New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-10-15
GREAT BRITAIN.

THE ATLANTIC CABLR-BANQUET IN LIVERPOOL.
The banquet given by the Liverpool he SSeg Oi
tsDen principally engaged IN se meoa sH affair and
Sir Stafford NorhcOte Bart President Of the Board Of
SS Sse1 ma sSoed Her es for the interest she
had etneed in the great work and her reign as
bsdt in the year she assembled the throne ,-,, e.o.
and drunk amidst loud cheering. .,.,
In proposing to the original promoters of the Atlantic
Field ssd message was autographed from the direct to
gentleman calling upon him for response In the course
stating tie had been forwarded on but that Mr.
Field was on his way to New. York
Mr. Rawlns Gresdent Of the Liverpool Chamber o. Com
sISe PpPs''@ Her Ms Mini sd e 70 TsG Iep hSF
NE said Genemen-YouT chairman has proposed ana you
and those present holding that honorable post
great pleasure in returning thanks assure You that in
scer OF the compliment which you have paid
wholly detached from politics You simply give US credias
part should have been ready 20 give credit 10 Of
who preceded in poweror endeayoring honestly
according TO such lights as we may possess to DO ha which
Gentlemen il is often objected and not without some show OF
season to our system 81 Parliamentary government ,hSt
irrespective Of pcrson0 merit or demerit from Oces
sSs@ they are most competent to fill Hear hear
Undoubtedly these reasons not without weight but
e lo dgh Of These very changes keep up spirit ofheahy
rivalry and competition aud they dhse Official experience
ImHy eal force Of working statesmen Hear
hear and ehoers They duse what TO my mind is often
biy for Parliamentary criticism Hear, hear There is no
effective cheek reckless or eaprcions cenure than
of political opponent suppose we're on The Treasury Bench
aud had TO decide this matter could take any other course
iCheers Then again the demands Of public life at least in
ahe House Of Commons are in the present day 40 severe ana
and mental and bodily IS so great that even the
strongest and energetic Of statesmen are the better for
chose compulsory positions Of comparative rest Which the or
position benches afford Hear heerl In my own name and
~ lis
now Il you permit me viii at once though BY an sbrnp
care. That is England and America United Loud
cheers Those words be taken either as the expression Of
A hope the assertion Of fact Ply sculy the thing s
sone England and America united by enterprise
which shall leave my friend the chairman speak III detail
aut of which cannot refrain from saying appears to me the
most triumph OF mind over matcro
tnehat the annals OF science have as YET recorded ZAP
pnusei And while England ana America retain iher engi'
ccring and naval pc-eminenee among he nations OF the
been the workers IN the great interchangeable names Can
ming Of(ila and OF AndersOnwbe bOnOraby remembered
only this but on the other side OF the Atlantic Loud
cheers Now will b. effect of this state OF
thngsOf this instantaneous communication between the Od
years extend the whole civilized globe so far as
our colonies concerned much is obvious. In all
ought 10 ineieIcit do with infinitely more effect
because critical times instructions founded information
SO again IN matters Of trade suppose that the saving Of
labor will be nconsderabe and that forms at least Of
speculation will b. IN degree checked when certainty j.
substituted for conjecture hear hear but 10 Us In this coun
zion IL Tic most Important We are going 10 bring tho people
England and u the cd States into ar ooscI connection
with one another than has existed before That ms
mind great gain Some one has stated that the opinion
foreign nations anticipation Of the judgment Of OeIity
but without adopting That Phrase asOhey It undoubtedly
aue that lockers on personally affected by tic results
what being done yet feeling AZ them warm interest
thonch to be- able Judge better Of what passing than
those who arc in the thick tic fray Hear hear and cheers
think then that England and America are both 10 position
gnn mutually By fair temperate criticism Of one mother
proceedings They opposite interest United they
match for the world while quarrel between them would be
fearful uy moi only 10 themseics but 10 The best interests
Of mankind lCbecrs The they really know OF
another the better there something 10 be sad the
,theT side and should be doing my duty here did not
iay be- criticism which not fair not temperate
,itcsm which hasty partial passionate Perhal' on both
adcs tie water We have little much OF tLat Hear
ind cheer But IL docs not result from hostility ON me con