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 NOTES BY THE WAY.

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Under ' The Office Window ' in The Daily Chronicle of July 17th, 1905> Jal y 22 ' 1905, a correspondent raises the question, "When does a 'Mr.' "Mr." cease to be a ' Mr.' ? " I think the rule of The Athenceum is a good one, which confines the prefix to living people.

THE MONUMENT ON FISH STREET HILL.

The reference to the effacing of the old inscription by order of 1905, July 29.

the Court of Common Council, in your review on July 22nd, 1905, of Fish Street " The Gentleman's Magazine Library," reminds me that The Hill

Athenceum for January 29th, 1831, in recording the chipping-off of Monument. " the old lying inscription," makes this protest :

" This is abundantly silly. To mutilate and destroy inscriptions is to falsify history. Its remaining there did not prove that the Catholics set fire to the city ; but it proved the bigoted ignorance of the people who believed so ; it proved that popular opinions, where they run current with popular prejudice, are very indifferent authority."

��HOW THE ENGLISH PRESS OBTAINED COPIES OF THE TREATY OF PEACE, 1815.

In a book just published by H. Bouillant, Paris, entitled 1905, Aug. 26. ' Mory & Cie., 1804-1904,' by Henri Mory, an interesting account is How the given of this incident. It appears that Nicolas Alexandre Toussaint English press Mory, who founded the firm at Calais, was corresponding clerk to - btai ^ e ti, the English Post Office, and had the exclusive privilege of the trans- C xreaty of & mission of English journals to the Continent, as well as the forwarding 181 5. of foreign journals to England. The text of the treaty appeared in the Moniteur of the 26th of November. Mory at once started a courier, who reached Cailais on the following morning at ten o'clock. The wind was favourable, and he arrived in London at nine the same evening, having accomplished the journey in thirty-three hours. The treaty appeared the following morning in all the London papers, where the French Ambassador read it for the first time. It was not until the same day that the official news was received at Calais.

��JUBILEE OF 'THE DAILY TELEGRAPH.' (June 29th, 1905.)

The Jubilee of the first penny daily paper to be published in 1905, Sept. 23. London deserves to be placed on record. The Holy War for an unstamped Press had, after many a hard-fought battle, ended hi victory ; and from June, 1855, newspapers could be issued either with or without a stamp. A glance at ' Mitchell's Newspaper Press Directory ' for 1856 will show to what enterprise this gave

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