New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-21

days Of sociality and cOnviviality, how much in
diplomatic affairs may be gained BY those arts
which are 30 different from the nOisOme ones Of
war-by the pleasant arts Of civilty comfy and
compliment live lion of the British species
WIS caught and Gagged at Cambridge University last
week, and notwithstanding the same lion had 6rst
rOared in w.York-a precedent heretofore found
fatal to vOcssts by our TrimOntane friends-he
was received in the most hospitabe way. AT all
the dinners which it is considered religious to eat
on or about Commencement Day, and to digest
during periods Of from FIVE to seven weeks after
ward, there was Knife and fork f,r my lord. He
was fed, wined, toasted, cheered and brassbanded
to perfectly unlimited extent. We notice, how
ever that he was utterly reticent as to speech
making, whenever reticenco was possible. At the
Commencement dinner be refused to unclose his
mouth, save for masticaton AMI imbibation, not
withdrawing he was loudly called for BY graduates
and under. graduates. But at the dinner Of the
Alumni upon the subsequent day he was not so
much bawled up as coaxed up. There was dead
set made upon him as the representative Of the
British Queen, the British lions, the British En-
pire, the British nobility, and the British people
He was more particularly invoked as the descend
ant of the man who invented logarithms. There
was no end of allusion to these puzzling and yet
most convenient mathematical succedaneuuas
Tidbits of compliments flowed from every side,
vibrating between those of a scientific and those OF
political nature. Mr.. Winthrop, the President
having recovered from what We thought would
prove the mortal insult of that lOsel and pbOsphoric
Fourth of July orator, the Rev. Mr.. Alger and
having recruited his stock of fine expressions since
DO showered the whole of it upon Fugitive-Slave-
Law Mason, thus alluded IN the prettest way to
Lord Napier;
"No stranger to the venerable University after
which our Own was named, and OF when JONI har-
ward WAS a uaduste.-he is here, to-day, the ac-
credited representative Of that Sovereign Lady OF
Great Britain, whose purity and beauty OF hte and
character have secured for her the homage of every
true he art and in whose name and behalf the noolest
sentiments have recently been expressed by the &C
conplitbed Prince Consort in favor Of that popular
education in whose cause we are assembled"
How neatly ard elegantly Mr. Winthrop, who
is not " flunsey" at all, showed that he was
posted up and knew not only % q hawk from
hernsbaw," but a Prince Conset from Prince
Albert We beisve that thisis the first official
recognition of the new honOrs Of His Royal High
ness which has been made upon this side of the
Atlantic. Then csme the sweetest sentiment in
life:
Our beautiful moth land and tie health II the noble Lord
rho rep,esnt, ais mission be crowned
with buDdan fruits of personal happiness and Of permanent in
terrstioDsl peace"
Then "God save The Queen - most generously
brass. banded and then the descendant of the In.
yeatOr of the loeartams in person
And beraye must pause to say that his Excel.
lency, the BIT sh Minister, made clever and sen
sible speech. 1t was indeed quite Cambridge
rpeecb, and has the appearances OF having been
doctored by the Professor of Eleeation in that
ancient seat of learning. The sentences succeed
each other with kind Of ease and finish not al
unavoidable in the efforts of British orators. In
the course Of it, LORD Napier, who had heard ths
most dscouraging accounts of the condition Of the
Harvard Library from Mr.. Winthrop, rushed
bravey into the breach, and prssested copy of
the "Life of the Inventor of Logariihms"-a book
which we hope will be found very thick, and which
b, its bulk will make the heart Of the worthy Lii
brarian to leap for joy. The legarshms did other
wi.e figure largely in the speech Of Lord Napier,
aid while bis EXcelleRcy remains in the country,
DO doubt they will continue t. figure After tho
ambassador had concluded Ais bgsrithmic exerci-
tation, Mr.. Everett tsOk it up and said the finest
things in the world about those celebrated figures.
Undergraduates still in the purgatOry Of the exact
Sciences must have thought it very disgusting, and
a little too rtdoleDt Of the shop.
At the same time We must not fail to do credit
to the best portions Of Lord Napier's address--to
ia kindness candor and benevolence-to the en-
lsrged liberality which it displayed. We. are
tempted sometimes to laugh little at the compli
meuts " bich do 30 profusely abound at dnnsr's "a
ble.. whenever English and American gentlemen
are brought into contact and respond toeach other
over the viaDds and the vintages. But it seems to
be fixed forever ss q solemn fact, that England aud
America can never be at war again. 1t is delight
full 10 find the influence Of the dinnertabe superior
TO that of the dustier tables in the Office Of the
Secretary Of State. The lovers Of peace will be
delight to know the ugly question adjusted BY
toast which could not be arranged by dispatch or
protocol. Hereafter the Premier upon this side or
the Secretary for Foreign Affairs upon the other
must have nothing to do with Anglo American
difficulties. We will dine it out, wine it out, and
speedily it out together. We will not send back
any more troublesome Ministers. Should we have
other Champions kich Heaven forbid we will
ask them to dinner, and dispose Of all our troables
before the cloth 10 of
P.S.-To our uttermost horror we learn that
Lord Napier has not been made an Ii. d. The
Boston Adr,rtisr says that there was net time to