Mr. Ward Beecher has returned to New York, and has
made a speech which will set him right with many who disapproved the tone of his speeches in England. He speaks of this country and its people in terms not very consistent with the concealed hostility every American is supposed to entertain. " Let me say that when at last I struck the shore of England again, although 1 had received displeasure when I was there in the fore part of summer, I breathed freer, and said, After all, thank God for England ;'—(applause)—for there is, with their rugged faults, with their wrongheadedness, with the many things that just at this crisis offend us in their national character, not that which is, as among the French and many Continental nations—not that which is so prepossessing, so polished—in England ; but there, after all, is a foundation of truth and of manliness in their national character."
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