On Tuesday, Lord Milner, who has, benefited greatly from his rest, and will shortly he returning to the scene of his labours, was presented with the freedom of the City of London at the Guildhall, whence he drove to the Mansion House to lunch with the Lord Mayor. Mr. Swift) McNeill, who, of course, like all the Irish Nationalists, is devoted to the Boer cause, made a strange tactical blunder in the House last night by addressing a question to the Home Secretary, in which he called attention to the dislocation of the traffic in the City on that occasion. Mr. Ritchie was not slow to avail himself of the opportunity. "I am not surprised," he said, "to Learn that large crowds collected in the City to do honour to Lord Milner and the House cheered again and again. -And then Mr. Ritchie went on to explain what Mr. McNeill ought to know, the Home Secretary has no authority over the City police; only the Metropolitan police outside the City being under his control. At the luncheon, Lord Milner made 2 fine vigorous speech, in which he expressed a very hopeful view of the settlement after the war. "T have great confidence," he said, "in the efficacy of impartial and incorruptible government, of the bold development of the vast natural resources of the country, of the gradual and prudent introduction of self-governing institutions, to heal old sores, to create new interests, and gradually to bring diverse sections of the people to ce-operate for the good of their common country."
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