ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 383, 16 July 1877, Page 3

ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

GENERAL GRANT IN ENGLAND. (Pep. San Francisco Mail, at Auckland.)

i General Grant arrived at Liverpool on the 28th May. The port was gaily decorated, and the reception most enthusiastic. At Manchester, Leicester, and other places, great demonstrations of welcome were made. In a letter describing his arrival, he says : "I love to see our country honored and respected abroad, and am proud to believe it is by nearly all natihns, and by some even loved. It has always been my desire to see all jealousy between England and the States abated, and every sore healed. Together, they are more powerful for the spread of commerce and civilisation than all the others combined, and can do more to remove the causes of war, by creating a mutual interest that would be much endangered by war." On arrival in London, General Grant was greeted on all sides, and underwent a trying ordeal of festivals —dined with the Queen, and attended a concert and ball at Buckingham Palace. He also dined with the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Mayor, the Duke of Cambridge, Earl Beaconsfield, and the Lord Provost of Edinburgh. The latter intimated his desire of corporating the citizens to make a pubiic recognition of respect. The reception by the people was very warm. He has visited the Oxford Commemoration to receive the degree of D.C.L. The Government, at his solicitation, are favourably considering the pardon of the Fenian Davitt, who is now undergoing a 15 3'ears' sentence. A demonstration of

working men is projected. He was presented with the freedom of the City of London on the 15th June, in the presence of 800 people, at Guildhall. Earl Derby, Sir Stafford North cote, Lord Aberdeen, the Hon. Mr. Foster, and Lord Tenderden were present. The Lord Mayor and the City Chamberlain read the addresses, and presented the right hand of fellowship as citizens of London, amid loud applause. At a dinner at the Reform Club, Earl Granville proposed the ex-President's health ; and General Grant, in reply, said : "I hope, when the opportunity offers me of a calmer and I more deliberate moment, to put on record my grateful recollection of the fraternal sentiments of the English people, and the desire of America to render an adequate response. The speech of Earl Granville has inspired thoughts in my bosom impossible adequately to express. Never have I lamented so much as now my poverty in praises, to give due expression to my affection for the Mother Country." On June 18, he visited a fete in his honour at the Alexandra Palace, and afterwards dined with the Prince and Princess of Wales, with the Emperor and Empress of Brazil, and her Majesty's Ministers.