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Summary of Passing Events. THE dangers to life in railway travelling are surely quite sufficient already, and need no wanton additions by passengers themselves. But Mr. Frederick William Palmer, colonial broker, of Mincing-lane, London, appears to think differently, and for acting on his ideas in the matter he has been sentenced by the Brentford Bench to one month's imprisonment without the option of a fine. He was fouad guilty of using violence to a passenger to prevent him getting within a carriage door which had been twice opened for him by servants of the railway company. Palmer's violence went to the extent, not only of striking the passenger on the chest, but of pinioning his arms when he got upon the step, and thus preventing him from extri- cating himself when the train was in motion. If the tlrO porters had not run after him, and pulled him away by force, he ran the risk of being killed. On these circumstances of the affair being proved, the magistrates had little choice but to sentence tha accused to one month's imprisonment, and his fate should prove a warning to all the unaccommodating class of travellers who are too frequently to be found in railway carriages. Rather than incommode them- selves in the slightest degree to make room for a fresh passenger, they allow their tempers to get the better of them, and sometimes, as in the case of Palmer, give way to acts of violence which call for legal redress.

THE heavy sentence pronounced upon St inbridge, at the Devonshire Assizes, is a warning to schoolmasters still more significant than the warning to cantankerous railway passengers contained in the punishment accorded to Palmer. Because a boy, eleven years of age, was behind in his sums, and refused to hold up his hand when ordered to do so, he was beaten across the head by his cruel master with a green willow, and the result of the blowi was that the lad lost one of his eyes. All the excuses for his extraordinary violence Stanbridge the schoolmaster could bring forward were that he felt uuwell on the day in question, that he had asked for leave and did not get it, and that the boy besides was rude to his wife one day. This last observation formed a curious pen- dent to the excuses, as it went a far way to prove that the schoolmaster was actuated by revenge in the punishment which he administered; The judge intimated, at the close of the evidence, that the Lord Chief Baron had gone over the case with him, and that they had agreed, an example being necessary, to sentence the prisoner to five years' penal servi- tude. The sentence is said to have excited sur- prise in court, but when it is considered that the schoolmaster, in an outbreak of temper, maimed his pupil for life, the punishmenb does not seem more severe than was necessary as an ex- ample to others. Schoolmasters as a rule have improved upon the old plan by using moral rather than physical means to guide and govern their pupils, but there are still excesses of punishment perpetrated by mis. creants whose proper calling would be that of flagellators of convicts in gaols.

THE GREAT snow storm in the North has en- tailed very great hardships on railway travellers. This has been the case especially on the Highland line, where se ren trains, one of them a passenger train, were snowed-up at one time. Owing to the distance from any place of shelter, many of the passengers were compelled to spend the night in the carriages, and it is easy to imagine how great their sufferings must have been under such circumstances. In ordi- nary winter weather railway carriages feel cold, even when they are provided with feet-warmers, and we may well therefore commiserate the un- fortunates who were subjected for hours zo the penetrative action of a sharp wind laden with drift. The company had the humanity to despatch a special train with provisions fcr the snowed-up passengers, but though these creature comforts would no doubt prove acceptable, they could not go very far in relieving the long night of its cold, tedium, and anxiety. On the Perth and Dundee branch of the Caledonian line there were also blocks, one of the trains stopped being the London mail due in Dundee at one o'clock in the morning. From Caithness local and through trains were also re- ported as being stuck in the snow, and there was little expectation that a passage could be effected for some days. The forces of nature are thus found to be more than a match for the strongest of our scientific and mechanical powers.

DIFFERENT nations seem to be trying how best to frighten each other from goiug to war by the incessant production of instruments of destruction, which are growing larger and more formidable every day. The race just now mainly lies between the thickness of armour- plates and the calibre of guns. The Woolwich gun of 81 tons is followed by a gun of 100 tons at Elswick, and there is the prospect of another enfant terrible weighing 126 tons at Essen. Then, on the other hand, for the purpose of showing that even these tremendous guns can be rendered of little avail, Mr. Cammed, of Sheffield, declares himself ready to manufacture solid iron armour a yard in thickness. Cranes must necessarily grow in size with the developments in magnitude of gnus and armour-plates, and extraordinary ap- pliances of this kind are now being manufactured. There is Sir W. Armstrong's chainless hydraulic crane at Spezzia which will be good, it is said, for 160 tons or perhaps 200; and at W oolwich Arsenal there is about to be put up a crane capable of lifting 100 tons. Should this rivalry in cyclopean works continue, nations may learn by and-bye that the preparations for the luxury of war are much too expensive, and that the idea of ever embarking in the latter had better be abandoned altogether. By ORDER OF HER MAJESTY communications have been addressed to the Board of Works for the Whifcechapel District, and to Sir Andrew Leak, M P., alderman of the Ward of Aldgate, expressing the admiration with which her Majesty witnessed the inscriptions and street decorations along the line of route on the occasion of the recent visit to the London Hospital. If THIS SHOULD MEET THE EYE of any one troubled with WIND in the STOMACH, INDIGESTION, ar BILIOUS. NESS, take Page Woodcock's Wind Pills. Their world-wide celebrity proves them of sterling merit. Tonic, invigorating, and purifying, they form one of the best remedies extant. Of all vendors at Is. l^d. and 2a. 9d., or free by post for 14or 38 stamps from Page D. Woodooek, St. Faith's Norwich,

THE FACTORY AOTS. REPORT BY THE COMMISSIONERS. The following 'ia a summary of the reoommenda- tions appended to the Report of the Factory and Workshops Ar-ta Commission, which was recently presented to Parliament I "CONSOLIDATION OF THE LAW.—The Factory Acts, 1833 to 1874 the Ropeworkers Act, 1846 the 1\ Lace Factory Act, 1861; and the Workshops Acts, 1867 to 1871, should be consolidated in a single Act, subject to the following amendments 'Workshops' should be made factories; that is, the Workshops Act, 1867, should be repealed, and the limitation in definition of a workshop to places where the handi- craft is carried on by any child, young person, or woman' should ba extended to all factories. EXTENSION OF THE FACTORY ACTS.—The places of work should be defined in the Consolidated Act so a.s to include pkceis in the open air.' The definition of work should include labour in, or incidental to, the washing, cleaning, or furbishing any articles, as also the carrying of any article in course of manu- facture from one place of work to another. Bake- houses should bo included in the new Act, but there should be exempted from its operation mines, under- ground quarries worked by shafts, and quarries or I pit banks connected with a mine also agricultural emplo,ment; also employment by the occupier of a room used also for the purposes of a dwelling-house, if there arc no protected persons, but adult women employed, and they do not in addition to in ma tea ex- ceed two in number. THB GBNEKAL REGULATION OF HOURS OF I W ORK.- Th& limits of hours for labour should be in all factories—six a.m. to six p.m., half-past six a.m. I to half-past six p.m., or seven a.m. to seven p.m all the year round. Of the twelve hours of labour two I should be reserved for meals in factories, and one hour and a-half in workshops, thus making the actual hours of work ten hours in the case of the I former, and ten and a had! in the case of the latter, I as at present. The meal hours should be so distri- buted th&t not more than four and a-half hours in caee of factories and five hours in workshops should constitute a spell. Bleaching, dyeing, and print works should be factories in respect to length of meal hours, but workshops in respect to their distribu- tion, and the rules as to distribution should not apply to domestic employment. Various relaxations of the law are recommended to be granted to parti- cular trades or classes of trades, and this power is to be exercised by the Secretary of State, by order, to be laid on the tables of both Houses of Parliament. The permission to work from eight a.m. to eight p.m. is recommended in the following trades: Litho press printing, bookbinding, tailoring, dress and mantle I making, millinery, shirt and collar making, straw-hat and bonnet making, and the manufacture of trim- mings, skirts, stays, and underolathicg.tand warehouse I work. Relaxations to permit of overtime are also re- commended in the case of fish curing, fruit preserving, open-air bleaching, Turkey-red dyeing, brick and tile I making, open-air rope works, flax scutch mills, and trades liable to emergency from sudden push of orders. The overtime in all cases must be taken I between six a.m. and nine p m., and must subse- quently be deducted from the legal time of working, sixty hours per week. The special permission now given to Jewish employera in workshops and in the I' tobacco manufacture to employ young persons or women professing the Jewish religion on Sundays it I is recommended should be extended to all trades, but all Sunday work should be prohibited in all factories and workshops except where specially allowed. The commission also recommends generally that permission to work under any relaxation of the law in respect of hours of work should be made con- ditional upon the adoption of sanitary provisions to the satisfaction of the inspector. "EDUCATION.—The attendance at school of all ohildren, whether at work or not, should ba enforced by law. The school age should be from five to I thirteen the rule of attendance should be five hours I daily, but half-time attendance should be conceded [),f3 a privilege to all children beneficially and neces- sarily employed, and all children employed accord- ing to the Consolidated Act to bg deemed to be beneficially employed. In no case should a child be allowed to attend half-time under ten years of age, 'I or be permitted to work under the Consolidated Act. No child under eleven should be permitted to work unless it haa made 300 attendances during each of the two previous years, or can pass a suitable standard. No child under fourteen to be allowed to work in any trade unless it haa made 525 attendances at school during the preceding three years, and shall have passed a. standard suitable to its age. "SANITARY MEASURES.—A certificate of birth should be required in all cases of first employment, and such certificate should be endorsed by the certi- fying surgeon, the certificate to be kept by the em- ployer and returned to the child on quitting his service. It should be a condition of the surgical certificate that the child has been properly vaccinated. The enforcement of the sanitary provisions of the law should be expressly made the duty of the inspectors in all places to which their powers extend. PROHIBITIONS.—The employment of children and young persons should be forbidden in occupations tending to destroy health, such as silvering of mirrors by the mercurial process, aud white lead manufactures. Girls under 16 should not be allowed to work in brickmaking or in salt works. Children should not be allowed to work at occupa- tions unsuited to the age, such as fustian cutting, metal grinding-, glass melting and annealing, and dipping lucifer matches. "THE CANAL POPULATION.—The commission re- commends that the residence in canal boats of female young persons and of children over three years of age should be forbidden. The commissioners make a number of sugges- tions on points of law; among others that presence in a factory should be general evidence of employ- ment that provision against obstruction to an in- spector should be made general; that a minimum penalty and maximum of coats, on conviction, should be fixed; and that the inspector's staff should have a single permanent chief, under the Se- cretary of State." THE APPROACHING MARRIAGE is announced of Mademoiselle Louise Blanc, eldest daughter of the proprietor of the gaming tables at Monaco, with Prince Kadziwill. The lady is understood to bring as a dower 100,000fr. a jear, and a hotel in Paris. DEATH AMONG THE MOUNTAINS. — Mr, Whitehouse, 80 years of age, who has been missirg since January 6, has' been found dead, in a sitting position, on the mountain above Cromlickey, near Pontypool. It is known that he booked at Snow.hiU Station for Mertbyr, and he was last seen alive on '10 the platform at Hereford. The mystery is how he got to Pontypool, and it ia supposed that he must have lost his way on the mountain and perished miserably from cold and exposure. AT THE BOROUGH BENCH, Brighton, John Izard, aged 55, a water-rate collector in the employ of the corporation, was committed for trial on a charge of embezzlement. Evidence was given show- ing that the prisoner had been paid sums of money in respect of the aqaarium, the York Hotel, and other places, which he had failed to enter in his books. It was stated by the attorney for the prose- cution that the embezzlement extended over several years, and amounted to a total sum of between .£400 and J6500. The discovery of the defalcations was due to a. recent order of the Finance Committee of the council, that the water-rate receipts accounts should be closed fevery half-year. DR. HASSALL states, "I visited Horniman's Ware- house, and took samples of Tea ready for consignment to their Agents, & on analysis, I found them PURE."

THE PlUNGE OF WALES. ARRIVAL AT ADEN. Before leaving Bombay the Prince wrote a letter to the Viceroy, which has been published in the Go- vernment Gazette, and expressed the pleasure he had felt in visitiag India. The Prince says that his ex- pectations have been more than realised, and that the reception he met with from the prinoes, chiefs, and people was most gratifying. He hopes that the millions of the Qaoen's subjects in India may become daily more convinced of the advantages of British rule, and he adds that the native troops constitute an army of which the country may justly feel proud; the march-past at Delhi was, he says, a most im- pressive sight. The Prince also expresses hia high appreciation of the Civil Service, and concludes by thanking the Viceroy and the officials for the hos- pitality and facilities of travel afforded him. At 3.45, on Monday, the 13th of March, says De. Russell, the Serapis got under way, followed by the Raleigh, the Osborne, and the Rifleman for shore dispatches. The shipping in the harbour was dressed and the yards manned. Not many boats were about. There was a. strong wind and lopping sea. As goon as the Serapis moved ahead, the Undaunted (flagship), the Doris, Diamond, Vestal, Arab, and Jumna, and the ironclads Magdala and Abyssinia manned yards, cheered, and fired a Royal salute. The Daphne was in dock. The admiral signalled "God speed you;" To which the Serapis replied, Thanks hope to meet soon again." The Prince remained on the bridge till the Serapis was fairly at sea. The night was very nae. The next day there was a dead calm. We passed the mail steamer for Bombay at 10 p.m. The 0« borne followed her, and returned to the Serapis with papers of the 25th of February. Wednesday there was a dead calm, the thermometer being eighty. The menagerie is quite comfortable. It contains eighty animals of all sorts. The elephants walk about the deck; the deer are very tame, and the tigers are domesticated, though they exhibit tsndenaies to relapse. Thursday the calm continued, aad the temperature was the same. The sea was aa smooth as glass; no ships, nor fish, nor birds were to be seen. Friday the sea and temperature remained the same as before. The squadron averaged 272 miles in 24 hours. The Osborne ran under the quarter of the Serapis to exhibit her two elephants, which salaamed to the Prince as she passed ahead. The Serapis arrived at Aden on Sunday with the Raleigh in company. All the way from Bombay the weather was fine, the thermometer being eighty in the shale, and the sea quite smooth.

S'r. PATBROWS DAY. The Benevolent Society of St. Patrick celebrated its ninety-third anniversary, and held a dinner at Willis's Rooms, St. James's, on the evening of the 17th mat., the recognised day of the patron Saint from whom the charity takes its nstae. The society came into existence, we are told, by a great number of noblemen and gentlemen being animated with a zeal for distinguishing themselves by establishing an institution for the relief of distressed natives of their country (Ifeland) aod on the 17th of March, 1784, the work was commenced. It was found that schools for receiving, supporting, and educa- ting the children of poor Irish persons were likely to be the most satisfactory way of carrying out the objects aimed at, and in the schools now existing it is said there are 430 children clothed and edu. cated, with a guarantee, on their satisfactory con- duct, of an apprenticeship at a suitable time. Her Majesty the Qaeen and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales are patrons of the society, the preeident is the Marquis of Londonderry, K P., and among the vice-presidents are The names of the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Courtown, the Earl of I Dunley, Lord Iaohiquin, Lord Dnneany, and the Bttrl of Milltown. The last-named, in the absence of ¡ the president through illness, occupied the chair at the dinner, and gave the usual loyal toasts. On the toast of "The Queen" being given, Lord Milltown said that he was certain her Majesty no. where received a greater welcome than when she vouchsafed to visit the Emerald hIe. Oa the toast of the Prince and Princess of Wales, he remarked that hia Royal Highness had during his Indian tour, as representing England, by the high-minded and generous manner in which he had borne himself, earned another claim to our sympathies and loyal feelings. The Princess of Wales had endeared her. self to all English people, and when she visited Ire. lane had one continued triumph. The people there so much desired to claim her that they insisted on calling her Countess of Dublin." The toast was received with cheers, renewed as an encore for the Countess of Dublin." The Hon. Randall Plunkett, M.P., gave the toast of the Army, Navy, and Auxiliary Forces," which was replied to by Lieutenant-General Sir Patrick Lawrence, who, for the Army, was certain that what. ever the exigencies of the service—and he spoke after fifty-five years' experience—the British soldier would always be found ready when wanted and by Sir Hastings Yelverton, who, for the Navy, was happy to inform the public that the British fleet was never in a more flourishing condition than now, its officers more efficient, and the Irishmen in it better than they were, and good was their dominant quality. Lord Milltown gave the toast of the "Lord Lieu- tenant of Ireland," and in doing so observed that he was bound to say that Ireland improved in the con- dition of its people, and every time he revisited his native isle he found it had improved, not by leaps, but bounds. He believed the day was not far dig. tant when Ireland would bear comparison in her rural population with England or Scotland. What she wanted, however, was that people should leave her alone. Sir Hervey Bruce replied to the toast of the Lord Lieutenant. Other toasts and speeches followed, and a collec- tion was made, which was subsequently announced as amounting to .£680, including her Majesty's annual donation of 100 guineas. During the even- ing, alao, about a hundred children, girls and boys, were introduced, and marched round the tables, from which the fruit and flowers quickly disap- peared, transferred by kindly hands of guests to the expectant pockets of the children, who looked well cared for. The dinner was enlivened by music, and subsequently Miss Winn, Mias Wells, Mr. Montem Smith and others gave a selection of songs, glees, principally Irish. MORE OUTRAGES BY THE KING OF DAHO- MEy.-A despatch from Cape Coast Castle, dated Feb. 21st, states that in consequence of the outrage committed at Whydah upon the European agent of an English house, Sir W. Hewett gcea down to the coast in the Active for the purpose of punishing the authorities there, and having some under- standing as to their future good conduct. Lieu- tenant Governor Lees also accompanies the ex- pedition, which will consist of the Active and four gunboats. It is hoped that the commodore will make the King know his position for the future, as this is not the first time the Dahomans have committed the same offence against English- men. A later despatch, also from Cape Coast Castle, says that intelligence has been received of another native outrage, the victims on this occasion being two Frenchmen trading at Ahgweg, a place about thirty-five miles west of Whydah. For selling salt to traders before supplying the Caboceer, or head man of the town, they were bound hand and foot, flogged, and then put into ei^pty casks, in which they were kept a considerable time. LADIES may greatly economise in mourning by wear- ing Patent Albert Crape; one fold ia as thick as two folds of the old make; it is muoh cheaper, and wears better I

STRANGE SOENJJJ IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Globe states that immediately after the ad- journment of the House of Commons on Thursday morning a painful scene occurred. When the strangers' galleries had been cleared it was found that there was a man sitting in the Speaker's Gallery who on being requosted to leave refused to do so. At this time the floor of the Hoasc waa quite de- serted except by the clerks at the table, who were completing their record of the night's proceedings but several. hon. meaibera in the lobby hearing that one of the strangers declined to quit the House came back, and soon a pretty large group was collected, all looking up with astonish- ment at the gentleman above the clock, who was soon surrounded by mc-Fisongern and police- men, and again and again urged to go. He still refused to go however, and when it was suggested that he should be turned out, he exclaimed that it would be "a pretty hard job for anybody to do that," and immediately afterwards, rising to his feet, and addressing the Speaker's vacant chair, he shouted, I am here under the protection of the country. I appeal to the Empress, to the House of Commons, and to the soldiers. I appeal to all three." This be repeated several times, but without any trace of the excitement produced by drink, and it was soon apparent that tha unfortunate man had altogether lost his mental balance. Steps were taken to remove him from the place, but he still continued to call on the Express, the House of Commons, and the soldiers," and then "the Speaker," shouting across the building as he was laid hold of by the police, Is the Speaker here ?" Then came an appeal to the policeman, Don't tear my clothes," and, finally, as he was carried down the steps from the gallery, came a last, appeal "to the sergeant-at-arms and tha Home Office." The scene only lasted a few mi antes, but it produced a, moat painful impre"siol111pon the few who witnessed it, though svery oare and considera. tion was shown in the removal of the unfortunate man. Mr. Iaapeetor Denning1, on duty at the House of Comt-one, appsared at tha Westminster Polioa- court, with Mr. Robert Ginn, a ooal merchant of Newmarket, who was charged with being a lunatic and wan derm;? at large in the Houses of Parliament." The inspector said at four o'clock in the previous afternoon the defendant came and obtained access to t'na gallery of the House by permission of the Speaker. At 9 30 he told witness there was a plot to iuj are him at hia lod- gings. He sat in the gillery till the House rose, at a quarter to two, and when it rose he aaid he had come to assist the House; ha would not go away, and had to be taken to the station. He had since I been examined by a. medical man, and pronounced to be labouring under delu&iona. He had been en- gaged in heavy business transactions of late, and they had deranged him. A friend of the defendant named Johnson stepped forward, and said he knew nothing of the defendant being impaired in intellect. If he were discharged ha would be taken care of. Defendant made a most incoherent statement. Mr. Arnold saw no reason to detain him from his friend if he would take care of him, and he wa-a accordingly handed over to him. —«- — LAMPLO UGHS PTRHJTIC SALINE.—"Have it in year houses, and use no other," for it is the only safe anti- dote in Fevers, Eruptive Affoetions, SOIJo or Bilious Sickness, and Headache, having peculiar and exclu- sive merits. Sold by all Ch&aiists. The Master of the Rolls has granted a £ erpetual injunction against others using the name and trade mark. AT THE HAMMERSMITH POLICE-COURT, on Saturday, Thomas Saunders, a police-constable of the X Division, was charged with leaving his duty with- out notice. The defendant stated that he had enlisted in the militia before he joined the police, and that he was compelled to leave the latter force in order to avoid a penalty of ten pounds and three months' im- prisonment for desertion. He was ordered to forfeit four days' pay due to him from the police, and was then discharged. EAMIIEES, SCHCOJUS, AND LARGE ESTABLISHMENTS, where bread and other flour food is extensively consume; should use Berwick's Gold Medal Baking Powder, with the direu. tions given by the Queen's private baker, who holds it in the highest estimation. 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