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Our Weekly Budget.
4 course , the neighbourhood of the Angel , Islington , has been thronged with carriages and foot passengers . The scene was not quite so brilliant as some of those depicted in our Christmas Annuals , or the Christmas number of the
Graphic and other periodicals . Bather the reverse , indeed , for the horses and carriages , the omnibuses , and the fool passengers looked dingy and dirty enough . However the clerk of the weather is not that paradox of paradoxes a dry humourist . He lands such discomforts as he has in store for
us London folk straight away under our very noses , without the slightest faltering . Mais revenous a nos moutons , which is-more appropriate as a quotation than are the majority of such . We say this , of course , with all modesty . The sheep were the feature in the Show . The Southdowns ,
the Kentish , tho Leicesters , the Lincolnshire , and other breeds were in considerable force , and most of the prize pens were magnificent . Among the Cattle , a shorthorn , a beautiful white cow , carried off the principal prize . The pigs were fat , and the visitors far more eager in prodding
the animals than even the most enthusiastic of stock owners . The decisions of the judges appear to have given general satisfaction—save , of course , to the non-winners—and the attendance , as far as we have heard has been excellent , certainly equal to what might have been expected in not
particularly genial weather . Not the least important feature in the Show were the agricultural implements and the root exhibition of Messrs . Carter and other well-known seedsmen . Amono ; the successful exhibitors must be mentioned
both the Queen and the Prince of "Wales . By the way , we believe it is a fact that the classic Angel at Islington is not in the parish by whose name it is distinguished , but in Clerkenwell .
It is evident that , whether the weather will let them or no , people mean enjoying themselves this Christmas-tide . It is impossible to walk along the principal thoroughfares , especiall y at the West End , without being reminded that this day fortnight we are in for what the Saturday Eevieio
has described one of our emergency meetings to be , namely , a " gorge " on a large scale , in fact the greatest gorge of the whole year . Geese and Turkeys , sucking-pigs and pastry , beeves and sheep , fruits and vegetables , are visible in all the caterers' shops . The booksellers are only two happy
to suppl y any number of seasonable books , The toy shops are over crowded with all the greatest novelties in the shape of toys . Housewives are busy with their preparations , making puddings and mincemeat by the hundredweight , and paterfamilias looks on as quietly as he can , with
sundry terrible misgivings as to the bills that will pour in upon him when the bells have hardly done ringing the old year out and the new year in . Happily the old saying is true , that Christmas comes but once a year , so paterfamilias wisely gives his better half carta blanche to
organise the gorge on the grandest scale imaginable , with the somewhat cynical assurance that all this eating and drinking will be of service to all the pharmaceutical chemists throughout the Kingdom . We hear much of the
mighty beeves and turkeys and puddings that are consumed at this season of the year , but very little of the pills and potions that are used to counteract the excess of bile which too frequently follows .
But as last year , so this , the number of firesides that will be cheerless and desolate has been greatly increased by the occurrence of several terrible accidents . The German ship Deutschland has run aground on the Kentish Knock , and it is known that many of her passengers and crew have
perished in the waters . How many lives are lost is not yet accurately ascertained , as many as fifty , and even more , being the number according to some reports . The Quartermaster Bock , the survivor of three who got adrift in a lifeboat , and who was landed at Slieerness , is in a fair state of recovery .
He must have had a dreadful time of it during the six-antlthirty hours he was exposed to the inclemency of the weather . Another boat with four others in it also got adrift , so it is said , but at the time of writing nothing- has been heard of it . Besides this , there have been three
colliery explosions , each being attended with a fearful loss of life . In the case of the Swaitho Main explosion , near Barnsley , over a hundred bodies have alread y been brought to the pit ' s mouth , and sixty more nro still . said to be missing . At the New Tredegar Colliery , twenty-two lives
were lost , while at the Llan Colliery , near Cardiff , twelve others have perished . Here then wc have some two hundred people swept into eternity with hardl y a moment ' s warning , and within a few clays of the period set apart , of ancient custom , for festivity and rejoicing .
Our Weekly Budget.
The Mansion House Fund for the relief of the sufferers by the recent inundations in the South of London and in other parts of the country , already exceeds the sum of £ 15 , 000 , and amounts of money are being daily voted to the people of those districts which have suffered most and are
most sorely distressed . As charity begins at home , it seems to us it would have been a more graceful act had Grand Lodge voted £ 100 to this Inundation Fund instead of voting such an amount even for so laudable an object as the further
exploration of Palestine . The long hidden foundations of the Temple are in little danger of being washed away , while in far too many cases the little all of our poor and distressed brethren at home has been wholly destroyed . Our charity should be as practical as possible .
Among Ministerialist doings , we note the visit to Manchester of the Chancellor of the Exchequer , where he was welcomed heartily at a grand gathering of the Conservative party . Mr . C . S . Read has resigned his post as Vice President of the Local Board , and publicly announced his
reasons for doing so . This is the first secession from the Min istry which has occurred since it came into office , now nearly two year since . The reason for this step , Mr . Read states was ms disagreement with the policy of Ministers
on the s ubject of cattle transit , and the restrictions imposed on it by the Privy Council . There have been the usual deputations to sundry Cabinet Ministers , the most important havino- been to Lord Derby and the Home Secretary .
There is little , if anything , to record in the sporting world , the frost having necessarily caused the postponement of the Croydon and other steeplechase fixtures . There are to be two grand attractions at the Alexandra Palace to-day . The great Oratorio of Esther , by Handel ,
Avill be repeated , under the conduct of Mr . H . Weist Hill , at three o'clock in the afternoon , and when the concert is over , the German Gymnastic Society will give a grand display in the Grand Central Hall , commencing punctually at 6 p . m . On Monday next , and three following days , will
be held a great Dog Show , when over a thousand pounds in prizes will be given away . At the Crystal Palace the Saturday concert and dramatic performances are the principal attractions . On Saturday , the first concert of the season , by the Amateur Orchestral Society , will be given at
the Royal Albert Hall , in aid of the All Saints' Convalescent Hospital , at Eastbourne . The patron of this Society is H . R . H . the Duke of Edinburgh . To-day , at St . James ' s Hall , will be held a Saturday " Pop , " while the last Monday " Pop " before Christmas is fixed for Monday .
We are , it seems , to have our army organised on a satisfactory basis at last . The War Office has been a long time in labour , and for once in a way we have neither an abortion nor a puny scheme of reform , but a wide and comprehensive one . Both the late and present war ministers are
to be congratulated , Lord Cardwell for having proposed , and Mr . Gathome Hardy for having carried into execution , plans which , as regards arrangement , will give us a chance of meeting a crisis somewhat hopefully , at all events with less of that hurry and distraction which has generally
characterised our efforts at the commencement of a war . Henceforth our troops ' will enjoy the advantage of knowing where they are and whither to go , and this is no trifling gain , when we call to mind that even in France , where , till the late war broke out , they were said to manage these
things far better than here , the greatest confusion reigned , and soldiers , summoned to arms on a sudden , had not the remotest notion whither they should betake themselves . Our military authorities appear to have done their work very quietly , very methodically , and very efficiently , and
there has been heard well-nigh everywhere a general chorus of approval . It must not be inferred , however , that further steps in the same direction will not be needed . There is still a great problem to solve . Given the nucleus of an army , in the shane of skeleton regiments , brigades , and divisions , to
find the number of men to make it . This is a problem which will never , perhaps , be solved till a political crisis comes , and then , no doubt , the patriotism which has carried us successfully through so many contests will supply the needful flesh ,
blood and sinew . While on matters warlike , we may as well notice that further experiments have been made with the Sl-ton gun , with a view of testing the kind of powder that wiii ha most useful .
The purchase by the English Government of the Suez Canal Shares is still the principal topic of the day , at least on the Continent . A discussion in the French Legislative Assembly was expected to bave come off , but the election of the 75 senators for life has been , shown , to possess too
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Our Weekly Budget.
4 course , the neighbourhood of the Angel , Islington , has been thronged with carriages and foot passengers . The scene was not quite so brilliant as some of those depicted in our Christmas Annuals , or the Christmas number of the
Graphic and other periodicals . Bather the reverse , indeed , for the horses and carriages , the omnibuses , and the fool passengers looked dingy and dirty enough . However the clerk of the weather is not that paradox of paradoxes a dry humourist . He lands such discomforts as he has in store for
us London folk straight away under our very noses , without the slightest faltering . Mais revenous a nos moutons , which is-more appropriate as a quotation than are the majority of such . We say this , of course , with all modesty . The sheep were the feature in the Show . The Southdowns ,
the Kentish , tho Leicesters , the Lincolnshire , and other breeds were in considerable force , and most of the prize pens were magnificent . Among the Cattle , a shorthorn , a beautiful white cow , carried off the principal prize . The pigs were fat , and the visitors far more eager in prodding
the animals than even the most enthusiastic of stock owners . The decisions of the judges appear to have given general satisfaction—save , of course , to the non-winners—and the attendance , as far as we have heard has been excellent , certainly equal to what might have been expected in not
particularly genial weather . Not the least important feature in the Show were the agricultural implements and the root exhibition of Messrs . Carter and other well-known seedsmen . Amono ; the successful exhibitors must be mentioned
both the Queen and the Prince of "Wales . By the way , we believe it is a fact that the classic Angel at Islington is not in the parish by whose name it is distinguished , but in Clerkenwell .
It is evident that , whether the weather will let them or no , people mean enjoying themselves this Christmas-tide . It is impossible to walk along the principal thoroughfares , especiall y at the West End , without being reminded that this day fortnight we are in for what the Saturday Eevieio
has described one of our emergency meetings to be , namely , a " gorge " on a large scale , in fact the greatest gorge of the whole year . Geese and Turkeys , sucking-pigs and pastry , beeves and sheep , fruits and vegetables , are visible in all the caterers' shops . The booksellers are only two happy
to suppl y any number of seasonable books , The toy shops are over crowded with all the greatest novelties in the shape of toys . Housewives are busy with their preparations , making puddings and mincemeat by the hundredweight , and paterfamilias looks on as quietly as he can , with
sundry terrible misgivings as to the bills that will pour in upon him when the bells have hardly done ringing the old year out and the new year in . Happily the old saying is true , that Christmas comes but once a year , so paterfamilias wisely gives his better half carta blanche to
organise the gorge on the grandest scale imaginable , with the somewhat cynical assurance that all this eating and drinking will be of service to all the pharmaceutical chemists throughout the Kingdom . We hear much of the
mighty beeves and turkeys and puddings that are consumed at this season of the year , but very little of the pills and potions that are used to counteract the excess of bile which too frequently follows .
But as last year , so this , the number of firesides that will be cheerless and desolate has been greatly increased by the occurrence of several terrible accidents . The German ship Deutschland has run aground on the Kentish Knock , and it is known that many of her passengers and crew have
perished in the waters . How many lives are lost is not yet accurately ascertained , as many as fifty , and even more , being the number according to some reports . The Quartermaster Bock , the survivor of three who got adrift in a lifeboat , and who was landed at Slieerness , is in a fair state of recovery .
He must have had a dreadful time of it during the six-antlthirty hours he was exposed to the inclemency of the weather . Another boat with four others in it also got adrift , so it is said , but at the time of writing nothing- has been heard of it . Besides this , there have been three
colliery explosions , each being attended with a fearful loss of life . In the case of the Swaitho Main explosion , near Barnsley , over a hundred bodies have alread y been brought to the pit ' s mouth , and sixty more nro still . said to be missing . At the New Tredegar Colliery , twenty-two lives
were lost , while at the Llan Colliery , near Cardiff , twelve others have perished . Here then wc have some two hundred people swept into eternity with hardl y a moment ' s warning , and within a few clays of the period set apart , of ancient custom , for festivity and rejoicing .
Our Weekly Budget.
The Mansion House Fund for the relief of the sufferers by the recent inundations in the South of London and in other parts of the country , already exceeds the sum of £ 15 , 000 , and amounts of money are being daily voted to the people of those districts which have suffered most and are
most sorely distressed . As charity begins at home , it seems to us it would have been a more graceful act had Grand Lodge voted £ 100 to this Inundation Fund instead of voting such an amount even for so laudable an object as the further
exploration of Palestine . The long hidden foundations of the Temple are in little danger of being washed away , while in far too many cases the little all of our poor and distressed brethren at home has been wholly destroyed . Our charity should be as practical as possible .
Among Ministerialist doings , we note the visit to Manchester of the Chancellor of the Exchequer , where he was welcomed heartily at a grand gathering of the Conservative party . Mr . C . S . Read has resigned his post as Vice President of the Local Board , and publicly announced his
reasons for doing so . This is the first secession from the Min istry which has occurred since it came into office , now nearly two year since . The reason for this step , Mr . Read states was ms disagreement with the policy of Ministers
on the s ubject of cattle transit , and the restrictions imposed on it by the Privy Council . There have been the usual deputations to sundry Cabinet Ministers , the most important havino- been to Lord Derby and the Home Secretary .
There is little , if anything , to record in the sporting world , the frost having necessarily caused the postponement of the Croydon and other steeplechase fixtures . There are to be two grand attractions at the Alexandra Palace to-day . The great Oratorio of Esther , by Handel ,
Avill be repeated , under the conduct of Mr . H . Weist Hill , at three o'clock in the afternoon , and when the concert is over , the German Gymnastic Society will give a grand display in the Grand Central Hall , commencing punctually at 6 p . m . On Monday next , and three following days , will
be held a great Dog Show , when over a thousand pounds in prizes will be given away . At the Crystal Palace the Saturday concert and dramatic performances are the principal attractions . On Saturday , the first concert of the season , by the Amateur Orchestral Society , will be given at
the Royal Albert Hall , in aid of the All Saints' Convalescent Hospital , at Eastbourne . The patron of this Society is H . R . H . the Duke of Edinburgh . To-day , at St . James ' s Hall , will be held a Saturday " Pop , " while the last Monday " Pop " before Christmas is fixed for Monday .
We are , it seems , to have our army organised on a satisfactory basis at last . The War Office has been a long time in labour , and for once in a way we have neither an abortion nor a puny scheme of reform , but a wide and comprehensive one . Both the late and present war ministers are
to be congratulated , Lord Cardwell for having proposed , and Mr . Gathome Hardy for having carried into execution , plans which , as regards arrangement , will give us a chance of meeting a crisis somewhat hopefully , at all events with less of that hurry and distraction which has generally
characterised our efforts at the commencement of a war . Henceforth our troops ' will enjoy the advantage of knowing where they are and whither to go , and this is no trifling gain , when we call to mind that even in France , where , till the late war broke out , they were said to manage these
things far better than here , the greatest confusion reigned , and soldiers , summoned to arms on a sudden , had not the remotest notion whither they should betake themselves . Our military authorities appear to have done their work very quietly , very methodically , and very efficiently , and
there has been heard well-nigh everywhere a general chorus of approval . It must not be inferred , however , that further steps in the same direction will not be needed . There is still a great problem to solve . Given the nucleus of an army , in the shane of skeleton regiments , brigades , and divisions , to
find the number of men to make it . This is a problem which will never , perhaps , be solved till a political crisis comes , and then , no doubt , the patriotism which has carried us successfully through so many contests will supply the needful flesh ,
blood and sinew . While on matters warlike , we may as well notice that further experiments have been made with the Sl-ton gun , with a view of testing the kind of powder that wiii ha most useful .
The purchase by the English Government of the Suez Canal Shares is still the principal topic of the day , at least on the Continent . A discussion in the French Legislative Assembly was expected to bave come off , but the election of the 75 senators for life has been , shown , to possess too