The New York Herald Newspaper, April 25, 1851, Page 2

THE SIXTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF ST. GEORGE'S SOCETY. SPEECH OF SIR HENRY LYTTON BULWER, ke, ke., ke. ‘The St. George’s Society of the State of New York celebrated their sixty-fifth anniversary, on ‘Wednesday, by a dinner, at the Astor House, to which about one hundred and fifty friends of the institution sat dowe. The chair was occupied by the President of the Sosiety, Dr. Beale, and on bis right was seated his Excellency Henry Lytton Bulwer, her Britan- nic Majesty's Minister to this country, and wearing ‘on his breast the star of his order. On the loft of the chair was the Swedish Minister. Amongst the other distinguished guests were Hon. F. Tallmadge, the Recorder of New York; Rev. Dr. Wainright, Edward Cunard, Eeq., Depeyster Ogden, Esq., Capt. Cooper, of the British army, — Saunderson, Esq., ex-President of the St. George's Society, S. New England Society, the Presi- dents of the Knickerbocker, St. Nieholas and St. Andrew's Societies, Richard Bell, Esq., President | of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick; Rev. Dr. Vinton, —— Lytton, Esq., son of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, a hew and attaché of Sir Henry Lyt- ton Bulwer; Capt. Judkins, of the Asia ; —— Cuth- berton, Esq.. ex-President of the St. George’s So- { ciety. The Vice Presidents were Messrs. Young | and Bradshaw Atthe ba Draper, of the chair was placed the coat of and Ireland. arme of Gres At each end of the room were suspended the Eng- | lish and American flags in close proximity. | The Rev . Warnnicut, Chaplain of the So- eiety, offered up a prayer of thanksgiving, and the » proceeded to discuss the excellence o tor House. It consisted of served in Coleman & Stet- Amongst the edibles were some wer Wort many larities, son’s best sty! very fine English turbot, presented by CaptainJud- | kins, of the s also a leg of prime Eng lish mutton and a round of beef, presented by the a saddle of delicious South nted by Captain , of the American steamship Pacific. The earmels and or- mamental confectionary were very tastefully exe- euted. In front of the Chair was a carmel sur- mounted by the George and the Dragon. In the other he room were repre- sentation Gothic pavil Roman helmets, National Pyramid, &e., &e. At the conclusion of the dinner, a number of ele- gantly dreseed and beautiful women entered the room, aud were conducted by some of the Stewards to the alcove at the rear of the Chair, where they participated in the enjc nt of the sentiments that were subsequently given and responded to. Dodworth’s Band, during the entrauce of the ladies, played “ t be dear Woman,” and the whole compeny rose to receive them with the honor due to the sex. Mr. Geo. Leper presided at the pianc res of parts of and He was ably assisted by the vocal powers of several ether gentlemen. A company of professional men then sang Non Nobis Lomine, the company standing ‘The P r of the St. y and E Ww remarks on occasions like the present; king arc him and seeing who where present, he would o less time than usual, and be as brief as possible.— During the past year, the society has been very pros rous, and has contributed to the assistance ween four and five thousand persons, who have = to the society for aid and information in erder to enable them to reach the places of their | destination. During the last year situations have been provided for 354 En, » 29 Sea » 31 Welch, 264 Irish, and2 Germans. There have been relieved, | within the same period, 285 widows, 47 single women, $3 men with families, 79 single men, and # regular Fensioners. ‘The first regular toast was then proposed,— ‘The Day and all who honor it —whieh was drank with applause Second regula> toast: — ‘The Queen, God bless her. Drank with all the b God Save the Queen ‘Third regular toast « The President of the U Drank standing. Musie—' 1 Columbia.” In proposing the fourth regular toast, the Presi- @ent said it was unnecessary to make any remarks. "The toast literally embraced many individuals, but is lly intended for one who is present (Sir Henry Bulwer.) With a few more remarks he pro- ‘Sir Iteury Bulwer, and Her Majesty's representatives this tune nt gis Hi Be LWwER said that he had always endea- vored to follow out one principle, namely:—that of doing, when it was possible, whatever he had engaged to do, and that therefore be had appeared amongst them that evening. But that when he felt how in- disposed he was, how frequently be had addressed them on similar subjects, he confessed he was in that jtuation his countryman, Sir W. Don, so well acted, that of being completely “used up”— GQaughter)—but that he had one consolation, which was, that in the country in which he was, when a man had not a leg to stand upon, he could still take the stump. (Laughter.) Ile wae afraid, however, he was not even yet enough Americanized to nake @ good stump specch ; but as there was nothing like trying, he wou that sent occasion and the present company. said he, gentlem are we thus assemb'ed, thousands of miles from our mative shores? We are here met to cherish aud live in our hearts those fires that burn on our national altars—to declare in the face of the whole world, that wherever an Englishman was, he was proud of the land of bis birth; and to testify ors, standing. Music— ted States ' | | 2 = Where, amidst overflowing cups, and hearts still more | everfiowing, to the holiest of all affections—save love to our God—I mean our for our | eountry. (Loud ng and applause.) There are many bi who, like myself, have travelled far aud een many thin yet is there any one who, @ ¢ moment, fe eof an Englishman at this p e (her hed his heart.) than when the white cli f Albion for f the first time receded from his vi Yet, af all, if a man is obliged to leave bir Wative country, it is some comfort not to leave his native language . An Englishman is a © understand—(laughter)— d reserved to himse Applause.) Nor is Very curious anima warlable as his own climate, stiff a foreigners, shy and distrustful eve: ‘ene can understand bin same race and who © ame t ) I had an ex _— of this k , be continued. An American ge me:—“I have just come from your @r; [Utell you my opinion of your coun’ John Bull ie a downright man et int pression, my American friend struck off at a wer national character Since we are amidst friends 1 thiek | may venture to say that John Hull ie n smartest man that can d¢ found; on the be trary, he is a homely sort of fellow, whovw motto ix andsome does.” (Applause. ) without performi e is who Bat be never promises anything \ it, and he never performs anything which does nov token of future promise. (Loud applause end ter.) I think f should be flattering hii wore Ito say that he was a very fas; man; (laughter) he is always kept back by the fear of “ outruoning the constable; (laughter) but any one who knows John Bull even by sight, knows well that what he ‘wante in speed he makes up for in bottom. (Ap- nme a ughter.) In fact, to appreciate really is qualiti it is neceseary to see him in a long race; it is then found out immediately that he ever requires to stop for want of breath, for he ean always “raise the wind” whenever he likes it (Renewed laughter.) However anxious not to be alow, he is rtill more dete bis burry “to go ab be never goes “head over heel laugh- ter.) Others have been before him in measuring the mountains of the moon, and inventing machines and, in rethat ned to be = to ride through the air. He ie nota person of these high flights; but take him on th earth or the wa- ter—he claims the first honors of the railroad on the ne, of the steam vessel on the other. In short, to retarn to what my Amoriean friend a —_ sceurity in what John a downright solidity in'what he does steadiness in the pace he goes~and ee, in what he invents, thy type of the downright—and when h his hand, whether open or shut doubled his hand) he dove it in each a a that every one saye: that's juet th of oh ! should like to have for a friend, and a of fellow | should like to hove for re | given you a Boll! (loud )—-wol) th @: Joho Bull’ Bw says, there is Ball «ay a downright (he) id try, and he begged to assure them | Y anything could inspire him, it was the pre- | are we, and for what purpose | for the strange land! and showing him the means by which he can make his labor most useful to himself and to the country to which he has come. (Applause.) 1 am glad, continued Sir Henry Bulwer, to my- self amongst @ society of this ription, for 1 am one of those who believe in the general progress of mankind— “ For I doubt not thro’ the ages some increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widening with the process of the swmps."? Loud applause. ise to myself ) But I eanno! dig that a number of old fallacies still bewilder our minds and cling to our heels. I say, therefore, that I delight to find myself among this society, be- cause 1 could not find a better witness to contradict the most vulgar and common of all fallacies: namely, that of supposing that in every transac- tion between States or individuals, wha: one part; ains the other party must lose. [Applause. hat, let me ask you, Mr. President, 44) been taking place of late years under your eyes! Have you not seen the foreign capitalist wanting employ- ment for his capital? the foreign laborer wanting employment for his industry? and the American farmer and manufacturer wanting railroads to facili- tate the transit and enhance the value of his pro- duce t—railroads which were likely to return great profits if once made, but which he, the American, wanted capital and labor to make? Well, have you not seen the foreign capitalist advancing his money to bring out the foreign laborer, to con- struct the American railways and, has any one been a loser by these transactions? No, sir! the foreign capitalist has increased his capital; tho Fo bp laborer has maintained himself and his family ; the American farmer and manufacturer has doubled—in some cases quadrupled—the value of his property. When people talk to me of the bless- i e, I coneur with the: but | don’t con- those blessings within the mere fact that a man is to die a little later by fever or the gout, than he would do otherwise by the sword or pistol. 1 esti- mate the blessings of peace just in proportion to the manner in which they are diffused over the wide sur- face ernational intercourse, by which 1 mean those relations which each portion of the world is intended by nature and Providence to maintain with the other. When I say by nature and Providence, I speak advise ; for well has it been said by that great poet who seems nown the heart and world of man almost 2 if he had made them, hat there is throug! yin all things above and below, each respectively to the other, * A form and place. tom and office in all line of order,”? he affirms, that amidst the heavenly bodies silvery orb, * Which by its me Corrects the ill effects of R So 1_venture to say that in this our nether world, esters hemisphere, with its zbundant hary and boundless territory, corrects the i our stagnant tien and stifling cities. « pplause.) And as your society, sir, is a | goodly instrument for carrying out this great de- sign, will you permit me to return you a just and merited compliment for its excellent purpose and | useful exertions. But will you allow me on the present occasion to single out for peeu- h ial and illustrious emigrant, Permission of Queen intercession, is present I speak in faver, air, he illustrious dicinal eye lanet’s evil,” with the and at al this evening. of no stranger to the British family ; raest to whom I alluded, was ofte we may see £F pavent shxuslelen. bend Io ling us to the charge in our earliest battles, aud, although he is no longer visible to us on these occasions, probably because our eyes are somewhat dimmed by the light of the times we live in, yet, sir, is it well known by | all that he was oy, the side of Wolfe, when that gallant gencral climbed the heights of Abraham ; that he stood shoulder by shoulder with Nelson, when that brave commander, covered with stars and sear trod, for the last time, the deck of the Vic- ad that looked down with Wellington from hts of Waterloo, when the tottering empire leon made its last and futaleharge. (Deaf- se.) Ay! and throughout the whole ct, by which, forso many years, Eu- rope was convulsed, when the hand of a’foreign in- vader tore down the national colors from every an- cient establishment, it was he who, on the topmost height of the old and venerable fabric of the British constitution kept fast and flying the red cross of England—an emblem of hope to the oppressed—a token of defiauce tothe oppressor. (Loud and re- peated cheering.) You know, already, whom I mean; his banner, gentlemen, is on yonder wall; his badge, Mr. President, i¢ on your breast; his image is in all our hearts. Hurrah for 31 orge england! (Redoubled cheering.) Now, ave been so kind ai, reception of the b I have just uttered, wi that of a near and o Saint—I mean “St. r relative of at onathan.” = 1 our have’ seen this same gentleman in many guises—I have just come from visiting him asa Virginia planter; Ihave shaken hands with him as» West- Fon farmer; 1 have been feasted by him in this very hall ata New England Pilgrim, and 1 have dined | with him asa New York merchant; | have kaown | him well asa Washington legislator, and I have | been on intimate terms with him as an American | statesman, both in and out of office—and I will tell | you that I don’t believe that there is a more rous or honest hearted saint in the whole calendar— (laughter)—one who is more ready to give his best bottle of wine to a friend, or to drink his friend's best bottle of wine, if he gives it him—(laughter). who is more skilled to turn a penny—more splendid in spending a guinea. (Cheers.) Bat St. Jona- than, though not solely, is especially a ring sort of saint, and he has at this time a vessel on the ocean about which he is somewhat anxior hough it is in reality in no sort of danger. 1 think I see fiying from its copmast the Unon-jack. (Applause and cheers.) I think I hear a ery,of “a loug pall, a strong pull, a pull all tegether,” from the lips of rew. (Long and ,loud applause.) That vessel is called the United States—(renewed eheers)-—-and it earries as its freight the language ef Shakspeare, the code of Blackstone, the creed of Christ! (Lou¢ cheers.) Let us drink, gentlemen, to its long and | prosperous voyage :=-May no wind from the north or from the south impede ite pr precious cargo. lause and loud che There is a ; vient en mangea | other.” (Laughter.) There i a peculiar value, also, a¢ all philosophers have agreed, in the rule-of-three; and, as [ have already ‘proposed to you “St. George and St. Jonathan,” will you’ now allow me to propore to you the health of another saint, the saint of the place in which we are met, 1 mean “st. Knickerbocker” (applause and laughter) -and don’t let us make any mistake. I say this, beeause there were formerl, persons who did confound the Flying Dutchman with the devil. (Laughter.) N i , there is no sort of by ” and “Old affinity between ‘Old Kniel 3 have the Nick” —(laughter)—and if y difference etrongly marked, r member that whereas the one, according to the best information we have been able to receive, always keeps his visiters parched and thirsty—(laughter)— a will have perceived this evening, plenty of excellent wine, and has taken the greatest possible pains to procure them an abun- dant sapply of capital water. (Applause.) I have thus linked, gentlemen St. G * sath Jo- and “St. Ko oodly eity of New York ¢ built by these thre I St g by merite the same imperial denomi- Old World. (Cheers) You see, gen- that I have tha» contrived to lead you from omac, and the magnifi- y of the Hudeon, to our swaller but not ignoble Thames. Are you surprised at tlemer the «tately banks of the I cent scene’ Preather there a man with soul so dead, Who te himself hax newer said Here ie Wh Ae ne From wandering on a fi If euch there be” ure he i# not in this company ; for if the lore yuntr universol throughout the human race that it thrillethe Indian hunter as he roves through the wild and desolate forests, and is felt even by the slave, who, when offored fight and free- dom, bas often beea known to cling, in preference, to hie master’s , how much more must it be felt by every Bri breast! But, gentlemen, if 1 feel ayeculiar pride in the land of our common birth, it ie not me tof Th | bravery of th. Which stands, like By rocks unsealeable and roaring waters Nor is it merely because that «mall epeck in the measureless sea has extended out the vigarous arma of its cee ire w F breeze can bear. or bi m because I see that bra little island wary of liberty and law. [tis marked throughout that mighty and extend ty and religion—commerce and civiliza- pringing up everywhere, side by side. (Cheers wl applause.) Mere conquest, gentlemen, is a valgar thing. | There were the Tartar conquerors: they swe t over the earth—their march was marked by Siaughter, and their were trophies raised by hu- man ekulle. (Applanse.) There were the Roman re—the mightiest “ they” of all antiquity. ) Bat how d he Roman hi he ancient Britons subjected to their sway, scribe the end and aim of all their conquests? they make a solitude and call that ep emotion, followed by loud and 1 e.) Long will that phrase of binwd the fume of biy countrymom! Lut ou allow me | ene- | strand’ (Applause) | ta pera have t demnesses, and be! them have che eg i and pies cities ; and naan et 5 eariens which, since their passage, civilized man heeaine the eee of Christian mer re spots where forme avi alped and the wolf devouged ite victim. Gentlemen, 1 confess] admire a great empire, but I admire far more the t use ofit. When TI take up of Asia, I feel, doubtless, some pride in finding-@ hundred millions of its inhabitants subjected to the British rule; but this pride is nothing to that whieh fills my breast as 1 reflect that is not one among that one hundred millions who, whether he | be a Hindoo or a Mahometan, a warrior of the mountain tribes of Marattas or # subtle inhabitant of the soft cities of Bengal who does not fly to a British tribunal as a blessed refuge from the per- secution of his neighbor, orfrom the fraud and injus- tice of his own race orcreed. And so, gentlemen, will I take up the map of North America, and there follow out the long line which designates the in- mense territory that still bears the British name. Small is the’ satisfaction which I feel at that aps compared with that which I entertain | when, after inquring into the state and con- | dition of our colonies im those parts, I find | taxed, more liberally governed, or who can, thoug! Tsay it, be more powerfully protects. than our brave, dearly beloved, andloyal brethren, who there dwell beneath the sceptre of Queen Victoria. (Loud and long continued applause.) Gentlemen, as long as I see things thus, [ would not pilliagly consent , that Great Britain should lose one inch of her present wide domain, one particle of her mighty power of | rendering justice and doing good. (Great applause.) | Would that it had beeneverthus! They who have studied the fortunes of these countries, inwhich we that there is no people in the world more lightly | 0! are now residing, know what they were built up by our hardy character, out of our own free laws. But when we had raised them to that be in which | they furnished forth a noble and goodly edifice to inhabit, we unfortunately pulled down the fabric | about our ears, and were not altogether undeservedly stoned from the ruins of our own work. (immense applause.) Yes, gentlemen, and from the excellence of che materials we had put into that work were the hardness of the blows that we received. (Great | laughter.) I will not say that { rejoice at that | | event; | know that there are philosophers and ocu- | lists who tell you that if one eye is ie out the other | sees the clearer for the loss; but | would not try myself, and | would not recommend an intimate friend of mine to try this polyphemian experiment. (Laughter.) 1 willnot say, then, that I rejoice at this event; it would be humbug and affectation in me to do so; and above all things I detest humbug and affectation; (applause;) but since it took place so long ago, and was in part the consequence of our ults, I can say, without the least humbug or tation, that I do rejoice at the power and prosperity whieh this independent country en- joys. (Loud applause.) I can say, that I feel pride and pleasure at seeing a separate tribe of our great family raising its teat so high, and extending it out so broadly and so proudly by the side of the tent of their great forefather. (Great cheering.) And is not the time now come at which these two kin- | died people may do well to forget that they ever towards cach other in the fratricidal attitude | 1, and only remember, after all, ents Were the same, and that the | earliest and holiest recollections of their common race gather around the same Eden? (Loud cheers.) Ah! gentlemen, let us bury our father’s uarrels in our fathers’ graves, and we shall then nd that Englishmen and Americansare not merely | Anglo-Saxon brothers, but, if 1 may so speak, Siamese twins—(Loud laughter)—at all events, twins after the fashion of Siam, for the same cur- rent of blood runs through their veins, the same | current of thought runs Lia their minds, and are they not bound together by the strongest tie which can connect human beings, namely, the i (Applause and laughter.) “What re the facts that are known to all of ust More + than two-thirds of the staple produce of this coun- try are exported to the British possessions—almost all the staple produce of the great West, that is exported, goes in the same direction—and when we look at the general amount of exports from this country out of the 145,000,000 worth of dollars thus exported, $98,000,000 are sent to the British mar- ket. (Cheers.) When the ligament which unites | Great Britain and the United States together is of such solid and substantial material, are we to fear that any rusty old weapon taken from the antique armory of by-gone quarrels, will cut such a ligament asunder! (Great sensation.) No, never! There may, to be sure, now and then be an Englishman who will bx that Ame- rica crows a little too much over John Bull, but I should take the liberty of telling him that such tales are mere cock-and-bull stories—(immense laughter)—and I would venture to advise my Ame- rican friend there, that whenever any countryman of peaks of John Bull beng Sotrone wo ay | America under his feet, that he should assure hin that if there is any bull at all in the case, it is au Irish bull, (continued laughter), the head and tai | of which ‘is a mistake. (Cheers and laughter). I) am sure, gentlemen, that the sentiments which | thus express are the sentiments of nine-tenths of | ‘the Asuerican people; and though there may be | some few who dissent from them, that these few will | ere long be guided by their good sense and reason, , and come round to them. (Cheers.) I think, in- deed, there are already signs of a considerable change | —when people mean to be really vicious they either bark or bite, whereas ] observed that they who | now show their evil propensity, instead of bark- | ing or biting, have adopted a sort of ventriloquistic | squeal—(laughter)—-by which they meau to have it believed that | am p arpen 3 when they move their own lips and utter their own sentiments. ang ter.) 1 will say a word or two on this matter. any of you, gentlemen, happen to have any good- natu friends? (laughter,) if so, you ean under- stand how my good-natured friends at Washington all crowded around me immediately on my return from Richmond, to relate how @ most infamous publication had appeared in some journal, | believe called the Boston Celt, purporting to be an inter- cepted despatch from me to the English Secretary of State for Foreign Afiains. Now, people usually advertise when they have lost any property, but I wish to advertise that I have lost no property at all—(laughter;) and, although it is natural to conjecture from the semi- barbarous, semi-clad, and Celtic origin of my{ Boston friend—(laughter)—that he had been guilty of the crime of which he bousted, namely, theft—he hus in reality been guilty of an offence which more apropriately belongs to a farther advanced stage of taluous and refinement— (iaughter)—I imean forgery ; another example, by the way, of the general maxim, that all savages, whether Celtic, or otherwise, when they take to in- habiting cities, even such moral cities as Boston, adopt th ces, without ac ig the virtues or the graces of elvilised life. (Cheers and laughter.) And here I should leave the matter, but | am rather inclined to suspect (everything that is at all Yankee has such odd notions) —(aughter)—that the unkind barbarian of Massachusetts, instead of intending a more serious offence, has merely been perpetrating a bad joke, in the shape of a political squib, whieh | is meant to favor the Presidential claims of an ex- | cellent friend of mine, by having it appear that he i lur enemy of England. Now, | shoald do this friend aay disservice; but Ido net believe that I shall be doing him any disservice hy stating that | dea’t look upon him as aa enemy to | England at all, and that I feel sure that he is only just as much so ny of the other great American statesmen or generals whom | know, nd honor, and of whom | always spenk write with due re- spect. (Cheers) That is,heis not an English man, but an Ameri and would consequently just as Mr. Webster, or Mr. Clay, or Mr. Fillmore, or General Scott would do under similar cirea a- stances, consult American interests, but it is just beean think that all these great stateemen and | generals will and do consult American interosts, | that Lam convinced that none of them are or can be ene! to England. (Applause) It that in this reepest I judge of others by my: | ae | have always hitherto said, [now repens ve most at a firm in between the Lmited Kingdom of Great and the U States of America (lc cheers); and when I wish ¢o ardently for t alliance, it is not from any eentimens of national fear. 1 will not «ay anything of our armies, of our navies, of or increasing financial resources—these are frail supports im comparison with the staff upon which | lean my confidence, namely, that tof pa- triotiean whieh in ur favered land’ is equally found in the prince’s palace and pensant’s cabin. You will remember what took plase in 1X48, and recent- ly in 1861. In the one case, the highest peer in the | realm descended in the streets with the constable’ staff to protect the commonwealth in the other, the most nt politieal leaders of alf parties declined wer and place, when they thouglet they could not | Rota them with advantage to the State. (Loud | Oh! gentlemen, when | see # | country in whieh al! men are ready to ome forward to face a common danger, and none are eager to | ueh forward in order to gratify a selfisi# ambition, | 1 feel sure that that country has no cau ve te fear an intermal or an external foe. Ido not them cherish the scheme of an Anglo-Saxon alliinee from an: sentiment of national fear; nor do | look to it wit any view towards a sort of Robin Hood associstéi whieh would unite us Anglo-s # inal echeme of pillaging and plundering the rest of mane kind. No, the association which T desire to see bee tween England and America is such a one, Mr. , Presiden « that which connects the members of your society; an association which has for its object to protect the friendless, to instruct the ignorant, to advance every great work, to put down every pet ty jealousy, #0 that whilst we illustrate our own pe- coliar race by a noble policy, we may benefit every le Unronghes® the world by a great and (Immense cheering and applause.) ‘The next regular toast— The Armice and Navies of Crews Britain ang ibe and long cheers.) Rim States; may they mever meet except in friend- Captain ooren, of British Army, was called upon to respond, w din a few and appropriate remarks. said he was sorry that some tleman more capable of doing justice to the ‘subject than he was, fea not eerf ealled upon to reply to the toast which had been given; but as he had for twenty yous of his life fillowed obe- dience as a rule of duty, he would not disobey, even in this instance, the which was made upon him. The sentiment just proposed is a very amiable one, and very essential to the preservation of peace be- tween the two countries. At the same time, it did net saver of that spirit of free trade which ars now to be in the ascendant, for the fact is, if the sentiment be practically carried into effect, it would destroy the trade of the soldier. He was quite sure, however, that the officers of the British service wae Oe = 8 glad Mag yen eres ot Sian shi, 108) ity to the officers of the army 0! the United Geaten’ He ‘had had the honor aaa pleasure of meeting with officers of the Ameriean Army, and he fermed many intimasies with them, twelve years ago, which, he was happy to say, he retained to the,present, with great pleasure and ad- vantage to himself. Captain Cooper then referred to the connection between the commercial and the naval marine, but said as there were officers of the t, he would let them speak for them- selves. hoped, too, he said, that he would re- ceive during the evening a lesson in eloquence from some officer of the United States Army. After inaking a few other remarks, he sat down. ‘The CuairMan announced the next toast, which was:— ‘The Mayor and Municipal Authorities of the city of New York, which was mceived: with cheers. * Mynheer Van Dyck,” ‘The Hon, F. Tattmaner, Recorder, being loudly called for, rose to respond to the toast. Ile thanked the President and the gentlemen of the St. George’s Society, for the honor they had done him, by calling on him to respond to the sentiment so flattering to the Mayor of the city and its Common Council. He, the Recorder, had not the honor of being either the Mayor ora member of the Comimon Council, nor, as his friend on the minded him, one of its irs Governors. [Laughter.] He regretted, exceedingly, not seeing at the table, on this occasion, the ( Magistrate of this city, and would have much preferred having heard his friend Governor Draper reply to this toast, though it gave him [the Recorder] great pleasure, ax the second officer of the eity, to be present at an assem- bly like this, of gentlemen born abroad, and espe- cially when it is honored by the representative of the most powerful nation in the world. He thanked God he was among that company, whose principal object was to relieve and alleviate’ the distresses of | their countrymen. He had heard, with pleasure, the speech of the honorable gentleman, [Sir I. L Bulwer ;) he had heard him speak of that great country which he represents, and he [the Recorder] regarded it as such; and he said it, not because he was among them as Englishmen, and in the pre- sence of the representative of England, but he be- lieved the power of England to be greater than that which has ever existed on this earth. He did not allude to the extent of territory which it commands, though that is immense; it is not only its great wer and commercial influence, but its moral in- juence throughout the globe, [immense cheering,) that induces him to respond to the sentiments of its Minister. He [the Recorder] was, however, struck | with one remark of the Minister, * that England never made promises which she did not intend to perform.” Tle feared there was an allusion in that sentiment to this country, which had sprang from the-toins of the old. Sir Henry Bet wer explained. Everything was said in feelings of perfect friendship. [Cheers. The Kecorper continued—He knew the triend- ship of the honorable gentleman, for he had spoken of the Empire City of America andthe Empire City of Europe in equally high terms, and, God knows, he [the Recorder] would extol the Seen ey whom the minister represents, as high as that learned gentleman had done ; yet still, with all the allure- ments at home, Englishmen love to come to Ame- rica, and learn to love this country as their owa, and to honor and respect its institutions and its laws. He knew that, born as they were abroad, they loved their country, and if they did not, be would not love them. [Cheers.] A man who doce not love the country of his birth ix not fit to live anywhere. (Continued cheering.] As the repre- selitative of the Mayor and Common Council, begged to be permitted to say thatthey were happy to see them in this country, and as one of the humble instruments of authority, he assured them that the law will and shall be administered for the rotection of them all. As Recorder of the city of e | New York, it is his duty to take care of the erimi- nals—[laughter]—but if any of them should be- come paupers, he begged of them to call on his friend Draper. [Continued laughter.] He felt gieat pleasure at meeting the distinguished minis- Se ot ten land, and in thanking the St. George's Society, he thanked Sir Henry Bulwer. for his pre- sence, and hoped t he will long continue to re- present his country here, and that he will ever Gnd ‘Americans honest, honorable, and capable of recip- 1ocating every kindly feeling and interchange of courte; The Recorder sat down amid loud cheers. Th ESIDENT OF THE GERMAN Society, after making a few remarks, ree Benevolence. Compassion. € ity. and Disinterested- ness; the four pillars of all benevolent societies. May they remain firm, as long as there are fellow men to be relieved of distress, Derrystrr Oapen, E President of the St. hat as a brother of a Nicholas Society, said sister society, he was gratified in responding to the toast. ‘There is a common bond of sympath; between all charitable socicties, and it was wit | ponan he learned of the prosperity of the St. jeorge’s. He heard with pleasure the enthusiasm with which the health of the Queen was drank ; for she is the representative of the government of Great Britain, and a sovereign well calculated to promote the prosperity of Great Britain. It was with pleasare he saw in the newspapers that this is the sixty-fifth anniversary of your existence. Why, geutlemen of St. George's, said be, you are older than our con- stitution—older than we are ourselves. Applause.) It is fortunate for England that her desce ts in America make such sincere professions of peace, and fortunate, too, for the United States, that Eng- land is disposed in the same way. He gave as a eentiment— Ancient recoilections, derived from « common origin, strengthen the friendly fecling with which St. Nicholas greets the banner of St, George, in the city which his an- cestors founder ‘The Presipenr ov St. Davin's Society said :— It was the first time he had the honor of aupeeting before an audience of such magnitude; but he coul: not kelp acknowledging his gratitude for the sym- pothy extended tothe Welsh by the St. George's Society. He proposed— The Anglo-Saxon, the representative of the elvilized races of the old and new world A letter was here read from the President of St. id's, stating that the society had — several lots of ground in Cypress Hills Cemetery, for the interment of indigent emigrants, subject to the order of the sister societies. ‘The Presipent then gave, as a teast— The « St,Jonathan.”” Mr. Simoy Dearne responded. He snid he had 0 no desire to exhume the dead, and would not to past ages. Ile would not go back and re who discovered steam, but he would confine himseif to the present time, and say to His Exeel- leney the Engheh minister, that we are ready to into the race with him. (Applause.) He thanked the gentleman for the kind remarks he had ex- pressed towards the United States, and he would state no more than what he knew were the senti- mente of all our citizens, when he said that the United States were open to all who may choose to come, if they come with the arts of peace and with tokens of friends Applause.) In old times, England and the United States had encounters to- gether ; but for his part he bad nwhich had won; all be knew was, that the United States had survived. In conclusion, he gave a toast, compli- mentary of the charitable institutions of New York. ‘The next regular toast was— Our native land, and the land we live in. an last regular toast was— oman Drank with enthusiasm. Songs by Mr. Grisworp— “My dear Jeannie with the bonnie blue ‘een, and © Welcome Jeannie, dear’ Which were received with applause. ir H. L. Beiwen again rose and said:—Mr. President and gentlemen—I am sure you will not consider it inappropriate that, on this oecasion, on the festival ot our national Saint, I should have spoken with some warmth of feeling for the land of our birth, and I should have spoken in terms of oe praise of our American brethren; but | should vorry if, on this oceasion, it was thought | meant to glorify the Anglo Saxo: to disparage any other, and I say #0, 0 propose the toast of a foreign and friendly power; and | know none can be better received by you than my worthy friend the representative of Sweden. (Applause and eheers.) ‘The Swevisw Mixisren responded. He said he had the same sentiments, the same enthusiasm, but he had not the same language of that assembly, where he had heard so much eloquence, and he re- | gretted that he could not express himeelf ax he would wish. He belonged to the same diplomatic body which the noble Minister of England so ably represents; and, as he belonged to the same body he would take a share of the glory. (Choers.) He Lad been long enough in England to learn to ay preciate the sound sense and wisdom of the people of that country. He had lived long enough io Awierica to learn to admire the the laws and insti- tutions under which twenty-five millions of people lived happy ; buthe bad not been here long enough to be able to express, in the English language, the admiration which he feels of England and America. Atter come farther observations, the honorable | speaker coneluded with the sentiment that, may | ht Scandinavian race to which he belonged, long | be co with the Britich and American race, 0 Veruue obdrigndsbip. (Applaue-) bt [Mr. Draper,] re- | Youne, with some prefatonage- the health of a great hero, Bulwer is connected by marriaga defer his country in the field, the Safest and surest counsellor iq the (Cheers.) Great in the field, and great in the cabinet, he gave (Immense cheers.) ‘The Duke of Wellington. . Sig Henry Butwer “tare f responded. He said he knew that the Duke of Wellington, however great the gocien he had achieved in the field of battle, considered the greatest glory he 3 is that of being an Englishman, whose motto, like that of Nelson, is, that every Englishman is expected to do his duty to his country; and be {Sh 1, Bulwer) would observe that they cannot their duty to their country better than by galtontcg fri ip with the country in which theyare. (Cheers) ‘The Presipenr of the Friendly Sons of St. Pat rick here rose, and begged to make a remark. He said no one admired the Duke of Wellington more than he did, but in calling him an Englishman, he had something to say to that—(laughter.) He claimed him as an Irishman. Sin Henny BuLwer—The gentleman will under- stand me, that an Irishman and an Englishman are the same. (Great cheers.) Vice Presiwent Brapsuaw gave ‘The memory of Shakespere. Mr. Buake responded. He said :—By a strange coincidence, the anniversary of the national suint was the anniversary of the birthday of their im- mortal bard, and ever hallowed be that day. Mr. Blake alluded to the American Dramatic Fund, and to the position of actors in this country, where no act of parliament merevad them of the title of gen- | tleman; and concluded an Supcomiae speech by proposing the health of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. (Great cheering and applause.) Sin Hexry Boiwer said it would be unbecoming for him to return thanks, because there was “a chip of the old block” present, (pointing to Sir Edward's son,) and he begged that they would call on him to return thanks for the honor done to a man with whom my name shall always be proudly ssociated¢—(vehement applause). Lyrron said—Mr. Presitent and gentlemen St.George’s Society :—The name you have just toasted, in connection with the common literature | und drama of our two countries, you have kindiy mentioned as that of a great man, and one worthy of this honor. [Applause.} Gentlemen, I very greatly regret that, as a great man, he should have so very small a representation as myself. [Laughter and applause.} But, for my own’part, | can’ say with sincerity, and without any affectation, that | when | was listening to what you, sir, have just spo- ken, and when | saw how cordially an Risily tho-e words were received by allof you, g tlemen, | think that, in ny whole life, 1 never felt ; so proud and happy! [Great applanse.} If 1 were to speak to you for hours, | could not say more than this; and | know that | could only very poorly and inadequately express to you what I feel. [Applause ] And, gentlemen, after the great guns we have all | heard. to-night,—[laughter]—and whose thunder | Still vibrates in the air around and about us, I assure you that [ shall not now attempt to impose upoa | you any paltry display of penny fireworks. [Creat applause and laughter.) But, sir, { will say that it | docs seem to me a great thought to think ‘that at the very moment when that name, so justly and natu- rally most dear to me, and with whieh, | frankly confess, it ig my greatest pride to be in anyway as- sociated, bas hardly ceased to sound upon the lips of xo many of your fellow-countrymen here to-night, the bright names and burning words of the nam- berless stars of your great literary constellation are, if not on the lips, at least deep inthe hearts of numbers, thousands of my own! (Loud and long applause) Does not thigthought, sir, almost anni- hilate the measureless distances of the Atlansic ? What to us is that ocean, spread between our two homes? Can it really separate us, while its spaces are still spanned by the glorious rainbow of beight kindred sympathy—a sign of peace, a security of good will'to all!” (Long and continued applause.) ut, sir, 1 know that it is not only the field of fiction which to our two countries is the same,—! kuow that their mutual prosperity is based upon the same eat truths, (applause) at any rate, every one | nows that that prosperity is no fiction, but a very plain and self-evident truth. (Laughter.) I do not think, sir, that there is a man,—] am sure that there is not a man or merchant in Lancashire whose associations, when he speaks of Liverpool, do not simultaneously remind him of New York. (Ap- | plause.) I hope this will long continue—I pray God we shall never more have any of the wars be- tween * York and Laneaster.” (Loud applause and laughter.) I hope that our modern statesmen (if I may so speak) will adopt the plan of our mwo- dern gardeners, and graft the twain roses on the same stem! (Loud and long applause.) Gentlemen, I have too long, I fear, intruded on your kind at! tion ; but thethoughts which you have awakened within me, seemed to grow and gather in my heart 80 fast while Ihave been speaking to you, that I could not but endeavor to express some of them, however feebly and faintly. (Applause.) Gentlemen, once more I thank you, very sincerely, and very greatfully, in my father’s name; and I wish very much that he were here amongst you te ape (great applause.) as 1 am amongst you, to thank you much more elo- fuently than I can do. (Applause.) I wish that e were here to tell you how grateful it must be toany English author to feel that his bookbinder © cannot bind up the catalogue of his friends! (Loud applause and laughter.) But that they exist— here—everywhere—wherever thought can penetrate or human hearts can feel! The next regular toast was : Our Fister Soe ond their honored representatives, our welcome Guesi « To which the Presipenr of St. Andrew's Society responded. After a few remarks, he proposed as a | “The ‘Merchants of England; thelr intelli erehants 3 ; their en » intelli- | gence and integrity. have toade them am eer their | country, and benefactors to mankind. The Presipenr of the St. Georges said, that many present were aware that for many years | part breach had unfortunately existed between the St. Gieorge’s So siety and the Friendly Sons of St. ‘ick. That society, for causes which it was necessary to mention, had dwindled away, but it has been resuscitated under new, and he hoped . As President of St. George's, be 1 tly been invited by the Friendly Sons to their celebration, and was honored with a seat smog their guests, and he was received in a most cordial manner, He had the pleasure of sayin, that Mr. Bell,!the lent, was present, and pas address the assembl. (Aj | | A Pplause.) Mr. Bewt, Pres of the Friendly Sons of St. | Patrick, then arose and thanked the President for | the manner in which hi seciety had been referred to. Ilis object in rising wasto reconcile the two societies; shoulder to shoulder, English and Irish have contended under the flag of St. (seorge, for the mor and renown of (ireat Britain; aa ht hoped that the only strife that would hereafter take place between the two societies, would be one in which each would strive under the same banner, would be to — each other in works of charity. Ile pro- vsed, Pethe Gordian knot of universal charity whieh should unite Celt. Saxon, Briton and Scot. May mo rude hand ever be raived to sander it _ The health of the Stewards of St. George's So- ciety was then proposed. _ Sir Henry Bulwer proposed the health of Wash- ington Irving, a name honored | worthy of being mentioned everywhe and cheer: A communication was received from Mr. Stetson, ing that this was the anniversary of the arrival | first steamships from Europe—the Sirius and at Western arrived in this country thirteen years ago,and Mr. S. suggested that it would be an —— subject for comment. The memory of Capt. Roberts, who commanded | the Sirias on her tiret_ voyage here, and was subse- quently lost in the “ President steamer,” was drank in solemn silence, The President of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick — in high terme of the character of Capt. Ko The following telegraphic d ch was received from the St. Gi * Society, then celebrating the anniversary in Philadelphia:-—“ Fraternal saluta- to our Brethren in New York. May barmony ee crown your festivities.” Chairman then gave the fellowing volunteer toast:—“ A friend to all charities, it may be said Charity herself, the great and noble Swede, Jeun; Lind. “The health of Jenny Lind.” Drank wit due honors. The Swedish Minister nded for his country- woman, with whom he said he had the honor to be ersonally wainted, aud the kindness of whose heart was still greater than her other qualities. She will, however, be shortly in thie city, and b her sweet tones thank them for the honor they ha done, much better than he could do. Sir Henry Bulwer and his nephew bere retired. , Several other toasts followed, and it was near one o'clock before the company separated. of t the € Froop 1 tre Wa oR Kivwn.—Sinee the ear- liest settlement w| banks, there has probably never been so aud rapid @ rise in the War rior river, as that which occorred during the pre- rent week. On Monday night, the rise was about twenty six feet in twelve hours, and on Tuesday the river bad reached a height only a foot and a half lower than the great freshet in February, Our river planters will, ot course, suifer severely. Most of them had prepared their land for planting, and th w loughed grounds must have been badly i w r the river made @ current over them. The middle of May will probably find most or them in @ worse condition for a new erop than ey were inthe first of April.—Tuscainsa (Ala. Moniter, April W. , i ; , : | re Cows nit a Cana eeived, conveying the re righ’ act lately pasved, foon ie capected, authori forcign rep: tuts of Eingliet é v of ® Gasate, April 24 A dispatch hee been re- ction to the edpy- | t aJamation may of on intyortation nike into Cama, per cent.—. | theapprobation of the con’ ; Cape Henlopen light at about 1 | feet, depth of hold 26 feet, tonnage reg | cestined for Phila fashington Correspondence Wasmineton, April 22, 1969. The Great Exhibition—A Letter from the Comans- The Secretary of the “ United States Executive: Committee of the London Industrial Exhibition’ has, to-day, received a lengthy communication: from Edward Riddle, Esq., the authorized agent in London, dated April 8, and giving a history of the progress which had been made towards getting the articles contributed from this country, in their proper place in the Crystal Palace. Mr. Riddle, complains somewhat of the rigid scrutiny to which: the Custom House officers subjected all the goods, displaying great illiberality in the construction of the severe regulations of their imposts, consider-- ing the purposes for which they had been sent,, and that they came authenticated by the certifi- cates of the central authority at Washington ; but, . on the whole, he is satisfied with the result. “ The packs of books,” Mr. Riddle writes, ** and those- packages only, required a formal representation of the case, before they could be admitted. Two a pieesens had to be made to Mr. John Murray, for assent to the admission of a few books, sent ag samples of binding only, of which he holds the copyright, which assent was cheerfully given.” A. portion of the communication refers to a matter which may be of some general interest, and we therefore extract it:— “*T have found it necessary to establish a rule that written instructions from contributors are the only evidences admissible t» establish the validity of consigneeship of (Ciaee Many persons in London are hoping to make the exhibition a source of pe- cuniary profit. They care nothing for the amount of expenses incurred by the gods, so long as the goods themselves are of suflicient value to meet. those expenses. In the outset, I supposed that the poscession of the authonticationcertiticate of your committee would be sufficient to show proof of con- signeeship; but when | found that those certificates had in so many cases been simply given to an indi« vidual to bring across the water, and that parties who dia not hold them were in fact the real con- signees of the contributors—that scores of those certificates had been merely sent by a third person as the carricr between the owner and the consignee, but had by that person been passed for a considera= tion, into the hands of jobbers and agents—and that nail cases where the real cousiguee appeared to claim the goods of his consignor,a claim was set wp against him on the ground of holding the certifie | cate, Lsaw no other way than to publish the rule requiring written authority as evidence of con- signeesbip, and to insist upon holding every one to its letter. Even this day, a party has come forward claiming the consignecsbip of more than three- uarters of all the contributions seni from the Cited States, whereas it has proved, upon investi- gation, that not forty individual consignments have ever been made to that party. “ Above everything else, this single thing gave, in the outset, great dissatisfaction to the contridu- tors who were here. Charges of the most exorbi- tant character, altogether unnecessary, and, in some cases, amounting to the full value of the goods, were incurred by parties who claimed to be con- signees upon the authority of holding the certifi- cates. Asthe risk of oe opposition, but with. mt Ihave taken the responsi tors upon the ground, f denying all but the written be Saory. 4 of the owuerss, und in so do- ing I have reduced the expenses upon the goods at least one-half.” ‘The Royal Commissioners were very dezirous to get back as much of the allotted space as this country would not require, in consequence of an increased demand being made for the oe of a cargo of shawls and carpets, which the Sultan of Turkey had despatched in one of his steam frigates. ‘The official returns of the population of the Dis- triet of Columbia have been made up at the Census office, as follows i POPULATION OF Me ol 3.392 ASHIN@TON CITY. Females, Aggregate, Whites......... 1b, 2815 Free colored... 4711 8.073 Slaves...... 1 733 13800 2013 Aguregate population of Washington. ....—— 40.002 POPULATION OF GEORGELOWS. Males. Females. — Ag Whites 3177 681 Free eviored. 67 893 (1.500 Slaves... no 48 15 Aggregate ef Georgetown........... — 1% COUNTY, (Exclusive of Washington and Georgetown ) Females. ge Whites 2a F a4 3903 Total population of the Distrtet of Colulmbia.61,070 The Trial Trip of the Steamship Lafayette. Sream Prorecrenr Laraverce. Puitaverensa, April 23, 1851 Here we are in the blue waters of the Delaware, | moored at the foot of Lombard street, while the dock is crowded by the natives of Quakerdom, ad- miring the model of this beautiful ship, that bas just oined the steam marine of Philadelphia. The trip has been most satisfactory. We left New York on Monday in a driving rain, and with astiff breeze from the N. W., passing the Battery at 5 o’clock and 10 mifates P. M., and were abreast of Fort Washington at five hours forty-seven mi- nutes, and Sandy Hook lights at 6 o'clock and twen- ty-cight minut ‘The ship was very light, and went seaward sixty miles during the night, passing Hi o’clock next morn- . The Ley p Ad ier gh; her ster tons, or ee bark rigged. He en- ‘ine was built by that enterprisin, D firm, flee & Delamatie of New Yo e Show al i the plain screw propeller, having four rallel flanges or blades, cast in a solid mase, weighing six tons. It is not the Errickson, nor the Loper con- trivance, but a simple screw of nature's own model, developed by the handteraft of Hogg & Delamater. ing, and reached Philadel; sel is a perfect model of beauty; Paterson & Stack, of Williamsbu of keel is 20 feet, extreme length 21 ia at 9 P.M The diameter of the screw is fourteen feet, with ve feet face. Her two engines are of 360 horse power, with ey- linders of 50 inches diameter, the 1 #0 a8 toavoid the dend points. inches; shaft of wrought iron, 13} inches diameter, and makes, when the steam is well up, 40 revolu- tions a minuce. The beauty of the engines consists in the emall oormey occupy, oe vy bog feet by 74, and the oilers o¢cupy on feet ) feet, all theremiaun co een The boilers are the Montgomery tubular boiler, presenting @ fire surface of 2,000 feet, and steam can be got up in one hour without blowers. Another manifest advantage is economy of coal, aes tons only being consumed in twenty-four The joiner’s work was done by Hallenback and Deeg et Hew hort, ond is i gr elegans . ¢ whole cost o! tte i tnder $100,000 f the Lafayette is Fane: eamship with a saloon ruuning her whole length, 200 feet, her e so still that you often cannot tel! if it be in motion. but by the rush of waters. Go into her beautiful state rooms, where 125 first clats passengers can sleep, and in her second clase berths, where 200 pe can be comfortably accommodated. Conterm, Fr cost—her epeed—the daily expenee of running her, and you will see what au era itiv insteam nari- Bee had 122 board e ha uests on board, mostly from Dhila- delphia. Of New Yorkers there ee a liam the agent of the owners, and the primes enterprise that ealled this ship into attentions ail om Logg, ber engine Ke on daget. Among Northam, of Newport, par» owner of the Lafayette, and the well-known ol of the Board of New York Underwriters; Captains Wert, Shipley and Jeffreys; William HL. Cranston, of the Newport Nes; Morris it. Hamilton, of tho Trenton American; John H. Voorhees, late of the Jersey City Tilegraph. Of Philadelphians, among the host were John L. Linton and Mer. Moblenry, to whom Philadelphia is indebted for the ent prise of securing this ship, a* a mediuim of connect ine Philadelphia and Liverpoed. T learn that Mr. Williams wil! immediately ob- tain estimates for the construetion of sel, by the present owners of the Laf t are sufficiently pl Lafayette, to purchase her and give consort, they will have the opportanity. You sheuld know that the Lafayette hus been chartered %© moke twa: trips to Liverpool, bat before he senile ehe will, without doubt, be the absolute property of the Philadelphians. ' Captain Stoddard, who ec ymmands thy ette, deserves one hundred gine fi egemant of the ship, and his treacm>o 1 cannot do justice (with the pen) ¢ dimmer ret owt while the ve pistons workii The stroke ie *, BE mover of th olng, and for whose courteous rd owe him thanks; and Mr. builder. ener Many old sea o them Captain John with the e Lafay- his man te ae ste. Ww York, vie mete drank in ex ss gupooied to in exeeller . replied on the astot Mhilade!p! delphia, rhee for the | co York buildert end artifieers of the ehip { On Wednestiay, the vesee! was visited by & noms t of the eflizers, who partook of tie » prepared by direvtion of a to Philnde ther vew t 1 ivers delphis,