cannot get away this week from these facts and fringes round about the American and Spanish and Cuban questions, On Monday I went to see Colonel John Hay, the Washington Ambassador at the Court of St. James, in the midst of his countrymen afd countrywoman, at his Fourth of July Reception at No. 5, Carlton House Terrace, a few yards from the house where our great departed hero, Gladstone, was to be found when in London and not in office, until he ceased to keep up a Metropolitan home. Over the balustrade of the terrace where select bands were playing during the afternoon, on Monday, at Colonel John Hay's, hung loosely in the sunshine a bright and very expansive Union Jack, side by side with the Stars and Stripes, and the gracious diplomat had taken caro that the American banner should not appear to dominate or overshadow the British colours
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