The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-18 00:00:00

BAIVQUET TO HER MAJES2I'S MINISTERS.

Last evening the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress
entertained her Majesty's Ministers on a scale of
great magnificence in the Egyptian Hall, Mansion
House. Nearly 300 guests had the honour of re-
eeiving invitations to the banquet, and among the
company were his Excellency the Turkish Ambas-
sador, Right Hon. Viscount Palmerston, his Excel-
lency the Belgian Minister, his Excellency the
Bavarian Minister and Baroness Cetto, his Excel-
lency the Italian Minister, his Excellency the
Greek Minister and Madlle. Tricoupi, his Excel-
lency the Portuguese Minister and, the Countess
Lavradio, his Excellency the Swedish Minister,
his Excellency the Danish Minister, the Lord
Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council, her
Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, Right
Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs.
Gladstone, the First Lord of the Admiralty, Right
Hon. the President of the Board of Trade and Mrs.
Milner Gibson, Right Honourable the Chancellor of
the Duchy of Lancaster and Lady Grey, the Post-
master-General, Right Hon. President of the Poor-
law Board, Right Hon. Secretary of State for
Ireland and Mrs. Cardwell, the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Bredalbane, the Earl and Countess
Fitzwilliam, Earl and Countess of Clarendon, the
Earl of Ducie, Earl and Countess of Caithness,
Earl and Countess of Cork, Lord C. Russell and
Miss Russell, Viscount and Viscountess Sidney,
Viscount and Viscountess Bury, Viscount and Vis-
countess Stratford de Redcliffe, Viscount Eversley,
- Viscount Falkland and the Duchess of St. Albans,
Viscount and Viscountess Castlerosse, Right Hon.
Lord Proby, Lord Ashley, M.P., Lord Henley,'
M.P., and Lady Henley, Right Hon. Lord and
Lady Ashburton, Right Hon. Lord Cranworth,
Lord Fermoy, M.P., Right Hon. Lord Ebury,
Right Hon. Lord and Lady Lyveden, Right Hon.
W. F. Cowper, M.P., and Mrs. Cowper, Right
Hon. Rob. Lowe, M.P., Right Hon. Wm. Hutt,
M.P., and Miss Hutt, the Attorney-General and
Lady Bethell, the Solicitor-General, Right Hon.
the Lord Advocate, Hon. H. Brand, M.P., Hon.
Evelyn Ashley, Hon. G. Waldegrave and Countess of
Rothes, Hon. G. S. F. Elliott, Hon. Spencer and Mrs.
Ponsonby, Right Hon. Sir Francis and Lady Arabella
Baring, Right Hon. Sir Wm. Goodenough and Lady
Hayter, Right Hon. Sir D. Dundas, Right Hon.
Fred. Pee], M.P., Right Hon. T. L. Headlam, M.P.,
Sir F. Rogers, Bart., Sir F. Currie, Bart., Sir
John Ramsden, Bart., M.P., Sir W. Dunbar, Bart.,
M.P., Sir H. Barron, Bart., Major-General Sir It
Davie, Bart., M.P., Sir A. Buller, Bart., M.P., Sir
James Matheson, Bart., M.P., and Lady Matheson,
Sir C. Locock, Bart., Vice-Admiral Sir M. Seymour,
K.C.8., M.P., Vice-Admiral Sir R. S. Dundas,
K.C.8., Sir Benj. Hawes, Major General Sir Joshua
Jebb, K.C.8., Sir Joseph 011iffe, Sir J. and Lady
Paxton, the Governor of the Bank of England, Mr.
11. Baring, M.P., and Mrs. Baring, Colonel French,
M.P., Mr. A. Matheson, M.P., and Mrs. Mathe-
son, Mr. S. Gregson, M.P., and Mrs. Murray,
Mr. T. Bass, M.P., Mr. John Dent, M.P.,
Mr. D. C. Marjoribanks, M.P., and Mrs.
Marjoribanks, Mr. Thomson Hankey, M.P.,
and Miss Dallas, Mr. W. S. Lindsay, M.P.,
Col. Sykes, M.P,, Mr. Tite, M.P , Mr. A. Coning-
ham, M.P., and Mrs. Coningham, Mr. J. T. Norris,
M.P., Mr. R. W. Crawford, H P., Mr. G. Gilpin,
M.P., Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen, M.P., Mr. J. St.
Aubyn, M.P., and Lady Elizabeth St. Aubyn,
Baron Rothschild, M.P., Mr. E. A. Leatham, M.P.,
Sir J. Carmichael, Bart., Major-General Dupuis,
R.A., Col. Brewster, Captain Eden, R.N., Captain
Frederick,,R.N., Colonel and Mrs. Faulkner, Col.
Fremont, Captain and Mrs. Gossett, Mr. W. M.
Thackeray, Mr. Maclise, R.A., Mr. Murton, Major
and Mrs. Gage, Mr. Mougham, Mr. W. T. Delane,
Mr. Mowbray Morris, Mr. Herbert Stack, Mr. and
Mrs. Tayloe, Mr. Nelson, Mr. Fraser, Mr. M. J.
Barry, Mr. and Mrs. John Humphery, Mr. and
Mrs. William Humphery, Miss Glare, Mr. Lewis
and Miss Cubitt, Mr. Wm. Gladstone, Dr. Evans,
Dr. Jackson, Dr. Costello, Capt. Fall* Mr. and
Mrs. E. Bowring, Mr. T. Baines, Mr. J. P. Gas-
siott, Mr. Yorke, the Aldermen, Sheriffs, and their
Ladies, Chairmen of Corporation Committees, &c.

The dinner, which comprised every delicacy of
the season, was provided by Messrs. Ring and
Brymer, and gave the greatest satisfaction. While
the viands were being discussed the band of the
Coldstream Guards, under the direction of Mr.
Godfrey, played an admirable selection of airs, and
the musical arrangements were confided to Mr. J.
L. Hatton, assisted by Miss Poole, Miss Clara
Hamilton, Mr. Young, and Master Lcc.

After grace was chanted, and the loving cup
sent round,

The Lard MAvon gave the health of her Majesty
the Queen, It was not necessary for him to say
another word, but he should not satisfy his mind,
and the company would not be satisfied with him,
if he did not briefly allude to the position which
her Majesty occupied, not merely among the po-
tentates of the earth, but in the deep-rooted affec-
tion of her numerous subjects. (Cheers.) He gave
them the health of their gracious Sovereign " The
Queen."

The toast having been duly honoured,
The LORD MAY on. proposed the health of i‘ The
Royal Family." (Cheers.) In giving that toast,
he might say, in a few words, that the illustrious
person who stood in such close proximity to the
Throne showed his worthiness to be beloved by the
English people. • His Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales had given proofs that he was worthy of
the line' ge from which he had sprung ; and with
regard to all the members of the royal family, the
English people had reason to rejoice and be proud
of them. (Applause.)

The LoRD MAYOR said the next toast which he
should have the honour of asking the company to
drink was " The Army, the Navy, and the Volun-
teers." (Cheers.) At the commencement of the
present century this country was unhappily at war
with all the world, and they had mainly to depend
on the navy. How well the navy in those days
performed their duty would be found in those an-
nals in which were recorded the victories of the
Nile and Trafalgar. If they had not been pos-
sessed of that navy—if those victories had not been
won, what their position then might be no one
could tell. The navy did its work so well that it
left but little to be done ; but the military part of
the national defences had nobly vindicated the
honour of the country. After enjoying half a cen-
tury of peace, it was thought that danger threat-
ened from abroad, and the slightest intimation of
danger exhibited the spirit of the country in the
formation of the Volunteers. (Cheers.) He asked
the company to honour " The Army," " The Navy,"
and "The Volunteers," and with the toast he
associated the names of the Duke of Somerset,
Major-General Sir H. Davie, and Lord Bury.
(Applause.)

The Duke of SOMERSET, in responding on behalf
of the navy, said it must always be a source of gra- '
tification to that gallant profession to receive .a
mark
of respect and approbation from their fellow-coun-
trymen, especially when it came from eo distin-
guished an assembly as that which he had the
honour to address, At present our navy was only
required to guard our commerce throughout the
world. It was fully able to do so. But different cir-
eutatanees might arise, and it would be most un-
wise to reduce
That titr our naval strength. (Hear, hear.)
ength would never be used for aggressive
purposes
exit
t, but it would be a guarantee of peace. He
thereforeh
the city of London would always be
wil
the stling rento gth of the as it had done in times past,
eußritish navy. (Cheers.)
Major-Gen. Sir
Viscount BURY
DaviE replied for the army.
The LORD
mAyreoitpoled for the volunteers.
ill:idre now to propose the
health of some dietin
al:tw
partaking done us the honour ofgentlemen who have
of the city's hos-
pitality on this occasion. I h
urtht
sasaid distinguished
gentlemen who have done
hon nur
circum-
stances--in t the
toast includes others who, from various
stances--in some cases, I am sorry to say, from e
ill-
health—have been prevented from doing so, as
they had intended. I am to propose to you
"The
Health of her Majesty's Ministers." (Loud cheers.)
Her Majesty's Ministers have to undergo never_
ceasing mental toil, involving great anxieties. The
numerous, vast, and widely-scattered territories
which constitute the British Empire. continually
subject to ever-varying incidents, necessitate most

serious deliberation ; our foreign relations, now in- 1
eluding every Government on the face of the globe,
require the most constant vigilance in order to
secure the maintenance of peace, the honour of our
country, and the preservation of that foreign in-
fluence to which, from her high position among
the nations of the earth, our country is so justly
entitled. (Cheers.) The ever-varying exigencies
of our home population demand that attention to
their wants which, when given, tends to strengthen
the bonds of society, discouraging and resisting
those influences which might lead to social de-
rangement. All these most important duties im-
pose on her Majesty's Ministers an amount of
mental exertion which no ordinary mina is well
capable of sustaining. (Cheers.) The country at
large and the citizens of London are duly sensible
of all this, and, regardless of all party preferences,
they gladly do honour to the men who, endowed
with great capacity and prepared by education for
the performance of these important functions, have
been intrusted with their adminstration. (Cheers.)
So long as the concerns of this great empire can
be carried on in that spirit, her Majesty's Ministers,
of whatever party they be, may be quite sure of
finding a hearty welcome in the city of London.
1 (Loud cheers.)
The toast was received with great applause, and
drunk with all the honours.

Lord PALMERSTON rose to respond, and was re-
ceived with general and enthusiastic cheering. He
said—My Lord Mayor and gentlemen, on behalf of
my colleagues present, and not less, I assure you, on
behalf of those who, by various circumstances be-
yond their control, have been prevented attending
this hospitable banquet, I beg to ieturn you our
most cordial thanks for the honour you have done
us in thus receiving the toast which you, my
Lord Mayor, have proposed, and you, gentlemen,
have so warmly responded to. I assure you that
nothing can give more heartfelt satisfaction to those
who are engaged in what your lordship has justly
remarked as being the labours and toils and—l will
hardly admit to that extent—the anxieties of public
life—nothing can be a greater solace to them than
meeting in happier hours of social ease the citizens
of this great metropolis of the commercial empire.
It is gratifying to me to feel that those who do us
the honour of inviting us to their board are in one
respect faithful organs of the nation of which they
are the ornament—that they do, as you stated just
now, my Lord Mayor, receive without distinction
of party those who, placed in arduous public situa-
tions, are performing to the best of their ability and
judgment the duties which their Sovereign and the
country have imposed on them. (Hear, hear.) It
is also most agreeable to see, as I now do on this fes-
tive occasion, the faces of honoured friends of long
standing, who for many years have been associates
in our public labours, as they are now on the festive
occasion on which we are assembled. It is truly
satisfactory to those who stand in the position we
occupy to be able to congratulate you, as I think
we may, on the internal condition of the country.
(Hear, hear.) After seasons the most inclement,
which in former times might have produced famine
or a financial crisis, my right hon. friend the Chan-
celler of the Exchequer has been able to propose to
Parliament and to the country a surplus of revenue
over expected expenditure, which enabled him to
propose large remissions of the burthens of the
people—(hear)—without diminishing in the slight-
est degree those military and naval means of defence
the diminution of which in the present state of the
world would be a betrayal of the important trust
confided to us. (Cheers.) But it is a great proof
of the solidity of the country—it is indeed a great
proof of the productive nature of the national in-
dustry, that in spite of all those unfortunate cir-
cumstances of climate, and notwithstanding the
large reductions made last year, my right
honourable friend the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer has been able to present to the nation
so favourable a prospect as he had the pleasure and
the privilege of submitting only two days ago.
(Hear, hear.) This is indeed encouraging not only
' with a view to our internal condition but with regard
to our external relations. (Hear, hear.) The func-
tion of England is to endeavour, by the influence
which she justly possesses, to maintain the peace of
the world. (Hear, hear.) She has no ambitious
objects to gratify—she has no aggressive policy—
no warlike propensities. (Cheers.) We wish not
only to enjoy ourselves the blessings of peace, but
we desire by the legitimate exercise of our influence
with other countries to secure for the rest of the
world those blessings which we so much prize and
value ourselves. (Hear, hear.) I need not, I am
sure, remark that the influence which this country
can exercise by sage and prudent counsels with
other nations must necessarily depend on its own
internal and defensive strength, and that unless we
are able to boast that she is secure from foreign
attack, and that she possesses within herself the
means of repelling hostilities, come from what
quarter they may, our counsels might bear an appear-
ance of timidity—we might seem to be discouraging
war because we were afraid of the recoil on our-
selves, and our persuasions would naturally have
proportionately less influence and weight. The
state of the world at present is such that the useful
influence of the country may, perhaps, be as well
exercised as it has ever been in former times. There
are at present questions pending in different parts
of the Continent, which, if judiciously made use
of by those who are desirous of disturbing the
peace of the world, would furnish grounds for half-
a-dozen respectable wars. (Laughter.) There
is not one of those disputed questions such
that it might not be amicably and honour-
ably settled without any appeal to arms, and I sin-
cerely trust that the wisdom, the good sense, and
the good feeling of the rulers of the nations, and
the leaders of parties, may bring about that happy
consummation. (Hear, hear.) I trust that the clouds
which now lour over some carts of the Conti-
nent may be dissipated and dispersed. (Hear,
hear.) I trust that the glorious consumma-
tion of the unity of Italy may be accomplished
without any check or discouragement. (Cheers.)
I am confident that to no other consummation do
the feelings and wishes of the people of this coun-
try point with greater intensity than to the accom-
plishment of that objeet. (Cheers.) I can only
say that the influence of England, as it is exercised
by her Majesty's Ministers, will be directed to the
maintenance of peace ; and whatever may be the
aspect of affairs in some quarters of the world, I
trust that the year 1861 will pass away as a year of
peace—that the apprehensions at one time enter-
tained, as to the spring and summer being disturbed
by the clang of arms and stained by the effusion of
blood, may be disappointed, and that we shall arrive
at the termination of the year with that happiness
which universal peace confers, and enjoying that
prosperity which the security for industry must
afford. (Cheers.) The noble viscount again ex-
pressed his acknowledgments to the Lord Mayor
and the company for the cordiality with which the
toast of her Majesty's Ministers hed,beea received,
and he resumed his seat amid enthusiastic applause. '
Scotch Song—" Jack o' Hazeldean," by Miss
Poole.

The LORD MAYOR proposed, in complimentary
terms, the health of " The Foreign Ministers,"
associating with the toast the name of M. Musurus,
the Turkish Ambassador. (Cheers.) _ . .

. .
M. Musußus, the Turkish Ambassador (who
spoke in French), said—My Lord Mayor and Gen
tlemen, I return you my thanks in the name of the
diplomatic body for the toast which the Lord Mayor
has done us the honour to propose, and for the cor-
dial manner in which you have received it. On the
occasion of this brilliant assemblage, at which the
First Magistrate of the City of London displays
his hospitality towards the Ministers of her
Majesty the Queen, and when I am called on to
speak in the name of my colleagues, there would
naturally be expected from me a view of the pre-
sent state .of international affairs, Bnt from the
very fact that those affairs are now in a state of
complication, I am compelled to confine myself to
assuring you, gentlemen, that the corps dt:plo-
matique is unanimous in one essential point
to which I am sure you yourselves attach
the highest importance. Indeed their sincere desire
---a desire inspired in fact by the very object of
their mission, and I may say
by their instructions
is to see moderation
universally prevail, peace
maintained, And the world bayed from the evils of

a general disturbance. Happily these desires of
the corps diplomatique are in conformity with their
endeavours. Confiding in the wisdom of the Go-
vernments, and relying upon the aid of your Mini-
sters, whose constant efforts are all directed towards
that grand object, we confidently hope that we
shall soon see dissipated those murky clouds
which now obscure the political horizon ; that we
shall emerge from opr difficulties without any real
danger; and that Divine Providence, always pro-
pitious towards those who entertain loyal inten-
tions, will aid us in securing the accomplishment of
the wish which is generally entertained amongst
us. (Cheers.)
The LORD MAYOR—The city of London is this
evening honoured by the presence of several mem-
bers of the House of Lords. We in the city of
London who cling to our ancient institutions rejoice
in preserving without any great disturbance the
important elements of the Government of our
country. lam happy to believe, and I have no
doubt my fellow-citizens concur with me in think-
ing, that the House of Lords is one of the great
bulwarks of the liberties of our country. (Cheers.)
We feel that we Englishmen may boast of the
happy balancing elements of our constitution, and
among those great balancing elements we trust the
House of Lords will ever be, as it always has been,
occasionally the support of the Crown, if that sup-
port should ever be necessary—occasionally the
support of the people, if it should so happen that
the other two branches of the Legislature meditate
any aggression. In these days, however, we have
no aggression to apprehend. We may congratulate
ourselves that in consequence of what has taken
place in past times we are in a condition of internal
peace and tranquillity, and in order that this tran-
quillity and peace may never be disturbed, we
sincerely hope that each of the three great branches
of the Legislature will always continue to hold that
place which our constitution has assigned to them.
(Cheers.) We have several eminent peers present
with us to-night. Among them we have one of the
most distinguished of men—the Lord Chancellor—
(cheers)—whom I am happy to see in good health,
which I hope he may long continue to enjoy. I
propose " the health of the Lord Chancellor and the
House of Lords." (Loud cheers.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR said,— My Lord Mayor,
Ladies and Gentleman,—Rather unexpectedly I
am called upon to aoknowledge this toast, but I
must confess that it gives me great pleasure to find
that in the city of London you do not yet wish to
get rid of the House of Lords; and I must say that
I believe that, without a second branch of the
Legislature occassionally to moderate the effer-
vescence of the Commons, there might be a little
danger to your tranquillity and to your liberty.
(Cheers.) Gentlemen, the House of Lords, with all
its faults, I believe deserves the eulogy pronounced
upon it by the Lord Mayor. It has frequently stood
up in defence of the liberties of the country, and
never will be wanting to do so when the occasion
may require. (Cheers.) There have been prc-
posals for reforming the House of Lords. Some
would have Peers for life, some would get rid of
the Bishops, and some would get rid of the Law
Lords—(a laugh)—but upon the whole I believe
that we tolerably fulfil the purpose which the con-
stitution intended for us. I believe there may be
some advantage in a general representation of the
nation without a local constituency, and that there
shoull be a rallying place for enlightened public
opinion when the fervour of particular bodies might
lead the nation astray. (Cheers.) We have in this
country no such odious division as that into noble
and roturier. The Peerage is recruited from the
middle ranks of the people, of which I am myself
an example (cheers), and the grandson of a duke
without degradation becomes plain Mr. Howard.
(Cheers.) I hope we deserve the approbation of
our fellow citizens. You may at times lament that
we do not entirely agree with the sentiments you
entertain. lam myself, although presiding on the
woolsack, sometimes snubbed. (A laugh.) I have
now under my charge a great measure in which
you, the commercial citizens of London, take a
lively interest, and on which your illustrious repre-
sentative, Lord John Russell, has bestowed great
care and pains. That measure is now in a critical
situation ; I hope it is in no real peril, and I do
trust that, seeing that that measure has the
approbation of the City of London and the
approval of the Lower House of Parliament, it
will receive the sanction of the House .of Lords, and
before long become the law of the land. (Cheers.)
The LORD MAYOR begged to propose the health
of the " House of Commons." (Cheers.) They
were honoured that evening with the presence of
one of the most distinguished gentlemen of whom
that council was composed, and he should associate
his name with the toast, " The House of Commons
and the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer." (Great applause.) Whatever could be said
on this subject would be said so well by the right
hon. gentleman that he (the Lord Mayor) felt he
could not better discharge the duty devolving on
him than by simply offering for their hearty recep-
tion " The House of Commons and the Chancellor
of the Exchequer." (Cheers.)

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, whose
rising was a signal for renewed cheers, said,—My
Lord Mayor, ladies, and gentlemen—.l rise, by your
kind permission, to return thanks for that which,
after the speech of my noble and learned friend the
Lord Chancellor, I may, without impropriety, call
the effervescent part of the constitution. (Laughter.)
But there is no case, I believe, in which, upon the
%hole, so remarkable a harmony has been main-
tained between what is the effervescent and what
is not the effervescent, as in the instance of the two
Houses of the British Parliament. Whatever be
their faults, and whatever be their merits, and I am
far from claiming for either of them absolute per-
fection, two things may at least be said of them,
that their reciprocal relations have been governed
with a singular felicity upon almost every occasion,
and that both of them have been eminently in har-
mony with the character of the nation to which
they belong. (Hear.) If any friendly rivalry sub-
sists between them, I do not know of which it may
be said, that it is not thoroughly and peculiarly
English. If, indeed, we look to the test of experi-
ence, perhaps it is true that to reproduce an insti-
tution like the House of Lords, in another country,
is more difficult than to imitate the House of Com-
mons. I apprehend that each civilised nation has
its own functions to fulfil, and that we who re-
joice in our national institutions may have much
to learn from others. But something has been
reserved for England to do on behalf of others ;
and I trust that in these days we may say that
England has done something for the world in
conferring upon it the pattern of a popular
Legislative Assembly. (Hear.) That problem,
which it has been so difficult in all times to solve
—the means of bringing a free representation of
the wishes and feelings of the community at large
into harmony with fixed laws, and ;with ancient
and monarchical institutions—has, I trust, reached
its solution among us. Never, I think, was there
a time when, old as the British Constitution is, it
might truly be said that it possessed more of the
strength and vigour of youth. It is with no slight
satisfaction that we feel that other nations, as they
enter upon the path of freedom, seem to makb it
the first condition of progress in that career that
they should attempt to create for themselves what
resembles the House of Commons. (Hear, hear.)
And, my lor3, among the distinguished men who
sit at this table, and who act at the Court of the
Queen as the representative of foreign Sovereigns,
I rejoice to think how many there are who repre-
sent countries in which, within our memory, insti-
tutions similar to our own Parliament have been
created for the purpose of meeting the popular
wants and feelings, and in which free representa-
tion, instead of proving to be a source of danger to
.permanent and fixed authority, has been discovered
to be the very secret of national strength and ,
vigour. (Cheers.) These are the truths which we
see acknowledged in the practice of nations whose
conduct I trust will, before many generations, per-
haps before many years have elapsed, be imitated
by the whole of the civilised world. Under these
circumstances I heartily rejoice, if indeed I niay
venture to say so without presumption, in appear.
ing to return thanks on the part of the 11011130 of
Commons here within this hall, before your lord-
ship, the representative of the corporation of Lon-

don, a body itself drawing its existence from a
period when the House of Commons sprang into
existence—(hear, hear)—and a body which has
always acted in • singular harmony with the po-
pular branch of the British Legislature. (Hear.)
Long may its strength continue, and long may the
House of Commons continue to represent, as it still
does, the character of the English people, answering
to its wishes and wants, and providing the means
of supplying them, exercising the first and greatest
among all the powers of the State, but still mind-
ful as it is, and ever has been mindful, that it exists
under the shadow of the Crown, and
_that it owes to
the prerogative of the Crown and the other branch
of the Legislature the very means and position by
which alone it can fulfil the purposes of its own
existence. (Cheers.)
Viscount PALMERSTON—My lords, ladies, and
gentlemen, I beg your permission to propose a
toast to which I am sure you will drink with great
satisfaction, although I must confess it will be for
the third time this evening that the toast will have
been proposed to you. I beg to propose the health
of our worthy chief magistrate the Lord Mayor.
(Cheers.) It will be for the third time that toast
has been proposed, because the Lord Mayor has
already in two toasts which have been proposed in-
cluded himself. (A laugh) The Lord Mayor
began by proposing to you the navy. If lam not
much mistaken, the Lord Mayor in early life was
a member of that honourable profession. (Cheers.)
The Lord Mayor has just proposed the House of
Commons, of which he is a most worthy and useful
member; but I am persuaded' that you will not the
less on that account join in drinking his health in-
dividually, and in his own person. (Cheers.) He
occupies a most distinguished post—a post of which
it may be said, as he said of ours, that it is one of
labour, of toil, and of anxiety. You know how
well he discharges its important functions—(cheers)
—to the satisfaction of the city, and to his own
honour and credit. (Cheers.) I need not say that
we who are the guests at this splendid board must
feel peculiarly grateful to him for that which cer-
tainly never was exceeded, if ever it was equalled,
the cordiality and the splendour of the banquet.
(Ldud cheers.) I beg therefore to propose to you
the health of the Lord Mayor, not as a member of
the navy, nor as a member of the House of Com-
mons, but as chief magistrate of the city of London.
(Loud cheers.)
The toast was drunk with all the honours.
The LORD MAYOR returned thanks.

The remaining toasts were, The Members for
the City," (acknowledged by Mr. Crawford) ; " The
Lady Mayoress," proposed in a most graceful man-
ner by Lord Granville; " The Attorney-General
and the Bar of England," and " The Magistrates
of the City of London."
The company afterwards partook of tea and
coffee, and took their departure at half-past 11
o'clock.