Lord Rosebery made a very amusing speech this day week
at Hawick, in affiliating the Hawick Liberal Association to the Liberal Association of the North of Scotland. He quizzed the action of the Government on all important questions, explained how eagerly he had been expecting some further -elucidations of the state of Asia Minor from Lord Sandon, who had spent his early youth there in contemplation, and who was about to return there with the steam-plough. He laughed at the Government for first complaining of being criticised on their foreign policy, and then on their home policy, and com- pared them to the sailor who, when he was being flogged, kept on telling the operator to hit higher or lower, or anywhere except where he did hit, till that functionary said, in an exi)ostulatory tone, "Why, there's no pleasing of you, Jack" Lord Rosobery .complained that a Government which had come into power with no programme as to foreign policy, except a promise to regulate the commerce of' the Straits of Malacca, should have harassed .all the four quarters of the globe. Indeed, the Government will feel more inclined for Protection, if it can get it, against the north-country chaff of Lord. Rosebery, than against the 'Canadian wheat of Mr. Chaplin. The former is certainly the more dangerous prospect for them of the two.
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