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Lest the element of farce should seem to be wanting

in the recent discussions about Germany, we may note that at the thirty-third annual meeting of the National Liberal Federation at Bath on Thursday Sir John Brunner, the President, passed a vote of warm and grateful thanks to the German Emperor. "I tender my warm and grateful thanks to his Majesty," said Sir John Brunner. " Will you join with me ? Will you declare your opinion? " The delegates, we are told, "responded in Parliamentary fashion with a chorus of Ayes." The German Emperor, who knows all the nuances of our language, when he is first told of this astonish- ing scene may be tempted to revive the Early Victorian expletive, " Go to Bath l"

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