MR. JOHN MORLEY.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") ,Sin,--Your comment does no more than justice to the quality of the speeches at this meeting, and no report I have seen gives any idea of the intense enthusiasm that prevailed. The fine sentence you quote from Mr. Morley's speech had not the pur- port you attach to it, and certainly was so true and so vivid as to deserve reproduction. After referring to the unsettled con- dition of Europe, with its millions of men under arms and the perils and anxieties that would mark the next few years, the speaker proceeded :—" You have often heard—it is a common- place of orators—how in high mountains there aro sometimes masses of snow so delicately poised, that the guide warns the traveller not to raise his voice above a whisper, lest he should bring down the avalanche upon them. I confess I am dismayed when I think of the Angel of Peace threading her way through the perils of European politics, side by side with a loud and bitter railer like Lord Salisbury."—I am, Sir, &c., F. H. A. H.
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