Lord Lansdowne, addressing a Unionist demonstration on Wednesday at Darlington,
made an impressive speech on the satisfactory state of our foreign relations. "So far as his observation extended, the war had not at any moment
seriously imperilled our external relations with ether Powers." With regard to the Nicaragua Canal he spoke in terms that evidently indicate a satisfactory settle. meat of the problem. Speaking of the terms of settle- ment in South Africa, Lord Lansdowne very properly ap. praised the Boer claim to independence. "Independence meant that we were to blunder once more into the morass of suzerainty, to allow the Boers to accumulate Long Toms and other objects of interest, once more to oppress the natives, misgovern their fellow-citizens, and set up an imitation of the worst evils of a New York Tammany, then to wait for a suitable opportunity of fastening on our flank when we were in trouble or embarrassment." In regard to the speech of Mr. Chamberlain which had caused so much irritation in Germany, he declared with emphasis that "he found no suggestion of offence, and he did not for a moment believe that any offence was intended."
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