New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-29
IN LONDON.
BANQUET BY CYRUS W. FIELD.
sprrcvEs BIT MIR. GLADSTONE, HUGH NcULLocH,
AND OTHERS.

Mr.. Cyrus w. Field gave Si""" Df'
list evening at Bucdns ham Palace ho,ei ~
of the American Thanksgiving nay Tue 'owpI nS -,
Guided Mr. Gladstone, NJ. p. General CesnC-' Hs4o
Franger Mr. Raxter. NJ p, Sir Charles Wlugfed, Sir
John Hav NJ p Sir Charles WheatstOne, MT Fender,
NJ Cir James Anderson Admiral Richards, Mr. Mas
sew NIP Mr. Macarthur, NJ. p, Mr. VMey' Mr.
slemens &c During the dinner several kilograms were
dispatched 70 America and answers received
Mr. c. W. Field, chairman, proposed the healtn Oh
tho oueen and next of the President or the united
statesp These toasts enthusiastically honored'
Mr Field nex proposed Great Britain and the United
States Of America two countries destined 10 be united IN
friendship as closely they are In knshp In connec-
ton with this toast he said he would mention one whose
name ia household word throughout the whole world
the Right Hon. william E. Gladstone. lCheersl Mr..
Gladstone responded
SPEECH GLADSTONE
MR. FIELD AND GENTLEMEN; Idont know Sir, whether
Won have been fortunate this choice Of the individual
whom you have hOnored by requesting him TO respond
20 this toast but feel quite certain that you have been
fortunate in the occasion which it is given 1t Is
given on a day when in full consonance with the Chris
tan feelings your country you render thanks to the
Giver of all good for the bounty which He has poured
ont and IL IA given on q day when there Is gathered
around this hospitabe tableboard body OF gentlemen
united with yourself IN great work which constitutes
at once one OF the signal triumphs Of modern
science and Of the few guarantees for the peace and
amity Of the world. lCheersl
therefore feel sure that this is occasion eminently
sutad for the expression of the sentiments which you
have embodied in the words of the toast Great Britain
and the United States of America two countries destined
united in friendship as closely as they are In KIM
I hope, sir that that is the case, and firmly be-
ueve that your toast speaks more than the truth
am afraid Mr. Field often happens that when specal
friendship between countries is boosted or that 1t
does not 80 much mean the appreciation they entertain
Of an mt
The meetings Of the representatives Of countries are
not unreduently considered TO DO the token Of some
thing that is formidable their neighbOrs; but II there
be- as think there Is special relation Of friendship be-
tween England and America, 1t Is q friendship which
implies nothing injurious and nothing disparaging TO
any other country in the world lCheers.I 1t 1t not
founded on any views of aggression that entertain
In common it is hardly conceivable that there
everl should be any object which was desired
only by England and America unless u were az object
beneficial to every other country in the world 1t Is
specially Of friendship founded upon the close relation
ship of race united language upon sympathy
at least not identity OF Institutions on love OF free
dom and rational order-sefg overnment-whch alike
distinguishes these great countries. Cheers And
If We found the specially friendship upon consid
erations such as these found 1t upon basis which
we desire be peculiar to ourselves but when we
shall be glad occupied In common with ourselves
By every other people on the face OF the gloDe'
lCheersl
tits quite true Sir that the relations of England and
America have marked by features which are be-
ueye without parallel In history. Is not often that
history has given us example OF a colony Ike the
United states-a colony or combination OF colonies so
vigorous so full Of promise and Of power 80 different
from any those colonies that have been founded by
other European countries. When the day OF separation
came it came attended by circumstances Of pain and
exasperation but it affords happiness for
both sides OF tie water. when We can
look back to 1t without either pain or
evaporation; and your part, am quite sure you are
ready TO feel and to make allowance for gallant people,
who believed though erroneous, that they were strug
Cling for national nfe and that upon the unity OF the
Empire depended the happiness Of their country
We on our part are now able 20 that with motives
honorable we were in error; that we were struggling
against nature; struggling may venture to say even
against Providence, and Americans themselves do not
more honor the day OF their emancipation and their IN
dependence than we Engshmen who give them the full
tribute of sympathy and who would not If we could
undo or reverse the course Of things. lCheers.l
The relations Of the two countries, close as
they had and severed they were by so severe
process distinguished in another most important
particular from every other case OF the KIND that mas
been known in The history OF the world We were
severed politically from another but the severance
was not what, 70 use homey e4presslon' may DC
termed clean severance.
IL was not for example, as the Of the two coun-
triesiof the Peninsula which, when they were severed
from their colony and possessions in South America mad
no longer any Especial reatons or any special contro
VERSES subsisting between them. After the ndepend-
ence Of the United States established Great Britain
continued TO be an American Power From that circum-
stance and from many other circumstances 10 has hap
pened that while the hand there never has been
mother land daughter country that had such strong
reasons for friendship and Affection neither has there
ever been mother and a daughter country which In
time Of independence were menaced with many pos
sibe subjects Of controversy and OF possible difference
and dscord Consequently there has been all along this
singular contrast the feeling OF the people OF the two
countries toward another that, while we have been
powerfully attracted by alllthose causes 20 which
1 have referred,lI while awe have felt how the
seal OF brotherhood has been stamped upon US
by the hand Of the Almighty himself, and
that the noble motive that tendedIto promote true
union Of feeling further quckened by the vast and
extraordinary community Of interest between us, yet
on the other hand att almost every point Of the wide
circumference there were questions Of controversy
which from time TO timel divided u.s. and which 1t
work OF time and difficulty TO settle Until this present
day 1t would hardly have been practicable TO point TO
the moment which there has not been some one or
other subject ofEcOrrespondenee and even OF dispute.
remaining unsettled between England and the United
States.
But Mr. Field there is this happy difference 10 be OBJ.
served have said that we have had the most power
full impulses to union and concord have said have
many occasiop of difference and Of controversy but the
occasions difference and OF controversy were in their
nature temporary and capable OF being settled by intel
hgent good sense and friendly temper The time Of that
settlement happily arrived when we can speak
OF 1t not thing be hoped. not thing to be do
sired but as a contamination which has happily been
accomplished. Loud cheers.l
Those differences have passed away the motives TO
union remain. They are not, Ike other controversies,
marked with fugitive and transtory character. Every
one OF them profoundly rooted in the circumstances OF
the two countries the character OF the people by