The Aberystwith Observer

I THE TROUBLE WITH BURMAH. A correspondent dating from Prome on Sunday says :-The steamer from Mandalay which should bear: the answer to the British Ultimatum has come down. It is reported that she brings an evasive reply. (Through Reuter's Agency.) V & CALCUTTA, NOV. 7. Advices from Mandalay report that on receipt of the British Ultimatum the King of Burmah sum- moned a Council of his Ministers, and on the follow- ing day consulted the French and Italian Consuls, who advised him to comply with the British demands. King Tbeebaw also summoned several of his generals and told them to be in readiness, as they would probably have some fighting. It is considered in Rangoon that the question of peace or war now merely depends upon the prompti- tude with which the British Expedition is pushed for- ward, as any delay may tend to confirm the preva- lent opinion that the British are merely making a demonstration, as in former days, in which case the Burmese would be encouraged to assume an attitude of resistance. General Prendergast has arriyed with two thou- sand troops, but it is impossible for the Expeditionary Force to arrive on the frontier by the 11th inst., as was originally proposed. The India Office has received a telegram stating that the whole of the Madras contingent of the expe- dition to Burmah is now on its way to Rangoon. Thence, it is understood, the infantry will be con- veyed by railway to Thuyetmayo, where they will embark on river barges for conveyance in the direc- tion of Mandalay. The artillery will embark at Rangoon with their guns, and be towed up by river steamers to the British frontier, where they would arrive in time to co-operate with the main body of the force. THEEBAW AND THE BRITISH ULTI- MATUM. A correspondent telegraphing from Rangoon on Monday, says: King Theebaw's reply to the British ultimatum has been received. It is a long document, the trans- lation of which has not yet been completed. It can be gathered, however, that its terms are un- satisfactory and hostile. Replying to the British demand to control the foreign relations of Burmah, the King states that he must first consult Germany, France, and Italy. In view of the unsatisfactory character of the Burmese reply, the British expeditionary force will cross the frontier with the least possible delay. Four regiments have already proceeded up the Irawaddy by river steamers. A Calcutta telegram of Wednesday says that a summary of King Theebaw's reply to the British Ultimatum has been received there. It is to the same effect as that already known. General Prender- gast has received orders to make arrangements for an immediate advance, and is awaiting his final instructions from the Viceroy before crossing the frontier.

WRECK OF A CANADIAN STEAMER. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. A Reuter's telegram dated Winnipeg, Tuesday, states The Canadian Pacific Railway's steamer Algoma, which left Owen Sound on the 5th inst. for Port Arthur, ran ashore near the latter place early on the morning of the 7th inst. during a terrific gale accompanied by sleet and snow, and soon became a total wreck. The decks were repeatedly swept by the waves before she broke up, and many persons were washed overboard. The disaster occurred about a mile from shore. Only one boat was safely launched, in which the survivors, including the captain, two passengers, and ten of the crew, escaped. The number of passengers on board is given in one account at 38, and in another at 48. They were prin- cipally Canadians, with a few Americans. The exact loss is still unknown, but it is reported that over 30 persons were drowned. The steamer Athabasca, belonging to the same line, reached Port Arthur with the survivors from the wreck yesterday evening, having left Owen Sound two days after the latter vessel. The captain of the Algoma states that on the 6th inst. the vessel en- countered a tremendous sea, and that the officers tried in vain to allay the fears of the passengers, who huddled together panic-stricken in the chief cabin, the screams and prayers of the women and children being heard above the roaring of the gale. On Saturday morning Isle Royal was sighted, when the Algoma was headed for a place of shelter, but when nearing the land struck on a reef with a terrific shock. It was found that the steamer's bottom was pierced, and the boats were at once got ready. But just when those on board were about to take to them, the steamer slipped off the reef and disappeared. The surface of the water was for a short time covered with struggling forms, but all was soon over. The occupants of the one boat that was safely launched were almost powerless to help them- selves, their only means for propelling the boat being a foot board, which the captain wrenched from the bottom and used as a paddle. The Algoma was one of three splendid new steel Clyde built vessels, owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. She was placed on the lake only last year in connection with the company's lines. The latest report states that 14 persons have been saved from the wreck of the Algoma. There were altogether 62 souls on board.

MR. CHAMBERLAIN AND SUGAR BOUNTIES, On Wednesday night a meeting of workmen's delegates" from the British Home and Colonial sugar industries, including some from the shipping j and maritime interests of the port of London, was hold at the Central Club rooms of the Workmen's National Association fcr the Abolition of the Foreign Sugar Bounties, Whitechapel. The meeting, which was specially convened to consider the speech of Mr. Chamberlain, delivered on Tuesday night at Birming- ham, on the sugar bounties question, was presided over by Mr. W. Watson, of the London United Riggers Society. Resolutions were adopted, declar- ing that Mr. Chamberlain was an enemy to the work- ing classes in trying to put one class of workmen against another class, repudiating his knowledge on the sugar question, and declaring, that he, as Presi- dent of the Board of Trade in the last Cabinet, had championed the proposals that the workmen's wages should be reduced in the sugar trade so that com- petition with foreign bounties might be maintained. A deputation of workmen engaged in the sugar in- dustry was elected to at once proceed to Birmingham to controvert Mr. Chamberlain's statements.

MARRIAGE OF A BISHOP. On Wednesday the marriage of the Bishop of Gibraltar with a daughter of the late Sir George Baker was solemnised at St. John's, Paddington, by the Bishop of Dover, assisted by the Rev. Ernest Sandford and the Rev. Sir Emilius Bayley. The vicar of St. Gabriol, Warwick-square (the Rev. J. Ellison), was the best man. The bride, who was given away by her brother (Mr. Barrington Baker), wore a dress of white satin, the bodice and train of stamped broche velvet, the petticoat of cream satin, with a deep lace flounce caught up on the left side with a large bunch of orange blossoms. Her Brussels lace veil was fastened on by a diamond spray. She was at- tended by the Misses Baker (2), Pakington (2), Walker and Sutton, who wore dresses of broche canvas, trimmed with Valenciennes lace, tight-fitting bodices, kilted petticoats fully draped at the back, and cardinal sashes tied on the left side under the drapery. They wore pointed hats trimmed with plush, lace, and muslin, and pearl brooches, the gift of the bridegroom. They carried magnificent baskets of flowers. Lady Baker entertained a large party at breakfast at 4, Hyde Park-square, after which the Bishop of Gibraltar and Mrs. Sandford left for Ad- dington Manor, kindly lent them by the Right Hon. J. G. Hubbard, M.P.

In opening a bazaar on Wednesday at St. Leonards in aid of the building fund of St. Matthew's Church, Silverhill, a new place of worship for the poor, which is being erected at a cost of E10,000, towards which a lady has given JE1000, and Sir Thomas Brassey has con- tributed a handsome sum, Lady Brassey referred to the attachment which she and her husband felt for the Church of England, and wished it most emphatically to be understood that after the repeated public state- ments of Sir Thomas on the subject, if anyone said he was for the disestablishment of the English Church the person bringing such charges stated that which was nitrae.

THE CHARGE AGAINST A CLERGYMAN. On Tuesday morning the Plymouth Police-court was crowded when the Rev. Charles William Ross, late rector of Christ Church, Belfast, was charged with unlawfully wounding two young men named Tozer and Waye. Mr. Curteis now appeared for the prosecution, and stated the circumstances attending the assault. Mr. Foy was agent-general of the Dominion line, and his wife was a Sunday-school teacher with Mr. Ross. After they bad known the prisoner some months he adopted the principles of free love," and poisoned the mind of Mrs. Foy so much that, although he was a married man with a wife and three children, he prevailed upon her to elope with him. He came to Plymouth, where he engaged in religious services, and probably continued the propagation of the same pernicious doctrines. j The Chairman of the Magistrates asked if this were relevant. He could understand that it would be so if the prisoner were charging Mr. Foy with inciting the crowd to injure him. Mr. Trehane, for the prisoner, said it was his inten- tion to prefer that charge against Mr. Foy, but that gentleman had taken the advice of his lawyer and left the town. Mr. Curteis repudiated the suggestion that there was any intention on Mr. Foy's part to evade any re- sponsibility. The evidence was then gone into, and one of the constables asserted that the prisoner told him without any faltering that he did stab the young men who were at the head of the mob that Mr. Foy had induced to follow him after the scene at the Young Men's Chris- tian Association. The magistrates committed the prisoner to the quarter sessions.. The prisoner applied for bail, and this was granted, £ 200 in all. Mr. Ross then charged the prosecutors in the last case with assault, but the Bench accepted their defence that they only struck the prisoner after he stabbed them, and discharged them from custody.

EPITOME"OF"NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN I Mr. George Heard, a licensed victualler of Plymouth, et a terrible death cn Wednesday. He tripped over Hn embankment, 60 feet high, on the Tavistock Line, and was cut to pieces by an approaching train as he lay across the rails.. A The Duke of Westminster has returned to the whole of his tenantry on the Eaton Hall Estate, Cheshire, 10 per cent. on their rentals, in consideration of the serious reduction in prices. I The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Indus, which went ashore near Trinccmalee, has become a total wreck. On Wednesday, in the case of Montgomery v. Harrison, heard before the Recorder and a jury, the defendant, a stockbroker, was sued by a Scotch tradesmau for the delivery of certain stocks; but the jury found for the former on the ground of infancy," he having been under age at the time of the transaction. Another libel action brought by Mrs. Weldon against a journalist failed on Wednesday. In the course of the questions the Lord Chief Justice elicited the fact that she had brought in all about seventeen actions to clear her character. At the Marlborough-streot Police-court on Wednes- day, in the charge of conspiracy to defraud against three defendants, named Beyfus, Mr. Jonas, the com- plainant, was cross-examined, and the case was ad- journed for a week. Twenty-three costermongers appeared again at the Marylebone Police-court on Wednesday, charged with obstruction in the Hampstead-road, and the magistrate, being of opinion that they had taken up an untenable position, inflicted a nominal fine in each case. A meeting of coalmasters was held in Glasgow Royal Exchange late on Wednesday, when it was agreed by several of their number to concede the advance of 6d. per day to the colliers on and after the 13th inst. This advance will apply to the collieries in the Middle Ward of Lanarkshire. The news of the advance caused great gratification among the colliers who were on strike. The trial of Dr. E. H. Trestrail, of Aldershot, on the charge of assaulting Mary Jane Hills, wife of a corporal in the Royal Artillery, took place at Win- chester on Wednesday. The jury, without hearing any witnesses for the defence, returned a verdict of not guilty. A Norwegian ship struck on the Torrs, a ridge of rocks outside Instrahull Island, off the Innishowen Headland, on Wednesday morning. The crew were rescued by the islanders and shoremen. The vessel is likely to become a total wreck. At a meeting of the Kilmacthomas Board of Guar- dians on Wednesday, the clerk stated that their treasurer had refused to honour any more cheques of the Board, in consequence of the union account having been overdrawn. A discussion took place as to the means to be adopted to obtain money for out relief, and it was decided to endeavour to get the bank to advance j6100 on a three months' bill, the money to be applied solely to relief purposes. It is stated at Constantinople that Ahmed Moukhtar Pasha is in favour of proposing to England that Turkish troops should be despatched to Egypt, should the British Government consider such a measure necessary. The Princess Mary, Duchess of Teck, opened a bazaar on Wednesday at the Mortlake National Schools in aid of the fund to defray the expenses connected with the new chancel of the parish church. The dedication services will take place on the 28th inst., when the bishop of the diocese is to officiate. The Princess also presided at one of the stalls, and another was in charge of the Princess Victoria of Teck. Lady Howard De Walden and other ladies assisted at the stalls, and Colonel Hughes Hallett and Mr. Arthur Cecil took part in the entertainments. The Princess Mary was received by the vicar of Mortlake and the members of the committee, and a guard of honour was furnished by the Richmond detachment of the 5th Surrey Rifle Vohmteers. Consequent on the military riot in Limerick on Tues- day evening, all the men of the 1st Battalion, King's Royal Rifles, were confined to barracks on Wednesday night, the town being patrolled by a large body of armed constabulary. In addition to these precautions, the several approaches to the barracks were carefully guarded by military pickets and police. The Artillery and the men of a squadron of the 21st Hussars, quar- tered in the new barracks, were permitted to go out of barracks as usual. The Mayor wrote to Lord Carnarvon, giving details of the riot, with a view to the removal of the Rifles from Limerick, and on Wednesday night he addressed a meeting of the Local Branch of the League on the subject. Several outrages on the highway are reported from Cambourne, West Cornwall. A week ago a farmer, named Carter, while riding about five miles from that town, was stopped by a man with a pistol, and was made to turn out his pockets. Early on Tuesday morn- ing some fish dealers were driving along the same road when the driver was shot at. The horse took fright and bolted, and the occupants thus escaped their assail- ants. On Wednesday morning a miner, named Richard Williams, of Gurnear, was going to his work, when he was brutally assaulted and searched. The outrages are supposed to be the work of some of the navvies lately employed on the Helston Railway, but who are now out of work. Mr. Goschen, in delivering the introductory address of the Winter Session of Heriot Watt College, Edin- burgh, on Wednesday evening, spoke upon education. He said he had always advocated general culture rather than scientific education. But there was need that the working men and women of the country should have greater facilities for the study of those branches specially pertaining to their profession, so as to enable them to compete with foreign workmen. There was always a gap in education between the ages of 14 and 17 years, and educationalists should turn their attention to filling up this gap by what were called on the Continent continuation schools. A largely-attended meeting of the cattle dealers and members of the National League was held in Cork on Wednesday evening. Mr. Flynn, candidate for North Cork stated that their Guarantee Fund now amounted to a 'thousand pounds. They had numerous promises from coal and general merchants throughout the country to ship their goods by the cattle dealers' steamers. Mr. John O'Oonnor, M.P., referring to the cattle dealers who had left the Association, and who refused to continue boycotting the Steam packet Com- pany any longer, said he defied these men from that hour forward to purchase a beast at any fair in the South of Ireland. At the Bridgewatcr Board of Guardians' meeting on Wednesday it was reported that there had been a serious outbreak of smallpox at Middlezoy, one of the country parishes of the union, and one of the guardians stated that some of the sufferers were running about the parish, and also that there had been an outbreak in a public-house there. Whilst the matter was under consideration, a man who was stated to have come from infected premises at Middlezoy entered the workhouse premises, and on being seen by the medical officer was found to be suffering from smallpox in a modified form, and at once placed in the infectious ward. It was agreed to issue notices recom- mending the villagers to be re-vaccinated, and warning people of the danger of infection, and the penalties in force against exposure. A letter was read from the Local Government Board pointing out the extreme undesirability of paying outdoor relief on the work- house premises, as proposed by the guardians, but the latter determined to adhere to their resolution. President Cleveland, replying to an appeal soliciting his intercession on behalf of Riel, has declared that the American Government cannot properly take any action in the matter. The receipts on acconnt of the Revenue from the 1st of April, 1885, when there was a balance of £ 4,902,207, to Nov. 7,1885, were £46,150,865, against JE47,046,190 in the corresponding period of the preceding financial year, which began with a balance of 1:5,632,669. The net expenditure was £ 54,969,478, against !:50,502,917 to the same date in the previous year. The Treasury balances on Nov. 7 amounted to j61,969,276, and at the same date in 1884 to *2,518,375. A decree was published in Rome on Tuesday appointing Count Nigra, the Italian Ambassador in London, to the same post in Vienna. The French Chambers met for the first time on Tues- day. M. Blanc, the oldest member, took the chair in the Chamber of Deputies, and delivered a patriotic speech, which was much applauded. The President and other officers were elected temporarily, the permanent elections only taking place after the returns of the members had been duly examined. The Freeman's Journal" states that the Govern- ment have appointed Mr. Clifford Lloyd, resident magis- trate, to the offioe of Colonial Secretary of the Mauritius, and that it is intended to confer upon him acommission as Lieutenant Governor of the Colony. A Cabinet Council was held on Tuesday in Downing- street. The Ministers present were the Marquis of Salisbury, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Iddesleigh, Viscount CraLbr jok, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Richard A. Cross, Colonel the Hon. F. Stanley, the Right Hon. W H. Smith, Lord Randolph Churchill, Lord George Hamilton, Lord John Manners, the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, and the Hon. Edward Stanhope. In view of the inconvenience to parties arising from the absence of their lead'ng counsel at elections during the ensuing three weeks, the sittings of the House of Lords to hear appeals have been adjourned. If her Majesty should think fit, under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876, to authorise the Lords of Appeal to Bit for business during the dissolution, the appeals might be heard in the month of December. At the weekly meeting of the Canterbury Board of Guardians on Tuesday it was reported that an old woman named Fuller, who some time ago was discovered to be an opium eater, had again been supplied surreptitiously with a quantity of opium, and had brought herself to a sad condition by her excessive indulgence in the drug. The Master of the Workhouse said he had been told that the medical officer had given his sanction to the woman taking opium, but he did not believe it. The opium was brought to the house by the woman's daughter, and was found amongst some sugar. The Board directed a searching investigation to be made. Mr. Roger Bryan, a farmer, and a leading member of the National League, residing at Baskin, near Athlone, was on Tuesday fired at and wounded in the side by a bullet discharged from a revolver. Two men named Slevan, who were observed lurking about the premises, have been arrested on suspicion. Michael Nugent, a farmer, of Walderstown, near Athlone was waylaid on Tuesday on his way to attend a meeting oi the Bfellymahon Board of Guardians, of which he is a member, and was severely beaten. He was conveyed home in an unconscious state. His assailants escaped. The Cork Steam-packet Company's steamer Falcon on Tuesday carried 200 cattle to Liverpool, and their steamer Xema, for Bristol, carried 170. This is the first large consignment since the boycotting of the company commenced, a month since, and is the out- come of a new scheme for frustrating the programme of the cattle dealers. The cattle dealers' steamer Con- stantin carried 950 cattle, 140 sheep, and 150 swine. Owing to the want of harbour accommodation for vessels and fishing smacks in the districts between Beachy Head and Bexhill, aproposal is being considered for constructing a harbour between Eastbourne and Pevensey Bay, with a steam tramway skirting the sea eastward of the redoubt for about four miles. The scheme includes a tidal harbour for vessels, an extensive fish-curing station, and a yacht station two miles from Eastbourne. The Speaker took part on Tuesday afternoon in the proceedings in coisnection with the annual distribution of prizes to pupils of the Warwick High Schools for Girls. Speaking on the subject of the employment of women, he enforced the importance of physiology as a new field for industry, observing that the many things that were meant to develope, or rather utilise, their capacities must be a valuable field of study in them- selves. The agent to Mr. T. J. Fitzgerald met the Dunsland and Oooney tenants at Kildysart on Tuesday, and granted a reduction in their ronts of 10 per cent., bringing the rents 3 per cent. below Griffith's valuation. The agent to Mr. Ryan, of London, the same day met the Effernan and Eribul tenants. A reduction of 10 per cent. was demanded, but refused, and the tenants left in a body without paying. At an inquest held on Tuesday at St. Helens, with regard to the death of a young married woman, named Margaret Briody, it transpired that she purchased some matches, dissolved the heads in water, and drank the solution. Being a slow poison the phosphorus did not take effect until three days afterwards; in the mean, time, however, she suffered great agony. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the evidence. At Blackburn, on Tuesday, William Lloyd was com- mitted for trial on a charge of murdering Richard Killett, by stabbing him in a public-house on the 21st ultimo. The men had quarrelled, and the prisoner threatened that Killett would be a dead man within two hours. The destitution among shipbuilding workmen on the Clyde appears to be increasing in severity. No less than 47 stowaways were discovered in the hold of a vessel leaving Port Glasgow for America on Tuesday. Early on Tuesday morning the mangled remains of a married woman, named Gunter, aged about 45, were discovered on the South-Western line near Twickenham Junction. The head was severed from the body. An inquest has been held at Atherstone on Charlotte Smith and her two children, the latter of whom were drowned by the mother, who tied them to herself and jumped into a canal. The evidence showed that the woman had been ill-treated by her husband and had taken to drink. The verdict was that the children were murdered by their mother, while temporarily insane. The coroner said he regretted the law could not touch the husband. Dr. Franklan's report upon the quality of the water supplied to the metropolis by the various water com- panies during October shows that the Thames waters sent out by the Grand Junction and by the Lambeth companies were of similar quality to those supplied in the previous month. The Lea water supplied by the New River Company was, as regards organic matter, second only to the best of the deep well waters. The East London Company's water from the same source was equal to the best of the Thames. The deep well waters furnished by the Kent and Colne Valley Com- panies and by the Tottenham Local Board were of their usual excellent quality for drinking. The Colne Valley Company's water had been softened with lime, and rendered suitable for all domestic purposes. The following letter has been received by a Conser- vative working man of Leeds: Foreign Office, Nov. 6. —Sir,—In answer to your letter of the 4th instant, I am desired by Lord Salisbury to inform you that the ballot is absolutely secret, and that if the Radicals try to use force in the matter by threatening to eject from farms, &c., if the electors do not vote as they wish, they may find themselves coming under the provisions of the Corrupt Practices Act.—I am, your obedient servant, HEKRY MANNERS." An outrageous assault has been committed upon Colonel the Hon. F. 0. Morgan, M.P., Conservative candidate for Southern Monmouthshire. Preceded by a band and a number of torch-bearers, he was passing through the Owmbran Ironworks, when a number of missiles were thrown at him. A portion of a brick struck him in the middle of his back, and a tin pot caught him on the back of his head. On Tuesday morning information was forwarded to the police of the K or Bow Division of the finding of two pcrtions of a human body, and there is little doubt that a murder of a shocking character has been com- mitted. On Monday afternoon a man in one of the by-streets in Bow found the hip and right leg of a male child. Information was given to the police, and the portions of the body removed to the station, where they were examined by the divisional surgeon of police, who gave it as his opinion that the limbs belonged to a young male child, and that they had been severed from the trunk in an unskilful manner. The inspector on duty at the Bow station forwarded information of the finding of the remains to Sir John Humphreys, the coroner. In the meantime, the officers of the Criminal Investigation Department, under the direction of Inspector Wildey, are actively engaged in the case. The Armenian communities in both England and France have taken steps to interest the two Govern- ments in the claims of Armenia to justice under the provisions of the Treaty of Berlin. The Armenians in this country, in a letter addressed to Lord Salisbury on Nov. 4, express their firm hope that her Majesty's Government, which has always shown deep concern and warm sympathy with the hard lot of the Christian populations of Armenia, through the non-execution of the 61st article of the above Treaty, would be pleased to take such steps in common with the Great Powers as to ensure its due observance by the Ottoman Porte, which in the present cridis has been the first to protest against an infringement of the same Treaty by its own subjects." This letter is signed by 34 leading Armenians. A similar document, bearing 40 signatures, has been presented to M. de Freycinet by a deputation consisting of six Armenians. M. de Freycinet replied that he would study the Armenian question so as to be ready should the question be brought .forward. His tone was quite sympathetic. Lord Dufferin, after opening the new Mayo College, left Ajmere on Saturday for Oodeypore. It is reported at Melbourne that all the members of the Sydney Geographical Society's expedition to New Guinea have been murdered by natives on the Fly River. An account of the battle of Kufit, which has reached Suakim from Massowah, states that Osman Digna was not killed in that engagement. Count Hatzfeldt, the new German Ambassador, arrived in London on Saturday evening. Full information as to the course of the arbitration negotiations between the rival Liberal and Radical candidates in metropolitan boroughs was given on Saturday at a meeting of the London Liberal and Radical Council, under the presidency of Sir 0. Dilke, and the eonduct of those gentlemen who had defini- tively refused to accept the mediation of the council was strongly condemned. Liberals and Conservatives in the county Limerick have coalesced and selected candidates who will receive the support of both parties. Mr. Alderman Staples was on Saturday sworn in as Lord Mayor of the City of London, the ceretaony, as usual, takirsr place in the Guildhall. Sir R. N. Fowler, the retiring Lord Mayor, in taking leave of the officials of the justice room at the Mansion House on Saturday, expressed a hope that the time would never come when the office he held would be dissociated from the duties of the chief magistrate of the City. The Toronto City Four per Cent. Loan for 100,000 dols. has been placed there at 97. The last loan was placed in London in the spring of this year at 92. Margaret Higgins,of Ohorlton-on-Medlock, sentenced to death at Manchester Assizes for the murder of her chilli, aged fourteen months, has been respited during her Majesty's pleasure. Higgins quarrelled with her husband about tie child, of which he was not the father, and she took it to the River Medlock and threw it in, at first intending also to drown herself. After throwing the body into the water she went home and told her friends what she had done. The jury strongly recommended her to mercy. As Mrs. Howson, wife of the Dean of Chester, was leaving the Deanery, a person unfortunately stepped upon her dress, throwing Mrs. Howson down and break- ing her leg. The accident is all the more untimely as the Dean of Chester is also seriously ill. The Rev. Edwin R.Ward, curate of West Horsley Surrey, has been appointed by the Lord Chancellor Rector of St. Lawrence, Norwich. Mr. Ward has for some time past taken an active part in the formation of a Clergy Pensions Fund. An extensive fire, caused, it is believed, by a spark from burning material carried in a "Guy Fawkes demonstration," broke out on All Farm, vihiteparish, Wiltshire, and was not got under until a great deal of property was destroyed. The new Gothic church of St. Mary, erected in the suburbs of Doncaster, has been eensecrated by the Archbishop of York. Sir Edmund Beckett prepared the plans, and gave £ 200 towards the building fund. The Dean of Llandaff gave E100, and Messrs. Beckett and Co., bankers, C500. The woman Loveridge, who drowned her infant at Kingsteinton, Devon, and attempted to drown herself, about two years ago, and who was afterwards ordered to be confined in a lunatic asylum, has been liberated, in compliance with a requisition from the magistrates of the Teinbridge division. The Citizen" states that, with the assent of the District Board, the North Metropolitan Tramway Com- pany are about to run an electric car in Whitechapel. In a statement just issued the Marriage Law Reform Association say tha.t close upon 700 candidates in England, Scotland, and Wales have already given assurances of their sympathy with the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill. The number includes, with a doubtful ex- ception, every working man candidate, whether Con- servative or Liberal. A steam boiler exploded in a pork-packing house at Evansville, Indiana, with curious results. The boiler broke through the rear corner of the building, then rose 150ft., turned, and passed diagonally over the building, falling in front of it, 200ft. from its starting- point. Eleven persons were injured, two of them fatally. Paris advices, with respect to the wheat trade, state that buyers have maintained an attitude of considerable reserve upon the French country markets. Transactions have presented a quiet tone, and wheat quotations have not experienced any sensible change. The Paris wheat market has also remained in much the same state. At the weekly meeting of the Balloon Society of Great Britain, M. Pasteur was elected a life member of the society, and it was resolved that its gold medal be presented to him for his unique and splendid researches in the investigation of the causes and cure of hydrophobia. The dead body of a man found in a plantation at Wingerworth has been identified as that of a retired butcher of Claycross. Two empty bottles, which had contained laudanum, were by his side. The deceased was mentally affected some years since, and had then to be put under restraint. He was unmarried, and he leaves property to the value of about JE8000. The steamers Gaff and Mountain Girl came into col- lision on the Ohio river, near Lawrenceburg, Indiana. The latter vessel was carrying the members of a travel- ling circus, who were giving shows at the towns along the river. While attempting to cross the Gaff's bows she was run into and cut through and sunk. The crew ot the Gaff rescued all who could be saved, but seven lives are reported to have been lost. The Oeutral Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage have distributed during the past few weeks nearly 200,000 copies of the appeal to the electors which was drawn up by Mrs. Henry Fawcett. Many other pamphlets have also been circulated. The distribution has taken place chiefly in the metropolitan constituencies and the south-eastern counties, which are specially worked by the Central Committee. The publications have been sent to the committee-rooms of candidates, and of political associations, and distributed at political, social, and other public meetings. In London the great majority of the candidates are avourable to the object. The traffic returns of 33 of the principal lines of the United Kingdom for the week ending October 31 show the total receipts as amounting to £ 1,264,002, being JE23,409 less than for the corresponding week last year, whilst the mileage was £17,200, or 265 more than for the corresponding week. The aggregate receipts for the first 18 weeks of the current half-year amount to £24,441,353, being £312,305 less than for the corre- sponding period in 1884.—" Railway Times." At the Nottingham Assizes on Saturday, before Mr. Justice Denman, Henry O. Newman, 28, commission agent, was charged with wounding his wife, with intent to commit murder, on June 27. The medical evidence proved that the prisoner was deranged, and that when under a delusion he was extremely violent. He was ordered to be detained during her Majesty's pleasure. Archbishop Walsh, at the opening ot the Medical Session of the Roman Catholic University in Dublin, received an address, read by the Rev. Dr. Molloy, the rector, stating that Roman Catholics did not desire that the Universities for other denominations should be deprived of their endowments, and they regarded Trinity College with friendship, but they demanded educational endowments for themselves on an equality with the teaching institutions of other denominations. Mr. Justice Stephen, during the hearing of a case against three Irishmen charged with assault, tried at the Cambridgeshire and Hunts Assizes, strongly re- buked one witness who spoke in contemptuous terms of the Irish people. His lordship said that he had passed a great portion of his life in Ireland from choice. He was glad to testify on any occasion to the kind and sympathetic character of the people. It was a great mistake on the part of many Englishmen to louk down upon Ireland. Thare has been six outbreaks of cholera at Palermo within the last 50 years. The earliest of these, in 1837, lasted 17 weeks, and carried off 24,014 victims. The second, in 1854, lasted 14 weeks, and the third, in 1855,17 weeks, with a total together of 7134 deaths. The fourth, in 1866, continued for 13 weeks, with 3990 deaths. The fifth, in 1867, lasted 19 weeks, with 3777 deaths, and the sixth is this of the present year. During the last epidemic of 1867 the weekly number of deaths rose from nine to 1100, and then gradually decreased, and in each of the other outbreaks the epidemic reached its climax during the fifth week, except in that of 1854, when the greatest number of deaths, 2131, occurred during the second week. The Russian traveller Prejevalski has sent a letter from the neighbourhood of Khotan to the Czarevitch. He states that the Russians are much liked by the Kash- garians, who ask to be commanded by them in order to drive out the Chinese. They wish to become Russian subjects, and are ready to revolt. They state that they have plenty of arms concealed, but want a Russian chief. John Connell, described as a lieutenant in the Salva- tion Army, has been fined El 17s. by thetorough magis- trates at Beverley under singular circumstances. The army were holding a meeting in the market-place, near a house in which a person was dying. The chief con- stable, Mr Knight, asked the drummer to stop beat- ing, which he did. The defendant then took up the drumsticks and belaboured the drum in an excited manner. The defendant elected to go to prison. The Knights of Labour, Galveston, Texas, have been boycotting the Mallory Steamship Company with the Gulf of Colorado and Santa F6 Railway. The commerce of Galveston is almost totally suspended. Ships are idle; the railways are prevented from carrying goods. This boycotting prevents most of the Texas railways from moving goods trains, which remain blocked at the interior towns. The boycotting arose from a strike of white dock labourers, who have hitherto been paid 40 cents, an hour for unloading steamers, and demanded 50 cents. The company then employed negroes, who worked satisfactorily; but the whites, through the Knights of Labour boycotting the railroads, compelled idleness. An Admiral's good sei vice ^ensKiu is placed at the disposal of the Lords r'v v »r • ^it=. by the death of Admiral Sir Augustus L. Kuper, G.O.B.. Late on Friday night a t»tri:>er immed Caleb Emery savagely attacked and wounded with a knife Mr. James Brown, landlord of the Buueh of Grapes Inn, Shepton Mallett. Bcown received eight berious wounds. Emery, who is in custody, it is believed is insane, and labours under the delusion that Brown killed Emery's wife. In the Queen')! Bench Divis m, on Saturday, Justices Day and Smith were divided in opinion as to the liability of a railway company for a portmanteau left in charge of a platform porter, and afterwards stolen, and an appeal was allowed. Two defendants, the one described as a manufacturing herbalist and the other as a cnemist, have been con- victed at Bow-street Police-cou t of exposing for sale special medicines without the Excise label, and fines were inflicted in each case. The 44th birthday of the Prince of Wales was cele- brated as usual in London on Monday, and at Sandring- ham a large number of guestf, among whom was the Duke of Edinburgh, assembled to do honour to the Heir Ap- parent. A Royal salute was fired at Windsor, and the customary festive observances took place in the Royal boroughs. The inauguration of the new Lord Mayor of London was accompanied on Monday by the usual spectacular procession, which was somewhat less theatrical and more national and civic in character than many of recent years. On arriving at the Royal Courts of Justice, ^the new Lord Mayor, with his officers and other members of the Corporation, were received by the Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Grove, and Mr. Justice Cave with the nual ceremony, and afterwards returned to the Guildhall. Lewis Lyons, whose conviction for kicking a polioe- constable at a meeting in Dod-street, Limehouse, was quashed on appeal, applied on Monday to Mr. Saunders, at the Thames Police-court, for a summons for perjury against a police-constable. The dead body of a man named M'Oonnall has been found in an empty house at Belfast. It appears the deceased was drunk on Saturday night, and three young men, now in custody, carried him on a hand cart to au unoccupied house, and left him inside. His dead body was subsequently discovered, and the three men, on being arrested, were charged with killing him. General Sir Frederick Roberts with Colonels Chapman and Kitchener, arrived at Brindisi on Monday morning from England, and left at five &.m. in the Peninsular and Oriental mail steamer, the former for India, and the latter for Zanzibar. Pauperism is largely on the increase in Canterbury. The number of inmates in the Union Workhouse, according to returns made up to Saturday night, is 25 per cent. in excess of last year. The out-door relief list is also heavy. It is stated that Sir Joseph Ridgeway and other members of the British Commission for the delimita- tion of the Russo-Afghan frontier, have left their camp in the vicinity of Herat, with a strong escort, for Zulficar, where they expect to meet the Russian Commission. An explosion of gas occurred on Sunday at Filbert- street, Leicester, in a house occupied by a man named White. The doors and windows were blown out, and the furniture took fire, but the flames were speedily extinguished. The roof of the scullery was also blown off, and White was very much injured. The reported concentration of large masses of Arabs at Abou Hamed and Khartoum is confirmed from Cairo. No doubt is felt now that an organised advance is in- tended under El Khair and the other prominent Sheikhs. Four thousand Dervishes with 60, 00 forced natives, are said to be 70 miles from Akasha. An unknown coast steamer from New York on Friday, before daylight, ran down and sank pilot boat No. 6 off the New Jersey coast. One man was drowned nine others, after five hours in boats, were rescued by another pilot boat. The steamer continued her course, paying no attention to the wreck. Dr. Danford Thomas, coroner, has stated that the supposed human remains found in an omnibus at Kil- burn having been examined by Dr. Bird, divisional sur- geon of police, they are believed by him to be a portion of the stomach and internal organs of a graminivorous or grass-eating animal, probably a sheep. A donation of B150 has been granted by the Govern- ment from the Royal Bounty Fund to the daughter of the late Ab Ithel," the late widow of whom received from the year 1873 to 1884, the year of her death, a pension of £ 50 from the Civil List, in consideration of her husband's Celtic and archaeological researches. According to the Berliner Tageblatt," the Sultan of Zanzibar signed a convention about the middle of last month agreeing to the appointment of an inter- national commission, to consist of an English, a German, and a French delegate, for the delimitation of the sr German possessions and the territory of the Sultan in East Africa. President Cleveland has issued a proclamation com- manding all unlawful assemblages in Washington territory gathered because of the Chinese agitation to disperse by noon. The citizens of Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, held a meeting on Saturday, giving the Chinese 24 hours' notice to leave. The Chinese are reported to be willing to leave. The boycotting of a family named Grimn, who have taken possession of a boycotted farm at Oappamore, still continues, and forces of police have to guard the Griffins while going to and returning from service at the church. The Griffins are having a wretched life of it, none of the people in the district holding any com- munication with them. They have to draw their food and other supplies from long distances as a consequence of the boycotting to which they are subjected. Speaking at a cottage garden show at Farnham on Saturday, the Bishop of Winchester said it had been stated in a neighbouring Parliamentary division, by one of the candidates, that by the disestablishment and disendowment of the Church of England the farmers would be made so much richer that they would be able to pay the labourers 2s. or 3s. a week more wages. He had made a careful calculation, and he found that if all the proper ty of the Church were taken away it would only produce a farthing and a half per week per head of the population. He did not think that addition to their income would help anybody. Nobody would be one bit better, but rather worse, for the churches would be shut up or turned into music- halls.]

THE MARKETS. MARK LAKE. Business at Mark-lane has been on a great scale." The first supplies offering were moderate, and were sufficient for requirements. The saleir of home-grown wheat in the leading markets of England an:1 Wales during the first 10 weeks of the season were 648,372 qrs., as against 721,74s qrs. last year, the average being 8 (s Id, agamsr 828 lOd. The sales of barlsy were 842.504, against 936,235, at an average of 30s lOd, against 32s and oats, 9*5,856 qrs., at an average of 19s Id, against 1118,520 qrs.. at an average of 19s 3d per qr. last year. English wheat sold quietly. Fine samples were steady, but inferior were slower to sell. Foreign wheat met a slow sale, and was weak in value. Flour was inietive at barely late rates. Fine malting barley was firm, at 38s to 42s periqr. Inferior oats quiet. Grinding steady, at previous prices. Malt was quiet. Old English, 34s to 40s new, 37s te 42s; Scotch, 3IJs to 40s brown, 31a to 33s roasted, 27s to 38s. Oat- were firm and 6d dearer on the week. Round maize was steady at full prices. Flax told slowly Beans were firm. Peas and lentils quiet, without change. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The total imports of foreign stock into London last week amounted to 17,611 head. In the corresponding period last year we received 12,541; in 1883, 15,0sl; in 1882, 14,442 in 1881, 11,895 in 1880, 10,560; in 1879, 22,717; in 1878, 13,0-0 and in 1877, 14,644 head. At Liverpool were received 200 beasts from Baltimore. 1359 beasts from Boston, and 363 beas-s and 299 sheep from Montreal; and at South- ampton 24 beasts from Jersey and Guernsey, and 60 beasts from Oporto. The cattle trade has been qu et and feature- less. There was nothing mu-h of consequence to direct attention. The show of I'eas's fr m our own grazing districts was about the average, but although some good stock was exhibited the bulk of the supply was of secondary quality. The trade did not possess much vitality. The choicest stock was fairly steady in value with a mode- rate demand, but other breeds experienced a dragging sale. The best Scots and crosses made 5s to 5s 2d per 81b. foreign stock was in fair supply and quiet request at late currencies. The shepp pens were fairly well filled. Supp'des were more than equal to the demand, which was wanting in activity. Business throughout progressed slowly at about low rates For >e-t Downs and half-breds made f s 4d to 5s 6d per Sib. Calves and pigs were quiet at about late rates. Coarse and inferior beasts, 3s 6d to 4s second quality ditto, 4s to 4e 6d prime large oxen, 4s 8d to 5s; ditto Scots, &c., 5s to 5s 2d; coarse and inferior sheep, 4 s to 4s 6d second quality ditto, 4s 6d to 5s prime coarse-woolled ditto, CIs 2d to 5s 4d; prime Southdown ditto, 58 4d to 5s «d; large coarse calves, 3s 8d to 4e 4d; prime small ditto, 4s 6d to 4s led large hogs, 2s 8d to 3s 6d; neat small porkers, 3s 8d to 4s 4d per 81b. to sink the offal. Total enpply: Beasts, 3630; sheep and lambs, 11,490; calves, 270; milch cows, 50. Foreign Beasts, 180; sheep and cows, 1100. From the midland, home, and western counties we received 2560 beasts; from Ireland, 800; from Scotland, 90; and from Canada, 170 beasts. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET. There was a moderate supply on sale, for which the trade was bad. Prices Inferior beef, 2s 4d to 2s 8d middling ditto, 3s Od to 3s 6d prime large ditto, 3s 8d to 4s Odi prime small ditto, 4s Od to 4s 4d veal, Be 4d to 4s inferior mutton, 2s Od to 28 8d middling ditto, 3s Od to 3s 8d prime ditto, 4s Od to 4s Sd; large pork, 3s Od to 3s 4d small ditto, As Od to 4s 4d per 81b. by the carcase. FISH. Mackerel, 4s to 5a 6d per score mullets, 10s to 18s per dozen turbots, 6s fld to 12s each whitings, 8s to 14s per box; kippered haddocks, 17s 6d to 26, per kit sprats, 8s to 12s per barrel; lobsters, 158 to 40s per dozen; cod, £6 to RIO per score; crimped ditto, 8s to 15s each native oysters, 15s to 36s common ditto, 4s to 8s per 100 eels, lOd to Is 2d per lb.; plaice, 18s to 25s per pad and trawl haddocks, 9s to 15s per box. JPOTATG There was a fair supply on sale. The trade was steady, at the annexed prices:—Magnum bonums, 60s to r, I I 90s regents, 60s to 90s early roses, 70s to 90s cham- pions, 50s to 60s and Victorias, 70s to 80s per ton.