On Tuesday Mr. Balfour moved in the House of Commons,
and Lord Lansdowne in the House of Lords, Resolutions praying the King to consent to the erection of a monument in Westminster Abbey to the memory of Lord Salisbury, with an inscription commemorative of the high sense entertained by the Houses of his rare gifts and devoted public services. Mr. Balfour, as he always does on such occasions, expressed excellent feeling in graceful and appropriate language. Though inferior to some of the great eulogia of our Parlia- mentary history, such as those pronounced over Peel and Beaconsfield, it was a worthy tribute to his great predecessor, and dealt admirably with his single-hearted patriotism and rare distinction of intellect. Lord Spencer and Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, on behalf of the Opposition, added their tribute of praise, and expressed their ready concurrence in the Resolutions. Mr. John Redmond, on behalf of the Irish party, regretted that his view of Lord Salisbury's Irish policy did not allow him honestly to make any public expression of regard, but announced that he would not force a division.
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