When I recollect that a large number of those gentlemen are not by tradition accustomed to the methods of the House of Com. mons; that they do not feel themselves bound to defend the dignity of the assembly in the same way that other members, perhaps, feel themselves bound; and when I recollect that they belong to an excitable nation, and that they conceivethemaalves tobe deeply aggrieved by many of the things that are done by that assembly, Tam, atoll events, glad to take this opportunity of publicly saying that T make no complaint of the action they, as a whole, have ever taken with regard to myself.
Whether they will thank him for forgive g them so publicly is quite another thing.
One of the most extraordinary hallucinations in the =o journals is the idea that the Eiffel Tower is something mon-str ously immoral and gly, and the Specta-for devotes a whole article toa condemnation of it, more in sorrow than in anger, and even regards its erection as a sign of "a certain decadence in Parisian thought." The idea is so absurd that it is worth while to see how the writer arrives at it. The Parisians, he says, are so jaded, so weary, 80 hopeless of sufficient excitement even from the collection they are trying to make of all beautiful things from all the countries of earth, that they are grateful to M. Eiffel, even while they condemn his work, because it is unequalled of its kind, and, therefore gives them something fresh to imitate, to talk of, and to gaze at with stretched-out necks." Meanwhile those who have seen it aver that it is remarkably graceful and pretty, and so well-proportioned, that it is impossible to associate with it the idea of monstrosity.
Linley Sambourne's cartoon in Punch, representing Lord Randolph Churchill as the bat, and the other leading politicians as the beasts and the birds, is delightful. In this as in the Pall Mall's Mr. Chamberlain appears as a bantam cock, and there is much likeness between the two sketches, The Pall Mall Budget is now an illustrated paper, and very good some of the sketches are, while some are very bad. The following' extract shews that even the Salt Syndicate does not find its attempted monopoly all plain sailing:—The raising of prices by the Salt Union Syndicate is resulting disastrously in- the Northwhich and Winsford districts, Stocks are accumulating, particularly of chemical salt, and as a result works are being stop and men are being discharged in considerable numbers. At Winsford, a section of the men employed in a particular process aroon strike, and are being supported by the Salt Boilers! Union, receiving strike pay at the rate of 123,
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