6 NOVEMBER 1915, Page 14

Taken as a whole, the effect of Mr. Asquith's speech

has been good. At first there was an inclination in certain portions of the Press to represent it as a failure, but the tide soon began to turn, and it is now generally admitted that the speech has had an excellent effect, not only at home, but abroad. It has shown, and it was a very necessary thing to show, that the Government, instead of being "honeycombed with intrigue and tottering to its fall," and all the rest of it, is able and determined to carry on.