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VRA DOLCINO and HIS TIMES ;
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THE AMERICAN MINISTER.

The Hon. J. R. Ingersoll, who succeeds Mr. Abbott
Lawrence, as American Minister to the British Court,
was entertained at a splendid banquet on Monday even-
ing, given by the American Chamber of Commerce, at
the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool. Sixty gentlemen, in-
cluding the Earls of Derby and Sefton, sat down to
dinner, the chair being occupied. by Mr., Eyre Evans.
After the usual loyal toasts had been‘given,
The CHAIRMAN proposed " The health of the Presi-
dent of the United States." (Cheers.)
The Hon. J. R. INGERSOLL briefly returned thanks.
The CHAIRMAN said he had now arrived at what,, in
banquet phraseology, was called the toast of the even-
ing. It was, " The health of his Excellency the Hon.
Mr. R. Ingersoll, ambassador from the United States to
the Court of St. James's." (Vehement cheering.)
The toast was drunk with loud applause.
The Hon. Mr. INGERSOLL, in responding to the toast,
spoke nearly as follows :—Mr, President, my lords and
gentlemen, a public compliment in England is altogether
welcome. It is especially so in Liverpool, because it
sounds like home, and comes near to the heart of an
American. (Hear, hear.) I accepted it with the utmost
gratitude—l receive it on behalf of my country, and I
return it cordially in behalf of 'that country and of my
very humble self. We are in the midst of Liverpool.
Our hosts are the American Chamber of Commerce of
Liverpool ; their guests are distinguished noblemen,
officers, military and civil, and other enlightened gentle-
men. Both are representatives of a social, a political,
and a commercial principle—thdy grow out of the close
intercourse of two great nations. (Appla,use.) Wherever
Liverpool has led the way towards ' the exjstence of a
general feeling which I must say I have had the happi-
ness to meet in this country wherever I have had the
happiness to be, of kindness and goodwill towards my
country, and Liverpool has a right to lead in almost
everything—it is equally to be rejoiced at, for the .cause
and effect. If, however, it has happened that the
sentiment throughout the country and the sentiment in
Liverpool are each but the echo of the other, it amounts
to the same thing, and both are welcome. Liverpool might
be called, it would not be doing injustice to the other
places which might put in claims for it, the Queen of the
Ocean, entitled to wear the crown, entitled to wield the
trident of. Neptune, not as the sceptre of war, but as an
emblem and instrument of marine power of peace and
harmony. (Loud applause.) The great metropolis of
the country, which for ages has stood unrivalled in her
relations, might put in her claims. Our own city of
New York, which stands with her long arms stretched
out to reach towards Liverpool, might also advance some
Claim to a similar position. But Liverpool has done
much towards such a result. Here she stands upon the
very edge of English ground, with her magnificent docks
Fished into the very waters of the ocean, ready to send
out her freights, with the course of every descending
sun, to the now not distant land, and to receive appro-
priate returns. But Liverpool is not merely a place
which commerce departs and to which commerce re-
turns. Her inhabitants are in the habit of calling her a
seaport, with great modesty, as if the seaport were the
great characteristic that belonged to her. It is true that
she is a noble seaport—that she has done everything al-
most which can be conceived, is doing it as its popula-
tion advances and its wealth increases, for the purpose
of making this, her seaport, if not the first, as near
as may be the very first, in the world. (Loud applause.)
It is at present, I believe, the largest for exporting com-
merce. But independent of all that, Liverpool does
herself great injustice if she does not pride herself upon
her domestic and internal arrangements. (Hear.) The
seaport is but the gate to a magnificent town—it is the
opening to the hospitality, and wealth, and all the
elegancies of polished lif3 . Your architecture is as
chased as your public institutions areliberal and charita-
ble. (Applause.) Your docks, which I have had the
honour to visit to-day under the best of auspices, that of
the Mayor of Liverpool—(applause),—are amongst the
most magnificent works that can be conceived ; but if I
were to specify an object which struck me this morning
as especially entitled to the respect and consideration of
a stranger, it would be that public library, where young
men were drawn off from the haunts of vice, from the
tendency to dissipation, from possible evil company, by
occupying their minds with every sort of proper amuse-
ment and instruction. (Applause.) A tribute of this
kind is due for the hospitality received and the kindness
manifested; but it is notexactly what I.vant to bring to
the consideration of this company, that is, that in Liver-
pool there is the best opportunity of cultivating that kind
of good feeling already referred to, which begins in the
spirit mentioned by the chairman, and may, perhaps,
terminate in the same Anglo-Saxon feeling which one
day, in defence of constitutional liberty, may call us,
shoulder to shoulder, in the defence of our common and
equal rights—(applause);—it is, that the stranger, com-
ing from my native land, reaches first the port of Liver-
pool, derives his first impressions here—makes his first ac-
quaintances here. Before he passes on to the green fields,
and fine pasturages, and the robust population, and the
ability, and wisdom, and Patriotism which he will find
in the interior, he has seen all that is wise, benevolent,
and charitable in Liverpool
;--it is that at last, after
paying his visit to this blissful and blessed land, he re-
turns to his own country throughthe town ofLiverpool, and
impressions which are likely
to be the strongest, to his own country, to his own
friends, to his own family, and to his own people. carries with him those last
(Ap-
plause.) Mr. President, it is the circumstance of form-
ing associations such as that to; which I have alluded,
and of giving them force and influence during our con-
tinuance in this country, which
which have taken place, some of late, some of weeks,
months, or years ago, which I will call for a moment
to the attention of all who listen to me which have been
reciprocated, and with a zeal and feeling which I trust
never will be forgotten, either on the part of those who
receive or communicate them. On the 19th of June last;
in the river Congo, on the coast of Africa, an American
brig ran aground. She was beset by about 3,000 savages,
who with their hideous
Yells, armed with muskets,
sabres, and bayonets, and fortified with ropes and
ladders, were about ascending the vessel ; and when
every individual on board would have been massacred,
her Majesty's brig Dolphin,
.commanded by Lieut, Wood,
came first to the rescue of this vessel. He sent a can-
nonade on board, threw shell among the approaching
savages, which burst and dispersed them. He was fol-
lowed by the Firefly, Commander Seymour, who gave like
aid, and, with the assistance of these two 'vessels, 3,000
savages were dispersed, the American brig got off, and,
as the captain acknowledges, every one would have
been destroyed, but by this timely assistance, she was
able to resume her voyage. I have, since I have been
in England, communicated these facts to the Foreign
Department, with the thanks of the President of the
United States. This is one side of the picture ;in Liver-
pool you have recently been made acquainted with ano-
ther. As the American mail steamer, the Pacific, was
making her voyage from New York to Liverpool, she
took passage, and encountered a
vessel quite helpless, loaded with
timber, and therefore in no danger of sinking, but in
danger of going to pieces. The sea was so rough that it
a at
tssa somewhat
waterlogged, nohern
was impossible at the moment to send a boat to her, and
it is likely those individuals would have perished-16
Britons—but they were in the presence of Americans,
who stood near, if necessary, to sacrifice their lives in
the attempt at succour. They remained six hours in the
found it then possible to
sß;veridtons,
at the James Stephens ;
sheenwho were on their
voyage to Glasgow—and whom our fellow-citizens were
neighbourhood
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safetyon boat
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delighted to assist--restored them all, and brought them
in safety here. Now, it is very possible these cir-
cumstances, friendly as they are—brotherly as they un-
doubtedly are—may be aided most materially by cir-
cumstances of intervening interest which undoubtedly,
exist between the two countries ; and it is proper, there-
fore, that these circumstances of interest which exist
between brothers and friends, more than strangers,
should also be noticed. It is within the recollection of
some individuals now living that the first parcel of cot-
ton from America was brought, I believe, into this port.
It took seine time before the people believed that it had
been grown in America. The little parcel has since
grown to 3,000,000 bales a year. England received two-
thirds of this quantity, or 2,000,000 bales, and our own
country consumes the rest. This is one bond of union.
(Applause.) We have 19,000 vessels engaged in the
traffic between the two countries, amounting to about
3,000,000 of tonnage—by which vessels, which are the
transporters of every
species of commerce between the
one country and the other, a bridge is almost built be-
tween one country and the other, and we are as near as
it is possible to be, notwithstanding that the Atlantic
rolls between us. (Applause.) But there are other
sources of interested intercourse. You' are capitalists—
we men of enterprise. Your capital, the accumulation
sometimes of generations of hereditary
wealth, some-
times of prudent economy, sometimes of laboured indus-
try,
seeks investment on the other side of the Atlantic ;
capital here, and the one and the
other enterprise seeks cap
other are thus a mutual assistance and advantage, and
which tend to foster the best of goodwill. These are
•
some of the circumstances which couple us together ,
but there are other circumstances—more—more important
ties—

Which round the heart are woun',
And cannot, will not be undone."

Our daughters are married to your sons--our sons are
married to your daughters. A constant communica-
tion between these countries of affection, blood, and
marriage subsists, and thus the ties are rendered almost
sacred—(applause)—to break them would be like intro-
ducing commotion, disturbance, and civil war the
worst of wars, into either of our countries, on the one

side or other of the Atlantic. Now, with all these in-
ducements and reasons for harmony and goodwill, is it
possible that there should subsist anything but that sort
of good feeling between us ? We are derived from the
same race, and speak the same language ; our ancestors
are not precisely the same, but the individuals who
framed our form of government, who framed the consti-
tution of the United States, as it has stood from that
hour to this without alteration, were at one time Bri-
tish subjects, and became only by the separation of two
great countries citizens of another empire. They gave
to our constitution and laws a system, an order, derived
from Great Britain, which had grown up in Great Bri-
tain during the course of centuries, which hal its force,
and has now its permanence, from the stability it ac-
quired here. (Applause.) If there were advantages
when a united government, there came other advan-
tages as independent governments afterwards, in the
immense government which subSists in trade, and the
mutual improvements which we derive.from each other—
in even the occasional interpositions of forgotten language
among you which you considered obsolete, but we have
preserved, and sometimes phrases which you thought extra-
ordinary at first but were afterwards kind enough to adopt
(laughter)—thus mutually to reciprocate kindnesses of all
sorts, even in those respects which perphaps were least
expected from the other side of the Atlantic. (Loud
applause.) But it has been expected upon this occasion
that some little allusion should be made, and I know I
can without impropriety, to circumstances which tran-
spired, in which a point was made of departure from
that good-will which has so long subsisted, and which I
trust may subsist for ever. (Loud applause.) lam not
going to discuss any subject that is or may be at issue
between the two countries. I know of no issue that can

be between these two countries that Can lead to other

wise than the most pacific and honourable result.
cheers.) We have . seen on both sides of the Atlantic
notice taken of some little matters of dispute which did
occur a few months since—we have seen it noticed in
the House of Peers of Great Britain—we have seen it
noticed in the House of Commons of Great Britain—we
have seen it referred to in the very Message of the Pre-
sident, and all with feelings of that sort which cannot
possibly lead to anything but the most agreeable and
harmonious result. But why should it have been
for a moment that there should have been feelings
either of or even something worse than ill-
will—tendencies to hostility between us ? (Hear, hear.)
It consisted of certain colonial assertions and rights,
those rights being at one time in common between the two
countries, and being precisely the same as were secured
by the treaty of 1765, and continued till war broke out
between the two countries. When a treaty took place,
and it was •nly in after years that these difficulties
occurred, which I trust will be reconciled, because on
all occasions when these subjects have been alluded to,
other subjects have been introduced, which will make it
one of mutual benefit in the result. What is the reason

that when we are settling this matter of a mere fishery,
a much broader view cannot be taken of the whole sub

ject than has been in England and America ? Why
should not a commercial treaty be founded upon it which
should be beneficial to both countries, and especially
those colonies more immediately interested in regard to
the fisheries ? (Applause.) Besides, it is all but impos-
sible to suppose that these colonies will not be greatly
the gainers by a commercial intercourse in which they
will participate more largely than anybody else—not
having in themselves the materials of manufacture, grain,
breadstuffs, on the one hand, wnile they have the timber,
the coal, and the fish, if you please, on the other. But
why is it, when these fisheries are not themselves multi-
plied to an extent almost to infinitude ; for I think we
are told by writers many years ago, and still there are
sometimes millions of acres of fish below the surface of
the waters ready to be taken by those near them, whether
near to the land or distant from it ? It is well known that
a singular fish of a particular breed—the female cod, lays
between three and four millions of its offspring at the
same time. There was a period when our writers wrote
largely upon this subject—some 38 years ago, when the
fisheries were considered more important round the island
of Great Britain than the colonies. Both, however, are
important, and both, I trust, will find a result in har-
mony, peace, and goodwill, such as subsists between the
two countries. Ido not intend to occupy more of your
time, having spoken more than I ought perhaps already
—(no, no)— but I recollect that Liverpool was the abode
of one who has done as much for the elevation of the
public mind, by his introduction to us of the commercial
men of other countries, as any man who ever lived—
William Roscoe—who by giving you the lives of such
men as Lorenzo di Medici, made you acquainted, made
us acquainted (for English literature is just as familiar
in the United States as in Great Britain) —made us
acquainted with those merchants of Florence who did
such honour to their country by their hospitality and
commercial enterprise. I think we are told that that
very Lorenzo, whose life is given to the world, had no
monument in Florence. But his monument is composed
in the English literature which Roscoe gave to the world,
which all of us have read and admired. It has been said
by the chairman that we speak one language. A. tie
can scarcely be more extended than this by the social in-
tercourse which we happen to have— by facilities in the
course of business—by all that makes us the same except
the distance of place—by the frame of our Governments,
founded alike on constitutional freedom, one undivided
people. I trust, in sentiment and heart, we shall con-,

tinue so to the end of time ; and whenever circumstances
shall render it necessary for one to come to the assistance
and relief of the other—as we have done in those in-
stances upon the ocean at the savage banks of Congo—
as we have seen them illustrated wherever occasion
called them forth, shall see them illustrated to the end
of time—when you, and I, and all, will rejoice in one
flesh, one brotherhood, and one friendship between Great
Britain and the United States of America. (Applause.)
The CHAIRMAN then rose to propose "The Health of
the Right Hon. the Earl of Derby," a toast which was
received with immense applause. In proposing the
toast the chairman alluded to the transcendant oratory
of the noble lord—to the high offices lie had held in
this country—and also to the fact that Lord Derby had
visited the United States many years ago in order to
make himself acquainted with the people and with the
government of that country.
The Earl of DERBY, in responding, said—Mr. Pre-
sident and Gentlemen, the kindness of the reception
which, not for the first time, I have received this even-

ing in this town, proves to me, in a manner most grati-
fying to my feelings, that a public man, however he
may agree with or differ from those with whom he is
associated, may assume, may retain, and may retire, or
perhaps be expelled from office—(laughter)---without
forfeiting in the slightest degree the personal respect and
the personal good feeling of his fellow-countrymen,
who, whatever may be the soundness of his views, he
has endeavoured anxiously and diligently to serve.
(Applause.) Gentlemen, I assure you that I deeply
feel the compliment which you have paid personally to
myself, and also to that body of which I am a humble
member, and over which I do not pretend to exercise
one-tenth part of the influence ascribed to me by my
hon. friend the president this evening. Gentlemen,
with regard to myself, I can only say that I feel
deeply grateful for this high mark of your con-
fidence and your regard, that I shall endeavour,
on every occasion, whether in public or private life,
so to conduct myself, as, whether you agree with
or differ from me in political matters, you shall never

have reason to condemn or to censure the conduct I
shall pursue as a private. person. (Applause.) Now,
gentlemen, perhaps I may be permitted to say a few
words upon the subject of that body with which you
have identified me this evening, the body of which. I
have the honour of being an unworthy member—to
say a few words upon that body, which is, I conceive,
an important and essential part of the monarchical con-
stitution of this country. And I say it rather,, because
I say it in presence of an honourable gentleman with
whom I am proud to acknowledge the friendly relations
which subsist between ourselves—l hope I may say, and
I am sure I may say between our countries—with whose
institutions that body would be highly incongruous, and
in whose institutions accordingly it finds no place. And
yet, gentlemen, in that country, in that great republic—
in that rising and rapidly-increasing empire as we may
call it, but an empire without an emperor—(hear)—in
that growing, that immense republic, we find that the
wisdom and the foresight of the great and illustrious
founders of that constitution (and greater and wiser
men have seldom appeared upon the public stage of
history) found it incumbent, even in the first flush of
the triumph of popular feeling, to interpose some bar-
rier between immediate legislation and the direct re-
flection of the popular will. True it is, they had not,
and if they had, it would have been wholly inconsistent
with their institutions, a hereditary chamber ; but
they supplied in a different manner, wisely adapt-
ing it to their own institutions and system, a barrier
interposing between the direct representative institu-
tion and the legislation of the country, founded upon
the elective principle wisely adapted to their own in-
stitutions—founded, although upon the elective prin-
ciple, yet with a different basis, and representing a
different class of interests ; and it is singular enough
that the two great countries—now, I may say, almost
the only homes and refuge of liberty throughout the
world—these great countries under which, with diver-
sities of institutions and diversities of habits, there
exists at the same time a great uniformity of principle,
and a great similarity and identity of laws, as of lan-
guage—that these two great countries should have
formed their constitutions, starting from precisely oppo-
site points of view. In this country the rights of the
people, and the liberties of the people, have been of
slow and tardy growth. We started from the other end
of the scale, with almost unlimited monarchical power,
and aristocratic and feudal power of almost boundless
extent. By slow degrees the rights of the people, as the
enlightenment of the country proceeded, have made
their way and acquired their due preponderance ; and
they have attained in this country that state in which I
will venture to say that, not excepting the great re-
public of the United States, there is no country in which
a larger measure of rational liberty is enjoyed than that
of which I have the honour of being a native. (Applause.
We have reduced in this country the powerof the)
Crown and the power of the nobles to an amount which