28 MAY 1904, Page 3

We regret extremely to note the announcement in last Saturday's

Pilot that its publication is to be discontinued. During the four years of its existence the Pilot has, alike by the literary quality of its contents and by its courageous exposition of views irrespective of their popularity, worthily upheld the highest traditions of British journalism, and opportunities for the expression of independent views are sensibly diminished by its extinction. Our regret is only heightened by the fact that the cause of Free-trade has nowhere found more consistent or better-reasoned support than in the columns of the Pilot.