The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-09 00:00:00

the King, vice Gen. Urbistondo, decease
Gen. Lemerick, Captain-General of Madrid.

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The Nord publishes the despatches exchanged
between the governments of Vienna and Berlin on
the subject of the difference between them and
Denmark ; they prove that the most perfect under
standing exists between the two great German
powers, and that they will persist in maintaining
the attitude which they have almtned towards the
Danish Government.

A letter from Rome of the 28th ult., in the Risor-
gimento, says :—" The Sardinian frigate Governoio
has arrived at Civita Vecchia, at the disposal of the
Empress of Russia. The Italian colours displayed
by this vessel caused some excitement, and on the
following morning the police found a number of
revolutionary placards stuck up at the street cc r-
' ners, in which the aid of Piedmont was invoked
for the liberation of It ly.

A letter from Vienna of the Ist says:—" The
Senate of Montenegro has forbidden all Montene-
grins to croas the frontier without authorisation.
Arrests continue in the country. The partisans of
George Petrowich, in particular, are persecuted and
imprisoned. On the 18th ult. two sons and. two
granthons of the ex-Serdar Milo Baiza, who is in
exile at Sara, were arrested."

A leVer from Clirisiia.nia, of the 28th ultimo.,
says :—" The Norwegian Diet has, like that of
Sweden, unanimou-ly rejected the bill relative
to the regency of princes ; and, in consequence, if
the King lx,) absent or ill, the regency Will be
exercised in Norway, as in Sweden, by a council of
ministers, and not by a prince."

AMERICA.

[A summary of the following appeared in our impression of
yesterday :—]

LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY MAY 8.
The Canadian Royal Mail Steam Navigation
Company's steamer Canadian, Captain Ballantyne,
arrived to-day with advicos from Portland to the
25th, and from New York (by telegraph) to the
evening of the 24th ult.

The Royal Mail steamship America and the screw
steamship City of Glasgow had arrived at Halifax,
and the screw steamship Chersonese at Portland.
The steam-frigate Niagara had not left the offing
of New York up to the 24th. Before saint).- for
England she would, it was understood, make a
trial trip to Not folk.
A despatch from Halifax announces the passing
by the House of Assembly of a bill giving to the
Atlantic Submarine Telegraph Company the exclu-
sive privilege for 25 years of landing a submarine
telegraph cable from any part of Europe on any
part of the shores of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton.
At the annual dinner of the St. George's Society
of New York, Lord Napier, who was present as a
blest, responded as follows to the toast of "
'Majesty's Ministers and representatives on this
continent"

" Gentlemen,—l beg to offer you my very sincere and
cordial thanks for the honour which you have done me in
associating my name with the toast and with the health of
`Her Majesty's Ministers.' Her Majesty's Ministers will be
highly gratified when they learn that their names and
their officers are held in such esteem, regard, and memory
by their fellow-countrymen residing in the United States.
I, myself, gentlemen, in my own personal capacity, am
sensible that I am undeserving of the acclamations which
you have deigned to bestow upo❑ my name ; but I see in
the manner in which you have received it a warm revulsion
of those feelings of sympathy and regard which may be sus-
pended or obscured for a time, and by accident, between
America and England, but which are ever deeply founded
on the affections and the interests of the two countries.

(Loud cheers.) The office which I have the happiness to
till, and in which you have done me the honour to wish
me well, is one which has been familiar to my hopes and
wishes from a very early period of my life and services.
I may still maintain that there is not a more grateful,
a more glorious, or a more useful employment than this
employment, which 1 share with my venerable friend,
the United States' Minister in London—the employ-
ment of holding aloft the ensigns of peace and friend-
ship between the two great branches of the English race.
(Loud cheere.) I feel that I enterers upon that employ-
ment here at a most auspicious period. I can assure you
that I have met, upon the part of the President of the
United States, upon the part of General Case, upon the
part of all the Ministers and functionaries of the United
States with whom I have been brought into contact,
every manifestaticn of that cordial and friendly disposi-
tion which animates the Government and the community
of Great Britain. (Cheers.) There are no questions involv-
ing any degree of anxiety or apprehension pending between
the two countries —(chcers) ; and I am sometimes disposed
to hope that the time may soon come when there will
scarcely be any subjects of official correspondence at all.
(Cheers.) If I may not flatter myself with this agreeable
prospect of official vacuity—(laughter)—if I must look for-
ward to my fair and natural share of discussions and de-
bates, surely, gentlemen, we have, in the experience of the
past, the best grounds for believing that there can never be
a question so difficult or so complicated that it may not
meet with a prompt, with a peaceful, and with an honour-
able solution. (Loud cheers.) There are many questions
at once envenomed and alarming which have been settled
in a pacific manner in our recent negotiations. Our east-
ern boundaries have been defined by one treaty. Our
western boundaries have been settled by another. The
disputed fisheries, which at one time threatened to embroil
us, have been converted, by the salutary engagements of
reciprocity, into a source of mutual wealth. Finally, gen-
tlemen, the question of the privileges of neutral trade in
time of war—that question which for so leng was the con•
stant cause of complaint and recriminations, has now ob-
tained, by the spontaneous declarations of her Majesty's
Ministers during the late hostilities, that liberal interpre-
tation so often desired by the United States, and which no
Government of England hereafter will ever be inclined to
revoke or to repeal. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, lam justified,
then, in saying that by an easy exercise of frankness, of
mutual forbearance and indulgence, no question can arise
between our countries which will not admit of an easy
and an amicable settlement. Bat, gentlemen, I desire
more than cordiality—l desire co-operation. (Cheers.)
Now, gentlemen, I do not wish to alarm the citizens of the
United States who are here present by raising before their
averted eyes the phantom of " entangling alliances."
(Laughter and cheers.) Entangling alliances, gentlemen,
are a kind of political spectre which seems to have descended
With undiminished terrors from the period of the Revolu-
tion to the present day. (Cheers and laughter.) There
may be mutual co-operation where there are no written
engagements; and gentlemen, where the heart is wanting,
there may be written engagements without mutual co-ope-
ration. (Cheers.) All, then, that I wish to say is, that
our respective Governments should perpetually make an
early and sincere declaration and avowal to each other of
their views and intentions with respect to all subjects which
involve the common interests of the two countries—(cheers)
—whereby they will have the benefit of mutual good offi-
ces and mutual counsel, and whereby they will be able to
a sold these one-sided resolutions and those startling an-
nouncements which are apt to disturb the confidence of
commerce and calculated to excite the sensibilities and jea-
lousies of two high-spirited nations. Gentlemen, the only
entangling alliance which I shall venture to recommend to
your adoption is the submarine cable between this country
and England. (Laughter and "cheers.") My friend, the hon.
chairman, has been so kind as to allude in terms of
glowing eulogy and encomium to the services which
members of my family have been enabled, in former
times and generations, to offer to their Sovereign and
county either in the departments of science or in those
of war. The sincerity with which that encomium was
pronounced, and the manner in which those observations
were received, are certainly exceedingly gratifying to
incentive
to own pride ; and all this is an additional
to me to endeavour to render myself not unworthy of
those services which were performed by members of my
family upon previous occasions. (Cheers.) I cannot
flatter myself that I possess any peculiar fitness or any
local experience which could enable me to perform the
duties of Her Majesty's Minister in a distinguished
manner. But this I can assure you, that I undertake
these duties with the highest satisfaction and with the
happiest anticipations. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, it was
some time ago observed
in England, and it was re-
peated in some quarters in Ameeica, that the members
of the regular diplomatic profession of Groat Britain
were not qualified by their previous education and ex-
perience to contend wich the stubborn and masculine
elements of American politics. (Cheers.) It was sup-
posed, gentlemen, that wo were so enured in the petty
acts and dark practices of " Cabinet intrigue," that
we wee so accustomed to humble ourselves in the
twilight of military courts, that we were not qualified
nor disposed to meet a free people in the light of
day. (Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, did you observe any
symptoms of this intellectual decrepitude in Sir Richard
Pakenham or in Sir Henry Bulwer. I have not the honour
of having ever served with those distinguished personages,
but, in honour to the profession to which I belong, I am
justified in alleging that in my friend and my former chief,
Sir H. Seymour, I never observed any want of vigour or
capacity. And, gentlemen, I never observed any want of
vigour and independence in my later master, Viscount Ste at-
ford de Radcliffe, who has passed 30 years of his indefatiga-
ble life in contending against the ambition of arbitrary,
power in one country and in mitigating its abuses in an-
other. Gentlemen, I do not wish to eay anything unduly and
ungratefully depreciatory of any country or of any Govern-
ment. I have had some experience of despotic Governments.
I have lived in Naples, in Turkey, and in Russia. Th!re
are elements of happiness in them all. Fortunately, I say,
there are elements of kindness, of culture, and of happi-
ness which no political system whatever can exclude from
the face of nature and from the hearts of man. (Cheers.)
But neither the retrospective glories of the Italian scene,
nor the nci,nt repose and the picturesque associations of
Oriental life, nor the splendid enchantments of social life
which have arisen in their most agreeable form upon the
borders of the Nova, can ever make an Englishman under-
value or forget those principles of freedom which have been
cherished by our common fathers at hoe, and which by
them were sown broadcast upon the soil of the groat Ameri-
can continent. Gentlemen, I have, since my arrival.
sometimes observed an impression in the United j
States that
the development of this country is regarded withjealousy
by England. That is an erroneous opinion. (Cheers.) You
Will bear me out in the assertion that the last vestige of
un-
happyforoee warsr prejudice
isbeing founded on the animosities of two
very rapidly extinguished. Tile peace-
ful and legitimate expansion of the United States forms a
matter of satisfaction and pride for every reasonable Env,-
lishinan. That expansion forms the
. best resort and relief
for our superabundant population; it forms the best mar-
ket for our increasing industry ; is the triumph of our
labour and our arts, of our language, our religion, and our
blood. (Loud cheering.) No thoughtful Englishman can
contemplate this unparalleled spectacle of future predomi-
nance without emotions of thankfulness and praise. No
thoughtful foreigner can regard it without a sigh, because
Providence has not reserved the future empire of the world
for his own tongue and his own race. (Cheers.) These sen-
timents of sympathy and goodwill, to which I give a Leble
utterance, are, believe me, not rare or partial iu our coun-
try, nor do I derive them from obscure authority. (Hear.)
I have gathered these sentiments in the benevolent pages
ofa Carlisle, in the wise conclusions of au Aberdeen, and