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The closing week of the month of May was an eventful one. On both sides of the Atlantic great events, which may have far-reaching consequences in the future, have been developed or completed.
The death of Lord Panneefote has called forth an extraordinary amount of sympathy and regret in both the New and the Old Worlds. The "Saturday Review" makes the following brief comments.
Lord Pauneefote had unquestioi ety, important diplomatic gifts be people like him, and so the more easily avquired their confidence. There seems tu be no reason to doubt that he was really popu-Jar in the United States and was able to 1 on very smoothly with the American pol \—not the pleasantest of human tenes. is there any reason to charge the Ambassador with the failure of our diplomacy America during his term—of ellice. That it was a term of failure from the British point of view it is idle even to question. The facts cry out for themselves: and even if excusable or absolutely uwnavoidable, the failure stands none the Those who have been indulssing i flown eulogium of Lord Pauncefote's diplomacy either must regard avoidance of friction, ab any price to this country, as the only end of English diplomacy or they must have rear
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