rose to make his attack on the Far Eastern hey of the Government. This speech was fairly effective but it cannot be said that he brought any very new arguments to bear on the subject. The points which he made against Lord Salisbury's Government were the points which the Liberal journals, anda good many of the conservative journals also, have been making during the past few weeks. It wasin nonsense a startling speech—in fact it was hesitating and lenient to a fault, in the view even of some Tory members; though heroseto the situation to some extent in his peroration when he declared that the record of the Government had been one continuous failure, that they had been driven against all their protestations into territorial occupation because they had been so maladroit in their negotiations and even when it came to territorial occupation they had obtained something of very doubtfal value.
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