Flintshire Observer Mining Journal and General Advertiser for the Counties of Flint Denbigh

A TALK WITH SIR GEO. NEWNES' YACHTSMAN. I had heard, writes a reporter of the Hampshirt Independent, that Mr. Charles McLean, of 2, York- street, Houndwell, Southampton, had a story to tell, and of course I wanted to hear all about it. Mr. McLean has done a great deal of foreign service. Ife has served on Mr. Singer's yacht (of sewing-machine fame), and was also with Sir George Newnes for a season. But of late, indeed since last October, be has been unable to work except by fits and starts, and had to give up several promising jobs. You see," be said, "I would come out into the wet to get a breath of fresh air, and then go back to the fur- naces with my clothes drying on me; I think this laid the foundation of a serious illness. Indeed, 1 never expected to go to sea again, nor thought I should be alive to-day. I had pains round the heart; also in the spine and muscles of the back, and the Mr. Charles McLean (ex-yachtsman to Sir G. Newnes and Mr. Singer). latter were awful. For sixteen weeks I was under treatment, but failed to get relief, and the doctor at length told me it was no good. I then went to a number of other doctors, and tried the hospital, but began to think I was incurable. I felt as though I hadn't a drop of blood, and the shooting pain was as bad as ever. I had got so weak that 1 felt inclined to end all my miseries. But it didn't come to that, thank God, and here I am to-day as hearty as ever I was, and able to do a good day's work, as I've done to-day. You should have Been me six weeks ago! I was a skeleton! How it resulted was in this way. My sister was reading the papers, and she saw the account of what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People had done for a coastguard, and she said to me, What they have done for him, they should do for you,' and off she went for a box. I didn't care one way or the other. I was too bad, but consented to try them. Well, I took this box of Pills, and from the first began to experience relief. I continued taking them, and by the time I had taken a second box I was better than I have been for years. Now all the pain has gone, and here I am, though little expecting to be here. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People have made I me a new man. I owe my life to them." Official attention is being attracted to tho I numerous cures reported in the newspapers from the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, which include anaemia, weakness, palpitation, early decay, female weakness, paralysis, locomotor ataxy, rheumatism, sciatica, rickets, chronic erysipelas, and consumption. They are not purgative, and contain nothing that could injure the most delicate. They are genuine only in closed packages, with thefull name, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. They in- vigorate the system after overwork, worry and in- discretion of living.

MORE COLONIAL FUNCTIONS. The Lord Mayor of London on July 1 entertained the Colonial Premiers and a large and distinguished compuny of other guests to dinner at the Mansion House. His lordship after dinner proposed the health of the Colonial Premiers. Sir W. Laurier and Mr. G. H. Reid responded. Lord Salisbury subse- quently gave the toast of The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress in a complimentary speech. Later in the evening a reception in honour of the Colonial Pre- miers was held at the Imperial Institute, and was attended by a large company.

OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. The sea of Diamond Jubilee festivities and celebrations which has been sweeping over the Empire in general, and London in particular, is now subsiding, and it is a joy to relate that it has left nothing but pleasant memories behind. The only quarter in which anything like a rankling feeling was temporarily created —and that was the House of Commons, in con- sequence of tho inadequate nature of the pre- parations for its reception at Buckingham Palace—has had every trace of resentment removed by the spontaneous tact and grace of the Queen in inviting the members, with their wives and daughters, to a special garden party at Windsor Castle and all who were privileged to be present came away with the remembrance of a most enjoyable and never-to-be-forgotten afternoon. The regard shown by the venerable monarch for "the august mother of free Par- .liaments"—a splendid phrase too often care- lessly shorn of all its weight and most of its truth by the omission of the word free "—put every legislator in a good humour in advance; and this was increased by the admirably spon- taneous fashion in which her Majesty dealt with the great assemblage. Naturally, without distinction of parties, but quite as emphatically without difference of persons, the Queen singled out several of the more noteworthy members for the distinction of an interview; and the arrangements from beginning to end were so perfect as to deserve, and to receive, the highest praise. We, of course, are not yet quite clear of all trace of the Jubilee, for, by a species of reflex action, it will affect the annual competition of the National Rifle Association, which commences next Monday at Bisley. A good proportion of the colonial soldiers from Australasia, Canada, and South Africa will be found among the competitors, the number of volunteers among those who will shoot for the Queen's Prize being said to be specially satisfactory. It is with no antagonistic feeling to our own volunteers at home that the hope is expressed in various quarters that a colonist may this year carry off the Gold Medal, which, in its sense, is the blue riband of the volunteer world, for that would be felt to worthily crown the visit of the colonial troops to this country to do honour to the Queen. There is, more- over, an Imperial series of prizes to be shot for, open to competitors of any rank from the home, Indian, or colonial forces and Indian native army, in connection with which twelve Indian and colonial commemoration prizes will be com- peted for, which can be won only by Indian or colonial soldiers, militia, or volunteers. The prospects of the Bisley meeting this year, there- fore, are not only unusually bright, but the competitions will be varied in a most interest- ing degree. The reception which the Chairman of the London School Board and the Marchioness of Londonderry gave a few days since to over fifteen hundred head teachers of that body at Londonderry House, Park-lane, was of itself one further proof of how far we have advanced within the present reign. The Queen had not been long upon the Throne when a select com- mittee of the House of Commons was directed to consider the best means of providing useful education for the children of the poorer classes in large towns throughout England and Wales. Two members of that body survive, in the persons of Mr. Gladstone and Sir Thomas Acland, the latter the father of the late Minister for Education; and in answer to one of Mr. Gladstone's questions, an educational expert of that period declared that elementary school- masters were abundantly sufficient in quantity but not in quality, while their status was low. The then member for Newark asked whether it was meant that, in addition to the ex- tremely harassing nature of the labour and the smallness of the stipend, the social position of the masters was very much lower than, with reference to their character, it ought to be; and the reply was in the affirmative. That was not all, for another expert could compare elementary schoolmasters only with mechanics, telling Mr. Gladstone that he thought they were generally by such as people who had a very comfortable situation-" they have so much time to themselves out of school hours," he said they have more time at th^rv own disposal than any class of mech* lies." i\f. Gladstone inquired whether, if the qualifica- tion were made higher, it was not to be ex- pected that a still further increase of reputation would follow and the reply being Yes," he indicated in further questions higher salaries as one means for obtaining better men, and raia- ing the schoolmaster's status. That advice, as all the world now knows, has been taken; and the pleasant gathering at Lord Londonderry's is only one of the proofs that if the school- master is abroad," he is also, in the most literal sense, "at home." No one would now dream of casting a stigma upon his social position; but it is, perhaps, useful even for so well-instructed a personage sometimes to remember what strides his calling has made since Queen Victoria was summoned from her girlhood to a throne. The old saying that one must go abroad to hear home news was almost literally fulfilled in regard to the great storm which recently devastated so large a portion of Essex. It was several days before London became aware of the catastrophe that the hail had wrought within an hour's journey of the metropolis by rail; but, when its ex- tent was realised, there was alacrity shown to assist those who had been pecuniarily injured. What the general public at first did not comprehend was that a great part of Essex close to the metropolis is now not so much agricultural land as a market-garden country. The damage consequently was far more ex- tensive in proportion to the area, for, although crops of corn and hay were terribly injured, the glass houses of the market gardeners were smashed to pieces by the enormous hailstones, and thus the loss much transcended what at first was thought. The fact that the President of the Board of Agricultui a felt it desirable, when informed ot the extent of the disaster, to pay « personal visit to the scene, is of itself proof of the importance attached to the event in official quarters; and there should be little doubt as to the appeal that has now .been made for aid proving satisfactory, especially as the Minister for Agriculture vouches for it that the extent of the damage cannot be exaggerated. Lovers of the wheel will, follow with marked interest the agitation which, has ibeienj,8et on foot by the National Cyclists'- gn in favour of cycles being carried free by the *"gway. com- panies, on the ground that they fotjB* part of the personal luggage of the passengeBa. It is, however, rather a hope than an expectation that they will indulge as to the result, for one"may be certain that the companies will not yield to such a demand without a struggle; and it is not obvious where the pressure is to come from to force them to give in. Any who know the House of Commons will be aware that upon any question whatever—even when the public in- terest seems clearly to be involved—the railway interest is enormously, and, it might almost be said, overwhelmingly strong. How much stronger, therefore, may it be expected to prove when the public interest is not unani- mously admitted ? The railways declare that cycles are troublesome to carry because awkward to handle, while they require special care in transit. The cyclists may reply that special care is very far from always being shown but, if it is not shown now, how much more likely is it to be displayed if the companies by any chance are compelled to carry them free ? This is a practical question which should com- mend itself to the National Cyclists' Union, and of itself it indicates th? difficulties of the situa- tion. Players of lawn tennis had more reason than usual to note the prooeedings of the annual meeting of the Lawn Tennis Association, which was held in London a few days since, for they so altered Law 23 as to make it read The players shall change sides at the end of the first, third, and every subsequent alternate game of each set, and at the end of each set, unless the' number of gamea in such set be even. It shall, however, be open to the players by mutual consent and notification to the umpire before the opening of the second game of the match, to change •ides instead at the end of every side until the odd and concluding set, in which they shall change sides at the end of the first, third, and every subsequent alternate game of such set." This alteration will remove a certain element of doubt and difficulty sometimes experienced ia the course of the playing of a game which remains highly popular. Dismal prognostica- tions have been heard more than once within the past few years that lawn tennis was to dis- appear before cycling and golf; but it has a deal of healthy life and vigour in it yet. R.

NEWS NOTES. IBRryAnes commemoration of the Diamona Jubilee of Queen Victoria has certainly been brilliant, extensive, and entirely satisfactory to all concerned, nationally or individually. But latterly there has been made manifest in cer- tain quarters a disposition to give the country too much of a good thing. Long-drawn out glory is apt to defeat its ultimate aim, and the spirit shown by the Admiralty in declining to be led into further display on account of tho present year being the milennial anniversary of the foundation of the Navy by Alfred the Great is commendable. What better celebra- tion could be than that at Spithead, which all the world wondered at P THE Queen was as characteristically tactful and gracious as ever in extricating the Court from the little difficulty it got into through in- attention to the deputation of the Speaker and the House of Commons which attended at Buckingham Palace to present the Diamond Jubilee Congratulatory Address. Her Majesty invited all the faithful Commons and their wives specially down to Windsor on Saturday, and took great personal pains to miriglo amongst and chat with them. The Queen quite captured the hearts of the Labour mem- bers with her kindly and frank conversation, and this function must be voted one of the most successful of the whole Jubilee. THE news from Constantinople, up to the time of writing, can scarcely be considered re- assuring. The representatives of the Great Powers are all tiring of the dilly-dallying methods of the Porte, while the Sultan still stems to cling to his fond regard of delay. But the delimitation of the frontier will shortly have to be begun and all matters definitely settled as between Turkey and Greece, unless the whole negotiation proceedings are to be rendered ridiculous in the eyes of the world. THE cricket match between Yorkshire and Surrey, which ended in an inconclusive draw on Saturday at Kennington Oval, was a well-con- tested game, and most followers of the grand old summer sport will be sorry that one side or the other did not win. A very little more time would have ended it one way or the other, but Mr. Key and Mr. Walter Read, after the dis- missal of Baldwin, played against the clock only in defending the Surrey citadel. By dash and good luck they might almost have won, but then also they might have lost, so they simply stood for safety. In Australia such matches are played out, even if they last five days, but here in Britain we cannot arrange such a course. WHEN the Warren Hastings was wrecked, over half a year ago, it was generally thought the War Office authorities were going to make good to the officers and men their loss. But there has apparently been some red-tape hesi- tancy over the settlement of the matter. Mr. Brodrick, in an answer to a query, has said in official language, that free kits have been issued to the officers and men whose property went to the bottom, and that an adequate sum," in excess of the regulations, has been awarded also; while the gallantry and discipline of the troops have been appropriately recognised." An adequate sum and appropriate recogni- tion" are phrases which the War Office very often interprets differently from outsiders, however. We have not heard the last of this! WE have it on the authority of the Army and Navy Gazette that some time ago the War Office commenced business as sellers of bicycles, on the hire system, to soldiers. Of course, this adventure has not turned out satisfactorily all round. Why should it? The sooner, as our contemporary well says, that Government be- comes the owner of the bicycles needed for its service, the better. Under the present system it has been found that whenever a cyclist orderly has been w&nted- for an emergency he has parted with his "wheel." Now, however wrathful a commanding officer was under such circumstances, he cannot dispute the right of a man to sell his private property. Why ever was such a pettifogging system permitted ? J T MRS. ORMISTON CHANT is indignant because of the newspaper paragraphs which have attri- buted to her the contraction of the habit of cigarette smoking. She smoked one cigarette out in Greece during the recent war on being urged to do so because it might assuage the pangs of hunger, but the only result was that it blistered her lips. Since smoking this she has smoked no other, and she is not likely to. AMERICAN" Independence Day was appro- priately celebrated on Saturday by Colonel John Hay and his gracious wife at the United States Embassy in London, a great reception being held by the poet-arnbaesador. At a supplementary function at the Browning Hall in Walworth the most distinguished person present was the.,Rev. Dr. Melburn, the eloquent blind chaplain of the United States Congress, who said that Our Queen had as many subjects on the other side of the Atlantic, if not to her sceptre, at least to her influence and character, as she had in Great Britain. Hefr Majesty's name was everywhere received with the pro- foundest respect in his country, and through her strong and lovable personality the two peoples were every day being drawn closer together.

A SUBMARINE BOAT. A submarine boat designed by a man named Radify is to start in a few days for a cruise of 1000 miles through the American lakes to Chicago. For 700 miles the boat is to be submerged, when it is in- tended to test the submarine currents and tempera- tures, to ascertain the nature of the lata bottom at various points and depths, and to inspect the wreck of the steamer St. Albans, which was lost off Milwaukee in 1881.

THAT wicked flea kept me awake all night, simply because I forgot to get a tin of Heating's Powder." the unrivalled Killer of Fleas, Beetles, Moths, which is sold everywhere in 3d., 6d., and In. tins. Harmless to everything but Insects. AN authoritative contradiction is given in St. Petersburg to the report concerning the alleged arrest of irftnv persons of high positions, on the charge of having sold mobilisation plans to Austria. Tiiu French Senate has adopted a Bill authorising !ocnl authorities to abolish the existing octroi duties on win ?, beer. cider, and other beverages, specified ati h: yrrio.

A LARGE POWER TRANSMISSION PLANT. Another enormous power plant (says Engineering) is to be put up in the United States, the locality being Ogden, about 35 miles north of Salt Lake City. About two miles from the centre of the city of Ogden the river of the same name passes through a narrow gorge opening out a few tuiles further up into a valley eight niiloo long by four miles wide. It is proposed to convert a portion of this valley into a huge reservoir covering an area of 2000 acres, and having a capacity of about 12,000 million imperial gallons. To this end a concrete masonry dam 400ft. long by 60ft. high above the -river bed will be required. The water to be used for power or irrigation purposes its to be drawn from the reservoir through a tunnel 9ft. in diameter, fitted with suitable values connecting it to the main conduit, which will be a wooden stave pipe 6ft. in diameter and nearly six miles long. This pipe will be in the main laid in a trench and covered with 3ft. of soil, though at eertain points rock tunnels were required, and there are also eight trestle steel bridges as well as a longer timber trestle. The discharge through this pipe will amount to 250 cubic feet per second, and as tne effective bead at the power-house will be about 440ft., the gross horse-power available will amount to 12,500. The turbines used will each be of 1200 horse-power, and will drive three-phase alternate-current dynamos,?giving a current at 2300 volts with a frequency of 60 cycles per fecond. Five of these are already in place. Step-up transformers will be used to raise the voltage to 16,100, at which the current passes into the transmission line. At present this is already finished for a length of 38 miles, and connects the power-houae with a sub- station in Salt Lake City. The waste water from the power-house is to be used for irrigation. Much of the work has already been completed, though the large concrete dam has not yet been undertaken, a smaller work sufficing to give the requisite head for carrying the water through the conduit to the power-house, but giving little storage capacity. The wooden conduit has cost only about ono-third to one- fourth as much per foot as the steel pipe which it has been necessary to adopt for about one-third the total length of the line of pipe. To make up the complete circumference of the wooden pipe 32 staves were needed, each of which, as finished, measured nino wide outside, 7gin. wide inside, and 2in. in 2 thickness. No stave was allowed to be less than 16ft. long, and in some cases they measured 26ft. or more. In building up the pipe, it was arranged that the staves should break joint at least 12in. Steel tongues were used in making these end-to-end joints, being inserted into grooves sawed in the stave ends. I Bands of round iron fin. to fin. in diameter were used to keep the staves in places, being spaced closer the higher the pressure to be carried. Each band consisted of two semi-circular ban, one of which had screwed ends, and the other stirrup ends, into which the former fitted. The tightening was then easily effected by nuts.

THE Church Congress has hitherto been held in the first week of October, but for this year's meeting, which takes place at Nottingham under the presi- dency of the Bishop of Southwell, Dr. Ridding the date has been advanced a week. The reason is that the first week of October, or rather the last three days of it, are taken up by a much older institution, the Goose Fair. During this annual carnival, not only is the great square of the town ocollpied with a motley collection of wild beast shows, phantoscopes, shooting galleries, and merry-go-rounds, but there is a great run on all available balls, and the Organising Committee of the Congress found themselves fore- stalled or outbidden in almost every case. MAJOR MARINDIN, R.E., has issued his report into the circumstances attending a collision which occurred on February 6 at Brinnington Junction, near Stock- port, on the Cheshire lines, by which one lady was killed and another very badly hurt. The collision was due to a failure of the block working between Bredbury and Brinnington-junction. There was no blame attaching to any of the servants, except to a signalman, who honestly admitted making a mistake. THE death has taken place at his tesidence, Hills- borough-terrace, Glasgow, of Mr. Robert Dtmdas, the engineer for the southern district of the Cale- donian Railway. Mr. Dundas was well known in railway and engineering circles. He joined the Cale- donian in 1866 as assistant-engineer, but in 1871 left to become engineer of the Barthead line. In 1880, however, he was appointed engineer of the southern district of the Caledonian, a position ho has he'd till now. 1880, however, he was appointed engineer of the southern district of the Caledonian, a position ho has he'd till now.

JUBILEE FUNCTIONS. COLONIAL TROOPS AT WINDSOR. The Queen on Friday of last week entertained the Colonial and Indian troops, to the number of 76 officers and 868 non-commissioned officers and won, at Windsor. The men were entertained at dinner ID marquees in the Home-park, and the officers in the castle. At five in the afternoon the troops were drawn up in line in a part of the Home- park bordering cn the Thames, and her Majesty rode past and inspected tbetn in her carriage They then marched past, and Lord Robert. at the Queen's command, expressed the great plensure tt had given her to see so many of her subjects from the different colonies there. She hoped they wou!d return to their homes in safety, and wished them every happiness and prosperity. A number of officers and representatives from each contingent having been presented to her Majesty, the review closed with a Royal salute and the playing of tho National Anthem. COLONIAL INSTITUTE BANQUET. The Duke of Gonnaught presided on Friday night Of last week ata banquet given by the Royal Colonial Institute to commemorate the 60th year of the Queen's reign. The Lord Chancellor gave the toast 91 The Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal family." Sir J. Gordon Sprigg, Premier of Cape Colony, proposed "The Naval and Military Forces of the Empire," and Mr. Goschen, re- sponded. Sir W. Laurier, Premier of Canada, re- sponded to the toast of "The United Empire," given by the chairman; and Lord George Hamilton proposed the health of the chairman. THE DEVONSHIRE HOUSE BALL. Nothing could have been more brilliantly suc- cessful than the fancy ball given on Friday night nf last week by the Duchess of Devonshire. The dresses were exceptionally magnificent, and every period was represented previously to 1820. The duchess was dressed as Zenobia, in gold cloth, gorgeously embroidered in gold, brilliants, and coloured stones, and opening over an under dre's of white crepe de Chine, worked finely in brilliants. The train of light green velvet was lined with blue, and sumptuously embroidered in jewels and gold, the colouring being particularly artistic. With this dress were worn splendid jewels, and a large horn crown, encrusted with diamonds, emeralds, and rubies. The dnchess was attended by a suite of children, trumpeters, and fan-bearers, all picturesquely attired in Assyian costumes—the wholegrotip being specially designed by M. Comelli. The Duke of Devonshire represented Charles V. of Germany, in a black velvet and satin dress. The young Duke of Manchester, who helped to receive the guests, wore a Georgian courtier's suit of white satin and gold. The Prince of Wales as the Grand Master of the Knights Hospi- taliers of Malta, was in black velvet embroidered in jet and steel and slashed with grey silk. A white ruff, the blue ribbon of the Garter, and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem relieved the sombre character of the dress. The Princess of Wales, as Margaret of Yalois, wore an exquisite gown of white, embroidered in gold and splendid diamonds. She was attended by the Duchess of York, in pale blue satin, embroi- dered in silver, pearls, and diamonds; the Duchess of Fife, in ivory satin, embroidered in gold; Princess Victoria of Wales, in yellow and gold; Princess Charlea of Denmark, in pink and silver; and Princess Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, in pale blue brocade ornamented with pearls and silver. All the Princesses wore a profusion of diamonds. The Duke of York as George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, had a grey Genoa velvet pourpoint, embroidered in gold and slashed with crimson. In his grey felt hat the Duke wore the white glove given by Queen Elizabeth to the earl. The Duke of Connaught as a military com- mander—Elizabethan period-wore an effective dress of grey velvet and satin, with a steel breast-plate. The Duchess of Connaught personated Anne of Austria, in a very handsome gown of brocaded velvet, the fronts turned back with rose velvet, embroidered in silver. The white satin front was enriched with gold fleur de lys, and there were cuffs and a collar of beautiful lace. The quadrilles organised by the various ladies embraced almost every period, and the costumes of several were inspired by the works of poets and dramatists, or taken from well-known pic- tures. M.P.R AT WINDSOR CASTLE. There was an extensive response to the Queen's iu. vitation to her Faithful Commons to visit her at Windsor on Saturday. It is no secret that the invitation was intended as a solatium for the irritation caused by official mismanagement of the visit of the House of Commons to Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty, in her own words, was distressed to learn from the news- papers that the want of adequate arrangement on that occasion caused disappointment and annoy- ance so with kindly tact, she lost no time in taking the beat means to redress that grievance. Members were invited each to bring with them a lady, and they were conveyed to Windsor in five special trams between three and four o'clock. The garden party took place on a spacious lawn beyond the terrace, and here a brilliant scene was presented. The fresh green of the sward was relieved at convenient points by large marquees, in which refreshmentr were bountifully served. The Queen drove to the ground, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, Princes? Christian, and Princess Louise, about five o'clock, and Cabinet and ex-Cabinet Ministers were at once pre- sented to her Majesty. Then Mr. Wiiliam Abraham, of the Rhonddtt Valley, was introduced, and the Queen greeted the sturdy ex-miner with his bardic title, I am very pleased to see you, Mabon." Other presenta- tions followed, including such diverse politicians as Mr. Victor Cavendish, Mr. Henry Allen, of Gates- head, Mr. Lecky, and Mr. Pickard, the Queen show- ing a manifest desire to receive as many people oossible within the time at her disposal. COLONIAL TROOPS INSPECTED AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE. The Prince of Wales handed Jubilee commemora- tion medals to our cclonial soldiers at Buckingham Palace on Saturday. It was the last gathering of the men in their Mother Country, for within two hours of the time when the ceremonial came to an end many of them were already hurrying away to their homes in Canada. Last to come, the sons of Our Lady of the Snows were the first to leave. Perhaps it was the impression of impending dissolution which rendered the interesting function so unaccountably dull and subdued. It might have been made more cheer- ful and inspiriting; 2000 visitors in the place of 200 would have made a lot of difference. Band-less the colonials marched from Chelsea to the Palace, band- less they returned to barracks, while the few score of guests who were favoured with invitations to witness the distribution of medals huddled together in little groups in order to avoid becoming too conspicuous. But what the company lacked in numbers was made up in the importance of the people constituting the various groups. The Prince of Wales's party included the Princess, the Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke and Duchess of York, Princess Victoria of Wales, Prince and Princess Charles of Denmark, and several other Royalties. Lord Wolseley, Lord Roberts, and Lord Methuen were there and Mr. Chamberlain, resplen- dent in Levee dress, was ubiquitous, and the colonial Premiers and their wives were present. Shortly before eleven o'clock the colonial troops, all dis- mounted tbere was not even a General on horseback on parade were drawn up to form three sides of a square on the lawn behind Buckingham Palace, and as soon as the men, under command of Colonel Ivor Herbert, bad taken up their positions Lord Roberts made a hurried inspec- tion. The band of the Grenadier Guards arrived, and was posted in the rear of the square, and punctually at half-past, eleven the Prince of Wales and party drove into the palace grounds from Marl- borough House. His Royal Highness walked slowly to the saluting point beneath the elm tree, where he was received with a Royal salute, the band playing the National Anthem. Accompanied by Lord Roberts, and followed by the whole of the Princes, his Royal Highness inspected the troops, stopping now and again to speak to the men or examine their accoutre- ments. The scabbards hung with human hair, of which the little head-hunting Dyaks are so proud, attracted the Prince's notice, and he paused for some time in front of the North Borneo detachment. Mean- while, the ever-gracious Princess was busying herself with the unpacking of the medals, and helping to spread them on the table, so that they might be within easy reach when required by the Prince. Equal tboughtfulness was shown by his Royal High- ness. for. v -fcre he handed the first medal to r Lord Roberts he had a few minutes' conversation with Mr. Chamberlain, with the result that the Colonial Premiers and their wives were invited to join the Royal group. The distribution lasted quite an hour. As the various detachments ap- proached the Prince of Wales, the commanding officer of each took his place by the aide of Lord Boberts, and announced the name of every man aa his turn came to receive the medal. Although the oroceedingilwere most tedious, the whole scene was pretty and effective, the brilliant uniforms of the Princes and the headquarter staff, the diversified dress of the colonial troops, and the bright costumes of the ladies, forming a picture full of Colour, backed by the spreading trees of the Palace gardens, and the fresh green of the lawn. The officers received silver, and the men bronze, med8, They are attached to ribbons of light and dark blue, in stripes, and bear the inscription: In commemoration of the 60th year of the reign of Queen Victoria, June 20, 1897." At the conclusion of the distribution, the troops advanced to the general salute. The Prince of Wales then bared his head, and called for three cheers for the Queen-Empress." A mighty roar arose from the Canadians and Australians, almost before the words were out of his mouth. It came along the line, and was taken up a second or two later by the native troops. It is a strange thing, these blacka cannot cheer. They are just as enthusi- astic, they make quite as much noise as any white man, but their efforts lack the dash and defiance of the British-bred cheer. Next came the march past, and with it ended the official engagements of the grand body of men which had come together from every corner of the globe, to do honour to the Queen. LIBERALS AND THE COLONIES. Nearly all the leading men of the Liberal pan, went to the National Liberal Club on Saturday to join in the welcome to the colonial Premiers, who were entertained at luncheon. Lord Carrington received the guests in the reading room, and when most of them bad assem- bled a move was made to the dining room, where nearly 300 gentlemen sat down. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who arrived somewhat late, was received with loud cheers, and when Lord Rosebery eutered the room a few minutes afterwards, be, too, met with a most enthusiastic reception. Sir William Harcourt was also present; the vice-chair was occu- pied by Mr. Labouchere. The colonial Premiers were Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Sir George Turner, Sir H. Nelson, Mr. C. G. Kingston, Mr. R. J. Seddon, and Mr. H. Escombe. In the luncheon room there was no attempt at decoration, but suspended from the roof was the old dag captured by Sir Allen McNab at Gallows Hill, near Toronto, during the Canadian Rebellion of 1837. The flag, which was lent for this occasion by Sir Robert Head, the grandson of Sir Francis B. Head, who was Governor of Upper Canada during the rebellion, bore on one side the inscription, Victoria the 1st and Reform," and on the other, Bidwell and his glorious manority (sic), 1837, and a good beginning.' To this emblem Sir Wilfrid Laurier alluded in his speech, responding for Our Guests, the Premiers." He saw, he observed, the flag carried by the rebels when they were fighting in favour of constitutional liberty. Belonging, as he did, to a race which in the past had loved liberty, not wisely, perhaps, but too well, they would not be surprised if his heart still clung to the rebels of that date, for, if nrstaken in ideas, the work they performed had been the cradle of liberty in Canada. Now they were loyal because they were free, and so long as they were free they would be loyal. Sir George Turner proposed "The British Houses of Parliament," and Sir William Harcourt responded. The most entertaining speech of the afternoon was made by Lord Rosebery, who rose to propose The British Colonies," but substituted for it, after a felicitious explanation, the toast of The Empire," coupled with Mr. Seddon's name. Lord Rosebery's best passages were: Short speeches are the order of the day for two reasons. In the first place we are apprehensive, after what we have read, that we may have to close the series of ceremonies which have distinguished this epoch by a State funeral, which shall convey the dyspeptic remains of the Colonial Ministers, I trust, to a national resting-place in Westminster Abbey, and, in the next place, I believe there is considerable pressure on the more eminent of my late colleagues to attend what I hope I may call, without disrespect to a dis- tinguished branch of the Legislature, the Con- eolation Stakes at Windsor. It is somewhat remark- able that BO much of the speeches that have been made has been devoted to the vindication of the Liberal party. an being. eamected with the Imperial movement. I do not think that that vindication is particularly necessary. But I think it has been rather elicited by the injudicious remarks of those who have claimed the Empire as a sort of preroga- tive and property of another party. One amazing orator the other day went so far as to trace the germ of the Imperial idea to the late Lord Beaconsfield. Now we have it under Lord Beaconsfield's own signature and seal that he regarded the colonies as unnecessary and heavy encumbrances, who would hasten to leave us at the shortest notice. The fact is that Lord Beacons- field's Impetalism was merely European and Asiatic, and it was not as the newer Imperalism is, not merely European and Asiatic, but American, African, and Australasian as well. In my judgment—what- ever that may be worth, and I have had more experi- ence of this question than some of those who talk so much—the movement of the Imperial question is not due to any party or to any group, but to the disin- terested efforts of various men and of various opera- tive causes. Well, gentlemen, what in this annus mirabilis of 1897-for it is a year as fitted to be com- memorated by a Dryden, if we had any Drydena about, as that year of 1666, which he recorded in such marvellous verse-in this annus mirabilis of 1897, what will be the most conspicuous memory that we shall carry away ? It will not merely be the procession of Tuesday, June 22, which was in itself an object lesson of Empire. I believe that what we shall record will be this—that for the first time in the history of this country Englishmen, Scotsmen, Welshmen, and Irishmen understood the true meaning of the legend on the Queen's coins, Regina Britanniarum the Queen of the Britains. She is Sovereign not of one or two but of numberless Btitains, all self-supporting, all endued with the same constitutional privileges and liberties that we enjoy, all anxious and zealous to own the name of the mother country, and to share the burdens of that mother country. Is not this in itself a charge of which any sovereign or any epoch might be proud ? And is it too much for us to hope who are not yet too far in the vale of years that even this reign may not yet close without seeing a unanimously contented Empire of Britain ?

SOUTH AFRICA COMMITTEE. The South Africa Committee sat again on Friday of last week, when Miss Flora Shaw was recalled and further examined with special reference to certain cipher telegrams exchanged in December, 1895, between Mr. Rhodes and Dr. Harris in South Africa and herself. She explained at length what she had meant to convey by the telegrams, and stated in the course of examination that she never at any time gave the Colonial Office any information about the plan," and never received any information from the Colo- nial Office about the plan. In reference to a passage, to the effect that she had "special reason to believe" that Mr. Chamberlain wished them to do it" (i.e., the execution of the plan) immediately," Miss Shaw said she derived her belief, in the first place, from her knowledge of the general situation, and, secondly, from an expression used to her in con- versation at the Colonial Office by Mr. Fairfield, that if the Johannesburgers were going to rise, it was to be hoped they would do it Boon. The witness was minutely cross-examined by Sir W. Harcourt and Mr. Labouchere as to the circumstances in which the telegrams were sent and the precise significance in- tended to be conveyed in their wording. At ihe close of her examination the Committee adjourned.

A KINDLY KING. During their prolonged visits to Naples the King and Queen of Italy (says the Daily 2-Jews corre- spondent) have devoted their time to the numerous charitable institutions of the eity. The other day the King was at the Pellegrini Hos- pital, and took a great interest in a little boy with a broken arm. The King asked the child how the accident bad occurred, and the little fellow told his Majesty that he had climbed one of the statues in Piazzo Plebiscito, wishing to get a sight of the King, butthat he had fallen, and to never taw hiui. "Tell me," said the King, would you be very pleased if you could see him ?" The boy nodded with great vivacity, and the King continued: "Then be con- tent, for I am the King." and he caressed the little patient.

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THE ROYAL REVIEW. The Queen, accompanied by several other mem- bers of the Royal family, left Windsor Castle shortly after three o'clock on the afternoon of the 1st insr., and travelled by the South-Western Railway to Famborough to witness a Jubilee review of trocpt at Aldershot. The total strength of the assembl. I force was 27,359 officers and men, 5059 horses, and 57 guns. A large proportion of the troops was, of course, drawn from the Aldershot camp, but a considerable contingent, including the Colonial, Indian, and African troops, and all the seven battalions of Guards, went from Condon, and most of them were expeditiously conveyed by train on the morning of the review day. Great numbers of spectators also travelled down from London, and the scene on Laffan's Plain when the troops were assembled and the spacious stands were crowded with spectators was a brilliant one. The troops were formed on three sides of a rectangle, the infantry, in four divisions, facing south along the long side, with the Horse and Field Artillery on the western and the Royal Engineers, Army Service Corps, and Medical Staff Corps on the eastern side, The cavalry division and the mounted infantry formed a second line. The Queen arrived on the review-ground shortly after four o'clock, and was greeted by a Royal salute from the guns and by loud cheers from the crowds of spectators. The march- past of the troops took place immediately after the Queen's arrival at the Royal enclosure, the post of honour being assigned to the Colonial and Indian and African forces. After one 'or two other manmivreB bad been executed, the infantry line again advanced and gave the Royal salute, following it with a roar of cheers. Her Majesty then drove slowly from the ground, and the review terminated. The Queen left on her return journey to Windsor soon after seven o'clock.

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