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We doubt whether American Editors will take much out of

" interviewing " Mr. Forster. The New York Herald attempted it on the 11th October, but, on the whole, the catechism to which the interviewer subjected Mr. Forster did not result in what American newspaper proprietors will regard as very satisfactory replies. For instance :—" Does the present condition of the South cause you any disappointment, Mr. Forster ?" Answer : "I scarcely know what to say about that. At present, I have to take the news- paper accounts of the trouble, and we are led to believe in England that your way of giving the news is so sensational that we are inclined to think the reports may be exaggerated. I am, however, going to travel South and judge for my- self what the effects of emancipation are upon the people." Again, this was Mr. Forster's reply—in which, we suspect, he took a hint from Lord Dufferin—to the not very intelligently-conceived question, "Is England getting more Conservative, or is it getting Republican? "—" It is certainly not getting Republican. Re- publicanism in England has very little life behind it. In some respects I think, however, we are more Republican than you are. It is certain we can get a change of Government more quickly, and the Legislature feels the action of the people more promptly than the American system of government enables you to do.' Clearly, the American interviewers will not get out of Mr. Forster anything like flattery of the institutions of their "great and happy country."