Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-11-30

ceved by Misses and upoar which suspended the delivery
the address for few minutes.
OUR MINISTER AT LONDON.
LONDON MORNING CHRONICLE OF NOVEMBER r.
The Lord Mayor last evening entertained, in the Egyp
tan Hail. the Directors Of the London and Norhwestern
the Southeastern, the Midland and the York and North
Midland Railway Companies, and the principal officers Of the
different companies, we'll several other visers.
Covers laid for ITO, and amongst the number pre-
sent we observed tho American Minister, &c. &c.
After the usual loyal toasts the LoRD MAYOR proposed
'The Army and the Navy" which Colonel Sir FarDER-
SMITH and the Hon. Captain CAnsxeIE responded.
The Lord MAYOR then proposed The health Of his Elk.
ceency the American Minister and the other Ambassadors
from foreign Courts" His Lordship highly complmsnted
Mi. LAWRENCE upon the in which he had fulfilled
his mission this Court and expressed great qualification
his presence upon this OCCASION The toast most warmly
appauded.
Mr.. ABBOTT LAWRENCE, the American Minister, who was
received with cheers said thank you for the courtesy and
very kind in which you have received the toast and
the part Of my colleagues whose health has also been
drunk, beg, with myself, to offer you, my Lord Mayor
and gentlemen united thanks. am here to-day by
your invitation, my lord and although proud be
here, because feel it be great distinction and sincere
compliment to my country that my health has been drunk
confess my lord that there is tnge Of melancholy mixed
with the feeling This is the last time my lord that shall
have the honor of attending your hospabe board Lord
Mayor, [hea hear, hear and should be doing injustice to
the sentiments Of my country and to my feelings,
were not to make known to YOU, gentlemen from every
part of England as understand you are the uniform kind
have the part Of the United States received during
the last year from the chief magistrate of the city Of Lhdon
(cheers His more than princely hospitality have con.
any paItaken Of during his Of Office, and consider it
compliment to the citizens of the United States hear
feel myself constrained say, further that proud of
being by circumstances brought into contact with
great body Of renowned both at home and abroad for
their enterprise and their power-wth who great
honors to their country and TO mankind, cheers meet
you gentlemen, with feelings Of respect and PRIDE meet
you with feelings Of respect because sympathize with you
in the great objects you prosecuting, having been myself
or some time engaged in the same pursuits hear aave
likewise pride in meeting you, because you have achieved
great and glorious things for county, and because
example has not only reached my country, but extended to
every part or almost to every part OF the civilized world
cheers Yes gentlemen look upon the establishment Of
railways of the greatest agents in the civilization Of
mankind [chees 1t has been said, and truthfuly said,
that he who two blades of grass grow where only
grew before is national and universal benefacor In
the spirit hold that you, gentlemen, who have made
travelling cheap that the poorest creature upon earth
afford to walk that you, who rapidly bringing together
the people of every country in the world great public
beneactors lh'a, hsar And u. .hsr r,s.-i my own
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ocean, and the of communication through
it, either by railways steamboats,; when contemplate tn
magnitude of the territory either already covered about to
be covered by electric eegraphs in fact from
end of the continent the other and when see those
great highways Of intellect and thought enabling us TO COM
muncae with each other at the distance oftwo or three thou
sand miles in thirty forty minutes, confess ! am
amazed and only amazed but delighted to see that men
are brought SO near each other, hear hear, hear
delighted too here will not soy two hundred rail
way kings because that is phrase which is not perhaps
popular Ia laugh]-but railway managers who represent
capital equal onehd Of the whole national debt of Eng
land You gentlemen, have the desnies of the nation in
your hands, Under all these circumstances confess feel
deeply the compliment which the Lord Mayor has paid
to my country in inviting this entertainment Wecan
present. gentlemen, realize the full benefits Of the rail
way systems but may observe that in every country where
railways have hitherto been established they have proved
be the greatest aborsavng machines yet invented hea
the application of steam, both to the navigation Of ships and
to travelling upon land, (hear hear Forty years ago OF
be found upon the Thames and but twenty
two years ago. thereabouts not solitary steam carriage
be driving its way along the surface OF the land,
[hea hear say, then, that the resources not only Of
this country, but Of all countries, far the appliances Of
and science concerned increased by the application
Of What the art Of printing forty years after its
discovery Hear, hear What is steam now, forty years
after its FIRST application to locomoon The first inn
proved and extended and have fear in that respect for
the second. Cheers His EIcelency concluded by again
compimening the Lord Mayor upon his hospitality and by
expression of the interest he felt in meeting the rep
resentaves Of the great railways Of the
which he regarded among the greatest consevao Of in
telgence, power, peace, and security [Cheers
LAKE VoYAsE-The Cleveland Plaihdealer relates the
account Of perlous voyage upon Lake Superior, fur
nished bv Mr. eoroe WeheYe The substance Of the story