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the manufacturer of his wares. Little Italy will be considerably perturbed in consequence, while no doubt the Liber- | ty an Property Defence League and the special correspondent of the Times whose mission it is to discredit the eX- tension of municipal energy, will con slider the act to give unwarrantable powers of interference with private en- terprise. No one else, however, will be disposed to regret that at last steps have been taken to check the whole sale distribution of halfepenny of ptomaine poisons.
 A metropolitan constable the other day gave us an exhibition of common sense. A motor car was going along at good pace. It looked to be going over twelve miles an hour. It probably was exceeding the legal limit by more than mile or two. Suddenly, in front of it two vehicles collided. Beautifully un- der control it came to a sharp stand still in less than a couple of yards. Up came the constable and charged the motorist with having exceeded the legal limit. What is the harm if I did?" said the motorist, The car was stop ped at once. A hanson going at half the cars pace could not have stopped and there would have been a serious accident" The constable sensibly ad- mitted that this statement was quite true, and went to work to disentangle the traffic.
 There were great ladies and great gentlemen in the past. Some two hun dred years ago the London thaters opened at six o'cluock, and as it was therefore, difficult for playgoers to ar rive punctually, and obtain seats, many of them sent footmen, or hired men from the streets, to secure places for them. These sat in the seats until those who had sent them came, and the custom prevailed until 1766 when the system now in force was adopted.
 A footman used to be sent early to take places and keep them by the sim pie but effectual plan of sitting on them till his masters and mistresses arrived Such a practice would now be consid- cred an intolerable nuisance; but peo- pie in those days were much less par ticular, and appear to have thought nothing of sitting for an act or two cheek by jOwl with flunkey or, worse. with vagabond picked up in the street" An allusion to the customs occurs in Fielding's Miss Lucy in Town," act l., sc. ?; and Pepys, in his Diary" occasionally mentions having hired a boy in the streets to occupy seat for him.
 MT. Balfour is to be cordially con- r-af f1lI cd ha ( Westminster Abbey. Dr. Armitage Robinson is a learned theologian of worldwide reputation. He has the ad- vantage of being a young man, judged by the ordinary standard of deans IL is probably an unprecedented thing that bishop of London and a dean of Westminster should both be under five and forty. Professor Beeching is an accomplished scholar. an attractive writer in more than one department of literature, profound student of Eng fish poetry, and an eloquent and inter- esting preacher. Canon Rawlinson was a very able man, and a thoroughly sound and most industrious scholar. He was the historian of the ancient east ern world, and his Herodotus, published in 1858. is the standard translation of
 
 valuable notes. He brought out a num- Der of important works between 1862 and 1S93 and contributed to the Speakers Commentary" and similar publications, besides writing a great many biographical and historical ar ticles, most of which were very success ful. He was Camden professor of an cient history at Oxford for twenty-eight years. Canon Rawlinson was a prom inent don at Oxford between 1S47 and 1872, and he took an active part in the movement for university reform, and was constantly employed as an examin- CT in the schools, in Greats, in classical moderations, and in theology. He sue ceeded Dr. Mansel as Hampton lecturer in 1859, and was altogether a very prominent figure in Oxford life. Canon Rawlinson was more distinguished as scholar than as a divine. He was d very poor preacher, and never indenti- fled himself with any party in the church. In 1872 MT. Gladstone appoint ed him to stall in Canterbury cath edral, as ao recognition of his great learning and his good work at Oxford. In 1888 the rectory of All Follows, Lon bard street, became vacant. This bene- flee is in the gift of the dean and chap ter of Canterbury and it was the fate of Canon Rawlinson to nominate the new incumbent. He excited general amazement and much scandal by pre- senting himself to the living, which is worth over f2,000 a year, and a perfect sinecure. However, nobody could pre- vent the appointment, and Canon Raw