The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-26 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING-,

Mayor, in announcing the health of her Most Gracious
Majesty the Queen, in the early part of the evening,
expressed the wish that on her Majesty's visit to Ireland
the differences of Irish Mtnibers might be forgotten :
that wish mould be realized. His Lordship expressed
another desire, namely, that her Majesty should be
well received. Ho thought he might safely answer that
that wish also would be realised.—(Cheers) Irishmen
had their faults like others; bat went of loyalty to the
British Crown never could with truth be laid to their
charge.—(Loud cheers.) They had been anxious to pay
compliments to former Sovereigns of England in their
visits to Ireland; and they were doubly anxious to pay
such compliments on the present occasion.—(Cheers.)
Be thought he might say that the visits of the Sove-

reigns ot:-Great Britain and Ireland to his country had

been " like angels' visits, few and far between." ‘Vith•
out imputing to those Sovereigns who had visited them
in former times many of the qualities of angels, he
might without hazard of contradiction ascribe many of
those attributes to our present gracious Sovereign.—
(Loud cheers.) lie thought he was safe in saying that
in no part of her Majesty's dominions was the given more
respected, more venerated, more beloved than in Ireland.
—(Loud cheers.) The people of that country entertained
for her Majesty the most affectionate loyalty; they would
rally round her on the occasion of her auspicious visit;
and they would give her a right royal welcome.— (Cheers.)
They were bound to do so because they looked upon
this as a visit of peace—(Cheers)—as a forerunner of
better times—(Loud cheers)—and it would not be their
fault if it did not achieve the objects her Majesty had in
view.—(Load cheers.) His Lordship had alluded to the
intention of the Corporation of London to acquire land
in Ireland. He hailed that intention as likely to lay the
foundation of better times in that country. It was a
happy omen—one likely to draw the bonds of union
closer between this country and Ireland; and believing,
as he did, that the prosperity of Ireland must depend
ultimately on drawing more closely those bonds of con-
nexion between this great country and Ireland, he was
delighted to have that opportunity of expressing the
confidence he felt in the result of the experiment about
to be made by the Corporation of the city of London.—
(Loud cheers.) He repeated the high gratification he
derived from being present at the festive board of the
Lord Mayor of London; and, proud as he should have
been of having his health proposed on any occasion by
the First Magistrate of the first city in the world, the
compliment was greatly enhanced because his name had
been connected with the Corporation of the city of
Dublin.—(Loud cheers.)
Lord Ness proposed the next toast, which he was
sure all present would receive with the greatest pleasure.
He might safely say that' in the annals of civic hospi-
tality the splendid entertainments of the present Lord
Mayor of the city of London stood unrivalled. As an
Irishman he felt under peculiar obligations to his Lord-
ship for the interest he had taken in the country to
which he belonged. And all Irishmen who had read
the speech lately delivered by the Lord Mayor of Lon-
don, on a subject intimately affscting the welfare of Ire-
land, must feel that they owed to him and to the corpora-
tion over which he presided a debt of lasting gratitude.
—(Cheers.)—ln common with many of his countrymen,
he had that day paid his first visit to the Mansion-
house; and they must all feel how impossible it was to
do justice to the splendid hospitality with which they
had been entertained.—(Cheers.) There were many
present who, having enjoyed for a longer period the
friendship of their distinguished host, were better
qualified than ho to do justice to his merits in proposing
his health; but he nevertheless felt called on to return
his most sincere thanks for the kind feelings which
the Lord Mayor had exhibited towards Ireland; and he
could only say that the name of their present Lord
Mayor would be long distinguished among many in
this country who, during a period of great distress, had
shown themselves not unwilling to lend a helping hand
to Ireland.—(Loud cheers.) His Lordship had referred
to a renewed arid on the part of the corporation to
benefit that country. He believed it would be carried
out in the best spit it; and he could not help adding, he
was most sanguine as to the result. He begged to pro-
pose " Health and long life to the Lord Mayor."
The Loan MAYOR expressed the great gratification
he derived from the manner in which his health had
been proposed and received upon that occasion ; and
with reference to the corporation over which he pre-
sided, ho would only say that, should the object they had
in view succeed, it would add greatly to his happiness.
He repeated he was happy to have the opportunity of
entertaining so many gentlemen connected with Ireland.
He saw before him a Roman Catholic clergyman (the
Very Rev. Mr. Bushe), who, coming on a mission to
this country for the promotion of the fisheries in Galway,
had honoured him with a call. He was most happy to
have an opportunity of inviting him to the Mansion-
house; and he hoped on his return to his native country
he might be enabled to bear testimony to the spirit which
animated not the Corporation or the citizens of London
alone, but all Englishmen, anxiously to cultivate the
esteem and regard, and zealously to aid in promoting the
happiness of Ireland.—(Loud cheers.)
The LORD MAYOR then rose and said—He had now
to propose a toast which he was sure would be most
acceptable to all who were present. He had already
observed that they never allowed anything like political
allusion to disturb the harmony of social enjoyment in
the Mansion-house.—(Cheers.) When he saw around
him so many Members of the House of Commons, he
was sure he should meet their cordial approbation in
selecting his old, esteemed, and valued friend, Mr. Hume,
as the organ of that body to return thanks for the toast
he was about to propose. They all knew Mr. Hume' and
his long public career of usefulness.—(Cheers.) Few
men had laboured so long or with a more zealous desire
to promote the interests of the country than Mr. Joseph
Hume.—(Cheers) Disregarding everything like self-
interest, he had laboured only in the cause of the people.
—(Cheers.) He might speak of him in another capa-
city, as a friend; and he was happy to take that occasion
of acknowledging how much he had been indebted to his
kindness.—(Cheers.) Ho had great pleasure in pro-
posing " the Health of Mr. Hume and the Members of
the House of Commons." _

Mr. HUME returned thanks, but inaudibly, at one end
of the table. _ _ _

The LORD MAYOR then rose and said, that having
the honour of seeing present a near relative of the Lord-
Lieutenant of Ireland, he hoped he might be permitted
to propose the health of that distinguished nobleman.
He would not, on such an occasion, venture to make any
observations that might elicit anything like a difference
of opinion, but this he would assert, that no man, placed
in the difficult position in which Lord Clarendon stood,
could have discharged his duties with greater for-
bearance, greater ability, or greater impartiality.—
(Loud cheers.) He was sure those qualities entitled
that distinguished nobleman, in the high position he
filled in such responsible circumstances, to the respect
and esteem, not only of this country, but of the people
of Ireland.—(Cheers.) He had great pleasure, there-
fore, in proposing " the Health of Lord Clarendon, the
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland."—(The toast was drunk
amidst much cheering.)
Mr. C. P. VILLIERS, as the nearest relative of Lord
Clarendon present, rose to offer his acknowledgments for
the very great compliment they had paid to e
the
L d
Lieutenant of Ireland. Such an honour,
coming from
such au assembly, must be deemed a high one; and he
was sure it would be highly appreciated. They had
been pleased to express their opinion of the manner in
which Lord Clarendon had performed the duties of his
difficult position ; and perhaps there was no place where
the anxieties of such a post could be better understood
than in that great city, where an exclusive jurisdiction
also existed for the protection of the peace, the life, and
the property of the community ; and to learn from the
Lord Mayor that his relative had, in the opinion of that
great capital, met the difficulties and discharged the
duties of his post with judgment, justice, and ability, was
a tribute to his character with which he must feel deeply
gratified.—(Cheers.) The Lurd Mayor had connected
the Lord-Lieutenant with the future welfare of Irelanci,
and if an anxious desire to promote that object entitled
him to that connexion, he had only done him justice.—
(Hear.) He had nothing, he know, nearer his heart
than to improve the condition of that people, and that
feeling, ho firmly believed, was cordially shared by the
whole English community.—(Cheers.) It was now un-
derstood that the moral and material interests of the
people of Ireland were inseparably united, and that
peace and contentment could not and ought not to bo
expected till the physical condition of the labouring class
of that country was improved.—(Hear.) The Govern-
ment of Ireland anxiously desired that object—it had been

the purpose of their legislators this session to promote it,
and he could not but expect that, at last, a brighter day
was dawning on that country. He entirely agreed with
those who had preceded him that it was ominous of a
better time coming, becaase her Majesty had thought
this a fitting occasion to make her first visit to that
country—(Cheers)—an event that had not occurred for
more than a quarter of a century before—(Hear)—and
he hoped that the visit would be received as it was in-
tended—as a sign that the feeling was as stroeg in the
most exalted personage as in the lowest subject of the
realm, that equal favour, equal honour, and equal jus-
tice should be shown to Ireland and to England.—
(Cheers.) He would not despair that, ere long, by
means of better legislation and British capital, equal
prosperity would prevail in the two countries.—(Cheers.)
The LORD MAYOR then proposed the " health of the
Magistrates of the city of London," which was responded
to by Sir P. Laurie.
Mr. HUME proposed the health of the Lady Mayoress,
which was drunk with all the honours.

Several other toasts followed, after which the company
separated.

PLYMOUTH, JULY 25.—(From a Correspondent.)
—The health of this town continues to improve. The
fatal illness has been almost entirely confined to Stone-
house-lane, a local St. Giles's, which was allowed by the
authorities to sink into a very wretched condition. This
place has been entirely cleaned, and the sick have been
removed into a temporary hospital erected in Five
Fields, near the town, where there are now about 25
patients, nearly all of whom are in a state of convales-
cence. The number of cases reported yesterday was—
Cholera, 7; choleraic diarrhce I, 5; simple diarrho3a, 7;
total, 19; deaths, 3. Dr. Milroy is down here from the
into
what Board of Health, investigating and inquiring
what has been done, and the local causes of the out-
break. In Stoaehouse the disease has broken out in
some of the dirtiest of the courts, and there have been
from twelve to fifteen deaths there. In Devonport, in-
cluding Stoke and Mortice Town, there have been about
twenty deaths, nearly all in the lowest parts of those
towns, and amongst the inhabitants of cellars. The
town
of I)&vonport, in case of an outbreak, has been
divided into districts, and a surgeon assigned to each.
A board of health has also been established there.
A half-yearly meeting of the United Mexican Min-
ing Association was held yesterday. The report of the
directors was,tu the whole, favourable; but no dividend
was declared,
as the purchase of 1' 000 bottles of quick-
silver for 11,8001, had absorbed the available funds. The
progress of the mines was very satisfactory, and a lease
of a new mine adjoining the old property had been par-
' chased. The mete in Mexico amounted to 243,0614