The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-11
GEAR TOASTS KING
Two sovereigns Express Wish That Meeting Will Promote
 World Peace.
KING ASKS RETURN VISIT
And Appoints Nicholas an Ad- niral of the British
 Fleet.

Reval, Juno l0,-Kng Edward and Emperor Nicholas spent the morning in receiving delegations from the local nobility the municipality, and the peasants of the districts on board their respective yachts, This after noon the emperor paid informal visits to the British cruiser Minotaur and the royal yacht Alexandra.
 Emperor Nicholas today sent ashore three thousand boxes of candy and a large number of photographs U. himself for the school children who welcomed him upon his arrival here.
 The texts of the toasts exchanged last evening between the king and the emperor have just been published. The two soveroigns mutually express. ed the wish that the meeting would draw the two countries closer to- gether and promote the maintenance of the general peace of the world. King Edward intimated that this meeting in Russia would be followed soon by visit of the Russian em- peror and his wife to England. King Edward appointed Emperor Nicholas an admiral of the British fleet.
 The toasts exchanged were textually as follows:
 It Is with feelings of the deepest sat- isfaction and pleasure" said Emperor Nicholas. that welcome your maies. ty and your matestys queen to Russian waters, trust that this meeting. while reasserting the many and strong ties which unite our houses, will have the happy result ot drawing our countries closer together and promoting the maintenance of the peace of the world, In the course of the foregoing year several questions of equal moment to both Russia and Great Britain have been satisfactorily settled by our gov ernmhents, l am certain that yout majesty appreciates as highly as l do the value of these agreements, for not withstanding their limited scope. they cannot help spreading among our two countries feelings of mutual good will and confidence. drink to the health of your majesty, 10 the health of her ! majesty the queen, to the prosperity of your family, and that of the British nation"
 In his reply King Edward made use of the following words:
 q thank your majesty most heartily on behalf of the queen and myself for the cordial manner in which you have welcomed us to tho waters of the Bal 1 tic and for the afrectonate words in which you have proposed our healths. I have tho happiest recollecHons of the welcome which received on the ncca sions of my previous vieits to Russia at the hands of your illustrious grand- father. your beloved father and your- self, and Ii Ia source of the sincerest eradication 10 mo to have this op- portunity of meeting your majestles again. l most heartily endorse every word that has fallen from your ma jesty's lips regarding the convention re- gently concluded between our two gov- ernmonts. I believe it will serve 10 knit more closely the bonds that unite our people and our two countries, and I am certain that it will conduce to n satisfactory settlement in an amlcah manner Of some momentous questions in the future, am convinced that 1t will not only tend 10 draw our two countries more closely together, but that 1t will help very greatly in the maintenance of the general peace of the world
 "I hope this meeting may he follow cd before long by another opportunity of meeting your majesties. drink to the health of your majesty, to that of the dowager empress, Marie Feooorov- ma and the members of the imperial family, and above all to the welfare and prosperity of your great empire"