Washington sentinel., 1856-03-20


cipation of his voluntary withdrawal from the
post Of Minister of this country to the Court of
ST. James. He had accepted an invitation to
the palace Of the Queen, which took prece-
dence Of all other engagements.
1t appears, however, that large party Of
ladies and gentlemen were present at the Lord
Mayors splendid entertainment Though abb
sent, it will be seen from the following account
that our distinguished American stateman was
duly honored:
| The Lord-Mayor, in prefacing the toast, viz |:
The Canada Club expressed the great plea
sure it would have afforded him, and he was
| sure that company also, to have been honored
with the presence of his excellency the Ameri-
can Minister that evening, and to have testi
fled to him how deeply the inhabitants of that
metropolis, and indeed the entire British ma.
ton, felt interested in the uninterrupted main
tenance Of the most friendly relations between
this country and that great kindred people on
the other side of the Atlantic, whom Mr..
Buchanan had so worthily represented during
his so sojourn in England. Cheers His
Excellency, however, had addressed to him on
Monday very kind letter, explaining that
| gracious summons to attend the hospitabe
board OF no less parsonage than the sover-
| eign OF the country would necessitate his alb
sence from that gathering. Hear, hear
"Every true-hearted Englishman scorned to
harbor any unworthy feeling of jealousy of the
| greatness and prosperity Of our transatlantic
| kinsfolk. On the contrary, bound together as
the two people were by the ties of common
origin, common traditions, similarity of institu-
| tions, and the most intimate commercial rela
tons, the rapid growth and development of the
United States excited universal feeling of re-
jocing and pride in the hearts Of the English
nation, cheers and whatever big words Of
| defiance might from time to time be heard
across the wide ocean which separates the
two cognate communities, and however,
| those words might be more or less family
echoed by some on this side of the water, there
could be no doubt that all who understood
anything of the extensively ramifed and re-
| ciprocal interests of England and America
must be firmly pursuaded that the most per-
feet terms of amity were essential to their mu-
tual welfare, and that a warfare between them
would be most disastrous to both and nothing
less than a species Of fraticide or paricide.
| Cheers. Therefore he could have wished that
Mr. Buchanan had been present that evening
to hear the sentiments of friendship that would
have been expressed on all sides towards HIM
self and his country, as he would, in that case,
have been enabled to convey with him to the
United States, to which he was about to return,
the assurance that it was the sincere desire of
that important commercial community that
nothing consistent with the maintenance OF
our national honor should be left undone to in
sure a settlement of our differences with his
country without recourse to the dread arbi-
tration of the sword"
Lord Elgin, in returning thanks to the toast,
The House of Lords" after some introduc-
tory remarks said: /" If his voice could reach
his Canadian friends he would implore them to
remember that Englishmen were a practical
! people, and that it rested with the provincial
Parliament of Canada to do more to advance
the great cause of colonial selfgovernment by
an example of the wise and moderate exercise
of their functions than could possibly be accom-
plished by any other instrumentality. THear.
He rejoiced at the conjunction of the Canada
Club and the name of the American Minister
in the speech Of the Lord Mayor, because he
had always desired that our possession of the
British Provinces on the American continent
should be bond of union, instead Of source of
jealousy or dissension between England and
the Government of the United States. [Hear,
hear The principles of free trade had been
recently applied between Canada and the States,
and the result was, that the amount of that
commerce, according to the statement of Mr..
Buchanan, has since been quintupled. By uni
ting in an amicable rivalry of that description,
England and America could do much to pro-
mote the cause of civilization throughout the
world and he trusted that Mr.. Buchanan would
carry back to his countymen his invaluable
testimony to the universal desire of the people
of tfOUnited Kingdom to continue upon the
most friendly and peaceful footing with them y
Mr.. r. Golden responded on behalf of the
trade of that city. The honorable gentleman
remarked that there was great appropriateness
in connecting the name Of Manchester with a
festivity to do honor to the American minister.
That city had contributed as much as any town
in the kingdom 10 our wealth and power as a
nation, and to our reputation in the eyes of the
world; it was almost as much an American city
as it was an English one. Its industry was
that of the 100000 of circumjacent popula.
ton dependent on the regular supply from
America Of that fibre about 25,00O bales OF
which week we're required to afford them EN-.
ployment and the means of subsistence. The
United States, on the other hand, lay under al
most an equal obligation to the producers OF
this country. The news conveyed TO New York
by every steamer from England is eagerly ex-
pected by thousands and if those tidinps
speak Of prosperity here, thrill Of sympathy
was awakened throughout the States as quickly
as the electric telegraph could speed its vel
come message. IL the burden OF the intelli.
gence was disaster or gloom to Europe, a cor
responding feeling rapidly overhung like pail
every town and village Of the Union This was
not thing to be deplored; il was, according
to his doctrine, rather to be rejoiced at The
inter-dependence of different countries was
Gods own ordnance-free trade was the inter
national law Of the Almighty; and when he
heard Of impious threats and foolish bluster
being interchanged between countries so init
mately related and mutually dependent as
England and America, he said, "What God
had joined together let no man or body of men
dare to put asunder." Cheers.
at was TO be regretted that Mr.. Buchanan
was not there to witness the fervor with which
every friendly syllable uttered in regard TO his
country was echoed by that great assembly.
No rational man in England encouraged the
exhibition of spirit Of menace or hostility to-
wards America. Their sentiments towards
that great country we're Of friendship and ad-
miration. This he said in no spirit of seryile
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