The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-26 00:00:00

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SMITgFIELD.—Meadow flay, 21 103 to 31 15s; Clove'
ditto, 31 to 4/ 153 ; and Straw, 11 6s to 1/ 103 per
load. Supply moderate, and trade dull.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 12s to 31 16i ;
Clover ditto, 31 to 4/ 14s; and Straw, 11 Gs to
Il 103 per load. A fair average supply, and a sluggish
demand.

WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 3l 15s
Glover ditto, 31 to 41 17s; and Straw, I/ 6s to I/ 10'
per load. Trade dull, at barely stationary prices.

'CORN AVERAGES.
GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the Week wiled April 19, 1849, made up from the Retains of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales
per Imperial Quarter.
I WWEAT. I SARUM! OATS. I RTE. I BEANS. I ?RAS.
PRICE .. I 44s &1 285 8d I ICs 8d 22$ 4d I 28s 10! I 28s N

DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN.
WHEAT. EASLEY. I OATS. I EYE. I MANS. PEAS.
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GOVERNESSES' BENE V OLEN T
INSTITUTION.

The sixth anniversary festival of the members and
friends of this interesting institution was held last
evening at the London Tavern. The duties of the
chair were most efficiently discharged by the Right
Hon. the Earl of Harrowby, supported by the Right
Hon. Earl Talbot, the Lord Saye and Sele, Mr.
Blakemore, M.P., and a numerous body of clergy
and gentlemen. The society is under the patronage
of her Most Gracious Majesty, her Majesty Queen
Adelaide, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, his
Reyal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Cambridge, her Royal Highness the
Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, his Grace
the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, her Grace the
Duchess of Beaufort, and a large circle of the elite of
the female members of the aristocracy.
The report of the society for the past year embraces
many interesting details. The proceeds of the fancy
sale, at Chelsea, in 1848, were 2,264/., and it is pro-
posed to continue and complete the sale at the open-
ing of the Asylum, by his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge in person, on the 12th and 13th of
June, 1849. A legacy of 1,5001. has been left dur-
ing the year to the society by A. Maclew, Esq. The
sum paid to the Commissioners of the National Debt
for annuities has been 7,679/. ; the subscriptions have
been 2,3251.; the pupils' fees at Queen's College
7821.; and the ladies' payments at the house 8151
Under the head of assistance rendered in cases o•
temporary difficulty, it is noted that the total numberf
of applications to the ladies' committee has been 670,
and the amount disbursed 3,0381. The number of
annuitants at present is 32, receiving annually 5151.
The provident fund during the year amounted to
43,5851. The savings bank is becoming more gene
rally useful, and each lady's money stands in her own
name at the savings bank in Montague-street, Blooms-
bury. The " Home" provided has laid open the
means of self support to many a friendless lady,
and there is nothing to record but the thankfulness
of its inmates. The aged asylum is nearly com•
pleted, and its opening will be celebrated, as already
intimated, by a fancy sale. The new institution,
called " Queen's College," has opened its doors for
an improved system of female education, and with a
degree of success that its most sanguine friends dared
not to anticipate.
After the toasts of her Most Gracious Majesty, her
Majesty the Queen Dowager, Prince Albert, the
Prince of \Vales, his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge, and other members of the Royal Family
had been most warmly proposed and responded to, the
Noble Chairman proceeded :to give the toast of the
evening—" Prosperity to the Governesses' Benevolent
Institution." In doing so the Noble Earl took a cursory
view of the leading objects of the society and the
benefits it had conferred. He adverted to the edu-
cation that those who undertook the arduous duties
of cultivating the female mind had received, to the
high respectability of their families, albeit, perhaps,
after having provided for the sons by giving them a
profession, there was but too frequently left for the
daughters, by their parents, little more than the un-
certain emoluments to be derived from cultivated
minds. Their very occupation evinced the necessity
of superior intellect and refined tastes ; and how
acute must be their feelings when, in too many in-
stances, their services were forgotten, and they them-
selves were cast, as it were, into a corner, like for-
gotten things.— (Hear, hear.) But he knew what
were the feelings which occupied English breasts,
and he felt that it was only for them to be made
aware of the many tales of sorrow and distress that
might be recorded, in order to enlist their active and
efficient sympathies in their behalf. The Noble
Chairman concluded by stating that their institution
had already received public attention in our colonial
possessions ; that families who there required the ser-
vices of efficient governesses were beginning to apply
to the society for those whom they could recom-
mend ; and that he believed this feeling would rapidly
extend, and afford the society many opportunities of
doing good.—(Cheers.)
Mr. HALL, in proposing " The Ladies' Committee,"
aptly remarked on the zeal and kind-heartedne:s with
which they had discharged their duties. He must
also take the opportunity of coupling with their
names the health of a fair lady, who had given him
the cheque for 2001. which he held in his hand—that
lady was Jenny Lind—(Loud and prolonged cheer-
ing)—and with the donation he must also convey
her warmest and best wishes for the success of the so-
ciety.—(Cheers.)
The Rev. D. LAING, the very zealous and energetic
honorary secretary of the society, then read a list of
the donations attendant upon the day's festival. It
included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
20/. ; the Noble Chairman, 20/. ; the Duke of Rut-
land, 101. 103.; the Marquis of Northampton, 201.;
list handed in by Mr. Francis, a steward, 163/. 16s. ;
Lord Saye and Sele, 20/.; Earl Manvers, 211.; and a
lady, whose name the Reverend Secretary was:not
authorised to give, 3001.—(Loud applause)--the whole
amounting to the munificent sum of 2,5181.
After several other toasts had been given the
Noble Chairman withdrew, followed by the rest of
the company, all evincing the most lively delight in
having been engaged in promoting the prosperity and
advancement of "The Governesses' Benevolent Insti-
tution."

LYCEUM THEATRE.
Last
bya numerous
Majesty and Prince Albert, accom-
paniedbrillint suite, honoured this
elegant. and favourite theatre with another royal visit;
Queenbemg the
and tphririndeoennerrwived
within a very short period. The
shortly after the commence-
ment of the performance, and were received at the private
thethetreanbrir
hMrci.R. Roxby and the chiefs
oe entrance ttrhaen
establishment,c
a o f
box prepared for the occasiony vim conducted to the royal
beauty of the fittings of the.bo Nothing could exceed the
elegance of the appointments whichofx
and the anti-room, the
beautiful and recherché description. Th were of the most
The performance on
the occasion commenced with Bold. your Tongue, in which
Madame Vestris and Mr. C. Mathews appeared.
p
was followed by Planche's highly succeassl;'uel.rd. This
ande most
magnificently grand of all burlesques, the Seven,n
Cham-
pions of Christendom; Miss Fitzwilliam, Miss [lnward,a
Mrs. C. Horn, Miss J. Coleman, Miss Marshall, and
Alessrs. 0. Mathews, Harley, J. Reeve, and Selby, each
sustaining their respective parts with more than usual
ability. The frequent marks of applause from the royal
box were of the most liberal and complimentary de-
scription, which must have been highly
aflattering to the
talented artists engaged in the pPrformHer Ma-
jesty and Prince Albert, en leaving the theatre, ex-
pressed themselves as highly deligot h
hte on d wintering and
the per
-
formances. The royal visitors, b
quitting the box, ware most enthusiastically cheered.
The house was crowded with rank and fashion
;t .
held

THE WEST LONDON UNION.—An inquest was ._
e,terday at the Coopers' Arms, West-street, Smith-
field, by Mr. Payne, ou the body of a young man named
William Evans, who died in the West London Union,
and in whose treatment it was alleged great violence and
ill-usage had been resorted juryy the officials employed
in that establishment. The viewed the body, which
lay in the dead-house, and which exhibited on the arms
and legs marks of violent pressure, and of ligatures which
had abraded the skin. The body was also very much
emaciated. A great deal of evidence was heard impli-
cating the person employed as taskmaster and his as-
sistants, and, after a lengthened examination, which ex-
cited great interest, the inquest was adjourned till
Thursday next, to afford an opportunity for the attend-
ance of the guardians, and for the further examination
'of witnesses.

GRAND BANQUET IN THE CITY I
TO lIER MAJESTY'S MINISTERS.
Yesterday the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor enter- I
tained at dinner, in the Mansion-house, the Members of
her Majesty's Cabinet, together with the chief dignitaries
of the Church, the Speaker of the House of Commons,
several of the. Foreign Ambassadors, and a number of Mem-
bers of both Houses of Parliament. The noble Egyptian
hall was completely filled on this occasion with the guests
who had assembled at his Lordship's invitation, and the
scene, comprising as it did the elite of the rank, the talent,
and the beauty of the country, had a most imposing effect.
Among the company we observed the following :
The French Ambassador, the Turkish Ambassador, the
Austrian Minister, the Netherlands Minister, the Portu-
guese Minister, the Prussian Minister, the Danish Minister,
the Bavarian Minister, the Archbishop of Canterbury and
Miss Sumner, the Archbishop of York and the Hon. Mrs.
Musgrave, Duke and Duchess of Norfolk and Lady Mary
Howard, Duchess of Sutherland, Duke and Duchess of Argyll,
Lord and Lady John Russell, Marquis and Marchioness
of Lansdowne, Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde,
Lord and Lady,Cottenhatn, Marquis of Breadalbane, Earl
and Countess o. Minto, Lady Ct. arlotte Elliot, Earl and
Countess. Grey, Earl of Carlisle, Viscount and Viscountess
Palmerston, Sir George Grey and Mi's Baring, Lord Camp-
bell and Baroness Stratheden, Sir Charles and Lady Mary
Wood, Sir Francis and Lady Arabella Baring, Sir John and
Miss Hobhouse, Right Hon. Henry and Mrs. Labouchere,
Earl Granville, Lord and Lady Seymour, Lord Edward Ho-
ward, M.P., Lord and Lady Marcus Hill, Lord Harry Vane,
M.P., Lord Charles Rus:=ell, Lord George Lennox, Earl and
Countess Fortescue, Earl of Chicester, Earl and Countess of

Yarborough, and Lord Worsley, Earl and Countess Cowper,
Earl and Countess of Lovelace, Earl and Countess of Shel-
burne; the Speaker of the House of Commons, Mrs. Shaw
Lefevre Miss Shaw Lefevre, and Miss Helen Shaw Lefevre;
Lord and Lady Alfred Paget, Lord and Lady John Hav,
Lord C. Paget, M.P., Lord Hastings, Lord and Lady Mil-
ford, Lord Howden, Lord Eddisbury, Viscount Ebrington,
M.P., Right Hon. Fox Maule, M. P., and Hon. Mrs. Maule,
Right Hon. Sir William Somerville, Bart., M.P., the Lord
Chief Justice Wilde, the Lord Chief Baron Pollock and Lady
Pollock, Right Hon. Sir Henry and Lady Bulwer, Right Hon
W. G. Harter, M.P., and Mrs. Hayter, Right Hon. W. S.
Lascelles, M.P., and Lady Caroline Lascelles, Right Hon.

Edward Ellice, M.P., Right Hon. T. M. Gibson, M.P., and
Mrs. Gibson, Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of Dublin, M.P.,
the Hon. Charles Gore, W. Cowper, M.P., and Mrs. Cowper,
Colonel Keppel, M.P., Miss Isabella Lister, J. E. Elliot, M.P.
and Mrs. Elliott, E. Lloyd Mostyn, M.P., G. E. Anson and
Hon. Mrs. Anson, Sir John Jervis, M.P., and Lady Jervis,
Sir J. Romilly, M.P., and Lady Romilly, the Lord Advocate
of Scotland, the Solicitor-General of Scotland, Baron
and Baroness Rothschild, Admiral Dundas, M.P.,
and Lady Emily Dundas, Mr. M. T. Baines,
M.P., Mr. G. C. Lewis, M.P., and Lady Theresa Lewis,
Captain M F. Berkeley, M.P., and Lady Charlotte Berkeley,
Mr. H. Tuffuell, M.P., and Lady A. Tufnell, Lady Mac-
naghten, Sir Charles Trevelyan, Sir W. Burnet, K.C.H., and
Lady Burnet, Mr. John Parker, M.P., Mr. H. Rich, M.P.,
Mr. W. Gibson Craig, M.P., Mr. R. M. Bellew, M.P.,
Captain Sir Thomas Hastings, R.N., Mr. Matheson, M.P.,
and Mrs. Matheson, Mr. James Wilson, ALP., Rear-Admiral
Sir A. Clifford, Bart., Rear-Admiral Sir C. Napier, Major-
General Wemyss, Mr. John Abel Smith, M.P., Mrs. Smith,
and Mrs. Vivian, Mr. F. C. H. Russell, M.P., and Lady
Elizabeth Russell. Mr. H. G. Ward, M.P., Mr. J. Walter,
M.P., and Mrs. Walter, Mr. J. Hume, M.P., and Mrs. Hume,
Mr. R. B. Sheridan, M.P., and Mrs. Sheridan, Captain
Alexander Milne, R.N. (Admiralty), Mr.R. W. Grey, M.P.,
Mr. E. H. Bunbury, M.P., Mr. J. Loch, M.P., Mr. A. Hastie,
M.P., Mr. C. P. Grenfell, M.P., Baron de Schappingk, the Rus-
sian Chargé d'Affaires at the Court of Lisbon; the Chevalier
de Barboza, Portuguese Minister at the Court of Berlin;
Mr. H. J. Prescott, Governor of the Bank of England; Mr.
Thomas Hankey. jun., Deputy Governor, and Mrs. Han-
key; Mrs. S. R. Cattley, Mr. George Nicholl, C.B. ; Mr. J.
J. Travers, Mr. W. P. Richards, the Provost of Montrose,
Mr. James Burness, Mr. Douglas Cook, Mr. Michele, Mr. J.

T. Delane, Mr. Beard, Mr. —Crowe. Aldermen and their
Ladies—Sir Claudius Hunter, Bait, W. Thompson, M.P.,
Sir Peter Laurie, C. Farebrother, W. T. Copeland, M.P.,
S. Wilson, John Humphery, M.P., Sir W. Maguey, Bart.,
Mr. Gibbs, Sir George Carroll, J. K. Hooper. I'. Farncomb,
J. Musgrove, W. Hunter, T. Challis, T. Sidney, M.P., F.
G. Moon, D. Salomans, R. W. Carden, Mr. Sheriff Finnis
and Mrs. Finnis, Mr. Sheriff Goodhart and Mrs. Goodhart;
Hr. C. Pearson, M.P., and Mrs. Pearson ; Mr. Under-Sheriff
Shearman, and Mr. Under-Sheriff Tamplin.
After the cloth was removed,

The LORD MAYOR rose and said—My Lords and Gentle-
men, surrounded as I have the honour to be on this occasion
by the Ministers of the Crown, and by so many distinguished
men connected with our Gracious Sovereign, and being ho-
noured also with the presence of a Noble Lady who holds a
high place near the person of her gracious Majesty, it is a
source of much satisfaction to me to propose "The health of
her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria."—(CheerA.)
The citizens of LOndon have always been distinguished for
their loyalty to the Sovereign, and while we are sensible of
the many blessings we enjoy under her constitutional reign,
we venture to hope that it will be gratifying to our gracious
Sovereign to see that, amidst the many changes which have
taken place elsewhere, the loyalty and affection of the peo-
ple of this country have remained unshaken, and that
they are glad of every opportunity to demonstrate their at-
tachment to the Crown and the constitution of the land.
The people of this country also see that her gracious Ma •
testy, in her high station, feels anxious to set an example of
every domestic virtue which can adorn her exalted position.
—(Cheers.) lam sure, my Lords and Gentlemen, that you
will all join in the ardent wish that her most gracious Ma-
jesty the Queen may long reign in the affections of a happy,
and loyal, and a prosperous people. I give you "The health
of her most gracious Majesty the Queen," with three times
three.
The toast was drunk with loud cheers.
_ _

The LORD MAYOR then proposed " The health of her
➢lajesty the Queen Dowager."
The LORD MAYOR then proposed " The health of his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, Albert Prince of Wales, and
the other branches of the Royal Family." He wished he
had the eloquence of his Noble Friend the Noble Earl at the
head of the Woods and Forests, to describe to them the en-
thusiasm with which his Royal Highness was received this
day week, on a great public occasion, in a distant part of the
country, and he trusted his Royal Highness would continue
to take an interest in every great public undertaking in
this country.—(Cheers.) He concluded by proposing the
toast.

The LORD l'ilnyon had great satisfaction in proposing
" The Army and Navy of England." In no part of her
Majesty's dominions were the services of the army and navy
more highly appreciated than in the city of London, and
though in these times of pressure they were anxious to see
affairs conducted with economy, yet he was sure the citizens
of London would be the last to see the efficiency of the services
crippled by any niggardly retrenchmt nts. He was gratified
to see the appointment of the Right Honourable Gentleman
Sir F. Baring to the head of the Admiralty, satisfied as he
was that that Right Honourable Gentleman would ad-
minister its affairs with economy, and yet with efficiency.
He was glad to see so many officers of the navy present, and
he begged now to drink the healths of the army and navy,
coupled with the names of General Wemyss and Sir F.
Baring.—(Applause.)
General WRMYSS said it was an unexpected honour on his
part that he should be called upon to return thanks for the
British army. It must be gratifying to every British soldier
to feel that the late efforts of the British army claimed, not
only from his Lordship but from the country at large, the
gratitude which was lately bestowed upon it by both Houses
of Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) He felt from the bottom of
his heart the greatest satisfaction in knowing that that gal-
lant and unflinching officer (Lord Gough) had added by his
conduct fresh laurels to the British army, and had obtained
the favour of his Sovereign and the gratitude of his country,
not only for himself, but for the officers and soldiers that
were under h's command. Would they permit him now to
digress for a little from the duties of a soldier, to claim for
himself the privileges of a citizen, that he might congratulate
the Lord Mayor on the peaceful and social condition of this
great mercantile city, and to assure him that the British
army fervently wished that the Crown of England, which her
Majesty wore, the sceptre which she wielded, might never
require to be defended with bayonets or with cannon, but that
her Majesty might long reign in the hearts of a loyal and
affectionate and a prosperous people I He again thanked
them for the high honour conferred upon the
British army, and wished that his Lordship and the
other members of the Corporation might long enjoy the
greatest prosperity.— (Cheers.)
Sir F. BARING returned thanks on the part of the navy
for compliments which had been paid to that branch of the
service, not only now, but on all other occasions by the city
of London. He could not forget that in addressing the Lord
Mayor he was speaking to one whose early recollections
were connected with the naval service, and from him, there-
fore, he would always expect a kindly feeling towards the
navy. But he could not either forget that the city of Lon-
don had always been among the foremost to honour the ser-
vices of the navy, that on all occasions it had hastened to
pay its tribute of admiration to those who distinguished
themselves in the service, and that it included in the roll of

its citizens some of the gretest heroes in the naval history of
our country.—(Cheers.) He again thanked them on behalf
of the naval service for the compliment which had been paid
to them.

MAyoa then said he was particularly anxious,
on the part of the city of London, to give a cordial welcome
to the distinguished foreign Ministers who bad honoured
them with their company on this occasion. He regretted
that indispo ition had deprived them of the presence of the
Prussian Minister, and of one or two others. But he had the
gratification of seeing here the Russian Minister on his way
to Lisbon, and the Portuguese Minister on his way to Berlin,
and he could assure those distinguished men that the city of
London was always gratified when they were pleased to
honour the Chief Magistrate with their company in this hall.
He was anxious. on the present occasion, to give a cordial
welcome to the distinguished representatives of foreign
powers who had recently come into this country—he meant
his Excellency the French Ambassador and his Excellency
the Turkish Minister.— (Cheers.) He was gratified to see the
way in which the names of these ambassadors were received
in the hall, and he could assure his Excellency the French
Ambassador that he hailed his presence in this company with
the kindest and most auspicious feelings.—(Cheers.) They
had reason to believe that his Excellency the French Am-
bassador, having had frequent intercourse with British offi-
cers, had become attached to the institutions of this country,
and he would venture to hope that his coming here in his
character as Ambassador was a proof of the kindly feeling
which existed between France and this country.—(Cheers.)
They felt grateful for the friendly intercourse which existed
between the two countries; and though it would be improper
in him at any time—and more especially at the present time
—to refer to the disturbances that existed elsewhere, he
trusted he might be permitted to say that the general feel-
ing
of this country was in favour of the cordial unity now
existing between the two nations of France and Engrand—
(Cheers)—not with a view that they should em-
ploy their unit(d power to interfere in the affairs of
other nations, but that by a temperate and discreet use
of their influence they might prevent the calamities of war,
and promote the happiness of mankind, and thus pro-
mote the peace of the world. He trusted his Excellency
would find that whatever changes might take place in other
parts of Europe with reference to their governments, that
countries, Whatever changesh ere th ofe
peoplegove government
rn w
in this country those changes would only tend to unite all
classes more closely in the bonds of affection and loyalty to
ourmig Ito sbt
e desired gracious
iQueen.
other
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satisfied with the constitution, and -yielded a cheerful obedi-
ence to the law. NV hatever disaffection there might be in
other states, here the people wero pursuing their peaceful
avocations, and breathing anxious wishes for the peace of the
world. He trusted that under the able and experienced
guidance of the Noble Lord who conducted the foreign affairs
of this country—and conducted them successfully too,
though in times of unparalleled difficulty—tranquillity would
soon return, and that he and his colleagues would be able to
peace of the world.— (Cheers.) With these
preserve the
bered to propose " The health of his Ex.
observations he
he'Ambassador, and the other members of
cellency the French
who had honoured them b th '
y eir pre-
the diplomatic corps
sauce."—(Loud cheers.)
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en lour honneur.