Mr. Chamberlain was entertained on Wednesday at Phila- delphia by
the Sons of St. George, the British Association formed in America to induce British immigrants to naturalise themselves, and so counterbalance the Irish vote. Mr. Chamber- lain made a speech in which he thanked Americans heartily for the kindness with which he had been treated, and asserted that amity between the Republic and the old country was the best guarantee for the peace and civilisation of the world. He Wand to be considered a foreigner in America, and said that if men wanted to appreciate the Fishery Treaty, they must appreciate the spirit in " which it was submitted, and in which those who negotiated it came to this work. We do not regard this long- standing difference as a dispute between hostile or rival nations, but rather as a difference of opinion between friends mutually anxious to remove every cause of dispute." " I hope," concluded Mr. Chamberlain, giving the rein to a sentiment which we suspect lies deep in his character, "I hope you have not for- gotten the ties binding you to your old home, to the motherland that bore you, to the traditions of the proud-spirited dominant race to which you belong, which is surely destined in the near future to outstrip all others in the race."
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