The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-09 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY MINING, MAY 9, 1861

No. 4.5994

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(MIND BANQUET To LORD BLOM

The Lord Mayor yesterday entertained the Earl
of Elgia at • usgaillcent banquet at the Mansion-house.
Above 300 nobleman, ladies, •ad gentlemen, were present
to meet the noble earl, and • company of the six-feet
Volunteer Guards, of which the Hon. Colonel Bruce,
brother of the Earl of Elgin, is the colonel, under the
command of Lieutenant Thompson, were in attendance
as a guard of honour to the successful diplomatist..
After the LOBO MAYOR had greeted the company in the
usual loving cup, his Lordship, in • few welbseleeted and
appropriate remarks delivered with his accustomed earnest-
ness, proposed the health of her Majesty and the rest of the
Royal Family, and the Army, Navy, anti Volunteers, asso-
ciating with the latter toast the names of the Duke of
Somerset, Gemmel Sir Hope Grant, and Lieut.-CoL Hicks,
of the City Rifle Brigade.

The Duke of &mum in briefly responding to the toast,
I took occasion to pass • .well•rnerited eulogy on the conduct
of Lord Elgin, Sir Hope Grant, and Admiral Hope, in
bringing the China war to its successful termination.
Speaking on behalf of the government, the noble dike said
that the Earl of Elgin volunteered of his own accord to give
up his place in the government, his *facial position, and
devote Massif to the service of his country. He had dose
INN and. watswAlasa of fatigue and of private eoesideratima,
had ineesedsdia miWiating that treaty with China whidh
it was hoped would kad toaa ezteasional the trade madame.
mires of the meaty!, the promotion of good feeling between
the East sod West. and the progress of civiliaation sad
Christianity throughout all that portion of the world.

General Sir Hon Ourr, in a few words expressive of
Lie gratitude at the cordial reception which had been given
So him, and laudatory of the conduct of the military mid
Naval fortes engaged in China, acknowledged the tout on
behalf of the army.
Lieut.-Colonel Mao responded for the volunteers.

The LORD ll...wawa " The Health of the Earl or Elgin."
The Earl of ELGIN. in rising to acknowledge the toast, was
warmly and heartily cheered. Him lordship said—The re.
eeptica gives to me in thin place has a significance which
imparts to it a double value in my eyes. Little more than
a year km elapsed since I was invited to present myself at
the Ceased-chamber of the Guildhall, in order that I .'
might receive, at the hands of the authorities of this great
city, the high' and honourable distinction of its freedom. I
I will confer that when that invitation reached me, the first
' impression which it produced was that of embarrassment ;
' I was under • cloud at the time. ( A laugh.) The Chinese
government had shown a determination to resist by force
the exercise of the rights mid privileges secured by treaty
for her Majesty and her majesty's subjects—by the treaty
negotiated by me at Tien-tain—and I feel that I could
11 hardly, without indecorum, consent to become the recipient I
of so signal a favour, while the work upon which
I had been engaged was still incomplete. if I overcame
my reluctance to attend, it was with the hops that as op- 1
portuoity would be afforded of pledging myself to fresh
exertion, and to renewed sacrifices, if such should be nicer
eery, in order to justify the confidence which was then so
generously given to me by way of anticipation. I trust
you will not think that I have altogether failed in my
endeavour to redeem that pledge. (Cheers.) Referring
to the Canton quarrel of four years ago, in which the
charge was originated, the noble earl reminded the com-
pany that it was an event which produced feelings of con-
sidentide anziety and disgust in the country. It affected
the course of our domestic politics, brought a power.
fel administration into collision with the Hoops of Corn•
moos, and placed the House of Commons in apparent anta-
gonism with the constitusrocies of the country. With the
heavy responsibility which devolved upon me, I left Eng-
land for China, but before I bad reached my destination,
I was placed in the strangest dilemma in which any
public man ever found himself. I had to choose between
a course of proceeding which would, no doubt, have
seriostaly imperilled my own success in China, and
another course, which would have deprived my friend
Lord Canning of the military aid widish must have
hese most important to him at the time ef his
need in India; but, afar mature and careful de-
,
, =e, I preferred the former of those risks to the
1 latter. I attach greater value to anstemporary verdicts
thee those which have been delivered after the event, and
the most gratifying of those was contained in a letter which I
meshed from the late Sir Henry Ward, then Ooveroor of Cey-
lon. I feel seals scruple ie reading that latter, bat I think it
is important, as the testimony amiable man to the propriety
1 of tie mune which I adopted. Sir Henry Ward says :
" Yen may think me impertinent in volunteering &popisha
epos what, in the first instance, only concerns you and the
Queen and Lord Canning ; but having seen something of
public life during a great part of my own, which is now
fast verging into the ' sere and yellow leaf,' I may venture
to my that I never knew • nobler thing than that which
you have dose in preferring the safety of India to the sue.
ems of your Chinese negotiations. If I know anything of
public opinion, this single act will place you
h in English estimation se a statesman than your
r w e past career, honourable and fortunate as it boa
E
been ; for it is not every man who would venture
to alter the distribution of a (crop, upon the de-
spatch of which • parliament has been dissolved and
a general might have been supseseded. It is not every
man who would *malign himself fat nog 11110111i611 to
political inaction in order simply to serve the interests of
his country. You have set a bnht example at 111 moment
of darkness and calamity, and if India ma be saved, it I
to you that we shall owe its redemption, for nothing short
el the Chinese expedition could have supplied the means of
holding our ground unti, further miefeeeements arrived.*
) I think this is a testimony, coming as it does
(Cheers.)
a man, of which any one may be proud. After
this sacrifice had been made I proeseded to Chios. The
Canton question hail become *greedy so oomplkated
that it was impossible to oome to any terms of
arningement with the local government in that bour-
bons!, and tbeeepture of that city was a matter a alwlaM
aseemity. But as noun as that capture was offected—aid
I am very desirous to impress this on your minds, because
it I act suffsiontly itadentood in England—l deemed it
my duty to take every possible step in order to bring the
war to • elope, and to arrange terms of peace and under-
standing with the Chinese government. With this view
I persuaded not only my excellent friend Baron Grim, the
French ambassador, but also the admirals of the United
Bates and of Resin, to joie me in • request to the court of
Pekin that they should send • plenipotentiary to meet on at
Shanghae, in order that we might arrange ell differences be-
tween Chios and the respective countries there represented.
Shanghes, though very distant from Pekin, was then a port
open to trade, and it was impossible to have made a more
salutary proposition to the Chloe'. government ; but they
not ably rejected it, but they rejected it with contumely.
It was not till we reached Tientsin that we were able to
lad a oegotietor to treat with us. As eve as we found
hilt we made • pease, and concluded that piece in the most
edema twamwr. The Emperor of China, influenced by the
same evil counsel which had persuaded him not to send an
anshamedor to meet us at Tien-Lain is the fell at the
year, put obstacles in the way of osnying out the
treat
eand the consequence was that that great ex.
was fitted out end sent from this country
which has achieved such wonderful success in so short
• period of time, and which has arranged all our diffi-
culties with China in the capital of that greet empire.
l(Cheer.) Now, I am quite aware that that narrative must
ie rather tedious to you, but I am anxious that it should
be understood in the country that we have not acted
harshly or ungenerously towards the Chinese--(cheers)—
that at every stage of our proceedings we have offered rea-
sonable terms and conditions, and only reported to force
when the obstinate perversity of the Chinese drove us to
that alternative. But I know that another question lies
behind which will probably be more interesting to you then
this review of the past, namely, whalers the advantages we
arelikely toderive from the Dew privileges and righte we have
obtained under the new treaty with China? That question
opens up • wide field for speculation. If we am encored in
establishieg friendly relations not only with the govern-
ment but with the people of China—if we can persuade
them to adopt some of our tastes and habits, and though
they are very averse to change they are not like many
other Onsets! nations, cut off from all communion with
us by the inveterate prejudices of caste—if we can succeed
in those objects it is impossible to pet a limit to the amount
of trade which is likely to grow up between two nations so
industrious and commercial. But there is one particular
advantage which is likely to arise from having an ambas-
sador of the Queen at Pekin, and it is remarkably illus-
trated by what has lately occurred is Japan. A serious
crime was perpetrated in that country. An European—
sot a British subject—was murdered seder circumstance
which showed culpable indifference on the pert of the
Japanese government What followed? Our minister,
acting with excellent judgment, retired a abort distmar
from the capital. He did not threaten war, but he
threatened what we all understand in Europe by the cessa-
tion of diplomatic relations. (A laugh.) If our former
experience in Chins is any guide to us, we may conclude
with absolute certainty that if such a threat IMO made to
a subordinate Chinese (onetime:7 it would bed ao effect
whatever. That subordinate would report to his superiors
that be had kicked the barbarians out, and would claim all
manner of honours and rewards for his services. (Tengliter.)
But Mr. Aleock was resident in the capital of Japan,
and in relation to the Supreme Government, and, seeing
their danger, that government took alarm at his menace,
and in a few days they talked of his departure as one of
the greatest calamities which could possibly betel Jeddo.
They
implored OUT minister to go back again, and
offered him aay guarantee for the future which he
these to deemed. I am quite aware of the wide
difference Dolmen Japan sad Mina, and that the advisory
of the Emperor of Cities are not such Istelligent people as
those of the Emperor of Jaw' • bus I feel confident that
Um threat of sammensice of diplometic relations will now
i have the same effect at Pekin ta the prevention of war and
the preeervatkm of pesos as it has recently had et Jeddo.

At the sumo time I must my that the misconduct of our ,
ems countrymen in China is perhaps one of the greatest
&Seattle@ with which a British representative there lust to
deal. We send oat honourable merchant., devoted me.
sionaries, who scatter benefits in every part of the country
they visit, and elevate the standard of civilisation ; but un-
fortunately there slips out from among us dishonest traders
—ruffians who disgrace our name and set the feelings of the
people against us. Public opinion in this country can do
much to encourage the one clam of persons and to dis-
arrange the other, and I trust that the efforts of this
rest city will be directed to that end. (Cheers.)
When wing the merchants at Shanghai, I told them
it was my intention to obtain • treaty at Pekin, but
that. when force and diplomacy had effected in China
all that they could legitimately effect, the work which we
bad to do in that country would be only at its commence-
ment. That statement 1 repeat now. General Grant
hes returned his sword to his scabbanl, and the diplo-
matist has, so far as treat .making is concerned,
placed his pea on the shelf ; but the work of combination,
of bringing China, with it. extensive territory, its fertile
soil, and its industrious population, into the community of
nations, and making it a fellow-labourer with ourselves in
diffusing over the world happiness and well-being—that
is a work which has still to be accomplished. No persons
are more entitled or ft .to take part in that work than the
merchant. of this great city, and from the bottom of my
heart ;Mews.) Away that their efforts may be attended with suc-
cess. f
The LORD JUDOS neat pve " The Mess of fads,"
nispendsd a b the bake of Argyll ; and " Tim Hareasei
Osiansessie asexisted with the Dense of Lord H. Vane.
The rerunning tome were "The health of the Lord Mayor,"
"The City Magistrates," "The Merchants of London," and
" The Lady Mayoress. '
The festivitise did not terminate until a late hour.