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LAWYERS IN THE HOUSE

OF COMMONS.

BRITISH PULITIQAL - FRENO

MENON.

(By T. II. Sicott

Done with a promptitude and effect chardboristic of and dredisable to the gentlemen of the long robe was Dis - skali's. "ispammens in the February of 1874' antle help nadered by then rising barrister and Church defence speaker in securing the return of the soreath Dulce

Mariborongh's third son for the lazily Bush. · Lord standolph Churchill, thank ying man of twenty-five, fresh from Morton, Usfond, had never attemptadi s public speech isefore, centronting the Woodstock sectors at an afternoon meet- ing with a species of stage fright.or overcome by the novelty pl the situatial,' he could caly get out # deur words and abruptly retire. His locat magonee telograhed to the Conservative beadquarters in 'London: →Send down "as once the greatest nöd mafest man, you have, to rádreas, ami even ing meeting. The hure Sir Edward Cate of those days had bob the inde his household word ise causes celebres like the Peuge sad the Baccarat case; he had; however, the ax

same sort of!

persas reputation as that which, is an earlier äge, won by clever youths at the Eten Pop" or st. the Oxford) or Cambridge Enious, was supposed to spen for them the doors of St. Stephen'c Edward Clarke, in other words, but dis tigua himacf, int only at saalis debatic Societies in tawa or ecmary, a well, of course, as at the Sarrey Sesions,! bat ho the gations platforms of the Carel Delve Tastitnte. At the date. therefore, if the Wordsteek incident his estly relum to Furliament was expertali 1 case on Valentine's Dag. 1880, sotze Edward ten years after another of

Burke's Both. Douglas Straight, had Beered Shawsbury, the consciouency ance (184 pasuccessfully contested by Disrae himself.

AN OLD, PRIJED

These two gentlemen of the long rese, to revive the Eraelian nomenclature, pebisted in to the, last, were therefore contemporaries in the manufactory el

Staturte law, as they had been in the Tar

Courts themselves and there may still be left some who can recall a pretty gom- pliment paid them by their great chief)

on their personal qualifications for over."

osing any effect prejedice that might

ill lark in dark covers against lawyers

M.F's. Between the fourteenth and

he eighteenth centuries the two classes of men by whom the popular Chamber serned to test being swamped were con tractors and lawyer. Throughout the Stuart period Lincola Inn and the "Teniple were the recognised training grounds for the smaller country gentle men who established the supremeey o the elective House, Nothing followed half-beated attempts periodically to clude them by reviving certain alleged.

Ir endal provisions of Edward III.

mes the complains grew that the gentle anon leamed in the law used their place In the fammens to secure more than their due share of the loaves and fishes."

NOTICES.

ARMOUR & CO.,

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WORLD'S LARGEST FOOD PACKERS.

CANNED

The laymen of the assembly complain- ed that their legal zéléagues valued a sest, even the Speakership itself, as a stepping store to inertive aud "ex-Parlin; i mentary position. When these ambitions were not limited by the Woolsock, or Koepership of the Great Seal; the long robe gestlemen had a keen an eye for emolument a habitually to overlook their duty to their constituencies and to the ntion in their place as Westminster. Even Victorian days were not, quite free. os murmur's of conventional and irre- tional prejudice against the nex-comer of the Commons from his chambers hear Cancery-lane. Sir William Harcourt. not more by his Ent-rate ability tha his gradually scquired self.discipline and restraint, completely ved down tins feeling and became a. Parliamentary favourite. A little later two famous Wheltonians, the surviving Lord Lorebr said the iste Lord James of Hereford, during their knightly me on the pren leather banches, branded the legal trips the spring century, which Taalteady provided us with two Prize Ministes, found is different depart

ments of the legal calling.

MIT OF TO-DAY. Today the long, robe contanes more Sn evidence before the Speaker than STAY. In the home foreign réced. Sir Edward Carcayand Sir F. Smith will be placed high in the official ist Kd far from thern will come Sir Ernest Pollock; those most brilliant among acroestes, Si John Sumen and Sir George Care. Both of these are exceptions to something Te general rule with lawyer in the The nineteenth century Sir Hoa Tathra and Sir. R. T. Raid, the brightest mang social talkers, sellom.or new relieved the lines or added to The dots of debate by any special. dis- This is ay of sagacity That Sir John

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that al restrictions

will be tem north

to

blow freshly over the China Bes

the use at wireless Telegraphy by Merebant Yome si on the China zlation hare heen

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the

the But

Hongkong Bainfall, for the sa anding at 10 am- to-day, 0,00 Jack Total sime Jannary In 101.46 Inches,

AD STETAge of 8208 knabes. The Barrios (o-Grammar, Justria Baloccare for has 24 hours ending at paris-and-the. Clemdo "Kurpire" are noon on the lith December m suspended.

-Ne unöffcial Istter, addressed to ʻA bailars. Ahwan or Mekakunozah in the Fersian Gulf may exceed eight ounces in weight.

Hongkong to Gap Book: NE winds, moderate; Ane

to

Formon Channel: N. winds, fresh modernis

Souls sonet of Cuina between Hongkong and Lamooks: The same a

Le South Bours of China between Hongkong and Halsen 1. The same sá

The lamed letter 'azdeiras Brice between." Egypty (or in- kranzit | |- sarongi: Brypt)warnkowypina/ace; basipor Carily suspendeda aga

Unforated parcas for the United King dem will be fatis be fopwarded from Boogkong in bags and the Publicare therefore advised pack ano parcels vary carefully.

Until farther nolies parcels for girl sddremes in the provinces of Unine, Vicens, Trevise Padna, Vanice and Bel. fane in Italy will not be accepted for transmission unless posted ander the British War Offer Panait.

The Paral Port Services to British Kast Africa and Egypt (axcopt for members, of the Expeditionary Forcas), and to Abra ainia, Bagdad, Brithres, Franch Eomali Coast Italian Somad, Portuguese Hast Aics, Zanzibar and Rubix have been sus- pended.

Registered and Parcel Mata" close. 15. minutes earlier than the time given below unicas otherwise statod.

In the case of Mail closing before 9. Registration o'oses at ♣ c'clock on the previous even DE,

THURSDAY, 6th December,

Shanghai and North China-Per SUI-

TANG, 5th 11 8.m.,

Shanghai and North China-Per KAI-

FỤNG, 3th 5pm.

Swatow, Shanghai and Forth China

For TAESANG, 8th Dec, 5 p.m.

HONGKONG TIDES.

The tide table even below has bee complied at the National Almanna Office in London bun the result of the analysis, of observations taken by means of an sutomatio tide-recording maching in the Water Police Basin at Trim Sha Trud

the during years 1905-4.

The rare of the table corresponds with the sera of the sounding in the Admiralty Chart, which has been found to be feet 3. Inshee below mean new-leyal

To obtain the depth of water on the ddegauge at the Victoria Naval T

Yard add 3 feet 4 inches, and on the ganga as Lamont Dock, Aberdeen, add 10 feet 4 inches to the height given in the table.

December 4th. to Lith, 1918,

11

|Bangwang

foot.

Low Wars

ROTAL OBSERVATORY: HONGKONG, DAILY WHATHES

HEPORT.

DECEMBER 4, 1918

Station.

Wind

Boury

Barometer

Tamparatura.

Kamidity,

Direction.

Feather,

Force

FRIDAY, 8th Desember.

South Africa and India vis Dbaauzbkodi Bombery, Adon, Port Tawfik, and Europe via Buez-Per CHUNSANG, th Dec.. Registration 8.45 sim.

Vidic lock. Bên Letters 100m

The Faroe Mail will be closed Mamuto

on Thursday, 5th Dec., at Hakodate

aj Talio amine Japan via Moji-CHIYO MARU, 8th Kochi

Nagaanki Dea. I pimeda adala Kagoshima Swator, Amoy and Foochow Per Oshims HATTAN, 6th Dec, 1 pm. Nakdow Philippine Islands-Fer YUENBANG Labino

6th Dec, 2 pidu 27. SATURDAY, 1 December Swałow and Bangkok-Per LIANG-

CHOW7th Dec, 8 a

Bonin laland

Cheloo Per KWEILIN, 7th Dec, llam, SUNDAY, 6th December Swatow, Amoy and Formosa vis Keelung Per AMAKUSA MARU, 8th -Dec., & am

Shanghai Gutzlai

Swatow Taibokn

Talcht i0000s), th

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Hongkong

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TUESDAY 10th December, Shanghai and North Chira-Pez SIN-

GAN, 10th Dec, 11a.m.

FRIDAY, 13th December. Swatow, Amoy and Foochow Per HAI

BONG, 13th Dec, 1 p.m.

Dago

EXCHANGE.

Tacloban

Hongkong, December 4, 1918.

Credita

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Paris, On derisad Credits, 4 montlas

£50%

Credits 80

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· Children rere involved in the oast. Of course there is a beautiful princeas and Jack, both of the size that fits into the traditional con- ception of their size and age. The royal court and the arby are all made up of very little folk, and only the giant, who is a giant in

faot, and a few parents are grown people.

HONGKONG THEATRE PROGRAMMI

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TO NIGHTH Showing 11th & 12th Episodes ::

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Including Universal Gazette & Comics.

WEDNESDAY, 4th Dec...

Showing Paramount Feature:-8 parts THE KI88.

"THURSDAY, 5th Dec "MATINEE ## 5,16 p.m.

(Special Programme)..

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