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Haldane's Case.

lout to devote himself to poli- tics. "He gave a sort of superb groan and buried himself in a folio of statistics."

Pitt received the news of the which Battle of Austerlitz, destroyed the Coalition he had so laboriously built up, while he stood admiring Gainsborough's portrait of Quin, the actor, in a

house at Bath:

COIN?

Special Issue For Coronation

M. S. SUGGESTS A “NICKEL"

for

Sir Isidore Salmon, M.P. Harrow, the new president of the Decimal Association, suggested at "At that moment he hears the the association's annual meeting in beat of a horse's hools. A CORT London last month that a new ier dashes F. He comes

splashed with mud, and hands the British coin should be introduced despatches. Pitt tears them open to celebrate the King's Coronation and hurriedly reads them. His next year coin to replace the countenance changes, he calls for three-penny piece.

is and brandy, then for a mag.

It could, he indicated, inally helped to his carriage,_nt- tering the historic phrase, Roll larger piece than the three-penny up that map; it will not be wanted piece, made of nickel and worth these ten years."

two-pence half-penny, a tenth of a florin. It would be a handy cola.

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The same high quality sus tained and ennobled Haldane. when no one could have blamed him had he cried out in a great rage, like Swift when his noble friends tossed him a trumpery Deanery, "Rot'em for ungrate ful dogs" "I made no difficul- Wednesday, 3rd June at 10 aty." Haldane noted in his auto Wednesday, 17th June at 101.biography, when Asquith and Wednesday, 2nd July

Grey threw him to the wolves in 1915, clamorous and ravning. He was clear-eyed enough to see that he was "no longer con- tributing strength to the Gov- jernment," and stood in the way

Rhodes And The Raid of a possible Coalition.

Such is the legend. Better which would save pockets from E/Canada May 29 May 31 Grey, Eke Fox, at St. Anne's

E/Japan June 26 June 28 Hill had his trees and birds to authenticated in its details is becoming over-burdened with cop-E/Russia June 12 June 14 June 16 June 18 June 20

E/Asia July 10 July 12 July solace him. when his turn came: the story of Cecil Rhodes's per.

Eighty years have passed. Sir E/Canada July 24 July 25 to go. mental and physical collapse he sorry

that Isidore pointed out, since the florin E/Russia Ang. Aug. 9 Aug. Asquith bore his downfall with when the tidings came

The superb dignity, but not, I think, "Dr. Jim's" mad raid into the was introduced as a first gesture E/Japan Aug. 21 Aug. 25 with inward resignation. Transvaal had ended in disaster towards a decimal coinage. Driven from the stage, he loiter- and that he had his men were time was more than ripe for a in the hands of Kruger. It is further step to bring our coinage Jed. hoping, in the wings..

friendly biographer Gladstone set a bad example a when

retired without writes: he genuinely meaning retirement He had neither equanimity nor philosophy in the hour of de- feat The sword of the Lord and of Gladstone could not "sleep in his hand."

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How Disraeli took his knock- out blow in 1880, for his asthma warned him only too surely that for him there could be no day of return, let his friend. Lord Barrington, bear witness:

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who system more into line with that of the greater part of the world.

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be nickel. The Coronation thought, could be introduced as a there once adopted.

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"He did not undress for 48 hours. He barely slept for five nights. He could not rest. He could do noth- ing but walk with his thoughts - staring vaguely at people who ad-start, and dressed him looking unseeingly might follow a half and a quarter at the telegrams that came one on nickel, another-walking continually

As an example of the value of

At all hours of the night, there he was still walking. They heard him calculating in tens rather than in walking up a down his locked dozens Sir Isidore Salmon refer- bedroom. But sometimes he broke red to an experiment carried out out inte an endless monologue." in one division of the offices of J. There was no Equanimitas Lyons and Co. A saving of £5.000 there only the disintegrated

a year was effected by calkulating

"It is good to see with what mind of a Colossus abject in the costs on the decimal system rather

takes įdust. Disraeli-

charming temper

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than in pounds, shillings

pence.

and

the

"I know for certain," wrote the

was colleagues observed to another; late Lord Rendel, that he totally unprepared for being thrown "he would follow you to over. That the blew staggered grave with admirable equani- him. That for a day or two be

this evil stroke of fortune in the. When Lord Granville was sunset of his great career. So many dropped from the Foreign Office of his friends, especially ladies, in 1886 he was deeply hurt. send to enquire how he is. well as can be expected,' says he, as if he had been confined!”

That was his jest. What Disraeli wrote to Lady Bradford, WAS. "The suffering want change, no matter what. They What are sick of waiting.". the fickle electorate got that time was the luckless Liberal Administration."

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retired to his

tents. Mrs. Glad-mity." stone told me that when,

after

Gladstone's Way

Yet Mr. Gladstone himself hesitation, Granville accepted the clung tenaciously to Downing- Colonies, she was so deeply moved street, despite his 80 years and deafness. When by relief at the reconciliation that increasing

kissed someone alluded to his "resig- she fell on his neck and

nation" the old lion turned in him."

wrath and said: "Why do you Palmerston, too, had the Dis-

I was raelian equanimity. A few

Mr. Gladstone made a point speak of resignation?

Retirement was col-thrust out." days after Lord John Russell

never explaining to of

motives bad thrust him out of the leagues the

which las hateful to him as to Bis- Foreign Office, he chanced to moved him in personal matters.marck, though he made dedi- meet his successor, Lord Gran-He was blamed for not sparing cated use of every hour, and did the vials of his ville.

"Ah! Granville," said Lord Cardwell the shock of not empty Palmerston, "how are

You? omitting him from his Cabinet wrath, like the man of blood His reply was that and iron, and many another! Well, you have got a very in-in 1880. teresting office."*

Whatever Lord Cardwell's family should statesman in the last quarter of!

burnt have prepared him long before, a century. nothing for the malady from which he One might expect a Bishop to showed. It was Lady Palmers died had plainly revealed itself. show ton who did the fuming. wrote to a friend:

flames of resentment within his breast.

She and "all the mind had gone out should be

"John (ie, Lord John) has be haved like a little Blackguard

how disappointment |

borne. But even

can be of that noble countenance." ecclesiastical bosoms

Mr. Gladstone could be cold wrung beyond endurance. The

to Wilberforce, irreverently known

I am still rexed and provoked at as ice when be considered that classic example is that of Bishop the whole thing, but he takes it public duty required him much more calmy. It is lucky for ignore personal feelings. "You as "Soapy Sam." an effervescing woman

to

or

· Continued in next (" "umn)

His darling

Have think he loves you," one of his ambition was to succeed Long- such a calm and placid husband

ley as Archbishop of Canter- The Primacy, irritate events can

bury in 1868. whom no

conferred upon make him lose his temper."

however, was Fortitude Of Pitt

Tait, and Wilberforce, deeply wounded, wrote a letter in which he said:

It was one of the first rules of the game with well-bred “effervesce." players not to

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