24 JUNE 1911, Page 3

A banquet was given by the Empire Press Union last

Saturday night to the representatives of the Overseas Pre .s now visiting England. Lord Burnham was in the chair, an.1 the principal speech was made by Lord Curzon, who discussed the influence of the Press upon the development of Imperial unity. He dwelt especially upon the serious Imperial import. of the Coronation ceremonial, in which there would be nothing but peace, unanimity, and spontaneity on every side, with no note of pain, or even of contrast, to mar the proceedings. Th., history, the tradition, the poetry, the romance, of untol centuries would be summed up in the great ritual ; but that was not all, for the sanctions of religion were behind the whole ceremony.