ended its labours last Saturday, and, as was generally anticipated, its chief achievement has been that of placing the long-desired principle of an international atbitration court upon a definite basis. No one ever expected that the Ozar's idea of universal disarmament could or would be fulfilled, so no one is disappointed. M. de Staal's closing speech was received with loud and prolonged cheers, but the final meeting was. notable chiefly from the fact that a long letter was read from His Holiness, Pope Leo XIII, in which he extolled the nobility of the object of the Council and gave it_his blessing. Sir Julian Pauncetote, Her Majesty's Ambassador to the United States, to whom in no small measure the success of the Conference has been due, has just had a Peeraye conferred upon him by the Queen, presumably in recognition of his valuable services in this matter, as it is upon his scheme that the International Arbitration Tribunal has been formed. He has for years been one of our leading men; but in his early days he spent some years in Hongkong, where he practised at the bar. In 1866 he held the post of Attorney-General of that Colony. He isar the present time seventy-one years old, LORD ROSEBERY ON COLLEGE TRALING, The ex-Premier and owner of Ladus is always an attractive speaker, perhaps even more so outside than in the House of Lords. 'A few days ayo he was present at Founder's Day at Epsom College and he was in a particularly happy vein, his speech being equally interesting to the boys and their elders, 'The first and primary object of every school," said his lordship, "tis to turn out men. It ison our men' that we depend for the future of our country. Some nations owe almost everything to their schools, notably Scotland, Switzerland, and Russia, In England, although it is possible that, in some of the older schools, the education received may not have been that which most exactly fitted boys petition of life, still there was not the to cope with the difficulties and com-
least doubt that, so far as the training of manhood went, they had been the best. schools the world had ever seen, and in this country the virtue of manhood had always been recognised and worshipped, possibly more than in any other country in the world." In proof of his argument Lord Rosebery cited Garibaldi, to whom, he said, a greater ovation had been accorded in England than had been received by any one else, excepting only the Princess of Wales and speaking of the gallant Captain Marchand he said if he were to come to England he would get a reception second only to that which he had received in his own
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