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THE MANCHESTER GFARDIAN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1905. THE KING AND QUEEN, the left one for the Duke of Connaught. Stalls trustee, andith feeling of meeting was weight and it is strange to find, the Times," in order to; meet- an argument suggested rather than expressed, driven to. the theory that even the Japanese war on China was inspired by fear of Russian aggression. To tho constitutional argument Mr.

Courtney attaches much more importance. He gives reason for thinking that Parliamentary gov ernment in Japan is unstable, and that the Government lias before now resorted to war as a means of freeing itself from domestic complications. The confidence in Japan is really a confidence not in the people bub in the Government. Ther is no evidence that the present Japanese Government has the confidence of Parliament or of the people, no certainty that the Government's ideas are the people's, no security that an alteration- in the strength of parties would not completely change the dominant ideas in Japanese foreign policy. These are risks against which the Treaty makes dangerously inadequate pro vision.

The Imperial arguments against the Treaty are-stronger still- Assistance in the defence of India is the concession mad by Japan to us; but official India is very warm towards the Treaty, and native India regards the provisions as humiliating to us. A covenant securing Japanese help in India," writes Mr. is a covenant of humiliation. It is the most frightful token of decadences" There is, it us, no real answer to this argument; so far as we have seen, none has yet been attempted. The other fact ignored by the apologists of the Treaty is that the two British colonies who are in a sense neighbours of Japan Australia and British Columbia both prohibit Japanese' immigration.

Will Japan consent to have her citizens excluded from these colonies? And if she protests, what attitude is the British Government to take up? The homo Government has hitherto failed to produce the slightest modification of colonial legislation. There can be no question of repudiating th Treaty, but agree with Mr. Cotjbtney that it may be possible to turn the difficulties inherent in it. may make it evident that are content to rest within the limits of our own possessions and to watch without jealousy the peaceful development of may allow the vision of Japanese fighting for us on th Indian frontier to fade into orgetfulness and we may allow, or even invite, other Powers to subscribe to the' objects of th Treaty and so convert it into an international agreement. None of the objects of the Treaty would be sacrificed by this procedure; on th contrary, their fulfilment would be made more certain.

much regret that the "Times," which admits disadvantages," should refuse even tb discuss a suggestion by which they may be avoided without sacrificing any of the advantages. "The nation have considered all these matters," says th "Times," and have given their verdict. It is a final and irrevocable verdict." We do not believe it. That the country is ready to work with Japan we concede; but that our work with Japan must of necessity exclude all idea of co-operation with other Powers is neither th verdict of the country nor yet consistent with Lord Laxbdowsb's own memorandum on the Treaty. The Treaty is designed to make converts to our views of Asiatic policy.

Unwilling converts, if you like," says the "willing, never." Surely that is a strained interpre tation of the Treaty, and repugnant to com mon sense. Unconstitutional is the mildest term which could be applied to the situation dis closed at yesterday's meeting of the Hungarian Diet, and even the harsher nam of "absolutism" which the Opposition deliber ately used in its formal protest is not much too strong. There is a strong Nationalist majority massed under tried leaders, most of whom have held office in th past with credit and success; there is also a weak "Liberal" minority, which seems to have lest ground still further since its crushing defeat at the recent general election there is, finally, Cabinet, which nominally resigned -some weeks ago, and it has so small a following in the Diet that it found it prudent to absent itself from yesterday's meeting. It represents only the King-Emperor, who will not admit the majority to office on tho Nationalist pro gramme with they won their seats, and it can maintain its position only by constantly proroguing Parliament, with the certainty that if it should dissolve and appeal to the present restricted electorate the result would, in all human probability, be a still more striking affirmation of the unanimity of the Magyar race in its conflict with the Crown. There is perhaps no country in the world which cherishes its Constitution, so jealously as Hungary, and yet it is th irregular behaviour of all th parties to the present crisis which has tied the national destinies in a tangle so inextricable.

The extreme Magyar Independents pushed their programme of racial ascendancy and virtual separation by methods of obstruction which rendered Parliamentary government all but impossible; the "Liberals" under M. Tisza met them with a sort of Cromwellian firmness which triumphed for a moment only by over riding the written guarantees of Parliamentary liberty; the Crown, realising that a surrender to the Magyar. Independents might mean th break-up of the Dual Monarchy, has governed now for several months against a newly elected majority. Each party has professed its zeal for Parliamentary institutions, and each in its own way has betrayed them to defend them. It is hard to see what way of escape can be found until either the Crown or the Magyar Coalition makes up its mind to a surrender.

For the moment th King-Emperor has apparently no happier inspiration than to gain time. In all the circumstances it may be the wisest course. He may in the end adopt th bold expedient of extending the franchise and appealing against the Magyars to the non-Magyar races and the voteless masses. But can th franchise be extended against th will of th Magyar "garrison" except by som violent exercise of autocratic power? And even if this could be achieved without driving the Magyars into open revolt, would the new electorate, influenced her by the Socialists ther by the Clericals, and in the border-lands by Servian and Roumanian' Nationalists, yield a majority which would support the Crown Any step forward seems to involve a perilous leap in the dark. Th Magyars, to be logical, must cut themselves adrift from Austria and face, amid all the turmoil of an -anxious inter- national situation, the problem of coercing the non-Magyar majority under totally new JThe Crown, logical must ARTISTIC DESIGNS.

SEASONED MATERIALS. nBST-CtASS WORKMANSHIP. Bay Clnet from tho Uanulactsrer. JOBS M'MANUS, 237, Boad, tonicn, W. 3.

tV. has supplied to H.M. Government the 1 arsons oraer orsr executes lor Iron Building evedlDg In value a quarter of a million scerUnc- JL and OOD "UTLDLSGS, SUITABLE FOB AM, ItJJtPOSES. TO-DAY'S PAPER. LEADERS MR, COURTNEY ON THE JAPANESE ALLIANCE 6 The" Confusion in Hungary 6 Womerr's'Lodging-houses 6 Physical deterioration: A Sober View- 6 Theatres and.

Music-halls 6 ILLUSTRATION Old Moreton Hall 5 NEW NOVELS 5 SPECIAL ARTICLES-- The Treaty with Japan The Future of Electrical Engineering: 12 Barkston Ash Election Automobiles 3 Pelata 3 The Xenael Club Show 8 The Glass Trade and Protection 10 THE HUNGARIAN DIET Another Prorogation 7 ThV Coalition's Protest 7 RUSSIA Treatment of Finland 7 The Moscow Rioting 7 Britain and Russia 7 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS American Insurance Scandals 7 The Captive Englishman in Macedonia 6 The; Karlstad Agreement 7 GENERAL NEWS Liberal Meetings in Manchester 7 The: Japanese Minister in 7 Wales arid Disestablishment 12 The Congregational Union 4 The Law Society in Leeds 4 The Ex-Speaker A Freeman of London 7 Gas Leakages: Families in Peril 8 Collision off Leith 12 Tied House Agreements 8 Southwell Diocesan Conference 8 The Labour. Party and Tariffs 8 Scottish Railway Amalgamation 4 LT-emorial Notices 4 The Churches 4 Weather Forecasts 12 Money Markets 9 Manchester Market 10 American Stock Markets 11 American Produce Markets 11 Commercial Notes 10 CORRESPONDENCE A Dr. Barnado Memorial 8 Nolson Centennial Celebrations (Lord Brassey and others) 12 ChoL-al Works at the Halle 5 Stockport Mill" Dispute (Mr. G. Ward).

5 The Partition of Bengal (Rev. W. H. Elliot) 5 Contracts on 'Change 5 The New Tramcars 5 Electric Arc Lighting and Incandescent Gas S. B.

Edwards) 5 The Promenade Concerts 5 Street Rescue Work (Mrs. E. L. Wilcockson) 5 The Church Congress and Christian Science (Mr. W.

F. W. Wilding; Mr. A. M.

Payne) 3 Destruction of Kingfishers 5 THE GUARDIAN. MANCHESTER, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1905. SUMMARY OF NEWS. DOMESTIC. Mr.

Winston Churchill, M.P., addressed three Liberal meetings in Manchester yesterday. Speaking in the afternoon at a meet ing of business men in the Memorial Hall under the chairmanship of Mr. Harry Nuttall, Mr. Churchill dealt with tho question of national expenditure. He pointed out how vastly the normal expenditure of the country has increased as the result of the extravagant policy of the Government, and showed how detrimental an effect this must have upon commerce and upon national credit.

That trade continued to flourish in spite of these drawbacks was due to our Free Trade system, and this fact showed how utterly fallacious were the proposals of Mr. Chamberlain. In the evening at the Hulme Town Hall Mr. Churchill emphasised the importance of making the defence of Free Trade the issue at the general election. He commended Mr.

G. D. Kelley to the electors of South-west Manchester as the Progressive and Free Trade candidate, and urged that Free-traders of all sections should stand together "in one long line of battle" to. assure the ascendancy of Free Trade as the settled policy of the nation. Mr.

A. A. Haworth also advised Lihernls cf the division to support Mr. Kelley, and reminded them that on. the principal questions of present-day politics the Liberals and tne labour party are 111 perfect agreement.

S'rF' Schwann, -P-, and Mr. Hor-ndge, K.C., Liberal candidate for East Manchester, spoke last night at a Liberal meeting held at Beswick. Mr. Schwann contended that the Government had neglected the opportunities that had been offered for passing legislation in the interest of tho working classes. Ho condemned the Chinese labour ordinance, and formulated a strong indictment against the Government for their con duct or south African affairs.

Mr. Horridee vjrovernnient been the inuiius or mb wording classes that they pro fessed to be they could have established great record bv oassinir an rr ployed Act, a Trade TH nem- Workmen's Compensation Amendment Act wumu aave oeen or benefit to the Havashi' the -Japanese Minister, fulfilled several engagements in Liverpool, Yes- me uiercnants on Change, he spoke of the Anglo-Jananesa 1H anee as a safeguard for the tranquillity of the East and for the peace of the world. In the afternoon he opened a charity bazaar at the bt. George Hall, and expressed high admiration for the spontaneous wonrl-nrjij British" people in all works of philanthropy ou.uiiv.ciucub ui civilisation, He said of which I envy you." The Rev. Dr.

Forsyth, chairman of the Congregational Union, in his presidential address yesterday at Leeds spoke on The grace of the Gospel as the moral authority in the Church He thinks it is with the -nurcn to-aay as witn the State and the soul. Authority is severely shaken. The exist ence or a non-morai and plutocratic Government -for the best part of a generation hn vT.cno.ea to aiminisn respect tor civil authority, i lie critical spirit and method applied to I hose standards of religions authority which have pled us in the past created an impres- ,1 iClieios autnority and that people preferred to have none. The annual provincial meeting of the Law Society was begun yesterday at Leeds. Mr.

Charles Barker, the president, spoke chieflV on tbo Fcheme for establishing a school of law. and the proposal recently before Parliament, for appointing a public trustee and suumirtea, was uT KWMuing ror cne education of students of both branches of the law. In his the question of a conaemned as insulting and Untrue Some -TmrinrfeK maria. vi cer -V Carson when the Public Trustee Bill was be- "-j 1 VT -Sv V' nuicms. a paper; was r.deQ.k'ia.ia';,lP uuagar of Bo ton, tw.

T. r. week and Miss Louie Fbeeab's this week have come to be, known. Do such things satisfy th two somewhat pedantio-lobkiag requirements exacted by legal decisions -(1) the excitement of emotion and (2) the1 representation of action, so as to make them stage plays and therefore unpermissibl subject-matter for the halls? Ther is incidental crudity- and unconscious humour in the definition. On the one hand, many a successful turn which in fact passes without question- would be found to contain both the disqualifying ingredients on the other, much that is tolerated as "legitimate drama" never touches the emotions or achieves dramatic action.

The fact is that such distinctions are obsolete, and such prosecutions as there "have been lately of music-hall managers have a dog-in-the-manger look: While poaching, in the looser forms of musical comedy, on the halls' preserves, the theatre would invoke the assistance of a decrepit statute to enforce its monopoly of the formally dramatic. Its indignation at the sandwiching of a sketch between contortionists and dancing seals would be more convincing if we could be alwa7s confident of finding genuinely dramatic stuff inside the theatres. cannot deny some force to the contention of such men as Sir Henhy Irving that their art must suffer by 'being pursued in a smoking-room which is 'sometimes a bar-room too, or from having to compete with a dramatic semi-art practised under these conditions. But it seems as if there must be something wrong with an art which cannot live unless debased growths'from itself or unworthy rivals are put down by OUR LONDON CUlUiKSPONDiSNCK CBY PRIVATE WIRE.) London, Tuesday Night. It was only too evident from his brief speech in acknowledging the freedom of the City to-day that Lord Selby has not yet fully recovered from the breakdown in the latter days of his Speakership which compelled him to resign the office.

There was a lack of vigour -in the voice, an indecision, an occasional loss of tho thread of the discourse, in marked contrast to the crisp, clear style of his deliverances from the Chair. But the bright. yo and the fine complexion were good to look upon, and, surrounded as he was by a maze or gowns of scarlet and gold, Lord Selby, in plain morning dress, was yet tho most dignined figure of the group. In the front row tne body of the. hall (the platform being strictly civic) were two whose personal appearance one observed especially.

JLhe hrst was tne present Speaker (Mr. Lowther), and one saw that the report that he had shaved his beard is not true. The other was Jreeu ana one saw that his raven hair of the old days is now almost startlingly white, Scepticism is th note of official persons this afternoon in referring to th reports from St. Petersburg of negotiations between ih British and Russian Governments for a mutual definition of their interests in Asia. Nevertheless it seems to be regarded as possible that the Russians may have thought the time favourable for amicable discussion on the subject once they had made up their minds to take th Anglo-Japanese Treaty simply, and more particularly as public opinion this country was favourable to an understanding in regard to Asia and was friendly to Russia in this respect.

Th communication of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty to Russia after peace had been signed may have afforded a good opportunity for conversations as to Afghanistan and Persia, and perhaps Asia Minor and Turkey. England has much to give that Russia would value a free hand, for example, in Asia Minor and the Black Sea. All this, I say, is regarded as possible. Still it is doubted whether any exchange of views on the subject has taken place. The Russian press at th moment is friendly to an understanding, but it is questioned whether official Russia is equally favourable.

And on th whole th attitude of thos whose business it is to watch the currents of foreign policy is one of great doubt of th truth of th reports, and mere speculation as to a question of fact is of small profit. If ther are such negotiations th world will soon hear of them. There was a noble piece of devotion in Lord Fortescue's life that deserved the Victoria Cross. When was a young man and a member of Parliament he took a great interest in military hospitals, and in visiting them he contracted ophthalmia, which led to his losing an eye. But indeed his whole life was a devoted one, and it is a good old man that his friends are regretting to-night.

He was much looked up to in Devonshire, where the family has been seated since that' day when, as the story runs, the gallant warrior, protecting William of Normandy when he was unhorsed at the Battle of Hastings with his shield, won the nam of "Fort-escu," or stout shield. By his friends of other days, too, ho. might be known such friends as Sir Stafford Northcote and Dr. Vaughan, the Master of the Temple. He was a mindful son of Harrow and of Trinity, Cambridge, a sportsman, a great county gentleman, and therewith a lay reader.

He lived, of course, in land of a famous sport, and for generations th Fortescues hv been connected with thevred-deer hunting on It is a land that will som day be more than a matter of red deer to the family. Lord Fortescue not long ago bought Exmoor, and his heir will reap the harvest of mines enough to make hnn a very rich man. For thos wnose recollections of London are long th lat Lord has a special place in th memory, for he was, I think, th very last man who used to rid about London rid. for down to th House of Lords or to pay calls ia an aiternoon. Jie was, too, a typical Whig, a Brooks's Club man of th old school.

xnat means that he was a Unionist very strongly opposed to Gladstonian It is curious that he should have died "just as we are reading the life of Lord Granville' who was the prominent figure in the healing of th breach that split Brooks's in th Horn tui days. I hear that the new building of th Post-office on the site of Christ's Hospital is to.be called King Edward's Building. It must have, been an easy christening. King Edward VII. is to lay the oundation-ston nf the building that supplants the school of King .1 X7T TTZ TI, ami jving xiawara-street runs down one side of the site.

Members of the Order of St. Michael and St. George were exhibiting a good deal of self- importance no doubt justifiable in the south-west corner of the nave of St. Paul's Cathedral this morning. The new 'chapel of their Order was for the first time open for th inspection of members, and the architect and officers of the Order were in attendance to explain everything to everybody.

This -will go on until' Thursday. Th formal opening will not take place until the Prince of "Wales, who is Grand Master, shall have returned from India in May next. There is a great deal tb be done before thenx and the workmen will not be out for some months yet. The 4,800 already subscribed has accounted for the carved woodwork; the new -window, and a good deal of decoration besides but the altar and reredos, lectern, cupboard to contain the register of the Order, office books for the stalls, and seats ar still-, wanting. The i 1 -i 11 J.T ii Tr- the right is that of th Grand Master, and on t-cuuui avail uu- uw wresu is-ior-Tilie rj OH make terms with a democracy is in part devoted to a somewhat crude" and angry Socialism and in part attached to nationalist ambitions which are much more anti-Austrian than those of the Magyars proper.

The Crown and the Magyars are necessary to one another' unless the whole Austro-Hungarian system is to be recast on revolutionary lines. Both are at heart conservative, and in the nd, one feels, they -must contrive to reach some compromise, however meaningless it may be. The Austrian Empire is a patchwork, which owes more to geography than to human reason, but-only 6om Titanic tailor, called by destiny to make Europe anew, would care to meddle with its clumsy seams. A garment which survived the tearing of Napoleox and the stitching of Bisjiabck has proved that in some shapeless way it really is adapted to human needs. We would draw attention to the Conference on Women's Lodging-houseB to be held in th Town Hall to-day th outcome of much local effort towards remedying the terrible evils first brought horn to us in this district by Mrs.

Higgs. Th question is not exactly a tramp." question. The class of women workers whom a bona-fide search for work causes to wander from town to town is inconsiderable compared to that of similar male wayfarers but there is a veiy large class whom desertion, or th death of relatives, or th loss through unemployment of self-earned livelihood renders, temporarily, or even permanently, homeless and anchorless. What have such women, to fall back upon in Manchester? The casual ward, the common lodging-house, and the street are th alternatives, and the tendency of the first two is to drive women to the third. The casual ward, being in the nature of public free relief, is governed by the' Poor Law principle of deterrence, and even if it were always much better managed than it commonly is now even if all the minor defects found by those who have sampled it were remedied it could never bo the poor women's hotel which We are desiderating.

The common lodging-houses to which women can resort are for the most part insanitary and dirtily kept, and their moral atmosphere is of the vilest. presume that a good many only escape being closed by the health authorities because no alternative accommodation for the women exists. There are not for women places relatively as good as tho large common lodging-houses for men only; yet the Manchester and Salford Corporations, which from 1899 and 1894 respectively have each owned and conducted a largo lodging-house for men, have not yet attempted one for women. The reason is, suppose, the peculiar moral difficulty, and also the greater difficulty' of controlling female rowdyism. That these difficulties are not really insurmountable has been shown by the Glasgow Corporation, whose large lodging-house for women has been run for thirty years in a most successful manner.

It seems time that Manchester and Salford attempted something similar; and if th municipalities still hold back, private philanthropy ought to step in. Con sidering how much of our philanthropy is due to our women's effort, sympathy should certainly be forthcoming for those of their sisters who are exposed to tho worst peril. Of th appalling evils now rampant in the women's lodging-houses there is, unhappily, no doubt; they have been investigated and verified. A careful essay on "Tho physical Deterioration of the English People" which a capable French economist contributes to the "Annales des Sciences Politiques" may help us in some measure to see in their true per spective tne anxieties which have perplexed most of us of late years. M.

Savary is much impressed by the pessimism which seemed to sweep over the whole country about th timo or the lat Queen's death, which happened to uuinciae witn tne gloomiest period of the Boer 7 War. He thinks that we said in our hearts, more or less consciously, The Victorian era is closed," while the revelation of our military weakness prepared us for alarmist speculations. In that mood the material came swiftly to our hands. Mr. Rownxree's book on "Poverty" came to confirm th early con clusions of Mr.

Boora. The notorious facts about the later batches of Yeomanry recruits lent substance to the statistics of the War Office about the physical deficiencies of re cruits in industrial districts. Then came the London School Board's discovery that 16 per oeno or tne cnnaren its schools are under fed. The census helped us to realise as we had never don before the meaning of rural depopulation and the gradual transformation of an agricultural England into something which is beginning to resemble Mr. Carnegie's dream of a pleasure-ground for millionaires.

And yet, contrasting our condition with that of the Continent, M. Sayary is inclined to envy us our economic conditions, and -condole with us only on the possession of certain undesirable social and moral traits the tendency of our working classes towards a sort of cheap and shoddy luxury, their distaste for home life, their passion for th public-house and th racecourse, the bad management of their housewives, and th choice of foods which rather cheat hunger than build up strength. In all this there is nothing irremediable, and modern medical science lays its emphasis rather on environment than on heredity, teaching, indeed, that th vast majority, even of th poorest children, starti with an energy that will suffice for a normal life if only the suitable conditions can be provided. Our really bad period was, he thinks, some fifty years ago before the Factory Acts had modified industrial conditions. So Franc was at her worst in th last years of Lours XIV.

the energy of reform came a hundred years later, when" th general misery was actually much less sharp. Tb evil ia real and profound and. far from modern. It is only our consciousness of it that is new. But that consciousness is already a point of departure for improvement, and therefor for hope.

To the man -in the street the quarrel 'between the theatres and the mnsie-nalls does not appear very serious, and yet, for the common peace, it is satisfactory to learn that "five, leading managers from each side have arranged to meet and fix up a modus vivendi "or compromise to do away with furtner legal or otherwise." It has all come about; in the evolution of the music-hall and the appearance of the "sketch" by which term such performances as Mrs. Brown- Potter's a'tthe Manchester Hippodrome last anchester Hippodrome last strongly' adverse to such a proposal. Viscount Selbv. ex-Sneaker of the Hons of Commons, was yesterday presented with the -freedom of the City of London. Lord Rendel, a- former chairman of the Welsh Liberal Parliamentary party, nas addressed to the present chairman, Sir Alfred Thomas, a forcible plea that Welsh disestab lishment should continue to oe wcawu distinctively Welsh issue, and not.

be merged in any general disestablishment movement for England and Wales. TVi- Tjnrl Government Board last night issued a circular on the powers and. duties of distress committees appointed nnder the Un employed Workmen Act. The Glasgow steamer Ruby and the New castle steamer Prudhoe Castle collided in the Firth of Forth yesterday. The Ruby sank almost immediately, and seven 01 ner crew, including the captain, are missing.

There was a much more cheerful tone on the London Stock Exchange yesterday, but quota tions as a rule were not much cnangea. Jiome railway stocks were, favourably affected by the traffic returns. With the exception of a slight reaction towards the close of the market, cotton futures in New York yesterday advanced steadily and closed 19 to 24 points up. Cotton on the spot advanced 10 points. "Fair generally, becoming cooler" is the weather forecast for to-oay.

FOREIGN. The Hungarian Diet met yesterday, only to listen to a Royal autograph letter proroguing the House till December 19, no success having been obtained in forming a new Government, The Ministers did not attend the "sitting. Count Andrassy, one of the leaders of the Coalition, in a calm and- dignified speech denounced the Ministers for their non- appearance, protested against the proroga tion, and emphasised the conflicting nature of the views held respectively by the King and the niaioritv of the House. He then read a protest asainst the Government's procedure He was followed by Count The Liberal leader held that no debate was admissible after the reading of the prorogation, and left the Hall in company with his supporters. Count Andrassy' resolution was then almost unanimously adopted.

Uur Vienna correspondent telegraphs that it is generally believed the Fejervary Cabinet will be re appointed and that a dissolution of Parliament will take place about the new xear. The British China Squadron, under Admiral Noel, left Kobe yesterday, and is due at Yokohama to-day. The Tokio journals Dublish articles civing the British vessels a hearty welcome. The Assistant Governor of Finland, who recently sent to St. Petersburg alarmist t- ports of Finnish plots against the Russians of Helsingfors, has been recalled from his post.

The assassin of Herr Johnsson, the Procurator of the Finnish Senate, has escaped from prison in Helsingfors The Norwegian Storthing on Monday night adopted the Karlstad Convention for the settlement of future relations between Sweden and Norway, and yesterday the special session was closed. The President stated that no communication had been addressed by the Premier to the Danish Royal House During the evidence given before the Insurance Investigation Committee yesterday in New York the Vice President of the Mutual admitted that the Company had subscribed in lUb, lyuu, and 1904 the sums oE 3,000, 7,000, and 8,000 respectively to the Repub lican National Campaign funds. There was som valuable criticism of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in yesterday's "Times'' from the pen- of Mr. Leonard Coubtnet, wnose nne idealism, and. rare detachment of mind command very wide deference amongst thoughtful people of all shades of opinion.

In a singularly ineffectual answer to his arguments the Times says what think is the on thing that certainly cannot truly be said of the Treaty. "The it writes, "have considered all these matters and have given their verdict That the majority of Englishmen are inclined to approve the Treaty is probably true but of serious consideration ther has been little sign, and indeed it is one of the objections to the Treaty that it took care to forestall tha possibility of public consideration. Loyalty to our promises under the Treaty is quit compatible with resentment at the haste with which a discredited Government has com mitted the country to what is, after all, a revolution in our foreign policy, and a disposition to approve th Treaty is compatible with perfect willingness to hear the other side. Mr. Lbonabd Cotjbtnet still, believes in our old policy of holding ourselves aloof from alliances, partly because they may prove dangerous entanglements, but even more be cause they are apt to impair our influence in the world.

He points out that it was our first Treaty with Japan which prevented us from competing for th glory that has fallen to America and to- President Roosevelt as the peacemakers. It is ambition for England that prompts Mr. Couhtney's distrust of alliances, with the loss of freedom and of power that they bring. Looking over the map of Europe, with its seething jealousies and alarms, with neighbours watching and distrusting one another, interpreting and misinterpreting 'every word and anxiously countervening real or imagin ary intrigues, the thought ariseB our influence ought to be dominant ia their counsels through our disinterestedness. This is a fine ambition, compared to which the policy of alliances is a confession of comparative failure.

The friendship with France, which the "Times" quotes as an argument against Mr. Cottbtnet, is rather a strong argument for his view. As. Mr. Cotjutnet put it in his speech at Edinburgh last night, our relations with foreign Powers should be those of friendship, not of alliance.

Had our friendship been an alliance we -i i 1 1 5iiuuiu cervainiy nave iost. innuence Europe and we might even have been at war. It is because our friendship, as events have shown, is not an entanglement nor designed for selfish advantage, but only operative in work for the general good of mankind, that so many in both countries be lieve in its future. Mr. Cotjktxey yields to non in his admira tion for the fine qualities of the Japanese nation.

He sees, it is true, much vulgar worship or success in the praises given to them, but- he also admits that there lias been a great revelation which will have its uses to Europe if it is understood. At the same time he doubts some of the facile generalisa tions about Japan. Ihe war may have been on of self-defence, but "an unaggressive temper which has secured the suzerainty of "Corea and the transfer of the Liao-tung concession is rather, expansive, if not ex-" plosive, in its Ho. points oat that high military qualities are rarely dissociated from military, ambition, and tiat the attack of Japan, upon China -to secure the control over Corea was the beginning of things in. the I tr "uu argument -y with canopies are reserved for the JUUgnxs Grand Cross, Knights Commanders will sit in front of these, and chairs for will occupy the floor of the chapel.

I fancy I have in this same space in other days seen Dr. Tristram presiding over his Consistory Courts. It was inevitable that there should be some criticism' to-day, when the London County Council cam back to work, of tha proposed expenditure of 5,000 on the ceremony at the opening of Kingsway next week. It was 6aid not only that the sum was excessive, but that it was illegal to. take any money at all out of the rates for such a purpose.

It was also pointed out that as th 5,000 is to bo charged to capital account London will be paying for "this half-hour" for the next sixty years. On the other side it was said) that the ceremony would be a good advertisement for the land which the Council has to" sell along the great new thoroughfare. The Chairman of General Purposes Committee valued the land, roughly, at five millions, and remarked that with such a property to dispose of it -was only "common business prudence" to invite as large a number of persons as possible to the ceremony. But this was as shocking as the extravagance. You are going to use the King as an advertisement," one member protested.

The Council is very grateful to the King," said the Progressive "for any sign the interest which he takes our work." Ther were only seven votes against the grant. The children the Council schools are to have a holiday, ana arrangements are being made for "some ten thousand of them to attend the ceremony. The members of the Municipal Council of Paris, who are to be the guests of the London County Council next week, are also to be present. To-day the auctioneer mounted the stage of another old London theatre and dispersed- its contents. It was the little Strand Theatre's turn this time.

It is the fifth playhouse round St. Clement Danes that has had to make wayfor the London County Council's great reconstruction, the Gaiety, the Opera Comique, the Globe, and the Olympic being the others. The Strand, however, is a comparatively new playhouse, but its history is long. The old house that "was condemned a few years ago had led an intermittent theatrical life for about eighty years. Charles Kean, Phelps, and Celeste had been among its earlier performers, but its chief associations in the minds of elderly playgoers are with Mari Wilton, in H.

J. Byron's burlesques, and Edward Terry. Its earlv davs were spent in panorama. It served as a chapel for a year, and then became a playhouse and fought the Lord Chamberlain after the manner of the theatres of the forties, when Covent Garden and Drury Lane theatres were th only lawful places for tho production of the drama. In ate years its fiery little door in the deserted end of the nocturnal Strand was one of the most-curious "effects" in London, and in this manner it persists in vhe works or several artists Another coming change in the physiognomy of the Strand hereabouts is tho destruction of the old rofaced building which has served as Short's "Winehouse during the rebuilding on the old site.

bhort has stood hero for more than a hundred and fifty years, and tho aged appearance of the temporary house had been a constant shock to old gentlemen revisiting London, who could not reconcile its appearance with the bhort' they remem bered, and so lost confidence in their memory. At Queen's Hall to-night Mr. Wood pro duced a novelty which was looked forward to with interest because one had heard a good deal of "Siegmund von symphonic poem Barbarossa." It deals, of course, with the legend of the emperor who sleeps a magic sleep and will awaken to defeat the, oppressor and rescue th people in their need. Th poem is divided into three movements, of which the first depicts the people and their distress, the second the emperor in his magio cave, and th last his awakening and th onslaught of his supernatural hosts on th oppressor. Herr von Hausegger has at his command all the colours of th modern orchestral palette and uses them with no little skill, though is too fond of a perpetual glow of bright hues and his habit of piling climax on climax seems to bo a device of rhetoric rather than th inspiration of true eloquence.

But still there is no little virtue in rhetoric if it is really first-rate. Herr von Hausegger's music is certainly that, and it is. quit likely that a further hearing may prove that it is even more. His themes ar broad and expressive if a little reminiscent, and he uses his hit motifs with a feeling for musical psychology which is very modern. His later work, the Dionysische Fantasie," is thought of even more highly than Barbarossa," and on will be glad to make its acquaintance.

CAPTIVE ENGLISHMAN. THE MACEDONIAN BRIGANDS' DEMAND. Reuter's Agency has obtained som information regarding Mr. PMlip Wills, the English gentleman whose fat is for the moment a matter of grave concern to th British Consular officials in Macedonia. Mr.

Graves, Consul General at Salonica, left on the 6th inst. for Monastir, and it is believed that his journey was prompted by the receipt of a cut-off ear together with th letter affirming that it has been severed from the head of Mr. Wills, who was detained prisoner by brigands, and for whose release 6,000 ransom must be paid befor Saturday. Mr. Wills was captured by brigands in the district of Monastir about th middle of July whil out shooting.

About fortnight later a body was found near Ochrida, and it was positively declared that it was that of Mr. Wills, who had clearly been murdered. A week later Hilmi Pasha, the Turkish Inspector General -of Macedonia, gave notice that the report of the murder was untzue and that Mr. Wills had joined a Greek band. It was not until the beginning of SeptemW that the truth leaked out.

Definite information was then received that Mr. Wills was alive bnt was the prison of a band of brigands The young Englishman who formed th subject of these contradictory reports, and whose situation is now causing anxietv is about 27 years of age. He is the son of an engineer who was for many years engaged in key, and is the brotheiTof the British Consular Agent at Ismed. Always of an adventurom disposition, he volunteered for service with -the rish nny in the-Boer War and went to South Africa. Whil there, however, he was thrown from his horse and being invalided home, returned to Turkey' where, through the influence of relatives he obtained an appointment with the Turkish Tobacco Regie.

the tjme of fc outrages in Salonica Mr. Wills had an acci-i a i5TOlTe narrowly escaped with his life, being laid up for weks tngWj probable that the ear which has been sent to the British. Consulate at Salonica is not really that of -Mr but has been sent with the idea of bringing pressure to bear in order th better to enlrort payment; of the. ransom demanded Those who are acquainted with aff aim in Macedonia do not -think that the sum named is greater than the brigands are likely to claimf as on previous-occxanons ran nd- Iesg considerable hay been demanded as ransom for th can-' tives of bandits. -v.

The Archbishop of York has licensed the Rev. Svdnev TowIb- 1 st. Luke's. Ho.lliscrof Sheffield-" The King will arrive at Euston on Satr evening and drive to Buckingham paV Later in the evening he is expected to Charing Cross Station to meet the Queen Princess Victoria on their return from mark. Soon after the conclusion of London engagements the Queen will Sandringham.

The King will probabl? a flying visit to Norfolk, and all the avai.aV members of his family will be at SandrinMia'6 for the celebration of his birthda Court will be removed to Windsor November 13. I CP At a meeting of the Wimborne yesterday it was stated that as the visit to Lord Alington at Crichel will bo private character it is desired that no a shall presented, and that the decor.tio'J of the route from the station be left to occupiers of premises. During his star tK King, it is expected, will visit Lord at Bryanston House, and motor Kingston Lacy, tho Dorset home of th Bankes family, which is peculiarly nch works of th bid masters. St. Giles's Hoi; the seat of Lord Shaftesbury, and IucrRI House, Dorset, the residence of Lqh.

Wolverton, are within easy motoring distance of Crichel, as is also Canford Manor, b.iDr, mg to Jjora vvimoorne. J. no Crichel, over which the King has shot sercn times, are remarkably well stocked. QUEEN VICTORIA MEMORIAL, AUSTRALIA'S Reuter's Melbourne correspondent te'e rs graphed yesterday: In the House of piepre sentatives to-day Mr. Deakin, the Federal Pr.

i mier, moved the grant of 25,000 as contribution towards tne co3t ot the Victoria Memorial London. Mr. the Labour leader, opposed tho motion. yielding to no one in his adaiiratiou fur th late Queen, he deprecated the of half a million on bricks and mortar j. wicked and sinful waste.

Hie was however, to vote in favour of a movement relieve distress either in Australia or Londre. The debate was adjourned. MIL CHAMBERLAIN'S HETUKX. Mr. Chamberlain, who will return to England towards the end of the month, has undertakea to deliver his annual address to his constituent of West Birmingham in the Town Hall pi, November 3.

Mr. Henry Payton, chairman the Liberal Unionist Divisional Council, will preside. The tickets will be distributed auio'n- both Conservatives and Liberal Unionists. WITTE. Count Witte has been again honoured by si Imperial rescript eulogising the services which he rendered in concluding peace with Japan.

PROFESSOR BEHRING'S DISCOVERY. The New York Herald of yesterday says is authorised to state that a prominent citizen of New York, whose name is not disclosed, will give 10,000 to a fund for Professor Behtin; if he will immediately announce his cure for consumption, and provided that the treatment he advises for this disease is pronounced to be successful by a competent committee of physicians. NEW MAYORS. Mr. Hugh Ross, hotel proprietor and wite and spirit merchant, of Wigan and Bolton, has aooepted the invitation of the Wigan Coewtj-tives to -be the mayor of the to coming year.

Mr. Alderman H. W. Newton, in reply in requisition, has expressed his willingness to accept nomination for the mayoralty of Ne eastle-on-Tyne. There are now three probaKs candidates for the position in the year" the present Mayor (Mr.

Aldermia Baxter Ellis), Lord Armstrong, and Mr. Alderman Newton. Mr. Alderman Penman yesterday consented to comply with the wishes of his Council colleagues and to serve as mayor of Gateshead for a third year. GERMAN ROYAL WEDDING.

The German- Emperor and Empress and th! Imperial Plinees have arrived at Glucksbnrg, on board tho Hohehzolrcrn, for the wedding ts-day of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg aiad Gotha. and Princess Victoria Adelaide of Sonderbuig-Glucksburg. The Hohenzollern anchored o9 the coast yesterday morning," and their Majesties -were shortly afterwards visited on board the yacht by the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duke Frederick Ferdinand of Son-derburg-Gliicksburg," father of the bride. present of the Emperor and Empress is a P1-celain dinner service. A large number of princely guests were cm-tinually arriving yesterday.

The caBtle and grounds are beautifully decorated, and the guard of honour is furnished by the so-called Friedrichsgarde in their old-fashioned uniforms; Sir Michael and Lady Hicks-Beach and Sit Edward Boyle, K.C., are now at Hong Kong, on their way to Singapore, where Sir Michael and Sir Edward will arbitrate in the purchase of the Tanjong Pagar Socks by the Straits Govern ment. Miss Alice Roosevelt has passed through Tokio on her way to Yokohama, whence she sails for home on Friday. She is accompanied I by an official of the Imperial Household Department specially appointed for the The death occurred at Oraagh. yesterday, at the age of eighty-three, of Major Burleigh Stuart, a descendant of the Boyal Stuarts. He was the son of the Hon.

Andrew Stuari, brother of the Earl of Castlestuart. The first Earl was Robert Stuart, third son of Robert II. of Scotland. The Council of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce yesterday passed a resolution of condolence with the family of the late Lord Inrer-clyde. The resolution added that the Council of the Chamber very highly appreciated th active administrative qualities displayed Lord Inverclyde in his capacity of chairman ci the Cunard Company.

The East Riding Antiquarian-Society's investigations in the Scarborough district brought to a close yesterday. The merabe -drove through the old villages oil Ayton, Wyie-ham, and Snainton, to Scamridge Dyfce. examining the churches on tb route. Ib historic features of the dykeB were explftin by the Rev. Maule Cole.

The party, which included the President (Lord Hawkssbury't, re' turned by way TroutadaJ Scsrborouffb- The principal football cpaches of 'Harvai3. Yale, and Princeton Universities (says Laffao'8 Washington correspondent) were President Roosevelt's guests at luncheon the White House on Monday. It is believed that the President auf gested to them means for mating football as played in the United States le35 brutal and professional. Poasibly some h'ghl may be thrown on this question by an n' cident recently recorded. Columbia Universi'-y played thevWealeyan University of Middleton, Connecticut! While a Colnrnbia player '3 lying on 'the field the opposing full back jump1' at' hini and descended, full pa his back.

3 Columbian --becameVuncphscious. "Columbia'3 coach ran on- the field and hit the full back in ace. fulVWck too, it is said, becarria 'sportsmen of both s3 then' took were finally dnoed tp order by pollceii.