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LEGAL. CONDUCTED BY A BARRISTER-AT-LAW, RATES AND TAXES —" Llandovery" appeals to be con- fusing Imperial taxes and local rates, which are totally different things. If the tenant, bas to pay the lana- tax he may deduct it from his rent. The Act to which our correspondent refers does nut in any way affect the question. MAJSTKB AND SEUVANT.—" Merchant (Brynmawr) is advised that a shop assistant cannot sue for wages in the police-court. The Employers and Workmen Act, which gives the magistrates power to deal with claims for wages, &c., only applies to labourers, ser- vants in husbandry, journeymen aitifieers, handi- craftsmen, miners, or oilier persons engaged in manual labour. The work of a shop assistant is not manual labour within the meaning of the Act. If a shop assistant wishes to sue for wages Le must take proceedings in the county-court. COUNTY-COURT,—" Lover of Justice is liable to the costs which are endorsed upon the summons, and he will eso be liable to pay a further fee of 8J. for the hearing, unless he consents to judgment (in which case only half that sum will bech irged), and 7s. more for solicitor's costs of attending the hearing. His own expenses must come out of his own pocket. If he attends the court he will, no doubt, be able to get off with payment by instalments. "OST CLOXHKS.—•'A. B." (Canton) is a,lvised that a laundrebsto whom clothes are sent to wash and gel up la responsible for their re-delivery to the senders, whether they are marked or not. 6De had bt tier try to make some arrangement to pay for the clothes which have, unfortunately, been lost. LocAL BoAKD.—" Inquirer (Abetsychan) is advised that the property qualification lor inemLer»hip of a local board varies as the population of the district is under or over 0. In the former case personal propeity t. the amount of gives a qualilic tion in the latter case is necessary. According to the statements contained in his letter, he is qualified it the district does not cuntaiu more than ,0.000 in- habitants. He will, if elected, have to Sibil a declara- tion as to his quaificatiou. DIVORCK.—" F. J." (Cardiff) is i dvised t!;at it will not be necessary to trace his wife and her paramour from the time when she quitted her hu.-band, It will be sufficient to prove that she is living in adultery now. 11 is not at all probable that he will find any solicitor Willing to take up his case without any money, on the strength of recovering his coats from the co-r^sppn- dellt. We never give estimates of costs. Our corre- spondent had better see a sulicilorand make a bargain .before giving definite instructions. LANDLADY AND LODGKB.—'• Jumbo" is advised that he must find a fresh place before his notice expires. If he fai's to do so his landlady m"y refuse to admi him. The fact that he always his rent punctually do-a not entitle him to stay as 1 nig as he chooses. PCRCHASK OF GROUND BKMTS.—" Ground Landlord (Bridgend) is infurined that there is no point of law involved in his question. If he can Invest his money so as produce 5 per ceut. p-jr annum iuterest he will be fortunate. TITHB RE.NT-CHAKGK.—" CarlTlarthen" is advised that if he makes a lease binding the tenant to pay the tithes it will be invalid, and cannot b, enforced. He had better make the rent ralhei h" vit,r, and it that way. CHAPBI. TRUSTEES. E. C." (Newport) is informed that the duties and powers of the chapel trustees will be found set forth in the trust deed. The trusties are responsible for all the money and property of the chapel which comes into their hands. REDEMPTION OF MORTGAGE.—" One in Cardiff" had better employ a solicitor, He is entitled to have the title deeds returned to him on paying whatever there is due to the mortgagee for principal, interest, and costs. It will be necessary to have a deed of con- veyance executed by the mortg-gce when he is pnid the mere handing over of the title deeds and giving 01 a receipt is not, sufficient, LAHDLORD AND TUNANT.—"B. S." is advised that as the amount tendered to the landlord was very much less than what wa, due to him the tender could not be pleaded as a defence to any action by thelandlo d for rent. The refusal of the sum tendered does not debar the landlord from distraining the tenant's goods for the fu 1 umount of the arrears. The tellanl, must pay the rates unless there has b-eu an agreement to the contiary. 87 TUTKS Ablating TO THE CHURCH.—"Protestant" (Caeileon) is informed that there are numerous Acts of Parliament r luting to the Church at pre-ient in force. It woulJ t.ike up loo much of our space to give a list of them and to tell him the effect of each. We may, however, tell him that the earliest statute relating to the Church, which is still in force, WIIS passed in the year 1297, and confirmed the rights ami liberties of the Church. LANDLORD AND TKNANT.—' Ajax (Mountain Ash) is advised that the landlord is not entitled to change half a rent because the tenant has been unable to get Tfie repairs finished until about two months after the expiration of the term of the lease. All he is entitled to is to be paid for the use and occiii,alioti of the premises from the end of December until the commencement of March at the same rate as the rent which the lessee paid, i.e., he will be entitled to a little more than two months' rent at the rate of £40 per annum. NUISANCE FKOM FTAEL".—"Alpha" (Abergavenny) should make inquiry of the surveyor, who will be able to tell him what regulations are contained in the bye-laws of the town on the subject mentioned in hia letter. If a nuisance dangerous to health should be caused by the accumulation of manure, either the sanitary inspector or any inhabitant may lay au in- formation and take the neceisary proceedings to compel an abatement of the nuisance. BANKIIUPTCY. —P. (Swansea) is i.dvised that if an employer becomes bankrupt any labourer or workman in his employ is entitled to be paid in full any weges which are due to him not exceeding £50, whether payable for time or piece work, in respect of services rendered to the bankrupt duri ng four months befure the date of the receiving order; and any clerk or servant is entitled to be paid in full all wages or salary in re.,p. ct of services rendered to the bankrupt within four months before the date of the receiving order, and not exceeding fcO. Keeping PIGS.—" R. K." (Pontardawe) is advised that it is an offence to keep any pigstye to the front of any street not being shut out from au h street by a sufficient wall or fence, or to keep any swine in or near any street so as to lie a common nuisance. The local authority have power to make bye-laws dealing with pigstyes, and we have no doubt that if lie makes inquiries he will find there is some byc-iaw prescribing the distance at which pigstyes must be kept from dwelling-houses in his district. AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS ACT.—" Old Tciinnt is In- formed that the Act of 18-3 [Sectiun 7) provides that a tenant claiming compensation under this Act shall, two months at least before the determination of the tenancy, give notice in wrikwig to the landlord of his intention to make tucli olaim. As no sncllllutÎce was given in this case the teriaia cannot enforce his claim to compensat ion. Cory WILL.—" Mischief" (GFowe: ton) can get a copy of the will by writing to the Registrar of Wills, Someiset House, London. He will have to slate the Christian and surnames of the testitrix, the dllt., of her death, and the place where she had her LIst lixed residence. He will be called upon to pay a small fee for the search, after which he will be \1.1 how much a copy wid cost him. The coat cFia-couy depends entirely on its length, being at the mt»uf eixpeuce for eveiy tolio of 72 words tach. is advised to defend the action, if the summuns served upon hiIU is an ordi- nary one in which a day infixed for the trial, ail that he has to do is to get the at tendance of his witnes-es arranged for and ins'ruct a solicitor to appear for him. If the summons is one of those which are known as default summonses, he lUu-t till up and sign the notice printed at the foot of his in'ention to defend, and mutt send it to the regist rar of tile countv- court, taking care that he lias it within eight days of the service of the summons (including the day of service). We consider that he ought to make a counter-claim for damngss. Landlord AND IKNANT. "Landi< rd" is advise I that if a draiii is blocked up or in need of repair it is not necessary for the tenant to get the landlord's permis- sion before opening it. If a landlord lets a house which is in an unsanitary state, and, therefore, unlit for occupation, aud the tenant or any of his fiUnjiy sufTer thereby, an action for d'imfges may be brought against the laudlorj. RUNAWAY APPRENTICE.—" G. N." (Swan«ea) is advised that as he was a party to, and sign<u, h'.s sons ap- prenticeship indenture, he made himself responsible for the faithful discharge of his duties by the appren- tice. As the boy has run away and refused to serve the lull term of his apprenticeship, the master may bring an action against our correspondent to recover damages. {(REACH OF PROMISE.—"Injured Olle" may bring all action to recover damages for breach of promise of marriage. The action must be brought in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court; it cannot be coai- menced in the county-court, but may be removed there fcjr oonaent, or if the amount claimed doea not exceaii A100, either party m«y apply to the High Court lor an order that the ca»e shall be tried in the eouat/'Wirt, jmfy uj)l9M the P<uty ty. KG Uon shows good cause to the contrary, an order will be made, It will be necessary for her to employ a solici- tor, as she could not herself conduct the proceedings. BLIND AND ILLITERATE VOTERS, R. G. L." is informed that the Ba lot Act provides that on the application of any blind or illiterate voter, the pre- liding officer must, in the presence of the agents of the candidates cause his vote to be marked on a ballot- paper and the paper to be placed in the ballot-box. There appears to be some doubt as to whether the igents are entitled to see the vote actually marked, Cut In "Fitzgerald's Ballot Act the opinion is ex- pressed that they are. There is nothing in the Act which entitles a candidate to be present when the vote of a blind or illiterate voter is marked for him. TRANSFER OF SHARES.— Kesiduary Legatee (Lan- dilo) is advised that the execution by him of a trans- fer of the shares from himself as executor to himself AS residuary legatee was as absurd and unnecessary Torm. Article 14 of the articles of association of the company provide that Any person becoming entitled to a shave in consequence of the death ■ ■ of any member, or in any other way than by transfer, may be registered as a member upon such evidence being produced as may from time to time be required by the company." The secretary of the company ought to have followed the usual course and registered him as a member on production of the probate. LAPSED LEGACY.—" Gamaliel (Bridgend) is advised that as the legatee died in the lifetime of the testator, the legncy bequeathed to him lapsed and did not take effect. If he had been a child or other issue of Ihe testator it would not have lapsed, but would have taken effect in just the same manner as if he had sur- vived the testator. CLAIM TO LAND.—" K. B. B." would not be justified in obtaining a search warrant to search for the missing deed, and, indeed, we do not believe any magistrate would grant iiim one under the circumstances he mentions. If he wishes to substantiate his claim to the field, he ought to bring an action against the occupant, claiming possession. The action may be brought in the county-court. By adopting this course he would compel the occupant to show his title. lie would need the services of a solicitor. It is certainly not a case for criminal proceedings, and it he lays a criminal information it will, no d"ubt, Irt dismissed, and he will be sutd fur damages for malicious prose- cution. COUNTY-COU.T CASE.—"A. T. L." (Pentre) ii advised that his father ought to write to the registrar of the county-court telling him that he has no means what- ever of paying the debt, as he is earning nothing, and also that he has no goods upon which execution cm be levied. Our correspondent cannot be com- pelled to pay his father's debts. There is no necessity for his father to incur the expense of attending the court. CLAIM TO LAND.—" P. C." (Briton Ferry) ought to con- sult a local solicitor, and get him to threaten the tenants with proceedings unless they pay their rents to him. It would also be as well to get the tenants to execute agreements of ten.mcy with him as land- lord. If he can get them to pay their rents to him, and no other claimant appears on the scene, he will, in time, acquire an absolute title to the property. We are of opinion that it would be unwise to go to law at present, as the Btstote of Limitations would probably be pleaded, and would be fatal to his claim. But if he follows the course we have suggested, he will, no doubt, succeed in re-gaining the property. DOG WORRYING SHENp"—" Cymru" (Neath) has no right to shoot, or otherwise destroy, a dog which is caught on his land worrying his sheep. If he can discover the owner of the dog he may sue him fur compensa- tion for the injury done to his sheep. Where the amount of d images claimed does not exceed JE5,the proceedings may be taken before a justice of the peace, who has power to make au order for pay me t.

THE LATE PROFESSOR FREE- MAN. The Times has received sumo details of Mr. Freeman's sad death fit Alicante, in Spuin, list Wednesday. On the pvevi us Thursday, March 10, Mr. Freeman, with Mr., Freeman and the two Misses Freeman, arrived at. Alicante from Valencia. As Mr. Freeman felt unwell Niv. Jasper W. Camming, the Brii iS11 Viou Consul at Alicante, was requested to recommend a doctor. The next day Mr, FI'I e¡n;u.'e illness was declared to he smallpox. A« at the same time he was suffering fioin a sliylit attack of bronchitis, his btnte became rapidly setious. Another doctor was summoned from Valencia, but Mr. Freeman grew worse, and expired at seven o'clock on the morning of last Wednesday. The funeral was to take place in the Protestint cemetery of Ali- cante. We leain that smallpox is not prevalent in Alicante, and Mr. Fieeman's fatal illnesa was con- tracted before his arrival at that town.

MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN PARIS. Between six aid h->lf-pnst six on Saturdiy t vening Lucin Duboia, about 38 years of age, was murdered at 72, Hue Taiibout, wi ere she had lived for the last ten years. Hur sister, Anuis Dubois, who acted as her servant, had Deen out marketing, and on reluming, at six o'clock, she heard her si-ter chatting with s-O'neone in hei ronin. She went out ag,tin for half an hour, and was astonished on li-r return to find the apartment door wide open. She c'lllod to her siiler, and receiving no answer bel me alarmed. At length she found Lucie 1) ing diad on the floor, d,se to the sofa, with her lie id almost severed from her body, her tlwoit having been cut. An inquiry if stituted on the spot by the po ice commissary led to no result. The mur- derer must have known Lucie Dubois's apartment, as no one applied to the concierge for information. Nobody noticed anybody either enter or leave the house. The victim had the reputation of being well off, and was known to have lent some sums of money at high interest. Some time ago she lent 10,000 francs to a man who was the lover of one of her friends. Lucie Dubois had failed to obtain repayment of that sum and had lodged a complaint against the boirower. Similar complaints had previously been lodged by Lucie Dubois against other debtors. It is imagined that one of them may be the murderer.

CRIME IN HIGH PLACES. During the course of hia SHill on at St. Margaret's, Westminster, on Sunday morning Dr. Farrar fcaid —" Our callous security may well seem amazing. There is nothing less like seriousness, nothing less like watchfulnes?, than the ordinary moral attitude of men. We see them chasing bubble?, intensely ertger to get on, slaving for money, tampering with temptations, living as if there were no such thing as death. It is terrible to r ad of women moving in the ranks of educated society, richly endowed with some good man's love, surrounded with luxury and comfort, and yet-for Heaven knows what, temptation—chan- ging honour, and love, and womanhood in the mire, and plunging into the depths of theft and perjury. It is tenible to read of men, who once stood out as themselves champions of purity, waxing worse and worse till detection comas upon them and the maik is torn away. It is terrible to read of men who had fought honourably the battle of life, had won high position, had rendered a real service to the came of their fellowmen, standing with their grey hairs dishonoured, in the felon's dock, dad in the felon's garb, imprisoned in the felon's cell. It is terrible to read of men, living in the centre of learning, themselves teachers, sinking in the hope of gaili, into foul birds of prey, blackening their souls with infamy unspeakable."

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SOCIETY. BE- DIAMONDED. At a recent ball in Berlin Lady Ermyntrude Malet is said to have worn £50,000 worth of diamonds on her dress. LADY RUSSELL AND THE STAGE. It is now practically decided (says the Star) that Lady Russell will go on the stage. She will make her debut in the course of a. few weeks at the Royally Theatre. ffNEW PEERS. It is rumoured that several of the retiring Con- servative members of Parliament will be offered peerages, and that the batch of new peers will in- clude Sir Edward Bates and Sir Walter Barttelot. 3IISS NELLIE FARREN. Miss Nellie Fairen makes but very slow progress towards convalescence. She has been recom- mended by her physician to try mud baths, and will shortly proceed to the Continent for that pur- pose. A HARDY LADY. There is a lady at Now biggin who has the courage to bathe all the year round. Every morn- ing during this terrible winter the bather walks down to the beach, accompanied by her maid, hns a plunge in the briny, and home to breakfast. THE LONDON SEASON. It is doubtful whether the death of the Grand Duke will affect the London season. The Queen will certainly not alter the arrangements for the drawing-rooms, and the peiiod of Court mourning wiil be over before the end of April. M. RUBINSTEIN AND ENCORES. M. Rubinstein, by the way, has recently adopted a very efficacious plan to prevent un- reasonable encores. Before lie returns to ac- knowledge the applause he directs an attendant to mount the platform and securely lock the pianofvl te, PRINCE FERDINAND, Prince F»rilinand, Crown Prir.ce of Roumania, has it is said, fallen in love again, and this time with a lady who, though not of Royal tank, cannot exactly be obj tcttid to on the score of lowly birth, for one of lalc ancestors was Hospodar of Wal- l icliia. MR. BARRY PAIN AND THE SATOY. There is no truth, we are told, in the report that Mr. Barry Pain is engaged on a libretto for the Savoy, in spite of the detailed forecasts of his sub- ject—Cambridge life, it was said—which have got into print. Mr. Pain docs not even know either Mr. D'Oyly Carte or Mr. Solomon, KOSSUTH. DespLe his age and tumours to the contrary, Kossuth still remains in comparatively good health. At a commemorative banquet held in Buda-Pesth a letter was read from the groat Hungarian patriot, in which ho ?aya that, although his eyes sometimes fail him and rob him of the joy of his old days' work, he is well and hopes soon to complete the f. urtli voluae of his memoirs. LADY CLANCARTY. Lady Clancarty went to see" Lady Windeimere's Fan" the otlier night, and attracted a-i much atten- tion as the play. Two rows of beautiful pearls formed a fillet for her hair, and hor lorgnette was suspended on another siring of pen-Is, and she carried a large white fan with" Helle" written nc, oss it in diamonds. Her diess was pate pink satin, and had a soft effect in uniiou with the pear's. MADAME MTL.BA. Mdme,Me!ba nnde hlr renll éJ at the Grand Opern, Pari?, on Monday night in "Hamlet." There is a report current in the French capital just now tha.t Sir Augustus Harris—who returned on Thutsday evening after witnessing a most succe-sful pro- duction of his opera at Newcastk-oii-Tyne—has offered Madame Melbi the regal sum of £ 200 a night for his forthcoming opera season, and that these liberal terms have been refused. It was a bold stroke that really deserved to succeed. MRS. BANCROFT'S PET DOG. Mrs. Bancroft has a pretty little King Chules, whom she idolisas, and is never happy unless it is with her. A few nights ago site and her husband, with a party of friends— and lie dog-visiled tire Haymarkot. Theatre. Presumably, the little animal did not approve of "H.im!et,"or perhaps Mr. JJuerbohui Tree's i-eridt,ring did not please him. lie that as it may, ho sp ilt si>me of Mr. Tree's soliloquies by burking. As a malter of course, there were, profuse apologies at the end of the performance. RUNNING AFTER ROYALTY. The Royal visiters at Cap Martin are being favoured with fine weather, and a telegram from Mentoue states that the whole party aie much im- proved in health by their st"y, Princess Maud has benefited gr< a ly. Thursday being a very fine day, large numbers of persons drove fiom Monte Carlo and Mentone by the public road, and to',k up positions near the hotel to see their Royal Highnesses leave for their walks ai d drives. This lias naturaliy bren the source of considerable annoyance, and Mr. Calvin White, the proprietor of Cap Mai tin, wil1, it is stated, if necessary, exer- c'se his right to stop all traffic of this intiusive character. A MAGNIFICENT MANSION. Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, according to an American contemporary, is about to build a new house, which is to be the finl st residence in New York, and to cost at least .MOO.OOO. Some time "go he acquired the entire block of buildings between Fitiy-seventh and Fifty-eighth street?, and running halt way from Fifth to Sixth Avenues. On this site tho new man ion is to be built. It will stand back 100ft. from the aveuue. and the grounds aro to be enclosed, not by a waU, but by high iron railings. There will be a private theatre, a n onattr ballroom, and a supper-room to match. HISTORIANS AND POLITICS. The late Professor Frt-eman was an ardent Home Ruler. But the historians are generally Unionists. Mr. Froude is no advocate of Mr. Gladstone's r policy, nor is Mr. Lecky, whose voice has been heard on public platforms denouncing the fallacies and dangers of a separale Irish Assembly. Mr. Gold win Smith lias written strongly against what he cads »-ecession, and Mr. Prendergast, the author of iho Ciomwelan Settlement," is i qually vehement in his opp osit ion to Home Rulo. Mr. Gardiner is another Unionist; so is the Bishop of Oxford; so aie Colonel MaUeson and Mr. Bolme", tile historians of the Indian Mutiny, and Professor Malmffy and many other?. Pr ofessor B yce remfllns to champion the cause of Separa- tion now that Professor Freeman Ins gone. THIS DISSOLUTION RUMOUBS. The London Correspondent of the Liverpool Courut says he has boen unable to find that any foundation exiiits for the report that what is vir- tually a iound-robin" has been handed to Mr. Akers-Douglas by a b dy of his followers in favour lm.mea,ute dissolution. The members of the Ministerial party indifferent to the prolonga- tion o 16 hie of the Parliament are the gentlemen who have signified their intention to retire from public >fe, but the majority of these have pri- vately lnfonned tho chief Whip of their readiness to actively assist the Government in the division lobby to tie end of the Session should t).is ba prolonged into August. ABOUT PIUNCE GEOIiGE OF WALES. i A Who gtlOuld be in a position to knov i es that, although Prince George will not J6 "1" nn atf9 l'^0' 110 continue to be ii°nMirii witi'f- 'at as an honorary officer, j,,a;A 'oherrank than he now holds. It is p-i ™ ai °ij Prince of Wales that the young Ponce should a'ttcli himself to a cavalry regunont, U t >■ «i ''as shown some inclinntion to do ,P°!Ut H stiI1 in abeyance. It is also dence at St fnce ,G001^ wil take up liis reai- i Pln( -Juness Palace upon his return from the C-mtniQut, and that it is confi()entiy arU,ci. r r,'J' "10 announcement of the bestowal of a dukedom upon him will be made when his betrothal is assured. THE QUEEN AND THE LATE SIR E. BOEHM. t KW ^'leen has had a handsome mediteval brass tab.et placed in St. Ge.rgo's Chapel, Windsor Castle, in memory of the late Sir Edgar Boehm, R.A. It is fixed under a painted window in the south aisle, near the statue of the Emperor Frederick, one of the last works that the sculptor executed. ihe inscription is as follows In memory of Sir Joachim Edgar Hoehin, Bart., who was born at Vienna on July 6, 1834, aud who died, while a work m his studio in London, on Decem- ber lc, loJO. This tablet is erecled by Queen Victoria III nigh appreciation of his talents as a sculptor, aud in heartfelt gratitude for the memo- rials his lut has left of many who were dear to her." Beneath are the sentences, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above," and "In the unidat of lift we ate in dean- •> t LORD TENNYSON. Lord Tennyson is now in excellent health. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO HYERES. Her Majesty will leave for H) ères on Saturday. THE LATE SIR OSCAR CLAYTON. The personal estate of Sir Oscar Claylon, ext a- Surgeon in Ordinary to the Prince of Wale?, has been sworn at £ 146,745, THE SPEAKER'S PORTRAIT. Mr. Locklmrt, R.S.A., has at length finished his portrait of Mr. Speaker Peel in his robes. THE EMPEROR OF CHINA. The Emperor of China's English studies advance rapidly, much to the disgust of the conservative Court officials opposed to Western ideas. His Majesty is also learning French. THE PRIMATE AND HIS LETTERS. The Archbishop of Canterbury will read no letters on Sunday. For thirty year: it is said, his grace has refused to allow any Sunday delivery to be made at his country residence. SO TALL. The Grand Duke Paul of Russia is so tall that he is obliged to cairy his bed with him, as he cannot find one at any public-house long enough to iiold all of him. AUTHORS AND PAY. There are only four authors who earn 20,000 dollais a year with their pens, and these lucky oues are William Dean Howell?, Robert Louis Stevenson, Maik Twain, and Mrs. Burnett. OSCAR WILDE OVERWORKED. Mr. Oscar Wilde is so out of health that his medical adviser has ordered him to leave at once for the South of France. His illness is said to be due chiefly to over-work. MADAME SCHUMANN. Madame Schumann, one of the greatest of living piamat", and the most distinguished of living pianofoite teachers, has resigned the post of principal professor at Dr. Hoch's Consc-rvatoriuiii at Frankfort. JAPANLSE KT1QUUTTE. In Japan fviquette liai to do with such an apparently simple manner as entcsing a gate. If you are a man of the highest rank you enter by the centre and largest gate if not, you go in by one of the two side gates which flank it. SWINBURNE'S TRAGEDY. Swinburne's tragedy in verse, The Sisters," is set in modern times and filled with modern characters. The play will make a crown octavo book of 120 or 130 page*, and will be published in the course of April. BEATING THE LYCEUM. Mr. living his been for some time planning, and lias now completed, a system of warming the Lyceum with hot-water pipes. It extends not only to the stait?, dress circle, and boxes, but also to the stage, pit, the gallery, and the corridois throughout the theatre. PHI" CESS LOUISE IN DELICATE HEALTH. Princess Louise (says a Loudon crrospondetii) has been ordered riding exercise for t) e sake of her health, which has not been wholly sltisfactorv of late; and she now takes a canter. evory morning in the large riding-school attached to the Roynt stables at Buckingham Palace. CAPTAIN ARMS FH- NO. Captain Fiancis Ne-bitt Armstrong—the hus- band of Madame illclbia-wliose domici e the High Court justices are trying to fix, is a tall, resclute- looking man, with blue eyes an J (J, ta w ny mous- tache. If he wore his hair six inches longer he «ould look like one of the Not so heroes Rider Ilagsaid writer about. He has made a reputition for expertness WiLli sword and pi3101. SARAH BERNHARDT. Sarah Bernhardt is thus severely criticised by Tourgenieff, the Great Russian novelist "She is gitted by nature with a beautiful voice, and has studied ut n good SdIU01, but she is without real fieling and without the artistic temperament. Iler wlllk is like that of an hen she is a mimic the motions she makes with her hands, I must confess, are piquant, but her whole acting is redolent of the B^ukvarJ." THE QUEEN AND THE GUKIPU FUND. The Dad.1f Chronicle Vienna correspondent states that the fact has (orno to liyht that the late King of Hanover bequeathed jE150,000 to Queen Victoria and the same sum to each ot her Majesty's daughters, which, owing to the sequestration of the (iuelpli Funtf, they never n-ceived. Now that the property ) aa been released it is expected that the legacies will be paid. 1UE RANDL'GGER DLVOI'CE. Signor Handepger, who oblaiurd his divorce from his wife on Tuesday, lias (says a London corre- spondent) been IIffiOflg us long enough to be almost an Englishman. He has done something f< r English att at the Royal Academy of Music. Mr. Hiydn Coffin, the co-respondent, made a name with his Queen of My Heart song in Dorothy." He is the third prominent member of tlat famous conpany who has Leon in the dtv.ice couit. A FORTUNE FOR MR. JUSTICE SMITH. Few people who eaw the comfoitable-looking gentleman attired in a well-worn coat and trousers baggy at the knees walking down the Strand behind a big cigar and a copy of the Pall Mall Gazette woul (says a London conespondent) t ike him for the ui llinching judge who has within a few days sent an M.P. into penal servitude and a society lady to hard labour, and who h-tshimaeif just come into a big fortune. That is, I am in- f rined, the state of the case. Tin; judge has been left a fortui e of half a million sterling. BOOMI.NG" ANNIE SWAN. Miss Annie Swan, tho Scotch story writer, is at present being" boomedin Ametica. In several journals in that enterprising country there is appearing a very c"mmon block portrait of the authores", headed" A Sweet Face." The accom- panying letterpress is to this effect Everybody says that. But is it not a strong fuce ? CouJd this woman wiito nonsense ? Look again. No othor writer of to-day will be read more in 1892 on both sides of the ocean than Annie Swan, Scotland is proud of her and Ameiica is welcoming her as a true, cheery, and winning apcstle of chastity, tem- p,dance, filial duty, and conjugal fidelity," PRINCESS MAUD OF WALES. W, iling of the Prince of Wales's family,a Lotidon correspondent says .— Princess Maud is so weak that great caro has to be taken of ter. When it was announced some time ago that sho was not so well as her parents would dosire, the statement was indignantly denied. It is now, however, ad- mitted that she is generally out of sort*, and bus for the time to b; carefully proiected from wintry weather. Aftsr what has happened, one can very well understand that tho precautions taken go beyond al solute need. The Princess Maud is not Ill, silo is only ailing; but she is not tho sl urdy girl she at one time seemed likely to turn out. Her very deiicary makes her more like hor mother in features than either of her sistt rs. THE CLANCARTY PICTURES, Several pictures by well-known English and Continental paintors were sold at Messr-.Chiistie's, London, on Saturday, and portraits by men who are entitled to be reckoned famous artists brought prices which cannot be called exctssive. Ti e sale included the collection of Dutch and Flemish pictures made by the second Earl of C'ancarty whilo he wts Ambissador at the Hague half a century ago, and also tlipt made by the late Colonel Waiter Tyrall. Among the items in the collection was a pt-rtrr.it by the Dutchman IIuls, dated 1630, piintea on copper, which sold for 700 guinea", Sir Tiioma3 Lawrencb'a portrait of Lord CaitliiNagh brought, 350 guineas, and for another, a pm trait of a lady and three children, by De V(.s, 225 guineas were given. Hol- bein's picture of Philip-le-Bow nnd the Du!<e of Burj,un'!y sold for 92 guineas. Other sales were -Portrait of Lady Duke, by Sir Peter Lely, 55 guineas Lady Killiyrew, by Sir Peter Lely, 82 gutne.s; Charles Killigrew, by Lely, 57 guineas and Thomas Kiiiigl ew, by Vandyck, 56 guiue is, Ttf.< PRINCE OF NAPLES. Tha story that the Piince of Naples, heir t, the Italian hi one, is to marry a daughter oi tho Duke of Edinburgh, may. says a London coirespondent, well be doubted. A difference in religious training seems to be an i¡,supera.ble uel.r to such a mat: No doubt the children of tho second son of the Queen are the oflsp:ingof a mixed marriage. The Duke, who is understood to have no very strong religions views, is formally an Anglican; the Duchess 1 balongs, as a 7 Russian Princes-, to the Gteek Church. it understood that the Duke's. household has been conducted on principles which the old Scotch divines would have denounced as latitudiuarian It may be further admitted that the House ot Savoy is not of Ultramontane Rome. But it would be a strange thing if the daughter of an Anglican father and a Gieek Church mother was to go to Koine as the spouse of a Prince, some day to be a King, who acknowledges the spiritual authority of tin PoDe. His ROTHI Highness of Naples wanted to marry an Eng.ish Princess, who snubbed him. He may still be anxious for an English IVmceos for his wife. But even Italy, freethiuking as it ;g, would resent a Protestant Que»- JAY GOULD AND HIS WIFE. Jay Gould's wife lent him 80,000 dollars at the beginning of his speculations. Not long her deatli she requested settlement and iecei*e<? 2,000,000 dollars, whichsbe invested in UovernlDellt bonds. ABOUT BARON HlIiSCH. Maurice Hirsch was born at Munich jusfc 5^ years ago, and went to Brussels as a boy oi thirteen. the World) marked by any peculiar promise, and at seventeen he went into business, Before loot his capacity as a financier brcame evidont his moderate patrimony soon doubled itself, and bH personal influence was greatly increased by a matrimonial alliance with Mdlle. Bifchoffsheiflft the daughter of a Belgian senator. In 1866 th< commercial collapse of M. Langrand Dumonceal1, which shook the money world of Belgiam to its foundations, gave him his opportunity. tie secured the most valuable of the »ssefi including the Turkish railways, and, by his skilful manipulation of them, has built up, in a quartet of a century, a fortune which equ ils that of the Rothschilds. No man who has acquired such VOC riches has ever used them to better pui poses. Hi* charities in Germany and Austiia are inDumerable. and his scheme for transplanting his UnfOJtUllate cc-religionists to South America (many of the details of which have been elaborated in the sludl at St. Johann) will cost what any ordinarp pcROB would consider a fortune.

THEATRICAL. Mr. Laurence living joins Mr. Tocle's company next Saturday. Mr. living wiil give a few performances of Richelieu" at the 1 yceum during the season. The last nights of the Drury L me pantomime "Humply Dumpty," are aunounccd. Mr. Charles Br ok field is at work upon a new version of Sardou's Div.-r^ons for the Comedy Theatre. Miss Lottie Collins's appearance at, the Gaiety bas resulted in au appreciative increase in to" attendance there. Mr. U. Chance Newton is writing for Miss Yesf. Tilley a new burlesque, entitled Cartouche and Company, Limited," which she will take on a tout in August. On Monday, the 28th inst., Mrs. Lancaster- yValli* will produce at the Vaudeville Mr. L. N. Parker's play "Chris." The piece is to be given every afteC. noon during the week, except Saturday. Hamlet" on Thursday reached its fiftieth per, formance at the Haymarket. So successful has tile revival ploved that there seems little piobability of any change in the programme being required during the season. At the Strand rehearsals are in full swing of "Niobe," a farcical comedy by Mr. Harry Paulton, the incidents of which bear not a little refetn* blance to ilio-,e dealt with by Mr. Anstey in "The limed Venus," In Mr, Paulton's piece MisS Beatrice Lamb bus been assigned the part of tbe animated ttitue. At the Glob-j German comedy is to be afforded 9, chance in the shape of Dr. B,tiff," an English version of Adolph L'Arronge's piece "Dr. Clous, which on the Continent has successfully withstood the wear-arid-ttar of many years' representation- A competent company has mean while bueu engaged for its perfoimance. The revival at Terry's, which is to lake place art Easttr, of The Magistrate" re-cails the premature death of Mr. John Clayton, an excellent actot whose place has never yet quite been tilled on tW stage. No one who witnetsed his admirable per- toru ance as CoLnel Lukin in Mr. Pi, ero's farce cafl have forgotten the comic forco with which lie iU. vested the part. The non-success of Mr. Richards" has found Mr. John Lart unprepared with any new play' "New Men and O:d Acres," "The Viti"" &Dd Peril have each in turn been suggesl cd by way of stopgap and successivtly dismissed. At present it is Mr. Lait's intention to try something of II lighter description than drawing-room melodrama and until he can find this the thtatre will remaill closed. Among the plays promised a year ago by Mr. Tree at his "Monday Evenings" was one by Mf' E. Henderson, named "A Silent Batile," regarding which con8ideiab!e expectations were fornoao. The themo of tha piece, founded upon the writer i novel "AgntbaPmgp," was understood to be int6* reating; while the character of the hero furnished a suggestive story in psychology. In view of tliiflo rrgrel could only be felt that circumstances ren" doied the production of the play impossible. For, tunately, arrangements i ave now been made by which "A Silent Battle" will be presented 6»rly in May at a seiies of five malin63j, with a cast Of I'xe"l t¡¡,nal strer.gt h.

S PORTING. Macphorson, always a difficult li rse to train has had !o be stru.-k out of the Grand National. Sir Charles llu sell has leased Fdii Exiia, his filly by Wenlock—Lanie, to Lord Randolph Churcbili for her racing carter. Wilson will meet Morgan Crowther at tM Sporting Life office on Monday IKX-, ut two p.ro.i to sign articles. It was reported in Dublin on Tuesday that Fe»* Not, the U.and Na ional candidate, hid broke" down. Rawlinson, the jockey, will probably ride in th* Lincoln Handicap, after which he go-'s abroad for one more season, having been offered £1,000 as It retainer. R. Adams left London on Monday en route lot Austria, where he has accepted an engagement as first jockey in the stable over which J. Reeved presides. Thomas Eivcs backs his dog, Sweer, against W. Williams's dog, Boy, for 425 a-3ide, to course tbO beat of 21 rabbits on Monday, April 11, at Caer* philly. JE10 is deposited. Detective, A. Watts riding, Peter Flower, witll Rickaby up, and Dunvegan, who was handled bY a stable lad, were tried on Wednesday, when Don. vegan finished a long way hist. Breda added to the two successes she gained at Gatwick by winning the Open Selling Hurdle Racd at Sandown all Thtnsday, after which she was puG up for auction, and bought in for 310 guinea. Do Beers on Thursday left his training quartet at tlio Currngh, en route for Lincoln, iu company with Kaboongn, who has ied Mr. Dunne's colt III much of liis work. The price very much varied in lown on ThurS. day as regardtd The Pinnate for tie Grafcd National. At one time lie wts as good a favourite as Cloister, but subsequently proved a little easf. Judging from the entire absonce of accemmodft* tion for the press nt Cowbridge on Thursday* reporters were not expected—or wanted- Which? Hunter, the'London Caledonian centre forward, who was ordtre i off the field in ti e match wit11 the Old in the London Senior Cup tie at the Oval last Saturday, has been isuspaudc for a week. Chailia Rawlinson, who is engaged to ride Link Br)y in the Lincolnshire Handicap, will put up 2ltJ. ovorweight, as he is able to go to 6cale at 7st 6117, and will be seen in the saddle several times duriog the opening weik. The only horses with engagements in the big handicap on Wednesday that had arrived at Lio* coin on Sunday night were Verbosity and De BeefSj the latter c f whom was sent over from Ireland hst week. Ail snow has disappeared from the racecourse Aintree, and the Grand National ,steeplechase could have been run for on Tuesday. Rain set in during the afternoon, and it is to bo hoped we have seeB the last of the frost for some time. Tom Jones, of Dowlais, aud D. Thomas, of same locality, have matched their dogs, Tip and Snider, to run the best of 21 course?, for R20 a-side. The match will b<J decided on Easter Mon. day, April 18, ut Caerphilly. £ 5 a-side is deposit- On Thursday Father OFiynn, who will &a Captain Owen's mount in the Grand National, waS sent a capital two-mile gallop. It would appea' that the gallant captain does not estimate LilO chances of Gallaud's National reprosi ntativea oS 09 a high order. A coursing n atch will bo decided at Cnoiphil'/ on Monday, April 11, between W. William8'^ Charley Ptace and Tom Eave^'s Dick, for £ 25 side. The dog catching and holding eleven out 0* 21 rabbits to bo deemed the winner, and the first to snap to give the cthtr party the rabbit. 1 According to Truth, a couple of the Duke. 0 Westminsters two year olde, of which a very hit? opinion was entertained la?t season, are like'* grievous'y to disappoint their owner's expect*' tions. These failures are Ang< la, half brother Orme, by Mackiieath, and Orford, by Band Or 00 of Ruth. The French flat racing season has cotnuaoOc6d Sflilior than does ours, and there was aood 0.11