Show old world news r LONDON LONDO 4 feb 22 igo T hiie 1 HAS OFTEN JL been made by theme conversant with the inner working ol 01 public life in ili england that a more mor 0 hopeful per bon son than the average member of parliament charged with the idea of 0 piloting a bill 0 hia ilia own through the house of commons Con imona is nowhere now liere to be found with the opening of another acs ion has again arrived pro proof 4 of the tile truth of this assertion parliament had not met a day before something eor like two hundred bills were introduced by various private members and when it is remembered that if hal a dozart such measures are carried in the course of a ye YC ir lr it is i thou thought lit to ba a very great achievement an catl it i inato mato can be formed of the amount of hopeb hopefulness ulness involved A great deal of 0 tah springs from a laudable desire deare to do some real service to the tile community and home some of it to the not ua un natural wish to make sort of a figure in the member in in charge of a private all deserves indeed altogether apart from the tile merits ot of tile measure be he brings forward or meed to receive not only a meed of lymp thy but even of admira admiration tim the patience pittance with which he bides ilia chance of pushing forward hia ilia bill inch by inch commands coin manda the former just as bia his pluck in resolutely attempting to do what only ono one in thirty members can accomplish earns the latter A representative of the tile people in this condition is an in edg study and his ilia naive enthusiasm thusiA sm ia 6 a real rebuke to a fedai legal and rather cynical age diplomatic etiquette la Is evidently not a matter I 1 to be trifled with for fd 1 1 complaints have been gracely or urged within the pact past few days concerning certain alleged breach a of tins this lu in hie tile bif h st quarters which moat most folk would con co nider trivial even if aa as may well IA they an are well f 1 it is p pointed 0 1 n t e d 0 out ti t i in n all ali set idleness for or instance a t a n c f ti that i a t t tte te sovereign soled in in the queens Ja cens scotch itie file emperor of germany really tie be called the german emperor and if it be replied that this reems seems a distinction without a it differ difference enre the cru crushing rejoinder is is that diplomatic etiquette demands tho the use of the tile latter t tile tie ard and what more can be bat but even more striking la in tho th complaint that the ki g of 11 was referred to in in an all important speech in the house of commons Ommo nf ai at ins ilia most moot christian majesty I 1 eti buetto ie is again up tip in arms aid asserts that thero is now no sovereign Sove reig n entitled to this epithet it having N been n appropriated to the kings of france 1 ranie the tile king of Porto gU ti it is added is liia ills most faithful majesty the king of train spain being hm ilia catholic masty MB baj sty ll 11 and the emperor of austria his apostolic aio majesty may not be tie much in ill these distinctions and yet tell us that when louis phillippe supplanted the elder branch of the bourbons and changed the tile old style of king of francala Fran call to king of t lie tile french tha the d difference was as held to bo be pregnant with waning moaning hough bough eighteen years afterwards it did not anie his lis throne d we ive bae have all mad of A wards grate mori chow and ita amoo ing cow onal tante and boll boli adver tia emen lua given us lan an acquaintance w with illi tl ll 0 elevating ele vatic i cai which hibb lie the nott noll jJ arted barn urn cl almed tor for fit tho exhibition that the brince of 0 all teft tt hum lugi augi lag laii j just us t teen b e e n treating tl ti a country to lo lint Hula a ild t ieh job circus prid anif ir itei its it if on its pity is in a flight eight surpassing the tile b id efforts of either artemus or Poni eiM a here IB is part of a valedictory ail ad iress to taiti taid inah irish citizens the tile other day by the oa owners ners of a fling hippodrome although the circus id is at fit the laight ili g I 1 I 1 t of its the management cannot but bear in mind that if it its per or minces were continued con linued during luring the a approaching hing peno ceriol 1 ordained by the church for certain abstentions they would risk of finding ding it and that is is their very lat thought and wish sul S id to ea as these punctilious herfor performers in only migrated to another gliber lliber dian city chich sheild sho ild il 1 consequently ba be considered lees less insistent inci stent nt upon le lenten n austerity lut but the hunk buu bumkum kum in bump seems to bd more or lees less largely dm developed eloped in every showman the premier of anew zealand S sir ir harry larry I 1 atkinson kinon At had to go away to tasmania lie tile other day jur tor the benefit of his health anil and during his ilia alence his have been get ting ing vea into a aline fine muddle for some jears eira past a number of sealers and arid li allers who make new zealand their headquarters hae have been making use of island for beaming and other purposes pur posea and a Irilli ont idea appears to hae have occurred to a V wallington official in connection with the tile matter the tile island did lid not belong officially to new Z zsa aland and foreseeing some kudos for himself it he be by recommending aue such h a coussa to his ilia superiors could bring degout about the annexation of the island tie no acted accordingly and with commendable promptitude tho the chief of his ilia department awk the matte matter up with W ith much loyal cordiality and an the executive was roin toon pet in fit motion the necessary preparations orations were completed and in due course the government steamer hinemoa fully equipped and armed with the requisite officials and official forms steam e teamed ad forth on hervy her voyage ge of territorial conquest fortunately tho the llin emosi bet r ro e clearing tho the new Z saland coast called calle a in at one of the tile southern siu thern ports her progress was promptly by wire from wellington thi news of the projected expedition expedit loil of the tile had hall been wired to the tile australian co colonies loniea arid tasmania Tas mauia as a item of general intelligence and when it wai wall published in the newa news papers in the latter colony calony no end of genuine excitement appears to bate have been created for far ciarle island belongs to tasmania having aten annexed ili in proper form to that colony in the year 1880 ali s were speedily wired red from hobart if 0 bait to the government at and it was lacky that th the I 1 latter atter we were re enabled to a stop top tho tile Hille moa before bhe she went oft off and re annexed the tile island to new zealand if that on fortunah fortu fort nae step kep liall been taken I 1 tho tha rest of the world might by this time blue heard f tasmania Ta maua borrow ing a from victoria Victori athe she has no gunboats gun boats of her own and Is friendly w with ith victoria withal to make hostile demonstrations in front of dunedin or wellington wallington A curious piece of recent hi ili tory in relation to tho thet ciro cage of the corrupt bombay magi magistral strat es aimes fram an sou beurce ace these men gave evid evidence nee incriminating them selves I 1 U the craford investigation under a guarantee of safety from th the e bombay government goern ment lord itcan re ay clung to this tilts guarantee a and nd refused to dismiss the magistrates 0 but buethe the constitute constitutional lonal question arose whether a corrupt magistrate con could ba be so protected and anti whether the government had the file po r to give such a guarantee guar a 11 the tile indian ju aged were mere no not 0 of 1 one mind on the subject Bib jact a and n d LO lord rd cross met the tile dilli culty by referring the whole question to the lord ch chancellor an thereupon oa lord rosy ter tendered his ilia resignation blell the bee see rotary of state refused ged to ace ft lord Hals hansbury bury deeded decided against lie tile views odthe bombay government and still the inagi magistrates strates were di sullied but in ill such a manner that alay retain their sa sali laties iuca until they are of an aga age to their ons when they th c y will oata I 1 a elac exactly ay iy the bame same arnou amount ut an if they bad hern been at work all the time bilth characters they are relieved relieve tl of ril 11 ll public duties but are paid and arid will bo be pensioned precisely aa as if the they Y continued cont in their pot posts this ia Is not the only instance in stanca in chii bit ii it lord I 1 li alsbury has como come to the tile aid of he the india office to clear up 11 P points oi of constitutional law and practice lex |