, 1910-03-16
81. NKOIN STATION.

chester Exchange, and only the police saved
him from a further demonstration being re-
garded as the man responsible for
the market manipulation causing short
time in Iauoashire, The Manchester
Exchange has never before experienced
such an affair, Mr.. Patten went 20 Liver
pool and ON visiting the corn exchange the
members took off their hats and caeered him
in misapprobati0n OF LIS treatment mt Aan-
chester. Mr.. Howarth N p the chairman
of the Manchester Exchange, regrets the IN
cident, but regards Mr.. Patteu us responsible,
because he disregari,d the lrnin4 tAat
his trade methods were uislA.d aud tAat
sentiment would be expressed. New York
traders are indignant, declaring they were
never impolite to English traders visiting
the United States and entertaining market
opinions proven to be wrong by events.
The Grand Trunk Liner .EPriDco George"
has been launched.
A despatch from Sydney, New South
Wales, reports that the Golfers strike, which
has lasted since November, has ended.
The Morning Post, apropos Of sir. Schitf's
speech, criticizes the procedure Of the For
eign Office as warrluting the belief Of the
Washington State Department in Anglo
Japanese intrjgues against the Un'ted States
and hat England Is picking Jappn'5 chest
nuts out Of he fire and encouraging her in
her defiance Of the open door principle. ia
pan, it SAYS, would certainly have accepted
Sir Edwarl Grey's hint to stop grabbing,
if it had been given. Il will be Il
bad day for ilu4Ilnd when the Japan
csc alliance leads England INTO depend
ence upon Japan, and serious If differences
develop with the United States, No Empire,
it continues, can afford to hire Barborians;
-, o1Is,,a. ma, .g,lJol f1I.p,c 10 one tiInt-
but subseIyIeuco is another, and British
diplomacy suggests to the world thatEng}and
cannot afford to d. otherwise than rs her
ally bids. 4 struggle over the Monaghan
railways may define Eu9land's position in
the Orient for many years, but it hopes that
wiser councils viii prevail at Downing Street.
A disuseJ c%oliiery dam in the Rhoudda
Valley burst, causing B]aenclydach to be
flooded with a minimum loss Of half a
dozen lives.
A Brussels despatch states that King Al
bert will give forty thousand pounds to as
si4t the campaign against sleeping sickness,
twenty thousand pounds to bald bridges II
the Belgian Congo, and twenty tbou.aud
pounds for pensions foG tile Congo Civil
service. This IS regarded a. a porljoI res
tuition from the two millions sterling Pur-
lament gave the late King Leopold.
Lieutenant Filchn4r says lie IS surprised
10y the suggestion that he is jumping any
body's Antarctic CLAIMS and explains that
he will make not attempt to reach the Pole,
he merely seeks to a.nplify the continental
geography by crossing the lower western
side while the Americans and British al
vance over the high side p~lateaus, and he has
lett the Pole to them.
The French Chamber Of Deputies yes.er-
day debated the Church defacation. NJ.
Jaures declared it compromises the republic,
as the liquidation was entrusted to those
already pro ;en defaulters- Chartreuse was
sold for fifty thousand francs although five
millions were offered. NJ. BRAND replied
that the shame was not III exposure but IN
immunity, as all regimes develop scandals,
the crime is in concoaiment and conformation,
and he promised ptlless justice, the Govern
ment had done and would do their whole
duty. The Chamber then al journed.
As a final attempt to avert a tariff
war with the United States, France vail
propose that minimum for minimum be con
fined to American goods now imported by
France. 1t is not believed the CAalnber OF
Deputies would ratify an unreserVed MIMI
mum.