The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-12 00:00:00

have also to thank the company present for the way
in which the toast has been received. I need not
assure you that my having been invited here this
evening has been a source of great pleasure to me.
Under any circumstances I always feel that it is a
great compliment to be invited to the hospitable board
of the Lord Mayor and Corporation of London ;
but this is a special and peculiar occasion. We
have been invited to do honour to a distinguished
guest, and that guest is the Viceroy of Egypt.
(Cheers.) As the Lord Mayor has very truly re-
marked, England and Egypt are countries which,
although far distant from each other, and very dif-
ferent from each other in their religion and habits,
are at the same time countries which have been, and
will continue to be, closely allied. We have every
reason to be grateful to the Viceroy and his Go-
vernment for the means he has afforded us of visit-
ing that country, and for the great hospitality he
has shown to us on all occasions. On many occa-
sions, while I was visiting Egypt during the year
1862, when that country was under the rule of his
uncle, the late Viceroy, I received many dis-
tinguished marks of kindness and goodwill. (Hear,
hear.) Nothing could have exceeded the courtesy
and hospitality with which I was treated. (Hear,
hear.) I have also to acknowledge the facilities
which were afforded to me for visiting that most
interesting country. We are greatly indebted to
the Viceroy and the Egyptian Government for the
facilities that he afforded our troops in their transit
to India. As has been remarked, Egypt is a coun-
try which is largely improving in every way.
(Cheers.) Manufactories are rising on all sides,
especially cotton manufactories ; and I myself
visited a very important sugar factory, and it was
interesting to find that there were English, French,
and German workmen employed in that factory.
I will not take up further time, as there are many
more toasts to be given, but I beg to thank you all
most sincerely for the honour you have done me in
inviting me here this evening, and I desire also to
thank you most sincerely for the kind expressions
you have used towards the Princess of Wales.
(Cheers.) I know that lam only expressing her
feelings when I say that she has been deeply
touched by the good feeling and sympathy that
have been universally expressed towards her during
her long and painful illness. (Cheers.) By the
blessing of God, she is now nearly recovered ; and
I trust that in a month's time she will be able to
leave London and enjoy the benefits off` fresh air.
(Hear, hear, and loud cheers.)
The LORD MAYOR next proposed " The Army,
Navy, and Volunteers," with which he associated
the name of the Duke of Cambridge as the Com-
mander-in-Chief of the army, and colonel of a me-
tropolitan regiment of volunteers, and the Right
Hon. Henry Corry, First Lord of the Admiralty.
The Duke of CAMBRIDGE, who was received with
cheers, said—l feel flattered that the army and
volunteers should have been brought to the notice
of so distinguished a company, and I feel grateful to
the Lord Mayor for having given me an occasion to
express our great satisfaction on the part of the
army to see the illustrious guest who sits on my
right present in this country. The Viceroy of
Egypt, as has been observe.l, has availed himself of
many opportunities of conferring real benefit on the
British soldier; and I am happy to say that, thanks
to his enlightened mind, and the enlarged views he
entertains, we shall be enabled, as regards the army,
to get rid of one of the most painful duties of the
soldier—a prolonged sea voyage. Thanks to the
arrangements which are now under consideration,
and which are nearly completed, I hope soon to see
the day when that cordiality and good feeling which
has already existed so long between this country
and Egypt will be still further extended and
deepened. lam sure everything that I have seen
and heard of our illustrious guest brings me to the
conclusion that in his hands that country is certain
to receive that amount of consideration and good
feeling which it is of so much advantage to cultivate.
In times like these cordiality and good feeling be-
tween nations are of the utmost importance. The
commercial liberality with which all countries now
deal with each other must tend to their mutual
benefit, and we find these views are becoming more
and more extended. The visits of the leading men
from the East to the western countries must still
further develop this tendency, and must necessarily
produce benefits to the world al large. It affords
me the greatest satisfaction, in common with every-
body in this hall, to see such distinguished men com-
ing from a neighbouring and friendly country to pay
us a visit in such a manner as to show that they come
not as friends to the zountry more than another, but
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we are making, and judge of the advantages
to trade and commerce which would follow their
adoption. (Hear, hear.)
The Right Hon. Mr. CORRY
, in responding for
the navy, said the honour of doing so would in any
case be great, but it was doubly enhanced by hav-
ing to do so in so brilliant and distinguished a com-
pany. He hoped and believed the navy was at pre-
sent in an efficient state, and he trusted that the
Viceroy would see for himself at the
forthcoming
review what kind of a navy England thought it
necessary to keep up in time of peace. (Hear, hear.)
The LORD MAYOR then gave " The Two Houses
of the Legislature—the House of Lords and the
House of Commons." Each of them represented
the particular characteristics of this country. The
House of Lords, though a permanent body, still
drew to it the men who had shown the greatest
talent, the most gifted, in every walk of life, and
he was sure he said no more than the truth when
he said that none more enjoyed the confidence and
respect of the people. The House of Commons was
the house of the people, and they had been looking
with deep anxiety on what had been going on in
that house of late with reference to the alteration of
its own constituencies. They believed that the
Chancellor of the Exchequer would leave his mark
on the history of this country if he succeeded in
carrying a bill which would extend the liberties and
increase the securities for the freedom of the people.
The Duke of MONTROSE responded on behalf of
the House of Lords ; and referring to the Reform
Bill which was so soon to be sent up to that house,
said he was sure it would meet with an impartial
and dispassionate consideration, and that the claims
of the people to a larger share in the representation
would be fairly recognised ; that, in short, the bill
would very speedily pass through the Upper House.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, who was
received with cheers, said—l beg leave, on the part
of the House of Commons, to acknowledge the
honour you have done them—an honour which
they have received many times in the city of Lon-
don, but which has been only the more appreciated
each time the honour has been conferred upon them.
Such a mark of sympathy and respect from any
body of their fellow citizens is what they must at
all times highly prize ; but coming as it does from
an ancient body, whose relations with the House of
Commons are so memorable as those of the city of
London, I am sure that when I tell the members of
that house that they have been remembered to-day
in this hall I shall communicate to them a fact which
will be in every way most gratifying to them. My
lord, you have referred to a measure of great im-
portance which is now passing through Parliament,
and which, if passed, will greatly increase the popu-
lar rights of this country. Far be it from me, in
this or any assembly of a popular character, to
make any remark which nay promote or provoke
k I may say this of that
controversy; but I thin
matter of congratulation
measure, that it must be a
to all thoughtful minds, that a bill which will
greatly increase the popular rights of the people of
this country has been passed, though not without
severe scrutiny, yet entirely without the acerbity
of party contention—(cheers)—so that it will be
accepted by those who will be invested with the
responsibility of political rights without any of
those perverted feelings that are the inevitable re-
sult of an embittered struggle. (Loud cheers.) It
is gratifying to me, my lord, this day, that I have
to refer to this probable change in the character of
our representative institutions in the presence of
an enlightened Prince, who has shown in the govern-
ment of his own country how much he appreciates
them. I cannot this moment forget that in that
ancient and illustrious land, the mother of many
arts—a land which has been destined to exercise