AMERICA AND ENGLAND.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 798, 6 April 1871, Page 3

AMERICA AND ENGLAND.

Among the guests .present at the annual dinner of the Devon -Central Chamber of Agriculture, held at Newton Abbott, on January 10th, was Exlieu tenant Governor "Wayland, of 'Connecticut, who, in reply to the toast of "The President of the United States," -said he did not know a single gentleman in the whole range of his acquaintance who would respond to the speech made by -General Butler in Boston. He had received a letter from a gentleman in England who expressed astonishment that such sentiments as those of General Butler could have heen received with enthusiasm in Boston. In reply, he reminded him that the audience on the occasion was composed in the proportion of nine to one of Irishmen * and he took the liberty of saying, if her Majesty could not keep the Irish loyal "within four hours' sail of Liverpool, now could the Americans be expected to make them loyal so much further away? But the praise which the Fenians of America have awarded to that peculiar speech of General Butler "was worth about as much as their raids on the Dominion of Canada pome months since. [Hear, bear, and applause.] A relative of his sard he confessed that when he, after being "red upon by the Confederate soldiers ; tor hours, found that most of the buli lets had been made in England, he was a little sore, and over the mess-table they used to say, in the heat of a very natural irritation, that the next time they fought, it should be with Great jontain; but now the very last thing he should wish for, and the thing he should work most strongly against, would be a hostile or unfriendly action against England.