ts in which he is engaged in that home. If he will go into our
courts of law, he will find those who practise there referring to the
same books of authority, acknowledging the same principles, discussing
the same subjects which he left under discussion in Westminster Hall. If
he go into our public assemblies, he will find the same rules of
procedure--possibly not always quite as regularly observed--as he left
behind him in that house of Parliament of which he is a member. At any
rate, he will find us a branch of that great family to which he himself
belongs, and I doubt not that, in his sojourn among us, in the
acquaintances he may form, the notions he may naturally imbibe, he will
go home to his own country somewhat better satisfied with what he has
seen and learned on this side of the Atlantic, and somewhat more
convinced of the great importance to both countries of preserving the
peace that at present subsists between them. I propose to you,
Gentlemen, the health of Mr. Aldham.

Mr. Aldham rose and said:--"Mr. President and Gentlemen of the New
England Society, I little expected to be called on to take a part
in the proceedings of this evening; but I am very happy in being
afforded an opportunity of expressing my grateful acknowledgments
for the very cordial hospitality which you have extended to me, and
the very agreeable intellectual treat with which I have been
favored this evening. It was with no little astonishment that I
listened to the terms in which I was introduced to you by a
gentleman whom I so much honor (Mr. Webster). The kind and friendly
terms in which he referred to me were, indeed, quite unmerited by
their humble object, and nothing, indeed, could have been more
inappropriate. It is impossible for any stranger to witness such a
scene as this without the greatest interest. It is the celebration
of an event which already stands recorded as one of the most
interesting and momentous occurrences which ever took place in the
annals of our race. And an Englishman especially cannot but
experience the deepest emotion as he regards such a scene. Every
thing which he sees, every emblem employed in this celebration,
many of the topics introduced, remind him most impressively of that
community of ancestry which exists between his own countrymen and
that great race which peoples this continent, and which, in