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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1910. 6 THE.BliODSKY CONCERT. fair People, no longer.make a universal rule. Here at. home the.

cases l. the big cities show how little there is in the argument that additional burdens would oe placed on the police. Manchester and Salford with their nine divisions, Liverpool with its nine, Birmingham with its seven, Glasgow, and other large centres of population each elert all their members on the same day. The. extension of the practice over the whole country could entad no difficulty, and fear of any thing of the kind is quite illusory.

ii a one-uay general tion are so strong and incontrovertible thatj it is obvious that objections, when they come, will hardly come on the ground of reason. The present system, with its long-drawn-out contests, especially in county constituencies, means physical and mental exhaustion for the candidates, and a very serious and quite useless inroad on their pockets. Moreover, as the last election quite clearly showed, it is apt to perplex the voters by drawing attention away from the etraightforward and important main issues on which general elections should be fought. There is a limit to the length of time for which candidates can talk or voters listen to them on one topic. To avoid repetition and for less ingenuous and more questionable reasons, side issues find themselves dragged in which perplex and befog had raised.

The First Lord the Admiralty said there would only be one German employed at tho crane, and he would have no opportunities of discovering secrets. The Master of Elibank stated that nest Tuesday and Thursday and part of Wednesday would be devoted to the motion to go into Committee on the Veto resolutions. (p. 10) The Lord Chancellor introduced in the House of Lords yesterday a bill to codify the law of perjury and stated that if this work was successfully carried through he proposed to do the same for other branches of the criminal law. The Consolidated Fund and the East India Bills were passed through all their stages, and the Army (Annual) Bill was read a first time.

Lord Dennian gave an explanation in regard to tho funds available for Irish land purchase. At the close of the sitting the Lord Chancellor made a personal statement in regard to the decisions in the Taff Vale and other cases, pointing out that what ho had said had been misunderstood, and that he had no intention of dissociating himself from the decisions of the other law lords. (P- 10) Mr. Lloyd-George addressed in London last night the opening meeting of the Gladstone League, formed chiefly for the purpose of protecting voters, especially in the rural districts, from intimidation by landlords and employers. Mr.

Lloyd-George said that feudalism was the enemy, and victory in this conflict meant a regenerated and emancipated Britain. He remembered from his boyhood tho revolt of Welsh farmers against tho political dictation of tho landlords; scores of families were ejected from their homes, but freedom had been won. England must do likewise. Economic independence must he obtained hv land reform giving tho agriculturist absolute security of tenure. Then there was tho question of the transfer of ownership to tho cultivator.

The valuation el a nsps in the Budget provided a basis for wise system of land purchase. Mr. Lloyd-Gcorge had word to say to the critics of the Government in regard to the strugglo with the House of Lords. There was nothing, lie said, more baffling to the re the electors compreaension of the main points legation at stake. More important is the bearing Xt wonder if he holds this view that Sir of the one-day election oa a new factor fTr -r, JJalhel has put down an amendment that in politics which has recently been tho ub- 1 j.

two successive sessions should suffice to pass a ject of much discussion. Thoughtful ien Bffl insW of threo fiut -t of all parties agree in condemning the an absurdi if LiberaI Govcrmneuta were to activity of powerful and wealthy extra-party thcmscWca beforelland to end their organisations whose expenses, inasmuch as iX 1 term of office with two years' idle waiting for they are attached to no candidate, cannot be th audited, and which aro outside the jurisdiction of the Corrupt Practices Act. Tho way has been shown for vested interests to muikc their weight felt quite improperly with the electorate. To revise the Corrupt Practices Act so as to cover these leagues is a difficult and delicate matter for which much time and consideration are necessary. But a single-day election would strike very simply at the growth of the ovil.

An organisation, however powerful, cannot cover the whole country at once, and the removal UI blio iJnvucce wmcn wiese ooaies at pre sent enjoy of shifting their camp from -ine part of the kingdom to another and from Clty to colmtrv as tho election drags its slow length through three or four weeks would '10'P rer7 materially to purge representative government of a menace to its purity and fairness. Last and most important of all there is the point of view of trade. Mr. be sure that tho enthusiasm which his words, evoked was not only that of Liberals anxious 1 -1 1 uo ua liic aim undemocratic former than the patience of the peoplo when wronged except their impatience when roused. You may depend upon it our general will lead us on to action." Replying to a woman questioner, Mr.

Lloyd-George said lie was still in favour of women's suffrage, but no Parliament liked to be henpecked. Tho sane policy recently followed by its advocates would mean triumph in th" near future. (pp. 7 and fr) Mr Ben S. Johnson, the chairman of the i i i -l i entertained the Liberal auents of tho two counties at dinner at the Manchester "Reform speeches on the sitiintion wore made bv Mr.

Gordon Harvov. Mr cot't ir Fdward I'nns aiul others. (p. Mr. G.

II Askwith and Mr Mitchell, of (ho Board of Trade, visited Oirdifi yesterday in connection with tno deadlock in the com live Mr. Sydney Buxton information on the position. 1 he conference 01 miners pates at Cardiff vestordav criticised uele- tllClr rorcresentul vt. i'nr cniiu hevnnd instructions industry, ami as a result vt tlieir iniu iiii.ii tne coitiowners antt miners omciair. n-prcsentatives of each party to the dispute1 will attend at the Board of Trade to-day to cunsuita-.

CirrECHiti, mmmenflwl th nrnnnsal 5n iis- statement that the fhistoms retiiriia "show iVinf f. i lce tne reTIV1ng trade of tho country tMt) arter cotton and cotton seed, with decision of the Judicial "and to the commercial classes." We may "a combined value of anything up to Privy Council, and Mi amount of serious betting on the race-is almost negligible. In fact, as soon as the moral dead certainty really comes into existence, and is priced accordingly, its charm yanishes. The superior attractiveness of horse-racing, and even of coursing, as a means getting rid of money without knowledge of sport one follows, rests at bottom on the boundless capacity of innocent souls for imagining that something like the certitude intelligent anticipation prevailing among Putney watermen during the last few days before the Boat-race ever exists anywhere bofore a horse-race or a coursing meeting. ODE LONDON CORRESPONDENCE (BY PBIVATE WIRE.) Losdon, Wednesday Night.

The Veto. I understand that it is the present intention of the Government immediately the veto resolutions shall have passed the House of Commons to introduce a bill founded upon them in the House of Lords. It is not often that a measure of such magnitude is intro duced first in the "Upper House, but in this case it would be natural enough, inasmuch as powers of that House are the subject matter of the bill. Moreover, the plan contemplated would, it is thought, have tho ad vantage of bringing the question to a issue sooner than would bo the case if the resolutions themselves were to be sent across the Lobby. The Lords might very possibly, say with some show of justice, We cannot deal with these resolutions until wa have seen the concrete 23roPcsais of the Government embodied in a bill," whilst they could hardly refuso to vote upon a second reading the bill itself.

On the other hand, it is quite possible that Radicals may object to the plan indicated, and may claim tliat the House Commons ought to have the first say, not merely with regard to the general principles embodied in resolutions but also with respect to any bill founded upon them. Meanwhile several amendments to the Prime Minister's motion already appear on the order paper. Thus Mr. F. E.

Smith proposes to substitute for the first resolution (Money Bills) bold declaration that "this House declines interfere with the undoubted prerogative the House of Lords to reject in a proper cose the inance Bill of the year at a moment when their action in taking this course has been so signally vindicated by the whilst Mr. James Hope pro poses that the decision as to what properly i um iBff. tlm! shall bo left to the Committee of the Stuart-Wcrtley desires to provide against discrimination between classes or creeds 1 in this connection. tho case of bills other than Money Bills Mr. James Hope proposes to exempt from the; operat ion of 1 lie compulsory of tho second resolution bills which ir.vrlvo organic change." American Coasting Law.

-1 tjjo Mjui ii nas cieaiBa a mige amnuiiL 01 A 1... i i 1 interest in the shipping world in view of the importance of its bearing on American coasting trade law has, I learn, just been decided by the United States Attorney General. Some months ago the Hamburg-American liner Cleveland landed at San Francisco, after a trip round the world, 650 tourists who had embarked at New York. consequence of this the Department of Commerce and Labour at Washington decided that the law forbidding foreign ships to transport passengers between United States ports applied, and as tho Act in question prescribes a fine of 40 for each passengei so carried it will be seen tliat the German Company was involved in the sum of 26,000 amount largely in excess of any profit that could, possibly have been made "on the voyage. The Hamburg-American line on notification of the claim agreed with the authorities for a penalty of 200, with the reservation that it would obtain a lecal decision in tho matter.

This has now been given by tho United States Attorney General, who says that the Company has not committed breach of the law. Another case is also vming before tin rn to tc-i courts 3 ti winch a private tw t-'i 1, I- r. i far as tho earring of coal from a Pacific Atlantic port is concerned. I.riJntim, anngency js certainly relaxed to suit 'the eon- ivenienee of tho United States Government. rJ earner the Knight of th- l.mtT, is at present taking tons of coal from Newport News to San Francisco for naval purposes, and private traders ore similar privilege.

Should a modification of the law be legalised it will prove ui the greatest; possible advantage to British shipowners. Hpik-9 tho wide. -wad interest 1 the question. Ood- 'hero i.s no richer pasturage for the tuaji may oe touiut sometimes 1 1 7 a legal argument in some dull room i coiii i. Jii an apnea he ore the ir Committee of the Privy Council yesterday half a dozen lawyers and learned 1 1JT.1IOU 1 11 MM COT iiur hn r.riijj"- it- Mrt i r.

U1C 1 uii.in iiuiuu gciu. it was a case sent over trom the High Court of Madras trustees of two Hindu toranles' 1 I .1 1 .1 I had led about the rights of their pot gods, explained," says the law report of It was tlio case, '-that when a temple i.s dedicated a Hindu god, provision is made that the god shall have suitable exercise." It seems that each god has his own purified processional path, and if lie meets a trespassing god in his walks abroad no more children would be born in the village, and the cattle would cease to Now the vellew I i 1 i 1 i in endeavouring to 'strike compromise, but iucubus of plural voting, but of business agreed to entrust all further negotiations to men who know to their cost that a general thoir Executive. It decided to ask the election ns at present conducted must bring Miners' Federation of fireai Britain to ...1 a great part of tho trade of the countrv to operation in support of tho. South Wales i a standstill. The Lords may force another ptian Government to appoint a Common's demands.

(p. 1-1) election as they forced tho last; the least mission to inquire into the causes of Br. Arthur Latham road a paper con- they can do in justice to the commercial failure and to suggest remedies. This is good classes in the community is to stand aside n6 faT 08 Socs hut tho Chamber wishes to and allow the passage of a measure which see the institution of a permanent Agricul-will mitigate the inevitable loss these must tural Bureau whose first consideration should sumption yesterday at tho annual meeting of tho Manchester and Salford banitary Association, and outlined tho procrainmo of a national and municipal campaign against the disease fn SI NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. CHANGES OF ADDRESS.

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Lloyd-George: Protecting the Rural Voter Tho GTamcrgan Lancashire and Cheshire Liberal Federation Election Prospects in Manchester and Salford Tho Veto llfisolu'iniis Foreign and Colonial German Xaval Programme Destroyers in Greek Military League General Holiday Pror.pecis at ricasuro Kcsoits Cycling Tour Board of Trade and Coal Deadlock Irish Butter: Important Reoommenda 7 7 7 14 4 14 uons Fighting Consumption Flying Meeting This Year at 7 University and Medical Training 4 Handicrafts and Play Tho Manchester Social Club Sew Municipal Rates University Intelligence Conviction of an Innocent Man Children's Hospital Tho Reformatory Tho Association Cumberland Congrcgationalists Sport 14 5 4 9 3 3 10 8 13 3'1jo Heat-race Cricket Prospects. liilliards Commercial Colonial Wool Laird, and-Co Vicsers. Son, nr.d Maxim Public Companies Money London Stock Exchange Manchester Market Commercial Notes American Cotton American Stock Markets American Produce Markets Correspondence Carl Roineekc Children's Holiday Fund'rMr." f' 9 i 9 12 4 4 13 11 11 12 12 13 13 13 "orthin-ton) The Cotton Crop (Mr. Ernost Fvars Mar.clK-jte- and tho "Kin-" A 2 14 JUKCHESTKll. THCRSDAT.

MARCH Zi 1 10. a-MJIAilY OF NKWS. DOMESTIC. The Prime -Minister informed Mr Chamberlain in the ffouso of Vos-terday that lw dtM ot at Chance will m.ke his Ih.dget for IfUO-ll dose 01 April. On the thi reading ot the Consolidated 1.

aftorwarf, Viy. urged that lWo oraer to pass a collection of Mr. mtf Hugh Cecil, ann Mr tlio GovtTnmeut lor t'" to tho countrvs np an 11 i.iiY....;,.,rt,0 replying to an allegati i.t lv Mr, ti. there had been a discreditable in; -jV Mr. r.edmond, said the charge warrt'-ic1' without any knowledge 01 the ts jl Rtttclier's own leaders had i discreditable to go hand-in-hand wi-'-- yi-Rcdmo'id.

walk into the sne L.bvl" Zi make nrrangomonts with him which. not merely Ireland b'i: '(?" Britain Th- Rudget. "he added. V'us I-alt with r.s a whole. -(p; Mr.

Baird raised the question of th, protection of friendly tribes in Somaliland. Colonel Seeb' explained what is beiug done and said every step had been the subject of prolonged deliberation, with a view to the fulfilment of all the obligations we -owed to natives. Mr. Bottomley and others alleged that a number of German workmen who wort wining to erect a floating crane would have opportunities of seeing the new Dreadnought under construoton in tha Thames. 5lr.

Bpnies, chairman of the Labour party, ridiculed the scare which the Unionist speakers count in the next if it still pi the -saniei mind That is to say, a Bill twice i and rejected twice by the Lords in one Parliament will "if. reintroduce! and passed agiijn in tlle Bessi0u 0f the uext after a g3nerai. eieo. tion immediately become law; and simi- lariy a Bii onoe and rejected 'once the last session of a Parliament can only be ParIiament tf ifc and through the ans. We pointed out yesterday how great an improvement this was on the old plan.

Yet both Liberal and Conservative papers are actually basing arguments on the absence of any change. The Morning Post," for example, says that the only effect which the provision for delay would have would be to induce a Government to press forward thair more measures in the first years of their "existence," as though nothing they did afterwards would count at all. The "Daily Chronicle even makes a virtue of this weakness: In the first two sessions only would greatly contentious measures be introduced in order to pass; the last two sessions would have to be devoted either to preparing' the way or to the Government's plan these last two years of office will not see any new controversial Bills that have been rojected by tho Lords carried into law. Bofore that can be done fresh contact with tho electorate and a fresh man- date will ho necessary. But the time vill not be wasted.

Fresh Bills can be introduced and their rejections by the Lords will carry over into the next Parliament if tho peoplo express their approval by returning the same Government to power. v.otian-Urowing in fcypt. The Journal of the British Chamber of Commerce of Egypt pleads for a more syste- OJ 1 matio and constant supervision of cotton- growing than has hitherto been attempted The importance to Egypt of the cotton trade can hardly be over-estimated, but it may be suggested simply and sensationally in the the most important export (excluding cigarettes) is generally onions, vnlnorl of en. J'J? )nn nnn am nnn The deterioration of the Egyptian crop; i.s a very serious matter not only for Egypt but for Lancashire, and the extraordinarily small yield this season has- stimulated the be tfle cotton industry. Tho suggestion is not a new one, but there is a good deal to be said for it.

The conditions for cotton-growing in Egypt are very far from being stereotyped, and science has certainly not said its last rf on th fe. fc 'j r.U uuteQ' a PssiDie objection to a Department which should adopt a paternal attitude toward the native farmer is that in the present state of knowledge it might tender the wrong advice. We may reasonably believe, however that the problem which the present CflmmiS5ion has to face is not au insoluble miBj and to its other func. tions might be added the duty of renortin- upon the questionof a permanent Commission or Department. The expense of workin-this woid be a bairatelle in rehtffnn terosts involved.

Tim KMC li wiiito-j gtates is decidedly in favour of a Government Department in Egypt. Tho periodical statistical reports estini.itos of crop conditions in theStaf.es have been nf grtat value 10 the trade, and Egypt, has difficulties relating to tuiaire and irrigation that can hardly bo paralleled in the greater industry. A miscarriage of Justice. Tin: man Di-iikin. who wr-, wrniiglv convicted at the City Police Court the other day, has been fortunate in the dicoverv of the mistnke.

Th Constable yesterday rightly claimed credit i for Inspector CtrmiF.ui.Kv, through 0.0 initiative the affair was inquired into and' the mistake found out. It is stated that through his short detention the man has lost a situation on board a ship. If this is so, it onoe more an untiece-rsfcrv luvdship that u.mally follows a miscarriage of iustie.i tlioug'a it is discovered. Nothing like adequate condensation i.s ever naid for the loss suffered, and none can legally be iuunaeu. lUiai justice would e.stabh?;i a regular process by which a person so itijurcd cr.uld recover damages as matter of rist-it from Stite.

fairly c-'ileulated on the basis ot the actual lots sutterei; exact as one 11 I'siiii prectvii cr -1 caused by, say, its mm cars, arrangrnient could not lx? vry costlv, even if it were, it is better that the The and should be borne bv the public, and rot bv r-ie iiijurc-d man. The -Race and Setting. a.s ia eighteen r.ur oi the last twenty years and in twenty-soven out of the la. -A thirty, the result tile Cniversitv Boat-race was the one indicated by the oecemg. in ract, expert opinion is so expert, and opportunities for timing the crevrs are so -b-dMit and favourable, that tho result of this race, io far as it de- 11 ae ceiius on tiie tuastantial merits of tl- ten -3 01 tue wo crews, ts now predicted in the Pmpev ho-ir- 1 -z nousesr naiae vjyiiiiuu tna bettinir eles'v fiects with almost the urccision nf ssact science.

In years the onlv hazards left to bring Ln uiuertaintv are ei- ce.K;onai;v bad weathe which ay make the choice of station a aecisive advantage i. 1 and tne po.ssioi vi uroKen oars, in opportune "crabs," eleventh-hour influenza, and so forth. In fact, the University Boai- r.ice does actually provide a rule that oIuive ideal which th iitnx-ent backer in cessantly dreams (with the assistance of certain nronmtorsl ot nn 4ha' raUrir Th 9nn9nnilr naradoxic'rl mi -rr the. of the of the of of as a' to of In In an a an 1 in ui i I to of as A of it. The usual London assistance xor has almost disappeared.

I noticed only one conjuror and one negro' with banjo. Not veIT. long- ago the crowd gathered a couple ot before the race began, and the nTorslLr not clear till late in the afternoon there was only a fringe of people half-an-nour before tho electric railway-aaa motor 'buses have something to do witn re. The employers in the City who make a traeu-tional practice of allowing their clerks to see the race know that they can do so and return within a couple of hours. This year there was a special luncheon-hour train timea to leave the Mansion House at 11 30, to give half-an-hour to see the race, and bring passengers back to the Mansion House at one o'clock.

This strikes the fatal blow at Boat-race "day," for in former years there was always a reasonable excuse in irregular and over-crowded trains and horse 'buses. Within half-an-hour of the finish to-day the crowd had broken up and departed, leaving disconsolate itinerant purveyors with their stock or lemonade, hot chestnuts, raspberry jam puffs, cockles and vinegar, chocolate, gingerbreajQ, and sarsparilla virtually untouched. The confidence-trick men, the thimble-riggers, the three-card men were 'left to find out one another. London had gone back to business, or to other pleasures. A terrible idea descended upon the fakers, the purveyors, and the social observer it had really come to see the Boat-race.

The Women of Euripides. Tho poet whom Aristotle called the most tragic of tragedians and whom Professor Gilbert Murray has made as popular as a new English dramatist is still attracting special interest. Professor Murray's recent translation of the "Iphigenia in Taitris" was followed this afternoon by an excellent discourse on "The Women of Euripides," delivered by Dr. John Oakesmith at the Rehearsal Theatre. As the theatre was taken bv tie Women Writers' Suffrage League, Dr.

Oakesmith naturally dwelt chiefly on the poet's treatment of the rights or, perhaps one ought rather to say, the wrongs ot women. After pointing out that Euripides had been one of the very first to Tecognisc human beings in slaves and to strip the glamour from war and from the popular conceptions of tho gods, ho gave examples of the extraordinary sympathy with women shown tne plays examples also or tnoir nigii hearted courage in face of danger and their free self-sacrifice At the same tune i TV VGtl fsflf-sacrificfB iac limit ft TTilC TimiWf IM f.Iii rnoa nF loz-fMo ail's life 'deriving trom wiiose superli on worn sumo quotations wer reiui. 'i nn um cr vini-, application to the sufTrnce movement "was easily discerned throughout, and the lecturer openiy reveaiea it wiien lie emphatically mam- -tamed that on subjects like the forcible feed- ing or women iiunpitics would not have erappeci to argue but would have plainly uttered his abhorrence. Ac Al(Jbourne Players, I hear that the Aldbourne village players will appear at tho Coronet Theatre, dotting Hill, about the middle of next month in Mr. Charles M'Evoy's cottage drama The Village "Weddinc." Mr.

M'Evoy's txneriment the Aldbourne barn, which wneri ko fiianiiiticjiiiv with Mr. Siiniv ns sponsor and surprising number of sympathetic London joiiimalrsis, sonnuvhat stiff from their seven drivo. as supporters, has been very and attracted censidcrabk audiences to AVil It- 1 some nrobab litv of tl or tli Aldbcurno n' avers be in seen in Miiiche.strr THE KING. Tho Marquis do Sovcral and the Portuguese Ambassador in Paris had the honour of lunching with King Edward at Biarritz yesterday. In tho afternoon the King motored as far as tho environs of Bayonno and in tho coning gave a dinner, the guests at which ineludi'd Lieutenant General Sir Charles Tucker, Lieutenant General Sir Horncn and Lady Smith-Dorrien, Major General Sir John and Lady Blade, Sir Edward Green, and Colonel Hill James.

KING FERDINAND VISITS TURKISH CHAMBER. King Ferdinand and Queen Eleonorn of Bulgaria paid a surprise visit to the Turkish Chamber of Deputies yesterday morning, They were received by the President of the ouHiinjKr ana 11 unmoor or deputies, ind spent .,1 1 j. about half i mini w.iicnina tlio uroccedini's s' 01 members, uiaKiiutch as the Iloyal visit was. unexpected, the Ministers of the Interior Finance, Basri Rev, and Public were present, and quaestor or tno Utiamber, proposed to tho Ottoman Chamber. Tl 10 motion was auopteu witn acclamation, amiu cries nt Kr.wi attendance upon lliug Ferdluund, trln iXd the motion to His Majesty, who bowed I iU acknowledgments to the deouties hold in the afternnm, in iy 11 it io honour of the Royal visitors, in which about twenty thousand troops of all arms Dartiei paten.

the iinfa.i-niir.,Ki nail1I' of th? groimd and the high wind and' Ba trJ sueeesstul. iCnorm- ous crowas witncs ed the pageant. The Otto- man fienerals were presented to King Ferdinand, who congratulated them upon the splendid bearing of their men. GERM Ay CIIA CELLO AXli TTIE ropE. 1 lie merman nanccitor was yesterday re xe- audience by the PrJ)ie at the loliness.

who waa in solemn a Vatican. Hia Ho 33 entirelv dressed in white greeted him most cordiMl," preventing mm trom kneeline- ersation carried on in German. After thia the Chan cellor returned to th? Prussian legation, where he waited for the Teturn visit of Cardinal Merrv del Val. the Kryo AyD the CHuncn army On Tuesday Prebendary Carlile, founder 7 Army, aL x.uiirri;z. ine c-v pressed his sympathy with the noble struggles of the industrious unemployed, and bis ea' wishes for the success of the Church ATmy its efforts to help the destitute and despai'riiw EMIGRATION TTCTHDs THE EMPIRE The Council of the Royal Colonial InstHute has decided to organise a conference of nTO i seniatwes of societies and others interested in i a-uetion of emigration within the Empr means a most use ful rtp.rt could be drafted for presentation to the Imperial Conference, which is to meet in Applicitions for representation Ccufetfn be to the Sec-re beiland wane ui nas saot a fine lion." tno uusei-uon 111 tne uay a protocol of an es- pression of cordial thanks for the vkir nf irespecU.1 Sovereigns of a Sivinjj him his rin- to kiss.

The audie lasted over half an hour, after which Dr Vn" Bethrnann-Hollweg left the Papal anar'm and went to the Soot below to viit Merry del Val, with whom the convernHW. 1 1 i I i Dr. Brodsky was well advised in includinjr: Binding's Quintet for' pianoforte and strings. in the programme of lastnight's concert, for the next best thing to tne work of a master is the work of one who is on his way to master-: ship. The number of composers of chamber music is at the present time so email that with out neglecting the great we can still keep in touch with all the best efforts made in this field by the composers of other nations.

Binding ha3 a better right to be heard than almost any other living composer. Ho has not fallen under the influence of Brahms or of Strauss, which marks him already as a man apart. He combines remarkable finish with great vitality. The bonds of form sit lightly tipon him. He writes well for the pianoforte, as, of course, he should, for he is himself an accomplished pianist, but he writes also ua- commonly well for the string instruments.

H13 ideas have usually a most striking individuality. Evidently theTe is'in him the making of a composer of the first order. One, and only one, feature of his Quintet made us doubt whether the field of action he has chosen that in which he is to distinguish himself most, i.e. the want of elasticity of some themes which would become far more effective if instead of being interpreted by four string instruments they appeared in the richly varied colours which an orchestra would lend them. The intermezzo is an able and effective piece of work, but the strings are made to act as strings never should.

Tho pianoforte can occasionally supply the place of the orchestra: string instruments cannot do this. The flaw with them is always apparent Their colours blend too easily. Part of the music of tho 'cello and viola in this section could not he heard, and certainly not through any fault oa the part of the performers. Binding himself must have felt the weakness arising from the-division of the strings opposed to the piano, and this led him to employ unison more than is, perhaps, strictly justifiable' in workd of this class. But the fault is on the right side.

He has more to say than tho medium he employe will express. Ho keeps us on tiptoe so Ions that we cannot but feel disappointed if he does n0t Igive us all that he promises. And the andante iis 111 tins respect singularly disappointing. Here more than elsewhere one feels the need fully conscious of their peculiar tendency '1U'X W'Ul ni lo keeP together, n.t t-i individually. Winding's slow movement, 15 a romance, piquant, charming even.

110 tllt! adagio one naturally expects in this, -hc iuubi province ot music Pianoforte part of Sindirjg's Quinfet as oy miss Johanna Binekmarr with extra- ordinary brilliancy and insighl. Faultless as her performance was in every sense, the perfect adjustment of tho volume of Ijoue of the piano to tne tone of the strings was itn ehief characteristic. For no matter how rich and sour.r-ous the tone of the one instrument or how dainty and delicate the tone of the others, the balance was always considered with the greatest nicety. Haydn's major Quartet No. 10 (Peters! preceded Sinding's Quintet, and an eurlj Quintet of Beethoven op.

23, in closed tho concert. In thia last work, which hovers delightfully between the mood of tha violin concerto and that of the Quartet in tin second viola part was played by Mr. Alfred Barker with tact beyond his years. The most striking feature of the performance was a disregard for any but the finest effect s. an austerity which made one wish: the Brodtsky Quartet would sometime apply to the quartets of Reer, which gfimi! much in need of such interpreters.

Tho playinj; of Haydn's Quartet was an unalloyed delight. The next eon cert last of the series takes place on April 13. j. CARDIFF PHILANTHROPISTS WILL. 100,000 FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES.

By tlie will of the late Mr. John Gory, of Duffrvu, near Cardiff, colliery and shin charitable and Teliijious bodies largely benefit. 'Tne estate is given at 798,777, of which is net personalty. The benefactions include the following: 10,000 to the trustees to be annlieil t. tVioiv 1 present and past employees of Messrs tory Brothers; 10,000 to the trustees as a provision for the completion of the testator's garden vujaoe al "lyn uory, on the Duffryn estate and lite ,1..., U1 umuki, miss uiaua uorv.

ma provision fcr employees mentioned, the testator left a sum approaching 100,000 for charitable purposes. given to the Salvation Army, half of the sum to be applied lor its foreign effort anH th re mainder for its home and rescue work. 5,000 Phanase. Brisinl the Glamorgan anrl 111' firmnrv O.wAirt. nnnnn uuvi cacn 10 tne Mi" Won'ff wChina Ilslaad uv ,3 Homes: the British society, London; the Sailow' s-oiA ur.

atephenson's Children's 1. 1 1 -n ri: Molaan Mission; the North i -a Ml3iil0n; tl'e South African Mission: winn ine Sea winn nh-i Testimony to Israel Society: Port Said Uolportnge Barnardo'a Homes; the Scripture Gift the Bridge of Hopoission, Cardiff, the Han oi nope and Temperance Socwty Minion tn Deep-sea fishermen; Mr. Wmle'H P-istor for vori h) Spajll and M. D. C.

Joseph, for work in Egypt. Many other organisations are remembered to the extent of 1.000 eaeh. His residue Mr. Cory left to the trustees. 1.

trust for his children, with a moviso that ti: reversion of one-fourth HhaII fall to lie divui' charities at the discretion of the oosuwiiuun ana loung women Christian Association in proportion as the may think advisable. Lord Kinr.aird, as oni 0: the executors, receives a legacy of 1,000. CABINET COUXCIL. A meetitit: of the Cabinet, over which Prime Minister presided, was held tit yes-terday morning. Fcr the conveniencft Ministers tha mooting was held, not at h1-Downing-street, but in Mr.

Asquith's rcc3 in the House of Commone. covjEymr school head- MASTERSHIP. Mr. John Lupton, M.A. (St.

John's, Cambridge), assistant master of St. Paul's School London, was yesterday elected head master King Henry Vin. School, Coventry, in place ti the Rev. A. Perrott, who haa resigned.

OIL GOLDWIJf SMITH. The health of Professor Goldwin Smith. some time ago broke his thigh through a continues to improve, and it is now thqas-'i-says a Toronto telegram, that he will ba.ls within a. fortnight to leave hb room. i At the annual meeting of Cammell.

Laird, Dirita all this, however, and the opinion, land Co. 's shareholders hold at Sheffield yester- times expressed, of the Associated I day it was stated that tho troubles of the Chambers of Commerce, which no one will linn were at an end, and that the financial accuse of being a party organisation, the position was rapidly changing for the better Unionirt leaders are hogtile the Company had a much larger order-book: It 1 ifJian at the same time last yearand although iretornl- The Daily Telegraph thinks it I prices were low a larger output must neces- need trouble no one and that there is not fcarily prove beneficial to their interests, (p. 1) the remotest chance of agreement on the The ImverMtv Boat-race was rowed vestcr- subject," The "Morning Post," under the oijuzzia jvussion, tlie British and nibie Society, the Association for tH "'S!" tl. it I suffer through dislocation of trade. neaaing Kigging the Election," is eloquent of the extent to which tho Unionist party would suffer under the new regulations.

WB are a as simply an addition to the long list of mca- ures, Governmental or other, introduced Sm iwiiaMesoiBODjsct. 01 snatcmng a party victory. ine aamissions involved vijjjjusitiuii jjeiiner consistem; nor very creditable, ft not so long since we in Manchester accused of und'slv infiuencinir vedict nf the countrv becmiso wi: Xll cd the hrst day. out apparently the oli'er of a change wiu-reliv no cue part nf the country .,1 -uum iiiii.ience anotner. ana rath enuld givp its own opinion bv where, is not really what after nil.

The results clse-the thin I wt.r.ld puflVr bv the change is i snpprp, nn vnt- rs thig ai! their frnm wi- ncid ho concrrned to denv that a election would strike a How pmral votistg; wo- are glad that is so. Hut tho admission virtually made by tho" Morning Vo-t" that, the Unionist party the country is a kind of stage army, which has to moved alxi'tt to make the wdght its out- voters tell in 0110 const it tie iv.v after another. is not ono nf it can bo very proud. However tluit may be, and whatever th" me its of the case fnr the ill five iloI(1 il "answerablcl, thrre are 'hy the next clcrticu. if it js to come soon should be held simultaneously.

Th" tw.i Pcuntr.v its verdict between the parties, that of tlie Lords and that of the Commons, only two months a-i. To Mirpov? that in stkh a short time ir can views on the general ground of politic, tn 1 1 t. t. 1 eiiiiui 1 iirii.su riccior .1 wenr1 make representative gnreriimcnt euloits. The next elc: will he on one issue Veto.

Tiiat is to sav. it will be virtually a Referendum, and for a Heterc-ndiim one day is all that is necessary. have right to waste time '1 iii.d money r.ot only nf thr- candidatfs but of the milieu's commerce r. ''rlaviii- th-' rt newed dteLst'jii of the olcctomtc 0:1 a matter or. it must already i.ave I nv.i-d i An important Difference.

i .1 Ths papers continue to ignore the most strik- i-ir 1. 1 ing difference between the second of the' 1 U-jventmetit Resolutions cn the Housa of I and Casipbsll-Baxxesman scheme. B-v lle s.AMPBEix-UAXXEHiiAx plan the veto! as toi 1 uay, nnu ranked 111 au cay 1m- Oxlord by three-and-a-half lengths. (p. L'j O110 of the best markets on tho London railways, interest 111 which was stimulated bv tho very favourable returns and by anticipations of good luister receipts.

Consols prices did not. ary much, but the tone was steady. U1. 11 Thi New York cotton was dull terday. Futures clewed points higher 1 lower, and snot roso noints in.

V.W lower, and spot roso 5 points it 1 1 r. au- nr linn 1111 1 is prrdirUd tor to-dav. (p. 1-1) FOREIGN. Negotiations still continue between Wash and Ottawa, hut altluuidi able spirit prevails no proira-s has been re ported.

(p 7, A semi-official slatoaunt in 1b dent bo Allgemeine Zoituu of aiveh ration in Gorman warship ion-struc-tirii that by tho oud of Germany will have en'v thirteen lurff -h'n ,1 ready the sea and mn wrKir.wi liIH! ding that the for bn a 111 Germany is, in point nf fact, not twenty-six month's but over three (p. 7) One-Day Genera! Elections. Tiik pronosal to take nil the rol! of th" next general election on one day is now matter of urgent practical politics. In his speech at Oxford last week the Phime MtxisTKU declared himself increasingly con vinciv. in its favour; for Mr.

CTiriicmi.T.'s I support of it on Satunhiv last the great audience in tho Free-trace Hall reserved its loudest and most prolonged cheers. A Rill to amend Parliamentary election law for the purpose, presented by- Mr. King, is now before Pnrliamont, and has been read a tlrst time in the House of Commons. A few suifiee to cover all the details. The day of election is to be 011 d.iy tho sei'ond neck after the King's rro-chimatieu summoning new Parliament, no; less than eight or more than thirteen dnvs after the isue of the writs.

These are to; have an aunouncemeiit of the date iuclucietl in their terms, and returning officers ure to i receive orrieial telegraphic information of i their on receipt of which thev can act as if had received tha writs them-1 selves. Polling for University seats, which i 1:0110 by post, is to commence cn the election day, and remain open as at 1 tor tne cays toiiowmg. inat pj. Scottish Reform Act of 1S32 which prescribes a special extension of time for ursney and snetianci tne uici; uurgiis is to be repealed. improved means I I 1 i ros represented by a counsel with of the desire that thr tin n0t lsSS than thereof Cardiff Infirmary jf then a stltuUon.

and not less than one-eicht'n to i. d'ded between the Cardiff Yountr Men' Oir: spectacles) had been trespassing, and tho rival devotee orouant an action nsainst him to restrain him to his own beat, so to speak. As the lawyers debated the rights of the yellow god "one's fancy strayed away to those hot, sv-'arming villages churned to fury by his trespass. It' was like the dry bones of a ehapier of Kipling. One the judges asked whether the vellow rr0d.

a member of the public, haa not a right to use the other streets." As a member of the public! To the judicial mind this battered idol was in the same legal pigeon-hole as a cabdriver on the wrong side of the road. The yellow god. who sesms to be a sportin fellow, got the worst of it. His appeal was dismissed, and henceforth he is restricted to his own preserves. Esster Flying.

After a long pause flying is to be attempted again at Brooklands on Easter Monday. There will be about a dozen machines there. Le Blon and Captain Lovelace will control Humbers. Mr. Roe will have his triplane, Mr.

A. C. M.oremg his voisin. and Mr. C.

Lane the machine he exhibited at the Olympia. The other aviators who expect to fiv are Petne. Mtiran, Astley, Stirling, Alan 1:. uoyje, ana r. eaie.

Boat' Race Departure. fln nlnnna rlto gnavf. nt rU i i. ur a single communication have rendered its pro-1 raniaueui iiuiii utciiion ot tne tom- unnecessary. The legal changes 1 nions should prevail.

The second Reolu-: required are, therefore, few and simple. J3 rothing about "a single Pariia-. There is no for assuming that and the omission justifies us in Tegard-the hx-ai- authorities will find any diffi- ing the new Resolutions as an improvement cuky in iv; Ing with the new arrangements. and strengthening of the old. As we pointed As Mr.

uvnnm.1. pointed out in a written out yesterday, the second Resolution means, answer to a question yesterday, no trouble I as it stands (and therefore, we feel sure. is experienced in France, Germany, and other countries wh ere single-day elections are the I the intention of the G-overnmenti. that reec- 1 tions by the Lords in one Parliament will w. Teports that "the -o.