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THE EASTERN QUESTION: (
THE EASTERN QUESTION: ( Prince Alexander's attitude with reference to the Turco-Bulgarian Convention on Monday remained unchanged, and his objection to the appointment as Governor-General of Eaeferii Rou- melia is, says the Daily Chronicle Constantinople correspondent, regarded as reasonable by all the Powers except Russia. The Sofia papers strongly protest against the Russian policy towards Bulgaria, declaring that Prince Alexander cannot be separated from the Bulgarian nation.
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James and Clara, at the picnic, took a basket ant1 some bottles of soda water and hied away to a secluded spot. James I declare, this is miserable soda, it won'" pop." Clara: "0, well, you knou misorv likes company." James: "What do you meanbv that remark?" Clara: "Well, you don I pop either." Cards next week. pop either." Cards next week.
THE HEIRESS OF ATHERSTONE…
[ALL SIGHTS HESBBVED.] THE HEIRESS OF ATHERSTONE GRANGE. BY THE AUTHOR OF ^a7S Thornton," "Effie Baird" Almost a Criminal" Leonora's Legacy" §~c. CHAPTER III. LOVE. When the gods, ••eifried of this world's woes flow to the skies, With all their richest gifts, Love stayed behind, J^EOx-i 'ieif-EXILED for mail's sake.—MRS. LOVELL. Went AtherstONE was conscious that the play out ■ °D' an^ ^at the other performers went in and „ 1Q their respective parts, but he saw no one but ^arH >h° bad so strangely fascinated him. He ag a his friend's voice speaking to him now and then ^11 e voices in a dream, and answered mechani- ^7, without knowing what he said, save when the Saw Joyce waa absent, and Mr. Whiffin barked the effect his protege had produced, ^mitten," he said to himself, as he saw the young Cfa ,s eyes following Paulina about with an eager the 1>ng exPression. I've seen it before and I know Po,81^118' Beryl must not have her head turned. 8ep arne(i forearmed, Mr. Atherstone. You shan't Miss Joyce, if I can help it." ^11 that's over, thank goodness," said Bruce as the characters bowed and retired at the toudl the Lady ot Lyons," the audience clamouring You J for the reappearance of Pauline. I'm off. »70n t want to see any more, do you ?" t^onard looked at the bill he held in his hand, and MelTobe flowed by a favourite farce; characters by ^ys, Smith, and Barlow, Mesdames Boys and W Joyce." es, I shall stay," he said. I don't want a cigar JovpY^ ^°» so 1 shall mizzle. Ta, ta,old boy. By Jjj. that girl is pretty and distinguished-looking. A^'hrava!" ^th b clipped and applauded vigorously as Epryl, her fair hair tumbling about her shoulders, was tttt. orvllrd by her bewigged andberouged Claude to i,lVe the congratulations of the company. Uonard, I do believe you have fallen in love with Leonard was obstinately silent, and Bruce Went his wav to indulge in a cigar, and a fire <w„nl'mited chaff with all and sundry whom he met ^act The favourite farce went on, and Beryl a servant girl, in a cotton dress and a smart tjj^hd looked even more bewitching in that costume ijn 58 the sentimental Pauline. fbjj Performance over, Leonard went his way, and th6 that friend had ordered a supper, to -which b^j. ^Pany were bidden, special invitations having w behind the scenes to the three ladies, who Sai-to g their besfc t0 furbish UP their P°or n to do honour to their hosts. her 011 the blu« silk, Beryl," said Mrs. Whiffin to w adopted daughter. It looks quite nice." Mth gy' mammy, dear, stagy," replied the girl 8habl^laugh. No, I'll wear my street dress it's I'll b but ifc's whole, and I didn't get a bit muddy. bri„h0rr°w just this bit of stage finery though, to It toe UP a little." to i,38 only a neck ruffle, with a blue bow attached W' hut it gave a finish to her poor dress, and W an admirable setting to the jaunty little head, *°UnHltS br'ght coils of hair and the white delicately- throat. belief it's all because of Beryl that. the?e ta « Ve asked us to supper," said Mrs. Boys from 'corner. yes.of e -St8-" u, y> you've made a conquest, child—that's all." Conquest! Which of them ?" asked the girl, hig h^- The long, lazy-looking one, that wore I'm n°^ri(l eye-glass all the time, and stared so. u Proud of him if it's that one—not a bit." Vejy* °' ^on't mean him—the other one. He wa9 him ^U'et, but he never took his eyes off you. Hunt I pa,, P' my girl, if you've smitten him. He's a catch, te]l you." Jjorilt fioys tyou put such trash into the girl's head, Ruth to Mrs. Whiffin sharply. "Beryl isn't going attjj P anv man. The right one will come along "It ^>t0^>6T time, without her looking after him." ^*8 fuWou^n t be a bad spec to look after this one," f&the • re**ort- He's rolling in money—at least his Hjiii ^13—and he's an only son. They own the biggest he o i Fe' an(l aH sorts of property besides. 'Twould «, "ck7 catch for any girl." "ell, any girl may have him for me," said Beryl, n.. "2 to twist round so as to see herback. I don't I noticed him particularly. Is he handsome a3 ell as rich, Boys, dear ?" Y "That he is; butyoull see him close to directly. *ea, we're ready, Mr. Whiffin," she went on, as that jk&tleman's voice was heard hurrying them on. Go Beryl, you are a perfect picture." tt A, very fair, pretty picture indeed, as she emerged ■jjJ^hor dressing room and found herself in the la^^ceof the gentleman of whom they had just been Cet^> Mr. Whiffin introduced her to him rather •< j^°niously. Atherstone—my daughter, Miss Beryl Joyce." helfl Atherstone took the little white hand Beryl to him, and muttered something about, con- ^Wt'^happy to have the honour—wonderful ^Ushert an<^ sundry incoherent phrases, and Beryl beat R trembled, and wondered why her heart ^thV?ld'y as 8he looked at the handsome, high-bred Mth d"efore her. Handsome Leonard certainly was, ^iah^t CUrling hair, blue eyes, and features of un- eyeg beauty; but he was a glorified angel in the Hiigkt, ha young heart-whole actress, whose hand he aiTn Ve felt tremble as it rested timidly upon his 8c*tcehrUpper was a dream of bliss to Beryl, who b°S0J Understood what was passing in her own othe^ an<^ Leonard was fairly intoxicated. All the that k Coul(l see it. Mr. Boys whispered t*> Mr. "Whiffin e3cpre&'Wa8 a clear case of spoons," and would have his sentiments aloud, but that gentleman *t him severely, and hit his favourite corn Bruo the heel of his boot. arQaby saw it, and smiled pityingly, as one If exPeriences of that sort were over. that sotf11 is SoinS to take to spooning actresses and he of thing," he said to himself, the sooner ^0U]d 68 Flora Bickerstaff the better. The old man The CUt up rough at anything of this sort." ^reatnSuPPer came to an end at last, and the brief Sndhof bliss was over, and Leonard Atherstone 7ad h- itself hoping, in the very coherent and clumsy zo Yee -that he should have the pleasure of seeing Miss the morning." he 0g '»I don't know," said Mr. Whiffin. We shall ^or^i-P^tty early. Say good night—or rather good o'clo^^to Mr. Atherstone, child. It's nearly two ^here^^ was—an unheard-of hour for Drizzleton. tel.1 o'cJ'he Cock and Bottle rarely saw a customer after Paiij a ock at night; but the landlord had been well ^8 it' n<^ everybody was in high good humour. Late as> Mr. Whiffin followed Leonard Atherstone to for a word. her acr^ e if I send my girl away without your seeing Stnitu la» sir," he said. I see how it is; you're 8ee n j and she's a little fool, and let's everybody '«i' stop it at once." *Hg Ure you, Mr. Whiffin," began "Leonard, blush- hig Pi '°^ly, while Bruce Carnaby puffed away at in 1, and seemed to concentrate all his energies ^ttaw °ut perfect rings of smoke; but the be ^er stopped whatever explanation was about to I i R,tld ow how about these things begin," he said. Pla h°w they end, too. Either the girl is made a '-anything of and then left to sink into despair, or the a '°U8 shamelessness, that make the stage a bye-word ?o a reproach, or—and, mind, I think this would be Way, Mr. Atherstone-the gentleman marries "1: ot es> that would be my way, Mr. Whiffin-the way .f^y honest man." the otv, Woul<I not lead to happiness any more than S&ta er" I have seen it, and I know. A young wan ^8 atuated witha girl—good, and honest, anu tru9 here—and marries her., thinking that t^Ve niake up for everything else, which he jj Sain her. And he does lose, Mr. Atherstone— i^cti a miQor and his father or guardians refuse to tajt ^.n the marriage, or countenance his wife, disin- 4iyak in; Perhaps, and then, after a year or two they misery that only those who have been rich the poor can know. The wife goes back to ^htw5' 8hom of half her attractions, her beauty and ^eut. Sone, her heart full of care and disappoint- have aQc* the husband—well, I could tell you what e,fter e Been noble,. high-minded gentlemen sink into rles-iiiance; but I won't, and I Dope yolf4 it out. Leave mv eirl alone. Mr. Ather. ^torC"1he,s a good honest girl, but she's a poor Leon ghter> and n0 mate for y°u" to Atherstone wa3 silent. He hardly knew ae^nBwer such a straightforward appeal to his hini so^Se- This bewildering love had come upon with such overpowering force, that momkUmb- Bruce Carnaby took the cigar from Loot,held out his hand to the actor. t^hon e' Mr- Whiffin," he said, you've spoken e 'nanly way, and I like you for it. Len tu can'f ^°0' ^°ugh he's knocked a little out of time, here'g n you so. He is struck by Miss Joyce, Kla(3?, a°H °Ubt of that» and she's a charming girl and i t y0'u Qt^ as good as she is charming, I am sure; J?ve hetto*6 r'»ht in wishing her out of the way. Any end the one way, for ^°tiien arsi0nes are not men who make playthings of ^e'd then fling them aside like broken toys, flay at "y your girl, and thenthere'd be the deuce to he for he's an only son, Mr. Whiffin, and o." w °f the house of Atherstone. It wouldn't 14 Sri h^Z_^r yourself, Bruce," said Leonard, recover- ^hetboj^ts and his voice, and hardly knowing fight angry with his friend or not. But he ^^en't T hiffin. I forgot my position for the „ ^cely'ali am the son of a rich man»tis true» with a ^ithdra^anCe' which a scratch of my father's pen *h a at any moment. He can disinherit me i, lf you and he would if j^^erstand. nlar^ed anyone he disapproved of—I ^tsee mJ • ,there's no harm done; but you 666 eirl again, sir." And Leonard acquiesced, feeling that the manager 1 was right, and he wished Mr. Whiffin good night and went to bed. Half the rest of the night he lay awake, ¡ ;cheming how he should catch another glimpse of Beryl Joyce, and then he fell into a troubled sleep, from which he was awakened by the rumble of wheels under the window. Looking out he saw the cart containing the scenes and properties of the company, moving slowly down the little street. The ladies went by an early train," the landlord said when he made his appearance with hot water; "but Mr. Whiffin would like to speak to you, sir." It was only to repay your kind loan, sir," the manager said. "Other things put it out of my head last night. The house more than paid us, thanks to you and your friend." "I wish you would keep it, Mr. Whiffin, if you don't feel offended at my offering it. I saw enough last night to let me see that it will be useful to you, and I assure you we are amply repaid. Put up your purse, I beg, and let me do you this trifling service." Mr. Whiffin put up his purse and buttoned his pocket with an air of great relief, thanked his bene- factor and departed. That's over," said Bruce Carnaby when he was gone; and pardon me, Leonard, if I say well over. You were going out of your depth, old fellow." I was going mad, I think." was the answer. Don't talk about it, Bruce, for heaven's sake! and let us get out of this confounded place as soon as we can." To follow her V "Don't chaff. I'm bewitched, I think. I should like to follow her to the uttermost parts of the earth. She is my fate. Fiddlesticks!" Our lives will be linked with each other, I feel they will Whatever of good or ill the world holds for me, Beryl Joyce will be mixed up with it. You will live to see it, my boy." I am afraid I shall live to see you in a lunatic asylum, if you go on like this. The air of this place is favourable to insanity, I can see. Come down to I the mill, and see if business will knock the cobwebs out of your head." The mill was visited, and the business duly attended to, but nothing drove the image of Beryl Joyce out of Leonard Atherstone's mind. Her name was mentioned no more, but Bruce Carnaby found his friend rather preoccupied and silent during the journey north- ward. Flora Bickerstaff will be the best cure," he argued, as they drew near Ambleside. But he reckoned with- out his host. Not even the presence of that loving young lady, now the beauty of Sir James Bickerstaff's place, nor the warm welcome awaiting him, could efface the memory of the shabby company and the queer performance which introduced him to Beryl Joyce. Flora was the least bit piqued she had been rather flattered by his preference, and was constantly in- structed by her parents that he was a good match; but she had been to London since she had seen him, and found out that there were men in the world who could say soft nothings to her as well as he could. She was beginning to learn the value of her own beauty, and to estimate the power of her charms, and the pique was only slight. She was a good-humoured, out-spoken girl, and had plenty of sense and penetration. With a woman's quickness she divined the cause of Leonard's abstrac- tion, and surprised him one day by going straight to the point. They were strolling through the grounds, a little in advance of two or three more couples, who were loitering about. The house was full of company; Sir James was very hospitable—never so happy as when his friends were about him. Is the lady anyone I know, Mr. Atherstone ?" Flora asked, suddenly looking archly into Leonard's pre- occupied face. The lady ?" The lady." What lady ?" "The one who is filling your heart, to the exclusion of all earthly things; the one who has drawn lines on your forehead, and made you forget meand the merry girl drew herself up, and tried to look indig- nant. „ „, I never could forget Miss Bickerstaff," he began. Oh, yes, you could," she replied. Don't call me, Miss Bickerstaff, and don't tell fibs. When I spoke to you, you had forgotten my existence as completely as though I were a thousand miles away. You are in love. sir. and it's not with me." She looked in his face, and read the annwer there. "I was sure of it," she said with a sigh of relief; and, oli, I'm so glad." » Glad ?" Yes." Why ?" Because you know what our two fathers wish for us. Oh, you think me bold, I daresay but now I'm not afraid of your proposing to me. I can talk to you. I've been in terrible fear that you'd ask me to marry you." Take care I don't as it is." Ah, but you won't; there's another woman's image enshrined in that heart of yours and I am safe. I want you to be my big brother, Len, but I don't want to marry you." You love someone else, Flora ?" I'm afraid I do-just a little bit. Never mind who, but tell me what I want to know. Is the lady whom you love anyone I know ?'' No." "Ah, then there is one. You will let me know, Mr. Len. Is she nice ? Is she very faahionable 11 Will she eclipse me ? Because if she does, I shan't like her. Why, what's the matter, Len ? Is anything wrong ?" She looked at his working face in dismay, fearing she had touched upon some tender topic. I don't know," he said. Don't talk of it, Flora. You have guessed the truth. I do love. but my love is like a gllmpse of the evil eye. Every thought of the girl I love-and I love her as though there were a spell upon me-brings me pain. I am a foci, an idiot, but love is idiotcy. and it has me in its grip now." (To be continued.)
AN EXHIBITION OF BRITISH INDUSTRIES.
AN EXHIBITION OF BRITISH INDUSTRIES. After a short bat somewhat chequered career, the Albert. Palace and grounds at Battersea have passed into the hands of Mr. William Holland, by whcm they have been acquired for a long term. This enter- prising caterer has lost no time in taking up the reins of management, and has already announced a long list of prospective arrangements. One of the chief attractions of the forthcoming season will be an Ex- hibition of British Industries, which it is proposed to open on June 21 next in honour of the Queen's acces- sion to the throne, the date fixed being the first day of the Jubilee year. The ostensible object of the Industrial Exhibition is to exemplify the resources of Great Britain to our Colonial and Eastern visitors, who, it is anticipated, will muster in great numbers at the exhibition at South Kensington. Mr. Holland very naturally assumes that the mfluintial trading colonists will naturally visit all the chief manufac- turing centres whilst they are in England, and an i arrangement which shall bring together in one place the best examples and most typical results of modern British ingenuity cannot fail to interest them. Not only does this idea sound a very practical one, but it is, as Mr. Holland points out, also worthy ot support from a patriotic point. The building is eminently adapted for such a purpose, and properly carried out, the scheme should certainly be a success. It is, how- ever, not to be supposed that such a shrewd caterer for popular amusement as Mr. Holland will depend upon one attraction alone to draw the public over to Bat- tersea. On the contrary, a long series of varied enter- tainments is already being organised, and during the summer the resources of the open grounds will be developed to their fullest extent. Out-door amuse- ments such as those found in the Champs Elvsees will be adopted, and if the season proves propitious the promised Paris in London ought to prove a great draw.
THE ALICE A'i RES MEMORIAL:
THE ALICE A'i RES MEMORIAL: This memorial has just been erected at the Isle- worth Cemetery, is commemoration of deceased's gallant rescue of three children at the fire in Union- street, Borough. It will be remembered that the girl, after having succeeded in throwing the children from the bedroom window, leaped from the burning building and fell on to the flagstones below, receiving such injuries that she died a few days after in Guy's Hospital. The memorial is in the form of a hand- some red granite obelisk, 16 feet high. It bears the following inscription :r Sacred to the memory of Alice Ayres, aged 26 years, who met her death at a fire in Union-street, Borough, on April 24. 1885. Amidst the sudden terrors of the conflagration, with true courage and clear judgment she heroically rescued the children committed to her charge, when she, having braved the flames three times, at last leaping from the burning house sustained such in- juries of which she died on April 26, 1885. This memorial was erected by public subscription to com- memorate the noble act of unselfish courage."
MANCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE…
MANCHESTER CHAMBER OF COM- MERCE AND BIMETALLISM. A largely-attended meeting of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce was held on Monday for the purpose of passing a resolution, asking for the ap- pointment of a Royal Commission on the question of bimetallism, with a view to the adoption of a silver currency A resolution was proposed in support of the obiect, but met with strenuous opposition, several members objecting to the chamber being made the vehicle of conveying even an impression that the com- mercial community of Manchester was wavering in its support of a monometallic currency. Mr.Hutton, M.P., said that he had spoken to two or three Cabinet Ministers of the late Administration who were anxious that an inquiry should be held; and he knew that several members of the present Govern- ment held the opinion that in the interests of India the question was most important. Mr. Houldswortb, M.P., held out no hope that the Royal Commission on the Depression of Trade would be able adequately to deal with the subject. He suggested that a Select Committee or Royal Commission should be asked for to inquire into the subject of the relative positions or g0ld and silver in use as money, without expressing any opinion on the part of the chamber, and this sug- gestion was adopted.
BURMAH.
BURMAH. CALCUTTA, March 21. It hss been decided to raise in India two levies of military police for service in Upper Burmah. Each levy will consist of 400 privates, one being recruited from Punjabis, and the other from Hindustanis. Each will be commanded by a European military officer. The actual amount expended on account of Tbeebaw during the first month of his residence under BriUsh charge was 11,000 rupees. This, however, included the cost of furnishing a house for him, the salary of the political officer in charge, and the cost of the ex- Kine's nassage from Burmah to Madras. The following telegram has been received at the India Office: "From Viceroy. March 21. General Prendergast telegraphs that he has dis- persed the large body of insurgents collected at Yemethen, and that the neighbouring woons are in friendly communication with him."
THE AFGHAN FRONTIER:
THE AFGHAN FRONTIER: The British and Russians met on March 12 at Maruchak. The relations between the members of the two Commissions are very friendly. The building of demarcation pillars has recommenced. The maps are now complete up to the Oxus, and the Commis- sioners will begin their march towards the Oxus very soon. Some difficulties await them, owing to the vague knowledge of the country possessed by the officers on both sides. When the agreement was arrived at in 1873 between the Governments as to the general frontier definition, it was intended to secure the territory then in the actual possession of Afghanistan.
ENGLABD. EGYPT, AND THE SOUDAN.
ENGLABD. EGYPT, AND THE SOUDAN. The Times correspondent writing from Cairo on Sunday says The final accounts for 1885 have been published, together with a Note, fully explain- in » the results for the year. The actual surplus amounts to £E503,970, and if:we deduct from thisthe taxes on the Debt and on the Suez Canal Shares, which amount to £EI82,660, and which will have to be paid in 1887, the net surplus is .EE321.319. This is not the sum which in Auril, 1887, will bedivided between the Government and the Sinking Fund, as the ac- counts of the revenues assigned to the service of toe Debt have to be settled annually, in accordance with the Convention of October 25, whereas the accounts of the Government are naturally closed at the end of the year. This closing of the two accounts on different dates unnecessarily complicates the accounts, and the system should undoubtedly be altered. The surplus to be divided between the Govern- ment and the Sinking Fund, settled in accordance with the present system of closing the accounts on different dates, amounts to £ E253,729. The Govern- ment's share is, therefore, £E12G,8G4, of which a sum of SE62,387 was spent in 1885, leaving the Govern- ment with the sum of £E64,477 still to the good. The Consuls-General met yesterday and to-day to take into consideration three distincts claims made by the ex-Khedive and his family against the Government, which touch the Law of Liquidation. The first is against the Domains. When the members of the family ceded their estates for the Loan of 1878, the landsjwere sown, payments have been made in advance for taxes, and money was lying at the offica on the different estates. The second claim is for a return of thereductions made at different periods in their pen- sions, which were permanently fixed on their giving up the Domain lands to the State. The third claim is that all their property, excluding the Domains, which was appropriated by the Government, should be handed back, and that they should be indemnified. These claims are estimated to exceed five millions sterling. The Consuls-General have decided to ask for further explanations from the Government before demAnding instructions from their respeciive Governments. According to the published scheme for the conver- sion of the Egyptian Daira and Domain Loans an immediate economy of a quarter of a million sterling will be effected in the Budget, in addition to other economies. OA Constantinople, March -JU. Moukhtar Pasha has reported to the Porte tbat unless his programme for the pacification of Egypt be immediately adopted and carried out, the English will never withdraw from the country.
IMMORAL TRAFFIC BETWEEN PARIS…
IMMORAL TRAFFIC BETWEEN PARIS AND LONDON. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. writes: An individual named :Briand has just been condemned here to thirteen months' imprisonment for swindling under the fo!lowing circumstances: Two years ago he opened a servants' agency in Paris, and to every application which he received from young women he replied that he had nothing for them in this city, but had a correspondent in London who would find them good places at far higher remuneration than they could earn here. If the girl expressed her willingness to go Briand made her pay down 15f., assuring her that her travelling expenses would be reimbursed by his friend on her arrival. Of course, when nhe got to London she heard the same story. She was obliged to pay 4f. a day for a mattress and a little milk and potatoes, and as the man did not even keep an agency, and did absolutely nothing to help her, she as a rule failed to obtain employment. Then his wife appeared on the scene with base suggestions. Some of the young women yielded to these counsels others applied to the French Consul, who sent them tmck to Paris. It was through this official that the Prefecture of Police got wind of this detestable traffic and took the steps against Briand which resulted in his punishment. Upwards of 112 girls had proceeded :0 his so-called correspondent in London through his instrumentality.
THE LATE LORD AYLESFORD.
THE LATE LORD AYLESFORD. Truth has imported from America a rumour that :he "late" Lord Aylesford is not dead. It is well known that enormous sums of money changed hands in consequence of the event, the late earl having been 3ne of the most heavily assured men of the period. It is scarcely credible that the "cutest" Yankee scheme would have been equal to hoodwinking nearly all the British and many foreign life assurance offices, but it will be interesting to state the evidence upon which the money was paid. The only American docu- ment furnished was a transit permit granted in J ersoy Citv to remove the remains of Earl Aylesford, aged 3;) years, who died at Big Springs, Howard county, Texas, on January 13, 1885," the cause of death being cirrhosis of liver; a transit being asked for burial at England in the State of Great Britain." Jersey City being many hundred miles from Texas that document is in itself of apparently small value and C, might breed suspicion; but it was justified by the certificate of a well-known London physician who had been the late lord's private medical attendant for many veara. He was present at the opening of the coffin on February 3, 1885, the day of the burial at Packington-Magna Church. He declares, 1 saw the remains of the late Earl, which remains I had, from ray intimate knowledge of the said late Earl, no difficulty in identifying." In the tace of this testi- monv and the significant fact that the cause of death was what might naturally have been expected from the Earl of Aylesford's life, his family history, and his known physical condition when he left this country, the American rumour is probably a mere catchpenny canard.—Pall Mall Gazette.
CHURCH EXTENSION.\
CHURCH EXTENSION. At the usual monthly meeting of the Incorporated Society for Promoting the Enlargement, Building, and Repairing of Churches and Chapels, at the society's offices, No. 2, Dean's-yard, Westminster, S.W., the Venerable Archdeacon Johnson presided. There were also present Lord Robartes, the Revs. Canon Cazenove, C. A. Jones, and C. F. Norman, Lieut.-Col. the Hon. G. H. Windsor Clive, Messrs. J. P. France, J. Hilton, Edward Hussey, and Rev. R. Milburn Blakiston, secretary. Grants of money wero made in aid of the following objects, viz.: Builamg new churches at Bromley-common, St. Lukes Kent £ 250; Criccieth, Carnarvon, ifeO; and Netley, St. Edward, Hants. £ 150; enlarging or otherwise improving the accommodation in the churches at Ircbester, St. Katherine, near Wellingborough, Northants, X50 Lian- reath, near Duloe, Cornwall, £ 3o Madron, near Penzance, Cornwall, E50 Markyate-street, St. John, near Dunstable, 1-30; and Messing All Saints, near Kelvedon, Essex £40. A grant was also made from the Special Mission Buildings Fund towards building a mission church at Townsend-lane, in the parish of West Derby, Liverpool, £23. The society likewise accepted the trust of sums of money as repair funds for St. Mark's Church, Cowley-hill, St Helen's, and St. Mary's Church, Haggerston, Middlesex. The following grants were also paid for works completed: East Budleigh, Devon, £ Uo; Little Bromley, near Manmngtree, Essex £ o0; Groombridge, near Tunbridge Wells, £ /o Barton- hill Christ Church, near Bristol, 200; Cowden, near Edenbridge, Kent, £ 10; Kentish-town, St. Benet and AllSaints, Middlesex, £ 100; Mardy Mission Church, in the parish of Ystradyfodwg, near Pentre, Pontypridd, £ 40; and Lenharn Mission Church, near Maidstone, £ 30. The nuance report was pro- pared by the Rev. George MiUer, the Rot. C. A. Jones, and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. H. G. W. Wind- sor Clive.
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When a pailsenger boards a steamboat, what is tho bill of fare P "I must congratulate you on your marriage Mr. Pugsby. Your wife is a charming woman. She is, indeed; loving, amiable, and accomplished, and so easily pleased." "Oh, I knew that when I heard she was about to marry you."
EPITOME OF NEW Si ;
EPITOME OF NEW Si BRITISH AND FOREIGN. The remains of Mrs. Mortimer Collins, widow of the Novelist, were cremated at Woking on Saturday. The death has occurred of the Rev. Thomas Jackson, M.A., ptebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral, and for twenty-five years rector of Stoke Newington. He was 73 years of age. The French Senate have adopted Clause 17 of the Primary Education Bill, which provides that the teach- ing staff in elementary schools shall be selected from the laity only. The Paul Jones, from Melbourne for Calcutta, has been burned at sea. Her crew took to the boats, were picked up, and landed at Melbourne. Recently a bridge on the Texas Pacific Railway was bnrnt down, having been set fire to. presumably, by the men on strike, and two more bridges have been de- stroyed in the same way. The Missouri Pacific officials have declined to meet the leader of the Knights of Labour. It was announced on Saturday that the Bishop of London's first appointment to an important living, that of st. Martin's-in-the-Fields, had fallen to the Rev. J. F. Kitto, rector of Stepney, one of the ablest members of the Evangelical party, a good organiser and preacher, and essentially a practical clergyman. Mr. Kitto has worked hard in the East-end for nineteen years. Great indignation has been aroused in the north of Scotland by a report that Mr. Winans, the American sportsman, proposes to close the hotel at Struy, in Strathglass, Ross-shire. This is the only hotel in the midst of an extensive and beautiful district much frequented by tourists. Active steps to defeat the proposal have been taken, and petitions against it will be presented to the local licensing court, which meets early in April. From a return of artisans' and labourer's dwellings, it appears that the Metropolitan Board of Works have erected 221 blocks, providing for the housing of 21,678 persons, and the City of London have erected blocks furnishing accommodation for 2528 persons. The steamer Persian Monarch, from London to New York, with passengers and cargo, ran ashore during a fog on Slapton Sands, near Kingsbridge, Devonshire. She came off at high water on Saturday evening, and was towed into Plymouth. At Southport, on Saturday, William Dobbs, who was at one time a chemical manufacturer, was sent to prison for three months with hard labour for fraud. He had called on several benevolent ladies and solicited subscriptions for distressed fishermen, afterwards appropriating the money they had given to him. A meeting of pit girls, convened by the vicar of Pemberton, was held on Saturday evening to protest against the proposed legislation prohibiting their em- ploytiient on the surface at collieries. Over 100 pit women were present. The wife of the Mayor of Wigan presided, and read letters from Lady Lathom and others approving of the course taken. Transactions between the late Mr. Hudson, a Ceylon ooffee planter on the one hand, and Mr. Somes, a London merchant, and the Oriental Bank on the other, gave rise to a question whether Mr. Hudson's indebted- ness should be reckoned according to Cey lon currency, at 10 rupees to the pound, or English currency. Mr. Justice Manisty, in the Queen's Bench on Saturday, decided against the contention of Mr. Hudson's executors that the Ceylon rate should be adopted and the debt reduced £ 21,097, and also gave judgment in favour of the bank upon a counter claim for £1795. It is estimated that damage to the extent of £ 1000 has been done to the Skarweather Lightship stationed in the British Channel, which was on Friday run into by the barque Magnet. Her spars were carried away, and her valuable lamps lost overboard. An action was brought in the Queen's Bench Divi- sion on Saturday by Miss Winnall, of Shepherd's-busb, to recover damages from Mr. L. Simmons, trading as the West London. Bank, for breaking into he" premises and detaining goods. The defendant broke into the house to recover goods under a bill of sale given by another person, and he denied that he had taKeu goods belonging to the plaintiff. His conduct was severely condemned by the judge, Baron Huddleston, and a verdict was ultimately found for the plaintiff for £ 30. At a meeting of the board of delegates of the Hospital Saturday Fund, held on Saturday, a letter was read from the Lord Mayur requesting that there might be a street and workshop collection in aid of the fund for the relief of distress among the unemployed. It was decided that there should be a street collection only. to take olace on Saturday. Aoril3 TJ b Australian cricketing team sailed on Monday for England. Mr. Pitman has decided that the U niversity Boat- rac, shall be rowed over the UHURI course. On the farm of Mr. Warren, of Upton Hall, Cheshire, the entire herd of 20 cows, 19 stirks, and six calves, worth over £ 600, have been slaughtered on account of an outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia. The Westborough Methodist New Connexion Ohnrch at Dewsbury, was destroyed by fire on Monday morninir. It is suggested by An Irishman that the infant daughter ot the Duke of Connaujjbt, born on St. Patrick's Day, should be named Kathleen. A handsome marble tablet bas just been erected in the Ohapel of Cheltenham College to thQ memory of the late Colonel Stewart, C.M.G., 11th Hussars, the companion of General Gordon at Khartoum. Mr. Wilson Barrett's title-role in the new play Olito," now in rehearsal at the Princess's, will be that of a young sculptor, poet, and patriot. Tho play will be in five acts, each act a scene. Although the Dee has beeu freed from pollution and overy facility given to salmon to run up, there are few fish. and the opening of the season has been a failure. It is conjectured that the salmon are disturbed by a large gang of men employed on the lower waters in improving the navigation of the river. Whatever be the cause, not more than a score of fish have been taken: The popular vote taken on Monday in the Canton of Ticino, Switzerland, upon an ecclesiastical law drawn up by the Ultramontane Government of that Canton, placing Church affairs in Ticino entirely in the hands of the clergy, resulted in the adoption of the measure. An extraordinary case of suicide is reported from Chalons, France. The deceased, who was a cavalry officer, named Francis, and who had received the decoration of the Legion of Honour, had been called upon to answer to a charge of swindling, and was being examined, when be suddenly swallowed some poison, and dropped dead in the court. One of the funniest things in English politics, says the "Pail Mall Gazette," will be the fight, ot the Royal Household going out with Mr Chamberlain. One of the Household, Lord Ribblesdale, who held a lordship in waiting, has taken the lead, and there are others ready to follow. The political, It is said, intend to stand firm by Mr. Gladstone. The courtiers will go with Mr. Chamberlain. The member for West Bir- mingham must feel sometimes a little uneasy when he sees the strange bedfellows with which his mutiny is making him acquainted. The benedictions of the Times and the Saturday alone might suffice to give him pause. The British representative at Pekin has received in- structions from Lord Rosebery to consider the Opium Convontion of July last as taking effect from the date on which the Chinese Government shall have perfected the arrangements for enforcing its provisions. The time fror putting in force the terms of the agreement is thus feft wholly to the Chinese themselves. About six o'clock on Saturday evening, as a heavily laden cattle train from Avlsham to London was going through Ely Station, one of the trucks towards the end of the train left the rails owing to the breaking of a spring or an axletree. Three of the trucks were smashed and five bullocks were so badly injured that they had to be slaughtered. they had to be slaughtered. Sir A. Havelock has stated publicly that the Govern- ment was coming to some arrangement, which he hoped would satisfy all concerned, for the settlement of Znluland within two or three months. Mr. Tuke arrived at Olifden, county Galway, on Monday, and, after making inquiries, telegraphed to Mr. Morley that the most acute distress prevailed in the district. Mr. Tuke added that the best means of affording assistance would be by providing work in connection with the erection of piers, boatslips, &c., along the coast. At Killarney on Monday, Batt Sheehan, John Sheehan, and John Falvey were charged with waylay- ing and beating Patrick Doyle and with killing his horse. Doyle was accused of informing the police and withholding a farm from its rightful claimants. John Sheehan and Falvey were bailed in £ 100 each. Batt Sheehan was committed for trial. Three men were killed and another seriously injured on Monday, by an explosion of gunpowder at the Kil- creen breakwater works. Bayham Mulder, a lieutenant in the Dutp-h Navy, was on Monday charged, at the Marylebone Police- court, on remand, with assaulting Rose Edwards, who described herself as an actress, by striking her with a dagger. Mr. De Rutzen said the case was undoubtedly one for a jury to decide, and he committed the pri- soner for trial, offering to take bail in two sureties of £ 20 each.. Mrs. Roper, of Usher-road, Bow, Londou, on 1:Satur.. day invited Mrs: Thomas to have a cup of tea with her. After the guest had gone Mrs. Roper missed some articles of clothing, and sent a policeman to take her friend into custody. Mrs. Thomas was apprehended and detained until Monday morning, when Mrs. Roper informed the magistrate at Worship. street that on Sunday morning her husband told her he had pawned the missing clothing. Mr. Hannay, m reply to Mrs. Thomas's indignant complaint, said he could only dis- charge her; he could not give her any redress. The death is announced of Coupar Angus, Perthshire, at the age of^101 yews Mr. Stirton was a native of Coupar sided nearly all his days. He is said to have been the oldest Freemason in Europe, havi^ with St. John's Lodge, Coupar Angus, for 78 years. He joined in 1808, the entry of T corded in the books of the lodge. M'- Stirton was hale and hearty and able to move about up tin wlthm a week cf his death, which took place on Saturday after- n°0n Monday, the annual .^er^ Oourt of the Governors of the Highland Society of fou°d?d on May 28,1778, of which thePnnce of Wales as Duke Df Rothesay is chief, was held «t sweri^lTfi.A Tavern, Mr. J. Chisholm Gooden (tourer) m the chair. The election of Lord Lovat,cf Beaufort Castle, Inverness-shire, as president of y or the ensuing year, was confirmed unan Mr. M'Laren has withdrawn his Land Purchase FaSkAlL?t Woods, Garter Pnncjpai King of Arms, went to Windsor Castle on Monday, andjgooJJJ* banners and insignia of Pnnce Henry of I^ttenberg, the Marquis of Northampton, the Earl of Kimbetley, and the Earl of Sefton, the recentiy-created Kmghtsof the Garter, in the choir of St. Ge) 1Ohapel. The helmet, sword, and lambrequins of Prince Henry of Battenburg were arranged above his stall next those of Prince Christian, and an ormulu plate enamelled with his coat-of-arms and inscribed with his title wag affixed to the back of the seat. ct Mr. Justice Grove and Mr. Justice Stephen, sitting as a Divisional Court on Monday, granted a stay of execution pending a motion for a new trial in the case of Go.sey v. Jardine." This was the case in which Mr. Justice Hawkins commented on the temporary absence of defendant's counsel, and m which the ]ury, before they had heard the defence, expressed an J opinion in favour of the plaintiil s ciMm. It is said that Mr. Chamberlain, shortly after the formation of the Government, laid before the Cabinet a memorandum, explaining the principles on which, in his view, th* Irish question should be settled. The Ship^.ng Committee of the American House of Representatives have pronounced in favour cf the bill for the free purchase of foreign built ships for the United States carrying trade. The Dowager-Duchess of Norfolk died early on Monday morning at Norfolk House, London. Mr. W. A. Hulton, the judge of the county-courts in the Preston circuit, has tenderred his resignation. Mr. Hulton is one of the oldest judges in the country, having been called to tke Bar in 1827. He was subse- quently appointed an assessor in the old Sheriff's Court. Afterwards he was appointed judge of the Bolton County Court, and then he was for six years at Liver- pool. Twenty-three years ago he was appointed to the Prestoii circuit. He is in his 84th year. News has been received from Morocco of the depar- ture on the 15th inst. of the Sultan for the southern provinces of Retuana and Seidma, and thence by way of Mogador to Sus. It is also stated that the negotia- tions for commercial treaties between the Government of Morocco and the Governments of England, Germany, and France are proceeding very slowly, owing to the limited extent of the powers conferred on the Moorish Commissionets sent to Tangier. The European Govern- ments propose that there should be complete liberty in the exportation of native products, and a reduction of from 5 to 10 per cent. in the import and export duties. A frightful building accident has occurred in the I Prati di Oastello, Rome. The cornice of a six-story house in course of erection gave wav, and falling on a scaffolding immediately below it, where seven masons were working, dashed the platform and the men to the ground. The masons from the neighbouring houses hurried to the spot, and, with the help of the police and military, extricated the victims from the debris. One was dragged out dead; another expired soou after. The others are more or less severely injured. The contractor, another of whose buildings gave way pome months ago, took to his heels. Great indigna- tion is expressed at the frequency of these accidents in Rome. The following is the text of the Queen's rep.y to the address from the Convocation of Canterbury, which was read by her Majesty in person to the deputation, at Windsor, on Friday:" I accept with cordial satisfaction your renewed assurances of loyal and affectionate attachment to my Throne and Person, and I thank you very heartily for the expressions of your interest in all that concerns my domestic happiness and the health and prosperity of my family. It is most gratifying to me to receive your congratulations on the marriage of my dear daughter the Princess Beatrice with his Royal Highness Prince Henry of Battenburg. I gladly accepted from you the copies of the revised transla- tion of the Old and New Testaments, in which im- I portant work I had taken much interest. It will ever be riv anxious wish that measures may be adopted havins for their object the spread of true religion among all classes of my people, and tending to render the Church an increasingly efficient instrument for promoting the spiritual welfare of the growing popu- lation of England." A painful sensation was caused in the village of Barkham, near Wokingham, Berks, on Sunday, when a report was spread that the vicar of the parish (Rev. A Roberts, M.A.), had committed suicide. Early in the morning the rev. gentleman was found in one of Mr. Walter's plantations at Bearwood, which adjoins Barkbam, with his brains blown out. The deceased only distributed the prizes at Arborfield School on Fri- day. In consequence of the sad occurrence, no services were held in the parish church that day. A conference of the members of the Anti-Extra- ordinarv Tithe Associat;on was held at the Bridge- house Hotel, London-bridge, on Monday afternoon, Mr. T. H. Bolton, M.P., the president of the associa- tion, occupied the chair, and there was a large gather- ing. Considerable dissatisfaction was expressed at the proposed reference of the bills on this subject to a select committee, and it was resolved thit two of those bills, brought in Parliament by Mr. Brookfield (East Sussex) and Mr. Norton (Tunbridge Division), were entirely unacceptable, and that Mr. Bolton's bill was the only one at all dealing with the question on prac- tical and satisfactory lines. A copy of the resolution was ordered to be sent to every member of Parliament. During a foe on Monday morning a smack went ashore at Kemmeridge, near Bournemouth. Two men in a boat went to the rescue, but the boat capsized, one man beiug drowned and the other severely in- iured. An Imperial order has been issued creating a system 1. of inspection of the torpedo department of the German navy, with its headquarters at Kiel. The formation of | ■ a third detachment of marine artillery consisting cf thrae companies, and an increase in the number of companies of marine infantry employed m the docks i ate also ordered.. Nubar Pasha, with the army of engineers who re- cently left for Geb-eNZeyd to sxamine the newly-dis- covered petroleum springs, has returned from Djemsah, near that place. The geological formations indicate the presence of oil over a large area, and it has been decided to push works actively forward and multiply the num. ber of borings. r j The 600th anniversary of the death of Alexander III., King of Scotland, was celebrated on Friday, at Kinghorn, in Fifeshire, when it was resolved to erect a monument to his memory. Henry Bradley, the man who so courageously at- tacked and killed a mad dog at Peckham, London, on the 4th inst., and who has been under care of M Pasteur at Paris for the last 10 days, returned on Sunday to his family. Dr. De Lacy Evans saw the man on his arrival and found him better in health and spirits than on his leaving England. All his wounds excepting one have healed, and the physician has no fear of development of hydrophobia. Bradley has been mnoculated with virus from a rabid animal on each of the 10 days of his stay. The Queen has intimated her intention of bestowing a pension of £ 200 a year from her private purse upon the widow of Principal Tulloch. Delegates representing 53,000 men in the service of the London and North-Western Railway Company met at Orewe on Monday, and discussed the effect which the proposed amendment to the Employers' Liability Act would have upon the mutual insurances existing be- tween them and the company. The feeling was practically unanimous in favour of retaining the present fcrm of insurance, thus avoiding litigation, and it was decided to tender evidence before the Select Committee. A constabulary patrol, consisting of a sergeant anrt three men. while proceeding on Saturday nisht througb Corri wallie,.strect Limerick, endeavoured to disperse a disorderly crowd. The police were immediately set upon aud attacked. Two constables were knocked down, and their swords and bayonets wrested from them. Eventually, the constabulary succeeded in arresting two men, and while conveying the prisoners to the barracks they were pelted with stones by the mob. Mr. Irwin, the stipendiary, commented, at tho police-office on Monday morning, on the bad conduct of the roughs during the past two nights. The leading firms in the Staffordshire iron trade have recently discovered that gigantic impositions have been made upon home and foreign merchants, in Liverpool and elsewhere, by persons who have issued circulars offering to supply iron bearing Earl Dudley's, Messrs. Barrow's, and other best brands, at common bar prices. Evidently the brands would be forged. Chain cable makers have also been supplying cables of inferior iron, but professedly those of best Staffordshire makes, and have been issuing entirely false certificates of test. The Iron Masters' Association has issued an important circular warning buyers against these frauds.
THE markets:
THE markets: MARK-LANE. The clianeo in the weather, and the weakness at New YorK, have altogether varied the course of the trade, and the tendency at Mark-lane has became flat. The total quantity of homo grown wheat disposed of in the leading markets of England and "Wales during tlie 2!) weeks o £ the season were 1,819,765 qrs. against 1,869,823 qrs. last season, the average price being 30s 4d against 32s 5d per qr. The sales of barley were 2,679,118 against 2,743,245 qrs., at an average of 29s Sd against 31s 8d per qr. and of oats 290,369 against 331,213 qrs., the average being lag 10d against 19s 9d per qr. English wheat sold slowly. Fine supplies were held for late rates, with difficulty. Other qualities weak. Foreign wheat was in quiet request, and was lower to sell. The flour market was dull. at about ]a+e rates. Parley was quiet. Malting produce sold slowly. Gr'nding rather favoured buyers. Oats were dull, and inferior corn was lower, say 3d per qr. Maize was in- active. Round samples were steady, but flat drooping. Beans and peas were dull, and 6d. lower. American linseed cakes 2s 6d dear r on the week. METEOPOLffAN CATTLE MARKET. The total imports of foreign stock into London last week amounted to 14,523 head.. In the conesponding period last vetr we received 9113; in 1384,7371; m 1883. 19,0*81; in 1882 13 416 in 1881, 11,092 in 1880, 3874: m 1879, 13 4l'l • and in 1878,10,370 head. At Liverpool were received "00 beasts from Baltimore, 369 beasts from Boston, and 591 bARets from Portland and at Southampton 3 beasts and 2 ci v's from Jersey and Guernsey. 'The cattle trade is (juiet. The mild weather and the depression in the dead Trent, mark t have told against sales, and business has in oonsf quence dragqed. 'I he total number of beasts cn fa^e wps nut large, and tbere was room for improvement botn n quality and condition. Throughout the market was very flat, x-ith a tendency sn buyers' favour. The top price fo; the best Scots and crosses did not exceed 4s J d to 4s 10d per 81b. Foreign beasts were in iloderate supply and slow at about late currencies. A fair supply of sherp was in the pens. The trade was dull, and prices were weak. The best Downs and half-breds made As lOd to 6s 0(1 per 81b. Calves and pigs were dnll and drooming The following were the quotations: Coarse and in'erior beasts, 3s 2d to 3s 6u; second quality ditto, 2s 6d to 4a prime large oxen, 4s 4d to 4s 6d ditto Scots &c., 4s 6d to 4s 8d coarse and inferior sheep, 4s 4d to 4s 8d; second quality ditto, 4s Sd to 5s; prime coarse woolled ditto, 5s 6d to 5s 8d; prime Southdown ditto, 6s lOd to 6s Od large coarse calves, 3s 6d to 4s 6a P™ne smalJ ditto, 4s 8d to 5s 4d; large hogs, 2s 6d to 3s 6d neat small 1Wrk?;3,Sh°- Be^t8Pe30280b; she^p andVm^; 112M calveif ~90^ milch c™ 50 Foreign ?Beasts 390 calves) SO Proin the Midland, Home, and Western Counties 7on outs • from Norfolk, Suffolk, and S faom Trel^d, 500 and from Scotland, 150 beasts. MEAT MARKET. rrvuA en(Men chancre to warm damp weather appears to Lave been effected mq ^^ta^at^m^ low prices much below quotations. gelljng bett'r rates Prices were as follows-, bvtly, e\f o„ +_ 5>q 6d" • middling ditto, 2s 8d to Inferior beef, 2s to 2s 6d ™a™d; ScJ,tch ditto, | 'killerS' quS'Vod'to 33s84d1 r h° 3^4d\ofXeqoT-t^tto2I)^h? 32sS 0dd to Said fil- "a srssfiratt to 4s 8d?" ew Zealand ditto, 3s 4d to' 3s 8d large pork, £ 8d to 3s 4d small ditto, 3s 6d to 4a Od per 81b. by the carcase. FISH. MacVerel, 5s to 6s T>er score; black soles. Is 6d to 2s 4d TKrnnir- ditto slips, Sd to 1 s per lb red mullets, 12s to -0.) per dozen cod, i3 to R5 5s per score; crimped ditto, 83 to 10,3 each ll:\tlve oysters, Os to 14s per hundred and common ditto, 6;1 to Is 3d per dozen plaice, 16s to 20s per r.Ml lobsters 12s to 36s per dozen salmon and trout, ls9d to 2s per lb whitings, 8s to ICs per dozen skinners, 23 to 3. per score; and turbot, 6s 6d to 12s 6d each. POTATO. A fair supply of potatoes on sale. The trade was quiet, at the annexed rates :—Magnum bonums, 50s to 90s; rf-*e<iits "Os to l(log Victorias, 608 to 70b; and oham- -0:011 l', C-Cs to 7Cs per ton.
SIR HENRY JAMES. M.P., at…
SIR HENRY JAMES. M.P., at BURY; Sir Henry James, M.P., speaking at Bury, Lancashire, on Saturday night, said he was there that day toopen a club (theCobden Club) bearingtbename of a man to whom this country owed more probably, than to any other statesman amongst us, and under those circumstances he (Sir Henry) wished to do honour to his memory. There never was a time when men of all degrees of politics should more endeavour to let their opinions fall into the background, and do nothing to engender political animosity when they should all endeavour to think of one object alone, and that the good of the country, owing to the circum- stances in which the country was placed. There was a dark shadow, as it seemed to him, over us. That was a difficulty we had to meet—a difficulty which was paralysing the action of all men desirous of progress, a difficulty which all ought by every precept of modera- tion to try to get to the root of. He would not enter on political discussion; but they bad opened a club bearing the name of Cobden, and he thought they might be fortified by the traditions, life and history of the Liberal party. It was fifty years since Cobden first had touch with public life; he declared the objects of his life then. He said, I go forth to fight against commercial monopoly, and I go forth to battle to fight for religious equality; I go forth to fight against political exclusion; I go forth to fight for bringing plenty, if I can, to every man's home." Sir Henry then referred to legislative measures during this half century to relieve the grievances of Nonconformists, for the large extension of the suffrage, to Free Trade, and for the improvement in the condition of the working-classes. The good, he said, that Cobden did remained not only in its results but in its example.
HOURS FOR MARRIAGE:I
HOURS FOR MARRIAGE: A well-informed correspondent writes with reference to Mr. C. Williams's Marriages (Hours of Celebra- tion) Bill. the second reading of which was carried on Friday night: It may not be known to the general public, and is probablv known to very few members of the new House of Commons, that the canon and statute law both at present require that all marriages except those solemnised by special licence shall be celebrated between 8 and 12 o'clock in the morning. The Canons of 1603, which hind all the clergy of the Church of England, runs thus Canon 102 and that between 8 o'clock and 12 o'clock in the fore- noon.' Now, a canon can only be altered by the two Houses of the Canterbury and York Convocations, under Royal licence from the Queen. Are the Government prepared to accede to such licence ? Lord Hardwicke, in his famous Marriage Act (passed in the Parliament of 1747), incorporated and made part of the statute law of England the said canonical hours from 8 to 12 o'clock, and for good and weighty reasons, all fully debated in Parliament at the time. But the Canons and Acts of Parliament are even stronger as to the clergy. Thus the 62nd Canon of 1603 enacts: Neither shall any minister, upon the like pain, i. e. of three years' suspension, under any pretence whatever, join any persons in marriage at any unseasonable times, but only between the hours of eight and twelve in the forenoon.' This is confirmed by the Marriage Act of 1823, with the additional civil punishment of 14 years' transporta- tion imposed upon the clergymen transgressing. After all the imprisonments and unforeseen accidents under the Public Worship Regulation Act, this sort of amateur legislation is to be deprecated. In Ireland the Church, since its disestablishment, has made its own new canons extending the hours until two o'clock p.m. This gives entire satisfaction, and it would be a great point £ to have but one law as to hours of marriage for the whole United Kingdom. if Mr. Williams's bill goes to a Select Committee, much information may be gathered from the report of the Royal Commission on the Marriage Laws, on which some of the most able men of the day sat about 20 years ago."
I THE GERMAN EMPEROR,
THE GERMAN EMPEROR, J The Emperor William,who was born on the 22nd of March, 1797, entered on Monday upon his 90th year. The auspicious anniversary was the subject of con- gratulatory articles in almost all the papers on Sunday morning, as it is a standing rule with German journals not to appear on Monday morning. The Emperor, who is again in excellent health, was able for the first time on Saturday since his recent accident to go out of doors again. In the evening he was present at an entertainment at the Theatre Royal. On hie Majesty entering the Royal box the whole assembly rose to its feet, and cheered the aged Sovereign most enthusias- tically. His Majesty was accompanied by the Crown Prince,the Grand Duchess cf Mecklenburgh-Schwerin, and the Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden, the last mentioned being his grand-daughter. The German Empress was also one of the august com- pany, this being the first time her Majesty has ven- pany, this being the first time her Majesty has ven- tured to attend the theatre for several years past. The Crown Princess was unfortunately prevented joining the party by indisposition, which, however, was of no serious importance.
\LIVE STOCK AND FRESH MEAT…
LIVE STOCK AND FRESH MEAT IMPORTS. I The following steamers arrived at Liverpool during last week with live stock and fresh meat on board from the United States and Canada Montreal, 323 I cattle: Norseman, 369 cattle and 903 quarters of 1 beef; Virginian, 3G7 cattle, 1279 quarters of beef, and 150 carcases of mutton Oranmore, 151 cattle; Samaria, 1097 quarters of beef; Lord Clive, 922 quarters of beef and 64 carcases of mutton Oregon, ISO quarters of beef Celtic, 720 quarters of beef and 50 carcases of mutton Baltic, 800 quarters of beef and 50 carcases of mutton; and Alaska, 1650 quarters of beef and 100 carcases of mutton-making the total imports 1210 cattle, 7611 quarters of beef, and 414 carcases of mutton, which, in comparison with the arrivals of the preceding week, show an in- crease in live stock, but a decrease in fresh meat.
LAST WEEK'S WRECKS.
LAST WEEK'S WRECKS. Sixteen British-owned vessels, five Italians, two German, one Russian, one French, one American, and one Norwegian were reported as actual shipwrecks last week, making the total for the present year 382. Six (five British and one French) went down off the United Kingdom, and seven, mostly Italian, off the Italian coast. There were 18 collision cases reported, but of these only four vessels went down (three off the United Kingdom). Four British steamers and one Russian sunk. Destroyed by fire, two British aban- doned at sea, three British and one American. Lives lost, 20. Corresponding week of last year Wrecks, 18; total for the year, 245 lives lost, 40.
REWARDS FOR GALLANTRY;
REWARDS FOR GALLANTRY; The Board of Trade have awarded their bronze medal for gallantry in saving life at sea to Robert Roberts, second coxswain of the Llandudno lifeboat, for going through a heavy surf during a snowstorm at the risk of his own life, on the Sth January, to B-eure a rope from the stranded flat Dido, by means of which her crew were rescued. The Board of Trade have awarded a binocular glass and a silver medal to Captain Henri Alfred Delasalle, master of the French fishing boat Dieu Protege, of Calais also silver medals to six of the crew of that vessel, in acknowledgment of their services to the master and crew of the Two Brothers of Portsmouth, on the 14tt January last. The rescued men were in a state ot I great exhaustion, having been at sea in an open boat I the whole of the previous night.
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