The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-15
H u R OP II.
LATER NEWS by STEAMER.

by the arrival or the Holsata, at New York
yesterday, We have European advices to the
4th inst.
ENGLAND.
Minister j Johnson and Mr. ROebuck, nj,
II. at the Master Cutters Feast.
The London Times of Sept. contains the fol-
lowing:-
The annual feast of the Cutters Company was
held in Sheffield yesterday evening IN Their ne w
hall, under the Presidency of Mr.. Mark Firth,
Master Cutler. A distinguished company, con-
sistiDg OF the ellie of Sheffield and its neghbor-
hood were present, among whom we noticed
Earl Fitzwilliam, Lord WharncliHe, Lord Den
man, Mr.. Reverdy johnson, the American Min
lister, Lord Milton, NJ; r.: Mr.. Roebuck, M. p;
MIR. Z. j. Reed, G. B.; Alderman Stone, Sheriff
of London; the Mayors of Doncaster, Noting
ham, Manchester. Halifax, and Sheffield; the
Masters OF the Cutters Company, London; the
Master Of the Grocers' Company, London, etc.
The usual loyal and constitutional toasts were
given by the Master Cutler and most enthu u :ias-
Mr. j. ]. Smith next gave 'The health of the
Hon. Reverdy johnson, as the representative of
the United States to the Court OF this country"
The toast was drank with great enthusiasm.
The Hon. Reverdy johnson, on rising to
respond, was received with much cheering. He
said:-Mr. Master Cutler, my lords and gentle
men, l return you my most grateful thanks for
the Kind reception l have met with, and you,
Mr.. Smith, for the complimentary terms in
which you have brought forward my name. You
have my warmest acknowledgment. l came to
your country, gentlemen, as messenger of
peace tcheers); that messenger meaa to be.
could not be otherwise IL / carried out the
instructions of my Government. loud cheers.)
l value your reception the more because 1t
assures me, in addltlon to the assurances
which / have had since l laIded upon your
shores, that you entertain friendly feel
ing for the Government and the people of
the United States (cheers), and an most happy
to assure you, my loI Ids and gentlemen, that
that feeling is warmly reciptocated. Continued
cheeriDg.) / speak only what l know with
every opportunity OF becoming acquainted with
the sentiment of my country l know that for
kindlier feeling entertained by those OF the
United States than for the subjects OF her
Majesty. (Cheers.) We are, in fact. by origin
common name, kindred blood, similar privi-
leges, and equal projections; and these, In the
language OF one OF your philosophic statesmen,
who taught the world what it was to BE- just
end right, ARE ties stronger than links OF iron."
During the domestic trouble which agitated
our land, and which brought to almost every
household sorrow and death, differences Of
opinion were entertained, and 1t was not, there.
FORE to be wondered at that differences prevailed
here IN England as to the causes aad the justice
of the struggle in which we were engaged. But
the struggle now, thank God. Is at an end-Qoud
cheers )-our differences have disappeared and
i rejoice to believe that every day of the short
days that have lived with you satisfies me that
] am justified in believing that all such differ
ences here have disappeared. (Cheers.) We
and indiVisible. (Great cheering.) Nature by
her mountain and her river and her ocean has
proclaimed to us that we must be one, and beg
you to be assured that, as we are one, that very
unity which will increase our prosperity and
power will increase as hope and believe, your
prosperity and power. (Cheers.) Our political
institutions are like yours; they are fashioned
from yours, and in the foundation lies q
deep and never dying attachment OF human
liberty. In our hand-I mean in our Joint
band-tbat liberty will live forever. loud and
nI.. -, A.
have referred, great as they we're, sad aud
beart-rending as they have been, have neen
attended by one compensation. We had an in
stitution, not indigenous to US, but brought to
us from common ancestor human slavery.
(Hear, hear.) Four millions OF people were In
that condition; how to abolish II without
dangers even worse than those which followed
from its existence was problem. Our domesuc
strife has solved that problem. Slavery, thank
God, is Low extinci-(loud cheers)-and no
footprints are to be found on the soil oithe
United States but those OF a freeman. (Cheers.)
Dreadful as the havoc has been, prevailing rs
the slaugh-er was, literally mIring almost
every battlefield with blood, in future
times 1t Will be said that all was we'll spent In
getting d OF that blot not OF our Wn creation,
but OF that blot which tarnished the fair fame
OF the United States aud gave the lie to the
Declaration of Independence, by which we
claimed our right to freedom and liberty.
is liberty alone that gives to life its lusre aud
perfume, and we are weeds without it," Mr..
Master Cutler and gentlemen, the political can.
yass which is now on foot 10 the United STATES
involves the question who shall be at the head
of the executive OF that great country; but / beg
TO assure you, from my knowledge of both can
didates, that whichever shall be the choice of
the people you will find friend of England.
Mr.. W: Fisher proposed the toast of 1.-THE
House OF Commons" which was responded to
by Lord Milton.
Mr.. Roebuck who met with very warm re-
ception, sad:-I feel most deeply the way in
which YOU have received the mention of my
name L cnnp rainlnfa won NJ Ma.iar On.lAr