Sir 'William Harcourt, in acknowledgment, declared that he
always had felt it and always should feel it a great honour, as well as a great pleasure, to be Mr. Disraeli's guest, and that for him, as well as for the Bishop of Oxford, Hughenden had a "national interest,—a national interest entirely separate from all the distinctions of party polities." However, he took care to remind his audience that he is a member of the party of Progress, and he avowed his deep interest in Church restoration without any reference to his common labours with Mr. Disraeli in relation to that great work of Church Restoration, the Public Worship Regulation Act. At the end of the last Session, there appeared certain signs that the understanding between these two great spirits of the new Reformation was not quite of the beat; but if so, the slight breach. has been healed. It is evident that the alliance between Mr. Disraeli and Sir William Harcourt has been re-cemented "in the beauty of holiness."
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