We hada very comfortable drawing-room on the Great Northen Railway "flyer" between Seattle and St. Paul, and a very much more comfortable rile than one gets on the Canadian Pacitle line. While the latter railway was constructed on the principle of giving the traveller as much mountain scenery as possible, with a brave disregard of expense, the Great Northern avoids mountains in the most pusillanimous way, and the passenger by the daily "flyer" sees no mountain excep: distance the whole way, The first night out the train yoes through the Cascade Range, doing the worst part in a two-mile tunnel while the passengers are all asleep, and so climbs up to the table land between the Cascades and the Rockies. Tae first day out—it must be remembered that the train leaves Seattle at 8 jean.—is through the slightly hilly table land, with pine forests and small clearings; very easy engineering work and very easy running. The second night the tiam crosses the Rockies in the small hours, and from there to St. Paul it agricultural loup, immense wheat-holds with occasional farms tends, and the line is almost as smooth-running as one of our English railways, There is none of the shaking that one yets on the Cunadian Pacific, an the train only stops at the big towns, not all the little one-horse settlements as in Canada.
We reached Spokane at 9 on the first morning out fromSeatt'e. Its distinguishing characteristic is the system of waterfalls, crossed by several big bridges, in the very centre of the town. The first man who came to Spokune apparently built a s"wmill the falls, and the town hes grown up round them. There is one fine street with high brick and stone houses and excellent shops; there is a large theatre, churches of course, and innumerable salons, one of which is kept by an expatriated son of the Marquis of Queensbury. We waited forty minutes at Spokane and so were able to! have a good walk. The size of these towns in what one has been wont t" regard as such an out-vf-the-way corner of the States is ing; and, rough as the people look, the towns themselves are equipped with all the modern amenities. Most of them in. their ten or fifteen years existence have gone ahead of Shanghai with its fifty years. Another advantage, bythe-by, that the Great Northera offers is that the dining-car goes the whole way with the train, instead of being attached at intervals, so that we were able to get our early morning tea and our afternoon tea without any trouble.
The second day out, though snow was still lying in places, the weather was perfect, and we had one or two incidents to vary the monotony of our journey. First we lost an hour through leaving the conductor behind, and having to wait, when the loss was discovered, until he caught us upon casual engine. Then we had a engine which had an infirmity in its ai brake apparatus, and brought us up and started us 60 suddenly, that, while we were at breakfast in the dining car, the coupling between it and our sleeper broke and we lost an hour repairing it. Not long after breakfast the tender jumped the track," and we came to a standstill. Everybody left the cars and crowded round the tender, which looked very melancholy with its fore-wheels in the sleepers ately it did not capsize,—and advised what should be done. It took two hours to get the tender back on the line, and thus we were four hours late at Havre, a delay which we were never able to make up, and we did not get to St. Paul until half-past six the next instead of half-past two.
The Plaintiff is also and was during the year 19uu the Shanghai Correspondent of a daily newspaper published in London called tae Daily Express.
2—The Defendant is a British subject residing at Shanghai and is the Editor of a daily newspaper published in Shanghai called the anghai Times.
3. Defendant falsely and maliciously wrote and published or falsely and maliciously published or caused or procured to be published on the 18th day of January, 1902, in the said SI iti Times of ul concern ing the Plaintiti the words followin
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