The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-11 00:00:00

BANQUET TO MR. PEABODY.

Yesterday the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress
entertained in the Egyptian-hall at the Mansion
house Mr. G. Peabody, whose recent princely gift
of £150,000 to the poor of the metropolis has so
largely earned for him the gratitude of its inhabi-
tants. - - - -

On the removal of the cloth, " The Healths of
her Majesty, the Prince of Wales, and the rest of
the Royal Family," were proposed, and were re-
ceived with enthusiasm.

,L The Healths of the Army, Navy, and Volun-
teers" were next proposed, and were responded to
by Major-General Malcolm, Captain Buratal, and
Colonel Forbes.

The LORD MAYOR then rose and said,—My lords,
ladies, and gentlemen,—l have now to propose the
health of a very distinguished gentleman on whom
the city of London has to-day conferred the honour
which she holds in reserve for those who, by great
merit and extraordinary deeds have won not. only
her esteem but the approbation of the world. (Cheers.)
I may well be proud of the privilege of entertaining
a guest so eminent and so well worthy of the honour
as is Mr. Peabody. (Cheers.) It has been from time
to time the lot of successive Lord Mayors to pre-
side in this hall on occasions on which the City
of London does honour to distinguished men, but
this is, I believe, the first time on which the
chief magistrate of this ancient corporation has
had the opportunity of assembling a large com-
pany like the present to reeognise and acknow-
ledge merit such as that which we are now met
to honour. (Cheers.) Mr. Peabody has per-
formed the crowning act of an honourable career.
With generous and unalloyed philanthropy he
has at once divested himself of a portion of his
well-acquired wealth, preferring that the objects
of his broad and vast benevolence should im-
mediately participate in the beneficial and amelio-
rating influence of his princely liberality to de-
ferring it to an indefinite period. (Hear, hear.)
I am very happy to find that he who has con-
ferred so great a benefit on the metropolis is able
to appear among us this evening in a state of
health as good as that which Mr. Peabody enjoys
and I think I may say for those around, as I
sincerely say it for myself, that we hope we may
for a very long period have the gratification of
knowing that his ample munificence has been pro-
ductive of the good which he contemplated, and
that he may enjoy the consciousness that the noble
deed he has done will, from generation to genera-
tion to come, prove a living monument of his
ne.me and character. (Cheers.)
Mr. PEABODY, who in rising to respond to the ,
toast, was loudly cheered, said,—My Lord Mayor,
my lords, ladies, and gentlemen, I beg to express
to you the most grateful feelings of my heart for
the warm and enthusiastic welcome with which
my name has been received (cheers), preceded as
it was by the too flattering remarks of my right
hon. friend the Lord Mayor. Persons in every
situation of life enjoy the hope of success or tremble
at real or imaginary calamities, and none mere so
than the merchant, At the same time I, as a
merchant, avow from a full and grateful heart,
that the high honour this day bestowed upon me
by the city of London, as well as the kind hospi-
tality of your Lordship in bringing together this
distinguished company in compliment to my
humble name this evening, goes far to compensate
me for all the labour, care, and anxiety of 50 years
of commercial life. (Cheers.) Within the last few
hours I have had the honour to address your Lord-
ship and many of those before me in the council
chamber, and were I to say more at present it would
be merely to repeat what I there expressed, and to
take up the time which rightfully belongs to the
eminent gentlemen who may speak after me. I shall
simply, therefore, again beg to thank you for your
kind reception, which I am proud to acknowledge as
an evidence of your approval of my acts. (Cheers.)
As I do not claim to be an orator, I ask you to ac-
cept on this occasion my deeds for my words.
(Loud cheers.)

The LORD MAYOR then said—The administration
of a fund so large and so important as the splendid
donation of Mr. Peabody necessarily requires that
men of station, of influence, and of probity should
be selected for the performance of that duty. I am
now about to propose the health of five gentlemen
who have kindly undertaken a task so full of labour.
You can easily imagine that the dispensation of the
interest of £150,000 involves no small amount of ,
anxiety on the part of those on whom is imposed
the burden of its due distribution, and I am sure you
will feel proportionately grateful to those who have
not hesitated to accept the position of becoming its
administrators. They who have done so are Lord
Stanley—(cheers)—Sir E. Tennent, Mr. Lampson,
Mr. Morgan, and the American Minister for the
time being—the gentleman who represents America
being Mr. Adams. You will perhaps, in proposing
this toast, permit me to state that I should be happy
to be able to announce that the greatest anxiety with
which Mr. Adams has to contend is that which re-
sults from the administration of this fund. I however
am not in a position to do so, and if I allude to the
present state of the great country which it is his pri-
vilege here to represent, I can assure you I do so with
the greatest sorrow and sympathy so far as relates
to the unhappy position in which she is placed. If
that position arose from any difference between
America and England, we might, I feel confident,
safely trust to the diplomatic powers of Mr. Adams
for its adjustment ; but, as it is, we can only
indulge in the hope that the difficulties with which
America has to contend may be soon ended, and
that we may shortly again enjoy the benefit of that
liberal and enlightened intercourse which has
hitherto proved so beneficial to both countries. I
have the honour to propose " The health of the
Trastees of the Peabody Fund." (Cheers.)
Mr. ADAMS, in responding to the toast, said—l
think it is the great dramatist who makes one of his
characters utter the saying that " some men are
born great, some achieve greatness, and some have
greatness thrust upon them." It seems to me that
any chance I may have must come into the same .
category as that of Malvolio. A fortuitous concur-
rence of circumstances has had the effect of putting
me here as the representative of my country
at the minute when our excellent friend deter-
mined to announce his munificent benefaction,
and to couple that representative with the first
organisation to carry it into practical
effect. If re-
putation be held to consist in the notoriety that one
gets, especially among those whom we
are told to
have always with us, I must admit the pro ess
of
mine of late is astonishing. On the whole, Igr muse
consider myself as in great luck, for the name thus
acquired has clearly come without a single motion
of my own to deserve it. I accept it as a ',mom
from my friend without the least embarrass-
meat. However serious the trial may be to his
well-known modesty to receive the homage paid
to him today, I shall make no scruple to enjoy
my reflected light ; and, unlike him, I shall not
blush if I should find it fame. (Cheers.) For-
Innate is the man who is hoisted to such a height
simply by his accidental association with one of
the most magnificent projects of private bene-
volence recorded lin the annals of mankind. But
this may be thought rather trifling for a grave occa-
sion. Let me, then, turn for a moment to consi-
der the grander characteristics of this extraordi-
nary event. The city of London does honour to
Mr. Peabody to-day. Why? The reason is that
Mr. Peabody has done honour to human nature.
(Loud cheers.) 1, on my part, honour Mr. Pea-
body, because he has done honour to the country
that bore him. He stands in a position peculiar to
himself as a benefactor to portions of his race on
the two continents. (Cheers.) He is eminently the
friend of both.
world,
Born and bred in America, he goes
cut into theas most of his countrymen do,
the artificer of
his own fortune. Successful in his
own land, after a time b©
careers over the Atlantic
on a wider field. Rib
native sagacity has traced
the rapid growth of ,ionitnernia enterprise
the two shores ; and he comes i
theterprise between
hope of find-
ing place for his sickle at harvest-time. His
judgment sound, in the lapse of 20
years
he finds himself the gleaner of s
ambition..(Cheers.) tores
enough
to gratify his utmost How
P The answer is
has this happened . simple. It was
by making an honest use of the friendly relations
existing between the two countries. Mr, Peabody

has drawn a legitimate benefit from the expanding
trade of the eastern and the western world. His
prosperity is, then, the type of the reciprocal bene-
fit which the respective nations have gained from
mutual intercourse. (Cheers.) The zr oral which
his career teaches is the advantage of exchanging
good will. In practising habits only of kindness
and courtesy equally to the people of both nations
1 he inaugurates a policy which promotes their uses
ful ends at the same time that it advances his own.
That policy is essentially one of peace. Its vital
principle is harmony. It eschews malevolence as a
spirit of evil, and regards the breeders of strife on
either side as downright enemies of the
common good. (Cheers.) In quietly facilitat-
ing a class of operations augmenting in their
pecuniary importance with the rapid development
of an immense trade, Mr. Peabody, though silent,
becomes a most eloquent apostle of permanent peace.
By his success, we may form a faint idea of the
unity as well as the magnitude of the respective
interests which that peace protects. And now that
the day has come when our friend feels that he must
rest from his labours, he looks back with increasing
affection to the scenes whence he drew his prospe-
rity. With laudable impartiality he determines to
mark his sense of it by endeavouring to spread his
benefits over them, whether in his native land or
in that in which he has made his domicile. Neither
does he await that last moment when the goods of
this world must cease to be in estimation with us
all. He gives at a time when to most of us it seems
to be a sacrifice to part with our own. (Cheers.)
It is the great orb of heaven, my lord, which, while
it shines, gathers slowly to the sky from every ob-
ject 'in nature those minute particles of vapour
which so soon as it sets in the west begin gently to
fall down again to refresh and fertilise the parch-
ing earth. Just so will it be with him you this day
honour. The precious grains of metal which the
labours of his years of toil have slowly collected
will, long after the hour when he shall pass away,
come down, sprinkling their blessed fruits for the
benefit of successive generations of his kind. All
honour, then, to George Peabody.
Henceforth his
works establish his name as a new bond of sym-
pathy between two nations, (Loud cheers.)
The LORD MAYOR next proposed the " Health
of the House of Commons," coupling with it that of
the House of Lords, of which he said there was no
representative present, and the name of Lord Stan-
ley, one of the trustees of the Peabody Fund.
Lord STANLEY said—My Lord Mayor, ladies,
and gentlemen,—l hope that in coupling, as you
have done, the Houses of Lords and Commons in
one toast, you have furnished us with a happy em-
blem of the unbroken connection which we all trust
may continue to exist between both branches of the
Legislature. For my own part I have great plea-
sure in returning thanks on behalf of the House of
Commons. It is the pride and happiness of my life
to be a member of that body. I know no English
gentleman, however exalted may be his position, or
however fortunate his career, who does not feel it to
be an additional honour to share in the labours and
responsibilities of an assembly which, whatever
may be its real or alleged defects, is undoubtedly
the oldest, the most famous, the most powerful, and
the most popular of all representative institutions.
You will always find persons who love to exalt the
past, to depreciate the present, and to look with
anxiety to the future. I have heard such persons
say that the power of Parliament over public
opinion was declining, and that Parliamentary
oratory was no longer what it used to be in former
days. From both of those opinions I totally dis-
sent. I have often had the opportunity of conver-
sing with men who remember what Parliament was
before the days of the Reform Bill of 1832, and,
whatever the party might be to which those men
belonged, I have always found them admit, with
hardly a dissentient voice, that while, at the pre-
sent day, we have some emineLt men who stand as
high in point of eloquence and debating power
above the mass as any did in the days of Pitt or
Canning, our debates on the average, both as regard
matter and manner, are very greatly improved.
(Hear.) Again, I have heard complaints of the in-
action of Parliament during the last two or three
years, but I do not think those complaints are as a
matter of fact well founded. I believe that a glance
at the statute-book would establish the justice of a
contrary conclusion ; but, be that as it may, I,
for one, do not regard a restless activity
las a sign of health any more in a public than
[itis an individual body. To complain that we are
who are elected by the people, and who are respon-
sible to the people, have been tranquil when public
feeling in general is apathetic is as unjust as it is to
find fault with a windmill because it stands still in
a calm. (Hear, hear.) There is one word more I
would say on behalf of the House of Commons.
I have sometimes heard it described—but never by
those who knew it—as a body in which wealth
and influence and connexion exercise a preponde-
rating influence. Now, Ido not, of course, deny
that these adventitious circumstances do render the
entrance to that house easier than would otherwise
be the use ; nor do I dispute that sometimes, and
to some extent they aid one at the outset of a Par-
liamentary career. But they do so only at the out-
set. Every popular assembly is sincere. To be so
is its very instinct, and no influence, wealth, or
connexion ever, in my opinion, procured for a weak
or incapable man the ear of the House of Commons,
while a capable man is sure of succeeding in it if
to his other talents he only adds perseverance. I
have often known the House of Commons to dis-
cover a man of ability almost before he arrived at
the knowledge himself, while I have as often seen
gentlemen of provincial celebrity—gentlemen who
happen to have a great gift of speech with nothing
particular to say—(a laugh)—come among us and
immediately find their level ; nay, some discover
that their natural position was to remain silent
members. (Laughter.) .1 may now perhaps be al-
lowed to say one word in my capacity as a trustee
of Mr. Peabody's fund—a position of which lam
not less proud than that of being a member of the
House of Commons. (Cheers.) Mr. Peabody told
you that he relied on your favour rather because of
his deeds than of his words. We have all heard
the saying with respect to taking "the will for the
deed," but I am sure we are glad that in the pre-
sent instance the proverb has been reversed, and
that Mr. Peabody's liberality has been exhibited to
us rather in deed than simply in will. (Hear.) We
all know that in modern days there has been no gift
equal in amount to that of Mr. Peabody's, conferred
upon the public in his lifetime. But that which to my
mind is of more importance than the magnitude of
the gift is that no endowment of equal amount has
ever been more wisely appropriated. (Cheers.)
Charity in the vulgar sense of the word—l mean
the giving alms to those who ask us for aid—is, as
\
we all know, except under very exceptional circum-
stances, apt to create as much distress as it relieves;
'll4 if a man were to sit down to consider how with
a certain amount of money he could assist his poorer
fellow-treat, e
for them the rills to the greatest extent, and provide
:lest amount of happiness, he could
not, I think,
a
INI
out better means of effecting his
object than that
which Mr. Peabody has adopted.
(Cheers.) 13y his
nal cull
uillfieent gift, I may add, Mr.
Peabody has entitled hira
lf to the thanks not only
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I say of England I
but all future generations of 0:r countrym
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(Cheers.)
The healths of " The Lord Mayor
the Magistrates and Sheriffs of the Cit
of London," were next proposed, and duly 11,
'ly
oured.
A selection of vocal music, under the direction of
Mr. L. Hatton, assisted by Miss Pole, Master
Howden, Mr. G. Perrin, and Mr. C. Beale, was
performed during dinner.

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BRAYS TRACTION ENGINE COMPANY.

A deputation from this company waited on Sir
George Grey, the Home Secretary, yesterday, in
one of the committee rooms of the House of Com-
mons. Amongst the deputation were the Duke of
Sutherland, the Earl of Caithness, Lord Otho Fitz-
gerald, Lord C. Hamilton, M.P., Sir W. Jolliffe,
Bart., M.P., Sir James Carmichael, Bart., Mr. John
Penn (of Messrs. John Penn and Sons), Mr. Field
(of Messrs. Maudslay, Son, and Field), Mr. Chaplin
(of Messrs. Alex. Chaplin and Co.), Mr. Phillipps
(of Messrs. Phillipps, Middleton, and Co.), Mr. H.
D. Davies, Mr. C. Osborn, Capt. Grenville Wells,
directors ; Mr. D. K. Clarke, C.E., engineer ; and
Mr. S. H. Louttil, secretary of the company.
Sir W. JOLLIFFE, MX., introduced the deputation
to Sir George Grey,
Mr. H. D. DAVIES, the chairman of the company,
stated that its object was to obtain a reconsideration
of the order issued in the London Gazette of the
11th April last, which as it now stands amounts to
almost a prohibition of the use of these engines. He
said that the engines built heretofore by the com-
pany were of great size and power, with the view
of taking the heaviest loads, and that perhaps from
their appearance, and the noise of the exhaust
steam, there might exist an objection to their use,
in a slight degree, on the ground of frightening
horses. These engines, however, were the first built,
but new ones were about being constructed which
would be rendered entirely unobjectionable on these
grounds. What was sought at present was an ex-
tension of the hours of working from 6 p.m. to 9
a.m. in the metropolis, while in the suburbs there
should be no limit; also that the engines should be
allowed to load and unload throughout the day at
the docks, railway stations, &c., or at the Exhibition,
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si cnho t occasioned c
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when the time arrived for removing goods from the
bouf itlhdeinogrd.
but an agricultural engine entering London for the
first time on its way to the Exhibition. He in con-
clusion said that the existence of this order inter-
fered with the company's prospects, inasmuch as
though it affected London only, persons from not
understanding this clearly failed to support the
company, as they otherwise would, by making
investments.
The Earl of CAITHNESS said that he had been
with one of the company's engines on one occasion
when it was drawing a load of 40 tons to the Ex-
hibition. He went with it through Parliament-
street, Bridge-street, Victoria-street, &c., in the
busy part of the day, and no horse was frightened
by or noticed it.

Mr. PENN and Mr. FIELD stated that their firms
had used these engines from their first introduction
with great advantage and economy. They had
drawn the heaviest machinery, boilers, &c., which
would have required 30 horses,with ease and facility
of action, turning the sharpest corners without
diffieulty, and they had never caused in the neigh-
bourhoods of their works (Greenwich and Lambeth)
any accident or inconvenience.

Mr. PHILLIPPS said that his firm had a number of
locomotives to send to the Exhibition for the
Austrian and Prussian commissioners, which they
had intended to have sent there by means of Bray's
traction engines, but the order being issued at that
time, they were unable to do so, and were obliged
to employ horses at three times the cost, and they
had the greatest difficulty in getting their loads to
the destination by their means. The engine took
less than one-sixth of the room of such a number of
horses, and travelled faster.
Sir G. GREY promised to take the matter into
consideration, after consulting with Sir R. Mayne.
He should be glad to see traction engines if they
could be used with safety, for of their economy and
value he had no doubt; and as the company antici-
pated having engines which should be unobjection-
able so far as noise or appearance were concerned, if
that result were accomplished there would be no
occasion for the order he had issued remaining in
force.

The deputation, after thanking Sir Geo. Grey,
then withdrew.

IHE NAVY.

The Meannee,Bl, 400-horse power, attached to the
Chatham steam reserve, is to be fitted for commis-
sion to take the place of the Edinburgh, 60. 600-
horse power, guardship at Leith. Otders were
yesterday given at Chatham for her to be supplied,
in addition to her other armament, with two 110-
pounders and two 40-pounder Armstrongs.
Rear-Admiral Eden, C. 8., one of the Lords Com-
missioners of the Admiralty, and Major-General
Stransham, Inspector-General of the Royal Marines,
yesterday paid an official visit to Woolwich. Im-
mediately on their arrival they proceeded to the
Royal Marine barracks, and went through an in-
spection of the gun-drill battery and the move-
ments of the heavy ships' guns in charge of Captain
Carrington, recently appointed drill instructor. In
the meantime the Marines were drawn out under
arms in heavy marching order, in command of Col.
Gascoigne, C. 8., and marched to Woolwich-common,
where they were followed by the Admiral and the
Inspector-General. They were put through a field-
day's movements, file and volley firing, and firing
in companies, the flanks expending 15 rounds of
blank cartridge. Admiral Eden then proceeded to
the dockyard and inspected the supernumeraries of
the flagship Fisgard, who were paraded in the
dockyard square. In consequence of a general holi-
day having been granted to the departments, to
enable each one employed to visit the International
Exhibition, the establishment was entirely closed.
Special trains were provided for their conveyance to
London, upwards of 500 taking advantage of the
opportunity, and paying the usual fares. The fac-
tory department of the dockyard will be granted
the same privilege on Monday, the 21st inst., to
visit the Exhibition.

The Edgar, 88, screw, Capt. G. P. Mends, was
paid out of commission at Portsmouth yesterday,
under the superintendence of Capt. J. F. B. Wain-
wright, of the iron frigate Black Prince. The ship
will be recommissioned this morning by Capt. the
Hon. F. Foley, lately commanding the Coquette
steamsloop in the Mediterranean.

The Emerald screw frigate, Capt. A. Cumming,
sailed from Spithead yesterday for Devonport, with
supernumeraries, including seamen and Marines
paid off from her Majesty's ship Edgar. The
Emerald returns to Spithead.
The Adventure screw transport, Commander
Lethbridge, sailed from Portsmouth last evening
for Halifax, with the families of officers and soldiers
belonging to regiments at Halifax, in New Bruns-
wick, and Newfoundland. The vessel calls in at
Queenstown to embark a further number of women
and children belonging to the same corps. The
embarcation of the women and children at Ports-
mouth, thanks to the excellent arrangements made
by Commander Lethbridge, was effected with the
utmost order, and in an unusually short time.
The Warrior, 40, iron frigate, Capt. Hon. A. A
Cochrane, C. 8., steamed into Portsmouth harbour
at high water yesterday from Spithead, and berthed
alongside the dockyard in readiness for going into
No. 10 dock to-day. _ _

The Osborne paddle yacht, Master Commander
G. K. Bower, is ordered to be undocked at Ports-
mouth on the 13th inst., and to proceed round to
Gravesend on the 21st. It is rumoured that she is
intended to convey the Prince of Wales on a tour
in the Baltic.

trial of speed at the
The Argus, 6, revenue screw steamer, of 60-horse
power, has made her official
measured mile, in Stokes Bay, on the conclusion of
com-
mon screw, having a diameter of 8 feet, a pitch of
repair for recommission. She is fitted with a corn-
-8 feet 8 inches, and a length of 1 foot 6 inches.
runs at the mile
Rer
and 10 feet 6 inches aft. The mean result of her
draught of water was 7 feet 9 inches forward
gave her a speed of 8.11 knots.
The Defence, 18, iron frigate, Capt. R. A. Powell,
C. 8., is ordered out of Portsmouth harbour to Spit-
head to prepare for sea. It is rumoured that the
1 Channel fleet are about to make a cruise as far as
1 the Baltic.

_
The following appointments were made yester-
day
at the Admiralty
.:—William F. Lewis, master,
to the Victory, for the Vindictive; Andrew Farmer,
confirmed in
rank of master ; George White, ap-
rank of second master ; John W. Ram_
pointed to