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OBITUARY.
The Sultan of Zanzibar is dead.
(From the Comercia. THE EXILE ABDICATES." Y
MADRID, February 8th. The Comte de Paris has abdicated his rights to the throne of France in favor of his son and heir, the Duke of Orleans. The latter, on going to Paris to issue a manifesto, was arrested by order of the Government, under the law expulsion.
A REGULAR Convocation of St. Andrew's Chapter, No. 678, S., will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zelland Sueet, on Monday, the 24th instant, at 8.30-larg p.m. precisely. "Visking companions are cordially invited. CAPTAIN Taylor, of the Diamante, on arriving at Amoy from here on the rath inst, reported that the previous morning he had sighted a capsized Chinese junk with three men clinging to her te bore down, lowered a boat, and tank them off, afterwards placing them on another junk.
THE L and C. Express says that it is likely. the old Kingdom of Brunel, in Borneo, will likely, ere long, enter on its last phase of exist ence, as there is talk of its being incorporated with a neighbouring territory. It has been going piecemeal for some years, and it was evident that only time was needed to bring about the final disintegration.
- OBITUARY. General Salamanch, Governor of Cuba, is dend:
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BRAZIL has a population of 12,333.375.
THE Portuguese gunboat Rio Lima arrived at Singapore, en route to Dilly (Timor), on the 6th | inst. -
IN a paper recently read before the British Association, it was ably argued that man was naturally left-legged.
MR. E. L. O'MALLEY atrived at Singapere on the 5th inst to assume the duties of Chief Justice
of the Straite Settlements.
THE Manila authorities are coming down on the toes of the retailers of their lottery tickets. In a recent issue of the official Gazette these harpies are notified that, to stop the abuses in the "farming" of the tickets by them, due to their keenness after percentages, after this month, tickets can be bought direct from the authorities
by in estors, to the number of three each, for which purpose two thousand tickets are set aside
experimentally. The notice very piously ends
God help the Government."
THE Russian cruisers Afandjur, Captain Chuke-at a meeting in this city, Zorilla spoke of the sia, and Sivoutch Captain A. P. Kasheuninoff, political uneasiness in both Portugal and Spain arrived at Amoy from Nagasaki on the 13th inst, and predicted the union of these two nations will shortly be brought about under a single THERE are some " flyers among the steamers Republican Government. Hearl Rochefort has down in the Philippines. The St. Damigo left written almost the first moderate' article on the Manila on the 15th January, carrying the maile subject of African claims that has appeared may- for Laoag, about 250 miles away. The passage where in the French press. He declares England was made in the marvellous time of 22 days, or bas done only what any country similarly about 500 yards an hour! Arringements are situated would have done. This is about the anly word in extenuation of Lord Salisbury's behaviour that has yet been heard publicly from a Parisian.
ZANZIBAR, January 18th. The situation of Emin Pasha is precarious. The symptoms are most unfavorable.
being made to put this "greyhound" on the
Macão run.
MR. NO. J. FRANCIS, Q.C., was in court for some time during the hearing of the Brands v. Fraser- Smith libel case. The learned Rajah was ob when that sucking barrister, Mr. E. Robinson, served to smile significantly more than once
was endeavoring to teach the Acting Chief Justice the first rudiments of elementary law from a text-book that has been practically obsolete for years. The learned Q.C. was not born yesterday.
A VANCOUVER contemporary states that Capt.
Prst, January 19th. Four persons were killed and a large number seriously injured by the explosion of a boiter in a mill at Dobschutz, Hunguy, yesterday. A fireman who was killed was blown through the roof.
PARIS, January 29th. The Rothschilds have refused to float the new loan desired to be secured by the Prussian Government.
A. Mellon, the Vice Consul for Spain at that place, has sent a lot of samples of Canadian products by the Parthia to Manila, with a view to obtain information regarding opening up a trade with the Philippine Islands. He has collected samples of lumber, minerals and duce, in which he thinks a thriving trade can be hagen to buy torpedoes and other war materials manufactured goods, fruit, and other farm pro
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BRUSSELS, January 20th, The mining troubles at Charleroi have become so much worse that the Government have been- con pelted to sead troops to that place.
LISBON, January 20th. Portuguese officers have been sent to Copen-
for the Government,
The news from Oporto to-night is that the city is in a very disturbed condition. Risting
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1890.
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RUSSIA AND CHINA.
LONDON, February 5th. The formation of two new regiments of Rifles and AMOY, with times, and other interesting for service in Eastern Siberia is ordered,
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GERMANY,
BERLIN, February 6th. The Emperor of Germany has proposed an inte rstate Conference on the labour question; this has caused surprise at Berlin
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THE steamer St. Denstan, which came to grief in Singapore, Harbour the other day in a collision with H.M.S. Conquest, has been efficiently repaired, and left on the 8th inst. for Rangoon: THE tenant of the Bonham Strand shop that got burnt down so mysteriously the other week was again remanded to-day, on ball, the pre mises being a second time released from police supervision.
BENNIE-Mamma, do people really buy babies? Mamma-Of course, child; of courte. Ran out now and play. Bennie (in a brown study) - Then why is it, mamma, that poor people" buy more of 'em than anybody else?
On dit that the steamer Kuling, lately purchased by the Chinese Cusioms from the Company of which Mr. Little is chief director, is likely to be employed to run between Peking and Tientsin. We don't quite see how this is to be done but no doubt time will show.
THE agents (Messis, Melchers & Co.) inform s that the Norddeutscher Lloyd's steamship Sachsen, with the German mails, dated Berlin 21st ulto, left Singapore for this part at 4 p.m. on the 15th inst., and may be expected on or about Thursday, the zoth inst.
THE Straits Times says that there seems to be some intention of starting a National Bank of Siam at the capital of that country, the manager- ship being offered to Mr. W.. Muller, who for- merly represented the interests of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank at Bangkok.
MR. W. GREGORY, late British consulat Ichang returned to Shanghai on the 10th inst, from a journey up the Upper Yangisic. He travelled by road from Ichang to Wan-hsier (about half. way between Ichang and Chungking), and re- turned through the Yangtsze gorges. -
A BLUE-JACKET from H.M.S. Wanderer, who fell from the fore-top, died at Shanghai on the 11th inst. and was buried the same afternoon. In his fall the deceased knocked down and severely injured another sailor, who, we are glad to learn, is now doing well in the Shanghal Hospital.
THE famous Fisk Jubilee Singers are expected here by the German mail steamer Sachin on the arst inst., and will probably give their first performance in the Theatre Royal, City Hall, on Saturday night. We shall give some particulars of this well known froupe immediately on their arrival in the colony.
Two earring-snatchers were the most prominent criminals arraigned before Mr. Wodehouse, at professionals had wrecked the auriculars of a Chinese lady who was in a rickeha near the only got a year's seclusion, but one whipping of Sailors' Home, and one, the snatcher proper, not 25 strokes, to be administered as early as con- venient, and another just before he returned to his friends. The other got the same dose, less the whippings.
THE Straits Times of the 10th inst, says: "Our correspondence from the Native States 10- day is of rather a dreary tendency. From Selangor we have a tale of murder and attempted suicide, from the sea coast of Pahang we hear of a fatal shipwreck and of much illness; from Ulu Pabang our correspondent writes of floods a severe that the Resident could not force his way to a district where his presence was very necessary indeed. Our only pleasant news is from Johore, where everything seems to be going smoothly,"
We have to apologise to our sporting readers for having to hold over recent training notes," but "An Old Sportsman's" time has been so much taken up in coucously attending to an invitation fmm Victoria Regina, by the Grace of God, Queen, Defender of the Faith, etc., to an At home" presided over by His Honor Mr. Acting Chief Justice Clarke, L.B., that he has. id really an opportunity of jotting down his test impressions of the doings of the cracks"
the warpath, To-morrow the old 'an will be
A VANCOUVER exchange denies that the China bas beaten the Pacific record. It shows that the shortest trip made from Yokohama to San Francisco by the Parthia was 12 days and 17 hours, and the fastest outward trip 13 days and 4 hours, whilst the fastest trip made by the China, which is reported to be a 17-knot vessel,
was 12 days and 23 hours to San Francisco, and 13 days and 19 hours from that city to Yokohama. The Parthia therefore remains the Queen of the Pacific in point of time occupied from anchorage to anchorage at either end.
We have an editorial on the recent Brandiv. Fraser-Smith libel case on the stocks, but as we learn that Brandt intends to prosecute us criminally, in addition to sucing us for a million dollars, for stating that he was seen the other morning in a 'ricksha near the Black Rock playing the congenial part of tout, we hold it over until to-morrow, so that we can elaborate it, if necessary. The correspondents who have written as about Brandt and his legal and other advisers will understand why, for the moment, we hold over their communications. We intend fighting this business through to the bitter end.
Veritas nihil veretur nisi abscondi.
Abnormally
denote delicacy and refinement. Asage increases the ear becomes more angular and marked. The
bave large and prominent cars. thin, angular ear is said to denote bad temper and cruelty. People with musical tastes generally large, thick cars are associted with a sensual and coarse nature. Great philosophers. and statesmen have been noticed to have large and sloping ars. The ear of the great Napoleon lobe. The Marquis of Salisbury's ear is massive was rather small, well formed, and with a curved and well proportioned and has a sloping position, lies close to the head, and has a sloping position. Mr. Gladstone's car has a curved banging lobe, THE Geman
tinued to-night. The cause is popular-indig natin against the Government's course in the dispute with England.
Patriotic songs are being sung by groups of people in various portions of the city, The meeting held to-night by the working men of Lisbon, at Camoens Square, was not the big affair anticipated. The Government consider it a fizzle.
The Government has given orders that the strects be patrolled nightly by cavalry and mounted police while the prsent disturbed have called a meeting for the 22nd, to take. feeling continues. Editors of leading papers measures to pomote the rising of a defence furid.
Dill & McPherson's gralo house in Clearfield, Pas has been blown up by burglars. They only fotended to blow up the safe, but the whole building went as well.
Robert Louis Stevenson and party are at: Samoa.
Le Siecle, of Paris, states that Austria's Em- peror will soon abdicâte his throne.
LATE TELEGRAMS.
flag-ship Leipzig arived at Singapore on the roth inst., and was under orders to proceed to this port the following day. The Leibifg in 282 ft. long, 45 ft 8 in. Grond, and draws 2 ft. 7 in. Her displacement is 3,925 tons, and her indicated horse power 3,500 She is built of iron and wood, and was launched at Wilhelmshaven in 1875; she is frigate-rigged, with one. propeller. and can steam about 14 koots, The Leipzig can go 4000 knots at to knots an hour with- out stopping. Her armament is two y ton b..., ten 33 ton br., six machine guns, and two light guns, and her crew consists of 449
OTTAWA, January 29th. men and 20 officers. She is flying the flag of Admiral Deinhard, who is on board, and is
The Canadian House of Commons unanimous. commanded by C pain Pildemain. They passed a resolution regretting the reports vessel was last commissioned at Wilhelmshaven circulated questioning the loyalty of Canada, in 1888, and has since been employed the and alleging that she was desirous of separating blockade of East Africa; thence she went to from the empire, which the resolution declares Athens for the royal wedding, and was then to be an insult to all Canadians.
WASHINGTON, January 19th. ordered to proceed to the Far East,
President Harrison has formally recognized the Brazilian Republic, and in receiving the ambassador, dwelt upon the pleasure he felt at the peaceful change made in the regime, and said it would be his constant aim to cultivate friendly relations with the new Republic.
NEWS BY THE CANADIAN MAIL
The Canadian-Pacific mail steamer Parthia, Captain Wallace, arrived this morning. We exchanges *** take the following telegrams from our Vancouver
BERLIN, January 16th.
Herr von Roeller' was to-day re-eleded presi- dent of the lower house of the Prussian Diet and re-elected. The minister of finance, is submit. Sand vice-president. The secrétaries were also ting his budget, said the surplus for the fiscal year 1888-69, amounted to 80,000,000 marks; estimates for 1890.9 placed it at 586,000,000
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LONDON, January 30th. The Government have decided to send ma chinery to India to make cartridges for the magazine rifle for the European' troops."
The South Africa Company intends, conjointly postal and passenger service from the sea to the with the African Lakes Company, to establish interior, by way of the Zambesi and Shire rivers.
·BERLIN, January goth. Five hundred glassworkers on strikë have attacked several factories la the Bablour dis trict in Bohemia and smashed the machinery, The police, in quelling the disturbance, killed
LISBON, January 16th. Advice from Brazil are disquicting. It is said a brother of the present minister of agricultwo and wounded several. ture, fourex-ministërs, three senators and several
deputies have been arrested as implicated in the attempted revolution of December 13,
They have also divided the year into thirteen months and dedicated the months to Moses, Homer, Shakespeare, Dante, etc., substituting these for the names now in use.
ONE of the most interesting features of modern Greek life is the fact that the inhabitants are above receiving gratutities. Indeed, there is no word in the Romaic language which is the synonym In a cricket match played at Singapore on the for the English "tip," the French "pourboire," 6th and 7th inst between the Straits team that the German "trinkgeld," and the Turkish "back-recently visited Hongkong and a pick-up eleven, the Intter made 79 in their first innings and 131 sheesh.".
for five wickets in their secord, Against this the "Hongkong team" totalled 78 in their first Innings, of which Higginbotham (58th Regt.) was responsible for 45. In the second innings of the second innings of the "Pick-ups" two old Hongkong cricketers. Mr. W Dunman and Lieut. Lloyd, scored 66 (not out) and 35 respec- tively. It should be noted that Dr. Fox, probably the most effective bowler in the Straits Settle ments, did not play for our recent visitors. THE bear that used to be in the Public Gardens The Figaro saya: "Portugal has complained here is being shipped by the Japan to Calcutta, to Prince Bismarck that Great Britain bas on leave. On Saturday Captain Gardner went violated the Berlin treaty. She therfore asks up to its cage and patted it. *
The that a conference be convoked to discus African
affairs."
A war was issued this afternoon at the instance of Mr. Oscar Brandt, merchant and commission agent, claiming from Mr. R. Fraser-Smith, Editor and Propiletor of the Hongkong Telegraph, the sum of "$10,000 damages for libel and his costs of suit; relief sought for payment." We won't make any comments on this just now.
We report to learn that a accident with fire-arms occurred at Tientsin on the 26th ulto, A Mr. Shaw, residing with Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s agent, was showing a loaded revolver to a Chinaman in his room, when it went off and the ball struck the Chinaman in the mouth, passing out at the back of his head and killing him instantly,
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top joint of his finger will never be recovered. We condole with you, Captain Gardner, and tender the following lyrical effort, without malice,
be it understood :~~-~
Captain, Bruin, Friendship
Wooing,
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Fingert Four, (left,)
THE Admiralty have approved of an appeal being made by the Rev. H. W. Millett, chaplain of Sheerness Dockyard, for fands for the erection of a memorial window and tablet in the Royal Dockyard Church, Sheerness, to the H.M.S, troopship Himalaya, (Capt, R. F. Ham- officers and men of H.M.S. Wasp, six guns, which mick), which arrived here yesterday aflemson foundered with all hands on a voyage from from England, brought naval reliefs to the Singapore to Hongkong in the Autumn of 1889. number of sixty-two officers and 626 men. The The Wasp was fitted out and commissioned at following are the names of the former -For the the Sheerness Dockyard, from which she sailed Carolina Liculs, H. Talbot, J. H. S. Bender, about three months prior to her loss, in com Staff Surgeon C. James, Paymaster W. C. Robin- mand of Lieut. -Commander Bryan J. H. Adamson; Sub-Lieut. E. C. D. Clarke Assist, Fay- master A. Cartel, Engineer& Underhill, Gunner 100,
1. Mahoney, Boatswain B. Thompson, Carpenter At the Police Court, this morning Sergeant W. Gould. Cordelia-Lleuts, W. P. Hillyar, Hanson charged a sturdy Chinaman with com- H. B. Hanshaw, C. A. Stokes, M. Woolcombe, mitting a pira-that is to say with being a buc A. J. C. M. Spearman Lieut. C. M. Gordon, can-in other words, that he did attempt tosterRLI,; Surgeon W. Hayes, Staff Paymaster no, these things may be true, but there may be . J. Hoar, Chief Engineer I.F. Ryder, Enginer Boatswain F. S. Boughton, Carpenter R. T. malice shewn with "exercising his own judg-W. J. Hender, Assist Engineer P. D. Martell, ment and Courage" (to quote a recent $251 argument) within the jurisdiction of the Chinese Morey, Midshipmen C. E. W. Pyddoke, E. J. Goverment. He only claimed to be left alone," Carver, J. Bush, Clerk F. M. Mitchell. Leandir. -Boatswain J, Welsh. Imperieuse. Sub-Lleut, and yet Mr. Wodehouse remanded his case for future consideration, We think sonsistency in G, L. Sciater, Boatswains M. Hitchcock and
Connolly, Assist. Engineer H. P. Hawer, Mid- Hongkong ought to be spelled with a #K"
shipmen F. C. Lewis, R. H. Myburg, I. J THE Jorcha, Montlara, with the first cargo of Yorke, W. F. Thospe, G, II. Ballard, P. W. large logs salved from the wreck of the Hatte, Poutifex, J. P. Irwen Assist Clerks B. H. E. Tapley, arrived in the harbour last night and Ward, JF. Wright, H. B. Pearson, F. Abraham. discharged her cargo to-day at Yau-ma-The Hongkong Naval Yard-Engineer E. J.-Taylor. Victor Emanuel-Licut. E. H. Orlebar, R. M.. wreck was visited by a party el realdents on Prince Bismarck is adverse to the Emperor's Sunday when it was found that, notwithstanding 1. Staff Engineer 1. Jefferies, Assist. Par the adverse monston, spwards of half the pargo master R. Blyth, Gunner W. C. Rodgers. had already been recovered and hauled up on Wyers-Gunner D. Murphy, Carpenter R. W. rescript on the labour question,
the beach awaiting shipment to Hongkong, Cogger Orlando (Australia)Sub-Licut, M. none the worse for its immersion. The silving E. Silver Porpoise-Sab. Lieut. T H. operations, now the northerly winde have Foster, Alacrity.Commander C. H. Adair, abated, are being vigorously prosecuted with Lleuts N. S. Rowman and and C. H. Dundas, the view of completing the recovery of the entire Chief Engineer J. Gardner, Sub-Lieut. CR cargo within the next month. The villagers at Curtis, Surgeon B. C. Gurs, Engineer R. W. the scene of the wreck are most peaceful and Towman Andet. Paymaster C. H, A. Ward, readily give every assistance required.
Swift-Engineer E. G. P. Moffatt,
CRETE.
LONDON, February 7th. Greece is preparing for independent action in favour of the Cretans.
The Central Powers have warned Greece that in such case she must stand alone and abide by the results.
GERMANY.
NATIONAL FEDERATION FOR
AUSTRALIA, MO
February 15th The Federation conference held in Melbourne has adopted unanimously the motion for a union of the Australasine colonies under one Gover
ment
VIENNA, January 17th. The results of the German-Crech conférence held in this city, have exceeded expectations, The conference has succeeded in reconciling all differences between the Czechs and Germans in
Bohemia.
PARIS, January 17th.
ON THE RIVER HUAI.
we
The provisional government has ordered that the use of the calendar with saints' names for We have left the lakes at last, but alas
are still at the mercy of the wind, for owing to each day be discontinued, and Comte's Positi vist calendar be substituted therefor This the width of the river tracking is impossible and the wind is against us, so after a hard moming's calendar substitutes the name of same eminent man for the saint's name for cach day,
poling we finish our first day's journey at the Dragon's Nest, ten / from our starting point. It doesn't seem worth while to urge the captain to do another ten to-day with no prospect of an anchorage at night; so at the Dragon's Nest we remain. An aninteresting spot, which by no | means fulfila the promiseofits name, so we leave it on the morrow without any particular feeling of regret. The wind has changed and our hopes are high for a good day's journey. The wind changed, and so did the river. Just witbout sight of Shuang- kou it makes a sharp bend to the south and a couple of hours were spent in reaching an an- chorage. Shuangkou was perhaps the largest place we had passed so far; only a market town, but a busy, populous one, with a not.un- important shipping and fishing interest. It was our first stopping place of cay size in Anhui and the first that repudiated Mexicans. Spanish dollars were in demand, but the domain of the Mexican is bounded by Kiangsu province. Until we crossed the Honan border wa” found that the Spanish colo circulated freely, but in the latter province metal only is used. Close by us was anchored a houseboat flying a white flag with a crimson cross. As we anilopated, her passenger wan a Jesult Father—an old man, an Italias, who on discovering that we did not speak French addressed us in very good English. Like our selves he had started from Chinklang, but he was now within twenty, miles of his destination, whilst we had not yet got ball way.' Ab, said be these Chinese are slow; we have been cleven days doing this distance; had we come by the Lakes instead of by Tangkiangpu we should have been at Wubolsien loog ago.” Eleven days by the long way round! We came the short way and had spent twenty |****
LISBON, January 17th, Mobs of workmen and sailors parade the streets denouncing England. There are many bundreds of adherents to the commercial plan of campaign,
Steamship compaules have transferred their contracts for coal and corn to Belgium. English men employed by the Government are given the alternative of dismissal or rințuralization:"-
English flags have been bought and publicly burned it several towns.
PANAMA, January 17th. The president of the committee which is studying the canal works, in an interview to-day said that his committee bad found the condition of the works and the plant extremely satisfactory, He denies the statement that the committee five members of which are here, is or has been in any way influenced by the De Lesseps party. The committee is composed of twelve engineers who have had no connection with, or interest in, either the Panama or Suez Canal.
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Next day toward midnight, (we had a good moon now) we reached Woholsien, who is a Customs Office, the first we have passed on the journey, Happily its officials were civil, permitting us to pass after a merely nominal examination.
No report of the work of the engineers here will be published until they return to Faris and join their confreres, who are studying the plans for the completion of the canal. Their final report will be made as to whether the comple-
The Island Customs reïvice of China, It is tion of the canal under the conditions conceded by Columbin in 1878 is considered posible, hardly necessary to remark, is an allogether Nry Yong, Januaży 17th. different "service to the Imperial Maritimo Frank Slavin cables from London, challeng. Customs; different in every way possible for ing Sullivan to fight for $12,500 side Londoa two services with the same object to differ, and prize ring rules, in America or Europe; or fight differing itself indifferent localities, as the present with small gloves, Gastle rules, for $5,000 a writer can testify from bitter experience." The side, at California Athletic Club, provided the barriers in the Huai are not nearly so numerous club add $15,000 purse to the stake. Mai as those in the Han, nor are they adminkstered LISBON, January 18th, In such a bigh-handed 'manner. At the Han Although journals, alarmed at the consecustom houses the officials are most frequently quences of the hostility manifested by the people Hunaeese, and the Hunan man is proverbially against the British, advise them to moderate high-handed. He sets everybody at defiance, their bitterness, the boycotting of British doing according to bis own sweet will wherever he tradesmen and other residents in Lisbon, Oporto, goen, striking terror into the heart of many a dis- and other cities, continues, going to the extent of trict magistrate, banker, and merchant, It was the cancelling contracts. A vigilance committee is writer's misfortune on onepccasion to losentative watching the Custom House here to ascertain banker's draft, and only to discover the loss in a who are the receivers of British goods and city eighteen days' journey from that in which denounce them to the pubile an unworthy of the lost draft was payable, Now It must be their custom or confidence. There is no abate premised that native drafts are always payable ment la feeling, sustained and increased by the to bearer, although there is no Intimation to sympathy Portugal receives from other countries that effect on the document itself, and though A PARIS, January 18th: the payee's name is written there a in full. The Anglo-Portuguese dispute continues to After some correspondence and one or two inter be the topic of chief discursion, Last evening views, the issue of the draft having been a, knows