The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-02
TBLEGRAPhIC NEWS
FIR ON
ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD.
Telegraph Banquet in London and
TOaStS by Electricity.
THE LEGISLATIVE MIDDLE IN LOUISIANA
The Military on Duty to Prevent
Disturbance.
ENGLAND.

| Telegraph ExtenstOn-BanQuet to Cyrus w.
Field-A Gable Union of the Worid-India,
China, japan and America to be in Imme-
diate Communion-President Johnson's Tel
egram 10 the Duke and Savnns.
| LONDON, July /, 1868.
According to previous arrangement Mr.. Cyrus w.
Field, Of New YORK. was entertained this evening at
grand banquet given in his honor by some OF the
most distinguished personages in the land, as ac-
knowledgment OF their appreciation Of the valuable
| services which he has rendered to the cause Of
science in the extension OF teegraphy and the
Meeting Of the Old and New Worlds In instantaneous
communication through the Atlantic cable, In face Of
many Obstacles doubts and difficulties
The entertainment took place in Willis rooms and
passed of in very fine style; with magnificent music
nags and room decorations. Quite a number OF
ladies were present and three hundred persons
were in the room. His Grace the Duke Of Argyll
presided; the Right Hon. Earl Russell, K. c., F. r.
S.. the Right Hon. Sir John PakngtOn, Bart, M. p;
the Right Hon. Sir Stafford NorthcOte Bart, NJ. P.
John Bright. Esq, NJ p, and others taking prom
inent part in the proceedings.
The Executive Committee was made up Of Sir
James Anderson, Messrs. Charles Burt, J. W.
Bushby, F. W. ChessOn, W. FOthergll Cooke Robert
Dudley Captain Douglas Cation, c. B., X. E.; Cap.
| tain Sherard Osborn, r. n. G. B.; Philip Rose and
the Hon. E. Lyulph Stanley.
The tables were arranged with much taste and
bountifully supplied After due attention had been
paid to the vlands the Duke Of Argyll proposed Mr.
Fields health, to which Mr.. Bieid replied as fol-
lows
MY LORD DuKE-with all my heart thank you
for the kind words which you have spoken, and
which are the more gratifying to me- coming they
do from one who was my country's friend in the
hour Of darkness and seeming disaster. To you
also, my lords, ladies' and gentlemen, equally re-
turn my thanks for the cordial manner In which you
have received the generous sentiments expressed by
| your distinguished President. Most sincerely do
wish that had had the power to express to you all
Voice respond to the gratitude feel for ali the KIND
| ness have received In this country. know how
anxious You are to hear the statesman who 30 ably
presldes the affairs Of Inda-that great orator.
who is the friend Of America because he Is the friend
| OF mankind-and the other distinguished gentlemen
detain you with any Heightened remarks in regard
the Atlantic telegraph with It's more than fourteen
the anxious days and sieepless nights which have
been passed by those who were engaged in bringing
any narrative q What has been done to realize appa
rent Representatives, by 80 many who are now seated
round this board; the Iaborious scientific inysstiga.
Atlsntic the careful and increasingly perfect manu-
facture Of the cables; the wonderfully oneotive
chanical appliances used to lay them and to receive
and complete the that was lost; the sklful
manship exhibited in the sure guidance Of all move
ments vessels the unsurpassed enterprise OF the
capitalists without whose prouse expenditure the
The ability with which the Affairs OF the several com.
panies were conducted by the directors and ofcers
the generous aid Of the English and American gov
| tions, and that Of the government OF Newfound-
land In granting valuable prvileges-in word, the
| cheering financial and executive resources. All
this best told by the simple fact that two cables
ocean in the world distance OF nearly two thousand
| miles, more than two-thrds Of which'is two
iigStning speed from continent to continent. That
the enterprise has also been pecuniary success Is
best proved by the fact that on this very day the
| stock have received a dividend. or the men
who gave active aid to the perfecting the triumph
| particuarize and the names Of many Of them have
| not yet reached US. But may be excused If pay
my reverent tribute OF gratitude the memories OF
| those VINO have departed from among us, but who
live and will live in their works. In doing so
greatfully record the honored names Of Faraday,
| Stephenson, Brunei Brett, Statham, WoodhOuse,
Brown, Bache Bergman, White and Hudson, who
labored so jealousy, and who would, II living have
rejoiced to be with US tonight. But the past Is
to make the fruits Of experience beneficial to the
connected Europe and America together by the
| electric cord, but remember that India, Australia,
both the East and the West have yet TO be brought
| into instant communication with England and
been permitted to i've to see this enterprise which
| binds your country TO mine completed and that
| am privileged this night with some members OF my
rejoice Its success. rejoice because the cable
brings into closer union the two great Anglo-Saxon
| inherit the same glorious traditions and are 80
| bound together that II one were to receive a blow
both would suffer from the shock. |, an American,
feel pride In remembering that my ancestors were
English citizens and lived and died under your flag;
| and do not all true Engshnen glory in the fact
| shores some two hundred and nfty years ago, and
settled at Plymouth and on the banks OF the James
ver 80 multiplied and replenished that at the
time OF the Declaration Of Independence the original
handful had increased TO three millions OF people,
while IN less than a century the three millions have
| grown into nation OF thrty-fve millions, and now.
| thank God, not one slave among thcm with terri
tory extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific from
the st. Lawrence and the great lakes TO the Gulf OF
Mexicof There are, undoubtedly, many now within
hearing OF my voice who will live TO within the
limits OF the existing United states hundred mil
lions OF people all speaking the English tongue.
While, when think OF the greatness OF England,
always remember the words OF the American
orator who said that ''She Is Power TO which Rome
IN the height OF her glory IL not to be compared; a
Power which Is dotted over the surface or the
whole globe with her possessions and military posts:
whose morning drum beat, following the sun and
keeping company with the hours, circle the earth In
continuous and unbr0k en- strain OF martial airs
OF England" To this would add the hope that ere
long every one OF the numerous aud scattered DEEPEN
denotes which suggested to Daniel Webster the
noble figure which America has enshrned In her
classics will be united TO the mother country by the
electric bond, and that 1t may be In the power OF
P, III" ho o ,,n, ", n sv nonar
with ali or any OF the races, nations and
tribes which yield obedience 10 the mild sceptre Of
the good queen Victoria. pray that hereafter jeal
ousies may be allowed to create a wall Of separation
between England and America: that all the III feel
ing that has been engendered between the countries
may be buried so deep In the Atlantic that the inge
nuity OF man shall never invent grapple TO drag II
to the surface; and that the only rivalry between
them shall be the rivalry OF coworkers in efforts to
course and to extend the blessings OF civil and rei
gious liberty throughout the world.
r.nro ro..s.