, 1909-03-10

one uuu4lCQ auQ JHllLN against ninety tour.
Mr.. BIrreIl, in q speech at Bristol, deplored
the passage in President Taft's inaugural
address regarding a strong army and navy,
which he described as words of doom, shat
tering humanity's brightest hope, and said
it was a miserable pitt that the United States
should join the great armed nations.
VIscount Esher, in a lecture at the
Royal Institution, stated that Queen
Victoria's private journal filed one
hundred Volumes, and her orre~pon jeuce
and other papers Twelve hundred and fifty
volumes. III t4s never to be published in
its entirety, bus Princess Beatrice was COPY
ing many volume cXcjsing such pt5sa9es
as Queen Yictora Desired. Her late lTaies-
TYNE said, never styod red war or encouraged
those who did. There was no trace Of any
SERIOUS mistake us Il sovereign, and she rein
stated the monarchial principle i'll the es-
teen OF grave and earnest men.
The by election to file the vacancy at
Ha"ick caused by the promotion Of Mr..
Thomas Shaw to be Lord Of Appeal, has re-
suited IN the reourn Of the Liberal candidate,
but his majority was reduced to 1G1.
There are seventy six competitors for the
Cambridge senior membership next June,
which will be the Last examination, it icing
abolished in 1910.
ne OAlOIQ OtlIN5lSlLN ENO!lu COC'GIN re-
fused to hear Mr.. Keir Hardie at the town
hall, and after a VAIN effort he succumbed
to the bowling ana booiug.
Al Birkenhead u cotferdam Of a dock uu-
der construction collapsed, causing sixteen
deaths.
In the first case at Dublin under the re-
cent public meetings act Croam against Dew
lin, Mr.. Timothy HeaIy on behalf Of Cream nj
legged that u confidential circular brought
223 members Of the ancient order of HIber-
mans from Belfast to Dublin, ana that Dew
lin and Johnston, the Secretary Of the Unit
ed Irish League, gave each ten shiliings and
a b.udgeon, with Instructions not to allow
any man with a Cork accent to approach the
platform of the Convention. The evidence
and Mr.. Henly's wit kept the court room
convulsed with laughter. The case was adj
journed.
A Paris telegram denies that any arrange
ment has been concluded between France
and the United States for penny postage,
it being considered too expensive, and the
report is attributed 10 Hir. Henniker Hea-
tons desire to promote an An9lo-French
arrangement.
A despatch from St. Petersburg states
that NJ. Iswolsky, Minister of Foreign affairs,
has written to NJ. Kokoyself, Minister of
finance, urging the adoption Of the Foreign
Office plan for the Government of all towns
within the railway zone in Monchuria. NJ.
f8wotsky proposes the retirement of the
Railway from municipal administration, sub.
stituting a scheme resembling that Of the
Treaty Ports. The Foreign Office publicly
approves what has been done, but is private
ly dissatisfied with the situation resulting
from the protests Of China and the United
States.
A Berlin semi-oticial communicate says
Austria cannot accept the intervention of the
powers in economic negotiations with Servia,
and nobody DESTROYS of results should sug-
gest representation of Servia by the powers,
as any attempt to humiIiate or intimidate
Austria must fail. The newspapers discuss
this as Indicative of a more serious situation.
A Vienna telegram says Baron Won Aeh-
renthal has never swerved the slightest from
his ultimatum against intervention, and the
frequent statements that all is satisfactory
are worthless until Austria authorizes her
approval. An adjustment under the present
Seryjan ministry is doubted.
The Pope is reported to be somewhat
worse.
A Madrid telegram announces that Admi-
raj Cavera is dying.
WASHINGTON. March 6th-The Senate has