A banquet attended by five hundred guests, comprising many distinguished
diplomatists and officials and repre- sentatives of the various financial and commercial enter- prises concerned, was held on Wednesday at the Hotel Cecil to celebrate the centenary of the independence of the Argentine Republic. Sir Edward Grey in pro- posing the health of the President of the Republic made a feeling allusion to the sympathy shown to Great Britain by foreign nations. We could not forget, be went on, in recalling the sympathy extended to us, how much we owed that sympathy to the personality of the Sovereign we had lost. " Amongst all the great benefits he con- ferred on his country, not the least is that of a deep and abiding impression of goodwill which he conveyed to others on our behalf,—an impression much deeper than could be conveyed by fair words alone, which came from that wonderful gift of conveying to others the kindness of his own nature, which made all classes in this country, and all countries that knew him, feel that he wished the happiness of others."
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