The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-01-11

The New American Minister In England
From tue london Chronicle Dec. 81
The American minister made his FIRST speech on Enl
glh ground ut the mes,ing of the governors Of the
Scottish Hospa last Fridsy and We have seldom had
TO record smbasssdoria GRAFTON which gave
pleasu which seemed genuine expression Of
kindly feelings and manly Thoughts The occasion it.
sell WAS happy aud fruitful In suggestions The
bling together in u common of
Of the odest and youngest OF those who speak
very sntipodes OF social polity-the forgetfulness OF
national distinctions the Of the wider brother
hood Of humanity the main charac teriscs
Of Fridays meetings and these were the thoughts
which crowded on Mr. LawreIc ss mind He felt, he
said n the midst ofths ancient Scottish society that
he amongst bis bretbrenn And so trust Amer
leans will feel when on Brtith ground And not
only Americans we would gladly see all nations, of
every of every form of government, noursh-
ing the feeling # universal brotherhood BY surer
than the qnsskeTy oarbraon the prating folly
OF peace by the uency Of intercourse
ons. quent unrestrict.d conmuncstion-until the
theore the ply steal necessity for moral enu
y shan be Toe, Ia the truths which united interests and
diffused civzs' t.acn in its stead. The most in
terestirg fact of which Nr Lawrence spoke the
construction OF rarosd across the lsthmus OF Pana
unde now in progress. 1t Is expected to
Re finished In about Year and half TINS mas long
been desideTatuua in the commercial world-as the
doubling Of cape Horn in the passage from England
to the South Seas H. decidedly OF the most danger
points in navigstors course though the risks are
much diminished by the Increased skill and expe
riepce OF captsns rhe railroad the lsthmus
IL plsp that presents all the advantages and none OF
the disadvsDsge If the canal which once project
ed There be DO danger arising here from the
ryipg elevation OF the oceans; and iron rails
kept easily in order than sluices dams and canal
banks. IL seems wonderful that IL has been fairly
begun. that II not attempted earlier early ~
the capabilities Of steam and rails discovered
There only about thirty miles of ground to
lay and so vast are the benefits which will accrue in
point OF safety speed and that the rail-
road joining the two great will be, like many
other applications OF science almost the creation Of
new FRA The Egyptian canal between the Nile and
the Red Sea the Egyptian trsn'road between Myo-
thormos and Thebes and even the great Roman roads
over ROCKS and wastes of these will fill larger
place in the worlds history than this steam communi-
cation between the Atlantic aud the Pacific We join
with Mr. Lawrence in earnest protest against any
exclusiveness in The use Of so magnificent work
Things so grand and Of so much Importance to the
wsrld at large ought to be regarded like the elements
which they control and the science which they apply,
free to ali alike II would be- too petty for mighty
nation like America to seek a monopoly Of a public
highway of the world Yet this would only be consis
with the system of protection, which would
human sym pathies spot Of earth. Mr. Law
voucbtd for the frank and liberal policy Of the
United States in this natter and IL Britain and Anne
RIGA join In any resolve 1t must be larger counter
combination than any that mankind have yet seen
which shall overthrow Ii The time has passed, for
hopeful Scottish band under Paterson for the purpose
Of settling in but fertile country could
excite such trading Jealousy 10 com panies which
grasped at all the and all the wealth Of the
world tn Cause their ut and their ruin.
re future owes retrbusion to the past The records
written on the bones of the famished Scotch
men left on the shores of Panama must be efaced
the prosp and agu dcent UNIVERSAL
10 NJ this new the of which are to
raj policy when the British trader the East Ipdiau
- -, ~ go.