Councillors would be elected as the Members were, and when
he took the chair at the Devonshire Club to congratulate most of the counties sent up to Parliament Conserva- Mr. Chamberlain on his achievements in relation to the tive country gentlemen. He warned the liquor interest Canadian Fisheries Treaty with the United States. He took not to reject the licensing clauses, for Parliament was chair the cha so often on these occasions, he said that he almost feared being called, like the confessor of Louis XIV., " Le prepared, he said, on this subject to interfere with the Pi...re la chaise." He complimented Mr. Chamberlain on not liberty of the subject. He strongly advocated the Tithe Bill, which he thought would remove most difficulties having beaten the big drum on his own achievements, and come back saying that he had invented "Peace Peace with Honour." by leaving the tenant a mere channel through which the incumbent would receive his money, and wound up with an He thought Mr. Chamberlain had taken another step in the same direction as that taken by the Government in- 1869-74, that consolidation gave us in the struggle with the immense when they concluded theAlabama ' Treaty with the United and new political difficulties, such as the contest between States. In remarking on Mr. Chamberlain's statement capital and labour, which all nations had now to endure. It that the people of the United States regard no foreign was a fine speech, though as regards County Government it opinion important except that of the people of England, gave the Radicals an excuse of which they have availed them- Lord Granville suggested that we might often profit equally by attaching similar importance to American opinion, and he just avoided asserting, though he did not avoid slyly Lord Randolph Churchill delivered the best speech which intimating, that on one burning question of the day he has yet pronounced, at Birmingham on Monday in the American counsels might be useful to us. Whether the Town Hall. He spoke of the success of the new Rules of Liberal Unionists were wrong in refusing to vote against the Procedure of the present House of Commons with enthusiasm, Government on important matters which would involve their r
asserting that we had reached a golden age in the history of resignation, he would not say ; but he hoped that they would. the House of Commons ; and he gave due credit to Mr. Glad-
support the Liberals on minute matters " which do not touch a single grey hair an the venerable skull of the Conservative
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