The great 'k of both parties are in agreement with the somewhat tardily expressed opinion of Lord Rosebery: Without attempting to judge ne policy which concluded peace after the reverse of Majuba Hill, I am-bound to state my profound conviction that there is no conceivable Government which could repeat it." Lord James of Hereford, who was in the middle of a speech at Aberdeen when he received the news of the Boer ultimatum. seized the opportunity at the end of a patriotic harangue to promise as far as he could in the name of the Govenment chat the war should be humanely conducted, and that when it was terminated counsels of moderation should prevail.
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