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position to listen to a proposal like the present;
wherefore he received it with pleasure and
satisfaction.
A week later, Nov. 8th, the son-in-law of
Queen Victoria, the Marquis of Lorne, presided
over a great meeting in London, at which many
eminent men were present. The chairman
emphatically remarked in his speech, that the
settlement of international disputes by a Court
of Arbitration has the advantage that, through
the delay which is necessary, the first
excitement has time to cool. The meeting declared
itself unanimously in favour of the proposed
memorial. Thereupon followed many similar
expressions of opinion in England, whilst
simultaneously in twenty of the largest cities of
North America mass meetings were held,
which with unanimous enthusiasm gave
adhesion to the cause, and petitions of the same
character flowed in to the President and
Congress from the various parts of the great
republic.
Encouraged by these preparatory movements
amongst the two great English-speaking peoples,
M. Frederic Passy, with other Members of the
Legislative Assembly of France, placed himself
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