Mr. Bayard, the Ambassador of the United States to this
country, made a most cordial speech at Birmingham on Wednesday after visiting the technical school and the Mason College, the Free Library and the Shakespeare Memorial Library, on the relations between England and the United States, declaring that he felt himself as much in sympathy
with Englishmen in England, as he did with Americans in the United States. He laughed at the notion that there could be any real equality between man and man, since there are all sorts of original differences of faculty between one man and another which could not possibly be obliterated, but he thought that in monarchical England no less than in the Republican States of America there is a real provision for opening equally to all, the opportunities forlindividual development and cultivation, and that nowhere had this been more effectually illustrated than in Birmingham, with its multitude of benevo- lent institutions for helping men and women to make the most of themselves. He declared that there is so much in common between this country and the United States, that when differ- ences arise there ought always to be found a mode of settle- ment for these differences, a sentiment in which the whole English people will heartily concur. And it is pleasant to find that President Cleveland, whose Government Mr. Bayard represents, has practically said precisely the same thing in the letter which he addressed to Mr. Parker on the invitation he had received to be present at the Shakespeare celebration. Mr. Bayard is certainly in hearty sympathy not only with us but with his own chief. " Was there not," Mr. Bayard asked, "a common ground upon which the United States and Great Britain could join for the safety and honour of either and of both, and for the benefit of mankind at large P "
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