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Show FOREIGN. Banquet tne I'.'cuiiioicu-lmnc. I'.'cuiiioicu-lmnc. Loudon, 2S. The Carlton club gave a grand banquet last night to the British plenipotentiaries to the congress. Lords Be:u;iint-ti; Id and Salisbury were present. Five bun dred peers and commoners were also present. Lord Beaconsfiiikt, replying to a toast, awarded Ljrd ?nh.-,bury the greater share of the merit in the labors at Berlin. Ho delcnded his conduct toward Greece, eaying that be had counseled Greece to ahsten lion and the facts proved hat Greece had obtained more limn the revolted principalities which had Uvi3i;td blood and treasure. lie pa-sVil a great eloir.m op the present sultan who, throughout, was de&i.'uus ot acting iu a c .ueihalury manner to Greece. Lord iioicoilltld maintained that by tha convention conven-tion with 'Turkey we diminished, no: increased, our respotuibiliea. He brought back from the convention that neither the Cimean nor the last war wuuld have occurred it EngNfcid bad poken 014 1 firmly. Repelling the assertion of Mr. Gladstone that the Turkish convention conven-tion was an insane convention, O-tu Beaconatield spoke of Gladstone as ' sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with tho exuberance of his own verboahy and egutislical imagination. Lord Salisbury and Sir Siailord Nortbeolo also apuke. |