Phe King nnd Queen have been remarkable busy this week, Qn Tuesday his Majesty laid the foundation stone of the nov Liverpool Cathedral; on Wednesday he cut the first sod of Swansea's new docks: on Thursday lis turned on the rater for Birmingham from its new source of supply eighty miles away in Wales; and to-dvy he has opened the new hall and] Slices of the Royal Horticultural Society fa Vincent Square; and on each occasion has been accompanied by the Queen. Ttis really a remitkable series of gro.t public and semi-public works which be} Ris inausuaated. The now Liverpool Catheral will, Lbelieve, be the most, imposing modern ecclesiastical building in this Country. OF course there will no: be the Javish expenditure on the interior which is contemplated at the Roman Catholic Cathedral at Westminister; but the build-"ing itself, judging from the: plans and descriptions, will be very much finer. one respect it wilh easily establish a record," for the height of the choir and nave will be nearly half as much. gain as that at Westminster Abbey, of Aeich the main building is at present the Joftiest of all the churches in England. he building is remarkable too, as the Gesign of a young man of twenty-two, for would" be placed xt a heavy and quite unjustifiable disadvantage by its {mposition. And then, although Mr. Chamberlain junior still declines to admit it, the tax does seem to be a violation of the pledge that there should be no tampéring with Free Trade during the present Parliament. It imposes a higher duty on stripped than on an stripped tobacco, the avowed object being to protect and foster the little industry of tol sipping in this country. reled as a measure Protection it is ''only a little one," but it Protection all the same.
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