AMERICA AND ENGLAND.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2750, 16 January 1882, Page 2

AMERICA AND ENGLAND.

At a banquet in honor of the British Minister given in Philadelphia on Oct., 4, Secretary Blane made some notable observations. Speaking of that old war, the evil memories of which we have buried in tfco grave of President Garfield, the Minister said “ When the Colonies and the Mother Country fought their battle there were not over sixteen millions of people on the face of the earth who 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 Quefen Victoria, a:ul as the bearer of messages of cordiality from the people with whom I am connected to the great people whom he will represent. I came especially to pay a tribute which is the instinctive utteumce of every American, to the great sovereign whom he represents. I inn able to assure him in his presence, and in the presence of the whole American people, that,in their loyalty 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 discrimination 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 drunk standing, amid enthusiastic cheering.