Sir Henry James, in his effort to be _sober, was,
perhaps, a little too technical and minute, but be showed it to be probable that in three out of every four documents issued even in this country which bear the title of the Crown, the full title, including that of "Empress of India," will have to be used in future, tinder the very language of the Proclamation. Mr. Gathorne Hardy, the Secretary for War, did not really attempt a reply. He made a flaming speech, as if in answer to a general want-of-confidence motion, ludicrously irrelevant after the careful legal argument of Sir Henry James. He accused the Opposition of "spitting their venom" at the Ministry, ridiculed them for picking out a question "of words, and names, and things,"—as if any question could have turned on matters more important than words, and names, and things,—whereupon, after a tenure of two years and a half of office by the Government, to found a motion of want of confidence ; and assured them that the Government was of some use, if only as forming a barrier to that "glorious life" of the late Government, of which the country was profoundly weary. His speech was as much out of place as a demagogue's declamation in a Chancery suit, but it answered its purpose of withdrawing attention from the issue in debate.
