Lord Hartington made a good speech on Wednesday at the
twenty-second annual dinner of the Association of the Chambers -of Commerce, in reply to the toast of " Her Majesty's Ministers," which was proposed by Mr. Moore, with expressions of regret that the Government were not more Conservative. Lord Hart- ington replied that, however misguided he might be, he must 'be content for that evening, at all events, to remain a member -of the Liberal party; and then he took advantage of the fact that he could not attend the previous annual dinner, on account -of the famous continuous session of the House of Commons for (nearly forty-eight hours, to express his own profound conviction that whether or not the New Rules of Procedure are really strong -enough for the object for which they are proposed, they are, at all events, the very minimum that is requisite; and his satisfac- tion that so influential a body as the Associated Chambers of 'Commerce should fully perceive the absolute necessity of so strengthening the hands of the Legislature as to give it back its -control of its own time and strength.
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