Evening Express

From All Quarters M. Dubost has been re-elected president of the French Senate by 230 votes out of 359, says Renter. The Queen MS se-ntt a' gift of twenty phea- sants to the Royal Waterloo Hospital for Children and Women. The new naval tug Atlas.fhioh has been built at Chatham for China, and his bound toHong Korag, put into Dover last night. The King's Bounty was yesterday reccived I by Mrs. Ernest Ay res, wife of a Rushdn shoemaker, who re-centliy gave birtih to trip- lets. Eight you I-, prisoners at present under- going the Borstal system have been con- firmed in Wakefield Gaol by the Bishop of Wakefield. "1,Th another six months I don't think my- self that there will be any hansom cabs left in London," said a driver at the City Coroner's Court yesterday. With the object of forming a pack of beagles in his own country. Mr. W. F. Lewis, of New York, has purchased three couples cf hounds from the CoekeTmouth Beaglee. At a dinner to his f-airm hands, Mr. W. F. Peto, of Hungerford, announced that he hoped shortly to begin a system of co- partnerstoip with the workers on his farm. Dep-o-sits made in the Seamen's Savings Banks during 1906 (states a white-paper just issued) totalled f82,016, while the repayments amounted to £ 96,201, leaving a balance at the year of £ 224,228.

THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR I More Secret History I PARIS, Friday. "Le Monde Tllusit-re," the weekly journal which last week published a series of sensa- tional revelations respecting t.ha eirloum- etanoes preceding the outbreak of war between Russia and Japan, printe another article on the same subject to-day. M. Vlia-dimir Bourtzeff, an interview with whom j is embraced in the article, declares that the exactness of the information published last week has since been vouched for by a certain highly-placed diplomatist, who had conversa- tions on the subject with Count Lamsdorff, and has oommunicated other matters of whicih he (M. Bourtzeff) hopes to ma.ke good use of another day. Then follow lengthy extracts from Count Lamsdorff's secret report to the Csar on the documents contained in the Orange Book, which report, it would appear, formed the hasis of much of the contentions set forth in M. Silber's article. The most striking passage occurs towards the end, when Count Lamsdorff is quoted as questioning whether the extraordinary action of Admiral Abaza in negotiating with the Japanese Ambassador and his secretary, as described last week, and the almost incredible attitude adoptsd by him did not in a mea-sure influence the decision of the Tokio Govern- ment not to await the official reply of the Rueeian Cabinet.—Central News.

r LOOKING FOR A FRIEND I Dennis O'Brien, collier, Blackwood, was summoned at the local court to-day for being disorderly and refusing to quit the George Inn. Mr. Trevor C. Griffiths prosecuted. Mr. Heipton, the landlord, said that the man was drunk and pushed his way into the house, although ordered to stay outside. Witness called a police officer, and had the man ejected. Defendant said that he only went I to look for a friend, and he was ordered to pay 4s. 6d. costs.

ADDED DIGNITY I At the City of London Coroner's Court, I yesterday, Dr. Waldo scanned a policeman's uniform vairuly endeavouring to find the officer's number. "These coats makes a policeman look like an inspector," he re- marked, on being told the number on the shoulder of the new overcoat instead of on the oollar.

Magistrate (at Acton yesterday): Five shillings or five days. Prisoner: Five days! 'Strewth! Judg. at Lambeth County-cotrrt yesterday I to baTrifiter: Yon put so mft4ah zeal into I yoar oaee that you go beyond your place.

HOE S I I SAUCE Whether your appetite be good or bad Hoe's Sauce will benefit you. It will stimulate a poor appetite, and keep a good one in order.

The Man in the Street. I A prophet with honour in his own country, Sir William Grossman is acclaimed the man of the hour in his appointment as manager of the new Labour Exchange at Cardiff. If the posi- tion had been thrown open to competi- tion, and every qualified man in South Wales had applied, it must be said that a better selection could not have been made. Sir William ought to be a proud man this day, and not entirely because of the appointment, which he certainly deserves, but because of the stream of congratulations that it has inspired. We are all trying to paint the lily in refer- ring to his sterling integrity and un- swerving honesty of purpose. And those who know him best are the loudest in their praise and good wishes. This is the mark of the upright man, that the people among whom he lives and works should be the first and the loudest in showering upon him the encomiums he so richly deserves. In all this there is no spark of jealousy. Throughout South Wales there is'not a man who thinks he could fill the position better than Sir William, and, if the success of the new work depends on the manager, then the Cardiff Labour Exchange should prove the most efficient in the United Kingdom. In the midst of the great stress of a General Election men of all parties and creeds willingly pause to pay their tribute to a man among men. From humble surroundings Sir William has risen to the highest position a citizen can attain in his own town, and his lord mayoralty will always be remembered as associated with one of the most important years in the history of Cardiff. His has been a career of romance, and Sir Wil- liam's many friends rejoiced exceedingly when the King did him the signal honour of conferring a knighthood upon him nearly three years ago. Before then he had attained many honours. Six times his neigh bours returned him to the city council, the first time in 1892, thrice un- opposed, and he represented Oathays without a break until his elevation to the aldermanic bench two years ago. His honours were never sought, but were ever thrust upon him, and on the corporation no one has worked harder. He has filled practically every post on the city council, has been chairman of several important committees, and as president of the Distress Committee alone it will be diffi- cult to find a successor equal to his ability, knowledge of municipal affairs, and undying energy. The same may be said of his work as a Poor-law guardian. All through Sir William has kept a cool, level head. His knighthood and the present reward of years of useful servce leave him as they found him. His con- nection with the Trades Council is well known, and if he was here the least appreciated, his work was none the less excellent, and I am glad to join with all Cardiff and South Wales in wishing him and Lady Crossman many more years of usefulness in the city which knows and esteems him so well. About a month ago I was glad to be able to refer to the scheme put before the Pontypridd Education Authority by Mr. Arnott, whereby teachers and employers could confer regarding the ability and the inclinations of boys in their last year at school. This had the praiseworthy object of trying to stem the stream of lads into indefinite occupations, such as errand lads, that led to the even- tual increase of the unemployed, whose ranks' are being constantly recruited by the sad condition of men without trades, men who have mis-spent their youth in a succession of situations that provided the immediate necessity of a wage, but no trade or useful specialised knowledge to warrant continuous employment. The necessity of the general adoption of some similar scheme is enforced by the experi- ence of one of my Barry readers, who informs me of the difficulty he had of apprenticing a relative to an engineer. The boy had a decided inclination in that direction, but for some months it was a task of despair to find a firm to whom he could be apprenticed, and only last week the long-looked-for opportunity was presented. There ought to be some means of bringing the employers into touch with the employable, both men who have qualified and boys who want to learn a trade. The working class are helpless, and in the praiseworthy agitation for a return to the apprentice system it seems a pity that organisations are not every- where formed by which teachers can help lads leaving school to meet those who could put them on the right road without needless waste of good time. It is quite evident that the Cardiff Technical Instruction Committee will not be satisfied until they get a. complete school in one building to re-place the present structures referred to yesterday by Mr. Lovat-Fraser a4 "a conglomera- tion of shanties." However, notwith- standing the present load of incon- veniences, there is no real need to hurry. It will be just as well to know what the cost is likely to be, and everything else concerning' ways and means and the nature of the proposed building. But, first of all, the committee should make sure that the present number of students is not abnormal. Probably they will increase, and possibly they will fall off. Then there is t,he Board of Education to consider. That autocratic body is always changing its policy, and it would surprise no one if they added a few technical subjects to the already crowded curri- culum of the day schools. Again, the new building they might favour next year may be condemned by them a few years later. Also, the committee have to dis- cover what use can be made of the build- ing during the daytime, in addition to the small requirements of the d-ay technical school. And some people will want to know if the committee irill be caught in the present epidemic of having every building put up on the Oath-ays Park, with the result that it will soon be so full of minor strueture6 that when devo- lution comes the Welsh Parliament may have to find a home at the old tire-station or elsewhere.

WAR OVER TARIFFS. TO BE OR NOT TO BE? COUNSELLORS DIFFER, MR. ASQUITH 1 Last night at Bradford said electors were asked to overthrow from its very foun- dation the system of taxation under which this country had been strong and prosperous for 50 years, and they were asked to put in its place an old thing called Protection under the new name of Tariff Reform. The case, such a-s it wa,s, for Tariff Reform rested upon two assumptions—that our industry, under the blighting operation (f Free Trade, was in a condition of incipient decay, and that our fiscal system was un- equal to the new strain cast upon it under modern conditions. Both these assumptions were unfounded. He analysed Mr. Balfour's indications A Tariff Reform taxation in his York speech, challenged him to name the luxuries of the rich which he would tax, and dealt at length with the argument that an import duy on food would not its cost. MR. I.LOYD GEORGE. I Mr. Lloyd George at Cannock commented sarcastically on the Socialistic and war bogeys got up by the Tories, and said it would be a very sad day for the people of this country when they handed over the deli- cate machinery of trade to a clique of land- lords. When he was a boy they used to frighten people by carving turnips and giving teeth and eyes and sticking a candle inside. The Tories had lined the road of progress with these turnips. (Laughter.) It was the same old thing. Whenever there was any attempt to maroh forward the Tories came out and said, Don't you go along that road, it is full of bogeys-(laughter)-so you must not go home in the dark." (Great laughter.) Their scarecrows were weather- beaten and ragged—rotten rags. (Laughter.) The object of scarecrows, as his hearers knew, was to keep off "-he latfid—(cheers and laughter)-and :t was just the same here-th-e desire was to keep people off the land. and P-o we had foreign competition. Socialism, Irish moonlighting, German invasion-all stuck up to keep people off the land. kla-ugh- ter.) Well, they were not going to do it. Bogeys frightened the ignorant and the timid, but an enlightened and brave race like that in these island-s was not going to be frightened. The other side had taken rather too low an estimate of the intelligence and courage of the people, and they were going to find that out next week. (Cheers.) Sir E. Grey and Pensions Sir E. Grey. Sir E. Grey at Aln- mouth last night, reply- to Lord Lansdowne's contention that land- owners would suffer incidentally by land valuation, said, on the other hand, agricul- tural districts would benefit both directly and incidentally by concessions and relief of local rates. If he (Sir Edward) did not vote for old-age pen- sions it was because the onerous duties of the Foreign Office kept him from the House of Commons. MR, J. CHAMBERLAIN Has issued an appeal in course of which he says:— J. want to arrange taxation so that it may stimulate trade instead of hindering it. The taxation which we propose, whicn will not increase your burdens, will gain for you in trade, in employment, in all that we most want to maintain, the prosperity of our industries. 1 have been unable to find any trade, any manufacture, any pursuit, any individual, who would not benefit if the country generally benefited. This is a critical and creative time. You cannot play fast and loose with your destiny. I appeal to you as feilow-oitizens of the greatest Empire the world has ever known, I appeal to you to recognise tnat th privileges of Empire bring witn them great respon s<i bi 1 i ties. "You have all opportunity. You will never have it again. It will be to the glory of this generation if we strengthen the foundations of this great and unparalleled Dominion. It will be our eternal disgrace if we allow it to fall. If the ties of sympathy between ourselves and our children who are soon to become great nations across the seas, if these ties were weakened or destroyed, if we suffered their affection to die for want of food for it, if we allowed them to drift apart, the:n this England of ours would sink from the com- parative position which it has enjoyed throughout centuries. It would no longer be a great Power, if not supreme at all events of the greatest influence, generally well exercised, in the civilisation and the peace of the world. It would be a fifth-rate nation existing on the sufferance of the world. We will not have it. Let us provide against it. Let us find the ramedy. The remedy is at hand. I say that there is even now time to hold for ourselves and for our people our own trade, and we can hold it against all fair competition. We can extend our trade in our beet markets with our best friends. We can benefit them in trading with them, while they give us reciprocal advantage in the preference which they give for our manufacturers. We can do this. We can strengthen the Union. We can draw closer the growing nations, the sister States, and by a commercial union we can pave the way for that federation which I Fee con- stantly before me as a practical object of aspiration-tha.t federation of free nations whioh will enable us to prolong in ages yet to come all the glorious traditions of the British race." "The Fears of the Poor." Mr. latter I.,o,n,R-ba,t was meant by dear food? Then- Radical friends I Mr. Walter Long. wanted to trade upon the sufferings and fears and anxieties of the poorest, to whom the difficulties were very pressing, and they hoped to trade upon their fears and drive them into their camp. It was an ignoble and unworthy game to play. Nothing had surprised him so much as the stu- pidity of the Radical party. The cry of dear food was misleading. It was not true. There were a vast number of things which made up the food of the people- sugar, tea, meat, cheese, milk, and cocoa. Tariff Reform, perhaps, meant an addition to one of these articles, but would not assuredly add to the cost of others. Tariff Reform did not mean dear food. What was the most important matter to the working classes. the cost of the article or the wages? What was the good of the cheapest articles in the world if the work- ing man could not get wages with which to buy them? Their opponents had abandoned their original opposition to Tariff Reform, and were trying to trade on the fears of the weakest members of society, but they would not succeed. Tariff Reform would come in this land as surely as night followed day. Its advent might be delayed, but he thought it would only be delayed for a short time. Come it would, as come it must. They could not go onany longer ploughing their lonely I furrow. Mr John Burns's High Hopes I Mr. John. Burns at Bat- tersea last night said unless all were deceived on Monday he and the people would come into their own, and he would go to Parliament with a record majority. His enemies were working men who were jeal-ous and mistrustful of the capacity of Labour men to set in the seats of the mighty. They were becom- ing the dependent victims of men who hoped to hum- bug them, and to exempt the rich from taxation. Mr. John Burns. The Rake's Progress I Mr. A. Lyttelton, K.C., last night oom- mented on what he termed the Chancellor of the Exchequer's rake's progress through tihe country, and said that in London and in the provinces Mr. Lloyd George had main- tained a steady record of libellous inaccu- racies. Jam Their Snouts in Trough Mr. Oh urchill at Inverness last nig?ht ¡ said the To.ry faotion had employed the Lords to precipitate a Constitutional crisis. They could not wait eighteen momith? for tbwr chowm of pJtM? Md p<Mtw. lb" 'I had kicked over the whole table in an ugly rush to jam their snouts in the trough. The Lords' veto over finance must be ended and the will of the House of Commons over other legislaMon be made to prevail within the lifetime of a single Parliament. A Rough Time The Unionist candidaite for East Carmarthen- shire (Mr. Mervyn Peel) had a rough time at Llan- debie. A number df youth- ful opponents wanted to force themselves into a private meeting of mem- bers of the Unionist party oonvened by circular, and because they were asked to leave a hostile demon- stration was started. Three window-panes were cracked, a.nd the lamp of Mr. Peel's motor-car was broken. As he left for his destination the mob threw gravel at him. Mr. Mervyn Peel. Mr. J. Cameron (Unionist, West Monmouth) at Fen/graig yesterday described Tariff I Mr. Cameron. Reform as the gTeat need of the iron and steel trade througho,ut the kingdom. What was there in the Budget, he asked, calculated to give employment to a hun- dred people. A Voice sholutoo "La- bour Exchanges." "Wha.t is the good of Labour Exchanges with- out work?" Mr. Cameron asked. "Afforestation shouted another. Mr. Cameron asked whether they would pat skilled engineers to plant trees. Mr. Cameron main- tained that a duty on wheat would not in- crease the price of bread. The chilling duty imposed by Sir Michael Hicks-Beach had net made bread dearer; indeed, it was dearer live months prior to that duty and ten months after it was (repealed than it was at the time the duty was on. Such a duty would enable them to give preference to Colonial-grown wheat, and the foreigner would have to reduce his prices in order to compote in our market. He believed in the ne of reforming the House of Lords, but maintained the need of a Second Chamber. I Personalties Deprecated I Mr. D. A. Thomas (Liberal, Cardiff) last night appealed to his hearers not to allow themselves to be confused by personal issues. The Tory press and some of the Tory leaders were resorting to perso- son ali ties. He had been blamed for his attitude on the education ques- I tion, and lie could only repeat what he had said at previous meetings, that he was in favour of a secular solution of the question. But he was a' practical politician, Rnd if he wfls returned to the House of Commons he would try to assist in the settlement of the question. Provided there was a, popularly-controlled school, in whioh there were no sectarian tests for teachers, within reach of every child in the country, he would be pre- pared to give liberal Mr. D. A. Thomas. and generous treatment to denominational schools. He did not want to say a word against Lord Bute or Lord Ninian Stuart. He thought Lord Ninian was acting admir- ably. (Cheers.) He was proving himself to be a good sportsman, with plenty of courage, and a good deal of humour. He had every II respect for lord INTiilian. Foreign Crews on British Vessels I Mr. D. A. Thomas addressed a meeting of Cardiff gasworkers this afternoon, "and referred to Mr. Herbert Cory's question to him whether he had an interest in a French steame which employed a French crew. Mr. Thomas said he had taken an interest in a French steamer because he wanted to get the business of tha French Company when it came to Cardiff. If they were going to in- dulge in personalities he would like to aisk Mr. Cory if any of his steamers employed foreign craws. There were a couple of dredgers in the Bute Dock that, were built in Belgium. One workman asked why the Government bought foreign granite, and Mr. Thomas replied that it was because the Government could not very well bun their granite in Wales, as there was no granite here, and because they thought the granite from Norway was the best and cheapest. Both parties bought Norwegian granite. Voice: "When?" and "Question.") Principal Edward said the other side were indulging in personalities because they had no oase. ("Question." None of his hearers had any land. (A Workman: "Yes, I have, and you want to tax it." He proposed a vote of confidonce in the candidate. Mr. Wisbey seconded, and it was carried with a couple of dissentients. A Workman: Put up your hands against it, lads! Then, taking a photo-card of Lord Ninian from his pocket, he threw it at the feet of Mr. Thomas and sihouted, "That's tie man, and they are all here for him." Mr. Allgood picked the card up, and said it was an impertinent card, as Lord Knollys, I to whom he had written on the subject, had replied that no one had the right to use the Royal Standard. To Rake in Votes" I Lord Ninian Stuart at Cardiff last night said the opposition element at some of his meetings were keenly interested in the land taxes of the Budget, with which, the Liberal party were hopeful to rake in votes. (Laughter.) He a-sked them to remember, when they talked of land taxes, that there were no fewer than two million landowners in this country. Unlike the Liberal party, he was in favour of see- ing that number increased. (Applause.) The Liberals w&re fond of telling them about the land being in the possession of a few poor, but sometimes honest, dukes. (Laugh- ter.) The Radical party, however, when they had the opportunity, in adopting a Small Holdings Act, to give the people who wanted the land the chance to get it, did anything but provide for the people becoming the owners of their holdings. The county council was empowered to eompulsorily acquire land for small holdings, but those to whom they were allocated would only be tenants, and at the end of the lease—though they would have paid the full value for their land in the meantime—they would have the displea- sure of seeing the land revert to the county council. That was the Liberal party's land policy. (Hear, hear.) On the other hand, the policy of the Unionist party, as enun- ciated by Mr. Balfour, was in favour not of small tenantships, but small ownerships. If they were in favour of getting more people interested in land by ownership their proper ooulime wab to support the UnixWe party by voting for him am- Wadumda,- zeA. (Seamed Applam«.)

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Girl's Infatuation. SINCULAR ABDUCTION CHARGE. Leon Alexander (44), a member of the orchestra at the Edmonton Empire, *Edmonton, was charged at Tottenham yesterday with taking Catherine Newman, aged fifteen years, oat ol' the p-cteuossion of her father against his will. The girl, who appeared to be nearer twenty than hfteeu years of age, deposed that she had known the prisoner for six months. He first spoke to her as he was paseimg her gate. They became friendly, and used to go out for walks together. She said her mOlt.her objected to her going with the prisoner. He took wit- ness to a doctor, who aaad that she was to have proper rest and nourishment. He asked her mother whether, if he found lodgings for her, she would object to her going to them, and she sa,id "No." On December 8 or 9 wit- ness was oent by her mother to a home at Stratford to be trained as a servant, and before going she wrote the following postcard to the prisoner:— When I am gone don't worry. I know you cannot help it. I hope and trust in the Loird that I may be with you for good some day. Do not. go away, for my sake. There is only one I love, and that is you. I have get to leave the one I love for a ffcw weeks only. Just as the ivy to the tree, ? You cling to me, and I'll cling to thee. From deai Kitty to Leon. Witness ran away from the home at Strat- ford on December 29 because she thought she was going to be sent to a convent, where she was told the girls were cruelly treated. She walked to Edmonton, and waited outside the Empire until she saw Alexander, to whom t-he said she was afraid to go home lest her mother should send her back. He took her to a restaurant at Mile-end-road, and they remained there two nights. Nothing improper occurred. Afterwards she accompanied him to other addresses, and finally to Old-street, where his sister lived. Her mother came for her two days later. The prisoner had toki her that the police had been to him, and that if he were arrested he would, when he came out, keep her away until he had her father's content to marry her. Then he would take her to the Continent. In cross-examination, the girl said she was fond of the prisoner, and she thought he was fond of her and anxious to marry her. One day he asked her to inquire of her father whether he might marry her. Her father replied, "Yes, I'd be only too pleased to get rid of you." Her parent had said unkind things to her, her father having told her to drown herself. Detective-inspector Ha.ig Stated that he saw the prisoner at the Edmonton Em/pire on January 3, when he denied that he knew where the girl was. He told witness thait they loved each other, and he would marry her if he could. Prisoner was remanded.

POISON, RAZOR, JUMP, DEATH. Fmom Toulon comes a gruesome account of the suicide of a petty officer, which was was committed with ext-raordinary obstin- acy. He was employed in a, school for the technical instruction of officers, stationed at the dockyard, and on Wednesday morning he appeared at his post at tfie u-slual, hour, there being nothing in his manner to attract any notice. Suddenly, however, the petty officer shut himself up in his room, took out a phial containing poison, and swallowed some. As the effect of the poison was not immediate, he seized a razor and gashed his throat, but without severing an' artery. Severa.1 of his comrades, guessing that some- thing of a very serious nature was happen- ing, rushed to the door of his bureau and bwke it open, and then the petty officer, sprimginig to the window, threw himself out, falling from a height of 40ft. on to the ground. When the unhappy man was picked up, he was found to be in a terrible state, and expired on his a-rrivel at the naval hospital without having given the faintest clue to the motive which led him to commit this mad act.

I PONTYPRIDD LAW SUIT The Ponty;pridd action of re William Thomas Thomas v. Thomas and others was mentioned to-day (before M%. Justice Eve) in the Chancery Division. The. plaintiff asked for the appointment of a receiver of the testator's estate, but the defendants said the parties had arranged a compromise. Mr. Tomlin, for the defendants, said he had an agreement signed by the parties' solicitors, which the plaintiff now repudiated. He had a motion to stay proceedings on motion because of the agreement. After discussion, the Judge assented to the motion standing over for a week.

I DOCTOR FOR TRAMWAYMEN At a meeting of the Cardiff Electric Lighting and Tramways Committee to-day, I .Ur. J. W. Courtis presiding, Mr. Ellis, the tramways manager and electrical engmeer, again urged the advisability of appointing a medical officer, to whom all tramway employes could go for certificates when ill. He urged such an appointment both in the interests of the corporation and the employes. The chairman agreed that this was a matter of sufficient importance to ¡. a-sk Mr. Ellis for a detailed report, and the committee instructed Mr. Ellis to prepare such a report. »

I WORKMEN'S OVERTIME A meeting of the overtime committee of the Welsh Conciliation Board was oonvened to ,axe place at Cardiff to-day to discuss one or two matters of differences arising under the Miners' Eight Hours' Act. In view of the fact that some of the parties concerned were un. e to attend, it was resofved to adjourn the meeting, and, consequently no business was done. Another meeting of the committee will be held next Tuesday.

THE CRETAN DANGER BERLIN, Friday. The "Ta.geblatt" says the Porte has in. formed the Powers that in the event of Cretan deputies being sent to the Greek Chamber, Turkey will occupy Tressaly, and hold that territory as security for her inte- rests. The protecting Powers anxious to avoid complications between Greece and Turkey have decided to take energetic measures with the Cretan people and to obtain, if possible, the postponement of the elections.—Central News.

STRUCK DOWN BY MOTOR-CAR I Miss Connington, sister of Mr. C. Conning- I ton, of Oatlands Bilton, died in Rugby Hos- pital, to-day as the result of accident last evening. The lady was cycling on a muddy road near Bilton, when she was overtaken by a motor car belonging to Mr. A. Street, J.P., of The Lawn, Rugby. She swerved in front of the oar ajid was struck by the front wheel, sustaining concussion and severe bruises, from which she died without regaining conscious- ness.

VETERAN'S GOLDEN WEDDING I Mr. R. Wood, of Bodmin, a Crimean veteran, has just celebrated his golden wedding. He joined the Royal Navy as a seaman in July, 1853, and served on the Queen during the bombarment of Sebas. topol.

KING'S CONGRATULATIONS The coutmcil of the Royal College of Bur. geons yest-ordav sent a congratulatory letter to Dr. Edgar Jones, of Great Burstead. near Brentwood. on attaining his hundredth birthday. It was announced that the King had already sent congratulations to the aged doctor.

MOND-MILLIONAIRE Dr. Ludwig Mond, founder of the great alkali firm of Brunner, Mond, and Co., who died last month, has left estate valued at one million.

THE KING'S BOUNTY The King's bounty was yesterday received by Mrs. Ernest Ayres, wife of a Rusthden shoemaker, who recently gave birth to trip- iets-a.11 boys.

COLLECTORJS EMBEZZLEMENT, Alfred Allen, a collector in the employ of Mr, M. R. Morgan, furniture dealer, Neath, was at Neath this afternoon fined L5 and costs, or six weeks, for embezzlin.g £1 2s.

PASSING OF THE HANSOM CAB "In another six months I do not think there will be any hansom cabs left in Lon- don," said a driver at the City coroner's court yesterday.

AEROPLANING. LOS ANGELOS, Thursday. M. Paulham made a successful flight to-day, carrying two passengers in his aeroplane. He also flew round the field three times with his Wife.-Roaut-er.

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Vicar and Churchwarden JUDGE REFERS TO CHRISTIAN DUTY At Neath County-court to-day the hearing of the case Williams v. Ellis was continued by his Honour Judge Bishop. Plaintiff is the Vicar of Briton Ferry, and defendant a Church warden and the claim was for £6 9s. 9d. alleged to be due in respect was for C6 9s. 9d. alle, of offertories received a,t St. Thomas's Mission Church. Defendant had paid into court the sum of JE4 11s. 5d. in satisfaction of the claim, and had filed an account showing what he had received and what he had paid out for repairs, &c. Mr. Wilfred Lewis appeared for the plaintiff. The examination of the vicar was continued. Mr. Hunter: Have you ever had an applica- tion made to you by any of your Church- wardens for your consent to repairs?—I have never had a written application, but they have come to me personally. Mr. Hunter: Do you still want Mr. Ellis to pay this money out of his own pocket?—I want to vindicate my right. His Honour: We have nothing to do with vindication here. Do you still want Mr. Ellis to pay this money out of his own pocket?—Yes. For repairing the flooring and troughing, which were a source of danger —Yes. Mr. Ellis consulted Mr. M. G. Roberts before the repairs were carried out?—I believe Mr. Roberts is at the bottom of the whole trouble. His Honour: Oh. trouble you call it. Mr. Hunter: And do you believe that if a verdict be given against Mr. Ellis Mr. Roberts wili find the money?—ILr. Ellis told me 80. He told me that if the case cameon Mr. Roberts would pay. Whom do you want to hit?—I don't want to hit anyone. Well, I'll amend my question. Whom do you want to pay?—I am not troubling about the matter. I wanft to Establish My Authority Mr. Hunter: Oh, no. Your authority has been est,a,blished by the payment of the money into court. Whom do you want to pay?—Mr. Ellis, of course. Mr. M. G. Roberts is the gentleman against whom you recently had L500 damages? Are they not enough?—Do you mind putting your question in another way. I want to deal with Mr. Ellis. Mr. Hunter: Do yon want the £ 10 2s. 6d. as well as the e"?-I want nothing from Mr. Roberts. In opening for the defence, Mr. Hunter said that it was exceedingly regrettable that a clergyman hould have brought an action to reeover money which had already been spent upon the church itself. Whatever the vicar's legal rights were, there could be no question that plaintiff had no moral claim to the recovery of the amount. It was not disputed that the money had been fipent on the church, and it had been fully admitted that the repairs were necessary. If the plainti-ff got a verdict the result would be that Ellis, having already paid £ 12 2s. 6d. on St. Thomas' Church, would have to find the money out of his own pocket instead of out of the collec- tions of the congregation. His Honour, in giving- judgment, said he couild not help expressing surprise, as there had been no assertion that the repairs were not necessary, that the plaintiff should have objected to them, and it was an extraordi- nary that the defendant should be asked to reimburse the pla,intiff for money which was spent on the latter's property Plaintiff had not quite acted consistently with his honour s idea of Christian duty. It appeared that ne had tried to get at someone else through Mfc Ellis. His honour gave judgment for £10 2s. 6d. and £4 lls. 5d. pa.id into court. He suggested that the vicar should have arranged a compromise with Mr. Eilie. Mr. Lewis (for the vicar): I submit that the vicar has done all he could to get Mr. Ellis to settle the matter. Mr. Hunter: He always wanted to have the whole of he money. His Honour: I will not give the vicar any costs.

SONS CUT OFF WITH S600 An estate of L3,600,000 has been left by Mr G. Mortimer Pullman, of Chicago, one of the heads of the company having the monopoly of the manufacture of Pullman cars, whose wiH has juet been proved in England. He bequeathed over £ 330,000 to American chari- ties and left large legacies to his wife and daughters and his brothers and sisters. The residue of his estate goes to his daughters. Concerning his sons he stated that: "Inas- much as neither of my sons has developed such a sense of responsibility as in my judg- ment is requisite for the wisle use of large properties end considerable sums of money, I am painfully compelled, as I have explicitly stated to them, to limit my testamentary provisions for their benefit to trusts produc- ing only such income as I dee-m reasonable for their support." He, therefore, left upon trust for each of his sons, George Mortimer Pullman and Walter Sanger Pullman, only such a sum as shall produce an annual income of L600, with the reversion of the capital to their children.

ALLEGED COINERS CAUGHT Alleged counterfeit coin makers were charged at the North London Police-court yesterday. Their names were Henry Frede- rick Stoddart, a bottler, and Frederick Atkins (34), general dealer. A detective said that, accompanied by two colleagues, he went to a house in Kenton- road. South Hackney, and on the first floor saw the prisoners. At Stoddart's feet was a large enamel dieh, in which was a plaster mould containing a partly-made half-crown. On the table at Sited dart's left hand were ten counterfeit half-crowns- Atkins had paid: "You have got all now. I bought them for 2s. off a man I don't know We have done not-hingot, but we're going to have a prac- tice. No one taught me this. I learnt it from a book." Atkins produced a bottle con- taining cyanide of potassium, a bag contain- ing plaster of paris, and a piece of antimony. He said: "My wife is very ill, or I should not have been mixed uip in this." The prisoners were remanded.

BOXER'S LIBEL ACTION In the King's Bench Division yesterday, a settlement was arrived at in the case of Dobson v. Jacobs. Mr. Dobson was a chauffeur in the employ of a gentleman, named Mr. Phi-Hips, at Windsor, and the defendant (Mr. Harry Jacobs) was the pro- prietor of a place of entertc inment in the East End of London called "Wonderland," where professional boxing eiitertainments were held. The plaintiff claimed in respect of alleged libel, Mr. Dobson's case being that without his consent the defendant advertised &nd issued bills announcing that Dob«on would box Dick Em den, of Spital fields. Dob- son had previously defeated Dick Emden at the National Sporting Club. By oonsent there was a. verdict for the plaintiff for £10, and judgment was entered accordingly, with j costs.

MOTOR-CAR'S LEAP I While returning from the meet of the Cheshire Hounds at Combermere yesterday, the motor-car of Mr. Reginald Corhet, the l late master, leapt over an embankment at Brownsbank, near Nantwich, turned a somer- sault, and was wrecked. The oar had taken Mr. Corbet to the meet, and had just crossed a bridge over the river Weaver, when it giwerved, er-hed into the embankment, and fell a distance of twelve feet over the embankment. James Bevan, the chauffeur, bad his leg fractured in two places. Mr. Corbet's eecond horseman, who accompanied him, was thrown heavily, but escaped.

PRIDE IN PETTICOATSI I An inquest was held at the City Coroner's- eourt yesterday concerning the dearth of an unknown woman, aged about 65, who threw herself into the Thames from the Temple steps on Sunday afternoon. It was stated that she was wearing several petticoats, and Dr. Waldo sadd that in Por- tugal he had seen women wea;ring as many as twenty petticoats. They wobbled along hardly able to walk, but the more clothes they bad on the prouder they were. A verdict of "Suicide" was returtied.

BLAMED BOOKS' INFLUENCE I Horace Hopton (17), who was yesterday charged at Bristol with a serious offence, pleaded that the acts had been suggested to him by reading books on purity and truth. The prosecuting solicitor said there was a series of these books. One of the dangers of the volumes to his mind was that the author's name carried with it the degree of D.D., and that they were commended by some well. known people. The youth was bound over under the Probationers Act, and the books were impounded, by the court.

"ENGLISH OF SOUTH AMERICA" I In a special room on board the liner Oravia, which left Liverpool yesterday for Oallao, was Sir Robert Harvey, the nitrate "king." The fact that the Chilians call themselves the English of South America is largely due to Sir Robert, who is head of the great Anglo-South American Bank and other commercial enterprises.

.£20 FOR FOUR-CENT. STAMP I A four-cent orange postage stamp of British Guiana, was sold for 920 at Memrs. Plum. ridge and Co. 's aoobkm -om ij* Chaaoerx- lame last night. l

In Servants' Bedroom. NEWPORT MAN GETS THREE MONTHS Charles James, a ooai haulier, Carlisle- place, wats charged on remand at Newport to- day with burglariously entering 28, Stow Park-avenue and assaulting a domestic ser- vant. There was a further charge of being found in the dwelling-house, 47, Llanthewy- ioad. As previously reported, James was found in the servant's bedroom. When the alarm was raised he got out thrjugh the window, leaving hits leggings, cap, and belt on the dressing-table. Police-constable Williams found prisoner coming the next door garden without Itggins's a.nd cap, and with his boots unlaced. He said, "Yes, it is a mistake 1 went into the wrong house, but am going back to apolo- gise." (Laughter.) Mr. Leslie Jacobs, Llanthewy-road, said his servant complained that a man was getting into her bedroom. Cisssie Lawrence, the servant, said as soon as she put the candle out on Saturday night she saw a man's hands forcing the upper sash of the windows. He got his head in and one leg over the window, but when she screamed he went away. Prisoner, a married man, was sent to gaol for three months with hard labour on the first charge. The second charge was dismissed ior want of evidence The Bench complimented the girl on hex bravery and coolness under such ciroum- stances, and thanked her for giving her evi- dence.

"THE LADY MATCH-SELLER' The melancholy vicissitudes of Mrs. Flora Barbara Baker, an educated Irishwoman whom misfortune made "the lady match- seller" at Piccadilly-circus in the summer of 1907, have ended in a workhouse at Bristol, where she died on Wednesday. In police- courts, county-court, King's Bench Court, and Divorce Court, as well as at various English workhouses, this woman's reverses ha.ve been described in several chapters, he was the daughter of a County Mayo farmer in a sub- stantiale position, and was educated at the Training College for Ladies in Dublin, a, high- class institution. Her first husband, an Irish engineer, failed in business in England, and she and her child had to seek shelter in Grantham Workhouse. They. tried a new home at Singapore, but her husband deserted her. Returning to England with four chil- dren she obtained situations, started with her savings a business at Bow, which failer, and, after other troubles, went to nurse an elderly hotel proprietor near Bournemouth, who in his will gratefully left her 16,000. The husband whom she subsequently married, she alleged, squandered her fortune, and the later legal conflicts between them occupied the attention of several courts, with the interlude, already referred to, that the much buffeted woman, who was possessed of some charm of manner, tried to sell matches, wearing her best raiment and kid gloves, near the Pavilion Music-hall until the consequent "obstruction" speedily ended the enterprise.

I FIVE YEARS FOR FORGER Of superior education, and described as a dispenser, John Augustus Stowell, or Essex (46), was sent to prisop for five years yesterday at the Central Criminal Court for forging and uttering a withdrawal order for £10 from the Post Office Savings Bank, with intent to defraud. It was said that the prisoner, in the name of Essex, went to live with Dr. Edlin at a flat in Ravens- court Park Mansions, apparently at 'the request of a young woman, who was acting as the doctor's housekeeper. She had known the prisoner from boyhood, and in October, 1909, finding that he was in poverty, she induced the doctor to give him shelter and employment. On January 2, 19G9, he disap- peared, taking with him Dr. Edlin's Post Office Savings Bank book, and he subse- queutly withdrew the money, which had been invested by the doctor. A number of other convictions were proved against pri- soner, and it was stated he was now wanted for failing to report himself, having been released on ticket-cf-leave in 1907.

WAIF BECOMES WIFE A marriage that followed a romantic meet- ing and courtship was dissolved in the Divorce Court yesterday. Mr. Herbert Russell, a Norfolk potato merchant and hay and straw dealer, petitioned to Sir John Bighain, for a divorce, alleging that his wife Ellen had misconducted herself with a Mr. William Overla.nd, a farmer and horse dealer. Petitioner stated that he met his wife in 1895, when -he was travelling the country in a caravan; and it was at a fa.ir that she came to him and asked for shelter, telling him she had run away from home. He took her in, and they lived together until they were married in 1897 at Yarmouth. Their married life was ha.ppy, and he became pros- perous, but eventually she developed extrava- gant tastes and constantly absented herself from home. Subsequently the petitioner dis- covered .hat his wife and the co-respondent ha,d misconducted themselves. A decree nisi was granted with costs.

I A DANGEROUS "DOCTOR" At Thames Police-court yesterday Johi Birnhard, 25, a clerk, was sentenced to six months' hard labour for obtaining money by false pretences. The accused, it was stated, had presented himself to be a medi- cal man, and made a pretence of medically treating young women. Dora Morris, was in Leadenhall-stireet with a lady friend when the prisoner came up. He was intro- duced to Miss Morris by her friend. He after- wards asked her to strip to the waist, and, believing him to be a doctor, she did so. Then he tapped her on the back and chest, afterwards he said she had no consump- tion, but chronic bronchitis. He wrote out a prescription. Prisoner again called, and said £ 6 6s. would be the oo",t of a permanent cure Mrs. Morris gave him a guinea. Mr. Dickinson said prisoner had been guilty of a d.angerous fraud.

I BIRTHDAY COINCIDENCE It is very unusual for a peer and his eldest son to keep their biirthday on the same day; but wngratiul-at-iong are due to- day both to Lord Lansdowne and his eldest son.L'ord Kerry, the former being 55 and the latter 38. Lord Lansdowne succeeded to the family honours when 21, so that his son has held the courtesy title of Earl Kerry since his birth. Ministerial office first came to Lord LamlSdowne in 1869, the year of his m-ariage to Lady Maud Hamilton. All his four children are married. His daughters are the Duchess of Devonshire a.nd Lady Watferford, and Lord Charles Fitzmaurice, his youngest son, married Lady Violet Elliot about a year ago at tihe Viceregal Resi- dence, Calcutta; while Lord Kerry os mar- ried to the eldest daughter of Sir E. S. Hoe.

STORM AND SNOW IN U.S. NEW YORK, Friday. Terriflo snowstorms prevail all over the States. Dispatche.s this morning from ports on the Pacific, as well as from a number of places along the Atlantic seaboard on the Gulf of Mexico and in Canada make it evi- dent that the are.a of thestorm is immense. Telegra-phic communication with the middle West States is interrupted, and many places a,re isolated. The liner St. Louis, on which Mr. Whitelaw Seid, the Ambassador to Great Britain, is crossing to New York, has been held up by bad weather, and it is extremely doubtful now whether Mr. Reid will be able to land in time to attend the funeral of his father-in-law, the late, Mr. D. Ogden Mills.- Central News.

HOOPLA IN COURT The King's Bench Divisional Court yester- day, composed of the Lord Chief Justice and Ju-stices Bucknill and Bray, heard the appeal of the clerk to the Whitley (Northumberland) Urban District Council aga,inst a decision of the local magistrates who dismissed a sum- mons against a showman named Selt for not having presented plans before putting np a structure in which a ga.me called "hoopla" was played. The appeal was dismissed.

CANDIDATES' CLOTHES The "Tailor and Cutter oongratulates the Parliamentary oandiuates upon the gToat im.pro'vemefit that has taken place during the past few weeks in t-heir general aipearance. Liberals and Conservatives jLlike seeim to have suddenly woke up to the fact that a, well-dressed man is more attractive than a sloven, and as at this time they want to appear at their very best. they have givenl their tailors a chance of giving them their polishing touch.

HOSTILITY OF SOCIALISTS" I In recording the appointment of Sir William Crossman as manager of the Cardiff Labour Exeihange "The Times" states that since the conferment of his title in 1907 Sir William has been the object of hostility from the Socialists of the city.

DRY MEANLxG.-I. Mlnnv-streat, Cfethayt ADVICE TO MOTHERS.—Are you broken in your rest by a sick child suffering with the pain in cutting 1 teeth? Go at once to a Chemist and get a bottle of Mrs. Winolow's Soothing Syrup. It will relieve the poor little snflferer Immediately. It is pleaeaAt to take*. It produces natural, pleasant sleep by relieving the child from pain, and the little oberub awakes 18 bright u a button. ()t fm dbemMt at l* IK p* beivall i

Fight with Death I SEAMEN'S TERRIBLE ORDEAL I The disaster (brieSy reported yesterday) Of Ma.n?ne!d. Oregon, recalls the loss of mail boat Berlin at the Hook of nearly three years ago. e The steamer Czarina, owned by  1 Southern Pacific Railway, went ashore Olt the end of the breakwater in Coos Bay 0" Wednesday night during a heavy S? Although the catastrophe occurred o??' few hundred yards from shore, the hundred of spectators who assembled were powerles to help the crew on the wreck.. Tremendous seas washed over the vees0i after she struck, and the officers and crevv, after vainly trying to launch a boat, m,a,n,a,ged to dasih tahem-selves in the rigging, The waves broke over them repeatedly' and one man after another was torn frolo his lashings and drowned in view of the horror-stricken assemblage. Nineteen well lost their lives in this manner in two hours, and then it became too dark to see the wreck. Despite the piercing wind and flurries of snow many people remained on the beacO all night. Towards midnight two member9 of the crew were washed ashore. It waS thought at first that they were dead, bilt after physicians had worked oveV them for aji hour both recovered consciousness. Yesterday there were still seven wett. including the captain and third officer. lashed to the forema/St of the wreck, th' only one that remained standing. Men Leap Into the ea I MARSHFIELD, OREGON, Friday. Late yesterday evening t,hree of the six MO in the rigging of the Czarina were swept off by heavy waves.iterwards wat-chelrs 00 shore saw the remaining three, it is thoUg, by agreement, shed their outer garments aB" lea,p into the tsea. They did not A recapitulation shows that thirty men WfI1" drowned, and one saved.

TWO MOTHERS FOR ONE BABY I A curious case in-volving the real parenv I age fof a child came before the Paris C(YUCO on Wednesday. On September 21 last a isa" na.med Hiver and Marguerite attended the mayora.1 offices at Clamart, ooi declared the birth of a female child. on the same day Mme. Delaroque registered tb" same batby at the mayoral offices of the 16t)} ward. Mme, Delaroque was the real mo ther, though it is stated she did not wish to realise the joys of maternity. It wa3 different with Mme. Samtine, who was u11' haipy because she had no children. One d:- Mme. Saintine called on a midwife, who haJ been "present at the birt»j. of Mme. Del' roque's child. The midwife,with the approve1 of the mother, arranged for the child to b3 ha.nded over to Mme. Saintine. The la<M? accepted the piesent. As, however, the chi? had two mothers, it was necessary to ha"Ø the certificate of "bap-t-ism in order. Tb8 authorities stepped in, and the court was called upon to declare that henceforth child should bear the name of Delaroque.

WHY HE IS A BACHELOR I Colonel Manning entered the Army in 1886. joining the "gallant 24th." He is of a very restless disposition, and very fond of trsvell so that it came as no surprise to those Who knew him as a young man when he e$" changed into the Indian Army after years' service. Almost immediately -alter his change he saw active service in Burma-b. and he has seen fighting in some part of t,be world or another for the greater part of tlie time since. When he wag at home on leave some years ago Sir William was asked by lady at dinner' one night why he did n "ma.rry and settle down." "Well," he 's reported to have replied, "I have thought of11 several times, but I could never find a lady who could bring herself to like my tow1J house." "Your town house?" cried the lady "W!hy, what is the matter with i1.? "Nothing whatever, I assure you," V?? CoJc?nel Manning's reply; "only you see happens to be situated in the heait 0 Africa!"

I BUILT WITH HA TFUL o F-GO ll) I Patrishovv Church, which has just be011 re-opened after resit oration, is a most 'teresting edifice to. architects, archaeolo- gists, and lovers of folk lore. It stands ¡J1. a very remote and inaccessible 6ituatioll among the Black Mountains of Brocanshire. far away from the track of the ordinal tourist. It possesses a Saxon—or ratbet Birirtisih—frent, three stone altars, a CU1"ÍO little western chapel, and a rood-screen 0 remarkable beauty. In the adjoiiiinf churchyard there is a preaching-cross, aj,J out of the stem- of an ancient yew grow 31 mountain ash and a holly tree, symbolist the Trinity. According to local legend, tbl; unique little structure was erected by "foreigner," who had been cured of klprosf through the -waters of a neighbouring vvlell and left a "hatful of gold" to build a church by way of tb^nkoffering.

I BAN, TO RADIUM The Radium ..t Britain is to !a opened in the neighbourhood of Cavendish square, W., within the next six months. stock of £ 50,000 worth of radium is to be kepI a,i w.w cuuni-rouiu, aiul will belen t a,t 3 cnarge which will be a low percentage of jtil value. Security for ;ts safe return will hay0 to be deposited. Radium is exceedingtt scarce, and costs from £ 16 to L,21 per nlill" gramme (3-200 grain), ani the largest quantit/ held by a medical practitioner in thi3 country is 1(0) milligrammes (1 1-3 grain* The possibility of iecuring a considerable quantity of radium *or "se in London is due to a recent discovery near Guarda, in pot. tugal, of minerals rich in the element. Tetfl' pora-ry offices for the bank have been in Moorgate-street

BURGLAR'S PARACHUTE I A youthful burglar, named Jurka, c) Vienna, who was greatly interested it aviation, attempted to make use of his kno" ledge of aeronautics in escalping from If fourth-floor flat in a fashionable apartmelit house yesterday. When Jurka was surprise" by the owner of the flat, he made a (Iu.- piraa attempt to escape through the window. Ite first threw a quantity of bedclothes and t\ o mattresses on to the pavement, sixty fee" below. Then he jumped out of the winder. holding an open umbrella which he expected to act like a parachute. But the um turned inside out under the strain, grId Jurka so miscalculated the jump that he fel into the roadway instead of on the pile 0 bedolcthes, and sustained fatal injuries.

BRIDE PAID THE EXPENSES Some amusement was caused in the ditch County-court yesterday, when a wif' claimed certain furniture and effects t- which her husband set up title. She sai' that she married twenty-five years ago, whet her husband was a grocer's assistant. As d tie maker, employing two hands, she ha saved money. She bought furniture, eve11 paid the honeymoon expenses, and alleo the bills owing when they returned from theff wedding tour. (Laughter.) As she did nvt agree with her husband, the Salvation Ann* arranged a separation. At present her hvr.' band wa.s a lodger in the same house a-i- paid 5s. a week. The defendant, iiiterruptill6, counsel, exclaimed: "I have not spoken tiJ her for twelve months."

TAXING A POET I Gabriele d'Annunzio, the poet, according the Rome correspondent cf the Paris "Temps. is protesting aga,inst the heavy tax impost on his income. D'Annunzio had formerlJ been taxed on an income of X24) a yea- but in consequence of the authorities leaf0 ing of the fantastic prices the poet ha" received for some of his wonk they have I1'? plifced his in-conie at £ 1,200. The poet denit*' however, that his income is anything li'*0 what the revenue officials declare it to be.

WAISTCOAT WORTH HAVING I An ecoentric old man named Ash ton Haye5- who has lived alone in Runcorn for many' years, was buried yesterday. He ha.d Ni-olkell at the Runoorn Docks for 53 years, and ha-1 always appeared in poor circumstances. 011 his death-bed, however, be asked that hiS working waistcoat should be given to hi-" brother, and it was found yesterday that IP sovereigns had been sewn in the lining.

PASTORAL COINCIDENCE I A curious coincidence was noticed yestei day when the Pacific liner Oravia left Lixel pool on her long voyage to Callao. Travel* ling in the second class where two sheherd' each named George Cunningham. They both twenty three years of age, and Vie!? both going out to Buenos Ayres in purstl" of our great meat trade with the Argantir

GERMANY "THE PROTECTOR0 I Count Ernest Reventlow, Berlin, the 0&111>1 expert, declares that Great Britain is nO longer the guardian of the smaller Powers, such as Holland, Belgium, and Denmark. TIJe time has gone by, he says, when these powers consider Great Britain as their protector- The redistribution of the naval power caused them to correct their farmer opmADO MA on the gabjeafc.