has been elected by the Court of Aldermen to the Recordership rendered ath of Sie Charles Hall, has to be ratified by the since Sir Forrest was appointed wu to his present minor judyeship there is no doubt on this point. The'
tion ix by no means a matter of muy forte Common Serjeants having been appointed to the higher office. But Sie Forrest Fulton, though not a great lawyer, hax proved himself un able judge, with a profound knowledge of character gained during his practice at the criminal bar, and he well deserves his promotion, THE OPES pooR.
If it were possible for the Great British Public to occupy its mind with more than one hig thing at a time there are a number of important questions to which it might devote itself just now; but the war, of course, thrust< everything else completely into the background. "There are the Australian Delewates here, discussing with the members of the Government, the great question of Federated Australia and its relation to the Mother Country. There is the Delagoa Railway award, which does attract some attention because it is somewhat intimately connected with the question of the war. And there is the Far East. But for the war an immense amount of interest would have been created by the publication, of the "open-door " correspondence;. but as it is no cne except those having close business relations with China seems to have paid any particular attention to it. Among these exceptions, however, the publication of the correspondence has been warmly welcomed. It is of course easy to put too much faith in agreements of this kind. As the ' Times" points out, the agreement makes no reference to the question of concessions and it is by the extortion of concessions that some of the Powers are constantly endeavouring to obtain advantages over the others. But at least American diplomacy has succeeded in pledging all the Great Powers to the principle of the Open Door for which Great Britain has from the first contended. In other respects the Blue Book on China which was published this morning is not very satisfactory reading. It proves that the Tsungli Yamen is as successful as ever in the arts of procxastination.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.