22 MAY 1909, Page 3

Lord Cromer, the president of the Men's League for Opposing

Woman Suffrage, presided at a dinner held by the League at the Hotel Cecil on Tuesday, and introduced the toast of the guests—Lord James of Hereford and Lord Curzon—in a brief but incisive speech in which he stated that all the information he had received went to show that the case for female enfranchisement was going downhill rather than uphill. Lord James of Hereford, in responding to the toast of the guests, recalled the fact that in what was practically his first speech in the House of Commons, thirty-eight years ago, he opposed a Bill to enfranchise women, and added that he had never wavered in his opposition from that day to this.