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KING EDWARD VII.

Interests which, I am glad to think, increase every year, and which tend to draw closer the ties of friendship and mutual respect which have characterised the relations which have so happily existed between this country and my own for nearly a century. The days of conflict between the two countries, are, I think, happily over, and I hope that future historians, in alluding to Anglo-French relations in the present century, may be able to record only a 33