New-York tribune., 1868-07-02
GREAT BRITAIN.
A BANQUET TO CYRUS W. FIELD.

A BANQUET TO CYRUS w. FIELD.
LONDON, July IA grand banquet was gwen at
Wllliss rooms, tonight, to Cyrus w. Field, as an
acknowledgment of the eminent services he has rem
dered to the New and Old World by his devotion to
the interests of Atlantic teegraphy through circum
stances of proracted difficulty and doubt The Duke
of Argyll was Chairman. Over 300 gentlemen were
present among whom were Earl Russell, Sir John
Packington, Sir Stafford Northcote, and many other
distinguished guests. The Duke of Argyll proposed
Mr.. Fields health, to which Mr.. Field replied as
follows:
MY LORD DUKE: Withal my heart thank you for the
kind words which you have spoken and which are the
o osy 1 co1pg fend in fbe Eor OF darkness and
seeming disaster TO yOu also, my Lords, ladies and
gentlemen equally return my thanks for the cordial
manner IN which you nave fecelged th9 sehelOs sv s
ments expressed by your distinguished President Most
sincerely do wish that had had the power TO express
to you all that have IL III my heart 70 say ana 10 S
my voice respond to the gratitude feel Tor an the Kind
anxious Won are TO hear who ably pre-
sides affairs Of Indiathat great orator who IS
kind; and the other distinguished gentlemen who
are TO follow him. and will therefore not de,
tain YOU with any heightened remarks In regard
the Atlantic telegraph with its than fourteen years
OF varying fortunes with any account OF tine anxious
days and seepless nights which have been passed by
those who engaged In bringing the UNDERTAKING 10
its final consummatlon, nor with any narrative OF what
many who seated round this board the a0oHous
scientific investigations in the closet te laboratory e
Workshop and beneath the sea; the accurate sound
ings the Atlantic the careful ana Increasingly perfect
OF the ca1 u ns an5 o reeye
complete the one that was lost the skfu seaman
ship exhibited in the sure guidance OF all the move
ments OF the vessels the unsurpassed enterprise OF the
capitalists, without whose pIOiuse expenditure the Az
lantic Cable would still have remained chmera The
ability with which the affairs OF the several companies
were conducted by the directors and officers the gener
connection with the successive expeditions and that OF
the Government OF Newfoundland In granting valuable
privileges; m a word. the unexamped combination of
lpgtr
resources All this is best told by the simple fact tbat
two cables are in perfect working order across the most
stormy ocean in the world, distance of nearly two
thousand miles, more than tYO-thlrds OF when Is over
TWO miles IN depth and that messages passing with
lightning speed from continent continent That the
enterprise been pecunary success Is pest proved
by the fact that this very day the holders OF every
description of Atlantic Telegraph stock have received
u dividend The living art. too numerous 10
parcularze, and the OF many OF them have not
Vet reached its climax But may be excused II pay
my reyeren tribute Of gratitude 10 the memories OF those
who have departed from among u.s. but VINO lve ana Will
ever live their works. In dong so gratefully record
the honored names OF Faraday, stephenson, BruheL
Brett. Statham. Woodhouse Brown, balhe beIIy yman
White and Hudson, who labored 50 zea0usly ana VINO
would, II living, have reloced To De WIN US [C,ngnt
But the past is matter OF history Let us Io al we eau
I'm the future make the fruits OF our experience beneh
ea the world do not my friends be eGep5 5v ws rb
electric cord but remember that lndla Australia emma
and Japan South America ana tne Isles or ,nS Se t6
instant communication with England ana America
most feryenty thank God that you nave been perted
70 live this enterprise which binds your country 70
mIne completed; and that am privileged TINS night
with members of my family, to meet our Engish
friends and with them To rejoice over its success re-
oice because the Cable brings into closer union the two
great AngloSaxon nations OF the world when nave
common origin, inherit the same gIoLous usItos, ,
and are bound together that If one were 10 receive
blow both would suffer from the shock l. an Amercen'
feel pride in remembering that my ancestors were En-
s citizens and lived and died under your nag ana do
not all true EagsnS1h glory .ned ~ Ie fcS rom at these
shores some two hundred and fifty years ago. and settled
at and and on ns that S @ az time Of the
caraton Of Independence the original handIul had IN
creased to three millions OF people, wme , ~ cSs .n
century the three millions have grown ihto nation % oi
thiryye millions, and now, thank God not one sayo
among them, with territory extending Iro % ,1S ne
tic the Pacific, from the ST. lawrence ana tne great
lakes to the Gulf OF Mexico. There are undoubtedly
sHe Within the limits OF the existing United states hund
red millions of people, all speaking the Engsh tongue
While when think 81 the greatnesS VL th HnSlsmr;
orator who said that "She is power TO which Rome In
the hight of her glory Is not 10 DO compared power PS
with her possessions and military posts; whose morning
drum beats GpC be ene earth d in % one and
unbroken OF martial airs OF England 10 TINS
and tns caeed which
to Daniel Webster the noble figure which America
To- the mother country by the elective bond and that
may in power Of the Sovereign and her ministers
or the Merchants Exchange, hold instantaneous con-
verse with all any Of the races, nations ana tribes
which yield obedience to the mild scepter OF tue good
Queen Victoria that hereafter no Jealouses may
be TO create wall separation between England
and Americas that all the ieeng tnat nag peen eng9
Atlantic that the ingenuity OF man shall never invent
appe to drag the surface and that the only rivalry
them shall be the rivalry OF workers IN enOrs
To promote peace, Industry and commerca4
and to extend the blessings OF civil ana religious liberty
througbo the world. .,, -. |
Tie following dispatches were sent and received over
the Atlantic Cable la the course OF the evening; f
DUKE ARGYLL To PRESIDENT JOHNSON. |
: LONDoS, Wednesday, July l. 1888 |
surrounded by upward OF 30 gentenen many ses
W Field
S~e etrTous promoting tegHph communication between the
and kindly influences OF the
ne ab th IL should brought together fesdp
and 10 asking ossl Of Long life health ana
bplnrss 10 worthy gentleman Jet ne add hdland Wish
America always be found peace aud war
shoulder 10 shoulder" |
sEcRFrARY SEWARD TO TRR DUKE OF ARGYLL. |
ITO Ms Grao he Dak Of lrgyR LooS: Your sAuson TO tss
hail al Nlss has heeE received o
dinnsr has moi arrived gs Is only eoeSeE Ihs $40 ID
the dinner hour th Pesah'
accept pledge Ofhoncr distinguished oun.rJna
Field apd win 20 Highland asPrai,Os m srpet
H ,,an h.,~ ssr ~. t.o aavous H. SEWARD"
nrKF OF ARGYLL TO THE GovERs0RGENERAL OF CUBA.
MILL, RooMs Lospos, Wednesday, July io6hs hcceueay
Cuba Havana As President oil nfaetd
bv gentlemen 70 do honor TO MI Cyrus feh
hs services 10 assisting the promotion OF the Az
Telegraph " ion the eonphpent ensied 10 him