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4 THE MANGHESTER GUARPIANy. -TUESDAY, A5T ,31, 1904. THE COBDEN CENTEJUT THE KING AND THE ALAKE1 OIABEQKpTA. The King arrived inLondon yesterdaymorn-, ing- from Windsor; about; awl'at noon held a Levee at St. ames's: Palace driving from Buckingham escorted Life received Alake of Abeokuti.

ai- Backingham Palace. The Alake had previously intervie with -Mir; Lyttelton "at the. Colonial when cotton crrowintr -was discussed The Alake then wore a OUR LONDON CORRESPONtSENCE (BY PRIVATE WIRE.) London, Monday Night. It has arranged that the business of the of Commons for present. week "shall he, as far as possible, of a non-controversial character.

It is probab.le enough that the attendance', especially on the be comparatively-small for a. few days, but there are many indications that the Hb'use 'will reassemble in anything but riiood' indifference and resignation whichvwas" predicted when members separated for the; recess. The Government thought then that: their difficulties Were over, and even some Liberals were i'Balf inclined to predict an uneventful course-for the future' of the; session. But contact with the constituencies and the great gathering against -the Licensing" Bill seem to haveinfused fresh spirit into the Opposition," and the. feeling' of restlessness and uncertainty on the Ministerial new" Pope, but hb.

has not the statement of the temporal claims, and tbere have been such as-the suppression of Don Mvrrt, th. leader, of the Socialists, which have sliown the iliiberal parties in the Church to retain, not toVhavo, increased, their influence. It is possible that Cardinal Svampa's action is but one more move, in -a game: of noncommittal, but even so ifc -is a very- consider-! able one. The Papal state smen in whose hands sre the threads' of this, policy are no' doubt influenced by their contemporaneous difficulties in dealing with France. That Latin State was throughout the nineteenth century the' most steady supporter of the.Papacy abroad.

It -was France who put down the Roman' Republic in, in 1860 laboured to' retain for the Popb the bulk of his who did retain for him Rome itself, till; 1870.. Since 1870', whatever have been tho relations of: State and Church inside France itself, French abroad has. till quite been a. recognised asset for the and certain, aspects of it, such, as the protection to all Roman Catholic interests in the Levant, have been regarded by the French Foreign Office as scarcely less a privilege than a duty. When, therefore, President Lodbet this year paid his visit to --Rome, staying with the avoiding the-.

Pope, and therein doing what the head' of no Roman Catholic State had ventu're'd' to' do, the: Vatican had reason to "regard such an initiative from such a quarter as the unkindest cut of all. Probably it felt.it more deeply than the war waged by M. Combes within France -itself the Roman Catholic religious orders. For in the Vatican the action of the orders against which M. Combes' measures ore a.

provoked reaction was never fully The' Papacy long ago reconciled' itself loyally to the Frerich Republic; the French religious orders represent forces which not done so. It might have been worth -Vatican's while to let the religious orders go, with whatever natnral regrets, provided that by the maintenance of the Concordat the episcopal and parochial clergy remained established in France and the growing influence of the French Republic in international European politics were preserved for the furtherance of Papal interests. Compromises of such a' type had been made repeatedly "between the Papacy and France, and until M. Lottbex's visit to Rome they seemed still the likeliest outcome of the situation. But the visit, and the Papal protest, and the leaking-out of" the fact-that the-protest, addressed to France itself differed in- a manner inconsistent with diplomatic civility from the protest against French action addressed to other Powers- have caused a cleavage between France and the Papacy which is quite hew.

Whether the assertion of the temporal claim in Italy, which has thus alienated France and might similarly alienate Austria-Hungary, in future, is S'KT ORD'S NESI'A, thi ourt "Solution us dsic remooy-ior Acianv or th stomach. Headache. and. Indlgat- IN A ONE A Tho mint nnnmoit'Re'ntlo aperient lor'deUodte cmutltu- Sold throughout the wort! NATDBAL MtNERAJC WATER FOB GOUT, GB1VEI, CELESTINS. CELESTINS.

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AND 4 Animals' Movements The Peaceful Mission Moie Bloodshed -A Braver Action books of the" week SPECIAtiABTIciES- -volunteer Officers and the Future of the 4 4 4 8 i Morocco "Unbound 5 10 .4 3 8 8 5 5 The Theatres -'Golf -''Lewii Tennis" -The Zurich Cotton Congress THE WAK IN THE FARE AST "-The FighUngatNanshan. Russian Official Despatches Another. Army Division Leaves Japan FOREIGN-AND COLONIAL NEWS- Thibetan Destroyed Desperate Resistance The "March-' of the French Army Great America GENERAL" NEWS-'" the Alake of Mr. Winston Churchill and the Aliens Bill f. Labour in South Africa 5 5 4 5 8, 10 10 6 6 10 6 6 The Romance of Wireless Newchurch Agricultural Show -Grosseteste ana Wyelif The Recovery' of the i England! siDuty.

to Ireland -University- Intelligence -Churches Cricket "Memorial Noticed Forecasts Money I 10 10 7 Commercial Notes, 8 VShipprng-zIntelligence 6 THE GUARDIAN. MANCHESrSB, TUESDAY, MAY- 31, 1904. SUMMARY OF. NEWS. -The" King, who returned to London from Windsor" yesterday, held a Levee' at St: James's Palace at noon and afterwards received the Alake of Abeokuta at Buckingham Palace.

The Queen and. the Prince and Princess of Wales also left Windsor, yesterday for London. Winston Churchill in a-letter to a. Manchester resident denounces the Aliens Bill as -unnecessary and futile1; as conferring" dangerous powers btf-the police arid the Home' Office, and as smirching Britain's ancient and renowned traditions of freedom and. hospitality.

An official, despatch is published to-day-, in reference to the position of the' British troops in Thibet and-an attack by; the Gyantse force on the village of Palla, by capturing whichthe-troops were enabled to cat the water supply of the. native warriors in the vicinity. An unofficial message describes the storming of the village, the destruction -of nearly all the houses, which: wore defended with desperate courage; by ill-armed and the annihilation of a body of Thibetans who attempted to cross a fire-swept zone. Lord -LieutenantoF -Ireland, speaking yesterday, on the needs of Irish agriculture and particularly in the matter of transport, said that if ever there was a policy that could be justly described as penny wise" and pound foolish it was the policy that would withhold'-from. Ireland the funds required to.

enable her to find remunerative employment at home. at first unsettled later, with some rain in 'places'' is-the weather forecast for to-day. FOREIGN. Despatches from General IKuropatkin to the Russian Government are published to-day, but they. little or nothing of interest.

Further of the-storming of Nanshan Hill the Japanese artillery ammunition was exhausted at the moment whn victory crowned their efforts. A semi-official Russian statement also makes it appear that the defending army had little ammunition, and had to upon guns captured from the -Chinese in; 1900. -Seven freignt and coal piers at Jersey City havB" destroyed by fire. The direct and indirect of "Jii and Western Railway Company is A militarv walking sJ newspaper js sajd to have resulted in four, deaths, whilo -ss 'mnn i some. them beuig very ill.

In the French vjuuuiper. yesteraay the Minister War ex pressed regret that he had sanctioned the con test. The death of the Grand Duke of Mecklenbarc- relations between the Papacy and the various Latin States have in tho past few years been marked by a -succession of episodes of which even the less serious intrinsically seem vo Vi cnange. Such an episode, which may be fruitful or sterile according as advantage is taken of it. oecun-prf lnh Saturday- when tho Kino of Italy, being at uoiogna, received an official visit from the place.

Cardinal it appears, with- the approval of tb.y?? and the, significance of his homage tothe lies in the fact that Bologna is pan; or wnac xui jloow was a Jfapal province. In those parts of Italy which have always had secular the Vatican makes temporal power, and allows -the Catholic clergy recognise Italian monarchy in the fullest Wlen Pius X. was still but Cardinal Sajrto, Patriarch of Venice, he was op. extremely, good, terms with the Venetian civil authorities. X)n, the other hand, in territories formerly.

Papal the rule' against any recognition of the State's the officinls of the Cur' hitherto been rigid, Cardinal Svampa's, innovation marks an epoch. Things in Italy have in i cther Tespects. moved so fast of late that it would not be' surprising if in this -also some real progress were to dawn. Many old obstacles have passed away. The death of King Humbert and accession of Victob EmmanuelH: formed, a veritable turning-point in secular Italian "history since then a new hope, new energy, andviiew ideals have the whole -life of the nation.

The death of Izeo XUI. and accession of Pitts' have, made far less' perceptible in. the policy -of the-Vatican. But Papal" statesmanship -sets' such store the appearance "of continuity that it would-be a mistake it sudden'reversals of inspiration. Its cbue since accession has been, -perhaps a general goodwill and jf-' Italian patriotism hies been imparled'- by the than we possess; for 'their sculptors represented many attitudes "which look 'unnatural to 'us but which the camera declares to.

be true to life; see" heinV but apparently our tired modern vision': has Jost the rapidity, necessary to snapshot Marey took iip this branch of study before pliotography had'- become sufficrentiy rapid' to assist and' some most ingenious instruments', for thecomponent motions that make up the living picture which paints itself on our retinas. These all depended on the fit tambours, or tiny, compressible drums which were attached to: the -movrng-body, that it desired to study a horse's; leg, a throbbing pulse, or tho tip of a bird's wing in such a way. that were squeezed at particular phases of the motion. This compression was transmitted by a flexible tube to a similar drum which -carried a recording needle over a uni-forinly mpvinK cylinder of smoked paper. In this way a tracing of the successive motions which made up a natural movement was phtained, similar to the barometric tracings with which we are all familiar, from this graphic rer cord it was possible to reconstitute their details.

Many important discoveries were thus made, such as that of the figure-of-eight motion, of the tip of a bird's wing. But the complete analysis of animal movements only became easy when photographic plates were so much improved that it was possible to take a hundred photographs in a eingle second, and thus to obtain a faithful representation of every step in the apparently simple but really very complicated motions of a bird's flight, or a horse's gallop'; or an athlete's blow. Makby did all his later work with the help of what he called his photographic gun akin to the battery of cameras with whose aid tlie American photographer Mr. Muybbidce produced his startling representations of a horse's action. The "biograph," so familiar nowadays, is like the sphyginograph a by-product of this branch of research.

A bird makes perhaps one flap of its wings in one-fifth of a second. The camera can produce twelve pictures in that time, showing every stage in the action. Each of these can be "studied at leisure, so that a student can analyse the elements of flight in a way which the eye alone cannot master. It is not uncharacteristic of the march of science that Marey's ingenious tambour methods were invented only to superseded by the camera but his admirable work on biological movement will never be superseded, and the Institut Marey -is a worthy memorial of it. "We hear this morning that the peaceful mission" into Thibet has been attended by another great slaughter of Thibetans.

There will be only one feeling to-day ai the back of the minds of alt Englishmen who read the almost incredible narrative of the valour and devotion of "the enemy," as, we believe, the Government has at' last thought fit to call the nation whose territory is invaded we it must be the universal' feeling also of the British soldiers who took part in the engagement. Men who show the courage they -did', an not the men to undervalue a display, of valour which if it had been made by a European nation would have set its poots writing. -and its perorating for centuries nor is-it a grateful task to Englishmen to have to demonstrate by. experiments of the kind described to-day. the insurmountable superiority of scientific weapons to the utmost possible achievements of heroism rudely equipped.

doubt it' is in one -way, to the party India which ha3 --long been agitating openly, for a war of. conquest against Thibet, but. even this party must. share the common distaste of their countrymen for' such reading as they are given to-day. A succession of these sequels to.

an excess of sanctimonious professions about the peaceful nature of tlie inroad on Thibet must, be becoming too sore a humiliation even for those whose party commit-ments render it" difficult for them frankly to admit its soreness. Ma-y an interesting street scene goes unrecorded, and it was only a small crowd of spectators that witnessed an incident at the bottom of the slope leading to London Road Station yesterday morning. Cries of consternation heralded the appearance of a hansom cab without a driver which came at a smart pace from the direction of Piccadilly. In such case the ordinary citizen has no clear notion of how far it is incumbent -on him to risk liis life for the community, but the policeman has a simpler conception of his duty. The young policeman at the corner was equal fo the and he tackled his very awkward job with gallantry and For a few moments he was in grave danger, but, to the relief of the spectators, he held on, managed to keep his feet, and was soon patting" the horse's neck in safety; He was rewarded with a cheer of sympathy and admiration from those who had the good fortune to begin their day with a sight so inspiring.

We do not want to know the young man's name or to.fass about him with material rewards, and we could even believe that in his demeanour of modest embarrassment, there was some protest against the supposition that he had done anv- thmg extraordinary. The Manchester mi; have auinerames naa hard thmijs sain them, and on occasion individuals have deserved them. Here, on the other hand, is an instance of their prompt arid efficient services, that' are so often rendered without remark. The. Bishop Wakefield, who has been medically advised to take complete rest, is expected to England for the Continent during the present week.

The King has commanded that the Court ahnii wear mourning for two weeks from to-day. for his late Royal highness the Grand Duke of Mecklen burg-Strelitz. The Court will change to half on June 7 and go out of mourning on Jnne 14. Slatin Pasha, the Inspector General of the Egyptian Soudan, who returned to Khartoum at the beginning of May after, a journey of many months through that district, is now visiting Itang. the most south-easterly trade station of the Soudan.

At the end of June he is to go for a stay in Vienna, according to hi3 annual custom. A a meeting yesterday of the Board of Trinity College, Dublin, to elect a new Fellow, Mr. Stephen Barnabas Kelleher was chosen. His performance is stated to be unprecedented, as he Has not merely obtained a Pellowship on the first trial but the' marks he obtained have only. 'once been beaten He entered the College in 1898, and is the only Boman' Catholic Fellow in Trinity College.

Late Mb. W. T. Arnold. The funeral of the late Mr.

Arnold will take place on -Thursday. June 2, jat Little, Shelford, near Cambridge. The service wilt be at Little -Shelford Church at 2 45 n.m. The 12 trir, Pancras (Great Eastern) brings passengers to Shel ford at changing at -The 12 40 train, from Cross (Great -Northern) arrives, at at 2 p.m., whence it is -five milesbyroaoV Shelford. returning to London the 12 train.

from-Harston (Great Northern); which is two miles from Shelford, reaches King's Grossat 5 55.. The 5 p.m. trainjrpm Shelford (Great Eastern)" reaches Liverpool-street "'rv. T-, was' used! by a who ought to know," and wlio saw him only 'for a short in the very worst part of his-illness. Ho added what seemed a remarkable testimony in the circumstances -to Arnold's power of making people more interested have to do every day a man I should have liked to know.

I would have given." a great deal' to save him and-kriow'hirii better." a prelude to' the annual Council meetings of the Women's Liberal Federation Lady Aberdeen and' the Executive Committee held' reception this' evening at the Portman Rooms. There was'-'just" enough speaking to give a political leaven to the occasion. -Miss Florence Balgarnie, -who. has just returned from a 'tour of the was one of the speakers. What she has seen in India and the colonies 'convinces her that the fundamental, thing for the women of this' country is the Parliamentary franchise.

Phe- happened to be- in. New. Zealand: during- a Parliamentary election, and was delighted to see family, parties going to the poll, the" husband taking the baby while' the wife'went'in to 'vote, and then tho husband taking his turn. The Daily News in mentioning the' 75th birthday of Julia Ward Howe, one of the most prominent of the negro emancipators in America, does not say that she was the author 'of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." She was displeased that -a fine and popular tune should be so. ill-matched with the words' in the that celebrated John Brown, the of Abolition.

She therefore took-the arid substituted for the words John Brown's body lies mouldering in the 'c. the noble and stirring lines Beginning i Mine eyes have seen the" glory of the coming- of Lord jHe is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored hath loosed' the fateful lightnings -of His swift sword. His cause is marching on. Though foes seem to 'triumph, Though hope is gone, Though, our mortal frames may perish, The cause goes marching on. In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea, a glory round His forehead which' trans-! you and me; -As He died to make men holy, let lis die "to make men free.

Our cause goes marching on. And-so forth. Mr. Daniel Frohman, the theatre manager, of New York, who' has just come, to London on his annual visit in search of plays, tells me. that Mr.

Pinero is writing a new comedy for him which will.be produced in New York in the autumn, and that he has arranged with Mr. Israel Zangwill for a new play. He is overjoyed by his success, for this is the first time that Mr. Pinero has written specially for America or consented to having one of his plays produced without long rehearsal under his own. eye in London.

Mr. ZangwilFs play is founded upon his short story A Serio-comic Governess." Cabmen, particularly London cabmen, are a cool and sagacious race, and although, there have been protests and mutterings among them for some months past over, the rate charged by cabowners for their cabs, people not unused protests and mutterings from cabmen have long since made up their mind that there was to be no trike. The cabowners certainly thought so (if I am to believe my informant, a hansom cabdriver), and the public thought so. But the cabmen appreciated two important points. In winter the price, according to the Asquith award, fluctuated between 10s.

and in summer it rises to 16s: a day, and to interest the public in the. matter you must inake them feel in the keenest way your importance to their convenience. About Derby-day is the time wien cabs are most in demand. They waited their time, and to-day some 2,100 of them are on strike, arid a few hundred have already ob-tained the reduced terms front the owners, with, a. few exceptions, the railway cabs have not joined.

These cabdrivers; pay-2s. a day-o the railway companies for the privilege of standing in the On "minding," watering, cleaning, feeding, and other charges a cabman spends about 3s. a day, soothe1 railway' cabman must earn 21s. before he gains a penny which gives, one a reason for the sometime extortion of railway cabmen. As things stand to-day about 1,500 cabmen have not resigned their seats.

The strikers hold that if the cabowners can give their cabs for 10s. in winter they can give them for 14s. in summer. They, propose to pay that sum for hansoms (with two horses) and lis. for four-wheolers (with two horses).

It is not very difficult to, find a hansom to-daviir the central district, but the men are confident that the strike will spread. -Tlie pinch will be when the theatres are over, and, given -rain, there will be heartrending- scenes to-nirfit in the -The men who Wo ou the reduced -scale sport a little tag with tho word Fair on their whips. Fair for the fares would be a good cry at the theatre door. A of the "Electra" of Sophocles m-the original Greek was advertised for this evening at the Court Theatre, hut when the audience assembled at the appointed hour the officials of the theatre announced with -profuse regrets that the production was postponed sine dze. It was only at the last moment that the project had been abandoned, so that there was no time send notice to the critics, who congregated disconsolate on the pavement outside the theatre.

It had been remarked as a curious coincidence that the production of Professor Murray's translation of the Hippo-lytus" at the Lyric Theatre should immediately be followed by the performance of another Greek, tragedy as though the old rivalry between Sophocles and Euripides were to he revived in London four-and-twenty centuries. But, Sophocles having failed to "come to. the scratch," Euripides holds the field until Friday, when the last matinee of the Hippo-lytus will be given. COURT CIRCULAR. Buckingham Palace, Monday.

The Prince and Princess of Wales, with their children, and Prince and Princess Louis' of Bat-tenberg have left Windsor Castle. Their Majesties' other guests have also left the Castle. The King arrived at the Palace this morniDg from Windsor Castle. The King received the Alake of Abeokuta at Buckingham to-day. The Alake, who was accompanied by Sir William MacGregor, Governor or Lagos, waaintroduced to His Majesty's presence by Mr.

Alfred Lyttelton, Secretary of State for the Colonies. Lord Lawrence, Lord-in-Waiting Lord Farquhar, Master of theHousehold Colonel Lord Edward Pelham Clinton, Grooin-in-Waiting; Colonel A. Davidson, and Captain Holford, Bquer-ries-in-Wfiting, were in attendance. Majesty's bodyguard of the Honourable of Gentlemen-at-Arms, under the eornmand-of Colonel Sir Henry 'Oldham! (the lieutenant), was on duty? in the Throne Boom at the reception of the Alake of Abeokuta. The King visited Her Royal Highness the Grand, Duchess of Mecklehburg-Strelitz this Mecklenburg House, to condole with her on the lamented death of His Boyal Highness the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Victoria, arrived at the Palace this-afternoon from Windsor Her Majesty, accompanied, by Princess paid a. visit of condolence tc the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-StreiitzJ' The. Duke of Connaugtit visited the King this afternoon. Sear Admiral 8ir A. Berkeley -Kiln'e A.J.C, R.N., Captain Hugh Tyrwhitt- (private secretary to the' First Lord of the and "Captain Hahan, United States Navy, "had the honour.

of being received, by His Majesty. S'" Major-General Sir Stanley Clark (Marshal and" to the.King) and the. Hon. Sidney GreviUe to "the Queen) attended-this vmorning the Chapel Ba1, Palace, the funeral service for -Major General iSir John MacNeill7 (late Equerry Extra to the-King" of Anns), as representing 'their JSajesties. V.r 'MANCHESTER COMMEMORATION DINNER, There is every indication of a commemoration in Manchester of tenary of the birth of KicharJ (June 3, 1804).

The dinner, Winston ChurchUl, M.p., win toast of "The memory of Cobden P. Scott wilt preside, will be held i 5tr-of the Midland Hotel on Friday evev Ul and will, of course, be attended by PreVVeiI the. several political parties, who will th. 7 abled to meet on neutral ground as reearri. tn' politics -to honour in the Free Trad memory -of the" great Free-trader, inter veption last week of the Whitsuntide for the commemoration necessarily had to be pressed forward 7 1 desirable that an early anrjlicatinn Sltii made ior.

tickets. JXZ obtained at the offices of the Federation," 20, York-street, of Mr secretary. Bum. thj THE THEATRES. SIR HENRY IRVING.

IN BECKET THE THEATRE ROYAT AI Last eight cir Henry Irvin? and hi acted in "BEokpt, at tha Th. conirar.T iuMtio aoyal. nearly ten years, now since first he the -play to Manchester, and for it seemed in hava T. JMri out of his working repertory. On teeing it again we did find it a better rlay; nor, on the other hand Ta take a less vivid pleasure in occasional' a sages and, in th acting of them.

Perhans it nct idle to guess that Lord Tennyson found ih" work that most absorbed him in making Beet express his torn mind with pathos or his rebuij' with edge and aptitude lather fhan in iIScti'! with sustained insight the resistless approiJ of evil, and discovering in an tion of sympathy the reallv Poi6naM scenes to-which his great central battle oUflij must lead. It seemed, indeed, to us that a fa of the speeches, and those not the least povferiul were more emphatic than the playwright had earned the. position to make them. Becksi'j protest, for instance, in ihn nmlnm. Luai jig 1 subject, not his pander (it is immaterial that Henry finds the himself), is follow closely by his acceptance of Henry's pronoss'.

With, dignity and decision he refuses to" siga away the authority of the Church; then hesisr" though, one must admit, there was nothinj: to make him do so. Then, again, immediately aii he laments his irrevocable deed fiiit speech False to myself it is the will God'i; but the deed was not irrevyat) for he had not yet. sealed, and in due course he refuses to do so. These- are perhaps small but they are mere symptomatic eruptions ot trie evil we spoke of that Tennyson did not pre his artist's thoroughness to the threading of hu scenes and the making of his plot. He has a fine theme in love for Henry at war with his loyalty, to his Church, and in Henry's love fo: Becket at war with his intolerance of Church rule.

There is a play here, but Tennyson dM not write it. At one plunge, any rs uciuwu, iiv muiums me possiDinues oi the breach. From the very first, like Becket himself, we "stand and see at such an eagle height the rift that runs between me aad the King" that'. the later acts can bring little crescendo of pathos. Indeed the last act, with Becket's butchery, is, apart from Sir H.

Itvinj'j acting of it, a mere appendix of small moment, frr -it was far easier for Becket to die than to male Henry hate him. This he had done and sufftrtd, and his death is not, as' Tennyson would malt it, a Again, Tennysonls Henry Is so srifiio anger and unstinting, abuse that. on his eiu we get little or no struggle of feelings'." But for all this, acted as it was last ran. Becket "has lines which mak seeing it an rr. erice one values.

Sometimes you get a wonderfully concentrated expression of the pity of Bccin? position, and when in answer to the Kin;) demand for money owed to him- he says "I thought it a gift," the words, with Sir H. Irving's delivery of them, have the most raovinj wistfulness. His speech, again, in the first aci describing his dream is very terse and sincere, iai cadence laying bare a situation in a phrase, iit Henry irving's Becket could not be bettered in its quiet and unposturing snggestica of force of character and keenness mind, and he gives meaning even to the wordy lines by the loving nicety with which he speaks them. The company is a good one, we particularly admired Mr. Laurence Irvin? in his small part of King Louis of France.

"WHERE'S TJNCLE?" AT THE PRINCE: THEATRE. This entertainment, in which Mr. Frank DatibT is the leading, performer, is a sort of old-fashioori farce with musical interludes. It deals with ii" adventures of two detectives who have been 5fi in search of an absent-minded elderly gentleman, being thus afforded lor tnose guises which Mr. Danby specially affects.

Tin songs are a strange medley of new and old. Ii character of Captain Graham Mr. Volt site Noisy Johnnie," which is one of Grossmitb's well-known songs, but with an added verse ahoy', a. mnf.or.M.r. Another "chestnut" is the "Ki ing Duet," sung by Miss Russell and Mr.

Enji Thomas; and the tmrd act a poem oy the snirit of which is said to be no! with the' best traditions of the Briibh army, is drawn upon. Two or three sentiment aoncs. havinc- nothine in common with the broadly farcical tone of the sung by Miss Minnie Hunt; and an, unworn feature in- 6uch musical' comedies is the voice glee sung by the soldiers in the third act. A NEW CURTAIN-RAISER AT THE GAIETY-. An impecunious but worthy young couple in a garret on a diet of love and fortitude-that is sufficiently familiar as a -dramatic situation, forms the subject.

of a curtain-raiser by a shire author, Mr. A. J. Dearden, which last the never-fading Charley's Aunt." Tn "Barmecide Feast" is a luxurious meal enjoys imaginatively by the foodless couple as a pi, of amusement. One may suggest that really star1' people would scarcely be in the humour for sorry "a jest.

The "young gentleman is a obdurate editors. At length thirty become so bad that he sells a beloved Chaucer pay the but the self-same friend who ga him the book turns up just when he ought ii.n(i1 rifih uncle, fc'! we'seem to discern hopes that he will come roun The extreme virtue of. the young people deserves no less. Of' Charley's Aunt" a lively was given by a company in which Mr. Edwin tt.

'Wynne is the aunt. The Appreciation for larks in a bedroom is developed -in most of us as 60on as have strength to sling a pillow, and the, lore 0 'mischief in this particular form never dies excep When our i own particular pillows are being sev'erely'' ttbeked abouL Mr. Paul Martiaet! company entertain with excellent business all veloped out of pillow fights of cbi hood in their, sketch" A Terrible 1' -the' sort of thiag 'yoa may have seen in a doz'JB 'pa'ntomimrai but is sbmuch suggestion o-sponUneitiy in prankobf We three men in tne bedroom that'it is all. finely diverting. Mr.

comedmnsneVervjBpeak.h their fill the house witrr such neals of laughter as vozi vcxc a3-' 'The; M'Saugfatons -and -Miss Alice jwoiu 'theother -well-known entertainers en- probe of ''canary-coloured silk, with a mantle 'of. canarv-colonredi'TJlusn, on -nis -neaa was a cap of "pale blue decorated with blue He. drove Ttb Buckingham Palace "arrayed in' a'long! gown: of ruby velvet almost, entirely, covered with gold "embroidery. On his breast was silver star, arid round 'his neck a heavy-gold necklace, and' he wore a crown of gold lace with He was. accompanied by his cousin and his principal Minister, Mr.

Edun, and by Sir William'rjM'Gregor, Governor of. Lagos. The King' received -him in a field marshal's uniform. Of, what passed at he audience the Central News states that it has been given the following account: The Alake, with.his cousin op. his right and Mr.

Edun' on his left, advanced towards -KingT iwith. Mr, Lyttelton walking few paces ahead of On reaching thp'dais. upon which the King seated Mr. Lyttelton stepped aside, and the three African chiefs stood alone about three paces apart. This, -aire, is the" Alake of whose greatest.

desire it has been in visiting this country to see your said Mr. Lyttelton. The Alake, the Prince, and Mr. Edun made a low 'obeisance, trieir heads.almost touching the carpet. jThe Alake then straightened himself and addressed the King with great, earnestness, in the following manner, his speech being interpreted by Mr.

Edun: great King, this is the happiest day- of my life. I have much wanted. to see you. I came to England in' the you. would see me, and I-am most thankfullto you that -you My -people will be much pleased that you have seen me.

I shall have much'to tell themi I am very glad indeed. When-JI -gp back I will- tell my people how great and kind you are. They will be as glad as I am The to he slightly amused -at first, but was' evidently touched by the simple sincerity, and loyalty, of his vassal. He xe'plied: "I hope you had a good-voyage on the ship, Imean? "-The Alake listened to interpreter most attentively, and then turned the King, saying "Great King, -I did. not like being on the ship.

I was glad when I on land." The King's face again gave way to smiles, and he said: Well, I hope you are enjoying your holiday, and that you are well looked after." The Alake-replied: It is ill most wonderful. I am -very pleased. You have been very kind. I am very grateful." The King again took up the conversation with the remark, "You have still a lot to see. I understand that you are shortly going to seethe working.of the-cotton mills." The Alake replied that he was' very interested in the subject of" cotton, as it promised to be of great good to bis people.

When the. King rose a sign that the audience-was at an end the '-three Africans again made a low obeisance' and walked of the Throne-room, facing the Sing the. whole time. Outside the Royal presence the "Alake appeared quite overcome with joy, and his evident pleasure' was a delight to those with him. Driving from the Palace, he waved'his handkerchief to the crowds assembled outside' to see' him, and continued to do so as he drove along the Mall.

He was driven direct to a firm of photographers in Bond-street, where he had his first photograph taken, arrayed as he was in the clothes in which he had been received by. the King. Later in the day he paid a visit to the. Boyal-Geographical Society. Rfiuter's; Agency.

the King, tihe Alake; 3rrst inquired iaa health arid added thafc "he was greatly pleased at the prosperity of his countryand at what he hau heard of hiin personally. The Alake, in reply, said he was proud to look to. King Edward 'as. his sovereign protectbrj He was glad that Victoria had taken. a -great interest -in Abeokuta, and that the Bible which her.

late Majesty had given his late father had indeed be a great power in- his country. The Prince of who, with, the Princess, returned to Marlborough House from Windsor yesterday morning, was. not present at the Levee at St. James's Palace, or, yesterday being Trinity Monday, he was erigaged-to attend divine service with the Brethren- of Trinity House at the Church of St. Olave, in the City.

The Duke of Connaught and Prince Arthur were, present, as were many of the Ambassadors and Ministers. Most of those presented were military oncers. The Queen. Queen Alexandra did. not go to London with the" ICing yesterday morning, as but.

deferred till afternoon her return from Windsor. Accompanied by Princess Victoria, she arrived at Paddington about 'four o'clock, and drove privately to Buckingham Palace by way of Hyde Park. A great crowd, largely made up of visitors from "the country," assembled in front of the Palace to see Her Majesty, who cordially responded to their hearty greetings. A letter froni the Queen received yesterday by the Police Court Temperance Missionary, in Exeter; rwho had forwarded a report of 'his work. Her Majesty wrote 'that she had been much interested in the attempts to "make ab-.

stainers of. persons convicted by magistrates of inebriety, and would be glad to hear later how the movement -progresses; The King's Visit to Germany. It is stated to be definitely arranged that King. Edward will leave England for Kiel on the 23rd of June to meet the German Emperor and to attend the regatta there. The official celebration of His Majesty's birthday in London having been fixed for the following day, June 24, it follows that tho King, will not.

be present at the celebration or at the. troopinw 'of the colours on the Horse Guards Parade, but he will be represented rby-a member -of the Roval T7 AL. 1-11. iiujiiv i-iws yAwx ceremony. KING PETER'S CorfoNATION.

The King Of Servia is to be crowned at the end of August next. The days set apart for the ceremony and matters connected with' it-are the "29th 30th, and 31st. The coronation will take place "in -'the Cathedral at Belgrade, withgreat pomp. Prince Ferdinand of Bulga'riaand Prince Nicholas of Montenegro are expected to be present as the guests of the King. The, foreign Courts will be informed through diplomatic channels, but no direct invitations "will sent.

-The same dates have also, been fixed for the grand celebration the hundredth anniversary of the liberation of Servia under the leadership of Karagebrge, the King's grandfather. This will be the first coronation since the time of the Emperor Lazar, some 500 years ago. Lord Curzon yesterday visited Dover -Lord Harlech's-condition was yesterday 'morning unchanged." The Duke of Orleans has arrived in London from the Continent. "J- The.Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne are spending the week in Ireland. Dr.

Jameson, Pjcemier of Cape Colony.Tis shortly to'England for a brief holiday. The Michael and Countess Torby are-to arrive Ixndorirom'-aria Mr. Balf opr and Countess Grosyeioor arriVedatDover.from Calais' yester- day-aftembbri. Princess Victoria. Eugenie of Battenberg is visiting Prince and Pri'ncs'Alexahdeof Teck at the Royal' Pavilion, Alder 'Xy iThe Emperor WiUiam- hasrconferTei' the'0 of theJCrowii: of Prussia.

third side 'is evidently spreading. I- hear -that this' is specially noticeable among- those, members yrho think that the passing of- a -Redistribution ought to be the crowning work of "'the present Parliament. Mr. Balfour, it will be declined to give any definite pledge's on the subject, on the ground that it would--not be advisable in the course ofone session to formulate the programme of the next. But there is evidently a growing sce'pticisrh as to the probability of any "next session" in this Parliament, or at all events of a next session in which legislation of any importance can be carried.

If there should be a revival of the redistribution agitation within the next few weeks" the fact will not be without very considerable "significance. There are some members, at all events, on the Ministerial" benches who are' now inclined to believe that if-the Government are beaten on the time limit in the Licensing Bill the -result may be a Ministerial crisis. This is no doubt a very different view from that' which' was adopted on the Ministerial benches wjien the second reading was carried by a large majority and the bill was boldly pronounced to be safe whatever turn the proceedings -in Committee might' take. It is now fully; recognised that many members voted in this majority who supported the second reading merely as a vague declaration in favour of the principle- of "compensation, and who will specially in view of the evidence of feeling in the constituencies hold themselves perfectly free to act as' they please when the provisions of the measure come before the House in detail. It is not, however, simply the Licensing Bill which is troubling the minds of the old Parliamentary hands on the Ministerial side of the' They recognise that the Government have taxed the loyalty of.

their followers to the utmost, and that while an important' question may at any time arise, condition of tilings exists on the Unionist side of the House which renders even the mere day-to-day work of Parliament full of risks for the Government. There may be no likelihood of" the Free Trade issue being again definitely but the Tariff Reform shadow hangs over the Unionist ranks more disastrously than ever, and- the dissensions in the party have taken a turn which will render Mr. Balfour's task more difficult than ifc has been. One bad by-electipn "might be too much for us," said a Conservative member the other day, and I doubt whether we shall even be able to-stand a few bad- divisions" and with this ffelingpervading the Unionist ranks the Government have' still to face "ten or eleven weeks of hard work in which innumerable matters must arise likely to give the discontented element an opportunity of showing if not their disloyalty at all events their indifference. It lias now been arranged that the opening meeting' of Mr.

Chamberlain's next fiscal "campaign shall be held on August 4 in the Duke of Portland's riding school at Welbeck, which holds nearly 10,000 persons. Mr. Chamberlain intends to deal with the agricultural side of his 'schetne, and I believe there will' be. a great whipping up of the landed interests. The Alako of Abeokuta had his great day today, and he let London or so much' of London as was interested share in it.

He was received by the King after the Levee, and he lived up to tho occasion magnificently. In a robe of cloth of gold, a golden crown on his- head, his arms just coils of gold and. silver bracelets and his fingers thick with rings, and an ivory sceptre over his arm, drove in at tlie gates Buckingham Sir William Macgregor was with him in and in another carriage followed two of the AlakVs entourage, gorgeous after their kind. It was a solemn driving in, amid a crowd hushed with a proper awe at the splendour that, so overwhelmed the uniforms and decorations which had been passing in and out for the Levee. But.

the return was in another key. In about a quarter of ah hour the golden figure but this "time delightedly waving, a handkerchief condescending to stimulate the excitement of. the crowd. TRe Alake had seen the King, had made obeisance several had talked with His Majesty face to face. Small wonder that that handkerchief waved wildly in the air all the way down the" Mall.

Now the Alake be able to go in peace to" Manchester to discuss cotton. Everyone who had the privilege of coming-in contact with the informing and generous mind, of the late Mr. W. Arnold will recognise the truth of every word, you say in your biographical notice of him. The sense of personal loss among all who brought their studies Tand hnhhiM to the touchstone of his intellect and i- maera proiouna.

jl nave Known few minds whose, interests were quite sovwide Jiis ran from -ancient Roman administration to the latest nonsense outside his findow, from Basque history to a wrestling-match and yet at the', same time were quite, so' successful in bringing to on them the thie scholarly habit of thinking that, without tolerating priggishness, brings' all1 the" pieces of human experience into their right relations. It- is a common thing to say of some -kinds of minds that they the brains of others. Arnold did this, and yet the word entirely fails to express the exact attitude of his mind to others. In you question after question he would so guide your thoughts that he would invariably, though no doubt often quite unconsciously, help you to build up your subject and co-ordinate your scattered materials so that the orderliness 'resulting from a-proce'ss which consisted apparently of transferring information from yourself to -him was. often astonishing, to "the person who.

profited- by it. times I have come -away, after, seeirigrhimi feeling that I had wasted one -more opportunity of pillaging the storehouse, only" to find-later that I had gained more by consenting than, so to speak, by taking the offensive. A few persons may know what I mean when I say that -he had the same way with men and' men's affairs as made friendship with the late Mr. A. Neil so memorable a possession to his circle at Camhridee.

like his. devorired'-ahd- absorbed everything that i i 5 i- i coiDe-rjivdi appetite jaded, even he "was "visibly wincing under -the' brutal shocks' of physical tortoreJ rstandardr which -most men judgejgaUaritry aJcxjnventionalKad, I think, oftenTa'-false one reason-to know exact call Arnold's endurance heMic.TJiat very.wc. worth the loss involved in such alienations is a point which may have been weighed by Cardinal Svampa's advisers' in the. Vatican before they sanctioned his visit to the Italian King. About the.

further course of rupture between France, and the Holy See it is impossible to dogmatise, but- circumstances -point: its extending. The enormous vote by which the French Chamber approved last week the action of the Government shows, that the effect of the Papal protest on French opinion has been rather irritating; than, repressive. It has inspired, a semi-nationalist Roman interference hut increase the wind in M. Combes' sails. The idea of abolishing the Concordat, which two years' ago seemed 'visionary, has grown apace' during the life of the- present I Parliament.

M. Clbmenceatj, the ablest leader of French Radicalism, has been demanding it in stantly for', some while, and nearly all the Radicals, all the Socialistic Radicals, and all the Socialists desire it. These do not form the whole of M. Combes Bloc," but they comprise so large a majority of it as virtually to be able to dictate terms. M.

Combes has done practically the only thing possible under the circumstances; he has declined to propose the separation of Church and State in the present Parliament, but promised to make it the issue of -the next elections, which will occur in about' two years' time. He says, of course truly enough, that the present Parliament has no mandate for it, and he might have Baid with equal truth that it supplies no majority for it. If, however, the Anti-Clerical movement continues its march, the next Parlia-nient'may very well supplgfione. At any rate there will be: a general election of much, more than common interest. It was long made a reproach against natural science that it murdered to dissect of studying life in motion, it was content to investigate organs which had become rigid in death, and thus missed many of the most obvious and important relations of 'days of the mere crab-catcher and beetle-pinner are gone, and the modern biologist never forgets Huxeby's admonition that his work should be akin to that of the mechanical engineer.

A gratifying proof of this is afforded by report which has just been presented to the International Association of Academies, now meeting in London, on the work of the Institut Marey, founded to carry on the life-work ot the late Professor E. J. Maeet, who lived just long enough to draw up this document. It' is a characteristic of the recent advance of science that ijx: all departments more attention has been, paid motion and less matter to use a common distinction which, as the latest research indicates, may. possibly not be founded on physical-truth.

It is conceivable that what we call matter is, after only a mode of motion, this is an esoteric doctrine which need not as yet affect our common terminology. The early zoologists; from Aristotle and Plesy clown to a period almost within our own memory, considered matter alone worth study. Now have, come perceive that motion is even-more whether -we are studying the composition of the- radium atom, or the structure of the solar system, or the building of a. flying machine. The m-jt ion animals and ''birds seems, an easy problem, bufit.was only when M-aket.

began' to investigate it scientifically, half a century ago, that its real complexity was -The here a most inadequate guide, 'since it cannot receive more about ten distinct impressions in a second in bther.words, one-teath of a second is the Tmnimum vistbileiin time. The great majority of animal movements are executed with such, rapidity that our eyes cannot analyse them, but present- ns merely a series of composite photographs in which the separate motions 'are hopelessly blurred. Hence it is "that' instantaneous photographsj taken perhaps one-ttousandth t-r second, "seem spgtes'que vTheyisola-teattitudes which the eye, isimpotent detects Curiously enough, the ancient Greeks seem'--, to had keener was'jengaged "yesterdayfor two' hours at' Tariff. Committee which "''V5 VviCj1 one 'of the featareY of this we'ek'sprogramme..