The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-05 00:00:00

PUBLIC DINNER AT LIVERPOOL TO THE

AMERICAN AtINISIER.

LIVERPOOL, TVISDAT NIGHT.
This evening a public dinner was given at the
Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, by the members of the American
Chamber of Commerce of this town, to the Hon. J. It.
Ingersoll, the American minister at the Court of St.
James's.

The guests numbered shout one hundred, consisting of
the leading merchants of the town.
Eras EVANS, Elq., President of the Chamber, presided.
The chairman was supported on his right by the lion. J. E.
Ingersoll, the Earl of M.rby, Col. De Riney, &c. &c., and
on his left by the Earl of Sefton, Lord Lieutenant of the
County, W. Brown, Esq., M.P., G. Arnaud, Esq., Col-
lector of Customs, &c., &C. Mr. E•LCOLNdON OCCS?ied
the vice chair, supported oa his right by S. Holm., Esq.,
the mayor of Liverpool, and on his lett by J. Cheetham,
Esq., M.P., J. S. Mansfield, Esq., stipendiary magistrate,
T. L. Critenden, Esq., the American Consul at Liverpool,
and other gentlemen.
The toast of the evening was, of course, the health of
Mr. Ingersoll, to which that gentleman replied. He said
a public compliment in England was always welcome to
his country. It was especially so in Liverpool, because it
sounded like home, and came nearer the heart of an Ame-
rican. He accepted it with the utmost gratitude ; he re-
ceived it on behalf of his country ; and he returned it cor-
dially on behalf of his country and of his very humble self.
(Cheers.) There, in the midst of Liverpool, their huts
were the American Chamber of Commerce of Liverpool,
their guests di.tinguished noblemen, officers, military and
civil, and other enlightened gentlemen, all representing
that great commercial principle which grew out of the in-
ters:oohs between two great nations. (Loud cheers.) The
speaker then referred to the great importance of Liverpool
es a seaport, and to its social position. Here she stood, as it
were, on the very edge of English grouted, ready to send
out her freights with every sun, and receive ap-
propriate returns. But Liverpool was not merely a
place from which commerce deported and returned. Her
inhabitants with great midi sty culled her the second port
in the country, but she had done much to hes:ailed the first.
It was at present the largest fur exporting commerce. But
independently of all this, Liverpool did herself great injus-
tice if she did not pride herself on her internal arrange-
menu. " Your architectuv," said the speaker, "is as
chaste as your liberality is charitable, and your docks are
among the most magnificent works that can be conceived.
The stranger coming from my native land makes first ac-
quaintance here, and before be passes on to those green
fields and pastures which he will find in the interior, he
sees here all that Is wise and all that is charit ibis, and then
he goes forward, and having men all that is Mused and
dear in this land of yours, be come through Liverpool again,
and carries with him back those impressions. whisk are
likely to be of the kindest description, to his own plegie."
(Hear, hear.) The speaker, in continsatiem, prosseded
to show how deeply the United States was Waled
to England for many acts of kindness and preludes,
and dwelt for some time upon the interests whisk
the two counties had in common. He illualtneni
the carrying out of a mutual feeling to serve each other en
the part of the United States and Ragland, by pointing
out the wanner in which two of her Majesty's ships saved
an American brig from savages on the coast of Africa in
Jane last, and on the other hand by referring to the cir-
cumstances under which the American steam-ship Pacific
had recently saved the crew of the James Stevens, of Glas-
gow. Friendship between the two countries was of the
greatest importance. Englishmen were capitalists, said Ame-
ricans were people of enterprise. English capital sought in-
vestment on the other side cf the Atlantic, and American
enterprise sought it here, and the result was that it was
mutually advantageous. After speaking for some time
longer upon the reasons fur harmony between the two
' countries, he remarked that he knew of no issue now pend-
ing between the two countries that ought not to lead to the
most pacific and the most harmonious results. (Hear, hear,
and applause.) He expressed his hope and belief that in
the settlement of the fisheries question, a commercial treaty
I would be founded upon it that would be mutually advan-
tageous to both countries, and to our colonies, which were
the most interested. (Loud cheers.) His Excellency con-
cluded by saying that he hoped the day would arrive when
every Englishman, and every American, would go hand in
hand togeth. r, and rejoice only in the universal friendship
that existed between every inhabitant of both countries.
(Cheers.)