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LITERARY EXTRACTS. F^THI AUSTRIAN EMPEROR. — Francis Joseph I., iperor and King, is a man of great intellect and ength of mind, a lover of all that is most beautiful Nature and art, a soldier of the utmost intrepidity, ength of mind, a lover of all that is most beautiful Nature and art, a soldier of the utmost intrepidity, lift he has on more than one occasion proved by his personal bravery in the field of battle a diplomatist and a statesman of deep thought and foresight, a totary to sport of every kind, a sovereign with a heart that beats as truly for the lowest of his subjects as tor the highest, a kind master, a sincere friend. Many are the anecdotes in illustration of these qualities, but space allows me to mention only a few for the truth of which I can vouch. One day the Emperor encountered two poachers on his own domain. As soon as they recognised their sovereign, they threw themselves on their knees to entreat his pardon. They were both old soldiers and fathers of large families who had suffered greatly through the agri- cultural depression, and in their need they bad yielded to the temptation to procure sjia^enance by poaching. Francis Joseph allowed them to depart, only taking their names and addresses. In terror and fear they awaited their arrest and sentence, but after a few days they were notified of their appoint- ment as gamekeepers to the Emperor, the latter having ascertained the truth of their statements, and found that they had bravely served him through the san- guinary war of 1866. One stormy and rainy day when the Emperor was driving to Schonbrunn, he came upon a fire-engine unable to proceed on its way to a conflagration through the wheels having sunk so deeply into the mire that the horses had not strength enough to extricate it. He at once stopped his carriage, ordered his horses to be taken out and harnessed to the engine and used to assist in bring- ing it to the site of the fire, whilst for himself he hired a hackney conveyance and drove to his destina- tion. That he refused for years to sign warrants for judicial executions is well known, and his deeds of benevolence are innumerable. During the outbreak of cholera he visited personally the hospitals and spoke words of encouragement to the sufferers. He hastened to the flooded town of Scegedin in Hungary and assisted with his own hands in the rescue of those in danger. His purse is ever open for the alleviation of suffering and pain. It was not seldom during the warr that he ordered his own stores of delicacies and wines to be given to the wounded of all ranks and partook himself of the simple fare of his soldiers. He moves freely and unostentatiously amongst his people, very rarely and only on State occasions escorted by guards, never surrounded or fbllnwed by secret police. Only last year I heard one of the ambassadors who had spent many years at the Austrian Court, say he felt certain the Emperor was the only person he knew who had no enemy. This truly expresses the position of this monarch. Very extraordinary is his knowledge of languages. He tpeaks fluently every one of the many used in his realm, besides French and English; the Empress, like her husband, a great linguist, adds to these ancient and modern Greek. At one of the great military pteviews near Vienna, when the troops numbered over 30,000, I heard the Emperor addressing five different iments in their respective tongues,—viz., German, Hungarian, Bohemian, Wallachian, and Italian. He always been remarkable in the selection of his ministers, councillors, and friends, and it is not with- out interest for our own country to find tha this most intimate boy friend, and later for many years his prime minister, was an Irish peer—Viscount Taafe. —Casseirs Family Magazine. CLERGYMEN AS ATHLETES.—The clergyman of this end of the nineteenth century is a very different man from his predecessor of 70 or 80 years ago. There is hardly a place of worship in the country which has net some form of athletics connected with it, and there is no doubt that the appointment of a curate who can "handle a bat is always popular with the young people of any congregation. There are two or three clergymen who figure very prominently in first- class cricket. For instance, the Rev. W. Eashleigh, who plays for Kent, is one of the finest batsmen the hop-county possesses. He always plays a brilliant game, and from his University days up to the present time has gradually improved. The Rev. A. P. Wickham, Somerset's wicket-keeper, is equally well known, and there are few men who are smarter with the gloves than this popular parson. Clergymen do not seem to be so fond of football, probably because they are more likely to be incapacitated from per- forming their ordinary ministerial functions by exer- cise in this direction. In the north of England, however, some of the younger clergy are connected younger clergy are connected with the local clubs, and Yorkshire people are very proud of the fact that Dr. Boyd Carpenter, the Bishop cf Ripon, was oace a famous football player. The Hon. and Rev. E. Lyttelton occasionally plays, but not nearly to the same extent as he used to do. With cycling, how- ever, it is somewhat different. It is no exaggeration to say that thousands of ministers of all denomina- tions ride bicycles and occasionally tricycles. One curate who lives in Suffolk on two or three occasions has even been seen racing on London cycle-tracks, and although he can hardly lay claim to being in the foremost rank of racing cyclists, he is not an oppon- ent to be despised. During the past two or three years scores of clergymen who cycle have held special services for their fellow-wheelmen, and many a quiet country church has had its walls surrounded with machines of all makes, while the service- has proceeded inside. On one occasion, Win- chester Cathedral was so used. The Bishop of Colchester was the first bishop to cycle. For many years he rode a bicycle when he was Rector of Chelmsford, and when he was appointed to the suffragan bishopric of the diocese of St. Albans evidently saw no reason why he should drop the pastime. It was even suggested that the gaiters of a bishop formed an ideal cycling costume, and certainly they are better than the usual black trousers of a parson. He has been quickly followed by Dr. Bardsley, the Bishop of Carlisle, and by Dr. Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon, who are passion- ately fond of a spin on their machines. Probably the example of the Dean of Ripon, Dr. Freemantle, who has cycled for some time, induced the latter bishop to ride a safety. The most remarkable epis- copal cyclist, however, is Dr. Ellicott, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, who quite recently—at the age of 78—has taken to riding a bicycle. Dr. Browne, the Bishop of Stepney, occasionally rides a tricycle. Very few people are aware that Mr. H. C. L. Tindall, who holds nearly all the short distance amateur running records, is a curate in Sussex, and took holy orders some time ago. One or two of his records have been beaten in America, but some of Mr. Tindall's achievements have never been beaten in this country either by professionals or amateurs. Mr. iTindall has an enormous number of prizes which he gained at different athletic meetings all over England, and he is certainly one of the finest runners ever seen at either of the Universities. Several clergymen have figured in the Oxford and Cambridge boat-race. One is the Rev. F. C. Jackson, the Rector of Great Stan- more, near Harrow, but in spite of the fact that he did not stroke his boat in victory, he was the finest oar of his year. Mr. Jackson is now noted for being the cleverest clerical painter, some of his pictures having been hung on the walls of the Academy.— Cassell's Saturday Journal. SUNSTROKE. Sunstroke or heatstroke is, in all hot countries, a very fatal disease. Soldiers oppressed by the weight of clothes and accoutrements when marching or fighting are often victims. Workmen, and artificers, and stokers employed in heated rooms, also suffer. It is commom enough in India during the hot season, and cases sometimes occur in England during the heat of the summer. A dry air is more readily tolerated than one loaded with moisture. Healthy vigorous people can bear a higher degree of heat, especially if they lead regular lives; while the sick and weakly qdickly succumb. Acclimatisation has considerable influence in establishing toleration, new arrivals always suffering more than those who are accustomed to the climate. It is well known that a Dative can bear an amount of sun on his shorn head, neck, and half-naked body which would quickly prostrate a European. But to a temperature rising above a certain degree all succumb, and the natives of India suffer like others, and die from loomarna, or hot wind stroke. In the old army days the mortality from sunstroke was very often great. A well- known authority says "In a large proportion of cases, from the commencement of the attack to the termination in death, the patient nover moved a limb, or even an eyelid. In former times bleeding was always resorted to in cases of sunstroke, but is now discarded. A few years ago a series of cases occurred on board a steamer in the Red Sea. This treatment was adopted, and a fatal result followed in every in- stance. Dr. Maclean says During active service in the presence of the enemy an officer of rank had sun- stroke. The assistant surgeon in medical charge of the battery Wbere this happened had the sufferer in- stantly removed to the nearest shade, stripped him, used the douche freely, and had the satisfaction to see his patient revive and consciousness return. An official Superior, an older, nut a better physician, unhappily coming up at this critical moment, insisted on open- ing a vein a few ounces of blood trickled away, and 80 did the hfe of the officer. Mortal syncope imme- diately followed the operation.' The best treatment consists in the plentiful administration of cold water. The patient should at once be carried to the nearest shade, stripped, and freely douched over the head, neck, and chest with cold water. He should be given plenty of water to drink and should it induce vomit- ive, so much the better. A blister or mustard poul- tice of the neck may be useful. Sunstroke i* often foht"'ze^ by prolonged incapacity for work of any kind, eitb er Physical or mental.—Cassetl's Book of the Househt ■ Wi know ^e unseen world is ruled by the same laws wh 'c^ aB here. In that world we may exnec* J u.spline, but we need fear no evil.—Dr. John Hunter. same laws wh ich rule us here. In that world we may exnec* J u.spline, but we need fear no evil.—Dr. John Hunter. FIRST IMPRESSIONS.—Nearly fifty years ago a larg" company of artists set forth from Rome for a day's pleasure in the country. While they were lunching one of the donkeys on which the men had ridden kicked over a beehive. The bees hurried to revenge t heinselves. and put all but one of the donkeys to flight. The hundredth donkey was unable to free himself, and the whole swarm fell upon him. picnic party also fled, with the exception of a fair, curly-haired youth dressed in velvet, who, slipping on "Wes and tying a handkerchief over his face, ran to liberate the poor little animal. Giovanni Costa, who tells the story, started to perform the same iillice, but less resolutely, having no gloves; so he met the young knight as he returned, con- gratulated him, and inquiring his name, was answered, Frederick Leighton." If the Italian had been asked to what be owed his long friendship with the Englishman, he would have referred to that first favourable impres- sion. Leighton had painted no less admirably before this littJe adventure; his face had been no less comely his social qualities no less marked but for his simple act of humanity Costa would probably never have noticed him. Byron says that the man who made the best first impression upon him after- ward picked his pocket, but this is only one of the exceptions which prove the rule. Being habitually what we are occasionally, our characters are apt to be revealed in slight actions while first impressions, be they true or false, are generally lasting. Oh, yes," said a young man, recently. Milly may be a devoted daughter, but I can never forget the tone in which she said Nonsense to her mother in my presence," while of the elder lady he added, Co I talked with her only five minutes, and never saw her again, but I loved her." She may prove stupid, but I engaged her the moment I heard her pleasant voice.' said a housekeeper of her new cook. Answer this letter at once," directed an editor. I like the handwriting." These are all the merest trifles. So is the bloom on a cluster of grapes, but it tempts one to the taking; so is the odour of smoke about the breakfast toast, but it condemns the housekeeper. So is neatness of detail about the dress of a girl, but how inestimably does it count in her favour So was the kindly rescue of a tormented little donkey by the future President of the Royal Academy, but it brought him a valued friend. It is no small thing, then, the first impression. It may lead to influence, friendship, fortune: or it may result in antipathy, loneliness, misjudgment. When- ever we honourably can, let us see to it that other are impressed in our favour rather than to our detri- ment and undoing. WONDERFUL SLEIGHT OF HAND,—Fifty years ago the most famous magician of Europe was an Austrian named Bosco. His sleight of hand was wonderful. W hile conversing with a person he would distract his attention; then, by an almost imperceptible movement of his band, abstract some ornament from his person, and place it wherever he, Bosco, wished. An exhibition of his art, given at the English embassy in Constantinople, is described by Sir John Drummond Hay, then an attache. Lord Ponsonby, the English ambassador, invited Bosco, who was a gentleman by birth, to dinner to meet a large party, requesting that he would entertain the company after dinner by his sleight of hand. Bosco arrived before dinner was announced, was introduced, and entered into conversation with several of the guests. During dinner he was quiet, and took no part in the general conversation but just as the ladies were preparing to retire, he rose, and turning to the ambassador, said: I beg your Excellency's per- mission to say a few words before the company leave the table. It would be an act of ingratitude on my part, seeing that I have been honoured by your Excellency, were I to conceal from your lordship proceedings that have been passing both before and during dinner, and which might be stigmatised as criminal. Even Lord Ponsonby was disturbed by the gravity of the speaker, and thought that the man had suddenly became insane. "Your lordship," con- tinued Bosco, "must admit that this grave charge is not without foundation when I assort that in the coat pockets, or the breasts of the waistcoats, of several of the gentlemen there will be found some of your lordship's spoons—and the selection has not been confined to the clean ones alone. All the male guests at once put their hands into their pockets, and several of them extracted spoons and forks still greasy from use, salt-spoons, and tops of cruets. Great merriment followed, and the ladies laughed heartily at the unfortunate men. Then turning to the ladies, Bosco said: That noble lady opposite ought not to laugh at the disclosure, seeing that she has secreted in the bodice of her dress the bouquet of one of the gentlemen, who has been searching in vain for it; having probably received the flowers from another fair hand." The lady flushed angrily but she found the lost bouquet concealed in the folds of her dress. Then addressing another, he said, Madam, you cannot be justified in speaking harshly of the gentlemen who took his lordship's spoons, since you will find, concealed in your hair, an orna- ment belonging to that lady upon whose person sparkle so many beautiful jewels." The astonished lady found the ornament fixed in her hair. WEALTH OF IMPERIAL FAMILIES.—The means of the Russian Imperial family are of the richest in the world. Apart altogether from the civil, list, which usually amounts to £1,500,000 a year, but which may, of course, be increased by Imperial order, the home of Romanhoff owns 21,000,000 acres in different parts of Russia, which, under a system laid down in the reign of the Emperor Paul, are managed by a special bureau, called that of the Imperial Appanages, which is controlled by a Minister, who reports to the t Emperor alone, and takes no orders from the Ministry of Finance. The Ministry of Appanages now enjoys a revenue of more than £2,000,000, out I of which 46 Grand Dukes and Duchesses are sup- I ported, at an average cost in all of £500,000, or say £11,000 a year per Prince or Princes. The remain- ing income is suffered to accumulate, in order to meet the constantly-increasing number of members of the Imperial family, who are by no means always satisfied with their donations. The sums, though large, are not derived from taxation, and are probably less than those er,joyed by the Hapsburg, who are, as a corporation, immense landowners, not to mention the great fortunes of two or three branches of the family, or than those of the house of Othman. The revenue of the Hohen- zollern exceeds £1,000,000, and that of the house of Savoy is more than £600,000 a ye&r, the British house being, among the greater sovereign houses, bv far the poorest. Fifty years hence 1 he question of appanages will be a serious embarrassment to the dynasties, and will probably lead to a yreat relaxation of the royal marriage laws. Then the American heiresses, who by that time will possess half South America, will indeed have a chance.—Spectator. MR. GLADSTONE AND THE QUEEN.—Most of my political friends in England in the '80'? were under the banner of Mr. Gladstone. The Queen had, I believe, no Premier so devotedly, so chivalrously her servant. His feeling of allegiance to her never varied but it was a Scotch form of devotion, and not in the least that of a courtier, although Mr. Gladstone is a man of polished manners and beautiful urbanity. But he had stood so much in the presence of God, and so realised that presence, that regal station must have seemed a small thing in his eyes. He respected it, and almost venerated it but it was dwarfed by his religious feeling, and of small account compared to the moral elevation that the Queen's troubles during her widowhood have added to her original character. The mental complexion of Mr. Gladstone is not English, but Scotch. He can be humbly dutiful to the Queen, but he cannot fawn before her as Lord Russell and other Prime Ministers did. She is so accustomed to flattery as doubtless to be like a person who. after being long in a hothouse, goes into the nipping air. I have never heard that she complained of any want of dutiful submission in the manner of Mr. Gladstone, but that it was what was behind it that she did not like. Certainly his loyalty was clear-seeing and free-thinking, and free from the idolatrous element so common in England—a country that, being weaned prematurely from the saints and angels of Roman Catholicism, has taken to the base worship of loyalty and nobility. The Queen is a careful and provident mother. One of her old causes of dissatisfaction with Mr. Gladstone was this She could never, when the settlement of a younger child was before the House of Commons, get im have the allowances of all her family agreed oonce and for all. He was too much impressed with the esira l i y of the House of Commons holding in u,r_,thin £ 8> the power of the purse. The Pu n Jt down was, no doubt, unpleasant to the Queen and would hare seemed to her unnecessary, for her famdy are obedient to her and in public follow her and the late Prince's example. But there is a possibility of her having descendants more self- willed and less estimable or amiable. She has been blessed, indeed, m the docility and respect of her aons and in the affectionate companionship of her daughters. But, one way or another, the Queen's family were, when young, under nuny disciplinary restrictions, tempered always with parental affection a feature of Royal family life which was new when the Queen first appeared as a mother. Who can say that Mr. Gladstone's evasion of the request to settle the whole question of Civil List allowances was not a wholesome restraint on the young princes ? —Mrs. Emily Crawford in the Contemporary Review.
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WILLS AND BEQUESTS.,
WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The following is the Daily Chronicle's summary of the most recent wills of public interest filed at Somerset House: By his will dated January 28, 1893, the fourth Earl of Sefton, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire, who died an June 27 last, aged 62 years, and whose will was proved on July 14, leaves personalty so far as run at present be ascertained, of £2i3,I36 14s. 9d. The executors are Mr. T. Baring, of 8, Bishopsgate- street Within, and the Hon. Thomas of Lviue-park, Chester, to each of whom the tt-ytator bequeathed £1000. The residue of Lord Sef ton's property is to be held upon trusts, as if arising under the Settled Lands Acts, and any residue not so arising is in certain events to be accumulated for 21 years, and eventually to be held with the settled estates. Power is given for the tenant for life to charge the estate with not exceeding £5000 a year for his widow, and not exceeding £50,000 for younger children. The executors of the will of the Very Rev. Dr. Edward Meyrick Goulburn—his wife, Mrs. Julia Goulburn, the Rev. Birdmore Compton, of Atbar- ston Hall, Warwick, and Philip Cartwright, of Eaton-terrace, S.W.—proved his will on July 23, he having died on May 2 last, the personal estate being valued at £33,054 Is. 5d. Among other legacies he bequeathed his presentation clock and testimonial presented to him by the Mayor and Corporation of Norwich, to his godson, Captain Henry Goulburn, and certain books presented to him at St. John's, Paddington, and by the masters of Rugby School, to the Chapter Library at Norwich, upon the condition that the inscriptions in the volumes be not oblite- rated. To his wife he left all the residue of his pro- perty in trust, to pay the income thereof to her during her life. The value of the personal estate of the late Mr. Ney Elias, C.I.E., of 26A, North Audley-street, who died on May 31, and whose will (dated January 8, 1885) was proved on July 5 by his executor, Mr. Alfred Elias, of Dry-hill, Tonbridge, Kent, is £D 313. The testator leaves all his real and per- sonal estate to his brothers and sisters, and the issue of any deceased brother or sister. £1520 3s. is the value of the personal estate of the late Commander William C. J. Blount, 22 years secretary to the Victoria Hospital for Children, Chelsea, who died on May 26, and whose will was proved on July 5. The will of the late Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, K.C.B., of 123, Victoria-street, late keeper of British and Medireval Antiquities in the British Museum, who died on May 21 last, was proved on July 13 by his executors at £110,000 in value. By a codicil dated January 13 last the testator bequeathed certain valuable collections to the trustees of the British Museum, upon the condition th itthe Govern- ment should remit the duties payable in respect thereof, and if this condition should not be complied with the collections are to be sold. £177,193 is the value of the personal estate of the late Mr. Francis Coryndon Carpenter Rowe, J.P., of 38, Ashburn-place, South Kensington, who died on April 5, and whose will was proved on July 3 by bis executors, Mrs. Eugenie Marie Rowe, the widow, and Mr. Wilfrid Thomas Rokeby Price. The testator gives £500 each to his cousin Richard Purefoy Fitz- gerald, his stepson John Knight, Wilfrid Thomas llokeby Price, £2.50 to his sister-in-law, Eleanor Maude Mitchell, and £100 to his butler, Richard Samson. The residue of his real and personal estate he leaves upon trust for his wife for life or widow- hood, and then to all his children in equal shares. The gross personal estate of £84,468 16s. 3d., and net £1,040 2s. 5d., of Mr. Andrew Daverton Clarke, of 5, Chesham-place, S.W., who died March 27, and whose will was proved on July 26 by the executors, Florence Augusta Beare, the sister-in-law, and Mr. W. F. Nettleship. The testator gives to each of his executors £500, to Florence Augusta Beare also together with the residue of his real and personal estate, and £600 consols upon trust to pay the income to the vicar of Esher for the poor of the parish, and to keep in repair the testator's grave and monument. The personal estate of Mr. James Billinge, of Pemberton House, Cazenove-road, Stoke Newington, who died on June 7, amounted to £30,129 5s. 10d., his will being proved on July 5 by his executors, Mr. Nathaniel Joseph Sperti, of High-road, Clapton, and Mr. William Edward Wale, of 15, Wickham-road, Lewisham. The testator bequeaths £1000 each to the Metropolitan Free Hospital, Kingsland-road, and the Royal Hospital for Incurables, Queen Victoria- street, and j2500 each to the Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, the London Fever Hospital, the West-end Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System, the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat, and the Surgical Aid Society, Salisbury-square and the residue of his property he leaves to Mrs. Mary Anne Dandy. The executors, Mrs. Emily Follett, the widow, Sir John Henry Gibbs Bergne, K.C.M.G., of the Foreign Office, and Mr. Frederick Wolfe, of 13, Suffolk- street, Pall-mall, proved the will of the late Mr. Frederick Tucker Follett, of Greenway. Palace-road, East Molseley (who died on Mav 23 last), on July 1, the value of the personal estate being £22,58716s. 3d. The testator leaves the residue of his property to his wife during her life or widowhood, and then to his four children, Ella, Rosie, Cecil Bedell, and Wilfrid Howell, and bis family portraits and papers to his eldest son. Mrs. Follett, should she marry again, is to receive an annuity of JE300 per annum. The executrix, Mrs. Francis Robinson, of the late Mr. George Thomas Robinson, of 20, Earl's-terrace, Kensington, and Epsom, Surrey, who died on May 6, duly proved the will on July 2, the value of the per- sonal estate being £10,500. The testator bequeaths everything he died possesEed of to his widow abso- lutely. £¿S1 lie. Id. is the amount of the personal estate of Mr. William Henry Craven, secretary of the De Beers Consolidated Mines, of Kimberley, who died on January 8, at Las Palmas, Grand Canary, and whose will was proved by Mr. J. M. Haslip, of 6, Martin's-lane, E.C., solicitor of his sons, the execu- tors, Mr. Walter and Mr. Percival Craven. The testator leaves all his property upon trust for his children. £5770 2e. 5d. gross, and £1902 6s. 9d. net, is the value of the personal estate of Mr. Hermann Lescher, of 32, Eaton-place, late of 2, New Burlington-street, and 6, Clement's-lane, E.C., who died on March 18, and whose will was proved on July 3. The executors of the late Mr. Stephen Burchell, of 43, Bedford-gardens, Campden-hill, Kensington, Mr. John George Holloway, of 12, Heene-terrace, Worthing, and Mr. Benjamin Ingelow, of Carlton- chambers, Regent-street, who died on May 2, proved his will on July 8, the personal estate being valued at £5378 9s. lOd. The personal estate of Mr. William Sachoverell Coke, J.P., D.L., who died on March 14, is valued at £2606, the will having been duly proved by his son William Longton Coke, on July 2. The will of Mr. Sidney Clarke, late superintendent of the Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield, who died April 28, was proved on July 4 by Mrs. Ina Clarke, the sole executrix, the personal estate being valued at £17i6 10s. 3d.
BRITON AND MANDARIN.
BRITON AND MANDARIN. Considerable attention has been drawn in the Chinese Treaty ports to the action of Sir Nicholas Hannen, who, in his capacity of Consul-General at Shanghai, lately refused to recognise the claims of a British subject to protection, on the ground that the individual in question had failed to register himself for the current year. The facts are worthy of notice. Mr. Spencer Laisun's father was a Singapore Chinese, British born; he himself had been recognised as a British subject in 1894 and allowed to register. The Order in Council upon which Sir N. Hannen based his action makes it binding on every British subject to register himself annually as such but, as a matter of fact, so obnoxious has this species of poll-tax always proved, and so difiicult has it been to enforce observ- ance of the rule, that many Consuls have allowed it to fall into partial abeyance. When Mr. Laisun got involved in a case of assault, and was in consequence arrested, on the French concession he claimed British protection this wap, however, refused and he was handed over to the Chinese authorities and taken to the city. On the following day his family sought legal advice, by means of which such pressure was brought to bear on the Consulate that eventually Mr. Laisun was brought back and permitted to register. In the meanwhile the Press had ventilated the case and representations were addressed to Sir N. Hannen by the China Association on the subject, in which it was definitely asked whether failure to register is, in itself, suffix cient to deprive a British subject of his right to the protection of her Britannic Majesty's Government. This point was evaded and remains fraught with evil possibilities. It is not consonant with British prestige in China that British subjects, whoever they may bo, should be handed over, except in the most extreme cases of legal necessity, to the tender mercies of Man- darin justice.
I ! HOSPITAL STAMPS.
I HOSPITAL STAMPS. I There is still a steady demand for the hospital I stamps. An encouraging evidence of the interest taken in the movement is that the sale is not con- fined to this country alone, but requests for the I stamps come from Britishers in all parts of the world. The latest demand is from Emden in North I Germany, and it is calculated that the number ordered practically represents one for each of the little English colony there. Another means adopted, I for bringing the stamps before the notice of the- public has been the use by the District Messenger Service Company of an envelope with a facsimile of the stamps on tho back, and an intimation where they can be obtained. It is still possible to purchase the shilling stamp, but the half-crown issue is< becoming rare.
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PAKlSH COUNCILS. INTERESTING ANSWERS TO IMPORTANT QUESTIONS. (From the Councils' Gazetti.") Letting ef Land by Parish Council.—Last year the Hitcham Parish Council hired land to It, m allotments. There were not sufficient applications for the whole of the land. Therefore, they let a part, provisionally, to a farmer. The latter now declines to keep the land unless the Parish Council will grant him a lease. Has the Council power to do this? Answer: The Parish Council can grant a lease, but it must include terms enabling them to resume possession within a period not. exceeding 12 months, if the land should at any tit,3 be required to tie let as an allotment. Declaration of Acceptance of Office of Parish Councillor.—When an old Councillor is re- elected a Parish Councillor, does the acceptance of office when he was elected the year before stand when he is re-elected, or is it necessary to every Parish Councillor to sign declaration every year be is elected ? Answer: We think it is necessary. And, even if we were wrong on that point, we think that, it is eminently desirable that he should make the declara- tion. Notice to Quit Allotments.—A notice to quit land voluntarily hired for allotments is received by a Parish Council from the owner of the land on March 25, 1897. The notice to quit is considered by the existing Allotment Committee. The Committee pro- pose to report to the next Parish Council meeting the reoults of their investigations by a motion on the agenda. The Clerk and the Chairman of the Parish Council consider this an illegal course, as the next meeting of the Parish Council will be the annual meeting of newly-elected councillors on April 15, 1898, when the old Allotment Committee will be de- functJ (1) When does the old Allotment Com- mittee legally cease to exist? (2) In case no special meeting of the Parish Council be called by the Chairman to consider tke sub- ject, what is the legal way of placing the matter before the newly-elected body at the annual meeting ? (3) Can any matter of business be placed upon the agenda for the annual meeting of newly-elected Coun- cillors on April 15 by a duly elected Parish Coun- cillor, or is the sole business of the annual meeting to elect various officials. such as Chairman, Clerk, Over- seers,! Highway Surveyor, and various Committees ? (4) In case notice to quit is neither read nor dis- cussed at the annual meeting of newly-elected Coun- cillors, and a new Allotment Committee is formed, can f he new Allotment Committee deal with the ques- tion before it has been brought before the Council proper, or must there necessarily be a resolution from the Parish Council transferring the duty to the Allotment Committee for investigation ? (5) In case the Allotment Committee (composed of the Chairman of the Parish Council and a sufficient number of Parish Councillors to form a majority) present a report to the Parish Council and adopt the same by resolution, though not previously deputed by the Parish Council to do so, what is the legal stand- ing of the majority who carry it, and what is the legal standing of the minority who oppose it on the grounds that the report is inconsistent and at variance with truth and facts ? What action can the minority legally take ? (6) Supposing the tenancy arrangement, proposed by letter from the owner of the land, to be a six months' notice from any 29th day of Sep- tember, and no actual signed agreement exists between the owner and the Parish Council, what is the legal position of the Parish Council if the owner serves the Parish Council with a 12 months' Dotice to quit from Lady Day-the land being a Lady Day take? (7) Is it the duty of the Clerk or the Chair- man,of the Parish Council (or both) to see that all correspondence is read at the Parish Council meet- ings, and have either the Clerk or the Chairman a right to withhold correspondence when asked for by a motion on the agenda? (8) Should important correspondence or reports from various commttees be fully entered on the minutes of the Parish Council ? Answer: (1) The Committee cannot bold office beyond the next annual meeting of the Council see s. 56 of the Local Government Act, 1894. Whethsr that, section (if not defeated in other ways) wou Id keep the Committee in office until the end of the annual meeting is not very clear, nor in our opinion is it necessary to consider, for we think it is clear that the appointment of a new Committee at the annual meeting will at once destroy the old Com- mittee; and even if the old Committee are kept alive to the end of the annual meeting, they can do nothing effectual, since the acts of every Com- mittee must be submitted to the Council for their approval, under the section already quoted. (2) Follow the Standing Orders of the Council; if there are no Standing Orders, the Chairman must regulate the proceedings, subject (of course) to the general directions of the Local Government Act, 1894. Nothing can be considered unless it has been specified in the notice calling the meeting. (3) Thre Act of 1894 requires that the election of a Chair- man, and the appointment of Overseers shall be the first business at the-annual meeting; but there is nothing to prevent any other business from being sub- sequently considered. (4) Prima, facie, the new Committee will take up the business where the old Committee left off. If the Committee are appointed in general terms, as an Allotments Committee," it will be open to them to recon- sider the report of the old Committee, and to send in a new report contradicting the former report. But neither report will have any effeci until the Council have adopted it; when adopted, it becomes the act of the Council as a whole. (5) We do not understand this question, because we do not know what are the objections to the proceedings which are threatened or anticipated. In most cases, if not in all, the minority, as a minority, can do nothing. If, for example, the majority of the Council decline to hire land at 40s. an acre, and hire land at 50s. an acre, on the ground that it is better land or more conve- niently situated, neither the minority nor anybody else can over-rule the decision. But if the Parish Council were to decide to do something which is clearly illegal (e.g., to take 99 years' lease of land for allotments), then their decision could be set aside by the ratepayers. (6) The notice is perfectly valid. (7) The duties of the Clerk and Chairman with regard to cor- respondence can, of course, be more clearly defined by resolutions of the Council. If there are no such resolu- tions, then in our opinion all correspondence addressed to the Clerk or Chairman in their official capacity as representing the Council should bo laid before the representing the Council should be laid before the Council, without any resolution to that effect. If a resolution is proposed that certain correspondence be read, and the resolution is negatived, then, of course, the correspondence ought not to be produced. There is a marked distinction between laying correspondence before the Council, and reading it at a meeting to which the public are admitted. It may well be that correspondence ought not to be published to all the world: e.g., if the Council are engaged in litigation, letters from their solicitors, or from a person who has been asked to give evidence, may fairly be withheld while the public are present. (8) As to to the correspondence, Yes. As to the reports, Yes, if they are adopted: otherwise the minute is meaningless. If the report .is wholly rejected the Council may, perhaps, exercise their discretion as to what the Clerk shall record. If the report is adopted in part, and rejected in part, it would probably be best to record the whole report, if the subject matters of the whole report are connected together. Right to Use Water-Course.—A stream of spring water (many springs) has been running a regular course passing the knowledge of the present genera- tion. This stream ran by a bouse, its course being for the distance over the property of the landlord of this said house, this family being dependent upon the stream for domestic purposes, which but once in recollection was dry for a short time. Last year certain springs were taken to supply an independent house, which hitherto ran into the faid water- course. Owing to the taking of these springs the water-course passing the above said house dried up last summer. For a few months this year it has dried up again. The one strong spring which was taken to supply this house came from off the property of an independent gentleman in our locality, which hitherto always ran into the brook,. and undoubtedly this is the stream that causes the course to be dry. I should feel much obliged if you could inform me whether, by the consent of the owner of the land, this stream cr spring could be taken, thereby causing a few families to suffer through the brook drying up ? AiiBwer The law oa the subject appears to be as follows Each proprietor of land has- a right to the advantage of the stream flowing in its natural course over his land, to use the same as be pleases for any purpose of his own, not inconsistent with a similar right in the proprietors of the land above or below, so that neither can any pro- prietor above diminish the quantity or injure the quality of the water which would otherwise natur- ally descend, nor can any proprietor below throw back •he water wit hout the license or the grant of the pro- prietor below.
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THE denominations of the 8030 marriages in New South Wales in 1895 were as follows Church of England, 2836; Roman Catholic, 1416; Presbyterian. 911:; Wesleyan, 831; Congregationalist, 313 Metho- dist Episcopal, 272Baptist, 217 Unitarian, 210; Piimitive Methodist, 204; Independent Methodist, 124; Church of Christ, 97: Gospel Temperance Church, 56; Salvation Army, 35; Hebrew, 30: Bible Christian, 27 German Lutheran, 2;>; Lay Methodist, 25; United Methodist Free Church, 23; Bethel Union, 21 Independent Free Church, 5 Latter Day Saint, 5; Welsh Calvinistic Methodist, 2; Seventh Day Adventist, 11;: Christian Mission, 1; and by Registrar, 336. ,J
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EPITOME OF NEWS. THE Belgian Chamber has passed a Bill abolishing duties on tea, and reducing the duties on sugar. THERE are four millionaires in England to one in I France. TwgLYF: MILLION silk hats are made annually in the United Kingdom, worth ;L,-) 000,0(>0. LONDON has over 500 railway slations. These figures do not include goods stations. THE salary of the Yarmouth Borough Surveyor has been increased to £ 550 per annum. Tuft pearls which Lady de Grey has been wearing lately cost just £ 500 apiece. MR, JOliN MOKLKY is to stay for a con pIe of months at Kincraig, near Kingussie. 11 ON an average each Englishman writes 40 letters a year, each Scotsman 30, and each Irishman 16. IT is estimated that during the present century no fewer than 30,000,000 civilised men have peris-hvu in war. THERE are 2127 feather curlers, 4.»07 nr'ii"i"! flower makers, and 4075 umbrella and walking k makers in London. Tiik speed of our fastest, ocean steamrra is now greater that of express trains on Italian milwa. GUKRRITA, the famous bull-tighter of Sp"il', £ 12,000 a year by his profession. For each apprar- ance in the arena he gets £.-j¡ It). Tiiv niece of a wiill-known bishop has just, en- gaged as manageress of a new laundry opened in Hit? neighbourhood of Bristol. PKINCKSS TROUBKTZKOI, who is better kw," n as Amelie Hives, the novelist, is now s'ay ing at Kissir. £ »-n completing her cure. TIIF. U.S. State Department denies the report, that the Government contemplate sending a Special C,"n- missipner to Hawaii. TIIB German Imperial manoeuvres will be carried out between 6th and lOr h September at llegse. TUB record of the largest number of notes struck by a musician in 12 hours is said to h,t,e made by a well-known player, who struck 1,030.300 not. TILERB are in Paris 70,000 persons who make articles of women's dress, and G5.000 dressmakers, it has been estimated that the yearly amount earned there in this business is over £ 50,105,200. SWITZERLAND enjoys the uneviable distinction of haring a larger percentage of lunatics than anv ol her country. In the canton of Zurich there are 32G1 in a population of 339,000. Tiiz Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital has received a cheque for £ 100 from the Queen towards the building fund of the new hospital now in course of erection in the City-road. THE many friends of Mr. George Miiller, of Bristol, the well-known philanthropist, will be glad to hear that, although 91 years of age, he enjoys the best of i health. MARK TWAIN and his daughter will spend the winter in Vienna, in order that the latter IlIaY receive musical instruction from Professor Les- chetizlcy. SIR FREDERICK CARRIXGTON is to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief at Gibraltar during the tempo- rary absence of Gen. Sir Robert Biddulph in England. THE Treasury have appointed a committee to consider and report upon the desirability of establish- ing a National Physical Laboratory, Lord Rayleigh being chairman. A MONSTER electric lamp is about to be put up to light the area in front of the McEwan ifall, Edinburgh. It will cost £ 1500. The lantern alone measures 12ft. in height, and will contain six Jandus lights, each giving 800 candle-power. THE Duke of Norfolk, K.G., who is a Major and Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel in the 2nd Y.B. Royal Sussex Regiment, has been Honorary Colonel of the 4th West Riding of Yorkshire Volunteer Artilleiy since 1864. OUT of the 37 regiments of Yeomanry at present existing only 13 of them wear the gold and i ellow braid of the regular cavalry. The remainder have their uniform laced with silver and white cord. THE other evening a message was received at a Clifton residence that Miss (the cook) was unable to return as she had fallen off her bicycle, spraining her ankle, and had been taken home in a cab by a young man. THE exports of cutlery from Sheffield to the United States during the last quarter amounted in value to £ 62,000—a very large increase on previous returns, and nearly double the value exported a year ago. THE two daughters of the late Sir Oswald Brierly, Marine Painter in Ordinary to the Queen, have, on the recommendation of Mr. Balfour, received £100 from the Royal Bounty Fund. THE young King of Spain has written an autograph letter to Queen Victoria, thanking Her Majesty for the distinction of the Royal Victorian Order which she has conferred upon him. THE Lord President of the Council has appointed Mr. Charles Morgan Cowie, a Senior Examiner of the Education Department, to be Assistant Secretary in the place of Mr. F. Hodgson, who has retired. AMONG the public schools turning out material for bishops, Eton has the first place, producing 14 of the bishops of the day. Winchester has supplied eight, Rugby seven, Harrow six, Merchant Taylors' and St. Paul's five each, Marlborough four. NON-INFLAMMABLE wood, according to a recent communication from Mr. Lawson, was produced as long as 40 years ago, by impregnating timber with a solution of iron sulphate. Specimens were then obtained from a balk 12in. thick, through which the salt had penetrated to the middle. THE Queen is adding to her territory. The announcement is made that her Majesty has pur- chased at auction the riverside estate near Datcbet known as Sandlea, comprising residence and about sixteen acres, for £ 11,500. The property is within two miles of Windsor. A KEEPER of the Zoological Society of London has left for Bechuanaland, to bring home the young male giraffe presented to the Queen, on the occasion of her Jubilee, by the Chief Bathoen. It was caught three years ago in the Khalahari desert, and is now at Garanaka, near Kanye. THE new Bishop of Bristol will look a young bishop, although he is really an old one. Clerics of 64 have not muih chance of bishoprics nowadu vs. but Dr. Browne is a notable exception. He is straight and athletic, with an enormous power of work, which should at once make itself felt in his new diocese. AT a sale of agricultural land at Becciss, Norfolk, a dairy farm of 50a. 6r. 20p. at Shipmeadow was sold for £ 290, not £ 6 an acre. Not many years ago such land would have fetched £40 to £ 60 per acre. This sale marks the lowest point yet reached in East Anglia for meadow land. ABOUT 2300 Socialist knee-pants makers in New York and Brooklyn have gone on strike because of a reduction in wages. More than 100 shops were closed inconsequence. It wa3 expected that 2500 pant-makers would strike in conjunction with the knee-pants makers, but they did not. A CALCULATION of the amount of fluid perspired by an acre of cabbages is very curious. If the cabbages are planted in rows 18in. apart and 18in. from each other, it is estimated that in the course of 12 hours no less than 10 tons 4cwt. 3qr. Illb. weight of water will have been insensibly peropired by their fleshy leaves. WITH a view to preventing such catastrophes as that of the Charity Bazaar fire at Paris in May last, an international congress for the discussion of the means of preventing fires in theatres, concert-halls, and places of public resort, is being arranged, and will be held; probably in Paris, at a date that is not yet fixed. In conjunction with the congress there is also being organised an international exhibition of engines, inventions, products, and plans for the prevention of fire, and fire-extinguishing appliances and materials; BUST for removing paint and rust hss been tried on the hull of the United States warship Atnlanra, and some data regarding the operation are just to hand. Three areas, each measuring 25ft. were cleaned; the first occupied nineteen minutes, the other two twelve minutes each. Another 100 sq. ft. were cleaned in twentv-four minutes, the air pressure being piamtained at 22!b. on the square inch. With a pressure of 251b. a further patch was cleaned at 1 h rate of 5 sq. ft. per minute. The whole job lasted 13 days, Hnd, allowing for stoppages, the work of re- moving the remains of three coats of paint and masses of rust from 14,000 sq. ft. of surface is found to have been done at an average rate cf 6ft. per minute. Three machines were used. The pipes carrying both the air and the sand were 2.!in. in diameter. The air pressure averaged 201b. on the square inch, and of the 70 cub. ft. of sand used, onlv 5 cub. ft. were lost by dissipation. SREJIL BARRELS are now being made by a patented system in which a new kind of rolling machine combjnes with electrical welding ro turn out an article whose shape lacks nmne of itie middle bulging that has hitherto distinguished the wooden from the metal cask. Toe steel used varies in thickness from l-16in. upwards, according to the size of the barrel to be made. The sheets are rolled to a curve by a tapering roller, and are dono cold. In each b-rrl there is one joint, running lengthways, welded by electricity. The barrel ends are stamped from square plates. They leave the press circular, with their edges turned up to form a continuous flange all round, and their central part impressed with con- centric circular furrows, which give strength. After insertion, a hoop of steel is forced on outside the barrel end, and another inside the flanged head the four thicknesses of metal are then welded together by electric beat. The bung-holes are formed by steel stampings welded on from inside. THE Queen's dining-room always presents a very bright and brisk aspect, for. in addlt lun to the crowd of servants in their Royal liveries, and some of her Majesty's Highland and Indian domestics, there are the head functionaries of the kitchen and the clerks of the cellar in their respective uniforms. The clerk of the kitchen, who is at the head of the cuisine department, receives £ 700 a year, with his board and lodging, and he is provided with a staff of four assis- tant clerks and a female menial, who is officially known as the to necessary woman." The chef is aided by four master cooks, two yeomen of the kitchen (one of whom is the confectioner), two bakers, two roasting cooks, two coffee women, and a perfect regi- ment of assistants, male and female of their kind apprentices, scourers, kitcbenmaids, two steam apparatus workers, two green office men," and a storekeeper. THE average height of the Scotch is about 5ft. lOio., so that they stand on a level with the Polynesians and Americans, both Indians and whites. In the south-western counties and along the south coast of the Forth, the height is nearly 5ft. llin., or about the height of Grenadier Guards and Metropolitan Police, who are picked men. The Irish, with an average of 5ft. 9in., are the next tallest people in Europe. The English of the counties bordering on Scotland (Cumberland, Yorkshire, &c.), where there is much Scotch blood, are also 5ft. 9in. Those of the south and south-east coast are 5ft. Sin in Norfolk they are a little taller in the Fens and some inland counties, such as Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, and in some western counties, such as Somerset, they are 5ft. 7in., or about the height of the Welsh, ex- cepting the north-east of Wales, where they are rather taller. As yet there is only one professional woman diver. She is now 38 years of age, and for the past 10 yeais has been engaged in diving for sponges off the coast of Florida. Her husband is named Pedro Gomez, and comes of a large family of sponge divers. He was taught scientific diving by an Englishman in Madeira, and going to Central America met the woman who is now his wife. After their marriage the took to diving with the greatest zest, and now performs the most hazardous and dangerous parts of the work. She carries less armour than her husband, and has invented a helmet with a system of air-pipes, the secret of which is known alone to herself and her husband. With this helmet on she can wander about a sunken wreck without the least fear of the air communication with the upper world ceasing, and boasts proudly of having made a thousand descents into the depths of the sea. AN entertaining bit of gossip is being told about Mr- Herbert Spencer. It is reported that the great philosopher, always highly sensitive to noises, is now suffering greatly from the whistles of locomotives. There is nothing exceedingly funny in that, but the story that follows has its amusing phases. Some years ago, during a stay in Scotland, he was maddened by the performance of a cock that crowed inconceiv- ably early. After a period of prolonged suffering it occurred to him, by a fine effort of induction, that if the early cock were tied by the legs to its perch it would be unable to crane itself up for the act of crowing. So Mr. Spencer got up, and with his pocket- handkerchief tied the bird firmly to its perch, and then went back again to bed. Whether the cock went on crowing is not recorded, but Mr. Spencer, confi- dent in the soundness of his theory, slept. BATHING stories have their little boom just now, and one concerning Mrs. Tweedie and Finland (of which region she has written a book) is particularly neat. The bathing-dress is unknown in Finland, such is the primitive simplicity of the people, but when Mrs. Tweedie desired to go a-bathing she was entirely conventional. She bought the raw material, made a fine bathing-dress, and went forth to woo the Finnish waters. A minute later a fisherman, passing by, caught sight of her, and was filled with alarm. The unwonted spectacle brought him the certain idea that the English lady had fallen into the sea with her clothes on, and was in imminent danger of drowning. Without hesitation, be kicked off his boots, dived in, and pulled her out. THE mate of Paraguay (Ilex Paraguayensis) is a bush from which the South Americans prepare a kind of tea. It was discovered towards the end of the 18th century by the Jesuit missionaries, and grows wild in the forests of tropical America. The Indians collect and dry the leaves, which are ground in mills, those of Parana and St. Catherine, for example, and the powder is packed for transport. According to Dr. Caminboa, mate is less exciting than tea or coffee, about as stimulating as green tea, and more diuretic than coffee. Some think that mateine, the active principle of mate tea, is the same alkaloid as cafeine, others that it is different, because it acts directly on the muscles, whereas cafeine only acts upon them through the nerve centres. Be that as it may, mateine would appear to increase the vital activity in every way and it does not cause sleep- lessness, even when taken in a large quantity. THERE is some possibility of the Rev. Archibald Brown, the well-known Baptist preacher, returning to London and accepting the pastorate of a prominent church on the southern side ef the Thames. Mr. Brown is one of the most able of the extreme, con- gervative theologians he was one of Mr. Spurgeon's chief follower, and ardently advocates the old lines of early-century Evangelicalism. For long he presided over a very prosperous church in the East-end, but resigned some months ago, owing to ill- health. Six or e, en years ago, he published a pam- phlet, The Devil's M i.,sion of Amusement," in which be argued, with much vigjur, that all the social recreative work now being done by Churches is utterly wrong. A LILIPUTtAN railway train, too large to be classed as a model and too small to run on any of the gauges of full size, has been built for an attraction at the Omaha Exposition. The engine weighs 4501b., rather less than a tenth as much as the smallest regular locomotive. It is 6ft. by 7in. long, and has 2 cylinders measuring l^in. by 2^in. It hauls behind it six cars, in each of which two children can be seated. Coal is burnt, and enough fuel and water are carried for a two-hours' run. The whole tmio ^Mature* 29ft_ in feaglh. .ø ,ø.
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