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foreign affairs, whom we not only feel to be the most labo-
rious, painstaking, obliging, business man in the kingdom
(Laughter and cheers)—but one always ready to extend
hospitality to us, not only in the town but out of the town—
(Hear)—not only in season, but out of season.-(A laugh.)
My Lord Mayor, I know where I am, and I know I have
but two or three minutes, and I shall not take up more;
but you have alluded to a subject of great importance, not
only to this nation, hut to all the world—the Great Exhi-
bition that is to take place in a few days. lam one of
those who believe that it was conceived in wisdom, that it
has been carried out with energy and judgment, and that
those men who conceived it, and who have had the manage-
ment of it, will have done great honour to themselves, and
when it shall have been finished, brought great glory to
England.—(Cheers.) I believe it to be a beneficent, a peaceful
measure, and, as one of the diplomatic corps, I have taken a
deep interest in its success—(Hear, hear)—and I have not a
doubt that peace, and quiet, and goodwill will reign in your
borders for six months to come—(Cheers)—and that when
the great number of foreigners that shall have come here
shall have gone home they will carry none other than the
kindliest feelings with them.—(Renewed cheers.) I am
vnv
quite sure that nothing can exceed the great pains taken by
institutions
the Royal Commission, the Executive Committee, and every-
body connected with the Exhibition to make it acceptable to
all the world.—(Hear, hear.) I cannot sit down without
sayingepn e that
t b
u having
thein g
public had myself,
a nI
dbelieveprivate
t e
associations, every foreign
Minister has, often to make application not only to the Go-.
m
and even noblemen who have works of art and things worthy
the attention of foreigners, I am gratified to find that' those
are all to be thrown open to t'be world. I believe the fo-
reigners who come here will receive every attention and con-
sideration this great nation is capable of be • d •
stowing; and,'
when it shall all have been done, I am quite sure there will
be no man in England who will regret ita having taken place,
as there will be no foreigner who shall come here that will
not carry away kinder feelings than when he came.—( Hear,
hear.)' I will not take up ,more of your time than to thank
you for giving me the opportunity of being present at this
banquet to her. Majesty's .Ministers.-(Cheers.) '
.The LOltD MATOIO 'then gave Th 4 House of I.oixls,t“
and associated with the toast the name of the Marquis of
Abercorn.
The Marquis of ABIECOnN, in acknowledging the tompli-
ment, made a reference, which was much cheered, to the cir-
cumstance that the peerage had the privilege of continually
ricrniting its ranks from the princely merchants and other
c asses of the people.
Lord J. RUSSELL proposed the health of the Lord Mayor,
observing that he believed there had been no Lord Mayor
Who had discharged the duties of his high office more to the
satisfaction of his fellow-citizens.—(Cheers.) The right dis-
charge of those duties was of great importance to the metro-
polis; and it was of the utmost consequence to the Govern-
ment.to have a Lord Mayor upon whose cordial co-opera-
tion they could at all times rely, and to whose judgment
they could look for assistance in any emergeney that might
arise.—(Hear, hear.)
The company rose to drink the toast, and followed it by a
hearty cheer.
The 'LORD MAYOR acknowledged 'the toast, and said it
was his most earnest desire to discharge aright the duties of
his office to promote the good of his fellow-citizens and earn
their approbation.— (Cheers.) His Lordship then gave
" The House of Commons and Lord Palmerston," to whom,
he observed, the country was most deeply indebted for ser-
vices, not only in the Senate, but, he might say, throughout
the world.—(Cheers.)
Lord PALmansrrow said—My Lord Mayor, ladies, and
gentlemen, in the name of the House of Commons, I beg to
return you our grateful thanki for the compliment you have
just: paid to that great and noble assembly. For myself, I
most cordially and sincerely thank you for having done me
the great honour of coupling my name with the Commons'
House of Parliament ; and I am still more indebted, my
Lord Mayor, to your kindness for the flattering, and I am
sorry to say undeservedly flattering, terms in which you
have been pleased to introduce this toast.—( Hear, hear.)
It is indeed natural that. on an occasion when you have
assembled at your hospitable beard so many of the most
distinguished men of the country—distinguished by
services of '
every kind, both civil and military—at a
time when you have also the presenee of that most distin-
guished representative, as he has described himself, of the
world—of the foreign world, but whom, from the sentiments
he expresses, and from the cordial interes the takes in every-
thing which concerns the welfare of this country, as well as
his own, we can hardly call the representative of foreign
Ministers, for we may claim him almost as one of ourselves—
(Cheers)—it is natural that on such an occasion your Lord-
ship should call to the remembrance of the assembled corn-
pany that branch of ourLegislaturethe louseofraamtnons.
-(hear.) For, my Lord, you who are head of this
great metropolis of the world—you who at moment re-
present to us the commercial princes of England, must feel
the value of that legislation of which the House of Commons
has been the instrument.—(Cheers.) In vain would a coun-
try be possessed of inexhaustible resources—in vain would a
nation boast of the intelligence of its people—of the enter..
prise, of the skill, and of the capital of its merchants,.
if its laws did not give freedom at home, and security
for the enjoyment of the fruits of industry.—(Hear, hear.)
It is the dispensation of Providence that mankind should be
divided into rich and poor—that the rich should be compara-
tively few, and that the poor should be comparatively many ;
but, though no human legislation can alter that arrange-
ment, it is in the power of our lawgiVers so to legislate
that the poor shall be protected from oppression by
the rich, and that the rich shall be defended against
violence frc,m the poor.—(Cheers.) That duty the Parlia-
ment of England has amply and successfully performed, and
hence it is that, while we have seen all the nations in Europe
convulsed with disorder—while we have seen industry sus-
pended, commerce paralyzed, institutions civil and political
overthrown—while we have seen fields that ought to be
trod only by the peaceful husbandman beat down by the
trampling of the iron heel of armed legions—while we have
seen them bathed with the blood of kindred though con-
flicting armies—the people of this country have exhibited
an example of tranquillity, of order, and obedience to
the laws, which, so long as the history of these times shall
endure, will command the admiration of mankind.—(Cheers.)
My Lord Mayor, having thus performed my duty in thank-
ing you for the toast which you have proposed, and for the
honour which you have done me, perhaps you will permit
me to travel somewhat further, but still I trust not depart-
ing from the character in which you have called upon me to
stand. For though the House of Commons is intent upon
sterner duties, that House is not insensible to the respect
which is due to the fairer portion of creation—(Laughter and
cheers)—and I hold myself, therefore, to be not a less faith-
ful representative of the House of Commons, when I invite
this assembled company to drink " Health and happiness to
my Lady Mayoress."
The toast, which was very much applauded, was acknow-
ledged by the Lord Mayor."
The next toast was " The English Bar."
The Arroasfilv-GENEk.sr., in returning thanks, regretted
that the task had not devolved upon his Learned Friend the
Solicitor-General (Mr. Page Wood), who had an 'hereditary
distinction there--(Cheers)—whose value as a colleague he
cordially appreciated—(Hear, hear)—and whose advance-
ment to his present position must be a great satisfaction to
the citizens of London.—(Hear, hear.) He would add, that
to have their approbation must always be matter of pride and
gratification to the bar.—( Hear, hear.)
The toasts of " The Members for the City," " The Magis-
trates of the City," " The Recorder," and " The Sheriffs,"
followed. The company then broke up."

ARRIVALS FOR TILE EXHIBITION.
"The arrivals of goods," says a correspondent of the
Weekly News, "both British and foreign, have been unceas-
ing, and the Kensington-road has daily presented a scene
which must have been particularly offensive to the far -
famed Rotten-row interest,' and therefore correspondingly
gratifying to all the friends of the Exhibition. ' From early
morn till dewy eve,' heavily-freighted waggons, carts, vans,
and conveyances of all descriptions, on many of which
Pickford'-- a name which will assuredly be carried to the
remotest posterity was conspicuously emblazoned, might
be seen in one continuous array, frequently extending from
Sloane-street to considerably beyond whilome Gore House,
now the Symposium of all Nations' ! ! the addresses on
some of the huge-packing cases exciting the risible faculties
of many of the by-goers, and making us sigh involuntarily
for the native well of English undefiled,'—a' well' which
some of our exhibitors seem most pertinaciously determined
to 'let alone,' no less in their addresses than in their cata-
logue descriptions and epistolary communications to the om-
niscient Digby Wyatt. Even our proverbial gravity was
well nigh upset as we watched the movements of a bucolic-
looking old gentleman, in very presence top boots, and with
spectacles on nose,' near the Knightsbridge Barracks, fairly
shaking his portly sides, at a label on a mammoth packing-
case, which was convulsively endeavouring to decipllilterr.
Remembering the example of our illustrious prototype, .
Pickwick, we proceeded, after ejaculating 'God bless our
soul, what a remarkable fact !' to take out our note-book, and
to transcribe therein for the future delectation of our readers,
verbatim et literati:a, the address which bad thus tickled our
rural friend. It bore the most unmistakeable evidence of
being the production of nos voisins d'outre Manche, and ran
as follows :
i 5 1I t VYAT AND SIR FOX ENDERSON, ESQUIRE,

GRATE EXPOSITION

PATE OF HIDE,

GLACE.

AT LONDON.

SOFTLY•

TO BE POSED UPRIGHT.

ISLE or Evr..—An extraordinary ease
has just occurred at this place, whereby three women have
nearly lost their lives, and one is actually dead. It would
appear that Mr. Edward Miller, a brewer and maltater,
had ascertained that two of his maid servants had been
pilfering his flour, and told them of it, but agreed, on
their promising better behaviour for the future, to look
over the offence, and continue them in his service. This
charge was laid by Mr. Miller on Monday, and on Tues-
day morning Mr. Miller's two servants were missing, and
also a third in the employ of Mrs. Jones (Mr. Miller's
sister), who lived next door to Mr. Miller. :Nothing was
heard of them until dark on Tuesday evening, when it was
ascertained that one of Mr. Miller's servants had died (her
body being discovered under a hedge in a field at the back
of the town). This lass had been observed about two o'clock
on Tuesday lying under a straw stack, apparently tipsy ; but
there is no doubt from what has since transpired that Sher
was then suff ring from the effects of laudanum. The other
two girls were searched for and found in a house ou
the rt
out to Mr. Miller's back premises, suffering fromeffects
of strong doses of laudanum. They were watchedaw .aunpd_so.
at-
tended during Tuesday night, and there are
,:at e
that the
their recovery. It will be proved at the in
three girls bought three separate four-pennyworthsofan lauda-
num ti
thatda -
num at three different druggists' • It would
shops oit a
gT-et ehed ra ,
they all agreed to end their existence t
a hedge in the fields
seem that the three went and lay underdwatmaretnhoawn
tihnea verytogether, but that the two survivors,iau
precarious state, had taken more
unfor-
tunate deceased, and had voidedtheir doses. An inquest is
to be held, at which there is no doubt that the full particu.
lars will come out.
ao-covam—There is a supersti-
tioning_cough may be cured by hold-
CURE or Hoorisi
in Cheshire that
moments with its head within the mouth
ing a toad for a few. mo
of the person affected. I heard only the other day of a cure
by this somewhat disagreeable process ; the toad was said to
disease, which in this instance proved fatal
have caught the
1, ...Noted and Queries.
to it in a few ++9"4'—

_ALIAN OPERA IN PARIS.
have already announced in a jerref sentence the
sg reception accorded to M. lary's new op a,
Sozze, and, apart from the friendly partialiti
involuntarily manifest themselves on the first
,ntation
,of a work from a young artiste very
Sly known, and as generally esteemed, we
enabled to bear testimony to its genuine merits.
As it is, we regard the advent of a young composer like
M. Alary as an event of a certain importance—always
supposing that his future works will keep the promise
made by the present. The subject of Le Tre .IVoize is
amusing, and pleasantly carried on from beginning:to end.
The pivot of the plot is the mystification of a pompoms
old baron (Lablache), who, proud of his wealth and his
ancestors. comes from the provinces a suitor for the
hand of Luisa (Mine. Sontag); but, the young lady
having given her ht art to a handsome cavalier (Gar-
doni), the lovers, with the aid of Cricca (Ferranti), a
smart intriguing kind of Figaro, and the eamerista
of Luisa (Mine. Giuliani), enter into a plot to mys-
tify and frighten the old gentleman out of his
absurd pretensions, and they succeed so well
that he gives up the •daughter . and marries her
mother, the Marchese di Forli (Mlle. Ua Bertrand),
The scene being laid at Naples during . the carnival,
gives carte blanche to every kind of disguise and extrava-
gance, and the unfortunate Baron, a mixture of Don
Magnifico and Pasquele, inimitably acted by Lablache,
is alternately duped and mystified by all parties, the great
blow being, however, given by the cameriata, who at the
wedding party throws herself at his feet in the guise of, a
victim, and, demanding justice in the name of her out. .
raged innocence, hints something of a little pledge of af-
fection, who has particular claims upon his paternal
care. The indignant Marchese on this discovery breaks
off the marriage with her daughter, and after some fur-
ther adventures as we have already said, weds him
herself, the younger quartette of loves making up
matters at the same time, and hence the title of the
piece--Le Tre Piazze. it will be seen from this
sketch that it is completely an opera-buffs. The
Music—light, tasteful, and abounding in passages of
graceful melody—will speedily find its way to every
piano and concert-room. It is true that reminis-
cences frequently present themselves, not exactly in
the form of imitation, but every
now and then
little passage drops in unmistakeably of the family
of Donizetti, Bellini, oT Rossini. Notwithstanding this,
however, the opera is by no means without originality,
'and nearly every aria displays a vein
of
and sparkling melody, while the 'swathrmceaats,ss!
d'ensemble and the instrumentation show the hand as ,---:
of an accomplished musician. The first air, a pin
bel sole," sung by Ferranti, a once won the favour of
the audience for the composer; the style is large,
and very well executed by this tieing young siager;.
it was warmly applauded. The , next striking mar-
ceau is the - aria d'infrata .of Lablache, very
effective, with a spirited chorus of masquers,
and a trio " Negliastri," which follows between
Mesdames Sontag and Giuliani, disguised as Bohemians,
and Lablache, ware both admirable. The second act
opens with a chorus and one of the prettiest airs in
the piece, sung by Mademoiselle Ida Bertrand, though
of far too sentimental a cast fpr the occasion ;
the Marchese being simply scolding her ser-
vants and ordering an excellent dinner, which
the composer has thrown into an air of touching sensi-
bility and tenderness. It was much applauded. The
capital scene of the piece follows, in which Lablache
essays a lesson of love-making; and the young lady in re-
turn undertakes to give him a lesson of bon ton and credat
Adams ! to teach the Leviathan basso to trip the polka!
Bad the success of the opera been at all doubtful, this
scene would at once have decided the public in its favour.
The acting and singing of Mme. Sontag and Lablache were
fairly matched, and the result was an ovation for both
these great artistes. The finale of this act is conceived and
written in a large and truly musician-like style, and was
justly received with the loudest demonstrations of favour.
In the third act we must notice a charming chorus in a
staccato movement, " Nella Berra," spiritedly sung
and greatly applauded; a comic duo between Lab-
lache and Ferranti, "Io imbroglione," was simi-
larly honoured; a graceful solo, well sung by Gar-.
doni, and a brindisi by the same singer, with a
chorus, were likewise most favourably received. A.
striking sextuor, "1 miei giuri," is noticablo for com-
mendable breadth of style, and as a finale, the polka air
above-mentioned, sung as a rondo with variations by
Mine. Sontag, in her own inimitable style, brings the
opera triumphantly to its conclusion. The principal
artistes were all recalled at the fall of the curtain with
the composer, an honour which had been already thrice
bestowed upon M. Alary during the representation.—
Galiynani.

BANK OF FRANCE.
The following is a return of the situation of the Bank
of France on April 3:—

ASSETS.

Cash in hand . . f. 393,589,642 31
Ditto in branch banks 146,000,580 0
Bills past due ••• ••• ••• 204,680 63
Bills discounted, but not yet due, of
which 15,107,830 f. were received
from the Branch Banks ... 4,812,125 14
Bills in/the branch banks ~. 77,492,505 0
Advances on coins and ingots... ... 1,337,200 0
Ditto by the branch banks ... 1,278,016 0
Ditto on French public securities ... 7,956,312 10

Ditto by branch franks... ...
Ditto to the State on Bons du Tr6sor...
Ditto on the loan of 75 millions •••
Rentes of the reserve fund
Rent,”, disposable funds
investments of the new branch banks in
the public funds ...
Hotel and furniture of the Bank ...
Real property of the branch banks ...
Interest in National Discount Bank ...
Ditto branch banks ...
Expenses of administration of the Bank
Ditto at the branches ...
Miscellaneous ...

2,186,034 0
50,000,000 0
50,000,000 0
10,000,000 0
42,557,246 28

12,952,725 74
4,000,000 0
3,617,794 0
200,000 0
230,000 0

317.475 59
301,704 0
2,274,049 2

L 852,368,086 81