'Mr. Forster made a farewell speech to his American friends
on -the 14th Dec., after a dinner given him by the New York Union League. We have discussed his main thesis—the possibility of hearty alliance between Great Britain and the United States— elsewhere, but may mention here that Mr. Forster thinks the war has saved the Union, and that he is hopeful as to the future of the freed men. He had seen a white overseer acting-as foreman among the blacks on a sugar plantation, and quite contented with the change. Contrary to Jamaica experience, production has not fallen off in the South, the actual crops taken sugar, cotton, rice, and tobacco, are as Jar emancipation. He counted on the United to aid in putting down slavery, wherever it co ed, and thought that the war which had produced this result would prove the most important of this century.
