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JTHE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1904 owners-for a reduction of 5 tier cent in minors' scarcely a fair test either, of Ford's power or pf Lamb's judgment. The players at the command of the Mermaid Society have a great deal of enthusiasm and goodwill. but their technical qualifications for the performance of Elizabethan tragedy are sadly to seek. With scarcely an exception they made but halting and monotonous work of the delivery of Ford's finely polished lines, so that for those unfamiliar with the text it must often have -been very difficult to make out the meaning of their speeches. They put no character, no vigour into their work, and cave hut a I NNE FORD'S MAGNESIA.

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E.C. TO-DAY'S PAPER. CJADEKS Page. -THE UNEMPLOYED: 6 Apologies 'for Killing 6. A.

Scolding from Australia "6 Dr. Woodcock 6 NEW BOOKS 5 SPECIAL ARTICLES-1 Mr. Moncure Conway's Memories (Review) 5 Politics and Motors 12 An Escape from Napoleon in 1803 5 The Darling of the Gods at the Theatre Royal 6 Kitty Grey at the Gaiety Theatre 8 "The Girl from Kay's" at the Prince's Theatre 6 The Variety Theatres 12 The Aniline Dye Combination 10 SHE WAR IN THE FAR EAST Siege Operations at Port Arthur 7 The Japanese and Wounded 7 The Rioting Among Russian Reservists 7 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS Disaster in the East 7 The Russian Zemstvos i. 7 Alleged Election Frauds in Canada 7 GENERAL The Royal Visitors at Chatsworth 7 The Prince arid Princess of at "LaTth'om 6 'Mr. Asquifh on the Tariff 8 Mr.

J. B. Sbaw on the Failure of Socialism 4 The -Control of the 4 The Late Dr. S. Woodcock! 12 The Wintry 12 Mr.

E. Robertson on Fiscalism and Imperialism 8 Mr. Chaplin and Colonial 7 The Unemployed 7 The Educational Ladder in Lancashire 4 Sir J. Gorst on the Political Rights of the Poor 8 A Probable Cause of i 5 Co-operation 12 The 8 Veather 12 Markets 9 Manchester Market 10 Commercial Notes 10 American Stock and Produce Markets 11 CORRESPONDENCE The- Labour Members of the City 7 Council and the Unemployed (Mr. -v J.

Johnson) 5 he Kaiser and the Bishop of 5 The Cost of Gentility 5 "Aniline Dyes from Switzerland (Mr. H. Heymann) 10 THE GUARDIAN. MANCHESTER, TUESDAYS NOVEMBER 22, 1904. sdmmahTof news.

DOMESTIC. Thd Court left Windsor yesterday. The King, after a short stay in London, went to West Dean Park, where he is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Willio James.

The Queen is at Buckingham Palace. Tho Kins and Queen of Portucal took their leave of the English Royal Family yesterday morning, and travelled from Windsor to Chatsworth, where they are now the guests of the Duke and puchess of Devonshire. Snow was falling heavily when they left the train at itowsiey. Tho Prince and Princess of Wales arrived at Lathom House last night on their visit to the Earl of Lathom. Sir John Gorst, M.P., yesterday at the Whitworth Hall delivered tho inaugural address to the Manchester University Sociological Society, of which ho has been elected the first president.

Ho dwelt upon our failure as a nation to settle such questions as old-age pensions, housing, nd" unemployment. We had talked of these matters and thought of them as much as any civilised people, but in point of practical wdrk we had- fallen far behind other countries whose social legislation he. described. He dealt with a number of quUons more particularly affecting tho youiig, including provision for the needs of destitutes-school children, and indicated an increase, the powers of local authorities as the next direction social reform should take. The -Vice Chancellor of the; University recommended as a step towards a high infant mortality the enactment of a measure njpohibitirig the insurance of children for large sumsf Mr.

"Asquith last night addressed a Liberal meeting at Cambridge. He examined in some detail the fiscal proposals put forward by Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Balfour, and indicated what he regarded as the better wav of ameliorating the condition of tho people. Mr.

Edmund Robertson, M.P., speaking at Hooley Hill last night, said it was not necessary that we should be merely Free-traders at home. He believed it to be a positive advantage to us that the other nations were Protectionists, because thia mutilated and crippled our oompetitors. While tliere was a proper kind of Imperialism, of which Liberals were the exponents, the Imperialism that had.held.sway during the last nine years had been characterised by insensate and insatiable greed of territorv and outrageous expenditure. Mr. Cawley, M.P., who also spoke, said that Mr.

Chamberlain, having nfeaxly completed the capture of the Conserva- uigtwujjafcioH, naa nothing to gain by a continuation of the present state of affairs. The nest election could not Ion oe-aeiayea. A meeting of social workers in Manchester was held in tho Grammar School vesterday. Addresses -were given by the Bishop of Hereford; and; the Rev. Dr.

Paton, of Nottingham, both of whom, suggested the advisability of forming a League of Social Workers in Manchester for the' purpose of securing more uiiited action. After some discussion it was form a committee to take the preliminary steps. 'The demand dt the- South Walestcoiliery "stable and- beneficial conditions than now! prevail." The value of such a committee will depend enormously "on how it is composed, hut it would bar no bad plan if there were one m- every town not an occasional committee in. times of panic, but a permanent body acting in conjunction with a municipal labour registry. It is well to keep always a discriminating view of the unemployment question as a special one the special social result' of fluctuations in the supply of and demand for the different kinds of work; nevertheless it is very decidedly, connected with a number of other acute questions such as, the' conditions under which unskilled labour is engaged, and the rates of wages which it earns in the towns and cities.

To deal with all these questions together we want a much greater amount' df social interest and enthusiasm in the educated and organising classes. We shall perhaps some day get it the signs, at least, are better than they were! The effect which has been. produced by single" books such as Mr. Rowntree's Poverty is eloquent of a latent sympathy yet to be fully called forth by fuller knowledge. Meetings like those addressed yesterday by Dr.

Paton and Sir John Gorst are very encouraging, for Manchester. One cannot but welcome the rally, of social workers in the city which outlined by Dr. Paton. Equally to be "welcomed is the foundation of such aj permanent source of inspiration among the students of the University as, we hope, will be provided by their new Sociological Societv. During the last few days the papers have mentioned several instances of the wanton cruelty perpetrated in the name of sport.

We have been told of a stag driven to take refuge on a penthouse roof, where its. legs were -cut by glass; of another stag driven into the sea to drown and of a third hunted, in a pitiful condition, on to a railwav line, whero it stopped an express train. In Germany, we see, the German Emperor has sought, in a remarkable pronouncement, to justify the ways of kings to boars. Mr, Horace Hutchinson, in an article in the Westminster Gazette," has striven to do as much for the fox-hunter. We are by this time acquainted with the arguments of those who defend these cruelties.

We have heard too frequently that the foxes like it 'I that if foxes were not preserved i.e., hunted) they would be exterminated and that without violent field sports the race would deteriorate. We have also examined that most peculiar statement adduced sometimes in extenuation that indulgence in field sports teaches the indulged about nature." That the foxes like it" it is idle to suppose, though it is just barely possible that once in a century some old, cunning, often-hunted fox has had a conscious pleasure in making a pack change foxes or overrun the line. But one has only to view an exhausted fox, hard pressed, to see the other side of the picture. The poor panting beautiful beast, with his eyes dull, his tongue lolling out and slavered, his fur moist and dank, his brush dragging, is hardly an embodiment of conscious joy. Or that other attitude of him in his earth, perhaps tho only earth unstopped in half a county, with tuo worrying terriers at Im muzzle and the ''sportsman" outside with his sack and pack of hounds.

That is hardly a vision of delight or 6f earthly bliss to the poor bleeding hunted thing that has run so gallantly. That foxes would be exterminated if not "preserved" wo do not for a moment doubt, for they are, unfortunately, both beautiful and troublesome, and either quality would send them to tho slaughter. Even were they to become extinct, like the mastodon, the dodo, the wolf, and the large tortoiseshell butterfly, it would matter very little. They aro beautiful things, especially when young, but we have valued them too little in the present tense to regret them very deeply should they enter tho past. We wonder whether Nero sent edicts through the Empire bidding all, on pain of death, to spare the Christians lest ho should havo none to torture, yet bidding all folk to torture Christians lest that delightful sect should cease to exist.

The third argument that without fielo sports the race would deteriorate is very childish. No race is formed by idleness or by amusement. And no great race ever based itself upon cruelty, or took delight in its skill in killing, or feared that it would perish if it ceased to imitate its thoughtless children. Horse exercise is good, and very excellent for. the constitution, but it-is not to be compared with ploughing, or hewing wood, or hauling ropos, or digging with the pick.

No sportsman need deteriorate very far with these arts still lacking due professors. As to the argument that those who practise field sports learn in the practice some of Nature's secrets, we hardly think" that the red-coated and hallooing naturalists who urge dogs to tear foxes into pieces are likely to receive the timid whisperings of the goddess with the gratitude and reverence that are her due. All the "sportsmen" we have met have been singularly ignorant of their victims' habits, preferring to leave the garnering of such lore to their keepers, as better fitting to the menial intellect. The keepers leave it to the poachers, so that we find keepers all over England helping to destroy many of the rarer and more beautiful of our birds and beasts. It may all be done in the way of affection, but certainly the face of the British lion is sometimes scratched rather severely by his growing whelps.

England's present hesitation to tax herself into buying more meat from Australia has caused serious trouble with the "Sydney Bulletin." Such an attitude is described as blindselfishhess and hopeless "inability to understand that there can be any side to a question save the English side." Australia, who carefully protects her markets against the intrusion of British manu factures, is described by the "Bulletin" as an extremely good customer to England. England, who admits almost every Australian product perfectly free, is described, on the other hand, as a very bad customer one "that buys little from us compared to the amount it sells us, and gives insolence into "the bargain." The "rapacious Britisher" is warned that he ought to be exceedingly grateful for being- treated as well at Australian Custom-houses as he is. Finally, the "Bulletin" and we are to remember that the "Bulletin" is pretty widely read in. Australia gives this luminous summary of England's position in the demands that we, shall give it a tariff preference, and "get nojtariff preference in that while already buy far- mors gcods from Britain' than Britain buys we shall increase our'purcbaBe3and'''niake" the one-sided bargain still more one-sided. It demands that we shall injure our good foreign customer so that we may be even more kind than at present to our bad British customer and take the risk of our good foreign customer-retaliating.

Fully to appreciate the "Bulletin's sallies one should read concurrently the Blue-book 2,185) which has just, been which gives details of all the duties by' means of which our manufacturers, when they try to sell in Australia, are taught to know their place. i To Dr. Woodcock, in whose memory a bust was unveiled last night in the presence of a few friends, Manchester Liberalism is in greater debt than it will ever know. He brought to the service of his party political qualities which separately are valuable enough but in combination are priceless. He was a great organiser and a tremendous worker; bis ebullient energy and his spirits were an inspiration.

But his gift for "practical" politics never betrayed him for a moment into any time-serving compromise with principles. Few men ever had a firmer grasp of Liberal principles, no one ever stood by them more courageously in evil days, and no one was less liable to be earried away from his anchorage either by cross winds within the party or by the full gale of popular opposition. And with all this inflexible rigidity of purpose he had geniality, humanity, and the personal qualities which make a man friends even in quarters where naked principles would only make enemies. Of his work on the School Board (to which no reference seems to have been made at the little ceremony last night) it would be difficult to speak too highly. His work for education, perhaps naturally, appealed to a smaller audience than his vigorous and at times eloquent speeches on the political platform; but it was appreciated no less highly, and was no less valuable to the community.

OUR L0KDON CORRESPONDENCE. (by private wire.) London, Monday Night. So rigid was the punctuality observed by the Kings and Queens at the banquets at incisor Castle last week that on the second occasion two distinguished guests were late. According to strict etiquette, when once the King has taken his seat at dinner no guest can bft nprmitTirl onfer- lir TTia I V- U-Jlll 1 L'i 1 Majesty's permission has been obtained. The often-postponed buildinsc of the Union Jack Club has actually commenced, and it is confidently hoped that the club will be Teady oeiore tne winter ot lWJQ.

The subscriptions have alreadv nmrmnfod t-n nonrlv -Pdfl (Wl A great many cubicles have, been lately, endowed, unu wjure is a movement to provide, one in memory of the late Captain R. Ward, Royal Horse Guards, brother of the Viceroy of Ireland. Inspired by the Duke of Devonshire's speech at Rawtenstall, the City Liberal Club havo invited the Duke to address them on the fiscal question. I am sorry to hear that Mr. THtton lias not sufficiently recovered from his serious accident to hope to stand in the Liberal interest for the City at tho general election.

He would have been wrwi- strong candidate, as he would havo carriea with Jnm tho greater part of the banking and financial influence. It is to be hoped that the Committee will bo able to find a candidate to take his place, for the City has rallied to Free Trade and the Liberal chances of a gain there are distinctly good. Sir Herbert Maxwell, I hear, is writing an English history of the nineteenth century. It will take about three years. The news interests me, because all the other histories of the last century, so far as I know, were written by Whigs or Radicals.

In the memorable years of Mr. Peel's Speakership Archdeacon Farrar, as he then was, acted as his chaplain, and in that nnrtt -it 1 1 1 tserises in wuicil tne ilOUse piously engages at th opening. of each sitting. It was his daily ofco to recite in particular the special prayer, one of tho most beautiful our language, for a blessing on the deliberations of tho asse.nblv. Dr.

Farrn.r was. too a frequent listener to the debates, and was in his accustomed pltiee in one of tho side galleries ou tie r.ight; en or eleven years ago, when, some hoars after he had conducted devotions, a largo prrtion of his flock indulged a free fight on the floor of the House which Mr. Peel was called in to quell. This spectacle of human frailty is said to: have distressed the good chaplain sorely. In all the circumstances tliere was a special fitness in inviting Lord Peel to unveil the Farrar Memorial at St.

Margaret's to-day, because the lato Speaker knew him as rector and preacher as well as chaplain. Lord Peel bore testimony to Dr. Farrar's work in restoring the fabric and in improving the. character of the services of the church. Touching on his qualities as a preacher, he referred to the common criticism that Dr.

Farrar's sermons were too florid, partaking too much of the gorgeousness of the Eastern country in which he first saw-light." and he answered with soma force that tins was not a criticism which -rose to anybody's mind during the delivery of the sermon. Every word and gesture carried con viction witn it. it was no wonder, Peel explained, that while Dr. Farrar was composing his sermons the gems of literature enshrined in the works of great poets and prose writers leaped to his imagination as the best and most considered expression of thoughts that burned within him. The memorial, which has been placed in the west porch, is a bronze medallion with a portrait of the Dean in relief.

It has been erected by his former curates, some twenty in number, who found a spokesman at to-day's little ceremony in uisnop -uontgomery. I hear that Tolstoy has just completed two new novels. They are called "After the Ball" and The Will of God and the Work of Man's Hands." Although the action of the stories is laid in very different circumstances, both strike the same fundamental note, the old Tolstoyan idea of the voice of conscience placed in man for his salvation. The first is a novel of society. The second is an especially powerful book dealine with the seekine and finding of happiness through the discovery of rengious truth.

Neither ot the books, I am told, is yet in the publisher's hands. My notes of a week ago. on the scheme for a cross-Channel ferry have been met by the Continental traffic manager of the South-Eastern Railway with such severity that I should like to refer to the subject again. Briefly, this critic said that "the statement is absolutely without foundatio'n," that "the South-Eastern Railway Company would have to be consulted, and they have not even been approached," and that "a special dock would have to be built and' he dwelt, too, on the difference in load-gauges between the Con-, tinental and the British lines. -My notes were written' on the basis of the annual report of the directors of the Inter-Continental Railway Company, signed by the Chairman, Admiral Brown deColstoum, of the French Navy.

The report states that negotiations with the South-Eastern Railway were" first opened up by Mr. Arthur C. Brown, (late of the South African and Argentine Railways) and, on Mr.Brown's absence in Brazil, by M.z. Edward Gunning, of the Minas Rio Railroad. I wages- was yesterday conceded by Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, the independent chairman1 of the ncmation uoara.

debenture-holders of the YnrtrehJrn Woolcombers' Association met at Bradford yesterday. bir William Houldsworth ex plained the Retails of the proposal for the realisation of. the, assets of the Company, and sr-atea- mat; tne purchasers were willing to pay 4i per cent interest on the new deben tures, instead of 4 per cent. The scheme was approved without opposition. An Irish farm labourer was burnt to death yesterday morning in a fire at Lime Tree Farm, High.

Legh, Cheshire. Squally, with showers of hail or- sleet is the weather forecast for to-day. FOREIGN. It is reported in Tokio that the Japanese have captured the counterscarp of the Erhlung- shan forts. The general attack is said to have been resumed on Friday and Saturday, but even this is uncertain.

The chief of the Red Cross corps in Port Arthur accuses the Japanese of firing on three plain'y "marked hospital ships' lying in harbour. of the torpedo-boats attached to the supple mentary division of the Baltic Fleet has put into Frederikshavn for repairs. A series of small islands in the East Indies have been inundated by a sea-wave. Thirty thousand people are destitute, their homes, boats, and. plantations having been destroyed.

The Red Star liner. Kroonland, which was reported to have met disaster, reached JNew xork safely yesterday. Yesterday the Manchester Labour Registry was Teopened, and tho number of unemployed men applying was so great that only about a quarter could be registered in the time, and the officials will need many days to copo even with these firstcomers. Simultaneously the cold weather has arrived, and the snow has increased the pinch of distress for all the people whoso grates are firelcss. Tho chief step to be taken immediately by the Council is the employment of between three and.

four hundred men for three days per week each under the Highways Department. The Guardians of the three Manchester Boards have decided temporarily (till March 31) to Taise the scale of their out-relief for able- bodied men set to test work from four shillings per week for man and wife to six shillings, and have written, it appears, to the Committee appointed by tho unemployed in Stevenson Square a letter intimating that this step exhausts the possibilities of their action It cannot be regarded as a complete provision for t.hn wresent emereencv. On the one hand, the test-work takes up practically the whole working week of the men relieved, and is laborious out of proportion to its utility; on. the other hand, six shillings for a man and wife and a shilling each for children under sixteen is a pittance which will barely pay even the bread bill of any family who pay their rent. No doubt the difficulties winch confront Poor Law authorities at this time aro immense.

They are in tho toils of a system which has grown Upon them, and' from which thero can be no escape except by taking bolder initiatives than they have been encouraged to regard as legitimate. We watch with some interest the latest initiative of the Poplar Guardians They are taking what is perhaps a leaf out of the Mansion House Committee's book and starting a farm which is a sort of open-air workhouse in- the country. Applications for out-relief to tho able bodied are met by de spatching the men to this farm and relieving their families at their homes. If well carried out, the method should secure the sound principle-underlying the policy of compelling the able bodied to enter tho workhouse, while avoiding tho evils- which result from this whoro the workhouse is one of tho ordinary type. It could be regarded as definitely successful if the farm work were made to pay and to raise rather than lower the moral and physique of the men, while the families were adequately relieved.

But it could only succeed in this way indeed, it only seems to us a feasible policy at all if discrimination is exercised between applicants, and only thoso whoso character is high and whoso distress is duo -strictly to unemployment are treated in the privileged way. Relief employment partly designed on this Mansion House model seems intended by Mr. Long to be tho outcome of his new and elaborate joint-committee machinery for dealing with the unemployed in London. Ho would also appear to contemplate rate-sup ported relief employment of tlie old three-days-a-week type, which the London Borough Councils (and, the Vestries before them) havo long practised, and which still seems the principal remedy likely to he adopted in Manchester. The Charity Organisation Society, in the report on unemployment which they published yesterday (a sort of unofficial Blue-book in form), criticise these prospects in detail.

They strongly recommend Mr. Long to allow Boards of Guardians to start farm colonies in tho as 0ipen-air workhouses, but they do not contemplate their being of a kind to absorb (as the Mansion House scheme did) the highest grades of the unemployed. For these they recommend relief, or Telief employment, to be provided by organised private charity and not out of the rates. The very fact that a certain amenity should attach to the administration of such relief makes it impossible, they argue, to provide it from public funds without demoralising working-class sentiment. On this 'ground they strongly denounce the undertaking of relief employment by the Borough Councils.

Part of their argument is local they allege that the London Borough Councils have not work to-be done which really needs doing, and part is based on the view of tho London Borough Councils as bodies ordinarily of low competence. 'Deductions must be made on both scores before the Charity Organisa tion Society's argument can be applied to Manchester, and it is then seen to amount to little more than a doctrinaire assertion that in no case should any public body but the Poor Law Guardians do any work in the nature of relief, nor should they do it except in strict adherence to the principles of the law of 1S34. Valuable stress is laid in their report upon certain kinds of work to prevent unemployment from occurring. They recommend the "appointment of a strong voluntary of members of the London Chamber "of Commerce, employers engaged in busi-" ness and manufacture, working men engaged "in co-operation, members of trade unions, "and others to inquire and report whether by- modifications of existing methoos of en-" gagement, contract, and remuneration, "especially in' "the" of. unskilled.

Iahour, industry niay not quote the report: "Negotiations led us to believe that it was necessary to introduce a bill into Parliament in order to obtain authority to treat with English Railway and Dover Harbour Companies" Th v-n has been prepared, and will be short.lv duced. As to building a special dock, this has been; shown to be unnecessary by the investigation of Messrs. Hersent Freres at Dover and at Ualais, and by calculations based upon the differences between highland low water in the Channel "and the differences existing between Germany and Denmark and between Denmark and Sweden at high and low water. The question of railroad gauges and height of bridges has been entrusted to M. Deharay, engineer of the Paris-Lyon-Mediterranee Com pany.

Patents have been taken out for special rolling stock with all kinds or modern cold storage and other improvements suitable for running upon linglish and upon jsrench railroads. The Waeons-Lits Compagnie is co operating in a friendly manner. The "many and various changes" enumerated by the reporter have all been most carefully considered, -IT- 1 1 i 1 1 It -I. ana cannot neip tnmKing n-iT, ttuauiuieij without foundation rather a strong phrase to have employed. In the account which Dr.

Workman gave to the Geographical Society this evening of the two summers he spent exploring the upper portions of the great Himalayan glacier, Chogo Lungma, one was struck with the fact that what he suffered most from was heat. This is not what one would expect at altitudes of from 16,000 to 20,000 feet in a region covered with ice and snow, with the temperature in the shade rarely exceeding 55 degrees Fahrenheit at noon and falling at night to the neighbourhood of zero. But it seems that on clear and even on partially cloudy days one can feel the heat as soon as the sun appears above the mountains, and that after nine o'clock it is like being in a fiery furnace. And the odd thing is that the more snow there is, and the fresher and whiter it is, the greater the heat. The reflected heat, it seems, is as hard if not harder to bear than- the direct heat of the sun.

The hands and face are soon turned to a deep copper red, and exceedingly painful sores are set up. Dr. Workman has cycled for weeks on the Indian plains in the full blaze of the Indian sun, and experienced nothing to compare with the heat of this snowy crest. The obvious deduction is that the higher the altitude and the thinner the air the greater the energy with which the sun's rays strike the earth. And, as Dr.

Workman points out, the sudden change from great heat by day to severe frost at night is an important factor in the rapid disintegration which is taking place in the exposed rocks of these high Asiatic mountains. Two ambulance" dogs were tried on Wimbledon Common on Saturday, with the help of a party of Army Medical Corps Volunteers. Major Richardson brought the animals from Carnoustie, where for years he has been breed ing and training dogs for ambulance wont. He tells me that the Russians recently obtained two lots from Carnoustie, which did good service at Liao-yang in tracking wounded men who had fallen among the high, millet. He says that in Germany, Austria, Italy, and of late in Switzerland dogs are regularly trained for this kind of work, and that two hundred havo been sent out for the Herero Expedition.

A crossbred collie is found to be the most suitable type of dog. The bloodhound, which has a nose but no brains, is of no use. It takes a year to train an ambulance dog, and a goad one is worth 25. The two that were tried at Wimbledon appeared in the equipment of the Russian service. They carried a light waterproof canvas saddle with pockets on each side containing bandages, and round tho neck a little bell and a wooden flask for brandy.

The men of the Army Medical Corps having been sent out to tako recumbent positions on the open common, the dogs were despatched with the instruction to seek wounded." Tho results were a little disappointing. Tho dogs took no notice of some of the nearer casualties, and those they did visit seemed to them not worth a moment's attention. To some extent this was perhaps the fault of the "casualties" themselves, for the dogs might well conclude that men who lay still and made no sign were dead. On a second trial, when the men were told to stop the dogs and take the bandages from them, the results were better. Afterwards they had some success finding men concealed among the furze.

In one or two cases they barked till someone went out and relieved them of the care of the wounded man. If in other cases their behaviour was a little erratic, Major Richardson asked us to keep in mind that they had been in the train all night, and were of course dog-tired." Figures of the numbers that travel or are left behind by overcrowded trains have always a kind of interest. Here are some that were given by London County Council officials at a Board of Trade inquiry into workmen's trains on tho London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway. At Barking 607 persons entered the 7 26 train to Fenchurch-street. At East Ham (the next station) there were over 1,200 passengers on the platform, but only half got into the train.

At Upton Park there were 820 on the platform, and about 400 got into tho train. The passengers were counted as they left Fenchurch-street station, and it was found that over 1,500 came off the train. There was accommodation. on the train for 910 third-class passengers and 32 first-class passengers. On November 27, 1903, the 7 55 train from Barking was watched, and .571 passengers were taken up at that station.

At-East Ham there were 1,125 people on the platform, and from 350 to 400 were left behind. At Upton Park 300 were left behind out of 550 on the platform when the train entered; 35 persons travelled in the front guard van. At Fenchurch-street over 1,300 persons were counted coming off the train, while the accommodation was only for 942. A veritable oasis of brightness in this fog-ridden city is the Exhibition of the Gas Industry at Earl's Court. Some twenty years ago gas had had its day and was to flee before the advent of the new illuminant like a dark and evil spirit.

As a matter of fact since that date the gas engineer has achieved-his most noted triumphs, the uses of gas have been vastly increased and its consumption has more than doubled. The most notable achievement has, of course, been the introduction of the incandescent system, the possibilities of which are not yet exhausted, and the striking feature of this exhibition is a display of the latest methods of public lighting on this principle. It will be a little absurd; perhaps, for anyone not a shareholder in gas companies to grow enthusiastic over the charms of coal gas, though writers do extol the fascination of candle-light, but no one can walk the beautifully lighted streets at Earl's Court, pervaded as they are with a soft, penetrating, and genial radiance, without a sense of pleasure. Of the many applications of gas to heating, cooking, and power purposes there is no room here to speak, but mention must he made of the various prepayment meters, or penny-in-the-slot machines, and of the facts that the total number of consumers on that plan under the three London companies is now 368,000, as compared with. 26,000 only ten years ago, and that last year the companies in "this way received no fewer- than 103,000,000 separate pennies.

The latest, contrivance is a machine whose duty is to give you change for your silver. The unmeasured praise lavished by Charles Lamb upon the final scene of John Ford's tragedy "The Broken Heart" imparted a peculiar interest to the revival of the play by the Mermaid Society at the Royalty Theatre this evening. One could not but 'be curious to see in action the scene of which such a critic as Lamb could write, I do not know where to find in any play a catastrophe so grand, so solemn, and so surprising as in this." To-night's performance however, was COURT. Immediately the Kinc and O0- gal had left Windsor yesterday anoth King Edward and Queen Alexandra. arranged to start at once for.

0 the preparations were" in progres0 Foreign Minister. The Royal suite, the Duke of Fife, and til haying taken their places, the King uuu ien tor j. quarter to twelve. They reached pS? st half an hour later, and. drove to IWi- P1 Palace for lunch! The' ICW? position had evidently passed away The Kins, attend Ki, rvi i' Mr.

J. Ward, and s1" arrived, at Chichester at 4 39 verd noon and drove to West Dean Pri- at's will: be -the guest pi Mr. and a7 -fill TT: tic r5.I!- on the Briehton line from trarefle Forbes, ceneral manazer. tra-cunj of the special. Among the otl.r guS Mr.

and Mrs. James who wont downT Royal train were Mr. and Mrs Mr. and Mrs. George Keppel, jij' fell, Lady Lilian Wemyss, Lo'rd'ana Lord Hawke, and Lord ami i Savile.

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS Ov WALES AT LATHOM HOUSE. The Prince and Princess of vv.u, mg the King and Queen of Portucal off d-back to Frogmore, but returned at one o'cl' when they left' for London. The Princess a dark green dress, with short seahkin iaT and hat to match the dress, and tb irc i heavy overcoat with astrachan collar reaching Paddington they drove ac-oas Loci 0 T. rl 1 nfj 1... .1 1 ic uy liiu two cic-ck Uahfr, Ormskirk, on a visit to the Earl of Lathe-They arrived shortly after seven o'clock, the visit is of a private character, the-e no demonstration at the thg tants of Ormskirk having been request waive a formal welcome which they extend to the guests, but a body of the Honi Naval Volunteer Reserve 104 ja ber, was permitted to form a guanl of ho-o-.

at the station. The Prince and Princess were received the Earl of Lathom. After tlie uiual tion of the guard their Royal Higlml, stepped into a carriage and drove to Laiha-House. The visit will extend to aad for eacb day shooting parties have been arranged, i small house party, including Lord and Lsdy Sefton, Lord and Lady Dartrey, Mr. Viciot a-j Lady Cavendish, Colonel Bromley-Davenrxir Major Wynne-Finch, and Mr.

Charles ChuicV ley, has been invited to meet the Royal guestt dr. Mclaren. The Rev. Dr. McLaren has arrived at Ifa.

tone, and will remain there for some time. Ha friends will be pleased to know that Tr McLaren is enjoying good health. Mr. Balfour hopes to be able to leave Londn shortly for a change. Mr.

Martin Harvey appeared last night fortit first time in the part of Hamlet at the Theas Royal, Dublin. The Minister of State of the Grand Dud; of Hesse announces the betrothal of. Kb Edward's nephew the Grand Duke of Hesse ti Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Iich. Mr: Yerburgh, M.P., was prevented by illcH-from attending a Conservative gathering fc Chester last night. It was announced that be had been ill in bed for more than a week.

The object of 'the "meeting was to present an address to 'Mr. Benjamin C. Boberts, who for near'r twenty years was chairman of the Fnionfe party in the city, and retired from (hit position recently. Mr. George Wyndham, who is to tie tontuty Installed to-day as Lord Rector of Glisjow University, arrived in the city last was cordially welcomed by the students dressed in all manner of fantastic costumes.

On alighting at the Central Station Mr. Wyndham drove at' the head of the procession to the where he was prevailed upon to speak i fe? words. Mr. Scott, Secretary of State at Ottawa, received the following message on Sunday (ten the steamer Tunisian by wireless telegraphy fc; way of the Marconi station at Newfoundlar.d:-" We wish the people of Canada an affectionate farewell, and assure them that the interests the Dominion will always be very dear to us. Minto." To-day the Rev.

Professor David Wnolf Maris, who was one of the founders of tho Relom movement in English Judaism in 18U, and fc-came the chief minister of the West London Synagogue of British Jews (Reformed) on ia establishment the same- year, is 93 years Professor Marks was born in London snd educated at the Jews' Free School, and becan secretary of the Liverpool Congregation till recalled to London. He is a' scholar of rerioTrnei accomplishments, and for many years Goldsmid Professor of Hebrew Literature i University College, London, and Professor of Hebrew at Regent's Park College, while he hu contributed to theological and archaologtia! publications and to Smith's Dictionary of tot Bible." Captain Claude L. Marks, D.S.O., woft hia distinction during the South Africa campaign, is his youngest son. THE CONSULS AND THE LORD MAIOK. The members of the Consular Associate a Manchester yesterday waited on the Wr.

Mayor and the Mayor of Salford, customary, -to offer their lowing the elections of November 0. 1 absence of Baron Susa- Deiro, who London, Mr. J. Sington, consular- agent 1 Italy and president of the 4MIStl addressed both the Lord Mayor and the aP of Salford. The LordMayor spoke of i indebtedness of the city to the Consuls foi excellent service they rendered to the com-, cial community.

Nowhere was this more c-spicuous than in Manchester, for there probably no place'in the kingdom or more cosmopolitan interests. Mr. Ai" Stephens the mayor -of Salford, said be appreciated the visit, coining as it did representatives of nearly every coantry world. ARBITRATION BETWEEN IJAMS AND EUROPE A CASE BEFORE: THE HAGUE coUB' The first sitting, of tho Court of A between Japan on the one hand and Great Britain, and Germany on the otnt settle the question of the Japanese hB3f on buildings in" the old foreign concessions cancelled) in Japan was held at the terday. In opening the sitting the Presi den Gram, who iaGovernoof one of.

the of i-Norway, said Seuter. reports) tribunal was charged with deciding dintf existing regarding important nected with the of foreigners ur He congratulated the Governments who senting to submit their disputes to telT1f jurisdiction haSgiyeh a fresh proof of attachment to a great and noble cause, gretted to-say-that the path of. humanity the road, of progress full, of happily the number of that a fresh bond between the nations was eve1? increasing: j- rCourt Dde uan oi ine time witnin wmcn jaya" objections to-tne' memorandum presenteo tribunal' By. the" three European Powers. REMOVAL OP THE, faint indication of the effects which the poet musf uuviousiy nave intended.

But it is doubtful if the best acting could bring "The Broken Heart" very close to the sympathies of a modern audience. The story is not clearly enough set forth, and above all the love of Ithocles and Calantha is not thrown, into sufficient relief to enchain our attention. T5vti r.lia virtue of the hapless Penthea has in it a toucn or- wnrui extravagance which in our eves seems merelv flVtiifioinl. At. como time it must be said that thero nnnoiiVifollTT a peculiar sort of tragic effect in the scene 1 1- -I iniicn iiamo lauas.so immoderately tne scene in which Calantha, surprised in the midst of the marriaee revels Viv th tidinc-si.

first, of her father's death, then of her friend's, and lastly of her lover's, seems to take no notice of the accumulated calamity but goes on with the dance as thouo-Il -not "hi no- nnH linnrionorl The psychological justification of the passage uuu, uuii we scenic impres sion it leaves is at any rate the reverse of mi uuuiiuuHpjuce. j.iie remaie cnaracters were fortunatelv those which received most justice. miss AQa gave to Penthea a certain dignity and purity of outline, while Miss Irene Rooke, who seemed at first too light and modern for Calantha, revealed 'in the last act unexpected power of grappling with a difficult situation. None of the-mafe performers attained anything like excellence. The Ithocles was commonplace, the Orgilus iaintiy lnaicaxea tne aartt dissimulation of that interesting personage, and the Bas-sanes was wholly ineffective.

This evening there -was a very satisfactory performance of "Carmen," with two artists new to London, hoth of whom deserve con siderable praise. Mme. Laf argue, who has a great Parisian reputation, has a sympathetic voice and sings with much dramatic power, and is. a versatile and forcible actress. She does not idealise Carmen, nor does she exaggerate the brutal elements in the character.

Her acting at the end of act iii. was both picturesque and M. Cornu-bert, also from Paris, had not, apparently, found the pitch of the house, and his singing, which is artistic and intelligent in intention, suffered. But he- too is an excellent actor. Mme.

Nielsen sang the songs of Micaela expressively, but was a little too coquettish, in the first act. Signor Campanini conducted. The thing at the Hippodrome just now is the chronophone. It produces through the medium of a screen not only the moving or animated picture but words and music as well. Tho invention may not be entirely novel, but the combination lias never before been presented so vividly on the London stage.

Especially successful was a representation of The Village Blacksmith," the smith himself, amid the rustling of the chestnut tree, giving the famous song and another success was a whistling serenade, which tested the powers of the machine perhaps still more. THEATRE ROYAL THE DARLING OF THE GODS. The Darling of the Gods was noticed at some length in columns on its first performance in Manchester last April. There is nothing to add now that it has been re'peated on the first night of its second visit. The sur prising brilliancy of" the dresses and the scenery still makes the prattle and chatter of the characters suffer from a dulness which is not wholly inherent.

Yet even if this contrast were quite absent, and the disproportionate allowance of frippery were reduced to the customary frilling and bordering, the cheep ing and cluttering of those queer Japanese lovers one must use strange words, the thing itself is so strange in human society outside Japan to our ears it most nearly resembles the snippety clatter of seagulls quarrelling about a fish snapped, from the deep, this finnicking way of talking among persons who, by other evidences, must be our fellow-creatures, would be tiring even if it stood in uncontrasted simplicity. Suffering from the neighbourhood of gorgeous colours and the accompaniment of wistful music, which human passions ought to thrive and pass ing strong, all the chirping of beautiful women and gigantic bass-voiced men fails to convince of those disturbances in the heart which change lives and create new heavens and new earths. Even a Japanese passion must cease to twitter when it comes to maturity and begin to speak with a proper and on-sweeping masculinity. If the lovers in The Darling of the Gods" did this the would be other than it is. They do not, and to understand and enjoy their vicissitudes one must first acquire the kindred point of view.

That done, the twittering and the surplusage of ornamentation fall into their suitable places and leave a distinct enough and not displeasing impression upon the mind. But" one must not go to "The Darling of the Gods expecting to have familiar appealed to and the bounds of that sentimental kingdom in which, we are all born subjects and brothers marked out with a comprehension wide enough to include the men and women of Japan. PRINCE'S THEATRE THE GIRL FROM KAY'S. What The Girl from 's would be acted by any other than a first-rate company well versed in the methods peculiar to musical comedies, or ibbbed of that absurd but most entertaining character of Max Hoggenheimer one scarcely likes to think, for it is certainly one of the lightest and most irresponsible theatrical entertainments of its kind. The libretto, however, possesses the somewhat negative virtue of allowing the actors and actresses free, scope to exercise their particular powers of amusement at all times and fortunately in musical plays a laugh is never out of season.

The author has also wisely taken care to give the scene' painters and costumiers for the exercise of their powers. Mr. George Dance's company which is visiting the Prince's Theatre this week is one of all-found efficiency, and pretty faces, dainty dresses, and a number of versatile' lcdies and gentlemen help to make "The Girl from Kay's" a. capital evening's amusement. As on a previous occasion, the part of Hoggenheimer is played by Mr.

H. C. Barry, and the impersonation is as irresistibly funny a3 ever. The absurdly fatuoti expression, the unctions tone ''at voice, above all, the extraordinary fowllike gait provoked the same merriment last night a3 when Mr. Barry previoualy.played the part here.

The scene, too, where 'Hoggenheimer endeavours to thaw the freezing dignity of the girl from Kay's in the second as ridiculously, amusing as ever, this time, not all Mr. Barry's sallies could provoke smile from Miss Simeta Marsden, who gave an effective rendering of the title-part. As the conple on their honeymoon "Miss Alice Russon and Mr. Charles Hanbury acted well, and Miss Busson's clever rendering of the sobbing song received well-merited. recognition.

The remaining characters were all capitally played, and "the customary successes' were scored such popular, numbers as don't and! "Under the Bamboo Tree." had "thought that the Hiawatha ditty had ere this come to a timely end, and were surprised to -find it still: doing duty last night as the musical accompaniment to very clever by Miss Maisie North in the last. act. The piece is handsomely mounted, and the chorus and orchestra are generally efficient..