There were more primroses to be seen in London yesterday than on any previous death day of the statesman in whose honour they are worn, for, tied with tri-coloured ribbon, the "pretty flower was made a sort of national and patriotic rather than party emblem. 'The statue in Parliament' Square was as profusely decorved as ever, and thousands made pilgrimages there t see it. Sir Michael Hicks Beach, addressing a Primrose Lewue gathering at Bristol in the evening, took occasion, while declaring that no-one in or out of the Cabinet can tell when the General Election will be, to give us a pretty good idea of when'it is likely to take place. He assured us that the Government would not—unless they were compelled by the Septeunial Act—appenl to the constituencies until the war was over and the people were in a position to judge of the policy which the Government were prepared to recommend." This isa pretty clear intimation that there wil be no General Election this year. It will Imost certainly not be earlier than next July, and it may be some few months later.
RAIL RUSSELL'S MARRIAGE, considerable sensation has been caused by the announcement that Karl Russell has just been married to. an Trish Indy at. Reno, U.S.A, presumed and indeed definitely stated in some quarters, that the marring was preceded by a divorce which Russell obtained from the Countess—on the ground of her desertion, the report says, though how a lady) who' has brought an unsuccessful suit for restitution of con-juga! rights inst her husband can. be Said to have deserted him is a mystery. Tt is understood that the new bride also had a husband and had to obtain a divorce from him. But of course these Ai can divorces would have no validity in this country, son of the so-called eco: d to the title, The Countess Russell, daughter of Lady Lena Scott, is appearing nightly as a singer and dancer at the music halls. The ils who sympathised with him matrimonial "dispute are much chagrined at the news of his re-marriage.
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