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LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 25, 1853.

TO WAITERS. WANTED, at the Scarbro'
Uotel, Leeds, Two SINGLE MEN, as Waiters. One is re-
quired to speak German and French. Apply, by letter, to Mr.
Fleischmanu, Leeds, stating terms per week, with references as to
ability and respectability.

MR. ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC
every evening, at 8 o'clock, except Saturday. Stalls, 35.,
which can be secured at the Box•office every day from 11 to 4.
Area, 25.; gallery, Is. A Morning Performance every Tuesday and
Saturday, at 3 o'clock.— Egyptlan-hall, Piccadilly.

INLAND REVENUE OFFICE, SOMERSET-HOUSE,
• • - " 22d July, 1853.
TO ALL HAWKERS, PEDLARS, ANT)
PETTY CFIAPMEN.
Notice is hereby given, tha+ all Licences Issued from this office
on and since the Ist of August, 1852, will expire on the 31st of July
instant; and that New Licences will lie ready for delivery on the
Ist of August next. Every Hawker found trading without a
Licence; or with an Expired Licence, and not having obtained a new
one, will be prosecuted. Persons heretofore Licenced must, on ap-
plication far new Licences, deliver up their old ones ; and persons
not. before Licenced are to produce a Certificate of Character, as
prescribed by the Act 50, Geo. 111., cap. 41, sec. 12, without which
no new Licence-will be grante 1.
By order of the Commissioners.
- -

THOMAS KEOGH.

NOTE.—Ucences may be obtained at the Inland. Revenue Office,
Somerset• House, London, or from any Distributor or Sub-distributor
of Stamps in any city or town in England or Wales.

LAITRENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS.-
(Lessee, CHARLES E. LAURENT, Onslow-hone, Fulham-
road.) Open Every Evening. The Orchestra will perrorm, during
the week, "The Sylvan," " Marie," Dublin Exhibition," " Flower
of the Field," " Rosalinda," and "La Croix de Marie," Waltzes ;
the " Topsy," " Camerocians," " England," and " Lago Maggoire"
Quadrilles ; " Etna,' and " Constance," Galops ; " Fauchette,"
"Frankfort," &c., &c.. Polkas.—Admission, Is. Doors open at
Half•past Eight o'clock; commence at Nine, And terminate at
Half-past Eleven.

OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
PATRON-H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT.

The LANCASHIRE SEWING MACHINE exhibited in Use
and explained Daily, at a Quarter to Three, in addition to the varied
SCIENTIFIC LECTURES and EXHIBITIONS. On TUESDAYS
and FRIDAYS, at Four o'clock, and Every Evening (except Satur-
day) at Nine, the. FIRST PART of an HISTORICAL LECTURE
on " THE THAMES," from its source to Its Estuary, by GEORGE
BUCKLAND, Esq., assisted by Miss Blanche Younge, with appro-
priate Songs and Dissolving Scenery.

Open Mornings and Evenings. Admission, is.; Schools, and
Children under Ten years of age Half-price.

TOURS IN IRELAND.

DUBLIN GREAT INDUSTRIAL
EXHIBITION.

IRISH TOURIST TICKETS (available for a month) are now
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Lincoln .• • • •
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They enable the holders to proceed to Chester, Bangor, Dublin,
Cork, and the Lakes of Killarney, and back again to the station at
which the ticket was taken.

The holder of each Irish Tourist Ticket is entitled to have issued
to him, at the office, 52, Westland•row, Dublin, at very reduced
rates, tickets for a tour in the county Wicklow, in Kenmore and
Glengariff, up the river Shannon--for the journey from Dublin to
Belfast. for the excursion to the Giant's Causeway, and from Dublin
o Galway for the tour through Connemara.

Every purchaser of a ticket is presented. gratis, with a copy of the
Illustrated Irish Tourist's Hand-Book," compiled solely for these
Tours.

The fullest and most accurate information afforded at the Chester
and Holyhead Company's Office, 52, Westland-row, Dublin. See
also " Bradshaw's Guide," page 123.

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IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS,
Just published, by U. BeiMere, 219, Regent-street, London
No I.
vo., in cloth. price-ss. by post free, bs. 6d.,

fIN TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRH(EA,
with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors
In relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the
Generative System, or Sexual Hypochondriasis.
Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD
"Dr. Plckford known to English readers by his frequent practi-
cll contributions to German medical literature. This is the first
time, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi-
cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall
detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his
rower to correct."—London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851.
"We orpmised in a former number that we should recur to this
worlt, in order to exhibit its aim more clearly. The author lashes
with great severity the impostors who make a livelihood by preying
on the credulity of the public. The tribe of ' Quiet Symathisers,'
and Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed ; and if this book
could find its way into the hands of those who gaffer from the com-
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be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of
less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize—
much money This volume is well qualified to put an end to the
metrical system of treating Spermatorrhosa, and to place the treat-
ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore,
likely to do much good."—Medical Circular, Juno 16, 1852.

No. 11.
avo., in cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post free, 45.,
THE CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Princi-
ples at once Simple, Safe, and Efficient, in even its most Inveterate
and apparently Intractable Forms.

BY F. B. COITRTENAY,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Tn proof of his views he (Mr. Courtenay) has given
the history., of a great many cases successfully treated, as bad
as any which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which he had operated.
,uch are cases ix., xl., xii., and xviii. No. ix. had reacted, for a
period of twelve years, the treatment by dilitation, and was finally
removed in as many weeks. But cases xviii. and xix. appear, both
In duration, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag-
gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syme, and yet the
treatment adopted by Mr. Courtenay proved eminently successful."
Professor Linn on the Treatment of Stricture.

MEDICAL ADVICE OOUTH AND METREIT THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF
YY.

DR. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
Doctor of Medicine, and Matriculated Member of the University of
Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical
Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c.
MAY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on
the various disorders of the nervous and generative system,
resulting from juvenile irregularities and excesses, which have pro-
duced more misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema-
ture decay at all stases of life, than perhaps any other class of dis-
eases known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience
in the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist
once secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in
existence, traceable to vrtaln pernicious habits, to which Nervous
Debility, various forms%f Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitftil Marri-
ages, Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their
endless modißeations owe their almost entire origin.
It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are
principles of personal management which cannot be violated without
incarring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed
the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties
may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed,
and how the evil and its con-equenc es may be avoided, and above all,
that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional
derangemetitto which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure
DOCTOR LA'MERT has for a long series of years been engaged
in an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate coin-
plaints, and a the only legally qualified Physician who, regardless
of the taunts and envy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, has had
the confidence, through the medium of the public press, to direct
attention to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is
tree. In selecting this department of practice, he has been amply
roe arded by the great success that has attended his efforts in the
treatment of these cases, which are too generally confided to the
care of unqualified and ignorant empirics, who, with their pirated
publications, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues
of their patent• nostrums, have inflicted serious injury on those who
have been induced to place faith in their pretensions.

At home for consultation daily from Eleven till Two, and from
Six till Eight. All letters must contain the fee of 1/., and advice and
medicines can he forwarded to any initials or address.

"ITI3 desirable that patients wishing to consult Dr. LAlfEra
ghoul first obtain a copy of his work on

SELF-PRESERVATION.

A Medical Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage and Nervous and
Generative Debility, illustrated by fifty-coloured engravings, and des-
cribing in detail the various disorders resulting from secret habits and
excesses. The perusal of this treatise will assist In the correct
description of their cases, and may be had, price I's 6d, in English,
french, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, or German, of Messrs. Piper
Brothers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street;
Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Storie, Titchborne-street, Haymarket; or free
by post for forty-two stamps, to any addrey front the Author's resi-
dence, 37, BILDFoap-aquißE, LONDON.

THE CONSERVATIVE - LAND SOCIETY,
Enrolled under 6 and 7 William IV., c. 32, and established for
the purpose of aiding members of all classes to obtain speedily and
cheaply the freehold franchise in all counties, and as a most eligible
mode of investment.

TRUSTEES.
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, .
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Estates in various counties, will take place at the offices, 33:Norfolk-
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SATURDAY, the 13Yrt of AUGUST,
at Twelve o'clock. All persons who take and pay in shares before
the time of drawing, will participate. Shares out. Monthly pay-
ments Bs. per share. ' Post-office Orders for 12s. 6d., in the name of
the Secretary, payable at 252, Strand, will receive the immediate
entry of new country or town members In the Society's books.
Office hours from 10 to 5, except on Mondays and Fridays, and then
from 10 to 8 o'clock.

CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Secretary.

The allotment of the Brockley Park Estate, Forest-bill, West
Kent, and of the estate half-way between Ware and ilertford, Is
fixed for Thursday, the 28th inst., at the offices.

THE CAMP AT C.IIOBHAM COMMON.

With the return of fine weather, or, at least, some
indications of it, the attractions of the camp revive.
Lord Seaton has at last had a few days of sunshine, and
he has been turning them to the greatest possible ac-
count. The troops were out on Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Thursday, and on Saturday again they had a long
and brilliant field-day. People begin once more to feel
confidence that they will not be left to return from the
Common having seen nothing but dismal-looking tents,
and been cheated by the rain not only of any review,
but of the alfresco luncheons • which they had provi-
dently brought from town in well-packed hampers. On
Saturday they came down in unusual numbete.by the
jog-trot " expresses" of the South-Wfistern.lrl'he sun
from an early hour put forth all his brilliancy, and every
one seemed bent upon learning, by favour of the wea-
ther, as much as could be acquired in one day of the
art of war. If the troops stand in need of the Chobham
course of training, so also do the public ; for practice in
the tented field is hardly more necessary to the one
than a just conception of what military science is
to the other. A population separated by its occupations
from such knowledge, and yet swayed very strongly
by the force of opinion, is exposed to the extremes
either of invasion panics on the one hand, or of exag-
gerated self-sufficiency on the other. Having gone
through the one place we are now oscillating to the other.
To the heated imaginations of many, Lord Seaton and
the Chobham army are quite able to march from one end
of Europe to the other, and, having emancipated
all " down-trodden " nationalities in their way, to finish
by restoring the Danubian Provinces to the Porte and
" crumpling up " Russia. The present encampment
may be turned to useful account in correcting our ideas
of these matters, and giving us Some insight into the de-
tails and nature of actual service. Let anyone on a field-
day join "the enemy,", and with a good glass watch how
the troops are handled—how each arm of the force is
brought into play—how much discipline and science are
exercised in all the brilliant and rapid manoeuvres that
he witnesses ; he sees great movements regulated by the
same mechanical laws that determine the action of a
machine ; battalions deploy into line before him as easily
as a lady opens her fan, or form square as rapidly as she
shuts it up again ; not an evolution takes place the fore-
thought as well as the mechanical skill of which he may
not recognise. If the artillery is brought to bear it is to
support an advance or cover a retreat, or for some other
object which the circumstances dictate ; whether with-
drawn through the intervals of battalions or rapidly
wheeled from point to point of the line, there is still an
obvious intelligence guiding its use. So with the cavalry,
which, with its facilities of locomotion, is seen protecting
the retreat, or hanging upon the enemy's rear, or care-
fully selecting the ground and the opportunities for an
unexpected charge. Finally, you have the infantry
formed under shelter when not required, but showing
the largest possible front when in action, always ready
for every emergency of attack or defence, to form square,
to deploy into line, to throw out or recal'• skirmishers,
to take ground to the right or to the left, to advance or
to retreat—doing all methodically, with confident pre-
cision, and for purposes which explain themselves Under
the sight of the spectator. In this country, where, ex-
cept professional men, people are so ignorant of the are
of war, the practice at Chobliam may be studied to great
advantage. It will teach us at least to appreciate the
state to which, by an experience, skill, and science aug-
menting from age to age, the profession of arms has at-
tained. The greatest peace advocate may there take
pleasure in observing how the mighty interests entrusted
to the keeping of armies has tended, as time rolled on,
by augmenting their efficiency, to diminish the proba-
bility of war. He may also gather from the same sur-
vey a juster sense of, and a higher respect for, those
military resources which have been accumulated so ex-
tensively abroad, and are so familiar to the nations of
the continent, but of which we, as a people, are so
jgnorant. 0
On Saturday the troops turned out at iro'clock, and
marched at once to that portion of Catlin's Valley which
lies in front of the Artillery-park. There they took up
a position, sheltered by the lay of the ground from the
supposed enemy, which was posted on the north side of
the valley, its left resting on Colonel Challoner's planta-
tion, its right on the Windsor road, and the whole
fronting the Camp, though distant about "a mile from it;
the cavalry with the horse artillery were on the right of
the division, the Guards in the centre, and beyond them
Sir Richard England's and Lockyer's brigades. Lord
Seaton appeared at first to meditate an attack on the
enemy's left, and for that purpose the cavalry and horse
artillery took ground more to the right, but immediately
after the whole force was ordered to advance towards
the centre and right of the enemy, which they did. The
Guards, moving forward by battalions in open columns
of companies, deployed into line, while Sir Richard
England's brigade, coming up on the left, formed line
nearly at right angles, the leading battalion throwing
out skirmishers, and gradually turning the enemy's
right, which fell back slowly, making a stand wherever
the nature of the ground afforded facilities for doing so.
This movement was supported by the batteries, which,
after a heavy cannonade, retired through the intervals,
and file firing became general along the whole line,
which was wrapped for some time in columns of smoke.
The guns being again brought to bear upon the enemy's
centre and right, they were at last obliged to retreat
into Colonel Challoner's plantation, upon which at the
outset their left rested. The Guards and Sir Richard
England's brigade followed them through the woods,
preceded by skirmishers, while the cavalry manoeuvred
on the left, seeking open ground in that direction, and
Lockyer's brigade and the artillery remained behind in
reserve. The bush fighting which ensued may be regarded
as one of the chief characteristics of the day's operations.
Little of course could be seen by visitors, but Colonel
Challoner's pheasants and rabbits must have been consi-
derably astonished. His gamekeeper was something
more, and no feeling of patriotism, no regard for the
discipline of the army, nor even gratification at seeing
the bearskins of the Guards hardly visible over the
immense ferns in the plantation, could Check that hero's
anger. He could not understand why Lord Seaton
should make war upon the peace of his master's pre-
serve. If it had been a superior body of poachers
with whom he found himself confronted, he could
not have grasped his gun tighter or looked more in-
dignant. Not satisfied with driving the enemy right
through the wood, the troops actually formed line, and
commenced file firing on its further skirts, while the
rabbits darted from point to point, bewildered at the din
of so tremendous a battue. Poor Colonel Challoner's
fine ferns suffered on this occasion as did the corn fields
at Waterloo, but he was a consenting party of course to
what was dohe, and we suppose is rather proud of the
sacrifice than otherwise. The enemy were now supposed
to have gained new strength, and the tide of battle must
be imagined as turned. Slowly the battalions that had
pushed into the wood emerged from it again, the artillery
opening fire to cover their retreat, and the indefatigable
foe pressing hotly upon their rear. They fell back be-
hind Lockyer's brigade, which (having previously been
in reserve) was now drawn up in line, with the cavalry
on its left, and commenced platoon firing. The enemy
still pressing forward, the whole division rertyiar:ded.ei however,
were the Camp, covered by the cavalry, which we have never
on any former field-day seen more brilliantly manoeuvred.
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man and horse, and, as the squadrons retreated, a well-
sustained fire poured in upon them to quicken their
pace. The 79th in line, and supported by the batteries,
made a final stand in front of the encampment ; but
what avails valour with an overpowering foe in front
and dinner ready cooked and waiting behind? At three
o'clock the whole division was once more within its can-
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rally along the lines. It will be some time, even as
matters stand, before the site of the encampment be-
comes indistinguishable from the rest of the Common ;
and, should this state of mimic warfare last much longer,
the archmologists of a future day will be dividing their
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CITY OF LONDON CORPORAPON REFORM.--The City
of London Municipal Reform Association have issued an
address, stating that within the last few weeks more
than 4,000 bankers, merchants, manufacturers, and
tradesmen have been summoned to take up freedoms to
entitle them to continue their respective pursuits within
this commercial capital of the world, and that 10,000
more are under a similar liability. The parties so situ-
ated are earnestly urged to co-operate and appeal to the
Royal Commissioners appointed to inquire into the pre-
sent state of the Corporation. The Association is, in
fact, a Municipal Reform League for the correction of
all abuses in the Corporation.

MINISTERIAL BANQUET AT THE MAN-

SION-HOUSE.

-
' The Lord Mayor gave a grand entertainment to her
Majesty's Ministers and a highly distinguished party,
numbering nearly 300 guests, at 'the Mansion-house, on
Saturday evening. The Egyptian-hall, in which the
banquet took place, was seen to great advantage with its
recent artistic decorations. The tables presented a mag-
nificent display of plate, and nothing was wanting to
preserve the high character of civic hospitality.
The company began to arrive shortly after six o'clock,
and were received by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor
and the Lady Mayoress in- the drawing room ; from
whence)._ at half-past 7 o'clock, the guests proceeded to
the banqueting hall.
Among the distinguished company we remarked the
Earl of Aberdeen, the Lord Chancellor and Lady Cran-
worth, the Earl Granville, the Duchess of Sntherland,
the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, the Duke of Newcastle,
Viscount Palmerston and Lady Palmerston, Lord and
Lady John Russell, the Right lion. Sidney Herbert,
M.P., and Mrs. Herbert, Sir William Molesworth, Bart.,
M.P., his Excellency Count Walewski (French Ambas-
sador) and the Countess Walewski, his Excellency the
Marquis d'Azeglio (Sardinian Minister), Viscount Can-
ning, Viscount Hardinge, the Right Hon. E wd. Strutt,
M.P., the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, M.P., Vice-
Chancellor Wood, Mr. Solicitor-General, the Earl of
Albemarle, Lord and Lady Wodehouse, Lord Ernest
Bruce, Lord and Lady Alfred Hervey, Hon. W. Cowper,
Lord Courtenay, Lord D. Stuart,ll..P., the Right Hon.
W. G. Hayter and Miss Hayter, the Yon. H. Fitzroy,
Col. Maberly, Sir John Young, Bart., M.P., the Right
Hon. M. T. Baines, M.P., Mr. Sadleir, M,P., Captain
Milne, R.N., -M.P., and Mrs. Milne, Mr; Frederick
Peel, M.P., Mr. James Wilson, M.P., Mr. David Wad-
dington, .P., Sir Charles Trevelyan, Bart., Sir Thos.
Redington, Bart., Sir T. Fremantle, Sir William Clay,
Bart., M.P., Sir George Goodman, M.P., Mr. W. A.
Wilkinson, M.P., Mr. William Willams, M.P., Mr. E.
Ball, M.P., Mr. Cheetham, M.P., Mr. Mills, M.P.,
Mr. Monckton Milnes, M.P., Captain Hamilton, M.P.,
the Right Hon. T. F. ICennedy, M.P. Mr. Lowe,
M.P., the Governor of the Bank of England, the Chair-
man and Deputy Chairman of the East India Company,
Mr. Alderman Cubitt, M.P., and Mrs. Cubitt, Mr. Ald.
Farncombe, Mr. Ald. Hunter, Mr. Recorder, &c.
As the guests arrived, and afterwards in the gallery
during dinner, the Coldstream band, led by Mr. God-
frey, played a variety of favourite operatic music.
When it is stated that the banquet was served under
the direction of Messrs. Staples, of the Albion, it will
be unnecessary to make other comment either on the
liberality of the bill of fare or the admirable style in
which the whole arrangements were carried out. A new
feature was observed in the costume of the attendants,
each of whom wore a lace shoulder knot, as a distin-
guishing mark of his vocation—an idea, we believe,
taken from our Parisian neighbours.
After the cloth had been drawn, grace was sung with
excellent effect by a choir of professionals, among whom
whom the voices of Miss Eyles and Miss Messent, and
Mr. Frank Bodda, were agreeably conspicuous.
After the "loving cup ' had gone round,
The LORD MAYOR gave the " Health of her Majesty
the Queen," delicately alluding to the sovereign's recent
indisposition, and congratulating his guests on her speedy
and happy recovery.
The toast was drunk with enthusiasm, and .followed
by the National Anthem.
The health of the Prince Consort and the rest of the
royal family followed, and was warmly responded to.
The LORD MAYOR next gave " The Army and Navy,"
to which

Viscount HARDINGE and Capt. MILNE, R.N., seve-
rally responded.
The LORD MAYOR then gave "The Earl of Aber-
deen and her Majesty's Ministers." He was quite sure
that the toast was one which could not but be accept-
able to the citizens of London. (Applause.) They
could all testify to the unwearied diligence of the noble
lord, and his constant and unremitting devotion to the
interests and service of the country. He had, there-
fore, great pleasure in proposing to them the health of
"The Earl of Aberdeen and her Majesty's Ministers."
(Cheers.)

The Earl of ABERDEEN returned thanks. On an
occasion wlien her Majesty's Ministers had been so
highly distinguished, it was incumbent on them to
feel doubly grateful, and therefore he begged to ten-
der in their name his most sincere acknowledgments.
The Lord Mayor had been pleased to express
himself in high terms towards her Majesty's Govern.
ment, and in terms very flattering—much too flatter.
ing, so far as he was himself concerned. No doubt
they had done their best to promote the public pros-
perity, but he had often felt that if a man required a
practical lesson of humility, it would be to place him in
the situation which he then filled. No doubt it was at-
tended with much honour, much power, and much in-
fluence ; but if any one would look to the great respon-
sibilities he incurred, and the great duties he was called
upon to discharge, it must also lead him to despair. If
that was the case with the most commanding talents,
and the most untiring zeal, how much more must it be
so with one who was fully conscious of his own great
deficiencies. He should feel very deeply the discourage-
ment under which he laboured, if it were not for the
bright prospects which he saw at the present time
throughout the whole of the country—(cheers)—if he did
not see prosperity, happiness, and a degree of progress
which had been hitherto unparalleled. Now he did not
pretend to say that that was in any degree o wing to the
exertions of her Majesty's Ministers. At the same
time,' he believed they had done well and wisely in
firmly adhering to that enlightened system of fiscal and
commercial poicy which was established by a great
minister, whom they had lost by an untimely end. If
these great advantages could not be wholly attributed
to the present Government, at least they had used their
utmost endeavours to preserve them unimpaired. That
observation led him to say a word, and but one wor I,
upon a subject which now much engrossed the
public mind. He would say that the policy, the
essential policy, of her Majesty's Government was a
policy of peace. (Cheers.) And he had no doubt that
his distinguished friend near him, and whom he now
had in his eye (the 'rench Minister), would re-echo
those sentiments. (Applause.) It could not, therefore,
be a matter Of indifference if, in that great centre of in-
dustry and:commerce, he should assure them that no
effort would be wanting, consistently with the honour
and the real interests of the country, to secure a con-
tinuance of that first of earthly blessings. (Cheers.)
The LORD MAYOR said they were honoured with the
presence of a distinguished gentleman, the French Am-
bassador, and he was sure he only represented their
feelings in giving him, in their name, a hearty welcome
to the City of London. (Cheers.) Although that dis-
tinguished individual had. not been long among them, he
had already won golden opinions, and, as the repre-
sentative of his country, had exhibited a frankness, a
candour, and a courtesy, which had won the hearts of
all with whom he associated. His, coming among them
that day was'inustrative of the harmony which existed
between the two great countries of England and France,
and which could not fail to contribute to the prosperity
of both. (Hear, hear.) He had great pleasure in pro-
posing "The health of His Excellency the French Am-
bassador, and the other Foreign Ministers present."
His Excellency Count WALEWSKI, in acknowledging
the toast, spoke in the French language to the following
effect. He said :—My Lord Mayor, ladies, and gentle-
men, I beg to thank you on behalf of my colleague, the
Minister of Sardinia, and myself. If my othei colleagues
are not in this hall, it is because they have been pre-
vented by unavoidable circumstances, for we are always
too happy to accept the magnificent hospitality offered to
us by the City of London, which you, my lord mayor,
so worthily represent. (Cheers.) And we were doubly
anxious to accept this cordial invitation, in the prospect
of meeting the Ministers of her Majesty the Queen. For
my own part, I have too much reason to congratulate
myself on my relations with them not to take every op-
portunity of expressing to them the friendly sentiment
with which they inspire me. (Applause.) Yes; gentlemen,
the cordiality which last year existed in the relations
between France and England, and at which I then
expressed my great satisfaction in this same hall,
rests at this moment upon new bases, which can-
not fail still more to consolidate and to assure the
duration of it. (Prolonged applause.) This happy
result ought to be hailed with joy by all of us, for more
than anything else it secures the peace of Europe for the
future as well as for the present. (Cheers.) And I hope,
my Lord Mayar, that facts will very shortly occur in
conclusion, to thank you for the kindn3 e
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--
The next toast,given was, " Earl Granville and the
House of Lords.
Earl GRANVILLE returned thanks, and, in reference to
the legislation of the Upper House, expressed his regret
that the unintentional result of that legislation had been
to shut out one of the representatives chosen by the
citizens of London from his seat in the House of Com-
mons. The noble earl briefly reviewed the labours of
the House of Peers during the present session, and ex-
pressed a hope that they would consummate the fiscal
arrangements that were proposed by the Government,
by giving their sanction to the Succession Duties Bill.
The LORD MAYOR then gave " Lord John Russell
and the House of Commons."

Lord J, RIMELL returned thanks. lie felt highly

EPIIIOE SD.

honoured at being called upon to represent that body, and
trusted that the conduct of the House of Commons dur-
ing the present session had been such as to entitle it to
the confidence and gratitude of the country. Very
important questions had been submitted to them at the
commencement of the present session. They had been
asked whether they thought it wise to persevere in the
financial and commercial policy which bad for so many
years prevailed in that country, or whether they would
adopt a policy condemnatory of the existing system.
He trusted they would be of opinion that the House of
Commons had acted well and wisely for the interests of
the country, when, by an overwhelming majority, they
had decided that that policy had been beneficial, and
that they would not sanction its reversal. (Hear, and
cheers.) But that great question had now been taken
out of the range of political discussion. It was no longer
a matter which divided political parties, although it was
a proof of how slowly nations learnt to prize the great
blessings they enjoyed, that it was only now what
was taught for years, and proved by argument, was
admitted to be one of the greatest sources of the wealth,
and prosperity, and comfort of the great body of the
people. (Hear.) There were other questions, which,
as they still remained subjects Of discussion—as they
still remained questions of political heat and dispute—
that was not the place to refer to. One observation,
however, he should make, and that was, that if ever the
House of Commons or himself deserved well of his con-
stituents of the City of London, it was in their revision
of the taxation of the country, in searching out where it
acted unfairly and unequally, and in endeavouring to re-
lieve the people at large from the duties and
taxes which bore upon articles of the first necessity,
and which, according to these principles, ought not
properly to become objects of fiscal taxation. (Hear,
hear.) They had so endeavoured to arrange the re-
venue of the country that the public credit should
be steadily maintained ; they had taken care that in
repealing and revising taxes that they should provide a
revenue that'the public creditor should be duly paid ;
that the great services of the country should be main-
tained in full efficiency, and that the revenue should be
fully equal to all its demands. (Cheers.) He hoped
they had thus performed the solemn duty that had been
imposed upon them. He agreed entirely with what his
noble friend at the head of the Government had said
with regard to the blessings of peace, and it was one of
those blessings that the public credit should be kept
high, and that every class of the community should par-
take of the benefits of their improved commercial policy.
He begged to thank the company for the compliment
that had been paid to the House of Commons.
The next toast given from the chair was "The Duke
of Newcastle, and Prosperity to the Colonies of
England."
The Duke of NEWCASTLE returned thanks.

The Earl of ABERDEEN gave the health of the Lord
Mayor, who briefly acknowledged the compliment, and
gave the Attorney and Solicitor-Generals.
Sir R. BETHELL returned thanks.

The LORD MAYOR confessed himself at fault in
having omitted from the list of toasts the name of a no-
bleman whose great talents and unswerving integrity
had won for him the respect of the nation. He begged
to propose to them " The Health of Viscount Palmer-
ston, the Home Secretary of the present Administra-
tion."

To judge from the rapturous applause with which the
noble viscount's name was received, this was par excel-
lence the toast of the evening. After the cheering had
subsided,

Lord -PALMERSTON rose and said—l beg to return you
my sincere and cordial thanks for the very kind manner in
which you have proposed my name, and I beg also,
ladies and gentlemen, to thank you cordially for the flat-
tering manner in which you have been pleased to receive
it. It is, indeed, a very great satisfaction to me to find
that the manner in which I have endeavoured humbly to
perform the duties of that situation with which it has
been her Majesty's pleasure to entrust me, has met with
your approbation, and I trust I may not be presumptuous
in concluding that that very generally expressed appro-
bation is shared by the country at large. (Cheers.) My pre-
sent office places me more than before in direct and fre-
quent communication with my countrymen at home,
and I have great satisfaction in thinking that if I should
in the smallest degree deserve the commendation which
the Lord Mayor has bestowed on me, my success
has been an easy task whenever the City of London
was concerned, for there could not be a more able
body of men than the municipal representatives of
that city, or one more able to co-operate with any
branch of the Government with which they might be'
placed in connection. (Loud cheers.) We have
had recently a most remarkable instance of their
promptitude and clearsightedness, for, acting in the
true spirit of the British constitution—ever open to
progress and improvement, but building improvements
on the ancient and stable foundations—they have con-
curred in the appointment of a commission, not for the
purpose of overturning the institutions of this city, but
of inquiring whether the lapse of time, or the change of
'circumstances, may have led to the expediency of some
slight modification or expansion. (Hear.) The readiness
with which the city of London has co-operated in the
formation of that commission has, I trust been met in a
proper spirit by the,Government, by the selection of com-
missioners of commensurate ability and integrity. (Hear.)
My lord, I may perhaps be permitted, having been so
honoured, and having discharged the pleasing task
of acknowledging my obligation, to usurp for a moment
your lordship's functions and, myself, to propose a
toast. (Hear, hear.) We have drunk the healths of
that great and distinguished body of which I have the
honour to be an unworthy member—l mean the House
of Commons—and, as in scientific formula, the whole in-
cludes its parts, it might be concluded that sufficient
honour had been done to each individual member, but
in this assembly I hope I may be allowed to make an
exception to the rule by proposing as a separate toast the
health of the metropolitan members. (Cheers.) The
circumstances and the place point out the fitness of the
toast, because that reform, to which the municipalities of
this country owe so many privileges, is, in a great mea-
sure, owing to the exertions of the metropolitan members.
And amongst those members there is one whom I should
wish to distinguish, one not more conspicuous for his
parliamentary duty, than he is for his personal elevation of
character, and, above all, for that chivalrous devotion
to the unfortunate and the exile, which is so well
known as to cause all who hear me to feel at once
that lam speaking of Lord Dudley Stuart. (Loud
cheers.) But, my lords and gentleman, I am not
wholly disinterested in proposing the toast just now, be-
cause I hope to obtain the assistance of the metropolitan
members in promoting those material improvements in
the City to which I attach a high importance. It is not
the institutions only of London that require mending ;
she must also mend her ways. (Cheers and laughter.)
The vast human tide that daily passes through them
must have wider means of transit. I remember some
years since, when the great sculptor Canova was here,
he was greatly struck with London. He admired
the continuous footways, the comfort of the sepa-
rate houses, the order, and the general security of
person and property. Having enumerated all these ad-
vantages, he concluded his panegyric in that strain of
hyperbole which is peculiar to southern climes, by say-
ing that if London had only a little more light and pure
water, it would be a paradise. (Cheers and laughter.)
I would humbly then ask the assistance of the metropo-
litan members in putting an end to the nuisances which
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wave"—(laughter)—which he described as "Like a broad
mirror," but I fear that the influx of the sewers has
dimmed all that mirror's lustre. (Continued laughter.) I
twonot tresspass upon the
therefore call on the metropolitan members to assist me in
restoring the Thames from a state of liquid mud to a
state of translucent water, so that the greatest commer-
cial city in the world may become also the most healthy
and the most creditable to the architectural taste of its
inhabitants. (Loud cheering.)
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ledge the compliment which had u
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gratification. He believed that the metropolitan mem-
bers were animated by but one feeling, that of faithfully
representing the constituencies that had sent them to
Parliament, and that they would always follow an inde-
pendent course, resolved to do whatever their consciences
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ment in power, but that they would always have the
greatest pleasure in su •
pporting a Government which
should make the preservation of that greatest of all
possible blessings—peace—consistent with the honour-
able and manly observance of our engagements to our
allies. (Hear, hear.)
The Duke of ARGYLL briefly proposed "The Court of
Aldermen," and
Alderman FAnNcomeE returned thanks.
The FRENCH AMBASSADOR next proposed the health of
the Lady Mayoress. His Excellency spoke in French as
follows—Ladies and gentlemen, I have the honour to
originate a toast, which I am sure you will receive with
the same warmth and the same pleasure that I experi-
ence in proposing it. Words would be of no avail in
giving effect to the toast, and I feel that I have said all
that is necessary, when I propose to you to drink to the
health of the Lady Mayoress. (Loud applause.)
The LORD. MAYOR briefly acknowledged the compli-
ment, and the ladies retired.

Two or three other toasts followed, after which the
Lord Mayor left the chair, and accompanied his guests
to the drawing room, where tea and coffee were served.

•
The distinguished company separated about half-past
11 o'clock.

THE AMERICAN MAILS.--On Saturday, shortly before
noon, the British and North American Royal Mail
steam-ship Niagara, Captain Leitch, sailed from her
moorings in the Mersey, for Boston and Halifax, with
the usual mails for the United States and British North
American possessions, 150 passengers, and a large cargo
of valuable merchandise on freight. Her mails were
carried out in charge of Lieut. Warde, 11,N., Admiralty
agent.

Tins DAY.
At Lord's—Sussex (with Parr) v. England (benefit 0
Lillywhite.)
At the Oval—Oval Club v. Windsor and Eton.
At Manchester—Broughton Club v. Chester.
At Streatham—Streatham v. City Club.
At Cliffe Common—Cliffe v. Northfleet.
At Halifax—Halifax v. Leeds.
At Chertsey—Chertsey v. Hampton.
At Newcastle—Newcastle v. Crewe.
At Victoria-park—Victoria-park Club v. Putney,
At Northampton—lron v. Leather.
At Wa,ndsworth—Wandsworth v. Brixton.
At Wimbledon—Wimbledon v. Epsom.
To-Monnow.
At Lords'—The above match concluded.
At Bath—Lansdowne Club v. West Gloucestershire.
At Clapham—Clapham v. Hampstead.
At Chertsey—Chertsey v. Esker.
At Weybridge--Weybridge v. Kew.
At Thames Ditton—Thames Ditton v. East Sheen.

WEDNEspAr.
At Lords—The Public Schools matches commence,--%
Harrow v. Winchester.
At the Oval—Surrey Club v. Islington Albion.
At Southwell---Nottinghamshire Club v. Rugby.
At Amersham----Amersham v. Eton.
At Mitcham—Mitcham v. Dorking.
At Hertford—Hertford v. Tower Hamlets.