The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-02
The Great Dinner in London
Last Night-Speech of
Mr.. Cyrus w.
Field.
THE NATIONAL, R0NDS.
Report of the Committee Of Ways
and Means of the House
on their Taxation.
FROM ENGLAND.
Telegraph ExtSn sIOh-A Grand Banquet
TO ME. Cyrus w. FIeId-rhe WhOIe
World to be Brought IntO Union.

By Atlantic Cdble.
LoNpoN, July IA grand banquet was given
as an ack owl ed gment OF the eminent services
he has rendered 10 the New and Old World by
his devotion to the interests of Atlantic tele-
graphy through circumstances OF protracted
doubt and dIthenit5yo 5yGo Ine Duke OF Argydl % was
among whom were Earl Russell, Sir Jonn
Pakington. Sir Stafford NorLhcote, and many
health, to which Mr.. Field replied as follows
you for the kind words which you have spoken,
and " hich are the more gratifying to me com
friend in the hour of darkness and seeming dis
aster. 10 you also, my lords, ladies' aud geutle-
dial manner in which you have received the
generous sentiments expressed by your dis
Iinguished President. Most sincerely do wish
that had had the power to express to you all
that have IL in my neart TO say, aud to make
my voice respond TO the gratitude feel for all
The kindness have received In this country.
Will not detain you with any Heightened
remarks IN regard to the Atlantic Ieiegraph,
with its more than fourteen years OF varying
fortunes all this is best told by the simple
fact that two cables are In perfect working
order across the most stormy ocean in tue
world, distance OF nearly two thousand miles,
more than twothirds of which is over two
IN les In depth; and that messages are passing
with lightning speed from continent to conti-
nent. That the enterprise has also beea pc
cuniary success, is best proved by the fact that
on this very day the holders of every descrip-
tion of Atlantic Telegraph stock have received
q dividend.
The living arts, too numerous to particula-
riZe, and the names OF many of them have
not Ct reacnea 1ts cinaX 6T n3 1e ex
to the memories of those who have departed
from among us, but who live and Will ever live
in their works. In doing SO l gratefully record
Inc honored names of Faraday, Stephenson,
Branell, Brett, Statham, Woodhouse, Brown,
labored so zealousiy, and who would, If living
have rejoiced to be with as tonight. But the
can in the future to make the fruits of our ex-
perience beneficial TO the world. DO not, my
| frip ha having COnnpaLpl
Europe and America together by the electric
but nrt thst dnGa ana ApssrHa
| OF the sea, both in the East and In the West,
have yet to be brought into instant communt.
| cation with England and America.
| IIejoice because the Cable orings into closer
union the two great Anglo-Saxon nations of the
| world which have a common origin, inherit
! The same glorious traditions and are SO bound
| together that if one were to receive blow both
| would suffer from the shock. |, an American,
| feel pride in remembering that my ancestors
| were English citizens, and lived and died under
There are undoubtedly many now within
| hearing of my voice who will 1--we to see within
| the limits of the existing United states nun
| dred millions OF people, all speaking the Eng
| lish tongue. While 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 is not
the surface of the Whole globe with her posses
| sions ard military posts; whose morning drum
btat following the sun and keeping company
| GUS aud unbroken strain OF martial airs of Eng-
land" To this / would add the hope that ere
| long every one of the numerous ana scattered
| dependencies which suggested to Daniel
Webster The noble figure which America has
| ensbrined in her classics, Will be united to the
| mother country by the elective bond, and that
| 1t may be in the power OF the Sovereign and her
| Ministers, or the Merchants Exchange, TO hold
| instantaneous converse with all or any of the
| races, hations and tribes which yield obedience
| to the mild sceptre OF the good Queen Victoria
| l pray that hereafter no jealOusies may be
| allowed to create q wall of separation between
| EuPIand and America; that all the ill-feeing
| that has been engendered between the coun-
| tries may be buried 30 deep in the Atlantic
that the Ingenuity of man shall never invent a
| grapple to drag IL TO the surface; and that the
| only rivalry between them shall be the rivalry
of coworkers in efforts to promote peace, Ia.
dustry, and commercial intercourse, and to ex-
tend the blessings Of civil ana reli sious liberty
throughout the world.
COngratuIatOFy Messages by Gable.
The following dispatches were sent and re-
ceIved over the Atlantic Cable in the course OF
the evening"
DYKE OF ARGYLE TO PRESIDENT JOHNSON.
now surrounded by upwards of thres hundred gente.
sRS w. Fed for his e2eons IL
PTomoPg telsgTsPhlc c6mmSIie9ton & M m 6eiWeeG the
Of 4d the Atlantic Sa It's Sr
o%4 oss eP9 @ ID
happiness" to your most worthy gentleman, let me
may always be found In peace and war shoulder to
SECRETARY SEWARD THE DUKE OF ARGYLL.
| To his Grace, the Duke Of Argyll London Your
salu,aion to the President from the banqueting hail
has OF arrived yeti only O'Clock. The sun is
| vet two hours high, When the dinner hour ARRIVES
the President viii accept your pledge OF honor 10
tistnguished co9ntIymen Cyrus , w; Eield aud VIII
| perpetual union between he two nations.
| WILLIAM II. SEWARD.
MR PETER COOPER TO THE DUKE OF ARGYLL,
| NEW YORK, July ], ls6s.-TO the Duke OF Argyll
Wnlis' Rooms, Londou-The Directors of the New
| York, Newfoundland and London Teleg -aph Com.
pany are reolced that the vices of their assocate
Cyrus W, Field, are recognized In Eu gland they
| have been long recognized IN America They q
| leave to Join you In cong 'atuatiug MIN aud tbey
trust that his highest caim the gratitude of the
world will be found 10 consist In The abl
communication when VIII olDd togetherthe nations
PETER COOPER President
THR DUKE OF ARGYLL TO THE GovERNoR.GE ENERAL
| WILLIS Rooms, LONDON. July l. 1868,
| HIS Excellency sthe Governor General of CUBA,
| HRVRnR:-As pres sldent OF banquet attended by up
| wards OF three hundred gentlemen TO do honor to
Mr.. cyrus Hield, OF New York, for his eminent
graph, invite TO Join In the comp iment offered
10 him this day, and 70 ask you, while drinking his
cDngrRtulation, MAY he live a thousand years"
THE GOVERNOR. GENERAL LERsUNDI TO THE DUKE
|
| HAVANA, July Id r. NJ ,-SenOr Duque de Argyll,
ymi voto la fecltacion al brlndlsu V. e. pro.
nunciado este NOM entO honor Mr. Cyrus w.
Field sus emtnenJes servcios TestadOs w oara el
estabe cmiento del TELEGRAPH AJantlco al saIudar
serve a tan ilustre YAron Que viva w mu ,thos
AMOS LERSUNDI.
MR.. MORSE TO THE DUKE OF ARGYLL.
To hiB Grace the Duke OF Argyll Willis Rooms:--
tice: May this divine attribute ever he the com.
pRnion OF the telegraph In It's true mission Of binding
the nations or the entire world Ia bonds OF