London, Nov. 9.
At the banquet at the Guildhall to-night the Lord Mayor, Sir Thomas Crosby, presided over the usual brilliant assemblage including Cabinet Ministers, Ambassadors, Poors, Members of the House of Commons he Archbishop of Can-hops, Judges, Reves of the Navy and Army and prominent men of finance and commerce, TRIBUTE TO MR. BALFOUR, Mr. Asquith, in an important speech devoted to Imperial and foreign affairs, opened with a generous tribute to Mr. Balfour in which he expressed his unfeigned and profound regret at the announcement of his resignation, and acknowledged the irreparable loss caused by his withdrawal from the constant interchange of out and thrast involved in the daily life of Parliament.
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