New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-30
THE NEWS FROM EUROPE.

way of the Post Office.
ENGLAND-THE AMERICAN MINISTER AND TIKI
LORD MAYOR Of LONDON
At the splendid inaugural banquet at Guildhau,
on Saturday, Nov Q, to celebrate the ustalIment
in office OF the Lord Mayor, his ordshp pro
/ posed the health Of the American Minister in the
/ following terms:
The LORD MAYoR-It becomes my duty now
TO propose toast which | am sure you will all
receive with reclamation | believe there never
was period when it was more acceptable to this
country TO receive the Representatives OF For
el8n Powers than it IS at Che present time, when
we at peace with ali the world. [Cheersj
take this opportunity OF saying, that the last
occasion OF dining IN this Hall, had the pleasure
OF sitting opposite the American Minister, and he
did me the honor of saying that If he lived to this
day he would be sure to be here Hear, hear.I
His Exceency his fulfilled his promise, and am
delighted to see him here with several OF his col.
! leagues Hear, hear | beg to propose :" the
Health Of the Foreign Ministers :, am sure the
citizens OF London are always ready to give them
hearty welcome. Cheers
The toast was drank amid much cheering.
His EXceency Mr.. Lawrence the American
Minister, said.-My Lord Mayor, my lords, ladies'
and gentlemen, came here hoping 10 have the
pleasure of meeting large number OF my col
leagues, many OF whom knew were older than
myself, and would respond to any sentiment that
might be given by your lordshlp. In that eXpec'
tatiou ind myself disappointed, aud confess 70
you somewhat embarrassed, Besides hndlng my
self the senior on this occasion, II seems from the
good memory Of his lordshlp, that ON the last &C.
Cason on which have had the honor OF dining IN
this hall and when it gave me great satisfaction
as we'll remember) 10 sit opposite to his lord.
ship, ! made q promse-but without knowing
that he was to be the next Lord Mayor IA
laugh that | would make speech whenever
he should be Lord Mayor. That pledge he calls
upon me to redeem Hear Hear. beg your
lordship and this distinguished company 10 accept
the grateful thanks of my colleagues and myself,
in behalf OF the countries we se' orally represent,
for the great honor you have done US IN drink.
ing our healths on this occasion. Hear Hear
My Lord Mayer it is good for US, representing
foreign countries, to come up here to this hall de-
voted as it is to the great pbects for which 1t has
been occupied almost time out OF mlnd-the great
purposes OF the city oil London Hear we
should be recreant TO our duty and our interest II
we were not to appreciate the compliment OF be-
ing invited to dine on this time .hon0red occasion
with the chief magistrate OF the mghtlcst city
that does exist or probably ever dad exist on the
face of the earth Cheers. My Lord Mayor,
am here in this great city OF London, which is the
banking and settling house OF the world and what
has created this mighty city 1t Is the genius OF
commerce. London has been made and created
what she is through the fundamentally OF com,
merce, and by the honor and integrity maintained
bv the bankers, the merchants, the tradesmen
of the city of London, Cheers But what
have said with regard to the city OF London is but
r small part in my estimation, of what really
belongs to her. Hear. This city is the home
of treedom the city of London has been distn
guished for her devotion to the cause OF civil and
religious liberty Great cheering. Where was
it, | ask, that the first stand was made against
the Royal prerogatve of collecting ship money!
Here III the city OF London, by that immortal
man, John Hampden Cheers. Where was it
that the prescribed Members OF Parliament took
refuge! 1t was in the city OF London, under the
aCtiO Of liarmpn
Cheers My Lord, it has been the home OF
Freedom, both in religion and politics. Great
applause did not rise, my Lord, to do more
thnn tender to you my Acknowledgements ON be-
halt of my colleagues and myself tor the great
honor done us to-day, but cannot sit down with
out single word for my own country-a single
word for q nation and people who have com
mon ancestry with worcestershire same blood,
common language, the same religion, and the same
laws Cheers cannot take my seat without
saying single word on the intimate commercial
relations existing between the United Kingdom
and the United States-a relation which IS strong,
and does much for the peace of the word-that of
interest Hear, hear. But there Is something
should be stronger than that. We are of tho
Anglo. Saxon race, reared in the Protestant faith
cheers with the same current OF thought, In the
great plan of Providenceaot civllising the world.
Hear, hear | ask, them II we are what have
represented both nations to be in regard to their
relation what is there that should disturb that
can only say, on the part of my own country and
| pledge 23,000000 Of people, governed by the
Anglo Saxon race pledge them as do myself,
pledge the feeling which exists there and exists
here for the prosperity and happiness OF the CITY
of London [Cheers Ny Lord Mayor, | con-
graduate YOU on being elevated to tho important
position which you now hold | congratulate the
citizens OF London on having lived under the gov.
eminent OF equal laws well administered and
can only wish that the mantle Of those that have
preceded your lordshIp may fall upon your shout
deTs and sit gracefully on you on the most
successful Of your predecessors. Loud cheers.
CE-PREslDENTs MESSAGE.
In the Paris National Assembly, on Tuesday
Nov. H. q lengthy Presidential Message was read
from the tribune by the Minister OF the Interior.
The following extracts embrace those passages
most interesting to British or American renders:
COMMERCE
The National Assembly has before 1t three pro-
iects oil law One presented in March, 1850, pro-
poses to reform the commercial regime Of the Isle
de la Reunion in more liberal sense, ana more
suited to the new elements Of exchange Oeih5 ae'
veloped between our colony and the neighDorIn9
countries OF Asia
The second, prepared by the departments of
commerce and war, and submitted to the Assem-
bly, on the list of May, has for its object the regu.
lation upon more liberal basis Of the commercial
and economical regime Of Algeria. 1t should, IN
the opinion Of the Government give decisive
impulse to the progress OF colonization
Lastly the third project brought before you on
the 18th of July concerning the tdrIh OF su5H
Without overlooking the difficulties OF dennitWe
solution the Government, has thought that IN
proposition reducing the tax which weighs on tue
consumer, and replacing 1t by sufficiently pro-
tectiye and prohibitive duty, which shall keep
hack foreign SUGAR it will combine VITA equity
the popular interest which claims sugar al i2|
price with the interest OF the native or coloLlh
PRODUCER those Of the commercial marine, auh