The New York herald., 1872-11-29
American National Thanksgiving Offer
ing in The British Metropolis.
Banquet in London-Fraternity Of Sentiment and
the Speeches-What Premier Gladstone
Said-Eiectric Communion and General
Industrial Progress-Fraternal Re-
lations Between Great Britain
aud the United States.
TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK asaAlo.

Mr.. Cyrus w. Field gave a grand banquet this
evening at Buckingham Palace Hotel in celebra-
ton OF the American Thanksgiving Day.
/ The company included Mr.. Gladstone, M. p. Gen
erai Cesnoa, Lord W. Hay, Baron Emile Erlanger,
Mr.. Baxter M. p. Sir Charles Wingfed, Sir John
Hay, NJ p; Sir Charles Whealstone, Mr.. Pender,
| NJ p; Sir James Anderson, Admiral Richards, Mr..
Massey M. p. Mr.. Macarthur, Mr.. yarley, Mr.. Sie-
mems, &c.
During the dinner several kilograms were de-
! sDatched to America and answers received.
| Mr.. @. w. FIELD, Chairman, proposed the
"health OF the Queen" and next or the president
| OF the United States" These toasts were enthu-
| slastically honorcd
| Mr.. Field next proposed "Great Britain and the
United States Of America, two countries destined
to be united in friendship closely as they are in
kinship In connection with this toast he would
mention one whose name is household word
throughout the whole world, "the Right Hon.
William L. Gladstone" (Cheers.)
PREMIER GLADSrONE's SPEECH.
Mr. GLADSTONE said:-
Mr.. FIELD AND GENTLEMEN-I don't Know sir.
whether you have been fortunate In this choice Of
the individual whom you have hOnOred by request
certain that you have been fortunate In the occa-
sion on which it Is given. 1t is given on q
thanks to the Giver OF all good for the bounty
day when there is gathered around this hos
pitabe table board body OF gentlemen united
%s Sc I'm IN great work which constitutes
peace and amity Of the world (Cheers.j
eminently suited FOR the expression OF the senti-
me ments M which & yon have embodied IN the words Of
America, two countries destined to be
UNI united IN ,,n1ei friendship as closely as they
the ne and believe NEAT sf speats Is
no more than the truth. am afraid, Mr.. Field, it
often happens that when special friendship be-
tween two countries Is bOasted OF 1t does not
SO much mean Interpretation they entertain OF
one another as an antipathy towards somebody
countries arc not unfrequently considered to
be the token Of something that is formidable to
is, special relation Of friendship between Enr
nothing mperious and nothing dispar gng any
founded on any views OF aggression that we
entertain; in common it is hardly conceivable that
only BY England and America, unless it were an
object beneficial to every other country
founded upon the close relationship Of ni our
race, race, upon united % language upon sympathy, at
seSom nan ana ratcna 81 or love 81
which alike distinguishes these two great coun-
tries-tcheersl II we found the speciality or
we desire not to be peculiar to our:
in common with ourselves by every other people
on the face Of the globe. (Cheerso 1t is quite
lea have been marked by features which are, I
believe, without parallel in history. it is
not often !, that history has
a colony or combination OF companies so yig0r-
GUS, so full OF promise and Of power, so different
by other European countries When the day OF
separation came 1t came attended by circumstances
OF pain and evaporation but 1t now affords hap
piness for both sides OF the water when we can
look back to IL without either pain or exas-
peration; and on your part am quite sure you are
people, who believed, though erroneous, that they
were struggling for national life, and that upon the
unity oil the empire depended the happiness Of
their country. We, on our part are now able to see
that with motives honorable we were in error;
Cling, may venture to say, even against Provi-
dence, and Americans themselves do not more
dependence than we Engiishnen. who give them
the full tribute of our sympathy, and who would
not, II we could, undo or reverse the course of
Mr. FIELp-1he relations OF the two countries,
close as they had been and severed they were by
so severe process, were distinguished in another
most important particular from every other case OF
the kind that has eyer been known in the his
from ne another, but the severance was not what,
to use homcly expression may be termed clean
severance. It was not for example, as in the case
Of the two countries OF the Peninsular, which, when
they were severed from their colony and posses
sions in South America had no longer any
subsisting between them. After the independence
of the United States was established Great Britain
circumstance and from many other circumstances
it has happened that, while on the one hand
there never has been mother and daughter
for friendship and affection, neither has
there ever @een mother and daughter
aced with 80 many possible subjects OF contro.
versy and OF possible difference and discord, and
in fhQ nj fhp Ia WI
tries toward one another. that, while we nave been
we Sy all We os ye @ how TO ae
seal OF brotherhood has been stamped upon us
BY the hand hand Of % the Almighty Aim ayoa himself and
mote a true union Of feeling was further
quickened by the vast and extraordinary commu-
at almost every point Of the wide circumference
there were questions OF controversy which from
of time and dlfliculty to settle Until this present
day il would hardly have been practicable
to point to the moment OF which thee
has not been some one or other subject Of CORE
spondence and even OF dispute remaining unsettled
between England and the United states. But, Mr..
Field, there Is this happy difference to be observed
have said that we have had the most powerful
impulses to union and concord, nave said we have
the occasions OF difference and Of controversy we're
In their nature temporary and capable OF being
settled by intelligent good sense and friendly tenn
per. The time OF that settlement has now hap
PLY arrived, when we can speak Of Il not as
thing to be hoped, not thing 70 be desired but as
plished loud chcers.) Those temporary
direrences have. passed away the motives 10
union remain. They are not like other conttover-
sizes marked with fugitive and transitory clarac-
ter Every one OF them Is profoundly rooted IN the
circumstances of the two countries and in
the character OF the people by which they are in
habited so tnat although there has been Ia
otner times a strong, and unconqnerable
sentiment tending toward fraiernal union, yet
that sentiment has heretofore been liable TO be
conquered by opposite and contendng currents.
Now IL can move with a full and equal nOw with
nothing to interrupt Il and nothing to nx d,ne the
m know to exist. (Cheers) And now, sir, these
NAV be said to be generaies and with
the permission which dare not ask from you, but
which am quite sure may assume myself, have
| received from the company, and will endeav0r to
| give them particular application. tCheers Inc
! union or the two countries means alter all the
| union OF the men by whom they are inhabited, and
among the men by whom they are IN,
| habited there are some whose nappy
lot il has been to contribute more than Others TO