The great devotion you have shown mo
and mine while- here has ever added
to tho joys, and lightened the sorrows
of my life. 1 miss many kind faces of old friends no
longer with us, who would have rejoiced equally
with me. I heartily reciprocate vour good wishes,
and I trust that we may still lot k forward to the
spending of many happy day-tog ther.”
Her majesty was heartily cheered. The
Sciforth Highlanders played a feu do joie.
A Secret Conference.
Berlin, October 4.—A secret conference of
Gorman socialists, lasting three days, has been
held at St. Gall, Switzerland. Eighty dele
gates were present. Tho police were com
pletely hoodwinked, and had no knowledge of
the meeting until after its adjournment. Tho
socialist leaders Singer and Hasenclevor, acted
as president at the different sessions. Tho
speakers bitterly denounced the course
pursued by the socialist deputies in
tho reichstag, and a resolution was
adopted condemning the opportunist policy
of the deputies, under the lead of Botscl and
Liebernicht, who were charged with coquet
ting with other parties and with compromis
ing the independence and revolutionary char
acter of the socialistic movement.
Turns Queen's Evidence.
