Of the other speeches at the Lord Mayor's banquet, Mr.
Gosohen's was the tersest and most graphic, with its happy description of all the different branches of the naval services, from the stokers and bluejackets to the midshipmen and the marines. Then the American Ambassador, Mr. Bayard, gave expression to those cordial feelings between the two great branches of the Anglo-Saxon race which, when wisely and cautiously expressed, as Mr. Bayard always takes care to express them, always give a pleasurable sense of security to Englishmen and Americans alike. Mr. Bayard quoted Lord Dufferin's recent description of the international relations between the different Governments of the world, as "a mass of palpitating nervous sensations," and declared that the result of bringing mankind together so that the same "nervous sensation" is common to all the races of men, is at all events to destroy that "nervous sensation" which is caused by "isolation," splendid or otherwise,—a sensation which Mr. Bayard evidently regarded as exceptionally painful. He con- gratulated himself on representing a people who had just given a great blow to an isolating and separating policy, by affirming the duty of dealing honestly with all contracts to pay. He was probably wise in making no reference to those inchoate negotiations between his country and our own which are not yet complete, and which might be more en- dangered than promoted by any official approbation of his. The friendliest of all the Ambassadors is also the most prudent ; and sets an example of wise reticence to more gushing potmtates.
