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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN. TUESDAY. MAY 2- 1911. lb FflTTlT A Tir rnrriTTT, n-r SECOND EDITION VARIETY THEATUES. THE GLASGOW EXHIBITION.

THE WEATHER. FORECASTS FOR TO-DAY. The following forecasts of to-day's weather were issued by the Meteorological Office last night Lancashire and the North-Webb (No. 7). S.

and S.W. winds, light to moderate or fresh; much cloud; some rain; moderate temperature. The Sea. The sea is rather rough on our extreme west ana north-west coasts, moderate to smooth elsewhere. GENERAL CONDITIONS.

The large depression which al present has its centre to tho south-westward of Iceland will continue to travel in an easterly or northeasterly direction, and will cause an increase of wind and less fine weather over the greater part ot the kingdom. YESTERDAY IN MANCHESTER, Manchester University Meteorological Observa- Toar, WHrrwonrH Park, May 1, 1911, 9 p.m. to fine; intermittent sunshine; warmer. Barometer steady. Tbmperatcrb (in shade).

To-dav. Lutmr, Part hour, lastvsar 9 a.m. 52-8 50-0 59 0 58-9 9p.m 52-3 52 0 Lowest 39 0 454 Highest on black bulb, 106 Sunshine 3h. 55m. Raikfall Nil.

Last year 4h. 5m. Last 00l8in. 9 a.m. 9 p.m.

Humidity (per cent of saturation) 66 77 Uahosieteb (corrected) Monday. sundav. At 9 a.m 29-901 29-582 At9p.m 29'892 29'845 Wind. A gentle breeze, direction varied between S. and W.S.W.

average velocity 9 miles an hour. Rises. Sets. The Sun 4 34 a.m. 7 38 p.m.

The Moon 6 31a.m. For every tea miles north of Manchester sunset is later by 29 seconds. LAMP-TIME FOR CYCLISTS TO-DAY 8 38 p.m. A COUNTRY DIARY. May 1.

Tim tinnlo rf tlx wViimlvrol rocnnnrlprl filnTl? the dge of the saltings, for, as usual, the "May-bird" arrived before the end of April; omi. Migrants seem a The Palace. Mazuz wears garments which literally are things of shreds and, patches tied together with string. His facial make-up remotely suggests the features of a well-known English conductor as they might conceivably appear if that conductor had a year's acquaintance with casual wards. His bearing is one of weariness mixed with vacillation ol" purpose.

With the help of'Mazette he performs in a very perfunctory spirit several balancing feats, and he troubles the orchestra by lazy demands for music, quickly followed by contemptuous re quests for silence. His appearance is grotesque, his performance is in some measure original, and he gets hearty laughter from the audie-ncu with a minimum of exertion on his own part. Mr. John Tiller's "Sunshine Girls," who are prettily dressed in black and white, give dainty though simple dances against a kind of pen-and-ink sketch background. The idea is fresh and the effect is good.

Les Marco Belli, as an illusionist, and his assistant provide both mystification and amusement, for the assistant delights in revealing the secrets of the wizard." People often enjoy seeing how the thing is done" more than an unexplained trick. Quite a company of players appear in Private Potts," hut the duty of all save two is to make a little melodrama which shall threw into stronger relief the highly ridiculous clowning oi 3 and mother parody of a soldier. There ars mauy in the augieI1 who laugh at the performance The Hippodrome. The programme gives a list of twenty-two musical and dramatic celebrities of whom Miss Cecilia Loftus is prepared to give her impressions. It is added that there are "others," and so indeed there are or were.

There was, for instance, the remarkable Bernhardt study, and others have gone because they were hitched to fallen stais. Much depends on the choice among the twenty-two which Miss Loftus happens to make. Last night she began with Miss Constance Drever, whose mannerisms are so slight that one hardly knew where Miss Constance Drever ended and Miss Cecilia Loftus began. It was, however, interesting as showing how well Miss Loftus can sing. Miss Vesta Tilley is aneasier prey, and Miss Loftus has appropriated her body and soul, just as, hunting in the higher altitudes of art, she appropriated Bernhardt and Guilbert so that one used to think it not an imitation but Bernhardt or Guilbert herself.

The sketches of Miss Maud Allan, with which Miss Loftus concluded wert. marred at the last performance last night, by a misunderstanding with the band which need not occur again. The first was a "classical" dance, and the second, one of the orgiastic revels with which we have grown familiar on the stage. Here again Mists Loftus wae the uuug us-eu, even to the ripple along the arms and to the ringer-joints which is the characteristic of Miss Maud Allan's school. Literally, Miss Loftus has it at her riuger-tips.

The Ahdwick Empire. Mr. Joe Elvin has discarded the clothes of the "cabby" for the braes-buttoned livery of a manservant, but he is still to be recognised by his voice. When Mr. Elvin talks lie shouts, and it is ouite tittins that he should this time have a shouting part.

ne takes the character of attendant upon a' deaf old man who is seeking for a deaf young man to marry his daughter. Two suitors feign 1 deafness, and the servant is chiefly occupied in saying uncomplimentary things "about parent1 and lovers alike and then shouting revised; versions of his comments for the benefit of the I fnm.lf T1e sk7lch moderately i 1 "SsyAdd t6r hia -viiss Auuie Jets us see that a woman au "change her things" uuickly enough if she cares to hurrv. Sht hiiih'hts: in T.if.tu.j., hit of miiiiicry in a study of a child unwillingly! me-uuger exercises at the mano. i The Tivoli. Quite a musical ni-cninc ic he had at the Tivoli week.

Thew is a LUVl'i 13 lOlmist, lor instance, called Romanoff Romanoff chooses, to call himself an apache violinist," and bv way of sustainim the irrim cnaractenst-ic ot the apaehian mythology he siouches on tiie stage exhibiting a marked tempt for his audience and wearirnr amoiur other haphazard garments cap wuicn lias seen, better days. Yet his first solo, if one may use so polile a word, is one which is wont to meet with much acceptance in thn drawiiT'-Torwrin nf i Romanofl 5 pllvs if verv wen" nnf' ntl welT-knownPvaS fere with the intentions of the cZposer Then there is Mies Marianne Metcalf, who singe Tas if she meant music, and finally Miss Dofothv Ward, who has, indeed, the place honour the Miss Wards list i throbbed with the emotions which are pec Xr to the principal boy in the DlomC to the un-Jirl to itt-ith 1 v'ml eoocl sue uibo in iot songs Trusted, art of the vocalist and trusted results. i i i i American ireaw or iwuo oud over au uui- few days later on the Norfolk coast than negotiated between first- Cheshire. On Saturday the sedge warbler was p(j flnd inau urating A new chattering a reedy dyke only a stone's throw em in the nnals of peace couventions. In from the sea, but in Cheshire it was heard at each ,01 case of dispute it is recognised least three days earlier, while whitethroats and tJlat the 1jgil contracting parties before ap-tree pipits, many days settled in our western piling to the Permanent Court of Arbitra-counties, are only just beginning to sing an any tion at the Hague shall conclude a special numbers.

One bird, however, which we too agreement defining clearly the matter in dis-seldom hear in Cheshire was in grand song 1 pute, the scope of the powers of the arbitra-yesterday; at noon a nightingale was easily i tors, and the periods to be fixed for the outsinging a number of chaffinches, white- formation of the arbitral tribunal. Such throats, and greenfinches in a little spinney, special agreements on the part of the United Even when so many other birds were singing, States, it is understood, will be made by the the song, which I have only once heard at home I President of the United States by and with and not really manv times in other places, at tno advice and consent of the Senate thereof, CHA3IPIONS1IIP. Mr. Baerlein (says the "Standard" plucky young opponent very feu- cnnif BBrvea an accurate length at a gi in the court ho made splendid" u-. pace, i- in niacins st t.imp tr tha if of his opponent.

0 Mr. Denison h-t. t' hard on occasion, and once or tv 1 -Kk a prolonged rally, though generally on'-? when he got in his best return 1,.,. put Mr. Baerlein out Mr.

ing hand was generally alio It is not too much to fhaf. tliA rhnmniAT) n.t-i Liupiaeq in all points. At the start the holder times to score as many aces, wiiilo itiar. flrt scoreu ouo oniy. men Mr.

Baerle'p 4 and 3 in successive visits, anr ar. innings without making a point. ra'l no tewer man Zi individual hands liC-it the challenger making quite a SO vi ana an. Afterwards "i-iri Vi lincf a rt 1 1 -i wiiii u. utjoir ,3 Lit; UI WOIl tO 6 third game Mr.

Baerlein started with went on wiin. ana 4. thu? points every time it was his service, a-? moment his score was 11 0, Mr. dV breaking a spell of love hands by his jfifth. TO-DAY'S ARRANGEMENTS.

House of Commons Parliament Bill Cy LVvr House of Lorsd: Movable Dwelling o-r mittee; Small Ownership and Na-j-- Land Bank Bill, second readine; EdiM- (School Attendance) Bills. '95 Club: Mr. J. B. Martindale.

Women's Liberal Associp.tion, 7 45. British Cotton-growing Association-' Meeting, 3 30. Lord Derby at the Jewish Board of Meeting, 4 30. Presbyterian Church of England Svncd-. venor Square Church.

11; Hoine Meeting, 7. Mersey and Irwell Joint Committee. 2 45, xoung Women's Christian Assr-eiation, E3. Xe-Bridge-street: Annual Meeting. 3.

Bishop of Manchester at Holvrn6i Churc'r Swinton, 11. Chester Race Meeting: The Dnv. National Chamber of Trade Conier-f Plvmouth. Chancery of Lancashire: Before the ceilor, at the Assize Courts, 10 30. Cause: Sutcliffe v.

Muliinev 'funh--consideration), part heard. Queen's Theatre. At the Queen's this Wills's "Royal Divorce is played yet again i Mr. Kelly's company, with Miss Edith Cole acting Josephine and with Mr. Frank Rrari as Napoleon.

It is the company's fifty-niti- visit to Manchester with the play WESTMACOTT'S TONIC QUININE, CHAMPAGNE. AU liotels. 17. StarVet-'ri. TOYS.

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Liiif. All such nnnouneementa must be autlientkjleit iaimo and oddresa of the sender. l'osiage EMmps postal orders may be sent in payment. BIRTHS. OOhLEN'S.

At Ctak Bank, Simple, on April a), In Mr- and Mrs. W. F. COLLF.X9 (late of Wollasevi, tw-DALY. On April 29, to Mr.

ond Mrs. J. PALY, 2J7, Hond, Blackpool, a daughter. DIXOX. On May 1.

nt 21, Kind's Driw, Ilcat'-n iler. and Mrs. PERCY J. DIXON' (neu Hilda JmsoI'1. fi daughter.

HEY WOOD. On April 29, at 23. Clerelnnf! Road. Oimp sail, to Mr. dikI Mia J.

H. HEYWUOD, .1 son. HOPWOOD. On April 28. at.

Ixjnsow, Hill "I'P Av-nw. Cheadlo Hulmc, to Mr. and Mrs. S. HOPirOOn, a danshter.

MOOHE. On AprU 30, at- Sheffield lioad, Grvlly, Mi. and Mrs. CHARLES E. MOORE, a dauphier.

WOOIjLEY. On Saturday, 29th April, to Mr. and F. T. WOOLTjEY, Thirlmere, Spring Whalley Hangc.

a son. MARRIAGES. SMITH On the 1st nt fl- Church. AKrinohDin, by the Rev. Canon M.A., WALTEll, youngest eon of Mr.

and DANIELS, Worsley, and MAKY .1.1 (Cissio), elder daughter of the lain er.i Mrs. Smith, of Altrinoiam. DOXALD LON'GHIDGE. On April 29, 1311. at S.

Knutsford, bv the Iter. William Armour, uw, CHARLES WILLIAM DOXALI), Ji.U., F.R.CS YAr to MABY ELIN'OR O'om). second dauphter of Charles LON'GRIDGE, of Kilrie, Bnutrforcl. WILLIAM3 FAHRELL. On April 23, 1911, at r.he iVito of tho Holy Name, Oxford Road, by the K---- ''r Fitipatriok, AUTUUH, eldest son of Mr.

and P. J. WILLIAMS, 1S9, Giy-af, Olowcs-street, Broughton, Manchester, to CLAIRE, nlv daughfr Mr. and Mrs. J.

H. FAHRELL, 20, East Gto. Manchester. DEATHS. OHADWICK.

On the 29th at Snndhrtnv. r.iiriir.Tn. Lvtham, THOMAS CHADWICK, coal mcrrlwrit of Heywood), aged 68 years. Interment al Cemetery, at 3 p.m., Wednesday the 3rd CItABB. On the 29th April, 1911, at'Blton Hoi?" Kel Held, FREDERICK THOMAS CKABB, of this aged 70 vear.

Seirioo ot ff. Chad's, I.ad.ih-irn. tn.a (Tu-aday), at two o'clock, prior to imernvn the Southern Cemetery. Inquiries to Satterfeld April 30, at 5, Park -h'rt- r. ciim-Hardy, MARY JANE, widow of tlwi Ur Th'aiaJ GORTON, of Manchester, 65.

Interlocal Southern Cemetery Wednesday, 3 30. HYLAN'D. On April 30, of acut-e ptieifmr.n la. at Bank, Victoria Part, Mrs. ROSE HYLAXO.

fni-r tfi---cf with the rites of Holy Church. R.I.P. Renm -St. Edward's Church, Ruslwlmo, on. 10 30 a.m..

followed by interment at Cemeterr, Stockport. All inquiries to Messrs. Fyans and Gordon, Limited, Manchester. KERSHAW. On April 28, at 33, Cres-cni, Saitoro.

GEORGE SWTTHIS KERSHAW, eon nf th late Georee KTshr-, of Manchester. Keauiem at John's Cathedral, SaHord, Wednesday, at 10 a.m.. followed by interment at thy Southern Cemetery MASraHS On'the 30th at Fernciiffe, filteffiriJ, fi" reSdence of her eon-in-law, SER1NA of the late. William Masters, Manchester, in BE1D On'ie 10th at 63, Shrewsbury-itr-t. Oil Traflord, CHARIOTTE REID, the -wife of Geo.

Reid after a long and painful illness, passM fully 'away- Interment Manchester Southern Cemeiery til vlfiV" STOOKILL. Oil April 30, at the residence of her Mrs. Wetboume, Flixton Head, Urmstcn, in hflr rear AJOTIB Oate of Scarborough), widow of the lat William STOCRILL. At rest. So flowers.

T'vtsWOllTn On May 1, ot 60, Demesne Road, Whau'v Tntrraenc WAKBUBTOX Interment on weaneedav. Mar o. at Manchester Southern Cemetery, at 1 13. Inquiries Wm Bateman. taid Jlanchestcr.

OTTTTAilH On 1st at (Mansfield, N'orthenden R--. Sale, R-B. WILLIAMS (late representative Caledonian Hatlwav), in bi 10th' year. the 1st inst, ot her residence, 11, ttJm PLar- Ashtoh-under-Lyne, JANE, the beloved irid'f of the late Jarries TOXALL," in ber 73rd year. Inf r-mcnt Dukinfleld Cemetery Thursday, May 4, at 2 p.m.

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Manchester. tnfrraent Southern Cemetery Thursday afternoon. On April 29, at Blackpool, belt" wile Ot Jou-'O. uAnouiviu.i, ui Di Drws PRINCE'S THEATRE. MR.

LEONARD BOYNE IX "NOBODY'S DAUGHTER." Nobody's Daughter," a four-act play by the lady who calls herself George Paston, gives one of those situations, not uncommon on the stage, in which an early' indiscretion, nicely tucked out of sight, does at last bring the sinners into lalse Posmon wmcu uie iuu ul demands. In this case there is not mucli attempt at plausibility, and the nameless child, nineteen years old, is introduced by hex parents into her mother's house without, as far as we can see, the slightest chance of escaping the kind of. detection that is feared. Tne iiusc-anu, of course, investigates the fishy story, and there is a violent scene between him, his wife, and the old lover. It is pretty clear that we are not to be sent away in the dumps, but it is difficult to see how a last act can repair the shattered fragments, but is managed rather successfully.

There is some passionate argument and argument in such a ease is not altogether without dramatic value, there is a fine suggestion from the young woman to the estranged pair that the depth of their misery is the measure of their love, and the concentrated art of the theatre manager to do in minutes what, really might have been accom plished in days or weeks. The wife is forgiven, JU Yw, i Xf and the underplot that deals with the loves of the young woman and a fine young mechanic is wound up satisfactorily too. The girl is true to this capital fellow, though she has an offer from a baronet, and from time to time the working man came out with the right sentiments and was cheered by a sympathetic house. The play is said to have been successful by virtue of its humanity, which is what we want in the theatre, and on the other hand it has been, accused of sentimentality, of which V3 have more than enough. The difference between the two is not always to be easily defined, and even the humanist who feels things deeply and wants to feel things deeply sometimes goes on pumping when his sympathies have dried up.

To take a famous example, Dickens wrote many things about the Dombey family which we may all feel to be true and beautiful, some which most of us find tawdry and rhetorical, and some, again, which, according to tempera ment or mood, we may class one way or the other or leave in a middle, undefined state. George Baston is not a Dickens, but her work, on the wnoie, belongs to ins era. The theatre is a wonderfully old-fashioned jdaoe, and the reali sins and austerities of the modern novel have only touched its fringe. "Nobody's Daughter" is rather an antiquated play, and it deals oui its humanities in slabs with good accompaniments. But it has certain elements and little episodes that arrest and almost interest.

Sometimes one sat like a sceptical listener to a speaker, rather grudgingly acknowledging certain debating points, but there were times when there was rather more than this. Mr. Boyne is such a good actor that he can make the middling sound good and the good fine. The play, it must be said, is artificial, and much of it is of the kind that we might pass as human when we are at our dullest; it is not intimate or subtle or thrilling. The big scene, when the fishy story breaks down, is hardly more than a regular theatrical concoction, but Mr.

Boyne played it and especially the earlier passages with great force and skill; it was rather painfully prolonged, and the emphasis of passion became almost conventional. In the last act he was very- gentle and humane, and in the earlier part of the -play he acted with all manner of humorous ingenuities. The mother's part, crammed with emotion, is yet a dull one and Miss Barbara Everest managed it fairly! wen. une would not discourse P.mVtv. imt.i perhaps Miss Olivia Glynn's Honora Mav was O- I almost loo boisterous at but she acted very nicely, and in the last act stood gracefully and expressively.

Mr. Henry Wolston's honest mechanic was good, though it was difficult to believe that he represented a solution of social problems. UNITED COMMUNION, BISHOP OF HEREFORD'S INVITATION TO NONCONFORMISTS. The Bishop of Hereford in the "Diocesan Messenger" for May announces that with "the cordial support" of the Dean he has decided to add to the regular diocesan services and festivals of thanksgiving in connection with the Coronation a celebration of Holy Communion in Hereford Cathedral on Wednesday, June 28, to which he proposes to invite "both members of our own Church and also such of our Nonconformist neighbours and friends as may feel moved to join in our worship on this unique occasion." "Mv jhope," the Bishop adds, "is that such an in vitation may be ot service helping to promote amongst us the true spirit of godly union and concord." In reference to the rabrio at the end of the confirmation service which states that "none shall be admitted to Holv Communion bu such as have been confirmed or are desirous of being confirmed," the Bishop quotes various authorities to show that this rubrio does not apply to the case of Nonconformists, and contends that issuing his invitation he is not transgressing any rule of Church order In discussing possible objections to his action he says: "Those of ns who were taught the traditional doctrine of Apostolicil Succession naturally feel that episcoDacv essential to the Church of Christ, and com munion with non-episcopal Christians is consequently difficult to accept; but as it is now almost universally recognised that, whilst episcopacy (to use the language of heoloiansi is of the bene esse, it is not of the esse of th Church; in other words that, good and valuable as history has proved' it and as we be'ieve it to be, it is not an essential and indispensable part of the Church's organisation; there A in fact, no sufficient reason whv episcoDal 'inri sr. UMiUlUK llle HflTYla in me same sacraments should not kneel together at the Lord's EAST CORK PETITION.

THE EVIDENCE CLOSED. Further evidence in regard to the East Cork election petition was taken yesterdav. The nrn. ceedings were then adjourned until the 15th inst. in consequence of the serious illness of the daughter ot nr.

Justice Gibson, who in the course of the afternoon left Cork for Dublin, in response to tho message he had received. Yesterday was the tenth day of the inquiry. The object of thi petition is to unseat Captain Donelan. The Clovne personation storv was again before the Court. John Daly, one of the personation egents for Mr.

O'Brien, denied that the agents tossed who should bring in a man to personate a voter. Serjeant Moriarty: Unless it was bv are-ment that Collins should vote for Donelan Vhv Ipaoer was to be a spoilt paper uiu uo nut iure jui diku i i tnought the nonstable Jereniian fcuUivan gave evidence labourer Petlho, was a Witnesses were then called to rebut alle- stations- of illegal treating- and inti-miriitinn While one of them was in the box Mr. Justice Dodd said that as at present advised the judges did not think much of the general intimidation charges or the charge of undue influence. Robert Dayer, carrier, of Youghal. was called in reference to a gift of 5 to the poor to celebrate Captain Donelan's return.

T- HealyI il 2280 corrupt Youghal? take to corrupt The Witness: It would take-a lot, sorr (Laughter.) The evidence was concluded. The petitioneTs had subpaenaed or summoned 100 persons to-give evidence, and of these 67 were examined. Serjeant Moriarty called 20 witnesses and five others failed to attondVand the judges examined two witnesses. Counsei's speeches -will be taken at the next sitting. THE STUDY OP EARTHQUAKES.

B7 CHARLES DAVISON, Sc.D., F.G.S. There is no surer sign of growth in a science than the recognition of the need of an international association for its promotion arid study. We may investigate the earthquakes of a single country such as Great Britain or Italy or Japan without external aid, but no sooner was the discovery made that a great earthquake may be recorded instrumentally in every country of the world than a world-wide network of earthquake observatories became the primary need of the youthful science of seismology. In the British Empire, with its colonies widely scattered over the globe, the need is perhaps less strongly felt. The Seis--mological Committee of tlie British Association, under the guidance of Professor Milne, has already promoted the erection of about fifty observatories, and from these alone substantial results have been obtained.

But we can hardly expect other countries to acquiesce in British supremacy in the domain of science, 'and accordingly' the International Seismolo-gical Association, whioh owes its origin to the suggestion of German men of science, seeks to widen still further the area of investigation and to promote the study of seismology in all civilised countries. Three meetings of the Association have already been held, the first at Straasburg in 1905, the second at the Hague in 1907, and the last at Zermatt in 1909. In an -which appeared in the "Manchester Guar- dian nearly two years ago it was suggested that, after Germanv. Holland, and Switzer land, the turn of Great Britain, which has always taken a lead in seismological inquiry, might fairly come, and that the fourth meet--ing might be held in London or Manchester or one of our larger towns. As the president of the is Dr.

Arthur Schuster, Emeritus Professor of Physics in the University of Manchester, it is only toatural that this city should have heen selected as the place of the fourth meeting, and accordingly, on July 18 and the next four days, Manchester will be visited by seismologists representing not only every country in Europe but others also as distant as the United States and japan. While there is no deparfcmeut of the science which does not come within the purview of the association, the most important branch to be considered is that which deals with what are now known as "world-shaking" earthquakes. When one of these earthquakes occurs, and there are fifty or sixty of them every year, waves spread out in all directions from tne origin. Those which travel most rapidly penetrate the body of the earth with velocities which vary with the distance of the origin from four to six or seven miles a second. Following them more slowly and spreading outwards over the surface are other waves which travel with a uniform velocity of about two miles a second.

The interval between the times of arrival of the two sets of waves thus depends on the distance of the origin, so that it is possible, from an inspection of the earthquake-diagram, to tell at once the distance of the region in which the earthquake occurred. From such records we can now determine the position of the region long before any direct news of the earthquake reaches tho outer world. This is a result of great practical value. Of skill higher importance, however, from a scientific point of view, is the light which these investigations have thrown on the nature of rthe earth's interior. Manv more observations must be made and much laborious work must be done before our knnwlftrlov of -fjiin interesting subject can attain to anything approaching precision; but it is not too much to say that we are on the verge of penetrating a mystery which has to a great extent baffled our efforts, and that if we succeed it will be largely owing to the work of the International Seisuiologieal Association.

Many other subjects will, however, claim the attention of our visitors next Julv. The permanent central office of the Association 06 established at Strassburg, mid the reports of the work done in this office will he presented and discussed. The number of permanent officials is small, but. the work thev accomplish is enormous. Thev have now finished two great catalogues for the vear 1906V one of all peroeptible earthquakes "felt to any part of the world, the other of those instrumentally recorded in the various seismo-logical observatories, which now amount to several hundred in number.

These are far from being lists of shocks in tabular form. Detailed studies are made of all important earthquakes, and the records at distant observatories are specially collated. Maps are given showing the origins of the important shocks and of the general distribution of seismic activity throughout the world. Papers will also be read and motions proposed by different members of the Association. Professor Hecker will bring forward the subject of tides in the earth's crust to the knowledge of which he has already made brilliant contributions.

The possibility of issuing forecasts will be discussed. Many years may pass before a single life is saved in this way; but the subject is one that should, and will, be ever-present in the minds cf all students of earthquakes. The relations of earth-movements and earthquakes to the formation of mountain-ranges possess a fascination for all who concern themselves with the physics of the earth's crust, and it may now be regarded as established that earthquakes are but tho transitory symptoms of successive steps in the growth of mountains and the. folding and fracturing of the crust. This is the main result but there are details almost without number to be investigated, and we may hope that some light will be thrown on them in the discussion whioh Professor H.

F. Eeid will open. The papers and -Teporta referred to are of general interest. There will, of course, be Mothers that concern specialists alone. Dr.

Schuster, besides giving the opening address will describe the progress that has been made jjjin compiling a bibliography of earthquake ptiterature. The work of the international eeismological station in Iceland will be re- erred to. This is the first international eutuiuu man ua wen lounaea, and it is li hoped that it may soon be followed by another 1 a 3 i uo cicuiou iii. uie aitupoaes or one of tho most active seismic centres. At a large uuuiwDi vuia v.tL-uijca mere are issued monthly lists of the earthquakes recorded but the lists aro' drawn up in different tct' and a uniform system of publication is to'bo proposed.

Details such as these relate ronmN- to the organisation of seisuiologieal work and-to the saving of time and labour. But thev are worthy of the attention of an international association, for they prepare the wav for future discoveries and help to lighten 'what might otherwise be a heavy labour. ANOTHER MANCHESTER THEATRE TO BE ERECTED IX QUAY-STREET. Arrangements are in progress, and it is ex pected will be completed a few davs, for the erection of another new Manchester theatre. It is to be built in Quay-street, a few yards away from Deaagaie.

Ihe site 'available has an area of about 1.800 square yards. The estimated oost of the theatre, exclusive of the ite, is a little under 30,000. The bunding- will be of the rr.ofct and uprto-date character, with a holding capacity of (in value) 300. The pro gramme, as proposed, is to consist of operatic, Bhakeperean, and first-class plays, and as present arrangements go the. plan to be adopted will be that of letting the theatre on sharing terms.

The prices of admission are to range from sixpence to five shillings. The promoters fee mostly London men, and include one well--wn actor-manager and. the director of i SFEOEAIi MORNING EXPRESS. ANGLO-AMERICAN ARBITRATION. OUTLINE OF AGREEMENT.

It is understood (says the "Daily Tele graph that the draft agreement between Great Britain and the United States provides that differences which may arise of a legal nature or relating to the interpretation of treaties existing between the two contracting parties and which it may not have been possible to settle by diplomacy shall be referred to the permanent court of arbitra. tion established at the Hague by the Conven tion of JuJv 29, 1899. The treaty between Great Britain and the United States ratified by the Senate in April, 1908, which was negotiated by Mr. Bryce and Mr. Root, Secretary of State, aud proclaimed by President Roosevelt, contained a similar provision to the foregoing, but the Treaty of 1908 expressly stipulated that the differences to he referred to arbitration should only be those which did not affect the vital interests, the independence, or the honour of the two contracting States and matters concerning the interests of third parties." It is understood that the words in quotation marks will have no place in the new agreement, and that the Senate will be asked to accept a clause which -will have the effect of greatly enlarging the class of matters deemed suitable for arbitration, in consonance with the expressed and mutual desire of both the high contracting parties as evideiiced in their exchange of views in the preliminary negotiations at Washington.

Fhere is excellent reason, however, tor the belief that the plenipotentiaries have virtually agreed upon a clause so framed-as to mark a o'Ereat; ativance nou omy 4.1-.,. rlr Saii "01i iHls Majesty's Government reserving the right oeiore coneiunmg a special agreement any matter affecting the vital interests of a self-governing dominion of the British Empire to obtain the concurrence therein of the Government of that dominion. It is understood that the agreement will cover a. period of five years dating from the day of the exchange of ratifications. Machinery for arbitration on specific controversies is already provided by.

the Hague Convention and will be complete as soon as the court of arbitral -justice is established. A court of arbitral justice to he always in session 1. was recommended bv the Second Hague Conference, and Mr. Knox, Secretaiy the time the Third- Hague Con- orate, is connaent tnat it will be tound in rerence meets in 1914. Such a craiH will Tim not i supplant the permanent court at the Hague but will supplement its machinery in a wav which cannot fail to suit the convenience of nations with disputes ready for referenos.

and by prompt and efficient adjudication to settle those disputes and promote the peace of uie woriu. BRITISH COMMERCIAL TREATY WITH PORTUGAL. STATE OP THE NEGOTIATIONS. Correspondent.) Lisbon, Sdndat; With regard to the Anglo-Portuguese com. mercial treaty a high official in the Foreign Office informs me that the negotiations are proceeding but slowly.

The difficulties are connected with the high alcoholic scale on port and Madeira. These wines pay a British duty of three shillings per gallon, whereas French, Spanish, and Italian wines, being of lower alcoholic strength, pay only Is. 3d. Portugal alleges that besides being pro uuy cTOuuinges raisincations, as tnere is no genuine Madeira or port of lower strength. Great Britain shows much reluctance to reduce the alcoholic scale to any considerable extent.

imports annually from Great Britain over four millions sterling worth of textiles, cutlery, coal, machinery, and other goods. The importations from Germany are at present about two millions. Portugal having made a surtax law, the National Assembly will approve the minimum and maximum tariffs, and countries having no uumiuBitiM witn J. ortugal will naoie xo pay uouoie the present duties. Germany is exempt, have already signed a treaty, and in the event of Great Britain not coming to terms Germany will absorb the cvatji.

jjnio ui jjnTLsn a raa Here. FATAL AEROPLANE ACCIDENT. TWO LIVES LOST. (Reuter's Correspondent.) Sebastopol, Monday. While flying on a Bleriot aeroplane here to-day the military aviator M.

Matievitch and his brother fell from the machine and wcro killed. SIR ROBERT HART. Times Correspondent.) Pekin, Monday. Sir Robert Hart completed his three vear leaA'e of absence yesterday. I am informwl mat, view or nis advanced aee and foohU 0 ieeoie health anl of the immensely increased work now attaching to the post of Inspector General of Maritime Customs Sir Robert Hart has decided to tender his resignation to the Chinese Government, which he has served with such devotion for so many years It must give keen satisfaction to the aged In specter -General that Mr.

Aglen, whom, npon wuv eminent have selected as his successor, has during the year thai-. Tins PrlansAfT sin hlo fuuiunenc as -acuug-juispecwr uenerai periormed his difficult duties in a. manner approved of ii nationalities, effecting much-needed reform uuu wufimuug Taob with ana an aosence of favouritism worthy of the best traditions of the.service. 8,560 FOR A CAXTON. A Keuter telegram New York states that at" the Hoe Library sale vsterH ATT "MV Morgan's librarian purchased for $42,800 'the ODi perfect copy known of Caxtons edition, Mas-a md'Jvac." A FIRST VIEW.

(FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) Glasgow, Monday Night. Glasgow has a proper nride in exhibitions based on past successes, and to this must be attribute frfl wlli is to be opened by the Duke of Connaught on Wednesday. Orieinallv it was a modest project inspired by the success of a quite unambitious exhibition held recently in Edinburgh. Errthusisasts for a Chair of Scottish History at Glasgow saw a cliance of raising the necessary thousands by a some what similar venture. But Glasgow was ripe for something bigger.

Ten years have elapsed since her last big project of the kind, and a timid compromise between a small exhibition and a big museum would not satisfy her. The guarantee fund of 40,000 which was asked for leaped in a short time to 143,000, and an exhibition almost as ambitious as the last has resulted. It is in its way unique. Almost dangerously large for the space it occupies, it is still not too cumbrous to be dominated by a central idea. In its architecture and its exhibits it aims at recreating Scotland of the past, and it succeeds.

One is relieved to miss the domes, the gilding, and the irritatingly numerous minarets and balconies that make up the meretricious Hispano-Moorish atmosphere of the average exhibition. Instead the mediaeval Scottish baronial style of architecture has been used almost throughout. Justifiable liberties have heen taken hero and there, but on all sides one sees the simple, restful out lines ornamented only by those little cone- shaped towers like antique candle-snuffers that are the chief delight of Holyrood. In two main buildings the Industrial Hall and the Hall of Music the architect, Mr. R.

J. "Walker, has developed his own ideas without deserting his inspiration, and as a Tesult the exhibition is graced by two very uncommon and suggestive buildings whose high and broken but harmonious towers struts an uncommon note in exhibition architecture. But the crowning jewel of the exhibition buildings is the structure that is a blend of Falkland and Holyrood palaces. It is fireproof, devoid, as an additional precaution, of all artificial light, and si-enically a most, convincing representation of weather-worn stone, in it is housed the priceless collection of relics, records, and pictures bearing on Scottish history which is the chief treasure of the exhibition. As a whole, indeed, the exhibition conforms remarkably to its surroundings.

In solid-built, sober-hued Glasgow dome aud minaret aro inevitably suggestive of incongruous frivolity. On the occasion of the last exhibition, in 1901, the great Gothic structure of the 1'niversity looked down on a white city that was frankly alien. Tho present exhibition is on almost the same site. From tho north-west the University regards it, though with more kindliness, one fancies, than its -predecessor. From east it is com manded bv in-een 6lopes topped by one of those plain, high, massive terraces which give the Scottish cities their air or somnre dignity.

On the south-west the City Art Galleries that were endowed from the proceeds of the last exhibition bulk hugely in the ring of soires and towers that stand sentinel round the lath-and-plaster new-comers. But the new-comers nestle more ingratiatingly at their feet than one would expect, and wear au aspect more essentially douco and Scottish than was likely to result from so great an extension of the original strictly historical enterprise. SOME HISTORIC EXHIBITS. At a first view one cannot do more than indicate the main features of the exhibits. The Falkland Palace structure is divided into six galleries, which contain a larger and more representative collection of pictures, documents, and relics bearing on Scot tish history than have ever before been collected under one roof.

There are thousands of them, and a conscientious study of them is a sufficiently complete education in Scottish history. Many are of interest only to the enthusiast, but some must stir the pulse even of the most indifferent. A letter from isir William Wallace, original signatures to the Solemn League aud Covenant, the brooch of Lome that Bruce wore and lost at Dairy, the pen that Argyll used in gaol before his execution these things arrest even the casual tourist. Nor need one have more than an averace interest in Scotland's historv to appreciate the graphic evidences that are here displayed in weapons, records, aud relics of the "War of Independence, the Jacobite rebellions, and tho struggle of the Covenanters. Jfor the student there is matter that will repay weeks of patient burrowing.

-The very complete portrait gallery of famous Scotsmen and the maps which show the parts of tho globe discovered or charted by Scotsmen, have perhaps mainly a sentimental interest; but such sections as those indicative of the intimate relations between Scotland and Norway and Sweden are a fine stimulus to research, and the prehistoric exhibit is one of the best of its kind that has been got together. A separate building with eleven spacious galleries houses the mixed loan and sale collection of pictures by Scottish painters, dead and alive. Among the loan pictures are works by Orchardson, McTaggart, Pettie, John Phillip, Alexander Frazer, and Sam Bough, and the collection as a whole gives a strong representation of Scottish art, in which the Glasgow men have a large share. In the Palace of Industries one feels on familiar exhibition ground, but there is a pleasant scarcity of small stalls clamant for purchase of the cheap and useless. The building covers 220,700 square feet.

It has an interior court of music with a handstand, tearooms, verandahs, and promenades, and in design it is a daring but on the whole successful compromise between the dominant baronial style and conventional exhibition architecture. Its contents are still in a state of chaos, but one can gather that the trivial has as far as possible been exciuaea ana tnat tne chief Scottish industries are wen represented. There has been no attempt to make the machinery section the -vast thing it was in 1901, but Kelvin Hall, which houses a collection commemorative of Lord Kelvin's work aud one illustrative of Dr. Brace's work in the Antarctic, contains also an informative engineering exhibition and several fascinating specimens of apparatus from the Natural Philosophy or the University. There is plenty of quite uneducative recrea tion to be had in the exhibition.

Perfervid patriotism has been tempered sufficients to allow of both an Arctic and an equatorial village, in addition to a Highland one, and some oi uiuw u6.muiuuS 1Vji0 sfvem ready to oblige tho British public will pound their tom-toms in close proximity to a less familiar community of Laplanders. There is an unbelievably lurid Alpine range on which a railway takes sufficiently thrilling curves and gradients, and an aerial railway on WhiVh vou may be slung by wire much i your change in a well-managed emporium from point to These and many more ivArsions are stowed away in an inorvn- spicuous but coessible corner of the grounds, oe -thouch to remind you that you must. Ion something of Scotland's glories before vou give yourself up to pure fooling. And the authorities, have seen to it that yodf shall be fully, as pleasant as yorir' DEATH OF VISCOUNTESS HARBEBTON I into Harris's shop. The jury had to consider TimM i whether, when the firing at Ko.

11 took place, The Times announces the death of Vis those in Xo. 9 came out, and one of them by an countess Harberton. which occurred on Sunday accident Bhot Gardstein when aiming at Con-in London. stable Choate. After GaTdstein had been shot he was seen by witnesses who declared that he nunteswHnrber rn daushter Md2 of William Wallace Legge, of Malone House, tided as the two men.

They were followed by county Antrim, and was married to Viscount Vassilleva. There would be evidence of the Harberton in 1861. She will be Temembered connection of all the prisoners with the scene as the enthusiastic and undaunted advocate oftSS dress reform among women. Against tia-ht What a man he was Whv. -then.

shl- dresses, corsets, high heels, and longt skirts attracted my attention. nee THE HOUNDSD1TCII CRIME. aLUKDER CHARGE DROPPED, At the Central Criminal Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Grantham, the trial was opened of the four Russians who are indicted i connection with the murder and attempted burglary at Exchange Buildings, Houudsditch, on Deemlxir If! T)i fmir mnqnTisrii nrn Ss lokIflm with the four with consnirimr-to enter the shoo of u. V.ll I l.l.

fc UUlllrJ VI UiUiUVl nir a leiou imiltv Sael, Harris with intent to commit ielony. All the prisoners pleaded not guilty. Mr. A. H.

Bodkin, Mr. Travers Humphreys, and Mr- s- K- Crawford appeared for the Crown ih aieIville and Mr. J. L. l'ratt repre- K.

Cairns defended bubof? Mr. Herbert' HicV man and Mr. Arthur Bryan were for Roeen; ani Mr- Walter Stewart and Mr. Lionel Leach uetendeel Vassilleva. ln ooeninsr tli -usa fnv -tho, Tirosppntion Mr.

Bodkin' said that in ih immler ctLarg6 against Peters and Dubot' the principle volved was as follows: If persons oanded together to carry out some unlawful Pose and used armed to enable either Purpose to be effected or arrest In th COur3 oairy12? 'th fc thafc purpose death was caused by one of lif c.omblnat10,n. act was law the act of fj1 JLhoW ia combined actioa 11 th rse of which death was caused. 1 ZV the case of Peters and Dubof f0uU that principle. After describing the 4hoUnS the police officers at the door of 11, hange Buildings, counsel asked who were the men who assisted Gardstein after he was shot. That raised the Question whether there elle.

not be following Gardstein from Exchange i second count that of being accessories after I the fact. Isaao Levy, tobacconist's manaeer. idpnHfiprf iuw ouu xd.cio bo iuuisu ne sawneip- in? Gardstein slnnp nUer the. chnn; i Vassilleva behind them. Jar.

JVieivilie (cross-examinine) I susepst. vn were very frightened and unable to take an accurate mental note of these three people? No; when the revolver was put to my face I merely thought I was told not to follow" because they had been firing in the air. Do you seriously say that? Yes; I thought they were students out for a lark. The trial was adjourned until this morning. NORTHUMBERLAND MINERS AND THE EIGHT HOURS ACT.

Ab a meeting of the Northumberland Miners Eight Hours Act Committee yesterday it announced that the coaJowners had agreed to receive another deputation on the question of the proposed new county agreement involving the abolition of the three-shift system. The employers also agreed to the men 3 application i fmr ouk Ahrrnham. ErlwHTris. Aehtrr Srnillie, of the Federation, to take part in the deliberations at the next meeting. When in- terviewed one of the' men's leaders said he is- "JSL the men feeling runs high against the threv shift eyBtem.

I Lady Harberton waged unceasing war She ne was snow bhe dyed her hair, burnt some of her clothes, and when never tired of exposing the inconveniences of descriptions appeared measured herself to see the offending garments, and if argument could how tall she was. The facts, counsel sub-kill a fashion there would scarce be a cloe- "ted, showed that there was a combination fitting costume left in Bond-street by now. For MSeSliSSffl active exercise, particularly for cycling. Lady The burglarious implements which were found Harberton recommended a knickerbocker dress "vvere being accumulated in December, and on the ground that it was light and did not tire D.ubf' ters Vassilleva. had reason to be the wearer.

Lady HarberiSn, who had to the hettW full the courage of heT opinions, wore the cos- Evidence -to bear out counsel's statement was tume herself, and endeavoured to popularise its' lllen cald. use by assembling parties of lady cyclists, simi-; THE JUDGE'S INTERPOSITION. larly clad, at Hyde Park Gate for a run. Heri After several police witnesses had been efforts failed, howeveT, for the attentions of the' examined his Lordship remarked that there street boy and the hostility of innkeepers were, was no evidence of Dubof and Peters, and cer- not lightly to be disregarded. Sometimes Lady; tainly not of the woman, shooting at the police- Harberton came into sharp collision with her OIU' evidence being that the men foes.

On one occasion a Surrey innkeeper re-! That iLhe fIlowcd them. fused her the use of the coffee-room, compelling histy to fell toe SSX the indignant lady to take tea in a room by ln which they would be justified in finding the herself. The Cyclists' Touring Club took the Pnsoners guilty of murder. His view was that matter up. but the courts decided in favour of' inn todr5pe charge of murder.

proceed on that of being accessories after the innkeeper on the ground that Lady Earber- the fact. aiter ton had. not been denied reasonable accommoda- r- Bodkin said that if that was the view of tion. Lady Harberton was for many years his Lordship on the evidence as opened and on president of the Dress Reform Assocfation. She the depositions, the prosecution would accept joined in Lady Florence Dixie's advocacy of the suggestion he had kindly made, and pro-a cross saddle for women riders, and seized, ceed with the trial of the rm ho every opportunity of popularising the idea oi re formed dress SUBJECTS AT A HOUSEWIFERY CENTRE.

PROTEST AT ASHTON AGAINST LESSONS IN PAPERHANGING. It was stated at a meeting of the Ashton Education Committee last night that little interest was being shown by the members in the new housewifery centre. Mr. E. Byrne asked if the chairman was aware that the girls at the centre, who came from the day schools, were being taught paperhanging, and that they were called upon to pay for any pots they broke.

The Chairman. (Councillor Morison) said something was done in connection with paperhanging. He was not aware that charges were made for breakages. The whole question of the centre was being gone into. It had not been established a sufficient time for anyone to say whether it had been a good thing or not.

They must give it an opportunity of justifying its existence. Mr. Byrne said the teaching of paperhanging should be stopped at once. As to children being called upon to pay for breakages, the money was not recoverable at law, and the Committee had no right to charge. The matter was left to the -Tuesday, 2,.

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