apart for the purpose. No doubt in populous parishes
it was desirable that the clew should have the
assistance of pious laymen in the discharge of their
charitable and religious duties. But, then, he thought
that the laymen thus co-operating should be assistants,
and not set-up rivals of the clergy, acting without the
authority of the bishop or of the clergyman of the parish.
Take away all restrictions on this head, and he believed
the effect, especially in the present unfortunate state of
the Church, would be to introduce the elements of dis-
cord into the small country parishes, where happily
there was now free and intimate communication between
the clergyman and his parishioners. The noble earl con-
cluded by moving "that a select committee be appointed
to inquire into the existing state of the law with regard
to the liberty of religious worship, and the expediency of
relaxing or dispensing with the provisions of an act
passed in the first year of King William and Queen Mary,
cap. 18."
Earl GRANVILLE did not think that the repeal of
the present law would have the slightest effect upon the
Church of England, while he was convinced that it was
a serious evil to retain on the statute-book a law which
could not be enforced.. and which was habitually violated
by the most respectable and religious persons
Lord CONGLETON briefly supported the bill.
The Bishop of OXFORD did not wish to prevent any
meetings for religious worship. All he desired was, that
the persons conducting them should be obliged simply to
say whether they conducted them in opposition to or in
communion with the Established Church.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY protested that he had
been most unjustly charged with a design of superseding
the parochial clergy, and giving to laymen the powers
of executing Ministerial functions, and that there was
not a word in the bill which could lend countenance to
this charge. It was simply and solely to give power to
the Nonconformists, and to the laity of the Church of
England, to meet in greater numbers than 20 in the
household of any person under whose roof they were
permitted to meet.
Their lordships then divided. The numbers were—
For the amendment 47
Against it 3O
Majority for the amendment —l7
Their lordships shortly afterwards adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS_(YESTERDAY.)

The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.

The Hedon and Hull, &c., Road Bill, and the Shrews-
bury Improvement Bill were considered and ordered to
be read a third time.

MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS.

Mr. PcrLmAN, Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod,
here appeared at the bar, and summoned the house to
the House of Lords, to hear the Royal assent given to
various bills, for which see our Lords' report.
PETITIONS.

Petitions were presented by Mr. Duncan, from a place
in Scotland, against the Maynooth grant ; by Mr. Kirk,
from Newry, for vote by ballot ; by Mr. Pellatt, two pe-
titions from Bermondsey against the Sunday Trading Bill ;
by Mr. Hadfield, from Derbyshire, in favour of closing
public-houses on Sundays, also petitions against money
grants for educational purposes as regarded sects ;
by Mr. Duncombe, two petitions from Finsbury,
in favour of administrative reform ; by Mr. Col-
lier, from Plymouth, against the sale of intoxicat-
ing drinks on Sunday ; by Mr. Bright, from the
Chamber of Commerce, Manchester, against the Limited
Liability of Partnership Bill.
THAMES MARSH DRAINAGE.
On the motion of Mr. M. SMITH, a return, in detail,
of the expenses included under the sum of 5951. 19s. 2d.,
respecting the Thames Marsh drainage, paid to Mr. T.
W. Rammell, C.E., and charged in the Civil Contin-
gencies Account for 1851, and copy of the instructions
under which Mr. Rammell acted, were ordered.
CRIMINAL LAW, &c. BILL.
On the motion of Mr. L. KING returns of all fees or
emoluments allotted or paid for drafting or settling any
binl4 9 relating to criminal law, since the payment
of ;7.51.t0 the late Criminal Law Commission (in
continuationof Parliamentary p aper No. 210, of session
1855) ; of the number and
nature of Leh billsand of the
namee and respective remuneration of the draftsmen of
such bills ; and, of the costs of drawing the Bribery
Bill and Controverted Elections Bill of 1854, the
or names of the draftsmen, the fund out of
which, name
or ntheye
were paid, and the sum received by each.
SEPOY TROOPS FOR VICTORIA.
In answer to Mr. G. DUNDAS,
Lord J. RUSSELL said he had not heard if any
Sepoy or Indian troops bad been sent, or were about to
be sent, to the colonyHE of Victoria.
T ORDNANCE.

Colonel DUNNE asked the Clerk of the Ordnance
whether he would (before the next reading of the Ord.
ranee Board Bill) lay on the table of the house a sta
meet of the changes which the Government intendeatteO
make in that departraent ; the offices which it was intended
should be abolished, and these which it was proposed
either to create or substitute ; together with the amount
of the salaries for such new offices, and an estimate of
any
_expenditure consequent on the proposed changes.
Mr. MONSELL said he would refer his hon. and
gallant friend to an order in Council of the 4th June,
laid on the table of the house, which would explain the
iftiOter.

SIR JAMES BROOKE. -
Mr DRIJNIM.OND asked the First Lord of the Tres-
fury why the report of the commissioners, respecting