'The mails per Afridiand Peru, with dates from San Francisco to the 11th and 18th ult. respectively, were received here by the Océanien last' week. The Japan "Mail gathers from the papers brought by these steamers that patriotism has reached fever heat all over Great Britain, the impelling cause being the Kaiser's message to President Kruger. The irritation caused by President Cleveland's Message faded into insignificance beside this greater matter. In the theatres God save the Queen" was invariably sung by the audience as soon as the orchestra struck up on the fall of the curtain. The mobilisation of a flying squadron of twenty-one ships of war within less than five days of the order being given for their assembly at Portsmouth, seems to have caused a great deal of surprise to the world at large, the celerity of the movement conjoined with its illustration of the latent possibilities of the British navy making striking impression everywhere.
America the Press enthusiastically acclaim it as a master-stroke of national policy. Indeed, the American journals seem to have quite swung round in their ideas of England, and more especially when. Great Britain, at Secretary Olney's request, agreed to afford protection to American is ropered to face any emergencies is fur-subjects in the Transvaal, That England ther shown by the great activity displayed in the dockyards, Royal as well as private, and the confident tone of the money market.
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