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and Court Circalar. PALACE, JULY 26. BUCKINGHAM The Prince Albert, and attended by General Sir King, accompanied by The Queen and (General Officer CommandWilliam Robertson Great Britain), Major General E. B. in in -Chief of the London -Chief Ishmore Defence Ares), and Captain B.

GodfreyAir virited some of the London Air R.N., this morning. received the Members of the Defenses The King War Conference this afternoon, to Imperial an Address to His Majesty, entered the Throne Room at The o'clock. King 5.30 WAS read by the Right Hon. The Address, Borden and His Majesty was graciously pleased to read a reply. Robert The Right Hon.

Walter Long. M.P. (Secretary for the Colonies), and the Right State Hon. State Montagu, M. P.

(Secretary of for E. 8. were present, and the Gentlemen of the in Waiting were in attendance. Household and Countess of and Kellie will The London on Monday for Alloa. Earl have Erne and Captain the Hon.

Junes The Crichton Countess will leave 21, Knightsbridge on for Ireland. The Countess of. Rosse has arrived at Birr Castle 1 from London. Lord and Lady Ayrshire." Montgomerie will leave for Landon Lord and Lady Sempill will remain at Fintray House, Aberdeen, until next month, when they will go to Craigievar Castle. Lord and Lady Saltoun have gone to Nonsuch Surrey, for the rest of the summer.

Park, Lord and Lady Gisborough and Hon. Elizabeth Chaloner Hall. have arrived at Harrogate in Gisboro" Lady Hugh Grosvenor has left London for Cheshire. Lady George Campbell for will leave 2, Bryanstonsquare on Tuesday Scotland. Lady Wolverton has left 26, St.

James's-place he Dudley. Lady Alington will leave 38, Portman de Monday for Allos. Lady Mildred Conyngham has returned to Sane Castle from London. Sir Joseph B. Robinson will leave Cape Town very shortly on a visit to England.

Countess Poulett returns her sincere and grateful tasks for the many kind letters and expressions dempathy received by her in her recent sad bereaveall of which she hopes in time to answer. Mos. Lloyd George was unable Festerday to fulfil be engagement to open the National Kitchen by the Holborn Borough Council at the Baths in Endell-street. The Mayoress, Mrs. G.

P. Parker, performed the opening ceremony. Me. Pandeli Raili having let his house, 17, Belgraveto the American Ambassador, all corresondesee sbould be addressed to him to Alderbrook. Cairich, Surrey.

The King has given authority to Mr. James Wycliffe Endiam, of Wimbledon, to use the surname of Morley in addition to and after that of Headlam. Reginald Walter gave birth to 800 on Jug 36 at Scotlands, Farnham Common, Bucks. The death is announced of Minm Grace, wife of Sir Hugh a Perry, K.C.M.G.. C.B., (SL, Army Ordnance Department, and youngest daughter of the late E.

R. N. Druce, of 8, Victoria Put. Dover. FUNERAL.

MAJOR J. A. CLANCEY. The funeral took place st Windsor Cemetery yesterday Major John Austin Clancey, M.C., Machine-gun Ona who went through the Retreat from Mons with the toldstream Guards. Canon Longinotto officiated.

Repuentatives were present from the three regimenta 4 Housebold Cavalry, the Brigade of Foot Guards, the Nochine-gun Guards, and the Machine- gun Corps. The Coldstream Guards supplied band, the bearing party, and the Sring party, and about 300 of the rank at file followed. BRITISH MUSEUM. A PARTIAL REOPENING. The Trustees of the British Museum announce that a temporary exhibition will be opened in fee of the galleries of the British Museum on Acrust 1.

The exhibition galleries were closed by order of the Govemment as a measure of economy in the grin of 1916, and, owing to the necessity of incard precautions against air raids. all the most rabable objecte have been removed -to places of pester safety. The Trustees, however, have deeply resetted the closing of their doors to visitors, and As specially to soldiers from the oversea Dominions. exhibition has accordingly been arranged, coneating chiefly of casts and facsimiles, which it is hoped -will both be instructive in itself and repreof some parta of the treasures of the British fate, Museum. The exhibition will include Greek sculpclassical coins, British coins and medals, historical documents and autographs (naval and miliother taryl, illuminated manuscripts, early Bibles.

and printed books of interest and beauty. If the experiment of reopeninz is successful, it may be peble to extend it later to other galleries of the Museum. and from 2 will be open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The exhibition until further to 5.

on each week day from August notice. A guide-book to the exhibition a it publications preparation, and photographs and Museum will be obtainable in the entrance hall." MEMORIAL PLAQUES AND SCROLLS. Va. Macpherson, about the issue of the commemorative answer a in a written to question plaques and to the next-of-kin of those who have fallen hi the war. states that he cannot when the first of these scrolls and plaques will be say ready.

of the the blocks paper the -former has been delivered. and for part be ready in a fortnight. The will arrangedifficult the manufacture of the plaques have been menta for a influenced by make, and the progress of the enterprise to made to expedite war conditions. Every effort is being it. VISIT OF NEW ZEALAND JOURNALISTS A party of New country Zealand were journalists arrived in this on behalf of the and Ministry received by Colonel torse instance they are visiting of Information, at conditions at the close of Europe study the fourth year of war.

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9d from have Sutton's had a Flower wonderful of crop of and early Sutton's Cabbage Harbinger, and out of 25,000 Spring plants not a dozen -Mr. James Gibson, Welbeck Gardens. THE SUTTON AND SONS, KING'S SEEDSMEN, READING. THE TIMES, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1918. FORTHCOMING MARRIAGES.

CAPTAIN J. H. ROBERTSON, R.N., AND MISS GRAILAM. A marriage has been arranged, and will take place on September 19, between Captain John Hercules Robertson, Royal Navy, son of the bat's Rev. Charles Hope Robertson, some time rector Smeeth, Kent, and Letitia, daughter of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Leahouse Graham.

R.A., and Mrs. Graham, York -gardens, Clifton, Bristol. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL E. F. SHEWELL, D.S.O., AND MISS BELL A marriage has been arranged, and will shortly take place, between Lieutenant-Colonel E.

F. Shewell, D.8.O., R.F.A., and Miss Dorothy Bell, daughter of Mr. A. W. F.

Baird and stepdaughter of BrigadierGeneral A. W. F. Baird, C.M.G., D.S.0. MAJOR A.

J. WILLIS AND Miss THOMPSON. The marriage will take place at St. John's Church, Ealing, at 10 on August.3, of Major Arthur Willis, York and Lancaster Regiment, only son of Mr. and Mrs.

J. H. Willis, recently of the British Embassy, Constantinople, and Audrey, younger daughter of Mr. T. M.

L. Thompson, formerly of the P.W.D., India, and Mra. Thompson, 14, Churchfeld-road, Ealing. CAPTAIN G. W.

MILLER AND Miss LACY THOMPSON. An engagement announced between Captain G. W. Miller, M.C., the King's (Liverpool Regiment), younger son of Mr. T.

B. Miller, of 12, Savile-row, London, and Mrs. Miller, and Rosemary Lacy, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lacy Thompson, Farlam Hall, Cumberland.

CAPTAIN W. STORMONT AND MISS HAZELL. A marriage has been arranged, and will take place at the beginning of September, leave permitting, between Captain William Stormont, Royal Air Force, and Betty, youngest daughter of the late William Hazell and Mrs. Hazell, Broughty Ferry, Scotland. CAPTAIN D.

WILLIAMS AND MISS CARVICK WEBSTER. An engagement A is announced between Captain Dudley Williams, R.F.A., second son of the late Prosper Williams and Mrs. Williams, of Sydney, New Spathe Carvick Wales, and Webster, Rua, of second Glasgow. daughter of Mr. and CAPTAIN S.

J. SASSOON AND MISS FRANKLIN, The engagement is announced between Captain S. J. Sassoon, Dragoons, eldest son of the late J. S.

Sassoon, of Ashley Park, Walton-on-Thames, and Mrs. Sassoon, of Springfield, Walton-on-Thames, and Dulcie, eldest daughter of the late Frederic S. Franklin and Mrs. Franklin, 44, Lancaster- gate, W. CAPTAIN J.

A D. COCHRANE-BARNETT AND MISS LAYTON. A marriage has been arranged between Captain John Alfred Derby Cochrane-Barnett, only son of the late Rev. Henry Barnett, rector of vicar of Stalmine, Lancashire, and of Mrs. Oswald Cochrane, adopted son of E.

Marian Cochrane, Sennicota, Chichester, and Joan Sussex Mary, elder danghter N. A. Layton, Royal Regiment, and Mrs. Layton, Old Park, Chichester. CAPTAIN G.

E. WILLIAMSON AND MISS JOISEN. The engagement is announced of Captain Gay Ernest Williamson, R.A.P., second son of Mr. and Mrs. S.

T. Williamson, of Beechcroft, Chislehurst, and Gladys Nathalie, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. M.

Johnsen, of Barnfeld, Bromley, Kent. CAPTAIN A on MARRIAGE. best man. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. Me.

E. G. WALLACE AND MISS LINDSAY-HoGa. The marriage took place on Thursday, at St. Saviour's, Walton -street, of Mr.

Eden George Wallace, Dragoon Guards, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. A Wallace, and Miss Cecily Lindsay- Hogg, youngest daughter of Sir Lindsay and Lady Lindsay- Hogg. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. A.

Thornhill, rector of Rotherfield, assisted by Canon Clowes, rector of Hayes, Kent, and the Rev. G. Edmundson, vicar of the parish. The bride was given away by her father. The wedding gown was of satin superbe and ivory ninon, with a ceinture of pearl and embroidery, and the train was veiled with old Sicilian lace and fringed with orange blossom.

The. bride wore a diamond badge brooch (the gift of the bridegroom) and a diamond and pearl pendant (the gift of the bridegroom's parents), and the bouquet was composed of white carnations. There were four bridesmaids--Miss Dulcie Boyle (cousin of the bride), Miss Kathleen Sidey, Miss Betty Eden (cousin of the bridegroom), and Miss Beryl who were dressed in pale mauve de chine and chiffon, with pale blue sashes and large picture hats of black tulle. Captain Scott-Elliot, Coldstream Guards, was A CONTRACTOR'S FORTUNE. SIR JOHN MOWLEM BURT, of Carthion, Swanage, Dorset, chairman and one of the governing directors of John Mowlem and contractors, who died on February 20, in his 74th year, has left £206,453, the net personalty being £180.932.

In addition to number of legacies to relatives, the testator left £250 to the Swanage Hospital. The HON. JOHN DOXORCE FITZGERALD, F.C., of Harrington Gardens, South Kensington, and the Inner Temple, who died on May 11, son of the late Lord Fitzgerald, leading member of the Parliamentary Bar, has loft estate of the value of £121,163, with net personalty He boqueathed, among other legacies, £100 and an annuity of £96 to his nurse, and some legacies to servants. Among other latest wills are the following Gram value MY. JOSEPE LUCAS, aged 47.

of Cambridge Park, Wanstead. Emer Mr. WILLIAN aged 70, of Fern Les. Chellow Dean. Bradford, Yorks, 0osl merchant 61.393 CAPT.

FREDERICK AMER, aged 81. of Hawford Lodge, Claines. Iste of the Rifle Brigade, for 20 years Master of the Worcestershire Hounds, left £500 to the Worcester Infirmary: unsettled estate 59.974 Mr. GEORGE HARRISON, aged 75, of "Hildertborpe. Bridlington.

Yorks, left £600. an annuity of 652, and other property to his housekeeper. and £500 for the purchase of coal and fuel for the poor of Milderthorpe 11,788 The R.ET. DR. JORS GLASSE, D.D..

aged 70, of Tantalionpher. Flinburgh. Minister Emeritus Old Greyfriars, Edinburgh, personal estate in the United Kingdom 10.420 THE NATIONAL GALLERY. PICTURES NEW TO LONDON. A number of pictures not hitherto seen by the public have recently been placed on exhibition in the National Gallery.

Among English paintings the most. interesting perhaps is a small portrait group in oil by John Downman, representing General Sir Ralph Abercromby in conversation with a younger man. This has been presented to the nation by Mr. Louis Duveen. It was evidently painted about 1797.

when Abercromby had returned from his successful operations in the West Indies. In the same room hangs a little portrait of a lady by Arthur Devis, bought from Mr. Augustus Walker. A large Italian landscape by Turner, not quite finished, is also new to London. of the French pictures the most- important is landscape by Courbet, from the Lane collection, representing a snowstorm.

In Waterfowl." the Dutch room, Garden Scene with by Anthonie Van Borssum. presented by Mr. J. P. Heselt ine, and portrait of a Dutch officer, br Gerard Honthorst.

the gift of an anonymous donor, are now shown for the tirst time. The new Italian pictures consist of a further selection of works from the Layard Bequest, including examples of Moretto, Morone, Boniferio, Paris Bordone, Previtali. Bissolo, Gianpetrino, and an interesting little Florentine portrait which has been variously baptized, but which is perhaps most safely described as School of Botticelli." MISS MILLIE SIM MARRIED. Miss Millie Sim, daughter of Mrs. Henry Sim.

(Miss Millie Hylton), was married Thursday at St. Mark's. North Audley-street, to Mr. William Stanley Mills, only son of Mr. and Mra.

C. A. Mills. of Moulsford Manor. Borks.

The bride, who wore a dress of white georgette over charmeuse trimmed with bead embroidery, was given away by her uncle, Mr. George Grossmith. Master D. Kilvert was the page, and there were four bridesmaids Miss Mills, Miss Annette Lazarus, Miss Betty Hutton, and Miss Rosa Girossmith- dressed in blue chiffon with silver lace trimming, sashes and lace caps. They carried bouquets of.

blue hydrangea and delphiniums. The Rer. W. G. Pennyman.

vicar of the parish, officiated. Mr. Lionel Duniop, Grenadier Guards, was best man. -PIE." As the whole of the profits of to be devoted to King George's Fund for Sailors, there is a good for spending Is. 6d.

on it, quite apart from the entertainment which is to be got out it. There are eight 'coloured illustrations and many other and among the and authors are Charles Dixon, R.I., W. M. Birchall, Anthony Hope. Pett Ridge, G.

R. Sims, Arnold Golsworthy, A. P. Herbert, W. Smithson Broadhead.

Charles Pears, R.0.1., J. Simpson, R.B.A., well-known Bert Thomas, Service G. L. writers. Stampa, The Tom first Cottrell, and number, issued last summer, brought in £1,264 for naval charities, and the Christinas number has already yielded £500 to King George's Fund, and will yield more.

The present number has as good a claim on the public. THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD. SUCCESS OR FAILURE. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) A recent correspondence has suggested the question, What evidence is sufficient to frame a sound judgment as to the decline or progress of the Church The annual balance-sheet of any commercial concern gives figures which at once show its gain or loss. The increase or decrease in the membership of a club indicates its prosperity or the reverse.

But this is scarcely the way in which the life of the Church is to be judged. Here numbers are no criterion of success or There may be growth in the Church's membership, while the main purpose of its existence is ignored. On the other hand, its numbers may diminish, while its true power grows. Decline or prosperity of any Church cannot be judged by comparative statistics. Yet statistics afford evidence of a Church's ability to attract and retain the interest of the community.

They manifest the nature and extent of its activities, but by themselves they form no reliable indication whether the Church is doing the work for which it lives and for which it is specially equipped. Popularity has not in.frequently been an accompaniment of the Church's failure to be true to its purpose and its mission. On the other hand, faithfuiness to that mission has often roused the hostility of the world. It is not to be denied that the desire of a Church to attract an increasing number of members to its allegiance is legitimate, for it is essentially a missionary body, and therefore must seek, to commend itself in every legitimate way to the minds and consciences of men. It can never be content to limit its membership to those within its fold while any remain outside.

The measure of the Church's success is shown by faithfulness to its and its readiness for self-sacrifice for the sake of those outside. Its efficiency is not to be judged by the money it commands for its organizations, but rather by the wealth it expends for the good of others beyond its borders. Its spiritual value is not to be tested by the dignity and ornateness of its public worship, its social prestige, or its political power, but by its fidelity to the truth as it is revealed, its trust in the supernatural realities to which it is called to bear witness, and its energy in making these the dominant facts of life for the individual and the community. The Church of God exists primarily to make known the Divine will, to bring to the world the treasuries of grace and truth of which it the stewardship, to quicken men's endeavour to follow the example of the Pattern Life, and to teach them confidence in the permanence of Divine love in all the mingled fortunes of this life and beyond it. In faithfulness to these awful responsibilities it must be prepared to encounter the suspicion and sometimes the savage hostility of the world, with loss in numbers and prestige.

When it pays that price for fidelity it is most successful. There are some earnest people who, realizing the mixed motives and purposes which affect so. many Christians, and the consequent lowered level of spiritual life in the Church, would cleanse it by confining its membership to those judged to be true and earnest disciples. Such winnowing of the wheat from the chaff has been the desire of earnest people from the Montanists to the Puritans, and still seems to be according to the mind of others, who would repudiate those past efforts to attain a perfectly pure Church. It is an attractive prospect, but it is not for this world.

Here and now the evil must ever be mingled with the good. The important thing is that there should be at the heart of the Christian society men and women of clear faith and strong convictions, who, in bright and dark days, remain loyal to the principles they profess, and, disregarding the average level of morals and conduct in the society in which they move, steadily maintain the Christian ideal in the ordering of their lives. These are the men who, while they keep the Church true, are the salt which preserves the world from corruption. The measure of the Church's success is its power to fashion people of this type out of weak and failing men, that they in turn may carry on its ministry to an ever-widening circle of their puzzled and distressed companions. But this ministry of self-oblation cannot be achieved by the Church except by faithful dependence on the source of life, by which alone such redemptive ministry is maintained.

The fount of sacrifice must be constantly replenished. If the Church would continue in the plenitude of its life it must receive it from the Most High, accepting it in humility and using it faithfully in His service. At the heart of the catholic doctrine of grace there lies the profound truth that all life is God's own gift, and that its true purpose in humanity cannot be attained except through the quickening energies of His Spirit. It is the Church's high office to be the mediating instrument of Divine grace and truth in the world. Its success is assured when it brings this grace to men, to the strengthening and refreshing of their souls, and teaches them the truth in terms consonant with their varying experience.

Yet at the end the judgment of success or failure lies not with man, but God. FOR FAIR WEATHER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. -The Duke of Rutland's letter to The Times seems so obviously to have brought opportune rains, while the Latin verses of your talented correspondent 50 clearly showed us who was behind The Times, that a second letter now from the same or an equally benevolent and influential source to The Times might, in view of the continned downpour. materially assist the prospects of harvest and justify the following couplets as pendants to those you printed some time ago Si tua, Dux, imbres induxit epistola in agros, Tempora diluvium jam cohibere jube.

If Rutland a letter to The Times brought rain, were well a second should the floods restrain. Your obedient servant, July 25. R. J. N.

N. PADDY'S GOOSE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir. -Those of us who have given up our time to work amongst hoys and girls have viewed with profound regret the reports of the Home Office from time to time of the alarming increase in juvenile delinquency due to war conditions.

One of the many suggestions of the Home Office to remedy this evil is that such institutions as boys' clubs, Scout troops, should, as far as possible, be kept going. Here in Ratcliffe-highway, in the heart of East London, we have two large working boys' clubs, known 18 Paddy's Goose and Broad-street Clubs. Owing to the dificulties of accommodating the large numbers seeking admission we have been compelled to take other premises to house the overflow. The boys and. girls are here in hundreds, but it is impossible to cope with them owing to lack of workers.

We feel that there are amongst your readers many men and women who inight be able to spare one evening a week and come along and help us, and we should be very grateful if any desiring to do so would communicate with us. Our experjence teaches 05 that the influence of one whom they esteem leads to A sense of duty and self-respect. and surely there Inust. be many men and women (for we have a girls' club also) who would help. Might we mention that for the new club gifts of a piano, gramophone, sewing machine, bockey sticks, and furniture of all kinds would be very much appreciated We should be glad to hear of any who are interested.

A. BALFOUR, Treasurer, 3, BuckinghamS.W.1. B. CAMPBELL, 294, Burdett-road, E.14, Hon. the Highway Clubs in East London.

NAUTICAL COLLEGE, PANGBOURNE. The first school year of the Nautical College, Panghourne, ended last Thursday, when the cadets went on their summer leave. Although the college was opened only in September. 1917, there are now over 100 cadets duly accepted as cadets, R.N.R.. by the Admiral of Coast Guard and Reserves.

The September term cadets are now being enrolled, and will number 50. A house with a wide river frontage has been acquired, and adapted for the service cutters, whalers, and gigs in which the cadets receive their training. Prize day has been postponed until Saturday, September 21. CARILLONS. THE ART OF BELLRINGING.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) As M. Josef Denyn showed at Cattistock on Thursday, England is still "the ringing isle." Without doubt most of us love the music of bells, but change which is peculiar to this country, can only be described 89 a mechanical accomplishment of mathematical problems in which there are no musical considerations whatever, although in recent years composers of peals have paid some attention to the elimination- so far as possibleof changes containing unmusical cadences. Bells for change-ringing are always diatonic -from five to 12 notes, while those for carillon use are chromatic, and, at best, four complete octaves in compass (49 notes). Another consideration is the difference in. the construction scale as shown in the following table For Carillons.

For Change- Ringing. Cwt. Qrs. Cwt. Qrs.

00 0 -1 en 00. 16 20 28 28 12 40 40 (Middle C). The reason of the heavier weights in the smaller bells of the change-ringing scale is to prevent them being swamped by the larger ones, and for this purpose increased thickness is an absolute necessity. In a carillon when the design one bell has been determined it does for all relatively. But most important is the method employed in the tuning of the bells.

In earlier times it is certain that the principal aim of English founders was to tune correctly the fifth tone (Nominal) emitted by the bell, while the Continental founders spent all their attention in getting the two lowest tones (Hum Note and Strike Note) in perfect tune. The exact pitch of the bell is determined by the Strike Note. (See diagram.) After a lifelong study of the bells of Europe the writer has formulated the theory respecting the perfect tuning of bells in the following terms (1) A bell must be in tune with i itself before it can be in tune with others. (2) Every bell has at least five principal tones in it which can be accurately tuned. (3) These principal tones are the Strike Note, Nominal, Hum Note (these three must be perfect octaves with each other), Tierce (minor 3rd), and Quint (perfect 5th), thus Hum Nota A bell of this pitch should weigh (approximately) two tons.

(4) All these tones must be in perfect tune with each other. (5) The tone of a bell depends: (a) On the consonance of its competent parta. (6) On the relative intensities of the various tones, which in their turn are dependent upon the minute accuracy of sharply-defined height, width, and thickness proportions. All these conditions can now be carried out to the accuracy of a single vibration, and it is but just to mention that such a scientific triumph is principally due to the enterprise of Messrs. Taylor, of Loughborough, who possess the most perfectly equipped establishment of its kind in existence, and it is a matter of congratulation that the best bells are now being made in our own country.

The bell is on a high plane musically when played from the clavier, as in the carillon proper; for which the most minute accuracy as to tune is an absolute necessity. Music in two, three, or more parts is performed, so that every note must be in perfect accord. The carillonneur plays on a clavier arranged on the same principle as the manuals of an organ. There are two rows of keys, upper representing the black and the lower the white notes of the ordinary keyboard. There are pedals from one to one and a half octaves in compass.

The keys are struck with the closed hand, the little finger being protected with a leather covering, to prevent injury when playing. As the amount of tone produced depends upon the amount of force with which the key is struck, it will be understood that carillon playing requires strength, well as celerity and skill. The connexion between the key and the bell clapper is the same in principle as the tracker action used in organs. The bulk of the playing is done on the smaller bells. Chords are most, effective when played arpeggiando; chromatic and diatonic scales can at almost any speed.

All the music played must be specially arranged by the executant for the instrument on which he is playing, owing to the variation which exists in the compass and size of the bells. This demands skilled musicianship. The Dutch Fischer (1738) quaintly and truly states that for carillon playing a musician requires a thorough knowledge of music, good hands and feet, and no DOUBLING WAR BOND SALES. MR. MALLABY-DEELEY'S OFFERS.

Poplar's War Weapons Week ends to-day, and to stimulate subscriptions Mr. H. Mallaby-Deeley, M.P. for Harrow, has announced that he will buy National War Bonds to the amount of Poplar's subscriptions during the week. Poplar aims at £100,000.

He has made a similar promise in regard to Leyton's War Weapons Week, which starts to-day. Leyton will endeavour to raise £150,000. Mr. Mallaby-Decley, who was educated at Shrewsbury. has also written to the Shrewsbury War Savings Committee offering to double their subscriptions to War Bonds if they will organize a War Weapons Week.

If their subscriptions reach £100,000 he will add a subscription of £150,000, which. bringing the total up to a quarter of a million, will entitle Shrewsbury to name a Tank. Mr. Mallaby-Deeler's offers. and the recent action of Sir Alexander Black in offering to lend £50,000, free.

of interest, to the Government, provided that Grimsby raised £1.000,000 during its Tank Week, are examples which the National War Savings Committee would gladly see followed by others. FOREIGN DECORATIONS. The King has granted to Sir John McLeavy Brown, Counsellor of the Chinese Legation in London, authority to wear the Insignia of the Second Class of the Order of the Excellent Crop. conferred by the President of the Republic of China in recognition of valuable services rendered by him: to Mr. Philippe Roy.

Trade Commissioner for Canada in Paris, to wear the Cross of Commander of the Legion of Honour, conferred by the President of the French Renublic in recognition of his valuable, services in the Allied cause to Mr. Fergus Armstrong, M.D.. F.R.C.S.. to wear the Cross of Officer of the Order of the Star of Rumania, with swords, conferred by the King of Rumania in recognition of his services with the Rumanian Red Cross at Jassy and Bukarest: to Miss Florence Bryce Jack to wear the Insignia of the Fourth Class of the Order of St. Sava, conferred by the King of Serbia in recognition of her services with the Scottish Women's Hospital at Ostrovo: and to the following to wear decorations as stated, conferred by the President of the French Republic in recognition of valuable services rendered by them Commander of the Order of the Etoile Noire, William Tattersall Pine.

Chief Naval Constructor at Malta and Officer of the Order of the Etoile Noire, Mr. William Hogarth, Superintendent and Victualling Store Officer, Victualling Yard, Malta: and Mr. Ernest Addison Stanley Hayward, Assistant Director of Stores, Victualling Yard, Malta. AMERICAN TROOPS AT WINCHESTER. General Biddle and the Mayor of the city inspected American troops at Winchester yesterday afternoon.

The American Ambassador was represented by Mrs. Page, and General Livingstone represented the Royal Air Force. At a meeting of the Newington Conservative and Unionist Aasociation G. W. H.

Jones, L.C.C., Stoke. was adopted as the Unionist. candidate for the new Parliamentary Division of Stoke Newington for the next Parliamentary election. FRUIT AND VEGETABLES. PRESERVING AND PICKLING.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) We must preserve all fruit and vegetables we can, by making jam or bottling the fruit whole, strawberries, red and black currants, raspberries, loganberries, and blackberries. For preserving whole and without sugar the fruit, whether large or small, should be sound and mpe. Place t1 them in bottles: shake down gently but firmly All the jar with water so as to cover all the fruit and put them in a saucepan of water, which is to be brought to the boil and be kept boiling for 20 minutes then remove the jars or bottles and seal them. The fruit should keep well for year. Tomatoes, peas.

and broad beans may be similarly preserved, and plums, damsons, as well as small fruit. There may be a surplus of peas and broad beans now there is no better way of securing them but they should be gathered before they are old. Cauliflowers, for preserving, should be cut while still fresh and the curds hard and close, and be pickled. Pickling shallots comes later; like onions, they should be thoroughly ripened and hardened first. French and runner beans for preserving should he gathered when fresh and dry, and be cut up as for cooking.

A layer is put in a deep earthenware jar: over it is spread a laver of salt and the jar is filled to the top with alternate layers of beans and salt, and covered so as to be air- proof. Soak the brine out of the beans before. using them in the winter. Cauliflowers are cut up into small pieces for pickling and covered with a layer of salt. Next day drain the liquid off, put the cauliflower into a jar with few peppercorns and some allspice and cover with boiling vinegar -secure the jar tightly when the vinegar is cold.

Use always those cabbages, cauliflowers, which are fully matured so that none go to waste but vegetable marrows should be cut when halfgrown, for a marrow which is allowed to grow large, or to ripen, will rob the smaller ones. Nor should cucumbers be allowed to become old, nor pens and beans, except those haricot beans and peas which are ripened for drying. A sudden glut of cauliflowers may be met by covering the curls while yet small with one of the leaves or we may dig them up, shake the soil off, and tie them upside down in a cool cellar or shed where they will keep for fortnight. Cucumbers may be kept for several days by being stood with their stem in water, or by being burjed in dry sand. Runner and dwarf way, the stalks being stood in a saucer of water.

beans en may be tied in bundles with all the points one A ROMANCE OF BANKING. TRIBUTE TO MR. DENISON MILLER. The Royal Colonial Institute gave luncheon yesterday, at the Cannon-street Hotel, to Mr. son Miller, Governor of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, who is visiting this country.

SI3 CHARLES Lucas, chairman of the council of the institute, presided, and among others present were Lord Denman. Lord Midleton, Lord Meath, Lord Sydenham, Lord Leigh, Lord Swaythling. Mr. W. P.

Manner (Prime Minister of New Zealand). Mr. W. P. Lloyd (Prime Minister of Newtoundland), Sir Joseph Ward (New Zealand Minister of Financel, Sir John Bradbury, Mr.

Andrew Fisher (High Commissioner for Austrails), Sir T. Mackenzie (High Commissioner for New Zealand), Sir E. W. Wallington, Sir R. Nivison.

Sir G. Chubb, Sir Ernert Triston, the Agenta-General for Victoria, Queenaland, Taranta, Western Australis, and South Australia, Sir W. H. Mercer, Admiral the Hon. Sir E.

Fremantle, Sir William Plender, Sir A. Herbert, Major-General Sir Newton Moore, Sir G. Le Hunte, Sir Herbert Hambling. Sir James Mills, Sir J. A.

Cockburn, Sir C. Addis, 8tr G. Doolette, Bir G. Lagden, Sir J. Perguson; Sir Joseph Lawrence, and Mr.

C. A. Campion (London of the Commonwealth Bank). Mr. DENISON MILLER, responding to the toast of his health, which had been by the chairman, said that it was particularly gratifying to him that the Commonwealth Bank of Australia had taken its place readily and acceptably among the great banks in London, and that it was recognized that, although the was owned wholly by the Government of Australia, it had no desire to take undue advantage of its unique backing.

The Act gave very full powers to the Governor, who had sole management of the bank. There was no board of directors, and the bank was entirely free from political interference. To enable the bank to be started he had to borrow £10,000 from the Treasury for current expenses, but the loan was quickly repaid. Since June, 1913, the bank had made rapid, strides. It bad 36 branches the and 2,756 Savings Bank agencies, the total assets December, 1917, being over £47,000,000 and the profits for that half-year £23 2,660.

The accumulated profits up to that date were £758,952. The flotation of war loans was placed by the Commonwealth Government in the bands of the Commonwealth Bank. Six war loans had been floated and about £150,000,000 had been subscribed, or about £30 per head of the population. (Cheers.) The Commonwealth was able to meet its war expenditure practically from its own resources. The bank had also floated loans in London to the extent of £15.400,000.

and it managed Government- stocks and municipal loans in London aggregating £55,914,100. When war broke out Mr. Fisher, then Minister, pledged the Commonwealth to the last man and the last shilling. The wealth of the people was now about £1,800.000.000, and, in addition. there was the wealth of the nation.

The total debt of Australia to-day was £607.530.000: the any loans that might be raised by the Commonwealth Government that was absolutely notes safe. The bank also arranged Australian and silver, taken abroad by Australian soldiers and travellers, were paid at their face value at a favourable rate of exchange. To deal with the return of soldiers special Minister of Repatriation had been appointed. and the Commonwealth Bank proposed to open branches in the principal repatriation offices and military pay offices. Mr.

ANDREW FISHER, in proposing the toast of the chairman, said that the mobilization of the wealth of Australia had been largely helped by the existence of the Commonwealth Bank. which had worked in harmony with the Government, and the private institutions, which were equally interested in the welfare of Australia. Australia was a unity to-day greater than before the war, and he hoped she would remain an asset of the Empire for ever. (Cheers.) ARRANGEMENTS FOR TO-DAY. Duke of Connaught inspects 1st Cadet Battalion, The Queen's," Vincent -square, Westminster.

S. 6.30. Princess Patricis of Connaught distributes prizes, Royal British Orphan Schools. Slough. Marzaret Rance of Sarawak opens Garden Fete in aid of Our Dumb Friends League.

The Gables, Surbiten, 3.30. Lord Queenborouch opens Old English Fair and Horticaltural at Broombeld Park. Southgate. in aid of the Grovelands and Tottenhall Auxiliary War Hospitals. Mr.

Montago. M.P.. on Indian Reform. Cambridge Liberal Clab. Sir John Simon on A League of Nations," Walthamstow.

Mr. Prothero on the Allotment Movement. Leeds Univeraity. Lord Selborne presides at Forestry meeting, George Hotel, Whachester. 3.15.

The Vigilantes Society: Meeting. British Orthorndic Amociation: Meeting. 11, Chandos-atreet, W. Biblical Study Vacation Term begins, Oxford: Bishop of Oxford on Divine Drury Lane Opera Carmen, 2 The 6.45. Matinees Adelphi.

Daly's, Shatterbary. Alhambra, 2: Galety. Globe. His Majesty's, Empire, 2.15: Apollo, Comedy. Criterion, Duke of York's.

Garrick, Haymarkes, Lyceum. Lyric. New, oxford. Playhouse, Queen's, Royalty. Savoy.

Strand. Vaude ville. Wyndham's, Coliseum. Hippodrome, Palace, Palladium. 2.30 Prince of Wales.

2.45. Gilbert White Fellowship Visit to Jordans Meeting House, Bucks, in conjunction with Hampstead Selborne Society (Amensham Station. 2.30). Sun rises. 5.17: seta, 8.55.

Moon rises, 10.9 p.m. seta, 11.27 a.m. (July 38, (Last quarter. Tumdar.) Lighting-up Time. 9.25.

Draw blinds, 10. High water at London Bridge, 5.10 a.m. and 5.14 p.m. Wilson's Sale of Heirloom Irish Linens, 08. New Bond street.

TO-MORROW. Mr. Prothero. M.P., addresses allotment boldens, Carton Hall, Westminster, 6. Mr.

J. M.P.. at Newport The Ref. the Hon. Father Adderley preacher on Sunday Games," St.

Paul's, Covent-garden, 11. National League for the Blind Demonstration. Meeting Woolwich Arvenal Engineer, Plumstead Bathe, 11. Drury Lane Theatre: P'erformance of Byron'a (in aid of lads lAlington's Pro Patria Day Nursery, 2.30. Sun rises, 518.

8.51. Moon risen, 10.31-p.m. Acta, 12.49 p.m(July 20 (Last quarter: Lighting ume. 9.24 Draw bind-, 10. High water at London Bridge, 5,52 a.m.

and 5.56 p.m. RED CROSS GOLD AND SILVER. Among many gifts received by the Gold and Silver Committee of the Red Cross are magnificent polished wood and silver -cooler, bearing the Churchill arms. presented by the Duke of Marlborough: a large silver-gilt -urn-shaped vase from Lord Eldon A collection of gold jewelry from the Rev. W.

S. Clarke: and a collection of gold and silver from Lady Murray. Many intersting things were received in the country on Silver Wedding Day--an Elizabethan silver chalice from Mr. E. P.

Hills a spoon and fork which belonged to Louis Napolcon from Miss White. both presented to the Mayor of Sudbury's collection an early. Georgian silyer wine-cooler sent to the Congleton Division of Cheshire: and to the Exeter collection a Georgian silver saucepan and lid and some valuable jewelry. 39, Old Bond street. is the for receiving gold and silver for the Red Cross, and also the shop where it is on sale to the general public.

Notices of Forthcoming Marriages and similar announcements are inserted at the following rates: Two guineas for five lines or less, and ten shillings for each additional line. Society Motements, one guinea for three lines. A line consists of eight words. Announcements should he addressed to the Manager, Private Announcement Department, The London DAVID GREIG The Firm that lowers Prices First." NO MORE BACON COUPONS Thanks to Mr. Hoover, the American people, the Nary, and the Mercantile Marine, the British Ministry of Food is in such a good position in regard to Bacon and Ham that from today you can buy AS MUCH BACON OR HAM AS YOU PLEASE Without Coupons We heartily congratulate the British Ministry of Food for its very successful efforts on behalf of the British People.

per lb. BACK STREAKY COLLAR RASHERS LARD- Plenty of Lard on Sale at all David Greig's Shops. Heil ONce and StaresFERNDALE ROAD, BRISTON, LONDON, S.W. Telephone Briton 170, 171, and 1872. Telegrame Davigne, Brie, London.

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W. J. BORROW, The Springs, MALVERN DEFENCE OF THE REALM. GOODS-CARRYING ROAD VEHICLES MUST BE REGISTERED BEFORE THE 31st JULY, 1918. The ONLY exceptions are as Vehicles owned by the War Office, Admiralty, or Air Force.

(b) Vehicles wholly or mainly used in agriculture. (c) Horse-drawn vehicles with a load capacity of less than 15cwt. Registration Forms are obtainable at the Police Station nearest to the place where the vehicles are usually kept. ON AND AFTER 1st SEPTEMBER NO VEHICLE MAY BE USED WITHOUT A PERMIT ISSUED BY THE ROAD TRANSPORT BOARD. AND NO PERMIT WILL BE GRANTED UNLESS THE VEHICLE HAS BEEN REGISTERED.

By Order ROAD TRANSPORT BOARD (Board of Trade)..