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LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEWBER 10, 1848,

ment of these the-present eharee is made. The gne'r;tion
arises, was he servant of Mr. Mayhew, see., who war not
a partner with Messrs. Reynolds end Mayhew, jun., nor
with the latter since the dissolution of the partnership
with Reynolds.
Mr. JARDINE'S view of the case was, that the charge
of embezzlement could not, under the circumstances, be
made cot.

Mr. Ballantine, for the prosecution, made to-day a
detailed statement of cases against the prisoner; and he
insisted that the prisoner was legally the servant of the
prosecutor, by whom he was regularly employed under
an agreement, and who paid part of his salary.
Mr. JARDINE was still of opinion that the charge of
felony could not be sustained, and as the parties were all
willing again to adjourn the case to Friday, he admitted
the prisoner again to bail, himself in 1001., and two
sureties in SOL each.

WORSHIP-STREET.—(TIIIS DAY.)
THE BARONESS MARY CARLOTA. ALVES CABRAL.—
This unfortunate personage and her servant, Maria Rosa
were brought before Mr. Arnold for re-examination on
the charge of having stolen a gold watch and appen-
dages, a silver watch, and a variety of other articles, the
property of Mrs. Esther Pitmen, the proprietress of a
foreign boarding establishment, situate in Finsbury-
square.

The Magistrate was assured that the prisoner was a
Baroness, but that her second husband was a private
gentleman.
The facts of the case have already appeared.
The evidence adduced by the witnesses was explained
to the prisoners through the medium of an interpreter.
The prisoners during the examination were painfully
excited, and the depositions of the witnesses against
them were ordered by the Magistrate to be made out.

MARLBRO' ST REET—(T HIS DAY.)
James Clark and Sarah his wife were placed before
Mr. Hardwick, charged with having stolen two pewter
pint pots.
Horsford, of the Mendicity Society, stated that this
morning he was in Henley-street, when his attention►
was drawn to the prisoners, who had just come up
from an area. He watched them for some time, when
the female prisoner went away, but shortly returned
with something in her possession, which she handed to
the male prisoner. This excited his suspicion, and he
went up to them, and saw the man with something bulky
in his pocket. As both prisoners were well-known cad-
gers, witness took them into custody. On searching
them, he found upon the man ss. 100., and the two pint
pots produced.
Mr. Wm. Good, landlord of the Luke's Head, Park •
street, Grosvenor-square, identified one of the pots as
his property. The other was identified by Mr. John
Benstone, of the White Bear, Park-street.
The male prisoner said his wife never gave him the
pots, nor had she the least knowledge that he had them
in his possession.
Mr. HARDWICK said, under these circumstances he
should discharge the woman, but the man he should
send before a jury.
The prisoner was then fully committed for trial.

LORD MAYOR'S DAY.

SWEARING IN OF THE LORD MAYOR AT
TIIE COURT OF EXCHEQUER, YESTERDAY.
At two o'clock the procession reached Westminster,
and the annual ceremony of swearing in the Lord Mayor
elect for the year ensuing t9ok place before the Ba-
rons of the Exchequer. As usual the court was crowded
to excess.

The Loll Mayor elect was accompanied by the whole
of the civic officers, the Sheriffs, the late Lord Mayor,
Aldermen Farncomb, Challis, Sidney, Salomons, &c.
Having taken their accustomed position in the Queen's
Counsels' row,

The RECORDER, in introducing the new Lord Mayor,
addressed the Lord Chief Baron in the following words:—
My Lord Chief Baron,—l have the honour to present
to your Lordship and this Court the Right Honourable
Sir James Duke, chosen by the :citizens of London to
fill the office of Lord Mayor for the ensuing year. A
perfect concurrence of the two branches of the Corpora-
tion concerned in the election (the Livery and the Court
of Aldermen), has conferred upon this gentleman the
distinction of being unanimously chosen chief magis-
trate of our ancient city. The gracious approval of her
Majesty, signified by the Lord Chancellor, in accord-
ance with our charter, has confirmed to Sir James Duke
the prerogatives of an office to which is attached the post
of Lieutenant to the Queen, with the place and prece-
dence of the first subject of the Crown within the city.
The advancement of this gentleman to the station he now
occupies affords a fresh instance of the many opportu-
nities our happy constitution presents to the deserving of
every class of the community to achieve wealth and
honours—to crown the efforts of industry and integrity
with success. Mr. Duke entered the civil service of the
navy in a junior department in 1809 under the late Sir
Peter Parker, and afterwards served in the Mediter-
ranean, under Lord Viscount Exmouth, until the end of
1813. He then became secretary to Admiral Sir John
Gore, continuing to fill that position up
till August,
1814, when his naval service was terminated by the peace-
In 1819 Mr. Duke commenced his commercial career;
the early friends he had acquired by good conduct on
shipboard adhering to him in his new circumstances and
the pursuits of mercantile life. In process
of tine his
ability and success attracted the attention of his fellow-
citizens. He became a Common Councilman, and in 1840
an Alderman of London. He was previously elected into
the office of Sheriff in 1836. In the course of that year he
received the honour of knighthood and at the conclusion
of it was presented by tee Corporation with a valuable
piece of plate in token of his acknowledged merit and
usefulness in a public station. In conjunction with his
late partner, Mr. Hill, Sir J. Duke was a member of the
leading firm engaged in the great market of the coal-
trade, but it is his good fortune at once to retire with
the fruits of his industry at this important juncture, and
relinquishing to his late partner this valuable branch of
business, to enter upon the high duties that await him
divested of the cares that engross the attention of a mer-
chant in the active concerns of trade. In 1837 Sir J.
Duke became one of the representstives:in Parliament of
the borough of Boston, and has continued ever since to
represent the same constituency. As a magistrate of
London, my Lord Mayor has for eight years past been
associated with the judges of Westminster-halllin the ad-
ministration of justice at the Central Criminal Court.
He has not been an inattentive spectator nor a witness
in vain of their instructive labours; but trained by their
example:he will carry with him to the justice-room at the
Mansion-house the benefit of his experience in the princi-
ples he has imbibed and the practice they have inculcated,
happy, indeed, if within the period of his mayoralty we do
not again verge upon a crisis where it becomes the duty
of every British subject to contribute his utmost assist-
ance to the Government in a manner suitable to his
station and abilities, but prepared, we confidently rely,
to evince the loyalty and stability of his character with
the occasion for their exercise, as befits the post of
honour and authority in a season of
.difficulty or of
danger. In anticipating the future bearing of this gen-
tleman in cases of emergency, we are forcibly reminded
of the signal services performed by his immediate pre-
decessor, the late Lord Mayor. When almost every
foreign state in. Europe was convulsed to an extent that
threatened to dissolve the frame of civil society, and the
evil-minded had everywhere conspired to substitute the
license of anarchy for the laws that freedom prescribes,
and to subvert that order in which true liberty delights
as in its vital principle;_ at the call of the chief magis-
trate the citizens of London, with one accord, without
distinction of degree, thronged every avenue of the
metropolis, eager to discharge and manfully execute
the common duties of constables in aid of the municipal
police. In the City alone a force exceeding twenty-
three thousand men stood forth, on the first sum-
mons, to repress the efforts of sedition, and to
preserve the public peace. Arrangements wisely
formed in concert with the Government, com-
binations silently and steadily executed, com-
munications opened and maintained with every impor-
tent post and station, the calmness of decision, the atti-
tude of strength, imparted to the measures of the late
Lord Mayor and of his able and zealous coadjutors the
qualities that enforce obedience and command success—
this noble example of the metropolis and the presiding
magistrates extending its influence through every town
and county, raised an impenetrable barrier against the
ranks of the disaffected throughout the country, and
maintained, without a struggle or the display of military
power, the supremacy of the law, the security and tran •
quillity of the empire. Nor is this the only theme and
argument of praise and panegyric on which the citizens
of London might be tempted to dwell and enlarge—fol-
lowing the late Lord Mayor into the retirement and
privacy of social life, where his domestic properties ap-
peared in the most amiable light; but in the assemblies
of the Corporation, in the justice-room, and in the
Mansion-house, be has -left a deep impression of his
superior aptitude for business, of the kindness and affa-
bility of his nature, of the singleness of purpose, saga-
city, and good sense that never failed to mark his public
deportment throughout his mayoralty.
The LORD CRIE, BARON then said he had to congra-
tulate the Lord Mayor on the honour which his fellow-
citizens bad conferred upon him by electing him to the
high and important office of chief magistrate of the city of
London, that being the highest honour which they could
confer and which he could receive at their hands. But
that honour was not in its value or importance to be
tried by the precedence which he might take in conse-
quence of that elevation—it was not to be tried by the
tact of his having been selected to act as the first ma-
gistrate of the first city in the country—nor was it to
be tried by the distinguished part which, by virtue of
his office, he might be called upon to take; but it was to
be tried by the confidence which had been placed in him
by his fellow-citizens, who had placed him in a situation
of the most important trust at a period of considerable
agitation and probably of danger. The occasion which
had brought the Lord Mayor into that court had been
described as one of pomp and pageantry, but it was no
idle occasion. It was the act of the chief magistrate of
the great city of London, coming there for the purpose
of taking upon himself the duties of the office to which
he had been called by his fellow-citizens, and to claim
for the Corporation et* the city of London a con-
tinuance of ,all the privileges and rights belong-
ing to them. He was there in his character
of chief magistrate, to protect, in his own
person, the rights and privileges of the city of London,
and to take care that, in his own person, he should se-
cure those advantages in the same stateof preservation
as that in which he had found them. The Learned and
Eloquent Recorder had adverted to. the danger of the
times at the period when the Lord Mayor had been
called dPoieto weereite' the office anchluties iSi-Chiefl‘"-
gistrate`. Unhappily thef.e could be no'doubt as tn the
existence of disease and a certain extent of dearth in the
land—either of- thcise visitations might demand the ex-
ercise of the greatest vigilance. To the late Lord Mayor
he might now offer his congratulations uponhis retiring
from the turmoils of his recent publicduties into the
pleasures of private and domestic life. The unanimous
approval of the course of conduct he had pursued during
his year of office bad gained for him the respect and es-
teem of his fellow-citizens, whilst the energy he had ex-
hibited during a period of unusual apprehension, had ex •
cited the admiration of all. He had gained the fullest
approval of all those who were in a position to appreciate
the benefits which they had derived from the energetic
steps he had adopted during the past year, upon the oc-
casion to which the Learned Recorder had re'erred.
After a few other remarks, the customary oaths were
administered, and the civic authorities departed.

THE BANQUET
In the evening the usual entertainment was given by
the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs in Guildhall.
Among the noblemen and gentlemen seated at the
table d'honneur on either side of the Lord Mayor elect
were—The Right Hon. the late Lord Mayor, the Duke
and Duchess of Northumberland, the Marquis of Lana-
downe, the Earl of Cardigan, Earl Grey, Viscount Pal-
merston, M.P., Viscount Exmouth, Viscount Hardinge,
Lord John Hay, M.P., Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P., his
Excellency M. Gustave de Beaumont, the French
Minister, and two Attaches. Lord Ward, Lord Denman,
Lord Campbell, Sir George Gray, Bart.* Kr., Sir
o
Thomas F. Fremantle, Bart., Right Hon. C. T. D'Eyn-
ourt, M.P., Right Hon. Fox Maule, M.P., Sir C. Wod,
Bart., M.P., Baron Parke, Justices Coltman, Coleridge,
Patteson, and Alderson; Mrs. Hill (sister of the Lord
Mayor), acting as Lady Mayoress; the late Lady Mayoress,
Mr. Sheriff Funds and lady, Mr. Sheriff Goodart and
lady, Baron Andrian, the Attorney-General, the soli..
citor- General, the lion. Sir E. Cust, Admiral and Lady
Emily Dundas, Admiral Sir J. A. Gordon, Admiral Sir
Henry Hart, Admiral the Hon. Sir F. Pellew, Captain
Sir J. G. Sinclair, Bart., Captain J. W. Montague, Sir
W. Burnett, Mr. Gibson Craig, M.P., Mr, Parker,
M.P., Mr. Tufnell, M.P.. Mr. G. Cornewall Lewis, M P..
Mr. Hawes, M.P., Mr. Hume, M.P., Mr. Sergeant Tal-
fourd, Mr. Sergeant Gazelee, Sir David Dundas, Mr,
Locke, M.P., Mr. Forster, M.P., Sir M. J.Cholrneley,
M.P., the Rev. Sir W. Thompson, Bart., Sir John Sinclair,'
Bart., Sir John H. Pelley, the Governor and Deputy-
Governor of the Bank of England, the Chairman and
Deputy Chairman of the Hon. East India Company
James Harmer, Esq., George Arbuthnot, r:sq., Alder.:
men Sir C. tie Hunter, Farebrother, Wilson, HumpherY
M.P., Sir George Carroll, Farncomb, Musgrove, Moon,'
Sidney, M.P., Salomons, Lawrence ; Hon. C. E. Law
Recorder of London; Mr. Masterman,
• Walter,
Baron.
Rothschild, M.P., Sir Antony Rothschild, H.
Esq., W. Cubitt, Esq., M.P., Mr. Commissioner Bul-
lock, Mr. Secondary Potter, the Comptroller, the Soli-
citor, and the Remembrancer to the Corporation , C.
Anstey, Esq., M.P., W. F. A. Delane, Esq., It. s. Rintoul,
Esq., Mr. Drax, M.P., Mr. Murdo Young, Air. John
Kemble Chapman, Sze.
Grace was said by the Rev. S. E. Catley, Chaplain to
the Lord Mayor, and after dinner, " We thank thee, 0
Lord, for these thy mercies," was chanted by
a vocal
choir, stationed in the side gallery.
The LORD MAYOR, in proposing the first toast, said
—I congreulate myself that as the first act of my
official dis-
tinguished career, and in the presence of
company, I should hays the honour and

privilege of inviting you to pay a mark of respect to
oar gracious Sovereign.—(Loud cheers.) The name
of our beloved Queen is always received in this
ancient hall with feelings of respect and enthusiasm.
and requires no preface from thu chair. But the cir-
cumstances attending the mighty changes that have re-
cently occurred elsewhere will, I hope, excuse me if, on
this occasion, I bear testimony to the loyalty of the
citizens of London and the inhabitants of this great
country.—(Loud cheers.) Whatever changes may take
place in other countries, we are satisfied with the happy
institutions under which we live, and continue to cherish
1 loyal attachment to our Queen, and a cheerful obe-
dience to the laws. With these observations. I hope you
will cordially join me in thinking to the " Health of our
gracious Queen Victoria, and wishing her a long and
happy reign."—(Loud cheers.)
The toast was drunk with all the honours, followed by
the national anthem.

The next toast proposed by the LORD MAYOR was.
the " Health ,of an illustrious lady—the Queen Dow.
ager," whose life was spent in acts of beneficence and
et.arity, and who continued to live in the respect and
esteem of the people of this country.—(Cheers.)
The LORD MAYOR then rose and said—The toast I
have now to prop. se is the " Health of his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert, Albert, Prince of Wales, and the
other branches of the Royal Family." It is not neces.
nary, I am sure, for me to say anything to induce you to
give a cordial reception to the name of his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert, who has identified himself with Bri-
tish interests and feelings ever since he came to this
country, and who has shown himself most anxious upon
every occasion, not only to patronize and promote the
arts and sciences, but has clone everything in his power
to promote the honour and welfare of the country.—
(Loud cheers.) We must not forget, that though this is
a day of importance to the citizens of London, it is also
one of great importance to the country at large, as the
anniversary of the birth of his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales. lam sure you will also join with me
in the fervent prayer, that when at some future day his
Royal Highness shall come to govern this great country,
he may enjoy all the affectionate loyalty which is the
happy lot of our present Sovereign.---(Cheers.)
The toast was drunk with all the honours.

The LORD MAYOR in proposing the ;;;i toast said—
I rise with peculiar pleasure to propose to you a toast
wbich is always acceptable to the city of London, " The
Army and Navy of England."—(Cheers.) In no part
of her Majesty's dominions are the services of both held
in more grateful recollection than in the city of London.
dere are honoured to-day with the company of a distin-
guished and gallant nobleman—Lord Hardinge.—(Loud
cheers.) The Noble Viscount has recently returned
from the scenes of his glory, with the well-earned ho-
nours of his Sovereign and the well-deserved gratitude
of his country; but I am proud to think that the citizens
of London were not the last to recognise his eminent
and distinguished services. While the country is proud
to acknowledge the services of that great man, we, in
endeavouring to show our gratitude to him, have added
lustre to the roll of free citizens.—(Cheers.) With respect
to the other branch of the public service, I have no wish
to obtrude an observation personal to myself; but I stand
in a position in which I believe no other chief magis
trate ever stood before. It was my good fortune in an
early period of life to have the honour of serving in her
Majesty's navy, end I have now the greatest happiness
in being honoured to-day by the presence of many dis-
tinguished men who knew me now many years ago; I
am especially gratified in being able to state that I see
before me the gallant man who was my captain thirty-
five years ago, and who is now an admiral in the British
navy. I have also the happiness of seeing present the
son of that gallant man whom I had the honour of serving
in a confidential capacity. Having made these observa-
tions respecting myself, and expressed the gratification
I feel at seeing present those distinguished men, I will
venture to say with reference to the navy of England,
there never was a period in the history of this country
when it was in a state better able to protect our commer-
cial interests.—(Cheers.) I have the happiness to see pre-
sent a Gallant Friend of mine, the Member for Greenwich,
the senior Lord of the Admiralty, and every one who has
the pleasure of knowing the zeal and ability of that distin-
guished officer must be well aware that the condition of
the navy is satisfactorily attended to, and that nothing
would be left undone by the present Board of Admiralty
to maintain the efficiency of that great arm of the na-
tional defences.—(Cheers.) I know it is the anxious
desire of her Majesty's Government to effect every pos-
s ble retrenchment, and the Board of Admiralty, with
laudable zeal, are endeavouring to make every proper
reduction in that department; but, at the same time, I will
say, this country would proudly pay any tax which might
be proposed rather than suffer the navy of England to
be reduced to a state of inefficiency.—(Loud cheers.) I
beg to couple Viscount Hardinge with the army, and Ad-
miral Dundas with the navy.—(Loud cheers).
Viscount HARDINGE, who was received with loud
cheers, said,—l have very great pleasure in acknowledg-
ing the toast you have just drunk on the part of the
Commander-in-Chief. I am proud, as a free man of
this great corporation, to have the honour of returning
to you thanks in the name of the British army. The
merchants and citizens of London are, upon every
occasion, most readily disposed to appreciate the
military services of the army, and, on the other
hand, I can assure you, the army are most
anxious to have the good opinion of their fellow-sub-
jects, and on every occasion to show by their conduct
and discipline that they are as obedient to the civil au-
thority of the land in times of peace as they are devoted
to the service of her Majesty in times of war.—(Loud
cheers.) You, my Lord Mayor, have done me the
honour to allude to my services in India. I beg leave to
say the country owes much to the bravery of that por-
tion of her Majesty's army which is in India. They
fought well; worthily of the high reputation they ob-
tained in the Peninsula under the Duke of Wellington.—
(Loud cheers.) The sepoy army, equally with their
European brethren, deserve thanks for their services.
I have received letters from India, describing on a re-
cent occasion the pleasure and delight a the British
soldiers at the manner in which the sepoys conducted
themselves. Under that able and heroic young officer,
Edwardes—(Cheers)—the!Mussulm an troops equally dis-
tinguished themselves. Upon every occasion they con-
ducted themselves with the greatest gallantry. It was
undoubtedly true that the Major-General in command
had been obliged to suspend operations; and you will
allow me to make this observation, that while military
men are engaged on important services at a distance,
and derive great encouragement from the feeling that
their fellow-countrymen here justly appreciate their
exertions, it is not always easy at home to estimate
the precise difficulties of their position, or the motives
that may have actuated them. I have the pleasure, how-
ever, to state, that on the occasion to which I allude.
the Major-General commanding received the full and
unanimous approbation of the British officers who were
on the spot, and my opinion is, that he acted a judicious
part.—(Cheers.) I hope to see the successful issue of
the expedition. In point of numbers and equipment,
the army is superior to what it was under Lord Gough
in 1845, and I have no doubt of the result.—(Loud
cheers.)

•
Admiral DUNDAS—I beg to thank you on the part of
the navy. The Board of Admiralty have to provide an
adequate protection to the commerce of this country,
and lam sure, if ever the day should arrive when we
shall be called on to make war, the present seamen will
emulate the conduct of Lord Exmouth himself.—(Loud
cheers.) For yourself; my Lord Mayor, I may say,
from what I have seen this day, I only hope when you
have done with your mayoralty you will return to your
old trade.—(Cheers and laughter.)
The LORD /ylAyottei 116* rte to. request you will
join with ake.' in a sentiment of -cordial respect to the
gentleman who preceded me in office, and who fulfilled'
its-duties.with so much' honour to himself and benefit
to the public.—(Cheers.) The able and - efficient man-
ner in which the late Lord Mayor discharged his im-
portant functions during a season of no ordinary diffi-
culty entitles him not only to the gratitude of the citi-
zens of London, but to the acknowledgments of the com-
munity at large. The conduct of the city of London on
the painful occasion to which I have alluded, under the
excellent, judicious, and efficient administration of the
late Lord Mayor, was an example to the country.—
(Cheers.) And though the office of the Lord Mayor is
associated, as I hope it ever will be, with many social
enjo) meats, yet I will venture to state that the late
Lord Mayor, in his magisterial capacity, has gone
through more arduous duties than any other magistrate
in the kingdom. You will all join with me in acknow-
ledging his public services; and I am sure that in his
retirement he will have not only the approbation of his
own conscience but the applause of that great and en-
lightened community over which he presided so well.—
(Loud cheere.)

The late LORD MAYOR, who was scarcely audible, ex-
pressed the great gratification he felt in receiving the
applause of his fellow-citizens, and acknowledged the
deep obligations he lay under to all classes of the com-
munity for the ready zeal and energy with which he
had been supported during his year of office. He was
much indebted, not only to the co-operation of his
brother magistrates, but of the Government, and espe-
cially of the Home office, with which his functions
chiefly brought him into contact.. It was a great satis-
faction to him that, with the blessing of Providence
upon his exertions, he was enabled to hand over the city
of London in peace and tranquillity to his successor in
the chair, who, he had no doubt, would do his utmost to
deserve well of his fellow-citizen;.—(Cheers.)
The LORD MAYOR—The next toast I have to propose
is " The Health of her Majesty's Ministers."—(Loud
cheers.) It is a source of deep regret to me, as
I am sure it rill be to all my fellow citizens, who
are proud of having the Prime Minister of this country
as one of their representatives, that Lord John Russell
is prevented from being here on this occasion by
severe indisposition. But we are honoured with the pre-
sence of other members of his Cabinet. My opinions
with reference to the present Government are well known.
I have always bee n proud and happy to give them my
humble support—(Cheers)—yet I know I shall not be
suspected of any desire to excite party spirit when I
ask ou to ray them respect on this occasion. When
we consider the difficulties they have had to encounter in
carrying on the government of this great country, they
are entitled to our support and gratitude. In the arduous
circumstances in which they have been placed they have
preserved public tranquillity; they have upheld the ma-
jesty of the law, white they have tempered justice with
mercy, and preserved the lives aril liberties of the people.
—(Cheers.) I earnestly hope the citizens of London
will omit no opportunity of testifying their gratitude for
such services ; and, should troubles again arise, they
will, I am sure, bo most happy to set an example of
loyalty to their Sovereign and obedience to the law.--
(Cheers.)
I have great pleasure in proposing to you
" The Health of the Most Noble the Marquis of Lans-
downe and the other members of her Majesty's Govern-
ment."—The toast was drunk with all the honours.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, who was loudly cheered,
said—My Lord Mayor, my Lords, Ladies, and Gentle.
men, I beg leave, on behalf of my colleagues here
, present, to return you our hearty thanks for the honour
you have done us in drinking our health*S; I cannot do

so without at the same time expressing my great regret
that my Noble Friend the Noble Lord at the head of the
Treasury, and also one of your representatives in Par-
liament, has been unable from indisposition to attend
here this day. It is a matter of peculiar regret to him,
because there never was a moment when all persons,
either invested with authority or without it, must be
more proud to ,pay their respects to the city of
London and its Chief Magistrate than at the close
of this eventful year—a year which I must say has
placed the city of London in an advantageous
point of view as compared with any city in the
world—(Great cheering)—because, atm' the events
of this year, whatever sympathy we may feel, or what-
ever satisfaction we may derive from the triumphs of the
sword, when the sword has been drawn in the cause
of order and for the defence of society, it must, never-
theless, be matter of great satisfaction, which we to our
dying day shall enjoy, that in this eventful year, in this
great city, the peace of that city has required nothing to
maintain it—no other victory than the victory of civil
power.—(Great cheering.) That is a reflection which
we must always carry with us, which must always be a
source of congratulation, and neither the Government
nor the people of this country can forget for how much
of that peace and tranquillity secured, and that appre-
hension allayed, they are indebted to the authorities of
this city ; and I will say more particularly to the gen-
tleman who sits on my left, who was recently invested
with that power, and having employed it uniformly,
steadily, and successfully, for the preservation of its
prosperity, now leaves the city of London, and, at the
same time the constitution of this country, in a happier,
prouder, and safer position.—(Loud cheers.) I beg to
propose the " Health of the Lord Mayor, and Pros-
perity to the City of Lsndon."
The LORD MAYOR—I am sensible of the importance
of the position in which the kindness of my fellow-
citizens Pm placed me; and I will endeavour to follow
the excellent example which has been set me by the
late Lord Mayor. He has delivered over to me the
city in a state of tranquillity and peace; I shall endea-
vour to keep it so. I trust I shall be enabled to dis-
charge my magisterial duties with assiduity and impar-
tiality, and will dr my, utmost to obtain, as my prede-
cessor has received, your approbation.—(Cheers.) I
have now to invite you to offer a mark of respect to the
foreign Ministers who have honoured us with their com-
pany. I regret that sudden indisposition has prevented
his Excellency the American Minister from being pre-
sent; but we know that that talented and enlightened
gentleman has at all times been most anxious in his
endeavours to promote a cordial and good understand-
ing between this country and that which he represents.
—(Cheers.) We are honoured to•day with the com-
pany of a Minister of another great and important coun-
try—l mean France.—(Cheers.) lam glad that my re.
ference to that distinguished man has been received
in this hall with such tokens of respt et and approba-
tion, because I was anxious to assure him, on the part of
the citizens of London, that while we express no opinion
on the form of government any country may think most
desirable in their own circumstances, our earnest desire
is to endeavour to cultivate feelings of friendship with
all; and I believe it was an indication of goodwill on the
part of the French Government that they sent as their
representative to this country a gentleman who was de-
termined to promote the best feelings between France
and England.—(Cheers.) It has been said that a cordial
understanding between these two great countries would
always be the means of preserving the peace of the
world, and if there ever was a moment when the maxim
was more important than another it is the present, when
the continent of Europe presents an aspect of so much
difficulty and embarrassment. lam sure that under the
able administration of Lord Palmerston we shall con-
tinue to enjoy the blessings of peace—(Cheers)—and I
will venture to assure foreign Ministers that nothing will
be more satisfactory to him, or more gratifying to the
citizens of London, than to have opportunities-of show-
ing our friendly dispositions, as we lately had when some
of the National Guard of France visited this metropolis.
--(Cheers.) I will detain you no longer than to propose
"the Health of the Representative of France and the
Foreign Ministers."
The toast was drunk with much enthusiasm.
The French Minister, M. GUSTAVE DE BEAUMONT
(who was received with long-continued cheers) said,—
My Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen,—As the very un-
foreseen honour to answer this toast devolve, upon me,
as being the senior of the diplomatic body, I hope I may
be allowed to take this first opportunity of offering to
you, and to all pet sons here present, the best thanks of
my country for the cordial hospitality which has been of
late so kindly bestowed upon a great many of my coun-
trymen on their visit to this large metropolis.—(General
applause.) My Lord, England is the land of liberty—
(Cheers)—England is the land of liberty—(Repeated
cheers)—and hospitality for all foreigners; but it will be
permitted me to say that it has been a land of friend-
ship for Frenchmen.—(Hear, hear.) England has
opened her heart as well as her frontiers to French-
men.—(Cheers.) I dare say that she did right in
doing so. She did right for her own interest. A
noble country like England, in order to be admired and
blessed, wants only to be known.—(Loud cheers.)
The best answer she can make to still existing, though
every day vanishing prejudice, is to show herself to
every eye.—(Renewed applause.) Let us, my Lord,
enjoy—let Europe, let all people of Europe enjoy the
blessing and the benefits of that mutual good under-
standing which is, and will ever be, the best security of
the maintenance of the peace of the world.—(Universal
cheers.) We no more entertain—neither in England
nor in France—that false opinion that the prosperity of
one country is founded on the misery of another. —(Ap.
plause.) We think, on the contrary, that the best gua-
rantee of one's happiness is the happiness of all.—(Hear,
hear.) Allow me, in concluding, in apologizing for my
bad English, to tell you, that it will be for my country.
men a most happy and delightful day when a visit—a
very desired visit of Englishmen to Paris—(Cheers)—
will afford Parisians an opportunity of expressing bestir
than I do by vain words the feelings of gratitude and of
sympathy which they entertain for all England, and par-
ticularly for the city of London.—(Loud and long con-
tinued cheering.)
The next toast was " The Health of the Duke of
Northumberland and the Peerage of England," which
was loudly cheered, and briefly responded to by his
Grace.

Sir GEORGE GREY proposed the next toast. He said,
I am reminded that when we last met on a similar
occasion—when the late Lord Mayor was installed, my
Noble Friend the First Lord of the Treasury, who was
then present, and whose absence we all regret to-day,
expressed his full confidence that the citizens of London
had selected as their chief magistrate one who would not
prove deficient, whatever emergency might arise, in
those qualities of firmness, temper, and discretion, emi-
nently required in the discharge of the important func-
tions devolving on one holding that high and responsible
office. I cannot let this occasion pass, having been in
repeated communication Kith the late Lord Mayor,
without bearing my testimony to the manner in which
he discharged his duties, already amply recognised by
his fellow-citizens, end on the part of the Government
offering their thanks for the cordial, judicious, and
ready assistance he gave on those trying occasions on
which he was called to act in maintaining the peace of
the metropolis.—(Cheers.) Nor can I fail to bear my
testimony to the success which has attended the mea-
sures for accomplishing it.—(Cheers.) From my long
personal knowledge of you, my Lord Ma) or, I am sure
whatever emergency may occur in the coming year—a
year, I trust, less eventful than the last—(Cheers)—you
will bring to the administration of your important func-
tions al the qualities which can command success. I
beg to prolow thei" Health of the Lady Mayoress."
-Drunk with all thertionours.,',
The Lorttrlll...von:hiving returned' thapit's,. proposed
" The Health ot tb.e Jndges and'Loid Denman, a name
always Well received in the city of London."—(Cheets.)
Lord DENMAN acknowledged the compliment. It
was impossible for him to express in adequate language
the feelings raised in his mind by the last toast, and, if
it were, he feared he should be heard by very few. He
considered it a compliment paid to the administration of
justice in this country; and when he observed bow he
was surrounded, and how the duties of a judge were ge-
nerally performed, be did not wonder at the manner in
which the administration of justice was confided in and
traiae d. He gratefully acknowledged the kind partiality
his fellow-citizens had always evinced towards him, and he
hoped through life to justify the sentiment. Although it
had not been his duty to take part in the recent trials,
arising out of painful occurrences to which allusion bad
been made, he might be allowed to say that the dignity of
the law and the safety of the community were never
more efficiently and uprightly upheld than by the pro-
ceedings which had lately taken place.—(Cheers.) He
trusted the judges would always show the same deter-
mination to administer justice firmly and unflinchingly,
and distribute the consequences of the violation of the
law in a manner the most humane and least likely to
engender painful slid rankling feelings in the minds of
any part of the community.—(Cheers.)
The LORD MAYOR next proposed " The Health of the
Attorney-General." and eulogized the skill and liberality
he had shown in the conduct of the late prosecutions.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL briefly returned thanks.
The ".Health of the Representatives of the City in
Parliament," followed, and was acknowldged by Mr.
MASTERMAN.
" The Aldermen of the City of London, the Recorder,
and the Sheriffs," followed, atter which the company left
the Hall.
Mr. Harker was toastmaster.

Among the other pieces of music sung at the festival
was the following, entitled " Songs of Welcome let us
Raise," composed expressly in honour of the day,
by Mr. James Hyatt Little, and which was received with
very great applause. It is admirably set to music, and
is published by Mr. Mills, of New Bond-street :--
"Songs of welcome let us raise,
To our noble Lord Mayor's praise!
May he maintain our privileg'd rights,
Our ancient laws and charter'd droits;
The festal hall and court preside
With dignity and manly pride.
His l!redcc►ssors emulate—
Support the Queen, defend the State.
Like Whittington or Walwurth bold,
Or Beckford who in times of old
Undauntedly address'd the Throne,
In speech engrav'd on sculptur'd stone.
When he retires, honour'd tame
And history's page record his name.
Then with acclamations raise
Songs of welcome to his praise.
May peace and plenty bless our isle,
May commerce flourish, freedom smile;
The widow'd and the fatherless
With grateful hearts his bounty bless.
Prosperity may all enjoy, •
Unhurt by faction's base alloy.

Then huzza! then huzza! for the Lord Mayor and Guido
Here's a health to the Lord Mayor and Guild.
Three cheers for the Lord Mayor, Court, and Guild."

GENERAL BILL OF FARE.

The following is the bill of fare served up to the
guests at the Lord Mayor's dinner yesterday, and which
was provided by Messrs. Younghusband and Son, Gerard
Hall, Basing-lane, who have had the honour of, sup-
plying the same for three successive years:-
250 tureens of real turtle, containing five pints each,
200 bottles of sherbet, 6 dishes of fish, 30 end La, 4
boiled turkeys and oysters, 60 roast pullets, 60 dishes of
fowls, 46 ditto of capons, 6 ditto of Captain White's
Selim's true Indian curries, 50 French pies, 60 pigeon
pies, 53 hams (ornamented), *43 tongues, 2 quar-
ters of house lamb, 2 barons of be.ef, 3 rounds of bief, 2
stewed rumps of beef, 13 sirloins, rumps, and ribs of beef,
6 dishes of asparagus, 60 ditto of mashed and other pota-
toes, 44 dishes of shell fish, 4 ditto of prawns, 140
jellies, 50 blancmanges, 40 dishes of tarts (creamed), 40
dishes of almond pastry, 30 ditto of orange and other
tourtes, 20 Chantilly baskets, 60 dishes of mince pies,
56 salads. The Removes: 80 roast turkeys, 6 leverets,
80 pheasants, 24 geese, 40 dishes of partridges, 15 dishes
of wild fowl, 2 pea fowls. Desseit: 100 pine apples, from
21b. to 3.b. each, 200 dishes of hot-house grapes, •250 ice
creams, 50 dishes of apples, 100 ditto of pears, 60 orna-
mental Savoy cakes, 75 plates of walnuts, 80 ditto of
dried fruit and preserves, 50 ditto of preserved ginger,
60 ditto of rout cakes and chips, 46 ditto of brandy
cherries. •
THE PRINCIPAL TABLE, AT WHICH THE RIGHT 110 N.
THE LORD MAYOR PRESIDES.-10 tureens of turde,
10 bottles of sherbet., 6 dishes of fish, 30 entrees,
1 boiled turkey and oysters, 2 roast pullets, 2 dishes of
fowls, 6 ditto of Captain White's curries, 2 ditto of
capons, 2 French pies, 2 pigeon pies, 2 hams (orna-
mented), 2 tongues, 1 quarter of house-lamb, 1 stewed
rump of beef, 1 sirloin of beef, 6 dishes of asparagus, 2
ditto of mashed and other potatoes, 3 ditto of shell fish,
1 dish of prawns, 8 jellies, 3 blancmanges, 2 dishes of
tarts (creamed), 2 ditto of orange and other tourtes, 2
dishes of almond pastry, 4 Chantilly baskets, 2 dishes of
mince pies, 4 salads. Removes:3 roast turkeys, 1 leveret,
3 pheasants, 2 geese, 2 dishes of partridges, 1 dish of
sill fowl, 2 pea fowls. Dessert: 6 pine apples, 12 dishes
of grape, 10 ice creams, 2 dishes of apples, 4 ditto of
pears, 2 ornamented Savoy cakes, 3 plates of walnuts, 4
ditto of dried fruit and preseves, 3 ditto of prestrved
ginger, 3 ditto of rout cakes and chips, 3 ditto of brandy
cherries.

THE FIVE UNDER TABLES.-80 tureens o! turtle, GO
bottles of sherbet, 3 boiled turkeys and oysters, 16 roast
pullets, 20 dishes of fowls, 15 ditto of capons, 16 French
pies, 16 pigeon pies, 16 hams (ornamented), 13 tongues,
1 quarter of t oute-lamb, 1 round of beet, 1 stewed rump
of beef, 4 sirloins, rumps, and ribs of beef; 20 dishes of
mashed and other po awes, 13 ditto of shell fish, 1 dish
of prawns, 40 jellies, 16 blancmanges, 13 dishes of tarts,
(creamed), 9 ditto of orange and other tourtes, 13 ditto of
almond pastry, 16 Chantilly baskets, 20 dishes of mince
pies, 17 salads. Remores : 23 roast turkeys, 5 leverets,
23 pheasants, 7 geese, 13 dishes of partridges, 5 ditto of
wild fowl. Dessert: 32 pine apples, 64 dishes of grapes,
80 ice creams, 15 dishes of apphs, 30 oitto of pears, 18
ornamental Savoy cakes, 24 plates of walnuts, 26 ditto
of dried fruit and preserves, 15 ditto of preserved gin-
ger, 18'ditto of rout cakes and chips, 14 ditto of brandy
cherries.

"THE FIVE SHORT TABLES NEXT THE UPPER
TABLES.-26 tureens of turtle, 22 bottles -of sherbet,
8 roast pullets, 6 dishes of fowls, 5 ditto of capons, 5
French pies, 7 pigeon pies, 6 hams (ornamented), 5 tongues,
1 sirloin of beet, 6 dishes of mashed and other potatoes,
5 ditto of shellfish, 1 dish of prawns, 16 jellies, 5 blanc-
manges, 4 dishes of tarts (creamed), 3 ditto of orange
and other tourtes, 4 ditto of almond pastry, 6 ditto of
mince pies, 6 salads. Removes : 10 roast turkeys, 10
pheasants, 3 geese, 4 dishes of partridges. Dessert : 10
pine-apples, 20 dishes of grapes, 26 ice creams, 5 dishes
of apples, 12 ditto of pears, 7 ornamental Savoy cakes,
8 plates f walnuts, 8 ditto of dried fruit and preserves,
5 ditto of preserved ginger, 7 ditto of rout cakes and
chips, 5 ditto of brandy cherries.
THE FOUR LONG TABLES IN THE BODY OF TITE•IPAIL.
—BO tureens of turtle, 60 bottles of sherbet,-17 roast pul-
leis, 20 dishes of fowls, 15 ditto of capons, 16 French
pies, 20 pigeon pies, 16 hams (ornamented), 13 tongues,
1 round of beef, 1 stewed rump of be( f, 4 sirloins, rumps,
and ribs of beef, 20 dishes of mashed and other potatoes,
13 ditto of shell fish, 40 jellies, 16 blancmanges, 14
dishes of tarts (creamed), 10 ditto of orange:and other
tourtes, 13 ditto of almond pastry, 20 ditto of mince pies,
17isalads. Removes: 23 roast turkeys, 23 pheasants, 7
geese, 13 dishes of partridges, 5 ditto of wild fowl.
Dessert; 32 pine apples, 64 dishes of grapes, 80 ice
creams, 16 dishes of apples, 30 dishes of pears, 20 orna-
mented Savoy cakes, 24 plates of walnuts, 20 ditto of
dried fruits and preserves, 16 ditto of preserved ginger,
26 ditto of rout cakes and chips, 15 ditto of brandy
cherries.

THE SEVEN SIDE TABLES.-24 tureens of turtle, 20
bottles of sherbet, 7 roast pullets, 5 dishes of fowls, 4
ditto of capons, 5 French pies, 5 pigeon pies, 6 hams
(ornamented), 4 tongues, 1 sirloin of beef, 5 dishes of
mashed and other potatoes, 4 ditto of shell fish, 1 dish
of prawns, 15 jellies, 4 blancmanges, 3 dishes of tarts
(creamed), 8 ditto of orange and other tourtes, 3 ditto of
almond pastry, 3 ditto of mince pies, 5 salads. Removes:
9 roast turkeys, 9 pheasants, 2 geese, 3 dishes of part-
ridges. 'Dessert: 8 pine apples, 16 dishes of grapes, 24
ice creams, 5 dishes of apples, 10 ditto of pears, 6 orna-
mented Savoy cakes, 7 plates of walnuts, 7 ditto of dried
fruit and preserves, 5 ditto of preserved ginger, 6 ditto of
rout cakes tied chips, 4 ditto of brandy cherries.
THE THREE TABLES IN THE OLD COURT OF QUEEN'S
BENCH.-30 tureens of turtle, 28 bottles of sherbe t

roast pullets, 7 dishes of fowls, 6 ditto of capons,
French pies, 10 pigeon pies, 7 hams (ornamented), 6
tongues, 1 round of beef, 2 sirloins and rite of beef, 7
dishes of mashed and other potatoes, 6 ditto ashen
fish, 21 jellies, 6 blancmanges, 5 dishes of tarts (creamed),
4 ditto of crange and other tourtes, 5 ditto of almond
pastry, 7 ditto of mince pies, 7 salads. Removes : 12
roast turkeys, 12 pheasants, 3 geese, 5 dishes of part-
ridges, 4 ditto of wild fowl. Dessert: 12 pine apples, 24
dishes of grapes, 30 ice creams, 7 dishes of apples, 14
ditto of pears, 7 ornamented Savoy cakes, 9 plates of
walnuts, 9 ditto of dried fruit and preserves, 6 ditto of
preserved ginger, 7 ditto of rout cake:: and chips, 5
ditto of brandy cherries. Wines: Champagne, hock,
claret, madeira, port, sherry.

THE LATE MAYORALTY.
Alderman Hooper, the very popular Lord Mayor,
whose year of office has just expired, addressed his
brother Aldermen in a Court, held on the day of his
retirement from office formally in Guildhall. He bad, he
said, in delivering up to his successor the authority which
he had exercised during the last twelve months,
to return his warmest acknowledgments for the
effective and spontaneous support which he had upon all
occasions received from his brother Alderman. There
had occurred occasions during that period on which the
promptitude and judgment with which they had acted,
in circumstances requiring serious deliberation, were
productive of substantial good, in giving a character
of decision to the course which he had considered it
necessary to pursue; and he should always preserve a
I grateful recollection of the uniform kindness and friend-
ship which he had experienced at their hands, and by
which be had been enabled to perform the duties of his
office at a time of no ordinary difficulty and embarrass-
ment. He was happy to state that, in leaving the office of
Chief Magistrate, he had left no business to be done by
his successor, to which he ought to have paid attention
himself; and that the paper of business of the Court of
Aldermen, as well as that-of tire- Court of Commt;rt
Council, preser..trd irtthing-,but a blank. It gave .hiM
rot .greitification to.- retire from the highly t
honor:mobilo
utiri itia.tellow,citizens had raised him with
an assurance that his exertions were appreciated by
those to whom he was indebted for that elevation, and
who had so promptly, and powerfully, and successfully
given him their assistance in the emergency to which
he alluded. With every wish that the, ensuing year
would prove happy, and peaceful, and prosperous, and
with every confidence that if by any casualty the chief
magistrate's energies should be put to the test, his fel-
low-citizens would in his successor find a man who would
do credit to their high opinion, he most affectionately
took leave of the Court.—(Loud cheers.)
As Alderman Hooper passed through the hail, after
the performance of the ceremony of swearing in the
new Lord Mayor, three tremendous cheers were given
for him.

" Loup MAYOR'S SHow."—A new future was intro duced into the " Lord Mayor's Show " of yesterday,_
namely, a model of a very handsome brig, on a car drawn
by six horses. The little craft was neatly rigged, and
was well found in serviceable stores,.being supplied with
most of the patent improvements and inventions of the
age—such as Harris's lightning conductors, Brown's
controllers, and Porter's celebrated anchors. She was
well manned, and her gallant s( amen on ceek and in the'
tops cheered lustily in acknowledgment of the continu-
ous plaudits of the crowded populace. Without any
excessive stiffness, she stood up very well on her legs,
she pitched very little, rolled less, and appeared quite
easy. Indeed, we might pronounce her to be a " very
easy Ship," and (like Captain Butterffe:d's vessel) did
not "strain anything" but the lungs of the spec-
tators and the hardy and fearless ship's
lcom-
pany. • " Generally speaking," she proved toof
weak-
ness very sound ship, "and exhibited no symptoms
(like the ex Surveyor of the Navy's vessels) after
measure,
Cheapaide flats ; but this, in a great
icattooof
" Je fiery 's
her perilous voyage through Ludgate-hill race and
attributed to, the judicious application
marine glue," with which not
in stays, and answered
only her. decks but her
tides were payed. She was quick
put " hard
a-port.
her helm,
r.
mlowas just especially when p
st able to have her royal yards
attrkublY
she
crossed, but on deckthe y carried on till " all was blue,"
notwithstanding which cot a spar was sprung, nor,
strange to say, was any one of the crew, although the
" main-brace" was so often "spliced ;" the ship's com-
pany teemed proud of their craft, and, with the gratet ul
public,
felt the greatest confidence in the bit of bunting
flying at the mainmast head—

" The flag that's braved a thousand years
The battle and the breeze,"
under which the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Sir James
Duke himself, has so creditably served his Sovereign and
his country.—Lierald.

The Marchioness of Clanricarde and Lady Emily
De Burgh are staying on a visit to the Duke of Portland,
at Welbeck Abbey, Notts. The Noble Marquis has re-
turned to town. The youthful members of the family
are residing at Sandgate.
The accounts from Havre continue to report a
brisk business in cotton, with an improving tendency in
prices. From Marseilles, also, it is mentioned that the
a:micas were more active, and that there was altogether
increased animation in trade.

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THE CHARTIST TRIALS.—We understand that
John Grant, whose recent visit to France was considered
by many as a flight from justice, has returned to Ellin.%
•
burgh to await his trial, which is expected to take place
to-day.—Caledonian Mercury,