The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-25 00:00:00

LO N-DON, sA CU riDA Y EVENING. OCTOBER 25, 185%

MR. PBABODY'S BECbPTION AT HOME.

The village of Danvers, Massachusetts, was decorated on
the 9th inst. in honour of the return of Mr. Peabody to his
Dative town after a long absence' in England. The British
and American flags intermingled their folds at every cor-
ner. Mr. Peabody, who was in a carriage and six, was met
by a procession, at the entrance of the town, and received
the most hearty congratulations on all sides. Upwards of
1,000 persons sat down to a banquet in a mammoth tent,
which was decorated with evergreens and mottoes, one of
which was decorated with evergreens and mottoes—one of
which was " Englitnd my abiding • Place— America my
Home." . Mr. Peabody was supported by ,the Hon. F.
Everett, the Hon. Mr. Daniels (who presided), the Go-
vernor, &c.
The speeches commenced with " The Health of Mr. Pea-
body, and a cordial and hearty Welcome to that distinguished
Citizen, eminent Merchant, and public Benefactor."
In reply, Mr. PRABODY said—Mr. Chairman, Ladies,
and Gentlemen,—The reception you have given me to-day
overpowers me. Few boys ever left a New England bores
under circumstances more humble than I did—none could
return more honoured, too, where honour is said not te
be usual, in his own country and among his own kindred.
I feel proud as well as grateful at these testimonials, so
far beyond my merits, but so gratifying to my heart, anti
which I shall ever esteem the greatest honour of my life.
You have alluded, Mr. Chairman, to my course as a mer-
chant. Heaven has' been pleased to reward my efforts
with success, and has permitted me to establish, through
my own exertions, a house in the great metropolis of Eng-
land, which I think, my mercantile friends here present
will bear me out in Baying sustains a high character and
credit throughout the world. Coming back to the home
of my -childhood I honestly confess that I feel- great
pride in this, and I do not believe that you will accuse
me of egotism in saying so: I have endeavoured, in the
constitution of its members and the character of its busi
ness, to make an American house, and to give it an Ame-
rican atmosphere—to furnish it with American journals—
to make it a centre for American news and an agreeable
place for my American friends visiting London; That I
have partially succeeded in doing so I thiiik I may reason-
ably conclude from the flattering testimonials which 1
have received since my arrival in this country. (Cheers.)
You have also been pleased to allude to my humble effort-
to promote good feeling
,between Great Britain and the
United States, by increasing the social intercourse between
my English and American friends. That a cordial alliance
ought to exist between these two countries, founded on
social intercourse and personal friendships, as well as
mutual interests, is an opinion which I share with most
persons who have had the opportunity to see both. (Ap-
plause.) lam happy indeed if my humble efforts have
aided in promoting such good feeling. If there are two
nations on the face of the earth that ought to be,connected
by the closest ties of mutual goodwill they are these two
countries. (Renewed applause.) It is not in the language
ordinarily used that I point to the similarity in their in-
stitutions, their laws, their language, and their commer-
cial interests. The exports of this country to Great Bri-
tain are larger than to all the world besides. The exports
from Great Britain to this country, though not relatively
so large, are on an equally gigantic scale. A monetary
crisis in one country is generally followed by like results
in the other. A change in the financial policy on the one
side is met by a responsive change in the other The
journals of each country reflect at length each other's
views and sentiments. Out of this very intimacy of
relations there grows frequent cause of difference; but I
am sure that, notwithstanding the little outbursts of
jealousy which occasionally show themselves, England is
not less proud of her offspring than is America of the parent
stock. I can assure you that from the universally beloved
Queen who rules those realms down to her humblest sun-
ject, one feeling of goodwill towards this country prevails.
(Three cheers for the Queen.) I say this with the greatest
confidence, since I see around mo many gentlemen who have
had an opportunity to see for themselves whether these
things are so. To none can I appeal more confidently than
to you, Sir (turning to Mr. Everett), who have filled the
most important office abroad in tho gift of our Government
with so much honour to your own country and so much sa
tisfaction to thcs3 to whom you were accredited. (Loud.
chew B.) •I have been reminded to-day that one who fol-
lowed worthily in the footsteps of my friend on my light
has passed away. The corner-stone of the Peabody Insti-
tute was laid by Abbott Lawrence, but before it was com-
pleted his pure spirit had left the world. I admired him
for his practical talents; I respected. Lim for his virtues,
and loved him as a friend.' Like myself, he was convinced
of the great importance of conciliation, forbearance, and
mutual goodwill between England and America. During
his whole mission he laboured earnestly to cultivate these
feelings, and I take a melancholy pleasure in adding n.y
humble tribute to his memory—in testifying not only to
the profuseness of his own hospitalities and tho constancy
of his own labours to these ends, but to the heartiness and
zeal with which he co-operated in my more humble efforts.
The memory of such a man as Abbott Lawrence is doubly
blessed.

The next regular toast was—" England and Am erica—
ptichra Mater, pulchrior Felia. Long may they flourish
in the Bonds of Peace, Rivals in their efforts to civilise and
Christianise the World."

The Hon. EDWARD EVERETT responded as follows :
Mr. President,—l suppose you have called upon me to
respond to this interesting toast, chiefly because I filled, a
few years ago, a place abroad which made me in some de-
gree the associate of your distinguished guest in the kindly
office of promoting goodwill between the two great
branches of the Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-Norman race (for I
do not think it matters much by which name you call it),
" the fair mother and the fairer daughter," to which the
toast alludes. At all events, I had much opportunity,
during my residence in England, to witness the honourable
position of Mr. Peabody in the commercial and social
circles of London, his efforts to make the citizens of the
two countries favourably known to each other; and gene-
rally that course of life and conduct which has contributed
to procure him the well-deserved honours of this day, and
which shows that he fully enters into the spirit of the sen-
timent jasirpropounded from the chair. To the prayer of
that sentiment, sir, I fully respond, desiring nothing more
ardently in the foreign relations of the country than that
these two great nations may be rivals only in their efforts
to promote the welfare and improvement of mankind.
They have already done, they are now doing much
at home and abroad to promote that end by the arts of
peace. Whenever they co-operate they can sweets every-
thing before them—when they are at variance, when they
pull opposite ways, it is the annihilation of much of the
moral power of both. Whenever England and America
combine their influences in promoting a worthy.object it
moves forward like a vessel propelled by the united force
of wind and steam ; but when they are in conflict with
each other it is like the struggle of the toiling engine
against the opposing tempest. It is well if the labouring
vessel holds her own—there is danger that she may be
buried under the mountain waves, or drift upon therocks.
It is quite obvious to remark on this occasion and on this
subject, while you are offering a tribute of respect to a
distinguished man of business, that these two great nations
leadingtwiohnic,haraerethdeoitnwgo
so
mucha
forom mtehrecial advancementnationsof
the
ciwviolrislda :
that they have carried navigation and commerce to
height unknown before. And this consideration, s.
will serve to justify you and your fellow-citizens, if they
need justification, for the honours you are bestowing upon
the guest of the day, as it will the other communities in
different parts of the country which have been desirous of
joining in similar public demonstrations of respect. With-
out wishing to disparage the services which command your
respect and gratitude in tho walks of political, military,
or literary life, it is natural that in a country like the
United States, where commerce is so important an interest
you should be prompt to recognise distinguished merit in
the commercial career—a career of which, when pursued
with diligence, sagaeity,enterprise, integrity, and honour,
I deem it not too much to say that it stands behind no other
in its titles to respect and consideration ; as I deem it not
too much for say of commerce, in its largest comprehension,
that it has done as much in all time, and is now doing as
much to promote the general cause of civilisation, as any
of the other great pursuits of life. Trace its history for a
moment from the earliest period. In the infancy of the
world its caravans, like gigantic silkworms, went creeping
through the arid wastes of Asia and Africa, with their in-
finitesimal legs, and bound the hum'an family together in
those vast regions as they bind it together now. Its colo-
nial establishments scattered the Grecian culture all round
the shores of the Mediterranean, and carried the adven-
tures of Tyre. and Carthage to the north of Europe and the
south ofAfrica. The walled cities of the middle ages pre-
vTehnet ed
Hansetbe at:
towns
nasndweri7the
out of existcnce under the iron heel of the feudal powers.
flroibmertbyeinangdtprroanippelret:
in the north and west of Europe for ages. The germ of the
representative system sprang from the municipal, franchises
of the boroughs. At the revival of letters the merchant
princes of Florence received the fugitive arts of Greece into
their stately palaces. The spirit of commercial adventure
produced that movement in the 14th century which
carried Columbus to America and Vacco di Gama round
the Cape of Good Hope. The doop fOundations of the
modern system of international law were laid in the inte-
rests and rights of commerce and the necessity of pro-
tecting them. Commerce sprinkled the treasures of the
newly found Indies throughout the western nations; it
nerved the arm of civil and religious liberty in the Protes-
tant world; it gra•lnAlly carried the colonial system of
Europe to the ends of the earth, and with it the elements
of future independent, civilised Republican Governments.
But why should we dwell on the past What is it that

• gives vigour to the civilisation of the present day but the
world-wide extension of commercial intercourse, by which
all the products of the earth and of the ocean, of the soil,
the mine, of the loom, of the forge, of bounteous nature,
creative art, and untiring iiadustry, .are brought by the
agencies of .commerce into the • 1 kt '1 d
universe :mar e oi. ( eman
and supply.? No matter in what region_ the desirable pro-
duct is besaowed on Mau tby a liberal Providence, or fa-
bricated bychumau skill. .It.naay clothe the.bills of China
with its fragrant foliage—it may glitter in the golden
sands of Califoru a—it may wallow in the. depths of the
Arctic seas —it may whiten and ripen in the fertile plains
of the nanny south—it may spring forth frim the flying
shuttles of, Manchester in England, or Manchester in
A.merica—the great world magnet'of commerce attracts it
all alike, a nd gethees it all np•for. the service of man. I
lo not speak of English comnierce, or American commerce.
Such disti actions :belittle our coaceptionse I speak of
commerce in the aggregate—the great ebbing and flowing
tides of the. commercial world—the great gulf-streams of
traffic which flow round from hemisphere to hemisphere—
(he mighty trade-winds of commerce which sweep from
the Old World to the New—that vast aggregate system
which emb races the whole family of man, and kings the
overflowing treasures.of nature and art into kindly rela-
tion with human want,. convenience, and taste. In carry-
ing on this system, think for a moment of the stupendous
igencies that are put in Motion: Think for a moment of ,
ill the ships that, navigate the sea. An old Latin poet,
who knew 'no waters beyond ,those of the Mediterranean
Ind Levant,, says that the man must have had a triple
casting Of oak and brass about 'his bosom who first trusted
Ms frail brisk on the raging sea. How many thousands of
ia ains of
vessels laden by commerce ere at this moment navigating„
cot the nary sow seas freqaen ted lay the ancients, but the world-I
anciunliassi 4'ocearii. 'Think 'uertfeer the mo 4
brick, and stone, and iron, built npinto the- 'greit corn.'
mercial tit=les of the world; and of all the mighty works of
ancient and modern contrivance and structure—the moles,
the lighthesuses, the bridges, the canals, the roads, the
railways, tb.e depth of mines, the Titanic force of enginery,
the delving ploughs, the scythes, the reapers, the looms, the
electric telegraphs, the vehicles of all descriptions which
iirectly or ;indirectly aro employed and' put in motion by
commerce—arid last and most important, the millinns of
human beluga that conduct, and regulate, and combine
these inanimate, organic, and mechanical forces. And,
now, sir, is it anything less than a liberal profession, which
carries a qt tick intelligence, a prophetic forecast, an indus-
try that newer tires, and, more than all, and above all, a
stainless probity beyond reproach and beyond suspicion,
into this vast and complicated system, and, by the blessing
of rrovidenee, works out a prosperous result? Such is the
vocation of the merchant, the man of business, pursued in
many departments of foreign and domestic trade—of
finance, of exchange, but all comprehend under the general
name of commerce—all concerned in weaving the mighty
network of mutually beneficial exchanges which enwraps
the world. I know there is a chide to this bright picture.
Where among the works of the fortunes of men shall we A
find one that is all sunlight ? Napoleon I. thought he had
said enough to disparage England when he had pronounced
her a wider. of shopkeepers ; and we Americans are said
by some of .our own writers to be slaves of the almighty
dollar. But, these are sallies of national hostility, or the
rebukes which a stern moral sense rightly administers to
the besetting sins of individuals or communities. Every
pursuit in life, however, has its bright and its dark
phase; eve ry pursuit may be followed with a generous
spiritspfoiritrh;
beginningiuourable and ()tieing itt personal gratification. ends, or with a mean, selfish, cor-
ruptßut this is more the case with the commercial than any
other carom:. What more different than the profession
of the law as pursued by the upright counsellor, who
spreads the shield of eternal justice over your life and for-
tune, and t he wicked pettifogger, who drags you through
the thorns and brambles of vexatious litigation ? What
more different than the beloved physician, the sound of
whose soft footstep, as he ascends your staircase, carries
hope and comfort to the couch of weariness and suffering,
and the selsoun, palvering, impudent quack, who fattens
on the fears and frailties of his victims? What more dif-
ferent than. the press, which like the morning sun sheds
light and truth through the land, and the press which daily
distils the concentrated venom of personal malice and party
detraction from its dripping wings? I believe that the
commercial profession is as capable of being pursued with
intelligence;, honour, and public spirit as any other ; and,
when so pursued, is as compatible with purity and eleva-
tion of chass actor as any other, as well entitled to tie hon-
ours which a community bestows on those who adorn and
serve it, tho honours which you this day delight to pay
to your friend and guest. I was not the witness of the
commeneetitent of hi' career abroad; but we all know that
it soon fell ,upon that disastrous period when all American
credit stood. low—when the default of some of the States,
and the temporary inability of others to meet their obliga-
tions, and the failure of several of our moneyed institu-
tions, thre'.v doubt and distrust on all American securities.
That great sympathetic nerve of the commercial world—
credit—as f:tr as the United States was concerned, was for
the time paralysed. At that moment—and it was a trying
one—our fri eud not only stood firm himself, but he was the
cause of firm ness in others. His judgment commanded re-
spect, his integrity won back the reliance which mea had
been accustomed to place in American securities. The re-
proach in which they were all indiscriminately involved
was gradually wiped away from those of a substantial
character; and it' on this solid base of unsuspected good
faith he reared his own prosperity, let it be remembered
that at the same time he retrieved the credit of the State
of which he was the agent, performing the miracle, if
I may so venture to express myself, by which the
word of an honest man turns paper into gold. A course
like this, however commendable, might proceed from cal-
culation. If it led to prosperity and opulence, it might
he pursued for motives exclusively selfish. Bat Mr. Pea-
body took a different view of the matter, and immediately
began to act upon an old fashioned New-England maxim,
which, I dare say, be learned in childhood, and carried
with him from Danvers, that influence and property have
their duties as well as their privileges, and set himself to
work to promote the convenience and enhance the enjoy-
ments of his travelling fellow-countrymen, a numerous and
important class. The traveller, often the friendless travel-
ler, stands greatly in need of good offices in a foreign land.
several of you, my friends, know this, I am sure, by ex-
perience ; some of you can say how perseveringly, how
liberally these good. offices were exteuded by our friend,
through a long course of years, to his travelling country-
men. How many days, otherwise weary, have been winged
with cheerful 'enjoyments through his agency; how many
otherwise drat hours, in health and in sickness, enlivened
by his attentaons ! It occurred to our friend especially to
do that on a :large scale which had hitherto been done to
a very lithitad extent by our diplomatic representatives
abroad. The smallsalaries and still smaller private means
(with a single exception) of our Ministers at St. James had
prevented them from extending the rites of hospitality as
liberal" as they could wish to their fellow-citizens abroad.
Our friend, h appily, with ample means, determined to sup-
ply the defect, and brought together at the social board from
year to year, at a succession of entertainments equally
magnificent and tasteful, hundreds of his own countrymen
and of his English friends. How much was done in this
way to promote kind feeling and mutual goodwill, to soften
prejadice, to establish a good understanding ; in a word, to
nurture that generous rivalry inculcated in the sentiment to
which you have bid me respond, I need not say. I have been
particularlyrequested by my friend, Sir H. Holland, a gen-
tleman of the highest social and professional standing, to
state, while expressing his deep regret that he cannot
participate in this day's festivities, that he has attended
several of Mr. Peabody's international entertainments in
London, and felt them to be of the happiest tendency it
promoting kind feeling between the two countries. We
are bound as Americans, on this occasion particularly, to
remember the very important services rendered by your
guest to his countrymen who went to England in 1851 with
specimens of the products and arts of this country to be
exhibited in the Crystal Palace. In most, perhaps all other
countries, this exhibition had been made a Government
affair. Commissioners had been appointed by authority to
and, what was more
were made to defray
fasbmiiotononsresyw;ere made by Congress.
Our exhibitors arrived penniless—some of them penniless
proitluhepit
ore
rcettxa
up theetn,
saki; er
Nro epos
rt
ias
aptopi
—in the great commercial Babel of the world. They found
the portion of the Crystal Palace assigned to our country
for
on exhibitors
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ii
unprepared for the art and industry which they had brought
with them, naked and unadorned, by the side of the neigh-
bouring arcaaes and galleries fitted up with elegance and
splendour by the richest Governments in Europe. The
English press began to launch its too ready sarcasms at the
sorry appearance which Brother Jonathan seemed likely to
make, and all the exhibitors from this country,and all who
felt an interest in their success, were disheartened. At this
critical moment our friend stepped forward. He did what
Congress should have done. By liberal advances on his pa: t
the American department was fitted up, and day after day
some new product of American ingenuity and taste was
added to the list—M'Cormick's reaper, Colt's revolver,
Power's Greek Slave, Hobbs's unpickable lock, Roe's won-
derful printing presses, and Bonds more wonderful spring
governor—and it began to be suspected that Brother Jona-
than was not quite so much of a simpleton as had been
thought. Ho bad contributed his full share, if not to the
splendour, at least to tho utilities of the Exhibition. In
fact, the leading journal of London admitted that England
had derived more real benefit from the contributions of
'the United States than from those of any other country.
Our friend on that occasion, much as he had done in the
way tueutioned to promote the interest and success of the
American exhibitors, and to enable them to sustain that
generous rivalry to which the toast alludes, thought he
, had not done suite enough for their gratification. Accord-

inglY; in a mast generous international banquet, he brought
together, on the ono hand, the most prominent of his coun-
trymen drown by the occasion to London, and on the other
Hand the Chairman of the Royal Commission, with other
personS of consideration in England, and his British friends
generally, and in a loving cup of Old Danvers oak pledged
them, on both sides, to warmer feelings of mutual good-
will than they had before entertained. • In these ways, Mr.
Presidents our friend has certainly done his share to carry
into effect the principle of the toast to which you called
upon me to reply. But it is not w belly por chiefly for these
kindly offices and Comprehensive courtesies, nor for the
success with which he has pursued the paths of business
life, nor for the moral courage with which, at an alarming
crisis and the peril of his own fortunes, ho sustained the
credit of the State he represented—it is not these services
that have called forth these demonstrations of respect. Your
quiet village, my friends, has not gone forth in eager througs
to meet the successful financier ; those youthful voices have
not been attuned to sing the praises of the successful banker.
No; it is the fellow-citizen who, from' the arcades of the
London Exchange, laid up -treasure in the hearts of his
countrymen ; the true patriot who, amid the splendours
of the Old World's capital, said in his heart, "If I forget
thee, oh ! Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cun-
ning; if I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to
the roof of my mouth." It is the dutiful and grateful child
and benefactor of Old Danvers whom you welcome back to
his home. Yes, Sir, and the property you have invested
in yonder simple edifice, and in. providing the means of
innocent occupation for hours of leisure—of instructing
the minds and forming the intellectual character, not,
merely of the generation now rising; but of that which
shall take their places, when the }leads of these dear
children who now grace the table shall be as grey as
mine, and of others still more distant, whd shall plant
kind flowers on our graves—it is the property you have
laid up in this investment which will embalm your name
in the blessings of posterity when granite and marble
shall crumble to duit. Moth and rust shall not corrupt it ;
they might as well corrupt the pare white portals of the
heavenly city where " every several gate is one of pearl."
Thieves shall not break through and steal it ; they might
as easily break through the vaulted sky and steal the
brightest star of the firmament. The great sententious
poet has eulogised the "Man of Ross"—the man of practi-
cal, unostentatious benevolence—above all the heroes and
statesmen of the Augustan ago of England. Who, he asks,
" Who hung with woods the mountain's sultry brow ?
From the dry rock who bade the waters flow??
Not to the sky iu useless columns tost,
Or in proud falls magnificently lost,
But clear and artless, pouring through the plain,
Health to the sick and solace to the swain."
But your Man of Ross, my friends, has taught a noble.
stream to flow through his native village—that bubbling,
sparkling, mind-refreshing, soul-cheering stream, which re-
news while it satisfies the generous thirst for knowledge—
that noble unquenchable thirst " which from the soul doth
spring"—which gains new eagerness from the draught
which allays it, for ever returning, though for ever slaked,
to the cool deep fountain of eternal truth. You will re-
collect, my Danvers friends, the Leith of June, E 52, when
you assembled to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the
separation of Danvers from the parent stock. Your plea-
sant village arrayed herself that day in her holiday robes.
Herresident citizens, with one accord, took part in the fes-
tivities. Her children, dispersed through the Caton, re-
turned that day to the homestead. One long absent was
wanting, whom you would gladly have seen am. strg you.
But you had not forgotten him, nor he you. He was beyond
the sea, absent in body, but present is spirit and kindly re-
membrance. In reply to your invitation, he returned, as
the custom is, a letter of acknowledgment, enclosing a sealed
paper, with an endorsement setting forth that it contained
Mr. Peabody's sentiment, and was not to be opened till
the toasts were proposed at the public dinner. The time
arrived, the paper was opened, and it contained the fol-
lowing sound and sensible sentiment—" Education.—A
debt due from the present to future generations." Now
we all know that, on an occasion of this kind, a loose slip
of paper such as a sentiment is apt to be written on is in
danger of being lost—a puff of air is enough to blow it
away. Accordingly, just by the way of paper weight—
just to keep the sentiment safe on the table, and also to
illustrate his view' of this new way of paying old debts,
Mr. Peabody laid down $20,000 on the top of his senti-
ment ; and for the sake of still greater security has since
added about as much more. Hence it has come to pass that
this excellent sentiment has sunk deep into the minds of our
Danvers friends, and has, I suspect, manly contributed
to the honours an pleasures•of this day. Bet I have oc-
cupied, Mr. President, much more than my share of your
time—and I will only, on taking my seat, congratulate
you on this occasion, as I congratulate our friend and
guest at having had it in his power to surround himself
with so many smiling faces and warm hearts.

ENTERTAINMENT TO _HERBERT

INGtiAM, ESQ.,

Oa Thursday last the iulambitants of Doston gave a
banquet to Herbetr Ingram, Faq., the member for the
borough.
Thu dinner took place in the hall of the Corn Exchange,
a handsome and spacious building, entirely roofed with
glass, and which on the present occasion was very tastefully
decorated. The archway which forms approach to the
Corn-Market was verry prettily set off with variegated
lamps, and bore the word "Welcome" in dahlias of various
hues, the front of the building itself being illuminated
by gas in the form of a laurel wreath which nearly covered
the facade. The interior of the corn market presented a

brilliant appearance, the walls being completely festooned
with flowers and evergreens, mid exhibiting the flags of
England, France, Turkey, and Sardinia. Covers were set
for 50) guests, although double the number had made ap•

plication for iickots. -
At four o'clock the chair was taken by Mr. M. Staniland,

a gentleman who had twico filled theoffics of mayor in

the town. Mr. Ingram, whose appeara.nce in the hall was
the signal for general cheering, took his seat oa the right
of the chair. Oa the left of the chair was Lord William
Lennox, brother to the Duke of Richmond.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed the health of their hon.
member and guest, Mr. Herbert Ingram.
The toast was received with the utmost applause, and
was accompanied by several rounds of cheers.
Mr. INGRAM, in returning thanks, expressed his attach.
ment to his native town, and said he took that festival as
a sign that its inhabitants did not repent of making him
their representative. For years the Conservative party in
Boston had sent members to Parliament to represent some-
times the West India, at others, the East India interest,
sometimes the banking interest, then again the China trade
interest or the landed interest, and sometimes to represent
a large landed proprietor desirous of a peerage. These
members repres rated their own interests very well in-

deed, but not the interests of Boston, or the interests
of the country at large. At the last election, however,
the constituency determined to &Jed a person to represent
their own and the couutry's interest. The example had
been followed in Nottingham and several other places,
where they had elected men well known to the consti-
tuency, and not sent by particular parties or interests in
Loudon or elsewhere. Mr. Ingram said he felt proud to
represent a town which sent out the pilgrim fathers, the
founders of a free state, whose inhabitants fought the
battle of freedom. He next proceeded to rofer to the last
session of Parliament and several subjects discussed
therein, justifying his vote on the motion of Mr. Muuta
respecting the income tax, as well as that of Mr. Spooner
on Meynooth. He was for a reduction of the paper duty,
and for a reform of the state of the law. He thought
Lord Palmetston's bill on agricultural statistics utterly,
I useless, and in its effects quite as likely to mis-
lead as to inform. He was for a national bank to en-
courage provident habits, by offering a better security
than can be found in savings banks. The bank which he
proposed should receive deposit accounts at interest, and
also the smallest sums from the poor, who should be en-
titled to withdraw their money without notice, receiving
intereskat the same time; and in order to avoid danger
during political excitements, the Government should have
the option of giving at the rate of 31 per cent. stock for all
sums in the deposit, account. There could be no possible
objection to issuing 11. notes. It would save the wear and
loss of geld. Sufficient bullion must be, however, always
in hand to pay all notes on demand. Not many years
would elapse before a Chancellor of the Exchequer would
be forced to found a national bank, which has now become
an absolute necessity. He was in favour of an immediate
extension of the franchise, so as to give votes to persons
living in 101. houses, and the joining of the adjacent coun-
ties to small boroughs, he thought, would prove of great
advantage to boroughs of less than 10,003 inhabitants. As
for any more extensive reform, no one could hope for it at
present. Our fleet and the imperial fleet of Franco were
now about sailing for Naples. He wondered if anything
would be said about the freedom of the press to the King
of Naples. That subject put him in mind of the old say-
ing, " the pot calling the kettle black." He thought the
policy of interference was questionable, unless followed up
by strong measures. Mr. Ingram said—Gentlemen, I shall
conclude by answering a questionis put to me by a friend in
this room. He asked me, " What your motive for going
into Parliament?" My answer is, that it is a motive to
serve my native town and my country. (Cheers.) I
leave this legacy to my children—that I served you and
the country usefully and faithfully; and I know I shall
not go unrewarded in another and brighter world. (The
hon. gentleman then resumed his seat amid the most deaf-
ening and continuous cheering.)
Mr. W. D. COOPER proposed "The Members of the
House of Commons," coupling with the toast the name of
Mr. Oliveira, the member for Pontefract.
Mr. OLIVEIRA returned thanks.
Mr. P. TUXFORD, of the Mark-lane Express, proposed the
next toast, " Prosperity to Agriculture."
Lord WM. LENNOX proposed the next toast. "The Press,"
coupling with it the names of Mr. Herbert Ingram and Mr.
Shirley brooks. (Cheers.)
Mr. S. BROOKS returned thanks.
Mr. INGRAM proposed the last toast of the evening, " The
Ladies," to which he would request Mr. Mark Lemon to
reply. (Cheers.)
Mr. MARE LEsioN —Mr. Chairman, my lord, and gentlemen,
I must first be allowed to thank you for the very kind man-
ner in which you have received the toast with which your
worthy representative has dose me the honour to couple my
nave. The reception, I am aware, is more attrilatable to
your own good feeling than to any merit of mine, or any
chin' I may possess to your sympathies. (Clic,. of " No, no.")
Tour hon. meinhcr told you. a short time since, and told you
truly, that one of the proudest moments of his life was that
which decided his election as your representative. What
must ire my feelings when I find myself suddenly elected the