The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-11 00:00:00

The Banquet at Guildhall.

The general bill of fare at the grand banquet
given on Thursday evening by the Lord Mayor and
Sheriffs at Guildhall is a curiosity in its way. There
were 250 tureens of real turtle, containing five pints
each, 200 bottles of sherbet, 6 dishes of fish, 30 en-
trees, 4 boiled turkeys and oysters, 60 roast pullets,
60 dishes of fowls, 46 dishes of capons, 50 French
pies, 60 pigeon pies, 53 hams ornamented, 43 tongues,
2 quarters of house lamb, 2 barons of beef, 3 rounds
of beef, '2 stewed rumps of beef, 13 sirloins, rumps,
and ribs of beef, 60 dishes of mashed and other po-
tatoes, 44 dishes of shellfish, 4 dishes of prawns, 140
jellies, 50 blancmanges, 40 dishes of tarts, creamed,
40 dishes of almond pastry, 30 dishes of orange and
other tourtes, 20 Chantilly baskets, GO dishes mince
pies, 56 salads. The removes—SO roast turkeys, 6
leverets, 40 pheasants, 24 geese, 40 dishes of part-
ridges,ls dishes wild fowl, 2 pea fowls. Dessert-100
pineapples, from 21b. to 31b. each, 200 dishes of hot-
house grapes, 250 ice creams, 50 dishes of apples 100
do. of pears, GO ornamented Savoy cakes, 75 plates of
walnuts, 80 ditto of dried fruit and preserves, 50
ditto of preserved ginger, GO ditto of rout cakes and
chips, 46 ditto of brandy cherries.
The guests, it should be stated, were about 1,050
in number.

At the principal table, where the Cabinet Minis-
ters and the other more distinguished guests were
entertained, and at which the Lord Mayor presided,
there were 10 tureens of turtle, 10 bottles of sherbet,
6 dishes of fish, 30 entrees, 1 boiled turkey and
oysters, 2 roast pullets, two dishes of fowls, 2 ditto
of capons, 2 French pies, 2 hams ornamented, 2
tongues, 1 quarter of house lamb, 1 stewed rump of
beef, 1 sirloin of beef, 2 dishes of mashed and other
potatoes, 3 ditto of shellfish, 1 dish of prawns, 8
jellies, 2 blancmanges, 2 dishes of tarts, creamed, 2
dishes of oranges and other " tourtes," 2 dishes of
almond pastry, 4 Chantilly baskets, 2 dishes of
mince pies, 4 salads. The 46 removes" consisted of
3 roast turkeys, 1 leveret, 3 pheasants, 2 geese, 2
dishes of partridges, 1 dish of wild fowl and 2 pea
fowls. The dessert was made up of six pine-apples,
112 dishes of grapes, 10 ice creams, 2 dishes of apples,
4 ditto of pears, 2 ornamented Savoy cakes, 3 plates
of walnuts, 4 ditto of dried fruit and preserves, 3
ditto of preserved ginger, 2 ditto of rout cakes and
chips, and 3 ditto of brandy cherries. The rest of
the vast quantity of edibles of which the general bill
of fare given above consisted was distributed in
nicely adjusted proportions among the five upper
tables, the five short tables next to the latter, the
four long tables in the body of the hall, the seven
side tables, and the three tables in the old Court of
Queen's Bench, The wines drunk on the occasion
were of six kinds—hock, champagne, claret, Ma-
deira, port, and sherry. These, of course, were sup-
plied in unlimited quantities. Except as to one or
two rare dishes all the company, wherever they sat,
and whatever their rank or degree, were served with
the same fare. Thus, the grandees at the chief
table had seven removes, the guests at the five
upper tables had six, and so on, the luxuries of
this class growing small by degrees. In the mat-
ter of dessert the guests appear all to have been
on an equality, and of that they had 11 separate
luxuries. The whole entertainment, indeed,
seems
to have been an audacious violation of all sumptuary
laws, if any there be unrepealed, or which have not
become obsolete.

The Guildhall has been famous, however, for the
many sumptuous entertainments which have been
given in it to royal and other personages of distinc-
tion at various times, apart from the annual festivity
which marks the entrance into office of each Lord
Mayor. From the banquet given in 1421 to Henry
V. and his Queen on the successful termination of
his campaigns in France, when Sir Richard Whit-
tington, in addition to the luxuries provided for his
royal guests, is said to have gratified and astonished
the King by throwing into a fire bonds for which he
was indebted to the citizens to the amount of £60,000
down to the reign of her present Majesty, nearly
every Sovereign of this country has accepted the hos-
'pitality of the city in its Guildhall. Charles 11.
showed so much partiality for the civic entertainments
that he is said to have dined there as many as nine
times in the course of his reign. Among the most
sumptuous and costly entertainments given thereby
the city was that in 1814 to the Prince Regent and
the Allied Sovereigns, the Emperor of Russia, and
the King of Prussia ; in the same year (the 9th July)
there was another to Field-Marshal the Duke of
Wellington ; in 1831 to the members of the Legisla-
ture, and others who promoted and supporkd Par-
liamentary Reform ; in 1837 to her present Majesty
the Queen on her accession to the throne ; in 1838
to the foreign Ambassadors and other distinguished
personages in celebration of her Majesty's Corona-
tion.

The original Guildhall, we are told, stood west-
ward of the present one, abutting on Aldermanbury,
and, in comparison with the existing hall, is de-

scribed by one of the old chroniclers as " a little
cottage," and by another as " an evil-favoured olde
house or cottage." The present spacious hall was
begun to be erected in 1411, but was not entirely
finished until many years afterwards, probably for
want of means to defray the great expense of com-
pleting so large an edifice. The famous Richard
Whittington, through his executors, was a great
benefactor to the work, and other eminent citi-
zens also contributed liberally towards it. The
building was afterwards partially destroyed in the
Great Fire of London, and then still more ruined
by ignorant architects.

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The Loss of the Barque Guayacan•

OFFICIAL REPORT.
To the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council
Pricen le rs ign
Cameron,ed, GeorgeEsrs G. rtawnot
'y Loa rndds ,
Francisi\ Nathanielthe undersigned,
of her Majesty's justices of the peace acting-in and
for the borough of Swansea, in the county of Gla-
morgan, have held an official inquiry, assisted by
Captain llarris and Capt. Hatchard, of the Royal
Navy, into the circumstances attending the strand-
ing and subsequent loss of the barque Guayacan,
which occurred on the morning of the 20th day of
February last, on the coast of Brazils, about 150
miles to the southward of Pernambuco, and we
have now the honour to report, that the Guayacan,
a vessel of 460 tons, sailed from Carrizal, a port of
Chili, on the 21st Dec., 1864, laden with a cargo con-
sisting of 700 tons of copper regulus, bound to Swan-
sea. That the vessel appears to have rounded the
Horn towards the middle of January, and subse-
quently encountered baffling winds in proceeding to
the northward. That they entered the south-east
trade about the end of the month, which would seem
to have been equally scant, so that the vessel at
times did not make bettet thiii a N.N.W. courie"6. '-
This naturally led the ship down upon the Brazilian
coast, and as neither the island of Trinidad nor a
sufficient offing had been made, it became impossible
to weather the land in the vicinity of Cape St.
Augustine without tacking to the eastward. That
this precaution, unfortunately, was neglected, and
the ship struck on the coast about six miles south of
Peba Point, and ultimately became a total wreck.
That in reviewing the circumstances attending the
loss of this ship, we were of opinion, in which the
Assessors concurred, that the Guayacan was lost by
the default of the master, Nathaniel Francis Carder,
inasmuch as he hugged the coast too closely,
although his course and some indication of land
ought to have warned him of danger ; that the
omission to throw the lead in such circumstances
was unwarrantable ; and that, taking all the circum-
stances into account, we felt constrained to suspend
the certificate of competency of the said master,
and have suspended the same for the space of six
calendar months from this date.
Dated at Swansea, Nov. 8, 1865.
GEO. GRANT FRANCIS.
NATHANIEL PRICE CAMERON.
We, the undersigned assessors, concur in the above
report. Hy. HARRIS.
J. H. HATCIIARD.
On the investigation we examined on oath the
following witnesses, namely :—John Bolten, chief
mate ; and Thomas Walters, David Campbell
M'lndoe, and William Henry Jones, the minutes
of whose testimony we hereunto annex.
As the certificate of the master was lost in the
wreck, we beg to forward a duplicate, unsigned,
which was handed in.

GEO. GRANT FRANCIS.
NATHANIEL PRICE CAMERON.

Public Meeting at Manchester in Behalf of

the Freedmen

A public meeting, convened by the Mayor, was held
at Manchester this week, to take into consideration
the condition of the freedmen of America, and their
claims upon the sympathies of the English people.
Mr. Jacob Bright proposed the following resolution :
" That the citizens of Manchester, in public meeting
assembled, having ascertained the necessitous condition
of the emancipated negroes of the United States, hereby
resolve to promote a public subscription for their relief,
believing it to be an object deserving the generous and
practical sympathy of this community, and they take this
opportunity of recording their grateful remembrance of the
munificent gifts of upwards of one quarter of a million
sterling, presented by the American citizens tb the people
of this nation during the groat famine in Ireland and the
cotton distress in Lancashire, and desire to reciprocate to
some extent their humane and Christian benevolence."

Mr. J. IL Estcourt said that whatever might have been
our opinion of the American war during its continuance,
brought
t
we had but one opinion with regard to distress in America
undero r an yeoutrheerhseparrtvaotifeteh,e ifglobe;
itwere
and when it
was
we e would
ameliorate in
our power
ameliorate it. It was well to remember that in the South-
ern States there were white people as well as black, and
that the distress amongst the white people was almost
equal to, and in soma cases far exceeded, what it was
amongst the blacks. (Hear, hear.) The Americans
relieved the poor whites as well as the emancipated blacks.
It was well to inquire what they were doing in America,
and whether we were now appealed to to help those who
helped themselves. The report of Freedmen's affairs in
North Carolina showed that there were 17,419 colored
people in the district. At Newberno they had established
a Freedman's village ; here there were 2,149 persons, who
were aged, infirm, widows, orphan; depending entirely on
charity for support. Beaufort contained about 1,400 poor
whites, receiving equal alms with emancipated blacks, and
in the first four months of 1864 $B,OOO worth of clothing
was supplied to them. On Roanoke Island there were
3,091 colored people ; of them, 1,297 were under 14 years
of age ; 70 per eent. of the whole wore too old or too
young to earn their food. In the district of North Caro-
lina there were schools, the attendance of which numbered
3,000. In addition, evening schools were largely in request
by those who worked during the day, and eight had been
established in this district. There had been built seven-
teen hundred houses, besides saw mills, grist mills, and
two or three places of worship. Tho Western Freedmen's
Aid Commission had a centre in Cincinnati, which embraced
camps in Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama,
Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana—an area of 280,000
square miles, which in 1860 had a colored population of
1,250,000, of whom 70,00 J persons were dependent on
charity. In the two years ending 1864, the commission
had distributed $216,500 in goods, food, and education,
the government supplying rations. There were 79
teachers employed ; there were 5,000 scholars in the day
schools, 2,000 men in the evening schools, and for orphans,
of whom there were 600 in the camp on the Mississippi,
asylums were established wherever the committee went.
In the District of Columbia, in February, 1863, there were
20,000 sufferers, of whom one-half were females; and one
of the lady visitors reported that they were in want of
everything necessary to human sustenance and comfort.
The government gave the district (which was ten miles
square) $27,000 ; soup-houses were established, and th ey
were attended daily, on the average, by 2,609 persons ;
and 3,300 blankets had been distributed, besides large
quantities of fuel. An organisation of colored
time
and gentlemen last winter devoted the wholeesidtems
thesevery
efficiently to the relief of the' sufferers.
and employed
which last year distribute $
organisations, there was the Nadtio2nl4,o&ool,ief Aid Asso-
ciation,as the New England Com-
mission scholars. Then there w
almost exclusivel
• sion at Boston, which devoted itself
had given y
one hundred and fifty teachers in schools attended by
to education. The American government in
£100,000,000 sterling, and the American people had given
rations and shelter during the last four years
voluntary more than £25,000,000 sterling. These facts
showed that the Americans were helping themselves to
the utmost, and therefore they had a claim upon us.
America had contributed without being asked for it, a
andthan Great
have r
e fora
t
Britain." If every man in this country would but give
quarter of a million to the Irish distress and the distress
shall noth ain the cotton districts, and he wanted England to say,
" We
thewithbeguits America,
that she is
generous
a shilling to this fund, we should raise £300,000, and we
everle will
boast
should have the right side of a good boast. Towards the
end of next month the people would be • •
experiencing
the severity of winter, the intensity of which might be
mitigated by the prompt liberality of this country. Of
the 4,000,000 that had been emancipated by the war, only
one-fifth stood in need of alms; the rest earned their live-
lihood. It was for the aged and for those positively
unable to earn anything that assistance was now sought.
Some of the scenes of last winter were fearful; stables
were occupied by human beings, and mangers crammed
with them. In Mississippi, last winter, several thousands
of human beings lived with only the shelter of canvas
overhead; and it was impossible to provide butter pro-
tection, bacans.3 they came in in such numbers, no fewer
than 7,000 having arrived in one day. If Manchester
was divided into districts, and gentlemen undertook to
canvass them, ho thought there were few who would
not give a shilling as evidence
of practical sympathy, as
also of moral sympathy, whisk was a matter of great
moment between the two countries. (Applause.)

The Golden City, with 1,000 passengers and
$1,244,000 in treasure for New York, $314,000 for Eng-
land, $70,000 for France, $300,000 for Central America,
and $lO,OOO Jo] Panama, sailed from San Francisco on the
18th inst.

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ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT
GARDEN.
(Opera Company, Limited.)
THIS EVENING will be performed Meyerbeer's Gram
Opera, L'AF RICAINE. Miss Louisa Pyne, Madame Lem.
wens-Sherrington, and Mrs. A. Cook ; Messrs. Alberti
Lawrence, Henry Con% A. Cook, E. Dussek, J. G. Paley, C
Lyall, and Charles Adams.
Conductor, "Mr. Alfred Mellon.
Commence at half-past 7.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
1. M imagers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton.

TIIIS EVENING tho performances will commence will
the Farce of HUSBANDS BEWARE. air. G. Belmore
Miss Hazlewood, Miss R. Leclercq, &c.

After which, Shekel:era's Tragedy of KING JOHN: Messrs.
Phelps, James Anderson, T. Swinbourne, Raynor. G. Bel -
more, E. Phelps, C. Harcourt; Miss Atkinson, Mrs. H.
Vandenhoff, Mrs. Hodson, &c.

Commence at 7.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.-
Sole Lessee and Mansi,er, Mr. Buckstone.
TEAS EVENING, THREE E e..ICS A'l ER MAR-
RIAGE. Mr. W. Farrell, kr. Chippendale, Miss Snowden,
kiss ally Moore.
Alt er which, USED UP.-Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Howe,
Miss Belly Mocre, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam.
To be followed by THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Mr. and
'and Mrs. C. Mathews, dm
Concluding with THE BALLET. Messrs. Arthur and
Charles Leclercq. Miss Fanny rti right, Miss C. Adams, and
the Corps de Ballet.

Commence at Seven.

117110 KILLED COCK ROBIN ? Inquire
at the HAYMARKET THEATRE on MONDAY
KENT.

ROYAL LYCEUM TREATAE.-
Under the sole Management of Mr. Fechter.
THIS EVENING, THE WATCH CRY, in which Mr
Fechter will perform the principal character. Supported by
Messrs. H. Widdicombe, S. Emery, C. Horsman, John Clay-
ton, A. Raymond, J. Fitzpatrio., and miss Elaworthy.
Preceded by, at 7 o'clock, a Drama, in one act, entitled
THE VETERAN AND HIS PROGENY. Phiilip Garbois
(age 102,., Mr. H. Widdicombe.
Box Office open daily from Eleven till Five.
Acting Manager, H. Barnett.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL ADELPHI.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EVENING, at 7. GOOD FOR NOTHING. Mrs
Alfred Mellon and Mr. Felix Rogers.
After which, at 8, RIP VAN WINKLE. Rip (his 60th
appearance), Mr. Jefferson, supported by Messrs. Billington,
P. Bedford, It Phillips, Felix Rogt.rs, Ashley, Iburne U. J
•
Smith; Mrs. Billingtor, &c.

To apnolude, at half-pa•t O. with THE WIDOW'S
VICTIM. Messrs. BiLington, Felix Rogers, Ashley; Miss
Godsell, 31Iss Seaman, and Hiss Jenny Willmore.

OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining.
THIS EVENING, AN AMPLE APOLOGY.
After which, at a quarter to Eight, IT IS NEVER TOO
LATE TO MEND. characters by Messrs. Vining, T. Mel-
ville, T. Mead, D. Murray, 6. Caihaem, F. Villiers, J. G.
Shore, G. Murray, H. Mellon, C. Seyton, It. Cathcart; Misj
L. Moore and Miss Katherina Rodgers. .

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