ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION.

Thames Star, Volume XLV, Issue 10241, 7 June 1909, Page 2

ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION.

MOST UEfMIAiRKAfBiLiEi GATHERING ■ EVER. HELD. BRlLOjAtNfr SPBEOH! BY LORD ROSBBERY. ■THEI GBiEJAiTNESS OF THE" :. EMPIRE. ■■■'"'■-/ ' lAi MEMORABLE ORiATIOjN. , I&NIDGN, June 6. For enthusiasm andi areipresentatiyiei character the baingiifets .whero 600 -were present, at the largest hall in London, was one of the most remarkable gatherings ever h«id in the Empires-capital and was memorable; for an oration-holding the hearar'a spellbound and transmitting:; the most striking; moving message ' tii every corner-of the DtHniniori. Mr Burnham presided and all the deleg|Biteß, with every leading, journalist in the country wera- present.

;. The -guests .inoludfidl Tan. Humalton, X,x>rdi NtarthcJiflVi, Max Pemberton* . §ir Dtyiglas Straight, George Parkm, arad Lord. Faber. ... Ctonspicuoufc among the -decorations were symbolic Imperial designs andi a mwsioal programme with the natiomal songs of Great and Greater Britain was rendered. King Edward sent a warnii response to a loyal telegram, hoping he would long 'be aperea tor the .people and Empire. - .-...• Lord Rosebefy's speech in the even-' ing was generally pronounced to be nothing lees than. .wonderful nnd perhaps his. most brilliant effort in wietoomang the delegates was when he emphasized tho en&miouis importance of the gathering. • Hiaferrihg to the conference and the. Prime Minister of the Eknipire re the , disparagement] of j those gather ings, he Said hp could say that the present Imperial one was of more importance still. Ministers were transient while the power of great.newspapers in regaining; and embodying opinion immieaeurablly exceeded! thai of statements. The 'best -and simplest words on tHe present occasion , end the only two essential and perhaps the sweetest that mortal dan hear are "Wlelcomie " hoanie:" (Prolonged cheers.) ; ■' " ' ■■- :;..- ;- -" I Uord ihiooehery oontinuted: This is j the motto o! tne ocjoasion "Weloometo your home." (Ronewed cheers.) Proceeding in a vein of dlelicate pathos flashed with rhumor a-nd sa*ire. he plotured what the deliega,tes ha I arrh^ tfrvsee of Great ißrifein nast and preesnt', includiri® tibfe' 'prbdigi>tts but always ibaKtequate Armada protecting our shores. "AH of these, gfetl' tlemlem," he> eaMflaimied, '^ar-e ijbuirs a« niiuoh as omm." Hie then aakedi what they ibrought, adding, that it was more importiaint to the MJoitheiJftnd than thjey douid take from her. The best they could 'bring; was a knowltedg© about ttonsehfes, their oommunities!, tJifiir aspirations, *nd their policies. Latterly aodording to. the favourite pralcitice of retired; politicians he had dreamoJ a dreamt TTp pictured iParliaimieint voting supplies for two years and patting itself up ia obsolete warships, now so readily swapped and going for a trip to di«cover •omle*liin|r aibout, -the Empire. Meanwhile t% Mpthie|Wid was governed much a» now %^ the heads of the permanent dfepartmients. There would be some use and perhaps greater confidence in its welfare, un der such well ordered control. The Peers, he continuledl, wo<ild naiturallj paiv their own, expenses of the tour." The House of CJomimons would votie that for taxes the Lords would pay them,. He next dwelt on the: surprises of the countries visited under the imitgj»e3 tour. The discovery in< democratic Cfanada of a Premier holding his own aa^inst tha buffets of innumerable elections; also. that wealth was not a crime; and next $aw Zealand carrying out in the total absence of tradition or compleixitpi the policies that we were : endeavouring io oonstruoti. i