In the second speech, Mr. Chamberlain told the Liverpool Tories
that he had come to return the compliment paid to him by Lord Sandon last year, when the senior Member for Liverpool recom- mended Birmingham to replace its junior Radical Member by a Conservative. He should be very sorry to lose Lord Sandon as a Member of the House of Commons, which hie eloquence adorned ; but he thought that a rural constituency would suit a favourer of " Fair-trade" better than the greatest commercial port in England. Besides, Lord Sandon had. recently devoted himself to the study of milk, and it was clear that a rural con- stituency would offer him advantages for the pursuit of that study which a great commercial constituency would not afford, That was an admirable hit of Mr. Chamberlain's, but Lord Sandon's friends may reply that what Lord Sandon really affects is not so much milk as milk-and-water ; and that milk- and-water is more in favour in the city than in the country.
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