The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-20 00:00:00

COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, a Court of Coomon
Council, specially convened for the purpose, was
held at Guildhall to consider a proposition origi-
nating at a meeting of some of the principal mem-
bers of the corporation at the Mansion House, on
Monday last, for giving a grand civic entertainment
to the distinguished foreigners and other eminent
persons visiting London during the International
Exhibition. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor
presided, and there was an unusually large attend-
ance of members, especially of the Court of Aldermen.
Mr. Deputy HARRISON, pursuant to notice, pro-
ceeded to move a resolution on the subject. In
matters of that kind, he said, they were usually
guided by precedent, and he found one for the
course he was about to propose in the entertainment
given by the corporation of London in honour of
the Great Exhibition of 1851, and which her
Majesty graciously deigned to grace with her pre-
sence. On that occasion, as now, the corporation,
regarding itself as the head of the great commer-
cial community of the City of London, felt that it
behoved them to offer some mark of attention to the
distinguished persons visiting the metropolis ; but
even if there had been no such precedent, he sub-
mitted there were circumstances at the present time
which would have justified them in creating one.
(Cheers.) From the best information he had been
able to obtain he found that there was now, or would
shoe tlybe,a larger number of distinguished foreigners
in this country than at any former time. The chief
among them was the Viceroy of Egypt, n most
friendly ally of this country. (Cheers) There• was
no intelligent and patriotic Englishman who did Llot
know or who had not a grateful recollection of the:
friendly offices which Said Pasha rendered this
country during the recent calamitous disturbances in.
India, spontaneously opening, as his Highness did,
at that great crisis, a highway through his territory
for the transport of our troops and munitions of
war to the theatre of the rebellion, and so contri-
buting materially to restore tranquillity and our
prestige and dominion as a nation. (Hear, hear.)
He (Mr. Deputy Harrison) could scarcely conceive
anything which at this time would be more likely
to afford the merchants and citizens of London
greater satisfaction than to pay some distinguished
mark of attention to so illustrious a personage.
(Cheers.) Several other eminent individuals were
expected here in the course of the summer. Prince
Napoleon was to arrive in London to-day—a gen-
tleman whom he knew the corporation of London
would be delighted to number among its guests.
(Cheers.) Prince Carignan, he had also reason to
believe, would arrive in a day or two, and other dis-
tinguished persons whom they would wish to honour.
He submitted the corporation would do well to avail
themselves of such an opportunity for giving a suit•
able reception and entertainment to some of our
most distinguished allies. (Cheers.) He believed
that such a mark of attention would afford unquali-
fied satisfaction to persons in this country high in
office and station, the more so as, unhappily, there
were circumstances which for a time precluded the
usual hospitality being shown to distinguished.
strangers. Presuming that, as on the kindred
occasion in 1851, the Common Council would appoint
a committee in whom they could confide for deter-
mining the character and directing the arrange.
ments of the proposed festival, he moved—" That
an entertainment be given by this corporation to the
distinguished foreigners and other eminent persons
visiting London on the occasion of the International
Exhibition." (Cheers.)
Mr, KELDAY, the chairman of the City lands'
committee, expressed the pleasure he felt 'in
seconding the motion.
The resolution was then put by the Lord Mayor,
, and carried with acclamation.

On the motion of Mr. Deputy HARRISON, a com-
mittee was then nominated for making the requisite
arrangements for the proposed entertainment,
consisting of Alderman Humphery, Sir John Mus-
grove, Sir F. G. Moon, Salomons,Carter, Lawrence,
Phillips, Gabriel, Allen, Abbiss,Dakin, Besley, Gib-
bins, and Rose, with a common councilman for each
of the 26 wards into which the City is divided.
Certain standing orders of the court, which would
have precluded them from their authorising the
necessaryexpenditure for the festival without pre-
v iu
notice, were also suspended for the occasion.
o
Mr. 11. L. TAYLOR, in particular, and also Mr.
Morisse. sought to have some limit fixed to the
proposed
HARRISON, amid loud cheers, on the
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derided
the notion
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hospitality by any figure of
arithmetic as unworthy
the corporation of London.
The great majority frn hDaen cost.
the court falling in with
this view the committeeo
were left with an unlimited
credit as to the expenditure.

WAIFS OP THE OCEAN.—The Tvne steamboat
owners have secured another prize. On Thursday morning
the steamtugs Ranger, Pioneer, Great Northern, and Rey-
nard, which went off on Monday night in search of a
second derelict ship passed by sailing -Vessels on the edge of
the Dogger Bank, about 80 miles from Tynemouth bar,
brought her to the offing bottom up. The diver to the River
Tyne Commissioners has been down in the diving bell,
examining her this forenoon. Six feet of her foremast is
standing, one of her anchors is hanging at her bows, but
with the stock gone. Her stern frame is gone, so that her
name has not been ascertained, and her cable, v bich has
been dragged along the bottom of the sea, is quite bright.
She is laden with tallow and hemp, and is supposed to be an
Italian vessel, which was beund with a cargo of that de-
scription to Leith in September last, but which has been
missing with her crew ever since. This afternoon an at-
tempt will be made to cant her on to her bottom with a
parbucle, when the mystery that hangs about her fate, and
that of her crew, may bo explained. The Mary of Exeter,
which was brought into the Tyne on Sunday on her broad,.
aide, has been got Ola to the Dertwick Sand and dried.