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LONDON CORRESPONDENCE,

(We deem it right to state that we do not at all times identify
011111011011 With our Correspondent's opinions,)

The great event which has convulsed Europe
during the past few days is one which will ever
be historical, for the passing of the German
Throne from the Emperor William to the
mperor Frederick is far from an ordinary
circumstance. By the death of the former there
has been removed from the stage of the world'sl
affairs one who for many a long year had played'
te, most important part upon it. Those who
thought of him only in his latest days—the head
'of a great Empire, beloved of his people, and
successful in all his plans—can scarcely realise
, the time when, as a child, the then Prince
William of Prussia had to flee with his mother
as a fugitive from the French after the disastrous
day of Jena, or when, as a middle-aged man,
he had to leave the capital of the Prussian
Kingdom and take refuge in our land
because of his exceeding unpopularity among
his countrymen. His life was so long
and so crowded with incident that the great
troubles of the earlier portion of his career have
been practically forgotten by the general public
in the contemplation of the striking triumphs of
his later years. Had he died at sixty, he would
have passed from out this world one of the best-
hated men in Germany; dying at ninety, he is
regarded by the whole German people as the in-
carnation of their political unity and as the
symbol of that military glory of which they are
so proud.
As far as England was concerned the reception
of the news was so earnestly sympathetic that
the German people can scarcely avoid being
touched at the general expression of condolence.
Although it was known that he was in such a
critical state, the aged Emperor had rallied so
often that when a premature but widely-believed
report of his death was circulated, it seemed to
come upon all as a surprise. The excitement
which it caused in the lobby of the House
of Commons will never be forgotten by those
who witnessed it. An important subject
was being discussed within the House itself—
no less important than that of the state and
administration of the national defences—when
the rumour ran around the benches like wildfire
that the Emperor William was dead. Although
one of the boat known men in the Chamber
11118 then engaged in speaking, members rushed
almost simultaneously into the lobby, and there
eagerly discussed the news. Gradually it began
to be whispered that there was some doubt as to
Its accuracy, but thisserved only to add, fuel to the
flame of excitement which was then burning so
brightLy, and this was distinctly added to when it
was learned that Royalty itself believed the
original statement, and had postponed all
Its ceremonial functions accordingly. So for
hours the excitement burned, and, though it
lessened as trustworthy telegrams from Berlin
denied the early report, many a member went to
bed that night filled with a lingering suspicion
that that early report was only premature. And
so it proved, for early the next morning the
Feat Emperor "went home," to use the touch-
truthful phrase of his successor in acknow-
ledging the news.
It is not often that the daily newspapers take
the trouble to report the fact that rain has
fallen, but they have done so over the rainfall of
the peat few days because of the comparative
rarity of the event. Last summer, when
week after week went by and the heavens
remained unopened, the day which signalised the
massing together of clouds and the coming of rain
was signalised by the publication in the Press of
telegrams from all parts of the kingdom telling of
this welcome visitor to the thirsty ground. But
though drought is what we may expect in the
summer, it has not been our rustom to anticipate
its occurrence in the winter, and such a dry season
as that through which we have just beenpassing is
almost without parallel for many a year. Small
wonder is it, therefore, that so much notice
should have been taken of the recent rain.
Cynics have declared that it is always wet in
England, but recent events have proved the
cynics to be wrong, as that class of thinkers
often are though many of us would have had
reason to rejoice if on this occasion they had
been in the right.
When any men have been accustomed to bad
habits for a long period, they feel very strange
when deprived of the power of continuing them,
and, though really sometimes they do not seem to
think it,members of Parliament are as mortal in this
particular as in others. The special badhabit in their
ease was that of keeping late hours, and now
that a rule has been passed which practically
sends them away from their chosen Chamber,
they seem hardly able to realise what a good
thing for them this ought to prove. Gradually
the strangeness of assembling at three in the
afternoon instead of four will wear away, but it
will take longer for them to become accustomed
to being sent home at a reasonable hour. Iu
other times, two in the morning was considered
quite early for the House to rise, three was fre-
quent, four not uncommon and five in the
summer time was not thought uncommon,
be out of the way.
All that is now changed, and although the matter
Is still in the experimental stage, it does not seem
likely that the old fashion will ever return. And
when members thoroughly shake themselves into
becoming accustomed to the new rules, they will
doubtless be as glad as the: Speaker, the at-
tendants, and their own wives that so salutary a
provision for sending them home in good time
has at last and so quietly been adopted.
People have so long been accustomed to talk
of the ' Three-per-Cents "that they will hardly
be able to realise that these will soon
have to be spoken of as the "Two-and-
Three-quarters," and as ultimately as even "the
Two and a Half per Cents." When the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer introduced his measure
of conversion, it was interesting to note what
manner of men were they who thronged the
various galleries of the House of Commons,
allotted to strangers, to hear the statement. The
hour of meeting was two o'clock in the afternoon
—it being, in fact, the first "morning sitting " of
the session—and before that time a number of
visitors had assembled in the outer lobby, who
all bore the look of being in comfortable circum-
stances. The late Lord Beaconsfield once
described certain people ea " consolled up to the
chin," and this phrase would not have proved inap-
propriate to those who had come together to learn
what was to be done in regard to their favourite
property. Inside the House, also, it was to be
seen that something financial was on foot, for
every banker who happens to be a member of
the assembly was early in his place; and the
eager attention with which those listened to Mr.
Goschen's statement was a tribute to the im-
portance of
.the theme.

- Some talk has been caused by the fact that
the sabot, or wooden shoe, has been introduoed
as foot wear for poor children in London, sevetel
hundred pairs having been distributedby the Poor
Children's Aid Society. A large amount of prejudice
will, however, have to be overcome before this style
of foot-gear can be expected to become popular
even among the poorest, for although there can
be ho doubt that the feet are warmer and drier
in them than in common boots or shoes, they
will be regarded as a badge of poverty, always in
evidence and ever being proclaimed. In London
the poorer classes have never been able to be per-
suaded to adopt even such a modified form of the
sabot as the clog which for so long has had an
extensive vogue among the factory hands in
Yorkshire and Lancashire; and this despite
the fact that clogs last longer and are mc•re
watertight than such boots as the poor ctm
afford. But even in the two counties just
named, which might almost be called the home
of the clog, that article of wear is by no means
as common as it was. Fashion is powerful
among the hardworking as well as among the
well-to-do, and that mysterious arbiter has
&dared against the clog, with the consequence
that "the clang of the wooden shoon " is less to
be heard in the great manufacturing towns than
it was a score of years ago. Under these circum-
stances, it is hardly to be hoped that the sabot
will succeed. It is cheap, it is durable, but it is
not the fashion; and poor children will conue-
quently be compelled by their parents to go
slipshod and wet-footed as of yore, rather than
that susceptibilities should be wounded by the
wearing of a wooden boot.

Wlic;n we go to a concert, it does not occur to
us that we may be witnessing a proof of what an
extraordinary thing the human memory is, but
perhaps we may do so in the future when we
learn that, according to a calculation made by
Sir James Paget, Mlle. Janotha, the well-known
pianist, in-rendering a presto by Mendelssohn,
played M 95 notes in four minutes three seconds.
It need hardly be said that these were Lot
merely played, but played correctly, for even a
single one wrong would have been detected
by the acute critic; and the fact that the per-
formance can be so accurate is an illustration of
the truth of the lesson taught by Hans WM
Billow, the famous executant upon the same in-
strument. A friend calling on him one day, and
seeing him severely practising, asked why one so
proficient needed such constant practice. Tho
great pianist replied, "If I didn't practise for
one day, I should recognise it; for two, my

friends would recognise It; and for three, the
public would recognise it." We do not always
grasp, in fact, that those to whom these per-
formances appear so easy, would be nothing
without very hard and constant work.
A. F. R.