Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-06-11

English Journal The occasion OF their delivery the
re-openng of the Church Of St. Botoph, at Boston, Eng
land on the 18th ulmo in the presence Of large con-
course of people, including the Mayor, Aldermen Coun
cors and other officers of the Corporation besides nu
mercus eccesiastical and other dignaries Several adj
dresses having been made
T. b. LAWRENCE, ESQ, rising, greeted with loud
applause. He addressed the company follows: Mr..
Chairman ladies and gentlemen, it is with extreme graft
caton that rise to propose the toast which has been
entrusted TO me by the committee OF arrangement and
which know will fail to be received with great salts
faction 1t is the health Of the Mayor and Corporation
of Boston" [Cheers have the honor to claim the
ouanance of several of the gentlemen who are SO ably
qualified to be the guardians of this community; and his
worship, the Mayor deseryedy popular and highly
esteemed, am proud to number among my most valued
friends not surprised that you should receive this
toast with applause, and feel that would be superfu
for enlarge upon It, since the merits and ab
ties Of the Mayor and Corporation well known
require any recommendation from Hear hear Those
Of my fellow-countrymen who accompany to-day are
with mysels deeply sensible OF thepylege snjoy in
being present this interesting occasion ia the ancient
borough of Rastnn for m her daughter city, IN Boston,
New England, we were bornan educated That ancient
and honored church, (St. Botophs standing like
sentry watching the welfare of this beautiful town,
more than two centuries ago echoed with the voice OF
Cotton in honor Of whom the clergyman Of the
first place of worship, Boston named. Although
her child has somewhat outsrpped her in growth by
no means forget parent and the recent kindly inter-
change of tokens of Friendship has added ties of amy
show you that have slight claim at least to
ion with this town, take the liberty of mentioning lit
tie fact of domestic nature which may not be uninte
resting In the possession Of my family exists object
of great veneraton ancient clock, which has been
handed down through successive generations of
tors for two hundred years The face of this precious
relic still exhibits the date and place Of its manufacture
" Boston, Lincolnshire" What wonderful changes have
taken place in the world since that clock first marked
there the progress of time We ungrateful indeed
to forget what owe to our ancestors whose home had
haan ha~a laid tho
daton and by their high and holy principles determined
the destiny of our mighty Republics but Of the vasness
of the results they had conception than have the
coral insects Of the continents which they gradually
upheaving from the bosom of the Much applause
single fact will somewhat illustrate this statements the
early records of the Colonial Legislature Of Massachu
sett contain grant for the laying out of road from the
village of Boston ten twelve miles into the west
interiors to this grant the opinion of the Legislature
is appended that this far into the western forest
settlement travels would extend" Now, from
this point more than thousand miles of railway
tend westward and long, without doubt double this
amount viii be added thus connecting the Atlantic and
Pacific Two hundred and thirty years ago, Ame
rican Boston waste unlracked wilderness;
the winds whstled through its trees the Indian padded
his bark along its beautiful waters and wild ami
mails roamed undsturbed through its forests Now it is
great city, numbering hundred and fifty thousand
Inhabitants echong with the hum of busy trade teemng
with wealth. the sails Of its ships whitening every sea,
and in point of commercial prosperity the second city Of
the American Continent Cheers But, ladies and gen
and with PRIDE Old England forget that
to every part Of my country am still more closely
allied, connected to my fellowcitizens in all its
sections by the bonds Of nationality, and united them
by sympathies Of the citizenship And cannot but
embrace this opportunity to express the with which
the domestic Institutions of the States Of the South
made the suhjset Of Rlp4fp aess~&iea ~ th.
and carried from the Ifform into the dxa wing
(Hear My belief is, that such agitation IN delicate
question however well meant, only result in injury
the it ID intended benefit and in fomenng di
visions between two nations which united by ma
ny ties Of common brotherhood and interest.
The history Of the past gives England and America CO
partnership Shakespeare and Milton, Raleigh and Ba-
CON- Newton and Locke and hundred others, in their
name and fame are much the Inheritance Of my
trymen Of your own and cannot but hope and be-
eve that the sound sterling sense which in
hsri alike from the ancestors will permit nothing
excite feuds and ealouses either side the
broad Atlantic Ladies and gentlemen, have already
detained you too long, permit me therefore to close in
again proposing the toast and let ask you TO drink
with oil the honors The health OF the Mayor and Cor
poration Of Boston" Loud applause.