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Show TUB UKIT1SU JttiaiSTKY SOLD. The stupendous ignorance of even the best informed Englishmen concerning con-cerning American affairs, was curiously illustrated io Monday evening's debate in the bouse of lords. The marquis of Hereford inquired whether it was true that the baud of the Greoadier guards bad been ordered to atteud the Boston jubilee. 'iho marquis of Lansdowno stated that such was the case, and the duke of Richmond remarked re-marked that "a more irregular proceeding pro-ceeding had never been sanctioned, " Whereupon, earl Granville, her majes ty s foreign secretary, delenued the act, saying "it was proper to show the pond will nf the country toward America while the treaty was hanging in the balance!" From which we understand un-derstand the noble earl actually believes be-lieves the great eatch penny concern culled the ''Peace jubilee," isanauon-al isanauon-al enterprise in which the people of the United States are profoundly interest-1 interest-1 ed. If the noble earl bad condescended i to read any American newspapers i published outeide of Massachusetts, he would have saved himself from this ridiculous blunder. The "jubilee" aforesaid is simply a shrewd trick Buch as our Yankee brethren breth-ren have been playing on their neighbors neigh-bors at home and abroad for the last two hundred years only it happens to be the shrewdest and biggest trick of all. It has two objects iirtt and foremost, fore-most, to line the pockets of the company com-pany who have got it up ; and second, to bring a liberal amount of money into Boston. So far as the interests of peace and the cause of musio are concerned, con-cerned, they will derive no more benefit bene-fit thereby than from the performance of a first-class circus. The idea that the sending or retaining of the Grenadier Gren-adier guards' band would have any influence in-fluence upon public opiniou in this country, la too laughable for serious comment. The Boston jubilcers have handsomely humbugged the British ministry, aud should be congratulated accordingly, but we question whether the British public will altogether en-1 joy tho neat confidence gume. Mo. Republican, |