The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-15 00:00:00

a character to the people, will, when fulfilled,
materially strengthen the power of the Shogoon's
government. They have been engaged as drill
instructors to the Yedo army, which will be trained,
clothed, and armed on the French model. Already
a striking alteration is to be observed in the dress
of the native officials.
AUSTRALIA.
VICTORIA.

Parliament assembled for the despatch of busi-
ness on the 17th January. His excellency's speech
congratulated the country on the abundance of the
harTest, and on a state of general prosperity ; the
result of Mr. Verdon's mission to England, and of

the success of the Intercolonial Exhibition. It
promised, among other measures, bills to amend the
Laud Act, the Common Schools Act, the Wine and
Spirit Act, the Municipal and Local Government
Acts, the administration of justice, insolvency,
lunacy, banking, and police. It also promised a
measure dealing with mining on private property,
and mining on public reserves. No exception was
taken in either house to the subjects contained in
the address.

Banquet at Liverpool to the Layers of the

Atlantic Cable.

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Last evening the members of the American Cham
ber of Commerce at Liverpool gave a grand banque(
in the Law Association Rooms, to Sir S. Canning,
Sir J. Anderson, Mr. Cyrus W. Field, and Mr. W.
Smith. The room was beautifully decorated for the
occasion with flags, mirrors, draperies, and some
valuable objets d'art, lent for the occasion by Messrs.
Ellington and Co., and the general effect was made
unusually brilliant by the addition of about 40 extra
gaseliers.
About 100 gentlemen were present, including the
principal resident American merchants, the Mayor of
Liverpool, and the presidents of the chief commer-
cial associations of Liverpool and Manchester.
Amongst the invited guests there were Mr. C. W.
Adams, American Minister; 11. T. Dudley, Esq.,
United States Consul at Liverpool ; H. Wilding,
Esq., Vice-Consul ; Sir J. Garvock, the command-
ing officer of the district ; Commander Prowse,
R.N. ; Hon. C. Fisher, Attorney-General of New
Brunswick, and the four gentlemen in whose hon-
our the banquet was given.
The chair was occupied by Wm. Rathbone, jun.,
Esq., and the dinner was one of the most recherche
ever given in the town.
In the course of the evening the Chairman pre-
sented to Messrs. Canning, Anderson, Field, and
W. Smith a magnificent solid gold medal, weighing
upwards of three-quarters of a pound, designed and
manufactured by Wyon, and decidedly one of the
finest artistic works of the kind ever produced in
this country. One one side the words " Atlantic
Telegraph Cable" form a circle, below which is the
Great Eastern in full sail on the ocean. Under this
are the arms and legends of Great Britain and Ame-
rica. On the opposite side the name of the gentle-
man to whom the medal belongs is cut in a scroll,
below which are the arms and legend of Liverpool.
A band of musicians, under the conductorship of
Mr. Streather, played a selection of national and ap-
propriate music in the course of the evening, and an
artistic bill of fare was ornamented with embossed
bronze fac-similes of the gold medals.
After the usual loyal and patriotic toasts had been
done honour to,
The CHAIRMAN proposed, in warm and appro-
priate terms, "The Health of Mr. Field."
After the cheering had subsided,
Mr. FIELD rose and said—Mr. Chairman, I thank
you for the kind manner in which you have spoken
of me, and you, gentlemen, for the flattering way
in which you have responded to the toast. Mr.
President and members of the American Chamber
of Commerce of Liverpool, I sincerely thank you for
the honour which you have conferred upon me by
the presentation of this beautiful gold medal, which
so gracefully commemorates the successful laying of
the Atlantic cable, and which I shall prize the more
for its having been placed in my hands by English
and American merchants who are engaged in com-
merce with my own country, It is doubly gratify-
ing to me that this presentation should have bc2n
made in one of the greatest commercial centres in
the world, where the white sails of so many fleets
of goodly and well-laden ships speak not only of
the magnitude of its trade, but symbolise that com-
munity of friendship, as well as of interest, which
binds Liverpool to the people and the industries of
the United S:ates. But I flatter myself that, valu-
able as this gracious memento of a great achievement
must ever appear in my eyes, it will become more
valuable to my children and their descendants here-
after, as the inestimable benefits of the Atlantic Tele-
graph are gradually realised in all their fulness by our
posterity. Thirteen years ago this very dayl left my
home in New York for Boston, and sailed from thence
to Newfoundland, to obtain the privilege of landing
cables to connect Europe with America. Crowded
although my memory is with the stirring events of
these memorable thirteen years, with all the hopes
and disappointments, the failures and successes
of that interval, which seems so long in the retro-
spect, and is yet so brief in the reality, this is no t
the time to narrate the personal achievements of
both the living and the dead who have contributed
towards the union of the two great Continents of
the world. These things are matters of history, and
history will do them justice. It will do justice to the
Governments of Great Britain and the United States
for the generous aid they gave in ships, and to the
Governments of the British North American Pro-
vinces for the valuable privileges which they so
promptly granted. It will do justice to the directors
and officers of the various companies who gave time
and labour, and administrative capacity of the highest
order, to this great enterprise. To those who so
liberally subscribed the capital, without which the
Atlantic cable could never have been laid. To the
skilful commanders, together with their officers and
men, who were engagedon board of the various ships,
for the admirable ability which they exhibited in the
navigation of their vessels, and in the performance
of many difficult but indispensable scientific offices.
To the eminent engineers, and their efficient staffs,
who planned and perfected the machinery, and not
only triumphantly laid one cable, but by a tran-
scendent, nay, an unparalleled exercise of patience and
skill, picked up the broken cable from the eternal soli-
tude and darkness of the sea, where it peacefully rested
till the moment of its recovery should arrive. To the
distinguished electricians, and their accomplished as-
sistants,,who, step by step, have discovered the laws
by which the invisible electric current, in its passage
through the ocean depths, may be as completely sub-
ordinated to the human will as the simplest piece of
mechanism, which can be felt and handled, in one of
your busy workshops ; and to the other scientific men
who, by innumerable experiments, have contributed
so largely to the accomplishment of the great end.
I think I may safely affirm that never before were so
many men brought together in one enterprise who
were so pre-eminently fitted, by diversified endow-
ments, and by special knowledge and experience, to
solve the problem of the Atlantic telegraph. Most
fortunate, moreover, were we in finding such a ship
as the Great Eastern, and such a commander as Sir
James Anderson. The man was made for the ship,
and both were made for us. I would also give ex-
pression to the sense of gratitude we must all feel
to the Press of England and America for its sup-
port in adversity as well as in good fortune ; and
to the statesmen of all parties, on both sides of the
Atlantic, whose cordial sympathy and encourage-
ment were never once withheld. There is only one
whom I will mention by name, and this for the
reason that he is now, alas I no more. I refer to
my illustrious friend, the late Richard Cobden,
who proposed that the profits of the Great Exhi-
bition of 1851 should be devoted to the establishment
of electrical communication between Great Britain
and the American continent. Nor must I forget
that during the thirteen years to which I have re-
ferred prayers for our success perpetually ascended
to the Almighty from Christian men and women,
who, although most of them had nothing to gain or
to lose by the undertaking, were drawn towards it
by the deep-felt conviction that if it were realised
it could not fail to serve their Divine Master's
cause by promoting " Peace on earth and goodwill
We have now laid across the
among men."
men."
lantic the two most pect cables that were ever
made, and they are in such excellent order that we

could at this moment transact twelve times the amount
of business we are now doing. lam therefore justified
in expressing the hope that the tariff will soon be
reduced, so as to keep the cables constantly em-
ployed, and make them not only financially suc-
cessful, but an international means of communica-
tion in the most useful, and therefore the most popu-
lar, sense. Moreover, I would permit political
intelligence for the Press on both sides of the ocean
to be transmitted at a rate which would enable its
conductors to publish, morning by morning, a full
summary of the news of the world. On the Ameri-
can side we shall soon have additional lines laid,
connecting both cables with New York ; and then
we shall always have a thorough wire for messages
to Europe, and another exclusively devoted to mes-
sages coming from this end of the line. Even now,
in New York, we often send a message to London
on our way home to dinner in the evening, and on
our return to business in the morning find the reply
on our desks ; and it is very likely that the birth of
the Princess, a very few weeks ago, was known
earlier on the morning of the day on which it oc-
curred in San Francisco, on the shores of the Pacific,
than it was here. I feel unspeakably grateful to
God for His goodness in permAting me to come
amongst you under circumstances so different from
the past. What a contrast does this scene present
to former appearances of mine in this great town !
Then, instead of celebrating a triumph, the goal of
our hopes seemed almost invisible in the obscurity of
an uncertain future. Then, instead of being able to
point to two cables in working order, we could only
show specimens of a cable that, we hoped and be-
lieved, would some day be laid, while we literally
went from door to door to beg for subscriptions.
" Now," to quote the eloquent language of
Mr. Bright, "to speak from the United King-
dom to the North American continent, and
from North America to the United Kingdom, is
but the work of a moment, and it does not
require the utterance even of a whisper." We
stand, indeed, on the threshold of that glorious
future, when the telegraph will cross and recross
seas and continents, and connect together, as by the
links of one golden chain, all civilised and even semi-
civilised nations. We may live to see the day when
every one of the 35 or 40 colonies which render al-
legiance to the gracious lady who sits upon the
throne of these realms will be united to the mother
country by the electric cord ; and when a Minister
sitting in Downing-street will be able to address
the Governor of any one of those diverse and widely
scattered dependencies, and receive an answer, it
may be, before he goes down to the House to
answer some pressing inquiry. What moral advan-
tages, what pecuniary benefits will accrue from this
me to
great ocean network of cables, it is not for
g -
low-
say. Your own imaginations can fill up the
ing picture. But, returning to the Atlantic tele
, graph, I say with all my heart, may this fraternal
' chain never be, broken. May it, year by year, bring
into closer relation and warmer sympathy the two
great countries which ought never to be separated
save by the ocean, which speak the same
mother
tongue, which inherit the same laws, profess the
same pure faith, worship the same God. The words
of bitterness and enmity should never pass between.
mother and child ; the only rivalry which should exist
between Imperial Britain and Republican Arneric`,./
should be in the ennobling effort to outstrip cac"
other in the race of civilisation, and to extend the
blessings of civil and religious liberty throughot
the world.
In the course of the evening a brief report of the
proceedings was telegraphed to America by gric*
Richard Stuart, Liverpool agent of the New Yer
Associated Press.

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HER MAJESTY, &c•

WINDSOR CASTLE, March 14.

The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, AC-
companied by Princess Christian, and her Majestl
drove out to-day with her royal highness.
The lion. Lucy Kerr and the lion. Emily Cath-
cart have succeeded the Hon. Caroline Cavendisll,
and the Hon. Florence Seymour as Maids 01
Honour iu waiting.

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF VirALES.
The Prince and Princess of Wales received to-
day the mournful intelligence of the death of the
Dowager Duchess of Glucksburg, the mother of the
King of Denmark.
MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, Thursday, 4 pm.
No important change in the condition of her
Royal Highness the Princess of Wales has taken
place since the last bulletin was issued. The in-
flammation of the knee-joint, though still causing
pain and interrupting sleep, is slowly diniblifihing•
ARTHUR FARRE, M.D.
JAMES PAGET.
WILLIAM JENNER, M.D.
EDWARD H. SIEVEEING, 51.1)•

The Earl and Countess Russell entertained tne
Earl of Morley, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone,
ALP.,
and Mrs. Gladstone, Mr. Browning, SC., at dinner last
evening, at their residence in Chesham-place.
The Countess of Ashburnham had an assembly
last evening at Ashburnham House, Dover-street, Picca-
dilly, which was numerously and fashionably attended.
The Dowager Duchess of Cleveland had n
Lower
a small
last evening, at her residence i
and early party
Brook-street.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at tno
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, of
Downing-street. The Ministers present were the Earl
o
Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Marlboroug,
the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, Lord Stanley, the
Duke of Buckingham, SirJ. Pakington, Sir Stafford North-
cote,
Corry,
eCha
Dukencellor
ofof Richmond tßhieExocnhe,quLeor,rdthej.RmigahntZull:i
L. the
the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy.
Lord Robert Montagu has been appointed Vice-
011'
President of the Council, in the room of the Right 11
Henry Corry.
Dr. Leahy, the Roman Catholic Archbishonop of
Cashel, has issued a pastoral letter, in which he strgii
denounces the Fenian movement, the absurdity of ima-
gining the success of which for a moment be strougli
points out to its deluded dupes.
THE THREATENED STRIKE OF ENGI
N
E
-PRIV°
AND FIREMEN.— All the memorials have now been seal in,
and deputations of drivers are to meet the directors On
athpaptoitnhteeddridaryesr,saatntdhefirreemqueenstooffththeeLloanttdeorn., It is ellracted
Brighton, ea
South Coast Railway will meet the directors to-dai-
w ere_
notices of the men, which, it will be remembered,
31eetings
sof,
sent in on Monday last, expire to-morrovr.
the various branches of the society in which the eegla.„
drivers and firemen are combined are being bold dailyl'
all parts of England.
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THE NEW EXCHANGE AT BRADFOR--,;,•rd
Bradford Exeltange, which has been erected 11 ~
Opened o
liability company at a cost of about £30,000, vras
Wednesday; the event being celebrated by PublieForster,
cheon, at which Lord F. Cavendish, M.P., gr• a, .
M.P., and other gentlemen were present. The I'l°- tele.
stone of the new building was laid by Lord Psin3eleL°.
1861, and it has been erected from designs PreParedb a
Messrs. Lockwood and Mawson. The Excl4auge will ,:et
great convenience to the merchants of and a great 010
to the town.
The subjoined analysis of the receipts of th,:
Atlantic Telegraph, from the opening of the line to the
end of last month, shows an improving state of thing.9.2‘oo,
will be regarded with interest by the shareholders:
opening of line, July 28, to October 31, 96 daye_„, a_ ,esie
rate, .E 76,379 19s. ; average per day, £796. From Po-'lls.;
bet 1 to February 28, 120 days, at £lO rate, X 38,7810234
average per day, £823. From opening of lino to Vet' d6y,
28, whole period, 216 days, ..£175,128 10s. ; average Per
Ave,
18
£Bll. For the month of February, £25,235 Os. 6d•
rage per day, £9Ol. Average per day to October Ilnc agere
£796 ; ditto for the month of February, £9Ol.
per day, £lO5. td
notTinheeedlainteNstewtriyuomrkphparoefrsthreeceAivteldanytetecra,dbayle:ll‘avi;
telli-
the first time in the world the closing commercial
gence of Loudon and Liverpool has been
New York on the same day. The cable despatch ,v)
we herewith publish, giving the closing quotations, could3o
not have left London before four o'clock p.m., and Yet,j: hie
received in New York at noon of the same daY• ,„0,3
gives a little less than one hour for transmission bets` d
the two cities. This despatch will probably be publEA
i 11°, t
iu the earliest editions of the San Francisco parerr'7
noon." published_
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