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the distinguished foreigner, with his keen, biting 

 tongue, in the Senate on a very early day. Senator 

 Ingalls had met Mr. Chamberlain before Wednesday. 

 He has had opportunities of meeting him frequently 

 at state dinners and on other similar occasions, when 

 the Ambassador tried in vain to convince the Senator 

 that his occasional oratorical shots at John Bull 

 were based on a misconception or a want of know- 

 ledge. This sort of argument, as might be expected, 

 has not had the effect of convincing or converting 

 the Senator, and he will take an early opportunity 

 on the floor of the Senate of saying so and giving his 

 version of the " blood-is-thicker-than- water " sen- 

 timent. " I intend,'' said the Senator yesterday, 

 ** to kill two birds with one stone — ^John Bull and 

 Democratic party." 



Senator Ingalls will endeavour to explain just how 

 close the relationship between America and England 

 is. He will endeavour to prove that an American 

 statesman may allude to some of the most patent 

 facts in recent history without being open to the 

 accusation of buncombe, or an undue tendency to 

 pose as a twister of the British lion's tail for political 

 effect. " Anyhow," said he, " let the British lion 

 keep its tail out of our business ; let it keep its tail 

 between its legs, for instance, and nobody will try 

 to twist it." Mr. Ingalls will endeavour to prove 

 that England has all along been the one great enemy 

 of the United States, and on this point that there 

 may be some little knowledge that has not been 

 monopolised by right honourable gentlemen from 

 England. The motion at present before the Senate, 



