The Carmarthen Journal and South Wales Weekly Advertiser

On the arrival of the White Star steamer Celtic at Liverpool on Saturday from New York, a man named Reinitz was arrested on an extradition warrant granted in London, charging him with forgery for a large sum. The prisoner's wife and three children were on board the steamer, and they went immediately to London. It is not expected that the prisoner will be brought before the Liverpool magistrates, but will be removed to London. While Lord Thurlow, the chairman of the Salt Union meeting, held at the Cannon-street Hotel on Saturday afternoon, was making the opening speech, one of the owners of the property present (Mr Wilson) was seized with an apoplectic tit, and was carried to an adjoining room. Before the speech was ended, his death was announced, and a vote of condolence with his family was imme- diately passed. GAMBLING. —1 he gambling law, as it now stands, is productive of evil. It distinctly says that the poor man is not to be allowed to amuse himself as the rich man does; that a rich man or a middle-class man can do things which a poor man cannot. It is legal for a shop-boy to play billards, it is illegal for a workman. Two brothers go to school, one afterwards becomes a bricklayer, the other a shop-boy the shop-boy may do what the bricklayer may not. The shop- boy can go to a billard-room and play, the bricklayer goes into a public-house and cannot. Granted gambling is all evil, if so it should be put down, and the law apply equally to all classes. The squire, the curate, the tradesman, nay, all who can afford to play at billards in any other place than a public-house, may play to their hearts' content but the poor man, who can only go to a pub.'ic-house, may not do as his betters do. It is not that billard-i are illegal, it is only that they are illegal if played in a public- house. Why it is more wrong to do a thing in one place than another, we confess we do not see. Still that was the result of the law as it now stands, and we think that a clear case is made out for a change, It used to be a favourite cry that such and such legislation was class legis- lation, and therefore to be repealed. As the Jaw of gambling is now administered, it is class legis- lation of the worst form. The effect of a recent decision, we arc afraid, will be, not to check gambling, but to encourage that worst form of piny illicit gambling in public-houses. We are greatly afraid that the result ef all this will bo to produce a far greater evil than already exists- to turn the Licensing Act of 1872 into an Act for promoting the establishment and maintenance of bogus clubs —Load and Water. I

THE TENBY HUNT STEEPLECHASES J AND HURDLE RACES. Stewards:- iNIr W. Buckley, M.F.H., Penvfai, Llanelly Captain Grossman, Rock- f ville, Tenby Mr A. Saunders Davies, Pentre ( Mr C. E. de Falbe, 211d Worcester Regiment; 1 Mr O. II. Fisher, St. Mary's-hill, Tenby Mr Owen George, PJascrwn Colonel Gordon, J R.A. Mr J. H. Graves, Deer Park, Tenby .■ Colonel Hankin, The Norton, Tenby Captain M. Hilton, 2nd Won ester Regiment; j Mr H. L. Jenkins, 2nd Dorset Regiment; Mr Henry Lawrence, Waiiiigroii; Colonel Lewes, ( Kent House, Tenby Admiral Mayne, C.B., M.P. Sir Thomas Meyrick, Bart., Apley Castle Mr F. Lort Phillips, M.F. H. Lawrenny Park Mr O. Yauglmn Pryse-Rice, Llwyn- < brain Mr A. M. Singer, Paignston, Devon Mr C. W. R. Stokes, The Croft, Tenhy; Mr E. Moreton Thomas, Tenby; Mr E. G. Trafford, Michael-church, Hereford and Mr Clement Williams, Edgbaston. 0 These steeplechases were continued on Thurs- day, and in spite of the wretched weather expe- rienced the attendance showed little falling off from the first day. The overnight entry tilled fairly well, but the sport, on the whole, did not improve. The first event fell through, and the second produced only two runners. There was again a good attendance of stewards and other lovers of sport in the neighbourhood. The following are the details The PAIGNTON MAIDEN FARMERS' PLATE of 25 govs was tiot rtin. TALLY-HO PLATE or 25 sovs.—A steeplechase for qualified hunters four year olds and upwards weight for age. About 2 miles. Mr Thomas Widger's Sir Joseph, Gyrs, 12st (£80) MrJ. Widger 1 Mr l, H. Harries's Multum in-Parvo, Gyrø, 12st ( £ 80) Owner 2 Hetting-4 to 1 on Sir Joseph, who waited until the last fence, and won by a length. The winner was bought in for lOlgs. C, THE STEWARDS PLATE OF 30 sovs.-A steeple- chase for qualified hunters four year olds and I upwards weight for age. About three miles. Mr Pryse Rice's Lady Glen, aged, 13st 31b Mr G. S. Davies 1 Mr Thomas Widger's Albert Victor, 5yrs, list 101b Mr J. Widger 2 Mr W. James's Lady Mary II., 5yrs, list 101b T. Phillips 3 Mr Hope's Young Glasgow, aged, 13st 31b Mr J. Whitton 0 Mr G. Smith's Oyster Girl, 4yrs, list Mr R. Smith 0 Betting—5 to 4 on Yonng Glasgow, 3 to 1 agat Albert Victor, 4 to 1 agst Lady Glen, 8 to 1 agst Oyster Girl, and 12 to 1 agst Lady Mary II. Oyster Girl fell at the open ditch soon after starting, when Lady Glen took a long lead of Albert Victor and Lady Mary II., which position she maintained till the finish, winning by twenty lengths a bad third. THE VISITOR'S PLATE OF 40 sovs. -A steeplechase for boltnfide hunters weight for age penalties and allowances. About three tuilei over banks. Mr W. Lewis's Bruin, aged, 12st 101b Mr W. H. Morris 1 Mr A. P. Saunders Davies's Tattina, aged, 13st 31b Mr G. S. Davies 2 Mr R H Harries's Paraclete, 5yrs, 12st 3tb Owner 3 Mr F. Lort Phillips's Witchcraft, 5yrs, list 31b W. Warton 0 Mr Barker's Best Man, 5yrs, list 31b Mr Brenchley 0 Betting-G to 4 on Taftina, 2 to 1 agst Para- clete, and 10 to 1 agst any other. Witchcraft made the running, with Tatfina in the second place and Paraclete third. This order was held for about a mile, when Witchcraft and Taftina fell. Passing the stand Paraclete led from Bruin, Taftina, and Witchcraft. Half a mile from the post Taftina resumed the lead, but at the last pace was headed by Bruin, who won by a length and a half bad third. THE TENJJY SELLING HURKLE RACE PLATE OF 25 sovs.- A selling hurdle race for qualified hunters four year olds and upwards weight for age selling allowances. About two miles over eight flights of hurdles. Captain Reade's Miss Westbourne, Gyrs, list 101 b ( £ 80). Mr W. Lindsay 1 Mr Gordon Canning's Beatrice Mary, 6yrs, I I at-. 31b (£80) J. Holman 2 Mr Thomas Widger's Sir Joseph, 6yrs, list 101b Mr J. Widger 3 Mr John Lyon's Celina, 5yrs, 10st 101b (car. list.) ( £ 50) J. Shehan 0 Mr Shehan's Lady Moor, 6yrs, list 101b ( £ 50) Mr J. Owen 0 Mr John Shear's Fairy, 5yrs, list 101b Owner 0 Betting—7 to 4 on Sir Joseph, 3 to 1 agst Beatrice Mary, 4 to 1 agst Miss Westbourne, and 20 to 1 agst any other. Sir Joseph led oft', followed by Miss West- bourne, for about half a mile, when Celina took the lead, but gave way at the stand to Miss Westbourne. Half a mile from the finish Sir Joseph took second place, with Beatrice Mary third. In this order they finished, Miss West- bourne winning by four lengths, while three lengths separated the second and third. The winner was not sold.

TEN BY RACE BALL. The race ball at the Royal Assembly-rooms, Tenby, on Wednesday evening, attracted about 130 ladies and gentlemen, amongst whom were Miss Merrick, Colonel and Mrs Lewes, Miss Lewes, Miss F. Lewes, Mrs Newland, Major Newland, Captain James, Mr Scovell, Mr Charles Lewes, Mrs Rudman, Colonel and Mrs May hew, Miss Florence Pryse, Miss Price Lewes, Miss Constance Jones, Miss Norah Jones, Miss Abadam, Miss Ellen Saunders, Captain Reynolds, The Welsh Regiment; Mr Swinburne, Mr Baring-Gould, the Misses Peel (2), Miss A. Trafford, Mrs S my the, Miss Barton, Mr Maitland, Mr and Mrs Moreton Thomas, Miss Thomas, Miss Joseph. Captain Reade, Mr Walter Lindsay, Mr Webster, Mr Brenchley, Sir Marteine and Lady Lloyd, Miss Puxley, Miss W. Puxley, Miss Richardson, the Misses Phillips (2), Mr Harper, R.A., Mr Goring Thomas, Mr and Mrs Pryse Rice, Miss Stewart, Miss Pryse, Mr C. D. Tyler, Mr W. Tyler, Mr and Mrs Remfry, Miss Batt, Mrs Bashford, Sir C. E. G. Philipps, Bart, and Miss Philipps, Mis W. T. Bowen, Mr Bowen, Captain Alalone, Mr C. C. Howe, Worcester Regiment; Mr L. Booker, Mr E. Osborne, Miss Hunter, Captain Penny, Royal Ministers; the Misses Stokes (3) St. Botolphs; Major and Mrs Trower, Mrs Furiey, the Misses Woodman (2), Miss E. Cooper Reade, Mr W. L. Reade, Dr. Law- rence, Mr H. 1. Stokes, Mr and Mrs C. W. R. Stokes, Lady Meyrick, Mr Meyrick, 151:,h Hussars Miss Meyrick, Miss A. Meyrick, Major Trafford, Miss Batt, Mrs Bodlev, Mrs Reveley, General Trower, Mr W. R. Marshall, Sherwood Fusiliers; Mr C. Trower, Mr and Mrs Richards, Captain Hilton, Mr Owen Williams, Colonel and Mrs Saurin, Miss Samson, Mis Prust and the Misses Prust (2), Major Stanley, Mr Nolan, ILA., and Mrs and Miss Lewis Lloyd.

District Inspector Martin was killed on Sunday, at Gweedore, in attempting to arrest Father M'Fadden under a warrant which was issued some days ago. Father M'Fadden was leaving his chapel after Mass when the police tried to seize him. He ran-towards his house, followed by the police, at whom stones were thrown. One of them struck Martin on the head. The Inspector fell senseless, and died a few hours afterwards. Father M'Fadden was arrested and sent to Derry Gaol.

SUICIDE OF THE CROWN PRINCE OF AUSTRIA. The Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria was ound dead in his bed on Wednesday morning 30th nit.), at Meyerling, near Baden, where he lad gone with some friends on a shooting ex- >edition. He had felt unwell on Tuesday even- n, and excused himself from being present at he family dinner at Vienna. When his guests issembled on the following morning, the absence ,f their iiltiitrious host led to anxious inquiries, ind it was found that the Prince was dead, it. being at first given out that his death was conse- quent upon a stroke of apoplexy, but subse- piently, out of regard for the memory of the the Prince, it was thought better to make clear the whole truth than to allow the wild rumours that were current to pass unnoticed, and to be- come more sensational in the absence of contra- diction. The history of the events leading up to and attending the suicide is, briefly, as follows :— On Monday, at half-past two in the afternoon, Prince Uudolph drove in a tiaac from Vienna to Meyerling, where he was joined soon after by Prince Philip of Coburg and Count Hoyos, the brother of the Austrian Ambassador at Paris. After they had supped together, the Crown Prince retired to his bed-room at about eleven o clock. 011 Tuesday morning, the Prince seemed to wish to remain indoors, giving as an excuse that he had caught cold, and his two guests went out shooting for some hours. The party returned early, as the Crown Prince and the Prince of Coburg were to leave for Vienna to attend the family dinner. Prince Rudolph, however, ex- cused himselr, but insisted upon the Prince of Coburg going to the Hofburg, which he unfor- tunately did. To divert suspicion, Prince Rudolph fixed the hour for the following morn- ing's shooting, but it is tolerably certain that he had made up his mind to make use of the oppor- tunity offorded by his brother-in-law's absence. How lie got rid of Count Hoyos is not quite clear, as the Count, who, quite needlessly, takes the whole blame upon himself, is at present un- able to state the facts. Indeed, fears are enter- tained for his health. However that may be, the Crown Prince locked himself into his room, after sending his valet, Loschek, to bed. When quite alone, Prince Rudolph wrote to his father, but possibly destroyed many copies of the letter before finally signing the one which reached the Emperor, as the message is dated Wednesday, and not Tuesday. The candles which stood on his dressing table were burnt to the socket when the Prince was found-a proof that they must have been burning for five or six hours, during which time Prince Rudolph was, presumably" Y) pacia his room, and nerving himself for the desperate act. The Prince was, however, seen once more before he killed himself. Loschek asserts that his master came, half dressed, out of his bedroom on Wednesday morning, at half-past six, and said, What about our shooting this morning I Is it time 2" Loschek answered, It is too early yet; it is still quite dark." The Prince went back into his bed-room, saying, "I will rest a little more." This story is, apparently, wrong in point of time, but in other respects it is quite probable. The Crown Prince evidently wauted to know whether the Prince of Coburg had returned from Vienna, and learning indirectly that he had not, but knowing he must soon be back, as breakfast was ordered for ssven o'clock, he sent Loschek away, locked the door, and committed the act, probably after another terrible mental struggle. Death must have been instantaneous. The Prince placed the muzzle of the revolver behind his right ear, and the bullet, taking an upward course through the brain, same out near the middle of the forehead, after fracturing the skull. Some of the chambers of the revolver found at the bedside were loaded. Loschek came back after an absence of three-quarters of an hour, and, fearing lest the Prince should oversleep himself, went to wake him. Finding the door bolted, In knocked repeatedly, and, as no answer was returned, continued to knock for half an hour. Although growing more and more alarmed, he did nothing till the Prince of Coburg and Count Hoyos arrived. They, after knocking for somt I time without result, at first tried to break dowl. the door, but afterwards entered the bed chamber through an adjoining room, the door oi which was, presumably, more easy to force. They found the Crown Prince lying on the bed. and at his side, under the right arm, was revolver, which had, apparently, fallen from hu hand. The two gentlemen rushed from the room in terrible agitation, sent the servants away, and locked the doors, which were not opened again until the arrival from Vienna of Dr. Widerhofer and of the members of the Crown Prince's house- hold. The contents of the Cro.vn Prince's letter to his father, dated January the 30th, were kept a secret by the Emperor for two days, even from his Ministers, and his Majesty makes them known now only to clear the memory of his son from suspicions even worse than the truth, ter- rible as it is. The Crown Prince had entertained thoughts of committing suicide for many years, at least since June, 188G. At that time, when returning from the funeral of King Ludwig II. of Bavaria, he said to some intimate friends, "I fear that my end will be as his." His reason for harbouring such ideas can only be guessed. The most probable cause was the statement of the physicians that the Princess Stéphanie could have no more children, and the Consequent un- happiness of his domestic life. The Vienna Gazette gives as the reason the constant nervous headaches from which the Prince suffered after a fall from his horse last autumn—an accident which the Crown Prince kept secret. But this version is contradicted by the unfortunate Prince's remark after the funeral of King Ludwig, and even more conclusively by the letter which he wrote to his father. Nothing is now to be gained by hiding the truth, an opinion shared by the Emperur himself, who ordered the faet to be made known when he heard of the rumours that were current. An inspection of the body, which lay in State in an open coffin in the dining room of the Crown Prince 8 apartments in the Hofburg, showsed that the wound had taken a course from the right temple to the centre of the skull, just above the forehead. It would hardly be possible for another person to inflict such a wound with a revolver except during the victim's sleep. If further proof is wanted, it is supplied by the position in which some of the articles in the bed-room at Meyerling were found at the time of the Crown Prince's decease. Quite close to the bed on which he lay dead, there was found a toilet glass, which usually stood in the opposite ccrner of the room, and on this toilet glass was a candle glass, so arranged that a person sitting on the bed was able easily to look into it. The inference is that the Crown Prince used these glasses to guide himself when he pointed the revolver at his right temple. It is hardly imaginable that a stranger should have thought of such an arrangement to divert suspicion from himself. No element that imparts intensity to affliction, says The Standard, is wanting in the calamity that has descended on the family of the Hapsburgs, and the very splendour of their position enhances the melancholy nature of the situation. Francis Joseph laments not only as a father for a dear son, but as an Emperor-King for an heir in whom the hopes and the affections of the people of his vast realm was centred. There are degrees in grief, and if anything could add agjny to bereavement, it would surely be the consciousness that it was not the pitiless doom of Nature that dealt the blow, but the passing frenzy of the victim. The consolations which in ordinary cases mitigate the autruish of the mourners are wanting here. History records no spectacle of Hoyal tragedy that can compare in exquisite painfulness with the calamity that has involved the Ruler and the people of Austria and Hungary in comfortless gloom. They can look back, indeed, as they think of the Prince that has perished unduly in his prime, upon a life which, till its lamentable close, was full of bright days and fruitful in good. But in the chamber of death itself there is hardly a gleam of light to break the thick (1--irknei;s. Prince Rudolph, in spite of his raro activity and robust physique, was essentially a student. His was one of those natures which are best described as overstrung. His tastes were wide and delicate his faculties vigorous and he had a high sense of duty. The i conjecture is. at any rate, plausible that he made a mistake which to many of our young under graduates make. He tried too hard to combine the maximum of brain work with tin maximum of bodily exercbe. In such cases, either the mind or the body is sure, in the long run, to sufter, and in Prince Rudolph's case r would appear that the will succumbed. The most disappointed among the ruler- of men, says the Speetator, the Emperoi Francis Joseph, has sustained this week n crowning disappointment. The Thront is rebuilt, but his only son is a suicide. He fought for twenty-two years to keep Italy for his House, only to see it torn finally from his grasp He strove for eighteen years for ascendancy ie Germany, only to be expelled from all place OJ influence in the counsels of the Empire Hl laboured for nineteen years to fuse hi heterogeneous Kingdoms into one great whole, only to find them avowedly split into twi divisions, and to see his contentious nationalities become more hostile to each other than ever. And now that he has by infinite patience and diplomacy attained a new position as Federal Sovereign, the one political referee in his vast dominions, which is almost a substitute for his old autocracy, he is informed by a decree to which even he must submit, that his work has been done for himself alone, and that no descendant of his will inherit the great Throne he has so patiently and laboriously rebuilt. We do not know that the death of the Crown Prince Rudolph is of immediate importance to Europe, for though he was a man of promise, he mi«ht not have reigned for 20 years to come bufto the Emperor.it must be a heart-breaking blow. To labour for a family is one thing, to labour for a son another, especially when the son was worth the labour, and competent to carry on the work. We suppose that at the cost of a rupture between the Emperor and thb rest of his House, the rule of succession might be changed but the effort required to change it would be very great, and men do not make the efforts for a granddaughter which they would do for the children of their own loins. We do not believe any attempt to change the succession will be made, and anticipate rather that the. Emperor will work on for his House, a little lonelier, a little less hope- ful, a little more disposed to evade rather than to overcome his difficulties. His special abilities will not help him under this heavy blow. It has been his destiny all his life to fail, and to profit from failure but one can hardly see how from this misfortune protit can arise. Death, though by no means the greatest of calamities, i still the irremediable one and the Emperor, like the rest of us, has, when the decree has gone forth, only to submit, and let his Kingdom pass whither God has willed. The remains of Prince Rudolph were interred on Tuesday afternoon in the vaults of the Capuchin Church, Vienna. The weather was bitterly cold, but the day was bright. Soldiers occupied the line of route, and the only places for sightseers were the windows of tin houses and a stand erected on tne site of the Burg Theatre. The funeral curteye was verj simple. On the oak coffin were placed three wreaths, and the black hearse was drawn by six white horses. At the Augustine Church the procession was joined by the Miuisters of State, the higher State officials, and others. It then went on to the Church of the Capuchins, where, on a dais erected near the high altar, were placed chairs for the Emperor and many members of the Imperial family. Amongst the British present were representatives of the Quee.. and the Prince of Wales. Outside the church there was a remarkable gathering, including some Hungarian magnates, who wore their magnificent national costume. A special funeral service, in memory of Prince Rudolph, was held on Tuesday in Farm-street Church, Berkeley-square. Similar services were held in all the European capitals.

HOLLOWAY'S PILLS. — When inclement weathe hecks to a considerable extent the action of f kin, an alterative is required to compensate tho body by means of other channels. HollowayV Pills can be confidently recommended as tho sasiest, surest, and safest means of attaining thu- lesirable end without weakening the most delicat. ,1' incommoding the most feeble. When fron requenfly recurring chills or the inhalation ut ■ in pure air the blood becomes foul and the secretions vitiated, these Pills present a read\ aid efficient means of cleansing the former ao. correcting the latter. By this salutary proceed ing disease is arrested at its outset, its pains au< inconveniences averted, and the nervousstructum s-ived from the depressing effects entailed upon them by an illness. A NEW KIND OF CRIMINAL —The strengthening of the detective police which we announced on Friday, comes none too soon. A new generation of criminals has arisen among us, with whom ou. honest old police are unequally matched. stories reported this week display their couraire and ingenuity with startling effect. The swindler who can pass himself off for a Major Genera. luring several days as the guest of a country gentleman of standing has little to fear from the ordinary detective. But the case of All Ritchie," as we learn it in detail, is even more curious. It has an artistic completeness which in other fields is recognised as "conscientious." To plunder Mr Austen Chamberlain in his father's house was bold, but to assume that gentleman's name, to receive the leading inhabit- ants of of St. Albau's in state, and to challenge exposure hy calling upon one of Mr Joseph Chamberlain's leading tradesmen, were feats no less than heroic. Evidently he had prepared to play his part by getting up that mystic science, orchidology. He casually mentioned to M, Sander that, being unable to sleep the nighi before, he looked into M. Jules Simon's book on the Political Aspect of—not to repeat the blasphemy, we may say, of a Certain biography. He had special information about a poem by Lord Tennyson, called The Orchid," which was handed round at the Carlton Club the ni-ht before, and he promised to get Mr Sander a copy. He mentioned as an open secret his desigi of contesting North Staffordshire against Sir George Trevelyan, but modestly added, I don't suppose I shall get in." Certainly it is time that society overhauled its weapons of defence agains' enemies of this calibre.—Evening Standard. THE PAST SHOOTING SEASON.—The shooting season which closed yesterday, February 1. was by no means an abnormal one. As regards partridges it was a failure, especially whei. standing in comparison with, and consecutive to, such seasons as those of 1886 and 1887, the last- named par excellence. We doubt whether we have seen so many birds in September since 1859 as we saw in in 1887. And yet the bas of '87 were not on the average, much in excess of of its immediate predecessor. The series of wet weather with which the month opened, and the want of lying, combined to prevent the bags being in proportion to the quantity of birds Oil the ground. At the beginning of last breeding season everything looked couleur de rose. There was an unusually large breeding stock surviving, and the weather had been on the whole favour- able to nesting and to hatching. Then came a series of heavy thunder showers over most of southern and Midland England, and later on a drench, with an easterly wind on Sunday, July 15-which catastrophes combined played great havock among the young broods. Many of them were absolutely exterminated; and where this was the case in many places second broods of squeakers, hardly fit to shoot at until October took the places of the defunct, and served to maintain a good stock on the ground. Where conveys are reduced, but not extinguished the old birds do not nest a second time that we are awarn of. Had it not been that the large sup- ply of birds in 1887, coupled with the difficulty of getting well amoug them, had caused the breeding stock of old birds to be exceptionally plentiful, sport would have been almost nil last September. As it was, we recall the last day when we were out in that month, and on that day out of a bag of twelve brace, only one brace were young birs, The past season and its predecessor arc history repeating itself. In 1859 (to which good season we have already alluded) and 18G0, much the same state of things occurred. Such havoc did the June rains produce in 18G0, that many a squire returned his gun to its case after the first two days of September, and gave the survivors a reprieve, hoping for better luck when covert shooting should begin,—FU Jd.

MR. W. O'BRIEN. Mr W, O Brieti, MP., was arrested in Man- chester on Tuesday night, and on Wednesday removed to Dublin. A reception had been uganised at the railway station, but this was ivoided by the authorities conveying him by mother route to the station, whence lie left later n the evening for Clonmel. He was, on Thurs- day morning, asked by the Governor of Clonmel Prison to put on the prison clothes. He refused uid violently resisted the efforts of the warders t.) strip him and clothe him in a prison suit. Later in the evening the prison clothes were thrown off by Mr O'Brien, who declared his d termination not to wear them. Mr William O'Brien on Sunday remained in bed, declining to put on the prison dothes which he had cast off. Several Par- nellite magistrates visited him on Saturday, and endeavoured to obtain a modification of his prison treatment,. The medical officer of the prison consented to a request to call in con- ultation another local doctor but the person ,elected refused to act. Dr. O'Farrell, the physician to the Irish Prisons Board, visited Mr W. O'Brien in Clonmel Prison on Monday, and said he would order nourishing food to be supplied to him. Mr ) Brien made no complaint of the prison fare, .ut asked that he should be treated as a first class misdemeanant, or that a distinct class for political prisoners should be created. Dr. O'Farrell promised to bring his requests before the Prisons Board. MrW O'BRIEN, M.P., was on Tuesday re- moved from his cell to the infirmary in Clonmel Prison, and his clothes were restored to him by order of the Prisons Board. Land and Water Even Mr O'Brien makes mistakes. He told the people of Manchester that he addressed them in spite of Mr Bal- four. That is just where he deceived himself. ft would have been as easy to arrest him before as after his speech. Mr Balfour might with per- fect jutice have pursued the former plan had he feared the Hibernian fire-brand's words on his own constituents. Mr O'Brien's performance on Tuesday night was given, as theatre programmes say when an actor has been lent, by the kind permission of A. Balfour, Esq." Two other slips he made. He confessed that Irish members become" polluted" in gaol. Perhaps. Outside they pollute others. And he protested that he «as only guilty of a geographic crime. Now this is just exactly what the Parnellites have up to now denied. They have claimed they practice a geographic virtue," that to help tenants to defraud their landlords and debtors to cheat their creditors was a virtue in Topsy-Turvey Land, though nowhere else. But we have changed all that; at least, the Pope's unfeeling common sense and honesty has. The Irish agitator's moral code of theft and embezzlement is henceforth a geographic crime." The Sf!to!t-(I(tlt Reriew says the adventures of M.r o Brien between his elopement at Carrick aud his arrest at Manchester can hardly fail to have at least one effect. Mr Gladstone will surely take advantage of them to parallel his testimony to the singular humanity of the Irish »eople by eulogising the dignity and seriousness of their political manners. It is amusing to notice that even some Gladstonian papers were a iittle disturbed at the kind of pothouse traversty if the Young Chevalier's escape which Mr O'Brien phiyed to the Irish gallery. Miss O'Neill of the bakery premises" (to speak of "a baker's shop would be beneath the countrymen of him who described the "small cornuted animal") seems to have been rather like the maiden in Excelsior," and ought to have been immortalised in song like her. But what the whole silly comedy was meant for or played for it is not so easy to perceive. Perhaps Mr O'Brien hoped for a riot in Manchester, and for more Manchester nartyrs," in which case he was signally dis- appointed. The police of that business like town -iiiow their business, and after last indulgence hi rant, which it might have been cruel to refuse tim, Mr O'Brien lgnominiously underwent the -ame fate which he might have undergone with S'ich dignity as his antecedents have left him several days ago. Apparently the Mayor of lanchester has a singular taste in guests; but dlat matters little. It is edifying to find those of Mr O Brien s Gladstonian admirers who arc srill faithful to him exclaiming at Mr Balfour for playing a scandalous parody of justice." There iurely must be some mistake in the name, Mr 0 Brien, therefore, will get his deserts, or such .small part of them as modern sentimentality •-dows to be meted to public nuisances of his Kind. He has, it seeuis, already recommenced he puerile farce of struggling with warders, like t drunken drab, and of screaming and fretting nimself into" delicate health but this is not ikely to avail much. Equally vain has been the scarcely less absurd farce that was played about the clumsiness of the Irish constable who served 1 legal document on Mr Sheehy in the precincts >vhere, almost more than in those of the High Court of Justice itst If, the law ought to be respected. Unlike Mr O'Brien and his friends, he present head of the Irish Executive does not ralk, but acts.

COAGULINE. -Cement for Broken Articles, 6d & lSj postage, 2d. Sold everywhere, hoine and Oroad. The Registrar-General's Report on Marriages ■hows that, in 1887, out of the total number'of marriages, the proportion solemnised according to the rites of the Church of England was smaller than in the previous year. Ou the other hand, cheie was an exactly corresponding increase in the proportion of civil marriages. Still, out of every 1,000 marriages, 701 were celebrated in the vhurch of England, and the remaining 299 other- wise. It is also to be observed that the number divorced persons married in the year was 173 of whom the greater portion were women. This shows an increase oil the two previous years. THE REVOLVER.—During the preliminary ex- amination of the prisoners charged with com- mitting burglary at Muswell Hill, Mr Bodkin, the chairman of the magistrates, made use of a remark with suggests reflections. Mr Bodkin may not be wise himself but we trust that he may be the cause why wisdom is in other men. The prosecution in the Muswell Hill case wanted to prove that one of the men in the dock had tieen seen some short time before the commission of the offence with a revolver in his hand. But said Mr Bodkin, plaintively, "thousands of persons carry revolvers." Mr Bodkin is right. It is only too true. Now there are places and occasions to which revolvers are suitable, or even necessary. In Texas, or even in Ireland, they may be regarded as ordinary articles of apparel. if however, they are scattered abroad among the the fools of the people in London, as the police reports are perpetually reminding us that they are, mischief must follow, as, in fact, it often does. If a nervous citizen inhabiting a suburban villa, especially in the neighbourhood of Muswell dill, choses to keep a revolver in his bedroom, no one except his wife and the servant who calls him has the right to object. No man knows, ,-erhaps no person ever will know, whether sleep with a revolver is better than sleep without. But ,I r Bodkin was not referring to bed rooms or to nervous citzens. He lays it down as a sort of judicial or magisterial dictum, that ic is no more singular to be seen with a revolver than to be seen with a hat. To argue with Mr Bodkin would probably be waste of ink. But lest other Shallows aud Silences should be tempted to follow Ins example, we may venture to unserve that the humblest administrator of justice ought not to acquiesce in the supposed Universality of a dangerous and barbarous practice. It is really extraordinary, not that there are so many fatal "accidents from tue promiscuous use of fire- arms, but that they are so few. When we con- sider that one revolver may kill half-a-dozen people in the same number of seconds, that any- body can buy one for a small sum without a certificate of competence, that the progress of mechanical invention tends to quick and easy firing, that aiost Englishmen are not trained to shoot, and that loaded revolvers are frequently in the possession of drunkards, we might expect a 1:1 p daily tale of slaughter which would reach in a few weeks the proportions of a battle field. There must be a special Providence watching, not only over drunken men, but over the victims of that numerous and self-assertive class .-Scttic i-day Rerieo;.