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MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. It is stated that Mr. Gill intends shortly to retire from the representation of Westmeath. It is announced that M. Sampon, the Vice- President of the French Senate, is dangerously ill. Mr. Doherty, landowner, of Donegal, is men- tioned as the Parnellite candidate for Queen'3 County. Alfred Harris and Louisa Taylor, the Woolwich and Plumstead murderers, will be hanged at Maid- stone on January 2. M. Henry Nenot has won the prize for the enlargement-of the Sorbonne. The total cost will be 22 millions, rather more than half this sum being for the additional ground. At Tunbridge Wells, on Monday, a man named Edwards, a seller of sweets, was for the tenth time fined 5s. and 9s. costs for Sunday trading. He was similarly fined last week. Mr. Gill, M.P. for Westmeath, has written to Mr. Tirite, of Mullingar, formally expressing his inten- tion of resigning his seat, owing to ill-health and pressure of private- business. A Post Office notice states that on and after the Lst of January all threepenny and sixpenny postage stamps issued will be printed in a purple colour, izid over printed with their values in red. The Canton of St. Gall has passed a law re-in- producing capital punishment by a large majority. The Council of the Canton of Lucerne passed the ame law by 73 votes against eight. A fire which broke out on Sunday morning in a •^ouse at Le Puy, inhabited by eight poor families, 3as led to a sad loss of life, no fewer than nine per- sons having fallen a prey to the flames. Madame Ristori. who has been spending a few days in Paris on her way to Italy for the season, expressed great satisfaction at the result of her artistic tour through England, Scotland, and Ire- land. An Ashton-under-Lyne telegram says:—On Sun- day Mr. Fisher, postmaster, Greenfield, Yorkshire. shot himself in the presence of Mr. Macguire, from the General Post Office, who was investigating his accounts. At a meeting of the Conservatives of East Essex held at Colchester on Saturday the Hon. Charles Mrutt was selected as the candidate at the next dLi'al election, in the place of Colonel Bnce, who announced his intention of retiring. l'he Cornish pilchard fishery may now be con- sidered over. At St. Ives it has been a continuous failure. Only about 500 hogsheads have been caught during the whoie season, and so far the mackerel boats, owing to the stormy weather, have met with equally small success. At the Canterbury Fat Stock Market on Monday some beasts were found suffering from foot-and- mouth disease. They were ordered to be removed and slaughtered. The remainder of the cattle are detained pending an order of the Privy Council. We understand that Mr. Fawcett has so far re- covered as to be able to sign a document which empowers Mr. Shaw-Lefevre, with a. view to the transaction of the necessary business, to act as deputy to the Postmaster-General during his con- valescence. The Union Steamship Company are conveying to Natal, free of charge, by their steamer African, sailing from Southampton on the 22nd instant, a further supply of trout ova for the Government of Natal. The ova are supplied by the proprietors of the Howietown Fishery, Stirling. John Crunden was charged on remand at Bow. street on Monday with sending a letter, threatening to murder the Prince of Wales and Mr. Gladstone, [r, was proved that the prisoner had been twice convicted for forgery and bore a bad character generally. He was committed for trial. An accident occurred on Saturday morning at Irvinestown to the up mail train to Enniskilien. An axle broke, tearing up the line and smashing the carriages, throwing part of the train off the line. A commercial traveller named Upton was seriously injured. The line was blocked. St. John's Presbyterian Church, Forest-hill, London, was entirely destroyed by lire on Sunday The disaster was due to the woodwork becom- ing ignited from a heated flue. >ro service was being held at .the time. The congregation is a large one, the Rev. Dr. Boyd being the pastor. Immediately on learning that the captain of the steamship Tangier, Mr. Neate, son of Mr. Xeate, of Cardiff, had been arrested and imprisoned by the Spanish authorities at Cartbagena, the owners, Messrs. Angier, put themselves in communication with the Foreign Office, asking their interference By the arrival of the steamship Volga at Liver- pool. news has been received of the death of Vdaga, chief of the powerful tribe known as the 3do Ondas. His funeral, it is stated, was marked ty the slaughter in cold blood of six men and our women, and one woman and her child were Juried alive. In the editor's room of one of the Dublin news- "japers there is a memento that is unique in its way. It is a telegram in a neat frame, and was tent to the editor by a genius of a reporter a few weeks ago in the following words :—" Please keep •olumn open for dastardly outrage to be com- j nitted at eleven o'clock to-night." Mr. Mundella. received a. deputation from tlie Norfolk Chamber of Commerce on Monday, and de-1 clined for the present to modify the restrictions upon the transportation of cattle from that county on account of recent outbreaks and the local prevalence of foot-and-mouth disease, which bad extended from Norwich to the Metropolitan Market. A public meeting was held at Croydon on Mon- day night to consider the proposed "establishment of a Talt Memorial. It was resolved to restore the old palace at Croydon. The committee will jo-operate with the national movement to erect a nonumenfc to the Archbishop in Canterbury Cathedral, and establish a home for aged unbene- iced clergy, The coroner's jury inquiring at Hampton Court Palace on Saturday regarding the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Lucas, who was suffocated in the late tire. returned a verdict that the deceased had been mffocatedby the smoke and gas arising from the tire caused by the accidental overturning of a mineral oil heating lamp. They expressed their ipproval of the arrangements for the extinction of the fire. Mr. Forster was on Monday presented with the freedom of Glasgow in a handsome casket. In returning thanks, he expressed high gratification at the state of education in Scotland, and ;-aid he was glad Scotchmen held to their old convictions respecting religious teaching. Referring to Lord Derby's conversion to Liberalism, he said who knew but his visit to Glasgow had something to 'i with ic, On Tuesday, at Whitehaven County Court, a jury iwarded the widow of a miner named Casson £184 compensation for the death of her husband, who was killed in Sir James Bain and Co.'s mines in September, through a chain breaking and allowing a large weight to fall down the pit upon Casson, j who was killed. The weight had been attached to m indicator to show the quantity of water in the pit, and the evidence showed that the chain was Tj, in proper order at the time of the accident. On Monday at Wrexham three publicans were convicted of contravening the provisions of the Welsh Sunday Closing Act, and a large number of persons tor aiding and abetting. John Williams, White Deer, Wrexham, was fined £4 and costs; Fdward Joues, Bird-in-Hand, Jkoughton,.£2 and costs; and John James Scott, Seven Stars, Wrex- ham, a similar amount and his licence endorsed. The Magistrates stated that, the mere tact of a. man having walked three miles did not make him p t,O¡It7 fide era veller. At the Central Criminal Court on Saturday John Norris Saunders, 53, labourer, was indicted for maliciously sending a letter threatening to murder Mr. Gladstone. The jury tound the prisoner not juiltj' on the ground of insanity, and Mr. Justice nephen ordered the prisoner to be detained during ier Majesty's pleasure, remarking that he hoped he authorities would bear in mind that the pri-1 ;oner had been several times in lunatic asylums, laviDg been arrested for threatening persons, amI '.hat at large he was likely to be exceedingly d;tn- I 'e'Wis. Mr. Forster opened a board school at Govan, i 3-lasgow, on Saturday, and subsequently spoke on Jie subject of secondary education at the Pollock- -diiels Free Church. He referred to the Educa- tional Endowment Act, which Scotland obtained last year, as a most important measure, and said the passing of it was due to Mr. Mundella. He looked forward hopefully to the tuture of Scotland in the matter of education, and said they would soon have :30 complete a system that every Scotch- man would have an education which would lit him for almost whatever path in lift) he might select. The Duke of Edinburgh and suite, attended by a squadron of Dragoons, and accompanied by Mr. Kadcliffe, tiie mayor of Liverpool, proceeded on Saturday morning to Hgtetnont, where his Royal Highness opened tiie Liverpool Home for Aged Mariners. In the aircrtioon the Mayor presided .t a meeting held at the Town-halt to promote the jujocis of lhe Koyal College of Music. The Duke nude a brief speech, in which lie said hitherto nstitutiori* for teaching music had only a pre- carious exisrence, and the great object now was to ibtain a sum which would endow the College per- li&nenrtv. M too concert which followed tilt: < ho V'olill. 1"/ ¡¡:I,. been iv.ccived ll'í'll1 tile t Mr. Holt, president of the Liverpool i-iberai Association :— 1 cannot allow the occasion vi your success III Liverpool to pass hy without a ward ('1. congratulation, which I desire to offer Mr, Smith, your victorious candi- uate, the A;:1:.io,íatioD, and yourself, »vho have >o long, in days of practical gloom, and under so many rebuffs, stood wi;hout flinching in the front ut tfle battle. May you be euabied to con- solidate etTucitially tbe fortunes which you have thus for tile first- Ùme, after a long period, brought into a position ot pro"perI1y:' Dr. Lyon Piavfair was present at Bath Guild-hall on Tuesday at a meeting addressed by Mr. Wode- huuse, M.T' Oil Egypt. The right hou. gentleman, >» proposing a vote Vl thanks to the lecturer, said 'ir<1 ottice of Deputy-Speaker, which he held, was nun-political, and it. would not become him to make a partv speech. This was not, however, iMfCvsswjy. He contrasted Egypt's ancient great- ness wisi- her present position, sunk to almost the lowest of nations, and said it was a great mission for ihis country to give her a heiping hand. Lord i rtrrby had said that, having put the Khedive on •m legs, we had better let him stand, but if we were to take away our protecting hand Egypt would faii again into anarchy and confusion. Advices received at Plymouth on Sunday from Sydney state that the schooner Roderick IHm, engaged in the labour trade in the South Sea Islands, ha J arrived at Brisbane from Polynesia, ind reported thLt during the outward voyage an tisane islander tomahawked Mr. Fellows, the iovernmtmt agent. The madman was im- nediatelv shot. ■'She also reported that whilst; "ecruiting on tl e South Seas her boats were fre- juently ttredupon from the shore, aud that some )f the returned labourers who landed fiom the "ftodt-i'iek Dbu were murdered and afterwards I e;).ten. The schooner Helena reports similar iktrocities, and states that the natives attempted to -x^ize the schooner. Police patrols have again been appointed to I guard Hawarden Castle during Mr. Gladstone's residence there. Sir Thomas Brassey, M.P., who was accompanied by Lady Brassey, opened a fisherman's institute at Hastings on Tuesday. Mrs. Gladstone opened a bazaar at Mold on Tues- day in aid of the fund for the enlargement of the Mold and Gernymynydd National Schools. The Lord Chancellor has appointed the Rev. J. F. Fenn, Principal of Trent College, Nottingham, to the living of Whaplade, Lincolnshire. The War Office have decided to supplement the number of Martini-Henry rifles now in the hands of the volunteers by a further issue of 3,500. Between 40,000 and 50,000 emigrants have entered Manitoba this year at Emerson, and this does not include those who may have crossed the frontier at other points. A fire broke out at the Seven Sisters Station, Tottenham, on Tuesday, on one of the Alexandra Palace lines. The porters'and waiting rooms were destroyed, and a portion of the platform. Traffic has been resumed. At Ramsgate on Tuesday the charge against Mr. Whalley. M.P., of obtaining money under false pretences was dismissed, Mr. Whalley explaining why he dishonoured the cheques upon which the charge was based. A strange story comes to us of the journey of the Coqueiin-Dieudonne troupe. The train in which they werewassnowedup between Odessa and Kiev, and to keep themselves from dying of cold Madame Favart and Mdlle, Ledy had to work hard with brushes and spades. The two guns captured so gallantly by the Royal Marine battalion in Egypt have arrived in Eng- land, and are to be presented to her Majesty, who has signified her willingness to accept them as a gift from Colonel H. S. Jones and the officers, non- commissioned officers, and men of the corps. The HOll. John Fitzwilliam met with an accident on Wednesday when out with Earl Fitzwilliam's hounds, which caused some anxiety. His horse, in taking a fence, fell and kicked hin; in the face, in- flicting such injuries as to require the attendance of Dr. Walker, who was amongst the field. The hon. gentleman was afterwards able to ride home. The Bishop of Manchester has refused to insti- tute the Rev. H. Cowgill to the benefice vacated by the Rev. S. F. Green. Mr. Cowgill was Mr. Green's curate, and was presented to the living by the patron, Sir Thomas Percival Heywood. A meeting has been called at Miles Platting for Friday to consider the course to be adopted. There has been good sport in Berwick. The partridges have been driven by stress of weather to pretend they are house sparrows, and to run about the High-street and elsewhere in search of crumbs. Hence battues have been the order of the day in Berwick, and one person is said to have secured a bag of seventeen in one afternoon with a stick. Near Ecclesfield Station, on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, between Sheffield and Bromley, on Tuesday, a bridge, about 30 feet high, was rendered unsafe by the subsi- dence of part of the embankment. A passenger train and an engine and brake van had only passed over the bridge a few minutes when the subsi- dence took place. The Central News says:—In political circles the recent details published respecting the Austro- German Treaty of Alliance are held to be substan- tially correct. No apprehensions are felt on account of the close friendship between these two countries; but, on the contrary, their coalition is regarded as a safeguard against Russian intrigue, or any danger to the peace of Europe by overtures for an alliance, offensive and defensive, between France and the Czar. A shocking accident occurred on Tuesday at the hosiery manufactory of Messrs. Corah, Sons, and Co., Leicester. James H. Smith was engaged in taking down a wooden partition, when he was caught by the cog wheels and his arm was torn from his body, which revolved round the shaft, and dropped at tlie feet of his wife, who was working near. He was terribly mangled, and died shortly afterwards. The Macclesfield magistrates have committed a silk dyer named Ezra Sheldon to prison for six months for a brutal outrage on his parents. On Saturday night he went home the worse for drink and beat his mother unmercifully about the head and face, assaulted and ran his father into the street, hit his two sisters violently In the mouth, and knocked his younger brother down and kicked him. Our Norwich correspondent reports that on Monday morning Gunton Hall, near Cromer, the seat of Lord Suffield, was almost entirely destroyed by a. fire, which originated in a flue in a bedroom on the south-west side of the building. Lord Sheffield was not at homo at the time. Fortunately, it being daylight, a. large quantity of furniture, books and, pictures was taken out of the hall. A room containing some valuable Chippendale furni- ture was however, entirely destroyed. The steamer Amadis, which arrived at Falmouth on Wednesday, reports that at midnight on the 14-th inst. a vessel, apparently a barque of from 400 to 500 tons, was observed on five fore and aft about! eighteen miles west of the Burlings, her bowsprit i and jibboom only being standing. The steamer bore down and fired several rockets, but after standing by for one hour could not discover any traces of the crew or boats, and supposed the vessel to have been abandoned. A meeting has been held at the Fishmongers'-hall. London, with the object of forming a. National Fish Culture Association of Great Britain. The chief object resolution, "That it was desirable that an association should be formod for the purpose of extending the cultivation of our fresh and salt water fish," was supported by Professor Huxley, who remarked on the ignorance shown by lishor- men in piscatory matters other than the art of catching fish. Other resolutions were carried. The Right Hon. A. J. Mundella visited Leicester Wednesday night, and distributed the prizes to the successful students at the local School of Art. In his address he said he believed it would be bad policy and false economy to allow the school to languish. As a nation they were strong in the factors which made commercial prosperity, but in the question of artistic, industrial, and scientific education they were a good deal behind, and if they would main- tain their position as manufacturers they llmst. improve in this direction. That was, perhaps, the lowest view they could take, but that was not a. light consideration after all.

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