To his intense conservatism and antagonism to shifty politics was probably due the unvarying opposition of the "Times" to Home Rule and all other attempts at infringement of the British Constitution, but so far as my own experience goes he never attempted to influence the views of the correspondence.

There were points in which, in regard to Italian and Greek affairs, he differed from me seriously, but he never imposed a hair's weight on what I had to say, nor do I believe that he intentionally influenced the tone of the paper beyond the exercise of the inevitable control over its national policy.

The antagonism to the United States at the outbreak of the War of Secession was Delane's, and not in accordance with Mr.Walter's feeling, but, like most of Delane's views, borrowed from London society or the government.

The "Times" has its traditions like those of a monarchy, interests to defend which are not in all cases those of an ideal state policy, but are those which have made England what she is, and which are probably those which will keep her what she is the longest and most safely.

And of these interests, and of this inflexible maintenance of them, John Walter was the most strenuous of supporters.