The Aberystwith Observer

THE O'SHEA SUIT, The applications for attachments for contempt made on behalf of Captain O'Shea against Mr. Tuohy, the London representative of the Freeman's Journal, and also against the proprietors and publisher of the same newspaper, for commenting on the divorce suit of O'Shea v. O'Shea and Parnell," prior to its being heard, was resumed before Mr. Justice Butt on Tuesday, when Mr. Tuohy was fined £ 100 and costs. The applications against the publisher and proprie- tors were dismissed, as also were similar petitions against the jXeiv York Herald and Star.

SHOCKING TRAGEDY. A shocking tragedy happened on Tuesday at Litlington, Cambridgeshire, a village near Royston. A labouring man named Walter Lawrence killed one of his children, and injured another so dreadfully that recovery is hopeless. His wife was getting the children ready for school when Lawrence suddenly seized a bill-hook, used for hedge-cutting, and struck down his little boy, aged four, with a fearful blow. His wife took up the child and ran out to her neigh- bours. Her husband then struck a terrible blow on the head of the girl, aged eight, from which she died shortly afterwards. He then pursued his wife, and was just on the point of attacking her when his father-in-law, an old man of 70, stopped him. The little boy was early on Wednesday morning stated to be in a dying state. Lawrence, a steady man and fond of his children, had been in ill health the last few weeks and rather strange in his mind. He was taken off soon after the dreadful affair, and conveyed to Fulboum Asylum.. v

DEATH OF COUNT ANDRASSY. Count Andrassy died on Tuesday, at Volosca, in Istria, after a very painful illness. Count Andrassy was born at Zemplin on the 8th of March, 1823, and came to the front as a public man about the time of the Hungarian revolution. A year before that momentous event he was elected to repre- sent his native town in the Hungarian Diet, and was distinguished there as a patriot orator. He had the honour after the revolution to be condemned to death -fortunately in his absence. His effigy was hanged instead of himself; and he com- pleted the liberal education of travel by an exile in Paris and London. The amnesty of 1857 permitted his return to his country, and ten years later he had the satisfaction of taking part as Prime Minister of Hungary in the rejoicings at the new Constitution and the coronation of the Emperor as King of Hungary. The emancipation of the Jews of Hungary was a stroke of policy closely identified with the name of Count Andrassy, who further became widely known by his attendance on the Emperor at such European functions as the opening of the Paris Exhibition of 1867 and the inaugnra- tion of the Suez Canal in 1869. Succeeding Count von Beust in the administration of the Foreign Affairs of the Empire, Count Andrassy consoli- dated his reputation by the part he played in the Triple Alliance, which was negotiated between him and Prince Bismarck and Prince Gortschakoff. The German alliance was not carried out without in- curring the suspicion and hostility of many of his own countrymen who regarded it as a triumph own countrymen who regarded it as a triumph for Germany, and a voluntary declaration that the Austrian Ministers must play second fiddle to Prince Bismarck. Kossuth wrote a vigorous protest against the whole Austrian policy in the East, and published it in the Contemporary Eevieiv. Count Andrassy, however, preferred the German alliance to the policy of strengthening the Dual Monarchy by greater friendliness to the Principalities in the East. For many years the name of Count Andrassy was constantly associated with the Eastern Question. In our own Parliament, and in all the Parliaments of Europe, about 13 years ago, -1 the Andrassy Note," laying down the minimum demands of the Powers from the Porte, was a burning theme till it was superseded by the Berlin Memorandum and other stages in the memorable controversy which culminated in tne Russo-Turkish war, the San Stefano Treaty, and the Treaty of Berlin. At the Congress it was Count Andrassy who moved that Prince Bismarck should take the chair. A year or two after the Berlin Congress Count Andrassy retired from active politics.

PERILOUS ADVENTURE IN THE SOLWAY. Tidings were received at Maryport on Tuesday of the steam launch Wasp, which was supposed to have gone to the bottom of the So: way Firth, with all hands. Those on board appear to have had a very perilous adventure. On Sunday four seamen, a boy, and a young lady named Storey started from Mary- port in the Wasp, intending to go to Harrington on a pleasure excursion. They eventually landed at the neighbouring port of Workington, and at eight o'clock the same evening started on the homeward voyage for Maryport, which they should have reached within an hour, but up till Tuesday nothing had been heard of them. It appears that soon after leaving Workington the steam gave out, and the little vessel could make no head- way. There was only a small quantity of coal, and this was soon exhausted. Cabin doors and every available piece of wood were broken up and used as fuel, but owing to some defect in boiler or machinery this proved useless, and the launch drifted helplessly 1 before the wind. After the furnace fire went out there was no means of signalling, as there was not 9 a single match on board. When Monday morning dawned the people on board found themselves in « the middle of the Solway, without a spare boat, ¡ I and with no compass, sails, or oars. In this emer- 1 gency Miss Storey (the only lady in the company) I took off one of her skirts, which was rigged up as a sail, but by this time the launch was rapidly filling with water, and mar'every little progress. There was no food or water, and during the whole of Monday the party suffered severely from hunger. Fortunately for them, the Scotch coast was neared towards dusk on Monday evening. Being unable to steer, they were dashed upon some rocks on a desolate part of the shore, about six miles from Kirkcudbright. The launch was completely wrecked, and it was with the greatest difficulty that the crew and lady passenger effected a landing. Even then, exhausted by hunger, they bad to walk two miles in the darkness. Then they came to a farmhouse, where they were hos- pitably entertained. The party returned to Maryport by rail on Tuesday night.

OFFENDED BY A MAP. It is asserted by the Daily News correspondent at Vienna that some offence has been given by the publication of a map which gives certain frontier districts, inhabited jointly by Servians and Bul- garians, as belonging to Bulgaria. The students of the University have protested, and it is expected that the Metropolitan Michael will resign his membership of the Society which published the offending map. A St. Petersburg correspondent adds that a second edition of the map has now been published, in which the districts in question are represented as being debatable land. The publication which contained the map was the Slavonic Almanack, which was published for the first time In January.

FIENDISH OUTRAGE AT WEST HAM. THE INQUEST. Mr. Lewis, Coroner for South Essex, opened the inquest at the Kina's Head, West ttam. on Monday. Mr. J. H. Atkinson watched the proceedings for the relatives of the deceased. The coroner, in opening the case, said the jury had to inquira into a most dastardly, ferocious, and abhorrent crime. He was sure they would spare neither time nor trouble in so doing. The jury then proceeded to view the body at the mortuary, and also the house in which the dis- covery was made. Upon their return, Charles Albert Jeffs, father of the murdered girl, who appeared much affected, was examined. He said he was a machine man in the employ of the London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway. His daughter would have been 15 on the 12th of next month. He last saw her alive at 6.30 on Friday, the 31st of January, at home. She went out to buy some Ash, being in good spirits. She should not have been gone more than a half-hour, and upon her not returning the witness went to the fish shop about 7.30. Finding she had not been there, he returned home, and later on made a further search, without success. He then reported her dis- appearance to the police, and nothing more was heard until last Friday, about half-past one, when he re- ceived information that her body had been found in an empty house in Portway. His daughter had left school about 12 months, and since then had been at home, with the exception of April to September, when she was on a visit at Weston-super-Mare. She had a short time ago, for about a month, acted as nurse girl to a Mrs. Knox, in West Ham. She had no friends in the neighbourhood that he was aware of. She was always a good, obedient, and affectionate girl, and had no followers" to the best of his knowledge. A COMPANION'S STORY. Elizabeth Harmer, a little girl about eight years old, said she lived at 16, West-road. She knew the deceased. Witness heard that the deceased was miss- ing on the same night-the 31st ult. Between six and seven o'clock that evening witness was standing outside No. 30, West-road, when she saw the deceased, and asked her where she was going. The deceased replied, Up by West Ham Church." The deceased, who was alone and had a basket, then passed on. It was eleven o'clock that night that she heard the deceased was missing. The Coroner: Do you know where her body has been found ?—Yes, sir. Where I met her was the other side of the house. I did not see any man near her nor loitering about. By Mr. Atkinson The deceased only said she was going up by West Ham Church," but did not say what she was going for. By the Jury: Witness was not in bed at eleven o'clock on the night of the 31st ult. She was in a shop when she heard that Minnie Jeffs was missing." Witness was not asked whether she had seen her. At the suggestion of Mr. Atkinson, the Coroner said it would be better that the caretaker should be out of the court while the evidence of Sergeant Forth was being taken. Mr. Jeffs (re-called) said he forgot to state that before the deceased went to Weston-super-Mare she was in the service of a Mrs. Harvey, near Portway, but left after being there a month, because Mrs. Harvey wanted her there all day on Sundays. Witness did not know of any male visitor, but had only heard since that there was one while the deceased was in service there. Mr. Atkinson You have only heard that ?— Yes. THE POLICE SEARCH. Detective-sergeant Forth, of the K Division, stated that since the deceased was missed, he, with Inspec- tor Widey and Inspector Langrish, had the case in hand. In consequence of an arrangement that the unoccupied houses in the district should be smarted, witness, on Friday last, went with Police-coaftble Cross to search the houses, commencing at The Portway. Having searched some of the Mouses, witness and the constable went to the last unoc- cupied one, and saw the caretaker, Mr. Roberts, sen. Mr. Roberts then accompanied them up to No. 126. Some of the front doors of the houses were open. Mr. Roberta said he could not let them go into No. 126, as he had not the key, and never had it. Police-constable Cross then went to the rear, and called out that he had the window open. The con- stable got in at the window, opened the front door, and admitted witness and Mr. Roberts. Cross went down to the cellars, and witness went upstairs, and on the landing at the foot of the top stairs he found a penny. The brooch (produced) was on the top land- ing. He went into the front room on the top floor, and noticed dusty appearances on the floor, from the doorway to the window, as if something had been dragged. FINDING THE BODY. On opening a cupboard, under a kind of slanting roof, he saw the body lying just inside. He could not see the head. The left knee was just exposed. The deceased's knees were slightly drawn up. Witness at once called Police-constable Cross, who came upstairs. They then saw, by the aid of the descrip- tion in their possession, that it was the body of the missing girl. Dr. Grogono, the divisional surgeon, was sent for. The basket was in the cupboard, and the girl's hat was on the basket. All her other clothing was on the body. On the following day witness compared the heels of the deceased's boots with some footprints in the dust on the floor of the back room, and they corresponded exactly. On the top flight of the stairs was a halfpenny. There was only lid. found altogether. 2 In the basket was a latchkey. On searching the other part of the house there were found a piece of common rope and a broken piece of a clay pipe. There had never been a fastening on the kitchen window. By Mr. Atkinson: At No. 126 the caretaker used all his keys, and said he could not get admission. The doors were all open at No. 126. The penny, halfpenny, and brooch were about eight stairs apart— all within a yard and a yard and a half of each other. There was a slight indication of a struggle having taken place in the back room on the top floor. Witness had not seen any dust on the girl's dress. Assuming there had been a struggle, it could not have taken place in the cupboard. He did not see any nailed footmarks as of any man. A juryman called attention to the clean state of the deceased's boots. He thought that if she had passed over a muddy road there would have been dirt on the boots. Sergeant Forth said the boots were in the same state as when taken from the body. Several of the jury said that, from the clean state of the boots, it was impossible the deceased could have got into the house at the back way. The Coroner: Probably someone got in at the back way and let her in at the front. THE MEDICAL EXAMINATION. Dr. Grogona stated that on Friday, about noon, he was called to No. 126, Portway, and saw the body. He noticed that the deceased had been violated. There were marks of constriction round the throat, and a scarf was on it, but not tied. At the mortuary he jarefully examined the body externally. There was L slight bruise on the left knee; her face was swollen, pupils dilated, and the tongue was swollen and pressed tightly against the teeth. There was a deep jonstriction round the throat, and where it crossed ( behind there was a slight bruise. He made a post- nortem examination. The membranes of the brain I were very much congested, the vessels being gorged with blood. The left lung was adhering to the chest walls, the result of an old attack of pleurisy. Both lungs were engorged with blood. The right side of the heart was full of blood, the left side nearly empty. The stomach contained about half a pint of fluid. The cause of death was suffocation. There had been great violence used. SHOULD A REWARD BE OFFBBED ? The Coroner said the question had been raised as to offering a reward for the murderer's apprehension. He had seen the Home Secretary on the matter, and was to have another interview. A juryman remarked that he believed the Home Office did not now offer rewards in such cases. If that were so, he suggested the desirability of a sum being raised locally, by the West Ham Cerporation and the public. Several jurymen intimated their willingness to con- tribute towards such a fund, one offering a cheque for j621, while another juror said he would give £5. It was agreed that a committee of the jurymen should meet and report to the coroner. A juror remarked that they were indebted to the Rev. Canon Scott for the action he had taken, and he (the juryman) felt sure the police, who had always done their best to detect crime, would leave no stone unturned to trace the criminal. The coroner said that any recommendation of the jury respecting such matters might come at a later state of the inquiry. The inquest was accordingly adjourned.

BURIAL OF THE MURDERED GIRL. The funeral of the girl Amelia Jeffs, who was so foully murdered, took place on Wednesday, and both at West Ham Church, where the first part of the service was conducted, and at the cemetery, there were large crowds. Many beautiful wreaths were sent to be placed upon the coffin. The police are still without any real clue to the murderer. A case is reported from Walthamstow of a girl having been induced to accompany a man to an empty house on the ground that she was wanted as a servant before the furniture came in, but the girl succeeded in escaping from an attempted outrage upon her.

ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO MURDER AN M.P. COMMIT rAL OF THE PRISONER. At Richmond Police-court, on Wednesday morning, the young woman, Elizabeth Vincent, was brought up on remand charged with shooting Major Isaacs, M.P., with intent to murder him, at Richmond on the 8th of October last. Mr. T. Duerdin Dutton, solici- tor, defended the accused. Mr. St. John Wontner again appeared for the prosecutor. There was a crowded attendance of the public. When the case was called on at eleven o'clock, the chairman of the Bench handed to Mr. Dutton some written communication which he had received through the Commissioner of Police, addressed to the prisoner. Major Isaacs, recalled, gave further evi- dence as to the document which was produced at the last hearing, and from which a piece had been torn. He said he now found that the sum which the prisoner demanded in that document was not d610,000, but £ 20,000. The prisoner had been described as 22 years of age, but she had completed her 27th year. He could not, on his honour as a gentle- man, say that the pistol went off accidentally. The prisoner said that if he did not sign the document she would shoot herself and make the whole thing public. Dr. Mathias Noott described the injuries to Major Isaacs, and said the bullet was still embedded in the upper part of the right arm. Mr. Wontner said that he did not now purpose to offer any evidence as to the later threats, but to re- serve it for the assizes. The prisoner, on being for- mally charged, reserved her defence, and was com- mitted for trial at the Central Criminal Court on the 3rd of March. She was removed in custody. The proceedings lasted only a few minutes.

MR. BROADHURST, M.P. Mr. Henry Broadhurst, M.P., has resigned the secretaryship of the Trades Union Congress Parlia- mentary Committee. In a letter to the chairman of that body, Mr. Broadhurst says: I fully intended to take this step at the Dundee Congress, but ab- stained from doing so because at that time a wrong interpretation would probably have been given to my resignation." We regret to learn that the cause of Mr. Broadhurst's retirement is the inroad made by chronic disease during the last two years into what was formerly a robust constitution. Mr. Broadhurst concludes his letter as fol- lows I am glad to be able to inform the trades that during the 15 years I have acted as sec- retary to the committee I have never been more in harmony with my colleagues than at the present time. I hope and believe that we are only on the threshold of new and great advances in the position of labour. I am confident that the Congress has a great future before it, and that the trades will wisely guide its policy to successful issues. I now thank the trades for their long-continued confidence, and for the many kindnesses they have shown me. I assure them that so long as I remain in public life my services will, as opportunities offer, be at the disposal of the good cause to which I have hitherto mainly devoted my life."

DEATH OF MR. BIGGAR The death was announced on Wednesday morning of Mr. Joseph Biggar, M.P. for West Cavan, a well- known member of the Parnellite party. Mr. Biggar had not been in robust health for some time, but we are not aware of any anxiety having been enter- tained as to his condition. He was in the House of Commons on Tuesday night, and acted as teller for the minority in the division on Mr. Parnell's amend- ment to the Address. His death, which was attri- buted to heart disease, was, therefore, very sudden and unexpected. Mr. Biggar, who was rather more than 60 years of age, was a native of Belfast, where he succeeded his father in a prosperous business as a provision merchant. In local affairs Mr. Biggar took a great interest, was for several years Chairman of the Belfast Water Commissioners, and was pretty well known for his advanced views, both in Imperial and local politics. It was not, however, until 1874 that he devoted his energies exclusively to Irish politics as member for County Cavan. Mr. Parnell and he practically made their appearance together in the House of Commons. In those days Mr. Biggar held the position of Gamaliel to the incipient Irish leader. To the Member for Cavan, it is shrewdly suspected, we owe the ingenious device of Parliamentary obstruction which, under his fostering care, was carried to remarkable per- fection even when Mr. Biggar and Mr. Parnell were its sole devotees. As the number of Nationalist members increased, Mr. Biggar retired from the speaking department, and devoted himself more to the administrative affairs of the party. He was one of its whips, and very popular among the members; for, under a rough exterior, he bore a generous and kindly heart, Very general regret was expressed in the Lobby of the House in the afternoon when his death was announced. Though not* an Adonis, Mr. Biggar had to run the gauntlet of a breach of promise action, having, in the result, t o pay the fair plaintiff, Miss Hyland, the sum of JE400 as solatium for wounded feelings.

THE COURT AT WINDSOR. The Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess Henry of Battenberg with their infant children, and attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, left Osbcrne shortly after ten o'clock on Wednesday morning, and embarked on one of the yachts for Gosport. The party on landing at the Clarence Victualling Yard were received by the officials of the port, and conducted to a special train which left at noon for Windsor, travelling via Basingstoke. Windsor was reached at twenty minutes to two, and the party prove at once to the Castle. The Queen was looking well.

KILLED BY A FIRE-ENGINE. Shortly after one o'clock on Tuesday morning a fire broke out in the extensive warehouse of Messrs. Gay, Armstrong, and Co., furriers, Felix-street, Westmin- ster-bridge-road, London. The fire, seen from a dis- tance, ^appeared to be at Sanger's Theatre, and the bright blaze and the expectation that the theatre was burning speedily attracted a crowd. Fire-engines and fire-escapes rapidly arrived, but it was ascertained that Fortunately no person was on the premises, and the stervices of the escapes were not required. A supply af water was soon obtained, but the fire gained steadily, spreading over the warehouse, filling the ")." fiirlrt IIr north side of Westminster-bridge-road with a bril- liant light. At half-past one, as an engine came up at full gallop, a woman ran across from one side of the road to the other, just in front of the engine, the pole of which knocked her down, and the wheels ran over her, killing her instantly. Those who witnessed this sad sight cried out loudly, and several women who, hearing the cries and •shrieks, came running to the spot, when (they saw the mangled and motionless body, (turned away and wept. As each successive engine "dashed up, the people ran to meet it, waving their hands and calling to the driver to stop, thus succeed- ing in preventing the engines from driving over the corpse, but also, it must be admitted, running some risk of frightening the horses and bringing about another catastrophe. The police covered the body and watched it, the circumstances not admitting of 'its immediate removal. ANOTHER DEATH. 1 T The fire was not subdued until a very great amount of damage had been done. Unfortunately during the progress of the conflagration two firemen were buried by the fall of a wall. One of them, named Ansell, was rescued, and conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital; but the other, named Crowe, was qUite dead when discovered.

The Queen, through Sir H. Ponsonby, has notified to Sir J. Puleston, M.P., that she will be happy to pat- ronise the National Eisteddfod of Wales, which is to be held at Bangor in the Autumn.

EPITOME OF NEWS. The Board of Trade inquiry into Railway Bates was continued oa Wednesday, when some interesting evi- dence was given as to the effects that the proposed new charges and rates would have on agricultural interests connected with the carriage of milk and butter to large towns. The Furnessia sailed on Thursday from London for New York, with Mr. Barnum's circus and menagerie on board. A case in respect of the Cardiff Bank, in which im- portant questions as to the liability of managers and trustees of savings' banks are raised, came on for hear- ing before Mr. Justice Stirling in the Chancery Division on Wednesday. The arguments had not been concluded when the Court rose. In the case of De Francesco v. Mapleson and others, in the Queen s Bench Division, the plaintiff, who is part proprietor with Madame Katti Lanner of a train- ing school for dancing, claimed JE60, namely, JE30 a week, for 16 ladies of the ballet provided to her Majesty s Theatre in London last year. Judgment other 'defend ^°Ur Mapleson, and against the Mr. Benzon's affairs were agiin on Wednesday before the London Bankruptcy Court, and the inquiry was adjourned to the 18th June. The man Warren wanted by the Cambridge police for the suspected murder of his landlady, Elizabeth Barber, at Cambridge, is also wanted by the Maidstone police on the charge of felony. Warren was a collector in Maidstone for the Wesleyan and General Insurance Company, and about three weeks ago he absconded with money belonging to the company. He is about 21 years of age, and his parents reside in Maidstone. A fire broke out at 23, Upham-park-road, Chiswick, on Monday. The house was occupied by an elderly maiden lady, named Boughton Leigh, and her maid- servant. Miss Leigh never slept in a bed, taking her rest in an armchair by the side of a fire. She went to her room as usual on Sunday evening, with the fire lighted and a lamp burning, and at a quarter to five on Monday morning the servant was awakened by a scream from her mistress. Seeing flames proceeding from near the fireplace, she raised the cry of "Fire and tried to induce Miss Leigh to run out of the house. Her mistress refused, and went back to dress, the girl having to make her escape to prevent suffocation. Abouta quarter of an hour after the arrival of the first Chiswick engine, the fire was got under, the contents of one room being entirely burned, while the fire had worked its way through the fleor of the bedroom into the room below. In the meantime the firemen had got into Miss Leigh's bedroom, and found her lying behind the door, quite dead, and much burned about the body. Michael O'Brien, who is awaiting execution for the murder of his father-in-law, was conveyed back to Limerick on Monday from Dublin, where the Court of Queen's Bench on Saturday, by three judges to one, refused to quash the conviction on the points raised by counsel defending the convict. The decision of the judges is to be appealed against, and on Monday the High Sheriff received an intimation from the Under Secretary that O'Brien's execution, which was fixed for Tuesday next, has been indefinitely postponed. Two boys, named George Henry Lomax and Walter Edward Pope, were, at the Derby Police-court on Monday, remanded, charged with stealing £ 200, the property of the father of the latter. The money, which formed the proceeds of a legacy, was stolen three weeks ago from a drawer, and it was alleged that the prisoners afterwards spent C80 in extravagance at Birmingham, and booked passages to Australia in the name of Smith, depositing j690 in a bank to draw in the Colony. A Court-martial assembled on board her Majesty's ship Victory, at Portsmouth, on Monday, for the trial of Frederick Mitchell, chief engineer of the Rattle- snake, on a charge of drunkenness at mess on the 3rd inst. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and expressed deep regret for his conduct. He also handed in excellent testimonials. The Court found the charge proved, and adjudged him to lose all seniority as a chief engineer and to be dismissed his ship. Robert S. Bingham, a well-known Socialist, was charged at Sheffield on Monday with having en- couraged and endeavoured to persuade divers persons to commit murder. The proceedings were instituted by the Public Prosecutor, and arose out of a violent speech delivered from the steps of the Sheffield Jubilee Monolith on a recent Sunday. The defendant, in his speech, referred to a strike then proceeding in Shef- field, and described the men who made success diffi- cult as "traitors." He went on They are traitors to theii cause, men who do this kind of thing. If they were fighting in battle they would be shot, and serve them right. It would not be murder in that case, and to me it is not murder if one of these enemies is killed. It is killing a traitor, and traitors should hare no quarter anywhere." It was alleged on the part of the prosecution that Bingham's speech had the effect of causing violence, whereby two of the non- strikers were seriously injured. A police-sergeant ststed that a bystander remarked on hearing the de- fendant's speech, If this was said in Ireland, he would be run in." The prisoner was committed to the assizes for trial. The Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Denmark arrived at Stockholm on Monday morning. The King met their Royal Highnesses at the railway station, and gave a grand dinner in their honour at the Palace in the evening. The French Government have withdrawn the pro- hibition imposed on the Due de Luynes after the Orleanist meeting last week, in respect to his visiting the Due d'Orleans in gaol. Considerable commotion was caused in St. Mary's Church, Southampton, on Sunday, when a woman rose from the body of the church and objected to the banns of her son, which had just been read for the second time. The grounds of objection were that the lad was under age (enly between 17 and 18), a sailor in the Royal Navy, receiving only boy's pay, and, therefore, unable to keep a wife. At the close of the service the woman had an interview with the clergy in the vestry. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the Foreign Office. The Ministers present were the Mar- quis of Salisbury, the Right Hon. A. Balfour, Earl Cadogan, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. H. Chaplin, Viscount Cranbrook, Viscount Cross, Lord George Hamilton, Sir M. Hicks-Beach, Lord Knuteford, the Right Hon. H. Matthews, the Right Hon.. C. T. Ritchie, the Duke of Rutland, the Right Hon. W. H. Smith, and the Right Hon. E. Stanhope. The Secretary to the Admiralty announces that her Majesty's ship Conquest has returned to Zanzibar un- injured, after having been ashore for 12 hours. Mr. Ritchie will bring in a bill to provide an appeal from a sanitary authority failing to carry into effect the Allotments Act of 1887. Cardinal Manning, in reply to an inquiry concerning the proposal of the German Emperor on the labour question, pronounces this Imperial Act to be the wisest and worthiest that has proceeded from any Sovereign of our times. All the German papers praise the address which his Majesty recently delivered to the State Council. A telegram from Spandau adds that the Minister of War has presented the decorations which the Emperor had conferred on the foremen and work- men in the Royal factories, and stated that the Govern- ment would make provision for increasing the wages of old workmen, according to the length of their ser- vice The Persian Monarch, which broke down when ] crossing the Atlantic, through an accident to her pro- < peller, has returned to Queenstown. 1 Prince Nicholas of Montenegro will accompany his consort, the Princess Milena, on her approaching visit ( to the Russian Court. A largely-attended meeting of men employed in r Devonport Dockyard was held on Saturday to discuss r their grievances. Mr. Sprow, secretary of the Dockers' I Union, Portsmouth, addressed the employes, and strong a complaint was made that piecework and skilled labour s were often insufficiently remunerated. It was stated that a movement was on foot to organise all workmen in the employ of the Government in one large combined Union. The meeting, by a large majority, resolved to join the Dockers' Union, which has its headquarters in r. London. i The dead body of Mr. William Cecil, aged 19, son of Mr. Cecil, of Bregner, Christchurch-road, Bournemouth, was on Saturday morning found floating in the River Avon at Christchurch. The deceased, who had lately become much depressed, owing in part to his having failed to pass certain examinations for a Government appointment, left home at Bournemouth on the after- noon of January 18, and was subsequently seen walk- ing along the sands in the direction of Christchurch. His broken walking-stick and a hat were picked up in a meadow by the river side near Hengistbury Head a few days afterwards, but nothing further was seen or heard of him until his body was found on Saturday morning. He had lately been examined as to hismental condition, and his prolonged absence had given rise to the suppo- sition that he had committed suicide. The police at Sale, Cheshire, made a singular dis- covery on Friday evening of last week. Two men named Samuel Louis Voorzanger and Aaron Louis Voorzanger, his brother, from Amsterdam, were locked up on a charge of defrauding the Manchester and South Junction Railway Company of the fare between Sale and Old Trafford. On the police search- ing them, they found in Aaron's possession about £ 2000 worth of diamonds. On Saturday, at the Sate Police-court, the case was gone into, and a gentleman named Willing explained that they had m&de a mis- take, not understanding English customs, in not having taken a ticket. The Bench, while thinking they had acted very suspiciously, gave them the benefit of the doubt, and discharged them on payment of coats. The Duo d'Orleans has been allowed to attend Mass, to take exercise in the courtyard of the prison, and to be supplied with books for his amusement after the bpief period has expired during which his friends may visit him. Questions were put in the Spanish Cortes on Satur- day about the reported intention of Great Britain to construct a dock at Gibraltar. The Government re- plied that they would not neglect national interests in their relations with England. The Lisbon Academic Society has been dissolved by order of the police, for having fomented political dis- turbances. The trial of the prisoners arrested in con- nection with the manifestations early in last week com- menced on Saturday before the Correctional Tribunal. All excitement has now disappeared from the streets, though the irritation existing amongst all classes on account of the British ultimatum has not yet worn off. Prince Jerome Napoleon arrived in Rome on Satur- day night. He is expected to stay there several days. The Fracass(I, a paper which has the reputation of re- ceiving information from official sources, thinks it doubtful whether the Prince will pay a visit at the Quirinal. Another small batch of non-commissioned officers, with eight ambalance men, under two lieutenants, ac- companied by a doctor, are leaving Berlin in a week hence to join Major Wissmann in East Africa. The total force under that officer is to be raised to about 2500 men, mostly natives. The Hohenzollern Museum in Berlin has just been enriched by the gift of a collection of drawings made by the late Emperor Frederick when he was a child. The new Mausoleum in Charlottenburg, in which the Emperor Frederick is finally to be laid, is to be conse- crated on the 9th of March, the day of the late Em- peror William's death. The Emperor and Empress, with all the Royal family, and the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Baden will be present at the solemnity. A concert hall of unusually large dimensions is to be erected in Salzburg, to be called the Mozart Fest- spielhaus." It is intended for the performance of classical music during the summer months, and will be a sort of rival institution to the Wagner Theatre at Bayreuth. The programme is not to be confined to Mozart, but will not include any of Wagner's music. A splendid site has been secured for the building on the Plateau of the Monchsberg, overlooking the birthplace of Mozart. The plans for the hall are by the celebrated architects Fellner and Helmer. M. Waddington presided on Saturday at the annual dinner in support of the French Hospital and Dis- pensary in London, and in responding to a warm com- pliment paid him by the Lord Mayor, said he bad only tried straightforwardly and honestly to do his duty to his country. It was announced that the institution would remove to its new premises in Shaftesbury avenue in a few months. The Lord Mayor of London on Saturday distributed the prizes awarded after the fifth competition amongst English schools and colleges to French masters and mistresses. His lordship was presented with a diploma of honorary membership of the National Society of French Masters. The Attorney-General, speaking in Oxford on Satur- day, urged his bearers to study the Report of the Special Commission. He declared that it established, as beyond doubt, all the charges which he bad made against the Irish party. He went through the charges individually, and quoted from the findings of the judges in proof of his assertion that every one had been sustained. Mr. F. Dicksee, R.A., presided on Saturday at a lecture to the students of the Working Men's College, by Dr. J. G. Fitch, on the National Gallery. The lecturer remarked that the full intellectual advantage which the gallery was capable of rendering could only be obtained by repeated visits, each with a definite purpose, and with the determination only to do one thing at a time. He indicated a parallelism between the art and poetry of various epochs; the artificial landscapes of Pousein and Salvator Rosa with the clas- sicalities of Pope and Boileau; the faithful rendering of the visible world by Wilson and Gainsborough with the healthier poems of Cowper, Thomson, andCrabbe; and the deep insight into nature of Turner with the profound meditations of Wordsworth. The First Commissioner of Works has replied to an inquiry from the Corporation of Kingston-on-Thames, that it has been decided not to make any change at pre- sent in the rules of admission to Hampton Court-park. A pastoral letter from Cardinal Manning was read on Sunday in the churches of the Roman Catholic See of Westminster, in which he asked for support for the schools and orphanages of the diocese. A young man smashed the window of a jeweller's shop in the Holloway-road on Saturday night, and stole a cushion upon which a diamond bracelet and three diamond brooches were exhibited. He made off, fol- lowed by a iady who had seen the theft. Noticing that he was pursued, he threw away the cushion and brooches, but made his escape with the bracelet, which was worth JE200. A fatal accident occurred on Saturday at the offices of the Local Government Board. Two workmen were painting the ceiling when a plank on which they were standing suddenly slipped, and they fell from a height of 30ft. One of them was instantaneously killed the other was seriously injured, and was removed to West- minster Hospital. The Surrey Volunteer Equipment Fund is estimated at JE5000, and the movement for raising it has been suc- cessfully inaugurated by the Earl of Lovelace, the Lord Lieutenant of the county. German bacon is being imported into Limerick to supply the demand created by the strike of pork butchers, whose surrender, however, is daily expected. Sir J. Hannen on Saturday heard an application to prevent the decree nisi for a divorce obtained by Colonel M'lver from being made absolute. The Queen's Proctor bad intervened, alleging misconduct on behalf of Colonel M'lver, who denied it in the witness-box. The petition of the Queen's Proctor was dismissed with costs. An action to recover compensation for damage done to a house by the fall of an adjoining building was tried on Saturday before Mr. Justice Charles and a jury. The plaintiffs were Miss Ashley and Miss Shannon, living at Victoria Dock, and the defendant, Mr. Simp- son, was the owner of adjoining property, the point in dispute being whether the defendant had been negligent in the mode of repairing his houses. The jury awarded the plaintiffs JE25 damages. At the Thames Police-court on Saturday, James White appeared to answer a summons charging him with intimidating a boy to prevent him working at the Copenhagen Oil Mills. The charge arose out of a strike, and the defendant was committed for trial. A fire broke out late on Saturday night on the spacious premises of the Royal Crown Derby China Company at Derby, which, although not attended with very disastrous results in causing damage to property, led to serious personal injury. Three firemen were badly hurt, two falling through a flooring and another being half buried by the falling material. The fire itself was confined to the gilding-room. It is astonishing that the damage was Dot greater, there being large quantities of valuable china in various stages of com- pletion stored in every part of the building, besides costly plant. The Board of Trade have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a despatch from her Majesty's Commissioner on the European Commis- sion of the Danube, at Galatz, relating to certain stores required by the Commission during the year 1890 According to an advertisement which has ap- peared in the local papers, tenders for the supply of the material and articles required will be opened on Saturday, the 1st of March, and sealed offers, bearing on the outside of the envelope the word II Soumission" or Tender," will be received at the Central Cash Office of the Commission at Galatz up to the above- mentioned date. A deposit of 10 per cent. on the value must accompany the tender. Tenders must give fixed prices those which contain offers of a reduction of so much per cent. will not be accepted. Lists of the articles required and a statement of the conditions of supply may be seen at the office of the Board of Trade, Whitehall-gardens. H.M.S. Calliope, 16, Captain Henry C. Kane, which was detained on her homeward voyage from the China Station on account of the Portuguese difficulty, left Zanzibar for Portsmouth on Saturday, to be paid off. Her officers and crew will doubtless obtain a hearty re- ception on her arrival, on account of the gallant con- duct they displayed during the gale at Samoa, when the vessel, it will be remembered, narrowly escaped becom- ing a wreck. Speaking at a meeting held at the Camberwell, Peck- ham, and Dulwich Conservative Club, Hanover-park, on Saturday evening, Mr. Maple, M.P., said the Empire was enjoying, under a Unionist administration, tran- quillity abroad and prosperity at home. Lord Salisbury, as Foreign Minister, had settled the Portuguese diffi- culty without the sacrifice of a single life. With regard to their leaders in the House of Commons, he (Mr. Maple) thought them worthy of the loyal support of every man who loved his country. The navigation rights of the Great Ouse, of which Mr. T. N. Kirkham has hitherto been the owner, have been purchased by a syndicate, who intend to open it up from Lynn to Bedford, and use steam as a means of locomotion. At the present time the river is only navigable as far as St. Neots, Hunts, the locks above that town being out of repair, whilst the whole course of the river badly needs cleaning. It is hoped that one result of the company's operations will be the preveatkt* of the frequent floods which now cause so much damage. It is proposed to make the river navigable as far as Bedford, and from there to cut a canal to join the Grand Junction at Newport Pagnell, Bucks, which would open up communication with Birmingham and other large towns. Another project is to connect Caxn- bridge with the port of Harwich.