10th November.
Lord Salisbury delivered an important speech Inst night at the banquet given at Guildhall by the new Lord Mayor. His Lordship said the settlement of the Afghan boundary question was satisfactory alike to England and to Russia and the Amir of Afghanistan; the surrender of Ayub Khan had removed a serious source of further danger to the maintenance of peace. The settlement of the Suez Canal and the New Hebrides questions was especially important, as removing the thorn from the sides of England and France. His Lordship declared he knew of nothing to cause any uneasiness regarding the maintenance of European peace; beyond the fact of keeping up enormous armaments by the Powers, he believed every Power was intensely anxious for peace, and the only danger that this would be broken arises from possible gusts of popular passion. England, on her part, adheres to her policy of maintaining peace and the treaties which are the present framework of Europe, and the independence of free peoples, He believed that Austria and Italy, with whom the sympa-thios of England are deeply bound up, im at the same objects. The Government were more than ever determined to trans-for to subordinates everything necessary to enforcing Inw in Ireland, nnd there had been a marked improvement in the condition of that country since the Coercion Act had been in operation, though the progress made had been necessarily slow.
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