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REFORM OF THE LORDS.

COMING CONFERENCE.

An important declaration of the Gov. rnment's intentions wth respect to the holding of a Conference on the general problem of Second Chamber reform was made in the House of Lords recently and led to an animated and outspoken dis eussion. The subject was raised by Lord Burnham in the form of a question to the Leader of the House.

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TAK HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.

LADIES OF CHIVALRY.

A TARDY RECOGNITION.

The inauguration of the two new Orders-the Order of the British Empire and that of the Companions of Honour which are to be open to both sexes mark an interesting stage in the recognition of the services of women to the State. The idea is not entirely a new one, but there

SATURDAY, AUGUST 11TH.

THE EXPANSION OF PRUSSIA, IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA,

A GREAT AWAKENING.:

WI

BY W. W. TARN.).

[BY SIA UERBERT TALE.]

I propose to set down son American inipresstons and experiences, and to chronicle the vast changes which have six months. Forheen wrought in Amerion during the last

mobilised first and Prussia had only fought in self-defence. It was the same trick which Germany played with Russis in 1014, Meanwhile, Bismarck secured the alliance of Italy, and proposed a reform of the Confederation, trusting that nearly upset his plans by proposing Austria would oppose. Suddenly Austria allureaus demobilisation. He had to conditions which nullified his agreement, and very opportunely a report went he he attached

round the Press that Italians had crossed the Austrian frontier. It was not trae, and its source is unknown; but in view of Bismarck's relations with the malign agat reptiles," as he called his Press, it is not hard to guess where it came from, It served its end; Austria announced that she could nou dephilise her Southern army. Sure now of his prey, Bismarck false move. It cams; Austrin proposed to submit the question of the Duchies to the Dict. this as a breach of the Treaty of Gastein; Bismarck at enee denounced the Prussians crossed the frontier; and Koniggratz settled the question who should rule in Germany.

in a riot of pro-Ally than ak It is a fortnight-since-I-left-New-York anyone ventured to prophesy such a

new life.

THE CONTRAST OF CITIES,

1917.

ACCURSED PRUSSIANISM.

GERMAN-BORN BANKER'S

the

DENUNCIATION,

INDIGESTION.

in the House of Commons-rather proma-still that it should fusve been consislered. still waited for Austria to make a definite ing to and fro; men in blue limping can render to the country of their origin stomach, gently stimulating the action of

It will be remembered that about a Jonth ago Mr. Walter Long anounced tarely, as Lord Curzon hinted that the Government had decided to set up an- elber Conference on the lines of the Speaker's Conference. Lord

Burn ham invited Lord Curzon to say what steps had been or would le taken to that end. The Leader of the

tions:--

ment.

(3.)-The ides was not to tie the Con ference down to the consideration of any one of the many reports which have been issued on House of Lords reform,

free hand. but to give it a

declaration genera soomed to meet with an assent, which ex- tended also to his more particular in-

WAB

HISTORIC PRECEDENTS.

This is how a "defensive" war can be

It

We

bad

OLIBE of

A brief holiday in London during lust September enabled me to receive a flecting impression of the changed conditions at home. Black streets, men in khaki hurry hither and thither; women in uniform; vice in craps, dancing rag-timo; a greater simplicity of living; the pervading irrepressible Cockney humour and a sense of Fate somnolent and pregnant, overbrooding all.

gredients in Mother, Seigel's Syrup act The medicinal extracts, and other in- directly upon the organs of digestion toning up and strengthening the the liver, and regulating the bowels. In this way, indigestion is banished and the whole system benefits in a remarkable

manner.

"To see me twenty years ago and to- day, you would not think the I am the same woman, enjoying, as I do now, such splendid health. At that time I suffered most severely from Indigestion, which took the form of severe pains in the chest, right through to my back, between the shoulder blades. My cure from the weak state I got into was sololy through the use of your Mother Seigel's Syrup." July, 1916. Mra. E. Brain, West Town, Bristol, 14th

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'FOR THE BLOOD. IS THN LIFE.”

Sure Sign of Blood Impurity.

The continua! appearing through the skin of ECZEMA, BLUTCHES, SPOTS, BLACKHEADS, PIMPLES, BOILE BORES AND ERUPTIONS OF ANY KIND.

The throbbing aching pains of BAD LEGS, ULCER ABSÕESSES, SORO. FULA, GLANDULAR SWELLINGS, BLOOD POISON, PILES.

The Dread Grip of RHEUMATISM, SUIATICA, LUMBAGO, GOUT.

WHY TOLERATE IT?

Why suffer from indigestion, from * Early in 1868, then, Austria, seeing war

ebe well-known banking firm of Kahu, headaches, biliousness, dizziness, or con

Mr. Otto H. Kahn, one of the heads of pains aftor eating, acidity, flatulence, inevitable, began to sim, which was

Loeb & Co., addressing a meeting of the stipation Why? wactly what Bismarck desired.

Merchants Association of New York, fact that women especially seem prone to It is a remarkable Prussia possessed the great advantage of

delivered a powerful denunciation of the make light of digestive troubles, forgetful being able to mobilise in a much shorter

terised as the accursed thing from arise therefrom. From the many letters spirit of Prussianian, which he charge of the greater evils which may and "do" has not before been a full admission of time than her rival; and Bismarck

which Germany, no less than the rest of

we receive, it is clear that in hundreds of fadies to all degrees of any important waited, knowing that he could overtake transformation a year aga be, would have the world, must be rescued. He said dured much needless suffering and well- euses, women, yes, and men, too, have en- Lord Burnham pictured in a few tell Order of Knighthood; and the coincid the Austrian preparations, which pro-bon regarded as a madman or as a sen

That accursed thing is not a nation, uigh made shipwreck of their lives, not ing sentences the constitutional position ence of these new creations with the accoeded slowly, and that he would thus ! be He showed how a far captions by Parliament of the principle able to declare (as he frequently declaret

but a spirita spirit which has made the because they did not know of a remedy sational journalist. A great tidal wave Government possessed by it, and executing that would relieve or bunish their nil: of the moment. xrenter political revolution-the epithet of woman's suffrage will not fail to strike later in the fteichstag) that Austria had

has swept from the East to the West: its sinister and bloody bidding, the enemy ments, but simply because they neglected the future historians of civilisation.

The awakening of America is but a part of all mankind. What we are now cou was interpreted in its broadest sense-

of the world-movement which caused the tending for, by the side of our splendidly et. Now Mother Seigel's Syrup has been thun nay since the Reform Bill of 1832

the warnings of their trouble at the out In this connection it is not without

revolution in Russia, was in process of being accomplished by significance that some discussion has taken

suddenly, its causes are no less deep

It has come, as the passion of the Representation of the place in high quarters as to the preced

brave, sorely-tried Allies, are things proved by thousand of former sufferers People Bill now in the Commons, That

rooted, its consequences will be no less which are amongst the highest and most to be the surest menas of eradicating In

cherished which the civilised world has digestion, ence among women of the Dames of the

overwhelming. It is the birth of the bill owed its being to the spirit of nn-

and Stomach and Liver new Order of Knighthood--the Order of

attained through the toil, sacrifices, and Troubles. If therefore you are suffering prevailed tional settlement" which the Speaker's Conference, but it meant title nor precedence. On one side it was

point of view the Companions of Honour carries neither

In recording these impressions, my suffering of its best in the course of many to-day, act at once by taking a course of

centuries. is human rather than humanity, liberty, justice, and mercy, stomach, liver and bowels into proper

They are the the institution of pure democrnev "

things of Mother Seigel's Syrup, and put your and almost universal suffrage and that urged with some show of reason, that as the possessors of this, the latest of our

erimod that the most valuable impres including the German nation, fought and ability to digest feud thoroughly and political. Nor do I pretend that they for which the best men among all nations, working order, for upon the healthful At a time when the country was der decorations, will have earned their new

snapshots. But it condition of those Single Chamber government. Such was

nding of the situation, and its ne dignity entirely by their own services,

siens are the first and the last; the in- Were His main they should be given precedence over those not confested:

ideals of Luthor, Goethe, maintain good health Only when your point, therefore, was that this new politi. of their own sex, who had attained to

torím is often but as a blurred phantas-Schiller, and a host of others who had stomach and liver have been restored to magoria of undigested realities. enl resolution made it imperative that titular distinction and precedence merely

made the name of Germany great and thorough working order can you escape the problem of the reform of the Second by marriage or descent. The other side

beloved until Prussians came to make it the pains and penalties of indigestion and Chamber should be faced without delay, pleaded precedent, and the decision has

deeds & byword and a hissing.

obtain proper nourishment from your gone in their favour; but it is interesting

"Speaking as one born of German

food. that the heterodox view should ever have

art, I do not hesitate to state it is my been put forward, and more interesting

deep conviction that the greatest service which men of German birth or antecedents

It is worth while at this moment to

is to proclaim and stand up for those recall the fact that Queen Mary and Queen

grant, fine, ident, national qualities and traditions which they and their ancestors Alexandra are Ladies of the Order of the Garter, a distinction which no

brought up, and to set their faces like inherited, and in which they were other women have ever enjoyed, except, of

Thence back to New York. What a

flint against the monstrous doctrines and House answered with his usual candour, Elizabeth, Mary 11., and Victoria, who manufactured. Moltke wrote afterwards: conrse, the Queen's Regiment, Mary 1.1

contract between these cities Here I acts of rulership which robbed them of and made clear the following propesi-by heraldic and chivalric custom trok The war, of 1866 did not take place just a frenzy of luxury, a hectic gaiety which had the affection and admiration find no hint of impending war-it is the Germany which they loved, and rank as men. But in the early history because the existence of Prussia (2.)--That the Conference will be of the Order there was for somewhat more threatened, or in obedience to public climate.

which belongs to this nervous Was

of the entire world." vital framed as far ne possible on the model

than a hundred years a quasi-admission opinion or the voice of the people.

Here is none of the tender of that over which the Speaker pre-of women into its ranks. Between was a war which was foreseen long before phere.

languor of our owa dull, balmy atmos-

Hore sided.

the electric current is confess I was not greatly impressed by and 144 about sixty ladies were formally and prepared with deliberation." (a) of

It will consign exclusively ripresented with the Robes of the Order od aut be surprised, however, to and to do, and do, and do." In this land common-sense, common-place order. This destructive of romance-one's impulse is the candidate's oratory, which was of the of the Garter as a special distinction. that at the beginning of the war the King of light and publicity it is the reporter memorable meating took place immediate It is curious to note that several of these of Prussin isened a proclamation (June who is the first to welcome the coming, ly before the General Election. Intense ()--It will contain little of the Minis-

terial or ex-Ministerial elements.

dames received an honour which their familiar to-day, declaring that he has he was the last to speed the parting, excitement prevailed throughout the

18th) of a typ with which we are very (e) will be thoroughly representa-husbands did not share. On the other

hand, if the case of Margaret, wife of done all in his power to save Prussia the of the reporter I learn on my arrival of a policy of drift and indecision. Many guest. It is from the searching questions States, Mr. Wilson being then suspected Live. (d)-Pains will be taken to secure a

sufferings and sacrifices of a war, This strong, influential chairman.

Sir Robert Harcourt, be typical, it would is known to my people and to God who that for the last four days of our voyage of his stergest opponents have now be seen that the Garters encircling the left sees the heart.

on the steamer Philadelphia a fire had come bis closest supporters, and are (2.)--The Conference

will inquire arm of their effigies after death were not choice; we must fight for our existence."

We have been raging in the hold of the ship. loyally devoting themselves to his unuse into the powers as well as into the always legally justifiable. For these

It is pitiful stuff; we prefer Bismarck's tell him that I had been wholly unaware Indeed, the evolution of political affairs personnel of the revised Second Cham

Danes de la Fraternité de St George" cynical avowals of his aims and his of the danger through which we had in America, bears a strange likeness to ber. It would be useless," said Lord

were a closely defined and exactly remethods. Those aims he had now attained passed; and the suggestion that the fire that of England in the early stages of Curzon,merely to substitute one set corded company, enjoying a haneu in full measure. Prussia at once annexed was but another instance of "fright the war, when the self-effacement of of persons for another."

which survived the resignation or even Schleswig Holstein; but Prussia went fulness" only adds to my thankfulness political parties and politicians was one the degradation of their husbands from much further than that. Some German that we had escaped the perils of the of the most remarkable proofs of this the Order. With the fifteenth century the States graceful custom died out, the last entry Prassin annexed Hanover (including the My friendly interlocutor

had supported Austria, and contending elements of are and water.country's strength in crisis. of this gift of the Robes being that tri North Sea Coast), the electorate of Hesse, that the obituary for quat muriem) believe that the people of England entered assures me Nor does the resemblance stop here. 1 Elizabeth, wife of Henry VII.

Hassan and the free city of Frankfort, which had been prepared for me was of into this war to fight for an ideal and Of the other great Orders of Kuighthood together with slices of Bavaria and the most flattering nature, and hints that I believe that the people of America were

Hesse-Darmstadt under the in this country, the only other instanc

its insertion is only a pleasure deferred. inspired by n like ideal, un ideal which of the creation of adam

rectification of frontiers; she had

It is well at once to capitulate to the has only latterly entered the soul of the which pleasantly surprised those who lat Austria. It is a strange comment of the reporter an American's home is his ia nation. I do not say that political con

conquered Germany more thoroughly than tended the Investiture at Delhi in De- tema, 1911, which the King Emperor Imperial Crown save from the princes of of William I's father to neeept the

terviewer's castle. The average Americonsiderations did not in part animate the invested

does not luxuriste in that sacred calculations of our own statesmen and the Queen-Empress with the Germany, his peers; the son had not publicity in which most Englishmen the Star of India. Minor Orders have his peers, whose insignia of the Grand Commandership of refused to destroy some of those princes, prefer to pass their private lives. It is of our American Allics; but I am the climate of New York which largely American audiences, that their sympathy sure, having addressed myself daily to been open to Indies for some time, two anyhow worth just as much as his own.

Divine Right"

governs the lives of the inhabitants of with the cause was mainly due to a belief or three being reserved for them, such

this electric city. On each successive visit that the cause of England was a righteous One incident of the treaty of peace, may as the Order of Victoria and Albert, be mentioned.

to New York I have been struck by its cause, and to a consciousness that the On the proposal of which, apart from the higher classes re- Napoleon III, Austria, in ceding her vítal and energising influences. One may

two nations were side by side in the fight. served for Royalty, is possessed by about rights in Schleswig-Holstein. to Prussia,

be worn out, but one is never tired. The for civilisation. "It is honour that will treme importance, the House of Lordswelve peeresses and as many commoners made the reservation that this inhabit climate demands a less vigorous diet; bring you to our side? were words that

The Imperial Order of tho Crown of ants of the Northern district of Schleswig ought to have an opportunity of discus

the increased abstention from alcohol,

were always greeted with enthusinam. aing them. On the point of the composi- India is similarly reserved, with the shall be re-united to Denmark if, by although the national "cocktail still

Gradually the feeling has come to the tion of the Conference, Land Curron had additional restriction that it may only free plebiscite, they express the wish survives, is very marked. I noticed in said that the Peers ought to have a larger be given for service in connection with therefor."

American people that they were too proud Naturally Prussia never addressing city clubs that alcohol was the Indian Empire. The Order of Morit curried this out; and in 1878 Austria not served at all at luncheon. As there representation than they had on the

not to tight. All in all, our new Alfies Speaker's Conference, where they were

--an Order of such distinction that released her. It was not an obligation to are few half-tones in the landscapes, so that Mr.

have reason to congratulate themselves ve out of thirty. Lord Selborne's view members have precedence immediately Denmark, strictly speaking; but its non is there few half-tones in the character Indeed, since the President's great war Wilson remained in offior. was that the Peers ought to claim que after Grand Crosses of the Bath-is open fulfilment left a very sore feeling in that of the people. There is an absence of message the entire country has accepted representation, as it was the future of to both sexes, and ten years ago Miss

twilight, of that mystery so characteristic their House that was at stake, and be Florence Nightingale received it from ured that the chairman ought not to be King Edward VII

The whole of Bismarck's fine-meshed plan and gardens are not surrounded by walls. leader whose patience, Last and single But the notable lesson of 1866 is this. of England. In the same way the houses is its official idol. One must admire the whole-hearted national faith in n one who was bound by tradition to assert

Of minor Orders, the Imperial Service depended. absolutely on one thing the They are open to the public view. The the supremacy of the House of Commons.

mindedness have come to be recognised, Order is granted to women, who wear a ability of the Prussian army to win a only walla I remeinlar to have seen were different badge from that given to men, speedy victory. Had it failed, had the those of a baseball stadium and a lunatic oven by his bitterent opponents. though the riband 'is this same. Lord Crewe defined his attitude in a

Other war been protracted, Napoleon III, and asylum--the one presumably to keep

Wilson's action was something between He, too, allowed distinctions available for rewarding the perhaps others must have intervened in people from getting in, the other to keep caracteristic speech.

a coup d'état and a miracle. Hart be that any conference must consider powers services of women are the Orders of St. one way: Prassin might really have them from getting out. As there is a

had to fight for her existence

made his declaration six months ago be} as well as composition, but as he uttered John of Jerusalem and of Mercy, the think Bismarck n great

Those who fiercer publicity, so is there a greater would probably have called forth civil the words he was evidently acutely con-

Royal Red Cross, and the Kaiser-i-Hind should remember, that all this combina, frankness in the life of the people. In:

diplomatist scious of the dead albatross round his Medal. The list may seem a long one,

fashionable hotels at the shooting of which he had always but, in practice the number of ladies tions, as in 1866 so in 1870, world inve couples will sit hand in hand, feeling this situation the President showed the war. By appearing to be held back br teatime young allowed the people to push him on. In Considered "

most unfortunate neces- actually possessing one or more of these been useless without the one thing-tho aity.".

He had never liked the Parlia-decorations is very small, and their application of overwhelming force when awkwardness or shyness in this public free patience of resistent showed the ment Act, but there it was, and he spread official admission to a new Order ranking lesser men of 1914 failed in their attempt

the moment came. This is where the intimacy. This frankness, which extends

even to telegrams (most of which arriveeven-eighths of Congress and the country of Scotch descent.) Six months ago his hands. And then, to justify himself with the nine other great British Orders to bend Bismarck Bow; neither their in ungummed envelopes) may be an ox- and his friends, be added that the Parmarks a distinct and important advance diplomacy nor their army fullled its planation of the "leakages

would have been against him; today liament Act had been forced on them as in the recognition of women's work. & necessity to prevent Single-Chamber:

task, and they became involved in the Exchange of which we have recently seven-eighths are for him. The spirit of the people had to be prepared the prole- government--with the House of Lords as

thing Bismarck dreaded a protrac ed heard.

Life in New York is largely that of the the various contributing causes that cariat had to be hypustised. What were the Single Chamber despot! This bad to Other countries have scarcely been ahead ao doubt, and said it was. Lord of us in this matter. Only lately has said,

restaurant. The contrast between the Burnham had described the atmosphere France opened the Legion of Honour to anused, ut in for Corrate the lugury in New York is indeed strike

rought this change one can but leave determing, of unreality which prevailed in the House the weaker sex, but the investitures of man Empire as Reichsland. The coming. In New York the waste of a day's wonder of Russian revolution. But ) as one may leave him to explain the of Lords, the badge of inferiority, the Madame Rosa Bonheur, Madame Curie,plicated events that led up to 1870 are not food would placate an army of anar stamp of futility which had marked their

and Madame Sarah Bernhardt have con- oven yet fully unravelled; the publication chists, As all the great hotels, there aro

cannot help thinking that the result was procedings, since the Farliament Act" Lord Crewe affected not to notice it

in no small measure due to the constant ferred at least as much lustre upon that of the great series of Frenih State Papery nightly dances; and entertainments in ticulary. He for one, had always been most honourble Order as upon the sew from 1863 onwards was only concluded the way of bazaars and fancy dress balls and courageous efforts of the leading conscious of these unpleasantnesses.

members of it. In Russia there is or in 1914. But everyone knows the last act are constantly given. These are chiefly Press of New York who, year in and year Even before the Parliament Act he had

was, for it seems doubtful whether any of the drama, as Bismarck tells it; how, devoted to Red Cross and other

out, consistently and almost without ex- felt in the Painted Chamber like a

decorations will henceforth be conferred when pence seemed assured and the Army funds. Such entertainments are given Allies. The war movement may be said ception, championed the cause of the by the new Government the carmine chiefs, Moltke and Roon, were in despair, throughout the country, and every where to aave been one of Press and President. shivering shadow in a world of ghosts. So, with a way smile, Lord Crewe sug-riband of St. Catherine, an Order found a telegram came from the King at His women are busy in devising and carrying It may be granted that in New York gested to the House that be felt no more ed by Peter the Great. Spain honours to Bismarck, containing a harmless out movements for the relief of suffering which is a cosmopolitan city, the task of unsubstantial to day than in the day her great ladies through the Order of enough secount of his interview with the in the war when the Veto was still intact, Lord Maria Lousia and Portugal by those of French Ambassador and how Bismarck,

forming public opinion was not so Selborne profoundly disagreed. He

Our Lady of Villa Vicces and of St. by skilful omissions and re-arrangements,

dificult, for the cultured and travelled knows the change and feels it, and as the

produced and published a version

The oratory of America is of a high classes were from an early date of the of the days pass they, bring, to his boson at There remains one curious decoration, became certain. It is the best known of sonls, mostly after dinner speakers. Even on the side of the Allies. The same may

telegram so insulting to France that war order It is a land of a hundred million

war for the most part whole-heartedly least,

no numbed sense to steal it. which though not an Order in any proner all the examples of Bismarck's method; at an ordinary dinner table it is no he Raid of New England and Such was the substance of an hour's sesne of the word, has been used to re- and it gave Prussia the Imperial Crown unusual to hear speeches by the chief Washington. candid talk in the House of Lords.. ward the good work-as well as the good We may note just one point here. There was a good attendance, and there works of women for many hundreds of marck himself would have spared 12tz; guests, and especially to British guests,

· Bis- || guests. ⠀⠀. The hospitality extended to Not so the proletariat and the inhabit was a certain vigour of cheering which.

ants of the Middle West and Far West, years. The Golden Rose has been given but Moltke insisted on the annexation for is extraordinary; and the bestowal of who were too far away from the battle indicated a keenly awakened interest. by the Papacy from the eleventh century military reasons, and Bismarck acquies clubs is a great boon to Englishmen. held to sympathise with the sufferers or The Peers are earnestly anxious not to to our own, and it is not without interest ced. In the same way, were Germany lay any new burdens upon Ministers, but this is a problem winch does not brook tendency to bestow it upon women has she would annex would be settled solely are not only most comfortable and well of local self-interest rather than by those in the present connection to note that the victorious today, the question of what Especially agreeable are the country to probe the causes of the war, and who clubs, which every great city boasts; these were not unnaturally guided by motivea delay to use the old phrase of Mr. Asquith's, which for so long has had an

increased of late years. At one time in-by the military chiefs. All discussion on ironic

animate objects were graced with it, and the subject in Germany and elsewhere is appointed, but afford opportunities for of a world-patriotiam; while a very large sound owing to the political re- volution which is being shaped in the

it is probable that the two best known more talk

golf and other sports A element was undoubtedly opposed to I had the good fortune to attend a Great Britain owing to the ever open sore House of Commons. The House of Lords examples of it are those granted to the The spirit of Prussia does not alter, as historic meeting at the Union League of the Irish question, Illogical as it is becoming restless in its state of in City of Siena, and still kent in the old it is to-day, so it has been throughout her Club, on the occasion when ex-Presidente may sound, there are many who, in their feriority and bondage; it aspires to play Opera del Duomo there. But the grant history, we have, we hope, illustrated Roosevelt and Taft shook hands to bridge German Irish sentimente, would have sub a worthy part in the new order. Lord i now tends more and more towards are sufficiently the remark with which we over the schiam that had rout the Restituted the Watch on the Liffey for Curzon'a speech shows that the Govern engnition of the service rendered by Prussis has been & record of deliberate Publican cause. the Wearing of the Green. I cannot

bagan-that - the external history ment are conscious of the justice of its great ladies, and among living posseSBOTE daim, and holds out good hope that the the Empress Enginio and the Queen of

cluding Mr. Hughes, whose election was of the Irish question would vanish the

All the leading Republicans spoke, in help thinking that with the settlement THERAPION promise of

a new impartial Conference Spain are probably the most conspicuous

then regarded as a foregone conclusion. I last dregs of bitterness in the cup of will be redeemed as soon as practicable. Daily Telegraph.

Daily Telegraph.

(Continued at foot of next Volume) Anglo-American relations,

dications of intention. Lord Lansdowne gratified by the emphasis which the Leader of the House bud laid on the sub- ous revised House. jeet of the psd, would not be extreme He for one, he to mark any defects in the Second Cham- ber's composition, provided that its powers were such as a Second Chamber ought to have. The powers are the vital thing the composition is secondary. Lord Lansdowne and Lord Selborne were also fully agreed that, as the terms of

reference to the Conference were of ex-

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expansion, by conquest or canning, at the possible by the standing army. expense of her neighbours, rendered

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