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

ZEE N4IES2 I",S xisiSTERS.

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-
ceiving 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 Dude, 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 Cranwurth,
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. Peel, 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 11.
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.
H. 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, M P., Mr. C. 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 011iffe, Mr. Lewis
and Miss Cubitt, Mr. Wm. Gladstone, Dr: Evans,
Dr. Jackson, Dr. Costello, Capt. Falbe, Mr. and
Mrs. E. Bowring, Mr. T. Baines, Mr. I. 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 Lee.
After grace was chanted, and the loving cup
sent round,

The Lord MAYOR 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 MAI oil proposed the health of "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 proof's that he was worthy of
the lineage 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 tick duty would bo 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-
enecrfrom 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 so 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-
7'ustances might arise, and it would be most un-
ww' to reduce our naval strength. (Hear, hear.)
That strength4,b would never be used for aggressive
there f hollt it would be a guarantee of peace. He
ore
to
ral,ed the city of London would always be
the strength'n'itttaiiin, as it had done in times past,
Major-Gen. Sir British navy. (Cheers.)
Viscount 13—-- replied for the army.
The Loa_ ',11.1 13nded fur the volunteers.
" ALAyon..._4
have
health of some distinguished now to propose the
partaking of
who have
don° us the honour or
of the city's hos-
pitality on this occasion, have
said distinguished
gentlemen who have done us that
honour, but the
toast includes others who, from various ei
I eu
stances—in some cases, am sorry to say, frormirnu:
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-
cluding 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 mind 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 he quite sure of
finding a hearty welcome in the city of London.
(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 circumstancesThe-
yond their control, have been prevented attending
this hospitable banquet, I beg to return you our
most cordial thanks for the honour you have done
us in Mils 5 coact which you, my
Lord Mayor, have proposed, and you, gontlAmpn,
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, aslnow 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 justlypossesses, 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 parts 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 Tiscount again ex-
pressed his acknowledgments to the Lord Mayor
and the company for the cordiality with which the
toast of her Majesty's Ministers had been received,
and he resumed his scat amid enthusiastic applause.
Scotch Song—" Jock 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. MUSURUS, 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
o2casion 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 1 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, But from the
very fact that those affairs are now in a state of
complication, I am eompelled to confine myself to
assuring you, gentlemen, that the corps diplo-
matique is unanimous in one essential point
to which I am sure you yourselves attach
the highest importance. Indeed their sincere desire
desire inspired in fact by the very object of
their
mission, and I may say by their instructions
is t° see moderation universally prevail, peace
maintaiued „
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