... THE SHIPOWNERS AND THE GOVERNMENT. Yeaterday a conference of shipowners, gentlemen representing shipping interests, and representatives of Chambers of Commerce connected with maritime towns ■was held at the Westminster Palace Hotel, Mr. Sampson Uojd, M.P., presiding, with a view of taking decided action in respect to the Merchant Shipping Bill, her Majesty's government havo undertaken to ...

... Cleveden. By Stephen Yorko, author of Tales of the North Riding, &c. London : Henry S. King and Co.— The style in which this book is written is excessively irritating. Half the chapters I with sentences which are absolutely un- grammatical. It may be very fine writing to string together a set of phrases in which the nominative cases are never followed by a verb, but it is not English. Hero ...