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• • .1, MARCH 22, 1850

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THE COUNTRY MARKETS.

BIRMINGHAM, MARCH 2l.—At Gloucester market on the
16th wheat was again Is per quarter cheaper. At Worcester,
same day, lower prices were not submitted to. Barley nomi-
nally altered, and very difficult to sell. Oats 6d per quarter
lower, but few fine ones were, however, offered. On beans
and peas the turn was again in favour of the buyer. This
week very little English wheat has been offering, and for that
which has changed hands fully as much money has been ob-
I tained ; but we cannot report any improvement either in the
;vice or demand for barley. Only retail parce's of oats have
been disposed of. No transactions worth notice reported in
either beans or peas. At this day's market there was a short
supply from the farmers, and English wheat. realised rather
more money, but we make no alteration in our quotations.
Fine barley the'turn dearer, secondary qualities very unsale-
able. Oats 6d to Is per quarter lower. We had very few in-
quiries for either beans or peas.
LOUGHBOROUGH, MARCH 21.—At our market to-day, there
was a better demand for wheat, at 1s over last week's prices.
Malting barley is higher. No alteration in oats or beans.
BOSTON, MARCH 20.—Wheat, red 2S's to 35s Od, white 36s
to fi9i, extra 42s ; barley 20a to 25s ; oats lOs to I6s ; beans,
195 to 21s; peas 20; to 2: s per quarter.
LYNN, MARCH I9.—Wheat 30s to 345, fine 36s to
40s ; barley 18s to 20e, fine 22s to 25s per qr.
NEWARK, MARCH <O.—Wheat, white 41. to 435, extra 455,
red .56s to 395, extra 400; barley, malting 24s to 265, extra 275,
second and grinding 21s to 235; oats, feed 161 to 17s,
seed 21s to 23s ; buns, 24s to 265, seed 27s ; peas, white and
blue 30i to 325, seed 34.;_ spring tares, 36, to 40s per qr.
DERBY SMITHFIELD MARKET, MARCH 19.—The supply
of fat beasts to-day was again good; those from the NOrth of
England were very superior animals, and were readily disposed
of; the attendance of purchasers was large and there was con-
siderable business transacted, more especially amongst the '
best quality of animals. The show of fat sheep was large, but
sales were rather flat. There was a better supply of fat and
store calves than we have had this season. Fat pigs about the
average. Beef made from 5d to bid per lb. ; mutton, 5d to
6d ; veal, 5d to 5/d per lb. ; pork, 7s 6d per score. Rough
fat, 3s Cd per stone of 141bs. Hides, 11d per lb; calf skins,
2d to 3d per lb.
GLASGOW, 111.knett 20.—For the last fortnight the weather
has been favourable for field labour, mild and dry. Our sup-
plies coastwise have been fair of wheat, and liberal of barley
and oats ; from Ireland they continue insignificant ; and from
abroad only 822 barrels of flour and 250 quarters of Indian
corn arrived from New York. About 855 quarters of wheat
reached Grangemouth from the continent. Business has been
quiet during the week. Fine wheat has undergone no quote-
able change ; other articles barely sustained last Weclnesda*
currency. This day's market was well attended by town alit'
country bayers. Some firmness was evinced by holders, and
the sales effected were mostly at or near the rates of this day
week. Wheat moved off pi etty freely ; beans were in fair re-
quest, and flour sold in retail. Other articles were in slow
demand.

EDINBURGH GRAIN MARKET, MARCH 20.—Wheat—The
quantity of wheat brought forward to-day was 452 qrs, being
151 qrs less than last week. Top price 2s, and the average
Id down-64 qrs unsold. Barley—The quantity brought
forward was 377 qrs, being 253 qrs less than last week.
Price on the top is down. and the average 3d up-105 qrs
unsold. Oats—Of this kind of grain we had 1,199 qrs
brought forward, or 226 qrs less than last week. The top price
the same, and the average 44 up--193 qrs unsold. jeans
The quantity of beans to-day was 181 qrs, or 76 qrs less
than last week. Price on the top ls, and, the average
4d up-54 qrs unsold.
Top of Wheat ... 6341 b. 42s Od
„ Barley ... 56i1b. 26s Od
„ Oats ... 4241 b. 24s Od
„ Beans •31s ()d
EDINBURGH. CATTLE MARKET, MARCH 20.—The supply
of cattle this morning was 673, being 77 less than last week.
Sales dull, and at the close of the market a number unsold.
Top price, 6s 6d ; current, 6s to Os Od ; middling and inferior,
4s 6d to Si per Dutch stone. The supply of sheep this morning
was 1,703, being 519 less than last week. Sales were ab.wly
effected at about last week's prices. Top price of best mutton,
6(1 per lb ; current, from *I to Od ; inferior, 44 to 41d.
Nearly all .sold.
DUNBAR, MARCH 19. Wheat, weighing 001bs, brought
38s, and prices to 345. Barley, weighing 581bs, brought 245,
and prices to 21s. Oats, weighing 451bs, brought 19s 6d, and
prices to 15s Od. Beans and peas, weighing 651bs, brought
26s 6d, and prices to Otis.
Coast, Maacts 20.—Flour—First 12s Od to 13s ; extra 141;
seconds, lOs 64 to 12s ; households 9s to 10s Od; thirds, 7s to Si
per cwt. Oatmeal 10, to 003 Od; Indian meal649d to 78 ; wheat-
meal, lOs to 00s Od per cwt. Indian corn 127864 to 1338 per ton.
Bran 3/17s 6d to 4/ Os'per ton. Hay—Farmers 28s to 355; average
32s ; dealers 30s to 38s Od; average 36s per ton. Straw—Farmers
15s Od to 26s Od; average 225; dealers 25s Od to 28s Od;
average O'Js Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 6 id;
household loaf 5d to bid per 41b. Fresh butter, lkd tc
10:1 per lb Eggs —3sBdto 3s 10d per hundred. Coals—
Newport 15s; Lydney 17s ; Landore 15s ; Best Neatb
Culm 14s per ton. Tallow 40s Od to 00s per cwt.
Whisky, 25 o. p., 5s 9d per imperial gallon. Mee.'
—Beet 4d to 6d; mutton 5d to 6d; veal 5d to
; pork and to 3d ; bacon 6d to 74 ; sausages 5d pet
lb. Hops 131 Os per cwt. Bangor slates 312 s 64 to 315 s pc.
ton. Bark—Barbary 715 s to 8/ ss; Valonia 141 tool; French
71 ss; English 0/ per ton. Fleece Wool 10s to I2s per stone.
Hemp 32/ to 00/ per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 163 to 17. ; re d
ditto 20s to '22s per barrel ; Newfoundland 9' Os to 11/ psi
ton. Timber—Memel, 85s per ton; deals, first quality, 18s,
second quality, 16s per 100. Hides—Market 14s to 20s;
salted 15s to 21s per cwt ; calf skins lid to 24el per lb.
Potatoes, white 8d to lod ; Minions 12d to 13d ; Guano—
Peruvian, 111 10s; Icbaboe, 91 per ton; Tar—Archangel,
19s per barrel.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

MALTA, 31Ancu 15.—The outward mail reached
Malta on the night of the 13th, and was forwarded per
the Merlin yesterday at noon. The homeward mail
arrived early this morning per Ripon, and will leave at
seven P.m. this evening, the overland portion via Mar-
seilles at noon.

The Rommond has left for Tangier, Algierz, Gib-
raltar, and England.

The Bulldog will follow early in tho week. Mr.joneg,
paymaster and purser of the Bulldog, exchanges with
Mr. Little, of the Volage. Lieutenant the Hon. Mr.
Hobart, acting in the Bulldog, joins the Ganges.
The Ardent is to be laid up in ordinary. Her cap-
tain, officers, and crow are to be turned over to the
Locust.

Captain Carey, 44th Regiment, on leave in England,
bus an extension of leave to June next.
Soma officers of the Rosamond and a lieutenant in
the garrison has been fined 305., 205., and 15s. for as-
saulting the police. The cause of the assault proceeded
from the police handling t)o severely a gentleman they
had in custody. The details would possess no feature of
interest.

Mr. Doherty, the Quartermaster of the 44th, proceeds
this evening by the Ripon to England.
PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—The Encounter, 14, Cap-
tain G. T. Gordon, arrived this morning from the Expe-
rimental Squadron, bearing dispatches from Commo-
dore Martin. She sailed from Gibraltar on the 9;h inst.,
at which date the squadron of Commodore Martin, com-
prising his pendant ship Prince Regent, 92 ; the Lean-
der, 50, Captain Dacres; the Indefatigable, 50, Captain
Smart ; the Thetis, :36, Captain Codrington ; and the
steam ships Hogue, 60, Captain M‘Dougall ; Arrogant,
46, Captain Robinson ; and Terrible, 21, Captain Hope,
had started on a cruise to the westward for a fortnight
or three weeks before returning to Lisbon, which point
the Encounter did not touch at; she has consequently no
political news.
The Dauntless screw-frigate, 24, is ordered to be fitted
for trial with all dispatch.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 20.—Her Majesty's steam-frigate
Stromboli, Captain Lord Amelius l3eauclerk, went up
lutrbour on Monday to take on board jurymasts and
gear, and proceed to Glasgow to conduct the new iron
steam-vessel Simoon to Woolwich. When passing to
the eastward of Drake's Island a man fell from stowing
the anchor of the Stromboli, and, passing under her
flows, came up again, tumbling every way, under her
stern. Fortunately, the boat belonging to Mr. Walker,
the Queen's Harbourmaster, was towing alongside, and
her coxswain (Miner) cast off, and reached the poor
fellow with his boathook just in time to save his life.
The officers and crew of her Majesty's frigate Are-
thusa, Captain Symonds, were inspected on Monday by
Commodore Lord John Hay, and were paid advance.
In the evening one of the men, Thomas Williams, tell off
the gooseneck, forward, and, although it was between
ten and eleven o'clock at night, four of his mesamates
jumped over after him; their efforts were, however, in-
effectual, and he was lost. At half-past two o'clock
this afternoon the Arethusa, under all plain sail, left for
Lisbon.

The Diligence transport arrived on Sunday from Pm-
broke.

LICENSING CREMORNR GARDENS.—On Wednesday
the adjourned annual licensing meeting for the Kensing-
ton division took place at the Holland Arms, Kensington,
with a full bench of magistrates, Robert Tubb, Esq , in
the chair. It appeared there had been 20,0001. ex
pended on the property of Cremorne-gardens, and that
there had been, since the year 184 G, admitted to the gar-
dens upwards of one million of persons. It was further
shown that not a single police complaint had ever been
preferred. After considerable discussion, the chairman
preecuted the proprietor with his licence.
THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT.—A new novel under
this title, written by Miss Harriet Raikes, the daughter
of Mr. Raiki s, so well known in the circles of fashion,
and clubs of St. James's-street, has just been published
by Mr. Bentley, and has already attained great popu-
larity. The author, who resided occasionally in Paris
and London, mixed with the most distinguislcd society
in the n etropolis of both countries, and has given us
pictures of society, such as can be painted only by those
who have had these opportunities. They are painted to
the life. The reader who takes up this powerful story
will not be able to lay it down until he reaches the end.
The Athexccum justly calls it one of the best novels of
the year.
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for which they are most famous—some by their oxen,
1 their earn, their hops, their cider, their cheese; some
by their cottons; their woollens, their carpets, their
lace; some by their minerals, some by their name. Iligh
upon the wall at the eastern end of the hull. behind 'the
Prince's chair, were two well painted colossal figures, re-
presenting Peace and Plenty, the former with a wreath
encircling the globe. Underueath was a large painting
in distemper, showing the ships of all nations discharging
the:ir cargoes in the port of London for the exhibition.
This painting, which was extremely well executed, was
said to be the work of Mr. F. Fenton. At the opposite
end of the hall was the figure of Britannia, with four
angels proclaiming to the four corners cf the world an
invitation (we apprehend) to bring their products for
the approaching exhibition. As if to make the repre-
sentation the more distinct, there was placed in the hind
of Britannia a sketch or plan of a building for the re-
ception of the articles, and a painting of the exterior
hung below. The plan exhibited a 13rge circle filled with
as many radii, or we might say avenues, from the circum-
ference to the centre as could be conveniently intro-
duced. In each of these the articles exhibited would
of course be placed, and the public could pass up oce
and down the next in a continuous stream, each person
entering or leaving the stream at such avenue or walk as
he pleased; the centre appropriated to the horticultural
department, forming an agreeable grove visible ,i'rom
every part, and a gallery above giving a carious bird's-
eye view of the whole. in the picture of the exterior the
dome surmounting the supposed building was painted to
represent the world. At the base of the balcony at each
end of the hall were suspended shields, on which were
the arms of various nations. The hall was brilliantly
illuminated, and these embellishments attracted (as may
be supposed) no little attention and admiration.
The Prince and circle, and the Lord Mayor, entered
the hall at 7 o'clock and took their places. The banquet
was then served. It was supplied by Messrs. Ring and
Brymer, and was of the most sumptuous order, fully abs-
taining the character of their establishment. There was
a magnificent display of plate upon the tables.
Grace was said by the Lord Mayor's chaplain, the
Rey. Charles Marshall.
The bill of fare included:—
First Course—Tortue claire, tortue a l'Anglaise, tur-
bots boulllis a la sauce de homard, turbans de filets de
soles, sautuon de Glo'ster boilli, mackerel en mantelot,
anguille aux tomato, traches de saumon la Tartare,
fried fish, filets de merlans a la horly.
Side Board—Pitit paths, baron of beef, filets de pou-
lets an supreme, ris" de veau la St. Cloud, homard a la
Indienne, fricandeau de veaux, pigeons aux champignons,
cotelettes homarde, grenadines de veau, turbans do filets
lepreaux, chickens, capons, turkey poults larded, hams
and tongues ornamented, ribs of lamb, raised ornamented
pies, lobster salads, prawns, Chantilly baskets, orna-
mented trifles, pine, strawberry, noyeau, Rhenish and
Italian creams, Dantzic, noyeau, and Maraschino jellies,
nougat with cream, Charlotte a la Busse, gateau de
potnme, gateau a la Duchease,-apple tarts, fanchonnettes,
boudia St. Clair, raspberry, apricot, and green gage
outlets, hunting puddings, trifles, cabinet puddings,
Nesselrode puddings, creamed tarts.
Removes—Haunches mutton, chines mutton, sirloins
beef, quart2rs lamb, Guinea fowls, ducklings, goslings,
turkey poults, pea fowls.
Dessert—Pines, grapes, oranges, apples, nuts, dried
fruits, preserved ginger, brandy and cherries, Savoy
cakes, almond cakes, mixed cakes, wafers.
Ices —Pine, millefruit, raspberry, lemon, ginger,
cherry, &c.

After dinner, according to custom at the Mansion-
house, the loving cup was sent round, the usual welcome
being proclaimed by the toast-master; Mr. Harker,
Graeo was then sung by the vocalists. This department
was arranged by Mr. Hobbs, assisted by Miss Birch,
Miss E. Birch, Miss Dolby, Mr. Francis, Mr. Young,
Mr. Lockey, Mr. Lawler, Mr. Bradbury, and Mr.
Machin. They had the aid of the Coldstream band.
As may be supposed the whole department was very
powerfully sustained. After grace,
The LORD MAYOR rote and said,—May it please
your Royal Highness, my Lords and Gentlemen,—The
first toast I have the honour to propose to you this even.
ing is one I am sure you will respond to, and that with
enthusiasm, it is " The health and long continued hap-
piness of our beloved and most gracious Sovereign
Queen Victoria."

The toast was drunk upstanding, with three times
three.
The National Anthem was very effeJtively performed.
The LORD MAYOR then said,—My Lords and Gentle-
men,—l have the distinguished honour to entertain this
evening the Consort of our beloved and gracious Queen.
In proposing the health of his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, allow use to connect with it an expression of my
desire that the great exhibition about to take place in
the year 1851, and which' his Royal Highness takes so
great an interest in, may benefit not only this metropolis,
but produce good. and lasting re, ults throughout the
United Kingdom, and a brotherly f,eling towards all na-
tions. With these sentiments I beg to propose " The
health of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and success
to the Exhibition of 1851."
The toast was received with the most enthu.isstio char-
mg. the whole company rising as one man to do honour
to the Prince.

Ills ROYAL Efroutiass, in acknowledging the toast,
spoke as follows:—My Lord Mayor,—l am sincerely
grateful for the kindness with which you have proposed
my h. alth, and to you, gentlemen, for the cordiality with
which you have received this propoE al. It must, indeed,
be most gratifying to me to find that a suggestion which
I had thrown out, as appearing to me of importance at
this time, should have met with such universal concur-
Fence and approbation, for this has proved to me that the
view I took of the peculiar character and requirements
of our age was in accordance with the feelings and
opinions of the country.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I con-
ceive it to be the duty of every educated person closely
to watch and study the time in which he lives, and, as
far as in him lies, to add his humble mite of individual
exertion to further the accomplishment of what he be-
lieves Providence to have ordained.—(Cheers.) No-
body, however, who has paid any attention to the par-
ticular features of our present era will doubt for a
moment that we are living at a period of most
wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish
that great end—to which indeed all history points—
the realization of the unity of mankind.—(Great cheer-
ing.) Nut a unity which breaks down the limits and
levels the peculiar characteristics of the different na-

tions of the earth, but rather a unity the result and pro-
duct of those very national varieties and antagonistic
qualities. The distances which separated the different
nations and parts of the globe are gradually vanishing
before the achievements of modern invention, and we
can traverse them with incredible speed; the languages
of all nations are known, and their acquirement placed
within the reach of everybody ; thought is communi-
cated with the rapidity, and even with the power of
lightning. On the other hand, the great principle of
the division of labour, which may be called the moving
power of civilization, is being extended to all branches
of science, industry, and art. Whilst formerly the
greatest mental energies strove at universal knowledge,
and that knowledge was confined to the few, now they
are directed to specialities, and in these again even to
the minutest points. But the knowledge acquired
becomes at once the property of the community at
large; whilst, formerly discovery was wrapt in secrecy,
it results from the publicity of the present day that no
sooner is u discovery or invention made than it is
already improved upon and surpassed by competing
efforts.—(Cheers.) The products of all quarters of the
globe are placed at our disposal, and we have only to
choose which is the beat and cheapest for our purposes,
and the powers of production are intrusted to the stimu-
lus of competition and capital. So man is approaching
a more complete fulfilment of that great and sacred mis-
►ion which he has to perform in this world. His reason
being created after the image of God, he has to use it to
discover the laws by which the Almighty governs His
creation, and, by making these laws his standard of
action, to conquer nsture to his use—himself a divine
instrument. Science discovers these laws of power,
motion, and transformation; industry applies them to the
raw matter which the earth yields us in abundance, but
which becomes valuable only by knowledge; art teaches
us the immutable laws of beauty and symmetry, and
gives to our productions forms in accordance with them.
—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, the exhibition of 1851 is to
give us a true test and a living picture of the point of
development at which the whole of mankind has arrived
in this great task, and a new starting point from
which all nations will be able to direct their fur-
ther exertions.—(Cheers.) I confidently hope that the
first impression which the view of this vast collection
will produce on the spectator will be that of deep thank-
fulness to the Almighty for the blessings which lie has
bestowed upon us already here below; and the second,
the conviction that they can only be realised in propor-
tion to the help which we are prepared to render to each
other—therefore only by peace, love, and ready assist-
ance, not only between individuals, but between the na-
tions of the earth. This being my conviction, I must be
highly gratified to see here assembled the mite;istrates of
all important towns of this realm, sinking all their local,
and possibly political differences—the representatives of
the different political opinions of the country, and
the representatives of the different foreign nations--
to-day representing only one interest.—(Cheers.)
Gentlemen, my original plan had been to carry out
this undert eking with the help of the Society of Arts
of London, which had long and usefully laboured
in this direction, and by the means of private capital
and enterprise. You have wished it otherwise, and de-
clared that it was a work which the British people as a
whole ought to undertake. I at once yielded to your
wish, feeling that it proceeded from a patriotic, noble,
and generous spirit.—(Cheers.) On your courage, per-
severance, and liberality the undertaking now entirely
depends.—(Chaers.) I feel the strongest confidence in
these qualities of the British people—(Cheers)—and am
sure that they will repose confidence in themselves—
confidence that they will honourably sustain the contest
of emulation, and will nobly carry out their proffered
hospitality to their foreign competitors.—(Cheers.) We,
her Majesty's Commissioners, are quite alive to the in-
numerable difficulties which we shall have to overcome
in carrying out the scheme; but having confidence in
you, and in our own zeal and perseverance at least, we
require only your confidence to make us contemplate the
result without any apprehension.—(Enthusiastic cheer-
ing, several times renewed.)

After an ode, admirably pet formed,
The LORD MAYOR proposed " The health of the
Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the rest of the
Royal family."
The toast was drunk with all the honours.
His Royal Highness Prince ALBERT then rose and
said,—Gentlemen, it is my pleasing duty to
propose to
you "The health of (kir noble host, the Lord Mayor,
and prosperity to the city of London"—(Cheers)—let me
add, " the commercial metropolis of the world."
The LORD MAYoR returned thanks, and then proposed
"The health of the Archbishop (.f Cantarbury and the
clergy."
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY. who was very
warmly welcomed, said—My Lord Mayor, I have to
thank you for the great honour you have conferred both
upon me and the body to which I belong. lam grati-
fied to have the opportunity of thanking you for t'no
honour you had e done me in supposing that I should be
happy in taking a share in the great object which
is uppermost in our minds to-day.—(ll, ar, hear.)
You might, my Lord, have supposed that the minis-
ters of religion were comparLtively indifferent to
such an object, which is in a great degree of a secular
character; but you have judged rightly in remem-
bering that whilst we are ministers of religion we are
a: she same time citizens, and we do not cease to be pa-
triots—(Cheers)—and as citizens and as patriots we
must take a lively interest in whatever tends to promote
the national prosperity and to aggrandize our country.
—(Hear, hear.) I trust that the undertaking now pro-
posed will be as successful in its result as it has been
grand in its conception.—(Cheers.) There will be still
more occasion for rejoicing, my Lord, if the aspirations
of his Royal Highness shall be answered, as I trust they
will, and if that which has for its object the national
prosperity and credit shall also improve the social rela-
tions and add to the amicable intercourse of the different
nations of. Europe with our own.—(Hear, hear.) We
shall rejoice in this because it will. carry into effect.that
glorious characteristic of -our holy religion--goodwill
amongst men.—(Hear, bear.)
The LORD Matron then gave "The Army and Navy;"
and

Colonel Bon'En= acknowledged the toast.
The LORD MAYOR nex t proposed " The health of the
Foreign Ministers," and callel upon the French Ambas-
sador to respond to the toast.
His Excellency M. DRoUTN DE LHUYS, the French
Ambassador, who was received with much cheering,
said—My Lords and Gentlemen, when I cast my eyes
around me I behold the cities of England represented by
their chief magistrates in this assembly, which I may
truly call the House of Commons of English industry.—
(Cheers.) I trust it is the shadowing of the future.—
(Hear, hear.) Foreign nations flocking to the banner
raised by Great Britain will be represented here very
soon` by their various productions in one vast assembly

A mighty male, but not without a plan;"

I may add, a garden tempting with forbidden fruit.—
(A. laugh.) We are all aware that the golckn fruits of
exotic industry are often withheld from P.,ur grasp by a
dragon whose protective claws and slerpless eyes are al-
ways on the watch. But you, gerAlemen, acting on en
august impulsion, have throwr open your doors to the
competition of the world.--(Hear, hear.) On another
occasion I compared Ws rivalry of nations to a peaceful
contest; but 1 thi
school in which 7:1( it should rather be likened to a
. we all of us have something to kern.—
though I believe that all will be gainers
experiment, I venture to say that your manufac-
bytho (Cheers.) tend,
tunes will not reap the least advantage from it; for, as
it has been justly remarked, their merit consists in the
cheapness of their prices, in the texture of their fabrics,
and in the durable nature of their productions—not in
their fine glossy surface, as the wife of the Vicar of
Wakefield would say—(Laughter and cheers)—but in
such qualities as wear well.—(Renewed cheers.) These
qualities are the result of a hidden skill, of which no
curious gaze can penetrate the mystery; whereas the
attractions, the external beauty, and the superiority of
design in which others are supposed rather to excel, are
open to first sight. and are accessible to imitation; but
whether in the school, or on the field of battle, I am
sure England will stand her ground.—(Laud cheers.)
The next toast was " The House of Lords and the
Marquis of Lansdowne."

The Marquis of LaNsnowrix, in acknowledging the
toast, said—lt is a source of unmixed pleasure to assist
upon this occasion, when there are, by the hospitality of
the Lord Mayor, so many present who represent those
corporations and places which- I may be permitted to
term the fountain heads of. industry—(Loud cheers)—
from which are perpetually flowing those streams which
supply the wants of the people of this country, and then
overflow to the most distant parts of the world. I feel
that I am assisting upon a solemn as well as an interest-
ing occasion—as his Royal Highness has so well said,
the commencement of a new epoch, the consequences of
which no man can meaiure or anticipate.—(Dear, hear.)
But this we may say, that we feel confident the stream
of industry will only flow the more freely when placed
in competition and within the reach of observation of
the industry of other countries, and that united they will
be a source of happiness cud greatness to this country,
and administer to the comfort and civilization of the
world.—(Cheers.)
The LORD MAYOR then proposed " The Health of
Lord J. Russell and her Majesty's Ministers."
Lord J. RUSSELL. who was louldly cheered, said—My
Lord Mayor and Gentlemen, I have so often had occa-
sion to thank your Lordship and this great city fur the
indulgence with which you view the intentions and mc-
tives of her Majesty's Ministers, that I have no fresh
words in which to express my gratitude for such kind-
ness; but I will take this occasion to say that I think
your Lordship has added most powerfully to the proba-
bilities of tho success of this great exhibition in asking
the representatives of the corporation of England to
assist at this inauguration.—(Cheers.) I feel sure,
gentlemen, that this design, like all other good designs,
will have collateral effects, perhaps equally advantageous
with those which must directly flow from it.—(Cheers.)
Because, in having an exhibition of the industry of all
nations, you will produce before the world such an ob-
ject of interest and curiosity that the most distinguished
men of all nations—the men most remarkable in science
and art in every rank of life and in every profession, will
hasten to flock hither to have the advantage of beholding
this grand collection, and the pleasure of reflecting that
they have been present at this great national exhibition.
—(Applause.) lam sure that we cannot have here such
an assemblage of distinguished men, who are apt to visit
us now from time to time as individuals, scarcely
meeting each other,—we cannot have such an assem-
blage at one time without their being animated with
more friendly feelings towards England and each ether;
and thus will he promoted •in a secondary and colla-
teral manner, but most effectrially, that great brother-
hood of nations which it is Royal Highness's moat laud-
able ambition to promote.—(Cheers.) I feel sure,
therefore, that you will have the most advanta-
geous effects of good % ill and amity flowing from
this festival, which all men will agree iu celebrating as
the great jubilee of industry and of peace.
The next toast was Lord Stanley and the Royal
Commissioners for the great Exhibition of all Nations in
1851."

Lord STANLEY, who rose along with Mr. Cobden and
the other Royal Commissioners, was very loudly cheered.
Ills Lordship said,—My Lord Mayor and Gentlemen,'
need hardly say that I feel it a very distinguished, as I
also feel it a most unmerited honour, to have my name
associated, as it has been this evening, with that great
and important exhibition, the preparation for which is
the occasion of this great assemblage. I know that there
are many of my colleagues on the Commission to whom
the task of returning thanks might far more fitly be
confided; and I know not for what reason my humble
name has been selected from among them, unless for
the purpose of practically demonstrating here, as prac-
tically we demonstrate in the Commission itself, that
men of the most different political opinions, men of the
most opposite views—(hear, hear)—can and will co-
operate cordially and hat moniously for objects which all
alike conceive to be promotive of the puhlic good.—
(Cheers.) More especially are we bound to cherish such
feelings, and to act upon such principles, when, as in the
Commission, we are presided over by our Royal Presi-
dent,—by ono who, from the moment of his appearance
in this country, down to the present hour, among his
many claims npon the gratitude and aflection of the
country, has had none more high or more worthy than
this—that in his high station he has always abstained
from interfering with the political contests of the day._ '
(Great cheering.) At the same time he has never shrunk
from putting himself forward, as befits his high station,
his distinguished character, and his eminent abilities,
whenever objects were to be accomplished which were
for the benefit, the advantage, and the improvement of
his adopted country.—(Cheers.) I feel, in returning
thanks for that Commission, that if I were to enter into
the objects for which it has been katituted—its high,
and I think I may venture to say, its holy objects—l
should only weaken the effect produced upon your minds
by the most. truthful, able, and eloquent statement made
to you by its Royal President.—(Cheers.) It is not to
the Commission that your thanks are due; we labour.
cordially,. but most humbly, under the presidency of his
Royal Highness. For my own parr, when it was desired
that my natne should be placed upon the Commission, I
assented
ysemntedduttoytthoe proposal mainly because 1 conceived it to
power
in the to the
in
deep my
interest
mind of the Sovereign, and a deeper interest still—if that be
possible—in the Consort of the Sovereign, the father of the
future sovereign, though God grant, gentlemen, that
that future may be so distant that few indeed among
those whom I am 'now addressing may live to witness it.
—(Cheers.) I cannot, however, deprive myself of the
satisfaction of bearing my humble testimony, in con•
junction with that of my colleagues who have already
addressed you, to the possible and probable effects of this
great exhibition. I agree with my Noble Friend the
Noble Marquis, that those effects, moral and social,
immediate and contingent, it is difficult to anticipate and
difficult to exaggerate. But this, at all esa fats, is a
matter of certainty, that it must tend to bring together
into harmonious concord the nations of the world; it
must tend to improve the good feeling between various
' nations; and at this time and in this age of progress,
when throughout the world the mass of the people are
acquiring a larger and a larger share in the governoient
of their own countries, it is a matter of no ordinary im-
portance that the mind, the attention, and the affections
of the people should be withdrawn from feelings of in-
ternational jealousy and hostile aggression, leading to
- sanguinary wars, whicb, oven when most suo.:essful,