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EWSPAPER
rival any force--tlie ern es our coOfr
nental neighbours. But we must make np the
difference by other means We .must redress the .
balance by our admirabre Militia, by 04/.,
fk,
noble''
rolunteers—(cheers)—a for 'ce now become oat
he permanent institutions io.
i'pthorteacn°tuna
country---(loud -v
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e urd.. l
cheers)—and by fortifying m
able points. Above all we must redress the balance
by maintaining, as we always should maintain, a
strong and powerful navy.:(Ch errs.) I say this:irt
presence of the representatives ot! foreign and allied
Powers. I say it in a spirit of irrankness and cor-
diality, of friendship, alliance, a ad peace. (Cheers.)
We wish from the bottom of facer hearts to be at
peace with all nations—(hear, hear)—to be bound
by the ties of friendship and eliance with those
nations waose interests are most' congenial with
our own. We wish from the bottom of our hearts
to win and preserve their friendship and alliance,
but we are determined by the manly dignity of
our position to prove to them that we are worthy
to retain that friendship and that alliance, (Loud,
cheers.) In addressing the whole majesty' ,of this
commercial city, it would be vain and idle to
dwell on the power of commercial intercourse' t`o
ward off the calamities of war, to bind closely
between nation and nation the ties of friendship%
and amity ; but still I may be allowed to say,
with reference to what has already been stated,.
that his Majesty the Emperor of the French
has lately, with enlightened sagacity, co-operated
with the Government of this country in libe-
ralising the tariff of the two countries, and has
thereby laid the foundation for the great ex-
tension of commercial intercourse between them,
and has thereby, I trust, tended most materially
to cement the friendship and kindly feelings which
ought always to prevail between two great nations
who have so many interests in common, and who,
from their geographical position, are so well fitted
for commercial intercourse. (Cheers.) I trust that
these changes which have been made will not only'
tend to cement more closely the ties of friendship
and alliance between England and France,but that
the example which has thus nobly been set by they
French Emperor, of overcoming long-standing pre-
judices and giving full effect to different theories of
commerce, will be followed by other Governments
of the Continent not yet so far advanced in com-
mercial enlightenment, and that from year to year
we shall find those commercial relations which are
the surest links of peace and amity gradually and
rapidly extending throughout the whole of the
European Continent. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. GLADSTONB proposed " The Health of the
Lord Mayor." In any case, he said, it must be a
source of pride and gratification to those who as-
sembled at this hospitable board to testify their
acknowledgments for the magnificent reception
accorded to them. But there were other and higher
reasons which led them to take pleasure in thus
evincing their feeling towards the Lord Mayor.
The choice of the citizens of London was certain to
fall upon a worthy object of dignity and honour.
The gentleman who now occupied the civic choir
was too well known to those present to render it ne-
cessary to:enter into details upon the merits which
had recommended him to favourable notiee ; but
he might venture to say that the Lord Mayor
was also well known to, and was not less re-
spected by, those who sat in the Commons House
of Parliament, as a man of thoroughly inde-
pendent character, and of a capacity which
rendered him worthy to be invested with the
high trust of representing the interests, the wishes
and the feelings of the people. (Cheers.) In the
Lord Mayor :of London they saw no unfit repre-
sentative of that municipal system which was so
closely connected with the liberties they so highly
prized. Five centuries had passed over the hall
in which they now were gathered and it was left
still as firm and as able to withstand the vicissi-
tudes of the elements as it was on the day it was
founded. In the same manner the local institutions
of the city, still later in their. date, yet retained
down to this hour a vigorous life. Whenev r
e re-
formation was applied it was always applied to
them in a spirit of reverence and caution--(her,
hear)—and they came out from it, as had been set 'n
on a thousand occasions, fresher and stronger tiller'
before. (Cheers.) In the name of this company
he wished health and prosperity to the Lord Mayor,
who, he hoped, would emulate the name of those
who had gone before him, would hand down his
own name with honour to those who ce.mo after
him, and would be the means of inciting those who
now were less advanced in their career and of infe-
rior station, by the prospect of a reward o f in-
dustry, perseverance, and high character, to tf,tose
meritorious exertions which in this free country, he
was proud to say, seldom failed to command encou-
ragement and to insure success. (Cheers.)
The LORD MAYOR acknowledged the toast, and
called on the company to drink to " The House of
Lords," coupling with the toast the name of Lord
Brougham.
Lord BROUGHAM, who was loudly cheered on
rising, in reply said that not only was he a mem-
ber of the body the health of which had just been
proposed, but he was also a member of the body
which had drunk the health. For 40 years and
upwards he had been a citizen of London, and
proud he felt of being a fellow-citizen of those
who at all times had been the constant friends
of liberty in all, even the worst times, who had
met oppression at home with a vigorous resis-
tance, and had vowed to oppression abroad,
where they could not meet it with resistance, an
unextieguishable and implacable hatred. It was
gratifying to him to reflect on the reason for which
he had been made a citizen of London. He had been
selected for the honour as having on a memorable
occasion exercised the privileges and performed the
duties of the renowned profession to which he be-
longed in the defence of a client who was oppressed_
by the Court. That illustrious advocate and splendidd
master of forensic eloquence, Erskine, always sail
that those who would be the friends of the peep
e
should evince it by being the defenders of
bar the people
by the exercise of the privileges of the
.i
courts of the King and the courts of the
judges.
On that maxim Lord France ErskineM alwayßerryer,s actedwho was
through-
out life ; and in .
scarcely second to him in forensic ability, had been
equally distinguished for his gallant and invincible
resistance to all encroachments either on the part
of the judges or the government of the country. M.
Berryer had of late adopted a desponding tone on.
this important subject—too desponding, he trusted ;
and he hoped that that illustrious advocate would
be long spared to display that untameable indepen-
dence which had made him for so many years the
ornament of the French bar.
The next toast was " Her Majesty's Judges,"
which was acknowledged by the Lord Chief Baron.
The LORD MAYOR then gave " The House of
Commons," coupling with the toast the name of
Lord J. Russell.
Lord J. RUSSELL (who was almost inaudible) in
reply said that, whatever might be the subject to be
handled, whether relating to foreign policy, to colo-
nial government, or to domestic legislation, there
was no doubt that, even after it had been discussed
by an enlightened press, after men of the most acute
minds had thrown light upon it in various ways, a
discussion in the House of Commons brought for-
ward the argument best fitted for the consideration
of the subject, and most calculated to lead to a
proper judgment upon it. He would not
say that there might not be occasions whe.n
a disposition was shown to prolong those dis-
cussions perhaps further than necessary, and
as there were faults in all instituti9ns.,ts
be f
it must be admitted that there might
cahur,ratil-
the House of Commons. He had
bgebn much
French
fied to hear the sentiments expresweresed cyalculated to
Ambassador. (Cheers.) They
eto peace, and to
lead to the extension of com
the union of the var keeping on the most
ious nationfasioefretl; earth. (Cheers.)
We weie always desiii u.
ti) tosroeign nations. Whatever
friendly terms with
ent, we valued and respected
their form of go and d alliance, but we never could
their friendshie
-a:hnient to that liberty which we
vary in our att
0 long enjoyed, and in our sympathy
ourselves liad- s s endeavouring to obtain it. (Cheers.)
for other nation
toasts and
other complimentaryfollowed,
Several
duly honoured.
were The musical arrangements were under the direc-
tionof G. Wesley, and the dinner, which fully sup-
ported the reputation of their establishment, was
supplied by Messrs. Staples.

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