The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-06-26

LORD JOHN RUSSELL ON AMERICAN RELATIONS
At the annual festival of the Metropolitan Free
Hospital In London on the 10th inst Capt Sands
and other officers of the U s FIigate Susqaehan.
na and the Prince of Dude were among the invi.
ted guests. Ths health of-Lord John Russell was
drunk:
Lord John Russell, in returning his thanks, ex.
pressed the sratude he fet for the political conf.
dence which the citizens Of London had 20 long re-
pcs'd in him, and stated the great qualification it
would always afford him to DO anything which
would forward the Interests Of the charitable inst.
sutions Of the metropolis. The next toast (coptn-
ued the noble lord) WAS one which, he was sure
they wotle receive with applause He was about to
propose me health Of their American visitors -
tCbeers He had always been OF opinion, and had al
entitled TO make family compact, they were the
United Kingdom and the United States of Amsica
This country not only admired the great qualities cf
the Americans. but felt little hattered In thinking
that 'hey had desssnded from the same origin
selves tnesr, hea;) that they in fact our near
relativ. If they had some foibIes, he believed
bies. Hear, hear and lsushter) He might say
farther, with regard to those gallant men whose
health he was about to give, thss whenever of late
years during his experience there had been any of
those little jars which would happen among the
nearest relations and the best friends he had always
found that if a British and American captain In the
navy could talk over the matter they always settled
1t better than the most skful diplomatist Laugh
terl
he remembered gallant friend OF his own, Sir
Gsorge Seymour-snd ne had no doubt Capt. Sands
could speak for his own commodore-who when
they came to talk over the disputed question of the
fisheries put it into such train that twas not fiji.
cat for the of the States to
q treaty, whcn he trusted, would confirm the anity
of the two countries. He sure that they all
wished that that amnity might be eternal. (Chsers
The oftener Americans came to this country the
better and the ofCener nglsh en- went TO pay the
Americans a visit the better for he always fou I'd
that when an Epglishmau went to America, he was
received with the greatest hospitality aud good will
thear) and, in the second place IN less of
the Ill disposed and ill condti ned persons whom he
would not nsme-with that exception, they always
csme back with the highest opinion of America -
The noble lord concluded by giving 'The heslth of
Captain Sands and the off ,eIs of the Sufquehanna +"
which was drank with enthusiasm.
Capt Sands and said, he begged to thank them
for the enthusiastic manner in which they had re.
sponded to the toast of the country and service to
which he belonged. He had, a former ccasiou
greatest roble men, who on that occasion had Sx-
pressed emsef in this wise Mother and dsus hter
against the world" " "A laugh He had come there
on peculiar and importsnt occasion, with which
they were acquainted -layrg down great chain be-
tween this country and his own. That while bind
ing fnglaud end America together, did not OPPOSE
them to the rest of the world.
He trusted their relationship to other countries
would be Of the Kind which exsted between the no
bic charities of the metropolis for the recipients of
their charities binding the world in the bonds of good
feeling He had not however, come to this country
10 make speech, but to lay cable. daughter and
cheers) Might 1t be a silver cord which should re
YER be unlooped U,oud chasr.l