In the House of Commons the adjournment Resolution was moved
by Mr. Asquith. It was not the time, he said, to attempt to enlarge on the qualities or services of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. He contented himself with saying that in the annals of the country there was no man who, after long years spent in the thick of public contention, ever laid down the highest office under the Crown more universally or more deservedly beloved. There was no single Member in any quarter of the House who had not come down there that day feeling himself under the shadow of not merely a political but a personal loss. Mr. Balfour, who promised that he and his friends would gladly do all in their power to facilitate the course of business and assist the members of the Government at the present juncture, fully endorsed all that Mr. Asquith had said, and expressed his deep sympathy with the Prime Minister ; and Mr. John Redmond, on behalf of the Nationalist Members, declared that in the resignation of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman Ireland had suffered a loss second only to that she suffered when Mr. Gladstone retired from the Premiership.
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