Lord Derby followed in an admirable speech, of which we
only regret the single sentence in which he declared that he would limit the majority competent to close debate in the House of Commons to a majority of two-thirds ; while Sir Henry James declared that the Unionist Liberals were for the present, in commercial phrase, "carried to a suspense account," but that it must depend on the manner in which the other section of the Liberals should be led, in which of the two great parties the Unionist Liberals would be ultimately absorbed. Sir George Trevelyan made a very manly speech, in which he declared that it was his only crime that he could not consent to withdraw from quiet and law-abiding citizens the shield of the central and Imperial Government, or to place the appoint- ment of Judges, the command of the police, the protection of juries, the security of life, limb, purse, and houseroof, at the disposal of those who are now giving ovations to Mr. Dillon and Mr. O'Brien, but he introduced into his speech an unfor- tunate, because a perfectly useless, aspiration after reunion with the Home-rulers. Not the least remarkable speech at the banquet was that in which Lord Rothschild proposed Lord Hartington's health, and expressed his profound confidence in him as leath,r. That will do much to transfer to Lord Harting- ton the great influence wielded by the Jews everywhere, as well in political as in commercial affairs.
