The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-11-11

almost Is the living INK between the Two COUNTRIES,
who took large patty to look over that magnif.
cent steamship the Atlantic, which was built and
completed 10 all its details in the United States.
(Cheers.) Mr.. Hobbs had also succeeded in pick
ing our best locks, and two other American gentle.
men were At this moment teaching how to cut our
corn, an art which had been practising for some
hundreds Of years in this island, but OF which, APP
peared, we were ignorant of the first principles;
and, last OF all, they had sent US cmen OF thsir
Shipping to Cowes, the centre of our ya,thing
glories, and they had given the most undeniable
beating that we had had for years. (Cheers and
laughter) Now what were the results of all this!
he had, within the last few days, read in the
newspapers one of the most graceful AMI touching
tributes, paid by Com nodore Stevens, of the mar
ner in which the people of this country, who had
been 50 utterly defeated had received and treated
were such as it was highly pleasing to conte mpate
God forbid that he should ever see feelings of rival
ry-generous rivalry-ceasing to exist between the
two nations. (Cheers) He did not think that the
result of the Exhibition would be entirely to pre-
vent some of our tourists making dsagreeabe re.
marks upon American matters, nor some of the
american journalists peTPetratng some rather Sc
country would suffer much from this. What, how
ever be thought the Exhibition would accomplish,
would be the production of feelings to be eff
duce the feeling that they all belonged to the ne
blood all spoke the same language, and, though
differing in some minor Details still that they both
fully and equally priced and vulued the love Of
noble earl resumed his seat amid loud cheersl
Mr.. Walker, the ex-Secretary of the United
States Treasury then proposed "the health of His
Exceliency the Minister to the United States, Sir
H. Bulwer."
Sir II. BULwER, in reply, stated that he could
not help saying in familiar way, that as the turtle
soup went round next as the champagne went round,
and as the SLOWING cup went round, and then
again when they heard the eloquent speeches to
which they had been listening, that be could not
help being struck with the extraordinary-he would
friend of his, who, during the sitting of the dpo-
matte committee last year, said to his noble friend
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Pray,
my lord, what possible connection there be be-
tween diplomacy and giving dinnersF' Now he
(Sir H. Bulwer) thought that If they had his hon.
orable friend near them, they would give him what
his Yankee friends termed" few no IONS" Passing,
however, frem this subject, he would make the pre-
sent an opportunity Of reminding his American
friends present, that here in this country, dear to
him as his home, but not indifferent to them, be
trusted, as the home OF their fathers, they would
| find some of those ancient edfces, some of those
monuments of art, the records of the past power,
and the memorials the honorable memorials, Of
their common race-here they would find reposing
the ashes OF those great writer's of the past, in
whose labors they had common interest; here had
| grown up the wisdom and renown, those great
Statesmen and legislators, from whom they had, in
common, derived their notion of liberty and their
love Of laws-here repose the ashes of those be-
meath whose victorious banners theic ancestors,
side by side with our own, had rushed from the
heights of Cressy and charged upon the plains Of
| Agincourt. He knew we'll, however, that, in ira
Yelling through this island, it was not the solemn
cathedral, lofty towers, or mighty relics of the
past which would alone arrest the foo steps Of Anne
| ri,an visiters-
Beneath these rugged elms, that yew trees shade,
Where hesyes the turf in many moudering heap
| Where,
Each in his narrow cell for ever laid
The rude forefsthers OF the hamlet sleep;
1t was in the quiet villages in the lone churchyard
that he fancied he could see them bordering over
defaced epitaphs, and tracing out amid the moss.
grown ruins, the names of their humble but honored
iorefathers (cheers), whose dust still commipglng
with Old England SOIL enables me even now, while
taking your hand addressing the chairman: and
taking his handy as friend, to rejoice that can
clasp 1t as brothers. loud and long continued
cheering) He bid the American visitors welcome
to this country; and when they le.t, all he could
desire was that they might carry with them as kind
and as cordial professions as those they left behind
them. Cheers.) They were especially indebted
which slluson had so frequently been made, and Of
which he could say neither more less than that
IL bad surpassed the expectations, the most san
gune expectations of those who had anticipated its
success. (Cheers) lie certainly felt, at first, some
disappointment as to the part which America ap-
pesred to take in The matter. That feeling had,
however, been removed by what he had subse-
| quently seen done by his American friends.
(Cheers) lfhe understood rightly tn Grea. Exhi-
bition, its design not merely to bring together
silks jewels and machines produce
together 81 that each nation might understand the
character and appreciate the Intelligence Of the
other IL this was the case, all that they had to ask
was, what impression had been made upon them
with respect to the mind and character Of Amercal
N reply to such nterrogatory, he would state that
in all that pertains to the practical purposes Of life
and he might say Of death too-the United States
certainly stood .. the head of the poll. (Chesrs)
which would kill, he believed, eight enemies in a
second "a reaping machine, which would clear
twenty acres Of land in day Tor where could they
find locks superior to those Of Mr.. Hobbsl To pro-
coed little further, there was that graceful and
melancholy statue which well fitted the chains and
misfortunes Of ancient Greece, which also recalled
the pre- eminent power Of sculpture, and, he might
adj sSs, the Brs pre- seniu: Of Powers: loud
which they saw casting its shadow over the broad
Atlantic That little vessel had given the ego by
to all the yachts in our orn waters, and that, too,
proud to call the "Mistrcss Of the Seal" loud
| cheers) But he always spoke his mind, and he
thought that II the Americans had given lesson
in one way, We had also given chem another. lilo
had heard Of story Of Fox, who, when asked one
day what he thought Of young man who
had made q capital FIRST speech, replied
that he did not like to judge a man az
ter success, he would like to see him after
failure. Now, they Che Americans) had taught us
how to win the race, and we had taught them how
10 bear the loss Of ono daughter and chcers.)
He would, however, alude to another topic-that
CT tbe growing oesre 10 consider the advantages
which these counties must mutually render to each
other. In former times, when there was slight
difference between the two countries, down sat the
Secretary Of the United States at his desk, and
down sat the representative Of Great Britain at his
desk, and they beth wrote very excellent, very
pithy, and very pertinent dispatches, setting forth
the great grievances which both sides had sustained
-Qaughter)-and which were duly circulated
through the two countries Nobody then thought
IL worth while TO state, either in the United States
or in Great Britain, that there existed various
sound, valid, and weigh.y reasons for maintaining
the relations between the two countries. This
the case with the old school Of diplomacy. lie be-
logged, however, to a new school. His prejudices
and theories were directly the opposite 10 this.
(Cleers) All those small differences, which must
always exist between two great countries and which
are always easily adjusted, II not exaggerated, he
was FOR keeping as quiet and as small possible;
whereas, ell those great points Of honor, SYM
PATTY, and ties which must ever connect two
great nations which speak the same language,