The meeting for the appointment of Sir John Millais's successor will not be held till November; and at present conjecture has not gone much further than it did after Lord Leighton's death, at a time when it was uncertain whether Sir John would accept the dignity in his then failing health, @ one vote which was not cast for Sir John Millais at the last residential election was that of Sir John ilials himself, and that vote was given to Mr. Calderon. But this vote not necessarily any great significance. Mr. Calderon was perhaps Mr. Millais's most intimate friend among the Academicians, and knowing that his vote would bea mere only in that position he dares to pass the most disposed to blame Mr. Balfour's mighty lord, Slavery is still Hoorishin leadership of the Commons are fain to in Siam; meanwhile it is prescribes admit that he has scored a decided success courtesy he may not have considered it necessary to weigh the qualifications of his colleagues. Still, undoubtedly Mr. Calderon is in the running. In the views of most by law that children with slaves xs, parents and born in the present King's' introduced early in the Session. These lovers of art probably the two greatest with the new rales for Supply which he
reign are free, but this tecd-dend rules, which spread the votes in Supply over; English artists of the day are Mr. E. letter. 'The Sumese slave-owner is a good lord and beloved of his slaves; they cling to him and his house an' nothing the whole Session instead of cramming Watts and Sir E. Hume-Jones; but of them into the last few weeks, and which these one is not now a member of the provide for the "guillotining " of all vot tes Academy, and the other would not in view could induce them to leave, They have always lived there, perhaps they were born there; this lord's house is their home and they have not much to do, they have plenty of food, they can marry—the Siamese slave is fully content. and does not want liberty for himself or for his children. It sometimes happens that a man enrols himself as a slave for a certain number of years, more often he sells his children as slaves, and the sale of girls to Europeans is general. [have a Siamese friend, who has number of slaves but nothing for them todo. He has often told them that they were at liberty to leave when they wanted. but not one has moved yet, and it is certain they will remain to their dying day.
The poorer classes of the Siamese people noyd no priest for marriage. They elope not passed by a certain date, have had the effect of releasing members from their duties one day before the very earliest date for which the prorogation had: been fixed. And now our members are scattering them-Selves over the four corners of the earth. Mr. Balfour is actually going to pay a visit to Mr. Gladstone at Hawarden, where the veteran statesman has this week been entertaining Li Hung-chang.
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