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ercise of a wise discretion a real stain on the administration of justice in England can be removed. As has been truly pointed out in a memorial now being signed by members of the House of Commons, no treaty of ex tradition can be held to bind a Government to a course of conduct which it never con templated. The latest announcement in the House of Commons is that a new convention is being negotiated with the French Government, so as

to allow the British Act of 1895, which au thorizes the holding of a magisterial inquiry elsewhere than in Bow Street, to come into operation. It is not clear from the replies of the present Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether the convention will modify the position of Dr. Herz. It is therefore well to recollect that the resource powers of the Secretary of State can always be fallen back upon. M. J. F.

HENRY CLAY. Wilbur Larremore. "TOT for their fruits alone, not for their deeds We crown the patriot spirits of the past; For one, whose sky with changes overcast, Yet sought to pluck the flowers of hope as weeds, And strove to stunt humanity in creeds, This age that tastes the Future's promise vast, And knows no word it says can be the last, His own age in admiring love succeeds. Faithful and pure; according to his light He toiled to make a nation strong and blest; The growing portent filled his heart with fright, But still his great words calmed the nation's breast; What though his dreams were vain beneath the sleight Of destiny — he loved and did his best.