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th Commissioners intimated that iSer Seplcnsber 13 next no farther claims would received, and that the representatives of tho ftwers cast send in their claims in English. Occas Corrobio, tho Italian representative. bocjfct forward two pajKr claims, on of which to disallowed and tho second reserved. Mr, Caae, tho United States representative, brought Imnrd a r.omber of paper claims, prefacing tifc with sooe general remarks, andadisenssion (rikwrd as to the functions of tho Commission. Evratially, after the claims had been stated and 5 John Ardirh had made sorac objections to tbrn.

the Ccemaissioa adjourned until to dav. lp. 10 C.Borsi: Shooting opened yesterday. The bird are everywhere reported to bo numerous, in fine cecditkm, and strong on the wing. In Scotland generally and on some of tho English tr.

weather conditions re favourable, tad largo bsgs were made. (p. S) Thi National Co orraATiVE Festival opens tMljy at the Crystal Palace. The annual report ti the Labour Association, in their official reviews the progress and position of the opartner'hip movement in VMO. (p.

9) Tei Abektstwitii Boating Accidkxt. The hny of Joseph O'Dowd, one of tho Tictims of tfci accident, has been recovered, and an inquest wis opened yesterday and adjourned after TdfBcp of identification had been given, (p. 9) Sts F. roixocic. Corpus Professor of Juris Tfsdence.

lectured at Oxford last night in esEM. with the University Extension meeting, ts King Alfred in Fact and (p. S) Thi ltisn Land Covkissioxees Iinronr was faf3l yesterday as a Blue boot. (p. 5) PoLrcT.

rocETs. At Marlborougb strcet, Alec Ctis, tiootmakcr, of Addtson road, and Brown. 2C, and Morton Connor, 28, of laion. were remanded charged with stealing nreiring a 1 torso and brougham, the pro Jtrrr of Charles TAVbbe, a jobmaster, and a large uinity of imitation jewelry, value 1,115, the rrrty Miehal Levy, jeweller, of Cripple rwri, At Marylebone, Harry HClium. shoemaker, was remanded on Mliw of having drowned in tbo IJegent's Cii! a name unknown, in whose company te a the lank of the canal on Saturday EQkt.

The canal has boon draggel, biit no liody litre; brn found. At Lamlietn, Arthur Sand larman. was fined 20, with two months in default, for obtaining a situation iy fjlv rriiresenlations, and his wife was fined with a imprisonment in default, for fiisclT prenting herself as the wile of his employer, (p. 2) Thi. Vfathtr forecast for Southern England (lead ti irM" Channel) anticipates for to day to westerly winds, moderate, fresh it tV fair as a whole, (p.

0) Ccktit. At tho Oval, Essex opened in the miT. rratch with Surrey, and were all out for IH. while Sarrey lost three wickets for 70 runs. Liacashiiv visited Brighton to play Sussex, who vk.

ti. ha, vitto put in by the visiting Uptalr. a which is likely to ejist Lanca ts nr dfar. as kanjitainhji and Killiek masterel a'taek. and at the close the score stood at )hr uiekets.

Kanjitxinhji made 00 not and IlO Chr Umh tm irnt hhVtii aiurt Gloncestershir; and, amid wmpti'r. frrim rain, obtair.el 114 runs at tlie i f'icr wiekets. Vorkshiro begnn tbeir Jim nateh with Middlesex at SheCeld, but tei w5itbrT limitfd the play to little mom than fcf.or, rfnritjg which time 'the homo team made WiUioB! lr s. Notts, latling against l)erby a Velbk, were also interfered with by nu and in the time available got 122 runs for wicker, e) fc'J Anncu: is published to day on Minary Mancr nvro in Ireland" (from our jrrejondcnt). (p.

8) 7he TIh! Money Market was fairly y.rrday UI1tii jho loans duo to the Bank fpaid, bit earno quiet in tho afternoon. Jt'diM ount quotations were weak. Silver was Ixxl lower. Oa tho Stock Exchange tho me good in most departments, but business inactive. Consols roso au i LonlOI North Wcstera Hail way stock iw 2.

"rtean lUilroid issues were dull, but tho lutH Slates Steel stocks advanced. Tho fingaseiit3 for tho Settlement in Mining were made aily. The gold output of Transvaal for July is announced. Wo publish "Ptiog tho Lo Mining Company (LuBited) froia Messrs. Dufficld, Bruty, and Co.

(P. 11) rTc Eniiifys Fr.ixirr.icx. Tho Emperor J0 wpresii, with tbclrsons, arrived at Potpdam 'roa Homburg early yesterday morning. King Mrd, Ooeen Alexandra, and tho other BBberi ft thn linnl mrti from Knfland Potsdam in the evening. The remains the late Empress Frederick were conveyed from llomburg to Potudam, where tho iittie iji nlaf, liVft v.

rnn. 3 and 71 fccace "oy Andxioi WcsscU. said to have been Iot by tho Boert, baa been rdoMod by the British columns. A body of CO burgher police were ambushed near Pretoria on Saturday evening four wrro killed, two wounded, and four mado prisoner. A tcWma from tho Governor of Capo Colony confirms the report that on August 7 soiao Boers captured and shot in cold blood an unarmed native constable at SteytleTlIlc.

Lord Kitchener, in telegram of yesterday, say tho return of the enemy's losses for tho past week Is tbo largest yet mado in a ingle week. It Includes 30 Boers killed, 20 wounded, CS3 taken prisoners, including Mr. Wolmarans, late chairman of tho First Volksraad, and 85 surrenders, with largo captures of ammunition, wagons, horses, cattle, Ac. (p. 3) India.

Tho Viceroy reports that crop prospects generally have been much improved by heavy rains. The numler of persons on famine relief Is 537,000. (p. 3) A Cstraua A depu La ion of shi powncrs waited yesterday on tho Federal Premier at Melbourne to protest against tho educational test in the Immigration Bill on tho ground that It was impracticable. Mr.

Barton promised careful consideration to their representations, (p. 3) China. It is reported that at Canton the discontent with tho house tax increasing. The Cantonese object to contribute to the indemnity, on tbo ground that tho Hwang provinces wero not concerned in the late outrages, (p. 3) France.

The Indo China and Yunnan Itailwav Company has boon formed with a capital of Anabsintho distillery at Pontarlier was struck ly lightning on Sunday, and litres oi aosintnewcro blown up. (p. 3) ranch and Ttt.key. A telegram from Constantinople in the Paris Temps says that tho Sultan, while assuring M. Constant that satisfaction will le given to tho French Government as to the rights of tho Quays Company, maintains his ilecision as to tho redemption of me concession.

lie other French claims ho resists, (p. 3) EtKsiA and Tnr. Balkan Statlk. Our Vienna Correspondent speaks of tho revival of Bussian activity in tho Balkan region as a phenomenon which is attracting considerable attention in Austria. A recent reconnaissance by six llnssian torpedo boat at Galatz, tho Bumanian rlver port and fortress, excites a suspicion that liussia contemplate repudiating tho restrictions imposed upon her in tho Jk rlin Treaty, (p.

3) The Latf. Signor Citiwri. Tho German and Austrian journals pay tributes to tho great ability of tho lato Signor Crispi, and speak warmly of his service as a supporter of the Triple Alliance. Tho French newspapers, on the other hand, denounce him as a persistent enemy of France, (p. 3) SratviA.

The second ballots for the Skupshtina elections have been concluded. The new House contains 110 Ministerialists, 14 Independent Radicals, and six Liberals, (p. 3) Tho trial of Sarafof, former president of the Macedonian Committee, and three of his colleagues, on charges of assassination, began yesterday in Sofia, (p. 3) TnK United States. Shamrock escorted by the Erin, arrived safely in New York Harbour yesterday, (p.

S) In the House of Lords, yesterday, Lofcn Balfock moved 'tho second reading of the Agricultural Rates Continuance Bill, explaining that tho measure had for its object the continuance of tho Agricultural Rates Act of 1S0G, the relative Scottish Act, and tho Titho Rent charge Act passed in 1S09. The real point involved in tho Bill was tho propriety of renewing those Acts for a further limited period. Tho two Acts passed in lStXi were originally limited to five, years, and they were now to bo continued for four years longer. It was not supposed in 189G, and no suggestion was then made, that tho policy embodied in those statutes should after five yavrs bo dropped altogether. The period of five years was fixed in tho hope that the Royal Commission which had lieen appointed to investigate tho subject of local taxation might bo ablo to report during that time, and also in order that a comprehensive policy in respect of local taxation might bodnly considered.

He was sorry that disappointment had been caused by the length of time over which the sittings of the Royal Commission had extended. Ho liad tho honour to preside over that Commission, and lie could assure their lord shins that no undue delay had taken place, and that the Commission did their very best to expedite the preparation of the report. As far as the maioritv of the Commission wero concerned it spoke in no uncertain voice as to the desirable ness of continuing tbo Haling Act. Indeed almost every mcnilier of the Commission was agreed that tho half rating of agricultural land, not for a time, but permanent lv, vas fair and right as it affected tho agricultural occupier. It seemed to hira tliat according to any practical test of fair ness, having regard to existing circumstances, tbo case for tho Bill was absolutely ovcrwhclm LorD SriSJCT did not wish, on the present occasion, to add to the excitement which had been raised in' tlio country with reference to this subject.

The Opposition objected to this Bill, first because they thought it was partially applied to one set of industries only.and secondly because it dealt unequally wuu various agn cultural ratepayers. His opinion was that the measure gave to much to the rich and too little to the Temporary measures of this sort wvre not to le justified, and they ought to Ik? combined with a general ar.d comprehensive scheme for putting the whole of the local rating1 of tho country on a satisfactory and lasting footing. The then read a second time. The House rose at ten minutes after 5 o'clock. refused to entertain any of the fantastic sugges tions that nad Decn put lonrara ana rennuea content: with an unadorned statement of fact.

Tho colonies themselves favoured a simple title, and thus showed their good sense The only criticism to which the new title was open was that the word dominions was perhaps not happily chosen for while Canada called Itself a dominion other colonics might describe themselves differently. He submitted for consideration words lileo these, Kin; of Great Britain and Ireland and of (be Colonies and Dependencies thereof." Mr. MacNeill com plained that In some respects tho Bill before tho House did not conform to established constitutional principles, and denied that the proposal to extend the title originated In tho colonies. Tho Colonial Secret art, he declared, was the prime mover in the matter, and the Bill was of Birmingham manufacture. Mb.

Dillon also opposed the measure, connecting It with Mb. Chamberlain's policy of Imperial development, to which he reaffirmed his unalterable hostility, lfo regarded the alteration of tho King's title as inappropriate, needlessly vague, and liable to misinterpretation, and ho detected in it a slur upon Ireland. Colonel. Saunderso.v welcomed the measure as an acknowledgment by tho King and Parliament of the noble efforts of tho colonies in support of tho Empire in a day of trial and danger, and, after Mr. W.

Redmond had recorded a protest against tho titlo Defender of the Faith," The division was taken and the second reading carried by 210 votes against G3. A discussion was initiated on the second reading of tho Pacific Cahlo Bill by Mr. Fltxn, who objected to tho projected cable lieeaaso it would enable tho Government to compete with private telegraph companies. Mr. Hxxn'Iker Heaton directed attention to the high rates charged for telegrams by tho Eastern Telegraph Company, and dwelt on tho importance of having an alternative lino of communication with Australia.

Mr. Acmt.n CiiAMnniLAix, following Mr. O'Mara, who had opposed the measure, justified tho participation of the Government in the construction of this all British cable, which would lxi of great advantago to us In timo of war, and which, there was good reason to believe, would promote inter British trade and intercourse In timo of peace. He mentioned that payments amounting to 290,000 had already been made to the contractors. After a speech by Mr.

Dillon tho closure was enforced, and then the Bill was read a second timo by 183 against 5'J. The next order was tho Factory and Workshop Actx Amendment and Consolidation Bill, which camo up for consideration on report. Tho first page of amendments was disposed of rapidly, and there was no discussion of any importance until Clanso 21 was reached. This clauso places re strictions upon tho employment of women and young persons in textile factories, one of the regulations laid down being that work on Saturday, when it begins at o'clock, shall end at noon. The hour named in tho Bill as originally drafted was 1 o'clock, but 12 o'clock was sub stituted in Grand Committee.

Mr. Renriiaw now asked tho House to restore tho timo limit which was. in the Bill when it was read a second time. Mr. Harwood.

Mr. Kenton. Mr and Sir W. Hocldsworth resisted tho amendment, but Mr. Ritchie urged tho House to reconsider the Grand Committee's decision.

Ho pointed put that when trade was depressed a reduction of tho hours of labour on Saturday might have injurious results. It was computed. he remarked, that tho cotton industry alone would lose 120,000 a year if work ceased at noon on Saturdays. He did not think that women and young persons were overtaxed when they worked until 1 o'clock, and he suggested that the demand for the amendment carried in the Grand Committee was due to the Lancashire predilection for tho game of football. As this change in tho hours of work wa.s a sked for only in Lancashire and parts of Yorkshire, it ought to bo possible for the employers and tho employed to como to an agreement upon tno matter among themselves without legislation.

Ho therefore advised tho House to pass tho amendment lieforo it. This, however, tho IIouso declined to do. and Renshaw's amendment was negatived on a division by KR votes against Ml. When tho numbers wero announced the Opposition broke out into Wild cheers, and there wero cries of Resign from tho Nationalist benches. An amendment moved by Mr.

Tennant, who desired, in tho interests of women and young jxjrsons, 'to fix 2 clock as tho Invariable hour for leaving off1 work on Saturdays in non tcxtllo factories and workshops, was rejected by 17C against 127. From Clauso 31 Mr. Renbhaw; who was supported by Mr. Ritchie, moved to delete tho subsection providing that a woman or child should not bo employed on the, samo day bdth in a factoryiand in a shop except during tho period of employment sanctioned by law. Tho subsection, which was added to the Bill i Committee, was described by tho Home Secretary as unworkable.

Its omission was carried by 1C2 votes strains 129, and another subsection was substituted in its place. Tho question of overtime in certain specified trades was next con sidered. Tho House was still sitting when wo went to press. dissension, that simple step was not taken until a couple of hours had been wasted upon a display bad taste by the Irish members. The leader of the House briefly explained that it Is in accordance with precedent not to insert tie actual words of the Boyal title in the Bill.

The proposed addition Is, however, yery well known, and consists simply in tho interpolation between tho words "Ireland" and King In the present title of the words and of all British "dominions beyond the seas." There is no! form of words to which some objection could not be taken, but none has yet been offered that can bo held preferable to the one chosen. Lord Rostbebt's Ingenious suggestion to substitute Britains for British dominions has not commended itself to the public Sic Htnet Camtbell Bannebman made a suggestion of his own, though without pressing it in the least. Ho thinks the familiar words colonies and dependencies might have been employed. They might have been chosen without any great harm, but would be just as easily criticized as tho word dominions." Mb. Dillon thinks the actual form dissociates Ireland from the Empire and he glories in the idea, but with genuine Hibernian logic professes great concern for the blow which he fears this change of titlo will strike at the stability of the Throne.

Colonel Sauxderson reminded his countrymen that, whatever they may say, they are, and are going to remain, British. Me. W. Redmond objects to the retention of Defender of tho Faith in the Royal title, being apparently unable to conceive that any faith but tho 1 toman Catholic can require or seenre a defender. Tho second reading of tho TacUlo Cable Bill was carried after a debate consisting much more of attacks upon tho Colonial Sect.ltaet than of things germano to tho matter In hand.

Passing by these attacks, Mr. Acsten Ciiamber 1.AIN briefly stated tho caso for tho part taken by this country in promoting the Pacific cable. It will bo a great commercial benefit in time of peace, and a valuable strategic advantage in timo of war. Not only so, but It is a thing very greatly desired by those portions of the Empire now for the first timo to be recognised in tho Royal titlo; and it is the first great practical undertaking in which they and the mother country will bo jointly concerned. Against these advantages wo do not know what disadvantage there is to bo alleged.

It can hardly bo seriously supposed that everything of tho kind is to bo blocked for ever for fear of exposing existing cables to competition, yet that is tho only argument put forward against tho Pacific cable. Tho Empire will furnish work enough for both routes, and that, too, at reduced rates which do not seem attainable except under pressure of competition. had played a dirtfegnksed part: la the SfelUin revolution IStt, which aimed at the estaWkh roent of a Sicilian Bepoblic Ten Tears afterwards he was, despite the iasoenoe of ILtzron, a declared Monarchist. He disclosed to Pabini, then dictator of Emilia, the plan which ripened into tho expedition of the Thousand be induced Gakibaldi, by representations which were not altogether correct, to head that desperate venture, and there can bo little doubt that he allowed the Government of Turin to know his projects. The plan, as all the world knows, was completely and triumphantly successful, and Cejsti took care that it should be accomplished in the name of Italy and Victor Emaxtel." In his attitudo towards the Vatican, on the one hand, and towards tho Socialists and Anarchists on the other, ho displayed a similar grasp of realities and a similar readiness to deal with them unhampered by his own antecedents.

Ho refused to the last to compromise with the Vatican on the only terms the Vatican would accept, bat he was profoundly sensible of the power whicn the Papacy exercises in Italy and deeply anxious to conciliate it it he could. To the revolutionists, when once they translated their theories into acts, he showed no mercy. Never did any statesman suppress them with a heavier hand than the Prime Minister who had risen from their ranks. He accomplished much, but he saw too clearly not toknowthatmuehstill remains to be 'accomplished. We have achieved," he said in his great speech at Palermo three years ago, political unity, bnt.

as regards moral and intellectual unity, wc are still at the beginning of our task." In tho House of Commons, Mr. Baltocr moved the second reading of the Royal Titles Bill, which hail eoaio down from tho Lords. Ho explained that, the ipfitBima irrlw of the Sovereign's now style and titlo were not printed in tho measure, the only change that would bo mado would probably consist of the addition of words denoting that the Sovereign was King "of all the British dominions beyond the Dealing wish Lonn Roserery's suggestion that the word Britains should 1 used inilicu of British dominions," lie pointed ont that the plural of Britain was uncommon and that it would sound odd if a man, on his retnrn from a long voyage, were to say that ho had visited half a dozen Britains. Ho ouestionod whether so revolu tionary a change in our accepted phraseology lior.n RosEKKRT proposed could le carried out with advantage. For the application of the narao of Britains lo the great self governing colonies some good reasons no doubt might lie advanced, but tho name would certainly not suit those dominions of the Kino where the majority of tho inhabitants did not speak our language and were not of our race.

Recapitulating the chief reasons which had induced tho Government to introduce the Bill, he reminded the House tliat inl87Gtwhen a change was made in the Royal title by tho addition of the words Empress of India," an earnest plea for tho recognition of tho colonics was advanced ly mo laic Me. W. E. Forster, and received sympathetically bx Mc. nisnAEi.1.

Subsequently, in 1887. the wishof iha colonies for some addition totho Royal titlo was expressed at tho conference which was then held, and now their aspirations wero being fulfilled. By this Bill tho Sovereign wwild lc given for tho first timo a titlo corresponding to the vast extent of tho lJritisli empire, ana nc hoped that in the circumstances tho measure would be carried without a dissentient voice. Rib II. Camihell Bannerman, alluding to the opposition to tho proposal of 187C, observed that it was accounted for by tho fear then entertained lest tho new and sonorous titlo Empress of India should overshadow the familiar, traditional title of Oneen.

Experience had shown that this fear was illusory. The addition which was now proposed was only tho acknowledgment and expression of an existing fact. Tho Sovereign was at this moment King over all tho colonics and dependencies of tho Empire, and our fellow subjects In various parts of the world wished that the fact should be recognized in tbo Royal title lie was glad that tho Government had The fag end of tho Session has provided the Opposition with tho much prized satisfaction of seeing the Government beaten. It is true that it is a small defeat upon a small point of detail in tho Factory Bill upon an amendment intended to restore tho Bill to the shape in which it originally stood before alteration in Grand Committee. Still, a defeat is always a defeat, and in present circumstances tho luxury is so rare that no ono can grudge tho Opposition any pleasure they may lw ablo to extract from it.

Taking advantago of the little: flutter caused by tho announcement of tho figures Mn. Healt moved tho adjournment but that amiable attempt to maku olistructionist capital out of tho incident proved a failure Tho trouble was all about tho period of employ ment on Saturday. Tho Bill as amended provides that when work begins at Go'clock in tho morning. not less than ono hour being allowed for meals, it shall end at noon as regards employment in any manufacturing process. Mr.

Renshaw prefers that it should end at ono o'clock, tho hour originally named in tho Bill, but varied in Grand Committee. Mr. Ritchie pointed ont that the hour in question wonldmako a difference of 130,000 a year to tho cotton industry alone a difference which might not matter greatly in prosperous times, but would bo severely felt at periods or pressure. Ho described the closing at I ntn as an affair of football rather than of regard for women and children, and asked the House to agrto to tho amendment and thus to put matters iu their original position. Mr.

Harwood, on tho other hand, maintained that the quality of the labour would be so greatly improved as to recoup tho employers for reduction in its and also that labour is so much more intense than formerly as to demand such an addition to the Saturday half holiday. Ho also stated that this is a burning question in Lanca shire ami Yorkshire which played a great part at the general election though it is difficult to understand why, if local feeling bo really so strong, the trade unions are not able to effect an alteration of hours without the aid of the Legis lature. It is certainly better, as Colonel riLKlNCTON observed, that things of that kind should bo settled locally than that a cast iron rule should be imposed everywhere by Act of Parliament. However, it was decided by majority of 21, the Government mustering only 141 votes, that the change mado in Grand Com mittee should bo upheld. Mb.

Ritchie accepted tho decision on tho part of tho Government, so that the Saturday half holiday will begin an hour earlier than before. Althorigh both Mb. Baltoct: and Sir ITenrt CAMrnELL BANNERMAN mado an appeol to tho House to pass tho second reading of tho Royal Titles Bill without unnecessary discussion or In the telegram of condolence which the King of Italy has sent to tho widow of Signor Cnisn ho speaks of the deceased statesman as an old and valiant patriot whose name will bo ever memor able amongst the creators of Italian unity. The comments of the Continental Press on tho career of tho deceased statesman are naturally coloured by tho political religious passions which tho consummation of that unity and its results continue to arouso in different lands and different parties and. classes.

Tho German and tbo Austrian newspapers, for tho most part. peak With admiration and respect of tho Italian patriot who spent his life in tho cause of his country and who did much to raise her to her rank amongst tho Great Powers. Even his enemies, says tho semi official organ of tho Vienna Foreign Office, must acknowledge that ho deserved well of his native land. His French enemies at least are far from making any such acknowled meut. To most Frenchmen, our Paris Corre pondent remarks, ho was tho man whom they hated most.

Even journals of position, liko the Temps, are eager to belittlo him. He has left behind him, it declares, nothing but ruins lasting achievement and no political doctrine, Tho tribute paid him by tho King, his master, reveals a different, and surely a juster, estimate of his services. Ho has left behind him a united Italy and tho doctriuo that its unity depends upon the Monarchy. They are no inconsiderable legacies to bequeath, to his countrymen. The disparagement of tho more reputablo French journals, and tho insult and invective of others, will not tarnish tho reputation of the dead.

They, too, are a tribute to his sagacity and to his patriotism, for they show how bitterly those who utter them resent tbo liberty of action ho claimed for Italy, when ho saw tho position of his country as a Mediterranean Tower threatened by French ambitions in Africa. Crispi has been praised, with an ingenuous cynicism which is thoroughly Italian, for his 4 capacity of being in oflico quite different from what ho was before." Ho mado no secret himself of tho completeness of tho revolution his views on many vital subjects underwent in tho course of his long and strangely oventfnl life, Ho justified tho changes which had converted him from a Sicilian Separatist, a Rcvoln tiouist, aud a maker of bombs, into a cham pion of Italian unity, a Monarchist, aud tbo vigorous and unsparing foo of conspiracy by tho simplo admission that thiDgs do not look tho samo from tbo top of tho pyramid as they do from tho bottom. Ho had tho largeness of mind to learn from events and tho courage to avow the lessons they had taught him. The events through which ho lived, and in which ho took a characteristically active part, were pregnant with many lessons, and ho speedily grasped somo of tho most important amongst then. Born tho year after tho allies evacuated France, Crispi, liko almost all tho young Italians of his time who loved their noble country and her proud traditions, revolted against tho system of government imposed upon her by tho treaties of Vienna.

From ono end of the peninsula to tho other the senso of national degradation and tho aspiration for national freedom filled tho breasts of all wh wero not quite dead to generous sentiments. The aspiration at first took different shapes in different minds. In Piedmont tho view that tho general liberty could only le achieved through tbo action of the Monarchy early took root in somo sagacious minds. In other States particularism was still a strong force. Even so late as 1S4S the southern portions of tho Duchy of Modena wished to unite, not with Piedmont, but with Tuscany, and Venice under Manis set up an independent Republic.

Nowhere was this sentiment stronger than amongst the Sicilians, who looked back with attachment to their local Constitution of 1812 and wished to enjoy tho unrestricted rights it gave them as members of a loose Italian confederation. But in one form or another tho desire to expel the foreigner was' almost universal amongst cultivated Italians who loved their country a very few years after the legitimist restorations. Fuori i barbari was a desire passionately cherished by men so different in training and in temperament as Carlo Alberto, Cavour, Mazzini, Garibaldi, Cbisti, and even Pio Nono himself. The course of events drovo the men who had worked for Italian liberty In the second quarter of tho last century upon widely different courses. Cbisti had the sagacity and the daring to choose which ultimately led to the coaL He evils Is fateffigible.

Ms. Knrm make a modest request. His asks 'only for a careful examination of the eircsmstances of the 48 constituencies over re presented and of the 78 which much less than their fair share. This would be, ho contends, a useful preliminary to a Redistribution Bill dealing with these extreme cases and with a few others. Tha objection to this course is that it is Inadequate.

He has made ont a case for much more. Some of tho anomalies, especially thoso which favour a powerful and united party, may become perilous to tho State. They need to bo touched before the expiration of this Parliament, and with a bold hand nor Is any preliminary study, we take it, required before altering a state of things which carries on its face Us condemnation. In 1S93 Sir William IIakcocbt admitted that tho subject must bo dealt with very soon." Mb. Balfocb admitted in 1S00 that the anomalies were real, wero increasing, and merited the attention of tho House.

Mb. Ktx beb's last communication, with its startling facts and figures, proves that tbo strength cf the case for redistribution has still further increased, and that present Inequalities may become ono day intolerable. Tho disparity between the representation accorded to Ireland and that of the rest of the United Kingdom is, in a general way, known to everyone. The greatness of the contrast, the prodigious differenco iu tho value of an Irish oter and that of an English or Scotch voter, is exactly appreciated only by those who have looked closely into the figures. Continuing a valuable analysis, legun In our columns in 1899, Mr.

Kimbeb has presented, in a letter published by us and figures which make out an overwhelming case for redistribution. In his first communication he showed that a majority of tho people are represented by a minority in Parliament, and a minority of the people by a majority, and that this inequality exists in all parts of tho United Kingdom, but that Ireland, particularly, is over represented. Since 1899 such anomalies have been accentuated. There were always, judged by a numerical test. disparities and anomalies in our representative system, the growth of centuries and no wise man would care to moot questions of inequality merely in order to bring about perfect symmetry.

The disparities upon which Mb. Kimber lays stress are productive of vast practical consequences made manifest in every Session, and never more than in this. Unrectified they inevitably enfeeble tho House of Commons if they were corrected, the whole action of Parliament would be different from what it i. Broadly stated, the chief result of his analysis is that, taking an average of 10,183 electors for every seat has 31 too few members, Scotland three too many, and Ireland 31 too many or, in other words, Eng lish representatives are returned by an average of 10,897 electors, Scotch representatives by an average of 9,678, Irish by only 7,111. As our correspondent shows, tho average figures hide startling individual anomalies.

What rhyme or reason is there in the fact that the vote of a Newry elector counts for 15 times as much as that of an elector in Romford, in Essex Tho vote and voice in Parliament of the 1,818 Irishmen of Newry is as great as that of tho Englishmen of Romford, or as the 22,150 Londoners whom I represent in Wandsworth." It is impossihlo to suggest justification or extenuation of this extraordinary disparitywhich is the representation of minorities in a way neither Mb. Mill nor Mr. Hare evercontemplated. lt has, indeed, been assumed that the inequality would not appear so great as it is it population were taken as tho basis of representation. That is not so.

The proportion of population to electors is much the same in all parts of tho United Kingdom. And things are not mending. With the increase in tho population of England as compared with that of Ireland tho tendency is to make tho disparity more and more pronounced and to emphasize the wrongs of Eng land." Mb. Kimuer writes with a touch of bitterness of tho anomalies which he describes, and from which he suffers. "I sit in the House of Commons for tho largest metropolitan constituency, with one vote and ono voice, but with six Irish Nationalists opposite me, representing no more electors than I do, who have as against me six votes to my one in every division six calls upon tho Speaker's eye, six chances in the ballot for notices of motion, Could we discover the percentage of illiterate voters in tho constituencies thus contrasted, the figures, would probably not be, to the disadvantage of Mr.

Kim Bra's electors. Take wealth or contributions per head to tho taxation of the country, and they would make out at least as good a case as the more favoured constituencies. It will bo conceded that in no other country does a minority enjoy privileges in any way comparable to thoso of which our correspondent ustly complains. It would startlo most of us to find what would bo tho representation of Ireland if it were based on any such plan as that adopted the United States or France. Of course there are not a few anomalies in the representation of England and Scotland.

It is still the caso that a number of constituencies return two members, though they have each a smaller number of electors than some single member constituencies. There are 53 constituencies, of which nine are Irish, with less than 5,000 electors, and 15 with less than 3,000, Oa tho other hand, there are 70 constituencies with more than 15,000 electors and seven have over 20,000 each. It (Sourt gircular. BAD nOMBCRO, Aco. 11.

Thrir Mjjstfc tii Kinj and Quran and PriaoMS Victoria, accompanied by Princ Nicholas of Grwca and Prince Pnacf of attendsd by their Suites ss wtll by His Majesty's Ambassador at Irin, Sir Frank Lucvlln. who joined Their Mjaiis at Frankfurt, arrived at Hamburg at 9 where they wrro received by Their ItsrvrUl SUieatie tha German rxtprror and Etcpresa ani tb Crown Trince, and wrm conducted by Their lopnial Majesties to Ciller's Talk Hotel, where they touk op tbetr residence. A tiuard of Honour of the Von (iersdorff Keiiawnt. No. 90, received Tbeir Majesties at the Railway Station.

Tbe Kmx and Queen received visits from Their Coral lii(haesM Uu Duke of Cuonauzht and Trince Arthur of Coanaujht and the Duke of CajabriJje, alia from Theii the Duke and DucbcM of (ilocssborg. Uis Majesty received ia audience Field Marshal Const WalJemee on his return from China, and inverted him with the Military Grand Cross of the Order of the' Bat. The Kins and Queen visited Their Imperial Maiestiee the German Emperor and Empress at the Schloes and remained for luncheon. Their Majesties and Princess Victoria attended by the IfcKBehold were present in the afternoon at the Serrica ia Cronberg Pariah Church ia memory of Her lata Majesty the Empreae Frederick. The German Emperor inspected on Saturday the statue of Antoninus Pios which was found ia tha neighbourhood of the restored 1 toman CaateUom at Saaiburg, near lfomborg.

The atatrte, after having undergone restoration, has ben erected betweea tha entrance to the fort and tha Porta Dccnmana. Tho Earl of Rosebery is entertaining Lord Carrie, the British Ambassador in Borne, and a company of other distinguished guests at Mentmore for a few days. Tho Earl of Derby arrived in London yesterday from KnowiIey haU, Prescot, Ijuicashire. Lord Justice Vaugban Williams has gone to llomburg. Mr.

Justice Grantham has left London for Inverness. r. ast ice Lawrance left London yesterday for his country hoose. at Bourne, Lincoln. Mr.

Justice Barnes left London yesterday for Scotland. Mr. ustico Kennedy left London yesterday for YTiesbaden. Mr. Justice Ridley has left London for his house, Crabbet park, Crawley, Sussex.

Mr. Justice Phillimoro has gone to his house at lienley on Thames. Sir Claude Mac Donald was accorded a publio welcome oa the occasion of a visit to Grantown last sight. The town council and the inhabitants of Strathspey joined in the presentation of an address. Ia returning thanks Sir Claude Mac Donald testified, to tha noble eZorU which kept the old flag flying at Peking, paying tribute to the marine guards and to the civilians who cheerfully volunteered and fought like veterans.

The women of ocr race were conspicuous throughout by their cabs, unselfish courage, which served as a magnificent example to the men of all nationalities. The Glasgow Town Council agreed yesterday afternoon to confer tho freedom of the city on Lord Balfour for his service ia facilitating legislation for the city oa Mr. llanbury. Minister of Agriculture, for services rendered ia connexion with tha effort to obtain a licence to establish a municipal telephone exchange and upon Mr. Andrew Carnegie in recognition of his munifi cence.

Dean Ifolo has been ill from overwork, at Ramsgate, but hopes to complete his new hook, Now and Then," for publication in October. Count von Billow has returned from llomburg to Berlin. A marriage has been arranged and will tako place early ia October between Arthur Wellesley Anstruther, son of the lata Sir Bobert Aasa uther, of Bidcaakie, and Iioae, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Trapmann, of S3, Iioland gardens, and granddaughter of the late Arthur Gordon.

Rose, of Charleston, bomb Carolina, UJS. A marriage has been arranged and will shortly take place between Mr. Bernard Morley Fletcher and Miss Maud Butler, daughter of tha master of Trinity College, Cambridge. The marriage arranged' between Captain E. Peebles, the Norfolk Regiment, and Markm, only daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Turnbult Murragb, Cheltenham, will take place September 11 at the College Chapel, Cheltenham. I Messrs. John Dewar and Sons (Limited), distillers, of Perth and London, who for some years past held the Royal warrant of appointment to her lata 31ajesty the Qneen, hare jest been honoured by tha receipt of a simitar award from his Majesty tha hang. THE CAPE TOWS' CATHEDRAL.

TO TTIE EDITOR OH THE TIMES. Sir, Tn Professor Story's letter protesting sgsinst the proposed Episcopal Cathedral in Cape Town, ho seems inclined to rejoice in tha sSaity he discerns between his own religious body and that which has nurtazed the gentle Boer. It may be wuest to drop the title of national for this memorial to ocr dead. Inasmuch as it cannot be is hard that a member I "poct'dt desired, that those not ia communion representing electors should havo only one tenth of the power of those whose consti tuencies amount to about the same figure. There stands out the fact that 400 out of tho.

070 members represent only a minority of electors; that one half of tho members of the House of Commons represent 4,420,015 electors, the other half represent only 2,402,360. It is only by accident, with such inequalities, that a minority does not rule and that the House of Commons does not misrepresent the country. Of course, these discrepancies matter less when, as is true of England, both political parties profit by them. We note in Mb. Kimbeb's over represented English constituencies boroughs of various political shades.

It is quite another matter when 'these anomalies are chiefly to the profit of one party in the State, and that a party in perpetual opposition Few statesmen would be In a hurry to raise in its length and breadth the whole question of just representation. We should be content to see some anomalies remain rather than set on foot an agitation which would, in the present state of the Ilouse of Commons, involve great waste of time and havo an uncertain issue. The procrasti nation of successive Prime Ministers who have been reminded of these facta and who have admitted the existence of serious with tha Anglican branch cf tha Catholio Church, nor Roman Catholics, should subscribe thereto. A ttmj memorial is not, however, always oca that folly commends itself to tha apr rova! and sympathy of each subscriber it is nevertheless national when sub scribers sink their differences and prejudices in one grrai memorial. It is to be regretted that, not for tha first time.

Prdfeaaor Story has introduced ia his letter a spirit of bitterness which ill befits the occasion, and Is one which General Waochope and his gallant men would be tha Brat to deplore. That noble man may have been a ktea Presbyterian for all I know, but if report be true he was sincere Christian, and gentleman, in tha best sense. The proposed cathedral. It is to be hoped, will be raised without any diSculty by those who recognize tha existence of tha One Catholic and Apostolio Church which shuts her doors against no man, though many choose to shut themselves out. Dr.

Story claims to speak as knowing Scottish eeHng. He inust be singularly unfortunate in his nmrnndingi bn hTJie has a many sympathisers as ha would lead a to suppose, perhaps ha will be able to raise a sufSeient sura for a purely PresbyUnaa memoriaL I am. Sir, yours, te, August 10. ARGYLLSHIRE. Fiur.

About 5 o'clock: yesterday morning a fir was discovered in the servants marten the Bishop of Manchester's residence JXahop't Court JSaTf ont. The fire brigade found tha water supply iasderpnte, srd two hours were required to subdue the flamea. Considerable damsga was dona to six bedrooms sad other parts of tha house, four sernaU were rescued by the police wilb, ladders The caisw of tha firs has sot been ascertained. Tha Stshas and Mo. Hocrhouae wero avar fcuahoaav if.