The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-26

London, Oct. 25.-Lord Rosebery made
an address tonight at the banquet of
the Cutters Society of Sheffield, in
which he paid high tribute to the car.
Among those present were the Duke of
Norfolk, the Archbishop of York and a
large number of men we'll known in
the political world. The prime minis
ter said that at the present moment the
shadow Of uncertainty clouded the do
ninion Of foreign politics. There was
not a thoughtful mind in Europe that
did not turn to the sick bed in Crimea.
Great Britain had in times past had
acute subjects of difference with Russia
but he felt certain there was nobody
who was aware of wnat-had happened
in Europe during the last fifteen years
who did not feel the unreasonable debt
of obligation that Great Britain lay
under to the czar.
Lord Rosebery said: eve had in him
a monarch whose watchword, whose
reign and whose character has been a
worship of truth and peace
| He would not say that the ear had
rank among the Caesars and Napoleons
of history, but If peace had her vic
| tories not less renowned than war he
would reign in history as not less en-
titled to fame than either Caesar and
Napoleon. 1t was due to his character
and influence, as much as to any other
cause, that peace had been preserved.
His death would mean the removal of
one of the greatest, perhaps the great
est guarantee of peace in the world.
| Lord Rosebery then proceeded to ridi-
Guile the recent cabinet council scare
,r,& 1.se 4,
fact that the "Silly season" was over.
He denied that the cabinet mad dis
cussed the question of Intervention in
the Chinese-Japanese war, or that any
| circular had been issued or rebuff re-
ceived. He dilated upon the seriousness
for Great Britain Of the destruction of
the central government of China, and
said headless China meant such a
scene of chaos and horror as the world
had never contemplated. Hundreds of
millions of a barbarous and cruel popu-
| lation would be let loose with their
! passons uncontrolled. This would be
an appalling danger to every Christian
within its reach. After the first Jap
anese victory, news had reached her
majestys government from source
| of the highest authority that China
was willing to concede honorable terms
of peace, which considerably exceeded
entered upon the war. These terms
Japan might have accepted without
any diminution of her prestige. The
government could not put this inforrna-
| ton in it's pocket. No minister could
have incurred such a responsibility
| THE government had communicated
with other powers, including the
United States and the proposals We're
well received, but one or two powers.
he thought only one, but desired to be
| within the truth, were of the opinion
| that the time had not arrived to sub
| NIT the conditions to the combatants
/ 1t was altogether preposterouS to
describe this as a rebuff.
| In regard TO Madagascar, Lord Rose
| berry said it was so far removed from
| the purview of the last cabinet council
that he greatly doubted if the word
| adagascar had been mentioned be-
tween the British and French govern
ments for the past two years. While
Frence adhered to the treaty concern
| ing Madagascar England would not
! interfere. He admitted, however, that
| some colonial questions had caused
| friction between England and France.
| Negotia tons for settlement of those
questions were proceeding and there
be arrived at. He believed Great
Britain was united and determined on
the question of foreign policy to
degree never known before, and that
the small party that believed in de-
graded. neutral and submissive Britain
had died.