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DISCUSSION 



The Earl of Carington: Nothing on earth, 

 Mr. Chairman, would have induced nte to open my 

 mouth before an assembly who have so much more 

 practical knowledge than I have, had it not been that 

 I was requested by our Chairman to propose a vote 

 of thanks to Mr. Walter Gilbey.* 



I do so not as a member of the Club, and not, 

 I am sorry to say, as a' moderately successful farmer, 

 but as one of his old friends, and one who has known 

 his family long. In that capacity I have much 

 pleasure in obeying your call to-day, sir. But if 

 any person in England had told me on Saturday 

 that my old friend, Mr. Tattersall, and I, were 

 going to make a motion which would be acceptable 

 to a meeting of English gentlemen, and that it 

 would be received with enthusiasm, as I am sure 

 this motion will be- — if any person who had, like 

 some of us here, passed last week in listening to 

 the speeches in the House of Commons and in the 

 House of Lords for and against the Vote of Censure 

 on her Majesty's Government — if anybody had told 

 me that we were going to propose and second a 

 vote which would be unanimously received at this 



* Now Sir Walter Gilbey, Bart. 



