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offer has, pending further discussion, been &C
cepted. II the Mission reaches Uganda before
Mtesa changes bis mind, it may have q career
before it, more especially if the Missionary
selected IS a man who can organise o State.
Negroes in Central Africa want laws almost
as much as doctrines.
The Duke Of Modena, Archluke Francis of
Austria. is dead. He was remarkable for the
untinching LEGITIMACY " of his opinions, for his
large fortune, which he used principally to
help Don Carlos, and for a shadowy claim to
the throne of Great Britain, as the eldest re-
preventative of the Stuarts. He dies childless
and i~ntestate, and his great fortune, amounting
to nearly Se7 500, 900, will, it is stated, be d.
Vlded into three shares, one going to tho Com.
tesse de Chambord, who is already rich, an
other to the mother Of Don Carlos, and a third
TO a niece of the Archduke. 1t is not likely
that bis inheritance will bring tho Comte de
Ohambord nearer to the throne of France, but
Don Oarlos's share may be an additional in
ducement to him to retire from a hopeless con-
test. The Arohduke's fortune was unusual
among Princes, though they have lately caught
ahe trick of accumulation hut if Mr.. w.
Aston, whose death is telegraphed from New
York, is the millionaire of that name, we NAV
witness next week the distribution of a really
hrst-olass fortune. He ought to have died one
Of the wealthiest individuals in the world,
We observe with pleasure that the Foreign
office has at once issued the instructions for
which Mr.. Plimsoll asked, that an expenditure
OF &2 should be authorised by every English
Consul or Vice Consul in foreign ports, for the
purpose of inspecting any English ship loaded
with grain leaving that port-an expenditure
which Mr.. Plimsoll says is enough to secure the
oarrying.out of the Act of this year in the only
way which will make grain oargoes safe. The
promptness OF the Foreign Office in acting on
MIR. Plimsoll's advice is very commendable.
A curious case affecting Clubs and Olub-law
was decided on lately by Sir James
Bacon. A suit was brought by the Hon.
Spencer LytteltOn against the Committee of
the Junior Naval and Military Club, to set
aside the expulsion of Mr.. Lyttelton from
tie Club, as having been made caprieiously,
and not in good faith. This Club has q
rule that if, in the opinion of the Com
mittee' the conduct of any member is inju-
rious to the character and interests of the
Club. the Committee may, by q majority of
two-thirds of the members present at a meeting,
call upon him to resign, and if he refuses, expel
him. 1t was by virtue of this rule that Mr..
Lyttelton, who had taken a strong line in
resisting the policy of the Committee, was
expelled, and Sir James Bacon held that,
having consented to accept this rule when he
became o member Of the Club, he must be
bound by it, unless he could show that the
power exercised was not exercised in good
faith, and this Sir James Bacon held that he
had not shown. The. moral of the matter
appears to be that candidates for election to
Clubs should carefully consider the rules of the
club they desire to join. before they are elected.
and know precisely what the contract is to
Which they are anxious to commit themselves.
Q course which is, we suspect, seldom adopted,
Would Mr.. Lyttelton have delivered himself
hand and foot into the power of the Committee
Of the Junior Naval and Military Club, to
be expelled or not, as they saw fit, if he had
duly, considered what be was aboutY The
COMMITTEE Of the Junior Naval and Military
Club appear to act with the promptitude Of
youth, and to emulate the stern discipline of
zoe Services from which they draw their
1e Bismarck, whose health is quite res,
.Ureo, has made an important speech in the
German Parliament, declaring that he never
would qssnt to govern Germany through a
" College of Minister'S, whose corporate res