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The attempt' tu, get the House of Lords to vote in favour of Admitting presse in their own right to gents in the Upper Chamber was defeated this work by the narrow majority two votes. The Will in favour of the new departure was in traduced by Land Astor. There are only about a dozen necreases whe would" b entitled to the privilege, and it is arguetij by supporters of the profesul that if it were carried it certainly would not be of a revolutionary character.
LONDON, May rd. lil is able to make his pence with the arashi and Yorkshire representa inves, when the real struggle takes place the Finance Bill embodying the Budget, there will be further trouble is store for kim and his Ministerial col- leagoos. I hear that as usual & way out of the dihealty will be sought in the form Fot compromise. Mr. Churchill, will con- erde something to the manufacturers of will in the shape of rebates, or a smaller tax. Bup even so this cannot compensate
for the inevitable disturbance of trade that nist inevitality ensue from, tariff.
Te is thought that the next time the matter is brought forward.is vi ngt het mongering. rejected. There is certainly something OLD CUSTOMS..
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in the fact that a roman Sovereign, and can sit nnd vale in the House of Commous or on any magicipal body in the ecuntry, and do nearly Parry thing in public lile, except it is the House of Lords. But the Lords
change act given readily (to and it must be admitted that they were not disposed to yield to the appeal of Lord Astor, who moved the Bill. The peers aght shy of fundamental change on the initiative of a private member. Lord Birkenhead" carried a good many of the peers with him by saying that the matter is bend up with the wider ques tion of House of Lords reform, and it ought to wait. But the general feeling is that if, the wetten have to wait till House of Lords reform is tackle they will wait a long time! Argey, the question has been shelved for at least a year even for the purposes of discussion at Westminster.
THE FIRST COURT.
England is a land of many" old cus- | toms and quaint usages which have coure own from the dim and distant past. Only last week a Court Leet of the Savoy in London met to receive the assurance of the jury, paid for their services by the Dachy of Lancaster, that the boundary marks of the Savoy estate were in place, The jury went round and examined tablets and signs on houts in main streets and hidden away in narrow pass- ages and in churches, all designed to inlark the boundaries of the estate.
This is, of course, equivalent to the ancient custom of beating the bounds is country parishes in England, where toys are taken round by the headmen of
village and are literally lifted up: and bumped on "posts and stones used as boundary marks from time immemorial. The process of bumping the boys upon the hard posts is calculated to impress. apan their youthfal ininds for the re- mainder of their lives when the Boundary The King and Queen held at Bucking marks were situated-a very good if d ham Palace this weak the first Court 61; rough and ready method before people! the season; and the scene ne truly a could read. What happened in the Saroy The first t'ourt is is a reminder of the time when the ducal magnificent one. always mainly diplomatie, and on this property in and around the Strand was occasion there was a very large attend, mostly open fields. ance in the diplomatic circle, the number..c." AS ALE-TASTER.
of foreign uniforms and decorations ech Another old custom was observed this! tributing to the colour of the scene. The week in. Buckinghamshire in the appoint ment of Mr. G. K. Chesterton, the namber of presentations have been limit
ale-taster for the ed in recent years to 400 for each Court,, famous writer, ns
The ceremony, but the limitation in the length of the parish of Beaconsfield. trains worn by presenters hus greatly excarried cut on the state of Lord Burn. pelited the rate at which they can passheit, brad of the Daily Telegraph, and Blanor of incidentally Lord of the the Royal presence.
The King wore the uniform of Colonch Beaconsfield, is noteworthy as being the in-Chief of the Life Guards. The Queen inst appointment of the kind that will was dressed in a gown of soft silver be made in that part of the country. The tissue embroidered with silver and din day of "the ale-taster is to see that the mante; the ornamentation taking the ale brewed and sold to His Majesty's form of lilies wrought. U jewels, She linges is pure and wholesome, and more. wore a diamond crown in the centre of over, is of the right strength. The office which was the famous Koh-i-Noor, aid in these degenerate days is an honorary she paid a complement to the overseas on; But it was otherwise in the spacious parts of the Empire by wearing also the times of long ago, before ten and similar were thought of, and good lesser African stars. The Queen seemnedixverages to be in a blaze of splendour in berale was the drink of Englishmen.
But as I have said these old customs dress her jewels, and the magnificent ornamentation of her gown, which shimare dying out. Under the new Law of mered white in the glow of the elec Property Act memorial usages will cease to be observed from ten years after troliers.
January 1st next. It is not stated whe ther G.K.C" will elaina the ancient rights and privileges of his appointment as ale-taster, but if he did he could be trusted to do his duty. The author of
The London public dearly loves to watch the arrival of the favoured guests on the occasion of the Courts. Along the Mall from near the Admiralty Arch to the Victoria Memorial a crowd waited and feasted their eyes on the debutantes as they passed in the motor-cars ever so slowly towards the Palace. No such scene can be witnessed in these days any: where else thesevidence of wealth, and rank, and the fresh beauty of English girls on the threshold of omanhood. TROUBLE FOR THE CHANCELLOR.
Wine, Waser and Song" has sung the virtues of conviviality as nobody else in this generation.
Old Noah he had an ostrich farm and
fowls on the largest scale,
ladle in an egg- He ate his egg with
cap big as a pail. And the soup he took was Elephant Soap and the fish he took was Whale, But they all were small to the cellar he
took when he set out to sail; And Noah he often aid to his wife
when he sat down to dine,
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I don't care where the water KOUS
it doesn't get into the wine." THE LATE LUND MILSER.
Mr. Churchill is finding bis Budget proposal to impose a duty on silk is landing him in endless trouble. How it will end. Lord knows," as Pepys used to write. Except among the out-and-out Protectionists sareely anybody has a good word for 3 tax on silk. It seems that the Chancellor, anxious to do BOM thing brilliant and startling, when look-
Generous tributes have been paid to the ing round for new sources of revenge high character and long public services and deciding upon silk, made up his of the late Lord Milner. But through, mind to clap a tax upon it. without first out nearly all these references to him considering what the effect would be in there is a note of regret that he failed the whole field of industry. He did not in one very important respect. He never take anybody outside Government officials established real confidence on the part of into his confidence.
the public in himself. He was a man
This, of course, may be clever polities of quite extraordinary ability... While but it is bad business, The result is that at the University those who knew him since the Chancellor's proposals became best predicted that he would rise to the public he has discovered to his amaze highest position in the State: but as ment that in recent years silk has enter sometimes happens the early predic ed so largely into the manufacture of tions proved fallacions. Lord Milner: textile goods in Lancashire, and. York had many of the qualities that make for shire that it may be regarded as a raw greatness, but he never achieved it t material. Silk.is used now for working has been said that a ring of some non- with cotton and wool to give these conducting substance seemed to surround fabrics & Buish that it is essential to his personality and to isolate it from the the trade, especially in the silk industry mass of ordinary men and women. in this country, Mr. Churchill now was never in touch with the ordinary realises that 150,000 people are engaged Englishman.
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One explanation of this is probably his in the manufacture of artificial Bilk alone, and this trade is growing It it origin and early training. He had one absurd to speak of silk as luxury wear part German blood, being the son of a As the Chancellor did when introducing family that had been settled in Germany his proposals, in view of the uses to for a couple of generations, and he was which artificial silk is put
brought up in a German university town. His mind ran on German lines to a large
MANUFACTURZES UP IN ARMS.
!
A few days ago a deputation represent extent. He had the German's great re ing over a hundred different kinds of gard for efficiency, which is commend textile interests in Lancashire and Yorkable, and the German's the Imperial shire waited on the Chancellor to tell German's contempt for personal liberty him his proposed silk taxes would spell and the rights of individuals, which is disaster if he persists in sticking to them. foreign to the English temperament and The significant thing about this deputa English tradition.
tion was that it was the largest and most But nobody can deny that Lord Milner representative which has ever attended was a strong man. When he made up at Whitehall. There is no doubt that the his mind nothing would move him. This whole of the textile industry is up in was a quality that enabled him to build arme. It it not a question of politics or up the reputation he enjoyed as a first- tariffs, but hard business fact. The Con-class administrator. The Chinese labour servative Members from Lancashire are question in South Africa is na illustra in an awkward fix; they are reluctant to tion of this. As soon as he had decided vote against the Government, but they that Chinese labour would be economi- one a duty to their constituents in the cally sound for the country the protests that were raised in South Africa and at matter of silk.
The other night a round dozen of Con- home fell upon care that were deaf to servatives went into the Lobby against hear.
(Continued on next Column). the proposed duty, and unless Mr. Chur.
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the firms day the Duke will open what Next month there will be great doing will be the greatest railway Exhibition in the nearby towns of Stockton and ever bold I will show every kind of Darlington, which will be in a railway locomotive, rolling stock, and railway sorse in the middle of the world's lime material used by British railways for a high. In Stockton and Darlington and century that is, since the historic day the district thereabout the first railway when Locomotive No. 1 hauled the first was set going a hundred years ago, and, passenger train between Stockton and of course, it is quite fitting that the Darlington. There is also to be a pro- chief celebrations in connection with the cession of engines and rolling stock of railway centenary in this country should every conceivable kind over a stretch of volation in travel was wrought. No. 1 aforesaid under its own steam Pivot upon the area in which such a ze railway six miles long, led by Locomotive Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and with a replica of the train the ancient Duchess of York are to spend two days engine pulled on its first, momentous. in the district, July 1st and 2nd. Un journey.B.