The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-29 00:00:00

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custom iry series given in every mayoralty, and was
served as usual in the Egyptian-ball. The guests
were about 250 in number, and were received by the
Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress in the principal
saloon. There were present, among others, Lord
Chief Justice and Lady Bovill, Lord Justice and
Lady Turner, Vice-Chancellor Wood and Lady
Wood, Vice -C hancellor and Lady Malins, Mr. Baron
and Lady Martin, Mr. Baron and Miss Bramwell,
Mr. Justice and Miss Shee, Mr. Justice and Lady
Smith, Mr. Justice and Lady Lush, Sir William and
Lady Erle, the Judge-Advocate-General and Miss
Mowbray, the Queen's Advocate and Lady Phil&
more, &C.
On the removal of the cloth the Lord Mayor and
Lady Mayoress drank to the guests in a " loving
cup:" The usual loyal toasts were then given in suc-
c,ssionfrom the chair, and drank with all the custo-
mary respect. The toasts of " The Army, Navy, and
Volunteers," proposed by the Lord Mayor, Lieut.-
Gen. Sir G. Lawrence, Vice-Admiral Robinson, and
Lieut.-Col. Hawkshaw, C.E., respectively replied.
The LORD MAYOR next gave the toast of " The
Equity and Common Law Judges," referring in
eloquent terms to the righteous and impartial admi-
nistration of the law which distinguishes the times
in which we live.
Chief Justice BOVILL, whose name had been
associated with the toast, acknowledged the high
compliment paid to her Majesty's Judges.
They had, he said, ever received there, as in
every assembly of Englishmen, that tribute which
their predecessors in former times deserved They
were honoured that evening with the company of a
distinonished man, in whose footsteps he himself
humbly endeavoured to tread (referring to Sir\Vm.
Erie, the mention of whose name was enthusiasti-
cally cheered). He remarked in passing that there
was no post on the English Bench which was not
open to any man in this country who devoted him-
self with assiduity to the study and practice of the
law, and he alluded in grateful terms to the encou-
ragement and assistance which its younger practi-
tioners had received from the corporation of London.
Mr. ROEBUCK, M.P., who in rising was loudly
cheered, responded to the toast of " The House of
Commons," with which his name had been con-
nected by the Lord Mayor. He felt, he said, how
inadequate he was to Fpeak for that great body
of which he was a member. A mighty. theme, he
said, required a mighty advocate, and a mighty
theme the House of Commons was, though it was
uow the habit to speak of that assembly in dis
parading terms. Men eager to be in office cried
down the House of Commons, forgetting how much
the people of England owed to the institution.
It was, in fact, the oldest representative assembly
in the world, and, he believed, the greatest. It re-
presented the intelligence, the feelings, the habits,
and the wishes of the English people, and it had re-
sponded to them, not altogether throughout its ex-
istence, but certainly of late years it had placed this
country in a:position which every other country was
bound to envy. Look, he said, at our law and our
liberty. In every station of life a man could ex-
press what he thought, and in expressing what lie
thought he was in no danger. Bearing all that iu
mind, he wanted to know what the House of Com-
mons could do ? It had been said, and said truly,
untr who were
that there were parties in the coof
not represented. Look at the preseny t 11,ouslevas
Commons. Did it not respond to the call
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Commons a bill
there not now before the House of
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(Loud cheers.) That bill shade
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of things which would probably
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but he was convinced that under
entirely representing
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the best portion of the people of
En
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For that he himself had labourecl ,
those who had
himself no small glory for aiding
compelled that state of things—for compulsion it
be. The people
was, disagreeable though it might
as they would, so far as
of England might now do man's
ability and
regarded the. exercise of every
his power of acquirfug wealth, so long as they hurt
nobody. To that point the House of Commons
had brought them, and for the House of Commons
he returned thanks. -(Cheers )
Some other toasts, appropriate to the maga,