Mr Bilfour had a great reception in the Guildhall in connection with thei swearing in of the new Lord Mayor. In the course of a speech he £2 d a statesman before the war ask ed were the British prepared to mako treat national personal sacrifices in tie event of war, and were the col onies prepared ta fight in the Em pire's cause or merely rcma n sleep ing partners. All the world knew the answer in the affirmative. Though there were great difficulties to over come lie hoped, ere limy months, tJiat South Africa's material prosper ity would be higher than ever. He ant eipatcd no insuperable difficulty. The whole Empire was liappy\ in a spirit of liberty and patriotism so eminently distinguishing Australasia and Canada Britain's foreign rela tions were excellent. The fantastic reasons invented to account for the Kaiser's visit were ridiculous. He congratulated Lord Lansdowne on the lomplction of the Chinese commercial treaty and the Japanese alliance, -inch grcaily assisted international ceace. and'eommerce. He eloquently '•ir.ccd the dissipation of inlernalionl al prejudices and jealousies, from "-Inch Britain bad recently suffered in order to m;.intan the European "oncert, which was tho great instru ment to peace. He believed all the D Twcrs were firmlv resolved to main Min peace. Thr-i danger arose when Tpsfern civilisation came into coa '■■".rt with less advanced ideas. Received Nov. 11, at 10.37 n.ra. London, Nov. 11, Mr IMfourdoclared that Mr Cham bnrlain's administration of the Colo nial Oilier was by far the greatest in British history. His happy intuition lo visit Smith Africa would prove an invaluable precedent, and was the first of a long series of similar visits. All ehenshod the hope that at no dis tant dato some constitutional union may enable tho Mothorland and her groat dependencies to conduct to gether affairs of common interest, though tho time was not ripe fcr statesmen to attempt to give practical effect to so gigantic a task. Short of that they might hope that a closor liscal union at any rate might coui [ileto tho system of personal inter csurso, which had already borne ad mirable fruit, and Mr Chamberlain's visit was a cause to beliove would boar far greater fruit in the future. Received Nov. 12, at 0.211 a.m. t London, Nov. 