Lord Selborne, the newly appointed First Lord of the Admiralty,
presided last Sunday night at the annual meeting of the St. Andrew's Home and Club for Working Boys, Great Peter Street, Westminster, no fewer than thirty old members of which had served with the troops in South Africa. In the course of a stirring address, Lord Selborne, after congratu- lating the club on their fine record—they had won the challenge trophy presented to the best all-round club—laid stress on the value of solid as opposed to sensational effort. R was not only the skill of the generals and the courage of the soldiers that had brought them within measurable dis- tance of the end of the war. That result was also due to the fad that thousands and thousands of men whose work and whose names they never would hear of had been doing soldiers' drudgery on the lines of communication. Lord Selborne has entered upon office under good auspices, and we are glad to see that, by resigning his directorship of the P. and 0. Company, he has shown his sense of the duty which Ministers owe to pablio opinion.
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