The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-19 00:00:00

on the Mere

is more calculated to undeceive the
the old !country, than

Ar. Train—(laughter)—and I beE
The port and trade

to couple his name with the toast

of Melbourne.

(Hear, hew

he toast was drunk with all the honours

from
and
shalt

Mr. G. Train responded. He said : Mr. Chairman and
gentlemen, it is a proud thing for an American to be thus
honoured. I can hardly speak. You pay me a high
compliment in asking me to respond to such a sentiment,
but you have over-rated my ability to do it justice. To
remain silent, however, would be to be forgetful of the
many pleasant days I have passed under an Australian
sun, but when I see so many eloquent men about me—so
many Englishmen, (merchants connected with the
colonies,)—my feelings tell me that you should
have devolved upon others the duty of respond-
ing to the toast of the port and trade of Melbourne.
My fitter place would be to get behind the awning, and
make room for others who could speak the English lan-
guage in a manner pleasing to you all, combining instruc-
tion with information. (Cries of " No, no.") But
fortunately for me, the port and trade of Melbourne
require no champion—no defender. If New Zealand,
according to Sir Robert Peel, is to be the Great Britain
of the Eastern Ocean, what will Melbourne be, I ask ?
(Hear, hear, and cheers.) It is scarcely twenty years
since a British Minister was complimented upon giving to
a great Australian port a name ; and that name will be as
lasting as the knowledge of England's greatness. (Cheers.)
It is but a short time ago—l think it was about the
time that the great financial whirlwind was passing
through the world, in 1838—when a little body of settlers
touched at. Port Philip, and planted the seed of a future
empire. Years passed on, and quietly returned each
succeeding spring. You heard nothing through the lands
but the lowing of cattle and the bleating of sheep. Time
passed on—years rolled by—quiet was reigning in the land
—the Australian Boer was talking to the Australian shep-
herd, and the boomerang was whistling over the squatter's
hut—when suddenly there came an eureka, shout from Bal-
larat. It passed through the land. It passed through
the colonies like a prairie fire. It was heard at Mel-
bourne, Port Philip, and Adelaide. It passed along,
round the Cape, by St. Helena, and on through England,
- d the whole world, like an electric flash.

America, am.
(Applause.) I, among the first, was in the field. I left
Boston at the commencement of 1853, and arrived at the
port of Melbourne, and saw there some 600 square-rigged
vessels not discharged. Such a sight no man ever saw
before ; I could hardly believe my eyes. I went out with
my clerks, each man with a revolver. (Laughter.) I
went out armed as I thought. I was going to a convict
country, and that you could not take up the Melbourne
Argus without reading of people being shot down in the
streets. What was my astonishment to see the port
completely packed with shipping ; but I found little
facility there for working them. I found no warehouses
—no docks, like your's, Mr. Mayor. I saw nothing com-
mensurate with its greatness. We soon took hold—
Enelish. Scotch, Irish, and American, altogether—and

now behold the change I .€34,000,000 sterling of property
you sent us in two years for a population of less than►
250,000. (Laughter.) And do you wonder at the result?
remember when I left Boston, one of what we call the
--headed merchants—men who send out in long
-9, to India and China, and wait during
-nonths before remittances can come to
in the street. " Well, you are
going to Australia ? " "Yes." " You will see a sight
that will astonish your eyes ; you will see men in the
streets borne down with bags of gold—gold in their
Atets, gold on their backs, gold around their necks—

let m

starving to death 1" I asked him what about their
12,000,000 head of sheep ; and he replied, " why man, they
cannot live on mutton all their lives." (Laughter.) At
that time there were 40 ships in New York, and 20 at
Boston, and who can wonder at the result. A friend of

it me a case of buttons on account of a Hudders

and how I oven

tried in vain to sell it,

(La
reply I ever ;

ter.) I

rued net profits of .E. 3 4s. 10d

them those net profits, and the only
a bill of lading for a package of

through the Red Sea--through Lower Egypt and COI
but I found no better place than Melbourne, and I
tDhoviugehret.
tlhrwouoguhldTgriopodliown by Joppa and Jerusalein• a,
went all through that country to the Dead Sea, ald Uri;
struggle—the gne ibaatfle
I then thought I would see the great arena of
it to Cyprus, Latakaia, Beyrn:
l_aaueglhdter.) I came haws. agtter
stantinople, but I found
no better place than Melba, ,
s,t iancer,obs
across
tt
0I
Marseilles,foun dn o p loanc et
ob_ecrno;,.
nd down w oul
Crimea. There was an astonishing sight l I felt Ip° on,
have seen n othing, accomplished nothing, had I not grit,
there at the end of Allr,e;
Every Englishman I 'aio,
rpeace howled it down ea ~
Oght"
ted time to get into
__ it
• • -roused—that now 1
But peace came.
-----..1, and I roan3e"w the
have soken of I 5%0)
'urks—ran away. (Lail° der'
in Nolan brought the 0,11.00,
new—(laughter)—to l'"wbst
barge. ~ my God,
d these
re is the enemy, an thst
to hear, as I stood on lot
"Well, here goes the t.
—and down they Welithose
to Inkermann, where
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- your igy4:
I eat OWY
the receav

through Syria and I

3 way, when I talked

said that England wa
-to have her pluck

and that fight the

to Kamiesch and iia

ttle-fields that you
where the 'I

redoubt

ri the spot

here Can•
im I

asked
I char
r order:

—I crossed

" The:
I seemed

solilo qti

(laught

) I hurried c

at Trieste, and

from the tin

and m(
ten I g

required a r

❑tic, and h

Englishm,
o brought

of peop'

ugh rival mother
us think upon tt

ers.) I
litorials

side—

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betiveell::dllll
Austri
d until ;ere-otinter-
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to Englal

1. felt the

.oite
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And drink the cup of fellowship
Here's a health to hallowed Al
And her daughter, fair Colamb

have just
u the well whale

we are brothers still 0 11".i0
blood that circles in our Ta

yet a dro

bion, the jewel of the se.,
ia, the happy and the fr.eeg.tisitiff
es sing, in joyful plaintree
) while yet a drop reniteins'„ We'
I am wandering from the toast, but the Anglo-Sad.
still lives in the 60,000,000 of Americans and Engles 4.
throughout these countries, and though they 1,51 e vet
spoken of as missionaries to the aboriginal races,l,lo
e 1'
call tell yon that missionary enterprise does not uudosvOl
as well as Ilritish cannon. In 1842, when you brokof
the banners of the Chinese empire, you did one fols
best things in the ythole world for these nationt 10
ed
broke down the banner g, and then—Jonathan volisit
and took some of the trade. (Laughter.) cone„ fog'
I will give you a toast which will bring you all ":;101/1
feet. I am proud that I am the guest of Yr. 50,,: vies,
(Hear, bear.)__ I have listened to his remarks vlP''

❑g may their sons their prail
d drain the cup of fellowshi

sure, and in all do I agree,
" Great in the counting-house—peerless in debate
Who follows I%,hzekay, takes the field too late:"
(Great laughter.) I propose to you the healt2; 000
Mackay, and call on you to receive it with a ellv.
will make the welkin ring. (applause.)
The toast was drunk with three times three

The Chairman, in responding to the toast, was Weil;
in the most enthusiastic manner. He said : Gen sere
how am Ito return thanks for this ovation ? I 2,llLardr.
we have all been delighted with what we have Psi'
and I do not know that I ever, heard a more entertLanvieell
a mor- practical, a more useful and instructive''rojor
t delivered by Mr. Train, and I hope th !see§
been natural. There are many circinnsefeo
rising in a large community like this, which P,:tforill,
-fleeting, as it may be said on one common n,Phls is
.:cept on occasions like the present. tie
to inaugurate a new source of wealth A.'i do
town, and in that we all have a great stake, glee;
hope that we may have frequent occasions
together in future, on similar occasions. Before iflv,
down, permit me to propose the health of a gentierool,6lllo9
is a guest here to day, a gentleman who has done'e.,ipte;
for the benefit of old England. I remember an a,i
which I dare say you have all read, that was told 011(
late King William the IV., when he was a reidshilo no 0:
.10 of battle•ship. It was on the oeentbo'
,ptain giving up his sword. He was teLtao;
on was on board that ship as a midshird $'
t of course looked with astonishment, !Ince
There is no wonder at your being in/ POI?!
King's sons take the part of a corece°ll.t.„,.sl','
)ur ships.' For my own part, I am, hu",rAclr
, but am very partial to the arst°6rete
believe they are the upholders of 01°1111 rie„o
It for the aristocracy, I fear we 0,0,00-
an express train, and tore
P
pace would snit our legislh of#
eermit me to propose the heall:o4
tocraey—it was the health of 0;100
beers,) who is a guest at our 0,005
Homan won,,f agago,neil:bnmlehabyoehngaotsuobrsei;to i 0
~f'
God se°

than ti

ment has

Our
like this,

on board a 1
a French ca

captain
,aid—"
Your /

my politial

It' it was

3k that

every blessi

ion. gE

nee he c
land of 1

le Hon

doptia

have thong
at Melbou
and almost

—,l nas favoured V'
On
4.47
..iter a speech, SO' (Law-4
sr, and laughter.) Ido not knoist --,t 0,
lo V
"-`^nine to him has quite Act t 4
1 us roe coin
aimost than 0001
e peen, I believe, begifotid
Aght every part of the knovill j
►known world, all' cori
le .so scattered jacoiletciy
ill difficulty I col rto 0
.!culiar bonoliej filo
way associst 1300
TO.
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s Siis,, t t
Cuhs a, iiromr anineulociatig-leeilor::#6

Stuart WortlE

,ht of it

carries

ay ideas have hi

t it is with no
tighter.) But I feel it a
erpool, and to be in any
king, such as that which M

and Co. this day are inaugurating. I feel it to be :-014:dt
-nes Baines and Co. are doing Wha',-4
a great to them and the coles,"'A
proud' that 100
t
esti ng where we were-- 00v,
now worth the while of Baines and Co., to do
00
years ago they would not have thought of. It sh
we have not lost the opportunities we had, bat r poro
have done our best to bring our country uPdeclesgleA
for her favourable advancement, and t°,a
ing for us. (Hear, hear.) And,
the efforts which our English friends e` eO, grit
way by which a country of that description etri4de, Og
most fit for enterprises of commercial magn";soteisfer
numbering among her people such energetic elle'ilag rit
Mr. Train. (Hear, hear.) After the sketch be; 01),,"#6
of himself, of the way in which ho started fro b 0 wo"
when the difficulties of Melbourne appeared to " 110110
gentle fore 141,1
mountable, that must appear sufficiently evident.,.l9
the position which he has attained in that coler):-10,4- O
name is known beyond the limits of Melbourne eter
even in New Zealand. It is by means of Chen pi
titiotj
that;description, with such a native energy, trA
may say, with a dash of the Yankee in them•
country will prosper—and when I say a "3 „'„
Yankee, 1 mean that which a colonist necessar"ifor
nij
—a habit of helping himself, doing everythiq for pit
self, and not trusting to other people to do ltd rec;v:
(Hear.) When I went out to the colony, I toes re; ria
much the same sort of education which most boi 14000
and, I fear, neglected it even more than WO" `11:1
(Laughter.) But, when I got into the colonif,,eofo v
that life out there was really, as Longfellow oft 0,0
There is no time for looking about one. Whav;od '1,040
got to do he must do directly, and with heart aunt
I soon found that if T wanted a house, Iraj 01114°'
carpenter myself—if I wanted my shoes soled', 054
it for myself—and if my horse wanted shoeing' ." tllo,t
to and do it. (Laughter.) I have done all tie 'OO4
gentlemen, whether I have done them well ';00°(0,1
thing. Laughter.) All I can say is, that my o.„oo6;fte`cf
very long time until it got a little out, of the Pe' Top 00,4
—(laughter.)—that my shoes stood me very feilain°,4ol
had soled them; and that my horse did not go: spe-4
shoeing. (Cheers.) I give you this as simply fj.d. 410
of what we had to do at the starting. 1 beta
there so early as my friend Mr. Smith—he h,/.-1 1it",4"(1,41
heat and burden of the day ; nor, certainly' ",h //4
out there then, could I have done very 01°`:"tleottlel
emigrated about five years ag0.15 That wa'nos cP4f,
starting of what I hope will be a very pros Per" It°o Yel
of New Zealand—the Canterbury settlement. whiAgv ir).
dependence was upon the same export ins f Vol
P
Smith alluded—wool. When I saw the ' 1
0
bury at the end of the year 1850, there were `',4o oaf
settlers there, who had been
country, w,-*

out, Ltrust, to I

'eel my

rself, as a N
that w

are not

Zealand eoloni