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MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. j The Cur has Damed two vessels of hit navy re- pectively Geoktepe and Skooeleff. The Church of Holy Trinity, St. Philip's. Bristol, ,as re-opened on Friday week, after restoration. The Hon. George Edgcumbe ia suffering from t .paralytic seizure, and lies in a very precarioua ttate. Mr. Stansfeld, M.P., ia confined to his bed, and will be unable to resume his Parliamentary work for at leaat a fortnight. The army estimates have been printed. Mid are ttow in the hands of the omciala. They will shortly be laid before Parliament. Her Majesty's troopship Malabar arrived at Portsmouth on Friday week. Two deaths occurred during the voyage. A man was killed, and two others were seriously injured by a fall of earth at the extension works at Victoria Station, Manchester. Through the liberality of the Indian Government, the third-class fare on the East Indian Railway is pow only about threepence for ten miles. Over jM5 has been stolen by burglars from the bookùu(-office at the Shoreham Station of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company. The Central News" states that the medical report on Sunday night from Bangor described the condition of Mr. Bulkeley M.P., as still most critical. The Berlin correspoadent of the Post says there have been several encounters of late between smugglers and German omciala on the Dutch frontier. A man named Eeddv waa sect to prison for three months, at the Hull police-court, last week, for having diseased meat in bis possession intended tor human food. The 7'arM of Friday week persists In the charge tgaintt the De Freycinet Cabinet of favouring the clandestine return of Jesuits and other unautho- rised congregations. Messrs. Tremlett and Sons' paper mills, at Exeter, were burnt down on Sunday morning. The damage is estimated at about £30,000. The origin of the nre is unknown. A memorial is being signed at Leeds in favour of a commutation of the sentence of death passed upon John Ross for the murder of John Manley, after a public-house quarrel. The Forth Bridge Railway Company have decided to go on with the construction of the bridge which, with its approaches, would, it is estimated, cost about .61,720,000. The Daily News correspondent at Naples, tele- graphing on Monday night, says:—On inquiring f Dr. San Giovanni I was glad to nnd that Gari- aldi's health continues to improve. The Duke of Westminster hM arranged that a Ste is to be held at Eaton Hall early in August, in .id of the building fund of the King's School in Chester, which has lately been re-organised. The Berlin correspondent of the Jfb)'K!My Post .ys :-General Ignatiefr, who had entrusted M. r'adejeff with the control of the press, has re- tppointed General Tchemayeff to that omce. At the quarterly communication of the Grand i..odge of Freemasonry, which is to be held on the t.st of March, the Prince of Wales will be proposed 'or re-election as Grand Master. The Shrewsbury Conservative Association, at a meeting on Tuesday afternoon, decided to invite Mr. A. R. Scoble, Q.C., and a local gentleman, to contest the borough at the next general election. Extraordinary tithes have been formally con- demned at a large meeting of farmers a.nd hop and fruit growers at Boughton Monchelsea as an impediment to agricultural progress. Toe Berlin correspondent of the jPoaf gars ;—The Government continues to oppose the arrangement which is sought to be brought about for an International Exhibition at Berlin. A murder was committed on Saturday night at Leeda. Arthur Lannagan, foreman hammer driver, quarrelled with Mrs. Lofthouse, in whose house he todged. about his food, and innieted such injuries hat she died soon afterwards. The Berlin correspondent of the Jfor7!!K$' Post telegraphs that an unfavourable impression ha.sbeen created there by a knowledge of the preliminary conditions of the Joint Note of England and France for the settlement of the Egyptian dimculty. The operative chain-makers in the Staffordshire <t.nd Worcestershire districts met on Monday, and decided on a general strike, some of the masters having refused to give the advance of wages asked for. At the various Roman Catholic churches of the diocese of Westminster, on Sunday, a pastoral letter on the state of the Church waa read from Cardinal Manning to the clergy and laity of the diocese. Earl and Countess Manvers reached Rome on Saturday morning, a.nd a, telegra.m received on Monday states that the Hon. Henry Pierrepont had passed a critical stage of the fever, and that the .emperature was lower. The Oxford Conservative Association met on Monday evening a,nd passed a. resolution offering to Sir Stafford Xorthcote its hearty support and sympathy in the opposition be is making to the adoption of the Cloture in Parliament. A verdict for the plaintiff, with Is. damages, was given in the Queen's Bench Division, on Monday, 'n an action for libel brought by Mr. Conybeare, a bmtitter, against the World newspaper, which had "pokenof him as "a croea-grained andill-condi- tooed sptutterer." Mr. Henry ToUemache.the Conservative member or West Cheshire, while hunting with the Empress tf Austria and the Cheshire hounds, was putting ni.s horae over a gate. when the animal failed to clear it, and, falling, crushed the hon. member severely. The .Daily of Saturday says:—The Royal Commission on Agriculture appointed by the late Government expect to nnish taking the evidence next week. The Commission will thereafter pre- pare 4ta report, which is likely to be of a volumin- ous cha.ra.cter. The T<wxs correspondent in Paris says:—Count Faella, who was being tried at Bologna on the charge of murdering a priest, VirgiUo Costa, for the purpose of obtaining 52,000f. from his heirs on a forged note of hand, poisoned himself in his cell on Saturday morning. Inquiries made at Hackenthorpe, seven miles from Shefoeld, show that the outrage in the sickle trade arose out of an old dispute as to the employ- ment of non-unionists. Several attempts to blow up houses of nOli-unionists ha.ve been ma.de since that date. Up to the present no arrests have been made. The r''7KM Philadelphia correspondent tele- graphs:—The Washington grand jury have indicted twelve conspirators in the Star Route postal frauds, including Assistant-Postmaster- General Bra.dy and ex-Senator Dorsey. The Government have determined to prosecute these cases speedily. PEУSTRIAYISM,-On Monday, at the Lillie Bridge Grounds, H. Thatcher walked 22 miles 456 yards in three hours, thus beating the previous best on record. The greatest distance ever walked pre- viouslv in the same time wa.s 22 miles 206 yards by W. Parkins in 1877. On Saturday night the foundation of the quay walls and dock gates at Arbroath Harbour gave way owing to running sand. The dock entrance fell in. Fortunately no one was injured. The rMtora.tion work will entail a cost of several housand pounds. Maria Cheesely, a sharp, intelligent, little girl, <rho gave her age as fourteen, has been charged at lie Thames police-court with being drunk and 'egging. She has several times been before the ourt for the sam& offence. and was now remanded ,o aee what could be done for her. The 8ttmdwd believes that, in consequence of the ypintons expressed by Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Justin M'Carthy will frame the motion which he is to oring iorward on the subject of Homo Rule at a 'ater period of the session, so that it will embody a statement of the demaada of the Irish party. The operation known as the transmission of blood has just taken place at the Hopital Cochin, Paris. A patient who had been run over by a tramcar was dying from loss of blood. One nf the students immediately volunteered, but he subse- quently fainted from exhaustion. Another student took his place, and the man's life was saved. The Archbishop of Canterbury a,nd other gentle- men have ra.ited a fund for the reward of the two coMtablea, Kemp and Beeson, who recently en- countered two supposed burglars, Sima and Mar- tin. at Adduigton, after they had committed a robbery at Keston Common. About £20 is to be I presented to Kemp, who took the chief part in the arrest of the two robbera. On Monday a town's meeting was held at Ply- mouth, in reference to the proposed removal of Eddystone light-house to Plymouth Hoe. The deputation to the Trinity Board and Board of Trade was strengthened by the addition of two other iunuential gentlemen, and subscriptions were announced, which, with promises of service, amount to an equivalent of over jBl.OOO. At the Chester City police-court on Monday Jeremiah Morris, Chester, and John Fletcher, Altrincham, two rough-looking men, were charged with creating a disturbance and assaulting oncers of the Salvation Army. The prisoners commenced tarking and shouting during a service on Sunday, tnd when remonstrated with struck the omcers violently in the face. The Mayor, Sir Thomas Gibbons Frost, gave prisoners 21 days' imprison- ment each. A "Reuter's" telegram from St. Petersburg, dated February 20, says :—The tri&l of Trigoni, 3uchanoff, and their accompltces will commence to-morrow before the District Court of St. Peters- burg, Senator Dejer presiding. The number of accused ia 21, of whom three are women. In virtue of the decree of November 26,1881, besides the administrative and judieia.1 omeera, onlv the nearest relations of the prisoners will be admitted [o the court. In a case at the Westminster police-court on Monday, a gentleman named MacdonaM said he was standing at his own door in Pimlico, on an evening in January, and was taking his latch-key out of his pocket, when a man passed hia hand through Mr. Macdonald's arm, drew his watch out of his pocket, and ran away with it. The prosecu- tor waw so astonished that he did not think of pur- suing the man, but this"W16s done by a boy. The thief got into a cab, but the boy saw him plainly enouta to identify a man named Cook, who haa been apprehended as the offender. The prisoner Wall remMMied. A terriMe accident occurred on Saturday at Old gouthmead Quarry, Westbury-on-Trvm. Bristol, to Robert Goodman, aged 34, a.nd Richard Lewis, aged 55, residents at Westbury. The unfortunate who were quarrymen. were engaged ia blasting operations at the quarry, and, while ram- ming a charge of powder home. some nre, which, unobserved, still remained, set light to the charge. The consequence wa< a violent explosion, and the men were terribly burnt about the face and other- wise injured. They received assistance and were MmovM to tiM Innrmary, where they remain tn a ".n precarious state) President Arthur gave bis nrst state dinner at I Washington on Thursday week. The Lord Mayor of London ha a been unanimoualy elected a member of the Garrick Club. A Bill to amend the Jaw relating to the use of gunpowder in elate mines has been issued. Accounts from Naples of the Carnival relate acenea of terrible disorder '1.nd savage brutality. It is expected that the turret ships, Ajax and Agamemnon, at Chatham, will shortly be commis- sioned. Lady O'Hagan was safely delivered of a son on Monday morning at the family residence in che ham-place. Sir Sydney Waterloo, in view of his early mar- riage to Miss Hamilton, of California, has taken Haddington Park. Mr. T. Bond, M.B.. Load., F.R.C.S-, has been elected medical omcer to the Great Western Rail- way Company. A heavy storm passed over Thurso on Saturday. The crews of four vessela at anchor wore taken off by the lifeboat. The Mansion House Fund for the relief ef the persecuted Jews in Russia now amounts to upward* of dE50,000. The Aberdeen Town Council has voted .61,000 from the common fund towards the foundation of an art gallery and museum. Lord Braboume will write an article on the Channel Tunnel for the next number of the CoH- <<Mpora!?'y Mary Anne. Lady Gray. widow of John, 16th Lord Gray and Kinfauns, died on the 16th inst., a.t Pau, aged 72. The Dowager Duchess of Cleveland completed her 90th ])fea.r on Friday last, and ia in the enjoy- ment of excellent health. At the Hull police-court on Tuesday a seaman named Angell was nned .6206 for smuggling on board the steamer Argus. Bishop Claughton, the archdeacon of London, and chaplain-general to tha forces, is at present unable to fulnl his duties owing to indisposition. Mr. W. H. Macnamara, barrister-a.t-law, of the Oxford Circuit, has been appointed Registrar to the Railway Commissioners. A band of Russian coiners have been discovered at Berlin, and it is known that they have accom- plices in London and Paris. Viscount Lismore was prevented by illness from attending the debate in the House of Lords on the Irish Land Act on Friday week. The suicidal mania in Prussia continues. a.nd during the past fortnight as many as 28 suicides have been of&cially announced. A public subscription has beea started in North Staffordshire by Mr. Craig, M.P-, for the assistance of the released convtcta, Johnson and Clowes. Saturday was observed in all the synagogues of London as a day of special prayer for the Jews of Russia, under the direction of the Chief Rabbi. A donation of .6100 has just been presented by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths to the missionary fund of the Religious Tract Society. The Hon. George Edgcumbe, son of the third earl and uncle of the present Earl Mount Edg- cumbe, died at Stone Hall on Sunday, aged 82. The correspondent of the 2)<nJy Chronicle state? that at Alexandria it is reported that the Yemen rebels have occupied Snaa, the capital of the district. On Saturday at St. Church, Hanover. square, the infant daughter of Mr. W. H. Glad- stone, M.P., and the Hon. Mrs. Gladstone, was baptised. The New York correspondent of the 2)<!?7y states that the tria.1 by court-martial of Sergeant Mason, the man who attempted to shoot Guiteau, commenced on Monday. The tide at Calais on Sunday was extraordi- narily high. It reached the quay and washed awa.v the embankment, penetrating into the dry docks. A project 19 anoat in Bamsley for the formation of a limited liability company for the purpose of purchasing a plot of land and erecting a Conserva- tive Club. Mr. Healy is stated to have deferred his depar- ture from America, for a week, owing to an offer of a thousand dollars which he received to lecture in Massachusetts. It was reported on Tuesday at the annual meet- ing of the National RiBe Association that the War OfEce has made a grant of 4,500 Martini-Henry rines to volunteers. Mr. Henry Craik, of the Education Department, has nnished his life of Swift. It will be the autumn at the earliest, however, before Mr. Murray can publish it. Lord Mowbray and Stourton was prevented bv illness from attending the debate in the House of Lords on the Irish Land Act on Friday night and from voting with the majority. After a week's search, the bodies of Lieutenant Smith and the boatman Jack Smith, who were drowned in Lough Erne, were found on Sunday morning by using nets. Lodging and shelter for the Russian Jews M ro(te has been provided at Philadelphia by the Florida Land Company, which gives 40 acres of land to each of 50 families. The meeting which has been called for the 28th to promote the National Royal College of Music will take place a.t St. James's Palace at 11.30 a.m. The Prince of Wales will preside. The T<M« correspondent in Calcutta states that the report that the British troopa were about to re- occupy Charman which has been current lately, has been authoritatively contradicted. The two thousandth performance of Mr. H. J. Byron's comedy, Our B4ys," an event without precedent in the history of the drama, took place at the Bath Theatre on Saturday last. From returns which have been compiled it would appear that the iron manufacturers of Germany exported in 1881 two-thirds of their products, while their imports were comparatively small. The Norwegian Storthing has voted 100,000 crowns in* relief of the sufferers from the hurri- canes at Hammersfest. The Governor telegraphs that the damage done amounts to rnmiy hundred thousands. A Reuter's telegram from Sona states that M. Zankoff has been arrested a.nd conveyed to Vratka, where he will remain interned until further orders, for inciting the people of Bulgaria against the Government. Emil Charles Hindelang, 18, was committed for trial on Monday by the Tipton magistrates for the wilful murder of his brothers Louis and Francis. hy pushing them into the canal on his way from Birmingham. The Z'a!7y News correspondent in Tunis tele- graphs .—Twenty-six insurgents have arrived in Tunis under a strong escort, accused of having committed the Ded Zargha massacre. Forty-three more are expected. Sarah Bennet, the wife of a railway omcial, was sentenced to six months' imprisoment, at the Southwark police-court on Saturday, for neglecting a.nd ill-treating a child four years of age which had been entrusted to her care. Earl P&rcy intends, on the first Supply night, to call attention to the circumstances attending the issue of a treatise entitled, "Free Trade v. Fair Trade," by T. H. Farrer, and will move a resolution. At the Bristol police-court on Saturday William Andres and Elizabeth Pagginton were committed for trial charged with conspiring together to de- fraud the Poor-law guardians of Clifton by aban- doning an illegitimate child. In default of nnding sureties.a brewer's traveller named Daniells was, at the Hammersmith Dolice- court on Saturday, sentenced to six months' im- prisonment for threatening to kill Mr. Sheil, one of the magistrates of that division. A Router's telegram from Berlin, dated Feb. 19, aays:—According to intelligence from St. Petersburg, it ia amrmed there on good authority that orders were issued on Saturday for a detach- ment of Cossacks, with an adequate staff of omcei'9, to march to Merv. The funeral of Charlotte Lady Grev, widow of General Hon. Sir H. G. Grey, G.C.B.. G.C.H., second son of Charles, nrst Earl Grey, and brother of the illustrious statesman, took place on Saturday morning in Kensal-green Cemetery, where her husband was buried in January, 1845. A Liverpool news-agent, named John Denver, has been summoned to appear at the Liverpool police-court for aiding and abetting the printing of the [/nitt!d Ireland without an imprint, and publishing and distributing the same. Mr. Poland will be sent from London to prosecute. During the breakfast hour on Monday morning,at the dye works of Mesara. WMttain. Pendleton, Manchester, the boiler exploded with great force. One workman, who was at the time engaged in drawing water for the boiler, wts struck on the head, and so severely injured that he died shortly afterwards in the Salford Hospital. A Central News" telegram from dated Monday, says:—Private letters from tna Balkans received here state that a system of emigration to Russia is being extensively organised, the emigrants being Bosnians and Herzegovinians belonging to the Greek Church. Several innuential Bosniana are at the head of the movement. Tl: 0 London correspondent of a contemporary wr'tes:—" I mentioned the other day that Herbert Glad jtone had been pilled' at the Union Club, and that be had received the enormous number of 25 black balls against him. I have since been told that I was too modeet in my statement—the actual number was 39 Th? fritish Government has notined to the Khed ve ms acceptance of his Highness's offer ot the Palace for the use of the Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales during their stay at Cairo. A special steamer will also be placed by the Khedive at the disposal of their Royal Highneeeea for visiting p!acea of interest on the Nile. The TYMM Berlin correspondent says:—A Socialist trial, similar to the one which was held in Leipxic some time ago, came to a close on Monday at Poaen, after lasting about a week. The prisoners were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, varying from one month to three years. Of the seven prisoners charged one waa a. woman, who was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. The JP<t?7y News correspondent In Constantinople states that the Special German Embassy waa re- ceived by the Sultan on Saturday. His Majesty, in a complimentary speech, expressed his satisfac- tion a.t the excellent relation* existing between Germany and Turkey, and subsequently expressed his regret that troubles should have arisen in Bosnia and the Eerzegevina. On Tuesday, while some workmen were taking down some old buildings in Fryer-atreet, Wolver- hampton, they found a number of old coins, oae bearing the date of 1775. The dates on the othero were not perceptible, but they are supposed 10 be much earlier. Durmg the day two copies of the published in London on August 6 and 7.1794, were found stuffed in a hole in the chimney. Both newspapers wert in a good state of preservation. Mr. Robinson hae introduced into the American f Senate House another Irish sympathy resolution. O'Donovan Rossa's paper is in distress; the size has been reduced to one-half. The leading article says it can still weather the storm if each reader will contribute one dollar. A "Router's'' telegram from Cape Town says:— The Colonial Government have intimated to the Basuto chiefs that Sir Hercules Robinson'9 award must be complied with by March 1 5. Some of the New York Irish societies have decided to forego the uaual parade on St. Patrick's Dav. and devote the money to the No-rent" Fund. Others may do the same, and if so the con- tribution will be large. The Insane Asylum at Ftatbush, New York, has been burned. The 800 inmates were excited almost beyond control, and one was fatally frightened. Nearly twenty escaped, but fortunately the majority were fascinated by the names and the working of the engines. A Router's" telegram from Madrid of the 21st inst. says:—The shipowners and agriculturists in Galicia have requested the Spanish Government to make representations to England in favour of raising the prohibition against the importation of Spanish cattle into England, seeing that cattle disease has now completely disappeared from Spain. The Paris correspondent of the l/forning PaYe says :—0ne of the oldest and best known lawyers of Paris, M. Charles des Etanga, has mysteriously disappeared. He waa very rich, and left his house as usual on Saturday morning to deposit a considerable sum at a bank. He never returned home and the police seem unable to discover any- thing.

THE MAIL STEAMER SARDINIAN.

THE COEDCAE COLLIERY EXPLOSION.

A MAN ROASTED ALIVE.

A DOUBLE ELOPEMENT.

FAILURE OF A BANE.

FATAL FALL OF A FARMER AT…

SUPPOSED PETROLEUM BASINS…

FAILURE OF MR.WHALLEY, M.P.

EXPLOSIONS IN COAL JUNKERS.

FIRE AT THE RHYMNEY SAW-MILLS.

THE YALDIN& CHILD MURDER.

CAREER OF A SWINDLER.

REVENUE RETURNS.

MURDER OF A FATHER.

' THE UNDERGROUND FIRE AT…

NATIONAL MEMORIAL OF LORD…

MR. BARNUM'S ELEPHANT.

THE CHANNEL TUNNEL SCHEME.

AN EXTRAORDINARY RUN WITH…

AN ARTIST'S REVENGE.

LOCAL LAW CASE.

CAPTUREOF THE ESCAPED PRISONER…

IMPORTANT TO CHEMISTS AND…

THE BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH…

MURDER OF A JAPANESE GOVERNMENT…

EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT OF A…

THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE…

THE LATE JOSEPH 'EDWARDS.

THE HEOLFACH BIGAMY CASE.

DEATH OF MADAME CELESTE.

PREVALENCE OF SHEEP SCAB IN…

THE DUKE OF ARGYLL ON SCOTCirFARMING.

- THE PEABODY DONATION FUND.

NORTH CARDIGANSHIRE -AGRICULTURAL…

DEATH OF COMMANDER SELBY.

ATTEMPT TO UPSET A TRAIN IN…

ALLEGED SALE OF A WIFE.

ANOTHER ALLEGED MISCARRIAGE…

A "FEMALE CHAMPION PUGILIST."

LOCAL MILITARY APPOINT. MENTS.

SINGULAR CONDUCT OF A LADY.

A PUBLIC ANALYST AT FAULT.

EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT OF A…

THE PRISONERS' FOOD QUESTION…

THE PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON…

EXCITING SCENE IN A TRAM-…

ALLEGED BRIBERY BY A MAGISTRATE.

LAND AGITATION IN CARDIGANSHIRE.

THE ALLEGED FRAUDS ON A FRIENDLY…

MORTALITY STATISTICS.

THE EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY ,…

SAD DEATH OF A BRISTOL PUBLICAN.

THE GREAT NIHILIST TRIAL.

THE UNITED STATES.

MERTHYR CHAMBER OF TRADE.

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FATAL COLLIERYACCIDENT AT…

THE SUICIDE OpTsWANSEA TRADESMAN.

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A DRAPER…

LOCAL BILLS IN PARLIAMENT.

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