corded in detail in these volumes, and will | Wilkes had still to be disposed of. be found an interesting contribution to the “ Three times he was directed to appear, history of London. This was in the case and three times he treated the notice with of the printers Thompson and Wheble, contempt. Goaded into doing something who were proceeded against for printing which should save them from utter conreports of and comments on the debates in tempt, the House was obliged to order Parliament. At first the House of Com- that Wilkes should attend. Again no nomons ordered the printers to appear be- tice was taken of the summons. A further fore it, but as the order was disregarded, order was issued for April 8. As the day the serjeant-at-arms was sent to arrest the drew near and it was known that he would delinquents. A "plan of campaign was not present himself, they shrank from then arranged. "One Carpenter, a printer, this fresh mortification. It will hardly be was engaged to denounce Wheble; and a credited how pusillanimous was their next constable being at hand, Wheble was ar- step. They actually had recourse to the rested and carried before a magistrate. subterfuge of adjourning over the day, to Wilkes, by arrangement, was sitting at April 9, so as to avoid the conflict. the Guildhall, and decided that it was an Wilkes must have chuckled over this illegal arrest, and released him. But a tribute to his power, thus contriving to more serious incident-which was to humiliate the House in return for all it raise the real question occurred on the had made him suffer. The king, too, had same day. One Miller, another of the the same horror of him, and wrote to his printers accused, was arrested by a king's ministers: 'I will have nothing more to messenger, under the speaker's warrant. do with that devil Wilkes.' Indeed, their Resistance was made, and a struggle took conduct excited general derision. Some place; when a constable purposely sta- called it 'a pitiful evasion,' and declared tioned close at hand by the Wilkites it was evidence of conscious guilt.' instead of aiding the messenger, as he ex- Wilkes, who might well boast of his vic pected, arrested both, and brought them tory, heard no more of the matter. The to the Mansion House. That evening, others were detained prisoners - he went about 6 o'clock, an exciting scene oc- about free until the end of the session. curred. The lord mayor, Wilkes, and Thus ended this extraordinary episode, Oliver were on the bench, and were about the most conspicuous of Wilkes's many to deal with the case, when the deputy triumphs." serjeant appeared and, in the name of the Commons, demanded that the messenger should be released, and Miller handed over to his custody. The city magistrates, with an antique spirit, positively declined to do so. Miller was discharged, and the messenger was held to have assaulted a citizen of London. An order was made out committing him to gaol, 'given under our hands, 15th day of May, 1771, Brass Crosby, Mayor, John Wilkes, Richard Oliver. On the request of the serjeantat-arms, the lord mayor, with seeming reluctancy,' agreed to accept bail. This cleverly arranged coup caused much consternation, for the House of Commons saw with an instinct of dread that what was really impending was nothing less than a renewal of their contest with Wilkes."

A day or two later, the lord mayor, Wilkes, and Oliver were summoned to attend the House. The two others obeyed, but Wilkes stayed away. The lord mayor was allowed to go home, as he was seriously ill, and it was then suggested that his co-criminal Alderman Oliver could be dealt with on the spot. He defied the House, and was sent to the Tower. But

From St. James's Gazette.

THE KAISER'S DAY'S WORK.

A CORRESPONDENT of the Berliner Tageblatt gives an interesting account of the way in which the emperor William, at the end of his ninety-first year, ordinarily spends his day. We summarize this arti cle, supplementing it with some information obtained from private sources.

The emperor is now able to devote fourteen hours out of every twenty-four to the various duties of his exalted position. During the whole of that time he wears his uniform and his military boots. Quite recently his physicians prescribed for him a new programme for the employment of his waking hours, and it is said to have been adopted with great benefit.

At seven o'clock in the morning a valet enters the emperor's bedroom with a small cup of tea, which his Majesty drinks before he rises. In former years it was his custom to rise when he felt that he had slept long enough, and to go at once to

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his dressing-room; but of late, upon the | read to him. At seven he orders his carrecommendation of his physicians, he has made it his habit to lie in bed for an hour and a half after waking. At half past eight the emperor quits his bed, and, with very little assistance, dresses himself. He has three personal servants who take turns in waiting upon him for twenty-four hours at a time. These are his wardrobeman Engel, and his two valets Ukermarker and Krause.

riage, and, if he has nothing more important to do, goes either to the theatre or to the opera. He has always been a great lover of the drama, and he is very unwilling to allow anything to interfere with his evening's enjoyment of it; yet he has for many years made it a rule never to go to the theatre while the body of one of the leaders of his armies or of any old political servant lies unburied. When the emperor returns from the theatre tea is served, and some time is spent in social conversation; but at about ten o'clock his Majesty goes once more to his study, to give attention to any pressing matters that may have come up during the day. When he has dealt with these he goes to his room, and at eleven o'clock the valet of the day leaves him, taking away the lamp and leaving a lighted night-light on the table by the bedside. The emperor sleeps uncommonly well, and the tinkle of the electric bell which rings in the neighboring room in which sits the valet on duty is very seldom heard during the night.

At nine o'clock the Kaiser goes to his library, where he breakfasts, usually on tea and toast. On Tuesdays and Fridays, however, breakfast is served about twenty minutes earlier than usual, and by nine o'clock his Majesty is in his study, where he receives the report of the president of police. On other days the emperor does not begin work until twenty minutes after nine. His first business is to open letters and sign documents. Punctually at ten o'clock Herr von Wilmowski, the chief of the Civil Cabinet, arrives for a brief interview; and from that hour audience succeeds audience until half past twelve, when the emperor takes his sec- The Kaiser likes to have a vase filled ond breakfast. This invariably consists with corn-flowers on his study table, and of a basin of plain soup and some meat of declares that if there be no corn-flowan easily digestible kind. The menu for ers there will be no work done. Flowers breakfast and for dinner is drawn up by a for this vase are therefore specially grown physician in consultation with the cook, in a forcing-house at Potsdam all the year and then submitted to the emperor, who round. For making marginal notes upon generally makes some slight alteration; public documents the emperor uses a long but there is no foundation for the stories and very thick pencil. This also has to that have been told of his inordinate fond- be specially prepared for him; but for ness for hot boiled lobsters and crabs. years he used an ordinary carpenter's penThe doctors have ordered the Kaiser to cil, and he only relinquished it when it drink a glass of good old Bordeaux with was represented to him that the softness his breakfast as well as with his dinner; of the lead caused his writing to smear but the emperor cares little for wine, and and become undecipherable. His Majesty compromises the matter by deluging his neither smokes nor takes snuff, and any Château Margaux with natural Seltzer spare moments that may be at his diswater. When the guard is changed, the posal during the day are spent with the ememperor seldom fails to appear at the press, in whose presence he is always most well-known window of his palace to return punctilious and attentive. At the time of the salutations of the crowd which is al- the attempted assassination of the em ways assembled without. After the sec-peror by Nobiling, in 1878, the empress ond breakfast there are more audiences and interviews, until it is time for the Kaiser to take his daily drive. He usually returns at about three o'clock, and at once resumes work. Between three and five the higher officials of the empire have audience; and at five dinner is announced. It lasts one hour, and immediately afterwards the emperor goes back to his study, where, for an hour, he reads the newspapers of the day or has passages from them

was in very bad health; and she was unable to go to her husband's room until some days after the event. At last she dragged herself down-stairs to his apartments, ejaculating, "How happy I shall be to see thee again!" The Kaiser, whose room was full of officers and whose door was open, heard her and laughingly shouted, "Well, come along, wife; come along!" And when the empress appeared both burst into tears.

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