AMERICA AND ENGLAND.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 284, 29 December 1876, Page 4

AMERICA AND ENGLAND.

Ad Amerioan newspaper, writing on the contributions tb the Ex-

hibition from Great Britain, 1 says :— " Among the exhibitors to the Centennial, England has done nobly, and has more tban proved tbe old proverb that * blood is thicker than water.' She has done her best, not With any greed of gain, but wiih a loyal desire to give to the world of the Centennial tbe most complete and perfect exhibit possible of English industry and of English art. Sbe sent us, not only the product of her manufactories, but the gems ol ber galleries as well. She trusted to our keeping her Landseers and her Gainsborough., to claim homage. She, the ooe nation in the ] world that might have found in petty prejudice, or narrow-minded jealousy, an excuse to slight our exhibition witb scant aud grudging, contribution, has given us warmly and freely of her very best. And yet if Great Britain bad scorn fully abstained from aiding us to commemorate the great deeds of 1776, there are few that could well have blamed her. A policy less largeminded and magnanimous could .asily have found a pretext fo abstain from helping io glorify victories woo in tbe field against British commaadere, and concessions wruog from Brittish statesmen and an English king. But ehe has shown that small vindictiveness and petty heart-burnings hava no place io the large Anglo-Saxon nature. And by tbis timely and gracious deed ehe has done much to wipe away the remembrance of ail past quarrels, whether actual strife or mere squabbles —the smaller but more tantalising warfare of the tongue and pen. The time, indeed, seems to have arrived wben the tbe long-estranged relatives sball be fully reconciled. Alike io faith, ia literature, in language, and in descent, two great free natios&of the world may well ciaep hoods aod sesi & new bond of sisterhood with the Centennial year."