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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. UR OULLAND'S SPEECH AT WICK. DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS. WELSH CHURCH AND TARIFF REFORM AMENDMENTS REJECTED. LORD MURRAY'S MARCONI SHARES: PERSONAL STATEMENT IN LORDS.

In the House of Commons on Monday Mr. Asquith, in reply to Lord Z. Cecil, said he could not anticipate the statement which he had undertaken to make Monday. to the House in regard to Ulster. Replying to Mr.

J. C. Wason, Mr. Asquith said he had made inquiries in regard to the speech made by Mr. Gulland during the Wick by-election.

and he Mr. shared his such language was used. Mr. committed an error of judgment, but he (the Prime Minister) felt sure that tbe House would accept his disclaimer of any corrupt or improper intentions. Mr.

Gullland also expressed his regret, and Mr. Boner Law said that after these expressions or regret he was ready to acoept Mr. Gul- Land's statement. INSURANCE ACT dc CASUAL LABOUR. Mr.

Masternsan's recent statement in the course of the Bethnal Green by-election that a scheme was in preparation for dealing with casual labour under the Insurance Act was alluded to by Mr. Joynson Hicks and Mr. Boner Law, the Unionist Leader asking why the announcement had been kept for the atiddle of a by-election. Mr. Lloyd George replied that the scheme had been repeatedly announced before the House and by Mr.

Iffasterroan in his constituency. THE WELSH CHURCH BILL. The debate on the Address was afterward. resumed. Mr.

W. Ormsby-Gore moved an amendment which expressed regret that the Government intended to proceed further with the Established Church (Wales) Bill, which "is backed by no evidence of any popular support in the country, and is arousing increasing resentment and hostility from members of all denominations in England and Wales." Sir A. seconded the amendment. Mr. McKenna (Home Secretary) replied, and after some further debate the amendment was defeated by 279 Totes to 217.

NO IMPERIAL PREFERENCE. Captain Tryon then moved an amendment expressing regret that the Government refused "to modify the Fiscal system of the country by a reform of our tariff which would (I) adopt Imperial preference, in so far as it can be carried out without imposing fresh duties upon imported food-stuffs, by admitting imports from the British dominions at lower rates of duty than those levied on imports from foreign countries; and (2) impose a moderate duty, not exceeding an average of 10 per cent, ad valorem. on foreign manufactured goods in order (a) to safeguard the stability of British productive industries against the attacks of artificially stimulated foreign competition, and (b) to increase the national revenue and so make funds available for the assistance of agriculture and purposes of social reform." This was defeated by 283 votes to 209, and the debate was adjourned. LORD MURRAY AND PARTY FUNDS. A PERSONAL EXPLANATION.

The business before the House of Lords on Tuesday was the consideration of a motion by Lord Ampthill, asking for the appointment of a Select Committee to in- Tuasday. quire into certain charges and allegations made against Lord Murray of Elibank. Before the noble Lord could move this, however, Lord Murray rose and asked leave to make a personal explanation. With the exception of the transactions already known, he said, he had never been interested, directly or indirectly, in any form whatever in any other American Marconis, and never at any time in the English Marconi or in any other Marconi or wireless company. He thought, however, it ought to have occurred to him that his action would be open to criticism, and he regretted be did not at the time view the matter from all its possible aspects.

He admitted that the purchase of American Marconi shares for the Liberal Party was an error of judgment, and he had assumed the burden by taking over the shares at the price paid for large personal loss. The only person he informed of this transaction was one of the solicitors to the party. He now considered that this course with regard to the party funds was not wise or correct, and he deeply regretted it. At the same time he wished it to be known that these transactions had nothing to do with his resigbation of the post of Patronage secretary to the Treasury. So far back as 'February, 1912, this had been in the hands of Mr.

Asquith, and it was only at the latter's request that be remained in office to the close of the summer session. Lord Lansdowne suggested that it would not then be fair to pass judgment on Lord Murray's statement, and he appealed to Lord Ampthill to withdraw his motion to allow of further consideration. After some reworks from Lord Crewe, Lord Ampthill agreed postpone his motion until Thursday. LAND AND HOUSING LEGISLATION. CHANCELLOR AND INTERRUPTERS.

When the debate on the Address was resumed in the House of Commons on Tuesday, Kr. Royds moved an amendment regretting that no legislation is foreshadowed to restore the credit and security of land and house property. He argued that Radical legislation and the recent utterances of Ministers threatening further land legislation had injured the credit and security of the land. There had been a great fall in the average number of houses built each year, and many builders were on the verge of bankruptcy as a result of the "People's Budget." Mr. Lane- Fox declared that agricultural development bad been arrested by the operation of the land taxes, and that there was great need for an impartial inquiry to counteract the pernicious partisan findings of the Radical Committee of Inquiry.

Mr. Lloyd George, in the course of his reply, said be had never beard the main facts produced by the land inquiry challenged. He claimed that the chances of disposing of land were now infinitely better than before the Budget of 1909. With regard to the eberCage of cottages, he said the Brat thing to be done was to secure the land for budding, and thia must be done by building. The President of the Local Government Board wae making inquiries into the matter, and the Board of Trade was also investigating It.

Mr. Pretyman, in his speech, came frequently into contact with Mr. Lloyd George, and Mr. Runciman, who followed, provoked a scene by his references to Kern hers of the Opposition. Lord Helmsley was rebuked by the Speaker for interruptions.

Mr. Long followed Mr. Runciman, and the amendment was rejected by 301 votes to 213 majority 88. GERMAN AND BRITISH NAVIES. In the House of Commons on Wednesday there were a large number of private bills down to be dealt with, eighteen in all, but every one vias objected to Nodes Way.

and further consideration of them postponed to later dates. Mr. Fred Hall asked the First Lord of the Admiralty if his attention had been called to the statement by the Secretary of State for the in the Budget Committee of the German Reichstag to the effect that no positive proposals had yet been made to Germany by Great Britain for a reduction in naval construction, but that if such proposals were made they would assuredly be examined in a spirit of goodwill; aad if he would state what was the nature of the suggestions made to Germany in this matter, in what form they were conveyed, and when. sir. Churchill said this was a subject le was not suitable for discussion by way of question and answer, and no doubt the Foreign Secretary or himself would deal with the matter during the debate later in the session.

Mr. Middlemore asked whether Germany would possess twenty-eight completed Dreadnoughts in 1917, whether, in that case, fortytwo British vessels of that type would be required to give us the minimum superiority of three to two in home waters, which We had stated to be necessary, and what was the total number of British Dreadnoughts built, building, and provided for, available for service both in home waters and the Mediterranean. MR. HANDEL BOOTH ON DUBLIN RIOTS. A question by Major Archer-She.

as to whether the Aliens Act would be amended so as to exclude "desperadoes" of the type of the South African labour leaders caused some resentment on the Labour and Liberal benches. The debate on the Address was resumed by Mr. G. N. Barnes, who moved an amendment regretting that no mention bad been made in the Speech of the recent events at Dublin, and no promise made of an impartial and representative inquiry into the conduct of the police.

Mr. Handel Booth gave an account of his experiences in the riots, and produced a cube of granite thrown at a policeman, which, he said, narrowly missed hie own head. In the course of a vigorous 'defence of the police, Mr. Birrell said he thought the House would agree that the Dublin police were a force of whom any Executive might well be proud. The amendment was rejected by to 45.

Sir J. Bethel! then moved an amendment calling attentioo to the alleged unfair administration by the Road Board of the funds under its control. Mr. Montagu having replied to the discussion, the amendment was negatived by 288 to 56. The House of Lords sat for fifteen minutes.

Lord Avebury took the oath and his seat, and a number of private bills were advanced a stage. HOW TO- TREAT ULSTER. MR. FREDERIC HARRISON'S OPEN LETTER TO THE PREMIER. A suggestion and a warning is given by Mr.

Frederic Harrison in an open letter on Ulster which he has sent to the Prime Minister. A copy of the letter is published in the Times. Mr. Frederic Harrison was one of the pioneers of Home Rule; but he feels the Ulster spirit "in his bones," and his grandfather, as he mentions in the course of the letter, was an Ulster Orangeman who was out ia 1798. "I have been in personal touch with the leaders of the Irish cause since Mr.

Butt's time, and have had a share in every phase of the long battle," he says. "And all this experience of the inevitable say that if you now go on 'full steam as you are advised to do, you are going to destruction. "You will remember that, in October of last year. I submitted to you privately, and afterwards published, a scheme for the treatment of Ulster as a separate province. I will now recall it to you, though it may be judged too late for acceptance.

"It was this. By consent of the official Opposition in Parliament, without which, of course, amendments are barred, add to the pending bill a clause that the members elected under it to any constituency in the Province of Ulster shall form a separate and independent Committee. This Committee shah then be the authority which shall have control of every matter affecting any part of Ulster or any person or thing within Ulster, shether it be legislative, financial, or administrative. "And this Ulster Committee shall have sole authority to consider, decide, and order every such matter, without appeal to, or control by, either HOMO of the Irish Parliament, and subject only to the King in Council the Imperial Legislature. This body, freely elected by the constituencies of united Ulster.

would thus be the sole legal Government within the only for a stated term. The authority of Ulster would continue for an agreed period after a General Election to the Imperial Parliament. Then the whole question could be reconsidered according to the result of the polls, and it might by a Referendum be referred to the electors of Ulster to decide if this separate and independent authority should be maintained." GIRL'S LEAP FROM LINER. RESCUER LOSES HIS OWN LIFE. An African World special cablegram from Mombasa on Wednesday states that the steamer Llandovery Castle has arrived, after splendid vorage, marred by a young girl, who was travelling first-class with her parents, jumping overboard.

Ernest Parker, a thirdclass passenger to Zanzibar, dived in and rescued Ilse girl, but sank himself. The steamer searched for him for ninety minutes without result. FOX-HUNT THROUGH A TOWN. Considerable excitement was caused in Grantham on Monday by the entry into the town of the Belvoir hounds in full cry. The fox was killed it garden.

TRAGEDY AT TONBRIDGE MAN SHOOTS HIS THREE CSILDREN AND COMMITS SUICIDE. James Standen, proprietor of St. Stephen's Laundry, St. Mary's-road, Tonbridge, shot his three children dead on Saturday morning. and then committed suicide.

The tragedy was enacted shortly after midnight, and the ahota the neighbourhood. The children were aged six, five, and three years respectively. Standen had evidently shot the children as they lay in bed, and then turned the weapon on himself. A short time ago he lost his wife, and it is believed that this greatly worried him. A letter left by Standen was read at the inquest on Monday.

It ran: "Dear Daisy, This is for anyone to know I leave everything belonging to me to you. I hope the Lord forgive me for what I have done. Don't atop in Tonbridge, where all these wicked people live. Good-bye. I will meet you in Heaven.

My hand is not firm, but my gun will put this right." Evidence showed that Standen. feeling unwell, remained in bed all day. He left his house in the evening in the absence of the housekeeper, and procured drink at a neighbouring hotel. About half an hour later neighbours heard shots. The jury found that Standen murdered his three children and committed suicide, there being no evidence as to his state of mind.

CANADIAN LAND WARNINGS. BUCKET-SHOP SHARKS' METHODS. It is satisfactory to note that some of the journals concerned with Canadian enterprise are warning the public of the methods employed by the bucket-shop sharks. "There are to-day a number of firms and individuals selling to small investors building plots at £lO to £l2 apiece," says C'clitada. if the cold truth about these £lO lots were told by the vendors there would be no purchasers.

The least unscrupulous describe their lots as a good hold for two or three whereas under ordinary conditions they can only be described as a very speculative lock-up for three times that period. These cheap lots are always far away from the built-on portion of the town or city. and they are not 'building lots' as understood in this country at all. They have no roads, drainage, water, or lighting facilities, and there is no assurance that they ever will have. The land, although plotted and registered.

is not needed for building purposes, and may never be. It is just because it is not required for building purposes that this land is passed on to the Bruit-her. The local speculator in land would not even trouble to drive out to look at it. These cheap lots are of such questionable value that they ars costly to sell. They have to be alluringly advertised, and intending purchasers are usually visited by some glib tout who may receive 25 per cent.

or 35 per cent. commission on the sale. The actual value of the land before sub-division may be. say. £2O per acre as agricultural land in the vicinity of a town.

After sub-division the nine plots are offered at £9O. This leaves an ample margin for alluring literature. canvassers' commissions, advertising. Ripe building land in Canada is not sold at rubbish prices, and the selling commission is the regular 5 per cent." AMUSING STORY FROM PARIS. COMEDY OF ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

An amusing story of attempted suicide is sent by the Paris correspondent of the Standard. M. Laplume, of theatre, recently lost his wife. Tired of life, he thought of throwing hini-elf from the top of a column of the Bastille, when he met a girl named Lucienne Neranty at the base. Struck with a sudden Men, he addressed the lady, saying that he was resolved to die, but required If Lucienne could spare an hour he would pay her £l2 for her help.

Lucienne acoompanied Laplume to his lodgings, where he produced a razor, and, after laying himself on a sofa and closing his eyes, he instructed her how to open the veins of his wrists, as be had heard that this was quite a painless way of death. The girl, thoroughly frightened, and that she had to do with a madman, and had better kill him than be killed, attempted to do as she was bid, but, trembling with terror, she only slightly gashed the flesh and herself fainted away. Laplume was annoyed, after waiting a few minutes. that he did not feel much worse, and opened his eyes. when he realised the situation.

When be had brought the would-be executioner to her senses with a plentiful douche of water, he declared that the whole business had been bungled, and that she must begin it over again. He then adjusted a slip-knot round his neck and invited the girl to pull. which she agreed to do. and did so with such effect that Laplume rolled senseless on the floor. The residuary legatee then collected 411 the money, silver, and other valuables in a table-cloth and carried off her legacy, which she proceeded to enjoy in the company of several friends.

Laplume. however, had not been any better strangled than bled, and when he came to he began to regret the testamentary dispositions which had left him penniless. Accordingly he went and told his tale to the police. In a sery short time the discovered Mlle, Lucienne and her friends making merry. and, much to their astonishment, took them to the station.

where Lucienne was still more surprised to find Laplume. CRIMINAL'S "ANGEL-FACE." BOY'S DECEPTIVE LOOKS. Elmer Dillon. known throughout New York as the "boy with an angel face," has been sentenced to three years in a reformatory for vagabondage. He is sixteen, but, says the Daily Telegraph correspondent, looks younger, has fair hair, pink cheeks, and most wonderful blue eyes.

He has been before the magistrates thirteen times in three years, but always protests his innocence, which was corroborated by his looks. A magistrate once said he had never seen such an expression of incorruptible purity and youth. Nevertheless, the police say that the angel-faced boy is a "gangster" of a dangerous type. 'There has been nothing too bad for him in the ways of gangsters' crime, and the leniency of the Bench has been regularly abused. HAVOC OF THE GALE.

MUCH DAMAGE ON COASTS. Stormy weather has been experienced on most of the coasts during the week-end, and much damage has been done to shipping. The Channel steamers have had rough passages, and were late in arriving. During the severe south-westerly gale which raged on Saturday night the Dutch steamer Dorothea went ashore between Langton and twelve miles east of Lyme Regis. A heavy gale at Swansea on Sunday caused havoc to the sea embankment, washing down huge stones and rolling others a distance away.

The top of the embankment for 200 yards has been broken up, coping having disappeared to the extent of several feet in depth. Waves striking the stonework rose 70ft. into the air, scooping tons of embankwent away. At Portlicawl the roads were rendered impassable. The fiercest gale experienced for twenty years raged at Morecambe, causing considerable damage.

Heightened by the northwesterly wind, huge seas broke over the promenade until the three-mile sea front was one stretch of water several feet deep. The side streets, too, were flooded, and furniture in basements floated in all directions. Huge slabs of concrete were torn out of the promenade, and yards of palisading were uprooted, while the seats were tossed like corks into the roadway. Both ends of the town are isolated, and the shore is strewn wreckage. BLIZZARD IN AMERICA.

The woret weather experienced in the Atlantic for many years is responsible for the beet that forty steamers, including ten Transatlantic liners, were on Sunday overdue in New York, while on lend an North-Eastern America was in the grip of the heaviest blizzard known for several winters. The snow lay on Sunday in depth from six to thirty-two inches, and twenty persons are dead or missing. The Campania, with the Englieih mesas La Savoie, with the French mails; the Amerika, with the German mails, all due on Saturday, did not arrive until Monday. OCZANIC'S STORMY TRIP. The Oceanic arrived at New York on Friday night, two days late, after a terrific battle all the way across.

A great cumulative wave struck her on February 6th, breaking three ports on the spar deck, which were protected by steel shutters. Mr. C. A. Cason, the occupant of one of the state rooms, was in his bed, and a large piece of plate-glass shot across the room and cut open Isis head.

Two other passengers who were on deck were knocked down, and only saved by the rail from being washed overboard. KING AND RUGBY FOOTBALL. VISIT TO ENGLAND v. IRELAND MATCH. The King.

who takes a great interest in Rugby football, and who usually attends at one important match during the season. motored on Saturday afternoon from Buckingham Palace to Twickenham to witness the match between Ireland and England. His Majesty was accompanied in the car by Earl Granville (Lord-in-Waiting), Sir Colin Keppel (Groom-in-Waiting), and Colonel Si Frederick Poneonby (Ecjuerry-in-Waiting). At Richmond and other points along the route great crowds assembled to cheer him as he passed. The football ground was reached jupt before three o'clock, and his Majesty received a great ovation as be paased into the ground and was conducted to a reserved teat.

The Prime Minister also attended the match. and occupied a seat next to the King, while in the immediate vicinity were uhe President of the Rugby Football Association and members of the Committee who bad received his Majesty on arrival. DUBLIN RIOTS COMMISSION. PRAISE FOR CONDUCT OF POLICE. The report of the Commission into the recent disturbances in Dublin states that in the riot in Sackville-street on August 31st.

when Mr. Larkin was arrested in the Imperial Hotel, the police acted with prudence and skill. The orders given them and the baton charge by which they were carried out were justified by circumstances. Regarding the scenes in Corporation -street, on the same day, when the police were alleged to have entered houses, Intoned the occupants, and destroyed furniture, the Commissioners conclude that a number of constables lost control of themselves owing to the excitement, and inflicted injuries on certain people. The general conclusion is that the (Akers and men as a whole discharged their duties throughout a trying period with conspicuous courage and patience.

They were exposed to great dangers and treated with great brutality. Had it not been for their seal and determination the outburst of lawlessness would have assumed more serious proportions and been attended with far more evil results. STOCKBROKER'S CLERK'S SUICIDE. At Wolverhampton on Saturday a coroner's jury returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind in the case of Frank cecil Edwards, nineteen, stockbroker's clerk, of Tettenhall, who shot himself with a pistol in his employer's office on Thursday. During the inquiry the Chief Constable (Captain Burnett) commented on the unrestricted sale of weapons such as that with which Edwards shot himself, and the jury asked the coroner to write to the Home gecretary concertiing the Pistols Act 1903.

MR. JOHN BURNS AT STOCKPORT. Mr. John Burns, the President of the Board of Trade, at Stockport on Saturday dealt with the record of the Government, and gave some striking figures about the working of the Old-Age Pensions Act, the Honoring Act. and (on the Fiscal question) the growth of British trade.

He described the Land programme as "the most recent and most decent attempt" of the Government to deal with serious problems, and insisted that, whether other charges on the and have to be reduced in consequence or not, a decent wage must be assured to the agricultural labourer. The Hudson Bay Company nn Saturday let contract to build a departmental store at toria. 8.C., at the price of some £160,000. HINTS FOR THE HOME. EYES AND EYELASHES.

daily "eye-bath" is an excellent means preeerring the sight and beauty of tlig eyes, and is particularly valuable for peoplo who motor a good deal, for nothing is more isjarioue to eyes than frequent contact with dint. Dissolve one teaspoonful of bowie said powder in one pint of rosewater. Every night pour some of the lotion into a glees eye-bath, odd enough hot water to render it tepid, and baths each eye in turn by opening and shutting it in the lotion. A simple way of beautifying and increasing the growth of eyebrows and lashes is to apply a modicum of purified white vaseline every night, smoothing the eyebrows well with it, but merely smearing it lightly on laehes and lids. FRUIT FOR THE COMPLEXION.

As every woman desired, to have a good complexion, she should remember that the benefit to her skin from any cosmetic es lotion is not to be compared with that to be given by the use of fruit. This should he eaten as a staple article of diet, and not me luxury or delicacy. Grapes and apples are amongst the most nutritious of fruit, NA these generally agree with even the most delicate. A baked sweet apple with cream ia both nutritious and good for the skin. Strawberries enrich the blood, and contain a Laren peroentage of iron.

Oranges and lemons ara of great value in improving the complexion, and a couple of oranges eaten before breakfast will often clear a muddy skin. Those who suffer from acidity should not eat acid fruit with fr-inaceous food. Fruit, such plume, ghoul(' be thoroughly masticated, and the skin of raw fruits should never be eaten. DIET IN AN.EMIA. A German professor gives some valuable hints on diet, writes a contributor to the Family Doctor, which, though ostensibly for the use of anaemic women, are worthy of the attention of all housekeepers, particularly those who have to cater for growing girls.

He says that anemia is the result, more frequently than not, of a badly-chosen dietary, and says that the trouble can be avertedand even the persistent eating of spinach, lentils, limes, black currants. damsons, and of all fruits and vegetables containing iron. Another splendid article of diet for suoh women, declared to be infallible by some doctors, is marrow. The contents of a marrow bone taken daily on toast are said to be the most blood-making of food. A CASE FOR SILVER.

livery well-ordered household boasts of its table silver, and there is no doubt that a cev. lain variety of silverware adds greatly to the appearance of a table. There are, however, many housewives who forego the pleasure of having silver because of the additional care it requires to keep in perfect condition. When choosing your silver aelect a plain design. You may find it more expensive, on account of its thickness, than the elaborate raised patterns, but it is far easier to clean and shows better taste.

If you do not possess silver chest, sad there is no small cupboard which can be used to store your silver, have one made large enough to acoommodate your collection. Line this throughout with green baize. and make cases of the same material in which to roll the cutlery. These are easily made In this manner: Take two strips of baize, one wider than the other, and stitch them together in envelope fashion, the top of the wider half folding over the other. Stitch in vertical lines to form pockets large enough to accommodate a knife, fork, or spoon, and attach a piece of tape to one end with which to tie the roll shut.

CARE OF GLOVES. perfectly-fitting glove should encase the bead comfortably, without any sign of wrinkles and without any undue pressure. To put a short, new on properly, slightly warm it; duet a little French chalk into the inside, turn the back up over the finger. and proceed to put the fingers on gently, pressing them till the tops of fingers are wel ldown in place and the seams perpendicular at each side; nert put on the thumb, being careful that the end seam sets over the centre of the thumbnail, not along it; now fold down the badk and smooth out all the wrinkles; commence to button from the second button; the first button should not be fastened till all the rest are done; in removing gloves, it is best to turn the wrists up over the hand and draw them a inside out; the fingers should at be turned, then blow into the hand and pull them gently into shape; place them fiat, never roil them over into the other. Long gloves should have the arm part gently pulled from side to side to widen it, then the hand must be slipped through the arm and the fingers and thumb put on as for a short one.

Care in putting on and keeping gloves will make them hurt nearly twice as long as if used carelessly. NICE DISHES. CNICIZIN AND OILIEST up some cold chicken free from gristle and ski. Pass it through a fine mincer with an equal quantity of crisp heart of celery. Mix into paste with enough mayonnaise to make it spread easily, season with salt and pepper or paprika, and spread on buttered bread, white or brown.

hinges AND POTATO hot potatoes smoothly, and mix with them some butter, iust a little cream or milk, and a good lag of salt and pepper. Use half of this to lino large buttered patty-pans (or the china baking diabes about the size of and ratloer deeper than a tea-saucer). Fill them with any kind of minced meat, flavoured with powdered herbs, highly seasoned, and moistened with gravy or water. Cover with the remainder of the mashed Potato, brush over with beaten egg, and bake for about twenty minutes in a moderate oven. Good gravy or diluted meat extract should be served with them.

Sturm two and a-quarter pounds of either breast or loin of mutton, two tablespoonfuls of breadcrumbe, one tablespoonful of chopped suet, a little chopped parsley and thyme, pepper and salt (a little chopped onion may be gelded if the flavour is liked), and one egg. Carefully remove the bone from the mutton neatly with a sharp knife; mix all the iegredientt, have the egg well beaten, and bind them together with it. Put this stuffing in the mutton; fold and sew up. Cook for one hour, basting well. Serve very hot, with gravy made from mutton.

CHABTLIIT butter a pudding basin. and put in first a layer of currants, them a little brown sugar, a sprinkling of grated lemon-rind, a little finely-chopped beef suet, and cover all with a thin round of buttered bread. Repeat this until the basin is nearly full. To half a pint of milk add a well-beaten egg and a grating of nutmeg. Pour this over the pudding, and allow it to stand for an hPur to thoroughly soak, then steam continuously for two hours.

Turn out and serve with custard sauce. THE HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1914..