The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-15
GRAND BANQUET AT LIVERPOOL.
uoNORs TO THE LAYERS OF THE
ATLANTIC CABLE.
IMPORTANT SPEECH BY LORD STANLEY
A LETTER FROM LORD DERBY

Commerce, was given at Liverpool, to the layers
of the Atlantic Cables. About 200 gentlemen
sat dewn to dinner. Right Hon. Sir Stafford
Northcote, NJ. p, President of the Board of
Trade, presided.
The Chairman, in proposing "The health
her Majesty the Queen" said that her Majesty
had on all fitting occasions shown a hearty inte-
rest in the progress of telegraphic SCIENCE and
later in the evening he should read a special
communication from the Queen upon the sub
ject OF the present banquet.
The Chairman, in proposing, 'The Health OF
the President OF the United Sates,n acknow-
ledged the services which the Governments of
bOtn England and America had rendered in pro-
noting the successful laying of the cables. 1t
was most desirable to preserve O hearty friend.
ship between the two countries, for there were
no two nations who, ii cordially united, could
do more to further the cause of civilization
throughout the world than the United Kingdom
and the United States. cloud cheers.)
1.-The Prince and Princess of Wales and Royal
family" was the next toast, which was duly
honored.
Tue Chairman next proposed "Tbe Original
Promoters OF the Atlantic Cable, the toast being
little earlier than intended, in the hope of OBJ
tanning reply during the evening through the
cable from Mr.. Cyrus W. Field. The Chairman
paid high tribute to the zeal and services of
Cyrus and Dudley Field, and Messrs. Brett,
Bright, and Whitehouse.
Speech of Lord Stanley.
Mr.. Rawlins, President of the Liverpool
Chamber oil Commerce, proposed "Her Maiestys
Minister'S" to which Lord Stanley, NJ. p. lwho
was received with LOUD cheers), replied. He
said:-Gentlemen, your chairman has proposed,
and you have very kindly drunk, the health of
Her Majesty's Ministers, and as one of those at
present holding that honorable post, l have
great pleasure in returning thanks. 1 assure
you that in go doing do not in the slightest
degree micconceive the character of the COM
plihent which you have paid us. 1t is one
wholly detached from politics. You simply
been ready to give credit to any of those who
have preceded us in power-ior e1deavoring
honestly, according TO such lights as we
to us best IN the interest of the country.
(Cheers.) Gentlemen, it is often objected,
and not without some show of reason,
to our system OF Parliamentary government,
that it produces changes of hands inconveni-
emily often, and displaces men, irrespective of
personal merit or demert, from offices which,
perhaps, at the very time when they quit them,
they are most competent to fill. taear, hear.)
UndoU btedly these reasons are not without
weight; but there are counerbalanClng con-
siderations which ought not to be lost sight OF.
These very changes keep up spirit OF healthy
rivalry and competition, and they ditfuse Off
cial experience among the members OF both
Houses, and thus strengthen what l may call
our reserve force of working statesmen. (Hear
hear, and cheers.) They 'ditfuse what, to my
mind, is often more important than officiaH
eXperience-a sense OF responsibility f9&
is no more effective check on reckless or ere
cous censure than when man has to astaprl-
self, before he speaks OF the conduct % MINI
cal opponent, "Supaose were on w poiin-
Bench and had TO decide this mats Treasury
take any other course?" (Cheerss4 Ter, could
the demands of public life, at least irhen, again,
of Commons are in the present da fhe House
and the wear and tear, mental anc g'so severe
great, that even the strongest an0odily, is so
eetic of our statesmen are the betl most ener-
compulsory positions OF comp9er l0r those
which the opposition benches afIatlve rest
hear.) In my own name, aud tgord, (dear,
leagues, thank you for yourlat oil my col
US; and now, ii you permit me, reception OF
though by an abrupt transition, n will at once,
toast which has been intrusted tpass on to the
toast is England and America my care. That
cheers.) These words may be United" cloud
the expression of hope, or s(takep either as
fact. Physically the thing soe tsSeT6iSn NG2a OF
which 1 shall leave my FRIEND an enterprise OF
speak in detail, but OF WhieH the chairman to
from saying it appears to me- cannot refrain
lous triumph of mind over " the most marvel
nature-that the annals OF hatteT-ot man over
recorded (applause); and science have as yet
America retain their engiD9 9wbio England and
eminence among the nat kering and naval pre-
venture to predict that ions of the world,
who have been the worll the names of those
dertaking-the names OF tkers in the great un-
OF Anderson-Wil be hCCanping OF Glass, and
not only on this, but on bnorably remembered,
Atlantic Cloud cheer fine other side of the
the effects of this new ~ Now, what will be
instantaneous cOmmuni state OF things-of this
Would and the New Eation between the Old
will in few years exte q communication which
civilized globes So lar hd over the whole of the
cerned, much is obvi0uJas our colonies are con-
military, in which the y. In all matters, civil or
to interfere, IL CAN do home Government ought
erect, because Ia criisO with infinitely more
founded on informati kcal times instructions
old can be OF very ibn fortnight or a month
again, IN matters Of kttle practical value. So,
saving of labor Will be trade | suppose that the
forms, at least. OF lWconsderable, and that some
degree checked wtNeculation will be in some
for conjecture hqAen certainty is substituted
country and in tn 4 ar, hear); but to US in this
aspect Of the QueNb present case the d pomatc
We are gong to AstiOn is the most important.
and of the Upss# #bring tke people of England
necton Bitbe hed States INTO far closer con-
before, Th& fone another than has ever existed
Some one hIlat Is, in nv mind, great gain
nations Is Has 81 a'ed that the opinion of foreign
posterity; #an sAticipation of the Judgment o.
|MabsQlosely, 4 but without adopting that phrase
1.pak 4 is undoubtedly true that lockers
Ersonally affected by the results o.
l. beng done, yet feeling In them 9
lerest, are thought TO be able to judge
bf what is passing than those who
be thick OF the fray. {" Hear, hear, and
think, then, that England and
are both in Q n .s66.sS.stQ gain mutually
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