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TEE WEEKS NEWS. Judge Miller, of Galt, died suddenly last Week of heart failure. He Wasiu his Slst year. Governor Rryaf cf the North-west terri- tories is in Montreal John Balmer, a London Township farmer, luicided by taking Paris green. Judge Peters, of Charbttetown, P. E. I., is dead. Natural gas has been mruck at Medicine HuiU N. W. T. Salmon is reported unusually plentiful in the Sc. Lawrence below the Saguenuy. A terrific Windstorm swept. over the coun- try north of Winnipeg on Tuesday. A Hamilton paper revives the story that Birchall confessed his crime to Dean Wade. James Allen. Selkirk, has been sentenced to seven yuu‘s in penitentiary for cattle- stealing. Mr. T. G. Shaughnessy Abbott asa director and Sir A. T. Galt, formerly er for Canada in Enghmd, with influenza. The annual conference of the Methodist Church of Manitoba. and the Northwest clos- ed last week. the C. P. R. Eggs are being shipped from Belleville to the English market at the rate of 24,000 dozen weekly. The firm of Radford furnishings, Montreal, liabilities $200,000. After July 1 weather probabilities will be posted at all C. P. R. telegraph offices in Manitoba and the Territories. A meeting of the citizens of Montreal was held on Saturday to inaugurate a movement for a monument to Sir J ohn Macdonald. A (lespatch from “"innipeg slates Arch- bishop Tache, who has been seriously ill, is now much better. ~ A money by law to raise $45,000 for grad ing and improving of streets and building a new bridge over Rideau River was defeated at Ottawa, by a. vote of 398 for and 6'76 against. The supreme Court has postponed giving a decision in the Manitoba School Act ap- peal case until the October session. The C. P. R. steamer E has made the fastest trip the Pacific, viz., 10 days utes. The Dominion fishing regulations have created consternation among the Icelanders and Indians on the shores of Lake Winni- peg. The vexed question of the proper space to be allowed cattle on board ship has been settled by the Government sending instruc- tion to their inspectors at Montreal not to pass any vessels the fitting of which will not give 2 feet 8 inches stall space to each head of cattle. Edison’s phonograph was used for the first time on Tuesday in Ottawa in preparing the Senate Hansard. The first cylinder des- patched to the Government printing bureau had marked upon its surface the speech of Senator Gowan with regards to the proâ€" posal to aboiish the functions of grand juries. Canon Legge, vicar of Lewishmn, is the new BLshop of Lichfield, Engfand. Striking laundresses In London, Eng, are engaging in riotous demonstrations. lapse. The Prince of ‘Vales’ life is insured for $800,000. At Oxford University last Week honorary degrees were conferred upon tho Duke D’Au- male and Mr. Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland. The population of England and Wales is 29,000,000, an increase of 3,00‘,000 in 10 “*3? E. Dwyer Grey has been invited by Parnell to contest the Parliamentary seat of the late O’Gorman Mahon. The Bank of England’s reserve now amounts to £19,435,697, having increased £722,000 in the past week. Mrs. Duncan, Whose husband attempted to murder her several weeks ago in Wales, has had a relapse and is unconscious. Sir Prescott Gardner Hewitt, the distin- uished English surgeon, died in London on gaturdp y. The Irish Laud bill passed the first read- ing in the House of Lords on Monday, and due second reading is fixed for the 25th inst. The Executive Committee of the English Nonconforxfiist Council has passed a. resolu- tion deploring the fact that gambling and betting were prevalanb in English society. James Patrick O‘Gorman Mahon, M.P. for Carlow, Ireland, died last week, He was Dom in 1803 and had been in politics over 60 years. The British Parliament will prorogue on August 6, and party managershave received instructions to prepare for dissolution early next summer. The body of amurdered woman was found at a. house in Tottenham Court Road, Lon- don, on Sunday. The murderer escaped. The Prince and Princess of Wales and sev- eral of their family are staying at the fashionable watering plaee of Emstbourne, and the neighbourhood is on fete in their honour. The English Court of Appeals has refused to grant Miss Gladys Evelyn a. new trial against \Villiam Henry Hurlbert for breach of promise of marriage. Lord Salisbury told a deputation of the Untited Empire League that it was impos- sible for England to give perfenential treat- ment to the colonies at the expense of the rest of the world. ' The National Press, of Dublin, says pro- ceedings have been commenced against Mr. Parnell to recover $3,500 which he was ordered to pay as costs in the O’Shea. divorce case. The English Liberal leaders are a good {leal perturbed over Sir Charles Dilke’s Ipeecll at Chelsea, in whlch he intimates his readiness to re-enter Parliament not; as v. follower, but as a. leader. Sir John Gorst has resigned the Political Secretaryship for India. This was not un- expected, as of lab L1 baa been exhibiting Mr. Gladstone has suffered another re GREAT BRITAIN AFADUN assigned High Commission- is dangerously ill succeeds Premier vice-president of Empress of Japan on record across ‘21 hours 23 min- 30., men's T esday; Radical leanings scarcely consistent with an o‘dicer of the Conservative Cabinet. To preserve the Prince of \Vales from temptatlon a. writer in a London paper sug~ gests that his associates should be men of not less than forty-five and women not under fifty-two years of age. 0! money 001 Campaign was Mrs. Quinton and Mrs Widows of Chief Commissioner Political Agent Grimwood. w lives in the Manipur massacr accorded pensions of $1,500 a. 1 The Times of India. asserts thousand of the pilgrims who g and Mecca never return owing crowding on the steamers or cases contracted on the land Sir James Fergusson stated in the Eng- lish House of Commons on Monday night that Sir Julian Pauncefote expects to be able to proceed without further delay to discuss with the United States Government the terms of the reference of the Behring Sea dispute to arbitration. land. 'l‘he exact number or Kiueu 15 iou, and of the injured 300. The American Ministers in Paris and Berlin are renewing their efl‘orts to get the restrictions on American cattle at those points removed. A tribe on the W'esb Coast of Africa. has been reduced to starvation , and every family among them for some time back has had to give one child to be killed for food. A special cablcgi'am to the Mail says some members of Parliament, are bringing pressure to bear upon Lord Salisbury to carry out acommcrcial reciprocity policy for England. It is admitted the work must, be begun with the English colonies, and commucations with Canada, Australia, and New Zealavud have been privately going on for some time past, it is said, for the forma- tion of an Imperial zollverein. France is anxious as to Russia's attitude 1n the event of another Franco-German war. Haaki Pasha, governor of Yemen, and his stall" have been massacred by the Arabs. Pennsylvania coal sells in Italy cheaper than Welsh coal. Diamonds of the purest transparency have been found in British Guiana. ‘he Radicals in the Italian Chamber of Deputies are starting an anti-corn duty agi- tation. - Fifty Jews have sailed from Antwerp for the Congo Free State. This is the first batch of Jews to go mto that region. Advices from Hayti, via. Paris, say that the country is now tranquil, Hyppolite and his forces having suppressed the late revolt. The harvest, in Hungary Will be middling r. The harvest, in Hung in quantity and quality will be decidedly inferi‘ the last, five years. More dead bodies have been found in the debris of the railway wreck at Halsefiwitzer- land. The exact number 01 killed is 130, Prince George of Greece has arrived at San Francisco. Germany’s production of silver in 1890 was 770,000 pounds, abouc 9 percent. of the World’s product. The Government of New South Wales has pronounced in favor of women's fran- chise and the principle of one mzm one vote. A deaf and dumb man Was arrested in the Village of Hembin, Austria, [01‘ vagrancy on May 28, and was put in a cell. The po‘ lice forgot all about the prisoner and did not; visit his cell again until )estei‘day, when it was found thus the man had died of starvation and that the body had been eaten by rats. A Champion (nunmnn Tells How to Win Races. When I am in training, writes Edward Hanlan, I get up at six or half-past six, walk one mile, running perhaps two hundred yards at a, stiff speed, sufficiently to get my wind. Then I return and take a. light show. cr-bzith, after which my man rubs me down with ilesh gloves, rubbing in all directions. Afterwardshegoesovorme with his handsnnd then fansme dry with atowel. I then rest for twenty minutes before sitting rlowu to breakfast. I eat for this meal some fruit and a. small steak, and drink a. glass of milk and cream. After sitting around for an hour, I go for a. two or three miles’ walk. Then I go to my boat-house and am rubbed down. After this I take a spin over the course, rowing from twenty-six to thirty-two strokes a minute. This is simply an exercise row. The rubbing process is gone over again when Ireturn. For dinner, I have roast beef or mutton, sometimes a. fowl, with vege- tables. I rest until halfâ€"past two, take a walk, and then go for another exercise row. Once or twice a. week I take a “ Speeder ” over the course. One thing amateurs should hear in mind : never leave your race on the river, that. is, never row six races 3. week beiore the day of the race comes. It stands to reason that no man can row as hard as heis able, each day, and be in better con- dition the day of the race than when he be- gan training. A Constantinople correspondent tele- grapllszâ€"Au extraordinary incident is re- ported by the commander of the French steamer Circassien, of the Puquet Company. On the 15% inst“, in the open sea, near the Archipelago, at the entrance to the Dardalr elles, he met, three boats, partly decked, fly- ing signals of distress, and lying directly in the way of the steamer. On approaching two men only were observed on each, but others were believed to be hidden. On be- waters for sixteen years, an any pilots before. He has were pirates. litical Agent ‘ es in the Man :orded pension The Times of ausand of the} d Mecca never )wding on the IKOVV “AXLL‘J TRAINS IIIMSI an (1 ( the Pia-Hes in Ike Hellesnonl. ibi'ed tile GENERAL they repli , “while in Austria ft )r to the harvest of served on each, mu ;0 be hidden. On be got in the steam ied that they wen has no doubt they EFVIC 11-5. Grimwoocl Ier Quinton and who lost their acre, have been a. year each. rts that over a. K) go to Bombay | that over a. go to Bombay ; to the over- owiug to dis- journey from ces. rI"he cap- zvigated these has never met Au Obaorvlnz American may Describes the Scenery and the People. 05: THE SAGUENAY, June 17, BBLâ€"The voyager up the Sagucnay begins his explor- ing at the spot where one of the earliest French colonies was planted. “ At Tadou sac,” says Parkman, “ at: the mouth of the Sagnenay, under the shadow of savage and inaccessible rocks, feathered with pine, fir and birch trees, were built a. cluster of wooden huts and storehouses, and sixteen men were left to gather the expected harvest of furs.” “ And here they would have died of hun- ger in the winter," says Garneau, “ had they not been received into the cabins of the savages.” , This first attempt at settlement, about the 1 year 1602, was repeated later and often be- l fore any firm establishment was made. Yet in 1617 Tadousac was the most important trading post on the St. Lawrence, outrank- ing Quebec and Montreal. In that year the first mass was said there, in the chapel of branches, “ while two soldiers kept flies of)" the priest with green boughs.” No flies sally out from Tadousac to afflict the tourist now ; but this may be because thostcamer arrives there at night, both going to and returning from the Saguenay. You must step off and remain through daylight if you would see that summer resort which has grown over the old trading post. It is like approaching a. huge condensed lump of night with a few beacons dotting: its frontâ€"v a constellation~the clippers! Voices come down from invisible hotels and make cheer on the high landing. Summer costumes move about there, and though you get an‘ impression that the resorters have to climb ladders up the hill, they are so merry at their chattering that it seems the most 1 agreeable exercise in the world. But by sunrise I‘adousac is not formid- able. Here the St. Lawrence River is so ‘ many miles Wide that two hours’ steaming is required to cross it, and the heights are the beginning of that sublime cleft which seems to have opened betwixt mountain ridges to let out the Saguenay. Swarming to Tadousac come the hunter, the priest who loves to fish, the member of Parliament and his family, the Canadian and American tourist of every variety. Many prefer this rugged spot to the smooth drives, ‘the easy boating and gypsy-like village of Melicite Indians, to say nothing of country cottages and hotels. at Cacouna. Bay, on i the opposite side of the St. Lawrence. l Perhaps few of all these passers care to recall the fact that Champlain retreated to Tadonsac after the starving fort of Quebec was first taken by Kirke. But nearly every one will straggle into the old church, built in the nineteenth century, containing among its venerated objects an image of the child Jesus presented by Louis XIV. Soundings at the mouth of the Saguenay reveal the fact that its bed is far below the bed of the river into which it flows. St. Lawrence water is limped blue green. The Waterof the Saguenayfiwellxng and billowing around a steamer, looks black as ink, except when the sunlight strikes through its salty mottles or where it foams like clear ale upon its own pebbles. _ This mountain locked gulf is by no means a. river of islands like the St. Lawrence. It liegsmooth, deep. savagely dark, glassiug heights whose shadows creep out until they nearly cover the surface. Neither is it full of ports. There are no breaks and buys and covers for convenient landing until that huge square side lake called Ha. Ha. Bay is reached. \Vell might the first explorers burst into a. shouting laugh when they found this splendid opening among cliffs. It lets you out of Saguenay into an entirely new northern world. The Quebec steamer making the voyage of the Saguenay only stops at Ha Ha. Bay once, either ascending or descending the river, If your steamer puts you in there in the morning. it will not take you offin the after- noon when returning from Chicoullimiqthe limit of navigation. Entering Ha Ha Bay is leaving the Saguenay miles behind. It is a good experience to come up river in the night, lie suspended from earth in fogs until the sun winds them all up, and then (lis- cover and possess yourself of that paradise. The hills here slope down to a leVel beach. Grass grows in the seams of their rock-paved sides. A trout stream called Ha Ha River descends over stones from the west. And as soon as you land the woodsy odor of blueberries meets youâ€"not such blueberries as come to market, all bruised and bleeding their freshness away, but the Virgin fruit, each berry yetinits veil of mist, a hugh complete globe. Inlways had a contempt for blueberries until I saw them at Ha Ha Bay. Picture the earliest explor~ ers of this river pulling their boats up the beach without having to feel along the tim- bers of a long steamer causeway. No Nor- man roofed village of St. Alphonse climbs the slope before them, and the small blue- berry canning factory of present date is not there to send tut fragrant steam for their noses; neither does a. wooden path hoisted on supports like a. flume wind up the heights. They have arrived a. couple of centuries before the summer tourist, and nobody lounges down to the landing‘to tell them big trout stories or to report how much game can he found back in the hills. They climb the granite hill breasts, do these ex- plorers. \Ve will say it is about sunset, and the bay behind them is a vision of rising mist and silver afterglow. In all their lives they never tasted such freshness in the air before. It is heaven only to breathe there. But men are so strangely constituted that air is no stay to their stomachs. They must have bread. brawn if they can get it, and fish or wild fowl wherever that is to he had. These explorers are very hungry-â€"too hun- gry to wait for fish or game. Besides the foaming little river-and perhaps this is the reason they called it Ha. Ha. also, for nothing makes a. man so cheerful as his ready dinner ‘ â€"they see a camp of Montaignais Indians, just squatting around the kclvt‘e. No gong has to be sounded for these rav- enous voyagers, and the Frenchmen who ventured first on this continent were always so well bred that they were received with- out question in the best; Indian society. A chief rises to meet them and make them free of the hotch-potch in the kettle; the voiceless (logs snuff around their heels ; pappooses regard them with solid gaze. But, best welcome of all, a. bronze red maid brings a. birch bark platter heaped with blueberries fresher than the first leaves of spring, sweeter than honey, wilder than deerfleshâ€" in short, such aboriginal blueberries as can be found nowhere bu t- at Ha. Ha. Bay. A couple of centuries have passed since that occasion, yct newcomers continue to iseek this heavenly spot and the native hand UP THE SAG!!ENAY. Voiture drivers Whisk around St. Alp~ honse wharf, ready to stow you into their covered bucliboards for a. spin among the heights or a. gallop to St. Alexis a. mile or so distant, at; the other corner of the hay. In Canadian cities the cabmen call their car- riages wagons, but when you penetrate the Wilderness on any kind of wheeled vehicle it is sure to be a. voiture. St. Alexis would be named Lumberville with us. See what it is to be brought up by the picturesque Roman Church. The names of saints are scattered overawhole country, reminding the workmen at his roughest labor of good men and women who made life sublime. continues to fill them With blueberries. Though a man of average appetite usually prevents one or two grates being shipped during his stay, the steamers are loaded with coflin shaped boxes all seasons. A New York club~is said to have five or six lakes among the hills. Traces of it may be found in excellent cofl'ee, imported by a. member of the club. The Canadian habitaut knows nothing about. cofi‘ee. His beverage is tea, made almost strong enough to float. him on snowshoes. The sound of the sawmill is heard at St. Alexis, and your chariot Winds in and out among blocks of piled boards. You begin to realize here that the Saguenay is a. lumber highway, and it is realized more abundantly as the steamer carries you on the Chicou- timi. Tugs meet you, towing great fleets of logs enCIOSed in a boom. Logs are the aristocrats of the wilderness. To see them bowing and rolling on the swells of the Saguenay, their rinds indifferent to its salty bite, is to be deeply impressed with the orig- inal dignity of trees. I do not see how men can live among them and in the odor of fresh sawed lumber, without growing into stalwart and wholesome manhood. Sawdust, like tawny lines of a mane, or like long, tremulous strokes of a. brush dipped in umber, streaks the river for miles and lightens its smoke-pearl surface. Nearly all the inhabitants on the upper Sagueuay are lumbermen. Trees rise up the mountain slopes until they stand like ranks of needles: so diminished by distance, so straight and distinct. The white birchâ€"that bride of a. Canadian forest, or first communicant is a better name, for slim and white and veiled in shim- mering leaves she shows herself in proces- sions â€"is more beautiful than you ever find her elsewhere. Steamei‘s carry tourists no further than Chieoutimi; but here the hunter’s outing really begins. Young anlish fellows rush on board, evidently sent out by those mari- time provinces which furnish the cream of English Canada. They are in hunting dress- es and leggings, brown and exuberantly well, loaded with b8.ckle and hunting traps, rolls of birch bark and bags of unknown treasures. Wire line and gray flies are wound about; their hats. “ 1 say,” says the biggest and handsom- est one of them, following the steward with some game in his hands, “ have this dress- ed for my supper, will you ‘2 I want, it, well done, you know. I want it hung directly.” Chicoutimi is a. lumber townlike St. Alexis but the rawest of new Canadian towns has at (men a mellow old beauty derived from the invariable Norman pattern of the houses. Turn a Yankee loose in the wilderness, and he builds himself at once as big and thin a. dry goods box as he can rear. It is 8. hide- ous blemish on the landscape, and grows worse with age. But turn '1. Canadian loose 1n the same wilderness, and he adds to it the quaint picture of a. stone based cottage with dormer Windows, up curved eaves, vast Wide chimneys, perhaps a gallery and at any rate some outdoor place where he can sit and smoke his pipe of summer evenings. The house is compact, and it is airy within, Its stairways ascend Without enclosure. The windows swing on hinges, and may be flung wide open, yet when closed are as tight as a wall. No cheap, mean carpets degrade the clean floors. Neither is heat allowed unseason- a.ny to enter this house ; which may be built of wood or stone or of the common plaster finish called rough cast. Madeline has her oven built against an outside wall, or standing detached a. little distance from her door. It stands on supports of mason- ary or posts, its round top protected by a. shed. An iron door closes it, and Madeline’s rake and'paddle lie near by. There is always this difference between ourselves and this French Canadian whom I envy with perfect envy. His mere presence seems to breathe out, “I have arrived. Why should 1 hurry and fret myself aboutthings? My house was planned for me before a. lNor- man came to this country, and it suits me like my skin. I have my strip of land, my wifeanzl tWent-y-fivechildren ; Father Francis looks after my soul ; I make the good pilgri- mage to Ste. Anne’s shrine every summer ; I am happy. In short, I have arrived.” I am happy. In short. I have arrived.” The Roman Church 1113 a stone Cathedral at Clxicoutimi besides other solid structures. A Canadian author tells of going on along hunt into the backwoods, and coming out of shaggy forest upon a clearing, where a. massive church lifted its cross to the sun. You cannot doubt his experience. No Wilderness is too remote for substantial Catholic masonry. The Saguenay may be called the great reservoir in which French and Scotch bloods meet and mingle. 1n Nova. Seotia. the Macs swarm as thickly us motes of dust. You are made to defer to Scotch ideas there as rig- orously us you turn to the left in driving. On the other hand, the Province of Quebec almost to the west shore of the Saguenay, is solidly French. The river marries these races, the French stock saving its language as it always does, for that is the prevailing tongue along the Saguenay. It is very queer to find Jean Batti’ MacTuvish and Archi‘ bald l’ilotc, Marie MeElfresh and errgine Mackenzie gobbling French together in exp parent ignorance ofany such ancient verna- cular as Gaelic. In Chicoutiini you wander down terraces and across a. valley, past shops where little spinning wheels are set out for sale, and see a caseadc coming from the hills. Voiture drivers with their board vehicles spin about, ready to carry you to the falls. Chicoutimi is built on the true Canadian plan for n. v".- lageâ€"a. single street following the wig-1 in s of the river, beginning with the church and ending with mills. A Prince Albert N. \V.T., A six Dakota. delegates, after country in that neighborhood Minister of the Interior to re ship for themselves and other: On Sunday several thousand words we transmitted by electricity between N< York and Chicago, the distant instrume reproducing the hand writing of the send at, the rate of tweney-five words a. minute despatch says examining the 1, Wired to the zserve a. town- s from Dakota. nd words were between New ,nt instrument “ When Ismail Pasha, khedive of Egypt, reigned o cal land,”said an acquaintan 011s ruler, “ he haul in his ‘ cage of African lions. Noble 1) Utes they were, and until the event of which Speak/I never tired looking at them. One day hide Walking with his highncss in the garden, She keeper accompanied by a. pretty little girl entered, carrying a. basket, of meat for the lions. The khedive and I walked tow'ard the cage to watch the beasts eat. They were hungry and pounced upon Lheif food with a ravenous fury that; chilled me. Standing close by the stage with her hands resting on the ban was the little child, her long golden hair at; times blown by the breeze inside the inclosure. The Eflht‘dlvc's Brutal Sp! and Ills Wild Efl side,’ said thé khedive‘ “ ‘ Why do you permit your daughter to go so near the lions?’ the khedive asked of the kegpgr. “ ‘ Ofi,’ replied the keeper, ‘ they are so accustomed to her they would not harm her.’ “My blood froze at the command. for Command it was, I tried to speak, but could not, I Was unable even to move. The keeper, with the submissiveness of those who know their lives will pay forfeit if they disobey their ruler, made with his eyes a. plea. for mercy. But seeing none in the khediyre’s face he kissed the little one tenderly, Lifted her up, opened the door, placed her inside, and as the door swung to he turned his face away and groaned. I «n: . ,Ls, “ The ligtle one, though she did not stir, seemed not afraid. The lions a peered sur- prised, and as the largest and erbesb rose and walked toward her I thought. I should choke. Happily, the father did not see the beast. The khedive alone was unmoved and stood gazing at the scene calmly and with the curious smile I had so often seen play upon his features when watching the dance of a. ballet. The lion went up to the child, smellel of her, looked at her for fully half aminute, then lay down at; her feet; and beat the floor with his tail. 7 Another lion approached. The first one gave an ominous growl and the second lion went back. The others crouched low, and each second I expected them to spring, but they did not. This continued, I think, about five minutes, the big lion never taking his eyes from the girl. and ceaselessly lashing the floor. “ The khedive by this time was evidently satisfied, and turned to the keeper and com- manded him to thrust; a. live lamb into the cage through another door. ‘Vith a. celerity I have never seen equaled, the keeper caught a. straying lamb and obeyed. As he did so every Iion sprang upon the lamb. .1 .u.‘ I,L,JI_,. AA“! “ ‘ Take o‘ut, tge Shild !” the khedive cop! manded, and scarce had the words escn. ed him ere the keeper, who had already 1‘ n to that end of the cage, jerked open the r, snatched the little one out and claspgd her Rfiédive laughedZ/‘ltossed the keeper 8. coin, and, taking my arm walked on.” The position of the Queen in English politics is usually supposed to be generally Passive. _Inforeigx_1 politics she has been , ,1: LL- v-3”... nnnannt rwv“ "" ’“ " "a A known, since the Life of the Prince Consort threw some light upon the business life of royalty, to be greatly interested. But with internal English politics she has hitherto been credited with interfering little. At an opportune moment, when the Conservative scheme of local self-government for Ireland is about to be contrasted with Mr. Glad- 1 ston's Home Rule proposals, her Majesty" has permitted the publication of a confi gn- tial communication which she sent to ’the Archbishop of Canterbury on the 'e of another crisis in Irish political histo -â€"the introduction of the bill for the dise ablish- ment of the Church in Ireland. The in- ference is that her Majesty desires/ to make Archbishop Tait‘s memoirs the medium of divulging what her attitude then was, with a view to the application of the information to present events. Her Majesty did not ap- prove of the disestablishment policy, but she accepted the decision of the Country and the Commons, used her influence to induce the Lords on the one hand to accept the bill, and Mr. Gladstone to take conciliatory method with the Lords. The Archbishop of Canterbury was her mediator andgo‘between and throughout the progress of the disestab- ishment bill went through an active period of wire-pulling, interviewing, and lobbying, which would have strained the nerves of a. professional politician. When the bill Went into the Lords the general expectation was that they would reject it, and that another of those constitutional crises would arise which threaten the existence of the Uppeg‘ House as now constituted. The fate of th monarchy is so reasonably associated in the mind ofher Majesty withthat. ofan hereditary Upper House as to create alarm when the position of the latter appears menaced. Un- doubtedly, if the peers had rejected the dis- establisment bill, Mr. Gladstone would have been backed up by an enraged country, and the always impending agitation to disestab- lish the peers as a legislative body would have received a dangerous momentum. The Qucen wrote to the Archbishop :â€" “ Considering the circumstances under which the measure has come to the House of Lords, the Queen cannot regard, without the greatest alarm, the probable effect of, its Auuwvuu ‘- ...... , ~--v :â€" absolute reject-ion in the House. Carried, as it has been, by an overwhelming and steady majority through a. House of Commons chosen expressly to speak the feeling of the country on the question, there seems no reason to believe that any fresh appeal to the people could lead to a. dillereut result. The rejection of the bill therefore would only serve to hung the two Houses into vu._, “0‘- . collision, and so prolong a dangerous agita- tion of the subject.” These words pregv nant of application in the early futur , are being quoted throughout the Lib 31 press as a proof in anticipation that he Queen, accepting the verdict of the can try on Home Rule, will use all her ower and personal influence to preventthe Eordsfjfrom Epposin g it An investigator of t} on animals in the Zoolog discoveredthat most of were very fond of law piece of cotton saturam it between their paws ' _” ‘_Thre_n ppgr} the door and put her in- A letter carrier successfully deliver the name of George he'un. lie-r .‘llajesty In Politics. EN A BEN 01‘ “OHS. the effect of perfumes ogicul Garden, London, )f thelions and leopands vendor. They took a at ed with with gr: ’bsBHfig, “K Va. tér to «man Wit" f9 1‘ w itmnoufiher- “111! a (‘leld 13. ' delight