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HAMPSTEAD TRAGEDY,
HAMPSTEAD TRAGEDY, NINKKAL OF THB VICTIMS. — UBMONSTBATION AGAINST THB HUSBAND. The bodies of Mrs. Frank Hogg and her infant daughter, Phoebe Hanslope, were buried on the 2nd $mt. in St. Pancras Cemetery, Fincbley, and, in spite of the rain which fell heavily throughout the morning, the interment was witnessed by many spectators. In order to avoid anything in the nature of a popular demonstration, the relatives of the deceased did their best to keep the time and place of the-bunal as secret as possible. At first it was rumoured that the murdered woman and child would be laid to rest on the following day, and than it was stated, with some ahowof authority, that the funeral was to take place on the day preceding. This attempt to deprive the people of Hampstead and Kentish-town of the opportunity of participating in an event shrouded in mystery and associated with crime seems to have led a number of persons to take great pains to acquaint themselves with the funeral arrangements. It was a matter of general knowledge that the bodies were lying in the same coffin at the premises of Mr. Clat- worthy. undertaker, High-street, Camden-town, and those whom inquiry failed to satisfy resolved to avoid missing the sad spectacle by hovering around this establishment. As early lis seven o'clock in the morning of the day finally fixed for the burial, knots of shabbily-dressed sightseers began to congregate, and although a more unpleasant day could hardly be imagined, the assemblage rapidly increased until the arrival of the hearse and mourning coaches. By nine o'clock the roadway would have been com- pletely blocked but for the presence of the mounted and foot police, who, to the number of upwards of 100, were on duty outside the undertaker's; for the purpose of clearing the thoroughfare and preserving order. The dimensions of the Crowd were variously estimated, but there were certainly between 3000 and 4000 persons in the Immediate neighbourhood of the starting-point when the coffin was removed from Mr. Clatworthy's to the hearse awaiting its reception outside. By this time many of the neighbours and business acquaints ancesof the Hoggs had arrived, and not a few carts, cabs, and waggonettes. The details of the murder were freely discussed, but there was no sign of dis- order until the first mourning coach drove up contain- ing Mr. Frank Hogg (the husband of the deceased), Miss Clara Hogg (his sister), and Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Hogg (his brother and sister-in-law), escorted by a couple of mounted policemen. At once there was a rush to peer into the vehicle, and loud hooting and hissing were indulged in. The women especially showed themselves unable to restrain their feelings towards the husband of the murdered woman, and expressed themselves with a freedom un- limited by respect for the dead or consideration for toe living. Rough summaries of parts of the already published evidence were bawled into Mr. Frank Hogg's ears, and he was plied on all sides with ques- tions both painful and vulgar. Whenever the ribaldry Showed signs of abatement the intervals were occur pied with renewed groans and hisses. No regard was shown for the presence of the other mourners, who included MM. Hogg, senior, Miss Martha Styles (Mrs. Frank Hogg's siater), Miss Elizabeth Styles (Mrs. Hogg's niece), and two brothers from Cam- bridge. Shortly before nine o'clock the melancholy procession started, attended by five mounted con- stables and accompanied for some little distance by men on foot. The horses were at once whipped up mto a smart trot, and by the time the coitege had got well into the Kentish Town-road the bulk of the original spectators had been left behind. Along the toute small crowds were to be seen from.time to time, and Mr. Frank Hogg now and again was singled out for opprobrium, but the presence of the augmented police patrols was not needed until the cemetery wad almost reached. At the gates there was a renewal of the hooting and hissing, and, in view of emergency, a large force of extra police was held in reserve close at hand and out of sight. Upon entering the burial- ground the coffin was taken into the chapel, where the service was read by the Rev. Charles Strickland, a Nonconformist, at the conclusion of whose ministra- tions some members of the congregation so far forgot themselves as to give audible expression to their con- tempt for the chief mourner. Amid drenching rain way was now made to the place of interment—de- scribed by the cemetery authorities as a third-class grave," which usually means a grave In which more than one coffin is buried—around which 200 or 300 persons had already gathered. Here, again, Mr. Hogg was the object of sallies of an un- friendly and uncompiimentary nature; indeed, 10 far was the demonstration carried that the Bev. Robert; Finch, by whom this portion of. the service was read, had to appeal to the bystanders to behave themselves. Hardly had the last words of this Lord's Prayer escaped the lips of the chaplain when an unseemly rush was made to get a view of the coffin ere the aods of earth had been cast upon 1% and one or twofof the more eager narrowly escaped precipitation into the grave. The coffin was of plain polished elm with black fittings, and upon a brass tablet bore the following inscription: "Phcebe Hosjg, aged 32, died Oct. 24th, 1890. Phoebe Hanslope Hogg. aged 18 months, Child of the above, died Oct. 24th, 1890." Of these who gazed into the last resting-place of their murdered relative. Miss Eliza- beth Styles appeared to be the most deeply affected. Overcome with grief, she leant heavily upon her brother's arm, and a moment afterwards had to be led away in a fainting conditipn by the police. As Mr. Hogg passed back to his carriage, holding his bat well over his haggard and care-worn face, he was hailed with nothing less than a storm of PRISONNU IN, COURT. J An enormous crowd assembled at the Marylebonfl Police-court on the 3rd inst., when Mary Eleanor Pearsey, otherwise Wheeler, aged 24, of 2,-Priory- atreet, Kentish Town, was charged on remand with the murder of Phoebe Hogg, a married woman, late of 141, Prince of Wafes-road, on the 24th ult. She was further charged on suspicion with the murder of Phrebe Hanslope Hogg, aged 18 months, child of Phoebe Hogg. Mr. C. F. Gill, barrister, instructed by the Treasury solicitor, appeared to prosecute, and Mr. Freke Palmer, solicitor, defended the accused. Mr. Superintendent Beard watched the case for the police. Mr. J. P. Grain said that he ap^ared on behalf of Mr. Hogg.' M*s. Pearsey was brought from Hollo way Gaol, in the prison van about nine o'clock, and plabed in a wait- ing-room in charge of the female attondanta. In the same room; was the bassinette, in which, it is alleged,, the bodies of Mrs. Hogg and her baby were conveye4, through the atreets by the prisoner to Crossfieldi- toad wbete the body of Mis. Hogg was foand. The prisoner entered the court and quietly took her place in the dock. She was dressed in black, wore kid gloves, and on her head was a black b it with a project- ing iravy brim, which shadowed the face. She looked pale, but was apparently composed. Mr. Hogg, the husband of the deceased woman, was received out- tide the court with hisses and hooting. Mr Gill, in his opening statement, gave a brie* outline of the history of tHte crime. He said that be Should fix about four o'clock on the 24th ult. as the probable time when the murder. was committed. On that subject a neighbour of the prisoner would give important evidence, as she heard the noise of the »-nashing of glass. The evidence would prove that a prisoner was the only person who could have nmitted the murder, which was carried out with < ness and deliberation extraordinary for a woman. ng referred to the evidence of Mr. and Mrs. i i* and the person who was said to have seen the oer pushing the perambulator along the a, > counsel proceeded to describe the find- ifc* f the body of the murdered woman in Cress- fielu-t i^d, and subsequently the finding of the peram- bulator in Hamilton terrace, St. John's Wood, and the body of the baby in a field near Finchiey-road. Coming to the night following the murder, c unsel said it would be shown tb>\t the prisoner had made very srr^nunus efforts to get rid of the marks of blood which were found on the articles in the room and on the walls and floor of the apartment. Evidence would be forthcoming to show that the prisoner accounted for the condition of her room by saying that there were hundreds of mice about the place and that she had been killing them. Mr. Hogg, looking pale and haggard, was again re- quested to enter the witness-box. The evidence pre- viously given by him was read over, and Mr. Hogg was further examined by the prosecuting counsel, and although his connection with the case was gone into with fuller detail than formerly, he gave his evidence quietly, and without any o? those exhibi- tions of hysteria which .formerly formed such a pain- fut feature of the police-court and the inquest pro- ceedings. The witnpaN now stated for theflrst. time that it was at tfcfe prisoner's own suggestion that she- nursed his wife. In cross examination Mr. Hogg gav-another piece of fresh t«ftimony to the effort* that-"he suspected his wife's fidelity. The magifttrfcfe? at once asked thewitueas why he did not state th..t befTf, and Mr Hogg excused himself on the groumfS of consideration, for the dead woman's good name. Clara Hogg^SMter of the last witness, living at 141. Pirixmw ot Walts-road. said her brother aDd bus wife lived on the second floor in the same house. She had known the prisoner for about four years, and had seen her at various times. She nursed Mrs. Hogg last February. Since then the prisoner had not visited the deceased, but she bad come to see the witness and her mother. The witness saw her at their house on the Thursday night before the murder. She did not see her on the Friday. Sbe knew nothing about her having written letters to Mrs. Hogg. She had not noticed th»fc Mrs fli)t g had be"n aiiing since her illness in February. She did not see much of hfr sister-in-law. They were always good friends, but not intimate. She remembered her brother going to work on Oc*. 24, and she spoke to Mrs. Hogg on that morning. At three in the after- noon she s&w the deceased 1- ave the house with the child in the bassinette, and observed her turn to the right in the direction of Priory-street. She never again saw her alive, and she knew that she did not return home that night. On the Saturday morning she (the witness) went round to Priory-street, as her brother asked her to do so. The prisoner opened the door. She (the witness) asked, Did you see Phcebe yesterday?" and the prisoner said "No." She repeated the question, adding, 1, She has not returned home all night." The prisoner then said As you press me, I will tell you Sh" did come here at five o'clock yesterday afternoon, and asked me if I would mind the baby a little, which I refused, and she then asked me to lend her some money. I said I could not, as I only had Is I'd. in my purse, but that she could have the shilling if she liked. I did not tell you this before, because Phoebe so wished me not to tell any one that she had been round here." Was anything said after her return about the scratches on her bands? Yes; she said she had been killing mice, and had smeared the dresser with the blood from them. They were running about in thousands. The witness, continuing, said she later on heard of the, murder, and she said to the prisoner, Don't be frightened but Mrs. Barraud has just told me there has been a frightful murder at Hampstead. I hope it is not her." The prisoner went out and bought a newspaper, and on returning said, You take it and read 1 can't." The witness read it aloud, and the prisoner made .no observation. She (the witness) believed that the description was that of Mrs. Hogg from the cut of the linen and t e marks. Pri- soner sad, "Oh. no; Frank will bring Phoebe back from Chorley Wood all right." Mrs. Pear- sey then went out and got another paper, in which the description was fuller, the perambutator being mentioned. When she had read the second description she (the witness) said she felt certain it was Mrs, H6gg, and that she should go up to the mortuary and tee. Prisoner said, Wait a little while and see if she comes from Ricksmansworth." She, however, was too anxious to wait, and they both went to the Hampstead police-station, whence they were taken to the mortuary. When Mrs. Pearsey saw the body she said," Ob, no; that is not Phoebe," but she (the witness) said, M They are Phoebe's clothes, but I cannot recognise the face." A gentle- man there then washed the blood off the face, and she was able to recognise her, and exclaimed, "Oh, yes; it is her." As she took hold of the dead woman's hand, prisoner grasped her arm and said, Ob, doia't touch, it Lot us go out." She (the witness) said, ♦'Don't draft, me. You go out. It is Phoebe." She dragged her twice but did not say anything more. When she saw the pri- soner on Saturday morning, the prisoner spoke to someone in the bedroom, and pulled the door to after her. The prisoner never said who the person was to whom she spoke. By Mr. Freke Palmer: It was, before the prisoner spoke to some one in the passage that she told me the deceased was there at five o'clock the day before. I live in the same house with my brother Frank. He lived on good terms with his wife. My mother was present when the conversation took place as to the paper and the finding of the body. Sarah Butler, the wife of Walter Butler, a mason, living in the same house as the prisoner, said that she occupied the second floor, and had known Mrs. Pearsey for some time. She knew Mr. Hogg by the name of Mr. Pearsey, from what the prisoner bad said. She had seen him frequently there. There was another man who went there every Monday, and she sail that was her father. On the24th ult., about six o'clock in the evening, the witnpsa returned home from a walk, and on opening the street door found the oil lamp, which was usually put up by the prisoner, was not alight. The witness found a bassinette in tke passage, and Mrs. Pearsey was standing by her room door. The latter said, Mind," and the witness replied, All right, ma'am, I can feel what it is." The wit* ness got past the perambulator, and went upstairs. She noticed that the prisoner had her hat on. As she was going upstairs Mr. Butler opened the street door and came in. Ten minutes afterwards the witness went out again, and found the perambulator was gone. It was between 10 minutes and a quarter past six. She saw no more of the prisoner that night, nor did she bear anything more of her. The next morn- ing she (Mrs. Butler) came down at about eight o'clock, and noticed on opening the back door a lot of burnt paper on the mat and in the passage. She went into the yard and noticed that two panes of glass in ti>a window had been smashed, apparently from I the inside. The floor of the washbouse was smothered with water, and a large black apron was thrown over two zinc baths as though to dry, it then appearing to be still wet. About half-past ten she came down again and saw some face curtains, which Mrs. Pearseyhadontyputupafew days before, in the bath with blood on them. Cross-examined She bad seen Mra. Hogg at Mrs. Pearsey's place three times. The passage was dark when she entered it, and there might have been somebody else there without her being able to see him or her. Walter Butler, a labourer, of 2, Priory-street, said be bad lived there since Aug. J. On Oct. 21 he' came home about six o'clock, and let himself in. On opening the door he fo!*nd that the I'ght was not there. The prisoner came up to him, and exclaimed, Mind, Mr. Butler, there is a bassi- nette in the, passage. Allow me to hand you by." The bassinette was on the right-hand side between the street-door and the parlour-door. Mrs. Pearsey gave him her band and led him past the bassinette. She seemed to speak cifferenWy to what she usually did. She waa dressed and had her hat on. At a quarter-past seven he and his wife went out, and there was nothing in the hall then. On the Satur- day morning the prisoner spoke to him as she came downstairs, at a quarter to nine, and said, "Mr. Butler, could you tell me what time it was when you came home and found a bassinette in the passage ?" He replied, Yes, between six and ten minutes past." Elizabeth Rogers, wife of a bricklayer, said she iived in Priory-place, and had worked for the prisoner for about six months. On Oct. 24 she was turning into Priory-place, hut before; che reached the railway arch she met Mrs. Pearsey wheeling a bassinette. It wa# in the middle of the road, and appeared to be heavily laden. It was higher up at the hood end than where the bundle was. She was pushing it along-, and it seemed to be a hard job. Did you see her do anything as she passed jI- Yes. She dropped her bead over the handle of the "pram." Are yeu sure it waa Mrs P' arsey ?- Yes, I am. Did you notice her do anything ?—I saw her turn her head as she turned the corner to go to war os the railway station. Sue was coming liouithe auecUon of Priory.place. ? Cross-examined She oid not take much notice of the perambulator. The. tir8t. time she mentiooed the occurrence was to her moth** on the Sunday, she having then seen the reports in the papers. Mrs. 8. Macdonald, Police.com-bole Gardner, 654 3, and Inspector Wright gave evi^enc* as to the fiuaing of the body, and Detective-sergeant Brown as to searching the road at the spot. At this point the hearing was adjourned for eight days. A large crowd of, persons still remained outside the court, and as tbe deceased's husband lett the bunding he was again loudly hissed, and had to be protected by the police. Shortly afterwards the prisoner leiC in the 1 an for Holloway Gaol sand ioud hootmgs.
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A KK'.V porti-ait of Prince Bismarck, by Herr Len- bach. is being exhibited in Berlin, showing the Prince as » country squire, no longer, as a public official. The Prince wears his usual Friedrichsruh costume -a bla. k frock-coat buttoned up nearly to the throat, with only a.scrap of white necktie peeping above, and a shooting-cap. He looks straight out of 'the. picture, his eyes seeming to pieree tbe spec- tator.. TBS Treasury have granted an Important conces- sion in response to representations from tbe Leeds Chamber of Commerce, the Law Society, and other local- bodiea, by empowering the Island Revenue Department In that town to stamp documents which" had previously to bs sent to Somerset House at »*rti- chsstet.
I* EPITOME OF NEWS,
EPITOME OF NEWS, JOHN BRIGHT always considered his speech on tha seeong reading at the Burials Bill, in 1883, his greatest oratorical effort. So bdr. Osoorne Morgan assures us. WHILE in France there is one doctor to every 3000, and in Germany one 10 every 15U0 inhabitants, in the United States there is one to every 600 possible patients. THEKE is said to be still standing at Brush Creek, in Muskingum county, Ohio, the unstylish but sub- stantial log crfbin m which Gariieid taught the boys of that district. A BLACKBUBN draper, named Critchley, went to see his sweetheart, and, after taking leave of her, he swallowed a dose of prussic acid, dying at her feet immediately afterwards. Mas. CxuFEN, a Glasgow widow, endeavoured to reach a scrubbing brush which had fallen from a window. In doing so she fell through the glass roof of a warehouse and was killed. THE average price of wheat during the three months ending wicb September was 34s. 4d. per quarter, the mean prices in tha preceding two quarters having been 20s. lOd. and 32s. 8d. IN the United Kingdom 278,418 births and 155,903 deaths wete registered in the three months ending 30th September, 1890. The natural increase of population was, therefore, 180,515. THE Anti-Tobacco Society of France has just lost its doyen, a M. Kenaudin, who died at Vielle Evrard, in his 106th year. He had not used tobacco once in his life, according to his own boast. SOPHIA GRIEG, the daughter of an Aboyne man, was a subject of r, ligious mania. She left her father's house at four o'clock the other morning, and walked into a pond with only her nightdress on. The poor girl was drowned. THE 122,320 deaths registered in England and Wales in the last quarter included 35,348 of infants under one year of age, 56,870 of persons aged between one and 60 years, and 30,102 of persons aged 60 years and upwards. THE prices of the best sea-borne coal in the London market, put in barge from the collier in the Thames, averaged 18s. 8d. per ton during the last quarter, against 14s. and 15s. 9d; in the corresponding quarters of 1888 and 1889 ONCE more the Duke of Portland appears to be in luck. Extensive seams of coal have, it is believed, been discovered on his grace's estate at Gringley Carr, North Notts. Two labourers came upon a deposit at a deptjL 3* 4ft. THE pessimists who have declared that matrimony is becoming less popular are confounded. More per- sons were married in the quarter ending June than at any time since the prosperous year of 1876, with the sole exception of 1882. THE return of better times in trade has been fol- lowed steadily by the normal rise in the number of weddings, and this growth is seen in every part of England and Wales, except the six counties of Kent, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Somerset, Hereford, and Somerset. IN Dr. Richardson's dream of Hygieia, the Utopian city of perfect health, the ideal yearly mortality was only 8 per 1000. Hove, the West-end of Brighton, is on the high road to perfection. Its death rate last quarter was at the rate of 10'2 per 1000 per annum. BKTTKB news for the ladies: the marriage rate is rising. The Registrar-General states that 118,088 persons entered the holy bonds in the three months ending June last, which corresponds to an annual rate of 161 persons out of every 10,000 of the popula- tion. ONE member of official authority, who has been through all the Mid-Lothian campaigns since 1885, has said that Mr. Gladstone was stronger, in better Spirits, and with more reserve of power last week than he was when he went down to the county nearly five years ago. G. BLANC went to El Paso, Texas, from Hudson's Hot Springs, Arizona, about a week ago. accom- panied by a notorious woman. They drank heavily while in El Paso, and the other morning they were found dead in their room. Blanc killed the woman, and then himself. I DO not impute their action to cowardice," said Lord Eartington, in reference to the absconding of Messrs. Dillon and O'Brien, 11 for I am bound to admit that they, like all the Irish members, have always shown themselves perfectly ready to take all the con- sequences of their actions." IN many of the agricultural counties there would seem to have been a notable making-up of,arreare in the matter of marriages. Berkshire and-Hertford- shire, in the quarter ending June, showed an improve- ment of over 20 per cent., and little Rutland 50 per cent. Is this the result of allotments ? AN American literary visitor to Mr. Gladstone declares that the ex-Premier named the four follow. ing men as the only literary geniuses of the day- Tennyson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kippling, and Meredith. To say the least, the conjunetioll is odd. Perhaps the Ameriean visitor is mistaken. A GENTLEMAN named Burt recently had a queer experience in a German spa. On applying for his liters at the local post-office he received a whole packet of letters which had been addressed to a couple of baronets who bad been staying in the place, and whose title of Bart." was misread for the name Burt. THE skeleton of Ernest Schluter, who disappeared with his two children from Racine, Wisconsin, in March, 1887, has been found buried in the cellar of his former home. No trace of the bodies of the children can be found; but it is believed that the en- tire family were murdered and the bodies buried on the premises. MADAME. BLANCHE ROOSEVELT MACHMTTA, the American authoress, has had a graceful compliment paid her. The Russian Ambassador to Britain, before leaving St. Petersburg, asked the Czarina what gift be should bring her upon his return, to which she replied, "The photographs of six of the most beau- tiful ladies in London." In due time the Czarina received the photographs beautifully grouped within one frame, In the centre was a large head of the Princess of Wales, surrounded by five smaller ones, which were simply; portraits of Madame Blanche Jloosevelt in different poses, AN elephant's tutk, which turned the scale at lOOltM., was sold at a London ivory sale tbe other day. Tonus was again not a single death from small- pox in any of the 28 great towns of England and Wales. THB Bishop of Ely will, now have a seat in the Lords. This, of course, is in consequence of the vaeahcy in the see of Rochester. THB annual death-rate per 1000 In London, which bad been 17-4 and 20-5 in the preceding two weeks, declined last week to 19'5. GEOFFREY AusHTON, of Southport, took a gun into the kitchen to amuse his little brother James. Sud- denly the gun went Off, and poor James was killed. "IT is a fallacy to suppose," so the Lord Chief Justice assures us, that eloquence has left the Bar, lingered In Parliament, and almost deserted the pulpit." FEW recall that our Duke of Wellington is really and truly Due de Ciudad Rodrigo and Due of Vittoria in Spain, Marquis of Torres Vedras and Count Vimiera In Portugal. DB, SO THIEMANN'S brother-in-law, P. Kastromenos, has discovered on the Isthmus of Corinth, two pre- historic tumuli, which he believes to be identical with the tombs of Siayphus, and of Neleus, father of Nestor, of which Pausanias speaks in his description of the territory of Corinth. PUNDIT ABINASlI CHUNDBB KABIRATNA, a practi- tioner of Hindoo medicine in Calcutta, is endeavour- ing to encompass the revival of Hindoe medicine and the literature relating to i". Among other stops,be is se-king the aid of the Government of India and of local gav> rnirents. LoaD KNUTSFOBD has conferred the important appointment of Auditor-General of Ceylon, which has become vacant by the death of Mr. W. H. Ravens- croft, and the salary of which is 20,000 rupees per annum, upon Mr. Saunders, the Government agent in the ^esters Provinces of Cfylon. THH \'a»ab of Tonk is introducing reforms in his gaol »i:n*n<atration. He has issued orders that in future every inmate of the gaols is to be taugbt a tracer profusion, which, on release, they will be abtf) to fall back upon for their livelihood, and thus, avoid having recourse again to crime. IT is believed to be Mr. Gladstone's intention to deliver a lecture at Eton College during the present. half. THE Duke of Fife has resigned his membership of the Reform Club. The srep was hot, however, prompted by political considerations. It the course of, her ctreer Madame Pauline Lucca has sang in no less than 72 different operas, of which 16 were in two languages, Gernian aud Italian; MWH have," saya the Rev. Hugh Price HUKbplÍ, "always claimed Dr. Stephenson* as the splendid pioneer of tbe Social Cbr«tiaoity *>fr0ur Church, aod Dr. Moulton as one of the most active aa&sciaesssful ot ha oiomotMS." j THER a were 70 df-atbs from measles, 29 from scarlet fever, 23 from diphtheria, 28 from whooping-eougb, 15 from enteri* fwvunt aad 55 from diarrhoea and dysentery in London last week. Sltt WILLIAM ROBERTS remarks, in his Lectures on Dietetics," that msn has departed widely, and is departing mora and more, as regards his food, from the simpliaity and uniformity of his primitive nature." THE Solicitor-General's eon, Mr. E. P. Clarke, a young fellow of 18, has received the Royal Humana Society's medal for saving his younger brother, a boy of sevt n, who fell out of a punt in mid-stream at Staines. PEARL fishing is still carried an on the Tay, though by no means to the extent that it usrd to be. Last week a brooch was presented to a lady of the neigh- bourhood in which were 40 Tay pearls, six of them being large and valuable. THE credit of Greece has risen in the money mar- kets of the world. Loans bearing eight and nine per cent. interest have been paid off by the creation of a four per cent. stock—a rate at which Greece, un- guaranteed, never borrowed money before; AT a gymnasium in Paris it is no uncommon cir- to see elderly ladies in gymnastic costume CMBcising on the parallel bars, swings, mechanical horses, &c. Physicians recommend these exercises Ma cure for indigestion, and even rheumatism. 41 IT was," wrote Mr. Gladstone to Madame Patti, after the Edinburgh concert, a rare treat to hear from your Italian lips the songs of my own tongue rendered with a delicacy of modulation and a fineness of utterance such as no native in my recollection ever reached or even approached." ARCHDUKE OTTO of Austria has had a narrow escape and an exciting adventure. Whilst fox hunt- ing in Holiez he was thrown from bis horse and sud- denly attacked by a gigantic boar, who turned upon him, burying, its tusks in his right foot, tearing away the muscles. The archduke was rescued by a game- keeper at the risk of his life ",II TREBle is," says the Bishop of Lincoln, II one argument for shortening the working man's hours of work. That is that, whether 16 hours a day are or are not too much for bodily strength, they are too much for the heart. If I were to be toiling so that 1 never saw my children excepting when they were asleep, I should lose one of the greatest helps a man could have-namely, the help of home and the pure iove which is to be had there." "MUDIE'S Select Library"—the chief founder of which died the other day—began with a very small and modest beginning. It was first, set up in Southampton-row, Bloomsbury, and was not so much a library as a bookseller'd and stationer's shop, where bonk" "pre lent out to rc aders. By little and little it grew until it had to be removed to New Oxford- street, and there expanded gradually into the re- pository of ever-changing books with which we are familiar. A GOOD novel in tbe United States goes through a process the reverse of that which prevails in this country. Here when a book has proved its merits in three volumes, a cheap edition is pubiiahed in one Tolumefor tive.or six shillings, and people buy the cheap edition, put it on the shelves of their libraries, aad keep it. In the United States, when a book has proved its, merits in the cheap edition, it is commonly promoted to a handsome bound edition, bought at what is, for America a considerable price, and then takes its place of honour on the shelves of private libraries. CANON LIDDON was devoted to cats. He used to nurse his own particular pet in the common room at Christ Church. He said ot cats that their finer attri- bates were hidden by a coat of shyness and pride. Mas. FAWCETT last week delivered the third of her University Extension lectures on "Problems of Poverty," at Welbeck Hall, upon the subject of Land Nationalisation. She admitted the right of the State to take the life, liberty, and property of each for the good of all if there were crying need. But were things really going from bad to worse ? Quite. the reverse. She quoted statistics, and Professor Marshall, to tbA effect that in many respects the poorer classes had now a much larger and better existence than was within the reach of the richer classes a century or so ago. As to positive proposals for land nationali- sation, Mrs. Fawcett agreed with Mr. Gladstone's phrase about "either folly or robbery." It was robbery if there were not to be compensation and if there were it would take a lox-u of 2000 millions to buy the owners out—a loan thrice exceeding the amount of the National Debt. The interest to be paid on the loan would exceed the rent derivable from the land itself. Hence the deficit which accrued would have to be met by the taxpayers. ? TH8 Duchess of Portland is endeavouring to revive the woollen industry which is carried on in many cot- tage homeeabout Langwei), and the iJulrehaBDffered the women on his Caithness estate to purchase from them woollen goods of their own make, or to supply them with wool and pay them for their spinning and weaving. Apropos of home industries, there is still much that ladies might do in country districtl for the benefit of those amongst whom they live. Mrs. Rawnsley has brought comparative wealth to the scattered population in the Lake district by the re- vival of band-weaving, and other arts which she has inaugurated. In Ireland the same kind of work is going on in many parts. Nearer home, how- ever, there are several industries that need the helping hand of capable ladies. No further off than j Buckinghamshire there is the hand-made lace industry, which we are informed on reliable authority is languishing forwaBtof encouragement. Thecontro of the industry is Newport Pagnell, and many of the women occupied in« it have hitherto succeeded by their work in supplementing their husbands-wages in the winter-season. ,<, TaRIJB are always three and a half millions of people on the seas of the world.. TIIH great Pyramid of Egypt is estimated to have cost it* bsilders the equivalent of £ 3,000,000 of our money. TBB postmen of London walk together something like 48,360 miles per day, a distance equal to twice tbe circumference of the globe. THE rolling stocks of the Railway Companies ot the United Kingdom are striking in respect of their magnitude. There are nearly 16,000 locomotives, j and more than 567,000 vehicles. j JBAN CEUBUKP, a boy aged 11 years, has succeeded j iniascending Moat Blanc, of course with a pftrty of j guides. He is the youngest climber who has accom- plisttsd such a feat. MB. BUDGE, of the British Museum, has taken his departure for the East in order to begin some exes- rations in the Assyrian regions. SIH EDGAR BoBHM is engaged upon a recumbent statue of the late Bishop of Durham, which is to be placed in Durham Cathedral. Sxia EDWIN SAUNDBBS has accepted the treasureship of the Dental Hospital of London in the place of the late Mr. B» C. L. Bevan. A ROM. for lonely women has been built at Eragero* Norway, by Fru BredSdorff, and it was consecrated a week or two ago. The home, which is very comfort- ably arranged, has at present accommodation for 10 women, It is to bear the Bameof the donor's late husband. EmiíT thousand million letters are estimated to go through the world's post offices in one year: ALTOGETHER there have been threesUicides com-, mitted in St. Paul's Cathedral. THB prison population of England has fallen off-of late "but of 113 prisons, 57 have been alto- gether closed. < A SEA-LION in the Zoological Gardens at Paris has distinguished himself by saving the life of a little boy who tumbled into the water and couldn't get out in consequence of the high basin. The seal held him up until,belp was at hand. LONDON and Manchester are now connected by tele- phone. Some naturalists assembled in both cities and interchanged views by telephone concerning the growth of plant life in,large towns. Music at a London theatre was heard most distinctly in Man- chester. -• THE director of the Breslau Ophthalmic University alleges that in 300 cases which have come under bis own notice the affection of the eyesight complained of has been caused by wearing tight collars. The pressure on the veins of the neck, he says, disturbs the circulation of blood to the bead. AT Amiens there is a buitding which illustrates one of the differences in the French and tbe English con- ception of the duties of Government. This, says Mr. Harold Cox, in the Co-operative 1is a circus built 'and maintained at the expense ot the Municipality. It was not quite finished, but after a abort parley with one of the decorators in possession, we were allowed to go Inside, and found it Dot only handsome to look upon, but.. most admirably adapted for its purpose. Comfortable seats for the spectators, and plenty of them, well-arranged dressing-rooms for the performers, and ample accommodation for the horses; the whole fireproof, and lit up throughout by electric light, THE Emperor of Japan proposes to make a Europeantour next year. Hebas been recommended to try the Wiesbadenwaters; so will take tbe oppor- tunity to visit the chief Weatwn countries. V < r: I A il E8 b»'v V-f-r» .».« fPl *(■»<■ m-r M-imeatbr, r.re i*p- ( cuiuoy of Venezuela. Statu oawcCiori !■ >!• cfieie mitrTtagcs was given after manh rrwil dgo, is the be ef that there could b- 11ft) froa such unions. For a lent tftmt., uncon- tradicted by expeffeuce; but in the 14 or 15 years is appears that thfi* bedfe 1:- oirffc* Mnoag the >p--rs. Neither hH eAtow* Mar s^xnptoca of the dr adful malady of tlM ab* ra~y% accord- ins to tha Uaitawi Oo*a|»i ia VenegarVA6 one of these ahildsaa, he6w#>iiwe eo «ls> of 16 in the i&per island, has teeo Op IHW"e afed to eater society on the of competaafc Boated of Inspectors that he is ptt^eofeiy beaitfriy. AN American *ory- V&titec, Stftfy E. Bryan, is said to have been under conte*»t folbiw las £ years to write a novel every threa asonth% She has so fat fulfilled her engagement, and baa besidas found time to give orders concerning the management of a farm owned by her in Georgia FOUHTEEN crayon drawings by Friedrich Overbeck, representing ths Passion of Christ, have been pur- chased by the Emperor Francis Joaaph. The series will bn placed in the new Mussaw of Art at Vienna. Overbeck was ons of the four Xaza*f>ne* the others boing Waechter, Schadow, and Cornelius, who attempted the rf-hpbilitation of Gertaas Aft, on the principle that Art must no loagar be baaed on the models of the a,ncÍ6¡¡ts. but be entirely guided by reiigion and morai teachings. He died in 1869 in Rome. The cartoons of the Passion are counted among the best ot his works. THE 31st official YOOlt of the volunteer organisation was brought to a close on the 31 at ult., when all the returns of enrolled and efficients we du. at the War Dffice. The la4t returns showed an enrolled strength of 224,000, of iiom 217 were efficient, IP,133 officers were proficient, 1228pM&ed in taotios. aad 191,000 officers and men ww<-< actually present at the annual official inspections Tha returns now dua are antici- pated to be more favourable tbaa on any occasion in the history ot the force. A VERY disreputable person whose career is not altogether witbout a literary iutwri.-t has died in penury—which certainly cannot be 6or;i-ed wholly sinmerited-in an Ai^anan village. Tb's was Sitnoniôl"9, a tinker of ancidi.t \¡,1., beside whom M. Shapira himself w.uld have b?»en of very small accnunt. His professional prospects were ruined by the discovery that a portion f an ancient Greek p vrchment which be off'red for sata, aad which. f genuine, would hlve b" n of iminense value, con. ita;mid the misprint* ha,1 dUfixure-1 a modern edition of the pa.!lsag..sø1llpp,.aud to have baea found in an original form. A cokitfispoN'l.'Knt at [lome loartx, ?r"> n an aji'ho- I rit^tive source that, in c ms-<) ixn^-e of the repr-ii- tations made to him a* to tho ¡:,m.j ert' cts t>< th" beaitb-of the Kmj.ress of .Austria which might accrue trom a coutidt-nsial interview with rbe ¡'ope as h-r spiritual hea,1. L'o XIIT has hiJ 'hat rather than deprive an a.rnic.rt daughter of thft Church of the c mfort which I-, w. in his dott to bestow, ha would rescind his former decision, and receive h r in a quiet" informal manner, should she d<-<-ioe ro come tiRnoM. It is. hoWnver, now stated fr.ini Ftorfncf chtt »ft> r a further sojourn there of a i tew <K\ the Kmprnis will prob4bly o-mbark from !.f«h>irn direct for Corfu. Hat in C"rfea;n quarters it is tb '"ght not imj.os-it-. e tiilt she m-y first put in at CiviCa Vocctiia, and ttance pay a private visit to !o«-,e. THE question of tb" hgher school* for girls in Sweiieu h»s recen'ty n attracting much attentiou. Nr-w retjo a'ions .,e sNof.iy -xpfc'- d, ancordini; to whidl th- w-1 «xt«n i it- w >rk in m*tt»r. r H K Ctiannel b.-i^gn schfuv- hb-eaat-red again. Aft' r thf. joint surveys a)&.ie this lummnr by French and !Irititih te-arti, r-, M. R..na.u", -'he hydro^raphic ensf-neer in c-ontoiand—propose* %ii-4t a route should hit taken litrlti farther north than tho original plan. This new line would be shorter—so laas »»xp-u«»ive— and pfrf.t y straight, with better loumii^tion at a leas depth, wbiln it would be mom protracted from tAie wind. The tturveyt were very satisfactory respecting the solidity and stability of the Channel bed. THH wholesale destruction of seafowlon the British coasts, is bad enough, hut at the Antipoles the birds art in danger of disappearing altogether. In Great Britain the birds are shot either for sport or for utilisiog as personal ornament, whiln ia New Zealand they are caught, to boil down for their oil. Thus a number of leading colonials have petitioned the New Zeaand Government for a Seafowl Protection Act, as the six million birds on the various islands will soon be exterminated unless some restrictions ars enacted at Ol-Ce. Now that 'be schema for a Tnns-Siberian Railway is occupying official attention, we find from time to time references to former long-forgotten projects. It seems that as far'back as 1857, an American named Collins proposed to the Governor of Eastern Siberia a line to connect Tchita and Irkutsk. OFFICIAL notification has been given at the Ad- miralty of the appointment of Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick W. Richards. K.C B., to the post of Com- mander-in-Chief on the China station, in succession to Vice-Admiral Sir Nowell Salmon, V.C., whose period of service is about to expire. THB Hon. Hallam Tennyson, replying to an inquiry by a correspondent as to the accuracy of the state- ment that Lord Tennyson intends to take a voyage to the Mediterranean, states that no such arrangement has been made, and that the matter has not even been considered by the Poet Laureate. On the con- trary, his lordship, who is still enjoying good health, will shortly take up hit reeidenceat Farringford, where he usually winters. SID HEN BY DBUXMOND WoLW9 reoovery seems from latest accounts to have been exceptionally rapidb -and,it is intended, unless any fresh develop- IliÐnt occurs, to bring him home almost at once. It is expected that Sir Henry will be in London certainly ttefore Christmas. LoVBRSof hooklof. travel and adventure are en- joying an extraordinary feast just at present, in spite of the fact that the fare provided is all of the same order. Central Africa it almost the only region of which anyone care* to write this season, and when the books of Mr. Stanley, Mr. Ward, Mr. Jepbson, Mr. Troup, Mr. Jameson, Mr. Bonny, and Dr. Parke have all been read, the most voracious devourer of the narratives of African travel will surely feel that for once his anpetite has been appeased. WITHIN the last few days an old-fashioned Belt- of London houses in Charing-cross-road, called Chapel. row, has been demolished. The place took its name from the old Greek, chapel which was founded in Crown-street (now incorporated in Charing-cross- road) in 1677. This chapel was occupied by the French Protestants from 16S4 to 1822. and its appearance in the last century is well-known from one of Hogarth's pictures. The present c'mrch of St. Mary the Virgin has had a husre reui-tricfc front added to it, but the destruction of Ch »o»l-row by it* side exposes to view the orig'nal building wch a red- tiled roof. THK ladies of Norway ar" indefatigable in their j labour for the raising of funds toward* the defence of their countty. The Chri-tiauia section for the Ladies' Defence Society will hold a large bazaar in Christiania towards the end of November, extending over several days. POLO, in somewhat different shape, was an ancient Persian game, according to a paper read before-the Asiatic Society recently at Bombay. The Pansee author finds that Firdusi, the great Persian poet, de- scribed "pat. bal', or ball-bat" in an epic, and even further back the Pehlvi writers rfllude to the game under the title of "chupaan." TIOKKS in India have increased considerably of late. So macy formalities and obstacles are encountered nowadays by sportsmen wisbing to hunt big game. that tiger-shooting is not so frequent as of yore, and the creatures multiply and flourish in proportion. THE reported vandalism at the Pyramids proves to be much exaggerated. Instead of the great monu. ment being destroyed for building material, the looss stones at the base are being removed In order todil. play the Pyramids to better advantage. The GMzeh Museum authorities superintend the work. is no* without its earthly 'rou a prohibition p »int of viow Iru'-ny »h«e m*n- >ion»*3 Trei^wis, amin>ug locality milei from M^rthyr Although th.. poonUti'xi v »ivxit 2'»■ hi, and money is cin-uUtinl bri»h'», n«it|*or public-hou-S, pawnshop, j>oli(Jte-»«a*H>ii, evpn a policeman. bttt. PRounit, in bill" Ufe of Lord :Peawna&ld. makes no mant-on of one of the peculiarities of ttte statesman. This was his great abomination of that pest, the autograph-hunter. Fxc,^pt wtym stgning some official document, or when writina to bis most intimate friends, he would neyer attach h>s name in full to any written communication. Fifths* years 49g,A some wife man, connected wi th a Scottish University, solemnly warned his contem- poraries that within a quarter of a century one of two calamities would befall the human raee—eitber *#e should all be frozen by the extinction of the sun, a* • else we should be roasted by the earth tambhag into Ike solar planet
YFR. LA:.;OC7CFIKRR ST KKADTW..
YFR. LA:OC7CFIKRR ST KKADTW.. Addressing a meeting at Head>ng on the 4th inst, r. Laboucbere, M.P., pointed out the serious ob- jections to a legislative eight hours working day ELe c'#Ucbt that any trade desiring to limit the working d-iy to eight hours should try the effect of combina- nn before seeking the interference of the Scate, and n., counselled artisans to consider tbe matter well, for a false move might bring starvation to mil- lions.
ART CONGRESS.
ART CONGRESS. The third annual Congress of the National AssccTa* tion for the Advancement of Art was opened 0 Birmingham on the 4th mat. In the evening tfcC pr^susent. Mr. J. E. Hodgson, R.A., delivered kill presidential address to a'large gathering of membecp in the Midland Institute. He said when the Ajfjcist »ii for tho Encouragement of Art as applie.1 to Industry was founded it was not expected that it would alter men's ways of thinking, or give a new aspect to society, nor that it would bring | about an art era like that of Pericles or Leo the Tenth. No institution or system of education could produce genius. That was a Divine, inscrutable gift, but we could provide a fitting reception for it, so that when a man of genius ap- peared be should have scope to develop himself, and should not languish for want of employment, The subject selected for this year's consideration by the Conference was that of art education At the time of the revival of learning in Europe the enthusiasm for letters amounted to a passion. In tho fifteenth century possibly an earnest student might reasonably a.-pire to learn everything knowable; but 400 years bad passed since then, during which the boundaries of human knowledge had been greatly extended, so that education must be specialised—every- thing tended to a sub-division of knowledge au;; labour-and this told disastrously on art, which admitted of no specialising. The range of Art, like that, of faience, had extended, and the con- ditions ussder which it was practised had become much more complex. Education, therefore, had be- come mors difficult in a corresponding way. Woao we turned to Art as applied to industrial and decora^ tive purposes we came to a state of things even stiR more complex. The Congress was seeking to educate public tiste, to spread abroad a desire for what waa beautiful, and to strengthen the resistance to what was ugly to bring together artists and workmen. and to clear away the dead load of indifference, of ignorance, and perverted taste, which, owing to some cause r)c!y known to an inscrutable ?rovidence, had been permitted to overwhelm this and almost every other country in Europe.
| SIR JOHN GORST AT WIGAN.
SIR JOHN GORST AT WIGAN. Speaking at Wijran, Sir John Gorst said that British workiijg-men must beware o.f reyoluuoiiary meitiiuua, and should give their support to the Trade. Uaions only so long as those bodies kept iu the weil-bea £ en tracks on which they bad proceeded in the past. In his opinion Trade Unions tended to the orderly con- duct of industrial pursuits, and were quite consistent with proper industrial progress.
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LORD HARTINGTON AT GREENOCK.
LORD HARTINGTON AT GREENOCK. Lord Bartington has addressed a large meeting of Unionists at Greenock. He said be had seen no evi- dence of a deep rooted dissatisfaction in Scotland witb the effects of the Union with England. Scotland bad, be believed, no desire for Home Kule. Tbe diffi- culty of dealing witb local interests would be removed if the bill of the present Government for reform- ing the system of local bill legislation ooold be passed. With regard to the Disestablishment of the Chureh of Scotland, the question had nevasp yet b«n fairly plaeed before the Scotch people•; but Mr. Gladstone had, by his recent declamations, made it a pUnk in the Grtadstonian platform, and ia that way, by preventing the ascertainment of Scot- tifih op uion, had struck an unfair blow at the Estab- lished Church in Scotland. As to his own position, the noble marquis said be placed the Union before all other questions, and as Mr. Gladstone's Home Rule plans were now more inscrutable than ever, it be- hoved Unionists to prevent power from faUiDginto the hands of the party which did not know, or dared not avow, what it intended to do with the Constitu- tion.
MR. STANHOPE AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.'
MR. STANHOPE AND HIS CONSTITUENTS. The Secretary for War (Mr. Edward Stanhope) has addressed a meeting of his constituents at Wiidtaore^ near Boston. He claimed that the greatest measure ot legislation passed by the present Parliament was the County Government Bill, which for the first time had given the people of this country living in the counties a direct voice in the management of their own affairs. He did not believe the County Councils would lead to economy, but so far the work bad been done in a satisfactory manner. It was well that the people in all parts of the country should realise that a great deal bad been done by the Government; they had made very large additions to the navy, and the land defences had been considerably strengthened. The Government had obtained file beat information from exports and, although thelr proposals involved the expenditure of a large sum Of money, there was practically no opposition. Some people had objected to the Government throwing the cost of the defences of the country over a series of years, but their reply was that, if the defences of the country had been neglected by their pre- decessors, it was hardly fair that the preset generation should pay the enormous cost of put- ting them in a perfectly satisfactory state. The defences of the country were now in a very much stronger position than they bad ever been during the past half-century. He believed tbe working men of this country would not resent any expenditure upon national defences when it was proved to be necessary, because, if there was any real danger of invasion the result would undoubtedly be that capital would cease to be employed in the great commercial industries of the country, and there would be less labour for the working classes than at the present time. Referring to Mr. Gladstones Home Rule proposals, be said they were of such' A secret nature' that he thought the people of this country would be more inclined to plate their confidence in statesmen who made no secret of their intentions rather than to those who said Open your mouth and shut your eyes, and see what you will get at the next gqneral election." The views of the Government were perfectly plain and simple, and 811 a result of their firm and absolutely impartial rule in Ireland there had been a great diminution in crime, there was less boyeotting and intimidation, the condition of the people was very much improved and if only agitators would let them alone the Govern, ment were confident tbat this state of affairs would continue. All that the Government desired to do was to take care that the law was respected,and that those who broke it should be punished, just in the same way as the people who broke the law in England were punished. During the coming session the Government hoped to carry a Land Bill for Ireland their proposal would commend itself to the people, because if carried out it would permanently aid the land troubles in Ireland. The least the Government could expect was that ail Parties would join together to enable them without unreasonable delay to solve the question to the satisfaction of the country, and SO put it altogether upon one side.
MR. GLADSTONE AT PKEBLES.
MR. GLADSTONE AT PKEBLES. Mr. Gladstone, travelling southwards from Fasqne, stopped at Peebles, and made a short speech in the station" yard amidst a storm of ram. He said he gt-thered from Lord El arting ton's recent speech that the noble lord b&lieved surrender was imminent. The right hon. gentleman was still prepared to do all he could but the chief responsibility in giving content- ment and peace to Ireland rested with the electors, wbo, he hoped, would discharge their, outy every- where as nobly as Eccles bad aone. Mr. Gladstone, subsequently resumed his journey to fnnerlei bins and will te for a Itv cajs the guest of Sir Charle Tenoaat.
MR. CHAPL.1N ON " THE PLAN."
MR. CHAPL.1N ON THE PLAN." Mr. Chaplin, M.Pj, speaking at Gloucester, said the Plan of Campaign was one of Mr.'Gladstone's worst fictions, for it Was illegal, and he WM well aware of it. Another fiction was his'idea that it would be practicable ;for Irish representatives to come here and deal With Imperial Aifàirs. Referring to the persistent otatruction in Parliament, the r'gi't. Hon. gentleman said that unless it was cbeckrd pa'^alysegood government. As to a dwofution, be had iio tear of it for a considerable time to come.