Lord Harlington and Mr. Bright spoke on Wednesday at a
slimier given by the Fishmongers' Company. After a reference to Lord Beaconsfield, in which be recognised him as an honour- able,opponent who sought no personal or petty ends, but cared for the greatness of England, Lord liartiugton alluded to the disappointment some ardent minds had felt at the slow pro- gress of the Government, They hati expected that with the advent of Liberals to power all would go well, but though the new pilot might save a ship which had been running
on the breakers, it was not in his power all at once to produce calm seas. The Government had not reversed all their predecessors hail done. They had tried to utilise the Treaty of Berlin, so as to obtain freedom for the nationalities in the Balkans. They had secured peace in South Africa on terms which were, no doubt, subject to criticism, but which were not the worse or better because we had suffered petty reverses there. They had produced a Land Bill for Ireland which would, he believed, provide a modus rivendi, while the great object of the Bill, the increase in the number of landowners, was being carried out. He looked to peasant-proprietorship and emigra- tion as the remedies for Ireland, but till they could be applied, the Land Bill would "tide over the time."
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