27 MAY 1899, Page 1
The speeches made and festivities organised in America in honourof
the Queen's birthday are too numerousto be mentioned separately, but we must quote a portion of Admiral Sampson's striking address at the dinnerof the British Schools and Univer- sities Club in New York. "We of England and America," he said, "are together about this board as members of one great world-wide family, with interests and sympathies in common. Of this we had practical proof in the past months, when ships of England and America met in Southern waters." This happy result must be attributed to the wise, uninterrupted policy of the Government of her Majesty. "May she live long and prosper, and may we never prove ourselves her unworthy children."
