The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-03-16
THE 22D OF FEBRUARY IN LONDON.

the business wisely and justly between the par
ties. A CITIZEN.
THE I'D OF FEBRUARY IN LONDON.
CELEBRATION OF THE ANNIVERSARY OF wAsHINGToN's
BIRTHDAY.
Condensed from the London Chronicle, Feb 28l
Last night the one hundred and twenty eighth
anniversary of the birthday of Washington, the
hero and author of American independence, was
celebrated by dinner at the Freemasons' Tavern
The movement originated with the members of the
American Association in London and the assem-
bage was of a large and influential character
Among the gentlemen present were Mr.. N. S.
Dodge, Mr.. B. Maran, Mr.. G. W. Taylor, Mr.. A.
c. Billings, Mr.. j. 7. Pittman, Mr. w. D. Sew
mour, N. r.; Gen. Vandenburg, Mr.. L. Hand Col.
}. H. Chester, Mr.; r. Kellogg, Mr.. R. H. Glando-
F. Il. Emmanuel, Mr.. S. Warner, Mr.. G. P.
Dodge, Mr.. B. Tucker, Mr.. II. L. Hall, Major Sib-
ley, DR.. W. Darling, Mr.. E. W. Cobb, DR.. D. j..
McGowan, DR.. Mackay, Mr.. }. Wetherhed, Mr.. T.
Baber, Mr.. L. 5. Magnus. The room was taste
fully decorated with flags and flowers, and imme-
diatey benin the chair was splendid portrait of
Washington, painted by Mr.. Rembrandt p ale, an
American artist, at the advanced age of eighty
four, being copy of an original portrait BY the
same artist, and presented by him some wears ago
to Mr. Croskey. In the unavoidable absence of
Gen. Campbell, United States Consul, whose at
tendance was prevented by illness, the chair was
occupied Dy MT. y. rooney CrOSkey.
Mr.. B. Tucker, the American Consul at Liver.
pool, proposed the toast "The Day we celebrate -
and in an appropriate speech paid high honor to
the memory of w ashington.
The Chairman then proposed the health of the
President of the United States, which was drank
with much enthusiasm-the band PLAYING sHail
Columbia"
Tie next toast was: ''The Queen-The admira-
Bile ady who governs this country and who regns
in the affections of a free and happy people" This
drank on
General Nandenburg proposed the next toast :
'"England and America-Rivas only in promoting
the cause of civilization The gallant General
said that the sentiments contained in this toast
were in exact accordance with his own feelings his
own politics, and he might add, his own religion;
because he looked upon Eng land and America as
possessing much in common which was destined to
advance and spread, to fructify and reproduce it.
self in other portions of the globe
The toast having been heartily drank
Mr.. w. d. Seymour, NJ. P, rose to respond. He
said that although wide ocean separated the two
countries they were united by an electric system
OF common ties, a common origin, a common bisto-
ry, and a common future. He sincerely trusted
that the true genius of the Christian religion might
be found TO unite, in bond of holy political and
religious affinity, the two countries Great as faith
was, and bright as hope was, charity exceled them
both; and it was the spirit of charity which per-
vaded their undertakings, which made the states
men and the writers of America to be recognized
throughout the world the friends and the APOSTLES
III, e,
that America would ever be wanting in the per
formance of her duty to this country. She would
never be unmndful of the sailing of the gallant
Mayflower and her band of pilgrim fathers with
the sword in one hand and the Bible in the other;
and when they celebrated the birthday of Washing
ton they would remember that his whole life was
one great testimony to the cause of truth and that
he never was ashamed, amidst the din of conflicts
or the strife of parties, to have a reason for the
faith that was in him, and to refer every action of
his public life to those pure and elementary doc
trines which were inculcated by pious mother
when he but child at that mothers knee
lCheers. The true genius of repubcanism was
freedom of action and liberty of thought, and as,
coupled with these, in England there was abundant
charity of feeling and amenity of manners he con-
tended that in England as in America we breathed
an atmosphere consistent with the spirit of re-
pubhcansm. [Cheers.
Mr.. Howard gave "The Directors of the Great
Ship Company" confident that they would go on
with their great work, and that that noble ship
would soon speed on her way, bridging the Allan
tic, and binding together still more closely than at
present the two great countries of England and
America
Mr. S. Baber acknowledged the toast As the
Americans and English, he said, were alike in
blood, language and religion so they were alike in
energy of character and in their determination to
carry out the civilization of their own countries to
the world at large. If there were truth in the old
maxim that knowledge was power, and that power
had its duties well as its rights it was absolute
ly incumbent upon those two nations to do their
utmost to extend civilization every region of the
habitable globe. So long as that desire existed
would they be enabled to keep down. if not utterly
to suodue, despotic powers and to maintain true
liberty and independence. Reverting more mme-
diatey to the ect of the toast to which he was
responding Mr.. Baber said that the directors of
the Great Ship Company had had many disappoint-
ments, and that their troubles were not yet over.
Sanguine as they might be that she rould reach the
acaterS of New York. get they had difficulties to con-
tend ,oih ohch rendered 1t difficult to say ,ghen that
'7o"ld be an accomplished fact lie thanked the com
pany for the manner in which the toast had been
received, and hoped that the Great Eastern would
be but the prelude to a more regular and more fire.
quent intercourse between England and America
than had hitherto existed. Loud cheers7
Mr.. q: W. Reynolds proposed the toast, "Consti-
tullonai Freedom, the basis of national liberty -
Our own constitutional freedom he observed T,as
the growth of centuries, gained afte, successive
ages of painful toll; and even now, after all the
sacrifices which had been made in its behalf it was
not to be compared to the glorious institution of
American independence, which had sprung like
Minerva fully equipped from the brain of Jove-
After proceeding to contrast in somewhat I'M
favorable light the British constitution with that
of America in the course of which he was called
to order by the chairman, the speaker concluded
with spirited and graceful tribute to the constitu-
tiona freedom and national liberty enjoyed by the
citizens of the United States.
Before the toast drank,
The Chairman said: We are an American asso-
citation, established in the metropolis of Great
Britain, and it is not of objects propagate
any political sentiments that NAV be entertained
by Americans. CHEERS We are republican s
and democrats in America, because democracy S
our form of government there. Therefore, being
democrats in that country are also conservative
there, and our democracy we do not wish to force
in any way upon the English people, and it would
do great deal of harm to this association, and
would not be carrying out the purposes for which we
| were established, were friends to indulge pub
cly in the expression OF those feelings occasions
| like the present.
| The toast was then drank with enthusiasm
MIR. b. Moran, in responding, observed that con-
stitutienal freedom was really the basis of liberty
throughout the world, and that it had been ad-
vancing, and would advance, until it had spread
| all over the world. Constitutional freedom had
made great nation of the United States. In 1885
the people of Canada asserted their rights, and
constitutional freedom made nation of Canada
| Constitutional freedom also was the blessing oil
Australia; it was enjoyed by the people of the
Cape of Good Hope, and it had been extended by
American pioneers to the shores of the Pacific
California, no longer under Spanish teaching, now
enjoyed the noblest and best constitutional freedom
of any of the States, and he believed that in few
years it would be spread over the whole of the
islands of the Pacific. Constitutional freedom was
really the inheritance of England and America
and they should cherish it among the dearest
possessions of their lives. Cheers.
A subscription list handed round in the
course of the evening, which resulted in 4 consid
cradle accession to the funds of the association
The proceedings were marked throughout with
the utmost enthusiasm and cordially of feeling
| and the nationality of the occasion was ably sus
tanned by the well selected and spirited music in
| terspersed between the toasts.
| THE FORREST DIVORCE CAsE-DECISIoN IN Favor OF
| Mrs. FoRREsT.-0n Wednesday morning the Judge
of the Superior Court in the city OF New York
made an order confirming the report of the referet
as to the amount of the allowance to Mrs. Forrest
| as alimony, (deducting the amount paid by defen
| n aDt nd n
alimony,) and directing final ud gment in conformi
ty herewith. The form of the judgment is to bt
settled on two days notice. 1t may he remembered
that the report of the referee in favor of giving
Mrs. Forrest 81 900 year alirnony, commencing
| from about the time of the trial.
| They are eating strawberries in Washington CITY
| raised on farm near Alexandria, Va.