11 JULY 1914, Page 3

Mr. Bonar Law, who acknowledged the kindly generosity and sympathy

shown by the Prime Minister, spoke of Mr. Chamberlain's private life as a picture pf what family life should be. Tim two great impulses of his career were his desire to improve the conditions of the people and his intense national pride. Lastly, Mr. Balfour dwelt on his greatness alike as a Parliamentary figure and an Imperial statesman. He was a great idealist, a great statesman, a great friend, and a great man. In the Lords Lord Crewe described Mr. Chamberlain as the greatest civic figure that had ever been connected with British politics. The measure of his greatness as Colonial Secretary was to be found not less in such positive acts as the impulse he gave to the study and practice of tropical medicine than in the inspiration of the essential unity of the Empire communicated by him to all the parts. Lord Lansdowne paid fitting tribute to Mr. Chamberlain's greatness in counsel, and Lord Milner to his perfect loyalty to his subordinates.