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court circles, will, we understand, Ell
tertain during the coming season wit
; ducal hospitality. Her Grace, th
Duchess of Illinois, returned from th
country last week. aEao5
SIR o. e. BABCoCK, PRINCIPAL EQUET
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Sir o. Z, Babcock. whose devotion
to the Imperial cause and whose con
spicuous gallantry at Albany, Ney
York, when the Republican army un
der Fenton was so completely defeate,
by the Imperial troops have deserved
ly gained him SO many marks of I'm
perial favor. is now, we are glad t,
state, quite convalescent. He remains
at the Imperial villa, Long Branch
for 1t few days more, when he will re-
turn to the Palace to enter on his du
ties as Principal Equerry in attend
ance on His Imperial Majesty.
LORDS AND LADIES VISITING.
Lord and Lady Edwards Pierre.
pont, Baron Jay Gouldand Sir White.
law Reid, Of New York, who have
been OIL visit to Lord Geo. M. Robe
son, of New Jersey, at Secor Hall,
Cape May, arrived in town yesterday
for the season.
THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF NEW YORK
The Duke and Duchess of New
York are expected to arrive in town
for the season on Tuesday next. The
ducal residence, Conkling House, is
rapidly approaching completion, and
promises in point of architectural
beauty to equal any If the many
splendid houses of the nobility erect
ed in :he capital since His Imperial
Majesty ascendel sthe throne. Invi-
tations will shortly he issued by His
Grace for the ball which is to be given
when Conkling house is opened, and
the event promises to he offe of extra
ordinary magnifcence.
BLAINE SENTENCED TO BANIsHMENT.
Imperial STANDARD. Washington. Oct. l, 1882.
An official telegram Published else
where in this issue brings intelligence
of the trial and conviction by Military
Commission of james g. Blaine, Of
Maine, and the sentence of Punishment
passed by the Commission will in all
probability be approved by dis lmpe-
rial Majesty. We think the Commits
sion erred in its decision-not as TO
the guilt, but to the punishment of
the offender. The time has passed
for measures of mercy. Justice de-
mands something more. 1t demands
stern retribution for such ofense as
this man Blaine has committed, and
the punishment awarded should have
been death. Let there be no trifiing
with traitors! When twenty so-called
Union Leaguers were shot in Cincin-
natl, it should have been warning 10
rebels that the policy of the Imperial
Government was not to regard sedl-
ton as child's play. Of what use is
banishment if such men as John Sher-
man, Jas. G. Blaine and Rutherford
B. Hayes can concoct their plots and
plans against the safety ofthe Empire
on the Canadian side OF the border, and
send their emissaries to spread dislOy-
atty in every part of the countryf
We are not apologists for the course
thus far pursued by the Imperial Gov
ernment. We have been and are now
its advocates. We have, and must con.
tinue to have,a strong governments land
vacillation or timidity, be they in
whatever quarter they may. must
neither be condoned nor tolerated. The
lessons of TIE past must not be for
gotten. ,
EXECUTION OF THOMAS MAST.
BY Imperial Telegraph to the Standard.
New YoRK, Sept. 30-The last Of
the Is prisoners condemned to death
by the Imperial Military Commission
which closed its sittings at Governors
Island on the 10Th, WAS executed at
daybreak this morning. The con-
demned man, Thomas Mast, who was
a caricaturist on Harper's Weekly be-
fore that disloyal sheet was suppressed
in June last, was accused Of high trea-
son by plotting against the Grown and
dignity Of His Imperial Majesty, and
by circulating so-called cartoon rep
resenting his Imperial Majesty as Nero.
The execution was private, but il is
understood that the death was pain
full, the wretched traitors life not be-
ing extinct for several minutes.
SIR ALEX. sHEPFARD, COURT CHAM