18 NOVEMBER 1871, Page 1
The Colston Anniversary speeches came off at Bristol on Monday,
Mr. Chichester Fortescue and Mr. Wiuterbotham both speaking at the dinner of the Anchor Society (the Liberal Society). After giving a very flourishing account of British trade, —English- men are apt to forget that Mr. Chichester Fortescue, who has so long been connected with Ireland, is now President of the Board of Trade,—Mr. Fortescue remarked, with relation to the French Treaty of Commerce, that he could not tell what might be the result of the negotiation with England for its modi- fication in a sense hostile to English interests, "because he did not know," but that in no case would England repent of what she had conceded quite as much for her own benefit as for that of France.
