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

entrance upon political life, as his guide upon all con-
stitutional questions. But, were he disposed to contest
the point, the very wcrst 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 consummatioi. It was to
th

Lat 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 aoquired in the avocations of peace ; and, as
he believed there had been great and noble develop-
inents 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 should 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 their trade had been accomplished,
and why was it that they wore 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 House 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 1.
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.—We regret to say that 2
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drapers and grocers, residing in Blackburn, had voted to
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large majority by which he headed his opponent almost
from the opening of the poll. Saturday night was fixed
upon for attacking the houses of these persons and
taking a revenge. Between half-past 7 and Bon that
night the son of one of them, a young man named ,
James Johnston, was attacked by a mob in Penney-
2
street with bludgeons and brickbats. He was badly
beaten, and sought refuge in the house of Mr. Smith, the
ironmonger ; but the mob followed him there, beating
him about the head with Mr. Smith's poker, and
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 thp
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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 TAMLAGHT RECTORY, COUNTY DERRT.—
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-
riet Maxwell, daughter of the Rev. Maxwell Carpendale,
rector of Tamlaught, and granddaughter of the Very
Rev. Thomas Carter, late Dean of Tuam, which afforded
so much happiness and enjoyment to all the people in
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.