'The coroner's inquest on those few of the Cobra's victims whose bodies were recovered was concluded yesterday, and, as was expected, the evidence has' clearly shown that the destroyer struck no rock or shoal, but simply buckled up and broke in two." The naval enquiry has still be held, and then we shall have further evidence which will no doubt. throw light on the Cobra's, faults of construction. But the main facts ave clear, and they have no doubt. that the lives of our sailors on vessels of the Cobra are in constant. serious danger. Stability has been sacrificed to speed. Probably other destroyers will have to be condemned. The proved cifeumstances of the loss of the Cobra, following upon that of the Viper, have certainly not increased our confidence in our principles of naval construction, The New Lord Mayor.
Michaelmas Day falling on a Sunday this year the annual election of Lord Mayor took place on the Saturday, and thus become coincident with the' entry into office of the Sheriffs, which customarily takes place on the eve of St. Michael's. The choice of the Chief Magistrate was, of course, 2 foregone conclusion, since it was known that Sir Joseph Dimsdale, the Senior of the Aldermen who' had not passed the chair, was willing to serve. There is every reason to believe that the banker menier for the City will make an excellent Lord Mayot and it is fortunate that his term falls in the Coronation year. The sheriffs are Mr. Horace Brooks Marshall, the head of the great publishing and newspaper distributing firm, and' Mr. Alderman Bell. The possibility of a daronetey for the Lord Mu knighthood for each of the shen one of the pleasant features of election to these offices; but this time it is taken out of the realm of possibilities and becomes a practienl certainty, for the visit of the Sovereign to the City is always followed by the grant of these titles. And in connection with the Coronation ceremonies the King will, of course, visit the City.
The Invasion of the Religious Orders.
A good deal of uneasiness has been created in England, and much more in the Channel Islands, by the invasion of monks and nuns exiled from France. In. the Channel Islands the question is viewed not so much from the religious as from the political point of view. The monks and nuns will, it is contended, he followed by hundreds of other Frenchmen, and the Channel Islands will become' a centre of disaffection in case of trouble between France and England. That is perhaps a sether far-fetched theory; but on other grounds the mass of Protestants in this country quite sympathise with the feeling that there isa danger in allowing the establishment of great foreign monastic institutions amidst the small population of the Channel Islands, or even in England itself, and the feeling is not entirely confined' to the Protestant majority. "There are, of course, a large number of Roman Catholics who do not regard monastic institutions with favour. The late Lord a letter to his paper this morning. The Bute, for instance, a must devout Roman Catholic, disinherited by his will any member of his family benefiting under it who should enter a religious brotherhood or sisterhood. Yesterday the local legislature of Jersey passed by a large majority Bill prohibiting any foreign religious Order, if more than six in number, from settling in the slond, on pain of expulsion.
Sth October.
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