The North Wales Times

SCENE AT ST. PAUL'S. During the ordination service in St. Paul's Cathe- dral on Sunday morning, Mr. John Kensit pro- ceeded to the chancel, and made a protest against two candidates for priesthood, on the ground of their resorting to illegal practices. Bishop 'Barry, who officiated, took note of the objection; but, as Mr. Kensit endeavoured to speak further, four vergers went to him, one of them seizing his coat. Amidst shouts of Hands off from the congregation, the vergers hesitated, a.d Mr. Kensit then returned from the chancel, and, with his supporters, left the cathedral.

MR. KRUGER IN HOLLAND. Mr. Kruger has received many telegrams of con- gratulation upon the course of events in South Africa from all parts of Europe. One was sent by a meeting of 7000 persons at Nuremberg, in Ger- many another from the Rhine provinces. A large number of letters and telegrams of sympathy from City Councils in Holland, Belgium, and Frauce are still arriving. There is no truth in the statement that Mr. Kruger will leave Holland before the New Year, and proceed to Nice. The Standard's correspondent at The Hague is informed that the ex-President is negotiating for the hire of a house in this city, to be used as tho Transvaal Legation, to which he will remove from the Hotel des Nides. On Sunday Mr, Kruger went to church. The public manifestations have come to an end.

THE CRISIS IN CHINA. THE JOINT NOTE OF THE POWERS. The Times correspondent at Pekin, in a message dated December 20, says the foreign Ministers met that day to sign the joint Note, of which he gives a summary. After recounting the outrages which led to the intervention of the allies—characterised as crimes against the laws of nations, humanity, and civilisation—the Note says that the allied Powers consent to accede to the petition or China for peacs, on certain irrevocable conditions. An Imperial Prince is to convey to Berlin the Emperor's regret for the assassination or Baron von Ketteler, and a monument is to be erected on the site of the murder with an inscription expressing the Emperor's regret. The most severe punishment fitting their crime is to be inflicted on the person- ages designated in the Imperial decree of September 21, and on others whom the foreign Ministers shall hereafter designate. Official examinations are to be suspended for five years in those cities where foreigners have been assassinated or cruelly treated. The importation of arms or materiel, and their manufacture, are to be prohibited. An equitable indemnity is to be paid to States, societies, and individuals, also to Chinese whojjhave suffered injury because of their employment I", foreigners. China will adopt financial measures a ep lhle to the Powers to guarantee the payment of tb" indemnity. Permanent Legation guards are to be maintained, the Ta-ku forts and those between Pekin and the sea are to be razed, and there is to be a military occupa- tion of points necessary to ensure the safety of the communications between Pekin and the sea. China undertakes to negotiate a revision of the commercial treaties. The Tsuug-li-Yamen is to be reformed, and the Court ceremonial for the reception of foreign Ministers modified in the sense indicated by the Powers. Until these and some minor specified conditions are complied with, the Powers can hold out no expectation of the limit of time of the re- moval of the foreign troops now occupying Pekin and the provinces. The Times correspondent adds that all the Ministers signed the Note except Mr. Conger, who said he was acting in obedience to orders from Washington. THE JOINT NOTE. On Saturday morning Mr. Conger affixed his sig- nature to the collective Note, which was to be formally presented to the Chinese envoys at Pekin on Monday. Official Chinese continue to declare that China will accept all the conditions without losing face." The State Department at Washington has published the text of the joint Note of the Powers to China, which has now been signed by Mr. Conger and all the other Ministers. The usual statement accom- panying successive publications by lie State Department that this is a triumph 0: American diplomacy is omitted. It is seen that He condi- tions are announced as "irrevocable,' while the punishments demanded are not the se. rest China can inflict but the severest," and inching those de- signated by edict and those hereafter tn be desig- nated by the Powers. The interdiction if the im- port of arms, unlimited indemnities, the destruction of certain Chinese forts and the right of military occupation of certain points-all opposed by the United States-are all included in the Note. Our Chinese client has profited little, if at all, by our in- tervention. FRENCH TROOPS FIGHTING.—1000 CHINESE SLAIN. The Times Shanghai correspondent says it is reporter: that. Sheng has been appointed to assist in the peace negotiations, and will proceed to Pekin forthwith. A telegram of Tuesday from Pekin, received in Paris, reports an engagement between a French detachment and a body of Chinese regular soldiers and Boxers near Peichan, south of Pao- ting-fu, in which the French defeated the enemy with a loss of 1000 killed. The town was captured and afterwards burned, along with a neighbouring village.

MR. KRUGER'S CHRISTMAS. The Daily Mail's correspondent at The Hague says Mr. Kruger spent his Christmas quietly communing with his Bible. He still remains inflexibly opposed to any settlement of the South African problem which stops short of the independence of the Re- publics.

TREASURY LOAN FOR The London Gazette issued on Christmas Day con- tained a notice from the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury that tenders will be received at the Chief Cashier's Office, at the Bank of England, on Friday, the 28th inef., at one o'clock, for Treasury bills to be issued under the Acts 40 Vic., cap. 2, and 52 Vie., cap 6, to the amount of £ 2,500,000, for the replacement of £ 1,500,000 falling due on the 30th inst., and £ 1,000,000 falling due on the 6th prox. The bills will be in amounts of £ 1000, zU,000, or £ 10,000. The bills for £ 1,500,000 will be dated January 4, 1901, and will be payable 12 months after date, viz., on January 4, 1902. The bills for £ 1,000,000 will be dated January 5, 1901, and will be payable six months after date, viz., on July 5, 1901. The tenders must specify the net amount per cent. which will be given for the amounts applied for, and the tenders of private individuals must be made through a London banker. The bills will be issued and paid at tha Bank of England. The persons whose tenders are accepted will be informed of the same on Satur- day, the 29th inst., and payment in full of the amounts of the accepted tenders must be made to the Bank of England not later than three o'clock on Friday, the 4th prox., or one o'clock on Saturday, the 5th prox., as the case may be.

SAD DEATH OF THE DOWAGER- LADY CHURCHILL. We regret to state that the Dowager-Lady ,Churchill was found dead in bed on Christmas morning at Osborne. Lady Churchill on Christmas Eve appeared to be in her usual state of health except for a cold. This, however, gave no indica- tion of being followed by any serious result, but when her maid took her a cup of tea on Christmas morning the painful discovery was made that Lady Churchill had passed away. She was the daughter of the second Marquis Conyngham, and married in 1849 the second Baron Churchill, who pre-deceased her in 1886. Lady Churchill since 1854 had been Lady of the Bedchamber to the Queen, and was some years ago the recipient of the second class of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert.

A RECORD MAIL. The White Star liner Majestic, which owing to the storm could DOt land mails at Queenstown, arrived at Liverpool on the night of Boxing Day. She brought a record mail, consisting of 2600 bags, and specie of the enormous value of l,045,000dol. Among her passengers was the ex-golf champion Vardon, who, whilst acknowledging the hospitality of the American people, said that they had much to learn of the royal game of golf. and that neither their players nor their links were up to the mark. He thought it likely that he would return to the States.

BOERS AT ST. HELENA. CRONJE IN BAD HEALTH. A letter received from a prisoner at St. Helena states that. many of the Boers there are suffering from scurvy, owing to the scarcity of vegetables. Cronje seemed in bad health, and refused to talk much. There are no complaints as to treatment. All are confident that they will get their independence back.

BURGLARY AND MURDER. In the village of Stokesby, some miles from Yar- mouth, on Christmas Day, a woman named Kelly, widow of a soldier who recently died in South Africa, was found in her cottage in a dying state, with two fearful gashes in the body. She was able to state that the wounds had been inflicted by a man who bad broken into her house, but she died before her depositions could be taken. She leaves a child 14 weeks old. A young labourer residing in the Tillage has been arrested on suspicion.

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. THE PROROGATION. The House of Lords met on the 15 th inst. at noon, when the Supplementary War Loin (No. 2) Bill and the consolidated Fund (Appr< Nation) Bill were brought up from the Commons t passed through all their stages. Their lordsi, then adjourned during pleasure. The House of Commons me1 :Lt ten o'clock in order that the Supplemental W" i Loan Bill and the Appropriation Bill might be disposed of in time to enable Parliament to be prorogued in the afternoon. The first of these measures was read a third time with- out comment, but on the Appropriation Bill there was a debate of some duration upon the policy of the Government in relation to the Transvaal and Orange River Colony, the chief object of the Radical members who reopened the question being to show that coer- cive methods, such as the destruction of farm build- ings, would fail to induce the Boers to lay down their arms, and that efforts to conciliate were much more likely to have good results. The speakers who argued in favour of a return to the lenient policy of Lord Roberts in the earlier stages of the war were Mr. Pirie, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Lloyd-George, Mr. Caine, Mr. Ciianning, and Mr. Bryn Roberts, who, in a provocative harangue, blamed the Government acri- moniously for having permitted the City Imperial Volunteers—whom he called carpet soldiers "—to return home before the Yeomanry and other troops. Mr. Elliot, in reply to some of the statements which had been made on the other side of the House, insisted that the present conflict compared fav- ourably with previous wars, because avoidable cruelly Imd not been inflicted. Ali. Brodrick, who was repeatedly cheered, cen- sured Mr. Bryn Roberts tor his utterances in scathing terms. To attempt, as that member had done, to create discontent between forces which had served together in the field was ungenerous and almost criminal. The hon. member who had remained safely at home throughout the war had the aiodncity to call men who for nine months had suffered privations at the front "carpet soldiers." Such insinuations deserved the reprobation of every right-minded man in the country and were regarded by the vast majority of that House as an abuse of the right of free speech. With regard to the future conduct of the war and the policy of the Government he could add nothing to the declaration of the Colonial Secre- tery a week ago. Nothing had been said by any member of the Government to give rise to the supposi- tion that there was a desire to follow a policy which might make it more difficult for the Boers to dis- continue hostilities. But the Government adhered firmly to their determination ¡hat the Transvaal and Orange River territories must be British colonies, and that for a time the demand for representative institutions COl ld not be acceded to. Upon those points it was impossible to make any concession. As to the desirability of conducting the war in as humane a manner as possible, he believed that Lord Kitchener was at one with her Majesty's Ministers: Mr. Bryn Roberts, who had interrupted Mr. Brod- rick several times, averring that the right hon. member was misrepresenting what he had said, rose to make a reply, but was prevented from doing so by the Speaker on the ground that he had already spoken. Shortly afterwards, The bill was read a third time, The sitting, which was thereupon suspended, was resumed at two o'clock, when the Honse was sum- moned to the House of PLers to attend the proroga- tion ceremony. On the resumption of the sitting of the House of Lords at two o'clock the Speaker and members of the House of Commons were summoned to thf. Bar of the Upper House, when the Royal assent was given by commission to the two measures which had been passed earlier in the day. THE QUEEN'S SPEECH. The Lord Chancellor then read the following Speech from the Throne: My Lords and Gentlemen,—I thank you for the liberal provision which you have made for the ex- penses incurred by the operations of my armies in South Africa and China. Then a Commission for proroguing the Parliament was read. After which the Lord Chancellor said My Lords and Gentlemen,—By virtue of her Majesty's Commission, under the Great Seal, to us and other lords directed, and now read, we do, in her Majesty's name, and in obedience to her com- mands, prorogue this Parliament to Thursday, the 14th day or February next, to be then here holden and this Parliament is accordingly porogaed to Thursday, the 14th day of February next. The Speaker and the members of the House of Commons then withdrew, and the prorogation cere- mony came to an end.

THE NEW PEERS. (From the London Gazette.) The Queen has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting the dignity of a Viscount of the United Kingdom unto the Right Honourable George Joachim Goschen, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Viscount Goschen, of Hawkhurst, in the county of Kent. The Queen has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting the dignities of a Viscount and Baron of the said United Kingdom unto the Right Honourable Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart.. and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten by the names, styles, and titles of Viscount Ridley, and Baron Wensley- dale, of Blagdon, and Blyth, both in the county of Northumberland.

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