The speech delivered by Lord Rosebery at Manchester on Wednesday
showed the qualities of brilliance and moderation that we are accustomed to find in all that he says. He dwelt especially upon the Constitutional issue with its effects upon the Union, and declared that we were "marching through a fog to the dis- memberment of the United Kingdom." Lord Rosebety protested also against the attacks that were being made in some quarters upon the Peers as a class, and in this con- nexion repeated in the most tactful way the story of Lord George Wellesley's brave rescue of a girl who threw herself off Putney Bridge. "Without a moment's hesitation he threw off his jacket and jumped into the water from that great height, and in the middle of a choppy stream and a high wind travelled for a hundred yards against the river, and eventually saved the life of the poor girL" We can only echo Lord Rose- bety's comment that" there are brave men in all conditions of life, thank God, in this country."
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