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London, England, 1842-01-18 00:00:00

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TORMIGN.

The Spanish Senate has unanimously approved of the
conduct of the Regent in refusing to allow M. Salvandy
to present his credentials to the Queen. It is now not
the King of the French versus the Regent, but the King
of the French versus the Spanish Cortes. The following
is the text of the resolution adopted by the Senate upon
this question :—" That, Government having affirmed
that M. de Salvandy's departure is entirely founded upon
his opposition to Art. 59 of the Constitution to present
his credentials to Isabella IL, and not to the Regent, the
Senate do declare that, on this occasion, Government has
fulfilled its duty in defending the Constitution, and in
shelterinn the national honour from attack."
The Lco dd Comincrcio speaks with disapprobation of
the law presented by the Finance Minister, authorising
the Government to issue 180,000,000 of Treasury Bills,
at 6 per cent. interest, to be received in half-payment of
the Customs. _

In France the points of etiquette that had arisen be-
tween the French Government and those of Spain and
Russia are severely commented on by the Opposition
Journals. "To be proud with the weak, humble with
the strong, inflexible towards the Regent Espartero, but
ready to bear every insult from the Emperor Nicholas,
constitutes," according to the Constitutionnel, `4 the whole
policy of the Cabinet of the 29th of October."
The remarks of such of the Paris Journals of Satur-
day morning as notice the draft of the Address which
was read on Friday in the Chamber of Deputies are
without interest. The Ministerial Journals make no
comment upon it, and this is the case also with some of
those of the Opposition. It is hardly necessary to add,
that the Journals which do comment upon the Address
repeat what they had said against the speech from the
throne, of which the Address is almost a paraphrase.
The Constitutionnel is very angry with M. Guizot for
keeping back any of the despatches or other documents
connected with the negotiations on the Eastern Question,
and especially for not producing the treaty for the sup-
pression of the Slave-trade, which this Journal calls
" the pretext for ensuring to England over all other na-
tions the exorbitant and odious right of maritime search."
The Gazette de France mentions a rumour of Russia

having authorised a financial house of the first order ;
Amsterdam, to effect a new loan on its account. "Cir-
culars," it adds, "have been sent by this house to seve-
ral capitalists in Paris, which represent the affair as very
favourable to the subscribers; the rate of interest is 5 per
cent." The Gazette also mentions a report of a loan as
likely to be contracted by Austria for the execution of
the great lines of railroads by that State.
The Paris correspondent of the Observateur of Brus-

sels says :—" It was at one time thought of sending M.
de Broglie
.to London to induce the King of Prussia to
visit Paris, on his return from England ; but it appears
that his Majesty has sent a very friendly letter, in his
own hand, to King Louis Philippe and the Duke of
Orleans, excusing himself for not accepting the invita-
tion. It has therefore been decided that M. de Broglie
shall not go to England."
According to the last returns of enfranchisements of
slaves in the French colonies of Martinique, Guadeloupe,
Guiana, and Bourbon, they have amounted in Martinique
to 265, in Guadaloupe to 143, in Guiana to 25, and in
Bourbon to 76 ; making a total of 509. The aggregate
amount of emancipations since 1830 is 38,517.
The Toulonnais mentions a report that the Spanish
steamer Deltin, plying between Malaga and Cadiz, has
just been lost ori her passage, with all on board.
" The house of Rothschild in London," says the Com-
merce,"has been ordered to hold 100,000 gold Frederics
at the disposal of the Icing of Prussia during his stay in
the British metropolis. His Majesty, it will be remem-
bered, visited London with the Allied Sovereigns in 1814."
The publisher of the Charivari' at the Court of As-
sizes on Saturday, for a libel on M. Hebert, the Pro-
cureur-General, was sentenced to two years' imprison-
ment and 4,000 f. fine (1600, and the printer to six
months' confinement and 2,000 f. fine (801.) M. Crerneux,
the Jew advocate, defended the Charivari. •
PUBLIC OPINION.

The Morning Herald has a leading article on the affair
of the Creole, which is now a vexata questio between this
country and the United States. After stating the facts
of the case at considerable length, our Contemporary
gives it as his opinion that we cannot execute the local
law of the United States without violating our own; and
that the suggestion that the liberated negroes ought to
have been delivered up to bondage, is nothing more nor
less than a proposal that the British authorities should
infringe their own statutes.
The Morning Post, alluding to an article on the King
of Prussia, which appeared in the Times of Saturday,
and which was meant to be exquisitely ironical, but was
simply dull, by mistake, says—" In its attempt to wield
a weapon, the use of which it does not understand, for
the purpose of exposing something probably very absurd,
but certainly very obscure, in another journal, the Times
has committed a far greater and more revolting absurdity,
than any which has ever appeared in any English news-
paper. The ribaldry and sham invective," adds the
Post, " were so clumsily put together that half the world
mistook them for real
The Times comments,. in an ironical style, on the late
commercial crash in some- of the United States of
America, observing, " this, however, it appears, was
only the beginning of the end. Breakages and bank-
ruptcies on a small scale seem insufficient payment for
such a supernatural tit of prosperity. The State of
Mississippi has led off in gazetting itself ; and other
States seem no way indisposed, with more or less of cir-
comlocution, to follow the lead."

The Morning Advertiser, in arguing the difficult affair
of the Creole, which bids fair to occasion much em-
barrassment both to England and America, observes
that America may be assured that she can obtain no
slaves from us. Her ship (the Creole), laden with
human -beings whom she terms slaves, reaches a British
port, and they are free !"
• The Chronicle, referring to the Anti-Corn-law agita-
tion in Scotland, observes that " we envy not Sir Robert
Peel his position; and should he determine on retaining
place in order, not to relieve the people, but to try their
patience, by a refusal to comply with their just demands,
his name will go down to future times as one of the most
disgraceful on the page of history."
The Liverpool Chronicle gives the following advice to
o. If they will
the Puseyites :—" Let the followers. of Dr. Pusey at once
follow the bent of their convictions and leave a Church
v h c theyh
in
aladherence, are
o w onlybut real hstility.
b disgracing by the' obloquy of
their nominal
do this they will establish their sincerity and win•re-
spect, although at the cost of some worldly dross which
ought, however, to be no object to men of their pre-
tensions."

n—" We admit that E
stand humble sense of
mil
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his transgressions, and we have now the authority of the
Packet for the fact, that there is a thorough identity of
principle between his Excellency and the Orangemen cf
Ireland. This, at blast, is honest. The humbug cau be
practised no longer. The Orangemen despise him, it is
true—but he may still be used as an instrument."
The Manchester Times thus expresses itself on the sub-
ject of the Chinese war :—" From the first we expressed
our disapprobation of the war against China. We saw
no justice in battering down its towns because the Chinese
Government were averse to having the people poisoned.
With far better reason would the Americans lay Liver-
pool in ashes because we refuse to purchase their pork,
their wheat, and their 'flour. A war commenced in
in-
justice cannot be terminated with honour." •

Speaking of the more bigoted aristocratic landowners,
the DevonportTelegraph observes :-"The exclusively agri-
cultural and most bigoted part of the Cabinet hate the
manufacturing interest of this country, even more than
it fears the errors of Socialism, or the threatening of
physical force, and any party or sect that will colour up
a statement that may be made to tell as a party weapon
against the most formidable enemies of agricultural
monopoly, will be welcomed as useful tools by the Con-
servative Ministry.
The Carlisle Journal makes the following reference to
the Duke of Buckingham :—" The farmer's friend' is
ready to flee from his post—if the reward be but suffi-
' eiently high. He cannot be induced to rat; but he has
nu objection to betray. Peel says—' I don't ask you to
alter the Corn-laws ; but they must be altered ; and if
you will only get out of the way while I do it—here's
your reward.' The bait is too tempting ; and high-
reaching Buckingham grows circumspect,' and we hear
no more of no surrender.""

We take the following from the Monmouthshire Mer-
lin :—" The Tories have got up a demonstration among
the working classes to limit the hours of labour by legal
enactments, because it was easy to excite the feelings of
that class who suffered the most by the action of this
forced and demoralizing system of inordinate labour. It
was easy for them to fix upon machinery the attention of
those poor and ignorant men whose labour was sup-
planted by new inventions, requiring merely the cheaper
labour of females and children. But let these ignorant
and destructive sophists fix their
eyes upon the real
causes of infant factory work and all its attendant hor-
rors, and they will be at no loss to find argument for ex-
onerating machinery! Let them look at the Corn-laws !"
MONEY—TRAXIE—OOIIIIII2I3IOE.
had interviews with the Earl of Ripon on Sa-
A. deputation of lead-smelters, and another of sugar-
refinersfurday at the Board of Trade.
The examination of the banrupts of the Chichester
Bank was proceeded with on Friday and Saturday, and
then adjourned to the 16th of February. The total
amount proved up to this time is 122,646/. 15s. 11d.
The spinners of the largest mill in Hindley, near
Wigan, turned out, to the number of 400 hands, last
week, in consequence aof proposed reduction of 10 per
cent.

COMMERCIAL REZ'ORM.
The great Anti-Corn-law Convention at Glasgow
commenced its sittings on Friday last at 12 o'clock, in
the Trades' Hall. A great number of deputies were
present at the opening
of the proceedings, and the body
of the hall was filled with members of the working classes.
LAW' AND POLICE.
The trial of Charles Southwell for the publication of
blasphemous libels on the Bible and Christian religion,
in a series of papers called " The Oracle of Reason,"
was concluded on Saturday before the Bristol Magis-
trates. - The prisoner defended himself in a speech of
tg great ela2 months t length,onths ,
confinement
fi
nweama
efinntailnlyßrcisotnovligcal and fined 100/.
The trial of John Delahunt, for the murder of the boy, and sentenced
Thomas Maguire, at Dublin, concluded on Saturday,
when the Jury, on the strong evidence :against biro,
brought in a verdict of guilty, and he was adjudged to
execution on the sth of February next.

ZlMCrtoNzungrare.
A representative Peer, in the room of the late Lord
Elgin, will be elected at Ifolyrood Palace by the Peers Of
Scotland, on Wednesday forenoon next, the 19th inst.

FINE ARTS.
A spirited bust of M. Liszt, the pianist, has just been
finished by M. Inhoff, of Cologne, the sculptor, said to
be an excellent likeness : it has been executed for the
present Earl of Westmoreland.
_ _

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC.
At a meeting of the Royal Medico-Botanical Society
last week, Dr. Sigmond dilated on the loss sustained in
Aylmer Bourke Lambert, a botanist of high character.
His writings and engravings of two families of plants,
necessary in the cure of diseases, were highly valued,
and the barks of Peru, and the pine-tribe, had been sub-
jects of his especial examination.
THEATRICAL.
M. Rubini has just been in Paris on his way to Italy
from Madrid. It is stated by the management of the
Queen's Theatre, that he has been engaged here for a
certain number of nights, for which he is to .receive a
tjlousand guineas.
Mdlle. Rachel's appearance, the beginning of this week
at Paris, in Corneille's chef d'cruvre, Le Cid, is looked
forward to with great interest.
Mdlle. Mayer, who will be recollected as one of the
most pleasing actresses of some of the minor theatres, is
reported to have died lately at St. Petersburgh.
COURT--FASHIONABLE.
The Countess Cadogan returned to town on Saturday
from Selby Hall, Northamptonshire.
Lady Peel and family arrived in Whitehall Gardens
on Saturday, from Dfayton Manor, for the season.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch are expected at
Montagu -House on Thursday next, from Dalkeith Palace.
The Marquis of Normanby is expected at the Claren-
don from Mulgrave Castle, before the meeting of Par-
I ament.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne leave
Bowood ?ark, Wilts, at the close of the week, for Lans-
downe House, in order to be present at the Royal chris-
tening.

The Earl and Countess of Limerick are entertaining
a numerous family party at South Hill Park.
The death of the relative of Sir Robert Peel, which
has been already announced, took place at Wallington
Hall, near Downham. The deceased, Robert Peel, Esq.,
formerly resided at Ardwick, near Manchester, and was
then resident partner in the house of the late Sir R. Peel.

HUMOURS OF THE DAY.
The house of Rothschild in London, according to the
Commerce has been ordered to hold 100,000 Frederics at
the disposal of the King of Prussia during his stay in
London.

There is no end to the rumours respecting the new
Judge who is to succeed Sir John Bosanquet in the Court
of Common Pleas. The Attorney-General declines going
to the Bench at present, and the probability, therefore, is
that either Mr. Sergeant Goulburn or Mr. Cresswell will
get the appointment.

THE NEW ROYAL

EXCHANGE.

LAYING THE • FIRST STONE BY
H. R. H. PRINCE ALBERT.
The interesting ceremony of laying the first stone of
the new Royal Exchange took place yesterday, and the ar-
rangements, which were on a scale of magnitude, cor-
responding with the magnificence of this great
national undertaking, and the rank of the dis-
tinguished personages who took part in it, ap-
peared to give very general satisfaction. The entrance
of those who were fortunate enough to obtain tickets
was in Cornhill, the avenues leading to which were al-
most blocked up from an early hour, and the , police
had much difficulty in keeping open a passage.
A covered way, lined with alternate stripes of crimson
and white cloth led from Cornhill to the entrance of the
tent, which was placed as nearly as possible in the centre
of the building, and up to the time the doors were thrown
open, at twelve o'clock, the workmen were busily em-
ployed in laying down matting, and completing the other
necessary arrangements.
The tent under which the ceremony took place is of
a circular form, with an open space in the centre, in
which the foundation-stone was suspended. We un-
derstand that it is of larger dimensions than any
that has hitherto been erected in this country, and is
capable of affording accommodation to between 12,000
and 15,000 persons. It is upwards of 100 feet high,
and 300 feet in circumference ; on the top is a lanthorn
with the City arms and the shield of Britannia, and
above all the union jack floated proudly in the breeze.
Around the amphitheatre were 11 tiers of seats rising
gradually to the height of 24 feet. The seats, as well as the
floor of the tent, were covered with crimson drapery, the
reserved seats in front bring festooned with the same,
and at the back a tastefully designed festoon of crimson
and white drapery confined at certain distances by
rosettes, went round the entire walls of the tent. The
floor or platform on which the stone was placed was
forty feet in diameter, and there were two chairs
of state placed in front of the stone, for the accommoda-
tion of his Royal Highness Prince Albert and the Lord
Mayor. Over the entrance to the tent was an orchestra
for the band, the front of which was decorated with
panels, on which the Royal and City Arms, the Arms of
the various City Companies, and of Sir Thomas
Gresham, were emblazoned. The band of the 2d
Life Guards was in attendance, and beguiled the time
till the arrival of his Royal Highness, by performing
various popular overtures. On a pedestal on either side
of the entrance, was placed a very beautiful model of the
intended building, which attracted much attention. The
tent was lighted by a circular chandelier, containing
about fifty gas lights, and when -the-entire amphitheatre
was filled, the whole presented a spectacle of great ani-
mation and brilliancy. •
The stone, which is of granite, and several tons weight,
was divided into two compartments, the one portion
being fixed in its proper position, and the other sus-
pended over it at a height of about two feet by strong
ropes and piffles, and further supported by four upright
pieces of timber. At the end nearest the entrance the
zinc plates were deposited, on which was the following
inscription _

AEDES. CVM. PERISTYLIO
IN . EORVM . COMMODA
QVI . IN . HOC . CELEBERRIMO . EMPORIO
GENTIVM . COMMERCIA EXERCERENT
ADIECTIS . ETIAM . IN . PVPVERVIM . SOLATIVAI
ET . IN . BONARVM. ARTIVM. AC . LITTERARVM
INCREM ENTA
PTOCHOTROPHIO . ET . PRAELECTORVM
COLLEGIO
SVA . PECVNIA . EXSTRVENDAS CVRAVIT
THOMAS . GRESHAM . EQVES . AVRATVS
ADIVVANTE . CIVITATE LONDINENSI
FAVENTE REGINA . ELIZABETHA
QVAE. ET . IPSA . OPVS . ABSOLVTVM
SOLENNI . POMPA PRAESENS . DEDICA VIT
GRAVI . VASTOQUE . INCENDIO
CVM . TOTA . FERE . VRBE. IN . CINERES . RE-
DACTAS
CVLTV . SPLENDIDIORE INSTAVRAVERVNT
CIVITAS LONDINENSIS
•ET . ANTIQVA . MERCERORVM SODALITAS
INCOHANTE . STRVCTVRAM REGE . CAROLO
SECVNDO
DIE . OCTOBRIS . XXIII . A . S.M . DC LXVII.
ITERVM . VERO . IGNE ABSVMTAS
DIE. IANVARII .X.A. S.M. DCCC . XXXVIII.
lIDEM. °PERTS CVRATORES
IN . ANIPLIOREM ORNATIOREMQUE FORMAM
SVA. IMPENS A . RESTITVENDAS. DECREVERVNT
REGNI . SENATVS . MVNIFICENTIA SVFFRA-
GANTE
VT . SPATIIS PROLATIS
ACCESSVQV•E OMNE .ET . ANFRACTV VIARVM
QVAQVAVERSVS. EXPLICATO
FORVM . TERTIA . VICE . A . SOLO . CONDITVM
PRO . GENTIS . ET . DIVNICIPII . DIGNITATE
ET . PRO . MERCATVRIAE
IN. ORBIS . TERRARVM AMBITVM . EXTENSAE
AMPLITVDINE
VICTORIAE REGINAE AVSPICIIS
DENVO . EXSVRGERET
PRINCEPS . SERENISSIMVS
ALBERTVS. DE. SAXE-COBVRG. ET. GOTHA
AVGVSTISSIMAE. REGINAE . CONIVX
LAPIDEM . AVSPICALENI. STATVIT
DIE . lANVARII . XVII .A . S. M . DCCC XLII.
PRAETORE lOANNE . PIRIE.
GVLIELMO . TITE . S . R . S . ARCHIETECTO.
DEVS 0 . M . CONSERVATOR
AXITIVM . AB . HIS . AEDIBVS
TOTAQVE . VRBE ARCETO.
The following is a translation of the Latin inscrip-
tion :

I SIR THOMAS GRESHAM, KNIGHT.
ERECTED AT HIS OWN CHARGE
A BUILDING AND COLONNADE
FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF THOSE PERSONS
WHO IN THIS RENOWNED MART
MIGHT CARRY ON THE COMMERCE OF THE
WORLD,
ADDING THERETO, FOR THE RELIEF OF
INDIGENCE,
AND FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LITERATURE
AND SCIENCE,
AN ALMSHOUSE AND A COLLEGE OF
LECTURERS,
THE CITY OF LONDON AIDING HIM,
QUEEN ELIZABETH FAVOURING THE DESIGN,
AND WHEN THE WORK WAS COMPLETE
OPENING IT IN PERSON WITH A SOLEMN PRO--
- CESSION.
HAVING BEEN REDUCED TO ASHES
TOGETHER WITH ALMOST THE ENTIRE CITY
BY A CALAMITOUS AND WIDELY SPREADING
CONFLAGRATION,
THEY WERE REBUILT IN k MORE SPLENDID
FORM
BY THE CITY OF LONDON
AND THE ANCIENT COMPANY OF MERCERS,
KING CHARLES THE SECOND COMMENCING
THE BUILDING
ON THE 23d OCTOBER, A.D. 1667;
AND WHEN THEY HAD BEEN AGAIN DE-
STROYED BY FIRE
ON THE 10th JANUARY, A.D. 1838,
THE SAME BODIES UNDERTAKING THE WORK.
DETERMINED TO RESTORE THEM AT THEIR
OWN COST.
ON AN ENLARGED AND MORE ORNAMENTAL
PLAN,
THE MUNIFICENCE OF PARLIAMENT PRO-
VIDING THE MEANS OF EXTENDING
AND OF WIDENINGTHE THESITE APPROACHES AND
CROOKED STREETS IN EVERY DIRECTION,
IN ORDER THAT THERE MIGHT AT LENGTH
ARISE
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF QUEEN VICTORIA,
BUILT A THIRD TIME FROM THE GROUND,
AN EXCHANGE
WORTHY OF THIS GREAT NATION AND CITY,
AND SUITED TO THE VASTNESS OF A
COMMERCE
EXTENDED TO THE CIRCUMFERENCE
OF THE HABITABLE GLOBE.
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS
PRINCE ALBERT OF-SAXE-COBURG AND GOTHA,
CONSORT OF HER SACRED MAJESTY,
LAID THE FIRST STONE
ON THE 17th JANUARY, 1842,
IN THE MAYORALTY OF THE RT. HON.
JOHN PIRIE.
ARCHITECT WILLIAM-TITE. F.R.S.
MAY GOD OUR PRESERVER
WARD OFF DESTRUCTION
FROM THIS BUILDING
AND FROM THE WHOLE CITY.

Before 12 o'clock most of the members Of the Royal
Exchange Committee were in attendance. They were
distinguished by their handsomely decorated and gil,
wands. They also wore a broad V blue ribbon mum
the neck, from which was suspended a silver meda'
commemorative of the occasion. On the one side was
beautiful medallion of her Majesty, and on the other an
appropriate inscription. When the doors were thrown
open, there were not more than forty or fifty persons
present, but the visitors shortly afterwards began t,
arrive in quick succession, and at one o'clock almost al
the seats, with the exception of those in the first row.
reserved for the more distinguished guests, were occupied.
The children of the charity school of the ward o
Broad-street, were ranged on either side of the passag,
leading to the tent, but shortly after two o'clock they wer,
brought in and placed immediately in front of the orchestra
Among those who were earliest in attendance w,
observed Lord Dudley Stuart ; the Bishop o.
Llandaff ; Sir Robert H. Inglis, M.P.; Sir Join
Cowan and Lady ; Mr. Robinson, Chairman 01
Lloyd's ; George Palmer, Esq., M.P. ; Alder-
man Humphery, M.P.; Sir John Easthope, M.P. ;
a son of Sir Robert Peel; Sheriffs Magnay and Rogers:
Aldermen Gibbs, Sir C. Marshall, Sir George Carroll ;
Hon. Mr. Law, M.P., Recorder of London ; Aldermen
Johnston, Earncornbe, &c. &c.
The Lord Mayor and Aldermen, with the Sheriffs, the
Chairman and members of the Joint Gresham Commit-
tee, and the principal officers of the Corporation of Lon-
don, were in attendance at the Guildhall at half-past
one o'clock precisely, to receive his Royal Highness,
who was introduced to the Lord Mayor in the Common
Council-chamber, where William Tite, Esq., F.R.S., the
architect, submitted the plans of the new building to
his Royal Highness. A procession from thence to the
site of the New Royal Exchange was then formed and
proceeded at two o'clock in the order subjoined :
Police officers cleared the way.
City Marshalmen.
Water Bailiff's Watermen in state liveries.
Banners of the Arms of England.
Banner, Mercers' Company. Banner, City of London.
Banner, Royal badges. The Union flag.
The Lord Mayor's Beadle in state livery.
The Lord Mayor's Bargemaster in state dress.
Bargemen with Sheriffs' banner.
City Watermen with colours.
Captain of the Navigation Barge.
The Principal Assistant Water Bailiff.
City Waterman with colours.
Junior City Alarshal on horseback.
Band.
The Contractor, Mr. Thomas Jackson.
The Architect, William Tite, Esq., F.R.S.
Solicitor of the Mercers' Company—George Fredericl

Prince Sutton, Esq.
The Clerk of the Mercers' Company and Joint Gresham
Committee—James Barnes, Esq.
Police Officers. The Under Sheriffs. Police Officers.
The City Solicitor.
The Remembrancer.
The Comptroller.
Police Officers. The Two Secondaries. Police Officers.
The Four Common Pleaders.
The Common-Sergeant.
The Town Clerk. •
Police Officers. The Chamberlain. Police Officers.
Members of the JOint Gresham Committee.
Under Beadle, Masters of the Upper Beadle,
Mercers'Company.Mercers'Company.Mercers'Company.
Joseph Thomas Pooley, E 9.,
Accompanied by the Chaplain.
• Chairman of the Joint Gresham Committee.
Richard Lambert Jones, Esq.,
With the Trowel.
Mr. Sheriff Rogers in his State Chariot.
Mr. Sheriff Magnay in his State Chariot.
Aldermen who have not passed the chair.
The Recorder.
Aldermen who have passed the chair.
Banner of Prince Albert. The Royal Standard.
Banner of the Lord Mayor.
The Suite of his Royal Highness Prince Albert.
Upper City Marshal on horseback.
Gentlemen of the Lord Mayor's household.
The Lord Mayor.
The Right Hon. John Pirie,
His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE ALBERT,
In the State Carriage,
Attended by
The Chaplain, Swordbearer, Water-Bailiff, and Common
Crier.
Four City Watermen.
• Four Water-Bailiff's Watermen.
Police Officers.

At half-past two o'clock the shouts of the assembled
multitude without the tent announced the arrival of his
Royal Highness and the other distinguished guests,
and shortly afterwards the head of the procession
entered the tent. Among the Cabinet Ministers Wt
observed the Earl of Aberdeen, the' Earl of Had-
dington, the Earl of Ripon, Lord , Fitzgerald and
Vesci, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir J-ame,
Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
Sir E.Knatchbull. Shortly afterwards, the Right Hon. tin
Lord Mayor, accompanied by his Royal Highness Prima
Albert and suite, entered the tent, and were received with
loud and hearty cheers.. '
On their arrival at the site, the band played the na-
tional air till the Lord Mayor took his seat on the area.
and' his. Royal Highness his station by the side of the
stone, where he -was attended by four members of tht.
Committee, bearing the glass bottle for the coin, a glass
brick with an English inscription incrusted. thereon; the
mallet, and the level.
The Chairman of the Joint Gresham 'Committee, bear-
ing the trowel, then took his station on' the side of the
stone opposite his Royal Highness.
The architect after him took his station on another
side of the stone, and exhibited the models of the new
Exchange.
The Clerk of the gommittee took his place opposite
the architect, with the plate on which the inscription
was engraved.
His Royal Highness, who was in plain clothes, looked
extremely well, and stood in front of the Ministers,
beside the Chair of State that was placed for him.
His Royal Highness was attended by Mr. Anson,
and Colonel Bouverie. Upon the entry of his Royal
Highness all the asssmbly rose, and the band struck up
the National Anthem.
Mr. Lambert Jones the Chairman of the Committee,.
handed the coins to his Royal Highness, by whom they
were deposited in the glass bottle.
Mr. J. G. Cope, one of the Committee, then handed
to his Royal Highness the glass pillars which were depo-
sited by his Royal Highness at the four corners of the
cavity in the stone.
The Architect, Mr. TITS, read the inscription on the
Plate in Latin and English, which was then placed on
the stone.
Mr. L. JONES then presented the trowel to his Royal
Highness, and said, " May it please your Royal Highness,
the Committee appointed by the Corporation of
the City of London and the Mercers' Company,
have deputed me, as their Chairman, to express
to your Royal Highness their profound sense of
the obligations you have conferred upon the
Citizens o London, by attending on the present occasion,
and we trust that this building may remain a monument
of your Royal Highness's kindness and conde-
scension, that it may be conducive to the
commercial interests of this great City, and
not unworthy of the wealth and commerce of the
metropolis of the world. lam also deputed to present
your Royal Highness with the trowel to aid you in car-
rying your intentions into effect, and I trust that, when
completed, it may stand as a monument of the libera-
lity and good taste of the citizens of London."
His ROYAL HionsEss took the trowel and spread
the mortar over the face of the stone in a very mat
and workmanlike manner, which elicited the most en-
thusiastic cheering.
The stone was lowered to its place, under the di-
rection of Mr. Thomas Jackson, the contractor ; when ,
the members of the Committee, bearing the level and
mallet, presented them to his Royal Highness, to adjust
and set the stone.
The City state sword and mace was placed cross-
ways on the stone, after which the Rev. Henry Thomas,
A.M., Chaplain to the Lord Mayor, offered up an appro-
priate prayer, and the children belonging to the charity
school of the ward of Broad-street sang the national
Anthem.
The Lord Mayor, with his Royal Highness and the
invited guests, then proceeded in their carriages to the
Mansion-house ; the Lord Mayor and his Royal High-
ness going first.
During the day the crowd had increased to a
frightful extent, and the streets for a considerable dis-
tance around Cornhill were literally impassable. Th.-
police arrangeinents, however, were such as to preserve
comparative order among the dense multitude, and we
heard of no accident of a serious nature.

We cannot close this account without expressing our
acknowlegments to the gentlemen of the Committee for
the admirable arrangements made by them for the
accommodation of the press.
We subjoin a brief description of the implements used
on the occasion, and the coins and medals.
The trowel which his Royal Highness used is of silver
gilt. The handle is fluted, terminating at the end with
the Royal Crown, connected with the blade by flowing
ornaments of beautiful chasing, which is continued round
' the edges. On one side are the Royal arms and sup-
porters,
with an inscription referring to the use to which
the trowel was applied, and on the other an elevation
of the west front of the building, with the three shields
of arms of the Mercers' Company, the City of London,
and Sir Thomas Gresham.
The mallet is formed of a block of beautiful oak, pre-
sented by the Chairman, and was part of one of the.
great beams of the old Exchange. It the full size of

a mason's mallet, turned and Moulded into an elegant
form, with a wreath of oak leaves and acorns carved
round the base of it, and the Royal crown terminating;
the handle. There is a silver plate inserted at the end,
with an inscription similar to that on the trowel.
The block of oak from which the mallet was made had
been actually burnt through in the fire; and it is an in-
teresting fact that the stain has extended almost through
its substance, although it appears to be as hard as the
most solid metal. The level and the plumb rule are of
polished Spanish mahogany.
All the coins of the realm were deposited in a glass
bottle, which also contained a medal, with the head of
her Majesty on the obverse, and an inscription on the

reverse.
Proofs of the medal have been struck in gold for the
Lord Mayor, and in silver and copper for the Committee
and distinguished visitors. Upon the bottle containing
the medals and coins was placed a glass brick, on which
an inscription has been imperishably encrusted. The
brick was covered by a polished zinc plate, on which is
engraved the inscription in Latin and English.

THE BANQUET AT THE MANSION-HOUSE.
The most splendid preparations were made at the
Mansion-house for the reception of his Royal Highness
in the Egyptian Hall. The whole of the Lord Mayor's
plate; cad that of the Goldsmiths' . cordpau, was_