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3 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH SATURDAY APRIL 7 1894 THE NEW ENGLISH ART CLUB DRESS OF THE DAY IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT M'ZEAB'S GALLERY OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN ART By AX ENGLISH EXPERT DRAMA OF THE DAY By CLEMENT SCOTT What do vou think of The for a modern up-to-date drama of our Lovely weather has served to develop Larne plans rather earlier than that leisurely sleeves full and the cuffs finished with little 1 stiff bands the front having a satin how with short ends frilled with embroidered creamy-hued muslin a bonnet with a small flat crown of jet and gold with Naples violets round it and with a high bow of clover-pink miroir velvet caught up through a jet huckle at one side all went to form an exceedingly fresh smart springlike costume worn last week at an afternoon party The newest linen stiff-fronted shirts are embroidered ail over the front in colour the collar and cutl's being white The term waistcoast covers a wide field for these vary from those of severe form devised by the day Veil Mr Henry Arthur Jones evi- lady is usually ready with her detailed plan of ty inks a good deal of it for he has chosen campaign for advanced spring and early summer new play now rehearsing at the Rt She lias however risen to the occasion and 55 Theatre ai promised by Mr George issues a programme which is full of fascination There have to the followers of her autocratic laws Very 'trial modern has the Alexander for Saturday April tfS seyeral Ma but no actual modern has the good Dame become in her yfo- raders The Masquerade by style of government giving far more freedom meat could give more careful instructions to the constabulary or how those instructions could be carried out more efficiently than they had been earned out There had been enormous exaggeration regarding these scenes and the House might rest assured that every -tniug would he done that could be done to restore peace (Hear hear) Mr RUSSELL asked whether it was true that citizens of Cork had been brutally assaulted by the mob when the police were present and that no arrests were made Mr MORLEY admitted that assaults had been committed in the course of these transactions The duty of the police was not to prevent street preaching which was not illegal but to prevent obstruction which was illegal He believed they had done all they could to put down obstruction Mr AUSTIN asked Mr Mprley whether he was aware that these scenes were carried on in Cork for electioneering purposes Mr also inquired whether the obstruction did not come from the gentlemen who were creating these scenes in Cork ami whether the persons ho caused similar obstruction in Arklow were not summoned by the late Government and punished Mr believed that in the time of the late Government a clergyman at Arklow was imprisoned but he had not heard that the effect of the imprisonment was to put a stop to the reverend gentleman preaching or to the obstruction (A laugh) Therefore he was not encouraged by what bad happened at Arklow to take a similar course in Cork (Laughter) UGANDA Fir GREY stated in answer to SirGBaden- hm Wi A pwt things than she used to do allowing for tailor and cut and fitted with absolute accuracy 4 trce called 1 he Masquerade or An individual idicsyncracies in a liberal way: in to the most ethereal specimens which look as Evemnc Intrigue by Benjamin Grifim was fact wisely recognising the democratic spirit of i though they were blown together being of chiffon and lace China silk and embroidery by Benjamin Griffin was fact wisely recognising the democratic spirit of rr rraed at Lincoln's Inn-fields in 1717 and 'the age and yet keeping an iron grip within her The thirtieth annual exhibition of British and foreign paintings in this gallery has to show some interesting things of foreign origin while the display of English art is weaker than usual Mr George Clausen one of the most interesting of modern English artists now that he has emerged from his imitative stage sends Threshing in which he has been less happy than usual in suggesting the violent action of the young thresher and a beautiful study the motive of which is the seemingly simple one a little rustic half buried iu the long grass her ruddy cheeks and fair hair momentarily lighted up by a slanting ray of the setting sun This is a favourite effect of Mr Clausen which he worked out with great skill in one of his Royal Academy pictures last year Jules Breton's Gleaner" is a 6mall canvas iu his later manner and the same may be said of Josef Sunday Of great delicacy and showing no material falling of in firmness of execution is the veteran Mdlle Rosa small landscape with deer entitled In the Forest of The large canvas Dutch by the late Anton Mauve reveals an earlier a less personal and less melancholy phase of his art than that to which the frequenters of London picture galleries are accustomed Hayn arket in 1734 there is a record of velvet glove over her subjects Consequently 31 rry Masqueraders or The Humorous she is more devotedly served than ever before old by a 31rs Aubin but it only had a whilst her devotees are in better case and like contented husbands go their way happily supposing that their successful swray is of their own devising while they are really running under a ran of a couple of nights Ener et managers of London theatres appear bo fighting for Mrs Langtry and her moire satin brocade in fact of any and every ornamental material They are fitted to the figure and are really sleeveless bodices made to wear with coat and skirt hich is now such a favourite form of dress in all the richer fabrics and in many different elaborate styles Then there are chemisettes already for donffing with such dresses as are designed to show some ethereal form of finery in front Tliyse are slightly draped drawn down under a buykle and finished with a collar and bowm-dront all softly trimmed with lace Such dainty adjuncts to dress ofler pleasant occupation for cleverly-directed and are always essentially becoming The waistcoat proper will be worn in white pique fancy light-hued drills and in brocades with light-hued dressy-luoking suits A 8 to new materials or rather old ones to re-P trance as if she were another Helen oose silken rein The new sunshades are of im-J Troy First we hear that she is to be mediate interest for already the rays of King tha heroine of a new comedy of modern Sol are found rather too ardent for eyes as yet fa- i vdc'e life written by Mr Robert Buchanan unused to month after month of his most brilliant ari Mr Henry Murray to be produced by one 1 shining It is sometimes laid to the charge of the fashionable syndicates at the Opera Englishwomen that they guard themselves in Corn but not yet named: next it is early spring too carefully against sunshine reported on whjt looks like authority that because their detractors say the bright sun-v Charles Hawtreyand lr Charles Wvndham i light is too searching to be encountered with st- ured Mrs Langtry for new play to be impunity unless filtered through the becoming br' -'agit out at the Royalty There is no doubt modium of a delicate-hued sunshade These er that the popular lady has been under however are baseless charges for with the ad- I He here appears as the very skilful imitator of Tiroyon Powell and Sir I Kenna way that the announcement oi the decision of the Government with reference to 1 l-m-M and pretentious like most of the artist works is Mous Jacquet A Brittany Peasant ierre Billet shows a noble severity of style iu the figure of a French peasant girl knitting styled here the Geese" but' notwithstanding hisevideut effort does not quite succeed in proving himself a colourist Herr Seiler's piece of costume genre iu the manner of Meissouier Amateurs Count isaskilful performance a style now somewhat out of fashion A powerful if rather melodramatic study of a head in Al Mun- earlier and darker key of colour is called The Artificial yet a brilliant piece of handling in its way is Signor Tofano's portrait study The in which ho has openly adopted the style aud technique of the late Paul Baudry It is interesting to Uganda would le made on Monday and that the late Sir Portal's report would be distributed on Tuesday morning RUSSO-GERMAN COMMERCIAL TREATY Fir GREY replying to Mr Holland said that British traders were entitled under the existing treaty between Great Britain and Russia to the benefits of the Russo-German Commercial Treaty Certificates of origin were not now required by Russia except for a very few articles These are spirits and liqueurs wines in bottle preserved fish lead and zinc The new regulations as to this matter would be published in full DEFEAT OF TJIE GOVEBXMEXT THE SYSTEM Mr SEXTON asked for the ruling of the Speaker on ior sc me time to reappear at the Opera vance ofjthe season our women yacht walk drive under new aspects there is simply no end to the list of them That however which seems destined to be first favourite is a wonderful mixture of silk and linen which has a look of that fabric which we used to call lustre but has many advantages over it This will in a large measure take the place of brown holland linen and there we may expect her very ride and encounter sun and wind more freely Mr Robert Buchanan's new play i than perhaps those of any other nation The since Mr Hpiry Irving returned he has bright sunlight of early spring is however at work at his old home the Lyceum often trying to the eyes of ladies who have had or as the actors call it months perhaps of dull metropolitan play of before it is sphere and as blinking and winking in the sun- Com: i ie ihortv in Ever been hard rehearsing Mr V- produced this day week with all its old interest shine is not exactly a becoming practice they and drill for those cool costumes which were 1 it 1 1 fin nf l'ti a nc roenrt In ennenon nc oar inr anil xn npu I 1 -11 1 nt nno 1 summit and its do perhaps resort to sunshades earlier and more found and comfortable last meet here with two examples of Franz Courtens i the division which took place on the second reading of Belgian landscapist famous abroad he was the re the East Loudon Water Bill the previous evening cipient of the highest honours at previous evening the Paris Rose leaves bestrew not the path of her Government and as they show no indication of doing so for a considerable time to come it was perhaps just as well that way leaves held the field at the latest sitting of the House of Commons A quiet and decorous day was yesterday the heat and ill-temper generated by the Home Rule Bill for Scotland dressed in clothing although a' kilt would have been more becoming having evaporated ill the bright sunshine of a pleasant afternoon Various echoes and rumblings of the old disturbance woro heard nevertheless and a misunderstanding as to the terms under which two gentlemen had paired over the principal water bill of Thursday led to a little talk without affecting the result in any way The most significant sign of the evening was made by Mr John 3Jorley in the absence of the usual leader For three sittings during this session private members have enjoyed their But in the spring a fancy lightly turns to thoughts of appropriating more time for Government purposes and it was from this motive and others produced by the undoubted straits of the present Administration that the Chief Secretary for Ireland made an announcement striking with icy chilliness upon the hearts of aspiring legislators In effect it meant that the Government in addition to the Mondays and Thursdays they perpetually possess intend practically to annex Tuesdays and the whole profitable working portion of Fridays Thus the Wednesday after noon will be virtually the only friend the private member may call his own As for the resumption of the Scotch debate no man knows when that will be and the pugnacity of certain Radicals threatened tobe deprived of their ordinary opportunities will lead to a lively debate when Ministers try to secure this exceedingly and early order by the vote of the House The position was yesterday felt to be precarious particularly so bearing in mind the fighting attitude of rebellious Parnellites towards those they aforetime loved and supported Pursuant to the tenets of a widely-proclaimed creed which argues that the State should he a universal father possessing everything exercising parental authority over everybody and taking incomes from every source Mr Samuel Woods a representative brought forward his motion asserting the necessity of handing over mining no facetious allusion to the King of Golconda and kindred monarchs was together with way-leaves to the tender mercies of Imperial control to have them Nationalised and made to contribute their revenues to a State purse Other people have ideas for nationalism the Army and the Navy and for turning them into profitable concerns yielding a comfortable 3 per cent to the tax-payers of this country The only difficulty isto decide how this pleasant notion can be carried into effect a consideration rarely troubling the light and airy proposers of much-needed A way-leave is defined as the a right which has to be paid for to go through oracrosss another land and whatever the abstract justice of the State acquiring the same the Home Secretary dismissed the suggestion as impracticable and as necessitating the expenditure of enormous sums without the assurance of a counterbalancing advantage With the Government assuming this position the wind was taken out of Mr sails almost at the start and the debate that followed had a perfunctory and doleful tone its chief advantage being to introduce numerous speakers entitled to express opinions with more or loss authority Early in the evening tokens of decay attended the sitting and soon after Mr motion had been decisively rejected numerous individuals en joyed that almost forgotten and rarely available pleasure the luxury of a its mad revels cn the Brocken elaborate and beautiful pictures of old Nurem- I persistently just now than might em The play it will bo remembered was first I sary to those who residing through the winter produced on Saturday Dec 19 1 'ho with Mr in the sunny South are more accustomed to the Henry Irving as Mephistopheles Miss Ellen Terry i brightness of sunlight There is no doubt Mar caret Mr 11 Conway as Faut Mr that pure white shades will be most popu-fierge Alexander as Valentine and Mrs Stirling lar and that those of delicate colours Martha Since then Mrs Chippendale appeared to match dresses will also be in great is Martha but at the next revival a third favour Very smart-looking as well as very Marina will bo seen in the clever person of soft and dainty are those of embroidered cam-Ms A Victor an admirable comedy actress brie The whole of the shade is embroidered in icd as popular to-day at the West-end of that old work which men used impatiently to London as she used to be in old days at the describe as piercing holes and sewing them up Eas: It is strange that two such East-end while a full frill of similar embroidery is favourites as Mr Tom Mead and Miss Victor i placed round the edge and the stick is of white both together at the Grecian Saloon should enamel The embroidery is in some cases laid so becoming season They will also make up into fresh dainty-looking afternoon dresses and will be freely trimmed with satin miroir velvet and richer materials together with lace and embroidered muslin their silkiness making them appear more consistent with elaborate rich trimming than cotton fabrics would while the linen in them makes them cool light summery and fresh They are softer and fall better than linen alone and are much less liable to crease The colours in which they appear are very charming flax-flower blue pale Wedgwood blue hedge-rose pink French grey dove grey and pale tan Some of them are sprigged over with little satiny sprays and spots We are by no means done with brown This it the twelfth exhibition of the society which is at any rate by its members to represent the most advanced section of modern English art but does in reality represent but one small group in that now important movement and that it must be owned not the one most entitled to serious consideration Undoubted cleverness and daring are shown in a good many instances but the whole still leaves an uncomfortable feeling that the young English impressionists of the extreme section are mainly engrossed with the idea that they are doing something delightfully naughty and unorthodox instead of being seriously bent on pressing forward and securing some definite and permanent gjin to art whether in principle or practice We frankly confess ourselves puzzled by Mr Sickert's study The Sisters and can only assume that some initiation into the esoteric mysteries of the petite eglite in question is a condition precedent to the due appreciation of its hidden beauties It would be instructive to learn whether the members of the English Art Club think their interests are well served or their position enhanced by the exhibition iu a prominent place of such a performance as this That Mr Sickert is capable of much better things is shown by his clever subtle little study L'Homme alW Palette" in which judged from its own standpoint only the background is open to objection Sprightly and personal too is the same painter's of Mrs Von but this is marred by the extreme ugliness of the pale buff background Mr Cbaries Furse proves himself to be a genuine eclectic Last time he exhibited here he was evidently in love with the outward pomps the of English eighteenth century art now he appears as the admirer of Velasquez and Mr Whistler There is abundant cleverness and character in his The Hon and Rev A and real skill is shown in the treatment of varieties of black in the academic costume The design is however unnecessarily jagged and unrestful the modelling lacks firmness and worst of all in a painting of this class the figure at whatever distance we take it does not detach itself from the grey wall against which it is relieved Very much better and not alone because it is more normal is Mr Furse 's Portrait of a Lady a really fine design executed with reticence and good taste though with quite enough modernity to satisfy the advanced party Mr Wilson Steer repeats a now familiar success in his with a yacht at full sail floating as it were athwart the canvas the effect of vibration and movement which he has arrived at in the sky is however but imperfectly realised His portrait of a lady in red relieved against a vibrating violet ground has an unconventional design and an agreeable momentariness but why this wilfully ugly juxtaposition of tints by which no added expressiveness is obtained? Mr Bernard Sickert has in Devonshire a beautiful and highly decorative design expressed somewhat too feebly and without sufficientaccent Mr Rothenstein's Jeune paysanne assise is of an unredeemed ugliness with which we should be the last to quarrel if it were significant and typical instead of being particular andmccidental His qui sort" depicts a rather sinister-looking young man in more or less 1830 costume leaving a studio in which almost everything but his own black figure is of pale grey There is something personal and amusing about the motive which serves also for the display of cousiderable skill in the treatment of indoor light Mr Edward Stott is one of the few modernising painters of the group who strive to produce a definite visual' impression and with it to connect by suggestion an emotion and this is why his charming landscape In the Moonlight the technical methods of which have been freely adapted from Claude Monet belongs to a category other than that of most of the works which we have hitherto mentioned Miss Old-fashioned Flowers is both rich and daring in colour but why not strive to suggest the essentials of form as well as tint and tone The study Rebounding by Mr E' Holloway depicts with admirable force and directness the palpitating motion of an agitated sea compressed and forced upwards His Yarmouth Road6 is very vigorous too but rather an initial preparation for the studio than a thing for public exhibition Mr Mark Cows in an Orchard is one more repetition of a subject which this artist has made too familiar already but for all that its charm flooded as it is with a pleasant afternoon light is not to be denied Mr Albert Belleroche's Study of a Female is fairly well modelled but not particularly individual while Mr Duff's A Profile is an arrangement of considerable originality Mr Annmg Bell Study of a Head (White isa notable drawing in a style exceptional here since it reveals studies the direction of the Florence of the fifteenth century rather than under the shadow of the divinities most worshipped in this place Other productions worthy of some in watercolour some in black-and-white are Mr Brabazon's Lago Maggiore and Naples" Miss Woodward's Mr Aubrey Beardsley Les Passades and Paul Renouard's and Marcel Desboutin's Portrait of Universal Exhibition of but as yet little known England A Golden representing an avenue of giant trees in the sere and yellow leaf of latest autumn is the reduced version of a great landscape which appeared in Paris iu 1889 The same artist in Hyacinth Grower has a sub- ject similar to that of the well-known Tulip Culture of Mr Hitchcock He treats it with far greater breadth and vigour but perhaps with less delicacy and unity of tone than the American artist Solid strength pushed to the verge of heaviness is the main technical characteristic of The Granddaughter's First by the Dutch painter Blommers He has however observed nature most subtly and sympathetically in the apparently simple but admirably composed figures of the young Dutch mother and her child The large landscape of Mr Peter Graham RA Scotch Coast 8cene Early appears to us a thin and perfunctory performance one more repetition indeed of the well-worn theme of which even the admirer of this practised painter must surely have tired Other canvases in the gallery are by Mr Sidney Cooper A Mr Henry Moore RA Mr Wimperis RI Zuber Yastagb Schreyer and Edouard Frere have found themselves at the home of every on over China silk sometimes over lawn the in- holland it will appear in many forms as wall trust's laudable ambition the Lyceum Theatre side being frilled with chiffon Some of the drill and linen made up in combination with new hool whether it be of poets newest white shades are draped with soft silk in I richer fabrics but the silk and linen is the latest material of this serviceable bright-weather kind philosophers thinkers dramatists or critics scarves down the centre of each panel and are btrs with great good-nature the chaff con- finished with white 6iiky blonde lace Others gfantly levelled at it by writers of plays Dr similarly draped are mingled with delicate-John 'Todhunter for mstance in both The coloured fancy ribbon These however sug-Black Cat and the Comedy of caused gest lamp shades somewhat too forcibly Just the greatest amusement by his sly digs at the now when April showers ought to be about mvstics of Bedford Park and recently at the their legitimate occupation of producing May and has all the characteristics which go to secure success Grass-muslins elaborately embroidered will be much worn later on usually over coloured silk and there is a great variety of crepon and canvas Smooth surface materials are all in again as are glace silks with small patterns On the whole the outlook as to dress for the coming season is excellent flowers women are using shades which are shower-proof and many of these are essentially LYRIC THEA TRE smart In pale fawn moire shot with pink and exaggeration is discountenanced and every-cream-colour shot with thing looks fresh graceful pretty becoming a characteristic end-of-the- and yet full of century style DRESS AND FASHION DAILY TELEGRAPH SPECIAL COLUMN afternoon performance of The Little Miss Rose Ledercq caused roars of laughter when as a fashionable lady she said The new school Dear mo TV hat is the new school Nothing improper 1 kope dear was the prompt reply only an institution that is vastly amusing No man has watched the steady wick of the iacred lamp of burlesque with greater assiduity than Herr Meyer Lutz who has sat in his seat in the Gaiety orchestra ever since the year 1868 with only the little summer interval of change ipent with his musicians on the 8 pa at Scarborough He has seen many and important changes since Constance Loseby and Annie Tremaine and Toole and Nellie Farren appeared in The Princess of and transformed the Gaiety music-hall into an colouring they look dainty enough to assimilate with the smartest afternoon costumes and although they appear delicate and perishable yet they are intended for brilliant sun and moderate ram The shape is still a dome and the size medium Hats are often so large that small shades would look ridiculously inadequate while those which border on the proportions of umbrellas are found not smart in appearance Some of the most useful of the new ones are in striped crepon with a band of embroidery round the edge These are blue and white pale lilac and white grey and white French grey and white and pink and white As a rule each 31 ADAME HUMBLE Begs to announce her return From her Second Spring Visit to Paris And respectfully invites inspection Of the ortrodox theatre It is hoped that Muss Barren woman has a favourite colour destined to play a nh be well enough to appear on the occasion of more lfss conspicuous part her attire and the complimentary benefit to her old friend 3ha-cm easily match it in one of these sun-Herr Meyer Lutz and welcome round her on shades which are pretty dressy-looking the stage and off her innumerable Gaiety friends durable and not expensive Other very pretty It ought to be a splendid gathering headed by i novelties are of ivory and creainy-hued em-J Toole and Edward Terry and graced bv broidered silk muslin the embroidery in this the best and almost the last of the talented cae quite different in character from the white Farren family The matinee is tixed ior chake- Madeira work previously mentioned These ipeare's birthday nday April 1Z i atv marle with frills round the edge not deep Early in May Messrs and Windus slnce deeP £riUs sway the breeze and hope to publish The Savoy by Percy get into the way of either the owner Fitzgerald with sixty illustrations and por-1 headgear or that of her companion in traits of the creators of various weil-known walkmg or driving These embroidered sun- ATEST CREATIONS JN VISITING and RECEPTION DRES JpVENING and DINNER GOWNS LEG ANT CARRIAGE MANTLES yrSITING MANTELETS JACKETS COATS kc Madame humble Has prepared some original And unique NOVELTIES in rpAILOR-MADE SPECIALITIES a Comprising KTISTIC STYLES in COATS and SKIRTS For wear with SMART BLOUSES ACE and COACHING GOWNS The above TAILOR MADE SPECIALITIES are all made on the premises and fitted by separate titters for each department under the personal supervision of Madame HUMBLE Press Opinions For the first glimpses of forthcoming fashions It is always safe to look to Madame Humble in whose charm- ing salons at 19 Conduit-street many of the smartest modes Invariably originate Madame Humble novel designs are always worthy of the most respectful consideration for in addition to being entirely original they are also invariably some months advance of ordinary English The Lady's Pictorial Madame Humble has taken her place among the leading dressmakers" The World when the bill was carried by a majority of one On scanning the division list he found the name of Mr Newdigate among the aud in reference to this vote one of the Whips of the Nationalist party had made a statement to the effect that the member for North Longford (Mr Blake) and Mr Newdigate although paired were both in the House at the time when the division was about to take place Mr Blake desired to take part in the division and asked one of the Opposition Whips (Lord Lennox) if he was free to vote The noble lord replied in the negative and Mr Blake thereupon did not take part in the division but Mr Newdigate appeared to have done so He therefore asked whether the vote of Mr Newdigate should be recorded The SPEAKER replied that there was no official or Parliamentary recognition of the system of pairing (hear hear) and therefore he could take no uotice of the incident The system had grown up for the convenience of members and he had no doubt Mr Newdigate would be able to give a satisfactory explanation Lord LENNOX stated that an arrangement was come to whereby Mr Blake and Mr Newdigate who were paired with other members and not with each other might vote and counteract each other When the first division took place he was not aware that Mr Newdigate had arrived and he therefore asked that Mr Blake should not vote It appeared that he was wrong his hon friend had arrived thought he could vote and did so He (Lord Lennox) could only say that it was entirely due to a misapprehension on his own part and that of his hon friend and he was sure the House would be satisfied that it was through no want of courtesy to the House or any member that Mr Newdigate had voted It was not altogether unprecedented that such mistakes should (hear hear) and he would remind the House that on Tuesday on the Scotch Home Rule motion Mr Birrell took part in the division as a teller when he was paired (Hear hear) Mr NEWDIGATE said it was needless for him to state that had it not been for the information he received he should not have voted He was most sorry that he had iuadvertently done so (Hear hear) BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE Mr CHAMBERLAIN inquired when the debate on the Scotch Grand Committee would be resumed Mr BALFOUR thought it might be convenient if the Government would make some general statement as to the course of business Mr MORLEY In the abseroe of the leader of the House I think I may announce that intend to move on Monday that Government business shall have priority on Tuesdays and that we shall propose to take morning sittings on Fridays Of course the Navy Estimates will be taken on Monday as promised and the future course of the Scotch debate ill be settled iu connection with the duration of the debate on the Navy Mr CHAMBERLAIN How long do the Government intend to take the time of private members (Hear hear) Mr MORLEY For the preseut up to Whitsuntide Mr BALFOUR said that he had not had lime to ec the general bearings of the motion of which the Government gave such short notice but if it should turn out after an examination of the precedents that he and his friends thought the Government were very early interfering with the time of private members there would be a long debate Would that interfere with thedebate on the Navy Estimates on which they had been promised a full discussion And if the time on Monday became limited through Ibe cause he had mentioned would further time be given? (Hear hear) Mr MORTEY hoped that no prolonged discussion would be necessary on the motion he had announced Oh" and laughter) under the very peculiar circumstances in which the House found itself There was no disposition to grudge the proper time for the naval discussion Mr ROWLANDS inquired whether the Government would take all Tuesdays irrespective of the position which some members had gained through the ballot In some of the motions in first position many members took a deep interest Hear hear) Mr MORI EY replied that it would be more convenient to deal that question when the motion was discussed He would however point out that the only form in which the Government could take the time of the House was that which he mentioned Sir D1LKE understood that if there were any particular topics standing first for Tuesdays iu which general interest was taken the Government would state their course in connection witn thernon Monday Mr MORLEY said those were questions for Monday Mr BARTLEY Are the Government going to give up certain Tuesdays to their friends and exclude other members? (Hear hear) Mr MORLEY' There is no intention of the kind MINING ROYALTIES On the motion to go into Committee of Supply Mr WOODS moved That this House is of opinion that the present system of Royalty rents and waylcaves is injurious to the great industries that the evidence given before the Royal Commission on Mining Royalties goes to show the injurious nature of the present system and this House is of opinion that the time has arrived when such rents and wayleaves should be acquired by the He regarded the question as one of great importance because on it depended our prosperity The national property in minerals on the Continent parts in the series The book will include not only Savoy opera properly so called but plays and operas produced at the Queen's Royalty shade covers are mounted over delicate-hued silk and look very festive and pretty Handles are much varied but the simpler and lighter Kid Opera Comique and Mr Gilbert plays are the better style they will be con-before the memorable partnership What with smerecL In original casts anecdotes relating to the various view of the light gloves worn by women in the season metal handles of all kinds are unsuitable Amber is a favourite substance ior swagger sunshade handles but tortoiseshell is the most popular and it is now frequently inlaid with the proprietress's monogram in mother-o'-pearl while very costly handles have a floral spray in diamonds secured to them CONDUIT-STREET 19 plays and operas and special memoranda the book ought to be extremely interesting Savoy history will be earned as far as the production of Mr Stuart Ogilvie has published at the house of Mr William Heine-mann a beautiful black and scarlet printed edi- The Little received with much cordiality on Thursday afternoon may be looked at through two pairs of glasses with distinctly opposing lenses The play may be regarded as a play proper a play of interest a play of character a play with a pulse in it and a true dramatic motive Or it may be charitably ignored aud critically passed over a harmless amateur entertainment for children and for the exhibition of the unnatural precocity of the little men and little women children of to-dajr In either respect it errs against art as much as it errs against nature As a play The Little Squire wiil not bear candle light gas light or electric light Here we see once more how difficult it is for the dramatist and the novelist to get on together They never have been and they never can be friends No doubt Mrs de la Pasture's novel contains several pretty descriptions of rustic manners and village life Mps William Greet aud Mr Horace Sedger have thought well to preserve them whereas they do not advance but positively retard the action of the play The scene opens with a tirade of talk from villagers almost all inaudible and the gaffers and the grandfers and the young men and maidens old men and children have nothing whatever to say aud are consequently a hindrance to what follows If the villagers have a story to tell by all means bring them on But as presented here they are merely excrescences and might be cut out to a man a woman a gaiter and a gun Fascinated again apparently by certain passages in the story the authors divide the first act into three scenes For this there is no earthly necessity All that Miss Fanny Brough has to say in the first act and it is well worth listening to when Miss Brough is on the scene might just as well be said under an oak in an English park as iu a chimney corner of an English cottage The three acts could have been contained in three scenes without any loss of dramatic effect whatever But worse than the faulty construction is the bad law An ill-used lady in the play declares that her marriage with a Frenchman in England is deemed illegal in France not because of the rule which demands in France that no marriage is legal before twenty-five to which both parents have not given their consent but because a marriage in England is always illegal between an Englishwoman and a Frenchman because here it is a religious and not a civil contract How often has it to be insisted on that every marriage in England is a distinctly civil marriage Every marriage ot whatsoever kind in England is virtually before a civil registrar The clergyman of the Established or Protestant Church is a registrar as well as a clergyman In a Protestant church the presence of no civilian registrar is necessary because it is the established or legal church But every marriage solemnised outside the Protestant church is illegal in England unless the registrar for marriages is present The contracting parties must either come to him or persuade him to come to them It is as absurd to say that a marriage iu England is illegal because it is not a civil contract as it is ridiculous for the stage heroine to assert that she is not married when she has lost her marriage lines" which are merely a certified copy of the book and of which any number of copies can be obtained at 2s 6d a piece We fear therefore that in scaffolding and in law the play breaks dow-n There is very little sympathy for the new Mrs Copperfield who cringes to the modern Murdstone or for the aristocratic young David Copperfield who lashes his mother's Murd-stone with his young tongue instead of biting him with his sharp teeth If there be any human sympathy in the play it ought to be with poor Mr Sugden who has to put up with the caprices of an unreasonable vacillating woman and the insolence of a young cub who ought to be whipped aud sent to bed The charm of the little Lord Fauntleroy as it seemed to us was in the innocence unconscious humour and flawless nature of the baby hero He was odd aud queer but always a child at heart But three more deplorable little prigs than the little Squire Cicely Hardwick and Lise have seldom been seen in any play The boy is an insolent argu- IMRST-CLASS PLATE and JEWELS ENG A MEN I NGSL DIAMOND ORNAMENTS Ac SPINK and SON tion of his founded on Charles These however can hardly be used with com- First-class plate and jewels Choicest and newest designs Specially selected stones SPINK and SON THIRST-CLASS PLATE and JEWELS Established 1772 Under the patro the Most Hon the Marquis of Lome church-street Cornhill EC nape of HT KT xc nape of HM the Queen and REW and SONS Piccadilly-circus DR Direct from their Works DRE8S TRUNKS (patent wood fibre) DRESSING Bags and CASES FN ROUTE TEA BASKETS MUSICAL THEATRICAL AND ARTISTES HOUSE OF COMMONS FRIDAY The Speaker took the chair at three o'clock EAST LONDON WATER BILL Referring to a motion stauding on the paper in the name of Mr Benn to the effect the committee on the East London Water Bill have power to insert provisions enabling the London Couuty Council to acquire the company's undertaking on fair and reason-1 able terms to be settled in default of agreement by arbitration without any allowance iu respect of compulsory purchase and having regard to any circumstances and statutory provisions affecting the value thereof including the probability of future loss charges and liabilities arising from demands for substituted or additional water or improvement of water and substituted improved or extended and That it be an instruction to the committee to limit the bill to the authorisation of such extensions of mains as may be requisite during the next two years and the provision of the necessary funds for that purpose whether out of capital or revenue and with such provisions to meet depreciation or otherwise on such terms as they may think Mr STUART said that after what had occurred in connection with this bill on Thursday night his bon friend did not intend to proceed with his instruction at present but would reconsider its terms and bring it up again at a later date THE QUEEN AND NEW HONOURS Sir LAWSON gave notice that on that day four weeks he would move a humble address to the Grown praying that when her Majesty bestowed any title or honour upon one of her subjects she would issue a statement setting forth the services for which such honour was bestowed iu the same manner as was usual when the Victoria Cross was granted Hear and laughter) LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES Mr WEBSTER gave uotice that he would call attention on that day four weeCs to the laws relating to limited liability companies and move for the appointment of a select committee LONDON BAKEHOUSES Mr SHAW-LEFEVRE informed Mr Barrow that the report drawn up by Dr Waldo as to the conditions under which a large proportion of the bakery businesses of London were being carried on was not an official report but it certainly disclosed a deplorable state of things There wrerc however provisions in the Factory and Workshops Act under which the sanitary authorities might put a stop to abuses which rendered bakehouses unfit for use (Hear hear Until complaint was made that the sanitary authorities had failed to do their duty in these matters he did uot think it would be necessary to propose legislation or the subject Dr FARQUH ARSON asked Mr Shaw-Lefevre whether he would cause an inquiry to be made by the medical officers of his department with a view to stimulating the action of the local authorities (Hear hear) Mr SHAW-LEFEVRE replied that he would certainly do so if he had the power He added in answer to Mr Burns that he would consider the question of issuing a circular to all local authorities requiring that all new bakehouses must be above ground and not underground as they now were (Hear hear) THE NOTTINGHAM MURDER Mr BALLANTINE asked the Home Fecretry whether Walter Smith who was executed at Notting ham last week made any confession Mr ASQUITH I cannot help regretting that my hon friend should have thought it his duty to put this question on the paper (Hear hear) Any public inquiry with reference to a statement made by a person under sentence of death is as a rule to be deprecated but as there is I know some uneasiness in the minds of many persons in regard to this case I think it right to say that on the night but one before his execution the prisoner stated to the officer in charge that he bought the pistol for the purpose of killing the girl he shot THE EVICTIONS ON ARRAN ISLANDS Mr SEXTON asked Mr Morley whether steamer was used to convey the police to the scene of the evictions on the Arran Islands aud if he could state how the bailiffs were conveyed Mr said the police were combed to the islands on the duty referred to on a steamer belonging to the Galway Steamboat Company which visited the islands three times a week aud he was informed they were taken as ordinary passengers The sheriffs bailiffs and agent were conveyed on the same steamer A warrant had been placed in the hands of the sheriff of the county for execution and the Government had no discretion in the matter but were bound to afford adequate protection Mr asked whether in the communications addressed to the owners or agents their attention Messrs hugh jay uidcott and co Dr- matic and Musical Agents 5 Henrietta-street Cnvent-gar-den The beet variety artistes can be obtained through their agency Specialities for At Homes MISS HARRIETT VERNON the burlesque actress LONDON PAVILION Tivoli Sole and exclusive Agents Messrs Hugh Didcott ard Co MR EUGENE STRATTON Whistling Coon ') LONDON PAVILION Tivoli Sole and exclusive Agents Messrs Hugh Didcott aud Co MISS PEGGY PRYDE CAMBRIDGE Palace Hammersmith Sole and exclusive Agents Messrs Hupb Didcott and Co LOCUTION Mrs JOHN BILT INGTON has resumed her LESSONS in ELOCUTION and prepares pupils for the stage at her residence 34 Burghley-rd Higbgate-rd Mr WILLIAM FARREN Professor at the Royal Academy of Music receives private ART BOTES Those who raised a jubilant outcry when it waO announced the other day that the authorities of thw South Kensington Museum had decided to turn thai important though far from complete collection of casts from classical sculptures out of the great hall specially constructed to receive it will perhaps be less enthusiastic now that the result of this demmagement is brought before the public It is true that the national show of tapestries textiles and embroideries gains vastly by being installed in thw great hall under a good light the floor 6pace being occupied by some of the marriage cassoni in which tbai Museum is so rich and by richly-carved furniture ot the Renaissance period The magnificent senes oij Flemish tapestries of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries arc now practically seen for thw first time and new beauties are revealed in familiao examples Still even here we must note themcon-gruity that the removal of the remains of classical antiquity being necessarily an incomplete one tha tapestries have still above them the frieze and metopes of the Parthenon the Phigaleian fneze the sculptures of the Theseion Ac instead of tha Gothic and Renaissance carvings that might fairly be looked for under the circumstances The great bulk of the casts in the round with many of the reliefs are however under the present arrangement relegated to the long low corridor constructed for the exhibition of textiles and embroideries and here they are seen to theutmostdisadvantage The gallery in question receives an unusually low side light from windows touching the ground and under the altered conditions brought about by this utterly unsuitable nr-ode of illumination the noblest examples of Greek art lose a great part of their significance and a great part of their value in the furtherancoof artistio and archaeological studies The statues of antiquity were destined to be seen in temples porticoes basilicas baths or in the open air as for example on-the Acropolis and at Olympia They require for their exhibition-high side-lights such as are now obtynable in mostol tha-more modern public galleries The idql arrangement in that which has been adopted in the most perfect of ail existing galleries of the new Museum-of Dresden Here the light is admitted through a kind of clerestory obtained half from the roofjfiialf from the wall which supports it We should prefer to see the casts altogether withdrawn rather than subjected to the indignity ofi being placed where they at present are in the company of such of the textiles as it has not been possible to remove with the more important specimens into th central hall London is indeed miserably off especially now as regards reproductions from the chief works ofl antiquity and this is the more to lie deplored seeing that its collection of Greek originals at the British Museum is not to be paralleled by that of any other not even by that of Athens itself marvellously a its treasures have been augmented of late years Th casts from Greek and Roman works brought together ata Dresden and Berlin are unrivalled in completeness and! perfection of arrangement many smaller German-eitie can boast senes of reproductions only less complete i Paris has its Ecole dcs Beaux-Arts and its Trocadero New York has planued a museum of casts on a scal hardly yet attempted in England we have the University collection of Cambridge and the Crystal Palace Is it too much to hope that the British Museum to which such a collection as that of South Kensington meagre enough at the best belongs as of nght will undertake to remedy this state of things and will include iu its scheme of enlargement a suitable resting-place for specimens of which it is surely a truism to say that they are of the highest importance both from the artistic and the educational standpoint fort on ordinary occasions and it would seem almost as inappropriate a use to put brilliants to as having them wrought into a monogram on a handkerchief Yet we know that diamonds have been so employed since such a handkerchief was advertised for after a very important State ceremony The subject of head-gear is a wide one A visit to a successful fills one with admiration for the inventive genius of the trimmers of hats and bonnets as well as for the daring ideas of the day which lead to incongruities in colour and style being perpetrated with quite a wonderful effect of smartness and newness There is no denying that the newest millinery is bizarre and this characteristic is accepted and will be observed throughout the coming season Also we may safely conclude that it will be exaggerated and so in course of time killed and that it is now at the zenith of a short-lived success Even at present the women whose in dress is most widely recognised will ave none of the black roses violets Dansies and guelder roses which make their appearance on bonnets in conjunction with rose-pink serpent green and turquoise blue miroir velvet However much their perception of modernism is tickled by the curious scheme of contrast i colour their innate artistic feeling will not hav it carried out in such glaring rebellion against nature They therefore insist on the black being jet miroir velvet satin antique or jet sequined tulle while the flowers which nature has painted rose-pink green or blue are used to represent similar hues on the headgear The consequence is that rather out-of-th e-ordinary floral adornments appear since out of the common effects are desired Green auriculas a device to which Dame Nature has been brought to consent by the blandishments of skilled horticulturists roses which are almost black wallflowers with strong shades of mauve in them also produced by Nature under horticultural persuasion stocks and tulips of the most conspicuously recent and the most odd shades of colour in fact art copying nature in her most novel and fantastic productions but unwilling to go beyond her in curious doings is the great feature of the head-millinery accepted by the best-dressing women in London That we shall see distortions of doings there is no room for doubt but not on the heads of the best-dressed There is an aquatic green which is just now the rage and which is seen in dresses in conjunction with black white tan or brown the best millineric form of it is in watercress with which humble product the brims of some exceedingly smart bonnets are trimmed while the same green is also seen in rosettes of river-grass novel Thanks to Miss Fcrtescue Mr Murray Carson and others the play has found great favour at Sheffield where Alma Tadema scenery was exhibited for the first time and a very successful provincial tour seems in store for this remarkable work How many actors and actresses there are who possessing considerable intellectual and fair elocutionary gifts are still slovenly in deportment and gesture and look in vain for a school or a class where they can be put through their facings How many for instance learn the difference between the bow of a peasant and of a courtier practise themselves in moving easily in last costumes who have been taught how to wear a sword and sit down easily with this awkward accompaniment in a slouching hand-in-pockets age Women nowadays are masters in everything and it is a woman who professes to teach not only dancing but stage gesture and deportment Madame Cavallazzi of the Empire is well known to have inherited the Originally a pupil of the school of Milan and a scholar of La Scala she passed through France to America and so to England where she has been a resident for many years learning our language but never losing the superb grace and gesture of her countrymen and countrywomen This fine artist who is now recovering from a very sad domestic bereavement will soon open a school to which actors and actresses will be equally invited to tudy a branch of their art quite as essential as mere learning words by heart and delivering them ore There indeed comes in the great difficulty An old playgoer is anxious as one of the general public to indorse what has been so repeatedly said in these columns on the subject of faulty elocution and bad stage delivery He says I must thank you for your very just remarks as to the inaudible utterances of many actresses on the modern stage though actors might also be largely included in your analogy of the mouse squeaking behind the It now such a common incident that I fear I must give up frequenting the theatre much as I love it owing to the inability to hear the dialogue Possibly those happy mortals whoso means allow them to frequent the stalls and other highly-priced places may be enabled to hear but those less favoured who are compelled to be satisfied with a modest seat in the pit and more distant places must be content under the present system with hearing only about two-thirds It 13 not only a great loss to the playgoer but also in some respects to 'the author many of whose best ideas are quite lost to th so-called auditor That I am not singular in PUPILS at his residence 31 Moori-street Cadogan-square M1 1SS SARAH THORNE receives LADIES GENTLEMEN for ELOCUTION Dramatic Tuition gave loreigu states an advantage I he royalty 01 a mcntative young rascal who ought to have his curls cut in France it On and and Practice Classes (Shakespeare) Private lessons The Stock Season at the Theatre Royal Margate commences March 26 Address 59 Edith-mad West Kensington ALFRED HARDING trs Brown-Potters Indian Tour care of Mr Twinning Calcutta STAGE -ODOAKDO celebrated SCHOOL Of SINGING and VOICE-PRODUCTION (established 1862) 60 Margaret-street Cavendish square 260 pupils placed in salaried Address The Secretary 5TAGE HENRY Dramatic Studio S' ton of coal was 8d was only l4d iron it was 3s per ton in this country while on the Continent it was about the same as on coal The royalty rent on the production of coal last year in this country was five and a half millions sterling on the Continent it would have been a little over half a million The existing arrangements involved great inconvenience loss and hardship 1 he late Sir George Elliot a thoroughly practical man advocated the establishment of a syndicate of mine-owners land-owners colliers and miners who were to acquire all the mines and minerals in the country at a cost of about £20000009 and to work them at a profit If that could be done by a syndicate it could be still more easily done by the fctate He was not in favour of the easily none dv me ovate no me and be sent off to be well-kicked at a public school One of the girls is a modern miss with the affectation of the worst type of worldly woman The youngest girl-child is even more offensive than the godless prig she is the sentimental png and these wretched mites are allowed to argue on the stage about baptismal regeneration and the quantity of soul that is awarded to the child who is not christened Let us take our children to the theatre to show them the innocence and the sweetness of childhood but not turn them out pamphleteers on the doctrine of original sin Fancy a child on the stage gravely arguing with its companions whether theft was moral or immoral and basing that argument on a question of infant baptism We are argument on a question ot infant baptism We are Roerbohm Tree Esq Wyndham Fsq Willard Esq Ac Pupils prepared for Stag Bar Platform or Pulpit in Stiidic Theatre Introduction to profession Address Mr Fred Gartside FRANK Undo and Miss ETHEL DR XM A TIC RECITALS MASONIC HALL BIRMINGHAM APRIL 10 confiscation of private property but unless the present advancing on the modem staEe and donestjc houSe nominal owners of minerals could prove their title by holds will be cheerful places when mtauts discuss solemn religious questions over their school-room tea nominal owners or minerals coum prov purchase or other legitimate means he believed there would be no harm in the nation stealing back what had RS BERNARD-BEERE All bust ness communications to be addressed Merthen near Hel- 8ton Cornwall STAGE HANGING description TAUGHT bv PAUL VALENTINE assisted by the Misses Valentine Also Theatrical Pantomime and Music Hall Business- 256 Westminster Bridge-road MISS DOROTHY HANBURY (pupil of 'Madame H1en Tnwnshend) at liberty for EVENING SINGING ENGAGEMENTS Address Mr Arthur Blackmnre 11 Garrick-street Covent-garden ADAME HELEN TOWXSHEND receives PUPILS for SINGING 30a Sackville-street Piccadilly LOCUTION Miss ROSE JENKINS Dramatic and Humorous Reciter receives PUPILS at her residence -awing Room Recitals Concerts and At Homes Address 117 Abbey-road NW been stolen from the nation in ages gone by Mr BURNT seconded the resolution Mr WHITMORE pointed out that the report of the Royal Commission which had inquired into the question was overwhelmingly against Mr Wood motion Mr ASQUITH in briefly replying for the Government said that if the House assented to this proposal it would mean an addition of £150000000 sterling to the expenditure of the country He was not indisposed to of State control but if the 8tate or minerals it) reasonable com- Bowman njayed most excellently and with both humour case at i and earnestness From the point of view of the piece Wnnrls ornnnil er su If these are the children of to-day and aro charming because they are so realistic it seems a pity that the rod has been so long kept out of pickle It is not the fault of the clever stage children who are trained to show us these hydrocephalic specimens released from the surgical bottle They do their work wonderfully well too well in fact for they make the thinking man and oman long in despair for that most beautiful of created things -an innocent child Miss Dorothy anbury and the Misses Isa and Ewpsie case had beu Wood's proposal It must not however supposed that the Govern- they could not have done better But they were had been called to the character of these boldwgs which was quite unique and to the gross barbarity of the evictions (Nationalist cheers) most bo on terms tair and Mr MORLEY did not suppose the communications He added in reply to Mr Sexton went that length a large extension land pensation aud in his opimon no made out for the adoption ol Mr be and in his opinion no for the adoption ot' Mr be 2v complaint I quite sure from comparing cleverly simulated The chief characteristic of o-u- 4 i i hats too Beewa to be be curious contrasts or otes wan otherpeoplc and unless some improve- Wy are videblimmed one js 0f a smoke brown coarse soft chip the crown having a band of pale shot mauve miroir velvet popularity ot music-halls where on-tan alwavs sedf hifh at one slde- and near without trouble I am sure if vou aud all wlth afuJ1 P3rrot wltnG green cut asprey Large rosette-like groups of mauve violets rest on the hair at the back and in front There are many flower bonnets prepared for the season which cannot fail to find favour with male i themselves upon the moorland The shaggy observers The shapes are small and flat the beasts retain iu black and white the vigour which inbrims outlined narrowly with some small flower variably distinguishes the work of the famous animal notes with otherpeoplc ment takes place in tills constantly-increasing custom the theatres will ultimately suffer Possibly this may account for the increasing opularitv of music-halls where oneCan always ear without trouble I am sure if you and all the dramatic enti would make a persistent and steady onslaught against this ridiculous practice you would deserve and gam the thanks of a very large section of The celebrated English Misses Nellie Xavette Rose Batchelor Clara Yanini and Conjointly Mr Letevre and Messrs Arthur Tooth and Sons publish a large engraving from Rosa Bonkeur's fine cattle picture Midday iu the Highlands" which was in the collection of the late David Price Mr Joseph Fratt the engraver has been especially happy iu reproducing the silvery atmos- pheric haze which indicates the noontide heat to whose drowsy mfluences the kmc have yielded picturesquely 1 1 Alleged Child Mcpes At the Lambeth Coroner Court yesterday Mr Braxton Hicks held an ment were blind to the defects of the present system or that they would be slow to give effect to the recommendations of the Royal Commission Where as in milling three interests were concerned and here from some unforeseen cause profits fell he agreed ihat the burden of the loss should be equally distributed A system under which one of them escaped scot free was not reconcilable with justice or common sense (Hear hear He dul think there were cases in which the royalty children like Polly Eeeles's description of the pow-der in the jam first sweet but afterwards a little Miss Fanny Brough if she had been allowed a dramatic scene instead of an unfinished sketch would have been admirable She wanted to give us a true ring from Fentiman-road Brixton where she had been ia of pathos but the authors checked her good intentions I service She slept iu the second-floor front room with in the bud Miss Brough is an excellent pathetic two other girls Witness had suspicions as to her cop-as well as a comic actress but she fell a victim to the but the girl he matter inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of the male child of Elizabeth Pike a servant Tho mother has been arrested and remanded on the chargo of wilful murder--Bertha Sullifant matron of a home at 326 Kenningtou-road said she href became acquainted with Pike on feb 1 when-she cams On Maggie are to appear together for the i 4 first time to-night in A Gaiety at the velvet drawn 11 through a jet or steel buckle at Agricultural Commission- At the meeting Pnnce of Theatre in an entirely new and one side- The noat launty-lookmg Gf the Commission yesterday all the members were oririnal Carnival dance si cC i vented for Mr toques too are apparently satisfactory to male present except Mr Shaw-I etevre MP the chairman original uarnivai aance specially im enteci tor Mr Qro curious contrast as was attending the Cabinet Council Mr 'Smith of Whitney Court Herefordshire and of Liverpool author of which the principal cause of the depressed prices reducts gave evidence The subject was aud festive and sympathy with this brilliant considered if such importance by the Commissioner that they decided to have a statement handed by- Mr Smiih put into print and circulated amongst the members for their eonsideration and to recall him at a later date for further detailed examination The Commission adjourned till Thursday next In ability- At Bow- County-court itiu vesterday Abbott and Co coal merchants Burdett- continue I road sued Allan Edwards recently employed at St Helena for coal supplied to his wife at her residence at Stainsby-road Poplar Defendant admitted that the goods had been supplied but denied that his wife had any authority to pledge his credit Judge French How are creditors to kuow that It is one of the inconveniences of living with your wife that she can order necessaries in yoar name Defendant It is very hard on me I allowed her £14-5 a year while I was wn erdi escape and brieved with Sir LotW Bell I amateur dramatist Mis Row Leclercq iauua! was Harv! that a sliding ale would tend to shift the burden to supremely successful as a lady of fashion She got a COIltain the body of a child with a long piece of meslin those who should bear if he Government howm er complete character out of mere bones She had nothing hemmed on htb sides five times round its neck The asked the House not to go beyond the decision ot the sayt but she became a character in five muslin had been the string of a servant cap Pikes re-( Commission in order to embark a large aim scum- secon(jg Mr Charles Sugden and Miss Mary turned at ten o'clock and 'was immediately arrested tive scheme the limits of which it Rorke carefully steered clear of the laugh parti- Christopher Clot worthy Upton a clerk out of employ- cularly when the bride said will be no ment said he made the acquaintance of Bikethree years ago when she was in service at Putney fche subse- mamage to-day But however well-intentioned the returned to her home at Whitchurch Hants play is invertebrate and the children who in order to and caTne bayk to London in July last He be interesting should be types of innocence and nature for at the Holborn Registry Office in Cl er ken well-road are mannikin sentimentalists or pragmatical little on Sept 27 buthad never lived with her On Monday prigs Conceive Paul Dombey Davy Copperfield or last he was in her company He had no idea of her loresee Mr MATTHEWS thought the House had been asked to review the decision of the Commission on grounds which were fallacious After further discussion the House divided For Mr "Woods' motion 43 Against ISO i that he had received information that morning from the Arran Islands to the effect that the inspector reached the North Island last night He repotted this morning that the relieving officer had afforded tempo-J I rary relief to those of the evicted tenants who were considered to be destitute The Local Government Board had sent a telegram to their inspector asking him to provide if necessary temporary lodgings for the evicted tenants and instructing him that on no account were they to remain exposed out of doors all night No evictions had yet taken place on the South Island and this morning the sea was too rough to admit of landing Nationalist cheers) Mr RU8SELI asked whether the Government intended to take any steps to improve the condition of these people or whether this state of things was to go on tor ever Mr MORLEY did not think the reception of the Government proposals iu the House at present encouraged them to enlarge those proposals (A laugh) Mr HEALY inquired whether Lord Carnarvon who visited these islands in 1885 left any minute behind him or any letter of remonstrance to the agents Mr I have not come across such a minute (Laughter) VOLUNTEER DECORATIONS Mr CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN informed Mr "Webster that he hoped there would not be much longer delay in deciding as to the form of decoration to be given to non-cemniissioned officers of the volunteer service There had been too much delay already (Hear hear) DISTURBANCES IN CORK Mr MORLEY replying to Mr Dunbar Barton who asked whether he would take steps to prevent a repetition of the scenes of bloodshed and violence which had recently occurred in Cork said that during these painf ul and deplorable scenes the police had acted under careful instructions and in a way which had won the approval both of Protestants and Catholics in the city of Cork (Cheers) He did not see how the Govern- that It is simply helping her to rob her husband This Majority against 107 THE COURSE OF BUSINESS Little Nell discussing their ascent to the angels or condition Farr the divisional surgeon deposed descent to limbo by the controversial theological rules hat he examined the girl Pika and found that she had been confined a few days previously Witness told her 8 whereupon she became very distressed and said you think they will hang He said he did not think so but it was a very serious charge adding that it must have taken place some time ago She replied fortnight The Coroner having summed up the jury said they were of opinion that the child was strangled but they were not satisfied that the mother did it The Coroner Then who did "What did Pike mean by saving they hang The jury then reconsidered the matter ana announced that their verdict was manslaughter The Mr MORLEY: With the indulgent of the House I applied to the doctrine of Baptismal Regeneration should like to correct a statement which I made early The sentimental child of Dickens may in these days this afternoon I said that the motion which my right be voted a bore but the modern stage theological child hon friend the Leader of the House would make on I is an unmitigated nuisance Monday would be limited to Whitsuntide The motion will be to give priority to Government business on Tuesdays with morning sittings on Fridays not merely until Whitsuntide but until the end of the session A COUNT-OUT The House was counted-out at a quarter past eight o'clock A Spotless Costplexick Sulpholine Lotion clears off all In a few days Spots blemishes irritating objectionable appearances redness uncomfortable skin disfigurements bailllag bottles of AnvxaTuaiuKxi the throat subsided in 18 boure a moderate passage of air was ds and 8okk Throats citred bv Ai karam Commons Sir Vou deserve universal thanks for the yon hav- named Alkararn I was suffering from more than a id in my h-ad my left nostril being closed a sanguinary di harge prifceeu therefrom and the throat was also affected and painful In ths -tat-- aid prostrated nearly with debility a rd gave a brittle of the Inl2hours thesorenees of throat subsided 18 hours a moderate passag stored through the nostril in 24 hours the dj scharge became fluid and ail bieeo ng ceased I really could not have believed in such efficacy I am so grateful that I feel disposed to chalk up the word wherever I go It is noteworthy that the same bott ie had prevntuly cured four colds in the Bctjsaet Maor-Generai Of Chemsts 2s a bottle or post freed 1' Kewbery and Sens 1 and 5 Kina Ed ward-street 'Advt cloth skirt with lines of jet down every seam a awav There are dozens of summonses against me Mad Dogs Great excitement was occa- black moire sleeveless coat with a full bias-cut both here and at Norwich whex-e I formerly lived One sioced Tipperarv vesterday when it became known basque half a yard deep setting closely over baker has a bill of £20 for bread Judge French It is very wrong of tradesmen to give a woman credit like that several mad dogs were at large the vicinity A I the "hips all outlined in namber of persons were attacked and bitten and two lanneta ch'dren who were at tlav wern bitten bv one of the I jP ch dren who were at plav were bitten by one of the lappets faced jet with with Coroner said he could not accept such a verdict it was murder or nothing The jury eventually returned a verdict of wilful murder against Elizabeth Pike or Upton who was committed for trial on tho warrant cream- wonan tad an allowance and if tradesmen bictts and severely mutilated The police succeeded coloured embroidered muslin and edged with choose to give her such credit they must put up with u- shooting five of the do-s i jet a blouse of palest lilac satin the the consequences Judgment for defendant.