Monmouthshire Merlin

The decision of the Commander-in-Chief and Secretary for War respecting the recent Yeomanrv disturbances at Lichfield was made known ol Saturday. Lieutenants Sir Charles Wolael«w Lyon, and Parker Jervis are severely reprimand* The Board of Trade inquiry respectin? 1 stranding of the Newcastle steamer, HueJvL Si the rocks off Finisterre, concluded M Shields on Saturday. The captain waften^H iJ default and his certificate was suspended for 12 mouths. The famous Italian painter, De Nittig, died on August 22nd at the age of 38. At the ezhlbitiom of 1878 he gained a medal of the first-class, and was created Officer of the Legion of Honour. He was well known w London, where his premature deoeas* will te ragrettod.

SHOCKING SUICIDE IN A LIVERPOOL INSTITUTION. CENSURE ON WORKHOUSE OFFICIALS. An inquest was held on Tuesday mornmg, before Mr. C. S. Samuell, deputy coroner for Liverpool, touching the death of Hermann Plageus, aged 35 years, a native of Zingst, in Prussia, and who waa captain of the German ship Peter Suppicich. The deceased was sent to Liverpool from Mostyn, where his vessel at present lies, on the 21st inst., owing to his having attempted suicide by cutting his arms. He arrived in Liverpool by the steamer Swifteure, being then mentally deranged, and after having his wounds attended to at the Northern Hospital he was removed totheBrownlew bill Workhouse Asylum, there being no accommodation for such patients at the hospital. Two daya after being admitted, in a violent condition, and secured in a padded room, the day attendant took him his tello at half past four, but the deceased refused to eat. He saw him at six o'clock, and again at ten the same night, this being the last time he saw the deceased alive. Richard Davies, an old man, who was night attendant at the asylum, heard the deceased walking about his room up to twelve o'clock on Saturday night, and as all became quiet shortly afterwards he believed the man had gone to sleep. At half-past four o'clock next morning, the attendant looked through a glass in the door of deceased's room, and saw a leg and a foot behind it. Upon opening the door he spoke to the man, who did not answer, and on looking up be noticed a bandage over the corner of the door. Witnets out the bandage, and then found that the other end was tied round the neck of deceased. The man was in a sitting posture, and was quite dead.—In summing up, Mr. Samuell spoke strongly on the treatment which the deceased had received, and remarked that he appeared to have been suffering from mental excitement, which by proper medical care might have been allayed. The man had been sent to the hospital to be well looked after, and it was not as if he were a positive maniac. An utter maniac might be stuck in a padded room, but deceased seemed to be only suffering from temporary excitement, aud he had known cases where by proper treatment that excitement had been overcome. There appeared to have been nothing done for the man, and if the jury thought there had been any want of care or attention on the part of the authorities, then, as this was a public institution, they oaght to sav something about it in their verdict. After somt deliberation, the foreman of the jury saiu ftbey found that the deceased had corn mitted suicide whilst labouring under temporary insanity, but they thought there had been grosp neglect on the part of the workhouse officials, and of the doctors.—The Deputy Coroner: I am quite of your opinion.—A Juryman: The room itself is not-fit to put aroan into. The door is not safe, and anyone cam do the same thing agaitc.—The Deputy Coroner: No doubt that will be remedied I quite concur with you in what you say, that this man has act received at a. great public in vtitution like this that fair treatment he'onght to have had.

A FRENCH ATTACK REPULSED IN MADAGASCAR. HEROISM OF MALAGASY WOMEN. Writing from Mojakandrianonabana, on June 28, the Standard correspondent says the French attacked the Malagasy camp early that morning. They evidently intended to take the camp by surprise, and were astonished to find the Malagasy prepared for them, the troops being under arms two hours before sunrise. The French opened the ball by-Bending three hundred of their men in extended order to attack i under cover of their three mitrailleuses; but at the onset they were received by & well-directed volley from the Malagasy troopB on the other side of the river. So hot was the firing 'that they were unable to cross, and had to retire. The French were twelve hundred etrong; three arms were engaged-viz., mounted gendarmerie, infantry, and artillery, the artillery consisting of six field pieces and three mitraille&ses. As soon aa the French found their men retiring they immediately supported therr. from their re- serves, and tried to bring their guns into play. By this time the Malagasy artillery began to open fire, and having the exact distance where thel French were, were able to silence their guns. Tiie. attack lasted two houra, when the French had eyi- dently had enough of it, and began to retire, which they did very rapidly. The Malagasy troops behaved. admirably, firing very eteadily acd coolly. CGlouel i Willoughby took up his position with his guus, t directing operations and the artillery fire. After the engagement be made a spirited speech to the men, which was enthusiastically received, and he ■ also received the warm congratulations of all the officers. So ends the second attack on the emp at Mojakandrianomba, with a great deal of credit and honour to the Malagasy troops and loss of p e- stige to the French. An interesting and touctting incident happened during the engagement. A lot. of Betsimaovah womea arrived, eome with gans, others with spears. When asked what they were doing there they rephei," We have brought food for our Boldiers, and also we wish if needlae, to die with them. We <cannot do more for our country." This incident alone i« sufficient evi-, dence that a French Protectorate here is distaste- ful to the people. It is expected that a big engage- ment will take place in a lew daya.

The French are massing coalisg stations at Pondicherry and Mahe. Renewed military activity prevails in connection with Zululand. Lieutenant-General Sir Leyces-, ter Smith has left for Ekowe. On Tuesday, at Wigan, Wm. Holt, late boroagh treasurer, was committed to the Assizes on a charge of missappropriating moaeys of the Corporation. The total defalcations are said to reach £ 7000. The young elephant brought from Abyssinia to the Queen now looks quite at home in his box at the Zoological Gardens. He is oc the best of terms with his numerous visitors, ascd, young as he is, he never appears to be surfaced with the I -sweet things they bring him. r»J?,!ie .trooPs.nnder General Caoerea, who lately lav almf ^inaself dictator «f Peru, were on Moa- •eanii-ff" near Lima, when advancing on tk« of h y deforces of General Iglcams, Presideet A telegram. P&ssine^Strfitf^stern train, for Liverpool, when the crankn,ear. Mailcfre&ter,- cu Tuesday, diately applied th«^!6 1ro'te- The driver imme- Nobody was injured 8toPPed the tra|n- permanent way. damage w.as ilone to the Mr. Chamberlain, who i> tineat, will, shortly after hia 0:i tlie ^0Q* great meeting to be held in the pnf?' *ddress, a question of the Franchise Bill an,<3 on 4 Lords. The meeting will be he!d ° the 7th of Oct. U Hanle-V oc Several deaths have^ccurred recentlv from English cholera, one being renort«V^ authorities yesterday, ^he person who succumbed was a fonndry man. Diarrhoea ig oxceedinolv prevalent, and there are a number of smail nox and typhoid patients in th* fever hospital On Monday night John Hall, aged six yea™ son of a Dundee jeweller, was attempting to mno'r his father's pleasure boat, when he fell over S side into tbe water, about a foot deep, and the anchor falling above him he ;PlnQ«d to the bottom and drowned. The accident was not discovered till an hour after its occurrence. Two fresh Monte Carlo suicides are recorded by the Nice journals. A Polish advocate, named Goulscky. aged 30, has shot himself, having left the gaming tabids penniless, an^ h ja rich parentB having refused to send him further funds, of which they foresfew the certain destination. A young man, named *ho had been living for several months at Nice, regularly frequenting the gaming tables, ^as kllled himself with laudanum.—Times telegram. At Manchester, on Tuesday, Mary Farrel, 20 years of age, »u unmarried woman, waa charged with the murder of infantchild by starving it to death. It was alleged that the woman had neglected to provide proper food for the child, which, though twenty-two days old, only weighed three and a half pounds. The prisoner was dis- charged by the magistrates, but committed bv the Coroner for manslaughter. FATAL ACCIDENT TO A YORKSHIRE FARMER.— On Monday evening a well-known Ryedale fariNer. Mr. Lancelot Coverdale, of Rye House, iiarnm, met with death under peculiar circumstances. Whilst carrying a pitcher in hjg own house he accidentally fell to the ground. The pitcher was broken, and a portion of it entered Mr. Coverdale's head, causing such injuries that he died in about an hour and a halt. Dr. M'Vie, of Helmslev, was called in, and arrived half an hour before death, but was unable to render any practical assistance. Deceased, who was only 27 years old, leaves a widow and two children.

A YACHT CAPSIZED. On Monday aftftrnoon five young gentlemen were yachting on the Dee, near Parkgate, when their craft capsized. Two, named Parry, of Chester, and Walk, of Liverpool, were rescued, in an ex- hausted state, after swimming a mile. The others were never seen again. Their names are Arthur Gammon, Parkgate; William Green, Chester; and Walk, of Liverpool, brother oi the one saved. The occurrence was witnessed from the shore by friends of deceased.

SALVATION ARMY DISTURBANCES AT WORTHING. At Brighton, on Monday, three men, Betts, Collins, and Savage, and four lads were charged with offences arising out of disturbances at the Salvation Army Congress Hall. The four lads, as well as Betts, were fined 5s. each and costs, or seven days, for annoying Salvationists, sureties being taken in the case of the ladm to keep the peace. Collins, for trying to incite the mob to assault the police, was sentenced to 14 days; and Savage, for being drunk and inciting the mob to break the windows of the Salvation Hall, to one month's hard labour.

EXTRAORDINARY DEMONSTRATION AT A WEDDING. A crowd, several hundred strong, assembled in I front of the Congregational Church, Stratford- on-Avon, where a wedding was taking place, on Monday morning. When the ceremony was over, the crowd, wuo were provided with huge bags of Hour and a great number of old boots and shoes, would not allow the couple to leave the building, and, after being detained upwards of an hour, the police were fetched to escort them home. The crowd pelted the pair unmercifully, and the bridegroom, putting wp an umbrella to ke!sp missiles off, ran I away from his wife. The pair eventually took refuge in a house situated in a low court known as Cut Throat Alley, and barricaded the door. the man, it appears, had told several of his lellow workmen that he had left a wife and two children living in the Potteries. This, no doubt, accounts for the extraordinary demonstrat.on.

THE WHALLEY WILL CASE. CHARGES OF FRAUD AND CONSPIRACY. Charles Thomas, aged 31, of 87, Eltham street, Leominster, described -as a dealer; Thomas WOI. Nash, aged 58, of 14, Bridge street, Leominster, accountant^ acd Edward Gunnell, aged 50, of iiingland, (near Leominster, wine merchant, were charged OB a warrant, at the Bow street Police Court on Monday, with feloniously uttering, at the Royal Courts of Justice, a certain will purporting to be the last will una testament of Jas. Wballey, with intent to defraud. Defendants were further charged with conspiracy with intent to detraad by means of uttering a forged will, with intent to prevent the due course of law and justice.— Air. Stewart appeared for 'Gunnell.—Inspector Donald Swanson, of ticotlacd Yard, deposed that at half-past three on Aug. 22nd, in company with Superintendent Johnson, of the Leominster police, he saw the prisoner, Edward Gunnell, in an office in Church street. The warrant was read over to hica. In reply he said, It was a ghastly affair." Witness subsequently saw the two other prisoners, Thomas and Nash,"who were detained at the Leominster Police Station, and they were formally arrested on the present charge, aud brought to Loudoc on Saturday. The warrant was read over to them by Superintendent John- eon.—ScperintendencJohusou, of tbe'Leominster police, deposed that on August 22nd he ar- rettted Thomas and Nash, by direction of the last witness, and they made no reply to the charge. —Inspector Swanson said the Treasury were prosecuting, in the case, and it was proposed to remand the case for eight deys.—Mr. Flowers remanded the case, accordingly.

PUBLIC HOUSE RIOTS AT BLANDFORD. Wh0 streets of Blandford were for some hoarB ou-Suturday night in the possession of a riotous mob, entirely beyond the control of the few boreugh police. Early in the day the licensing justices at the annual sessions had refused to renew a numitsr of public house licences., and later on some drunken men assembled in the streets, and ahouted their disapprobation cf this action, and upon being requested by the police to desist attacked the officers, who were shortly surrounded fey a mob of louges fiercely gesticu- lating and demanding the release of a man whom the constables were now trying to arrest. The county Coroner happening to pass the police cabled uponJaku, in the Qneen s name, toessist in preserving order, and atter ta, short but severe struggle theunitecl efforts of the police and the «a»roner were-eufticient togetfche man through the tnrbulent crowd into the police station. When the Coroner emerged from the shelter of tfee Town Hall the mob, shouting and yelling, transferred ifcs attention to that gentleman, and for a long time continued to hustle him, until one man more uuruly than the rest struckhim a severe blow on the shoulder,with a stick or a stone. Thereupon the Coroner threatened to protect himself with a etout walking oane he had in his hand, sad then managed with the aid of the.police to .escape to a place of safety. The mob afterwards paraded the streets, making antago.Listic demoustrations opposite the homes of some of the leading inhabi- tants, who with the rector, and every other } minister, and the chaiirmen of the two local re- presentative bodies, had signed a memorial to the magistrates.-asking for the suppression of dis- orderly and unnecessary public houses. The mob, lw)aich had been recruited by drunken. laen, who oame out with more or less frequency from the vanouB public houses, did not cease the disturb- ance until after the public houses were closed, and the streets bad not r-esumed their wonted quiet until nearly midnight.

At Bray (ooanty Wicklow) Petty Sessions on Saturday James Fitzsimmons, a tramp, was re- manded on a charge of murdering his wife and child. It was alleged he took the child away from ) hie wife and browned it under brutal circum- stances in Dargle River, where the body was found three months after. .Salvation Army processions were renewed on Sunday, at Worthing, and all the special con- stables were called out. The Skeleton Army also paraded the streets singing and shouting, and finally marohed to the beach, where they dis- pensed. Intense excitement prevailed, but there was ao breach of the peace. Thomas Clarke, ;.a farm servant, aged 16, was charged at RugbyiPolice Court, on Aug. 22, with attempting to shoot. anotber youth, named Gecrge Banbrook, at Wolsten. Both parties were in the employ of Mr. Busdett, a faianer, and whilst waiting on the road iu company with a smaller lad for a .machine, the prisoner assaulted the boy. Bauabsook took his part, whereupon the prisoner seized u fork, and threatened to run him through. This waa taken from him, when he rushed into a field and procuaed a loaded gun belonging to hie master. M-e then told Banbrook he would shoot him at the same time pointing the gun at him, and not being more than four yards away. Prisoner fired, but Banbrook dropped on his knees, aud the charge passed harmlessly ever him .and lodged in a tree six yardB away.-In answer to the charge, prisoner said he was not aware that the gun was loaded, as the caps were black, and had the u»- pearance of having been used.—Prisoner was re- manded. The twentieth report for the session of the House of Commons Committee on Public Petitions has been issued as a Parliamentary paper It shows that durisig last session, which laeted from February 5th to August 14th, the subioct most extensively petitioned upon was the Sun- day Closing Bill, in favour ot which C126 petitions were presented, with 584,517 signa- !ur0^nn<\TPetitiO^. being Panted against «?« • hlfl 8tand the 2224 Petitions, wit) 1.35,826 signatures, asking the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts, one petition, with six signatures, being handed in favouring the altera- tion of the Acts, and three petitions, with five signatures, supporting their enforcement. 323 pe ions, with 95,862 signatures, were presented in favour of the disestablishment and disendow- ment of the Church in Wales, and 229, with 66,062 signatures, against disestablishment alone, aud 8, with 2090 signatures, against disestablishment coupled with disendowment. 585 petitious, with 68,850 signatures, were presented in favour of the ranchise Bill; and 4, with 21 signatures, against; while 97, with 710 signatures, prayed that the measure should be acoompanied by a redistribu- tion of seats; and 686, with 36,748 signatures, asked for the extension of the suffrage to women; 269 petitions, with 63,287 signatures, were in favour of the Sale of Spirits (Mixed Traders) Bill, and 863 with 65,476 against. TheBradlaugh question was little touched, 47 petitions, with 523 signatures, were presented against the admission of atheists to Parliament, sirwitb-236 signatures against Mr. Bradlaugh's admission, and only one with a Bingle j signature in favour of that course.

TWO MEN KILLED BY A FALL OF ROCK. On the night of the 21st inst. the inhabitants of the villages of Caerwys and Afonwen,between Mold and Denbigh, were alarmed by intelligence of a shocking accident at the Afonwen Carbonate Lime Works, resulting in the death of two men. The works, which belong to Messrs. Mander and Com. pany, of Liverpool, were opened a few years ago. The place where the carbonate lime is obtained, or, as the people in the locality call it, The Marl Hole," is an open cutting in the earth. It appears that it had been the custom to work the bottom part, which is soft, instead of the top which is hard, and it has been nothing un- usual for the top to give way at times after insufficient foundation is left to support it. On Thursday two men were at work digging and cutting. About four o'clock a youth employed at the Pwllgwya Inn, close by, was sitting by the rock, when he observed that the top part, where the men were working, was giving way. He called out to them, but before they had time to move they were buried beneath two or three hundred tons of rock. A large number of persons were soon on the spot, but it took two hours to find the bodies, which were frightfully mutilated. The men were John Rogers, aged 47, Afonwen Post Office, and George Hughes, over 80 years of age. It is most fortunate there were no more people about at the time, as there often are, or the loss of life would have been frightful.

WIFE MURDER AT MANCHESTER. A. case of wife murder occurred in Chorlton street, Manchester on the 21st instant. There lived at No. 28 an old shoemaker, named Blanchfield, and his wife. The husband, who was addicted to drink- ing, bad been several times in custody on the charge of assaulting his wife and other persons. About twenty minutes to eight in the evening the couple were heard quarrelling by their neigh- bours, and soon afterwards cries of murder were heard. The door was then forced open, and a woman who entered the house first was just in time to catch Mrs. Blanchfield as she was falling to the ground. Mrs. Blanchfield was bleeding pro- fusely from wounds in the breast and face, and soon relapsed into unconsciousness. A man named Johnson, who resides close by, at once went for a policeman, and called in Police-constable Picker- ing of the C Division. The officer obtained assist- ance, and had the woman conveyed to the In- firmary on a litter, and she died soon after being admitted. The husband was taken into custody and lodged in the cells at the Fairfield Street Police Station. At the time of the murder the prisoner was under the influence of drink. The deceased had been stabbed about the breast and face with a shoemaker's knife, which was found in the possession of Blanchfield when he was arrested. An inquest waf- after war ds'held on the body, and a verdict of Wilful murder" against the husband was returned. Subse- quently, at the Police Court, Blanchfield was brought up and remanded.

THE MURDER OF A POLICEMAN AT DALSTON. Thomas Orrock was again charged, at Bow Street Police Court, Loodon, on Aug. 22, with the murder of Police-constable Cole.—Mr. Cameron, from the Laboratory at Somerset Houee, said he bad examined the chisel produced with a powerful microscope, and found that the word tt Orrock had been writtenon it, and that the word" Reck had been subsequently written over tbis. James Warford, formerly a constable, said he was on duty on the night of the 1st Dec., 1882, and heard shots in Ashmen street. He identified the chisel produced as having been found in the recess between the Baptist Chapel and the adjoining house. Frederick Miles said he had been a shop- mate of the prisoner's, who asked him to help him in fetching away some plate from the Baptist Chapel. The prisoner told witness he had paid for a seat at the chapel so as to know all about the place. Witness arranged to meet him. Wit- ness and Evans were waiting for prisoner about ten oclccjk when they heard -abots, and witness running into Beech street found a policeman lying dying in the gutter. The hat produced was the one Orrock wore that night. If it bad not been for the fact that a reward was offered, wit- ness would have given information before the police came to him.—Henry Mortimer, a coaviot undergoing imprisonment for stealing, proved the purchase of a revolver by Orrock a short time before the murder.—The prisoner subsequently asked witness if he would be surprised to learn that he (prisoner) bad committed the crime, and added, If I have done it and they can prove it, I am willing to stand the consequences."—After other evidence, prisoner was remanded until AoguBt-28.

PERFORMING A MIDGET TO DEATH. SHOCKING DISCLOSURES. At Birmingham on Aug. 21, Mr. Weekes, deputy coroner, held an inquest respecting the death of Lily Evans, alias the "I Lilliputian Wonder," and smallest midget in the world. The infant, which was abated to be but nine inches long, and weighed only ten ounces, was perfectly formed, and six weeks of age. The mother, Emma Evans, wife of a mechanic, living in Francis street, said for the past two or three weeks she had let the child to Baker, a showman, who exhibited it at a room at the corner of Albert street and Dale end, Bir- mingham. For this she received 30s. a week The child was exhibited from dinner-time to nine cr ten at night, but not oiten longer. On Sunday, the 17th, the child was seized with a convulsive fit, and medical assistance was called in, but_death took place the following day, whilst the child was being taken out for a drive in order to get better, as it was to commence a tour at Nottingham with the showman the next dav.- The Deputy Coroner: Is it not a fact that you were drank when the child was being exhibited on Thurede,y, the 14th inst.-The Mother: No; some woman eaid that I was drunk. People have said all sorts of things about me, but I never get drunk.—In reply to further questions, the woman admitted that the infant had been kept awake for exhibition purposes, but denied that she was in the habit of taking more to drink than a sup." —Mrs. Whitfield, a woman who was engayed by the showman as dressmaker and atten- dant on the midget, said she had to make a aew dress, silk, satin, and coloured every day for the child. The mother of the midget had been drinking very freely ^bile the child was performing, as she received a lot of money from Baker for letting him show it.- The Deputy Coroner: Was she drunk nearly the whole of the time?—Witness: Yes, she was.—The Deputy Coroner: How did the child look?—Wit- ness: Like a regular show baby. It was exhibited every five minutes during the day, except when it had a rest at dinner and tea times, when it was suckled by the mother, when sober. When the mother was drunk the child was fed on scalded biscuits. The Deputy Coroner: But was she not nearly always drunk?—Witness: Yes. (SecsatMc.)—Mr. Alfred Naylor Darlington, surgeon, testified to death ensuing from eonvulsions, accelerated by the exhibition and aggravated by the mother only spasmodically giving it proper food. The child was not in a fit state to be exhibited.—The mother recalled, said, in answer to the Deputy-Coroner, that she in- tended to bury the body, because she was now told it was too far gone." She epoke to the showman about it, who said she could get £ 20 for the body. She should have sold it if she thought she was allowed to do so, but did not understand the law.—The Deputy-Coroner, in summing up, said the case was a most extraordinary one. The mother, not satisfied with killing the child, was anxious to make money out of the dead body. The child being kept awake for exhibition pur- poses during lengthened hours and the mother's drunken habits had undoubtedly accelerated death. Owing, however, to the evidence of the surgeon that he could not say that death had been directly brought about by the mother he did not think the jury could be justified in re* uru ing a verdict of manslaughter against her, though she might deserve it. The ohild being so weaklv it was not likely tbat any doctor would sav tbat it would have lived, although there was no doubt that the treatment it had received had accele- rated deAtb but for how long a time he could fS i knf mconduct had been most fb.ra a1!. knt. coroner's officers would see fJ !K -v not ° 6 profit of the mother, and was in no way tampered with, but that on the other mtj f i. proper burial. The jury found, f" V* fidget died from convulsions, brought f °! j i neglect of the mother, and acce- lerated by being exhibited, and that she deserved censure for her cruel conduct." The mother being recalled, received a severe censure, the Deputy Coroner stating that she had narrowly escaped bei ng committed for trial for manslaughter, and adding that the might yet be proceeded against by the police. Thirty-five members oi the Municipality of Calcutta have resigned. A shock of earthquake was felt on Tuesday at Jersey, lasting 30 seconds. Davis's Castle, near Blarney, a bovcotted farm- stead, was destroyed by fire on Monday. The final settlement of the Franco-Dutcli Commercial Treaty, will take place on December 19th. A small fishing boat, containing two meB, be- longing to North Delting, Shetland, has been loet. Madame Patti will celebrate the 2oth anniver- sary of her operatic debut on the 24th of Nev., at New York. The cost entailed by the despatch of the Afghan Frontier Commission will amount to fifteen laea of rupees ( £ 150,000). The city of Brussels proposes to try on some of its tram lineB the experiment of using electricity to drive ita cara. Sixteen fishing smacks and three scheoners were wrecked on the coast of Newfoundland dnring the recent gales. Signer Gayarre, the Spanish tenor, last week married the daughter ef the mayor of his native town, and a fortune. Bournemouth is to have a marine drive and esplanade two miles long, tacing the sea, and the pier is to be lengthened. Patrick M'Kiuney, an excumionist, from Belfast, was on Monday instantaneously killed by falling over a cliff at Portsmouth. A child fell off the top of a Dublin tramcar, on Monday, and, getting between the wheels of the vehicle, was crashed to death. At Ruabon Parish Church on Tuesday Mf ss Wynn, daughter of Sir Watkin Wynn, was married to hot cousin, amid great rejoicings. Another Japanese mission arrived in Paris, an Monday night, for the purpose of studying the organisation of the French army. In an affray between hop pickers, at Tonbridge, on Monday evening, a man named Bowles kiHfed his nephew with a blow from his fist. Walter Heggie, aged 26, a farm labourer in Fife- shire, was on Monday kicked in the forehead by a young horse, and died in a few hours. The Abdallah Park Stables, at Cynthiana, Ken- tucky, were burned down on Monday. The mss is estimated at 100,000 dols. One man was kii ied. Severe frosts oecurred on Sunday night in N ew England, New York, and New Jersey, the buck. wheat and corn crops being much damaged. A youth, named Adalene, after an ardent study of sensational novels, recently murdered his grandfather, at Tonques, and was condemned te death on Monday. The Faraday finished paying the deepsea portion of the second Mackay cable on Tuesday. She returns immediately to Woolwich to receive the remaining portion. The interment of Mr. H. G. Bohn, the well. known publisher, took place on Tuesday morning, at Norwood Cemetery. The funeral was of the simplest character. It only took Mr. Alfred Nixon, captain of the London Tricycle Club, eight days and a half to ge from Land's End to John O'Groat's Hou.85t miles—on his tricycle. The East Sussex Flour Mills, at Horsebridge, near Eastbourne, owned by Messrs. Burton and Co., were on Tuesday totally destroyed by fire. In addition to the steam and water mills, an exten- sive store of wheat and flour were burnt, and the damage is estimated at fully J65000. A Chester joiner, named John Nicholson, em- ployed by Messrs. Collins and Son, Warrington, at the new Church of the Saviour, Bolton, met with a serious accident on Monday evening. He feU from the root to the ground, a distance ef 45 feet. His right thigh was broken, his left leg sustained compound fracture, a thumb was broken, and he was otherwise injured. On Tuesday the Warrington magistrates com- mitted to prison for six months each, with hard labour, William and Michael Connor. The former is a butcher"s man, the latter is engaged in no particular occupation. The charge' against them was one of violently assaulting several members of the borough police force. One officer was knocked through a shop window, and others were savagely attacked. On Tuesday morning a Are broke out in the shop of a furniture broker named Maguire, in Everton road, Liverpool. The shop is situated under a terrace of houses, and access to the sleep- ing apartments was to be obtained only through the shop. All Magaire's family, it was thought, had been rescued, but when the flames were ex- tinguished the dead body of a five year old child was found in one of the bedrooms. About a quarter past ten o'clock on Mondav might a well-dressed man,. apparently about 35 years of age, and of medium height, suddenly jumped from Waterloo bridge and was drowned. Previous to leaping over he sat in a corner of one of the parapets on the city side, and bis strange benavioar attracted the attention of a young man, who watched him, and endeavoured to save him by clutching at his leg. The man's weight, how- ever, proved too much for his strength, and he was compelled to let him go. The Premier of Tasmania has introduced a Re- form Bill in the Legislative Assembly. It re- daces the qualifications for the Council-freehold to iE20 and leasehold from L200 to £ 100—and for the Assembly to extend the franchise to all rate- payers and all persons in reoeipt of a salary or wages amounting to £ 80 a year, and to give votes to all women on the rolls, whether widows or un- married, thus increasing the number of voters for the Assembly from 16,627 to 27,000, and for the Council from 3385 to 5000. A most destractive fire occurred on Monday night, at Bourah Hall, near Wrexham, the resi- dence of Mr. Thomas Parry. As soon as the fire was discovered, a messenger was despatched for the Wrexham Fire Brigade, which speedily arrived upon the scene of the conflagration, and found a splendid range of farm buildings, about 100 yards long, in a blaze. The greater part of the rremises was burnt. The buildings contained produce ef all sorts, harvesting operations having only been finished the day previous. James Tobin was executed on Tuesday morning in Wexford Goal for the murder of Mrs. Elizabeth Moore, on May 19, near Rathdram, Wicklow. When convicted at Wicklew Assizes, be said, My Lord, you, and everyone of you, will have my blood on your heads." On arrival at Wexford prison be was morose and did not feel the terrible position he stood in. Since then he changed and died truly penitent. He was attended by a Catholic chaplain and a Sister of Mercy. Berry was the executioner. This was the first execution at Wexford under the new rules, and the third for 50 years. The steamship Iliyrian, belonging to Messrs Frederico, Le) land, and Co., of Liverpool which recently struck on the rocks under tbp. r. Lighthouse and became a total wreck, was sold *7 8 a Bomber of persons whe clubbed together and purchased her at the low figure of £ 333. Liverpool divers were brought to the wreck, which contains a very valuable largo madr™? last few d&ys a rich haul has been Zln han £ 150° wonh of c«go having worth k1 bol<i m shape of bicycles, Daekino et| valuable bales of wool, rolls of «i tv. cioth, bales of sealskin, Genoa satin, o n, ton8 Gf camei hair, <fcc., all of which are being shipped to Liverpool. The bearing of charges brought against publi- cans at Poole was resumed on Tuesday by Poole magistrates. There were 41 cases for hearing. Mr. Buller prosecuted, and Mr. Montagu Williams defended. Two private inquiry agents gave evi- dence in support of charges, and they were em- ployed by Mr. Butcher, and received their in- structions from Mr. Norton, local temperance advocate. Mr. Montagu Williams urged that these men had incited people to break law, and intimated that Mr. Norton might find himself before a tribunal on a charge of conspiracy. A few of the charges were heard, and the remainder were adjourned for a fortnight, when the magis- trates will give their decision on those already in- vestigated. BBKAK-DOWN OF THE LIVERPOOL AND LLANDUDNO STEAMER.—The agent of the steamer Bonnie Princess, whieh has had a most successful run during the season from Liverpool to Llandudno, has received intelligence that the steamer, when about to oommence her return trip from Llan- dudno on Monday evening, became unmanageable owing to her rudder becoming disabled. At the time of the mishap, which took place in Llan. dudno Bay, there was a stiff breeze prevailing, but on the passengers being aesured there was no -f.oun mv.rin' *ke excitement was speedily »»i i passengers were landed by means or «mall boats at Llandudno, and proceeded by train to their destination, and tone were tele- grapbeci for from Liverpool to take home the Bonnie PaiMMa.