The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-11 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

ITALY.
FLORENCE, MAY 11.
A modification of the Ministry is about to take
place.
General La Marmora will receive a military com-
mand.

The Minister of Finance has presented his
Budget for .1867 in the Chamber of Deputies.
The Florence papers regard war as inevitable.

AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA.

CARLSRUHE, MAY 11.

The official Karlsruher Zeitung publishes a letter
announcing that Count Bismarck has declared to
Count Karolyi, the Austrian Ambassador at Berlin,
that he would only accept a solution of the question
of the Duchies from a German Parliament.

BAVARIA.

MUNICH, MAY n .

The Bavarian Government has, in consideration
of the serious state of political affairs, ordered the
immediate mobilisation of the entire Bavarian army.

The Chambers have been convoked for the 22nd
instant.

THE PRINCIPALITIES.

BUCHAREST, MAY 10.

Signor Visconti Venosta, the new Italian Ambas-
sador to the Sublime Porte was received with enthu-
siastic demonstrations on his journey through the
Principalities to his post at Constantinople.
The Municipalities of Giurgevo, Ibraila, and
Galatz presented him with addresses expressing
their sympathies with Italian unity.
Signor Visconti Venosta replied, thanking them
in the name of Italy.

NEW SOUTH WALES.

SYDNEY, MARCH 20.

Great excitement has prevailed in Parliament on
the State-aid (Free-trade) question. The debate
on the subject has been adjourned after lasting 20
hours.

It is expected that Parliament will be prorogued.

Banquet at the Mansion• House.

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Last evening, according to custom, the Lord Mayor and
the Lady Mayoress entertained her Majesty's Judges and
many of the more distinguished members of the Bar at
dinner at the Mansion-house. Among the guests, nearly
300 in number, were Lord Chief Justice Erle, Mr. Baron
Bramwell, Mr. Justice Keating, Mr. Justice Shoe, Mr.
Justice Lush, with their ladies ; Right Hon. Spencer Wal-
pole, M.P., and Mrs. Walpole, Sir Harry Verney, M.P.,
the Queen's Advocate and Lady Philimore, Hon. George
Denman, M.P., Sir Thomas Henry, Lord and Lady Bury,
Hon. G. W. Lewis, M.P., Sir Thos. Fremantle, Mr. Locke
King, M.P., Hon. G. C. Norton, Gen. Sir W. J. Codrington,
C. 8., Lieut.-General Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., Lieutenant-
General Sir John Pennefather, K.C.8., Vice-Admiral
Codrington, C. 8., Sir George Bowyer, M.P., Sir John
Simeon, M.P., Sir Patrick O'Brien, M.P., Sergeants Bal-
lantine, Payne, Simon, Pulling, Atkinson, and Robinson,
Mr. Bovill, M.P., and Mrs. Bovill, Mr. Childers, M.P., and
Mrs. Childers, Mr. Thomas Hughes, M.P., Mr. Scholefield,
M.P., Colonel Sykes, Colonel French, M.P., Lieut.-Colonel
Loyd Lindsay, M.P., and Hon. Mrs. Loyd Lindsay, Mr. R.
W. Kennard and Mrs. Kennard, Mr. R. N. Philipps, Mr.
Shirley Brookes, Mr. Beresford Hope, M.P., and Lady Mil-
dred Hope, Mr. Tite, M.P , and Mrs. Tite, Mr. Dyke,
M.P., Capt. Jolliffe, M.P., Mr. Wyld, M.P., Mr. O'Beirne
Mr. Forsyth, Q.C., Mr. and Mrs. George Moore, the High
Sheriff of Kent and Mrs. Farmer Bailey, Mr. H. Pownall,
Mr. R. N. Fowler, Mr. C. H. Mills, Colonel and Lady Har-
riett Warde, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Martin, Mr. Kemshead,
Mr. Mullons, the Metropolitan magistrates, Mr. W. Leaf,
Mr. W. L. Leaf, Mr. and Mrs. E. Levy, Mr. P. Rolt, Mr.
Gas,iott, the Master of the Blacksmith's Company ; Mr.
and Mrs. Barnet, Mr. Henry and Mr. Geo. Phillips ; Mr.
and Mrs. Allcroft, Mr. L. Cohen, Mr. and Mrs. H. Smith,
Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Block, Mr. and Mrs. Hawes, Mr. W.
Ashhurst, Mr. Horne, Major Snell, Mr. and Mrs. Penny,
Mr. R. Dawson, M.P., and the Hon. Mrs. Dawson ; the
members of the Court of Aldermen and the Sheriffs, with
their ladies.

The Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress received the
guests as they arrived in the saloon, and at 7 o'clock the
company sat down to dinner, which was served in the
Egyptian Hall. On the removal of the cloth the customary
loyal toasts were given from the chair.
The Loup Revolt, in proposing the toast of "the Army,
Navy, and Volunteers," said when they found a Minister of
the Crown stating that there was at this moment a million
of armed men in Europe it made them feel, they knew not
how soon, the brave army of England might be called ou to
maintain its honour and dignity; but he hoped he might be
permitted to express a hope that the sword of England
would never be drawn but to defend her national honour.
Gen. Sir W. Codrington acknowledged the compliment on
behalf of the Army, Vice-Admiral Codrington spoke for
the Navy, and Viscount Bury for the-Volunteers.
The LORD MAYOR then rose to propose the toast of the
evening. Speaking of " the majesty of the law," he said, in
its independent, impartial, and merciful administration it
afforded security to rich and poor, gave strength to the
weak, courage to the timid, hope to the down-trodden, and
consolation and protection to all. Among the many privi-
leges of the chief magistrate of the city, he knew none more
congenial than that of receiving her Majesty's judges within
those walls. It was an ancient and honoured custom, and
he hoped it would be a perpetual one. He gave "Her Ma-
jesty's Judges," coupling with it the name of Lord Chief
Justice Erle, whom he designated as one of the most able,
learned, independent, and impartial members of the judicial
body.
The toast was drunk with acclamation.

Lord Chief Justice ERLE, in acknowledging the compli-
ment, said he was happy to be able to reciprocate most cor-
dially all the expressions the Lord Mayor had been pleased
to use towards the judicial body. They were thankful for
their kind reception at that hospitable board, for the noble
words he had addressedto themin reference to their duties,
and for extending his invitation to the ladies who accom-
panied them there, and whose presence enhanced their sa-
tisfaction. For the judges of the land, whom he had the
happiness to know so well, he felt great admiration. He
believed there never was a body of men whodevotedthem-
selves with more untiring energy to the discharge of their
duties, to administer the laws firmly, but beneficially, and to
promote the permanent welfare of their country. He believed
too there never was a country in which the people enjoyed
important rights in such calm and comfortable security
under the protection of the law. The judges knew that their
exertions would bo useless if the laws did not live in the
affections of the people. He had great satisfaction in refer-
ring to the magistrates of the corporation of London and
to the officers in its high departments, and he looked back
to all his official intercourse with them with high respect
and with grateful feelings.
Mr. WALPOLE, M.P., speaking to the toast of " the House
of Commons," which had been proposed from the chair,
said it was the oldest, wisest, and greatest representative
assembly ever known in the world, and it afforded the
greatest satisfaction to be complimented by the represen-
tative of the oldest mercantile community the world had
ever known. There were three eircumstances connected
with the occasion which characterised at once the glory, the
greatness, and the confidence of England, and those were
commercial industry, judicial independence, and political
freedom. With respect to that commercial industry he
trusted it would continue to flourieh in this city as it had
always flourished for centuries and centuries unimpaired—
perhaps he might be permitted to say, in these times of
troublous doubt and anxiety, unimpaired by reckless specu-
lation—(hear, hear)—and still more unimpaired by still
more reckless ambition and war. (Cheers.) He trusted,
whatever might be the result of passing events, the City of
London, with its great mercantile interests, would never
wear a more lowering aspect than it did now. Of the
judicial independence of the Bench he spoke with perfect
confidence, but the extensive learning, the cultivated in-
telligence, the high-minded integrity which had always
characterised the administration of justice in this country
would not be lessened in the hands of those able Judges
who now sat at the table of the Lord Mayor. With re-
spect to the last point he trod, perhaps, on delicate ground.
They all knew that in one sense the House of Commons
was at this moment on its trial, but he had such confidence
in the good sense of that house and, of the country that he
firmly believed it would come out of that trial, as it hcd
come out of former trials ; that they would find, whatever
might be the result of the changes it was now likely to
pass through, it would still be the true exponent of the
feelings and wishes of an intelligent people, bound to that
people by the closest ties of sympathy and interest, and
determined to promote the public welfare, and that the
future career of that great assembly would be as distin-
guished as that which had immortalised its past history.
(Cheers.)
The Lord Mayor then gave " The Bar of England," to
which Sir Robert Phillimore, the Queen's Advocate, re-
sponded. The " Health of the Lord Mayor," at the instance
of Lord Chief Justice Erie, was drunk with great cor-
diality; and that of the Lady Mayoress having been pro-
posed by Mr. Baron Bramwell in graceful terms, the com-
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