The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-29 00:00:00

DINNER AT THE MANSION-HOUSE.

Last night a grand banquet was giv-ennby the Lord
Mayor in the Egyptian-hall at the Mansion-house.
The following distinguished guests attended :—The
Earl of Aberdeen, Earl Granville, Sir J. Graham, Lady
Graham, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Mrs. Glad-
stone, Mr. Cardwell, M.P., and Mrs. Cardwell, the Mar-
quis of Breadalbane, the Prince of Saxe Weimar, Lord
and Lady A. Harvey, Lord Ingestrie, Lord and Lady
Wodehouse, Lord Blantyre, Earl and Countess Airlie,
Bishop of Hereford, Mr. and Mrs. Osborne, the Attor-
ney-General, the Solicitor General, Vice Chancellor
Wood, Hon. Dr. and Mrs. Legge, Lord and Lady Ers-
kine, Mr. Blomfield, Mrs. Blomfield, Baron Rothschild,
M.P. Hon. Mr. and Lady Ann Charteris, Hon. R. S.
Dundas, Hon. A. Kinnaird, Sir Charles and Lady East-
lake, Chevalier Drouet, General Jolley, Sir H. Bishop,
Mr. Tupper, Mr. and Mrs. Oliveira, Mr. A. Pellatt, M.P.,
the Governor of the Bank of England and Mrs. Hankey,
Mr. and Mrs. Jones Lloyd, Mr. J. A. Hankey, Mr.
Hadow, Sir. J. and Lady Campbell, Mr. Alderson, Mr.
and Mrs. M. Wigram, Rev. Mr. Heath, Dr. Mortimer,
Chaplain to the Lord Mayor, and Mrs. Mortimer, Dr.
M'Caul, Mr. and Miss Williams, Cdptain A. Milne,
Mr. John Sadleir, Colonel Lawrence, Alderman and
Miss Farebrother, Alderman and Mrs. Wilson, Alder-
man and Mrs. Humphery, Mr. Alderman Farncombe
and Miss Stone, Sir William and Miss Magnay, Alder-
man and Miss Hooper, Sir John Musgrove, Alderman
and Mrs. Moon, Alderman and Mrs. Finnis, Sir R. W.
and Lady Carden, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Kennard, Mr.
Dillon, Mr. and Mrs. Caldecott, &c.
After the dinner the healths of the "Queen," "Prince
Albert, and the rest of the Royal family," were given,
and most loyally responded to by the company.
The LORD MAYOR next proposed " The health of the
Bishop of Hereford," thanking him for the excellent
sermon he had preached that day (at Christ Church).
The Bishop of HEREFORD, in returning thanks, bore
his testimony to the orderly and devout behaviour of the
children at Christ Church, and then, in adverting to the
subject of education, observed that that was now the
great question in the country, and he was glad that it
had been earnestly taken up by the Ministry. (Hear,
hear.)
The Lord MAYOR, in proposing the toast of " The
Navy and Army," said that deeply as they all should
regret the calamity of a European war, yet, should the
country, from necessity, be engaged in such a contest,
the name he was about to connect with the toast would
tend to inspire confidence that all that could be done
would be effected by the Executive to make the naval
service as, effective as possible. He gave the " Navy
and Army," connecting with the toast the names of Sir
J. Graham and Lord Ingestre.

Sir J. GRAHAM said that the duty of presiding over
the Board of Admiralty at the present moment having
been confided to him by her gracious Majesty, he had
been commanded by the Lord Mayor, in the absence of
any admiral, though in the presence of brave and dis-
tinguished officers of the navy, to return thanks on
behalf of that gallant profession. The duty was a proud
and grateful one to him. (Hear.) The recollections of
the British navy were dear to the heart of every English-
man, formed the most conspicuous portion of the history
of this country, and were written indelibly in tile annals
of the world. (Applause.) In peace—and it was peace
alone that he wished to contemplate—in peace that
gallant profession was the protector of British commerce
throughout every quarter of the world, and itself was
mainly dependent for its strength on the success of the
mercantile marine. (Hear, hear.) It was a subject of
no jealousy, because it could not be the enemy, but was
always the guardian of the liberties of the people of this
country. (Hear, hear.) Should that sad event, which
he could not contemplate,—should unhappily war occur,
then he was satisfied the marine of England, which had
been so often trusted by the people of this country, and
which had never disappointed their expectations, would,
as heretofore, be found the safeguard of the sea-girt
shores of our native island. It had ever repelled the
foreign invader, and it would do so again, should at any
future time any attempt at invasion be made ; and,
whether in peace or in war, the naval force of the
country would, he was sure, always be ready to meet
the expectations of the country, to defend its liberty,
and to secure the honour and character of that flag,
which "a thousand years had braved the battle and the
breeze." (Cheers.)
Lord INGESTRE returned thanks for the army.
The LORD MAYOR then proposed "The health of the
Earl of Aberdeen and her Majesty's Ministers." After
uttering a warm eulogium on Lord Aberdeei's private
character, be proceeded to say, that the noble Earl's
great ability and vast experience tended to inspire confi-
dence that under his superintendence her Majesty's
Government would originate those beneficial measures
which the country expected at their hands. (Hear, hear.)
He knew that on occasions like the present it was the
duty of the chief magistrate to put aside all party feeling,
and he felt he was not departing from that rule in saying
that her Majesty's Ministers had his entire sympathy as
well as support. (Hear, hear.)

The Earl of ABERDEEN, who was received with ap-
plause on rising, in acknowledging the honour conferred
on his colleagues and himself, thought he might venture,
to say that the Lord Mayor could not invite to the
splendid hospitalities of that hall any Ministers of the
Crown, be they who they might, who did not respect his
high office, and who did not feel warmly interested in the
welfare and prosperity of the great city over which he
presided. (Applause.) He begged the company to
believe that those feelings were largely shared in by her
Majesty's present Government. (Hear, hear.) If at any
time her Majesty's Ministers would rejoice to meet such
an assembly of their fellow-subjects as the one now col-
lected together, they must especially do so on the present
occasion, when all the great interests of the country were
prosperous and flourishing to a degree almost unparal-
leled, and when the great body of the people were con-
tented and happy. (Cheers.) It was the business of
her Majesty's Government to endeavour to preserve,
and, if possible, to extend those blessings. He should
not presume to assign the causes of this national pros-
perity, but, whatever portion might be assigned to hu-
mane agency, they would do well to recollect that a good
Providence had blessed the efforts of man. (Hear.) He
was well aware that that was not the place or time
for the expression of political opinions, yet he thought
it could not be out of season to say that it would
be the earnest endeavour of her Majesty's Government
to preserve the state of peace without the aid of which
they would never have enjoyed the blessings they now
possessed. Neither did he think it superfluous to state,
that it would be their endeavour also to protect and
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of the Council, Earl Granville, observing that never in
the history of the country had that august assembly
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Earl GRANVILLE, in acknowledging the toast, said he
believed that there was no mathematical maxim
generally received as that they could not insure theper-
manenceso
of their political freedom or individual inde-
pendence without the continuance of the representative
government they enjoyed ; and he thought it was almost
as general an opinion that the second branch of the
Legislature was necessary for the good working of the
system. (Hear, hear.) What the Lord Mayor had just
stated was, in his opinion, true, that the House of
Lords at the present moment held a very considerable
position in the good opinion of the community. Such
had not always been the case, for some very few years
ago bitter speeches in reference to the House of Lords
were made at public meetings, and. hostile, pamphlets
were written, with such titles as The Peers or the People
—What will the Lords do? 'While others put the ques-
' tion still more ominously, as follows What shall be
done with the Lords ?" (Laughter.) 4-He believed that
that feeling was now entirely changed, as was evidenced
by the tone of the public press. (Hear, hear.) A few
months ago they had read in the public prints an elo-
quent defence of the House of Peers, made by Lord
Derby at Liverpool, a town only second to the great
commercial city of London. The noble lord, on
that occasion, said that he could not take on himself
to say that every individual in the House of Peens was
the model of a legislator ; and, within the last few
weeks, one, of his own colleagues (Lord J. Russell)
had made, 'he was afraid, a similar admission, when
he said he did not think that every peer was in-
fallible. (Laughter.) He was not inclined to argue the
point against a man whom he had taken, since his first

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entrance upon political life, as his guide upon all con-
stitutional questions. But, were he disposed to contest
the point, the very worst place he could choose to do so
in would be the city of London, where that noble lord's
great qualities were fully appreciated, and where all
political parties agreed that the fact of his being the re-
presentative of so large a constituency was an honour
both to the electors and the elected. (Cheers.) Not
being himself one of the ornaments of the House of
Peers, he might be permitted, without the reproach of
egotism, to say that there existed among that body men
who yielded to no class in the country for the liberal and

comprehensive View they took of all the great questions
most necessary to be settled at the present time, and
who felt the responsibility which attached to them as
members of an institution endeared to the country by
those historical traditions which possess so much weight
with Englishmen. (Applause.)
The Duke of ARGYLL proposed "The health of the
Lord Mayor." (Applause.) He said that that was to
him the first time of his partaking of what his noble
friend had truly called the splendid hospitality of that
ancient hall ; and he could not partake of that hospi-
tality without having great recollections brought to his
mind with regard to the past, and great hopes with re-
gard to the future. He could not help calling to mind
those parts of our history when the liberties of the Eng-
lish people were fought in these municipal institutions ;
and, as regarded the future, he cherished the hope that
the progress of commerce over the globe would contribute
to a new era in the history of human affairs. He was

not one of those who believed that the time had yet
arrived when -they could hang the bugle in the hall,
bend their swords into ploughshares, and convert their
spears into pruning-hooks ; but he thought that the
progress of commerce over the globe, carried on mainly
by the great people of this country, and by that
other great people who had sprung from the loins
of England,—he thought that the progress of com-
merce, especially if conducted by high principle
and in a Christian spirit, would finally lead to the
great diminution, if not extinction, of those wars of am-
bition which had hitherto desolated the world. But it
was not a selfish interest in the extension of commerce,
but rather to the character of their merchants, that they
must look for this blessed consummation. It was to

that character they must trust, not only for the security
of their institutions, but their influence over the other
nations of the world. (Hear, hear.) They had great
and noble examples of the highest development of the
English character ; and, above all, they had it in that
great man who, from commanding the armies of Eng-
land, had been called to command her Senate, and who,
a few short months ago, had been carried to his final
resting-place under the cathedral of that great city.
(Hear, hear.) The Poet Laureate, who had written
some touching lines to that great man's memory, said—
" Not once or twice in our rough island story
The path of duty was the way to glory."
Though those words referred to the glory acquired in
war, he conceived that they were equally applicable to
the glory acquired in the avocations of peace ; and, as
he believed there had been great and noble develop-
ments of character among the British merchants, he
trusted that that character would still be maintained,
and he rejoiced to give the health of the present Mayor,
because he believed his lordship represented in his cha-
racter those virtues which he hoped would long con-
tinue to adorn the merchant princes of England.
(Cheers.)

The LORD MAYOR, after acknowledging the compli-
ment paid him, gave "The health of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer.' (Applause.) He stated that the
Chancellor of the Exchequer always occupied a post of
great difficulty, especially if he had a surplus ; and
therefore, notwithstanding the right hon. gentleman's
great ability, he needed all the encouragement which the
expressions of their sympathy could give. (Cheers and
laughter.)
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER returned
thanks. He said he was aware that there were
other feelings besides admiration and respect which
might be excited by the position of a Chancellor of
the Exchequer, and he fully believed that the pre-
dominant sentiment in the minds of all humane
men towards the person whose duty it was to fill
that office was one of sympathy and commisera-
tion. (Laughter.) From his own brief experience
he could speak as to the anxiety of different parties to
share in the treasures which, as they imagined, it was in
the power of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to diffuse
over a smiling land, and their desire to participate in
some imagined surplus of the public revenue very com-
monly outran the care to inquire whether that surplus
existed, or what was its extent. (Laughter.) The difficul-
ties imposed on a Chancellor of the Exchequer were such,
that nothing but the kindness and indulgence of his fel-
low-countrymen could induce him to face either the
labour or the responsibility of the exercise of his office.
The existence of representative government had intro-
duced into this Country a spirit of strictly examining the
financial administration ; and he did not think that a
matter to be lamented, for he regarded well-weighed and
matured public opinion as the most powerful assistance
that could be afforded to the holder of any office in the
discharge of its duties. He was convinced, too, that
whether or not he might succeed in dealing with the
great and complicated subjects that fell under his super-
vision, the decisions and proceedings of the Govern-
ment would be brought to a candid tribunal ; that they
would enjoy the benefit of an impartial and even indul-
gent judgment ; that it would be believed that they were
sensible, at any rate, that they had a character to lose,
and that they were actuated by a spirit of honest patriot-
ism and a desire to give effect to those principles which
had been adopted of late years, and had manifestly tended
to augment the prosperity of the country. (Applause.)
The LORD MAYOR gave " The health of the President
of the Board of Trade, Mr. Cardwell," observing that
that right hon. gentleman had earned for himself, by his
intelligence, industry, and ability, a high position in
public opinion.
Mr. CARDWELL said that he had not had the least idea,
until he heard the words fall from the lips of the chief
magistrate of the City of London, that when the health
of that august assembly, the House of Commons, was
to be proposed to the great municipal body now
collected together on the present festive occasion, the
duty of acknowledging the toast would be assigned to a
member of the house holding a position there so incon-
siderable as he did. Nevertheless, by the office he
filled, he had the honour, in regard to trade, to be the
servant of men whose fleets had covered every sea, and
whose enterprise was subduing by peaceful conquests
the utmost limits of the world. (Hear, hear.) That
enterprise they were not satisfied shouhl tend only to
their own advantage, but, with an enlightened spirit,
they were making their commerce the pioneer of science,
art, and civilisation, and the handmaid of Christianity
itself. (Applause.) And let him ask, why was it that
this great extension of theit trade had been accomplished,
and why was it that they were now assembled in that
festive hall the greatest commercial community in the
world ? Precisely for the same reason that the House
of Commons was the great refuge of liberty banished
from other countries, and was the great conservator of
freedom and happiness for all the other nations of
Europe. (Hear.) It was, as had been eloquently ob-
served by Sir J. Mackintosh, in consequence of the
freedom of our institutions, and the scope which they
afforded for the development of energy and industry,
that Great Britain held the proud position she did
among the nations of the world. (Hear, hear.) It was
that spirit which had constituted the louse of Com-
mons, based, as the noble duke (the Duke of Argyll)
had told them, on the ancient municipalities of the
country ; and in the House of Commons, as well as in
the municipal communities, it was the native energy of
the British character and the unfettered power of
British ability which had established the Government of
this country. Requesting the assembly to accept his
acknowledgments on behalf of the House of Commons,
he concluded by expressing a hope that that body would
always deserve the confidence of an assembly of British
people such as the one he then addressed. (Applause.)
Several other toasts followed, after which the company
retired from the dining-hall.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The statement that her
Majesty's• Theatre had fallen into the hands of the Co-
vent Garden management, it seems, has proved quite
correct, notwithstanding the contradiction given to it.
Mr. George Becke, solicitor, of Bedford-row, in writing
to a contemporary, says :—" Mr. Gye has requested me,
as the solicitor of Mr. W. S. P. Hughes (to whom pos-
session of the property was delivered by the Sheriff of
Middlesex on the 26th of January last), to inform you
that your first announcement, stating the letting of the
theatre to Mr. Gye, was correct ; and also that a con-
tract was signed at my office on Tuesday last, by which
Mr. Hughes demised the theatre to Mr. Gye from the
25th of the present month."

FURTHER RIOTS AT BLACKBURN.—WO regret to say that
further riots, arising out of the election, have occurred
in Blackburn, and that the military, who had departed
on,Friday morning, have again had to be sent for. It
appears that a large body of Scotchmen, chiefly travelling
drapers and grocers, residing in Blackburn, had voted to
the number of 80 for Mr. Fielden, the Liberal candidate,
on Thursday morning, thereby giving that gentleman the
large majority by which he headed his opponent almost
from the opening of the poll. Saturday night was fixed
upon for attack
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James Johnston, was attacked' by a mob in Penney-
Smith, the
mob followed him there, beating
him about the head with Mr. Smiths poker, and
ironmonger ; but the
beaten, and sought refuge in the house of Mr.
leaving him covered with blood and insensible on the
hearth. The houses of several other persons were at-
tacked, and their windows and window shutters were
destroyed with stones. A person in one house fired
upon the mob and wounded one of the "Hornbyite" or
Conservative ruffians. Not less than 11 small shot had
been extracted from the man's face and body yesterday.
The military were sent for, and a company of 80 of the
4th Regiment arrived at 11 on Saturday night, who still
remain in the town. The magistrates were yesterday
swearing in 400 special constables. The small police
force were unable to cope with the mob, whose move-
' ments were aided by the darkness of the night, the
street lamps not being lighted. Only one of the ruffians
was brought before the magistrates yesterday, and he
was simply bound over to appear at the sessions.
WEDDING AT TA.3ILA.GHT RECTORY, COUNTY DERRY.—
We had great pleasure in witnessing the happy event of
the marriage of the Rev. Edward Groome, rector of
Beaulieu and Drumcar, in the county Louth, with Har-
rietan d late
enjoyment Dean of Ttuoam all
the
Het Maxwell, daughter of the Rev. Maxwell Carpendale,
rector of Tamlaught, and granddaughter of the Very
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happiness
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the neighbourhood. The church was beautifully deco-
rated for the occasion, the pillars being tastefully encir-
cled with ivy and evergreens, with Gothic arches up the
aisle.—Derry Sentinel. people
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