Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-11
ENGLAND's FOREIGN RELATIONS.
Earl kimberley's Speech at the Lord
Mayors Banquet.


The lord mayors banquet at the Guild
hall. London. last evening WAS attended by
1900 guests. Lord HerschelL the Earl of
Kimberley. H. Campbell-Bannerman. Earl
Spencer and A j. Mundella represented the
cabinet.
AS first lord OF the admiralty, Earl Spen-
Ger spoke mostly of naval affairs. Nu-
merous attacks had been made recently, he
said, upon the administration of the navy
He wished to say that the government was
pledged to maintain and strengthen the
navy to the point where IL would be fit to
defend not only the British Islands, but
the whole empire. (Cheers)
Mr.. Campbell-Bannerman, secretary of
state for war. answered the toast to the
army. He said: THE army is no longer
the refuge of the dissolute and destitute
1t is now being filled in an increasing de-
gree with highly educated, thoroughly disci-
plined and well behaved men, from whom
the country may expect something better
than the blind obedience of the human
machine. (Cheers.) Requiring and receiy-
ing such men, the government must do all
in their power to extend to them certain
privileges. 1 am glad to say this is being
done. The British army is now the best
service in the world for the comfort of the
NCneerS-D
Earl kimberley's Speech.
The Earl of Kimberley. secretary of state
for India. responded to the toast to the min
listers There were undoubtedly many pres
emit. he said. who would be glad to see the
present cabinet tot@ring to the fall. In the
absence Of several of his colleagues, notably
Mr.. Gladstone CHEERS and hisses) and Lord
Rosebery (cheers). he might assure all pres
ent that, despite the constant increase of
the armies of Europe. the relations of Eng
Land to the powers were Thoroughly har-
monlous STILL the condition of Europe was
the cause of constant anxiety. On the other
land, Enslands relations to the United
states did not give the slightest ground for
uneasiness. Those relations had been sig
nalized lately as forever peaceable by the
settlement of a dispute without the arbitra-
ment of war. (CheersD There was no great
er nation than the great American republic
which had. with Great Britain, submitted
to the tribunal of arbitration in Paris
(CheersD
Lord Kimberley expressed sympathy with
spain in her troubles with the Riffs at Me-
lila and In her sorrow for the victims of
the Santander and Barcelona explosions
Referring to Afghanistan. he said that Sir
Mortimer Durand's mission to the ameer's
court had been an unqualified success, and
that negotiations with Russia as to her
Asiatic frontier were approaching a per-
manent settlement.
with France was proceeding. although all
he was at liberty to say was that the gov
eminent were fully alive to English inter-
ests and would be found eventually to have
maintained Engiand's known position in the
matter of frontiers. (CheersD When the
official papers should be disclosed the ma
ton would have good reason to be satisfied.
(Cheers)
Guilty. 1t still was too soon to say whether
the Indian governments measures against
the coinage of silver would succeed. He
himself felt confident that they were indis-
pensable.
During the last few months there had
been terrible riots between Mohammedans
and Hindocs in India. The impartiality of
the government in such matters was shown
by its refusal to interfere to restore peace
between the sects.
The war against the Natabeles in South
Africa had been the subject of heated dis
cussion. The war was in his opinion per
fectly justifiable. 1t had been undertaken
and carried on by the British in South
Africa in manner deserving Of the appro-
baton of their fellow countrymen at home
He trusted that they now might look for
ward TO the time when affairs would he
settled with the due consideration Of the
claims of the colonists of the cape Cheers
The rest of Lord Kimberleys speech was
devoted to domestic politics.
Like Dick WittingtOu
The story of the life Of the new lord
A'AASoA vans ~ 'iiihu ehc sAoTy OF
Wilmington, some time the incumbent of
the same office. He started in life a very
poor boy. and when fourteen years old was
employed as messenger in the great pa
per-makng house Of william Venables, the
one-time partners in which furnished ii is
said. to Charles Dickens the originals Of
the Cheeryble Brothers, the philanthro-
pists of his great story of Nicholas Nickle-
by. The boy advanced in position slowly
but surely, and he is now the head of this
great manufacturing concern. He is noted
for his extensive charities, and he has given
many boy poor as he himself once was, an
opportunity to greatly better his condition
He is member Of several of the city guilds
and his wealth. despite his large gifts to
charity. is reckoned at upward Of e, 900 OOO