Mr. Lawrence Cowen has lost his liber action against "Truth," and Mr. Labot chore has scored another triumph. The first hearing of the case, it will be remombored, resulted in a disagreement of the jury." This time Mr. Cowen conducted his own case, and though he isa man of undoubted shrewdness and ability it is doubtful whether he might not have done hotter to have employed counsel. The Article Club was a very ingenious scheme for putting money into his pocket; but a large number of members still consider that they received good value for the money which they had to pay for the article in Mr. Cowen's paper which gave them a right to membership of the Club. It was, of course, the well-remomdered provincial tour of the Chinese Minister which first directed public attention to the Club, and it has always been something of a mystery how so astute a person as Sir Chih-chen Lo Festal came to allow himself to be exploited by a little ring of self-interested firms in the way he did. What went most strongly against Mr. Cowen was the evidence that he led intending members to believe that Lord Suffield and other distinguished members of the Club would get them Court orders and Royal warrants—hopes which were never fulfilled. Mr, Cowen is not proved to have done anything worse than a good many "smart" men of business are constantly doing without bein" called seriously to account; but the interest of commercial honesty it is satisfactory that the right to criticise severely such business methods has been vindicated. The Buikeld, who has held high office in the ity is that a man in the position of Lord
Royal Household, should have allowed himself to be tarred with such a brush.
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar.
The death of Field Marshal Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, who was laid to rest with full military honours at Chichester on Wednesday, has been a heavy blow to King Edward and the members of the Royal family. He was not related to them by blood, unless in some very remote way, but he was pretty closely connected by marriage, his mother having been a sister of Queen Adelaide, wife of William TV. As became the son of so distinguished a soldier of fortune as Duke Bernard of Saxe-Weimar he was devoted to his profession, and owed his rise to the highest rank in the British army as much to merit as to influence. His marriage to a sister of the present Duke of Richmond was regarded in Germany as morganatic, for though we may consider an English
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