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ia GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[JAN. 22, 
t entertaining the 
nk 
CITY. 
Friday.—Consols for money closed 
pee 
a-Half - Cents., 983; cores enuicies (expiring Jan. 5 
1860), 123. 
ooereet anv its Wicinity. 
The Weather.—The her since our last has been 
pair ths variable ; td the early part of a ber the re 
ve since ta 
towards e it wa ifficuity 
he most experienced p s were enabled to pursue their 
route. This difficulty, however, appears have bee 
still greater in the environs, particularly on those roads 
where the | have been withdrawn, the es and om 
nibuses being com to proceed by torchlight. In 
the Parks the ice has been rendered rather dango by 
the thaws; but altho many thousand perso 
ted eee be} uring the week, no accident of 1 a fatal 
ct Roya } Patholod: —On Monday the ceremony of 
site nd first stone of the new Royal Exchange was 
perfor’ Re H. R. H. Prince ae The City 
i at preparations having 
be made for the « event ; _and, tha weather bein ng fi 
ted 
ak bs As 2. to 
fadividuals who wer ng 
few minutes before fie » ile Royal ih 
a House 
fp 
Te a , id +1. +1 +s 
a 
insm, his 
Ma ot dies, and Gen- 
n, Ir most sincere s for this ete 
ery oe! to sees to you my liv ri ore neta at the kin 
par’ flattering manner in which received Tt 
i me to have, by a 
h 
would obliterate na- 
all nations would resort, where t 
tional — es and national jel, and would 
those ents which con new guarantees for 
wor nid, His Royal Highness 
the coined tranquillity of the 
day had lai 
that day the foundation not merely of an edifice 
dedicated to commerce, he had lai f 
temple of peace ; and i t 
jesty’s Government that the future progress and destiny 
of that edifice might correspond wit 
pices under which that day its foundations had bee 
— pg of begs Earl of Rip as t 
followed by eat of the Duk 
race, ane replie 
a By 
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his time of t 
ea key the other 
to return thanks, « and added, that that t house w was 
a ES 
Exchange, where a pera! had bee 
me) pavilion was of pucdkowans gs size, handsomely 
ich was lit up: with gas, and 
ther with many Siig nace es the ers of 
the Corporation, and a nu assem ies of ladies. 
The Prince having taken ear the stone, first 
inita con ifferent coins of the 
bat tise Bl sa. pe ee deposi in the same 
manner by his Royal Highness. A zinc plate, containing 
a Latin inscription composed for the occasion by the 
Bishop of London, with an English translation, was then 
placed in} the stone, and ove le another rough 
plate of the same . After a srenie address from the 
irman of Gresham , Prince t re- 
ceived the trowel, which was saver gilt and of very hand- 
some workmanship, and spread some mortar along the 
surface stone. 
: ° thnoogh: dlarin the per- 
which the Prints wis greatly ch Sean ike Tord 
the Rev. H. Thomas, offered up a form 
The national anthem 
personages present ce- 
ny, must be regarded as an event of ener interest 
to the country at large. 
The Banquet at the Mansion House.—Immediately 
after the Sia gE og hres ceremony, Prince Albert and 
the 
the procession rned to Mansion Ho 
i a sumptuous . eatertatane nt en prepared 
his Royal Highness and a se! r of distinguished 
Queen, he was now  pacetied pa pratoey aa 
erect for hs-oma ake ‘The toast having been drank with 
stitution of the country; andhe hopedthat, in modern times 
at fad. it had fulfilled the objects of its institution. SirR. 
Peel proposed the health of t y ess, and in th 
co s speech paid a high compliment to Mrs. Fry, 
wh sitting on his left hand. The iefl 
people in of Commons, and in connexion with 
them the name of the noble Lo e Secretary for th 
Colonies. Lord nley spoke at considerable length in 
acknowledgment ¢ of the toast, and was loud ¥: cheered at 
us to give. He felt ped at finding his name selected as the 
held—the como o of the United Enpire He e would tne 
¢ imposing ceremony of that 
ms had done, the countless wt Hh woe the 
streets of that. g reat Metropolis, orderly, peaceably, an 
welt dures sed in their dem ur—a §| hich no other 
cene W 
could h ave ig sg in such a mass, coerced by 
ral ite Ge nd interest—it w 
impossible to st pa d su 
fully gr: 
h 
comntes 
he 
the commercial in- 
as 4 
niry ;—it wi o have 
d pe ‘had that me seen, and not return to 
the sdscharge a their public duties with an ea gai we 
of the awful com thei = rots 
mitt 
important tetureata with which t ee had to deal 
verence with which the 
love with which the’ 
ch, caution oul 
ey oe pr the institutions which 
tenance 
which, in all its 
ppy combination which he trusted 
oe ‘the envy world, the copeieation 
cheers of the cro 
Royal Highness rose, and replied in 
rd 
—The Commissioners of 
ay atropolitan Pie Bene a ents. 
ores rchitects 
s have +o orders to their a 
he projecte 
site gue” wanted for 
rk. 
ded im 
e lodge itself, it is wn will be pulled down in 
the course rae mont 
Marylebone.—At th e yard weekly Hato = the bis 
n Saturday, it was agree n the motion of Mr. Gomm, 
for the non-paym xem 
t of en e rates; but the sting was lost by a 
On Sa 
nach turday, a numerous meeting 
Meet 
of the Spitalfields weavers was held to receive the answer 
missioners, in reference to a com 
ma i) 
wwe. the company shortiy ahers | 
£ 
fficient ; but he believed that, i v 
the — committee, more visitors would be appointed, — 
when he hoped that the relief would be general. A vote 
of thank rt then carried t Times and Morning 
Heral: the kind assistance they had afforded to the 
distressed weavers, and for the manner their cause had” 
been advocated by those journals, o to hose 
ust been made of an illicit distillery, on a large —_ on 
on by ont of the leading wie an nd spirit merchants at the — 
en rn it apres 8, "30 val 
each capable of holding 700 gall and about 20 tons of 
a f prepara Sie for aiilation, — 900° 
en of molasses’ wash. It that 
remove he antidles: r ies 
stores. Thirty-three tons of sugar made 
toes have also been lately seized in some premi 
Princes-square, St. George’s-in-the East, where m 
enty men were at work in the manufacture 
cle, which, it is stated, is sold by the grocers with a mu 
ture of the East I produce. 
asserted their ignorance as to w 
beries.—Several robberies were neon 
day, during the bustle and confusion in the ous attended 
the procession going to the New Royal 
young lady was robbed in Cornhill of a sum of mo’ 
he “any having con’ to cut her pocket 
ch. erceiving that he was aesrens he rush hed out 
_ made his w vey. to gg ere bridge, where he sought 
efuge in liceman. pur- 
, however, reer 
he 
on 
ast, of sealing 
p the 
