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THE VERY REV. JOHN GOTT, D.D. (From a photo by Messrs. Russell and Sons.)

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16. Irish Land Bill read a first time.

18. Customs and Inland Revenue Bill read a first time. Fisheries Bill, giving effect to the agreement between England and Belgium in regard to the North Sea Fisheries, read a second time.

19. Customs and Inland Revenue Bill read a second time.

22. Debate on the Manipur Disaster. Marquis of Ripon, Viscount Cross, Duke of Argyll, Lords Kimberley, Northbrook and others. 23. Fisheries Bill through Committee. Judicature Acts Amendment Bill, Budget Bill, read a third time.

5. Debate on Irish Land Purchase Bill on Report resumed. Mr. Lea moved new clause to enable he Land Commissioners in addtion to the Purchase Commissioners to administer Land Purchase Act, which was read a second time by 136 to 83. Debate adjourned.

8. Resolution on which Government Educ1tion Bill will be based moved by Sir W. Hart Dyke. Resolution agreed to after speeches by Mr. Mundella, Sir W. Harcourt, and Mr. Chamberlain, and reported to the House.

9. In answer to questions, it was stated that Scotland's share of the two millions to be devoted to free education would be applied for a year to the relief of municipal ratee, and that in Ireland it would be devoted to primary schools. Elementary Education (Fee Grant) Bill brought in by sir W. Hart Dyke and read a first time. D. bate on Report of Land Bill resumed. Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister Bill in Committee.

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25. Second reading of Irish Land Bill moved by Earl Cadogan. Marquis of Waterford and the Duke of A gyll. Debate adDebate on the motion for the second readjourned ing of the Irish Land Bill resumed. Lords Camperdown, Kimberley, Ashbourne, 15. Herschell, Derby, and the Marquis of Salisbury. Bill read a second time Debate on motion for second reading of Lord Factories and Workshops Bill. Kimberley, Lord Salisbury, Lord San 1hurst. Bill read a second time.

before the House of Commons Select Com- 26. mittee on railway servants' hours of labour declares himself opposed to interference with railway management by trades unions, official travelling inspectors, or boards of conciliation.

10. Mr. Mundella at the meeting of the British and Foreign School Society on the Free Education Bill.

11. Mr. Findlay, before the Select Committee on railway servants' hours of labour, declares that the percentage of men working over thirteen hour a days has been reduced to a mere fraction.

14. Viscount Cros at annual dinner of News-
paper Press Fund.

Marquis di Rudini on the necessity for Italy
to continue the Triple Alliance.

16. Mr. Lambert, General Manager of the
G.W.R., before Select Committee on rail-
way servants' hours, states that a Board
of Conciliation would not be a proper tri-
bunal for settling disputes between the
companies and their fervants, the direc-
tors being responsible to the shareholders
as well as to the men.

17. Lord Salisbury to a deputation suggests that schemes to give the Colonies a real share in the privileges of the Empire should be proposed for consideration.

18. Sir R. Temple explains the Budget of the London School Board, and points out the growth of expenditure out of proportion to the increase of schools and scholars. Mrs. Bishop, in a committee-room of the House of Commons, upon the persecutions of the Christians of Kurdistan by the Turks.

19. Mr. Gladstone, at the jubilee meeting of the Colonial Bishoprics Fund, on the great development of the Church in the Colonies during the last half-century.

20. The Kaiser, in closing the Prussian Diet,
declares that "the preservation of peace is
the object of his unremitting endeavour."
23. Mr. T. W. Russell at dinner of the Liberal
Union Club, contrasts the promises of
Gladstonians with work accomplished
by Unionist party.

Mr. Raikes states to a deputation that there
was no intention to restrict the privileges
of the press as to transmission.

24. Lord Hartington at a Libera' Unionist Me-t-
ing in St. James's Hall on the approaching
General Election.

29. The Kaiser at Hamburg states that the
Triple Alliance had been prolonged for six
years.

M. Balfour on thrift at the annual meet-
ing of the South-Eastern and Metropolitan
Railway Employés' Savings Bank.
PARLIAMENTARY RECORD.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
June 5. Behring Sea Fishery Bill read a first
time. Motion by Lord Herschell agreed to
that an inquiry should be instituted to
ascertain whether some better method of
dealing with habitual drunkards could
not be adopted.

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June

MRS. BISHOP. (From a photo by Mr. Moffat, Edinburgh.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Consideration of Report of Irish Land Bill

resumed.

Bill to facilitate reinstatement of evicted
tenants in Ireland brought in by Mr. Par-
nell and read a first time. Report stage of
Irish Land Purchase Bill concluded.
Mr. Stanhope makes an authorised state-
meut from the Prince of Wales with re-
ference to his conduct in hushing up the
Baccarat scandal. Motion for the third
reading of the Irish Land Bill. Amend-
ment by Mr. Labouchere that the Bill be
read that day three months rejected by
225 to 96, and B 11 read a third time with-
out opposition.

16. Debate on the Manipur disaster.
17. Navy Estimates.

18. Manchester Ship Canal Bill read a third time. Bill to amend the Coinage Act of 1870, brought in by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Bill to amend the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act brought in by Mr. Chaplin, and read a first time. Debate on Mr. Sydney Buxton's motion to add a new clause to Factories and Workshops Bill to prohibit the employment after January 1st, 1893, of children in factories or workshops under eleven years of age. Mr. Buxton, Sir W. Houldsworth, Mr. Burt, Sir John Gorst, in favour of the clause, and the Home Secretary in opposition to it. On a division, second reading carried by 202 to 186. Clause read a second time.

19. Home Secretary announces that the Government would accept the decision of the House on Mr. Buxton's Clause. Clause to prevent children under 14 being employed other than as half-timers rejected by 189 to 164. Clause to bring laundries within the scope of the Bill rejected. Bill read a third time.

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1. Sir J. Fergusson states that Her 22.
Majesty's Government had brought to
the notice of the French Government the
report that a French officer had warned
fishermen in St. George's Bay, not to sell
bait to United States fishermen under
penalty of seizure of their boats. On the
motion of Mr. W. H. Smith, the Seal
Fishery (Bebring Sea) Bill, was read a
second time. Irish Land Bill, as amended.
under consideration. At the request of
Mr. Sexton, supported by Mr. T. W.
Russell, Mr. Balfour consents to the with-
drawal of the Land Department (Ireland)
Bill.

2. Consideration of Irish Land Purchase Bill,
as amended, resumed. Debate on Mr.
Sexton's new clause to give prior right of
purchase to evicted tenants.
Clause re-
jected by 112 to 74.

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4.

Rating of Machinery (No. 2) Bill in Committee.

Sir J. Fergusson makes statement as to England's attitude with regard to the Triple Alliance.

The Home Secretary, in answer to Mr. C. Graham, said it was not the function of the Home Office to interfere in disputes between employers and employed. Behring Seal Fishery Bill, through committee and read a third lime. Debate on Land Bill, as amended, continued.

Debate on motion for the second reading of the Education Bill. Amendment by Mr. Bartley declining to accept

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Amendment rejected by 319 to 10, and
Bill read a second time.

25. Army estimates.

26. London Public Health Bill as amended by Standing Committee under consideration. Bill read a third time.

29. Debate on Order for going into Committee on Education Bill.. Mr. Fowler's inst uction to Committee that local control should be introduced in district where no School Boards existed, rejected after speeches by Mr. Chamberlin and Mr. Goschen by 267 to 166. Debate adjourned. 30. Debate on motion to go into Committee on

Education Bill continued. Instruction moved by Mr. Summers that the educational standard be raised for partial and total exemption in schools receiving fee grants rejected by 186 to 133, House in Committee on the Bill. Amendment by Sir W. Hart Dyke introduced extending grant to children between three years and five. Amendment by Mr. Mund lla abolishing limit of fourteen years. Mr. Goschen, Mr. Chamberlain. Proposal bo Mr. Heneage to raise limit to fifteen agreed to. Progress reporte 1.

OBITUARY.

May 25. Charles H. Fuller, Deputy InspectorGeneral of Hospitals and Fleets, R.N., 90. 29. James Crichton, Sheriff of the Lothians and Peebles, 67.

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Earl of Clancarty

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John Webster, ex-M.P. for Aberdeen, 79. Richard Nugent, founder of the National Protestant Union, etc.

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Dr. Fordyce Barker.

Duchess Wilhelmine Marie of Schleswig-
Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, 83.

Señor Dublan, Mexican Minister of Finance.
Hon. Sir A. A Dorion. Quebec, 73.
W. W. Follett Synge, ex-Consul General at
Cuba, 65

Cardinal Alimond, Bishop of Turin.

Lady Reed, 73.

General Sir Archibald Little, G.C.B., 80.
Father Curci, 80.

Lieut.-Col. James Reid, survivor of Water

loo campaign, 96.

Dr. Egan, R C. Bishop of Waterford.

Marquis de Montaignac de Chauvance, exMr. Clark, ex-M.P. for County Derry, 82. Charles Fisher, American actor.

Edmund Leathes, actor.

Sir Harford Jones-Brydges, 83.

Mdme. Bodichon, one of the founders of Girton College, etc., 64.

E. Chevassus, French Republican, 73.

James Beal, Nestor of municipal reform,

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63.

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Rev. T. B. Llewellyn Browne, 82. Canon Perry.

13.

Philip Jenkins, Professor of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at Glasgow.

Prof. Scanzoni, Gynecologist, 71.

14. Capt. Charles Le Strange, R.N., equerry to

the Duke of Edinburgh, 44

J. K. Emmett, actor.

15. Gen. R. Woolley, 73.

Capt. Wray G. Palliser. R.N.

Rev. Thos. Pearse, of Ely, 93.

16. Gregor Lechner, carver, and impersonator of Judas in the Passion Play at Oberammergau.

Lieut.-Col. Sir Gustavus Hume.

The O'Gorman Mahon, M.P. for Carlow
Cunty, 90.

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MDME. BODICHON.

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THE O'GORMAN MAHON.

(From a photo by Messrs. Russe'l and Sons.

17. Miss F. M. Walford.

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(L) 3,390

(C) 2,526

(L) 3,057 (UL) 2,491

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MR. JAMES BEAL. (From a photo by Messrs. Fradelle and Young.)

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June 2. Derbyshire. (Western Division): Victor Cavendish (U L) elected unopposed.

In 1885:

4. Lieut.-Col. J. S. G. Ryl-y, 83.

N. R. Pogson, C.1.E., Government Astronomer at Madras, 62.

Dr. Frery, Republican Senator for Belfort,

Gen. Bronsart von Schellendorff, 58.

45.

George Parr, cricketer.

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Alex. Chas. Ewald, of the Record Office, 49.

Leopold von Hasner, ex-Prime Minister of Austria, 73.

W. E. Weber, Professor of Physical Science, M. Burdo, Belgian explorer in Africa.

Alex. McEwan, financier.

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Lib. majority 882

June 3. London-City:

Sir Reginald Hanson (C) elected unopposed.

Two Conservatives

were returned unopposed.

Rev. William James Kennedy, formerly Inspector of Schools, 77.

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6. Sir John A. Macdonald, 76.

Richard Henry Major, writer on

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Frederick Calvert, Q.C., 84.

graphical subjects, etc.

Charles K. Freshfield, ex-M.P. for Dover,

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Miss Anne Mozley, 81.

83

General Sumpt, Governor of the Hôtel des Invalides. 74

Rodol h Koppelin, professor of physics and natural history, 81.

28.

Dr. J. Merrifield, formerly head-master of

e. General S. R. Lowder, C.B., 79.

the Plymouth Navigation School,

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THE CARICATURES OF THE MONTH.

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HE caricatures of the month are, for the most part, caricatures
of the Prince of Wales. They are, some of them, witty,
some of them coarse, some of them brutally rude and
unjust. But for all that they deserve attention. In olden times
monarchs had their jesters, who were privileged to say with a
laugh what the most powerful Minister dare not whisper
below his breath. These caricaturists, whose handiwork we
reproduce, are the licensed jesters of our time. Even the
worst of them, with their irreverent pencils, illustrate
better than any articles could do the kind of miscon-
ceptions that prevail concerning the Prince-miscon-
ceptions which, I hope, the Character Sketch may do
something to dispel - but still misconceptions
which must be recognised as existing before
they can be dispelled. It is not well for
princes, or for any other men, to live in a fool's
paradise, without any knowledge of what the
great, rude, outside world thinks of them
and of their doings. One of the most
valuable safeguards of the English
monarchy is that the nation has ever
felt its institutions were so excellent
in themselves, and so firmly based
upon the people's will, that they
were likely to be strengthened
rather
than endangered by

rough, unsparing

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[June 17.

AN AMERICAN PICTURE OF H.R.H.

unsparing criticism. If it is unjust, the injustice works its own remedy. If any part of it is well founded, its publication is the first step to reform. In these caricatures the American cartoons are much the most offensive. The German is the wittiest. The English are, for the most part, much more restrained, but take them together they represent with fidelity what people have been saying all over the world about the baccarat scandal at Tranby Croft.

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[June 11, 1891. From the Pall Mall Budget.] SIR EDWARD CLARKE'S TABLEAU.

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