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Ill'. Chamberlain Enterluned by the New Yorkers. The Canadian Club entertained the Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberllia at: dinner at the Hotel Brunswick, and the onasion was worthy of ' guest and of ith. Mr. Wiman int: ced the gm at of the evening, 3 â€"â€"â€"_ .n_.!.. VVluuau luu vuv. ... who amid rea appufiféhéé and responded) as follows 5) th oust “ Our English (zuests “ Mr. President and Gentlemenâ€"0n be. half of my English colleagues and of myself I thank you sincerely for the cordulity of our Iecepticn. Itisa great pleasure to is, at the termination of my mission to America, permitted to enjoy the hospitality of the Canadian Club which was tendered to me almost on my El'l'lVfll. In the inter- val which has elapsed I have seen “(1 heard and learned a great deal which has been of the deepest interest to me, and which cm- not fail, I think, to be profitable to me in the future, and I am glad to say that the greatest knowledge I have acquired of this country has only confirmed and strengthen- ed the favorable and kindly feelings with which I have always regarded the affairs and the people of America. (Applause) It would have been very strange had it been otherwise. for during my stay here I have received from everybody with whom I have been brought into contact, personal kind- ness, encouraging hospitality and generous consideration, which have lift; behind a sentiment of overwhelming gratitude and good-Will. (Applause) Mr. President, in your opening remarks you have alluded with some inluess to uni might imperil hundreds of millions of Capital that is now invested in these great enterprises. And yet, gentlemen, some time ago there were, and possibly even now there are, men who contemplate Without nxiety such a. disturbance as that which I have suggested; and would look forward with a light been to thing that political science or political igâ€" msnceâ€"(lsughter)â€"can doto erect barriers between nations, the social and commercial htercourse between the two countries is pest and is continually extending. The nilwsy systems are so interlocked that any disturbance of the existing relations would constitute something approaching a. disaster which brought me to this country. You ere aware of the object which we had in View and, as you have said, this gathering has special interest in it. I do [\DL suppose that either in Canada. or in the United States If America. there is any partisan so bitter sad so nbsurb as to dispute the importance of good relations between Great Britain and the United States, and especially between the United States of America. and the Do- minion of Canada. (Applause) For thou- sands of miles an invisible trontier line separates the domains of the greatest of land’s Colonies from the vast territories of the United Stntes. In spite 9_f_ew{ery~ the end of which, the result of which, no man can foresee. And that is by no means the worst thing that might happen if a sat- isfactory and friendly agreement is now to be deemed to be impossible. You referred, Mr. President, to the occurrences of a year a- two ago. In 1887, and still m' re in 1886, the Canadian Government of Great Britain, acting, as it believed, in the exercise of its udoubted treaty rights, found itself con- strained to interfere with numbers of Amer- ican fishing vessels pursuing their avoca- tions in Canadain waters. This interfer- ence, whether it was justified by law or not, naturally and inevitably provoked great ir- ritation and ill-feeling in this country, and it is not too much to say that for sometime the peaceful relations between the two greatest and freest nations in the worldâ€" or. if not the peaceful relations, at all events the friendly intercourse between themâ€"was ‘ at the mercy of the officials of either of them acting at a great distance from the central authority, and who might be hot- headed or indiscreet or unreasonable in the exercise of extremely delicate functions. Well, I remember when a first came to New York I was told by a very distinguished American politician that I should find that «no of the great difficulties in my way con- sisted in this, that the Fishery question was, as you have said, sir, so paltry a matter, that is, in comparison with the great Amer- can interests with which this country has to deal, that it was a question which politi- cians would think it safe to play with. Be- lieve me, gentlemen, there can be no graver mistake than that. (Hear, hear and ap- plause.) A question which arouses national sentiment is not a. question to be trifled with. The worst wars which have disgraced hu- manity have. CANADIAN CLUB BANQUET. PBOCEEDED FROM TRIFLING CAUSES, and nations are very often more apt to re- sent petty afironts and injuries than they are a serious invasion of nationalA rights. And, gentlemen,this was the state of things, with which the plenipotentiaries of the two countries had to deal when. three months ago, we math); the first timei {Lt Washing- tgn. And this is the state of things to which there are people in both countries who ap- parently desire to return. If we had treat» ed our responsibility as lightly as some of those who criticise the result of our labours, we should long ago have relinquished our task in despair. (Great applause.) You will readily believe that it was not an easy hsk for us to reconcile contending views and conflicting interests. Both sides believ- ed that they were absolutely and entirely right. Both sides in a. controversy always do. (Laughter.) Neither side probably fully appreciated the strength of the argu- ments that might be brought forward by the other, and it was only the anxious desire all of us had to cement and confirm the friendly relations between Great Britian and the United States that encouraged us to pursue our labor. THE RESULT OF THOSE LABORS is now before you. It is admitted, not to the impassioned prejudice of partisans, but to the calm and sober judgment. to the common sense and reason, and, above all, to the friendly feeling of the peoples of both countries. (Hear, hear and applause.) I have seen this treaty denounced as a surrend- er. It is rather an interesting fact that on the same day I received a copy of an im- ortant newspaper published in Canada, which denounced our agreement as an ab- ject betrayal of_all the rights of Cmadaâ€" â€"â€"(applause and laughter)â€"and the same morning I read an article in an influential organ of public opinion published in New York which declared that the humiliation of the United States was now complete and that there had been a cowardly abandon. nent of all the claims and contentions of A COMMERCIAL WAR, THE MISSION this country. (Laughton) It may appear to you at first sight that these views are con- flicting and inconsistentâ€"â€"(laughter)-â€"but, gentlemen, that would be a hasty judgment. (Renewed laughter.) Theygare absolutely consistent in this, that they are the views of the organs of the Opposition to the res pective Governments which are answering for them. (Laughter and applause.) Now, gentlemen, I will venture with some know- ledge of the subject to say to you that there has been no surrender at all on either side of anything which national honor and national interests demanded that we should retain. (Hear, hear and applause.) I will say that in this treaty both sides have substantially GAINED WHAT THEY COXTENDED FOR, and that the only concessions that have been made are the concessions which honorable men would gladly tender when they are en- deavoring to settle a difference between friends and are not endeavoring to gain an unfair advantage over opponents. (Great and long continued applause.) Now, if you will bear with me, I should like to take this opportunity of saying a few words as to the principal provisions of this alleged capitol» tion. (L mghter.) And at the outset I want to call your attention to this very imr portsnt fact. I have alluded to the irritaâ€" tion which was caused by the action of the 1 Canadian Government in 1886 and 18V]. We have gone to the roots of that irritation, we have removed its causes, and I can tell you that if this treaty had been in operation in the beginning 1886 of all those cases Lf in- ; terference with American fishing Vessels, there would not havu been six. I don t be- lieve there would have been two. Now that is at least an important fact to bear in mind when you are told, as you have been told, that we have settled nothing and that Cana< da has conceded nothing in order to secure friendly relations with the United States of America. On the contrary I say that in this matter Canada has conceded everything that the claims of humanity, the claims of inter‘ national courtesy, or the comity of nations can possibly demand, and at the same time Canada has maintained, as she was bound to maintain, the vital and essential in- terests of her citizens. (Hear, hear.) I don't believe that there is any interâ€" national jurist of the slightest reputation who would deny that Canada had the legal right to refuse the great majority of the concessions that have been made in this treaty. At the present moment the rela- tions between the two countries with regard to the fishery operations are regulated by the treatyâ€"the Convention of 1818. That we have gone back to a treaty that was made70 years ago is not the fault of Canada, it is not the fault of Great Britain, it is not the act of the United States of America, the Government of which country denounced successively the substitutes for the Conven- tion :of 1818, which had been arranged, in the shape of the treaty of 1854 ‘and the subsequent treaty of 1871. By the action of the United States of America the conâ€" dition of affairs was relegated hack to the treaty of 1818. . That treaty of 1818 declares in express terms that the fishing vessels of the United States shall have access to the ports and harbors of Canada for four purpos- es, for wood, water, shelter-and repairs, and for no other purpose whatever. It is im- possible that ‘1anguage should he plainer, and yet at the present moment you find that the opponents of the present treaty ignore altogether the treaty for which this is a. substitute, and they try to construe the words of the Convention of1818. “for no other :purpose whatever," as if they were “ for an other purpose whatever "â€"(laugh- ter)â€"-a.n , gentlemen, although. as I have said, the legal rights of Canada. in this mat- ’ter I have never concealed my opinion, and I state it here to-night, that it was only good policy on the part of Canada, it was only what good neighborhood demanded of Can- ada, that she should not interpret these legal rights in their trictesi; sense, but that they should concede to a friendly nation all the conveniences and all the privileges that; they could possibly accord without serious injury to their own subjects. (Hear. hear, and applause.) Canada declines, and always has declined, to allow her ports and harbors â€"-which Providence has placed in close prox- imity to the great fisheries of the banksâ€"to allow these ports and harbors to be made A BASE OF OPERATIONS FOB COMPETITORS who rigidly exclude her from their markets. These facilities are ofiered freely in return for an equivalent, and as long as the equi- valent is denied Canada. feels justified in declining to share these facilities which are essential to the conduct of the fishery oper- ations. Everything, as I have said, which the comity of nations, or the courtesy of nations, or the convenience of fishermen can require has been and will be freelv accorded by the Canadian Government under the trenty_which we have just made. u," #1,:AL “VVVQLIR: Séétiéd linother matter which has been since this Convention of 1818. We have delimited the exclusive fishery waters of Canada. You are aware that it has been the contention of the Dominion supporters by high legal authority that under that treaty the fishermen of the United States were debarrred from fishing within three miles of any of the bay or harbors of Can- ada. 0n the other hand, the United States have contended that they were entitled to fish anywhere within three miles of the shore, whether in bays or outside of them. We have settled the difficulty by what may be called a compromise, but at any rate by an arrangement which is in accordance with the latest international law. We have set- tled it substantially in agreement with the principles of the North Sea Convention, the latest instrument of the kind in Euro- pean diplomacy, and we have settled it in a way that I firmly believe will be satis- factory to every reasonable and fairâ€"minded man. I have seen it objected to that certain land-locked bays of Chaleur and Miramichi have been excluded. Of course they have been excluded, because these bays come by nature under the exclusive territorial juris- diction of Canada. I should like any Ameri- can who may be present here to-night to say how he would like to apply the ten-mile limit or three-mile limit to the shores of the United States of America “ithout taking care to exclude such bays as the Delaware Bay or the Cnesapeak Bay or the other small estuaries or bays on the coast of the United States. (Hear, hear and applause.) I only ask all Americans that they should be content to do to Canada as they would that Canada or some greater Power should do to them. (Applause and repeated cries of beer, hear.) I will not dwell, althongh ONE OF CONSTANT CONTBOVERSY WERE UNASSAILABLE, PROMPT AND ECONOMICAL JURISDICHON in the case of fishing ofl'ences which limit the penalty to be inflicted and which specify the exceptional cases in which orieiture may well be exacted. But you will see that they are all dictated by the same spirit which has governed the provisiona‘of the rest of the treaty. They are all conceived in a. spirit and with an intention of amity and good-fellowship, and they have been inserted in order to remove as far as passi- ble every future cause of irritation and harfisifip. _ I attach great importance to them. upon those provisions in the treaty which con- template a. WUnde} the treaty as it stands there are only three things which are denied to the fishermen of the United States in Canadian W aters. In the first place, they are not allowed to fish in the territorial Waters of Caneda. They have told us again and again by the mouths of their leading representmives that [his privilege has no longer any velue for them ; that they repudiate any desire to ac- quire it; that they believe it is worth nothing; and that certainly they are un- willing to pay anything for it. We take them at their Word. They will not have the privilege, and they will not be rcquired to pay anything. (Applause). The other two privileges from which they are still excluded is the privilege of obtain- ir‘g supplies for the prosecution of the fish- ing industry, the shipping of crews, and the transhipmen: of their catch. Now, gentleman, is it fair that these privileges. which are part of the commer- cial privileges of Cineda, should be con ferred on American fishermen Without any equivalent of any kind? And is it any reason that two great countries should be ‘kept in hot water because the gentlemen decline to pay anything for priVIleges from which they are expressly excluded by a. similar treaty which they have obtained on a. previous occasion by very large concessions on their part, which at the present time they declare to be worth nothing to them- s_1ves or to anybody else? (Applause.) Even these things they CAN HAVE AT ANY MOMENT. They can have them in the first place at any time when the Congress of the United States may sue fin to give the comsumeis oi the United States a cheaper and a more abund- nut supply of fishâ€"lmghter and applause) â€"and even if the Congress of the United States, in its wisdom, should deem that ' to be undesirable, the fishermen can still have these privileges for the limited period of two years under what is known as a modus vivendo'. I have seen it stated by several who are‘ apparently uracquainted with the figures, that this proposal would involve the pay-‘ ment of $300 or $400 per annum, which would be absolutely ruinous to them. Well, the average size of in American fishing‘ boat engaged in this trade is less than one hundred tons. The annual fee Wuuld be less than one hundred and fifty dollars. But when it is said that this is a monstrous pro- posal, that this alone ought to insure the re- jection of the treaty, with which it is in no way connected, I would venture to pomt out to you that it is a propoasl which is freely offered by Canada as a great and additional concessiomâ€"a proof of triendship and good will, which Canada will be only too happy to withdraw it it is not accepted in the same spirit. There is nothing in this proposal which is compulsory. If the fisherman think that the advantages offered are not worth the price demanded, which we think to be altogether insignificant, if they think so they are not bound to avail themselves of it and as far as they are concerned the pro- posal may be a dead letter. (Hear, hear.) r'iflcan-oluite understand that'the people 'of Canada may think the p‘enlpotentiaries HAVE GONE T00 FAB. That they have gone out of their way in making this offer, but our feelings was that since fishing operations were about to begin we were bound to do all in our power to tide over the ditfizulty and to discover a way to avoid litigation that otherwise might be caused by the persistent refusal of these privileges; but, as I have said, if the offer is misunderstood or undervalued by those for whose benefit it is intended, nothing will be easier than to secure its absolute and tin conditional withdrawal. (Hear, hear and loud applause.) Now, gentlemen, I hope I have not wearied you byâ€"(cries of no, go on)â€"â€"by dealing in some detail with the separate provisions of this treaty; but I have been anxious before I left your shores to do anything which lay in my power to remove some of the misapprehensions which it seem- ed to me prevailed in some quarters respect- ing it. The plenipotentiaries on both sides were animated by a feeling of anxiety as to future possibilities if an agreement were not arrived at, animated also by a strong desire to draw closer the ties between the two greatest nations of the earth, England and America. (Hear, hear.) They prepared and submitted this agreement. The respon- sibility now rests upon other shoulders. It rests in the first place, no doubt, upon the people of the United States, a country where public opinion is all.powerful. It rests up- on the Senate of the United States, upon that great legislative and executive body which in the past history of the country has played so dis Linguished arole,and for my part I cannot bring myself to doubt that they will RISE TO THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS GREAT OCCASION, that they will not suffer party interest to influence them in a matter of international welfare, and that they will do all in their power to aid our efforts in promoting a con- cord upon which the peace and well-being of the world may depend. (Hear, hear, and applause.) I trust that they will remember the words of General Grant, written by him when he was almost on his death bed, and which may be considered, therefore, as his last legacy to the American people. At the closing chapter of his memoirs he saysfzâ€" ‘flEngland and the United States of America are natural alliesâ€"(hear, hear)â€"and ought always to be the best of friends.” (Prolong- ed applause.) That great warrior, who had fought more battles and won more victories than any man in history, did not look upon war with the complacency with which it is regarded by irresponsible politicians and editors of newspapers. (Tumultuous and deafening applause.) General Grant thought he saw the best guarantee for peace in the friendship, which he deemed it his duty to promote; That friendship, believe me, is important to the interests of both our na- tions. It is dictated by our common origin â€"-(hear, hear)â€"-by the ties of blood and of history, by our traditions, and gentlemen, I believe that there is no higher ambition It is time to look through the cellar. We do not want spring-sickness in the family. Remove everything impure. Were those squashes a little frosted, before putting in '2â€" they are likely to be decaying. Some of the onions may be bad. Potatoes may be rotting. Apples may need sorting; cabbages over- hauling. Let everything be put in first-class order. Cellars banked up and unventilated except through the door, should be particu‘ lurly cared for. Get the men at it some stormy day. The boys are in school now; but when they go to Work in spring they will need working clothes. Repair the old ones, it worth re- pairing â€"â€" vests, overshirts, overalls, etc.; for economy is a necessity with many, and should be a general virtue. Whatever is to be made for them, meke now; don’t wait till the spring hurries you. Make summer clothing for the girls and yourselfâ€"plenty of it. It need not cost a. great deal. If there's money to spare after the taxes are paid, ask for some if that is necessary, for this purpose. Men don’t always think. You cannot afford to wait till warm weather comes. and then with housecleuning end your flawer garden on hand you can’t sew. m ‘ .v- ,4, UL uuw 1.2145: . u l . u x. _____ The conclusion ofu figxbhamberlain’s speech was greeted by a most enthusiastic burst of applause and long and vociferous cheering. for a statesman in either country than to have contributed in the slightest degree to draw closer and tighter the bonds of enmity which should always unite all the branches of the English speaking people. 7 - - I I. [‘4‘ ,,,,L__1,‘:‘)_ Rip up all the cutoff clothing, wash when is good, if it; is not clean, and put it to its best 1159. An old coat may have some good humans, something for patches, possi- bly for making a. nice cushion or something else. Old blue pieces may be useful to mend the carriage cushions. The lining may‘ do and the canvas ‘ids goéd to m 3nd pugs with: . . ,1, Look grain bags too ; wash, mend and caution the men folks about the ram and mice. An old pair of pants with knees and seat ragged, may make a pair for little Johnny. An old vest may do very well for some time if it has a new back. Get the carpet-rags all ready and have them woven, if you can, in time for spring house-cleaning. Sewed hit-andvmiss, with no coloring and woven into colored warp, the carpet is very pretty, and costs less than 22 cents a. yard, allowing 13 cents for weaving and one pound of warp to weave 1:11 136 ynrds of carpet. Save the paper-rags. They don‘t amount to much if you make rag-carpet, but thev are worth something. This is a. good time to get ahead with the spring work. But. wibhal, enjoy the winter. Take time to rest, time to read, time to think. Keep the rooms well aired, and don’t get sick from breathing bad air. Take an interest in the children’s studies, and train them to habits of reading and industry. Strange to soy there is a right as well as a. wrong way to wash windows, and it took me many a year to find out the former. I was once so unfortunate as to live in a. house with twenty large, plate glass windows, and they were the bane of my exsistence. When they needed washing I made up my mind to have no help from Bridget in the kitchen or elsewhere for at least one whole day, until at last I practiced for myself, and found how quickly and nicely it was possible to do it. Chooee a. dull day, or such a. time of day that the sun is not shining on them, which makes them dry streaked. Take a. painter’s brush, and dust them inside and out, washing all the woodwork inside be- fore touching the glass. The later must be washed simply in warm water with a. little ammoniaâ€"no soap. Use asmall cloth with a. pointed stick to get in the corners, and wipe dry with a cotton cloth, old and soft. ‘ Never use linen, which makes the glass ‘ linty, and polish with soft old newspapers, or tissue paper. Chuvasse, an eminent surgeon, says : ” Encourage your child to be merry end to laugh aloud; a good hearty laugh expands his chest, and makes his blood bound merrily along. Commend me to a. good laughâ€"not to a. little, sniggering laugh, but to one that will sound through the house; it will not only do your child good, but will be a bene- fit to all who hear, and be an important means of‘driving the blue devils away from a dwelling. Merriment is very catching, and spreads in a remarkable manner, few beingr able to resist the contagion. A hearty laugh is delightful harmony; indeed, it is the best of all music." Don’t grumble if your wife does lose her rubber in the mud occasionally just now ; be thankful that she doesn’t disappear en- tirely and leave you to sew on your own shirt buttons. Persons who suppose themselves to be near sighted and feel the need of glasses, never ought to depend upon their own judgment in making a. selection. They should consult a physician, and a specialist in diseases of the eye, if possible. An exchange says»: _l_36fore any forum; An exchange says : Before any farmer leaves his comfortable Northern home and the friends and associates of a lifetime, thinking to find a better spot South or West, let him take his wife and make a. trip to the land of promise and look the country over. and shipped through the country. It is mostly wreckage. Agreat part of it has once been the material of ships’ bottoms, and was sheathed with copper plates. The Water should always be swallowed slow- ly. It is not the stomach which is dry, but the mouth and throat. If you toss off a drink of Water you throw it through your mouth into your stomach, without doing the former any good, while you injure the latter by loading it with what it does not require. Drink slowly, and keep the water in your mouth for a. moment when you begin. Driftwood fires in open grates are the latest fashionable freak. This wood is gathered along the ceastl packed in bagels The cheapest and simplest gymnasium in the worldâ€"one that will exercise every bone and muscle in the bodyâ€"is a. flat piece of steel notched on one side, fitted tightly into a wooden frame, and after being greas- ed on both sides with 3. bacon rind, rubbed into a stick of wood laid lengthwise of a saw- buck. A BEFORE Sumo COMES. How T0 WASH A LIGHT. HOUSEHOLD. LAUGHTER. “ Stop that whistling I Don’t you know it is Sunday, and the minister is listening to you?" said a young ofiicer to a sailor on board an English vessel on Which a. Presby- terian minister was a passenger. “ Non- sense I ’ said the minister, “ let him whistle ; it keeps evil thoughts out of his mind." I always admired that saying and the man that said it, though I do now know his name. That man knew something of human nature and of the workings of the human heart ; and he had a just and gener- erous idea of the Creator. Like Luther, he believed that “ music drives the devil away." it is positively lnnumen to call attention to a child’s personal shortcomings. We cannot appreciate the heartless pleasure obtained from twitting a child about his large feels, his coarse, red hands, his freckles, his awkwardness and so on. Such references are almost sure to intensify the defect. whatever it may be, by making the child foolishly sensitive over it, causing him to {Let in an unnatural and constrained manner copper salts have impregnated the wood, and when burned it gives out the mosh beautiful green and peacock-blue flames. act in a'n unnatural and constrained manner before strangers. The writer has never for- gotten her feelings when a. girl of 12, upon being told that her hair was coarse, and that coarse hair was an indication of a coarse character. Sarah 13., aged four years, was very fond of cucumbers. Her mother endeavored to dissuade her from eating them by telling her that they would nuke her sick, and she might die and he like a little boy who was buried in the cenmlery with a. lamb over him. The lamb (carved on the tombstone) was mentioned to make the fate seem real ; Slrah had often observed it. Shortly after- Ward her father was eating freely of the forbidden dainty, and her mother said to him : “ I am afraid you are eating too many of those.” “ Yes,” said Sarah, “ and you’d better look out or you‘ll die and be bur- ied ; and you ll have an old sheep on top of yoq.’ A singular effect of a gale of ice and snow in the Northwestern States during the re‘ cent cold wave, was to fretz: the eyes shut and then form an ice mask over the face. The wind would drive the fine, hard snow into the eyes, causing them to water. The snow would mix with the water, between the eyelids, and the cold wind would at once bind the lids together by an ice band. The repeated removal of this would inflame the eyeballs so that a film would iorm, obscuring the sight. After this film formed, the presence of the ice was a relief to the inflammation. The eyes would soon be frozen so close that nothing but steady arti- ficial heat would relieve them. In the course of a. sermon last Sunday on “Piety in the Daily Press,” Rev. Dr. C. A. Bartol, of New York, said :â€"“The press isa. civiliser, a wholesome gauntlet for po- litic 31 candidate 5, a furnace to try charac- ter; hotter than Nebuchadnezzar's. a uni- ver:al incarnation of the child described in Burns’ poem “ Faking Notes,” and a fulfil- ment of Job's wish, “ 0, that my Words were printed in a book and graveu with an iron pen forever." One accent of the Holy Ghost The heedless world hath never lost, because the compositor follows on the com» poser, and the fittest sentence as well as; race survives. Brutal Incident at a Double Lynching in Illinois. CAIRO, 111., March 10.â€"Captain John Cox, of Billiard County reports a. remarkable incident in connection with a. double lynch- ing at Clinton on Tuesday night. Price, one of the men hanged, was not dead when the mob left the scene. but after being cut down by the county judge became conscious and talked to those abouc him. Word was sent to the leaders of the mob, who returned about daylight and completed the job by again hanging the victim, two men at the same time hanging on each of his feet and ‘finally breaking his neck. The cell of the mother of Price was also broken open, and for a. time she was also threatened with the rope. Snow Blockades Arc Expensive. Few people realize, probably, how expen- sive a. snow blockade is to a. big railroad. Superintendent Toucey, of the New York Central, says that one like that of a. few weeks ago cost his road between $5,000 and $8,000 a day, without reference to the loss in perishable freight or passenger traffic. Fortunately they are not of common occur- rence. Asked as to the loss in passenger traffic he said : “ The blockade on our road lasted less than twenty-four hours, and I know the loss in passenger traffic exceeded $8,000. An interruption of traffic on our road for a. week would cost us a great deal more than $50,000. A gratifying preof that patriotism may still, upon occasions, rise superior to party feeling was afforded in the course of a dis- cussion of Foreign Afl‘airs in the British Commons last week. Notwithstanding that Mr. Labouchere had a somewhat mischievous and reckless resolution to offer in regard to the foreign policy of the Government, 'Mr. Gladstone rose and expressed in the most handsome manner his satisfaction with Lord Salisbury’s assurances that the Gov- ernment were not committing the nation by any entangling alliances. The veteran ex- Premier approved generally of Lord Salis- bury’s foreign policy, and declared his hope and conviction that should England’s inter- vention become necessary it would be made in such a manner as to carry with it all the added weight of unanimity in Parliament. The Leader of the Government in the Com- mons was, of course, highly gratified with this action, which he said was worthy of England’s ancient reputation, while Mr. Labouchere was glad to be permitted to withdraw his motion. Half a. million of moneyâ€"or, to speak by the card, £450,000, is, according to the calculation of the County Gentleman, the sum to be expended on the British turf during the coming season in stakes alone. Our contemporary grieves over the dispm. portionate share which falls to the two. yesr~old races as not calculated to subserve the highest interests of the sport in the future, for youngsters are pushed forward in training, and many of the most promising break down altogether, of while those who train on, a‘nd even of thosewho triumph, too many, it is gheerved, are only .the comets of a season. To these lamentations our con- temporary adds an expression of regret for the fact that long-distance races are, for the most part, so poorly endowed. HANGED T‘VICE BY A MOB.