23 MAY 1896, page 13

The Moneylenders' Dilemma.

W E do not understand all these congratulations on the sentence upon Pockett, the moneylender. What is there to congratulate ourselves about ? The sentence is a very proper......

The Dutch "polders" In May.

T HE long drought of the present spring, which has destroyed or dwarfed the pastures of Southern Eng- land, has raised in the wet meadows of Holland a crop of grass and flowers......