Members who thought with Sir EDWARD CARSON that General DYER had not been fairly treated resented Mr. MONTAGU’S insinuation that in that case they were condoning “frightfulness.”  Mr. CHURCHILL was more judicious, and Mr. BONAR LAW did his level best to keep his followers in the Government Lobby.  But Sir A. HUNTER-WESTON’S reminder that by the instructions issued by the civil authority to General DYER he was ordered “to use all force necessary.  No gathering of persons nor procession of any sort will be allowed.  All gatherings will be fired on,” confirmed them in the view that the GENERAL was being made a scape-goat.  No fewer than 129 voted against the Government, whose majority would have been very minute but for the assistance of its usual foes, the “Wee Frees” and Labourites.

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    “Keble’s own future should be all the more secure in a University in
    which there is not only complete religious intolerance but complete
    religious equality.”—­Local Paper.

Poor old Oxford!  Still “the home of lost causes” apparently.

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“Few stories of London origin are more familiar than that of the cabby who, regarding his day off as one of his indisputable rights, spent it each week in riding about the City with a fellow cabby in order to keep him company.”—­Sunday Paper.

That’s why they called him a busman and his holiday a busman’s holiday.

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“Do you remember the sad fate of a certain distinguished hostess who found herself at midnight left with only a few hogs and elderly men to entertain her pretty girl guests, and the sudden epidemic of rents that necessitated a rush to the cloakroom for mending.”—­Evening Paper.

The ripping property of tusks is well known.

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[Illustration:  THE WOMAN-HATER.]

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FAR-EASTERN ENGLISH.

A returning circumnavigator reports that the passengers on the boat—­a Japanese liner—­coming from Yokohama to Honolulu were apprised of the fact that they were to have two Thursdays, one immediately following the other (and you can have no notion how long a second Thursday can be), owing to the crossing of the imaginary but very boring line which divides the two hemispheres.  The official notice came from the captain’s own hand.  The ship had an American purser and an American chief steward, and there were many English on board, but the gallant little commander preferred to tackle the linguistic problem unaided.  On Wednesday, therefore, the board had this announcement pinned to it:—­“As she will be crossed the meridian of 180 to-morrow, so to-morrow again.”  Could, after the first blow, anything be clearer?

Meanwhile from Siam come the glad tidings that the British residents in Bangkok are to have a new paper.  That the editorial promises are rich the following extracts sufficiently prove:—­