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EPITOME OF NEWS. THE ELDEST SON of Earl of Sondes HAS just attained his n a^rity. AT TEE FAVERSKAM INSTITUTE THERE HAS been a most successful meeting in celebration of tlSi anniversary of the birthday of William Shakespeare, AT ATHKRSTONE, a little boy, two years of age, son of Samuel Hands, was playing in$!ie road, when ,ige a. cart leaded witfe stone came up, kmwking down the child, the whael passing over its head-. A PARLIAMENTARY RETURN faas been issued -of the minder and cost of the Royal Irish'Constabulary in each of the last ten years, from which it would appear that whereas Sn 1872-3 the ootid number of constables was 11,693, and the cost £ 817,130 6s. Id,, in 1881-2 t'he number was 12,334, and the-cost £ 1,266,332. THE DEATH is announced of Mr. Thomas Dunimn, lecturer on physiology at the Bidkbcck Institu- tion, and physical science lecturer at the Working Men's College, Great Ormond-street, London. The deceased gentleman, who was but S.i years of age, had been in tailing health for two years, and 'leaves a widow and two children, for whom be had been unable to make any provision. SOME EXCITEMENT was eairaad a few days ago %• the discovery of a human body in an underground ceH;:r during the excavations now in progress in Little Bridge-street, Blackfmrs, London, for the purpose of "widening and improving that thoroughfare. The remains are so very much wasted that anything like identification •is entirely out of the question. Indeed, it is impossible =to say how long they 'have been interred. No trace a ■coffin has, we believe, been found. AT REIGATE, Henry Nevill, 27, of ClerkenweH, :and Thomas Smith, 26, of Bermondsev, London, were charged with picking the pocket, on Redhill platform, of a lady who had been staying in the neighbourhood. Prisoners were remanded. AT THE PETTY SESSIONS, Romford, three men, named Alfred Dove, 33, described as a Warley- road, Bethnal-green, London, Edward Crane, 53, a fitter, and Walter White, 28, a bootmaker, who refused their addresses, were charged on remand with burglariously entering the dwelling-house of the late Thomas Harding Newman, D.D., known as The Elms, Ardleigh-greeu, Hornchurch, and stealing therefrom a number of articles. Prisoners were again remanded. THE ANNIVERSARY of the birth of King George IIT. falling this year on a Sunday, the occasion will be celebrated on Monday, June 5, with tthe usual festivities at Eton College. The memorial to the Eton officers slain in the recent South African and Afghan campaigns—a handsomely carved organ screen—costing about JE2500, will be unveiled by fee Prince of Wales speeches will be delivered in the Upper School, and the Rev. C. 0. Goodford, D.D. (the Provost), and Fellows will give a banquet in the afternoon, the proceedings closing with a regatta upon the Thames and fireworks. By the bursting of one of the water mains connected with the water supply of Teeside, most of the engineering works, shipyards, and several other works have been laid idle for want of water,-the supply having b?en turned off for repairing a broken main. A OIAID having been made upon the betting men of Stockton, 12 of them feeing charged with ob- structing the thoroughfare or with assaults arising out of this, and fines were in most of the tcases inflicted. ATA MEETING of the Mersey Dooks and Harbour Board held in Liverpool, Mr. Guion stated that the pressure on the Board's accommodation for vessels was unprecedented, and notwithstanding the large area of dock accommodation recently opened at the north end of the city by the Prince and Primoess of Wales, the Board was still short of the space that was required at their h :nds. Under these circumstances :it had been arranged that the Herculanean dock should'be devoted to the use 'of shipowners, pending the decision of the Board as to deepening it. THE Hoyal Mines Commissioners have re- sumed their experiments in Rhondda Valley. An im- portant fact has been ascertained-viz., that the South Wales gas is less combustible than the gas of the Lan- cash ire coalfield. was a copy of the documents sent to the fept alter in the action by Mr. Gurney, of Northampton,'against Mr. Bradlaugh for illegally sitting and voting. In acknow- ledging the receipt of the pleadings, the Speaker says that he tecs no reason for interferingwith the proceedings now pending. AT THE TUNBBIDGE W:EI;LS COUNTY-COURT, before Mr. Lonsdale, the case'of Wyman versus the Rev. A EdoIl, rector of Ticehurst, and Mr. John Durrant, an auctioneer, was heard. It was an action to recover £ 10 damages for illegal distraint with reference to a seizure for extraordinary tithe. Mr.. Eve, barrister, was for the plaintiff, and Mr. Cripps for the defendant. The case was that the bailiff took four horses, which were espe- cially protected from being seized under the statute of Henry III. The defence was that it was not safe to distrain on anything else. His Honour gave a verdict for Mr. Eden, as no authority was proved, but said that Mr. Durrant, the auctioneer, was iliable, and gave a verdict for the plaintiff against him for £ 5. MB. CHRISTOPHER RICE MAN.SEL TALBOT, M.P. for Glamorganshire, and known as the Father of the House of Commons," has just entered on his 80th year, having been born on May 10, 1803. This gentle- man is a son of the late Mr. Thomas Mansel Talbot, his mother having been the Lady Mary "Lucy Fox-Strang- ways, daughter of the second Earl of Ilchester. Mr. Talbot has represented Giamorganshire in the House of Commons, uninterruptedly, since 1830, having thus been a member of Parliament for upwards of half a century, and is the only member of the present House who voted at the passing of the Reform BilL AT THE RICHMOND PETTY SESSIONS, before Mr. E. C. Dermer, chairman, and a full bench of magis- trates, Frederick Henry Wyviil, secretary of the Rich- mond and District Traders' Association, was charged on a summons with fraudulently converting to his own use a. bill of exchange, dated November 22nd, 1881, for zC46 Is. lOd. drawn by Henry Ford, builder, of Kingston, upon and accepted by one Joseph M'Morran, he being the bailee of the same. Defendant was committed for trial, but admitted to bail. AT THE CITY POLICE-COURT, Coventry, a youth Enmed Frederick Flowers was charged with having behaved in a disorderly manner in the Theatre Roval. Flowers was infringing the rules by smoking, and when spoken to by the proprietor he became insolent and abusive. Subsequently he struck a match, and delibe- rately threw it while alight from the gallery into the pit. He was then ejected by the police. In default of p lying a fine, Flowers went to prison for twenty-eight days with hard hibour. ON HER ARRIVAL, the Decean, Peninsular and Oriental steamer, at Suez, reported Vindobala ashore in lat. 28-47 north, long. 32-49 E. (in the Gulf of Suez), and requested that assistance might be sent. The Vindobala is bound from Shields for Bombay, and is an iron screw steamer of 1744 tons gross, built at Hebburn in 1880, and owned by Richard E. Symond, Newcastle- on-Tyne. AT the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street, London, the 21st annual meeting of the governors and supporters of the British Home for Incurables has been held, under the presidency of Mr. Charles Hood, F.R.S., chairman of the Board of Management. The report, which was read by the secretary (Mr. Robert G. Dalmond), and adopted, stated that, during the twenty-one years of its existence, the asylum had afforded comfort and con- solation to 522 hopelessly incurable and sadly afflicted sufferers. The expenditure for the year had exceeded the receipts by £358468. 4d. A sum of Y,1480 14s. 9d. had been received in legacies during the year. No less than £5029 13s. 4d. had been expended in pensions of £ 20 a year to those who, by their incurable diseases, were unable to support themselves. An earnest appeal was made for increased support, and regret was expressed that the charity had hitherto been excluded from any participation in the Sunday and Saturday hospital funds. A YERY LIVELY VESTRY MEETING has been held in Brighton to take into consideration the Town Council's action in purchasing Preston-park as a public park for Brighton for £ 50,000, A motion was submitted, declaring that the purchase was unnecessary, and for appointing a committee to oppose it by every legal means; to which an amendment was moved to the effect that the possession of the park by the town was desirable. After a warm debate for nearly three hours, the question was put, when 136 voted for the motion, and only 22 for the amendment, and the motion condemnatory of the purchase was declared carried. A CROWDED MEETING of the shareholders of the City of Glasgow Bank, which has lately been held, unanimously agreed to form an Assets Company, whose main object is to close the liquidation at once, pay the remaining liabilities of the bank, and also save the assets from forcible realisation. A WOMAN named Eranw Snelling, aged 63, has "expired in St. Thomas's Hosj ital, London, having re. Reived a fracture of the sIndt, and other injuries, by faliing down a staircae at the WandswGr.h Halfway Station. THE ExECUTION of Wm. Geo. Abigail, for the murder of Jane Flu Ikett, at New Cutton, will take placc at Norwich Castle on the 22nd iiist. THE EUNEEAL OF MR. THOMAS DANN. the iirst Mayor of Reigate, has taken place at the burving-ground of the Society of Friuids. Mr. Dann took a prominent^ part in advocating the direct line to Brighton, and, upon the advice of the late Mr. Richard C-obden, successfully agitated for a 'charter of incorporation for the bsrough, which was granted in 1863. LARGE QUANTITIES of cormorants are bein;,r found dead along the shore in Orkney, owing, it is sup- posed, to want of food, their general food being coal-fish, which this year are very scare round the island. In one little helm seven birds were found dead, and iia the west mainland they are coming from the sea up into the rocks, 4!. very rare occurrence. A LABOUBEB named Lawrence Holden has been killed at Guide, near Blackburn, by fee fall of some houses in the course of demolition. THE Minotaur, t flagship of Vice Admiral Dowell, commanding the Channel Squadron, has left h ;r anchorage at Spithead for Portland, where the squadron is to assemble in readiness for a cruise. THE ADMIRALTY COMMITTEE cm gas explosions in coal bunkers have brought their labours to a close on board the Mercury at Portsmouth, and will proceed with the preparation of their report without delay. Low TIDES have prevented salmon from run- ning up the Dee, and little has been done either in the upper or lower waters. The Chester fishermen have netted about twenty fine fish, while the trammel net men at the estuary have only secured some half score. Tides will speedily be more favourable. The fishermen have. however, experienced the most successful spring sport for many years past. BIG PAUL passed through Leicester a day or two ago, drawn by two powerful traction-engines Several thousand persons lined the thoroughfare to sef the bell. A CENTENARIAN has lately died at Maidstone Her name was Philadelphia Hunter, and on Aug. 26 th last she attained the age of 103 years. She had been bedridden for twelve years, and was slightly deaf, but she could see and speak wall. MR. S. W. KELLY, J.P., one of the two persons burnt in a colliery explosion 'in the Rhondda Valley has died. MR. CORONER. Poo-ias has held an inquest at Swinton Lodge, Milverton, Leamington, on the body of Miss Alice Ann Eccles, who resided there with her widowed mother.. lit was proved that deceased, ten or eleven years ago, was temporarily insane, and at intervals since had been strange. Last January she took such -a dose of syrup of chloral that she was comatose for hours, and almost miraculously recovered. A few nights ago she was found suffering from symptoms of poisoning by strychnine, and died before medical aid arrived. The jury came to the conclusion, from the medical evidence, that the deceased died from poison taken by herself whilst of unsound mind. Sllt NOEL PATON, F.S.A., and Queen's Limner for Scotland, has been presented with the freedom of Dunfermline. IT [S FEARED that not less than five fishing smacks sailing from Lowestoft, and carrying twenty-five hands, .have been lost in the recent gale, nothing having been since heard of them. IN ANSWER to a resolution sent him by the Mid-Kent Conservative Club, congratulating him on his escape from assassination, Mr. H. M'Gloin, of Ballymote, says It were idle to indulge in speculation about the future of that unfortunate-country, in face of the awful butchery of the .Chief and Under Secretaries in Dublin." THE Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibi- tion has lately closed. The. attendance has been quite as large as in former years, but there is a falling off' in sales as compared with last year and the two previous. There has been a gradual decrease from £ 7128 in 1879 to L5152 for the season just terminated. By A FIRE which lately occurred in the stables of Mr. Angus Cameron, cab niter, Daly-road, Edinburgh, four horses were suffocated. AT A MEETING of the General (Committee of the Educational Institute of Scotland, held in the High School, Edinburgh, a resolution in regard to the public Schools (Scotland) Bill was adopted by a large majority. THE APUIST WEEK'S CAMPAIGN of the Bl-ie Ribbon Army at St. Leonards has recently closed, when it was stated that during the six days' crusade upwards of 2000 persons had donned the badge. It was decided to continue the mission some little time longer. The fashionable season at Hastings has been unusually pro- longed this year, but it is now drawing to a close. THE body of ;a florist and seedsman, named Daniel Soper, carrying on business in Bartholomew- street, Newbury, has been found in the river Kennet, close to the town. Deceased was a married man, and had resided in Newbury many years. GEOJWE BATTAM:, 65, labourer, of Heath and Reach, was bronght up before the magistrates, at Leighton Buzzard, charged with the wilful murder of his wife, Mary Ann Battam, whose head he smashed with a bill hook as she was lying in bed. Medical evidence was called to prove that the prisoner had developed symptoms of brain softening. He was commiit -d for trial. I JOHN FRED. MAY, one of the solicitors com- mitted to nine months' imprisonment for bribery at tha election, 1880, has been discharged by order of the Home Secretary on the ground of ill-health. May was agent for the Conservatives. Wm. Mair, solicitor, ag-ent for the Liberals, sentenced to a similar term of imprison- ment, is still in prison. LLOYD'S AGENTS at New York telegraph that the Pliny (s), from Rio de Janeiro to New York, is ashore on Deal Beach. The passengers and crew were rescued, and probably the mails and cargo will be saved. The Pliny is owned by the Liverpool, Brazil, and River Plate Steam Navigation Company (Limited), Liverpool, was built at Barrow in 1878, and registers 1671 tons gross. JAMES NICHOL FLEMING, formerly a director of the City of Glasgow Bank, was brought before the sheriff a few days ago, charged with embezzlement of part of the funds of the bank, and was formally com- mitted for trial on that charge. The amount in question is said to be nearly a million sterling. AT LEEDS Margaret Roan, a well-dressed woman, was sent to gaol for three months for obtaining money by fortune-telling. AN INQUEST has been held at Leicester on the body of a man named Hopkins, belonging to Welling- borough, who attempted to murder his sweetheart, named Elizabeth Viccars. The couple left home together because their parents objected, to their marriage on religious grounds, and, while walking by the side of the canal, Hopkins kissed the girl, bade her good-bye, and then seizing her rushed with her into the eanal. He was drowned, but she was rescued. The jury returned a ver- dict of Suicide whilst temporary insane." HENRY ALFRED TEED, farmer,Whitchurch, was charged, on remand, at the Dorset County Police-court, with a brutal assault upon Levi Bridle, a neighbour of his. The Town Hall was crowded. Mr. Howard, Mayor of Wey- mouth, appeared for the defence, and Mr. Tweed, of Honiton, appeared for the prosecution. Several witnesses were called, and prisoner was remanded, bail being refused. IN MAGNIFICENT WEATHER a numerous body of gentlemen, members of the Brighton and Sussex Natural History Society, took part in the first field excursion for the season a few days ago. The rendezvous was the ancient village of Cuckfield, and having taken train to Hayward's heath Station, the party inspected the numerous objects of interests en route, as well as in the more immediate vicinity of the village, and returned home late in the evening. THE DORSET Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry have assembled at Dorchester for the annual training. As three of the bandsmen were proceeding to the county town in a trap, one of the traces broke, and they were thrown into the road. Mr. Hunt, the bandmaster, fell on his head and was seriously injured. He is not expected to recover. MATTERS still continue unsettled at the Festiniog slate quarries consequent upon the refusal of the employers to shorten the hours of work. Every effort is being made to obviate a strike, which would be most serious, since nearly 10,000 men would be affected. CIRCULARS have been liberally distributed amongst the tenant farmers of Wales asking their opinion of the merits of the following alternative schemes for remedying the grievances of which they complain: The formation of a Welsh Land League to have the direction of all combined movements on the part of agriculturists in the principality, the head- quarters to be on the joint confines of North and South Wales; the establishment of a separate executive for North and South Wales respectively the general exten- sion in Wales of the Farmers' Alliance; and the establish- ment of farmers' societies in every carish and village in the principality. I AT THE PETTY SESSIONS, Gainsborough, I George Musgr&ve, a large farmer, of Ferry, was sent to prison for fourteen days for having assaulted a woman 75 years old, by breaking a rake-shaft over her head, and otherwise tll'ireating her. Two years ago prisoner was charged with breaking some of the ribs of the same woman. woman. stealing therefrom between JE20 and £ 30 in money, two cheques, and two rings, value £20. Prisoner was remanded. IT IS STATED that the governorship of Ber- mudas has been offered to Lieut.-General T. L. J. Gallwav, Royal Engineers, the present Inspector-General of Fortifi- cations and Director of Works at home. The appointment is worth X2746 per annum, and has been held by an officer of the Scientific Corps for the last thirty years. AT TISE BOROUGH POLICE COURT, Dover, Hester Parker and Emma Earl, two inmates of the Union Workhouse, were charged with violently assault- ing and 'beating Susannah Cooper, an aged inmate, of 82 years, with intent to do her grevious bodily harm. The assault, which was of:a very brutal character, took place some 'time ago, but the old lady has been hitherto unafole, from the effects of her injuries, to give the authorities any reliable information of the circumstances under which the assault was committed. It was proved ia ^evidence that Parker pulled the woman out of bed, tore her clothes off her, and maltreated her in a very cruel manner. The prisoners were remanded. THE QUEEN'S BENCH, Dublin, have refused the application of the Rev. Thomas Feenan, C.C., of Castletown, county Carlow, for the quashing of the magistrate's order under which he was committed to gaol for six months in default of giving bail for his good behaviour. He had been charged with using highly iinciting language at a Land League meeting. THE LORD ADVOCATE has finally dec:ded that the Skye crofters who are charged with resisting the sheriff's process shall be tried at Inverness without a jury. SHORTLY after eight o'clock in the morning, as a large three-masted schooner was being towed down the Thames she gave a lurch and fell over -on her beam-ends. She was towed into Blackwall Reach, just off the Isle of Dogs, where she was 'left lying on 'her side, with masts touching the bottom. The crew were rescued by boats from shore, except one man, who was caught in the cable and drowned. The vessel had no ballast and no pilot. A LABOURER, named John Hiscock, has been charged at the Hove Police-court with embezzling S,4 13s. 10d., the money of John Wrapson, his master, on the 4th March last. Prisoner was sent to a builder named William Humphrey., with a bill, and after drawing the money he absconded. He was apprehended at Yri in- borne. Prisoner, who bore an excellent character, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour. THE REMAINS -OF CAPTAIN BULKELEY, late of the First Life Guards, director of the Great Western Railway Company, and/president of the Albert Institute, has been interred in the churchyard of St. Andrew, at Clewer, near Windsor. A special 'train convevcd the chief officials of the Great Western Railwav from Pad- dingtoll to Windsor. Prince and Princess Christian were represented by Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell, Deputy Ranger of Windsor Great Park. THE London City Companies' Commission recently met at 2, Victoria-street, Westminster. Present -the Earl of Derby, chairman the Duke of Bedford, ViscountSherbrooke, Lord Coleridge, Sir R. A. Cross, Sir S. H. Waterlow, M.P., Mr. Alderman Cotton, M.P., Mr. Pell, M.P., Mr. W. H. James, M.P., Mr. Firth, M.P., and Mr. H. D. Warr, sectary. THE Quarterly B ;ard of the Tithe Redemp- tion Trust has been held at the offices, 9, Bridge-street, Westminster, Lord John Manners, M.P., in the chair. In the cases of Great Sutton, diocese of Chester, and Moun- ton, diocese of Llandafi, grants of £ 20 each were made. The following were also before the Board: Angle, diocese of St. David's Bryngwyn, diocese of LlandaiT Brvnamman, diocese of St. David's Llangari, diocese of I Llandaff; Chedworth, diocese of Gloucester and Bristol Townstall, diocese of Exeter. DURING TiEE (RECENT GALE at Stornoway, four boats were lo$t and weight fishermen drowned. Since then, the weather being calm and beautiful, all the cod and ling fishing boats from the west coast of Lewis have proceeded long distances off into the Atlantic, and the herring fishing tots 'from here and other fishing ports, about 300 in .umber, also went long distances. They were, however ,ill caught by another gale, which the fishermen describe as the most terrible ever experienced by them on this ocas' THE DISTURBANCE, at Brighouse against the Irish workmen have been renewed, and the mob suc- ceeded in breaking the windows of the Catholic chapel. Several policemen were. injured, and two bystanders. The police have been largely reinforced and clear the streets directly the crowd 'begin to assemble. THE RETURSTSOF EMIGRATION from the Mersev for the month of April have been completed by the officials at Liverpool, and show that, great as was the stream to America and other countries last year, it is being surpassed in the present season. The total number of emigrants who left the Mersey in April was 38,865. Of these 32,228 proceeded to the United States, 6300 to Canada and British North America, 37 to Australia, 148 to South America, 53 to the East Indies, 2 to the West Indies, 33 to China, 55 to the West Coast of Africa, and 3 to the Cape of Good Hope. The nationalities of the emigrants were English, 16,734; Scotch, 161; Irish, 3972; and foreigners, 17,768; 230 not being distin- guished. In the month of March last the total number of emigrants was 20,410 and in April, 1881, the number was 35,640. Up to the end of last month the total de- partures from the Mersey were no fewer than 73,198. AN ALARMING ACCIDENT has occurred at the Skating Rink, Oldham, where the Salvation Army are holding their services. It appears that the people were leaving the building, when the flooring in the passage gave way, and they fell a distance of six or seven feet. About thirty people fell into the gap, and half a dozen were injured, having to be sent home in cabs. The injured are progressing favourably. One received a spinal injury. THE PLYMOUTH TOWN COUNCIL have, for the third time, considered the question of granting a site on the Hoe for the re-erection of Smeaton's Tower. They have twice previously passed an affirmative resolution, but on the last occasion by so narrow a majority (twO) that notice to rescind was given. At the last meeting Alderman Luscombe moved and Alderman Shelly seconded the rescinding of the two previous resolutions, but after an animated discussion, which lasted nearly three hours, this motion was defeated by a largo majority The decision has given great satisfaction throughout the town. EnWARD WHEELER, formerly a flour mer- chant, has been charged at Hartlepool, residing at Seaton Carew, at the West Hartlepool Police-court, with uttering three forged bills, amounting to JE485, with intent to defraud. Mr. Balmer, manager to Messrs. Davison, millers, Newcastle, deposed to the prisoner enclosing in a letter five bills, one for £235, drawn by prisoner, and purporting to have been accepted by Robert H. Rowe, and he advanced prisoner £300, carrying the balance to his credit. In January following the prisoner called at their office, and tendered one bill purporting to by accepted by Edward Upton, of South Bank, for £ 100, and another, £ 150, purporting to be accepted by Robert Rowe, Hartlepool. All these bills were dishonoured. The signatures on the two bills were repudiated by Mr. Rowe, who now stated that prisoner had confessed to forging bills for £ 2300. He was committed for trial. I THE MARQUESS OF NORMANBY is on a visit to Queensland, where his son, Lord Henry Phipps, is engaged in sugar planting. His Excellency was well received in Brisbane, and will be entertained at a banquet ¡. before his departure. MR. T. H. BOLTON, Chairman of the Anti-ex- traordinary Tithe Association, has addressed a meeting of farmers at Edenbridge, Kent. He enumerated several parishes in Kent and the adjoining county where the clergy were in receipt of considerably over £ 1000 a year from the ordinary tithe, and not content with that, they j insisted upon the exaction of the extraordinary tithes, j He believed if the clergy were alive to what were their I true interests they would meet the growers in a con- ? siderate manner and relieve them of this impost. A re- solution in favour of the abolition of the extraordinary tithe charges was unanimously passed, as was also a second resolution in favour of the Farmers' Alliance.

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