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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 4, 17 May 1889, Page 11

Ooldwin Smith declares that the feeline in favour of annexation to tbe United States is growing in Canada because the Dominion cannot obtain commercial reciprocity. Since his suicide many curious stories have been told of Pigott. It appears i hat he was leceivine during hie stay in London £21 or 21 guineas aw<ek. 'I his amount be drew wiih unvarying punctuality every Saturday afterr.oon. That evening and tbe following evening he dined like a king iff tbe most expensive dishes, washed down with the choicest and costliest wines. On vionday he came down to the table d'hote dinner at one of the first hotels with inferior wine*. About Wednesday he was reduced to a 3s 6d dinner, and by Friday he was glad to have enough If ft for a repast at a common Italian restauraut. It is pretty evident that he spent every penny of his precarious and infamous income.— Pall Mall Budget. Not the least amusing of the interesting little byplays in tbe G«mmi6sion Court are the dialogues in the gallery, which are repeated in almost the same words every morning when the court begins to fill with judges, lawyers, and others interested in the case. "Who's that man with the prominent chin ?" "You see that one with tbe wig-rowder on the back of bis gown ? Well, he is Mr. " "Is that Labouchere with tbe crooked back t " " Oh, no, Labby's back is straight enough ; it's bis nose tint's crooked," which is a libel on Mr. Labouchere— and so forth ad infinitwn. Does the collapse of Pigott mean tbe fall of the Attorney-General ? This latter gentleman will naturally put a bold front upon it, and endeavour to dissociate himself alika from Pigott and from Simple Simon. But the attempt will fail. After the exhibition made by him in this case who can believe in Sir Richard Webster's legal acumen any more than in Pigott's honesty or Simple Simon's sagacity f The collapse of Pigott is the fall, we repeat, of the Attorney-Genera. He will make valiant efforts of course to break bis fall by minimising the significance of the letters. " I have never attempted to detract from their importance," he once eaid ; hut he will attempt it now. When he does we only hope that the public will reread his opening statement. From that they will find thd letters were tbe ode seem* ingly solid rock of fact in a sea of suggestions and suspicion and tneisuation I "— P«W Mall Budget,