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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, TUESDAY. APREC 17, 1906. KING EDWARD'S TOUR. temperature is the weather forecast for to-day. FOREIGN.

It is announced at Rome that the German Ambassador has addressed to the Italian Foreign Office an official communication expressing sympathy on account "of the eruption Of "Vesuvius. An Imperial ukase has been issued at St. Petersburg forecasting the Budget for 1906 and sanctioning the new loan. Mr. Roosevelt confesses that his proposal, by means of a graduated income tax or death duties, to impose a limit to private wealth was put forward mainly to set people thinking," and that he does not intend to take any immediate steps in Congress in that direction.

OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE. (BY PRIVATE WIRE.) London, Monday Night. If it is true and there seems no good" reason to doubt it that the Edwards collection of Whistler etchings mentioned in the New York "Tribune" as sold to an American printseller is the collection which belonged to King Edward America now holds the more important share of the existing works of her great artist. Some weeks ago it was officially stated that the King had disposed of a number of prints from Royal collections, and it was known that Messrs. Agnew had purchased them.

The Whistler etchings are said to have numbered 150 of the series that were shown at the Whistler Memorial Show at the New Gallery. They include the early French etchings, the Thames sets, the Venice sets, the rare little marine set most done at Cowes during a great naval review, and a number of miscellaneous prints, some very rare. The price is said to reach five figures. The Americans, besides capturing many of the rarest etchings from the Mortimer Menpes collection and from the exhibition at Messrs. Obach's, have within the past four years added the Princesse du Pays de Porcelaine," the Peacock-room, and the portrait of Henry Irving to their store.

Fortunately the one Whistler painting which we 'can least spare "The Little White Girl is in as secure keeping as any privately owned picture may have. The late Mr. F. Stibbert, of Vlontughi, Florence, who has just left his fine art collection to the nation, was a very popular member of Florentine society. He was educated at Harrow and Cambridge, and when quite young took service as a volunteer under Garibaldi, and was decorated for personal THE OLD WATER-COLOUB SOdETY.

At the-Old Water-colour Society's ahow4his year we have the usual comprehensive demon, stration of nearly a century of the gentle art. A baler or worthier set of veterans than the Old Guard of this Society never could have existed. Mr. William Callow, who is in bis 97th year, reflects the virile triumphs-, of his youth; Mr. J.

J. Hardwick, who is 91, paints as prettily as ever his little bunch of primroses Mr. H. Clarenoe Whaite, who is 78, has his large Turneresque views of WelBh mountains; and Miss Clara Montalba, who was a pupil 0f Isabey, sends one of her most delicate and romantic visions of Venice. Of the middle period we have much careful, uninspired work.

Mr. E. R. Hughes's moonlight scene of a Val-kyrie surely the znoBt ladylike Valkyrie who ever sat up all night-on guard on the battle-ments high over a town, a wonderfully well realised effect of September sunshine over fields by Mr. Alfred Parsons, several of Sir Ernest Waterlows pleasing, wistful landscapes that just miss tenderness, and two pictures by Mr.

C. Napier Hemy of boats at sea, one in; stormy moonlight and the other at dawn, ofi much greater emotional force than ho usually attains to. For want of emotional force Mr. W. Allan, one of the most vigorous and skilful painters of the time, still remains amongst -his inferiors in the consideration of the public, but the brilliant shorthand of his Dieppe square, the unerring draughtsmanship of his steady fishing-boats in shelter, contrasted with the driving waves outside the harbour, remain to stimulate the envious student.

Mr. David Murray's warmer temperament breathes something of his master Constable's spirit into the little "Autumn Weather," although he, too, cannot be absolved from a certain mental indolence in the selection of the effect. Again Mr. Goodwin ranges the heavens like one of Mr. Hardy's Phantom Intelligences with his poetic comment on the happenings in the little world below; he chats of Durham towers rising grimly through the grey dawn with a benignant touoh of gold on the young birch trees, of the Duomo, Palermo, in its fragile beauty, of Amalfl, and of the black head and shoulders of St.

Paul's over the darkling City, and the red sun going down in his wrath. Th scene changes, and we have "Man Friday Escaping from the Savages." Mr. Tuke shows a very delightful picture of Falmouth at sundown, delicate and evanescent in colour. Mr. James Paterson, besides a view of a village bridge at dusk expressed with beautiful simplicity, has a room interior with a girl on her knees at her morning work, a departure from his usual subject-matter which shows the same gracious1 vision of things and ease to express it.

The most amazing work in the show comes, of course, from Mr. Sargent, whose contribution so shatter the work around them that the Society must see that the only way to deal with thii painter is to give him a wall to himself. Two of his works are Arab studies that he has brought back from his Eastern tour; the third is a full-length portrait of Mias Eden. His young and beautiful sitter is dressed in white with a crimson curtain behind her head, much as Lawrence might have conceived it. The eye searches in vain to discover any hint how the extraordinary solidity and electric force of the picture is attained.

The simple, swift modelling, the two pin points of white in the eyes, the. absence of pink yet the full sensation of a beautiful healthy face, the smudge of blue above the shoulder sending the background further back, the passage of blue down the white bodice the giant ease of it baffles, ex secondly, if the Indian garrison could be safely reduced to little more than sixty thousand during the South African War, when we were on bad terms with all Europe and in serious military difficulties, how comes it that' seventy thousand is not enough now, when the Russian army has been destroyed as a fighting machine, when we have a military alliance with Japan and the friendly understanding with France, and when we are feeling our way to good terms with Germany? Nobody need be surprised that Senators cheered a speech in which Mr. Roosevelt declared that the limitation of enormous fortunes must be taken in hand by the State. Mr. Roosevelt's instincts are so generous and his emotions so vehement that he says "must where ho really means "ought," that he clothes a pious aspiration with the passion and the force of a mastering gospel.

It would be unsympathetic to object to this emphatic mode of expression but for two reasons. In the first place, fierce emotions have a tendency to exhaust themselves quickly. It is, for instance, a little chilling to pass from an impassioned exordium on excessive wealth to a commonplace peroration on moderation in speech and action. But the effect upon the orator himself is even worse than the effect on the listener. He grows so accustomed to a diet of splendid but distant visions and glowing butun-creative words that the modest and possible good which lies near at hand appears too mean to be worth the serious attention of an idealist who has looked upon the millennium.

Many Americans are suggesting that this has been the melancholy fate of Mr. Roosevelt. They point out that the direct limitation of fortunes is for the present as idle a dream as the Constitution and the absence of public opinion can render it, while there are certain sober reforms which the Constitution permits and which public opinion demands and which the President approves without bringing a step nearer to realisation. The Supreme Court, for instance, has recently declared that the servants of corporations can be compelled to show their books and to give the fullest evidence as to their operations. Why not turn the edge of this decision against the Trusts? Efficient administration is always more within a President's control than new and it may be superfluous legislation.

Again, why allow his own party to defeat a measure for preventing that discrimination in freights which has helped the Trust and the millionaire not a little in freezing out the small competitor? Or yet again, why allow a few American tobacco growers to ruin by means of the tariff the Philippines, thesoene of i the first missionary enterprise of American civilisation? If Mr. Roosevelt were to answer these questions, the building of the New Jerusalem would not be greatly advanced, but his idealism would be spared the barbed shafts of the satirist and the cynic. The new enterprise at Kilkenny whioh Mr. Brycb blessed yesterday is an excellent and inspiriting sign from a country where such things are heartily desiderated but, unhappily, rarely apparent. The opening of woollen mills in Ireland to employ three hundred hands will not immediately depress French and German manufacturers, but there are two good reasons for hoping that it may prove the herald of an imposing future.

An Irish woollen trade, Mr. Bryce pointed out, is not ah exotic, but an industry which would enjoy favourable climatic and economic conditions. Before the "glorious" Revolution of 168S Irish cloth competed so vigorously with English that the English Parliament felt called upon to remove a dangerous rival by prohibiting its manufacture. The Irish linen trade, which is so suc cessful, is the later and the less natural product. No healthy industry, however, can be developed merely by goodwill or by artificial fostering.

It must root itself in individual enterprise and self- reliance. The Greenvale pioneers have these qualities in abundance. They have raised their capital locally and they are anxious to assume all the responsibility for their under taking. What they ask of the Government is that it should assist them, not" by tariffs, but by providing the country with adequate means of communication. The suggestion that the Canal Commission should inquire into the possibility of opening an outlet from Kilkenny to the sea by improving the existing neglected waterway was too wisely practical not to secure Mr.

Bryce's hearty support. If the woollen industry revives to respectable dimensions it will not only diminish the danger of almost exclusive dependence upon agriculture, but it will diminish that danger just where it is most pressing. The North already has its linen and its shipbuilding; the South, the old home of the woollen manufacture, is given up to its uneconomic holdings. Not the least interesting feature about this industrial revival is that its leaders attribute it directly to the Gaelic movement. After this convincing illustration of the power of sentiment the cynic and the stolid practical man ought for ever to hold their peace.

When one considers how readily a Board of Guardians will wash its hands of a hard nase that does not in strict law concern it, it is an interesting fact that the Darlington Union is now spending eighteenpence a week out of pure charity. There came under their notice the case of a young widow, with three small children, who could only partly support herself by charing. They decided that the case was a deserving one, and could be ade quately relieved by out-relief of 6s. a week. The cost of the relief, however, was properly chargeable to the Middlesbrough Union, in which was the woman's native parish, and -Middlesbrough declined to allow more than 3s.

a week, and finally, under protest, 4s. 6d. a week. If that would not do they were ready to receive the woman in their workhouse. Experts differ on the wisdom of giving outdoor relief at all, but they are most of them agreed, "hard" and "soft" schools alike, that if given it is of th utmost importance that it should be sufficient, in the words of the Royal Commissioners, "to meet fully the extent of the destitution." Probably, therefore, the Middlesbrough Guardians were wrong and the Darlington Guardians right.

At all events, the action of Darlington in partly maintaining a pauper alien, as one may say, is the very reverse of the spirit of Bumbledom. It would have been so easy for Darlington to shake its head over the meanness of Middlesbrough and regret that it had no power to do anything. THE PBIME MINISTER. KotwithstandinV the CELESTINS. CSLESHNS.

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Stomach. Hnrttnn, LNNEFOKD'S MAGNESIA. Ths aaf eat and moat eSeeUv aperient xoz regular uae TO-DAY'S PAPER. LEADERS INDIAN FRONTIER POLICY 6 Mr. Roosevelt on Riches 6 The Revival of Irish Industry 8 A Case in Poor Law 6 SPECIAL ARTICLES Old Chairs to Mend 10 The Old Water-colour Society 6 The Pictorial League of Youth 5 Mrs.

Patrick Campbell in The Whirlwind "What the Butler Saw" 8 Borne Recent Music 6 American Cotton Topics 9 Football 3 HEW BOOKS 5 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL Germany and Vesuvius Eruption 7 The Pursuit of Bambaata 6 Indian Frontier Raids 6 GENERAL NEWS The Easter Holiday 7 Mr. Bryce on Irish Prosperity 4 National Union of Teachers 7 Labour Party Conference 8 A New Ministerial Office 7 The Postal Service 10 Good Templars Grand Lodge 8 Moorland Fires 4 Egg-rolling at Preston 10 Blackpool Pier Concerts 4 Holiday Accidents 4 A Working Woman's Lot 10 German Sailors Strike 9 Friends' Social Union 8 Train-wrecking Attempt at Warrington 6 Welsh Signalman's Tragic End 10 Eisteddfod at Chester. 4 Military Manoeuvres at Sheffield 8 Manual Training Teachers 10 Medical Associations 10 Dyers 'and Compensation 9 The Olympic Games 9 The Late Sir John Harwood 5 The Services 8 Cricket Draughts Commercial Notes American Stock Markets American Produce Markets CORRESPONDENCE Middle-class Co operation (Mr. S. W.

SkelhornJ 5 Moral Training (Mr. H. Johnson) 8 THE GUARDIAN. MANCHESTER, TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1906. SUMMARY OF NEWS.

DOMESTIC. The business of the annual Conference of the National Union of Teachers began at Scarborough yesterday. Amongst those who offered the delegates a welcome to the town was Mr. A. H.

Dyke Acland, formerly Minister of Education. The President, Mr. T. P. Sykes, in his opening address referred at length to the Education Bill introduced last week by Mr.

Birrell. As teachers, he said, they hailed with satisfaction the proposal of the Act of 1902 to finance all elementary schools from public funds. He thought they would recognise in the bill of 1906 the corollary of the Act of 1902 in this respect, that as all schools were now financed by public funds, all schools must he managed by publicly elected bodies. Another provision which he viewed with the liveliest satisfaction was the abolition of religious tests upon teachers. The delegates will discuss the bill to-day.

Mr. Bryce, Chief Secretary for Ireland, visited Kilkenny yesterday to attend the opening of a new woollen mill. In commending the venture he said Ireland had been too much in the past solely an agricultural country. When the stream of emigration from Ireland stopped, and when, under the beneficial operation of the new agencies which were dealing with the land Question in Ireland, the uneconomical holdings were enlarged and the people were able to make a better living out of the land, they would want even more than they did now to hare other industries and other walks of life into which the other sons of the family could go besides the member of the family who took the father's farm. He therefore hoped that what had been done at Kilkenny would be imitated in many other places in Ireland.

The United Kingdom Postal Clerks' Association held their Conference yesterday at Liverpool. A resolution was carried expressing satisfaction that at last a Parliamentary inquiry has been secured, and appreciation of the action of the Postmaster General. The Conference was mainly occupied with wages matters nnd with the subject of Parliamentary representation, with which was involved the question of affiliation with the Labour Representation Committee. The Shop Assistants' Conference yesterday fctrongly condemned the living-in system, approved a bill making it compulsory on local authorities (subject to a resolution of the ratepayers) to fix the hours of shop opening, and protested against the exclusion of shop-workers from the Workmen's Compensation Bill. Sir Charles Dilke spoke at a dinner in tne evening on toe prospects of legislation The English Grand Lodge of Good Templars ore meeting this week at Newcastle-on-Tyne.

At yesterday's session the report was read of the Electoral Superintendent? commenting on the results of the general election from the point or view of temperance reform. Ihe Lord Mayor of London (Mr. Walter Vaughan Morgan) was given a civic and popular reception at Chester yesterday, on nis visit, to tne tnester Eisteddfod. The Independent Labour party's Conference was opened yesterday at Mockton-on-Tees Mr. Philip Snowden, M.P., the retiring chair man.

spoke on the alliance with trade unionists, the success of Labour candidates at the polls, and the Education Bill. Their party, he said, stood for a system of education from which the so-called religious teaching was completely removed. The Government's bill would increase the bitterness of sectarian conflict tenfold, and if the Labour party were true to their principles they would have to cive it unauahfied onnositinn P.ni; dealing with a variety of topics were after wards aiscussea. -Air. J.

Jttamsay Macdonald, M.P., was elected chairman of the party. The long drought is beine followed bv mnnr- land fires in several parts of the country. Yesterday one broke out on Lord Lonsdale's grouse moors on ocap ells and spread to a length of quite a mile. Evans, the Welsh signalman, whose story of an attempt to wreck a Great Western train last week at Llangollen caused so much sensation, yesterday shot himself. He had been suspended by the Company as the result of an official inquiry into the case.

Light to fresh south-west to north-west brecises, changeable, local showers, moderate NATURAL MINERAL WATER FOB GOVT, HAVEL, RHEUMATISM, rejected, and don't mind it very much. He gave me just one instance. There was a middle-aged lady who had never had a picture in an exhibition. When her notice of rejection comes she goes into hysterics and tears it up, and after that is over has, of course, to sit down and write-for another rejection notice, for otherwise she would not be able to get her picture back. To change the subject, I asked if there were any new ideas in frames this year7 No, there was nothing to speak of, he said had not been anything special since the Whistler ones, the reedy kind with greenish gilt, hut they hod never properly taken on.

People were particular enough about frames, but he was not sure that they often put them on the fight pictures. The truth was that you never could tell how a picture suited the frame till you had tried it. From a stack of pictures waiting to be sent to an exhibition he selected one well-made black frame with pretty mouldings and commended it. It enclosed a weak water-colour snow scene, from which it had taken what little colour the picture had. I pointed out that the frame spoilt its chances, and the frame-maker, glancing at the picture, said yes, he supposed it did.

The tone in which he said these words is my most depressing memory of our conversation. A week's curling at Prince's after a skating season ends is now an annual event, and the I Anson Cup is to be competed for to-morrow and the next two days by some forty rinks, mainly from the North. The curlers whe visited Kanderstee in the winter are paid to have roused a good deal of interest among tne awiss villagers, but tnat was proDamy oy reason of the strangeness and number of their incantations and their ardour in sweeping the ice, for something more or less akin to the game is found in most places where there is a hard winter, and a correspondent tells me that be came upon it last January in tne lyrol, played by peasants in a form scarcely distinguishable from the authentic Scots form The skating season which came to an end yes terday has been decidedly the most successful from a technical point of view that London has known. We are still without our second rink, to which the inordinate cost of ine-making machinery seems an insuperable bar, but the competitions revealed an altogether surprising standard, especially among ladies, both for pair and single skating. Of the men, Mr.

Greig has come on quite unexpectedly fast, and promises to be one of the world's figure-skaters in another season or two. Mrs. Syers, of course, won her ladies' championship at Davos easily. Even last year a team of five English ladies could probably have challenged the world. This year the number might have been a good deal increased.

THE PURSUIT OF BAMBAATA. A NATIVE VOLUNTEER FORCE. (Press Association Foreign Service.) Durban, Monday. The Zululand Mounted Rifles, who have been called out for aotive service, left Eshowe yesterday to join the troops endeavouring to intercept Bambaata. The "Natal Mercury," referring to the help rendered to the Government by the native auxiliaries during the latest disturbances, expresses the belief that the majority of the Natal natives would place their services at the disposal of the Government if a widespread revolt were to break out The fact, it says, that both the heathen and Christian natives were offering their assistance by the hundred is not generally known.

It alludes to the help spontaneously offered by upwards of 3,000 Christian natives, a number of whom will be enrolled as the nucleus of a force to be employed in quelling any further rebellion. THE SERVIAN REGICIDES. KING PlfrER AND HIS CABINET. Reiltnr'fl 7nr pTvm rln f. nf.

'RAltrrarla taIa. graphed yesterday A list of general mili- tary promotions has been signed by the King, and should have appeared in the Official Gazette yesterday, but as the Cabinet pressed for an announcement of the retirement of the regicides in the same issue, the promotions have been withheld altogether. There is now no doubt that if the Cabinet refuses to settle the new Austrian Treaty and the contract for the supply of new guns from Austrian works before taking up the question of the regicides, the King will accept the Cabinet's resignation, will appoint a business Ministry, and dissolve the Skupshtina, with a view to a general election. "The former Minister M. Kakushen Petrovics has been summoned from Vienna to confer with the King, of whom he had a prolonged audience to-day." PORTUGUESE NAVAL MUTINY.

NO FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS. The Portuguese warships Dom Carlos, Vasco da Gams, Tejo, Adamastor, and Africa are still anchored at the mouth of the Tagus, by order of the Admiralty. There is now (says Reuter) nothing abnormal on board. i GOVERNOR AND LYNCHERS. DRASTIC MEASURES THREATENED.

(From a Correspondent.) Springfield, Missouri, Monday. Though the lynching of three negroes for the maltreatment of a white woman has roused great excitement in this town, the authorities have a tight hold on the people, and the militia are well able to prevent any excesses against the negroes on a large scale. The lynchers have chosen a bad State for their operations, for Governor Folk, of Missouri, is known all over the United States as a determined punisher of evil-doers. He rooted out the corruptionists in Missouri politics, and instituted the prosecution of the Standard Oil officials for illegal trading ww ow no is prepared to clear bpringneld of its leading lynchers. Orders have been given for their nrrt.

and as they are well known it is considered unlikely that they will get away. Governor Folk says be will push the powers of his office to the utmost to punish them -when they are caught. To use his own words, he intends to bring the lynchers to justice, for "the execution of these men will probably uave BMuuarjr euett in cztecKing lynching. TRAIN-WRECKING ATTEMPT. AN ALARM AT WARRINGTON.

The Warrington correspondent of the Press Association says that details have just come to light of an attempt on-Saturday night to wreck London-to-Liverpool express. The tram reached Warrington about eight o'clock, and the driver reported having run over an obstruction between 300 and 400 yards from the station. It was found that railwav Risen had been laid across the line and fastened down. These had been smashed into atoms by the train, and the permanent way was torn up for distance of over 100 yards. The team was crowded with passengers.

The authorities at the Central Station. Man chester, though not denying that an attempt to rtiQux. me uam wa maae, rexuse to Rive sir Information oa th, matter at prase. HIS IMPRESSIONS OF CORFU. "At Corfu on Sunday, at King Edward's request, M.

Metaxas, the Prefect; M. Oollas, the Mayor and Mr. Blakeney, British Consul, went on hoard the Royal yacht and were in turn presented to the King. On M. Metaxas the King conferred the honour of Knight Commander of the Victorian Order, referring in appreciative terms to the splendid reception accorded mm by the people of Corfu, and the good order maintained.

The island, he thought, was one of the most beautiful places he had ever seen. In handing M. Collas the insignia of exm-mander of the Victorian Order King Edward expressed to him his thanks for the warm reception which the people had given him, and said that be should carry away with him the most pleasant impressions of his visit. M. Collas having briefly replied, King Edward next informed Mr.

Blakeney that in recognition of his long service Mr. Blakeney, says Reuter, has filled posts in the Consular service in Albania and Greece since 1862 he had pleasure in appointing him a member of the Victorian Order, Fourth Class. The same honour was conferred on Mr. George Rai-mond, local superintendent of the Eastern Telegraph Company. King Edward and Queen Alexandra have sent the Mayor 20 for distribution among the poor.

The British fleet sailed at a quarter past five on Sunday for Malta, exchanging salutes with the shore batteries as it left. Immediately afterwards King Edward, Queen Alexandra, and the Prince and Princess of Wales drove to Mon Repos, where they took tea. On Saturday King Edward went for a drive without any other attendance than one of his equerries. Crowds of people respectfully greeted the King, who smilingly returned their salutes. In the evening Lord Charles Beresford gave a dinner in honour of the King and Queen and the Prince and Princess of Wales.

The steam launch conveying the Royal party passed from the Victoria and Albert to the Bulwark through double lines of boats splendidly illuminated with electrio lights. As Lord Charles drank the health of the King and Queen both warships and batteries fired a Royal salute. KING ALFONSO'S VISIT. IN STRICT INCOGNITO. A Cowes telegram states that the King of Spain will leave Cherbourg at three o'clock this morning for Cowes, where he is ex pected to arrive about nine o'clock.

Princess Henry of Battenberg and Princess Ena will go off to the King's vessel before he comes ashore. The King of Spain's yacht Giralda arrived at Cherbourg yesterday afternoon, and will await the arrival of the Royal train. The King, before starting on his way to England, conveyed an intimation at Madrid to the press that during his stay at Cowes he would maintain a strict xncognxto, and would refuse any information regarding his journey, his visit being absolutely of a private nature. The King will be absent from Spain for about tnree weeks, xle is tne Dearer or a magnificent present to his Hancie. The Paris "Eclair" states that the Madrid public celebrations in connection with the mar riage of King Alfonso will last from May 28 to June 3.

MB. CHAMBERLAIN. Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain returned from the Continent yesterday, reaching Dover from Calais during the afternoon and London at five o'clock.

Mr. Chamberlain is described as looking strong and well. With reference to the suggestion that the proposed demonstration in honour of Mr. Chamberlain in Birmingham in July should be non-political, the "Birmingham Gazette and Express" says the Committee do not intend to make the matter a merely local concern indeed it would be a grave error to let slip the opportunity of exhibiting in an impressive manner the attachment of the great majority of Mr. Chamberlain's fellow-citizens to the political principles of which he is the foremoBt advocate.

It is added that this is the view entertained by Mr. Chamberlain himself. DUKE OF CO AN A TIGHTS BETURN. The Duke and Duchess of Connaught and Princess Patricia, who have made an extended tour in South Africa, and who, after meeting the King and Queen at Marseilles, spent several days in Paris, arrived at Victoria Station, London, at 7 25 last evening by the Continental mail. They had a hearty reception from a large crowd before driving off to Clarence House.

PBINCE ARTHUR AT OTTAWA. At Ottawa yesterday a civic reception of Prince Arthur of Connaught took place in the City Hall. An address which waB read by the Mayor expressed the country's loyalty to the King and remarked tnat Ottawa was symbolical of the Dominion, whose population was formed of two great races. They have laboured together in xne pasi, tne aaaress continued, in a spirit of mutual sympathy and toleration in laying broad and deep the foundations of a Greater i 1 -i wiine wus advancing the material prosperity of the Dominion the same spirit has been displayed in furthering its moral and mteiieotual progress. While welcoming you to the city we feel that as residents of the capital we oan also welcome you to the Dominion and confidently assure vnn that throughout its wide domain but one spirit auimaxes our people namely, that of devoted loyalty to our King, our country, and to British institutions." The Prince replied, and after the ceremony drove over, amid cheers, to lunch with Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Premier.

In the afternoon the Prince opened an Old English charity fair. THE MOTOR-BOAT MEETING. Motor Press Agency.) Monte Carlo, Monday. The motor-boat meetinir conclndri with Bpeed trials. In the first series of trials Baron de Cater's boat Seasick covered the flying kilometre in 70 3-5sec.

(61 kilometres, or 31i miles, an hour, a world's record). She could, however, only get second in the final. Times were taken over a standing miie and a flying; kilometre. Fiat XIII. won the final in an aggregate of 3min.

36 4-5sec; Seasick, 3min. 41 4-5sec, being second; and Dela-haye, 3min. 51 third. THE -LABOUR VISIT TO AUSTRALIA. A WELCOME FROM VICTORIA.

The Victorian Labour Conference at Melbourne yesterday adopted a resolution expressing gratification at the forthcoming vittt of British Labour delegates to Australia, and assuring them of a most fraternal welcome in Victoria. PfcywciMW (telegraphs correspondent) hope to save the life of the young aeronaut who was seriously injured at Florida Beach on Saturday, ft is feared, however, that he will be paralysed for lit e. He fieri previously experimented with his aeroplane oyer the Hudson River, and since then had been busy remedying peculiarities in the rehine. On Saturday he was tryine it uun. motors, which were towing It, when the framework of the; machine collaTjaed inH h.

the beach, a distance of some 2S0 feet The Indian papers contain reports of speeches in the Viceroy's Council by Lord Kitchener and Lord Minto on army expenditure, and both axe worthy of attention. The speech of Lord Kitchknbr is moderate and almost laboriously tactful in expression, but he says enough to show, that he is in his frontier policy a Russophobe of the worst kind. It is," he said, of course evident that owing to recent events we have a breathing space "in which to complete precautionary measures "which have 'been Tecognised to be But that is no reason why we "should abandon our efforts to improve our army to the standard that was con-" sidered necessary before any of these events occurred." The reference to Russia is sufficiently pointed. But the Viceroy used plainer language Russia's reverses in the "Far East and our alliance with Japan undoubtedly at the present moment minimise "the dangers of the Indian frontier. Mr.

Gokhale has told us that the tide of European aggression in China has been rolled back for good, that the power of Russia "has been broken, and that her prestige in Asia has gone. I am afraid I feel "much more impelled to consider what effect Russian reverses may have on the pride of a high-spirited military race, and I wonder in how long or in how short a time she may feel confident of recovering her lost prestige." These remarkable utterances by the two most powerful men in India are clear proof that fear of Russian aggression is now the fashion able military idea in the Indian Government So long as this mood lasts there is no chance of any reduction of Indian military expenses, nor of reducing our own army by a reduction of the Indian military establishment. For it must never be forgotten that in this matter the cause of the Indian and of the English taxpayer are one. If he manages to reduce his army, so also do we. Indian army policy has therefore a very direct and intimate con cern with us, for nothing is so certain as that the views now held by Lord Kitchener and the Viceroy will, if not combated, have the effect of increasing Mr.

Haldane's difficulties in effecting a reduction of the Estimates. India, it must be remembered, has had no general election, and unless we are vigilant her unreformed administration may be able to defeat the expressed wishes of our Reform Parliament for economy in army expenditure. As in 1895 is becoming a convenient formula for the military economists at home, and, as we have been repeatedly reminded of late, economy in the army spells reform and efficiency. As in 1885 might be made the motto for India. In the last twenty years the British garrison of India has increased from 50,000 to 78,000, and its cost" from 12,000,000 to 21,000,000.

There have been two principal excuses for this increase. The first was the popular panio caused by the Penj-deh incident with Russia fn 1885, which led to an immediate increase of 10,000 in the Indian garrison. The second was the delimitation of the frontier between India and Afghanistan in 1893 and the trouble in Chitral, which was followed by an ill-advised and nearly disastrous attempt to extend our authority over the wild Pathan tribes who live between the actual and the legal frontier of India. The garrison of Chitral is still retained, but the great frontier war of 1896 convinced the Government that the attempt to conquer these tribes was a great mistake, and Lord Curzon, who in England had advocated a forward policy, was in India the instrument of a policy of concentration. Lord Kitchener in his speech before the Viceroy's Council spoke as though the whole question of frontier policy was still under consideration.

A correct appreciation "of our military position," he said, "necessi- "tates long and careful examination by the best experts we can get, with full knowledge "of the numerous factors which affect the "problem. When such investigations have been completed and laid before it is for them to decide what means should be provided that is, what the strength of the army should be." These are somewhat cryptic sentences, but if they refer to Indian frontier policy Lord Kitchener is attempting to reopen a question that had already been settled. His plan for concentrating large masses of troops along the fron tier will tend to have that effect, for the temptation to employ troops waiting for an invasion that never comes in subsidiary enterprises against frontier tribes is likely to be irresistible. When this redistribution scheme is discussed in the House of Commons its probable effects on our relations with the turbulent Pathan tribes should not be lost sight of, and critics will be justified in asking for definite pledges that the last settlement shall not be opened. But the case for Lord Kitchener's redistribution scheme and against any reduction in the present Indian garrison will depend in the main on what view wo take of the old bogey of a Russian invasion.

Lord Kitchener takes such a serious view of the possibilities of invasion that he regards the temporary eclipse of Russia as a serious military Power merely as a "breathing space which we must use to redouble our preparations. Lord Minto goes even further, for be apparently thinks that Russia's defeat in Manchuria may actually encourage her to find consolation, in an attack on India. We little thought that these old battles would have to be fought over again after such crushing defeats as Russia has sustained in her war with Japan but as the forward party in India has chosen this moment to raise the head that was brought so low after the miserable failure of its attempts to conquer the Afridis and Orakzois, the Momunds and the Mamunds of the late frontier war, by all means let the question be threshed out at once, before people have had time to work up the scare. There will be two entirely new questions to ask now that were never asked in former discussions. First, how is it that, although we are bound by treaty to assist Japan in oer- tain contingencies, Japan's promised aid to us is to bring us no manner of relief? And valour in the field.

His father, who was an officer in the Coldstream Guards, had laid the foundation of a miscellaneous collection of armour and arms, pictures, and bric-a- brac, and the son spent the best part of his fortune in hunting up curiosities and precious tilings in every conceivable quarter, friends and visitors from all parts of the world came to inspect the wonders of the Villa atiDDert. Among his visitors were Queen Victoria and the late Mr. Gladstone. The Villa Stibbert is perhaps the finest of the great villas on the Alontughi hill, which rises on the north or Florence and offers huge panoramic views of the city. I believe that the collections are valued at over 280,000, The finest pieces are assembled in a large baronial hall arranged as a sort of pageant of equestrian ngures and toot soldiers, all clothed in mediaeval armour.

Banners and trophies of arms are hung on the walls, while Japanese, Indian, Moorish, and other types of armour occupy adjacent galleries. Ihe pictures, furniture, and miscellaneous art objects nil up numerous rooms. In fact Mr. Stibbert showed quite as much skill and taste in the arrangement and display of his treasures as he did in their acquisition. At present they are admirably provided for, but their possible transfer from their present bright and snnny surroundings to some sombre structure- in London certain to occasion misgivings.

Moreover there isthe difficulty of the Italian law against the removal of works of art from Italy. An interesting little experiment in the use of Esperanto was made to-day at the International Conference of Shopworkers, which is now sitting in London. French is the language of the Conference, bull an English delegate who knows no French was permitted to say what he had to say in Esperanto. It turned out that three or four of the foreign delegates were able to follow the speaker, and one of them afterwards translated the Esperanto into French for the benefit of the Conference. Between the translator and the English delegate Esperanto was the only possible means of communication.

One of the handsomest sights of the London year is the van-horse parade in Regent's Park, always observed on Easter Monday. It is not only the fine display of well-groomed horseflesh. There is no more wholesome-looking unorganised body in the town than the vanmen, their families and friends who play an important 'part as "rubbers-up" of the horses at intervals during the procession, their labour reaching a culminating point immediately the judges inspection. Many of the vanmen, it is pertinent to notice, are recruited from the old boys of the District Messenger Service. The spread of motor-power has not yet made any effect on the demonstration, 239 entries being received, while last year the number was 186.

I fear, however, that this increase only meant the increase in Messrs. Carter Paterson's and Messrs. Pickford's business. Once these companies take up the automobile the parade will quickly collapse. The nominal reason given for the postponement of the opening of the Milan International Exhibition is the dislocation of commerce caused by the eruption of Vesuvius, but the real reason is, I believe, that the sections are for the most part in too incomplete a state even for the preliminary ceremony, which no one with any experience of exhibition methods associates with a state of readiness to receive the public.

The one exception in this instance is the German exhibit. which is not only fit to be 6een but extraor dinarily well done, to the least detail. The Germans still believe exhibitions as a means of gaining new business, and they take up an enterprise of this kind very seriously and with the strongest backing from their irovernment. A tew or our exhibitors at St. Louis would have preferred to have been spared the official attentions thev received.

but then our officialism has been a thing quite remote irom any stigma or trade methods. The vestry meetings for the election of churchwardens, which are now taking place over the country, will, have an additional in tcrest this year, as the clergy hope to use the old parish assembly to carry resolutions in favour of denominational teaching in schools. It should be remembered that the clergy have it in their power to assemble these vestries at any time that they think fit, and that here ratepaying qualifications and plural voting are the rule. Ihe survival of these qualifications is, or course, a pure aosurdity, since the vestries to-day have nothing to do with rates. mi 1 ji 1 i ine assemoiy or uiese oooies carries us back to the ancient days of England.

The word vestry used in this sense cannot. I be- ueve, do Traced earner tnan tne Keformation epoch, hut the assembly of parishioners to elect enurenwaruens ana generally to see to church matters is as old at least as the reicn of Edward TIL Called into being to check clerical autocracy and to givo the laity some control over the goods and chattels of the church for which they were responsible, these assemblies are, it seems, to be used in their last hours to support the parson's privileges. The fate of their pictures at the hands of the Royal Academy is a subject of concern to many people all over England just now. Some facts on the subject I extracted from my frame-maker the ether day may prepare the way for the experiences in store for several of these persons. I have noticed that frame-makers are among the least garrulous of men, and when they do speak out a shade of bitterness not infreouentlv intrudes upon their remarks.

I do not now wonder that it should be so. Mv in formant had sent off slightly more than three hundred pictures to Burlington House this month. He considered, from what had hap pened in the past, that if he were to place toe verb is his forty of them be wonld do uncommon well. Arid then he would have to ousmess wren tne owners of tne two as JbrigM tlxMr frnesl gone But surely, I asked, artists get used to having their pictures a cites, and dazzles you again and again. It does everything, indeed, but charm you.

It is, as it were, life at close quarters fighting inch by inch against a faculty that overwhelms it. Charm we may well find in Mr. D. Y. Cameron's "Ben Lomond Sunset," with its deep velvety tones and its glowing sunset that has no orange in it.

Others will find the effect sophisticated, and think 'they are made unduly aware of the trap that caught the sunset. Mr. Anning Bell's four compositions are too de liberately formal for this impression. His tall maidens with the shadowy brows belong to some shadowy Arcady, and the steady beauty of his stately compositions belongs to themselves. His contributions are not of his best, but The Garden of Sweet Songs is one of his finest inventions in harmonious grouping.

Mr. Clausen's drawing of a peasant woman's head apparently a dtudy for his oil picture Listening is the most reverent and sensitive work in the room. The earnest, 6imple face is set before us as a holy thing. Some day this painter will give us a Madonna of the fields that will stand with the great devotional works of the past. NEW YORK INSURANCE.

CONTROL BY POLICY-HOLDERS. The Governor of New York State has signed the Insurance Bills passed by the Senate and Assembly of New York. One permits policy holders in life insurance companies to act as directors, whether or not they hold stock. The measure is designed to meet the situation of the" Equitable Life Insurance Company of New York. The other bills prohibit corporations from making political contributions, provide for the registration of legislative agents, requiring reports from them, and finally make all falsification of records a punishable offence.

INSURGENT FILIPINOS. ATTACK ON A BARRACKS. A Laffan'3 message of yesterday's date from Manila reports that forty Ladrones have raided the constabulary headquarters, fronting the Governor's residence, in the centre of Malolos, Luzon, in the Philippines. They killed the sentry in the street, swarmed upstairs, killed two of the constabulary, secured twenty rifles, and made ood their escape, with the loss of only one man. The police and constabulary are pursuing them.

MR, MICHAEL DAVITT. Mr. Michael Davitt, who has been seriously ill during the past ten days at his home near Dublin, was yesterday reported to be much better. He was able to sleep on Sunday night without opiates, for the first time since the illness began. 'Following a sharp attack of influenza, blood-poisoning was contracted, which developed dangerous symptoms.

There is now, however, every reason to believe that a short period of rest will bring about a speedy re covery. MAXIM GORKY AND TUB PRESS. SATIATED WITH NOTORIETY. A New York correspondent telegraphed yesterday The domestic affairs of Msxim Gorky have roused the American press to its finest flights of displayed headings and fervid phrase. Even the more sober Evening Post has been infected by the subject, and it sarcastically re-marks to-day that the spectacle of the rose water Socialists of New York regarding Gorky's marital affairs with such shocked surprise snd pained wonderment is very amusing.

Meanwhile the xnosnre of the fact that the Russian actress Madame Andxejeva, who-is with him, is not his real Wife has forced the novelist into retirement. It was renoited that he had fled io some place cat at New York, but a friend Of bis says that he has received a message from hfm to the erect'4hat he' is being well cared for, and le seekW rest in a onict anrnmr nf the city, heTjeen seUsAed with notoriety." illin a that had EX. e.ier!?? busily engaged. autei, Being loo.xnan the a month before..