ESTABLISHED 1866. The Marlborough Express PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1903. GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 166, 15 July 1903, Page 2

ESTABLISHED 1866. The Marlborough Express PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1903. GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA.

Kino Edward losob no opportunity for saying or doing anything likely to consolidate and render permanent the good feeling at present existing between Great Britain and the United States. The American naval officers now visiting England have been entertained at the Mansion House, the historic home of London's civic life, and the King has sent a very neatlyworded message on the subject to President Roosevelt. The coming visit of some 200 members of that most ancient of London's volunteer corps, the Honorable Artillery Company, to Boston, whither they have been invited by the Honorable Artillery Company of the State of Massachusetts, is a very happy idea. The London Artillery Company is almost entirely composed of smart young business men—men of good standing and considerable wealth. These gentlemen will, when in-America, be entertained by, and foregather with, gentlemen of the same class in Boston, and we may be sure they will also visit New York, thus laying the foundation of many new ties, both personal, social and commercial, between Americans and Englishmen. We have always considered that onoe the Irish question were settled —and this happy consummation appears to be coming nearer and nearer—that there would be a wonderful accession of additional good fe ling in America towards England and Englishmen. England's attitude over the Venezuelan question, an attitude which though nominally the same as that of Germany was in reality so very different, was properly understood and appreciated in America, despite German intrigues to sow discord between the two English-speaking nations; and there was never a time when the foreign policies of the two countries ran on lines so similar as at present. To this very satisfactory state of affairs the King's personal tact and courtesy have certainly contributed in no small degree, and the American Ambassador, the wise and witty Mr Chauncey Depew, did not fail at the Mansion House banquet to pay a personal and unstinted testimony to the excellent work done in the cause of international amity by the English monarch.