The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-13 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert accompanied by the
Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, honoured the
Floral Exhibition of the Royal Botanic Society with a
visit yesterday morning. The Royal Suite consisted of
Hon. Miss Stanley, Hon. Miss Dawson, Lord Waterpark,
Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Captain the
Hon. A. H. Gordon.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty, yesterday, at Buckingham Palace.
The Queen took an airing in a carriage yesterday af-
ternoon, attended by the Hon. Misses Stanley and Daw-
son. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on
horseback at the same time. The Equeries in Waiting
on her Majesty, and his Royal Highness attended on
horseback,

Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred, the Princess
Alice, and the Princess Helena took airings yesterday
in the pleasure-grounds of the Palace.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Leiningen, honoured the performance of the
French plays with their presence yesterday evening.
The Royal Suite consisted of the Hon. Miss Stanley,
Hon. Miss Dawson, Lord Waterpark, Lieut.-Colonel the
Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Captain the Hon. A. H. Gordon.
The following order was yesterday issued by the
Lord Steward of the Queen's Household :

"Her Majesty, taking into consideration the present
high and increasing price of provisions, and especially
of all kinds of bread and flour, has been graciously
pleased to command that from the date of this order no
description of flour except seconds shall be used for any
purpose in her Majesty's household, and that the daily
allowance of bread shall be restricted to 11b. per head
for every person dieted in the Palace.
"By her Majesty's command,
"FORTESCUE.
"Board of Green Cloth, May 12th, 1847."

We are authorised to state that no tickets to view the
Royal pictures by Winterhalter in St. James's Palace
will be issued from the Lord Chamberlain's office after
this day (Thursday) the 13th inst., and that on and after
Monday next, the 17th inst., tickets may be obtained (in
the same manner as orders to view the State apartments
in Windsor Castle) upon application to—
Messrs. Paul and Dominic Colnaghi, printsellers, No.
14, Pall mall East
Mr. Moon, printseller, No. 20, Threadneedle-street
Mr. Mitchell, librarian, No. 33, Old Bond-street
Messrs. Ackermann and Co., printsellers, No. 96, Strand.
Among the visitors yesterday to view the Royal
Pictures were, the Marquis of Headfort, Ormonde, and
Cholmondeley, Lords Mahon, Northwick, Ashburton,
Sydney, Effingham, Seafield, Colchester, Warwick and
Braybrooke ; Ladies Plymouth, Dowager Wharncliffe,
Forbes, Buckinghamshire, Shaw, Stewart, Thesiger and
Disbrowe; Right Hon. Sir Stratford Canning, Hon. W.
Bathurst, Miss Burdett Coutts, and Mr. Bailie, M.P.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager took an airing yes-
terday in a carriage. Her Majesty visited her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, at her residence, Cla-
rence House, St. James's.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Augusta Bruce, dined with her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester
House.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge and
the Princess Mary visited the Duchess of Gloucester
yesterday.
The Baron de Cetto, Minister Plenipotentiary of his
Majesty the King of Bavaria, by command of his Court,
inspected yesterday the New Hall, Library, and Council
Rooms of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's-inn. His
Excellency was conducted over the building by Mr.
Charles Purton Cooper, Q.C., one of the Benchers, and
by the officers of the establishment.
Mr. Wylie had an interview with Earl Grey yester-
day. Mr. Musgrave had also an interview with his
Lordship at the Colonial-office.

ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE.
The attraction of the magnificent spectacle, The Bride
of Abydos, continues undiminished, and we have had
this week several novelties in the " circle." In this de-
partment the performances of " the Diamond of the
Desert," a beautiful Arabian horse, are perhaps the
most interesting. This beautiful and highly-trained
animal is completely under command, and performs the
most astoniah.ng feats in leaping, running, and dancing.
The Mexican Antipodean Artistes, too, are admirable
in their gymnastic feats ; and Mr. Powell, who deli-
neated all the characters in " Pickwick," on a rapid
courser at full speed, keeps the audience nightly in a
roar. Messrs. Barry and Wallett are re-engaged as
clowns, and Mr. Twist still continues his services, so
that the comic force of the company is very great.

THE CROPS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR—Having just returned from a visit to the north,
I take the liberty of giving you the result of some ob-
servations that I have been enabled to make, on the state
of the growing crops, and am most happy to say, that
•judging from their appearance at the present time, the
tears of the country may be allayed with regard to the
produce of the forthcoming harvest. I never saw the
young wheat more healthy in appearance, and the same
will apply to the oats and barley. Late the season cer •
tainly is; but if we should, henceforward, have warm
weather, the time of reaping may probable not be pro-
tracted beyond the average season.
It is generally said that a late spring betokens a fruit-
ful year, and I really think that the present appearance
of the growing crops promises a fulfilment of that saying
I remain, Sir, your obedient Servant,
London, May 12. S. M.

GRAND CELTIC BALL.—The proceeds of this chari-
table effort, amounting to 403/. 19s. 11d., has been distributed
by Lord John Russell, as follows :—Countess of Dunmore, for
the Island of Harris, 50/. • Lady Riddill, for Ardnamurchan,
50/. ; Mrs. M'Neill, for dolonsay, 4W.; Mr. Andrew Fraser,
for the Relief Committee, Fortwilliam, 251.; Rev. G. David-
son, for the neighbourhood of Latheron, Caithness-shire, 25/. ;
Mr. M'Caskill, for the neighbourhood of Talisker, 251.; Mr.
Robertson, Kinlochmoidart, 251.; Mr. Lillingston, for the
neighbourhood of Lochalsh, 25/. ; Mr. Hugh M'Kenzie, Little
Loch Broom, 251.; Mr. Rainy, Raasay, 251.; Mr. Mac-
donald, Glenadale, 251. ; Dr. Mackenzie, for the Scotish Pa-
triotic Society for Improving the Condition of the Lower
Classes, 251.; Dr. John Macleod, for the district of Morven
the balance), 38/. 19s. I Id.
Ersoist RACES.—AII the preliminary authentic
particulars connected with the Derby will as usual be given
in Beit's Life in London, on Sunday, May 16. A Sixpence
sent to Mr. Cletnent, jun., 170, Strand, will ensure a copy by
return of post to any part of England, Scotland, or Ireland.
Bell's Life of May 9, which contained the explanatory chart
of Newmarket Race Courses, can be had all this month of
May. Bd.'s Life of May '23 will give a full report of the
Four Days' Races, with a Portrait of the Winner of the
Derby.
ROBBERY OF POSTAGE STAMPS.—Yesterday in-
formation was received by the police that the house of Mr.
Boar, stationer, Wimborne, had been plundered of 12,000
postage stamps, valued at SC/.

misery and destitution wider which Ireland more eope-
cially has, unfortunately, been labouring.—(Cheers.)
They had the boldness at once to come to Parlia-
ment and ask for a liberal supply of money to meet the
exigencies of the case. This was granted to them in
the most unhesitating manner, while its administration
has beeen marked by the greatest discretion, and, I be-
lieve, success.—(Cheers.) But, notwithstanding all the
difficulties of their position, her Majesty's Government
have not been unmindful of the improvement of the
moral and social condition of the poor, by extending to
them the benefits of education.—(Cheers.) On this ac-
count alone her Majesty's Ministers deserve well of the
country; and I believe the country will do them justice
in that respect.—(Cheers.) The citizens of London are
favoured very much in having for one of their repre
sentatives the Premier of England.—(Loud cheers.)
They are proud of their distinguished representative—
(Cheers)—and the Noble Premier, I have no doubt, will
carefully watch over the interests of this great city.—
(Cheers.) His public career has not been a short one;
his public services are well known; they are identified
with the history of the country—l need not now allude
to them—while his private virtues have endeared him to
all who know him.—(Loud cheers.) lam quite sure
that he and her Majesty's Ministers have only one ob-
ject in view, namely, to contribute, how they best can,
to promote the prosperity and glory of this great empire.
—(Loud cheers.) I therefore give as a toast, with all
confidence that you will duly honour it, " The health of
Lord John Russell, the Premier of England, and the
rest of her Majesty's Ministers."
The toast was drunk upstanding, with all the honours,
and great cheering.
Lord J. RUSSELL, in rising to respond to the toast,
was received with loud cheers. His Lordship spoke as
follows:—My Lord Mayor, I beg, in the name of my
colleagues and my own, to return you most grateful
thanks for the honour that has been done us in drinking
our healths on this occasion. You have most truly ob-
served, that the task we have to perform is one that
brings with it great anxiety. It is one that has not as-
sociated with it the brilliancy of achievements like those
of the gallant hero (Sir H. Smith) and the distinguished
men in the other service of the Queen. Our anxieties are
constant; and, in adverse times, our exertions cannot be
accompanied with uniform success. It is our wish, how-
ever, to endeavour so to act that we may enable the
country to have all the advantages which she can receive
from the administration of sound measures applied in
due season.—(Cheers.) When I say this I do not wish
to enter into any controverted topics of politics, which
are always out of place in assemblies of this kind. But
let me say with respect to the measures we have pro-
posed, that they have met the general and unanimous as-
sent of Parliament. Before it pleased Providence to
visit this country with the present affliction it appeared
to the Parliament of this country that the course to be
pursued was to give greater freedom of commerce—
greater freedom of entry and of export—freedom to come
in and go out, to diminish restriction, and to facilitate in-
tercommunication. Such was the general sense of Par-
liament, with scarcely discussion, certainly without dis-
pute. In so doing we could not expect—no man could
expect—that the calamity with which we have been
afflicted would be at once overcome, as though we could
reverse the decrees of Providence; such power is not
given to man. But it was an endeavour, by the applica•
tion of those principles which we believe to be sound, to
alleviate the misfortune as far as it was in our power.—
(Cheers.) Let me say that there is another mode which
does not depend upon legislation—which does not de-
pend upon Governments—but which yet, in this time of
dearth, has a greater influence in alleviating the pressure
of public calamity than those who look merely to the
details of measures would believe to be possible ;—I
mean that, while on the one hand we ought to favour as
much as possible a free admission of the greatest quan-
tity of food into the country, so likewise it is the duty
a every master of a household to economise as much as
possible the food we have.—(Cheers.) While the labour-
ing classes and the poorer orders of society have the
greatest difficulty in providing for the daily subsistence
of themselves and their families, it is the duty, I say, of
every master of a household to do what in him lies that

the 'Mansion-house.
The banquet took place in the Egyptian-hall, which
has seldom contained a more brilliant assemblage.
At the upper end of the room was placed the beauti-
ful canopy of state, with its gorgeous gilded cornices and
scarlet velvet drapery, as used on the memorable occa-
sion of her Majesty's visit to the City to dine with the
Corporation. Immediately underneath stood a lefty
sideboard, on which was ranged a variety of salvers,
flagons, and most costly plate, silver gilt. From the top
table three others stretched at right-angles the entire
length of the room, displaying also a profusion of plate.
Covers were laid for about 200.
On the Lord Mayor's right sat Lady John Russell,
the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Countess of Clarendon,
the Earl of Clarendon, the Countess Grey, Earl Grey,
the Earl of Auckland, Viscountess Palmerston, Vis •
count Palmerston, Lady Stratheden, Lord Campbell,
Lady Grey, Sir George Grey, Lord Dudley, Lady Mary
Wood, Sir Charles Wood, Miss Hobhouse, Sir J. C. Hob-
house, Mrs. Labouchere, Mr. Labouchere, Mr. G. S.
Byng, Mr. Sheil, Mr. E. Stanley, Mrs. Fox Maule, Mr.
Fox Maule, Mr. T. M. Gibson, Lady Adam, Vice-Ad-
miral Sir C. Adam, Lady E. Moreton, Admiral Dundas,
Lady C. Berkeley, Captain Berkeley, Sir J. Telly,
Bart., Sir W. Somerville, Mr. B. Hawes, M.P.; Mr.
Ward, M.P.; Mr. Gibson Craig, the O'Conor
Don, Mr. H. Rich, M.P. On the left sat the Lady
Mayoress, Lord John Russell, Mrs. Cobden, the Mar-
quis of Northampton, the Countess Fortescue, the Earl
of Fortescue, Miss Carroll, the Duke de Melfort, Lord
Edward Howard, Viscountess Ebrington, Lord Lang-
dale, Lady Langdale, the Vice-Chancellor of England,
Lady Shadwell, Lord Marcus Hill, Lady Marcus Hill,
Mr. Baron Alderson, Major-General Sir Harry Smith,
Lady Smith, the Curaitor Baron, Mrs. Bankes, Sir W.
Molesworth, Lady Molesworth, Sir Edward Buxton,
Bart., Lady Buxton, Sir F. Booth, Lady Rothschild.
Sir A. Rothschild, Lady M‘Taggart,
Sir J. M‘Taggart,
the Attorney-General, Lady Jervis, the Solicitor-Gene-
ral for Scotland, Mrs. Maitland, the Governor of the
Bank of England, Mrs. Robinson, the Deputy-Governor
of the Bank of England, Mrs. Morris, the Chairman of
the Hon. East India Company, Mrs. St. George Tucker,
Lieutenant-General Sir James Lushington, Mrs. Rooke,
the Lord Mayor of York, Mrs. Hudson, Sir Moses
Montefiore, Bart., Major-General Fox, Mr. Masterman,
M.P., Mrs. Chaplin, Mr. Chaplin, Mr. Jones Loyd,
Captain Bunbury, M.P., Mr. A. Hastie, Mrs. Maberley,
Colonel Maberley, Mr. John Irving, Mrs. John Wood,
Mr. Wyse, M.P., Baron Mayer de Rothschild, Mr. A.
Milne, Mr. Macgregor, Mrs. D. Saloons, Mr. D. Salo-
mons, Mrs. John Walter, Mr. John Walter, jun., Ma-
dame de Hoffschmidt, Count de Hoffschmidt, Sir L L.
Goldsmid, Bart., Lady Goldsmid, Sir H. Nicolas, Lady
Nicolas. Sir G. Pocock, Lady Pocock, Sir C. Napier,
Capt. Carroll, Mr. Whitnall, Mr. Cox, Mrs. H. Smith,
Mr. H. Smith, Miss Tilleard, Mr. J. Wood, Mr. Laurie,
Mr. Maitland, Mr. Maitland, jun., Mr. Pidgeon (trea-
surer of Christ's Hospital), Mrs. Pidgeon, Mr. H.
Pidgeon, jun., Mrs. H. Pidgeon, the Mayor of Exeter,
the Rev. J. Philpott, Mrs. Huth, Mr. Huth, Mr. P.
Laurie, Mr. Hill, Mr. Mitchell, the Rev. F. Astley, Mr.
Dobie, Mr. Bond, Mr. Kemp, Sir C. Hunter, Lady
Hunter, Alderman Lucas, Alderman Sir P. Laurie, Mrs.
P. Laurie, Miss Farebrother, Mr. Alderman Farebro-
ther, Miss Dettmar, Alderman Sir W. Magnay, Miss
Magnay, the Recorder, Mr. Alderman Wood, Mrs.
Wood, Mrs. Hill, Alderman Sir J. Duke, Miss Hunter,
Mr. Alderman Hunter, Mrs. Sidney, Mr. Alderman'
Sidney, the Chaplain, Mrs. Mirehouse, Mr. Alderman
Thompson, Mrs. Rooke, Mr. Alderman Johnson, Mr.
Alderman Hooper, Mrs. Hooper, Mr. Alderman Fern-
combo, Mrs. Musgrove, Mr. Alderman Musgrove, Mrs.
Hughes, Mr. Alderman Hughes, Miss Hughes, Mr. Al-
derman Moon, Mrs. Moon, Mr. Sheriff Kennard, Mrs.
Kennard, the Town Clerk, Mrs. Merewether, Mrs.
Challis, Mr. Sheriff Challis, Mrs. Brown, the Chamber-
lain, the Common Sergeant, Mrs. Tyrrell, the Remem-
brancer, the Controller, Mrs. Saunders, the City Soli-
citor, Mrs. C. Pearson, Mr. Commissioner Harvey, Mr.
H. Ainsworth, Mrs. Allison, Mr. Allison, Mr. Chad-
wick, Miss Co-greve, Mr. C. Whiting, Mr. Cubitt, Mr.
Dak in, Mr. Bladee, Mr. Sidney Whiting, Mrs. Baron,
Mr. Baron, Mr. Cobden.

Mr. Under-Sheriff Baylis, Mr. Deputy Evans, and
Mr. Under-Sheriff Tilleard did the honours at the lower
end of the three tables.

The dinner, which did great credit to the caterers, was
provided by Messrs. Ring and Brymer, of Cornhill.
The following was the bill of fare :
Turtle and iced punch.
Salmon, turbot, fried fish, &c.
Side-board—Petit Pâtés.

Chickens, capons, turkey poults, larded ; hams and
tongues, ornamented ; ribs lamb, raised ornamented
pies, lobster salads, prawns, Chantilly biscuits, orna-
mented trifles, noyeau and maraschino jellies, pine,
strawberry, and Italian creams ; Genvoise pastry, Swiss
and Venice merangs, Chantilly tartlets, creamed tarts,
Nesselrode puddings, plovers' eggs, &c.
Removes—Haunch mutton, chine mutton, sirloin beef,
currant jelly, &c. ; ducklings, goslings, leverets, turkey
poults, pea fowl.
Dessert—Hothouse grapes, apples, strawberries,
orarges, pears, dried fruits, Savoy and almond cakes,
mixed cakes, brandy cherries, preserved ginger.
Ices—Pine, raspberry, strawberry, orange, mille-
fruit, &c.

The Rev. Mr. COBDEN (Chaplain to the Lord Mayor)
said grace before dinner. After the removal of the cloth,
" Non Nobis" was chanted by Messrs. Hobbs. Francis.
Gray, Stevens, Machin, and Bradbury, with Master
Bannister, who attended as vocalists.

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The LORD MAYOR, in proposing the first toast, said—
My Lords, Ladies, and Gentleman,—Surrounded as I
am by so distinguished a company, I am quite certain
there can be but one pervading sentiment—that of
devoted loyalty and affection to our Sovereign. I have,
therefore, the honour to propose to you the health of
" her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen;” most heartily
wishing that, under the blessing of Divine Providence,
threi
or
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~ maythe
begu
el oenngpaoi_d,
apgreors, p, , prosperous.—(Three .; ( Th re e times .
three, followed by the national anthem.)
The LORD MAYOR next gave the health of that Mus-
k her manifold
virtues enjoyed the good opinion of the entire British
people.
Royal Highness
The LORD
with all the
MAYOR next proposed "the Health of his
Prince Albert, Albert Prince ot Wales,
and _
and the rest of the Royal Family," which was drunk
The LORD MAYOR, i • " the Army and
n proposing .
Navy," paid a marked d' tin uished
Sir compliment to his is g .
honours, and was followed by a glee.
guest, H. Smith, for his gallant 'services in India.
He felt it wholly unnecessary to advert to the bravery
, of a gallant officer who had fought so nobly.—(Loud and
long-continued cheers.) It was not bravery alone they
had to admire, it was the sagacity which never forook
him in the most t'Ti •
ng emergencies—(Cheers)—and
which enhanced the value of his troops tenfold. Well
did he deserve the tribute which had been paid to him
by the hero of Waterloo, when he said that " in case of
any emergency there was one man who could be depended
upon."—(Loud cheers.) The corporation over which he
had the honour to preside had not been unmindful of the
deeds of the Gallant General ; for very soon after the
intelligence of his victories they had voted him the free-
dom of the City
in a gold box, which be hoped on an
early day to present to him.—(Cheers.) He begged to
give the " Hero of Aliwall and the Army," and " Sir C.
Adam and the Navy.—
(Drunk with all the honours,
amidst loud and continued cheering.)
Sir H. SMITH, in acknowledging the compliment, said
—My Lord Mayor, and this august assembly, in the
name of that gallant army to which T sinproud to be-
long,
I thank you.—(Cheers) The present Commander..
in-Chief needs no encomium from me, or indeed from
the world. The Duke of Wellington stands alone,
proudly pre-eminent.—(Loud cheers.) For myself, my
Lord Mayor, allow me to say, little could I be aware,
when forty-two years ago I joined the army, that I
should ever ascend to the elevated position in which I
now stand before you and her Majesty's Ministers ; but,
born under a free and glorious constitution, I have risen
progressively, I may say, by the power of circumstances
and my own industry.—(Loud cheers.) To have re-
ceived the distinctions her Majesty has thought it right
to bestow on me, to have been thanked by the two
Iloti,es of Parliament and by the Court of Directors,
and to have received the civic honours of this great and
tuig-bty city, having yesterday been elected a member of
the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, are honours a
soldier may indeed well be proud of. I assure you they
are duly appreciated by me.—(Loud cheers.) My Lord,
I have fortunately served long under his Grace the Duke
of Wellington, and any man with moderate mental re-
sources,
who has disciplined his mind to coolness and
service
self-possession, will, on the occasion of great difficulties
and dangers, find the advantages of such experience
rise to his aid. That experience I derived from the Duke
of Welliugton.—(Cheers.) If I have been fortunate
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renderiiatin great
lanyesat school, and, I will say, endeavoured
commander.—(Loud cheers.) Io my country, it is be-
ell.—(Cheers.) I am
could dwell on the merits of the,.Duke of Wellington,
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but it does not become me to say . more than to express
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deuce they reposed in me ; but I am still more indebted
the eminent position they assigned to the
to the gallant soldiers whom it was my good fortune to
commal:d.—(Cheers.) It is the soldiers, after all, that
fight our battles, and to you, my fair countrywomen, I
will say they are indebted for much of the gallantrythey
exhibit in the field—(Cheers)—being taught by you
from infancy that bravery is the first virtue of the sol-
dier.—(Loud cheers.) My Lord, I thank you and her
Majesty's Ministers for the honour you have been kind
enough to confer on me, and. for you, my
fair country-
women, I will only add,—since
"None but the brave deserve the fair,"
may I continued to deserve the tneed of your approba-
tion.—(Loud cheers.) The only apprehension I have is
that when called on next to stand forth in the defence of
T hould fall short of the QIICO • ' '
toy country, s
encomiums 3 ou
o amply heaped on we._
(Cheers.)
Sir C. ADAM, in an effective speech, returned thanks
on the part of the navy, amidst loud cheering.
The LORD MAYOR then rose and said—The toast I
shall now offer to you is one of paramount interest on
• I have the honour to be surrounded b
this occasion.
her M. • • , • • by i
the Premier of England and diesty s Ministers.—
(Loud cheers.) I am sure I need scarcely observe that
those who are intrusted with the management of tho
important affairs of this great nation carry upon their
shoulders, at all times, a great load of anxiety, Even if
should go as smoothly as the best wishes of
everything
still the multitude
the country could desire, of impor- !
in which they bear so large a concern must l
taut affairs
naturally entail a pressure of solicitude sufficient, well
to overwhelm ordinary minds. But the ordinary
nigh,
anxiety of office has, in these days, been painfully
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that calamity shall not be aggravated by his own waste.
(Cheers.) And while I state that to be a general
duty I am happy to say that the highest head of a house-
hold in* this kingdom—her Majesty the Queen—has
directed that in her own household the utmost economy
should be used in the consumption of every article of
fi,od.—(Loud cheers.) There are •other matters con-
nected with this subject—not matters of government or
legislation—but which, standing as I do before you and
this company, I cannot overlook. The calamity which
has visited our brethren in Ireland and part of Scotland
has called forth, in a most remarkable degree, the
sympathy and the benevolence of those in the more
favoured portions of the United Kingdom.—(Cheers.)
They have distressed themselves in order to come with
relief to those who were entirely deprived of the means
of subsistence ; and among those who in this country
have been foremost in coming to the assistance of our
brethren in Ireland, adding largely to the very liberal
and munificent subscriptions that have been mule, I
will venture to say that none have surpassed those whom
I have the honour to call my constituents, the merchants
of all classes in the city of London.—(Cheers.) But
this spirit of charity and benevolence has not been con-
fined within this city, or within the limits of the United
Kingdom. lam happy to say that day by day we re-
ceive the intelligence that those who sprang from the
same origin with ourselves have a fellow-feeling with us
in our prosperity and adversity.—(Cheers.) The Con-
gress and people of the United States of America have
shown their deep sympathy for the misfortunes under
which parts of this United Kingdom have been:suffering,
owing to the failure in part of the food of the people.—
(Cheers.) I rejoice in this manifestation of sympathy
and philanthropy. It shows that no remoteness of dis-
tance—no diversity of institutions—no records of sepa-
ration, even though written in bloody characters—have
obliterated that sympathy which a people sprung from
the same stock with ourselves feel for us, recollecting
that they speak the same language, that they read
the same authors, that they acknowledge the in-
spiration of the same sacred truths, that they read
and revere the precepts of the same religion on the
banks of the Hudson and the Mississippi in the
same book with us on the banks of the Thames and the

Shannon.—(Loud cheers.) I rejoice that they have shown
this enlarged spirit of charity and liberality, and I am
sure that, whatever may be the misfortunes of the pre-
sent crisis, it is among the consoling circumstances of our

Lot that it will tend to unite these two nations in bonds

of brotherhood in time to come.--(Loud cheers.) Ex-
pressing these sentiments, I will not deny expressing
them for the purpose that our brethren in America may
know that one who has the honour of holding high office
_ _ .

in her Majesty's councils, is deeply affected by the sym-
pathy the people of the United States have shown, allow
me to add one word with regard to the present circum-
stances of this country. I do not mean to hold out any
flattering hope that we are suffering from a misfortune
of a mere temporary character. _ The extreme dearness

of the main aiticleswof food in this country, the dearness
at the same time of a great staple of our manufactures,
and other circumstances concurring, must entail upon
this country for a considerable time great difficulty, and
perhaps considerable suffering. Ido not think it would
be either wise or manly in us to shut our eyes to the
greatness of our difficulty. But I do trust that by a
combination of all classes in this country—by that ab-
sence which I am proud to acknowledge of any wish in
any party to embarrass the Executive Government of
the country. by the general desire of the Legislature to
meet the difficulties and calamities as they arise,
according as their understanding and feeling
show theM what is best to be done—by that
spirit which animates .our warriors on the plains of
India, which enables our men to encounter the
el:emy in the most sultry climates, which enables our
forces at the same time to meet every rigour and every
difficulty—l do trust that by the power of that same
spirit, in humble confidence in tho Almighty, these ciffi-
culties will be overcome, and that the prosperity and
glory of this nation will be preserved.—(L9ud. cheers.)

tihgTeihie:ydio.roumb,
imaeyymoLreoresid.:Mt a..dyoovr:nasaarnitdosatstl,o‘ui'dTheehehereas:thano:
the toast was drunk with all the honours.
The Loan MAYOR, having acknowledged the compli-
ment, proposed "The House of Peers," which was re-
ceived with three times three, and appropriately re-
sponded to by the Marquis of NORTHAMPTON.
" The House of Commons" was next toasted.
Sir C. NAPIER returned thanks.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE proposed " The health
of the Lord Mayor," and highly complimented him for
the many public and private virtues he possessed, and
the splendour of his hospitality.
The toast was received with all the honours, and ap-
propriately acknowledged by his LORDSHIP.
The following toasts were then drunk:—" The At-
torney-General and the Bar of England" (acknowledged
by Sir J. Jervis); The Representatives of the City of
London" (acknowledged by Mr. Masterman); " The
Magistrates of the City of London" (acknowledged by
Mr. Alderman Lucas).
Lord PALMERSTON then rose, and said:—The Lord
toastla o
wr
hhi ah
satisfactionlb esemn pk ei nr
bysd u
aeedvneeodruygwbhoi
dlt p
yo
be
eeerrreemepiert me
ievseedn t
_to
with
a
vti e
greatest toast
indeed, of the greatest and deepest interest, not merely
to the happiness of this great
city, but to every one
who lives in the country in which it has been our lot to

be born, and I may, without exaggeration, say, fraught
with interest to the whole of the civilised world. The
toast which I wish to propose is—" Prosperity to the
City of London,"—(Loud cheers)—prosperity to that
great city which is the source of wealth to the whole of
this empire—which is an example to all that live within
the realm, and which by animating the commercial rela-
tions of every country in the world conduces to the hap•
piness of the nations and to the progress of universal
civilization.—(Cheers.) It is the peculiar character of
the days in which we live that the merits and advantages
of commerce are duly appreciated by all. In earlier
stages of civilization men looked with admiration to the
exercise of power,—power employed in conquering and
subjugating their unoffending neighbours; but in pro-
portion
• as intelligence has been diffused, and as
civilization has advanced, men have been led to think
that the increase of commercial enterprise, the advance
of commercial prosperity, is one of the objects most
deserving of the attention and of the cares of mankind.
—(Loud cheers.) Men are now well satisfied that the
glory of a country consists, not in overthrowing the
lib:!rties of their neighbours, but in diffusing those prin-
ciples of commercial intercourse which are the great
foundations of international peace.--(Cheers.) Men are
satisfied that commerce is the great foundation of peace,
and that peace affords the surest and only protection to
commerce. —(Loud cheers.) Viewing, therefore, this
great city of London as the metropolis of the is
commerce,
and therefore the sanctuary of the liberties of the world,
Lord
I feel proud in having been permitted by my

p.
assistance t.) the Goverianynt and to Ulu mer-
cantile interest. Certainly of late there had been rather
a pressure upon that establishment, and he was sure
they would exercise all the liberality they could, con-
sistently with the prudence it was their duty to ob-
serve.

DINNER TO HER MAJESTY'S tg "ranted by the visitation of Divine Providence pecu Miyor to propose to you, as a toast, " Prosperity to the
MINISTERS. 114rly affecting the sister kingdom and part of Scotland. Cul of London."—(Loud and continued cheering.) LITERATURE-;
Yesterday the Lord Mayor ani the Lady M^7 mess —(Cheers.) I need not call to your attention with what Ihe LORD MAYOR next proposed the health of the S/MMOADS' COLONIAL .11.11:;AZINE.
„ • „ (7 , The number of Simmord,' mme than
„ , . .

The GOVERNOR of the BANK returned thanks. He
sincerely hoped the manner in which the directors ot.
the Bank of England had done, and would continue to
do, their duty, would meet the approbation of their
fellow-citizens, and conduce to the welfare of the
country.—(Loud cheers.)
Sir H. S3IITH proposed the next toast—" The Chairman„
and Deputy-Chairman of the Hon. East India Company.
He felt proud in being the servant of one of the most
Extraordinary companies that ever existed ; originating
in a few individuals, the great victory of Assaye ren-
dered them at once an important body; and now, under
the protection of her Majesty and her Ministers, they
had a mighty empire under their sway, with enormous
resources, and au army whose fidelity remained proof to
all temptation; and which no foreign power would ever
wasbrire briefly
given,brea
eo isdp
eatol isyanaapufdaliat
edtefaAdtrlleNtrptthyoaraeor ftti
be able to overcome.—(Cheers.)
oshdo
fketnohrtngetoghpha sEaet
utafg,ys
Lrtt
coffee,
didhi e India Company
etetalhofiygt oot
delighted
ee the hdamednwarsehintwLahsviiaoeti Sheriffsdnhgnge
r o drawing-
room m
splendidhouse
Mayoress.

u r cuiou:‘,l euipire.

Iq;tv

THE BANKER'S MAGAZINE.
What the opinion of this commercial organ is upon
the notorious currency scheme of 1844
ußon the impulicy
of which we have latterly been so frequently inveighing,
may be gleaned from the subjoined paragraph] :
‘• Well, the railway mania has subsieed, but a fresh cause
of disturbance has Supervened.i A famine in Ireland has
compelled us to be hea
quent exporters of bullion.°).Aers of foreign grain, and conse-
; and, behold,million or two have left the
coffers of the Bank
its strength upon the exchanges, the Act has been trying
principle, drove
It'hhee
first
tt
railwayofcom-
pany in the Ivorld into the
borrower at five per
cent., and caused the banks to restric't atheir advance& The
public funds have sunk in principal value already some
eighty, millions sterling; the minimum rate of discount has
been elevated to panic-point; doubt and discredit are sippretand;
ing from the centre of disturbance, like a
water; pressure has commenced; and, in the conviction of
thousands, panic is at hand 1 "
Those are the consequences of the pernicious Peel-Lo 3•d
theory; of that theory which the Right lion. Baronet,
the Member for Tamworth, had the cool self-com-
placency to tell us only the other evening in the House,
of Commons was our only safeguard against the recur-
reuce of a financial crisis. The only safeguard ? As
well might we designate a reef of sunken breakers as
a prevention against shipwreck on the maincoast.

THE MIRROR.
The Mirror of this month opens with an admi-
rably written critique on " Tancred," in which the
writer has solved the riddle as to the meaning of this
dazzling work, which has puzzled all the critics.
"Itis a joke in three volumes." The writer of this
notice is evidently one who has lived in the East, and
studied the habits, manners, and customs of the
Orientals, and it would be well for Kir. Disraeli that
he should attend to the suggestions which this writer
offers to him. The following passage is well worth
his serious attention. It opens up to him a field, in
which he may reap perennial laurels.
"On one point we strongly sympathise with the
writer ; we allude to the earnest solicitude he feels for
the emancipation of the Jews throughout the world.
This is a feeling which does him honour. From the re-
spectable position he occupies, it is gratifying to behold
him descend, even in the pages of fiction, to hold com-
munion with the humble Israelite in Hounsditch who,
surrounded with the noise and turmoil of this world's
business, celebrates there the traditional Feast of Taber-
nacles. No passage in the whole work has touched us
like that. With your Tancreds and Fakrideens, with
your Dukes of Bellamont, y our Sidonias, and Lords
Eskdale, we feel no sympathy whatever ; but with the
tumble Jew, who, in conformity wish the practice of his
forefathers, and in obedience to laws which he still be-
lieves to be divine, purchases his willow boughs, and
builds his simple bower, in the court of his dingy and
dusky house, oar heart most pleasurably and strongly
yearns. We respect him for his obedient piety, however
mistaken, and are persuaded that with so much firmness
and fortitude, so much love of immemorial traditions, so
much veneration for rites, handed down from father to
son through a period of four thousand years, this obscure
and isolated man must possess much goodness of heart,
and great capabilities of civilisation. Why will not Mr.
Disraeli cut his lords and his visionaries, and give us a
novel of humble and simple Jewish life, no matter
though the hero were an old-clothesman ? We should
r,acitly accompany him in his adventures, and sit down
by his poor quiet fireside, provided the mist of rhetoric
did not hide it entirely from our eyes, with as much
pleasure as we now feel fatigue in watching the evolu-
thins of a dreary and fashionable aristocrat like Tancred.
‘Ve are weary of j,wels, weary of dukes and lords,
weary of all manner of finery, of malachite tables, and
worlds of gilding, and drapery, and stuff. Give us the
plain thing, homely humanity, just as God has made it,
whether it be in the shape of a Jew or a flat-nosed
Frank. We love it everywhere, and under all disguises.
That Mr. Disraeli loves it too we believe, from the good,
hearty, honest way in which he relates the story or the .
Itironi family, whose adventures we read with particular
pleasure, till we came to the conclusion, where we were
ridiculously told, they comprised neatly all the existing
celebrities of Europe. It is this very peculiarity we com-
plain of throughout Mr. Disraeli's woik,the fierce hanker-
ing after monopoly, the desire to heap all great and good
qualities to the Jews, and churlishly to deny them to
the rest of the woild. We shall set Mr. Disraeli a
better example, by admitting all he claims for his
eountryinen, except the monopoly. We think it full
time that all distinctions should cease between them
and the rest of our fellow-citizens, that they should be
admitted everywhere and to everything, and that people
should learn to look on them altogether as brethren
differing from us in certain points. of faith, but still
children of Adam, and therefore entitled to our respect
and affection, and this may at length be said to be the
prevalent feeling. No one now feels disposed to perse-
cute a Jew. And a-propos of the name, let Mr. Disraeli
stick to it, and not seek to substitute in its place, the
more sonorous appellation of Hebrew. Jew was once
a term of reproach—and is so still in some quarters—
but let those who own it live out the prejudice. Time
reconciles us to everything ; has reconciled political
parties to the names of Radicals, Whigs, and Tories,
and will gradually strip everything offensive from the
name of Jew. But such novels as Tancred' are

by no means calculated to facilitate this process ; their
effect, so far as they have any, being to irritate, and
give force to prejudice, by making extravagant demands
on our credulity and simplicity, which it is not likely
that we shall ever be in the humour to grant."
The novel of the "Miser's Well " is continued, and
increases in interest. The poor, despised, penny-a-
liner Wilson, bids fair to become a person of import-
ance. Mr. Percy St. John, in this novel, is no mean
rival of Eugene Sue. Mr. Sealy contributes some
alsogle's Nest"urtioe i
ons "
thgraceful translations from Petrarch, and Mr. J. A.
St. John gives us a delightful Eastern tale, entitled
t",
nTuhe ed
, Money
we
Bags"neyhave an he
excellentEa
6‘ Tne-
"Curiosities of Azores." Mr. Heraud contributes
an excellent paper on "People of Character," any
Dr. Farquharson a beautiful pastoral, entitled " The
Tuscan Girl." This is an excellent number of the
Mirror.

THE PA 71i/Ciii.N.
The Patrician fur this month contains a list of the
Knights of the Royal Oak proposed to be created by
Charles 11. The ninth of the curious trials connected
with the aristocracy is the trial of Capt. Goodere, fur
the murder of his brother—a trial interesting in
itself, and rendered still more interesting from the
fact that Sam Foote, the English Aristophanes, was the
nephew of the murderer and the murdered, and that
his first literary effort was a pamphlet in defence of
Captain Goodere, who notwithstanding his nephew's
exertions, was hanged, and hanged most justly. We
have also in this number some curious original letters
written by Gough, the antiquary, to the Rev. Mr.
Forster, and several other interesting articles.

FINE ARTS:-

THE ART- UNION MON 11l Y JOURNAL.
Two admirably engraved portraits of Daniel Maclise
and of William Powell Frith form the principal, but by
no means the solitary, attractions to this month's num-
ber of the Art-Union. Speaking of the former artist, a
man who by his illustrious power of imagination and
achievemente
t arrivalhe
of hashis
thirty-seventhalr e adv•
clise having been born at Cork, Jan. ar
15, 1811), the Art-
Union observes "It has been the high privilege of
Daniel Maclise, by genius, industry, and principles, hon-
acciuirbdirthhi-mdacye,i(elb)raintyiebl
.tzuh:t:
curable to his heart as well as to his mind, to restore the
triarch Noah offering the first Sacrifice after the Deluge,"
proves
embellishments
his in dustryaanndd his
literary genius
caorreitrai
fallen fortunes of his family." The painting of the " Pa-
titer
now exhibiting in the Galiery of the Royal Academy
buint•io'
ible as they have been heretofore. Mrs. S. C. Ilali's
fairy tale of " Midsummer Eve," is continued Aith the
same bewitching profusion of tancilul illuAri.tions. The
valuable and interestinv.

LE FUL
Though we are not naturally dispov:ed to _•ittic'..l iruch
importance to the ephemeral thlinealio‘:s of the oc..l4.':Ct:'l,t
fashions. we cannot but introduce this cfnzric2in4 little
magazine des modes among the re:riodieal puhileatto of
a inure pretending elittrgeter. The plates are autifuliy
drawn and very exquisitely coloured, and they are
glimpses into the boudoirs and salons worthy of more
than a casual coutemph, non.

the
justice ,
)t,
es aeGO%ol
Silts
teter
eYhir
Gambling,l
swttpri Lbh.eea.a'arsßetghmo rvamoa enrut'adc-Et ht;:oSsar 11
Children,"
Stocks.
at sloheFb. snliseirtkippdhlsaioriec :i :rnntEi
originals
ilgr,l,iEli:gclinhg,lpiaraernosal",:ia,l
while
tit;
e*
iriritr. s
.t61:11:hsoo:fet
sAeri
at'(b.u'lvfnl
e)
a•
h. Ai!et,tV.itlhhdLtetot.diter(ihtrl.Lilicili ;tn,Ren,Ere,n:ed(olilretßxllo::sesi,tariaenrauthesisc,
ivli
imdei, Festival,"ouSa:.:.::
,itslss:,mt,,
ti n , 1
ohroli.
~
..
.efif
mi-
nuteness of the drawing, the expressions in the different
y
e
more
etebnrailnlicaenst are lost,
(I,offsete,tievsepe.cially
the complaisant landlord.
ravir4, is
sombreneis and breadth' peculiar
Nea-
politan.

SCARClTY____lsiinuorvfrin
'HE EDITOR 0 UN.
g such a pressure mercantile CO.
tT4i.E
cxpt.rienc(infgmuovonueld;it r.;Jodtebneoutdkviiisoable to
pared with
drespealildt:hteeePorndPiteig-"3.t'o deposit his title-deeds, and give rat engagement on 3:I
the
I(.ll(''whi'.—A
maiwteitt.l4aY
2s. 6d. stamp to execute a mortgage deed when called
upon to do so, but he can only be cour,zellcd to perform
his promise by a Chancery suit—such is the beauty of our
Pledge his free-
law. Why not let a man authorise the pasty of whom
11E:i OF 'TIE LAW.
agree-
ment? Nobody likes to take a security, however
good,
Lich is unavailable without a suit in Chancery. I can-
oe
timewtsil etiofbeinrertAilr‘ovaijunt'pEgbotne,
tn.
)aoin.tt
•
ifree-
hold Ids (oer wie.la)ysl'e
hasommld,asnpirrmi
yourgerl itty,i(L)ob:chdiaiss,
I‘.,clt:t,,ci Iri)l%,:aa
t.
mir.elale(eut,Sl,riiteltb:
aiißfotti
ay.,rtnrotTbOe
compared
m

DUBLIN, MAY 11.—ILLNESS OF THE LORD-LIEU..
TENANT.—The following bulletin wa3 issued this morning:
The Lord-Lieutenant has undergone no material change
since yesterday."
VEXATIOU,i ACTIONS' BILL.—A Bill entitled, "All
Act for protecting from vexatious Actions Pertons aisc, aarg-
ing Public Duties," has been brought down from the souse
of Lords. It contains 17 clause:.

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