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` Bi__-.emi_u:_ gnrgnewlohundlsndivg11989,. .111`? -i .` *5, strdixiiiovcnient Jin .tav`- or of co'1'i`1a ."f&"?-io1t'j,yVVi.tl}` pQ8!!eId8- 313 cunpeish 7 ' Premises betfbi` " results ? than any previous to bring` the ` island into thgmnonhiinion. Newfound- land is ~- not prosperous. ' Naturally % the people attrihute the." lack of prose - parity to the island's isolation Md -they demand 'a change` of somekind. Until recent years Newfoundland sen- timent. was , not favorable to politi- cal amalgamation with Canada. To- the islanders. confederation meant ab- sorption, and from this fate their rugged independence shrank. 'I`hey_ preferred closer commercial relations with Canada or the United States, thinking that this expedient would place them onthe high road to pros- perity and preserve their identity. `In negotiating `commercial treaties, Newfoundland has not been success- `ful. Twice the island Government was on the verge of effecting a recipro- city treaty with the Tinited States and each time the Imperial Govern- ment declined to ratify the treaty. Thnat Newfoundland at heart is soundly British is shown by the_ comparatively slight resentment that followed the disallowance _oi the Bond-Blaine treaty at a time when the island was in the depths of ad- versity. The people of Newfoundland are not satised with present condi- tions, but they are hostile to the idea of annexation with the United States. The island will never pass from British sovereignty unless it is thrown away by stupid diplomacy. Tho I\ut\_1)vs4-1'5`. re`-\us`:v\AauIn` .-.0 `KT..u-u-v an wmmn wumwgy ;..L..;_m.. ixn | ` lovonont` puuadtsigys . - DOWII in thc Bank `of Nw run min]: fnrn 5: (1 an... --.1.:,_1_ _-_ __ . Bank" Dopouitn In Stockings. A Joy luck Alplruw. N.awiou`NbL up.` jbllkifl of all kinds in stock or made j3r9gp& and a.lliFunera.l Requisites furnished- `Q1 -'1' 3 T91 ` 0?l;`AVTprompt.ly attended to. ,I .`. `_: ; NNH %N OOQNOOOQOOOONOOONOOOOO3 ,wwwwowuwwuwwooouwwouunuuunnon _ ' . 6 THE NEWEST BOOK. We have them. _CAT}IOLIC PRAYER Buox. Cu1'1:rH 'oF`ENGLA1~:1> Pngmns AND Hnms, Mmnonrsw AND PI:ESBY l`ERIA.\' H\'.\m.-, in all * bindings. ' BOX OF STATIONERY- -'A".See SCOTT S STCJCK anyway before purchasing % % . S S Suggeshons f:?1'fziAs E have the, largest and best stock of seasonable . goods We have ever had in the line of Table and Pocket Cutlery, Sissors, Silver Plated Goods, 1 including ROGERS BROS. 1847, Hanging and'Ba.nquet Lamps. T .Our stock of Bells `and Chimes, Horse Biankets and Robes are the best value we have ever had. See our Tube and Hockey Skates and Sticks. Hambly 81 Baker Christmas A %1uJ:nuc'r1oN or so PER CENT. IN MANY LINES. Fox ANY Mmunm 0F'THE FAMILY No'rnn MORE .AI PROPRIA'I`E TlI.\.\' .\ 'I`t_;_g_ Advance Office. Now is: the Time """""""-----_-f6i- Cheap `%7'\for its Subscribers at Dnnssrxe Cums, Wom; Bxsxnrg. Pvnsss, HAND Bms, at all prices. CALENDARS AND, XMAS Cums in endless varietv. Carving Sets, VATERMAN 1%131:%A{ifi*b%tiiii'EAtN PEN .4 L1: 1. X` `k ->`.lrL BARBIE `AND STROUD. THE ADVANCE With Any Paper AMEMoR'IAL CARDS (folders) per 100,` FUNERAL NOTICES, card folders, I _per100 . . . . . FUNERAL NOTICES, black bordered, white paper, far 100, $1.00 to A BARGAIN LOT OF Letterheadvs, Noteheads, Billheads, Envelopes,Statements, Dodgers, Etc. VFRHAOM A DOLLAR\ A THOUSAND UP, FOR THE NEXT FEWV MONTHS AT 'i la.ted Tea and Coffee Pots, Crumb Trays and Chi1dren s`Sets, Carpet Sweepers, THE ADVANCE CUTS RATES IN THE DOMINION EVERY ONE GUARANTEED` WILL. Clubbing Rates k Goods "Dianna 24 ms $2.25 $2.25 $2.50 u-vvc: --v---u To listen to the man selling. these un- redeemed pledges is one of the choice entertainments of the Peking streets. He is selected by the pawnbroker for` his uency of speech and ready .wit, to whichhe gives full play in his humor-y bus descriptions at the quality and: his- tory of the fare and richly emhro'id- . ered dresses which are piled up on the ` platform of his tent. He at times` runs nil his speech in rhyme, making clever and sarcastic allusions to the require- Inents or his audience, pressing a satin `robe on the attention` ot some naked 'V;be_`uAsr.-Golden Penny. ` i -' A ioneynobn Ixjuenee. -_1`ho Groom-1-Would you mind I A Went into the smoking car, dear? "=},l`he Bride-.-What! To smoke? ' { i?`0I'. dunno! I want to experience t5a_'n ",aio_1_xy 'ot'be1n uray from you `po- ~';.|.- A-.. -4 _..n. ...1..... _ln`3 L- -II '. *tg"fw;t"t'o"' ow ;'E`;3 I-2mm" "W1L'Vt:; '%'1'I.1 "' ` % T V ~ They; cut Quite a Figure In Life In` the Flowery Land. Pawnbroking is a great institution in the Flowery. Land. The Chinese pawn- , broker's, however, is quite a different ' kind of establishment from ours. The pawn shop of China is more a strong- hold, a place of` quiet and safe repose, for valuable jewelry and the miscel- laneous and costly wardrobes or the` people. It also in manyinstances per- _- forms "the equally important but some- what costly function of lending to the needy, and, as in the collections of sim- ilar establishments of our own land. `one may see the much prized jewels - [and `trinkets _ot happier times, which ' caused their poor owners many a bit- ' terppang to part with. heartache: that were perhaps brightened with the hope `that onefdayrthey would be able to re-* deem them. 4 ` ?1%-V-mfoexro, to t.ho.1nIiI_Wl,Io nu umu; c ;- .`~_'-;~-.m..w 2;... .-=`.;: `A. - : _._._.& gm.` . " Money kept from the Hospi;;;1i-is' mercy kept from the children. vuuul u---an yon. Luuu uuuu. " See whatthe hand of the Surgeon does for thelcrjppled children of Ontario. In avuu un. nulacty uuu 01 801116 110618 llX8. as The X Ray department gives wonderful results. A girl came in with a. double thumb on one hand. She left with one `thumb-a perfect hand. Qan mime Elm 1...": A: 4.1.... Q ...... .. .1--- --uou.u`y a. vulru UL mu: 01101138 IJUIIIDBP; 3 In six years 1,400 outside patients have been t.rea.ted---and for 20 years past they will average 100 a year. . The nvnnmrn oh: u 1-.` nun-mu ....a-:....L ' ....;.. " 64 days, the cost per patient per d? 940. wuu. wvwouscl IV" a JDII-In The avemge stay of every patient `wee _ A dollar or two meansa smal ` I,,,A 3; ...........-. ...g .: -----_ _--L,- lot of ux uuJu, vuu uuuu yus pcwluuu put` u_ y I110- smal money out of your pocket, but it takes 9. big load of misery out of `some little life. Tho Y Dov Jayson`-nnnns ._...... -...---1-!--1 BEFORE I AFTER , Of the 868 patients 293 carhe from 216 places outside of Toronto. I Tn I-I.` ...... ...... L1... .....4..'-._A._ r_.__, .1311`, ,, _ _'usv\4vu vuuuauu UL .l.Ul.'Ull|IU- In three years the patientsrfrom different ports of Ontario, not Toronto, average 250 '-`--uearly a. third of the entire number; . a:v Iranian I An nub.-..J.. _...L-._4._ l.-_- `. pl. w: uuuu UULLI vywuxu Blg UL 105 `V8413. I ' `This is the reason that the Trustees ap- peal to the fathers and mothers of On- V ta.rio-for'as their money goes out to help` the Hospital so the -Hospital's mercy can go out to help the children. Thin In Hm. ()9:-I-. ........ . A u..- 1:'.r....-_:n._n.. JJUUB GU UUUSI fore and after. The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto-, isinota. local insbitut.ion-it is Provincial. ` ' The sick child from any part. of O n t a. r 1' o whose par- ents cannot . 9. ff 0 r d to . p a y f o 1' treatment -w 1 has the 'M.AssAan: 1:-oR`1umUM.vrIsM. A same claim . fund the `same privileges as the Toronto child born within sight of its ivalls. i rnnnnn flan`-. hn "`nnnI-,nnu an- p -_n-Ii I . ._ . 1 4% 5v uuu cu uclp uuu uuuuren. This is the 28th yourof the Hospital s `life. The story of the years is a. wonder- iulV.one-`-for in that period 10,000 children have been treated, and over 5,000 cured and 3,000 improved. `Lani-. unnn H. ...... .. one` 1..---- -...1 _:._1_ uuu. u,vuu uupruvuu. _ 13381: your there were 868 boysend girls mobs beds and cots, and of these 493 were - cured a.ncl'247 improved. l L- T1011`! Rf`. flinun ruin!-n-can A` niuk Cant . !t Take: Care; of Evqx-y sick Child in Ontario Whb Cannot Alford to Pay. ` V For Treatment. _ - - '~ THE GREAT CHARITY. FAWN. SHOPS o_F CHINA.- nuvu uuu ax: |l.uyl.'U\ ULl. Look at these pictures of club feet-`-Abr rare and n fl-.nr is .-the most useful and convenient" assistant to the cook "in preparing rich and deliciously flavoured soups, gravies, entrees, etc. One teaspoonfui to a pint of soup produces a marvellous improvement in flavor, strength and appearance A ` THE HOSPITAL Fozitk CHILDREN, Tononwo. 'BE1rd1iE` Since %B'o,v3-`fl; : ; M The chef. andliis aasistnts % V ` _Ha'Vc learned thin `8o!_vr! l:;v;v"ay.j-A Of making Soups and Smixccws--` . 4` Deilicious .BouilA1'o1;1,too; _ % 'That s why the work is easy, :;And they're so _quickly tljrough. c Thackeray as a. critic. . It` cannot be contended that Thack- eray was a great critic. Indeed. there is not doubt that, as a rule, he prefer-* red second rate-books of the rst class to the greatest.` For instance. while. as a matter of course; he admlttedthat Milton was a great poet, he added. that . "he was such a bore that no oneeould. I read him." V Whatever one may think of thedlscernment or a [man whozsays` ! that. it'll imposslhle t_o`doubt` his .-hon-c esty. -`He was often led away by the character or ___the .aIk1`_tho,r_ whose works. `he wasecrltfcislng. ._HedII appi-odved of: Swift and;~8te,I'ne and rather nudging-j_ . 1!. their *i*|!!3|1t.lI; ht! P`D9;at.Wh!n fh9T`1YL?ri. t `ct ; its '11_i`ll1`1rSit`y, .` A msxronm A V AFT!-IR If you know of It sick child-th club foot. boy or` gix-1--send his parents name to the Hospital. " T ` V Dinncn cnnt-I `Au-nun nnnb-u:`su6-{Ann L.` T > IIUU Twenty-three children who [came in with c`lub-feet were sent home perfect cures last year. _ There are. as `many more t in the Hospital to-day, awaitmg treatment. ' Vll\J .l.L\JDtIl lumi- Please send your contributions to J. Ross Robertson, Chairman, or to Douglas Davidson, Sec.-Treas. of I the Hospital for Sick Children, College Street, Toronto. . . E Take handicap of-ti-elivrinity-4 give all children a fair start in therace of life. Oidest Family In the World. Of the 400 barons in the British -house of-lords about. a dozen date back to 1400, the earliest being 1264. The oldest family in the British isles is - the Mar family in Scotland, 1093. The Campbells of Argylle began in 1190. Talleyraud dates from `I199 and Bis- marck from 1270. The Grosvenor fam- ily; the Duke of Westminster. 1066; the Austrian house of Hapsburg goes back to 952 and the house of Bourbon -aw.`-- uv -av- say: ya-av -. av vs -7`: to 864. The descendants of Moham- med, born 570, are all registered care- fully and authoritatively in a book kept in Mecca by a chief of the family. Lit- tle or no doubt exists or the absolute authenticity of the long line of Moham- med's descendants. In China there are many old.` families; also among the Jews. But in point of pedigrees the mikado. or Japan has a unique record.` His place has been lled by `members of his `family for, more than 2,500:: years. The present mikadof is the-lonef hundred and twenty;-second in the line. The rst-one was `contemporary with N_ebuchad_nezzar,p i `666 years V `before; Ghrist._ I\L VIIU -LLUDUUU3 DIS. JUL! UU IAU JU\Ila The News aper Proprietors of, Ontario have kindly elped the Hospital by insert- ing our appeals. There are two newspaper cots, and boys and girlefrom the country are placed in the cots founded by the newapaper men. Look at the pictures` of before and after. The}; tell their own utory--surely` A you will help us in this good work. i T` unlit` Hnllnn nnnlrl - at-vunin-`ml-on O`-no `A;-x 'Jo}121'}`fZ.5fv g"{v.'}LI a2i'oEL""ci$TIr 3&1" help to do that. T VV\lIII\A 65391! 55` } help .Toronto_ contribute Hospital. whether _,_.I -_ .v_...._ The` cit;iz'ens= of about ' . $7,000 a year towards the m ai n be-nance of every patient in the fromciby or country HE ICNJOYS READING. Toronto does its share in the good work, nd the Trustees ask you to do yours. Th nIQII7E7\Y\QI` (`I6 r`l'\.'tI!I:II VVIII HUI}! 3 III UIIID UU|-A Wllo Juli your dollar could7 straighten th feet of a. little boy or girl with club-feet you Iunnlrl rrlnlrllv 11:17.3 5'} ant` unnn rlnnun 111:" uvuuau IIU'uuU uuuul The Corporation ronto gives $7,500 a year to the Hospi- ml for the mam- benance of every child, whether from city or country. :nL-' ,9. A- uuusv u_y uuvans auulu uxuuucl.` a uuuu. Health undwealth. You give wealth to the Hospital, and, ' the Hospital gives health tovthe children. ` . I'D]..- r\-___-'....L:-__ -13 41,.` run A an LU hi1d- vulnuo * _ Your -money can cheer some r'nother s` heart. by saving some mother s ehild. ITAn`l-H unr"urnnN~L vats ...:..A ..'.....l1. L- BOVRIL Your money malns mercy to somg_bQdy s hm. - ~ BEFORE "St the. city-: of` To- I?-:?'_"'*'"""""""| When Sir Percy Girouurd was pre- sented recently with the freedom_ 0! `the Iroximongers Company, it'wa._I only, the fifth occasion "on which the .hdnor'a".i`y freedom of the guild has pr'eieent,edVan'd the x-at on which fit. has. beengiven to a. soldier qua a.` =1 colonial _T_ho" `c'ai_lcti cdntaining ; sthe , ,,cqpy_c;p_t;= mini-wtur in Vottihtpir n_:,9l`..th " ~ .~ nnusug uuuzauhcu, uuu lb 15 UCHICU aiat he had deep knowledge or a. clear power of expression. He is accused of personal vanity and of . being '9, busybody._ He "could not re- sist the blandishments of Lord Met- ca.1te. . and `ft.-he books he wrote can :never be `read. with Tprot orf in- `-_terVest, his I-Iistory iofvthe United ,px_dbab1y_ \ V _ *yi_1_ed by; a` Canadian. e ` Empire: Loyal/i s`tsT ] being V described `as he dullest book ever com- I I r I nor-General. Of the social, political _and com- mercial condztions in Upper and Lower Canada when_Elgin came 0. .good account is given. An under- standing of them serves to explain much of the diiculty of the Gover- B.rita.in s"adoption of free trade meant loss of a, preferent- ial market. The navigation laws excluded the merchantmen of other countries`. lmosities. Sir John Bourinot can make allowance for the slowness of, British sta'tesmen to grasp the mean- ing of. the change for` `which the Act of Union prepared, and 4 can under- stand their apprehensions, but he can see only selsh partyism in the Canadian Tories _who opposed the Baldwin-La1`onta.ine "Administration. He blames them as much for the excitement of i1849ias.he does Mac- kenzie end Papineau 2 for_ the Rebel- -lion of 1837. Papineau he regards as 5, man with no idefaiof the prin- - ciples of Pqrliamentary Government. 0fgSir Francis I-Iincks he says that impartial history `must credit his en- ' terprise ~. end nancialc talent -(with good `service _to'the count.ry.- Dr. `Ryerson,_'_w'_n.s - not a favorite of Sir John`ABounrino.t`s'. `The debt of _Up- e `per Qanadg to the, `great - educationist 1 is `free"ly`-` admitted." but it is sac;-med r '4I.`..o I... In-`-l `A--`.. I-._'_...r`._ul R_a,cial feeling ran high at ` times. There were still rebellion uni-i _'- `V \a \I V vs LIV` VII W/\Jll|.lI`II' and 1.10. more ; that the Governor could `not be responsible to the Gov- ernment at` home, and also to the - Legislature of the province, for if it were so then `all. Colonial Govern- ment `becomes impossible. " _ It is not possible to -revive in its full I strength the idea many statesmen of -that day had of the incompatibility `of the Governor's constitutional` re- ? lation to the Colonial Legislature % and his olcial relation to the Home i-Government. Elgin saw that there was nothing irreconcilable in these relations and was convinced that the free. action of the British system in Canada would not. of itself lead to separation. But `if he recognized a larger power in the-Colonial Parlia- mentv he `did not spare the preten- sions that had been put forward as pertaining to his own office. Mr. `Bradshaw, whose work, Self-'Gov- ernment in Canada," -has appeared xsince .Sir .John Bourinot s death, says Lord Elgin made the mistake of reducing the Governor to a lig- urehea ." _--'-vv. l--:3-r, vs vuv ssauuuulillplg turueu in` to Duncan Campbell -Scott " {and Prof. Pelham Edgar,` but hewas not," to -behold his nished work in type. Nothing that Sir John Bouti- snot everwrote is more readable than this posthumous work of'his. In its .style-there is none oflt-he strain that is. perceptible in some of his ventures outside the field in` which he is V an acknowledged authority. - When his subject is not Parliamentary proce- dure or, constitutional" doctrine he does not always appear to have the ease or "manner that might be ex- pected from one having his undoubt- ed familiarity with the facts. But there is no literary awkwardness in his latest book. To enjoy reading it a, man need not have aftaste for ab`- stract principles of `Government, though what he will chiey learn fr-or_n-it is how. some of the most prized of these principles came into practice in our own "political system, It has all the interest of a. good story. Of the narrative style of a. writer whose work has always been largely expository it is unnecessary to sayniore by `way of praise. Golf-Government. Justice is nowadays on all hands ' _freely rendered to Lord Elgin. He understood what self-government meant, and he "did not shrink from giving it its way. In working out the theory he was perhaps bolder than the author of it, Lord Durham, his sagacious father-in-law, would have been. Though" it'had been es- tablished more than five years, it was not yet in smooth operation. In the British Foreign Office its was looked upon as something of a con- tradiction, and therefore as scarcely workable. As Beurinot says: 1t appears, however, that there was al- ways a`. reservation in the minds f the Colonial Secretary and of Gov?! `nor: who preceded Lord Elgin as to `the meaning of responsible Govern- ` ment and the methods of carrying it i out in a colony dependent on the ` Crown; Lord Sydenham himself be- lieved that the Council should be one `for the Governor to consult, and A ",,_,,,_I . 41..-`. AL- t*1,__ Injetefuod hit the A b _ tun _ um. um w,.y`-'-n.T " the InI_.-luocbrltlonn` "cl `"`In`hy_ot t`ho.);VI9'tablo-`Hon wn'..c.-... V in tho front In Lord II`II'l_ `Elmo. ' Doding with 7 a, most important `period in Canadian history, the work 01' an eminent Canadian writer's last, days, the first volume of a. notable Canadian series, the Lord Elgin" which has just issued from the press. The author, Sir John George Bourinot, lived to see the last page of the mamtiscript, turned "II f Mr nulnnnn (`A---`L- 5`--`* %%MAKER OE FCANADA 1 LAT: sun .1; it BOURINO_`|' 5LPO:8T-_ [ . HUMAOUB won_K_-oN Loan zuam. _ Pllrllidd` ti ll:-'Po1-by` GI:-o.|nrd. `tho Times and the Man`. : :A}iOR'l`\HERN ADVANCE Alvin Stewart of Linton writes The Globe: I noticed in your paper some time ago an account of a robin which had appeared somewhere in northern Ontario, but I think I have e. some- what grea.ter_ curiosity than that. We have a. `jet. black sparrow at our `place. I think they are quite "rare, _ea_we have never seen-` no heard tell `of one before.` ;It ieie. little V larger than -the common" `sparrow, `but .. not tdA}imtn1:ctiveT.:_. . / `At "f e.. jone ' u would?__'` think`-it `was [I _;blac,lbird- or la .:,ro_.b3n :i but -Mtf 4`hee..jine _ `leap V .-J Juuusn-ya nun UALDDUHUC. This is what is known as the stocking room, and is .used by lad- ies _who carry their money in safer receptacles than pocket books or chatelaines. .l`he room is not used V every day. but now" and then it `hap- .' lot 01 people. V pens that a. lady approaches the re- ceiving tellerfs box and announces that she wishes to put some money 'in the bank. When the teller waits for the money the lady displays some slight embarrassment and `explains that she can't get at it right. there in the long room whe1"e the.re are a. rnI...'.. .. ._-|.-._- ;.,g__ .A,.. .' av B0 II DIS?`-I i |. Settlement of the . French shore question is `undoubtedly a. preliminary, condition to bringing Newfoundland into the Dominion. No Dominion Government would be anxious to deal with such an embarrassing issue. Sir James Winter, who was one of the -British Commissioners at the Anglo- -American conference, held at Quebec, and later at Washing'ton,,wa.'s at the `time Premier of Newfoundland, and a strong advocate of confederation. He approached _Sir Wilfrid Laurier and his colleagues in "an informal `way, but he received no encourage- ment. The French shore question was the stumbling block then as it is. to V day. True, the people of Newfound- land are not unanimous in their de- Vnnh fnr nnu'nu `nil-L t'V___.I, -._..... w-u uuu uucuxuuuub H1 Llltflf Ue` mand for union with Canada, but there is no,such hostility to the movement as was manifested by New Brunswick and Nova. Scotia to con- federation and which was successfully overcome. If Great Britain and Ca.- nada do not do their utmost to as- sist the present movement in favor of confederation they will lose an opportunity which may not soon pre- sent itself again, says a writer in Toronto Sunday. World ` av V VI 'l\a\ltlA\Jo This is where the stocking room comes in handy and a.fter- spending a, few moments T in it the -depositor re- turns triumphently with the roll of e bills In her - hand. rnn.- ..--... .1- ---A 2- -4-V -- - ....,.... .... tutu uagux us new prunsn [wick there is a room which is not known to - the general public, but which has proved itself a. `great con- venicnce to a, certain class of deposi- .tors` and the usefulness of which ful- ly justies its existence. ` nL~:n 3.. ....I._J. 1- !--A--- -- ` "' Hanna dbl IIVI lI.(4nQ.lUo The room is not in such demand as is the case in some larger cities, but is nevertheless quite frequently found copvenient.--St. John Sun. -..- V .. .. .., n J y`y uvuynu unyausuuvg The pro-British sentiment. of` New- foundland has been morethan once put to the test,land it has always conqyuered. It has calmly withstood the disallowance of commercial treat- ies that seemed to promise a healthy prosperity and it has viewed. with commendable talmness French en- croachments on what'it believes to be its heaven-born rights. The French shore question is a `standing menace to the happy relations existing be- tween Newfoundland and the Mother Country. Why the question` was not settled long ago-is a puzzle" to those who understand the really trivial is- sues involved. The British Govern- ment has never taken the question up with energy `and persistence, prob- ably because the issue promised no serious complications with foreign powers. By_ the treaty which ceded Canada to England, the Islands of Miquelon and St. Pierre were retain- ed by France and to the French were conceded shingsrights on a specified stretch of Newfoundland shore.`-- The contested point` is whether those rights are `concurrent or exclusive, whether -the French alone should be permitted to sh along the shore al- lotted to them, or whether they should enjoy these rights in common with British subjects. ,Bitish diplo- mats admit that this French shore question can be easily adjusted. Now that the relations between Britain` and France are on` an unusually friendly footing it is not improbable that the French shore question will soon be settled-. -LJ.I_-___ no 1 '- -