The Cardigan Observer and General Advertiser for the Counties of Cardigan Carmarthen and Pembroke

A SOLDIER'S ACTION FOR LIBEL. In the Queen's Bench Division before Mr. Justice Hawkins and a special jury, an action brought by Sergeant-Major Gardiner, of the 4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, against Mr. Labouchere, M.P., for alleged libel in the columns of Truth wan resumed. The allegations complained of appeared in Truth in an article dealing with sergeant-majors, and "apropos of sergeant-majors," stated that "a gallant warrior filling that position in the 4th Royal Fusiliers (meaning the plaintiff) was about to extend his services under circum- stances that required explanation, and which were contrary to the Royal warrant of the same year." The article also alleged that the officer in question was disqualified upon medical grounds, and that this disqualification explained a further irregu- larity in his being examined and passed by a civil medical practitioner in direct contravention of the regulations. The defendant pleaded that the statements were bona fide comment, and were made without malioe upon a subject of public interest. He also pleaded justification. Mr. Gardiner having given evidence, a verdict for the plaintiff for £60 damages and oosta were consented to. His Lordship gave judgment accordingly.

A man named Watson, who is on trial in the courts at Denver, Colorado, for bigamy, is known at have at least five wives.

HEALTH AND BEAUTY. HINTS MB LADT MADMS. Are doctors a failure where the ailments of women are concerned? It would sometimes seem so. The world is full of young women whose natural develop- ment is stunted and meagre, of older women whose lives are a series of miseries repeated or continual; of women grown old and ill just when serene middle age should be beginning. Thousands suffer uncom- plaining others obtain the best medical aid without result. Even doctors say that they are often powerless to aid suff ering woman. There has long been felt the need of some new discovery or cure-something not like other medicine-that should redeem the lost credit of medical science, and quite lately the news- papers have been reporting extraordinary results from a new remedy which an eminent physician, Dr. Williams, a graduate of Edinburgh University, dis- covered. This has the great advantage of being per- fectly safe and harmless, and can be taken without either medical supervision or interruption to usual habits. In order that the dose may be easily regu- lated, the remedy is prepared in small oval pills, called for convenience Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. Their action is almost instantaneous. It shows itself first by a remarkable improvement in the com- plexion indeed, the youthful" appearance given to the face by these pills has been noted as one of their most characteristic effects. This is, how- ever, only an index to their wonderful effect on the constitution. For instance, we all know how girls, previously rosy and strong, often grow thin, pale, and sickly as womanhood approaches, and suffer cruelly also from failure of womanhood to develop itself. A very few doses of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills set the whole matter right, and the pale, languid girl -in danger of "decline" and consumption, which claims so many victims at this age-grows, as by magic, into a plump, rosy-cheeked young woman. Many women suffer at regular intervals from languor, headache, and severe pains in the back. Taken at the right time Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, without the least unpleasant symptom (for they are not a purgative) give ease and health instead of the expected misery. Another most valuable property is their power of tiding women over the change of life which too often proves the beginning of old age and decay. The press has not been backward in spreading the knowledge of Dr. Williams' discovery. In several instances where the remedy has been tested on a sufferer, the local newspapers have watched the case, the patients courageously allowing the publication of their cure, in order that other sufferers might benefit by the same great discovery. There is, for instance, the case of Miss Boothroyd, of Pogg Ing, near Holmfirth, in Yorkshire, reported in the Hudaersfield Weekly News, a case of arrested development. This young lady was in a decline she belonged to a consumptive family, and had lost two sisters by the same disorder. The best doctors had done all they could for her, and she had taken so much medicine that it had ceased to have any effect, Fortunately she was enabled to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, with the result that in a few weeks she was plump, strong, and well. The Huddersfield News reporter described her as looking as fresh and well as any girl he had seen that day." Instead of languish- ing at home in sickness she was at work, earning a living at a drapers in Holmfirth, Messrs. Hinchcliff and Co.'s. No less remarkable is tiie case of Catherine Jones, of Blaenavon, Monmouthshire, the facts of which are gleaned from the South Wales Times. The Rev. Mr. Davies, a Baptist minister, was the means of the new remedy being tried upon her. She was transformed in a few weeks from a pale, listless creature, into a "fine red bonny girl, with a colour like a rose," to use the words of the reporter. The Durham Chronicle reported the case of an older lady, Mrs. Twiddy, of 1, Richardson's-row, Sunniside, Durham, whose sufferings were such that she was more than once actually watched by her friends as dying. Yet these marvellous pills restored her to health and usefulness. The News of the World, a great London newspaper, reported the case of a little girl, named Hook, at Forest-hill, dying from rickets, who was cured in the same remarkable way; and the Weekly Sun, London (the paper edited by Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P.), likewise investigated an important case at the West-end of London. Beyond question, here is a remedy pre-eminently suited to woman's needs. These pills have been shown to cure even paralysis, sciatica, and rheuma- tism in men as well as women, and also nervous head- ache and prostration, and all diseases of whatever sort arising from weakness of the blood. They are fortunately quite cheap—only 2s. 9d. for a box, or 13s. 9d. per six boxes. The pills are sold (and an in- teresting book on the various cases they have cured may be had by post for nothing) at the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Holborn viaduct, London, and also by chemists, but only in the pink wrapper of the company, never loose or in amy other form. It is important to see the full name printed on the wrapper, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People.

CHARGE AGAINST COLONIAL JUDGES. EVIDENCE OF LORD KNUTSFORD. In the Quean's Bench Division, London, on Tuesday, the Lord Chief Justice and a special jury resumed the hearing of the suit Anderson v. Gorrie and others. The plaintiff, Dr. Richard Benjamin Anderson, of Tobago, Bued Sir John Gorrie,formerly Chief Justice of Trini Jad and Tobago (since dead), Mr. John Cook and Mr. Charles Frederick Lamb, formerly judges in Trinidad and Tobago, for damages tor false imprisonment and malicieus prosecution.-The plaintiff complained that in con- sequence of his sending a petition to the Queen on behalf of a gentleman for whom he was acting under power of attorney, in a matter of certain alleged grievances arising out of litigation in Trinidad and Tobago, he was proceeded against by the defen- dants for contempt of court. The rule issued against him was adjourned from time to time during six months, and finally discharged without provision being made for his costs. The plaintiff, besides contending that the prosecution was illegal, complained that in the course of an examination in the matter of certain debts, as to which judgment had been improperly obtained, the defendant Cook, in default of the plaintiff entering into an excessive bail bond of JE500, ordered him to be detained in custody. The defendants, the plaintiff alleged, acted in conoert maliciously and without jurisdiction, knowing also that they had none. The defendants denied the plaintiff's allegations.- Dr. Anderson, the plaintiff, said he did not allege that the present defendants were animated by per- sonal malice, but he contended that they had been actuated in law by express malice. There had been a denial of justice by the defendants in order to uphold another judge.—Mr. Olivier, from the Colo- nial Office, produced a petition from the Trinidad Chamber of Commerce to the Governor in 1887 asking for an inquiry into the administration of justice in the colony. The Legislative Assembly, by a majority of one, decided not to forward the petition to the Colonial Office. Another petition to Lord Knutsford, in 1817, asked for an inquiry, asserting that universal dissatisfaction was felt with the administration of justice. A petition was also produced dated 1889 from the taha' ftants of Tobago, signed by men of all professions, com- plainihg that the Chief Justice interviewed intending litigants of the labouring class in regard to their litigatior against landowners, advised them to bring actions in formd pauperis, and then heard the case.-Lord Knuts- ford, in answer to Mr. J. Walton, said the Com- missioners reported that the administration of justice in Trinidad was unsatisfactory, and as a result Sir J. Gorrie and Mr. Cook were suspended. During the suspension Sir J. Gorrie died, but Mr. Cook was eventually removed from his position of puisne judge. The other defendant, Mr. Lumb, was, however, continued in office, became senior judge, and was subsequently promoted to Jamaica. There was no charge of corruption against Sir J. Gorrie, but it was thought that his course of pro- cedure rendered the administration of justice un- popular, and his language was intemperate. The allegations against Mr. Cook were of intemperance. -The case was adjourned.

ALLEGED FRAUD ON AN M.P. Ernest William Sims, a well-dressed young man, living at Putney, was charged on remand at the South Western Police Court, London, on Tuesday, with obtaining 93 by false pretences from Pro- fessor Redford, Congregational minister, of Putney. He was further charged with obtaining fZO by fraud from Mr. W. S. Caine, M.P., and f38 by fraud from Mr. J. Lyon. The facta have already been reported. Mr. Caine, M.P., stated that early in August last prisoner wrote rather a pitiful letter, saying he had robbed his employer of JE20 and that unless he paid the sum before the end of the month he would be prosecuted. Inquiries were made, and, as his statements proved to be true, he (Mr. Caine) gave him the f20. Three weeks later he received another letter from the prisoner, who confessed that he had not used the jE20 towards discharging the liability to his employers, and asking for JE17 3s. 6d. Mr. Caine refused, and learnt afterwards that the prisoner was prosecuted for the theft by the Company, and received one month's imprisonment. Witness quite understood that the prisoner would devote the JE20 toward paying his employers. -The Magistrate committed the prisoner for trial.

A cyclone which visited Summerfield, Missouri, killed five persona.

LADIES' LETTER. My DEAREST NELLIE, The new millinery is distinguished by the most sumptuous material used with a lavish hand; and the styles are original to such a degree that you need never fear to sally forth and meet some other woman in a replica of your hat. One example is made in green straw-very coarse and open of tex- ture-and on this shape a large bow likewise appears, though here it is of a kilted French ribbon, in brown and green. A huge diamond buckle sets across the front, and aigrettes and posies of Russian violets bestrew themselves in anything but a modest manner in every available space. Another is a large picture hat of gold ecru and black net, with a crown and bandeau of pale ciel-blue antique satin, buckled with diamonds and ornamented with Bprays of blush roses and loops of black satin ribbon and soft black plumes. A charming bonnet of velvet or silk is made of moir6 bows, transparent crown of open work, jet osprey in front, with first quality roses round crown, rest. ing on hair. A charming ooab bodice, which has been brought to my notice, is faoed with velvet, and having sleeves to match. The same pattern will serve as a model for just such a coat, faced with black moir6, and with sleeves of the same, or even with sleeves of oloth matching the rest of the costume. In the oase of a black or dark-coloured material, six cat steel buttons are placed three on either side of the coat fronts, while the back sides are held In place with a broad band of watered silk passed through a deep cut-steel buckle. The full vest and folded collar-band may be of silk, shot or plain, satin, crSpon, or cambric, mounted on a tight-fitting lining, and arranged to fasten at the back. A large black hat, lined most becom- ingly with velvet, and trimmed with ostrioh tips. looks well with such a costume for best wear, while the ordinary" sailor" is permissible on ordinary occasions when a plain shirt of cambric forms the vest. A particularly becoming gown, suitable for the going-away drees of a bride, is of quite simp'e make. It is graceful, inexpensive, and neat, and the very broad waistband of black watered silk will be found to add length to the figure, and to diminish the size of the waist. I would have the corselet of black watered silk, and the shoulder-pieces of the same, while the braid should also be black, and appliqued. Now, such a costume may be easily made at home by an arnatei r dressmaker, for there are no complications, dod a dainty bonnet of black velvet, with brown moire bows and a couple of jet pins, might be also arranged at home, while I would suggest that a rosette of orange velvet, or a bunch of marshmallow MossonM,;might be added to give the necessary colour. One of the new crepons in a mixture of green and black has the front of the skirt, which sets into pleats, striped with graduated bands of black watered ribbon, while the back is gored simply. The bodice has a draped collar brought over the shoulders and graduated into the waist, and shows a vest of black watered silk drawn at the top with a paste buckle, from which bangs a loose drapery of oream-ooloured lace. At the back of the bodice is a draped band of watered silk, while the sides pieces in the front ^are cut into tabs, and the sleeves are xuii and -op with fashionable bumility. Covert-coating in shades of drab and fawn is certainly the favourite material for coats to be worn with skirts to match, and vests or blouses, but it is not becoming to everybody, and certainly requires the best of cutting and making to be at all satisfactory. The coats are made in the severest tailor style, with stitched revers and strap" seams, and are usually olose fitting as to the back and sides, but open in front to show either a jaunty vellt of silk-spotted hop- sacking, Tattersall," or ^?n07l PJ5Lae» or a soft silk or cambric blonBe. P°nble-breasted moiri vests are also worn, but «x>* best with coats and skirts of shepherd's plaid tweed, which rivals the covert-coating in popa^a",y* ™ke newest cotton blouse is of pale pink °5 blue cambric, with white ouffs and collars, a preClfle 1IJ11 Nation, in fact, of the shirts affected by the "mashers of the day. Brown holland blouses, too, with trimmings of course ecru lace, and black satin or moire belts, are also among the novelties, and look particularly well worn with black serge coats. Yoaee lovingly, JENNIE.

MARRIAGE OF PON CARLOS. The marriage of Don Carlos, Duke of Madrid, and Princess Maria Bertha of Rohan was solemnised at Prague on Saturday, in presence of the relations of the bride and bridegroom and several members of the nobility. The ceremony was performed by Cardinal Schoenborn, Primate of Bohemia. A number of deputations journeyed to Prague from the CarliBt clubs and committees in Spain, and the greater number of the bridegroom's old generals also made a point of being present. The honey- moon is to be spent at Venice, where Don Carlos has resided during many years of exile, and later on the Duke and Duchess of Madrid intend to pro- ceed to the Royal Tenuta at Viareggio, on the Tuscan ooast.

Three French judges and the Procureur have arrived at Bangkok to take part in the second trial of the Siamese Phra Yot for the murder of Inspector Grosgurin,

SPORTS AND PASTIMES. FOOTBALL. ASSOCIATION GAMES. THE LEAGUE TEST MATCHES.—Great interest was manifested in the trial games of the League on Saturday, in which the best three of the second division were offered the opportunity of getting into the premier division by ousting the three who had finished last in the senior competition. As waa not. unexpected, Liverpool, the uubeaten club of the second division, scored a win over Newton Heath, at Blackburn, by two goals to none, both the point^being obtained in the first half. Small Heath and Darwen played their match at Stoke. After the game had stood at one goal all, Small Heath asserted their superiority, and won by three goals to oue. Perhaps the most attractive game of the series was Preston North End v. Notts County at Sheffield. The North End did excel- lently in the first half, and scored thrice. Sub- sequently they added another point, and won the match by four to none. The new clubs for next season's League are therefore Liverpool and Small Heath. West Bromwich Albion v. Millwall Athletic.- Ou Saturday, at Millwall, the Athletic were the winners of this game by three goals to one. Celtic v. Ever ton.—Played before an immense crowd at Liverpool, on Saturday. The Celtic gained the day by four goals to one. Woolwich Arsenal v. Stoke. — These teams engaged in a match at Plumstead, on Saturday, when the game was drawn at three goals all. Birmingham Charity Cup.—At the Aston lower grounds, on Saturday, Aston Villa vanquished the Wolverhampton Wanderers in the final tie by three goals to one. London Welsh v. Swindon.-In this match, at Swindon, the Welsh were defeated by four goals to one. RUGBY UNION. THE YORKSHIRE COMPETITION.-At Manning- ham, on Saturday, the Rest of Yorkshire beat Manningham, the winners of the competition, by one goal to nothing. CRICKET. A "CENTURY" AT CAMBRIDGE.—A match be. Jesus College, Cambridge, and Oriel College, Oxford, was played at Cambridge on Saturday and pro- duced a close contest. Going in first Jet-us College scored 183, but Oriel started rather badly. R. C. W. Palairet played in brilliant style, but though he made 101 out of 119 there were seven wickets down when he was dismissed. Afterwards, how- ever, Bardswell played well for 46, and Oriel won an exciting game by two wickets. ATHLETICS. THE TEN MILES AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP.—The race for the 10 Miles Amateur Championship was held on Saturday on the splendid grounds of the Hudders- field Athletio Club. Splendid weather prevailed, and all six men who had entered competed. The competitors were Sid Thomas (holder), Ranelagh Harriers; J. W. Roberts, Crewe Harriers; H. Wat kins, Walthamatow Harriers; G. Cross- land, Salford Harriers; J. Ingham, Halifax Harriers; and G. S. Stowe, junior, Roath (Cardiff) Harriers. Ingham was the first to take the lead, but when a little over a quarter of a mile had been covered Thomas went to the front, and at the end of the first mile (time 4min. 49aec.) was showing the way to Watkins and Crossland. At the end of the second mile Thomas was closely followed by Watkins and Crossland, but the others were tailing off, and in the same order the third mile was completed. Four miles were covered in 20min. 19seo. with Watkins in front, and the half distance, when Thomas had regained the lead, in 25min. 23sec. Watkins was again at the lead of aflairs when the sixth mile was finished, and a mile further on Crossland was in front, while at the end of eight miles Watkins was again leading. A quarter of a mile further on Crossland, who had been running with bandages round his legs owing to a sprain in practice, broke down, aud the struggle was left to Thomas and Watkius, and after a splendid struggle the former won by 15 yards in 51min. 3Jsec. Thomas has now won the championship four times, his first victory having been in 1889, when he won in 51-3 sees, faster time. The amateur reoord made by W. G. George in 1884 is 51min. 20sec. CYCLING. A ROAD RECORD BEATEN. — In the Anfield Bicycle Club's 50 miles road handicap on Saturday, H. Hellier and H. P. Spence, on a tandem tricycle, beat the previous record for that type of machine on the North Road Course by 17 minutes, their time being 2 hours 47 minutes 20 seconds. GOLF. THE PARLIAMENTARY HANDICAP.—In this com- petition, at Furzedown, on Saturday, Mr. A. J. Balfour, M.P., giving a stroke, halved his match with Mr. C. L. Anstruther, Clerk to the House of Lords. Mr. Anstruther was two holes up at the turn but Mr. Balfour won the 10th and 11th holes, thus bringing the players "all square." From that point every hole was halved in Bogey score-both players being at the top of their game, and the result was as shown above. In another match Mr. J. S. Robb, Press Gallery, giving 3 strokes, beat Mr. W. Bromley-Davenport, M.P., by 5 up and 4 to play, the winner being 3 up at the turn. TENNIS. PROFESSIONAL MATCH.-On Saturday, at the Prince's Club, a match was played by the well- known professionals, C. Saunders and P. Latham. C. Saunders, who conceded half 15 and a bisque, played splendidly, and won by three games to love, 6-4, 6-1, 7-5.

NEGRO LYNCHING IN AMERICA. It is reported from New Orleans that the remainder of the band of fugitive negroes that murdered Mr. Boyce, the estate manager, were captured by citizens who have been pursuing them ever since. The latter, numbering 200 men, were aided by a pack of bloodhounds, and the negroes were run down in the middle of the Buckhorn Woods. The negroes were put in the charge of 12 deputies, who started back with them towards Tallulah, while the sheriff in command of the remainder continued the search for Tom Griffin, who is believed to have been the ringleader in the murder, and who is now the only man left of those who are known to have been actively interested in the killing of Mr. Boyce. The 12 deputies, with their four prisoners, had gone towards Tallulah as far as Millikens Bend, about five miles from their starting-point, when they were met by a mob of countrymen who tried to take possession of the negroes, but the deputies made a determined stand, threatening to kill anyone who interfered with them, and the mob slowly drew off, allowing the deputies to continue on their waj. When near Tallulah, however, another and larger mob was encountered, numbering at least 200 persons, who demanded that the negroes should be handed over to them. The deputies refused at first, but as a large propor- tion of the crowd were armed with revolvers or rifles, several of which were levelled at the heads of the deputies, the latter did not offer a very strong resistance, and in the rush which was then made for the negroes by the crowd the officers and their prisoners were quiokly separated. The mob marched their captives to the Crescent estate, the scene of the fiendish murder of Mr. Boyce, and there hanged them to the tress, the lynohers, as usual, emptying their firearms into the corpses. The negro Griffin had not yet been captured, but search parties were looking for him. There are now 17 negroes in gaol, all of whom will be given a fair trial, and most will be convicted. It has been many years since there has been such a wholesale lynching in the Southern States as that which has occurred in Madison parish.

FRENCH OFFICERS ARRESTED. An incident which has placed some of the Turkish officials in an embarrassing position has oceurred at Stamboul. The Commander and the principal officers of the French dispatch-vessel Petrel oame ashore in order to visit the old Seraglio at Stamboul, and while walking through the grounds surrounding it, they were stopped by a sentry, who gruffly ordered them to withdraw. The officers, however, not understanding what the soldier said, continued on their way. The sentinei thereupon gave the alarm, and the Colonel commanding the Seraglio guard came upon the scene with several soldiers. After heap- ing volleys of abuse upon the officers, the Colonel ordered them to be taken before the Kaimakan, who, in spite of the explanations given by Nedji Bey, a Turkish offioial who had acoompanied the officers, detained them for an hour and a half. On the following day M. Rouet, Dragoman of the French Embassy, handed to Said Pasha a memorial from M. Cambon, the French Ambassador, demanding an immediate inquiry and satisfaction for the treatment to which the French officers had been subjected. M. Cambon added that if these demands were not instantly complied with he would address himself direotly to the Sultan. Said Pasha thereupon immediately for- warded an account of the incident to the Palace, and also sent an offioial to M. Cambon to assure the latter that the necessary steps would be taken to give satisfaction to France. It is stated that the Kaimakan has already been dismissed.

EPITOME OF NEWS. A great fire has destroyed 300 houses at Tokio. In combatting the conflagration several fireman were seriously injured. New South Wales has declared itself in favour of Samoa being placed under the sole protection of Great Britain. I Messrs. Tankard's malting houses in Melbourne have been destroyed by fire, the damage being estimated at £ 25,000. The South African cricket team arrived at Southampton on Sunday, and left for London in the evening. They commence practice at a London ground next Monday, and play their first match of the tour at Sheffield Park on May 22. A fire broke out at Amsterdam in a house in the Kerk Straat, situated in the Jewish quarter, and before assistance could be rendered, four of the inmates, ail Rui^iau Jews, were burned to dtath. A fifth person was rescued in a serious condition. 1 The house was completely destroyed. In the Court of Chancery on Saturday an appli. cation was made be'ore Mr. Justice Chitty in the case of Ballard v. Milner for an order reviving the suit, with a view to the distribution of funds paid under orders made therein. It appeared that the suit was commenced in 1756 and a sum then paid in of JE146 now amounted with accumulations to aome f 1,000. His lordship made an order as asked. On Sunday the street-preachers again held their services at Cork, and were afforded ample police protection. A meeting was held on the Marina, led by two local clergymen, and about 5,000 per. sons assembled. Disorder was firmly suppressed, and a large force of police escorted the preachers to their homes. In official circles at Constantinople it is stated that the resignation of Mgr. Achikian, the Armenian Patriarch, will be accepted forthwith, and that Bishop Bartholomeus is likely to be appoiuted his euocessor. The Popolo Romano Rays it is not improbable that a numerous British squadron will sail up the Adriatic in the course of May, and will visit the chief Italian ports, making a stay of some duration at Venice. Among the recipients of decorations bestowed by the Czar on the occasion of the Russian Easter, is M. de Staal, the Russian Ambassador in London, upon whom the Order of St. Alexander Newsky, set in brilliants, has been conferred. A shocking accident occurred at Stother's Wharf, Woolwich. The ketch Reckless was unloading stone for the Woolwioh Local Board of Health, when the chain attached to the steam crane broke. A 12-hundredweight stone fell on to Eliza Watson, the wife of the captain and owner of the ship, who, by the way, resides at Nottingley, near Leeds. The woman was frightfully crushed, and died immediately. Titchfield, a village a few miles from Ports. mouth, is excited over a shocking domestio crime. Having attacked his boy with an axe, a. farmer went into his stables and cut his throat. He had suffered from delirium tremens. In Russell county, Virginia, there lives a remark. able family, comprising five generations. Isaac Hart, the father, great-grandfather, and great. great-grandfather, is robust at the age of 97. Nearest to him in years is his daughter, Julia, who is now in her 68th year. Har son, Isaac, is 45. He has a son, Charles, 20 years old, who has been married four years, and is the father of a three-year-old- boy, A Hampshire farmer named Walker, living at Titchfield, attacked a lad with an axe while the lad was attending to the cattle, inflicting a dan- gerous wound on his head. Walker, who is believed to have been insane, was subsequently found in a stable, where he had cut his throat, and he died soon afterwards from the self-inflicted injuries. A return has been issued of the number of evic- tion notices filed in the High Court and County Courts in Ireland under the Land Law Act of 1887. During the quarter ending the 31st March, 1894^ tho total number of notices filed was 1,248 of which only 31 were filed in the High Court, and 1,917 in the County Courts. The following counties head the list :-Fermanagh, 132 notices; Mayo, 112; Kerry, 109 and Donegal, 108. The action against colonial judges was resumed in the Queen's Bench Division, judgment being entered for Mr. Justice Lumb, dismissing him from the action. The case against Mr. Justice Cook was adjourned. In the Chancery Division, the inquiry into the affairs of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company was resumed. Mr. Moore and Mr. Peat, the auditors, were examined, and, Mr. Paul and Mr. T. Russell having given farther evidence, the proceedings were adjourned. A receiving order has been made against A. J. Wicks, the defendant in the recent lady barber breach of promise case upon the petition of Miss Charlotte Chettle, who claims £ 410 damages and oosts. The debtor was act present at the hearing, as he is undergoing a term of imprisonment for obtaining money under false pretences. A terrible disaster has occurred at the Bois du Luc coal mine, near Mons, Belgium. As a cage containing 16 men was descending into the pit the cable broke, and the miners were precipitated to the bottom. Only three of them escaped with their lives, the remaining 13 being killed on the spot. King Alexander of Servia has issued a royal ukase annulling the measures taken by the former Regents and the Skupshtina against the ex-King Milan and Queen Natalie, as unconstitutional. The ukase further restores to the King's parents their constitutional rights as members of the royal house. The Paris Bix-Neuvidme Siecle prints a dispatch from Vienna, stating that an attempt, has been made to murder Herr von Rothschild, the head of the Vienna branch of the Rothschild family. He was accosted by a beggar, who suddenly attacked him and stabbed him ia the faoe with a knife. The assailant was at once seized and disarmed, and handed over to the police. During the progress of a golf competition at Dumfries a little boy named Mackie, son of a tailor's cutter in Dumfries, was struck on the head by a ball and killed. The lad was playing on the links and failed to get out of the way of the ball. He only survived the blow by about a quarter of an hour. During a severe thunderstorm whish passed over South Staffordshire, three men employed at Bid- dulph Valley Ironworks, near Hanley, while cross- ing a field after leaving work were struck down by lightning. One of them, John Saunderson, was killed instantly, his clothing being torn to shreds and his boots split into fragments. It is pointed out by the Law Times that the elevation ot Sir C. Russell to the House of Peers produces the ourious result that of the four Lords of Appeal in Ordinary not one will be an English- man. Lord Watson is a Scotchman, and was pro- moted directly from the Saotoh bar. Lord Morris is an Irishman, and was promoted from the Irish bench. Lord Macnaghten and Sir Charles Russell, although of the English bar, are Irishmen by birth. Some further experiments have taken place in Berlin with the bullet proof material invented by Herr Dowe. Those present were exclusively military nied, and every precaution was taken to ensure a genuine trial. The cartridges were the same as those used in the German army, and were brought in sealed packages. The rifles used were also of the ordinary army pattern, and were fired by soldiers after being loaded by a high officer. The results of the experiments were as remarkable as before, the bullets in all oases remaining em- bedded in the material. A curious misadventure befell a labourer named John Quinn at Newcastle. Having no home, Quinn sought refuge about midnight on Saturday in a blacksmith's shop in a quarry where he was employed. Finding the door locked, he endeavoured to gain an entrance by the chimney, and stuck fast in the middle. He remained there till Sunday morning, when his cries attracted the attention of a boy, who called a policeman. The chimney was pulled down, and the man extricated in -an ex- hausted condition. George Dewar, said to be a furniture-remover, of Glasgow, was arrested on Saturday as he was about to leave Liverpool for America by the steam- .Lle ship Umbria. The charge against him is one of deserting his wife and five children. Dowar recently made the acquaintance of a domestic ser- vant named Agnes Milne, and^ it is alleged that, under his pretence of being a single man, the girl agreed to accompany him to New York, where they were to be married. Before leaving Glasgow she drew her savings from the bank and handed them to him. Mr. John Wilson, L.L.D., has resigned the Town Clerkship of Congleton, owing to ill-health. Mr. Wilson, who is 78 years of age, has been Town Clerk since 1851. In the week ending April 28th there were 174 bills of sale registered in England and Wales, a deorease of 50 as compared with the corresponding period last year. The receiving orders gazetted number 96, showing an increase of 2, and the number of registered deeds of arrangement was 109, an inorease of 5.—Stubb's Weekly Gazette. A telegram received in Brussels from the Gov- ernment of the Congo State announces that the State troops, after capturing the town of Kabam- bare, continued their march, and have now arrived at Lake Tanganyika. His Honour, Judge Heywood, of the Man. chester and Salford County Courts, who has had a severe attaok of illness, has, it is stated, re- signed his poaition. A plan has been submitted to the United States Congress for the establishment of a body similar to the French Academy. The Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem says 100,000 Jews have settled in Palestine during the last few years, and the arrival of a vaster host is immi- nent." The faulty construction of flat houses in New York city has caused the insurance companies to advance the rates on this olass of risks in some cases 100 per cent. It is announced from Boston, U.S., that )4rs. Elizabeth Goss, widow of Joe Goss," formerly a well-known pugilist, has committed suicide by inhaling gas. Proceedings had been instituted against her for alleged embezzlement. The complete results of the elections to the Portuguese Chamber of Deputies, which took place on the 15th ult., show a Government majority of 47 over all the Opposition groups, as 109 Minis- terialists have been elected against 49 Progressists, 11 Independents, and two Republicans. Five hundred strikers, armed with clubs and sticks, have attacked 100 labourers employed ia digging sewers at Cleveland (Ohio). The latter were driven off, and work was completely stopped. One of the most severe shocks of earthquake experienced for many years past was felt in Athena 81 Friday evening. The shock was also felt) throughout the kingdom, though with less severity in the Peloponessus and the islands in the Ægeaa than in Northern Greece. A coroner's jury at Brentwood returned aver. dict of accidental death in the case of Max Zsoldos, son of a Buda-Pesth landowner, who, while riding a bicycle on Wednesday afternoon, fell in front of the wheels of a wagon, which passed over him. He had come to this country to learn the language. Birds sometimes choose strange places ia which to deposit their eggs. An old jacket was left hang- ing from & beam in the farmhouse yard of Mr. Hodson, of Hord, Sussex, and in one of the pecketa a wren has built its nest and laid five eggs. The Rev. Sir John Warren Hayes, of Bearwood, Berkshire, is supposed to be the oldest Freemason in England. He was initiated in 1819, the year the Queen and the Duke of Cambridge were born, and consequently he has been 74 years a member of the Masonic Order. In the Lower House of the Prussian Diet on Monday Herr Ton Heyden, the Minister of Agri- culture, stated that the indebtedness of agriculture had decreased by one and a half milliards during the past decade, and again by from two to three millions in the last year or two. The extensive Burily Weaving Mills at Ivanovo- Vosnessansk (Russia) were almost completely destroyed by fire on Sunday night. Ten persona perished in the flames. Owing to the disaster some 1,200 workmen are thrown out of employment. Property to the estimated value of 1,750,000 roubles was destroyed. The Republicans in the United States Senate are attempting to modify the Tariff Bill, so that io cannot be put into force until six months after ita adoption by Congress. According to the present provisions, the Bill is to be oarried into effect on June 30 next. An explosion in Paris on Monday led to the rumour that it bad been caused by Anarchists at Saint Ouen, causing the loss of five lives. It proved, however, to be nothing more than an ex- plosion at Ruggieri's firework faotory. There was one victim, a workman, through whose care- lessness the accident happened. The damage to property was considerable. In the Dutch general eleetion 32 supporters of the Premier have been returned, and 38 of the Opposition. In the second ballots the Government is certain of seven seats, and the Opposition of one seat. This gives to each side a total of 39 seats. The conteat for the remaining 22 seats will there- fore be an exceptionally severe one. Mr. Henry Weatworth Foley, of Prestwood, Stourbridge, died on Monday morning, after a long illness. He was formerly a member for the old Parliamentary division of South Staffordshire, being first returned in 1857, and afterwards at two succeeding general elections. The Princess Colonna, the daughter of the American millionaire, Mr. Maokay, who recently, without success, brought a suit in Paris for a divorce from her husband, sails from New York for Europe in June. It is stated that the differences between the Prince and Princess have been amicably settled. At a mass meeting of publicans in London reso- lutions were passed condemning the proposed increase of the beer and spirit duties. Similar meetings were also held in Sheffield, Dublin, and Belfast. William Richter and Robert Renike were arrested for causing a disturbance in Denman- street, London, some time ago. They declared that they were standing with their wives in front of their house, and other statements whioh they made led to their disoharge, and to an inquiry into the conduct of the constables. M'Carthy, the oon- stable who brought the charge, has been dismissed the force, and so has Whiting, the oonstable who assisted in the arrest. On Monday the Windsor borough coroner held an inquiry respecting the death of William Beaumont, aged 54. The deceased, who was out of business, but had formerly kept the Ship Inn and White Hart Hotel, left home a few days ago, and nothing was heard of him till Sunday, when a man, looking over the Albert-bridge, saw his body lying in the Thames. The head was partly above the water, and there was a cane in one hand, the other hand being in a trousers pocket. The jury returned a verdict of found drowned. Mr. Jesse Seligmann, the noted New York banker, has just died in Southern California, the immediate cause of death being an operation which it had been found necessary for him to undergo. He only arrived in California four days ago, having gone there for the benefit of his health. He was suffering from pneumonia and Bright's disease. A young woman named Sarah McCormaok was remanded at Glasgow, oharged with falsehood, fraud, and wilful imposition by representing her- self to be an ex-nun, and oharging for admission to a theatre where she lectured on convent life. She made serious charges against tbe priests visit- ing a certain Lanarkshire convent, and her state- menta led to several religious riots. At Manchester Assizes Mr. Justice Wills sen- tenced two men—named M'Wiggan and Cavenay— for robbery with violence. M'Wiggan was sent to prison for 12 months, and had to receive 20 strokes with the cat. Cavenay was sentenced to 11 months. The judge explained that he made this slight difference in the terms of imprisonment because he did not think it desirable that they should come out of prison together. Another mysterious death of a workman em- ployed at the Toulon Arsenal has occurred. It will be remembered that some time ago a mechanio who had turned informer in connection with the alleged theft of wheat from the stores, died while eating his dinner. In the second case a man named Philip, employed in the slag department, died a few minutes after leaving the Arsenal. A post- mortem examination was held on the body, and it was announced that a corrosive liquid, the nature of which has not yet been discovered, had been found in the stomaoh. A case has been stated by the Westminster magistrate, London, on the application of the S.P.C.A. as to whether lions in captivity are domesticated animal3 ao a& to come within the law. St. George's Day was observed on Monday in London by the ringing of bells, the display of the red flag of St. George and special music at the changing of the guard at St. James's Palace. The Lord Mayor entertained a large company at a banquet aw the Mansion House to meet a number of colonial and Indian representatives. At Alder. shot the Northumberland Fuailiers had a gala day. Another arrest was made on Monday by the Can* nook police for outrage and murder. The victim is Elsie Cotterill, 65, married, of Cannock, formerly of Wolverhampton. She was found on Sunday in a dying, condition in some fields and expired shortly afterwards. The body bore numeroua bruises and other marks of violence. Two of the men who are in custody were arrested suddenly in church on Sunday night during divine service. This murder has caused muoh excitement, follow- ing as it does upon the murder of Mr. Maspfen in the sameloca lity a few months baok.

FAMILY MURDERED BY ROBBERS. A crime of exceptional atrocity was committed on Monday night at Zebedies, a village in the district of Werszenhoff, East Prussia, an entire family being murdered in their beds by a gang of robbers. The viotims were a well-to-do farmer, his wife, and two children. They retired to rest on Monday night, and as they did not put in an appearance on Tuesday morning the neighbours entered the farmhouse. Father and mother and two children all lay dead with their skulls smashed in. The house had been looted of money, trinkets, and all portable articles of value. The polioe are hopeful of oapturing the murderers, but up to the present no arrests havt been made. Printed aad Published by HMPToprMoF, JOInr OeNWTSO* BOBWWS, at his General Printing Offiee, No. L Eboa's-