At last after many trying weeks of wait~ ing Submarine A I has been raised, and its heroic victims have been laid to rest with all naval honours. 'The inquest has boon completed, and we know all that we shall ever know of the cause of the disaster. It was clear enough, even before the vessel was raised, indeed it was explained very clearly by' the Earl of Selbourne, last Saturday and the inquiry has fully com-firmed his statement. It was clear from the nature of the injury to the Submarine that she must have attempted to dive into deep water just as the Berwick Castle was upon her, and as only the conning tower was struck it is evident that the Aoomed boat only failed to save herself by some three seconds; it may therefore jntrecting week so the Commons, for on) erate yet maetto oe eas In other respects it has been an Wednesday the Licensing Bill—the piece gue direction from which he expected de resistance of the Session was introduced by the Home Soci ry, and on the same night there was a hot debate over the constitution of the Royal Commission on Ritualism. The Licensing Bill bears signs of having been modified in deference to the protests of the temperance section of the Unionist party and the Bishops.
Tt doos not give the "trade" nearly as much as it hoped for, and it modifies only to a slight extent the power of the magistrates to refuse the renewal of licenses on public grounds. The compensation which publicans are to receive when the licenses are refused for no fault of theirs is to come out of a fund raised by an impost on the trade itself, and the Quarter Sessions will now have the sole right to refuse licenses on public grounds. Hitherto the Brewster Sessions had the power of refusal, but as their action was subject to an appeal to the Quarter Sessions, to whom they will even now be able to make recommendations, the change effected in this respect does not seem very great. The subject bristles with difficulties, and it is hard to say what will be the fate of the measure in Committee; but I think itis sure to pass. The publicans will grumble, but they will recognise that this is the most they can hope to get and that it is infinitely more than they could ever get from a Liberal Government, the approach of a cruiser engaged in the manquvres that he delayed too Jong to scan the whole horizon by. means of the periscope, and thus failed to sco the Berwick Castle till just too late. The only consolation is that the shock of the collision must have stunned all on board, and that they were drowned without recovering consciousness and were thus spared a lingering death.
Triumph of the Mother-in-Law.
By a very singular coincidence Mr. Justice Lawrance has had during the past week to try two cases in succession in which damages for libel or slander have been sought from a mother-in-law havas ce which have throughout born a remarkable similarity. In each instance the wife sided with her mother against her husband; in each case the wife rebelled—in one case by rushing out of the Court, and in the other case by tears inst the exposure of her married life, which counsel for the husband tried to extract, and in each case with such success that not only did she put an end to the cross-examination, but obtained from the jury an immediate verdict for her mother. And in each instance the judge not only endorsed the action of the jury, but expressed his surprise that the jury had not stopped the case before. Some of the newspapers have drawn from this coincidence the inference that the
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