AN AMERICAN PREACHER'S OPINION OF LIVERPOOL AND ENGLAND.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 254, 2 November 1878, Page 5

AN AMERICAN PREACHER'S OPINION OF LIVERPOOL AND ENGLAND.

Tbe Rev ilenry Morgan, the American preacher and lecturer, who has been visiting London and Parip, recently delivered a lecture, the peroratiou of which was as follows: — " Next to America, roy love is for England. Why? Because in England American ideas were born. We are of one blood, language, and religion. I love England because she was firßt to banish African slavery; first in giving chattered rights and in civil service reform. In having England I look upon Liverpool harbour — centre of the world's commerce ! X see a network of docks and wharves, extending miles on' miles 1 Forests of masts ! Fleets of merchantmen 1 Ships of all nations, with tbe products of every clime ! Here come vessels from the Orieut ; there from the Occident, flora from China, laden with silks and teas; from India, wiih rich treasures of She Ganges. There from Africa, with pearls and ivory; here from Australia with her gold. There come ships from South America, and here steamers from my own United States! Yet I see another ship in my mind's eye. Boom ! boom ! See ! Boom ! Wnat is it ? It is the battleship of progress ! built by British skill, from English stock, and launohed on England's stiand ! Radiant with the light of hope, abe spreada her sails and speeds on a sea of high adventure, like! a thing of life. Proudly she mounts the wave of popular opinion and rideß out of the harbour of the dead past; her destiny, tbe end of the earth; h.r aim,: the disenthralment of millions ! her motto, 'Liberty enlightening the world.' See ! two flags fly at her topmast ! two ensigns flaunt in tbe bretzi ! What are they ? The star-spangled banner and red cros3 of St. George I All bail to the twin flags of freedom and progress! Let them kiss each other in the beams ot the sun ! Lat them twine and foil in brotherly embrace, like Esau and Jacob reconciled. Hail ! holy symbol ! harbinger of paacel rainbow of promise to the oppressed! beacon light of hope to the exile J, the liberty-wrecked of all nations! Loug miy they wave over the iand, proclaiming constitutional rights, civilisation, Christianity, freedom tj all men, irrespective of race, cast?, elase, cloth, or gold! Up, then, with the fhgs of ihe frea ! Up with freedom's ensign! Liberty and fraternity! Up, and, swell the glad tidings of peace! Up, and swell t(ie glad acclaim ! Gloria Patri ! Gloria in excelsis! 'Glory to God on tbe highest! Peace on earth! Goodwill to men!' Up, up, for human rights! Up, for individual nobility! Up, formanhooU sovereignty! Up, for the disenthra]raent and regeneration of the empires of the world! Up, then, wiih th^ heaven-commissioned symbol of unity ! Up, and shout 'Hurrah! Liberty! Equality! Fraternity! the world over!' until nowhere among the nations of the earth where these flags float, and England and America join hands, shall oppression lift her rod, or man call his fellowman, Slave !' (Applause, and cheers for the two fligs).

Those who aro up in herd-book literature cud perhaps understand the following, which we find reported fiou Gloucestershire. Relatives as below recently surrounded one dinner tableOne great grandfather, two grandfathers, ooe grandmother, throe fathers, two mothers, four children, three graadcbUdroo, one great grandchild, three sisters, oae brother, two husbands, two wives, one mother-in-law, one ftilhet-iu-law, two brothers-in-law, two daughters-in-law, two uncles, three aunts, ono nephew, two nieces, and two cousins. The whole party consisted of seven persons only. Admirers oE Bret Harte in England may shortly have a chuuce of seeiug him, for he is to be appointed cou3ul to some German towu, and will probably pay London a visit on his way to the scene of his official duties.