The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-18 00:00:00

THE TOASTS AND SPEECHES.

The President arose after the cloth was removed, and
a part of the company sun.. with force and effect Non
nobis Dornine. This over, the audience were fully pre-
pared for the intellectual part of the entertainment, and
the President again rose and said,
Messrs. Vice-President and Gentlemen, our first toast
•is in itself so comprehensive of the ardent wishes of
every true Englishman, that no language is necessary to
accompany it to commend it to your consideration. I
give you—
" The Queen-,--God bless her."
The toast was received with enthusiastic cheering, and
was drunk standing and with five cheers ; three being
called, and the fourth and fifth being but two of the many
voluntary and spontaneous contributions of the evening.
A choir of select singers endorsed the Queen's toast by
the sweet impressive national song—
" God save our noble Queen,
Long may she reign over us," &c.

Braham, with his tremendous voice, led off in the
chorus, and filled the hall. The multitude present also
joined in, and the effect was eloquent in the extreme.
The President then called upon the company to fill
for the second toast. The goblets were charged, and the
sentiment was—

" Prince Albert and the Princess Royal."
The toast was received with five cheers, preceded by
the popular Glee of "Hail smiling morn."
The third toast followed and was complimentary—" To
the President of the -United States." This was received
with the same number of cheers as the welcome to Prince
Albert.
The President here announced that he arose for a new
object. "We have now," he said, "reached the most
interesting stage of our proceedings. lam called upon
to perform a duty at once grateful and arduous to my-
self in rendering honor to the distinguished guest of the
evening. My only apprehensions are that occupying
the place I do, I shall not only fail to do justice to my
own feelings, but to your sentiments. I cannot lay claim
to the honor of originating this festival, desigped to com-
pliment one among us illustrious not only as Noble
Lord, butinore illustrious for the good qualities of his head
and heart—(Applause)—to one who adds to an enlight-
ened and liberal understanding the sentiments of a pure
heart. But before I say more in honor of our guest, I
must not be unmindful of those who having won should
share the honor. The tribute of respect we this day
offer, was prepared by gentlemen belonging to the same
county with Lord Morpeth,—by a goodly number of
Yorkshiremen of this eity.—(Applause.) Hie Lordship
has recognized among these some of his late constituents.
But these are not all wha can appreciate the great
powers of mind, and bear practical testimony to the good-
ness of heart of our guest. No wonder that they should
have been the first to honor and welcome the arrival of
his Lordship on the shores of America, and "now my
Lord," said the President, addressing himself more par-
ticularly to the guest, "having done honor to these men of
York, let me say a word for those who unfortunately for
them were not born so far North—for the lazy Southrons,
as we know, can come into Yorkshire too—at any rate
in the admiration' of genius—in the appreciation of ex-
alted. worth, - We can none of us forget, the exalted sta-
tions our guest has occupied in the councils of one of the
most powerful nations on the globe." " All here," con-
tinued the President, "have pledged themselves to me,
and I am pledged to you, that whatever may be our pri-
vate opinions, our political feelings are banished here.—
(Applause.) We are met here one and all to meet your
Lordship, and to give you a hearty greeting and wel-
come. Charge, then, your goblets to the brim. We drink
to " Our distinguished guest, Lord Morpeth—honoured
at home and respected abroad—we give him an English-
man's welcome." The toast was received with nine
heartyrose andenthusiastic
cheeringto respond,
deafening.
Lord-
ship said :

Sir. Chairman and Gentlemen,—l rise to return you,
as best I may, my most respectful and heartfelt thanks,
at what you will believe me is an unexpected honour on
the part of this Assembly in the sentiment which has
been drunk, and the demonstration which this night has
been given. Although hitherto it has been my good
fortune in my own country to join in many such festive
scenes, yet certainly it never entered my imagination
that I should find so many of my own countrymen in a
foreign country—in a distant capital and upon the
soil of a new world. I am fully sensible that I
should not be warranted in attributing the honour of
this welcome to myself. No individual claim of mine
could have mustered so many men together as I see
before me. You are brought together from higher
considerations, by the endearing name of country,
by those ties and recollections which are all-powerful in
the association of fellow-citizens in crossing every sea,
and upon every shore. lam aware that those feelings
and recollections have been enhanced with those who
originated this assembly, from the circumstance of my
belonging to one especial district of my own native land,
and in respect to which I should almost feel myself jus-
tified in laying down what is so familiar to New York,
and applying it to Old York. If you will not, therefore,
think I am taking too much of an advantage for a York-
shireman, I will christen Old York " the Empire county"
of. Old England.—(Loud applause.) I can, gentlemen,
well appreciate the remembrance of a far-off home, sur-
rounded by the commerce and enterprise of this city
which has enriched so many of you, and which reminds
us so much of Leeds, Sheffield, and Hull, and where

the stately Hudson, too, calls to view the romantic beau-
ties of our own Humber and Warnside.—(Applause.)
You need not be) told, Gentlemen, that I no longer
hold the position of representing the National Legisla-
ture in my native country. I should not regret that it
is so, for had it been otherwise, I could not have hoped
to have stepped upon the shores of America, or to have
met with this good assembly of friends. But with ,party
differences we have nothing to do ; and among the, gra-
tifying objects of the present meeting, the most grati-
fying is, that we meet not of party, nor of county, nor
of country.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.")
In the hentaired, presence of the citizens of the city
of New York, I owe an apology for dwelling so long
upon topics of a national, local, or personal character ;
but no apology. need be offered here for feeling the
emotions, or speaking the language of freedom. Lord
Morpeth here in brief terms paid a tribute to the land
he visits and highly respects, in connection with the
land lie loves and the home of his youth and manhood.
The homage rendered to the present and fair occupant
of the throne was the especial homage of admiration.
The voice of praise which we had heard here, he was
assured, was echoed in our hearts. It was a deep and
an abiding impression, but no ways incompatible with a
respect for, and admiration of, the land here as well as that
at home.
" I cannot refrain from saying," said his Lordship in
continuation, " that far from me, far from my friends,
and far from my country, and the age we live in, be that
tremendous responsibility which wantonly and without
cause shall create discord between the two nations of the
United States and England. Tremendous should be the
occasion, great will be the responsibility of those who
would fan the embers of or scatter the elements
of strife among vs.—(Hear, hear.)
I might, more properly perhaps, have spared this al-
lusiOn. The horizon, however, is now clear from all
threats and menaces, and I could not resist the inclination,
knowing as I do that all here mutually respect and favour
the two countries.—(Applause.) This precious brother-
hood brought home to us in your daily meetings, i your
business intercourse, and in ally our relations, will bring
in closer alliance the community of interest between you.
Lord Morpeth sat down ainidtt the loudest applause of
all present, and the company tebtified their regard for
the man and their admiration for his sentiments, by
giving him nine hearty and unanimous cheers.
The fifth toast was then drunk as follows,—" England
and the United States—Mother and Daughter—May the
union between these kindred nations be as endurable as
it is precious to both." This toast was received with
cheers. and followed by music and a song in honour of
Columbia and Old England.
Mr. Hoffman spoke happily of the existing bond of
union between England and the United IS :sites, and
of the strength derived from a festivity like this.—
The City of New York—her Chief Magistrate, and
all her Municipal Authorities."
To this toast the Mayor responded, expressing his
thanks for the honor done to the :city and to himself.