the awkward question, raised by charge of breach privilege brought against Mr. Lea, the Prime Minister managed with considerable embarrassment to relieve himself] and. the House by the time-honoured device of the previous question." He moved, "that the House do proceed with the business of the day and while denying the change of corruption excused himself from discussing the question of money payments for I fon the plew that it was not bef Hone. Of course the Prime Minister hail the support of Mr. Balfour and the other Chinnist leaders, for both sides are tarred with the same brush in th ry those who contribute Inngely to the purty funds, Mr. Lea obtained a goad deal of xnpport, however, from Nationalists, Labour Members and and the Prime Minister hax tanlel with questions on the ing the week, Mr. Markham has given notice of a motion for a select committee of inguiry into the although there enter into the conduct of legal proceedings was proved by the fact that the Harmsworth Company, which owns the two papers, hud as the leader of its formidable array of counsel Mr. Rufus he Liberal member for: nicipal counsel Wirral, was the Unionist ex-Solicitor General, It is no secret that the surrender of the defendants at this was due to the representations Mr. Rufus Isaues, who advised his clients that had no. other course to take, It ix conceivable that if they had carried on the case the jury would have awarded something Tess than £50,000; but on the other haud the costs would have been piled up further, and, in audition, the reputation of the papers would have suffered even more than it has: for now they cat at least to have made generous atone ment as soon as they were conviteal. us Soap Con worth papers were long crushing out of existence last year. For their to the Con was an opposition jo of the these j which took th side" in the dispute: but the utter unscrupulousness and reckless malig of the personal attacks wi made on Mr. Lever and. his firm have not been too severely punished, nor, probably, has the actual damage done the business been more than covered e, by the payment of £50,000 and the heavy costs of the suit, Mr. Lever has cease successful rvard's mother lived as a neighbour has lately Leen undergoing intern restoration, a work in wi ich Miss Marie Corelli his herself, Possibly it was to this fact that Miss Corelli owed her recent visit from Mark Tw The coincidence is emphasized fact that scarcely more than separates two of the most interesting entries in the register of St. Saviour' the christening of John Harvard, and the burial of Edmund Shakespeare, doubtless at the expense of his brother William. Harvard was baptized on 1607, and Edwund thirty-two years July 26,
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