The Sun. — 1863-08-04 (London, England)

LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1863.  The assembly that took place on board the A.driatic on Friday was of a very auspicious character. It was the inauguration of the New Atlantic Mail Steam Packet Company. The directors entertained the Lord-Lieutenant, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, and numerous other persons of note and distinction. Nothing could have been more successful than the affair on the whole. The weather was also most favourable. Lord CAR LISLE'S name was received in a very enthusiastic manner. The noble lord made one of his appropriate speeches on the occasion. He frankly stated that no credit due to the setting on foot of this undertaking accrued to himself and his colleagues. But, he added, it was not advisable to refer to the troubles of the past, and he was happy in adopting the philosophy of the old motto, " All's well that ends well." .His lordship's prognostications for the future were of the brightest sort. He said, " I yield to no one in the heartiness of my wishes for the complete euccess of the undertaking ; and I am sure that the proceedings of the company could not have been better inaugurated than on board the magnificent vessel in which we are now assembled —this sumptuous ocean-palace in which I am only too proud to discharge the functions assigned of old to the Doges of Venice—of wedding the State to our new Adriatic." This idea was received with loud applause. Nothing gains more in a public assembly or attracts more notice on a festive occasion than the introduction of a happy quotatio❑ or the skilful adaptation of a proverb or well-known occurrence. On one occasion Sir WALTER SCOTT excited great amusement by proposing the health of MACADAM, at some banquet, as the modern " Colossus of Rhodes." Lord CARLISLE'S remarks -were exactly suitable for the occasion, free from stiffness and restraint, and replete with good humour and good wishes. The noble lord thus eloquently concluded his brief address :—" May all happy influences flow from this auspicious connexion; safe be your voyages, propitious your winds, large your cargoes, skilful your captain, active and healthy your crews, and remunerative your returns ; and if I may express any farther wish distinct from the internal affairs and functions of the company itself, it would be that when this noble vessel has sped its useful and civilising errand across the broad Atlantic, may it bring back to us the joyful tidings that the blood of our brethren had ceased to flow in murderous conflict, and that the nations and races once more repose in peace."  The Lord Mayor, in the course of his remarks, spoke strongly in favour of the company, and hoped that the " wealth ana commerce between the old 'World and the new would flow through the centre of Ireland." He also congratulated Irishmen on h%ving put aside political and polemical discussions in order to achieve their end, and he was grad they 119'd succeeded, 'which They bad gained also that respect always belongs to a united nation. Lord CLANCARry congratulated the shareholders on the auspicious event. He said that brighter times seemed in store for them, and they were " apparently emerging from a series of bad seasons, after under they had beeneia cloud of difficulties and dis-' tress, arising from had no control." Alderman over which they shareholders nhREYNOLDS remarked that the number of friends in that county was 1,600, and he said the population ends of the company took in all the better proof of ethat of 44105 could be given of this assertion t1;11° Commons, 103 Irish representatives in the House were in favour of the Galway line?, .The worthy alderman excited great amusement by h on Lord