The groat fiscal reform lealer has evidently been determined to avoid anoth harassing demonstration like that which 8 ted him on his return from his previous holiday trip. T! public were carefully induced to believe that he would not retarn from the Continent until this week; bat he quietly slipped back from Italy lust week, and although ho wi as at home on Thursday, no newspaper announced his return before th Saturday morning.
The first ion the general public had of prosouce in town was'an intimation was that entertaining; party of friends to dinner at Claridge's Hotel. Next wack he is to address great East End gathering in Dr. bardo's Hall down Poplar way. His sk of pr that taxation will not raise the price of food has, however, been rendered much harder by the present calamitous rise in the price of sugar, in spite of the efforts of the West India Committee to prove that the Bounties nothing to do with the rise, The jam confectionery manufacturersand their employees are suffering acutely, and they at least sre not per suaded by the West Indin Committes's arguments.
A Clerkenwell Sensation.
'The moot sonsation*! tury Of Tobbory we have had for years has just been related by a Clerken' jew ier named Stockall, the head of o firm which does a large business under the name of J. J. Stockall and Sons, Lit ited. Mr. Stock-all failed to reach his home on Saturday night, but although his family made all sorts of inquiries they never seem to; have thought of searching his business promises, anc on Monday morning, on the Shop being opened, he was discovered ed and bound to a partition, where ad been over since the previous Baturday. Ho related how three well-Areasod men, who had been to shop before, wi came just at closing time for the pretended purpose of selecting some plate for presentation toa minister.
Although he wus alone, he let them in, and they attacked, and bound him, took his keys from im, rifled his setes, taking away several thousand pounds' worth of jewellery. The goods were fully insured, 2nd the. suggestion has very naturally been put forward that the whale affair was 8 "pntup job." Tt ig cial Dae 263 q Bey trae that Mr. Stockall has evidently suffered severely from tho'treatment, but there was & case a few years ago in which a man injured himself very seriously in the hope of persuading his employers that some money, which he had made away with himself, had been stolen from him with violence. In the present case. however, there is not the smallest evi-deuce to support such a theory. The police have certainly not hinted at any such suspicion on their part, and we have no right to doubt the trath of Mr. Stockall's story, though it will necessarily be subjected to a searching examination. Whatever the result may be, we-have been treated to a first-class sensation.
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