The Prince of Wales's visit to Berlin, to attend the
celebration of the German Emperor's forty-third birthday, has certainly emphasised the friendly relations subsisting between the Courts of the two countries. The populace haes been respectful, and the Press coldly civil, but the German Emperor himself has been something more than correct in his relations with his cousin. The conferring upon the Prince of the command of a German cavalry regiment was a friendly if formal act, but there was marked cordiality in the Kaiser's speech at the luncheon given by the 1st Prussian Dragoon Guards (Queen Victoria's Regiment) on January 26th. After an elaborate but gracious reference to the manner in which the Prince had learned to live up to his motto, the Emperor spoke of his recent journey of over forty thousand miles, in which "you set foot only on British soil, and by. the charm of your manner you helped to unite the remotest • portions of the British Empire and their loyal population, and to weld them into that Imperium Britannieum of which, also, it can be said that the sun never sets within its confines." The German Press notices the prominence given to the inter- change of personal amenities and the avoidance of all refer- ence to friendly relations between the two peoples as significant, but the passage we have quoted was at least a handsome tribute to the extent and solidarity of the British Empire.
