In the Lords, the ceremonies began with the introduction of
the new Earl of Beaconsfield, who was paraded round the House in the usual scarlet robes of State, and took his seat first on the Viscounts' bench and then on the Earls', in virtue of his title of Viscount Hughenden and Earl of Beaconsfield, respectively. The address was moved by Lord Grey de Wilton (the "my dear Grey" of Mr. Disraeli's famous Bath letter about the "plundering and blundering" of the Gladstone Government) in a very easy and well-delivered speech, in which he assailed Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues for interfering with the foreign policy of the Government at a critical moment, observing that he had always been told "not to speak to the man at the wheel ;" while Lord Haddington, who seconded the Address, did not make much of his speech, in any sense of the term, and in one of these senses, therefore, showed some judgment.
