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10 THE TIMES, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1903. THE NAVAL MANOEUVRES. be NlM and the King Alfred, broke town in I me put upon them by B. it not unlikely tetm few soon altar leaving Lagos, the former that hi. strategical WmSHkm would ban THB CRC1BER WORE.

to delay her 'beyond 'io possibility of I ing place was fixed in' a latitude and longitude abandoned it and rejoined the flag of the Con practically impossible for them to prevent the I mander in Chief, bringing, by the way, certain junction of the two Fleets and, although the Laoos information, not all of it accurate, with which ahe aide do not fally admit this, they do notj beliere. doing of the battle through which passed. Left so seriously possible region. fif Chh thT'point Ml Baldwin waJJcersent forward the tboreoghly would Uke mnch space, and would in short handed, I Aboukir quad run I referred eel lent work of the i Kir Baldwin Walker, in spite of the bad luck eomPanr the Spartiate and to under which depri him the ootet of a large Powerfolhadlreadr faiUd. is caused abea'Tr proportion of his best The Aboukir and and unexpected strain on her coal resources, his own flagship, the Bacchante, between then vhich was severely felt at a critical stage of the followed Fleet from the time it left Madeira aoceuTre.

later on. It farther, in conjunction till the moment of it. iimetinn sritl. i lamentable accident to the Blake, threw Ik Bacchante actual It of gear the whole of the arrangement, for the acuiai witnessed, and a. long aa eonceotration of the armoured cruiser and their cruisers were available for the purpose they were 1 runners upon the duty of shadowing 2 Fleet, detached and sent to Sir Compter, Domvile with and prevented the cruiser admiral from retting information of the enemy', position, coarse, and touch with the enemy from the start.

It would. speed. The last companion to remain with the PrrnP Bacchante was the Aboukir, and she was despatched to the battle fleet some seven hours up and the end leave both sides unconvinced ttUS' better they before 1 and 2 met. Thenceforward the Bacchante was alone. Had the Powerful and the Blake not broken down, and had not the King Alfred, by a partial disablement, been prevented from reaching Madeira and carrying out it duties with the cruiser squadron, the situation the time when the two Fleets were approach ing one another might have been very different 1 did not.

of course, witness the working of Sii Baldwin Walker's squadron I was in Sir Compter ivne uagstup, tne cuiwarK.out by the admiral I have heard them praised and I have beard them in certain respects adversely criticized by those whose judgment is of incomparably more value than mine. But one general consideration forced itself very strongly upon my mind as a consequence of what I witnessed namely, the value of speed to battle squadron. Oar slowest shins were practically equal in this respect to the enemy's fastest, and considerably superior to his was entirely doe to our superiority in speed that we were able to circle round his fleet in the action of August 0 and get between him and our base, from which, at the onenmir of Beresford used every device that ingenuirv could "nt. we were separated by the invent, both for thro wine the cruiser off sndfor i ntjlc fleet enabled as to force the entrapping her within the range of his battleships' ES w1t. guns the Bacchante and the attendant runners JJJf straggling formation.

the clue to 2's IImMiTBi. Charles Beresford ihbmhI i rated our Are on the leaders and. had we that could have faced the Aboukir, tbo thread nTP avoiaea a ngnt altogether further detail happened, for some eight hours, from about 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. on August the Aboukir was the one solitary ship that kept touch with 2 Fleet.

On accident snapped it and Lord Charles! SPEED AND COAL ENDURANCE. and it would indeed be indeed, I may say iitiij ssssi tth whem I have inventions ml rfi come in contact. Bat thu being, so far as 1 hare 1 a confession of decadence the nation which has i EW BOOK asd ItW EDITION who may by their duties be brought for a time on inventions the steam canoe i mmmmTLmmmmmLSWS 55 toon nibm. ZZTZijESL steam' rcKjaBD. CSao, brielest expression of thanks is, perhapa.

the hammer, tea veiling crane. Ineh.iil.i ml1in Ktw jsonu be. Indeed, anything more might ahnWSvoa Zj'SlK MSSL i no a good account of itself. TKtou. oom BRITISH MANTJFACTURES AND THE ST.

LOUIS EXHIBITION. BO CHAPTERS OF (rco energetic participation by Great Britain I have to 1. igagement off Terceira. I in the forthcoming exhibition at St. Louis, has already been urged by The Timet.

Having recently spent six months in smay oi manuiaeturing industries in England, policy, no doubt, bat gTX CHAPTERS OF A MAN'S LITE. Germany, and the United States, I desire to rein force the arguments which have been hitherto chiefly used from a somewhat different point deal of doubt and failure to recognize the signi MM of the occasion. Speaking on the products in which show none but the very best, lost be arranged with no leas care, to effect. Here is aa opportunity practice some of the lesson we rem omr competitors the lessons a 4 yy. 7 ami be txto comparative hole cost would be unfair.

It traditional rX CHAPTERS OF MAX'S LITE. VICTORIA cross. IX CHAPTERS OF A MAX'S LITE. ional, and the nation should abate a Here is a lesson tor the Government, I very badlv needed. Of the manv I CfX CHAPTERS OF A MAN'S aaviutagea enjoyed by foreign manufacturers itude of Government.

In every other country i J3AU1A. By VICTORIA CROSS. no l. emro given bv the flag captain of 1 lne "erniea, out whenever she tried to the Bulwark to the officers of his ship. I have lfTel fleet, she was whipped in again by the "Tj "WJg1 hen hrwrred ith access to tho instructions until.

eventuaUy, she wa, caught, 5T2 with speed is irawn upl.v s.r B. Walkag for the cuidance af vin to double back on the morning of the bth, 25 rn'lur3nce, wh.ch also we were superior, .) under h.s command, and have been Iaimetl as put out of action. TheBaechante ZS. tim anla ka fallow their r.i.i" liJ u. Diadem.

Gladiator, and Diana ioined the A honti; Ih 8 ould have told straUVically in our favour. froai time to time their reports came Commander iu Cliirf's flashin bv siensl I havoinmy previous letter described thesystem or rend, zvous a.lopt.l for the battle squadron, to enable it to go eith. east want or westward, with the object of inter. ting 2 Fleet, whichever it mifrht steam on leaving Madeira, tlJ I hant stuck to the encrov. the runners heintr i 7 he Aboukir, whose coal was getting com pari; l't02 witli bed last of all.

at in the 8th, when the enemy was approaching Pico, in the Azores. In this neighbourhood, between Sau Jorge and Terceira, lat. 30.00, long. 27.30. sho TT nersonallr familiar with owhat a large extent the coal endurance of depends upon conditions that may be cot Irom outside.

let rao illostratc this by three of the battleships built design, completed in the same virtually identical the Bulwark, after the of their C.R.V. from Which the lines of minor ab1 Ln ra' bc ening. to7. r.v.H. vvrms radiated estahli.hcl in l.t TheBacchante.alone from the time Aboukir left.

1 and tht kept in company N. and lfi.Oft dogged 2 up to the meeting with 1. The 1 aaleot rmJrnmm at mm the earthward Madeira, with a south render iaon hB Flt tried to stop her. but she fi net "Thli was (S.K. .) U'o miles nearer to the island in a I frt)m them all except the Good Hope, I ZLZSiJtl i.

din Unc. to vhich the Ccet would proceU SS sS? Sir Tbe bunkers abonld BO information from the cruisers be await HPe "P31 ordered to chase a vessel ing katC.H.V. In addition to these rendezvous I guT)Pd to tb Spartiatc for for the battle fleet, certain others were appointed fcrnte, in order not to proclaim her for the cruiser squadron, and thev were so 't'ty was not displaying the flag of Rcar pla. ed as to be convenient both for the cruisers' Walker, and the two vessels are not owii sjH cial and also for enabling them to in appearance. An engagement smit tneir mtelligeDce as quickly to the battleships.

Of these cruiser rendezvous i 1, I need mention only three, known respect ivelv as A B.and C. The DOSttion of A was direct Iv between At. the C.K.V. and S.R.V.. 50 miles to the southward of JJJJjJJ latter.

Rendezvous lnv in the same straight hi' flaf replied by an oi line, hut 120 miles further south than and to hoist the Bine peter am admiral; hofs Ktand. I Sir Baldwin Walker, it will be recollected, left lgos with the whole or the cruisers at 8 a m. on August 20 hours in advance of the battle fleet, and 28 hours before the 2 battleships were free to leave Madeira, so that he was able I a.nd hPPho. to traverse tbo miles from Lagos to Madeira a arrive in time to find the 2 Fleet still in Msting of lour ships, flagships of the two nusing episodes of of tho fight the Good Hope proposed a the umpires, whereupon Sir Baldwin oi tne two rear admirals, hoist irder to the Good while allowing that he himself must Uood Hope explained Wo thought you were the Spartiate 1 I cannot personally vouch for the entire accuracy of these details, but I have beard them from several sources and on excellent authority. There is another story whicl has some bearing upon this one.

About ciocK on the morning of the 8th, long re the junction of the two Fleets, the armoured cruisers Good Hope, Drake, and Hocue, I 6o0 1,320 ious 24 hours the Bulwark had tons less than the Venerable, and and represents a in efficiency f. groups. The first group, King Alfie.1, Powerful. Spartiate, was io proceed to at a speed or 18 knots. looMn" into the neighbouring small island or Porto Smo l.y theuay, in Lord Charles Beresrord's inreu.us miud should consider it to bo lor the purposes of the manoeuvres part or Madeira and should use it as his point of 1 cruisers of the 2 Fleet, Europa, Doris.

and Sappho, and, in consequence of some derstandinc with recard to tho miriin signal and challenge, fell to fighting. Sappho succeeded in making off unharmed, but the others had a serions encounter, and the armoured cruisers reported, on subsequently joining their tney naa Deen lighting hostile cruisers. My principal authority for these wis present at tno light. Jiad Sir Baldwin Walker known of this ensace ment, he would have sent the Good Hope into Lagos unaccompanied by his own vessel. The imi.tuiiih.

two snips in company to the port Spartiate and Diadem I reported to Admiral Domvile by the Diadem p'ng round the sunt neni. or 1 unchal, side, and i ui augnsi, Alfred round the northern in fi tl.e enemy win Walker's orde. King Alfred ran. 1,.. will sending a vessel to inform roe at Rend i iong.

n.oo at which a rive by noon on the Cth having a direec eoure between Cane St. Vi nentioned in my former letter. rhaps, unnecessary to pursue the subject in sut a summary of their proceedings as I been attempting to give, the more so because arrival iron, time to ime of the runners with Baldwin Walker intelligence has been recorded Danio squadron doings. rendezvous. Should the enemv move he rodQCMl rosoarrs which ill fortune be roll owed, and as E.

su JCI1 at his disposal allowed. Admiral Walker' settled on a course, should not in aight schomr. wbed very well, and the battleships another vea.s,.l must Ik detached to inform me." ol tne enemy. If i ord Charles am to send out his battleships the officers or some particular hanrdthe Bulwark, our cruisers were to folK.w admiral isted of Baldwin's flagship Bacchante, with armour, cruiwr Aboukir. the Rlnl favoi'mible.

Ihe littie Pegasus andWen 3lf for the officers of the jet "in" touch srjth tbo CMVM aooa as backwards and forwards fitted into the general le. The third group, comprtsiec the eight 2. "rations, moainea as it of necessity in r.i css cruisers iplngenia. joining the flag the Commandcr i were retained with tho battle fleet resuming their position with tho en but in most cases, and. nerhans.

in impression would have been removed. ir apparently fruitless hurry operations. Pandora. Intrepid. Hermione.

I'vra'm'us: None, I think, will deny that, as a the lTuuZ bt Et 2T Whi v. lv small stock of coal, ttr late opponetits ined us at Lagos, would they would reach Ml later than I "U.scr scheme altogether, ih r.i!,. thev were all to 1 of competing Nassfo BM 1 detinitc instructions except stratSlc Pan it is not my province to enter. ln.dora which were to he detached THE MANCEUVRE SCHEME, in time to m. et Admiral Domvile and the battle I have now told in outline the storv of Fleet, up at by a.m.

on the 7th, arter which I both battleships and cruisers, avoiding as far as they were to ac. ompany his fleet. As a conse iossiblc divergence into comment by the way, ntjenenof disposition it followed that, arter though on certain matters criticism would have travelling ei.hor to or from C.R.V. 1 together, the air has been full of the radiating lines; the watching 1 manoeuvre have excited among the officers. ii cruisers ana tneirOireci proportion to the degree ti the 1 Lagos nature of the operations was made clear to them by their Mjperiors, the keenest interest and much lhc contrast in this respect between manoeuvres and others that I have he past is ertremelv marked, and the hange is altogether good and wholesome.

It is eral causes, no doubt, but ided thcy were able to keep remainder oi the cruisers rendezvous A. Thus in the erlir period of the. struggle anr vessel n'ghted elsewhere than in the vicinity "of these places would presumably be hostile." It was impressed Un the cruisers in the most emphatic Terms mat tney were on no account to run perhaps, to two the greater extent to which unnecessary risk or capture. As the convey junior officers in many I hope most of the ships ar.ee of to the battle fleet is the were taken into the confidence of their leaders as grca. object oi tne cruisers.

they were told, soon as the operations began, and the verv into occurred. Had the exist inc resrnl at ile to delay its transmission is to resting character of the scheme iteelf. 1 find, I i introduced, by which, when tho mi matter now tempting an eppor tu.nk 1 may say, a universal agreement that these new ship baa been opened up for examination in spue oi tneir restriction to less arter the contractor a trial, a second trial has to have been far the most instructive be undergone, been in force when the Kin the general inything li unity of capturing non reaching its destination it is than a I ortvddc No student or naval history is un of any to which representat iware how much may depend upon the observance public havo been permitted 3i i io ri.o. how great the temptation to disobey A side the cruiser work, in particular, has been it may become. pre eminently interesting.

Nevertheless, tho isers, Bacchante. general idea of the operation and the in assignea tne mcuuns to tne opposing admirals have been by In the pi burnt fully The difference very large expenditure, hot! labour, and also a vast diflerei purposes of war. To what is minor factors no doubt account for tion of the total, but the only seric Between the three ships that readily suggests itself to account for the diserepanev in coal consumption is the comparatively clean or dirty state of the ships' bottoms. The Bulwark came out of dock on the 13th of May last, and the Venerable as long ago as the 18th of October last year, difference of almost exactly seven months. The London, it is true, came out of dock at an date the 6th of February and her consumption has been slightly more extra ducing a disturbing factor which it might beworth while inquiring into officially but there seems to be no reasonable doubt that, in the date of the last docking of tho several ships is to be found, at least in large measure, tho explanation of these very remarkable figures.

Suppose the cost of dock mate, should imagine A 500 a liberal and suppose the cost of coal in the Mediter ranean is as low as los. per ton the flgui mere guess work, but I think ther im th side, and they will serve for mv men lire extra cost, in coal alone of the dirty ship over the clean one has been 75 a day, and seven days' steaming would more than pay for an extra docking, to say nothing of the greater efficiency or the ship for purposes of war. Indeed, we may go a step further, and sav that, ir the amount be multiplied by the number of ships maintained on the Mediterranean station, the saving in money alone, apart from all questions or efficiency, would in the end go rar towards recouping the cost or the extra docks at Malta and Gibraltar, which will afford accommodation for cleaning the ships more frequently. It is an old question, very familiar, in another form, to the admirals of the past. SPECIALLY COMMISSIONED VESSELS.

There is one other subject of importance to which I must refer before I close. Frequent reference has been made to tho breakdowns among the cruisers of Meet, from which such serious consequences followed. It is a Tact tho or which can hardly bo ovuggorat. tint, with. I That, portance, these breakdowns1 all occurred in ships that were not in permanent commission, but had boon specially commissioned for the mancem res.

The serious cases, so for as the effect upon the or the Powerful, the Blake, and the King Alfred, SUt" to helpaod a. liL7to bSoT pcilbbT OoT 1 would be Germany's in the markets of the world, and therefore it help, hot in repressive activity it is far in advance AA LOMBABD' VTrroRIA behoved them to study American methods. The any other. British manufacturers are hampered srsri LOVBsim vrrrrr. rwnca point of this utterance for us the inference i Factory Acts, special rules, A L0MBAK' By VTCTORIA CROSS.

tint "uru oi i raae regulations, and local bv laws i British com petit io NEW BOOKS. P.UT Axvn, sock. opinion has since been explicitly stated by a fttl and fostering gentleman from New York, who had been looking admonition to Wake up applies to the TAMES LAVE at some German factories, and bv a prominent 'ovftram'nt inite as much a to any other section Austrian authority at the industrial con I show iSSSTlJl. ofingTesn i i. result ot my own or not.

Hacked by public opinion and the Frees, Sxwcm uWs. inquiries leads me to disagree with this opinion. "hould act with energy, be liberal with i WALES which is based on an imperfect knowledge 0f 1 pecuniary help, and judiciously supervisory, not wna nwtL. nepuiSak r. gnjoca Great Britain but I perceive that it is widely 1 wlth.

to 7r held and has a certain justification. The inter SLtJSjZZSi ZSZ I I I II Mil II national position has unquestionably changed in i ting and disastrous fiasco, it most recognize the 'JuSL' competition. one imows oroer ot things and discharge tbo responai better, or more readily admits, than British facrurers themselves that they have been taken in many respects and surpassed in so competitors who seemed insignificant onlv bility ii worthy of the nation. IS BOOK of GKOLOOY. THE LONDON WATER COMPANIES.

7" cysmn, A MEHICAX RAILWATS. fact to the conclusion that we are already hope Htrapolis Act of last Session mt oe October 35 next i opposite attitude maintained by the majority ww newiy laaisil Water Board. On Tms.hj ihsW.ini I i foreigners can do anything so well as themselves. Board deposited with ths Court of Arhitti. I tf" Hg the imnression that wo am in noma answers to the Uim th.

vw i i such hopeless position is rapidly gaining ground, RiwT An snalrsi. shows that the total tQ11 industriously extol foreign products and methods i hole nn erpKW by tie on their undectakiar, fcflgsJS without knowing anything of those at home. And xioLOOO. SiJ, that data thTcl Jw J1 Bitf further EDWIX A. PRATT.

the nrwlr cTTsUed Water Board. On Tuesday the Wat' uoara aeposited with the Court to shout 10,000,000, the whole of which is tot? trS I "POVERTY. A8todySf' TWu" UfT" Board. The cJsim i aanoanowwna Copy. wmeh will I MAqULLAX mnA tV.

Ltntftel. losflaa natorally has i infac taring interests it causes capital, sod all money required 1 neutral Buyers to look to those new markets which are said to be so superior to the old one. If nation Questions of enormous importance are the company consists of debemmw stock ajBOMtTd IiLl itiS. involved, and they demand all the circumspection of ordinary hare capital 1 7 000 The I timw or thf foolish fwiS ibtionCStrLon nt3tional nl tbeir BOnU1 ot il.OOO the Esrt Loadoa riillrTStJ USMSf: nVtSTS small importance compared with such matters as i 7,34.000. The reply imperial tann or industrial education, but the effect that oswr sa igniflcant as an episode by reason of its whioh thertahe over, th tion I Wh: tether we can rise to the situs is pointed out that the availabU irrppU.

of thr Et 1 Fl! SAIKTsatr. wi.im LT. a LOEda om ctich SMSlWto, i' nueshon on which thst the lrr, drstnet which is rl.f I. 1 gLTOtrt, MDtrm rots ut one thing is certain we cannot be applied in the fotm, without rery Ur. ZJ.JS''ril rarrXiAatat differ but thoroughly well.

It follows that, being committed. Iw booths il effort and throw all the energy we difficult position in which manufacturers arc placed. The business is crstlv and the immediate return more than doubtful. There is, indeed, something ironical in the invitation to business men to minister at their own cost to tbo honour and glory of the United States by stocking the shop window with goods which "thev are de prevented rrom selling at a profit, and refusal their attitude would be not onlv justifiable but dignified and salutary. They are not going to do so, however and for one to stand aside would be merely dignified sulks, and would lend I companies but if the rivar Lea, which it to serious polIcUou.

It i. also urged that the concessions ro4e to the London water companiss immediately necessary in the poblio interest, which psnies or enhance the pcrch.ee money in the esse of a pcrccsEe. The New River Company claims under various Tpjcx Lapp ifc'' LinBAhTjrf FUfl ied rKH. ifaJTJ comparatively unimnort; specially commissioned ships tho officers and men lo wp vessel and to one another, the crs re largelv men or the second class mmr or whom have probably never liecn to sea in it man of war before, and everywhere there is an machinery and surroundings which, as every ngineer wcu knows, counts for so mnch in the working of engines and boilers. In the King fVlfred, for instance, a brand new ship, represent ng a very recent tyfe or development, out of a otsl or officers and men in the engineers' branch lumbering 283, only the chier engineer himself ind one potty officer had ever seen the engines move before she started probably not a dozen of apart irom ouicers, were well acquainted working or the Belleville boiler thi.h by tho way, acquitted itself on the whole remarkably well), and, out of 203 stokers.

second class stokers vonnp. inor perienced men, of whom a large number had had no previous experience at sea. Add to that tho ship left for the manoeuvres only an hour's commission irg trial, instead usual three hours', and that no maehinerv colour to the suspicion that this particular JT'Sff r' country is afoaid to compete for foar of bercVtd actually been urged as a reason for not Mtbfhitrag. It a counsel of ignorance and in addition to cowardice. Great Britain has lost her industrial df'bTuJI, "orl monopoly.

Other countries can make prettv AiilS.S'S nearly all the things she does, and can make some TuZZTSZI greater in rptantity and equal in qtmlitv. the nnderUkiM. 1st be admitted. But there are other of Arhif ration, i In cerUin te: supply which the company are entitled to bring into account for the purpose of their daim will be who! It insufficient to meet the demands of the population of tbeir district. This company will be larfT dependent upon its share of wr obtainable by mesne of the on and the West Sfiddlrse Wster the Staines Reservoir Acts, after ration by Parliament, it pro respect of tho advurUcee conferred npon them by.

or liability involved in of I TyjEmjCEN 3 POPTTLAB HOVELS. st ov avp VK Great Britain is i tiles and textile machinerv. for pproaeh the work da's dnnns tl of Sir Edward Pry, chair J1 of Lancashire and Yorkshire. Recent indi ei nate enlogies of American industries have a very erroneous impression. Take cotton, doubt tho United States has developed the facture or cotton on a great scale.

At the pre time it probably spins and weaves moro Great Britain and there are at least to mills in New Bedford which with the assist: of English machines and English workmen month of September. be lodged I aobbs coarse goods, based their case bcfoi on the plea that their machinery was product consists cxclusivelv of bT Turlft that every one who does not accept I kJI and in a strike at Lowell the i Mf" Pi7 a Little Englander oraoa i. employers 3'" i TTZJS as Oonservative member for Bampstead makin; no secret of my free trade and Imperialist opinions. I and manv TO THE EDITOR OP THE TIKES. May I appeal to your well known fair play to ioos in Sheffield.

IMmi Aboukir, and King Alfred iponiol duty or shadowing the enemv. and were to go as messengers and runners all I half humorously suggested to roe that on future the largest, swiftest, and most enduring in respect occasions the Admiralty might do well toV employ of coal supply among the nnarmoured vessels. i counsel to draw up their manoeuvre schemes Srch. in its main outlines, was Sir Baldwin always provided that Parliamentarv draftsmen Walker scheme of operations. The small vessels, were excluded.

Ambiguities have lurked beneath restricted coal endurance, were massed under the phrasing which have led to incoo rover of the Imperieuse in a central position, sistent readings on the opposite sides, and ready to spend their energies upon the work of have had an important bearing upon the obtaining and conveying intelligence should the strategy adopted. The most serious of these, of war roll within the area covered by their perhaps, lay in the sentence which was taken by possible range of action, but practically useless Fleet to impose upon 1 the obligation to order for operations far oat in the Atlantic. The larger his cruisers from Portland to join his flag in the nnarmoured vessels were to go further afield, and approaches to the Channel." whereas Sir Arthur the three armoured cruisers were to venture and 1 Wilson put no such Interpretation upon the words. front, able, by virtue of their Had the apparent injunction been strictly adhered would have been impossible for him to send ired by the counsel for the operatives, and justified by the Court after inspection of tho muis, wuica were omparea to thoir disadvantage with those at Fall Hirer. Vet a leading trail, unionist at Fall Iiiver.

who has visited Bolton, informed me that the Lancashire mills are kept better up to date than those in his own and he corrected the statement made by Mr! 11 ortsinly WUktaon, of the Mosely Commission, that the tnionist party. work with. Enlightened bv these and? rifU closures, one is no longer surprised by the i significant Tact that the cotton fittings for the new St. Regis Hotel in New York and, of coarse, the largest, finest, and most splendid in existence have been made in can be expected to run its best at the very first, notwithstanding the enormous duty. In Germanv' 7(1, 1 oi sucn micnes as also, they are getting on with their cotton manu I flcial humidity, which the Government.

1 17 before your ours, wisely lets alone than Lancashire is will Pr Eeery Friday atem. ing to admit but they do not yet pretend to ConvsJeacent H. compete with us. at the London Hospital to sort I Again, take wool and the allied fibres. Our mselss, all convalescent, mors or less, from crieJoos competitors can no more equal the products of the ekneas or accident.

Mrs. Gladstone'. Home is on of great rsrauiora mills in quality and finish than they can rival the stately appointments of the mills themselves or the precision of the machinery invented and built in Yorkshire with which they are filled. And not Bradford only. There is the carpet trade.

They make very nice carpets in Philadelphia on looms built in Yorkshire and worked by men from Halifax and Kidderminster more? "'ti riiineo a METAjfonrnosis AN THK DOEA MSB J. a. rVteheT BAPTIST RfMt. I mml.mm4.WV. aSBUIDfl NAVICATTOV.

I C5 fast PRrsrrr rEVE.N0.NU.NA. rat pwt KfooosoffoWtoni rj Alfred was taken over by the Admiraltv, the defects that hampered ber movements during the manoeuvres would in all probability havo been discovered at once and remedied. And, if a nucleus crew bad been In charge of the ship before sho went to sea, possibly some of the hitches might havo been avoided, even though the other unfavourable conditions had remained the same. There is no reason whatever to doubt that, when the Alfred has been in permanent commis sion for three months, she will be as flt in armoured very offensive power and armoured protection, to treat tbo whole of 2. cruisers with contempt, and, by virtue of their speed, practically certain of avoiding an engagement with his battleship.

oar vessels constituting tho advanced groan that wn to push on at high speed to Madeira, two. forward independentlv at the start to search our supposed line of advance, and, what is more important, it would havo delayed 1 battle fleet lone enough to prevent Admiral Wilson from fixing tbo HfiHng place with 2 so far wot. Had tbo Commander in Chief of Float nod tbo inotrnotioM in tho milar in general the Mediterranean station, a new ship, just 10 months ago. In that tun he has burnt 10,000 tons of coal and steamed over oo.OOO miles, without an overhaul. She baa several times been ordered off at full speed at no more than Ave boars' notice, and she has never had a hitch of any kind, not even a hot bearing.

Were these the first length my appreciation of the conrtosy and kin doss that have beta universally shown goods turned out by Halifax and Kidderminster. inese aro menuonea as examples bat there an many others. Sheffield can hold its own in cutlery though tbo quality of Solingen i not to be denied in electro plate, though good work is done a Providence and in armour plate, though Krupp'i have combined with the Carnegie works to make Thirty to forty it at Homestead, A hydraulic press I saw being the th in i machine tools hi tbo same shop from Leeds, MZ Chester, and Glasgow. Then there is shipbuilding with all its crafts tbo Clyde, tbo Tyne, and Belfast havo nothing to fear from comparisons. Nor have tbo Staffordshire potteries.

The list might he farther extended but enough has been said to dispose of tbo bogey of being outclassed. KB fweeAV 4' ,1 u'T 'i't', XTT' i th to heal tha rift iB the A nf MV A LA.TT The Carlton Clnb, An5. S). BK0DIE HOARE. 1 itpEE MBS.

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