Mr. Chamberlain visited the City on Friday week to receive
an address from the Lord Mayor and Corporation, and delivered an important speech. He began by reiterating his conviction, confirmed by his visit to South Africa, that the war had been both just and inevitable. But the main issue which divided Boer and Briton had now been decided once for all, the field was clear for the fusion of two kindred races, and he had received from the leaders of our late opponents "the most absolute, the fullest, and most definite assurances that they accept the situation and are willing to co-operate with the Government in restoring prosperity to the country, and that they, in the memorable words of my friend General Delarey, will be as loyal to the new Government as they were to the old." The policy of the Government was of a "liberality unexampled in the history of war," and it had been carried out with absolute loyalty and single-minded devotion by Lord Milner. One of the lasting impressions, Mr. Chamberlain continued, which he brought away with him from South Africa was a sense of the gratitude which this country owed that great public servant, of the burden placed' on his shoulders, and the ability and resource with which he sustained it.
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