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bon cured by the presence of one of the leading men of
Am eica, who is only one year younger than his own
country (General Mercer) ; but, notwithstanding the
youth of our country, how justly proud may we be cf
her At the tine of her birth she was a puny creature,
sickly, feeble, diminutive. Look at her now. (Cheers.)
She then col tained hut 2,500,000 people. Her popula-
tion is now 27,000,00(1! Her territory was then a mar-
gin of 'he Atlantic. It is now an immense continent!
Her wead.h was then comparative poverty. Her re-
sources are now actually exhaustless ! (Cheers.) Her
moral greatness, too, hears a fair proportion to her phy
sical development. There is in her physical configura
tion everything to delight the eye and exult the imagina-
tion ; she has the noblest mountains, the most extended
lakes, the widest rivers, the richest prairies. And in
harmony with this is the progre:s of her genius and of
her moral principles, and the great elevation of her
political maxims. (Cheers.) When Americans look
back at the short period during which their country
has existed up in the theatre of the world, they
have, therefore, some reason to be proud—(loud
cheers)—nay, I gra further, this great country, whence
sprang the chief stock of the United States, has rea-
son to be pr )ud. In a I our great characteristics
we may be sasd to resemble the people of Great Britain.
We are brave—(cheers) ; we arecommercial ; we are free;
and, perhaps, in some respects we transcend them in
having carefully separated civil and religious liberty.
(Cheers.) But resemblance of this sort, gentlemen, in-
stead of being the clue of harmony and union, are often
the cause of difficulty and dispute. Two brave men are
equally fearless of earth other; one will never yield to
the other on a point of honour, and, there:Ore, they
sometimes come into collision. Two merchants pur-
suing the same course of adventure will sometimes find
their interests clash. The spirit of the press, too, which
in free countries should ever be free, often brings on a
state of feeling which ereqtrireft to be dealt with by the
wisest and most conciliatory Measures. (Loud cheers.)
It is a matter 'oreincere regret, but perhaps it is in the
order of Providence, that the freest nations are not al-
ways the sincerest friends. (Hear, hear.) I cordial),
concurred in the first, second, and third toasts that were
proposed. With regard to the second, permit me to
observe that if there is one feature of the American cha-
racter more prominent than another, it is the heartines.i
with which they receive the toast of the lady whose
name is always foremost in the hearts of Englishmen.
(Loud cheers.) I ask my countrymen who are ac-
qusinted with the universal spirit of America, who
know the e.tent to which we carry our civilisation,
whether we do not always drink a double bumper to the
ledies in preference to the gentlemen ? (Cheers and
laughter.) As to the present toast, gentlemen, I thank
you for the manner in which you have received it, its
•nly merit 1 e ug that it comes from William Brown, o
Liverpool. (Loud cheers.)
General CADWALADEB said—l am really glad, Mr.
Chairman, of the opportunity of meeting my distin-
guished tel'ow-countrymen, whom you have invited in a
quiet way to celebrate the 4th of July. You know that
at home the day all rds an occasion for military display
end some reference is always made to historical and
statis'ical mi itary facts before the society of Cincinnati,
whose oadgs I have the honour to wear--(cheer)—but
I shall now coefine myself to one or two facts which may
not be inappropriate er uninteresting to our friends. By
the report •,t the Ordnance Department at. Washington,
under the act, for arming and equipping the whole body
of the militia, we return 2,566,502 free, able bodied,
white male inhabitants of the age of 18 years and usder
the age of 45 years subjec. to enrolment and liable to
peet.irm military service. These meii, up to a certain
grade of commission, are usually commanded by officers
of their o-en choice, and it is a pleas ug commentary
upon our reoional institutions to know that more than
2,000,000 men, commanded most), by officers of their
own choice, cis Wily be trusted with the national
' arms in their hands. (Cheers.) The standing army of
the United Siates under the genius of our constitution
cannot be large in time of peace, but an ample corps of
highly eduesteil and experienced officers, mostly gradu-
ates cf the Wsst P int Military Academy, so en broad-
cast throughout the land, as the history of the Nlexican
campaign will show. (Hear.) It gives me pleasure, sir,
to say that I have in my eye at this moment two dis-
tinguished and highly accomplished gentlemen who
have held prote.sorships in that military school. (Hear.)
But educsti in in our country it not confined to the mi-
litary class. The American people at large are a helpful,
instructed people, and believe that the pen is stronger
than the sword. (Cheers.) Naturally left to themselves,
they prize the comforts of peace, and if ever a difficulty
should wise with any nation it will probably find its
origin in a national characteristic. Sir, shall we say that
we belong to the genus irritabile ? (Rear, and a laugh.)
We are a particularly sensitive race, and we need not
(among ourselves) disguise the fact that difficulty may
arise front some unwise, untruthful, unchristian-like irri-
tation. In all kindness be it spoken, the example is be-
f re us ; I believe the public press in England can hold
in its hand the key to the American heart. (Cheers.)
My countrymen are naturally„ disposed to re.-pect them-
selves, and—feel kindly disposed tewariro England. Be
assured, Sir, the American daughter is of hersflist lFlili
to bare her breast te nurture and sustain her venerable
parent. (Cheers.) •I am confident, if her Majesty the
Queen or her Royal consort (for the Queen is a lady
and the American people are a gallant people) should
visit her dominions in Canada and return home
through the United States, that the Royal progress
would be everywhere hailed with as much respect and as
much enthusiasm as would be shown by her own loyal
subjects. (Loud cheers ) There is in the United States
a large Conservative class who are entirely removed from
the arena of politics, and I can say that these good
people think that the public press in America and the
public press in England can well afford to consult
the national peculiarities of each other. Allow me,
Sir, to propose the toast I have in my hand—" Great
Britain and the United States ; frank intercourse, cor-
, dial friendship, and perpetual peace between them."
(Drunk with immense cheering.)
Mr. JOHN APGREGOII, M.P., as the representative of
a great constituency which had great intercourse with
inerica, proposed the health of his friend Mr. George
Peabody, who was a most active promoter of that amity
which ought always to exist between two nations speak-
ing the same language and descended from common
ancestors.
The toast was received with loud and prolonged cheers.
Mr. PEABODY, in returning thanks for the very kind
reception given to the toast, said that he was exceedingly
gratified at being surrounded on that glorious day by so
large a number of his countrymen and 'his English
friends ; that he was most happy to witness the perfect
harmony which had prevailed throughout the proceed-
ings of that evening : and he trusted that it ever would
be so, and that his life might be spared to meet his
friends on many similar occasions. (Cheers.) He had
no difficulty in providing for their physical appetites, but
they must look to those more capable of making
speeches than himself to cater for their intellectual en-
jeytnents. He felt his heart was right, but he wanted
the power to express in suitable language its feelings.
Daring his long absence from his native country he bad
formed many attachments, bus the land of his birth was
always uppermost in his affections, and he would ever
rejoice to call it his home. Again thanking them for
their kindness, he sat down amid renewed applause, the
band playing " Horne, sweet home."
Mr. CORBIN, with a few appropriate remarks, then
gave "Our English guests," which was drunk with
all the honours, Mr. S. C. Hall replying.
The next toast, " Professor Morse," whose name was
associated with the wonderful improvements in the
electric telegraph, having been responded to,
Mr. PEABODY proposed " The Hon. Mr. Cameron,
of Canada."

Mr. CAMERON, in returning thanks, observed that be
was happy, as a coloni-t of Great Britain in the New
World, to tell them how proud the Canadians felt of
Old England, and how attached they were to their So-
vereign—feelings which arose from the kind and fos-
tering band which England extended to them, and to
the perfect freedom she had granted them in the manage-
ment of their own affairs. To the old colonies she had
acted the part of a harsh stepmother ; she had coerced
and chained her children down until the iron had entered
into ther soul., and in their anger and despair they had
broken the fetters that galled them and severed the
chain that bound them. To the new colonies she had
been a gentle and nursing mother, assisting them to de-
velope their resources, directing their energies, ailing
their enterprises, and confer. ing upon them the inesti
e.able boon of self government. (enters.) And mark what
hail been the results; with nearly a million of people
more than the old colonies possessed at the time of the Re-
volution, their attachment to England was steadfast and
strong ; and, while the Americans always spoke, when
about to visit the Old World, of "going out to Europe,"
it was still with the colonists, when they crossed the
seas, " coining home to England." (Cheers.) War had
been spoken of between these islands and the continent
of the West, and none could think of such a calamity
without a shudder ; but men must not shut their eyes
to the possibility of such an event, and considerations of
humanity and religion must he invoked and concessions
made to avert the catastrophe. (Cheers.) England could
afford to concede, and the world would be spared the
spectacle of the two great Protestant nations of the earth
warring against each other, and wasting on the battle-
field those precious lives that in peace might extend re-
ligion and civilisation to the ends of the earth. (Cheers.)
England had made Canada the anomaly of an indepen-
dent dependency. She allowed her to pass her own laws
of trade and navigation, nay, even to make her own
treaties, as witness the Reciprocity Treaty—(cheers)—
which had already increased the export trade of CaT.arla
500 fold. The time might come when, in the world
wide struggle -)f freedom against despotism, British
hands and Wearts in the colonies, from Newfoundland
to Hudsou's Bay, the American lovers of liberty from
Maine to the Pacific, might circle these islands of the
sea to defend them with their wooden walls against the
despotic Powers that desired to trample the life out of
liberty, and England might owe her pr,servation as a
nation to those who had sprung from her own loins.
(Cheers.)
The concluding toast of "The Ladies" having been
given by Mr. Peabody, the company separated shortly
nefore 12 o'clock, all of them highly gratified with their
evening's entertainment.
The national airs of the two countries were played at
intervals during the evening by a very efficient band.

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