AMERICA AND ENGLAND.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1043, 1 February 1882, Page 2

AMERICA AND ENGLAND.

+ At a banquet, in honor of the British Minister, given at Philadelphia on October 4, Secretary Blame made some notable observations. Speaking of the old war, the evil memories of which we have buried in the grave of President Garfield, the Minister said : — " Wh«n the Colonies and Mother Country fought their battle there were not over sixteen millions of people on the face of the globTwlio spoke the English language. To-day, there are one hundred millions, and they represent the larger half of its ! commercial strength, and three fourths of the world's intelligence. I came here to-day, only to greet the representative of her Majesty Queen Victoria, and, as the bearer of Zle^a,^ s of cordialty from the people, with 1 whom he m\\ represent, I :a^3 es-

pecially to pay a tribut?, -xuch U :V instinctive utterance of evory America 1 to the great Sovereign whom he reprsents. I am able to assur? him in his presence, and in the presence of thf whole American people, that in their localty to that lady, and, in admiration for that gracious Sovereign, there is true heartiness and cordiality among the American people. And I offer that sentiment not with any discrimation against past sovereigns, but for the first ruler of England that has been popular and beloved throughout the whole realm of Anglo-Saxon people. ' This sentiment to the Queen was drank standing, amid enthusiastic cheering.