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London, England, 1867-07-12 00:00:00

walls as guests during past years. In proposing the 1
toast of the evening, the Lord Mayor made some
appropriate remarks, and with effective eloquence
sketched the peculiar recollections with which the
name of the Viceroy of Egypt was associated. As
a people, he truly said, we attach considerable im-
rt7.ncf,.. tr) anoient lineage, and regard with pride
the long line of monarchs through which our QJEN
can trace her descent. "But with the name of Egypt
what associations with the past arise ! Its
dynasties extend over more than four thousand
years, and its pyramids are still memorials of its
early grandeur and renown. Egypt was the early
seat of political civilisation, it was the land of corn,
wine, and oil, to which famine-stricken nations
resorted for food when Britain was an uncultivated
waste, inhabited by a barbarous people." But if
this part of this land is so rich in associations and so
glorious in memory, the future is not without its
claims of greatness and distinction, although in a
different style, and in a more modified way, and the
Lord Mayor alluded to this in an emphatic passage,
when he said that commerce was encouraged under
the rule of its enlightened Governor, and railways,
with heir in power of civilisation, were ex-
tending over the country. In pursuing this theme
he prophesied that as the influence of the West made
way in Egypt we should see the wires of the tele-
graph supported on the side of the Pyramids,
and the murmurings of the Sphynx made
utterance of political economy. The sympathy
of his hearers was with the Lord Mayor
throughout, and very cordially did they concur
in his closing remarks that we should give a hearty
welcome to the present ruler of Egypt for many
reasons, and conspicuous among them for the
facilities he gave to the passage of our troops at
the time of our India troubles.

The Viceroy of EGYPT addressed the assembly in
his native tongue, which was afterwards interpreted
by NI:BAR PASHA in French. He conveyed the
expressions of his sincere gratitude for the recep-
tion he had met with, and alluded to the visit of
his father twenty-one years ago to this country,
and the reception he had then met in that
Hall. As to the services which had been rendered
to England by Egypt the Vic_Toy declared that in
doing so his country had only paid a debt, for
England had mainly contributed to the construc-
tion of railways, and he felt happy in having the
opportunity of expressing his thanks and acknow-
ledgments to the Government and the people of
Ilus‘' country. The Prince of WALES, in the
course of the remarks he uiade,tcstified to the satis-
faction*felt in entertaining as an honoured guest
the Vbsei9g of EGYPT. He himself, in 18G2, had
_been. ' in the kindest manner by his uncle,
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iigt ness gratified the audience by declaring
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: ;.;1.0. Princess of WALES had now nearly re-
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. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, who was
very well received, made a most interesting
speech, in which he touched upon subjects
of political moment, while he alluded to
the immediate topic before them. Respecting
the House of Commons, he said that the relations
of that assembly with the city of London are most
memorable ones, and that the measure now passing
through Parliament will increase the rights of the
people, and that it had not been conducted in the
acerbity of a party struggle. As for the VICEROY,
he added, it was an additional pleasure to refer to
beneficial changes before a Prince who showed
in the Government of his own country how greatly
he prized representative institutions. It is, as
Mr. DISRAELI emphatically said, interesting to re-
memb;:r that in that " ancient and illustrious land, the
mother of so many arts, and which has been destined
to exercise so signal an influence on the fate and
character of the human race, a Prince now reigns
who, in the teeming and inexhaustible land of the
Pharoahs and Ptolemies, has applied all the re-
sources of modern science, and even laid the foun-
dation of representative institutions." Mr. DISRAELI
is always most happy on occasions like the
one we are now referring to, and possesses
the art of blending the associations of the past with
the most noticeable features of the present, and he
could nowhere have found a more suitable topic
than Egypt for a speech of this kind. Amid the
whirl and conflict of political life, and in the tur-
moil of business and the engrossment of commerce,
it is refreshing to turn aside for a moment, and in
the task of welcoming an illustrious guest
to our shores, find a real and rare oppor-
tunity for wandering in thought to that land
of marvel and mystery which Egypt has always
been. From the summit of its Pyramids, as the
Great NAPOLEON told his soldiers, forty centuries
contemplate us, and it is gratifying to think that
the land still contains the spirit of vitality, and has
not crumbled away with the dust of ages, or perished
with the waning glories of less solid states and
more ephemeral races. It is seldom indeed that
so interesting and suggestive a theme for contem-
plation, association, and reflection is presented to the
notice of the frequenters of banquets, and we are
glad to think that the Viceroy of EGYPT has been
so well and so worthily received as he was last
night. The rank, the talent, and the rulers of the
country were ably represented to do honour to him,
and to assure him of the genial regard and the
lively interest which the people of England feel in
him as a ruler, and in the land which he so worthily
g3verns, and which calls forth so many feelings of
admiration for its past and respect for its present
history.

We are likely just now to have ample opportu-
nity of displaying our national
of crowned
hospitaliry. V
cannot, indeed, rival the show \e
heads
of, but we have received a dignitary who ve
that a neighbouring capital has been able troyboast
sel-
dom visits Europe,
the SULTAN
the advent of no less a person than
and to-day we arc to welcome
himself. The very title of the Sultan seems strang
e
amid the world of London business and pleasure.
It makes us think of the domes and minarets of
Stamboul rather than our own familiar St. Paul's it
is associated with all theluxurious dignity of Eastern
life, in place of the plain and bustling business of
the English metropolis. We are reminded of the
days when Turkey was a prominent Power in
Europe, and when, in place of needing the aid of
one or two of the leading nations to defend herself
against a single enemy, Turkey alone was able to
face successfully the combined forces of two great
Powers. In still older days, indeed, a goodly
share of Europe was under her away.
The
miss:on of the Mahoinetan was to conquer,
and he fulfilled it with a vigour that insured
success. For many a long decade the Turks were
numbered among the usurpers of unhappy Poland,
while Hungary herself was completely under her
sway, and the Magyars still cherish the name of
ITUNYOCLES in connection with their war of de-
liverance.

The SULTAN is associated with all our early
lessons of the wonders of Eastern life, and it seems
strange indeed that we may expect to see him
riding through the streets of Loudon, Nevertheless
such is the order of the day, and our ancient ally is
to see for himself the marvels of En2Pish industry