Pontypool Free Press and Herald of the Hills

FROM CITY, CORRESPONDENTS Ax excellent charky has established convales- ces homes at Ilcplc Bay for the reception of poor women and of mothers withr'infants under the age of two years. The eligible age ranges from 16 to 65, and the movement is strictly un- denominational, though the Bishop of London- is president. Patients are admitted on the recorn- mendation of subscribers, or by payment, or part payment. There is a provident section which en- .coarages-those earning-~&oad sto lay by for the benefit of themselves and their families. IN Massachusetts there is a Folk-lore Society, And the scopfe'of Its operations is far from being merely local. The latest enterprise attributed to it is to make a collection of the street noises of London .and the principal Continental cities, and to preserve them by the agency of the phonograph. The relation between folk-lore and London street noises cannot be appreciated at first sight; but the people of Massachusetts are doubtless gifted with an average share of American originality, and we must assume that they have satisfactorily settled the points. Nevertheless the commission seems a rather im posing one, for if the idea is to be carried 5 out with anything approaching to thoroughness London itself will constitute a vast field for operations It could be made very interesting from one point of view. The quaint old street cries of the metropolis are fast disappearing, and if any are to be preserved the utilisation of the phonograph must not be long delayed. In view of the fact that electric cars are shortly to be used on an important section of the Leeds tramway service—the Roundhay route—it is interesting to see 4vhat other large towns are doing in the same direction. The South Stafford- ahire Tramway Company have in hand a scheme for superseding steam propulsion by electricity, rfad the municipal bodies of Walsall. Darlaston, and"*Wednesbury have signified their approval of the prqsposed change.* Parliamentary powers will be sought by the North Metropolitan Tramway Company in London to introduce an electric ser- vice on the accumulator system, and the Glasgow Corporation intend placing on their lines one hun- dred accumulator cars. This impetus to elec- tricity as-a propelling agent is'as significant as it is sudden. By the way it is interesting to note that in Birmingham electricity, jeteam, horse- powe?Jtand cable exist side by side. The former, whi was only introduced last year, is an un- doubted success. < JACOBS, the Frenchma^who undertook to fast f<fe £ ftykd«ys at the Royal Aquarium, has, writes a London Correspondent, accomplished Stis self- imposed task. Perhaps the best proof that the fekt waarhot so wonderful, aH, was the meal which, Jaofyies- partook of Immediately on being releafcd hfajrond. A man wtto can under Bttchicircuiprtancps sit down to a pl&te Qf chicken tapth, a sole, a mutton cutfat with ttomatoea, a fcaXf bottle of Burgundy, grapes, coffee, and a 1ù¡a. of cognac, mu^thay^ had a-fair amount of sustenance of kriae spvt during jJIe long period ctf. fugpt^eti. fating. Jacques, it isXair to ,say, does not pr&Ebnd that he .pan exist on air. He h9 a m>wder -of marvellous vi^ue, and if one were irate sure that he Ate nothing efte Jhiring'the last fitty days, it would be of the first importance tp know the composition of this .powder. So far our knowledge on the subject is eatremely meagre. The feat appear to\ have Veen fairly and honestly accomplished. Duly appointed witnesses wefe never abgent^from his side, and they make no seruple to attest that from the last day of July Stil the close of the' stipulated period no food jsed his lips—<>nly water and "pinches of the mysterious specific. The main object of the fast, Indrfed, seems] to have been to demonstrate and advertise the virtues of the latter article, for which he doubtless wishes to command a good price. He has made various effects to dispose of the secret on profitable terms, but so far nobody ^een responsive, and he declares that, as his mission in life is not a philanthropic one, nothing but money—and a good deal of it too—will induW him to divulge the composition of the sustaining powder The net physical result of the perform- ancin. a loss of thirty-two pounds in weight, a slightly increased stature, and a rather bad attack of gout. He is very lucky te get off so well, con. sidwring the altogetherwnwawtMillilff "atftf dfoelish Way in which he has tempted Providence. =:: :L1:Z %:Jt:e he is now panted. This the Robben Island pnake—Corondla phseanm. The snake has a close -aily, which is brown instead of black but the brown variety lives on the mainland, aud the Wack is confined tf the -pm*U uUcidv motioned; ^fcich lies thi lape «f #ood toX Tha liackening of tkelepttie is Verjp inte^sm^as an WtMnple of what the environment" may do in the way of changing the colour of an animal. There are numbers of instances (for example, Simony's lizard, also to be seen in the reptile house) of mimals living upon islands, which have got <3ttTk«r .in colour apparently by rekson of the moisture in the atmosphere, and not in the least bectwlses. there was any particular use in their changing their colour. Even the leopard can change his spots and become of a uniform black, though in that particular instance there is no ex- planation of the phenomenon. An awful tale of wretchedness and suffering has Just come to light at the London Sessions. A man named West and his wife were indicted for wil- fully negle^tjag their children, and it was elicited that West held been a dock labourer, but was un- able to procure work after the great strike. The family were turned out of house and home, and two of the children, after various vicissi- tudes, were lost on the streets. They tramped about without either shelter or food, and were picked up one night by a policeman on a door- step, where they were sleeping. Both were in a shocking state of filth, and veritably starving. Meanwhile, the mother also fell into the hands of the police, being discovered wandering about with a child in her arms and another walking at her side. 'The wretched woman was miserably clad and broken down in health. The jury on learning the facts of the case, returned a verdict of not guilty," and it was stated that West had handed in documents which proved him to be a hard- working honest man. Could a moie heartrending case be imagined 1 Doubtless measures will now, have been taken for the relief of the unfortunate sufferers, but it is horrible to thiak that misfortune should, in the midst of a wealthy community, go so far unperceived and unrelieved. Thebe are aeveral unsatisfactory provisions in the Pawnbrokers Act, but the most remarkable is that.which was brought to light the other day, 1vhea a claim was made for the value of » cloak which had been pledged by a poor woman for 2s. 6d. This cloak had been destroyed in on the pawnbroker's premises, and it would n. rurally be supposed, as the contents of such premises would be insured, that the tenant would be com- pelled to recoup the owner of the article pledged on a value calculated upon aecale by multiplying the sum of money which lUll Leell advanced on the pledge; for of course the plc ge is always worth a great deal m~.ro than the money lent on it. Strange to say, the words of the Act require only that twenty-five per ceiit. of the loan granted and the interest shaH be retun e 1 to the owner of the article destroyed. In the in question, the cloak originally cost !«s., and it valued by its owner at 12s., but- the pawn-br"?-er was legally required only to hand the wonvui 7y}- by way of remunerating her for her loss T > this amount, however, he gratuitously a.uic l i's. ûd. when the case was decided in his fav< ur.

WRECK OF THE STEAMSHIP AMBASSADOR. About eight o'clock the other morning the captain and crew of the steamship Ambassador. 21 all told, landed at Salcombe, and reported that about two hours previously their vessel had foundered near the Start. The Ambassador, which was owned by Messrs. Foale Brothers, of Newcastle, was on a voyage from Odessa. for Hamburg, with a cargo of 3,000 tons of grain. Between three and four o'clock in the morning, the weather at the time being thick with misty rain, and the vessel ateaming at full speed, she struck with great force On some sunken rocks. The engines were immedi- ately reversed, and in about a quarter of an hour the ship came off. It was then found that she was leaking badly, and the captain determined to put back for Plymonth. The water, however, gained xapidly, and the captain seeing that the vessel was 8ettling down ordered the boats to be got out. This was done, but the crew remaind by the vessel ttntil about six o'clock, when she sank. They were then seen by two Salcombe fishermen, who guided them into the harbour. From statements made by the crew, it is believed that the Ambas- sador struck the Skerries Rock. near the Start Point about six or seven miles to the eastward of the Bolt Head. The crew on their arrival at Sal- combe were taken charge of by Mr. J. Stevens, honorary agent for the Ship-wrecked Mariners' Society, and later in the day were sent to Ply- mouth, whence they will be fowarded to their homes. They saved all their effects. V Tlx

FATAL MINING ACCIDENT. A terrible colliery accident is announcer ftons Porchies. in the province of Hainault, where a formidable explosion of fire-damp has oced at the Monceau Fontaine Mine. Twenty-11 nMn who were at work at the time on a la.n £ depth of about 350 yards, were all kilJKL ni Wje t catastrophe, which is attributed to a^pncsphflnc- depression. The pit has always been hetd 1jQ be one of the safest in the country, and accident can only be explained by meteorologjpal disturb- ance. The explosion was preceded prolonged subterranean rumbling, which causestern*, tion in the whole locality, and the fe caused by the explosion itself brouAt it 11 inhabitants in a few moments to tho^jroutih of thet mine. Rescue parties were at ono^Srganized, and; miners off duty, who knew the wolirfngp, volun- teered unhesitatingly to go down in Search of • their comrades. It was mot long before news reached the pit's mouth that the P.t. explosion had been very deadly, and soonestJ fitodies of the victims began to be brought to the gbrface. The greater number of the 21 who ■wished were married, and there were most dis- Sessing scenes at the head rff the shaft as the Vires identified the bodies of their dead husbands. ;.r-

5bscubl The other afternoon a gallant rescue from drowning took plaes at Morecanbe. A toy naSaed Bertie ^Carratherg, 12 or 14 yeart of age, the son iflnt visitor from Ashby-de-la-Zomch, whils fishihg Som the end of the wood jetty art Morecaxs £ e Marbour, slipped and fell into the bay. Th$tide was running like a mill-e at the tube, being half-ebb. Some fifty yards distant was a -dfaall sailing boat, the eccupantll of which wfcre George Hadwen, son of a fishing boat ewner, and Si Son and two daughters of Mr. Duff, manager of |he gasworks. On hearing the alarm raised, Sadwen immediately jumped into a small rowing- feoat, with the intention of rowing to the spot, but afterwards, thinking he could swim more rapidly, dived inte the sea without divesting himself of tfxy clothing*. The strong current carried him past the submerged boy, but the sailing-boat ooming up to his assistance, Hadwen was pulled ihto it by the young ladies, their brother being •igaged in managing the boat. In the mean- time, Carruthers was drowning, and Hadwen, sight of him as he was dieappearing-ounder 6e water, mihesibatrngly sprang into the Ilea a Second time, and being, fortunately, successful in gtasping Carruthers, regained the side of the ooat, into whioh both rescued and rescuer were in Kirn pluckifodragged by the Misses Duff. Cura- Ciers was qnuie unconscious, and vigorous efforts to restore animation were made by the occupants of the boat and several fishermen who went to Aeir assistance. On being revived a little, he was en on shore in a semi-conscious state, being Ait on the landing-stage by Dr. Watterson, and eftnveyed to. that gentleman's residence. The Aoal lemsdieswere appHsd, with eventual sue- ■ • ■■

TERRIBLE PRIVATIONS AT SEA. The barqae Prmce Bqgsns, from Greenock, ki aAoued in a most timely manner six men belong- & to the<TMsel Istw». The. poor fellows' were iQa small dozy, and had undergone great hard- not hawing hadany food or waiarfor three dkyi and nights. The Latona is a fishing vessel, OTd was off tike banks of Newfoundland when the men left in the dory to attend to their nets. A fog suddenly coming their Vessel was lost sight of, and the men did not afterwards regain her. For three days and nights the poor fellows suffered JCfeenly; indeed, their sufferings were such that they could not have endured them much longer. They were kindly treated an board the Prince JSugene. To show the timely nature of the rescue a heavy gale sprang up the day after the men were picked up, and the captain of the Prince Eugedfe said it would have been impossible for the craft to have outlived it. The Prince Eugene landed the men at Quebec little the worse for their trying adventure.

SHOCKING TRAGEDY A shocking trage iy has occur re i at Su."ierlnn4. Ab ut nine o'clock the other uight:. n. Frenchman named PIerre Autret was vending onions in High Street. ,A man nr;me 1 Th"m;ls (Jdbu is said to Itave irritated Autiet, and to have taken some of bis onions. Autret remonstrated, and Callan ran away in the directi in of Ru^seil Street. He was followed by the Frenchman, wh:) is allege I to have drawn a knife and stalfbe 1 Cullan. At anv rate the latter fell to the ground bleeding profusely, tod on some people going to his assistance it was xound that he had been stabbed at the top of the thigh. The blow had severed an artery, and in a few minutes the unfortunate man bled to death.

At Teddington a copy of Matthew Arnolds prize poem at Rugby, 41aricat Rome "—recited by the anther in 1840-has been sold for fifty times its weight in gold. Mr, C. J. Abud has arranged for the appearance in London next. March of the company of the Chinese Theatre in San Francisco, who will present to playgoers a series of native pieces. The Moscow Iledomonti announces that Prince Lob'inoff-li'js'-offsky. Ambassador to the Court at Vienna, will slrjrily return to Russia, having re- ceived a higher and more responsible appoint- ment. M. Alexandre Jacques has brought his fifty days' fast to a successful conclusion at Westminster Aquarium. During this prolonged struggle against nature M. Jacques lest 28lb. 4oz. in weight. Authentic information received at St. Peters- burg contradicts the reports of encounters be- tween Russian and. Afghan troops. On the con- trary. aJliaterfectly quiet on the Russo-Afghan frontier. Disquieting reports come from German East Africa. There is ferment generally in the northern part of the Protectorate, and disturb- ances are reported to have arisen among the Wadigcs. a native trile. I The fetes in honour of the inauguration of the statue "of Garibaldi, at Nice. are li kely to be very tame. The members of the Garibaldian Union will not be present, and there will be very few delegates. The ArchHshop of Canterbury is now residing at Addington Park. His Grace will preside at the annual conference of the Diocesan Sunday School Teachers' Association in his cathedral city on October 13. October will be a busy theatrical month, for it will see the reopening of Terry's, the Avenue, and the Court with new plays, and the Haymarket prith the renewed run of a play whose popularity 28 not nearly exhausted. At Bradford, thirty men have pleaded guilty to gamblin g in a house on which a raid was recently made. The keeper of the place was fined £20, 01 three months' imprisonment, and the others were fined 5s. each. At Guildford, James Harris, of Shere, has been committed for trial without bail on a charge of maliciously setting fire to an oat stack at Shere, the property of James Weller. and doing damage to the extent of £60. The death is announced of Mr. John Nanson, elerk of the peace of Carlisle, and for over forty years town clerk of that city. He resigned the sowntclerkship three years ago, and went to live at Ambleside, where he died. He was seventy- one years of age. Joseph Brescher (26), has "been charged at the Thames Police Court, London, on his own confes- sion, with attempting to murder Lottie Jones by striking her on the head with a chopper. The woman being unable to attend, the prisoner was remanded. The managers of the New Malton National Schools have decided to accept the fee grant from ..1Ii 1st of October. It is expected that this wilJ -entail a loss of several pounds a year, but it is hoped to make this up by an increased average, attendance. Sir James Kitson has presented to the Fine Art Gallery of Leeds, his native town, Sir FrMüœk¡ Leighton's picture, The Return of Persephone." the President of the Royal Academy executed the work for the donor wttfc knowledge of ttv .I

EXTRAORDINARY DEATH. Mr. Jbhn Clayton. managing director of (th firm of Clayton and Company, woollen manufac- turers, Militttook, NlIovan, and Dublin, went out boating with.his two nieces in the River Black- water. at Navau, the other evening, The young ladies lauded, leaving him in the boat alone, ana subsequently he was found den d, his legs caugufc in the seat of the boat, and'his held and shoulders under water.

JN A R R 0 W ESCAPE OF A STOWAWAY. The steamer Stockholm City, which has arrived At Boston reports that on September 1 astowaw -y named Carl Weisman was found in the hold of the vessel nearly dead from starvation and exhaustion. He was first heard groaning, and thirty tons of cargo had to be moved before he was found. He had been where he was discovered since the 27th of August, aud had only eaten paper during that time, while the only moistnre that had touched his lips was the wet he licked from be side of the vessel. The man recovered after being given some orandy and food. Haviug no visible tneans of support, Weisman will be returned to Europe.

CHARGE OF ABDUCTION. At tne Central Criminal Court the trial of Linden Howard, who is charged with unlawfully taking Alice Sarah Sargeant. a girl under 18, out of the custody of her parents at Harles.len, has been concluded. The Common Sergeant, dealing with the arguments adduced by counsel, said he felt justified in withdrawing from the jury the Erst count, which alleged that Howard had occa- actual bodily harm. Two other counts; her, relating to the alleged abduction, Ù(f1âtl be.1dt for them to consider, and prisoner, •k Wivi/ue^to do so, could give evidence as pro- Vjjrthe Criminal Law Amendment Act. Pri- ■:jptfer's counsel intimated that Howard would not called, and Mr. BurnB then addressed the jourt for the prosecution. Mr. Williams replied du behalf of the prisoner, after which the Judge lummed up, reviewing the salient features of the jase. He said no doubt the accused had acquired immense ascendency over the girl, and it was i Question for the jury to consider whether it was owing to this influence that the girl left. The tJLfound the prisoner guilty, and he was sen- <taaeed to nine months' imprisonment, with hard labour.

REWARD FOR GALLANTRY. 'The Board of Trade have awarded their bronze medal for gallantry in saving life at sea to William Puce, coastguard, ohief boatfcian at Scarborough, for his gallaut and praiseworthy conduct at the stXanding of the Halcyon, of Lowestoft, at Scar- borough on Aug. 6 laft. Communication with the vessel was effected by means of the Scar- borough rockevt apparatus, but after the whip was secured on board it was fouled through the rinen-beom unshipping. Five of the crew then got Mito their boat and were hauled ashore. As no effect was made on board to clear the whip, William Pike, with twof- enrolled volunteers. g-ot into the shipW boat and attempted to haui her. eff to the vessel by means of the whip. When within six yards of the vessel the boat was struck by a heavy sea, which, forced her back to the shore, but William Pike, at great personal risk, Iprang from the boat, and by meanst of the whip of which he retained hold, succeeded in clamber- ing on beard. He &en shifted and cleared the j whip, and sent the remainder of the crew ashore by it

A ESCAPADE. At Manchester, before Mr. Headla a youth named James Brown, who lives at Miles Platting, has been charged with embezzling :£4 lite, on September 2, the money of his employer, Mr. Bar- ton, woolen merchant, of Market-street. On Sepiember1, the lad was away lot Atis holidays, and the cashier on going through his books found that several amounts had not been entered. Brown did not return, and was apprehended by Inspector Johnson. It was stated that the lad had been to London in company with a street boy for whom he had purchased a suit of clothes Whilst in the metropolis the lads fpaid a round of sight-seeing visits, and from these went to Morecambe. In a box which belonged to the prisoner a pair a police handcuffs, a dark lantern, a loaded six-chambered revolver, and a camera with photographic materials were found. One of the boys companions said he had Used these things in taking off Buffalo Bill's Wild West," M Jack the Ripper." end other representations, Ms. Headlam sent|theyouth to prison for one month.

THE BABBACOKBE MUBDEBEB. A widespread beUef has existedt ik the West of England that Jehn Lee, upon whom the capital penalty was remittedra tsbhsequetace of the dis- graoeful scenes at his attempted execution. been set at liberty. A direct inquiry attbèHolllé Office has elicited the following reply :—" Sir,—I am directed by the Secretary of State to acquaint you, in reply to yonr letter of the 10th inst., that it is not the case that John Lee, who was con- victed at the Devon County Assizes Ion January 29th, 1885, of having committed murder at St. ICary's Church, ha^been set.atfiberty. The con- vict is still in penal servitude.—I am, Sir, your obedient servant, E. Leigh Pemberton."

SHOCKING END OF A GOLD MINER. An inquest has been held on the body of a man found on the railway near Beerferris, nine miles from Plymouth, when a curious story was told. The only witness whose evidence was of value as regards identification was Police-constable Brad- field, of the Devonport force, who met the de- ceased, and being able to converse a little in the Kaffir language they had a chat. The deceased gave the name of James Hadden, a native of Scotland, and said that he had been a gold miner in Cape Colony, and returned in the s s. Scot to Plymouth. The witness had been informed that :£16,000 had been stolen from Hadden, but the deceased stated that he did not bring much money ashore, having left his luggage on board the vessel. He had been drinking heavily, and, although carefully shown the way which he said he wanted to go, he persisted in going in the wrong direction. The medical evidence showed the injuries were of a frightful character. The skull was fractured, the bone penetrating the brain some inches, both legs and arms were i smashed, and the dower part of the back was broken. The injuries were such as would be caused by being knocked down by a train. A ver- dict of found dead was returned.

A REMARKABLE CALIFORNrAN TREE. One of the greatest curiosities of the Chicago World's Fair r.rMiiisss b> f-e that sent by Tulare, California. A re .s v.- oo tree is growing lhore which is syo feet high. It is Kte>i<ied to cut from this tree a log t'O feet long aud 20 feet in diameter. By cutting the lug in half and hollowing oufreach portion it will be turned into two railway car- riages, one fitted up s a dining-car. wirh buffet, bath-room, barber's su^p. a.i t kit •■hen. the other to be a sleeping car. wiih v.a observation room. The rough bark oi the tree will he left on for the roof, while the sides e. •. Is will heM the' natural wood, unpolished. The cars will be occu- pied during the Exhibition by the rnmilics of tho makers, and the rest of the tree will be out up and worked into souvenirs.

Tdr. Irving means to revisit America, but not before 1803. The Rev. Guinness Rogers has left Hawarden Castle, where he has been staying. Mrs. Brown Potter is said to be engaged for a tour in the United States, to begin in November. The J. T. Trott has been appointed to the Crown living of Newborough, Northampton- shire. Mr Bromley Davenport, M.P., has presented the Rev. J. P. llogers to the living of Marton Chel- icrd. Sims and Pettitt^s Bhie-EySd Susan will be pro-meed at the Shaftesbury Theatre early in Deoember. The Rev. Dr; Forrest, vicar of St. Jude's, South Kensington, will be installed-as Dean of Worcester on Oct. 6. General" Booth has arrived at Melbourne from Tasmania, and met with a cordial reception on landing. Several Russian papers state that the Emir of Bokhara wi 1 visit St. Petersbwtwitha numerous iuite iuring the present autumn. The Duke of Cumberland, K.G., son of the late King George of Hanover, hasjcompleted his forty- iixth year. At Chester, a hutkeeper named West has been fined £10 and costs for carrying on betting in his ntlt at En.esm.e Port. i Mark Twain is a great smoker. He consumes ibout three hundred cigars a month, besidee draw- ing much consolation from his pips. < The preparations for the International MulcaI and Theatrical Exhibition to be opened in YienlMt a ext spring are being actively carried on. The Hon. John Collier is painting a full-length portrait of t he Bishop of Worcester in his episco- pal robes, which is to be given to Corpus Colleger Cambridge. A Berlin Correspondent learns that the German Government has decided to abolish the Ahac- Lorraine passport regulations which Mten enforced ain^e the Sennaebele incident. -jec Mr. Merrier, the Premie* of Quebec' ac: eepted Governor Anger's demand for ah investi- gation into the Baie Chaleurs Railway scandal t) £ t Royal Commission. Mr. George Sanger intends to prodnc e at Astlsy^ mi Boxing Night, a pdctnrsque entertainment fcrative of Christmas at St. Petersburg; 01, tbsi Wfr&fen lea." < <

TOPICS OF THE WEEK. Teeke is some danger that the licensingmagis- tratesiiu their new-lonpd zeal rfor imposing re- strictions on jittblicaner^may erion the side of raising unnecessa.ry objeetious. As a case in point, a well-known firm of London refreshment contractors are being considerably disturbed by an intimation that opposition will be made to the granting of a number of licences in one name, that of the secretary to the company. It is further stated that it will be made a condition. that the holder of the licence shall reside on the premises. Iu the case of the many railway re- freshment bars owned by the company this is obviously impossible, and as the business has always been conducted beyond reproach there seems to be no reason why difficulties of this kind should be raised. THE pax Britannica has achieved many great things in India; but its unintentional and acci- dental successes are quite as striking as the achievement of its central aims. Ladies will be delighted to hear that it has enormously increased the price of wives in the Punjaub; since, if brides are to be bought at all, it is well that they should command a price commensurate with their charms. At the tiire of the annexation of the Punjaub the average Brahmin or Rajpoot culti- vator paid from 20 to 40 rupees for a wife, which was scandalously cheap. Now quotations are firm at from 60 to ;;(;0 rupees. The consequence is that a girl-child is no longer regarded in the Punjaub as an encumbrance. On the contrary, she is made much of, and csftrefully nurtured, since she will presently, reversing the French practice, provide a comfortable dot for her fond parents. Instead of treating his daughters as we treat superfluous kittens, the Punjaub papa takes them to market and comforts his old age with the proceeds A REPORT recently presented to the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales affords a strong argument in favour of the iqunicipalisation of tramways and the nationalisation of railways. As a result of the year's operations it is stated that the value of the railway and tramway pro- perty has been considerably enhanced out df working expenses, the facilities to the public and comfort afforded in travelling have been increased, and the net return to the Treasury a&er paying working expenses, has been largely augmented. In a word the net profit for the year on the whole of the railjray and tramway systems of the cdtony has been £1;196,221 or moee than the amount for the previous year. The net profit on the tramways far thetye gives a return of &i per cent. interest on the cost oi- oenstrucOon as com- pared with 21 per cent, befQfe the tramways'Wma into the hands oj^the' Railway Commission^. Mr. Eddy, the Cmef Commissioner, is about t» visit Europe, where he mfey leatn something which will enable him still further to improve^n already prosperous undertaking. One of the most curious and significant pdints brought out by the annual report of the Commis- sioners of Prisons is that the great and strilclng decrease of crime dates from the taking over of the county prisons by the Government in 1877. It would be interesting to know if the decrease hat any relation to the more uniform treatmenfa&hicfi prisoners now meet with. Formerly every coumty gaol had its own rules—seme severe, others lenient; but wheJlJ the Government beeame re- sponsible for the adsninistratien of the prisons the same system was adopted everywhere, and there was no longer a run upon the comfortable gaols. For a generation er more there baa been a constant tendency to make imprisonment more severe and it is highly probable that the plank- bed has had no inconsiderable share in reducing the popularity of hard labour. Still it it not eaaf to find adequate reasons far a decrease of 36 per cent. in the prison population in so short a time as fourteen years, especially when we take into account the large increase in the popnlatien. I. "■ j I But gTeat as is the decrease of crime so called, it is likely a year or two hence to be much more striking. Last year there were 80,000 offences against the EducationActs y bbt now that' the elementary schools havtJ been partially freed we may expect to see the number of offence. under that head fall to something very inconsiderable. k These axe,,e £ £ A{UE«Ar«$t" «ri»ee-" fwepsdpsfwak* ing; but it is theae 80.000 convictions whioh alone prevent the total number of offences from being sfi^ll^r thaa it v** 9 Hf8rri«spito. an increase of* fi« ^i^Ufeafid Ihe jopujjkfti^ftiL^$tjhai^often Im^ suggested that the sparser population of the pri- sons is largely due to the spread of education." That explana tion may be taken with-* reservation^ but there is some reason to think that Board-school children do pick up a notion that going to prison •'is inimical to their w&fldJSF (btsfteStsX So«*>v £ fe* a large part of^thes Cay Ihsy *re* kipt mAyi from mischief which might lead to the police- man's hand on their collar, and thus to some ex- tent the supply of child-criminals is reduced. In that sense, and probably in that sense only, is the reduction of crime due to the spread of educa- tion." ..d THIS year our old friend the sea-serpeot has been first detected by a Scottish mariner while cruising off the Aberdeenshire coast. According to a statement-made by one of the crew cf the Rose and Thistle, the monster rose from the sea off Kinnaird Head to the height of four nteB ttfe mast of the-ship. This was sufficient to strike terror into the souls of the hardiest seamen but in addition to its gifeat height, the serpent had large eyes which shone like green lamps, a month- ful of white teeth which gleamed in the setting sun like a marble wall, and the upper part of its body was somewhat like that of" horse. This combination of grisly terrors proved too much for the nerves of the captain of the Rose and Thistle, who put his ship up in the wind, and steered for home. After an hour's sailing, the shiping teeth, glowing eyeballs, and equine crest of the monster were still visible, with enough of its long sinewy body above water to warrant the captain in be. lieving that the creature was 600ft. long, and could be no other than the far-famed sea serpent which is known to haunt the British seas in the month of September. A member of the German-Austrian Alpine Club, Dr. Emil Bock, describing the circumstances of the death of Dr. Hoist, who lost his life in the Julian Alps, states that Dr. Hoist, at Moistrana, near Langenfeld, announced that he meant Do gar' to the Deachmann hut. He borrowed the key of the hut, and said that from It he would go on to the Rothwein Valley and Veldes, and send the key back from the latter place. He took with him only a small loaf, a sausage, and half a pint of wine. He had no Alpine apparatus, but carried an umbrella and wore simple walking shoes. Ultimately hie corpse was found id a place which lay in quite another direction from that which Dr. Hoist had said he meant to take. The body was leaning against a rock, one hand under the head, and half-covered with stones that had rolled down, one of the shoes was untied, the other off and lying near the body, as well as a pair of unbroken spectacles. It could not be as- certained Whether Dr. Hoist had really visited the Deschmann hut, but he must have passed across the great snow-field to where the terrible path, feared even by chamois hunters, descends to the Yrata Valley. He must have followed it safely by means of .the red marks on the rocks which point out the way, till the Lukuja Pass, close to where the Vrata Valley ends, where it is not possible to fall over a precipice and whence the houses on the Turk Alp can be already seen. It is most probable that extreme fatigue, great heat. and insufficient nourishment had produced a sudden failure of the hearo's action, for death by famine is excluded, as some remains of the food Dr. Hoist had taken with him were found near the body.

A S NGU AR CASE. On Saturday morning a singular case came before the Greenwich police. A woman was found in the streets with the body of a baby in her arms, and as she was in an excited condition she was taken to the police station. Inquiries were made, and it was ascertained that the child should have been buried on Saturday afternoon. The husband not having a suit of black to attend the funeral, a quarrel took place, with the result that the wife lifted the body out of the coffin and commenced to perambulate the streets. The police induced the parties to settle their dispute, and the body was taken back to the house and replaced in the coffin.

Sir Henry Loch, has started on a tour thri-ug^1 the Transkeian provinces. The German Government has orlered the tor- pedo gun-vessel Bremse to be employed on lisuery protection duty in the North Sea. A verdict of "Aocidental death r',v-' re- turned at the inquest in the ( t Hodgson, who was killed in a h •is' sit Yii. i.itou. The British Consulate in If •'nVr.rg'i: s been broken into. The thieves stoic he r gwal and a quantity of English and German t orn and ooafal orders. The Hon. Chief Justice Way, P.G.M. of South. Australia, who will be returning home very shortly after a sojourn of several months in this country, has been inducted with much ceremony into the Masonic Orders of Chivalry, the Knights Templar and Knights of Malta. The Manchester Courier announces that there iesoDle clever imitation bank-notes in circulation. They are dated Plymouth, November 15, 188:1, and are for £.5 each, bearing the number 99,858. The engraving but the paper is coarse and without ak, The Cardiff Corporation, propose to invite the Queen to visit Cardiff next year, for the purpose of apening-thebew waterworks ajt the foot of the Brecon- ^Beacon#. It is St;, ted that Lord Bute has castle at the disposal of her ty on the occasion. The Board of Agriculture b f declared the tw jcssional divisions of Ruabon id Bromfield tree from Swine féver. with the exception of two f nns. This will be welcome news to farmers, cottiers, aflid otbfers: IRS these divisionS"ftfere declared, In- fo loci-ruttHs'iis "fit b-ick dif Wr.yjiV. ■ l J Ty"bour;h(.Si{ea 4 "ic eh* r ;ter r.re incre .siiigia ii umber.> 'i'ne Chu3?T.i Aiuiy just inaugurated one for women t Lii' "o Boa. London, whioh is be ph,I.Q1 the has had much experience rfmoAg tlto poor, and especially among poor womaa.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. me Kev. JohQrSell, M.A., who hafc undertaken mission work infindia^has jnst beefp ordained in the first Presbyterian vhurch, Ballyinena. ^^CheNor wegi an steamer Krystal, from Kragero or England, has been tewed into Ymuiden with sroft broken. Messrs. William Denny Bros, and Co., Dum. barton, have contracted for two steel screw- steamers of tens imch for & Russian firm. The.Rev. R. D. Davie?, of the North Wales I College, has been ordained at Bethania Congre- gational Church, Merthyr Vale. The steamer Courland has arrived at Durban witii rudder-post broken and loss of rudder, haviug struck on a rock. The 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards has left Dover in H.M.S. Assistance for the Tower of Lon- don. Three persons have been burned to death in the village of Michereuf, Belgium, by the upsetting of a petroleum lamp. It is expected that as a result of reeent dis- closures, Mr. Mercier, Premier;oflthe Province of Quebec, will resign, along with his Cabinet. A younff Liverpool constable, named Alfred J. Hughes, residing in Adelaide-street, Everton, has committed suicide by cutting his throat. About fifty foreign Jews in an almost destitute condition have arrived at Tilbury Dock from Hamburg. Sir Edward Braddon has been reappointed Agent-General of Tasmania in London for the term of three years by the Governor in Council. With the sanction of the president, her Royal Highness the Princess Christian, Mrs. Margaret du Ane has been appointed to a vacant pension of :£15 per annum in connection with the above fund. The Greenwich Hospital pension of :£65 a year, readered vacant by the death of Captain A. T. Stubbs, has been conferred on Captain E. De C. Cookson, R.N. The death is announced of General Carlo* Pacheco, who resigned the post of Mexican Minister of Public Works last spring on account of ill-health. The Fifth Goorkhas Will (the Calcutta corre- spondent of the Times says) furnishv200 men to be added to the Resident's guard Two mountain-guns will also be sent. The openjng o £ the new Roller Seating Clùb, at Knightsbridgtf, had beea postponed to Saturday, the 2fith of- Sfeptemfeer, owing to. the npn-arjival-of the bail-bearing s&atee ftom America. A brass tablet, in Dud. of the late liœ;à Napier of Magfcja* fcj* been erected everJ-ho eeat of <the Constatjle of the Tower in the Qhuroh of SJ. Peter ad Vincula. V., Mr.' Jfcgncis Hendricks, jpember of the New York State Sftaite, h^S*been appointed to the.,im. portant post of Collector of CustojnsJat New YQtk, in succession Mr. ^assffet,- wKo has resigned. Sir Francis ^^Soin' Bellf the retiring Agent- General for New Zealand, leaves London nelï montk by the^&teamer Arama. His successor will be the Hon. W. B. Perceval. General Cameron, Coloael Kelly, the Majer CJbchrane have proceeded from Cape Town to Natal for the annual manoeuvres of the troops in that colony. Mr. Justice Collins, who has been acting as vacation judge since the commencement of the Long Vacation, ha.s left town for Italy, where he iutends travelling for the next few weeks. The Queen has approved the appointment of Mr. Abel John Ram as Recorder of Hanley. Mr. Ram, who is a member of the Oxford Circuit, was called to the Bar in 1872. The Rev. Davil Jones, Wesleyan minister of Bangor, foil dead the other night at the Bangor railway station. Tue cause of death is supposed to be heart disease. The Duke of Edinburgh is to go to St. Peters- Imrg at the end of October, to represent the Queen at the celebration: of the silver wedding of the Emperor and Empress of Russia. Mr. Robert Hind,, an extensive Shipley iron. founder, and well-known as a temperance re- former, has just died ludeDqin a railway car- riage at Bradford. According to aTcable message from Montreal, the steamier Mendego is ashore at St. Mary's and is a total loss; all hands saved, also ima oattU. The conference of the Library Association of ^he United Kingdom kw bee* wwreiuded at' Not- t\agham,<*&ea fnrtk» £ p*p«rs were read, and the • The so^^ JIawkes, ofthe River "Wear.Police, and.anver constable named 3kelegei have been drowned off Sunderland by. the capsiz iiiigof a raeiog coble in which they were.oruising Tbe remains of Robert Hincheliffe, the victim of the fatal brawl in 69 Court, Upper-Mann-street. Toxteth Park, ha.ve been interred in Siuithdown- road cemetery, in the presence of a large crowd. The Rv. Dr. Lightfoot, of Todmorden, has sailed by the Parisian, with a party of emigrant: under the auspices of the Society for the Promo- tion of Christian Knowledge. en route for Canada The Dean of Chester has accepted the chairman- ship, and the Archdeacon of Chester the offices of secretary and treasurer, of the recently constituted Central Board of School Managers, in that city. Owing to the wreck of the schooner Pannonia on a reef at Hawaii, the crew of seven, Captain Lovedales, his wife and three children, and several missionaries have been drowned. At the Central Criminal Court, Edward Arthm Maurice Callender Newton, describing himself as a journalist, has been sentenced to six months' hard labow for the abduction of a young girl named Lncy Pearman, under the age of sixteen. Sir Nelson Rycroft, who has just resigned the command of the Hampshire Militia, has presented the mess of the regiment with a very handsome silver coffee-service as a memento of his long con- nection with the corps. The Bishop of Rochester has appointed tne Rev. David Reith, M.A., vicar of Christ Church, East Greenwich, and the Rev. R. Rhodes Bristow, M.A., vicar of St. Stephen's, Lewisham, to be honorary oanons of Rochester Cathedral. According to intelligence received at Capt Town, small-pox is now raging at Mauritius, and it is stated that all the hospitals are full. Cholera has also made its appearance in the port on board a coolie ship, and one death is reported. The Sultan has Conferred the Grand Cordon ol the Osmanie Order upon M. Ribot, French Minis- ter for-Foreign Affairs, and the Nichan-i-Chefakat the Order for ladies, founded by his Majesty him- self, upon Madame Ribot. The Marquess of Dufferin, the Marquess of Larue, and Lord Monck have written to Kingston Ontario, adding their names to the list of those in sympathy with the movement to erect a Canadian national monument to the late Sir John Mac- donald. The Ekho Challenge Shield, which v. rs won by the English Eight 31 the recent ineeii g of the Nntionul Riiie Ass ?ciation at i>isley. will be re- ceived by the Lord Mayor and pi, cc 1 on ihe of the Guildhall on the afternoon of Saturday, the 17th of October. A telegram from Bristol states tint the sienmer k-ea Flower collfr'el with the keU li Gwendoline oil JMilfor L Tha ketch is reported to have sank in two minutes, and one hand Avns drowned, be- lieve I to be Morgan Alexander, age about sixteen years. The express for London and the north hrs just had a. narrow escape on the Cambrian liailway, ne:r Caersws. Au engine by some means left the rails, tora un the permanent way, and loll a< IVS.S the ling a, few minutes before the express W:18 due. The officials managed to stop the express in time, and thereby averted a serious disaster. A committee has been formed to establish a memorial to the late Monsieur Gustave Liboiton. Prl^lj?Pal professor of the violoncello at the (jundhall School of Music from the foundation of that institution. It is proposed that this should take the form of a scholarship for violoncello Students, to be competed for annually at the Guildhall SchooL ——— ————

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TOO QUICK. "e strongest poet I ever had to interview, 0 Miii our fighting editor, was a big fellow. Why, he stood eight feet-" cut it short," cried the others in a Jborus. Come down a little from that height. am. telling you nothing but the- truth. Hegwod ei^ht feet six /^l^w, look here exclaimed one of th« party, you can't stuff that down our throats, and there's no use trying it "If yju wi;: he kiud enough to wait till I finish you-will ail acknowledge that lam-telling nothing but what is perfectly plausible. The man stood eight feet six inches-" Oh, get out! "Eight feet six inches away from me when It lie talked," concluded the pugilistic one with a caliii smile, as he walked off lyiid the groans ot his listeners. :i jlj.

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