Any important event occurring here is described the next hour in the journals of Europe.

So far as the transmission of an account of our proceedings to the people of the Old World is concerned, it is as if America lay at the mouth of the English Channel.
And the eyes of all Europe are intently watching our movements.

Says Mr, Townsend (New World and Old, p.

583):-- "All the great peoples of Europe are curiously interested and amazed in the rise of America, and their rulers at present compete for our friendship.

'Europe,' said the prince Talleyrand, long ago, 'must have an eye on America, and take care not to offer any pretext for recrimination or retaliation.