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PROTECTION AND THE NEW TOBACCO DUTIES. THE attention which is being directed to the effect of the changes in the tobacco duties under the Budget is thoroughly justified. Not merely is the bearing of the new duties on particular branches of the tobacco trade oppressive, but they are so devised as to confer large and unfair advantages on other members of the same trade. Had Mr. Austen Chamberlain had in view the idea of dis- criminating between the wholesale tobacco manufacturers and the great body of retailers to the advantage of the former, he could hardly have succeeded more thoroughly. This unjust operation of the Budget changes was not at first sight perceived. those who hailed it. somewhat prematurely as it now turns out, as an honest Free-Trade Budget, did not per- ceive its full effects. Partly this was due to tne concealment by Mr. An-ten Chamberlain of vital facts; partly to the highly technical nature of the subject itself. Certain it is. however.that the light thrown upon the matter during the last few days has placed the Budget in an entirely new aspect. What seemed to be proposals cast on traditional Free-Trade lines now appears to he a thoroughly vicious scheme permeated by a Protectionist flavour. Is laying his Budget before the country the Chancellor of the Exchequer declared that it was part of his object so to revise the tobacco duties that the British tobacco manu- facturer should not placed at anv dis- advantage compared with his foreign com- petitor. Free Traders, of course, have no objection to such changes if it can be shewn that any existing arrangements handicap the home manufacturer. According to Austen Chamberlain, the system of levying the same duty on both the stripped and the unstripped tobacco leaf had the effect of causing the process of stripping to be done in the country of origin, whereas it might as well be performed in England, and tins give employ- ment to British lalx.ia-. B •/ putting an additional duty of :1. on the stripped leaf the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed to remedy this state of things. He: declared that the amount in questi« >n was only just sufficient t> • make good to the British tobacco manufac- turers the expense he was put to in stripping the leaf. From the Free-Trade point of view the argument appeared at nrst sight convinc- ing. and the revision of duties unobjection- able. But the further light thrown upon the matter has raised grave doubts whether that opinion can be sustained. FOR the Chancellor of the Exchequer managed to suppress a point essential to the consideration of the matter. What he left unsaid was that the importer of unstripped "tobacco leaf actually does at present obtain a rebate from the Customs authorities of :j" per lb. upon grinding the stem into snuff and exporting it or depositing it in a bonded ware- house. From this it is quite clear that the British tobacco manufacturer is not compelled to import the stripped leaf. as was suggested by Mr. Chamberlain. On the contrary. he imports stripped or unstripped precisely as it pays him to make snuff or not. Since the demand for snuff is so small compared with the tobacco trade generally, it results that the quantity of unstripped tobacco imported is always small compared with the aggregate importation. It is difficult to acquit Mr. Austen Chamberlain ot a certain want of candour in having concealed from Parliament and the country this important fact relating to the existing rebate. Obviously it alters the complete incidence of the duty, since it shews that even if the existing scale operated slightly in favour of the importation of stripped leaf the effect was far less powerful than the Chancellor's speech suggested. And the sup- pression of such a material point was still more censurable since it really changed the entire nature of the tax. Instead, that is. of heinff a reasonable adjustment of the duties in the interest of British tobacco-strippers, it is actually nothing less than the Protection of a section of the tobacco manufacturers which the Budget carries out. How this is done will become perfectly clear when the facts are clearly grasped. According to authorities, on an average olb. of leaf go to lib. of stem. Under the new scheme the importer of unstripped tobacco receives an advantage of :;(1. per pound—that is to say, upon buying 61b. of leaf and stem he pays duty to the amount of Is. Hd. But. according to Mr. Austen Chamberlain's estimate, he loses •r>d. OIL the pound of stem. so that as a result of the new duties he is a gainer to the extent of Is. Id. Since, therefore, he is so sub- stantially to the good by importing unstripped instead of stripped tobacco leaf, this revision of the duties may be characterised as a piece of Protection pure and simple. That it is not on a large scale matters little—the principle acted upon is the same. The revenue and the tobacco consumers are to suffer in order that employment may be given in the form of tobacco-stripping to a very small number of hands at Liverpool. Bristol, and other tobacco- importing centres. As the labour is unskilled, and therefore ill-paid, the only effect will be to increase the ranks to some extent of those low-grade industries which that eminent Protectionist authority Professor Ashley regards as a mark of national deterioration. SSuch is the broad effect of the" whiff of Protection for which the Chancellor of the Exchequer is responsible. usual, the reappearance of Protection in the Budget has been accompanied by a sugges- tion of the scandals which are so closely related to the system. The House of Commons has witnessed during the last day or two anyvv scenes arising out of the persistent efforts of Mr. M'Kemia. M.P., to have some light thrown on a highly suspicious incident. Inuring the month of March last the imports of unstripped tobacco leaf were unprece- <!entedly heavy. What was the cause of this pheia nienon, just on the eve of a Budget which made every holder of this class of tobacco a richer man Y We have it on record that one of the leaders of the tobacco trade, Mr. (allaher, a member of Air. Chamberlain's Fiscal Commission, gave evidence before a committee, and urged upon them the desirability in the Budget of making the very < h-uige in the tobacco duties which the Chancellor has carried into effect. In an inter- view with the Tobacco Weekly Journal he admits that "his views had been accepted by the Exchequer. The connection between Mr. Gallaher's evidence and the enormous rise in the imports of unstripped tobacco is. to say tLe least, suggestive. It justified to the full Mr. M'Kenna's request for a special com- mittee to inquire into the facts. Mr. Balfour has refused the demand with a touch of indolence added. Apparently, therefore, the public must, be left to draw its own conclu- sions from a strange combination of facts. -toU- A IL\ILW4-\1 LLECORD. Th« (ircat Western Knilway eclipsed all previous re.'cnls in the iounn-y trom PlymouMi on Monday bv '.inuring a train carrying the American mails i-L Mmv hours forty-seven minutes, thus beating t!> •■!•.< i ri vious time by seven minutes. The train 9.23, and was drawn to bristol hv til- eeyiri" City of Tniri, which was changed for the X -rth Mi-Hands, and* South Walt's were 'iroj.pe-• at r.ristol, and the Puke of Connaught took .-•n .-rain to P. ddin-ton, which was reached at 1.10 p, the entil e distance, including the stoppage, having been covered at the average rate ot slightly ovr G5¡j, miles per hour. A second train left Mil;buy at 9.48 with passengers and bullion, and this arrived in the metropolis at 2.12, stoppages having been made at Exeter and Uristol.

CHILD'S DEATH FROM ALCOHOL. Str;ii)«<j domestic habits were revealed at a Mont- gomeryshire inquest on a farmer's child. The father took his son, aged four, to the fair, and there gave him whisky to drink, with the result that he was soon in convulsions, which ended in death. The father admitted that the child was frequently given beer and spirits at home, as all his other children hid been. Death from alcoholic poisoning was the verdict, and the father was censured, the coroner remarking that the jury believed'that he had acted in ignorance or he might have been charged with manslaughter.

GALE IX THE NORTH. A violent northerly gale prevailed on Saturday on the FIadding-tonshirp and Berwickshire coasts, causing great loss to fishermen by the destruetion of hundreds of crab creels which were in th-} sea. At Scarborough the most severe gale of the year was experienced, vessels having to make all speed for port.

MR. KEXSITS APPEAL. Mr. John Alfred Kensit and two sureties. Mr. Joseph Sabey and Mr. Ih'iiry Eves, entered on Mon- day. at the Mansion House, Lindon, into recog- nisances in £50 each for the prosecution, without delay, in the King's Hench Division, of the appeal from the recent decision of the Court of Quarter Se.-sions of the City. affirming a conviction of Mr. Kensit for unlawfully disturbing the Bishop of London while administering the rite of Ordination in St. Paul's Cathedral in February last.

2:>G MIXERS FIXED. Two hundred and iifty-six miners were sum- moned at Castle Eden on Saturday for absenting themselves from work without giving the customary fourteen days' notice. Their employers, the Ilorden Collieries, Limited, claimed sums of 5s. and 10s. as damages.—The magistrates decided against defendants, and ordered them to pay the sums claimed, with costs.

VICTIM OF RELIGIOUS MAXIA. A blacksmith's striker at Burton named Edward Slater, a powerful man, who was formerly in the Gordon Highlanders, cut his wife's throat with a razor on Saturday evening and afterwards nearly cut his own head off. The wife and four young children were rescued by neighbours after a terrible struggle, and it is thought the woman may recover. Slater, who had till recently been a devoted husband and father, was run over some time ago and sustained serious injury to the head. After- wards he attended revivalist meetings, and fell a victim to religious mania.

MURDER OF A MILLIOXAIIIE. The body of Mr. Edward L. Went/ a Phila- delphia millionaire, has been found in Virginia, under circumstances which suggest he was murdered. Ir. Wentz, who had been managing the mines in Virginia belonging to his father since last October, disappeared some weeks ago, says a New York despatch. A reward of £10,000 was offered for information as to his whereabouts, and when hope of his being found alive was abandoned a reward of £1,000 was offered to the discoverer of his body. The body was found by a boy at a spot a mile from where Ir. Wentz was last seen alive. It is believed that Mr. Wentz was murdered by a party of illicit whisky distillers, whom he surprised at work.

CHILD CARRIED OFF BY AN EAGLE The eighteen-months-old daughter of a young Sutherlandshire crofter was carried off by an eagle on Saturday evening, and her mutilated body was found a few hours later in the mountains. The chi Id was playing outside the door of her father's cottage, and was not missed until tea time. When no traces of her could be found in the immediate neighbourhood, an organised search was made further afield. A gamekeeper's party, who were searching the side of a hill. suddenly saw in a. crevice a tiny shoe. A little further up the body of the missing child was discovered.

DEATH OF AN OXFORD PROFESSOR. Mr. Frederick York Powell, Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford since 1894, died at his residence at Oxford on Sunday night, aged fifty-four. Mr. Powell, who was an honorary LL.D. of Glasgow, was educated at Rugby and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating with first- class honours in law and modern history. lie was successively law lecturer, tutor, and student of Christ Church, and fellow of Oriel College. Mr. Powell was also a delegate of the Clarendon Press. His publications include "Early England up to the Norman Conquest," "Epochs of English History," and "Alfred the Great and William the Conqueror." He was contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica and various journals on historical and literary subjects.

A BARXSLEY LAMP TRAGEDY. John Ward, miner, of Worsborough Dale, near Barnsley, after a week's great suffering, has died at the Beckett Hospital, Barnsley, from shocking injuries caused by a paraffin lamp on the night of the 29th ult. His sister-in-law, a married woman, Bridet Ward, who lived in the adjoining yard, was arrested, and has been remanded, charged with causing his death. It is alleged that the woman, whilst under the influence of drink, was abusing members of Ward's family, and he went out to her. Going into the house, she returned with a lighted paraffin lamp. with which she struck Ward on the head. The vessel broke, and she then, it is alleged, deliberately threw the oil over him, and he was so severely" burnt that when admitted to the hospital his eyesight was gone, and his depositions had to be taken. When before the court, the woman declared that she had acted in self-defence.

TRIPLE TILLAGE TRAGEDY. The little mining village of Masborough, about eight miles from Sheffield, was the scene of a terrible tragedy on Monday morning. Joseph Henry Bowman, aged twenty-seven, the manager of a grocery store, attacked his wife in hr sleep with a heavy iron instrument used for opening boxes. She received two severe blows on the head. and then managed to struggle out of the house to get assistance. She fainted as soon as a neighbour was aroused. Bowman murdered both his children, aged respectively two and three-quarter years and fourteen months, by cutting their throats, and then turned the razor upon himself. His injuries proved fatal later in the day at the Sheffield Royal Infirmary. The wife said her husband had always been kind and affectionate. She could give no reason for his terrible crime. But on the way to Sheffield he admitted that what he had done was due to betting losses.

SEXTEXCED TO DEATH. At Liverpool Spring Assizes, before Mr. Justice Bucknill, William Kirwan. thirty-nine, sailor, was indicted for the wilful murder of Mary Pike at Liverpool. Mary Pike and the prisoner's wife were sisters. On February 25th the prisoner called at Great Xewtou-street, where Mrs. Pike lived. He found his wife there, and accused her of sleeping at her sister's house with another man. His wife denied the accusation, and Mrs. Pike also denied it. The prisoner fired four shots, two at his wife and two at Mrs. Pike. A man named Russell, who was upstairs, ran down. and found the prisoner in the passage with a revolver in his hand. He was pointing it upstairs. Russell, hearing that Mrs. Kirwan had been shot, burst into the parlour and got Mrs. Kirwan and two children out into the passage. He then pushed Mrs. Pike, Mrs. Kirwan, and the two children into the cellar. The prisoner went down the street, fired a shot illto tbp air, and returned, to take his stand opposite the house. Meanwhile, Russell had called out from a window for a police- man to be fetched. A policeman came up, and arrested the prisoner. Mrs. Pike came out of her house and called out. "That's the man." The prisoner, who was standing with his right hand in his trouser pocket, shook himself tree from the policeman, drew his hand from his pocket, and fired point. idank at the woman from a distance of about two yards. She fell, and the policeman took the revolver from the prisoner, who said, "I intended to kill the pair of them. I am sorry I didn't." A few days later Mrs. Pike died at the hospital. Her depositions were taken, and the I prisoner was charged with murder.—The prisoner l was found guilty, and sentenced to death.

1 ARREST OF IR. HOOLEY. CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY. For some time past there have been rumours of applications for warrants for the arrest of Mr. E. T. Hooley, whose name as a company promoter has been so prominently before the public. It was not, however, until Monday night that a warrant was issued against him at the instance of the Treasury, another warrant being granted at the same time tor the arrest of Ir. Henry J. Lawson, another well- known company promoter. The warrants were placed in the hands of Chief- inspector Froest, of Scotland-yard, and Mr. Hooley was arrested at the Albemarle Hotel, Piccadilly, on a charge of conspiracy to defraud. Mr. Hooley was in his bedroom at the time, and when the warrant was read he expressed willingness to go with the officer. He also handed over the keys of his desk and private safe. Detective-sergeant Burch arrested Lawson, who is described as fifty-two, an engineer, of Lynden- gardens, Hampstead, at 70, Queen Victoria-street, City. Mr. Hooley is described as forty-five, of no Occupation, of Risley Hall, near Derby. The charge is that of being concerned with others in con- spiring to defraud Mr. A. J. Paine, a licensed victualler. The two prisoners were brought before Mr. Fenwick at Bow-street Police-court on Tuesday afternoon, when Mr. Muir opened the case for the f r isecution. In a speech which lasted for one hour and twenty minutes he set forth facts which had been considered by Sir Albert de Rutzen, and on which the warrants had been issued. Mr. Muir told the court how the prisoners became acquainted with Mr. Paine in October. 1901. He said they succeeded in persuading him to purchase some thousands of shares in companies which existed principally on paper. Mr. Alfred Paine had made a considerable amount of money in the public-house business, and among other property he owned the Windsor Castle, near Victoria Stition. During a railway journey to Brighton in the autumn of 1900 lr. Paine got into conversation with a gentleman named Ir. Sims White, and mentioned the fact that he had lost considerable sums of money over the fall of railway stocks that year. The result of this meeting was that the publican received a letter as-king him to call at Walsingham House Hotel. On October 12th he called to see Mr. White, who ntormed him that his governor, Mr. Hooley, was very friendly with the private Cabinet of the Czar of Russia. Through their kind influence Mr. Hooley had obtained the concession of a Siberian goldmine, 8,000 square miles in extent, out of which the private Cabinet of the Czar had already extracted £4,000,000 in gold. Eventually Hooley said that a distressed client, Mr. Barclay Ormerod, held 5,000 of these Siberian shares, and he offered to get these for Mr. Paine at 12s. per share, and to give Mrs. Hooley's guarantee that they would be worth 20s. each at Christmas, 1901. The publican paid £3,000 for the shares, and the cheque went into Mrs. Hooley's banking account. Leiter on he was pe r- susdi d to purchase the following shares: October 161 h.-Another 5,000 Siberian Goldfields shares for £3.000. November 7th.—Two hundred shares in a syndi- cate connected with the Goldfields for £1.500. November 21st.—An advowson for £455, and 300 more Siberian Syndicate shares for £1,50). November 26th.—Three thousand £1 shares in the Electric Tramways Construction and Mainten- ance Company. Mr. Muir laid stress on the shares of the Electric Company to shew the conspiracy between Hooley and Lawson. On November 26th nooley mentioned to Paine for the first time a company called the Electric Tramways Construction and Maintenance Company. It was about to bring out a subsidiary company called "The Streets Tramways Company," and he shewed Paine one of the prospectuses. In addition to that Hooley mentioned that the Construction Company itself was about to pay a dividend of 16s. He offered to sell these valuable shares for 10s. a JS1 share, and Paine paid Hooley £1,500 for 3,000 of them. This company was formed in 1836 to work inven- tions connected with electric tramways, and in 1889 it passed into the hands of Lawson, at which time it existed on paper only. On November 28th Paine saw Hooley again at Walsingham House, when the latter said that he was needing money, and had made up his mind to sell half his wife's contract between herself and Lawson. He then produced what purported to he a contract between Mrs. Hooley and Lawson relating to certain shares in a Dublin distillery company. The case for the prosecution was that this docu- ment was a fictitious one, concocted for the purpose of offering it for sale to Paine, who was asked to buy Mrs. Hooley's share, which he ultimately agreed to do by giving up shaies, for which he had paid £3,000, and paying cash to the extent of £2,450. For this he received in exchange something which Mrs. Hooley had purchased for £565 10s. Further negotiations then took place, and Paine was induced to part with more money. In February, 1901, Paine, at Hooley's request, handed him the contract between Mrs. Hooley and Lawson, which had been assigned to him. Before parting with it, however, he took a copy, and it was fortunate that he did so, as he never saw the original again. In May following Lawson told Paine that he had far too large an interest in the Construction'Company, and offered to give Paine in exchange for his hold- in<z a number of shares in the subsidiary company if he would cancel the contract. Having asked the advice of Hooley on this matter, Paine accepted the offer, and. in exchange, he received shares to the number of 16,000 in the subsidiary company and other companies. On June 1st Hooley was again "hard up'' and prepared to make "any sacrifices," and Paine bought from him various shares at low prices. The certificates for the various shares which he got in exchange were not forthcoming, and he at length consulted a solicitor, who dis- covered that the Electric Tramways Trust, Limited, in which Paine had accepted 4,500 of shares and debentures, had a total capital of £100. At a sub- sequent interview Lawsi n promised to give Paine 12,000 6 per cent, preference shares in the Con- struction Company. Those were shares which were about to be authorised, but which had not then been issued. Paine received them on October 8th. and he handed back to Lawson those which he had received earlier. Three days after that Paine exchanged with Mrs. Hooley 500 Construction shares for 1,750 shares in a gold-mining companv, which was said to exist, but which there was every reason to believe had no existence whatever. Counsel concluded his address by saying that other matters would have to be investigated, but he was unable to say at present whether those investigations would result in any further charges being preferred against the prisoners. Formal evidence of arrest was then given, and the prisoners were remanded on bail, Hooley in two sureties of £3,000 each, which were imme- diately forthcoming. Bail in the case of Lawson was fixed at three sureties in £2,000 each or two in £3,000.

WOMEN'S LIBERAL FEDERATIOX. The Countess of Aberdeen presided at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Women's Liberal Federation, when a resolution was adopted, on the motion of Miss Bertha Mason, seconded by the Countess of Carlisle, emphatically condemning the Licensing Bill, chiefly because (1) it interferes with the discretion and powers of the local licensing justices, aud (2) it creates for the first time a vested interest in licences, and thus places new and serious difficulties in the way of genuine temperance reform. The executive called upon the branches of the federation to offer strenuous opposition to these retrograde and revolutionary proposals.

"STROXG MAX" DIVORCED. Charles Edward Vansittart, who was described in the Divorce Court as being "in the strong man business," is, according to his wife. who obtained a decree nisi, somewhat weak on the point of matri- monial responsibilities. The parties were married in 1838. Ten years after, when there were two children of the marriage, the husband went to Klondike, hut he did not stay there, and two years later husband and wife were together at Ostend. Then the former complained of his health, and left tor England, ostensibly to consult a specialist. He did not return to his wife, whose brothers "shadowed" him about Lond" i, and by hiring rooms opposite to his apartment i were able to prove his relations with a strange woman. In June, 1903, Mr3. Vansit.r.art took a house at Tunbridge Wells, and endeavoured to induce her husband to return to her. But the wife's effort proved futile, ,.nl1 later it was discovered that the husband had changed his name to "Vansart."

To pay an election bet Mr. D. P. Evans has started from the City Hall at Cleveland to push a wheelbarrow açll." riie United States to San Fran- cisco and h;c..i. He has to make the journey without mon A man named Roppler has just died at Illenau, Baden, from a wound received during the Franco- Prussian 1870-1. A bullet passed completely through his head, and the wound has since been opening and closing at intervals. Kidnapped when he was four years old, H. W. Meleher, of Harrisburg, Pa., has not seen his mother for thirty-two years. He has sought her ever since he was old enough to do so, and at last he has found her. He will join her in Kansas next week. Tt rrible suffer)!'<s were experienced by the crew of the French i anme Union, who. having been n-i ued by 'he Kngliv. s-earner lhiverford, have been V ai'llivre.' Tne barque became waterlogged in 1 ue Atlantic, and for three days and nights was only kept from foundering by continuous work at t::• pumps. 1ï,e new of twenty-seven were quite ex I • usu-d when rescued.

BATTLE IN THIBET. CAPTAIN BETHUNE KILLED. A Router's telegram, dated from the British camp at Karo Pass on Friday, gives details of fresh and serious fighting between the British Mission forces and the Tltibetans. The British moved out to drive the Thibetans from the positions they had occupied two miles below the pass. A long fight, lasting six hours, followed, the Thibetans shewing extraordinary tenacity in holding a wall which they had built across the pass, with two sangars on the right and left. The fight began at ten o'clock,in a snowstorm, by the enemy opening on the Maxims of the British force at 800 yards. The Sikhs rushed forward in great style up to the main wall. In the rush Captaiu Bethune was killed, and a dozen men were hit. The remainder found it impossible to carry the wall, which was then fired at by the Maxims and the mountain guns for over two hours, the enemy replying with great spirit. Then a body of Gourkhas got above the sangar on the left and drove the Thibetans headlong. The right sangar was similarly taken by twenty-five Sikhs, who climbed a lofty mountain and fired down on the Thibetans, who, in fleeing, had to expose themselves on the face of the preci- pice, and were mown down by the Maxims and rifle lire from below. When the enemy saw their right and left flanks turned they abandoned their main position. The mounted infantry in pursuit did great execution. The enemy's losses are estimated at 150 to 200, but might be much larger. The British had one officer and three men killed, and twenty-one men wounded. All the Thibetans who fought were of gigantic stature, and during the fight they shouted like wild animals. In addition to a gun, each man carried a sword and a 6ft. spear. The wall which the Thibetans had constructed at the Karo Pass was built across the mouth of the gorge, and was 5ft. high and 600 yards in length. It was cleverly loopholed, and when first observed was defended by from 1,000 to 1,500 men. The British reconnoitring party was fired on by the defenders, and a great avalanche of stones was rolled down on them from the sangars on the hill on either side. This is the second time within a week that the Thibetans have been routed. They attacked the mission camp at Gyantse on Thursday, and were repulsed with a loss of 250 killed and wounded.

DETECTIVES AND DIVORCE. The charge against the six men arrested for con- spiring to defeat the ends of justice in the Pollard divorce suit came again before Sir Albert de Rutzen at Bow-street Police-court, London, on Saturday. Albert Osborn, the solicitor, and Henry Scott, or "Slater," the principal of Slater's Detective Agency, had seats in front of the dock. The others—George Phillip Henry, Slater's manager, and the "private inquiry agents," John Pracey (or Bray), Frederick Davies, and Cyril Smith, were placed behind tho dock rails. The three last-named had been unable to find bail, and their bearing bore indication of this fact. Pollard, the respondent in the divorce action, was in court, smartly dressed. A Divorce Court official, who produced the docu- ments impounded there, reported that there were missing a cheque for £5 sent by Osborn's film to Mr. Thompson, and reports by Bray and Davies. Charles Fielding, who joined Slater's in 1895, on retiring from the Metropolitan Police, wherein he was a sergeant, said "Slater" was also known as "Captain Brown and "Captain Scott." The agency employed probably thirty detectives, of whom Bray, Davies, and Smith were three. Osborn visited the offices" most days," and his office was connected with the place by a private telephone. It was Fielding's business to copy out the reports sent in by the detectives. He knew that Davies went to Jersey, but he did not see any reports from him concerninig his visit. When he remarked to Henry on this fact the latter smilingly replied, "Oh, they must not see daylight." Witness also told Osborn once that he understood from Henry that Davies's reports from Jersey were not required. Osborn, in reply, said, "That's right, there's nothing in them." On another occasion witness overheard Henry tell Osborn that he was not getting on very well at Plymouth with the Pollard case. Osborn slapped Henry on the back and offered to go to Plymouth and see what he could do, and Henry then said, "I wish you would, Albert." Witness remembered once a registered packet coming to the office for Henry. It contained a diamond stud and pin combined, which Henry said had been sent to him by Mr. Knowles. Cross-examined by Mr. Gill, K.C. (representing Osborn), witness said he was dismissed from Slater's without explanation. If he were suspected of communicating with persons who had been pre- viously connected with the firm such an accusation would be untrue. Under further cross-examination by Mr. Muir, on Slater's behalf, he stated that he was aware of having been shadowed ever since a man named Stevens left the business. Slater was very rarely at the office. The office call-book shewed the names of Knowles and Osborn close together more often than once. The case was adjourned, the same bail as before being allowed.

ENGLISH GIRL'S SAD PLIGHT. English girls desirous of going to Russia as music-hall artistes should be warned by the fate of Agatha Rubury, says a Kazan correspondent. Agatha, who is of mixed English and French parentage, after earning her living in Moscow as a governess for two years, listened to the blandish- ments of a Russian impresario, who offered her a music-hall engagement at eight roubles a week. Then Miss Rubury disappeared. For two years nothing was heard of her. But recently the police, raiding a disorderly house in the suburbs of Kazan, found her lying ill in a back room. She accounted for her plight by the following pitiable story The music-hall engagement had proved a blind, and the impresario, on getting her into his clutches, had revealed his true character. He had kept her a close prisoner without food until she complied with his wishes. Several times, attempting to escape, she had been brutally ill-treated, until finally she was too ill to leave her bed. This IS by no means the first case of its kind which has occurred in Russia. Two French girls disappeared from Moscow a year ago and were found lately in similar circumstances.

DON JUAN OF THE ARMY. "During the whole time I have been one of his Majesty's Judges," said Mr. Justice Bucknill at the Liverpool Assizes, I have never had to deal with such a bad case of bigamy as this." The prisoner was James King, thirty-eight years of age, a sergeant in the Royal Engineers. He deserted his frst wife, Alice Nash, in 1897, and formed an acquaintance with a widow at Pembroke Dock, but the projected marriage was stopped. In 1899 he married Clara Ellen Court at Old Brompton Barracks, but after living with her a while he volunteered for service in South Africa. On the return journey he persuaded the stewardess, Anne Jane Legge, to marry him. and led her to the altar on their arrival in Liverpool. He was sentenced to five years' penal servitude.

VOLUNTEER OFFICER KILLED. Major Thomas W. Cuthbertson, only son of Sir John Xeilson Cuthbertson, of Glasgow, died on Saturday evening as the result of an accident sus- tained at the conclusion of some Volunteer manoeuvres he had been engaged in with his regi- ment, the 4th Scottish Rifles. His horse bolted and fell, and in the fall Major Cuthbertson was severely crushed. The medical staff was promptly by his side, but he died in the ambulance waggon while being conveyed to his father's residence.

FELL 100 FEET INTO THE SEA. While three students of Gordon's College, Aber- deen, were walking along a narrow path at the top of the cliffs between Aberdeen and Cove, one of them. named Robert Ogilive Reid, slipped and fell into the sea, a distance of 100ft. Owing to the roughness of the sea the efforts of fishermen to reach him failed, and he was drowned.

The Board of Trade returns shew imports for April amounting to £45,181,763, against in the corresponding month last year, an increase of £379,436. Exports for April were £23,464,834, agaiust £ 23,136,373,an increase of Mr. Joshua Field, J.P., partner ot the firm of Maudsley, Sons, and Field, which built the great wheel at Earl's Court, has died at his house by Ham Common. According to the latest official news, the condi- tion of the Queen of Holland gives no cause for anxiety. Snow fell on Sunday morning in considerable quantities on the Westmorland hills.

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SUICIDE IX THE STREET. A rescectably-dressed man. about forty years of age, was walking along Sianey-street, Birmingham, on Saturday. when he pulled a revolver from his pocket and. placing it in his mouth, fired. He fell to the ground, and made a second attempt to fire, but was prevented by a passer-by, who rushed forward and seized the weapon, fie was found to have sustained shocking injuries, and died on the way to the hospital. In his pocket was found a paper bearing the name Kichard Hathaway.

CURIOUS MARRIAGE STORY. When George Sedgwick, a soldier, returned from the South African War he found that his wife had been unfaithful to him, and he obtained a decree nisi against her, which has not been made absolute because he could not pay the fee. He fell in love with Helen Scutchings, the daughter of his landlady, and is alleged to have induced her to tell the St. Pancras registrar of marriages that she was twenty years old, whereas she was only seventeen. The marriage took place, and the pair lived as man and wife with the girl's parents until three weeks ago. Then an old lover, Alfred Woodley, appeared on the scene, there were, according to the young wife's story, "lots of kisses," and next day they parted. Sedgwick was charged at Marylebone Police-court on Saturday with inducing the girl to make a false declaration to the registrar.—Mr. Curtis Bennett said that it was clear the whole family were con- cerned in the matter. He discharged the prisoner.