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NOTICE.—HOKNIMAX'S PUBE TEA (in packets) is sold In 'very town and village in Great Britain, and through- out the Continent; each packet bears the signature of the importers, who guarantee the contents to be free from ail adulteration. A list of local traders supplying Pure Tea is publis^eri in all papers. THE RIGHT HON. A. J. MUXDELLA, M.P., Vice- t of the Committee of Council on Education, L1S distributed the awards granted by the Liverpool i o irnii of Education to the children attending the public try schools. The right hon. gentleman delivered <l;t interesting address on education, pointing out that whilst in 1871 the average attendance of children at •ehr-uentary schools in Liverpool was 31,343, it was now G'\000, with 80,000 on the roll. The statistics showed that there had been an increase of religions instruction. There were too many people going about crying that we '.had done enough for education; but, as a matter of fact, wa were only on the threshold of the work. Ninety-seven per cent, of the criminals of the country were found to be uneducated, and that showed that we had not got to the dregs of the population. Yet they were now educating in Liverpool 80,000 children, and four millions through- o it the country, and had they no reason to hope that when these children appeared on the stage of life there would be some diminution in intemperance, pauperism, arld crime, and in the low habits which prevailed too generally in society ? A FEW DAYS AGO, during the progress of the C-aiteau trial at Washington, the prisoner stopped behind to talk with Mr. Scoville, and refused to move at the kiiiifi's order. On the bailiff applying pressure to force tho prisoner to proceed, he struck the official on the breast with his manacled hands. The officers of the court rt once seized him and hustled him out. Judge Cox has Voided to allow Guiteau to speak in his own defence.

NEWS NOTES. [We deem It right to state that we do not identify our- selves with, our Correspondent's oplIlIOns.1 AUSTRIA was aggrandised by the Berlin Treaty, but she had to fight her way into possession at first, and she is now again made to feel that sha has obtained a heavy handful. A simultaneous insurrectionary movement, which is said to be aided and abetted by Montenegro, has broken out in Dalmatia, the Herzegovina, and Bosnia. The regiments that are constantly passing through Vienna on their march southward, form the most authoritative contradiction to the attempts which have been made to represent the rising as trivial. It is the enforcement of the conscription that has inflamed the provinces against Austria, and all classes are bent on taking part in the struggle.

CONSCRIPTION, which is invariably resorted to by military Empires, and which has also been adopted by Republican France, can only have the effect of alienating the hearts of peoples. More powerfully and painfully than anything else, it causes them to feel that they have not yet secured their liberties. It is chiefly on account of the system of compulsory service as soldiers that German emigration to the United States has been so remarkable of late years. Much as the Germans love their Fatherland, they love personal freedom more. and they fina it when they put the Atlantic between them and Bismarckism.

SIR WATKIN WINN has come to a sensible resolution in deciding not to publish the meets of his hounds in the neighbourhood of Whitchurch during the stay of the Empress of Austria in Cheshire. The curiosity of the public to witness the hunting feats of Diana of the Austrians drew such crowds of horsemen and pedestrians in February and March last year that great annoy- ance was caused to the members of the hunt, and what was worse than the spoiling of the sport, great damage was one to crops, and fences. Neverthele so keen is the scent of eager aght seers, that many of them are sure to find out the meets though they are only privately notified to mem- bers of the hunt.

THE announcement which appeared in a Spanish journal that the balloon" Saladin," with the remains of Mr. Powell, M.P., had been found by a travelling hawker on the Sierra del Pedroso mountains, bore ( all the impress of being a hoax, and it soon received contradiction in the same paper in which it had appeared. Mr. Powell, it is now certain, found a watery grave, and his tragic fate is one of the most mel- ancholy events in the history of ballooning. It should have the effect of making aeronauts less foolhardy until the balloon can be made a more navigable machine than it is or can be at present owing to the style of its construction.

IN Continental towns, when a newspaper is suppressed by the authorities, the device is some- times resorted to of publishing it under another name. But a different plan was fixed upon when the Irish Executive thought it was time to extinguish United li-eland-an incendiary paper that supported the no-rent agitation. It retained its old name, but it was printed and published in London instead of Dublin. The vigilance of the police in Ireland is now much exercised in intercepting consignments of the paper. One day 10,000 copies were seized in Dublin, which had arrived there from Liver- pool in bacon cases. So alert are the police in the matter that it is said to be impossible for more than a few copies to get into circulation.

IT is to be hoped that the attempt which is about co be made to introduce into the Cape and Natal a supply of trout ova may prove a success. The Union Company's steamers have agreed to convey the supply free of charge. A fear, however, has been expressed that the waters of the South African rivers will prove too warm for the fish, and this fear is suffi- ciently well-grounded to overshadow some- what the hope of success. Even if the ova did produce trout, the warmth of the water might deteriorate them as articles of food.

AN effort is to be made to compel all railway companies to use self-acting continuous brakes on all passenger trains. These have been so often strongly recommended for adoption by Government inspectors, when reporting upon accidents, that is really high time for Parliamentary action to be taken in the matter. A bill, promoted by the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, is to be introduced next session by the Earl de la Warr. It is pro- posed by the bill, of which a draft has been issued, that a power be granted to the Board of Trade of periodical inspec- tion of railway stock, to see that the law is complied with. It is also pro- posed that the Railway Commissioners shall have jurisdiction in the matter on the complaint either of a passenger or of the Board. The general use of the self-acting con- tinuous brake would greatly increase the comfort of railway passengers, by giving them a sense of security which it is impossible to feel in trains where it is not in use.

COAGULIKE.—The Best Cement for Broken Articles, 6d., Is., ::5. Postage 2d. Kay, Broa., Stockport. Sold everywhere. Two SPINNEKS, named Peter Scanlan and John Flynn,have been committed for trialat Burnley for brutally wounding William Kelroy, a coke burner at that place. They met him at half-past four in the morning as he was going to his work, threw him down, jumped on him, and kicked him almost to death. KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES. — CURE Cottons, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS.—No other medicine is so effectual in the cure of these dang-erous maladies. One' Lozenge alona gives ease. Sold by all Chemists, in Tins, is. THIRTEEN MEN, residing in the neighbourhood of Carmarthen, have been charged at Llandovery with participating in a poaching raid fishing for salmon with spears and lights in the river Brane. The leader was fined JS-5, two others 50s. each, two others 10s. each, and the remaining eight were discharged. HAVE IT IN YOUR EOUSE-L.uIPLOUGH'S PYRETI SALINE-and use no other. The only safe antidote in Fevers, Eruptive Affections, Sea or Bilious Sickness, Small-pox and Head-ache; having peculiar and exclusive merits. Use no substitute. See perpetual injunction against imitators; also the unanimous judgment before the Lords Justices Bramwell, Brett, and Cotton, 22nd Jan., 1S78, in Lamplough's favour. 113, Holborn-hill, London. AT A RECENT MEETING of the Cardiff Free Library Building Committee it was stated that the new building would be completed by the end of May next. AT THE POLICE-COURT, BOURNEMOUTH, a strong-looking Irishman, aged 37 years, a deserter from the Royal Marines, was committed for trial for a brutal assault on a fellow-tramp in a common lodging-house. He knocked the prosecutor down, caught him by the throat, and bit off a large portion of his nose. AT THE POLICE-COURT, Bromley (Kent), John Downer, 28, and Charles Cook, 16, were charged with stealing cheeses, sugar, baker powders, flour, and other articles, the property of Mr. T. Gilbert, a grocer. The prisoners were caught coming out of a side door, Downer carrying a sack full of articles, and Cook a bag. There was reason to believe that the thefts had been carried on for some time. Downer was sentenced to three months' hard labour, and Cook was fined £10, or in default six weeks' hard labour. A FEW MORNINGS Aso four boys, 13 and 14 years of age, made their escape from the Roman Ghtholic Industrial School, Glasgow, and the police were making inquiries as to their whereabouts, but this was rendered useless by the return of the boys themselves. No infor- mation has been vouchsafed as to the reason for the esca- pade on the part cf the lads-

THE LAST GREAT LINE ENGRAVER. The death is just recorded of Mr. William Miller, the famous engraver, an admirable and amiable member of the Society of Friends, who for more than half a century was employed, with extraordinary success, in translating into black and white many of the designs of our greater English paintors, and especially of Turner. Mr. Miller, who died while on a visit to Sheffield, was in his 86th year, and it may therefore easily be imagined that the major portion of his work was done at a period that is already remote. His name may have been little known to chance picture-buyers of the day, but he was already a classic among English engravers, and was the last of a generation now extinct. A little of his loveliesjt work was done before the year 1830, for the Southerii Coast" of Turner; and shortly afterwards, rurner highly appreciating his labours, Miller was engaged upon the illustrations to the "Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott," and in 1834 upon that edition of "Roger's Poems" which the collector seeks for by reason of the Turner designs and of their perfect interpretation in engraving. Later on, Miller was employed in more than one, we think, of the great Venetian subjects which occupied the later art of Turner. He lived chiefly in Edinburgh, and in his art lie is nowhere seen to greater advantage than in his rendering of Scottish landscape, especially in the illustrations to Rogers. He understood Turner abso- lutely, and followed with a delicacy and a fidelity which, perhaps, no one else has so perfectly combined, the most subtle work of our greatest English master. Miller was in his prime in the best period of English line engrav- ing, and in his own work, as in that of Goodall, the work of that period reaches its highest development. Miller was trained in a large and manly method, and he kept his manliness throughout the whole of the refinements that he subsequently acquired. His delicacy of touch was invariably expressive: it was never finicking and petty nothing in his practice prepared the way for the decadence of English engraving. In our own day the conditions of this art are thoroughly changed. The slow and laborious toil of the line engraver is now only remunerative in the most exceptional instances, and accordingly it is pursued with a will by but few artists:' Excellent engravers we still have, such as Mr. Barlow in line, and Mr. Samuel Cousins in mezzotint; but they will probably have few successors, and they themselves display in their art quite other aims than those which actuated an engraver of landscape like Miller. No quali- fied person can examine a favourable impression of a fine plate; of Miller's without discerning that he was in some respects a unique artist. He was absolutely above the chances of temporary notoriety, and though prophecy in art is generally dangerous, it is absolutely safe to say of him that his fame will be greater a hundred years hence than it is to-day.

HOW TO "'EAT" A POKER. In the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, before Mr. Justice Denman and a common jury, the case of Devenish v. Tubbs and Maunders came on for trial. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, an infant, by his mother and next friend, for an assault committed on him by the defendant Tubb, a plumber, at Aldershot, to whom the plaintiff was apprenticed, and by the other defendant, a medical man in the same neigh- bourhood. The plaintiff claimed X500 as damages from each defendant for the assault, and JE100 as against the defendant Tubb, for a breach of his indentures. Both., the defendants denied the assault, and Tubb paid Is. into court in satisfaction of the plaintiff's loss, if any, for the breach of the indentures. Mr. Harrison, Q.C., Mr. C. Bigham, and Mr. Atherley Jones were for the plaintiff Mr. Bowen Rowlands, Q.C., and Mr. Corrie Grant were for the defendant Tubb Mr. Collins, Q.C., Mr. Lyon, and Mr. B. Moseley for the defendant Maunders. The plaintiff, who is now 20, was called, and stated that when 14 years of age he had entered the merchant service, and was subsequently in the Royal Navy, but was bought out. In September, 1880, he was apprenticed to Mr. Tubb, a plumber, at Yorktown, Aldershot, and remained with him until May, 1881, during which time there was no complaint against him. On the 10th of that month he went up to his bedroom, leaving Mrs. Tubb and her daughter, a girl of 15, down stairs. He had undressed himself when his lamp went out, and as he wished to read, as he fre- quently did, he went into another bedroom in which he had observed a benzoline lamp on his way upstairs. At that time, hearing someone coming downstairs whom he believed to be Mrs. Tubb, he got under the bed in which the tw% young children were sleeping, as he had only a flannel shirt and another underneath flannel on.- The light had then gone out, and he made a noise L, 1— A. -"1^ t V,f»pr/^ l\y rI*~Qt)L jr who had come up with her mother and the servant. Miss Tubb said there was somebody under the bed, on which the servant said, I think it is Georgie" (the eldest boy), but on lifting up the counterpane she said, I "No, it is John" (the plaintiff). Miss Tubb then screamed out, on which Mr. Tubb came out from the ad- joining room where he was in bed and dragged him from under the bed by the leg into his (plaintiff's) own room, and put him on his bed. Mr. Tubb then sent for Mr. McLoghlin, a publican next door, and also for Dr. Maunders, the other defendant, who came there with his assistant. The doctor asked Mr. Tubb if he had got a horse-whip, and he said he had not, Dn which the doctor said, Have you such a thing as a poker—if so, 'eat it." (Great laughter.) Mr. Justice Denman: He did not ask him if he could digest it. (Renewed laughter.) Plaintiff, in continuation: They then brought up the hot poker, and Dr. Maunders said, Xow, see if we can't make him move," on which Tubb said, Brand him where he will know it," and the doctor then applied the hot poker to several parts of his body (sensation) inflicting nine wounds on one leg, seven on the other, one on the back, and another on the hand, the latter in consequence of witness having caught bold of the poker. They then sent for a policeman, when Tubb said, I charge this man with felonious in- tent," but the policeman would not take the charge. Tubb then said, He is a young blackguard, and shall got stay in my house," on which he gave witness three shillings to take him to London at 2.30 in the morning, there being no train except from Farnborough which left at that hour. The policeman, however, took him to a signal-box on the railway, where he stopped all night till sight in the morning, when he went to London. On the following day his brother went down with him and saw Dr. Maunders, who said he was justified in burning him. He went with his mother the next day and saw Tubb, who said he washed his hands of the doctor's conduct. The doctor's assistant, Dr. Turner, and Mr. McLoghlin were present all the time. In his cross- examination by Mr. Collins witness said he was perfectly sensible aDd had his eyes open all the time he was on the Ded, and was not shamming. Dr. Maunders, when first he came, said witness was not in a fit or under the niauence of drink, but knew what he was doing as well as he did. He had not said anything because he thought there was no use in his doing so. When the poker was first applied to his leg the pain caused him to roll off the bed. The witness was still under cross-examination when the Court rose, and the further hearing was adjourned. ol hAY'S Tic PILLS, for Ncuralg-ia, Taeeache, &c., 9^& Is. LID.

Postage Id. Sold by all chemists. Kay Bros., Stockport. j AT A RECENT MEETING of the members of the Submarine Continental Railway Company, held at the Charing-cross Hotel, Sir E. W. Watkin M.P. presiding, said, in the course of his speech: I have had a great deal to do with tunnels, including the East London, a total length of thirty-seven miles of tunnel. If a man can conduct, in construction and in working, thirty-seven miles of tunnel, he is very likely to succeed in assisting to make twenty-one miles. But there is one fact I want you to bear in mind—I want it to be before everybody, and that is this that in England, Scotland, and W ales there are 58,000 miles of underground rail and roadway. That is to say, the underground workings connected with the mines of our country altogether present 58,000 miles. I think, then, if Englishmen can manage to construct and use for the developement of minerals 58,000 miles of underground road, deep down in the earth-some also under the sea-you and I and the rest of us would not have much difficulty in adding ten and a half miles under a shallow channel to the high roads of the Queen." A MEETING has been held in the Assembly Rooms, Defoe-road, Stoke Newington, London, to consider the desirability of establishing a branch of the Charity Organisation Society in Stoke Newington. The Hon. R. C. Grevenor moved a resolution in favour of opening a branch, which was seconded by Mr. Cockron, whose rising was the signal for great disorder. An amendment, proposed by Mr. Henry Grant, and seconded by Mr. F. W. L. Jones, was well received by the meeting and supported by several speakers. Groans were given for the Charity Organisation Society, and the Chairman declared the meeting dissolved. The following is the amendment, which was carried That a committee of men in the ooafidence of the public be appointed to inquire into the professions and proceedings and expendi- ture of the Charity Organisation Society, to ascertain whethar it is worthy of the support of the rich or of the poor."

CHASE AND CAPTURE OF A BURGLAR. At the Thames Police-court, London, James Jones was charged with burglariously breaking and attempting to enter the premises of Frederick Sedgwick, brass and copper smith, of 36, West Ferry-road, Poplar, at a quarter-past three o'clock in the morning. Thomas Good, 126 K, Thomas Barrett, 488 K, and George Deverell, 348 K, were on duty in Westferry-road, and on passing the rear of No. 36, they heard a noise as if a person was moving about, and directly afterwards a crash of glass. Barrett and Deverell lifted Good on to the top of the wall, about twelve feet high, and he then caught sight of the prisoner in the back yard. The accused, finding he was detected, mounted the top of an adjoining wall with great agility, and got into another yard. Good called out to his brother constables, who stood in readi- ness to assist him with their staffs drawn, and he foand the prisoner in a dark spot against the wall, and under the shadow of some trees. He at once seized hold of him, when he made a violent blow at Good, but he avoided it, drew his staff, and struck his assailant on the shoulder. Barrett was the second to arrive to Good's assistance, when the prisoner threw him about twelve times, and was very violent until Deverell came to the other two constables' aid. They had then to tie his hands behind him, and it took two hours before they could get him to the station. When searched a box of silent matches, a sharp knife, and a piece of iron were found on him. On being charged he at first made no reply, but afterwards said he worked at Mr. Sedgwick's, which the prosecutor denied, and said he had never seen him in his life before. The police went back to the premises, and found that an attempt had been made to enter them in six different places, where a large quantity of carpenters' tools were kept, but owing to the woodwork being lined with sheet iron it resisted the attempts. Several wooden window bars, lined with iron, had been forcibly broken away, and three panes of glass cut out. It was the latter which alarmed the constables. The prisoner had no hat on at the time. and a cap was found in one of the yards, but it did not fit him. Mr. Saunders remanded the prisoner for a week for inquiries into his antecedents.

ALLEGED CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD. At the Worship-street Police-court, London, William Bailey, described as manager to the Venetian Plate Glass Company, Clerkenwell-green, and Charles W. Kriens, mechanical engineer, of Brompton-villa, Fernham-road, Thornton-heath, appeared to a summons, which charged them with having conspired together to defraud Alexander Lefevre of certain articles of furniture, valued at £ 29. Mr. Sims, barrister, conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Palmer, barrister, defended Bailey Mr. Abbott, solicitor, appearing for Kriens. The evidence of Henry Lefevre, manager to the prosecutor, showed that the latter carried on the business of a furniture warehouseman in Old-street, City-road. Early in last year the de- fendant Kriens called, and, presenting a card which bore the name of the Venetian Plate Glass Company, made statements representing that he was a member of the firm, and asked for a quotation for the supply of furniture for customers of theirs. The manager gave him an elaborate catalogue, and terms were arranged, Kriens stating that the goods would be credited to the company, but must be sent to other addresses, which would be those of the company's customers. Goods to a considerable amount were supplied. The prosecutor had in the meantime, on the solicitation of Kriens, given an order for some glass work to be executed, and that had led him still further to be- lieve that Kriens was a member of the company as he had stated. The glass being duly delivered, in June, the end of the half-year, the prosecutor sent in his ac- count as against the company, but they repudiated the matter. He brought an action against them, which was tried in the Clerkenwell County-court, under an order from the High Court, and then a Mr. Pocock came lorward, and gave evidence which resulted in the prose- cutor being defeated. The witness said that but for the representation of Kriens he should not have supplied the goods. The cross-examination was directed to show that the defendant Kriens had never represented himself is a member of the company, but that he had merely in- iroduced himself for orders. The prosecutor had not received a farthing for his goods, and had been com- pelled to pay the glass company an account for an >rder he gave. The further hearing was adjourned.

£ THE LEEDS MURDER. -eceived a farthing for his goods, and had been com- pelled to pay the glass company an account for an )rder he gave. The further hearing was adjourned. I' £ THE LEEDS MURDER. f The other evening a man named Goodhead, a file- ""I' 'cutt.:r,'took. to the Wolverhampton police-station a man whom he informed the officials he believed to be the person wanted for the murder of John Manley at Leeds on Christmas-day; but the police-sergeant on duty refused to detain him, thinking he was not the individual wanted. Subsequently a detective, named Hendrick, hearing of the affair, went in search of the stranger, whom lie found surrounded by a crowd in the street, and complaining that two men wanted to have him ar- rested as Ross, the Leeds murderer. Hendrick then ques- tioned him, and not receiving satisfactory replies from him, took him to the police-station, where it was found that he had several peculiarities, especially a mole on the left shoulder, which agreed with the description of the alleged murderer. He gave the name of James Kelly, and when charged on suspicion of being the murderer of Manley, made no reply, and declined to state where he was on the evening of the murder. Two days after Detective Eastby, of Leeds, arrived in Wolverhampton, and at once identified the man in custody as John Ross, alias Cunningham, wanted for the murder of Manley. It may be remembered that on the evening of December S5th the deceased had a quarrel with another man in a public-house in Leeds, and.; after going outside Manley was stabbed.in the neck by Ross, and died shortly after- wards. Ross then absconded, and was completely lost sight of. The prisoner has been removed to Leeds. Another man, whose description tallied with that of Ross, was detained at Dudley a night on suspicion of being the murderer, but will now be discharged.

KAY'S COMPOUND ESSENCE or LINSEED, a demulcent expec- torant, for Uonghs & Colds. Sold everywhere, 9jd., Is. l.jd. AT THE EDMONTON PETTY SESSIONS, before Mr. W. H. Nash and Mr. J. B. Doe, Robert Carling, 40, of 13, Prospect-place, Morpeth-street, Bethnal-green, was charged on remand with unlawfully conspiring with H. Ramsey and others to obtain from Mrs. Mary Ann Foster, of Bradford, Yorkshire, two terrier dogs with intent to defraud. The main facts in connection with this case have already been reported, and John Randall, potman, of the Joiners' Arms,; Westminster-bridge-road, London, and Robert Sunderley, potman, of the Flower of the Forest public-house, Blackfriars-road, London, gave evidence as to the prisoner trying to sell the dogs, together with a man supposed to be Ramsey. John Baker, of the Coach and Horses, Brandon-street, Wal- worth, also gave evidence of the dogs being offered to him for £30, but he declined to have anything to do with them. Prisoner was committed for trial. DR. SERGEANT, medical officer of health, re- ports that in spite of the most stringent precautions small-pox has extended in various parts of Bolton. Nine persons nave been attacked, and in no instance can the disease be traccd to its source. iN THE BOOT AND SHOE TRADE at Leicester there is an absence of activity in the demand for goods, and manufacturers are not generally fully employed. In the elastic web trade, the decided improvement which has been already reported is fully maintained, and most manufacturers are well employed. In sandalings there is still a good trade. In the hosiery trade most of the branches are sluggish, with the exception of the cotton trade, which is rather busily employed on Government contracts. Prices are firm, but if a forced sale is made, it is a little in buyers' favour. A isrew TOWN HALL has been opened at Fenny Stratford. This is the first public building erected in this rapidly rising township, and the amount expended in its erection, about £1600, has been raised in £ 1 shares. The opening was celebrated by a public dinner, at which Sir Philip Duncombe, of Brickhill Manor, pre- sided, and among the company present were Lord Charles Russell, Mr. George Russell, M.P. for Aylesbury, and Sir R. Batson Harvey. Addresses of congratulation were delivered, and the proceedings were marked by much enthusiasm. The event was further commemorated by a dinner to the poor and aged. DAYEY'S VICTORIAN TONIC AND PILLS. The safest, surest, and best remedies in all cases of indigestion, bilious headache, nervous debility, and liver complaints generally. Tonic, 2s. 9d.; Pills, Is. lid., &c. All 2 chemists, or of Davey, 73, Farringdon-st., London. AT A CROWDED PUBLIC MEETING held at the Town Hal], Twickenham, and attended by representa- tives of all classes, resolutions were carried unanimously to the effect that it was desirable the Public Libraries Acts should be adopted and applied by the ratepayers of the town, and that a requisition in accordance with the Acts should be drawn up calling upon the local authority to take the necessary steps for obtaining the votes of the townspeople upon the question. A large number of piomises of donations in money and books towards a supplementary foundation fund were announced, and the promoters are very sanguine of success.

{ ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AND CONFESSION OF MURDER. At the Marlborough street Police-court, London, Hannah Beechcroft, 35, was charged with attempting to commit suicide, and also, on her own confession, with having murdered her newly-born child, twelve years ago, in Yeoman's-road, Brompton. It appeared that until lately the prisoner was in service. Mr. Walter Dalrymple, 16, Selwood-place, Fulham-road, stated that he was going over a bridge in Kensington-gardens, when he saw a cloak with some fur on it lying in the water. As no one else seemed inclined to assist the prisoner, he got off his pony and ran down into the water, and called to a man to assist him, but the man refused, stating that he (Mr. Dalrymple) had better do it himself. Mr. Mansfield said he had never heard anything more disgraceful on the part of by- standers. Mr. Dalrymple said that a woman volunteered, but he told her that the services of a man were required. Police-sergeant William Winter, 74 A, said the prisoner told him that she had thrown herself into the water because she had been to Bow-street. The prisoner was attended by Dr. Blackett, who ordered her to be sent to the workhouse. The mistress where the prisoner had lived had given him a letter. The prisoner said she had been to Bow-street to give herself up for something she had done some twelve years ago. At Bow-street, how- ever, nothing was known of the prisoner. Police-sergeant, Smith, 45 A, stated that at the station prisoner made a confession, which he took in writing, and it was to the effect that she had killed her newlv-born child twelve years ago. The prisoner, who had nothing to say, was remanded.

JUBILEE OF THE CONGREGATIONAL UNION. A meeting, in connection with the jubilee of the Con- gregational Union of England and Wales, has been held in Stepney Meeting House, London, for the-purpose of hearing addresses from the Rev. Dr. Hannay and the Rev. J. Guinness Rogers, B.A., on" Congregational History and Principles." The minister, the Rev. Dr. Kennedy, presided, supported by the Rev. J. Saunders, the Rev. D. M. Jenkins, the Rev. W. Edwards, the Rev. J. R. Fisher, the Rev. J. W. Atkinson, Mr. Scrutton, Mr. Fraser, &c. Tea was partaken of before the pro- ceedings began. Occasion has been taken of the enthusiasm awakened by the celebration of the jubilee to raise a special fund for the benefit of the Church Aid and Home Missionary Society, and for the liquidation of burdensome chapel debts. Moreover, the season being naturally one of retrospect the prin- ciples of Congregational Church Government are the subject of special attention among members of this de- nomination of dissenters. The present meeting was de- voted to the exposition of those principles in some detail for the special behoof of the young. After religious exercise, and an address from the Chairman, the Rev. Dr. Hannay said that a knowledge of Church principles was necessary to the rising generation and it was to a want of understanding those principles that he attributed much of the antipathy to anything denominational that prevailed. He often heard people say, Oh, we have no interest in anything denomina- tional." He would not utter one word against that noble Christian sentiment of charity which held out the hands of brotherhood to all who loved the Lord Jesus Christ, and recognised the good service ren- dered by all the Churches. But noble sentiments of this kind were apt to have base imitations, associated with this antipathy—that anything denominational was the mischief of mission work, done outside the Churches by independent individual agencies. This bastard catho- licity rather tended to the multiplication of denomina- tions in the persons of men who kept aloof from the Churches, whose mission it was to do the work of Christ in England. The prominent principle of the Congrega- tional system was that a Church should be exclusively composed of Christians. This sounded like a truism, yet it involved a dispute principle. A total abstinence society should be composed, not of persons most of whom made more or less free with liquor, but of total abstainers; in like manner a Church should consist of Christians, in no mongrel sense of the term. This was the point of divergence that their fathers took for the national profession of religion. They objected to the parochial system which included in the Church every parishioner, be he a drunkard or otherwise openly immoral. Their forefathers left the Es jiblishcd Church not so much for doctrinal difficulties as a determination to take their stand on the principle that the Churches of Christ should be voluntary associations of followers of Christ exclusively. The distinction between Congregational (and he included the Baptist) Churches on the one hanel, and Wesleyan, Episcopal, Roman Catholics, and other bodies on the other hand, was that in the first case a communion was a Church, but in the latter it was only a congregation, connected with a Church. (Cheers.) The Rev. J. Guiness Rogers said he had seen a letter in a public journal complain- ing that a clergyman, in lamenting the persecution of the Jews in Russia, had described Christianity as of Jewish origin. This was typical of the feeling of many, who recognised that on the whole it was the best thing to be religious, provided that religion were not made too severe, strict, or troublesome. Historical Christianity was put aside, and among such the desire seemed to be to believe everything in general and nothing in particu- lar. (Laughter and Hear.") Such sentiments were tending to undermine the principles of the Christian faith. If the Congregational Churches had nothing more to do at the present time than to give a definite tone to Christian life, that were a noble work. They held that Christianity was neither circumcision nor un- circumcision, neither baptism nor the want of it, but peace, righteousness, and joy in the Holy Ghost. The presence of Christ, according to promise, as the guide of each Church, was all the authority they desired—authority which could not be surpassed. (Cheers.) Mr. Scrutton proposed a vote of thanks to the lecturer. Mr. Fraser seconded the motion, which was heartily carried. Mr. Rogers, in acknowledging the compliment, expressed his sympathy with Mr. Scrutton "In the persecutions to which he had recently been exposed in connection with School Board matters." (Cheers.) The proceedings terminated with the Doxology.

KAY'S COMPOUND ESSENCE OF LINSEED for Colds & Coughs, cures 9 cases out of 10. Sold everywhere, 9td" Is. lid., &o. AT THE CLERKENWELL COUNTY COURT, London, before Mr. G. Whitbread, Joseph Lee, of Crane-grove, Highbury, riding master, sought to recover £ 15 of Mr. N. Learoyd, Albion-chambers, Moorgate- street, solicitor, for detention of goods. Mr. Green, solicitor, appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. Moore for the defendant. The case of the plaintiff was that he claimed the goods in question as assignee of one Shelton, and that the goods, which consisted of five cases of scarf clasps, were on the premises of Marks, blacking manu- facturer, of 69, Cowcross-street, Smithfield, when they were seized for"*rent by the agent of the defen- dant. William Shelton gave evidence' that he sent six cases to Marks (who traded under the name of Russell and Co.) to be cleaned. He received one case back, which lie had since sold, and while the other iivT; cases were at Marks' they were seized for rent by Searle on the part of the defendant. When a demand was made to defendant to deliver up the goods he declined to do so. It was contended, on the part of the plaintiff, that the goods were in the possession of Marks in the way'of trade, and could not, therefore, be seized. George and li. Searle, on the part of the defendant, gave evidence that when the goods were seized Marks never claimed them forthcplaintIS, but was found selling them over the counter. His Honour said plaintiff had not made out his title to the goods, and gave judgment for the de- fendant. AT A MEETING in Edinburgh of debenture holders and creditors of the Gervan and Portpatrick Railway Company, at which debenture holders to the extent of nearly £ 30,000 were represented, the committee appointed at a recent meeting presented a report, con- taining a scheme of arrangement which was recommended for adoption, and under which it was expected that the debenture holders would ultimately receive payment in full. The report was unanimously adopted. AT TIlE LIVERPOOL CITY SESSIONS, Ellen Steel, 2: was charged with having stolen a diamond ring and other articles, and \Villi;un Steel with feloniously receiving the same. The woman had engaged lodgings at upwards of twenty-five houses in Liverpool, from each of which she had stolen several articles. the gross value of which amounted to upwards of JE150. Detective Glynn and a police-constable took the prisoner to Man- chester, and the evening after she pointed out a number of pawnshops where she had pledged the property. The oil leer* were turning the corner of a street when they suddenly lost ibeir prisoner amongst a crowd o'' persons leaving a theatre. Two days later, Deuotlve Glyn succeeded in apprehending not only the woman, but her h ishnnd. The Recorder sentenced Ellen Steel to five v oars' pen a! servitude, and William Steel to four months' i n1 pri "o:¡ n:fn t. riAPE of GOOD HOPE,NATAL, and EAST AFUICAN STEAMERS. Tko UNION S. S. Co.'s MAIL PACKETS sail from SOUTHAMPTON every alternate Thursday, and Steamers in the Intermediate Service every alternate Friday .leaving Plymouth the next day. Apply at the Company's Offices, Oriental Place, Southampton; or 11, Leadenhall Street, London.. [13 IS LAY WHISKY. ggjplyra W. & J. MUTTER, Bowmore Distillury, tslay. Jgaagaislily Counting House: 41, Ann Street, City, Ulaspow. The above Whisky to be had by ordoring tlirough Wholesale Houses and Broker*. [:1:1 FINANCIAL. Applications for Shares in tha IV Temperance Restaurant Co., Ld. 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X^iaaaer (in in-door Patients, Two weekly Our,- door, ONE SHILLING each bottle of medicine, both Sexes) —For further particulars write or apply to Djt JOKES, during professional hours, at 15 on rl YVelbeck Street,London.—Eleven till One daily tula. (Tuesday and Friday excepted). Report of suo PHAO+O+A cessf-UL cases post free. References to Patients. JL A Select Home fojr the Lpper Classes. [149 SODA WATER, Lemonade.) EASY TERMS,- Wo YEARS. and Ginger Beer Machine. ) PartJcuta.rs.N. G. Wi Lcoptts. Bath. DERMATOLOG Y.— SmalT-PoxMarks, Cicatricca, Birth Marks, Moles, Wrinkles, &c., removed, and New Skin ensured arks by usinpr the PATG UB TOILETTE FItAIyUAlSE Quite harmless. Numerous Tes- timonials. Price, post paic., 108. M. P.O.O. payable to J. Julks & Co., Importers. High Street, Southampton. p>51 HOUSEHOLD RETRENCHMENT i—save over jEIO a yea- hy using TWEiA-irTK-Kus' VILLA WASHKK, w ltlNGER,. andMAKGUSR. The Fortnight's Wash in F^ur Hours. >o rubbing or boilina:. Carriage paid. 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