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THE INDIAN CRISIS. PUBLIC MEETING IN BIRMINGHAM. At a public meeting hula iy the Birmingham Town Hall on Tuesday, adore-^see were delivered by Messrs. Muntz and Chamberlain, two of the borough members. Mr. Wright, president of the Liberal Association, presided. Mr. Muntz proposed the following re- solutlOn Tlwt the unconstitutional extrava- gance and reckless policy of the Government with regard alike to foreign and Indian affairs is calculated to imperil the interesfo: and to impair the honour of the'nation; and that a disso- lution of Parliament ar. appeal should be made to the country to decide for itself the grave issue of .peace and war, and of Constitutional as opposed to personal rule. "-Mr. Chamberlain seconded the resolution, and it was carried.

THE PETERBOROUGH ELECTION. The polling at Peterborough opened cn Tuesday morning, and the town was at noon in a state of great excitement. The Fitzwiliiam tenantry com- menced voting esuidy in large numbers. A strong force of police ws.s held in reserve in .anticipation of rioting in the evening. The result of the poll was announced as follows;- The Hon. W. J. iitzwilliam (Liberal) lHfiO Mr. Lawrence (Conservative! (371 Mr. Raper f Al N,,t)i cecl Liberi'l) C¿j;¡ The Hon. W. J. h itzwilliam, the successful can- didate, has thus polled a larger number of votes than both thexther candidates put together. He was carried through the town on the shoulders of some of his supporters. ¡

THREE CHILDREN SUFFOCATED. On Saturday evening, after a performance given • by a strolling company of players at Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Mr. Holloway, the proprietor, with his wife and three children, retired to rest in one of the caravans, leaving a cckehre burning. At about seven o'clock on Sunday morning the man awoke with a sense of suffocation, and called loudly for assistance, which was rendered by the occupants of the next van. the door two of the children were found dead, and the other died soin afterwards. The woman was so dangerously ill that she was removed to the, Montgomeryshire Infirmary, where she lies in a critical condition. The man, however, has nearly recovered.

ALLEGED MURDER OF A YOUNG WOMAN. At the Dublin Police-court < en Saturday after- noon, Charles M'Allister, a private in the 77th Regiment, was charged with the wilful murder of a. young woman named Annie Riley, by throwing her into the canal. The deceased s mother stated that the prisoner Had proposed.for her daughter, and she agreed to the marriaga. On the same night she went downstairs with the prisoner, and never returned. He was last seen in her company near the canal, and the prisoner returned to 800 i the mother afterwards. The body of the girl was found'in the canal a day or two after she had left with the accused, and an inquest was held, and a, verdict of .U Found drowned" returned. The body was at ffais time not identified by anybody. The prisoner, who is a young ma-ic, was remanded for a week.

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN COURT. On Monday, Robert Parker was charged, at the Chester Assizes, with murdering his wife, at i Hoole, Chester, on the 8th of July. The evidence against the prisoner was given by his son, who said his mother, when drunk, asked his father for (jd. to procure drink. He refused, and she tipped over the dinner table and went-out. After she bad gone, the prisoner fetched a gun, and said, If she returns I will shoot her." Mrs. Parker shortly afterwards returned. The bey met her at the .door a,nd told her what his father hr.d said, but in- stead of avoiding him she went up and struck him. He seized the gun Mrs. Parker gresped it by the muzzle; a struggk en sued and the gun went off. Mrs. Parker fell mortally wounded. Parker then pro- cured a piece of string; tied one portion to the trigger, and made a loop to put his foot in at the other end, but the string broke. He then exploded the gun with a poker, and shot himself through the breast. It was given in evidence that Mrs. Parker was a very drunken woman. On the morning of the murder she drank two quarts of beer and sixpennyworth of gin, and had pawned her wedding ring to procure it. She was drunk every day.—The jury took only 13 minutes to con- sider their verdict, which was one of Not guilty," and immediately this was given, the oocupants of the court, which was crowded to its utmost capa- city, sent up ringing cheers, which lasted several minutes, completely drowning the voices of the officials.—His Lordship thereupon ordered all egress to be stopped, and after quiet had been partly restored, in very severe terms rebuked the crowd lor an act wliich he said was one of the grossest indecency. He said that if courte.of jus- tice were to be made the arena for applause where crowd for an act which he said was one of the grossest indecency. He said that if courte.of jus- tice were to be made the arena for applause where verdicts wens popular, they might as easily be made the arena for hisses where verdicts were | unpopular; and juries would be liable to a sart of mob despotism. The introduction of feeling into courts of law was only likely to end in the intro- duction of injustice.

ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A COUSIN. EXTRAORDINARY CASE. At Durham Assizes on Monday, before Mr. Justice Lindley, a seaman named Lindsay Ainslay, aged 22 years, was indicted for feloniously wounding Alice Smith, with intent to murder, at South Shields, on the 20th September. Mr. Greenliow prosecuted, and Mr. Edge defended. The prose- cutrix is a young lady, 26 years of age, possesRoCl of considerable property, and first cousin to the prisoner. About lialf-past seven o'clock on the day named the prosecutrix, who resided in Charlotto street South Shields, with a companion named MrH. Cleet was alone in the house, when she heard a rill" at the bell and went to the door. She recognised her cousin (the prisoner), and asked him "to go in, he being in the habit of calling to see her every time he returned from his voyages. Whilst in the kitchen the prisoner asked her several questions in reference to the cellar below, and as bo got somewhat anxious about seeing the cellar, she said he had better go down the steps. He went down, and she followed him. When half Way down, the prisoner seized her by tho throat, threw her down upon the steps, and at- tempted to strangle her. She struggled with him for some time, when he seized hold of a milk jug that was standing at the bottom of the steps and beat her violently about the head with it, and again attempted to choke her. Just then the door boll gain rang, and the prisoner made his escape by "the back of the house, where he was seen by a gentleman who Lad heard the cries for help, and who had hurried to the back of the house to ascertain the cause. Miss Smith crawled upstairs, and presented herself at a neighbour's shop with the blood streaming down her face, and on examination being made her neck was found to be discoloured. Mr. Edge, in defence, said it was the most curious story that had ever been heard in a court of justice, and he rested his case upon the extreme improbability of such a story being true, as the prosecutrix and the prisoner had been on friendly terms since childhood, and were never known to quarrel even to the moment the crime was alleged to have been committed. He sng- that the prosecutrix had kept back the real fiirt of the story, and had not told the truth.— The prisoner was found guilty of unlawfully wounding, and was sentenced to 12 months' hard labour.

A severe hurricane, accompanied by heavy rains, broke over the North-East of Scotland on Monday.. Part of Thurso breakwater was washed ftwav, f

THE MARQUIS OF RIPON AT WAKEFIELD. On Monday afternoon the Marquis of Ripon opened a bazaar in the Corn Exchange, at Wakefield, which has been promoted by the Roman Catholics in that town in aid of additional buildings and an increase of accom- modation for the Catholic schools in the borough. His lordship spoke at considerable length on the education question. In the course of his remarks the noble mar- quis said it was surely the clear duty of those who had the power to do their best to provide little children with the means of developing those intellectual faculties with which God had en- dowed them. He believed those faculties would not have been given with such a lavish and benrficent hand if God had not intended that they should be developed and used for His service, and for the service of the country. To keep them down, and to restrict and starve their growth for the want of means of developing and improving those faculties, when such means could so easily be brought within their reach, would be a great and a, grievous wrong. There had, no doubt, been times in the past history of this country, when this duty might be less plain and obvious than it is now, and when the possibility of ad- vancement in life for the labouring class was much less than it is an present, and when some might be in- clined to question the possibility of giving all classes such au education. But, if they looked iback to tho history of the great mcdiaivai universities taey would find they afforded the means of acquiring the highest education by the poorest (scholars, a. system which we were only enow beginning to resuscitate and revive. They had fortunately entered fully mce more upon that great work, and men of all opinions were uniting, he rejoiced "to think, iu these days, in various ways, to advance and promote the great work of education, and to briia, the means of intellectual develop- ment within the reach of all classes-sf the community. It was the interest both of employees and those to be employed that there should be brought within the reach of every child the means of obtaining an elemen- tarv education. This was a dutjr incumbent on all classes of the community; but it seemed to him that they as Catholics stood in a special position in regard to this matter. The obligation on them to aid in this grtat work on behalf =of the poor Catholic children in their great tevTis was, if possible, more stringent than upon other classes of the community. Because they hold that if education, whether primary, secondaiy, or of the highest class, was to be full, complete, ane thorough, it must be cased upon the principles of roligion. He would not.thsn, irgue that question, because4shat was not the occasion upon which there was any ctkuse to do so, but he took it that every Catholic held the opinion, shared ill by others who were not Catholics, that if religion beitrue it must be the most important matter in life, and that it must form the only safe io.nd solid foundation upon which the superstructure of life must be raised. If they desired that their children should be brought up as Catholics, in Catholic schools, it was not, as some persons occasionally seemed to fancy, because they were tft.cmies to education or were opposed to the spread of knowled0;e, but 't was because they firmly bely&v.ad that all other branches of knowledge would be learnt more thoroughJy if those who loanit them were grounded in the principles of their faith. In this happv hind they had in thisrespect greater advantages as compared with soma other countries, for although -'Alley sometimes talked about educational grievances, yet tho substantial fact was, that the Government-cf the country recognised their Catholic schools as public institutions, and gave them a very large share c'f pecuniary aid from the State. He did not Lelisvo ithat, speaking broadly, there were many among their non-Catholic fellow- countrymen who had any desire to deprive them of this equal and ftir advantage; but of course the Government naturally said, and he thought they were perfectly ju-rtified in saying it, that if any grants were to be ma5,0 to such schools, care should be taken, by efficient and continuous inspection, that they were fully up to. tlie requirements of the times. They could not expect to have large sums of money out of the taxation ptid in aid of their sebcrls unless they could show to the country that those schools were doing good work in the matter of -education. Therefore, when the Government came down and told them that though their schools were in many respects very good, well taught, and well furnished, yet they were too small, they had no right to com- plain of the Government for telling them. that, or for making a demand for increased space in tho interest of the health and .convenience of the children, and they were bound to make a great and suited effort ,0 provide the additional space whioh was required. No doubt this appeal was made at a time when trade ;as bad and prospects gloomy; but, nevertheless, it was a demand which could not be postponod. (Hear, hear.) On the motion ef Mr. JOHS AUSTIN, J.P„of Castle- .ora, seconded by the Hey. Father LAMHnux,of Wake- Geld, a very cordial vote of thanks was passed to his Lordship for his attendance. In responding, his LOKDSHIP remarked.ihat there Was one circumstance connected with Wakefield which would ever make it a pleasure to h:m to re- visit the town; one of the most mteresting recollec- tions of his past life was this-that twenty-«-!ie years a^o he had the honour of receiving in that .town that which he should always consider the greatest dis- tinction of his public fiife—he was then choeen to re- present in the Houee of Commons the undivided West Riding of Yorkshire.

THE LESSONS OF THE GLASGOW BANK FAILURE. The principal lesssn of the failure we can- 'not but believe to be the necessity >0f alter- ing the rule of unlimited liability. The-sooner -the great banks register themselves as limited institutions the better will it be for then-selves and their creditors. They no doubt fear a change on account of the da-mage to credit which any change a bank may make is apt to cause. They will dread the questions people may put a€ tc why they seek to limit their liability, just as many joint- stock companies now-delay reducing their nomi nal capital for fear of having to attach the stigma of •" limited and reduced after their names. But the difficultv should be faced for the sake of the security of bank business itself. In certain cir- cumstances the unlimited liability may prove illusory to the creditors,-a.s this City of Gla^ow Bank failure may prove before all is over. The creditors of that bank may find that they would have 'been better with a richer bank proprietary which limited liability would have given them than with the actual proprietary they have and unlimited liability. An unlimited liability which ruins :8.11 those implicated and yet does net provide enough for the creditors is a poor exchange for a limited liability which is really productive of the whole, or nearly the whole, of the amount for which the shareholders are nomi- nally responsible. The creditors of banks which propose to convert themselveointo limited concerns mav surely be trusted to have some common sense and to recegniso such obvious facts. In time tho change would rather tend tc prevent similar Treat disasters. It would become the interest of rich capitalists more and more to connect them- selves with great banks as with other great companies and really to look after them, and the risks of deficiencies like those which appal us in the City of Glasgow Bank case would be lessened. On the banks themselves, too, would be forced the necessity of restricting their bad business, on account of the failure of that indefinite credit which unlimited liability gives them, and which lures them on to their ruin. We are quite sure that the City of Glasgow Bank acceptances would long ago have been rejected in Lombard street if creditors had not vaguely trusted that the unlimited liability of the share- holders made them safe, whatever happened. The whole business will he safer and sounder if corporate banks have to acquire a credit for them- selves as separate entities, and not merely because they can promise creditors a recourse in the hist resort to multitudes of private fortunes. The improvement in the organisation of our joint-stock banks would be completed if, in addition to the limited liability of ordinary shareholders, the law gave facilities for making the managers and more active directors themselves liable to an unlimited extent. The profit to the creditors in the event of collapse might be very little, the private fortune of the managers and active directors of a bank which fails having usually gone before that of the bank itself. Still the knowledge that they do business with a rope round their necks would probably help to keep straight bank managers and directors who have a fortune to lose.-Daily News.

SIMONIACAII TRANSACTIONS.—Any father, writes a correspondent, whose son is a clergyman and who wants to give him a career, can now select from the most choice kinds of business, and little danger of having long to wait. The incumbent of Tetbury has entered upon his 80th year, and his patroii Is ready to sell the next presentation. There are 3000 inhabitants, and their spiritual pastor is paid at the rate of a lawyer's fee for each of them. He has £ 1000 a year, and his successor U likely'to have more for curing their souls. If that is too good, behold there is a rectory in an eastern county with an income of £350, a "comfortable family residence, and a prospect of immediate possession, subject to a life of 85." Then there is the rectory of Heswall, near Great Neston, iu Cheshire, where the income is £300 q, -car Yet again, there is a Hampshire incumbent Lped 71 the right to appoint whose successor may be bought. Immediately following these an- I nouncements comes an appeal from an incumbent, aged 7-1, to any kind patron who will give him preferment for his docliuiug days. We know what ihatinottus. The Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote, nl.P., left London last week for Pynes, Exeter. The Murikaliches Wochenblatt announces that Brahms is said to have just written a concerto for violin. Mr. Carpenter Garnier, M.P., has been thrown out of a carriage and cut about the face and hands. His injuries are not, however, considered serious. Lord Justice Deasy, one of the Lord Justices of the Irish Court of Appeal, is seriously ill and has obtained six months' leave of absence from his judicial daties. Messrs. Macmillan and Co. have now in the press, and will publish before Christmas, the prose I translation of the Odyssey," by*Mcssrs. 8. II. Butcher and Andrew Lang. Mr. E. B. Nicholson, the librarian of the London Institution, has compiled a work on the lost "Gospel according to the Hebrews," in- cluding, of course, an edition of its fragments. Mr. Bullen, of the British Museum, is compil- ing au elaborate bibliography of "Uncle TDITIs Cabin, for a new edition of Mrs, Stowe's novel iu preparation by Messrs. Houghton, Osgood and Co. We understand that the Emperor of Russia has forwarded to Dr. William Playfair a valuable diMnond ring in recognition of his recent atten- dance on the Duchess of Edinburgh*—British Medfcal Journal. October 20 was the fiftieth anniversary of Mame. Clara Schumann's first appearance in public as a pianist. On October 20, 1828, she, at that time a child of nine years of-age, played at a concert in the Gewandhaus at Leipzig. Dr. J. A. Carlylc, of Dumfries, a Doctor of Medicine and of Laws o? the University of Edin- i burgh, has placed JSlGOO in the hands of the Asso- ciation for the Better Endowment .tf the Univer- sity of Edinburgh, ier the endowment of two bursaries in the faculty of medicine. The collected edition of Spinoza's works, trans- lated into German and edited thirty years ago by Berthold Aiiorbach, is about to appear in a new and revised form. The biography has been en- larged an& rewritten, and such ài: Spinoza's works as have been discovered during the interval have been incorporated. The Observer says:—It is Teported that Mr- Ralph R-t-bert Wheeler Lingen, C.B., has resigned the f Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, which he has bold since Janeary, 1S70, when he .succeeded the Right Hon. G. A. Hamilton. It is rumoured that Mr. Lingen will be succeeded by Mr. Hamilton, -of the Board ef Trade. Messrs. Breitkopf and Hartel announce ras shortly to bo issued the second and concluding volume-of Spitta's great work on Johann Sebastian Bach. The first volume was published so i-,rg ago as 1673,■■and its continuation will be anxiou slv awaited 'by Tsiusicians, for it is by far the .most complete biography of the great composer tfhat has bcien published. We u- Zierptand that Mr.. Herbert Spencer Till spend the coming winter i4 Algeria. He ha-e just issued a "cheap edition T of his four essays on Education—Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical ;(WIUiams and Norgatei. It has seme- times been;a subject of complaint that his wiitings have <ndt wttained so wide a circulation in this oomrfery as in the United States, or evee. Ot: the Continent.—A cademy. A labourer, named feo. Woodcock, was, on Sa4m?day,»ftt Manchester Assizes, sentenced is M years' peBal servitude for attempting to murder a womam.waacd Jones, with whom he lived. The "woman refused to give him money whereupon he knockediher down, knelt rapon and stab bed; her in the moo ssd nock. He'-rhen attacked her with an axe, inflicting such fearful injuries that for some time her life was despaired of. SHOCKING SUICIDE.—A :shocking suicide thryagh disappointment in love took place in Liverpool a few'days ago. A respectably connected yoang fellow named John Ashton, cashier in a merchant's office, <w £ /e found decapitated on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, near Bankball station. In his pocket were SOID", letters, and. it is that he had a disappointment in love which hud preyed :updn his mind, and led him to ocuunit Baicida. I BETTISS ON BiLUARDS.—A Liverpool publican, named Rammer, and hie billiard marker, named Cox, TTOT3 charged last .v.'eek. the first with per- mitting betting. and the second with aiding-and abetting- A billiard match was being played at Eimiiwr't house, and a. number of bookmakers were present betting upon the players. Stakes were handed to Cox, whs handed them to Rirn- mer. The offence was -admitted, and Rimmer was fined £ 10, with endorsement of his licer.oa, and. Cox was fined £5. A caM of some importance has just been heard at Ake Manchester Ciitv Police-court. Mr. Edward Thneblood was summoned, at the instance oMIr. Rnepini, the clerk tG the school board, ior nR sending his child to school. It was explained that the ffliild, who is twelve years of age, at- tended a, private adventure school; but Mr. Rnapini contended that as the school was not a public elementary school it rested with the defen- dant to show that it was efficient. Mr. Trueblood said he war.,not in a position te offer such evidence, and stated -that if fined he should not pay the penalty. Mr. Headlam thereupon imposed a fine of 2s. 6d. and costs. A DUEL BETWEEN CREOLEs.-The New Orleans Democrat gives an account ofs, duel fought be- tween two gentlemen, Creoles, who went a few miles out of N<ew Orleans for the purpose on the j 30th of September. At the firai fire one of the combatants was hit in the right .arm, the ball en- tering underneath the elbow, glancing up, and lodging in the muscles under the shoulder blade. The doctor described the wound as not dangerous. The Democrat adds:—"A curious circumstance conneoted with the duel is that the injured man would infallibly have been killed licd he not held j his arm slightly bent, thus covering his right 1 breast, which the ball would have pierced through I and through, considering the distance of only 10 paces and the heavy calibre of the duelling pistols." I JEWEL RoBBERY.—A r<mbery of jewe!I« was com- mitted in Bath on Thursday. The viotim was Mr. Veal, a jeweller, whose shop is situated in Stall street, but no one resides on the premises. The burglars got into the shop by first picking the lock of the door of an adjacent shop situated in & back street, and, after vainly endetvouring to cut into Mr. Veal's shop through the wall, got out of one roof and through another, broke through the ceiling, and so entered the jeweller's shop. The following articles were stolen:- Thirtf-two gold and silver watches, 25 gold chains (ladies' and gentlemen's). 30 pairs of gold earrings, and 120 ladies' and gentlemen's rings of various sorts, being the general stock of the shop and valued at E400. The burglars having secured this property succeeded in making good their escape. THE RECENT LIVERPOOL BANK ROBBEKY.—A cor- respondent writes:—The recent fraud at Liver- pool has led to the issue of a circular warning the clerks in the Bank of England that by borrowing money on personal account by means of transac- tions with bill discounters they at once forfeit their situations, and render themselves liable to a heavy penalty. Inquiries have been made into the position of several of the clerks at the various branches. The result is the suspension or dis- missal of four of the Liverpool staff, and e. warn- ing all round. The officials have all been informed that discovery will lead to immediate punishmcn t without appeal. It is surely laxity which has permitted this rule to be infringed at all; for the temptations to dishonesty which assail a man in difficulties, who sees ruin staring him in the face, are too much for ordinary human nature. ANOTHER PANIC IN A SYNAGOGUE.-An event I which might easily have been attended with very sad consequences, says the Jewish Chronicle, occurred on the 18th October in the synagogue at the Potsdamar Bridge in Berlin. Dr. Colin, the Rabbi, was preaching his sermon when suddenly a shoot of Fire! was raised. A large number of men and women rushed to the doors, and only the presence of mind of the minority of those pre- sent and the preacher prevented serious accidents happening, The sensible portion of the oongre- gation remained quietly in their places, and the preacher, who had interrupted his discourse, asked for calmness, as the alarm had been a false one. It is believed that the cry was made through malevolence. So many had fainted amongst those who remained, and, in the excito- ment, so many had left the synagogue, that the service could not be continued. The Rabbi him- self left the place from which he had been preach- ing and hurried to his wife, who had tainted, Fortunate1'*5 nobody wJiØ talurecl.

ANOTHER GREAT bAiLuiuii JuV GLASGOW.J LIABILITIES, £ 1,000,000. The bankruptcy of John Iunes I-N-riglt and Co. was intimated on Saturday. Mr. Y< right is one ,ow of the imprisoned directors of the Glasgow City Bank. The liabilities of the firm are stated at about £ 1,000,000. 0_

DOUBLE MURDER BY A SOLDIER. SENTENCE OF DEATH. At Bedford Assizes on Saturday, Patriel:Byrne, sergeant in the Northampton Miliiia, was sen- tenced to death for the wilful murder of two soldiers at Northampton, on the 2nd of Sep- tember.

'^IlE ASo^iJLT ON BISi OcJ HILL AND I MRS. HILL IN THE ISLE OF MAN. At a Criminal Court, held on Tuesday at Peel, *8le of Man, John Girvan, navvy, was charged ^th an assault on Caroline Hand Hill, -wife the Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man. The ■^iBhop and Mrs. Hill were driving home in a ^triage, when the prisoner threw a stone, which 8fruck Mrs. Hill on the head. The Bishop gave | ebaBe to Girvan, who drew his knife, and "hteatened to stab his lordship. He was ulti- lately taken into custody. The prisoner pleaded plilty to a common assault, and the Bishop having ^Weeded with the Court, the prisoner was sen- ,eOced to three days' imprisonment. The Bishop ft sovereign with the gaoler, to he given to the when he is released.

MOKLEY AND THE REPRESENTA- TION OF BRISTOL. hear that Mr, Morlev has confidently ex- £ to the leaders of the Liberal party in ( j ^Btol liis willingness to stand for the city again 11 compliance with the wish so earnestly and *>e1erally expressed that he should not retire at Present from Parliamentary life. But it is not *ely that the announcement will be formally jpde till the Colston anniversary on the 13th of Y °Vember. This will be a disappointment to Mr. Fry and a host of possible candidates, who for the past six weeks almost driven tne ^Wal Four Hundred wild with their claims. r- Kirkman Hodgson has, I understand, made > P his mind tliat in the present state of his health cannot hope to go through another session, ana ^believe before the recess is over, or as soon as f^tliament reassembles, a fresh writ will be issued Bristol. Mr. Elisha Robinson will, I hear, be he Liberal candidate.— May fa ir.

MR. BUTT AND THE HOME RULERS. Butt has written a letter to the Cork xaminer in reply to an article commenting on the ^ent Home Rule meeting, in which he points ut an error into which the writer has fallen. It stated in the article that the policy of the "^u^e l",arty-> as formed after the elections of '4, was understood to be an active Parliarneu- ry oppositton, which would range itself with the lernies of the Government which refused Home and take advantage of every occasion to ast its strength into the scale against them, and ever falter until it had succeeded in driving hem from office, and then be ready to pursue Precisely the same line of action against their suc- Cessors. Mr. Butt observes that this certainly j ^*a.s not the policy which the Home liule party j formed to carry out, and if it had been so ho ^ever could have been a member of that party, criticises a copy of the resolutions adopted at > .he first meeting of the Home Rule members, held 111 the City Hall on March 3, 1871, and which are the only authoritative declarations of the princi- ples on which the party was formocl. He drew lip all the resolutions with his own hand, and they were adopted without change; they were ^rawn with a careful avoidance of adopting a policy gich as the writer described, a policy then known W- name °*' independent opposition. At the he con*'ereacc held in the No .'ember previous On tv an^ clearly declared his opinion the subject. He quotes a long passage from *8V sPeechi in which he stated that if ho were to pledge himself to vote against any q lQlstry which did not make Homo Rule a Cabinet estion ho could not accept a seat in Parliament condition of taking such a pledge. He gave as I it JlaS(?u *or his refusal to take such a pledge that l \VK-°V ^estroy every particle of moral influence o aU^ act,iotl °f his would have m the House wV0miuons. It would be importing into the s'ruS8l6 the worst and lowest artifices of intrigue, an(i that in adopting such cha Urse ^he Irish members would lower their aud tha'j of their country. The Irish j would simply be a force on which Vjj *eaders of the Opposition could rely *ithneVer th°y w-shed to assail the Ministry, 4efe neoessity of conciliating them, of { ^OnfriUi" .^heir opinion, or even of abstaining \va Calumnious attack upon their country. He If One arf ^om Bay«g that the presence in the Of ir6 0 Commons ,of a large and compact body POXVPW™.6 J116 members would not exercise a ln^^enc« upon the combinations and ^io^t lcy.° knglinh parties, and that occasions *tx<\ hrT ariso uP°n 'which they might fairly f their v !i' I'1'ove their power by throwing ^her bCj^ n 1Dt° sca^e one P&rtj'or the +V the real influence of such a power was be moment it was announced that it would .det ^lversally exercised. Each occasion must the course which, should be taken, f tj 'feme cases might justify a policy of obstrac- °H. jf ever they did the obstruction would be n^ed on in other and more decided ways than of voting on all mere party questions with 8?'6 opposition. He further warned them in the speech that if they attempted to fores a faia8Ure upon Parliament, the attempt wouid and would only strengthen those agaiust tb directed. Mr. iiutt, after quoting ^is ve passages, observed in the letter that no he B+^ii Was from these sentiments, and CoJL Tfetained those opinions. The time was a rer'"W» rnus^ place before the Irish people the TV Ok ^he course taken by himself and by -Parliamentary party sinoo its formation ViA- aU(I when he does so he is prepared to dicate that course.

r Requiem masses were eaid for the repose ol judical Cullen's soul at Dublin on Tuesday. Tlws ■ aetvices which begun at six, lasted until two I-°ck in the afternoon, nearly all the Romao Who lip Bjshops being present

A BARONET SENTENCED TO TWELVE MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT. At the Old Bailey, London, on Tuesday, Sir Horatic Henry Wraxall, Bart., and John Crowley were indicted for having fraudulently obtained from variont persons sums of money, under the pretence that thej were agents of a colonial company, which, it vva* proved, had no existence, and that they had authority to appoint managers for the company. The cast occupied some hours, and the jury found the pn. soners guilty. They were sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.

OPENING OF A NEW LIBERAL CLUB AT SCARBOROUGH. Sir W. V. Harcourt, M.P., opened a new Liberal Club at Scarborough, on Tuesday, in the. presence of Sir H. Johnstone, M.P., Mr. C. H. Wikon, M.P., the Hon. J. C. Duiidas, M.P., and Mr. J. Barran, M.P. A largely attended public meeting was held in tli6 evening, at which Sir V. Harcourt delivered a speech, dealing chiefly with foreign ailairs. Alluding to the acquisition of Cyprus, he said all military men ridiculed the idea of employing the island as a strategical centre. lIe rcgr.rdtd it as a party manoeuvre, intended to cover an impending diplomatic defeat at Berlin.

ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND AUSTRIA. In view of the present complications in the East, negotiations have, we {Obitrcer) have reason to be- lieve, been set on foot in order to bring about a com- plete understanding between our own Government and those of France and Austria.

MR. GLADSTONE AT CAMBRIDGE. Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone attended service in the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge, on Sunday morning. In the evening he diucd with the Fellows in the college hall. The right hon. gentleman paid a visit on Saturday to Girt-on College, in which institution his daughter is a student.

MURDER AT HULL. A woman named France died at Hull Infirmaiy en Sunday. She was the wife oi a keelman living in a low part of the town. A young fellow named Artop lodged with them. The keelman was due from a voyage, and Mrs. France wished to go out ^•0 meet him. Artcp. who seems to have enter- 'to meet him. Artcp. who seems to have enter- tained a passion for the woman, objected to her going, and alter some wrangling seized a pair of tongs, and struck her a dozen blows on the head, from the effects of which she has succumbed. Artop is in custody.

HIGH TIDE. During the high tide at Hastings on Saturday I enormous waves dashed over the Esplanade and inundated several streets, on which boats had to be used as means of transit. The gigantic waves, I. which attracted many thousands to the shore, rose abouttifty feet on striking against the sea wall, and vast quantities of shingle were cast upon the roads. Though little actual damage was done to property, many were much inconvenienced by their kitchens and basements being fooded. To- wards evening the wind abated and the sea again becalmed.

DREADFUL W IFE MURDER IN BARROW. A murder, committed on the 19th Oct., at Bar- row-in-Furness. has only just been discovered. A labourer, named William M'Gnnnieas, who was last employed at Carnfcrth Railway Station, has been living on uncomfortable terms with his wife, Ann M'Guinneas, for a long time past. He has been addicted t-3 drinking, and it is said that when drunk he conducted himself more like a demon than a man. He has been in the habit of con- st antly changing his residence, and removing from one town to another. He has been in Barrow several times, and is well known. About ten days or a fortnight ago he removed to (i A, Tay street, Scotch Buildings, and on Saturday, the Hith Oct., he got into a beastly state of drunkenness. When proceeding home in compaiw with his wife he quarrelled with her, owing, it is said, to her alleged unfaithfulness to him. She was sober at the time, si-d although she used to take drink, she did not take it to excess. John Douglas, a friend of M'Guinneas, was in the company of bus- band and wife for a short time, and heard M'Guinneas .threaten to take her life that night, as he had often promised to do before; but he did not think the man meant what he said, .and con- sequently left them at the corner of Duke street. They quarrelled all the way home, and on reaching there the neighbours heard them quarrelling for some time, but did not interfere. The door of the house was noticed to be locked for several days, but no suspicion was aroused till Oct. when I one of the neighbours had occasion to put up a clothes line, and in doing so stepped on the window-stone of M'Guinneas's tenement, where he was able to see over a shawl by which the window was partially screened. He noticed the dead body of Mrs. M'Guinneas on the tfoor, and at once informed the police. The house, which had been locked up for a week, was broken open, and the poor woman was found in a sad condition cn the fioor, which in many places was covered with large patches of blood. The woman's face presented indications of -having received several severe blows or kicks, and a quantity of blood had issued from her month. Her dress was disarranged, her stockings and clogs were completely saturated with blood, and it is thought probable that she sustained severe injuries in the abdominal region, but as the port mortem examination has not yet been made it is impossible to say whether- this is so or not. The murder having takeu place a week ago, M'Guinneas has had every opportunity of escaping, but the police are actively engaged in endeavouring to apprehend him. He is a noted Fenian, being a short, thick-set man, with LOW legs. The inquest was opened on Saturday morning, when the only witness called was Thomas Douglas, whe gave evidence to the effect already stated,

THE RISING IN BULGARIA—FIRING OF MAHOMETAN VILLAGES. VIENNA, Oct. 25.—The aspect of affairs in the East is becoming daily more serious, and lively apprehensions are felt here at the course which events are taking, for the attitude of Russia is becoming so aggressive, her demands 80 imperious, and her military preparations are on so vast a scale, that no one accriainted with what is going on can doubt that she ishcnt upon extending her conquests far beyond the bounds allotted her by the Berlin Treaty. A camp of sixty thousand men is being formed at Eischeneff, and these will march down into Bulgaria to replace the troops there, almost the whole of whom are on their march across the Balkans. The Roumanians have been informed that Russia demands a permanent right of way through their- territory, and that Roumania must conclude an offensive and defensive treaty with her. Until these demands are complied with, Russia will neither evacuate Roumania nor hand over the Dobrudscha. Immense consternation has been caused in Bucharest by these unexpected demands, and the Government have sent off an urgent appeal to Prince Bismarck, as the President of the Berlin Congress, to call upon Russia to carry out the decisions of that body. This, however, startling as it is, does not represent all the designs of Russia upon her neighbour, for the Russian agents here are publicly stating that Russia neither can nor will submit to the frontier marked out for her, but that Mol- davia must become Russian territory as far as the Sereth river. These facts, coupled with the now avowed intention of plac- ing General Ignatieff on the throne of Bul- garia, and the immense accumulation of troops I which is taking place south of Adrianople, are causing intense uneasiness in well-informed circles here. The signal, or, rather, the excuse for war, will probably be given by fictitious outbreaks got up by the Russian agents among the Bulgarian population in the territories still remaining under the Turkish rule. This plan, wliich succeeded so well before, is already in progress, for alarming accounts reach r.s from I' Macedonia and South Bulgaria of a general rising in those districts as a consequence of the intrigues and connivance of Russia. 1-1 Whole regiments of the Bulgarian militia are quietly dissolving, and the men are reappearing as scattered bands of volunteers. They denounce the Berlin Treaty on account of its having severed Bulgaria in two, and I under the very eyes of the Russian authorities signatures are being collected among the popu- lation to declarations protesting against the de- cisions of tne Berlin Congress, and praising the Treaty of San Stefano as being the onlv ar- rangement which could be conducive to the welfare of the Bulgarian nation. The advices from Macedonia are silent as to the attitude of the large Greek population there. Hitherto the insurgents seem to have been exclusively Bulgarian, and they have commenced firing and plundering the Mahommedan villages.- Standard.

B A C III J. I ITL. An attached couple-Oyster shells. The tied of life—The married oned. Even a barrel hoop will turn when trol upon. What word may be pronouned quicker by add- ing one syllable to it?—Quick. There's one melancholy fact about a calendar, there's no time when its days are not numbered. Jefferson was a tender-hearted man. He would always turn aside rather than step on a wasp when he was barefooted. Which is oddest, the man who asks a question or the one who answers?—The one who asks, because he is the querist. A juror in a court snored so loud that he waked the judge, who indignantly fined him ten dollars for contempt of court.-American paper. A witty girl made a stern, sober-faced man laugh, whereupon her companion said: "Don't, Nelly, don't. You are disturbing the grave." One is glass in eyes and the other is isinglass." That is the answer, and a very clever one it is, too. What we want now is a conundrum to meet it. The bill of a plumber in Paris lately contained the following items—"To searching for gas leak- age, two francs; to having found it, thrse francs." An Irishman has always an answer for any- thing. A Corkonian, on being asked at breakfast how he came by that black eye," said he slept on his fist. THE SPEECH.—A Yankee politician was elected on the merits of one single speech. All he said was, Fellow-countrymen, follow me to yonder bar-salcon." The best thing about ghosts was said by Cole- ndge, when asked by a lady if he believed in them. "No, madam. I have seen too many of them to believe in them." "Hatter to his Majesty," is the title bestowed on cue of the private secretaries at the Palace at Constantinople whose business it is to write out Imperial Hatts." A governess threatened to keep an unruly boy fifteen minutes after school. I wish you would make it half an hour, said the appreciative youth, "for you're the prettiest teacher in this town." How quiet and lovely!" remarked the tourist. Purelv, this might be a spot the puet bad in mind when he said: 'Silence reigns. Guide: All! and ye may say that same. And thunders, too, yer honour "Who." said Mr. Peter Mitchell, a member of the Canadian House of Commons, to the mem- bers who were trying to choke him oif, "who braved there?" "It was an echo," retorted a member, amid a yell of delight. Mrs. M'Luskie: "Who, Donald, you told me yesterday that you were going to join the tem- perance pledge." Donald: "Yes, ma'am. "I went to the Temperance Hall: and found that there was no vacancy until the end of the year." TIT ror. TAT.-An ill-tempered and pompous old man said to a noisy urchin, What are you whistling and yelling so for when I'm riding by?" -To which the boy responded, "What are you ridin' by for when I'm a whistlin' and a yellin' ?" It is hard to come down in the world through upright dealing, but harder still to stoop to dis- honest dealing in order to keep up in the world. If the loss of temporal gain be the gain of eternal good, then the reverse of fortune is the reverse of misfortune. Josh Billings in a zoological moment tells us that the peculiarity of the fiv is that he returns to the same spot; but it is the characteristic of the mosquito that he returns to another spot. Thus he differs from the leopard, which does not change its spots. The microphone is misnamed. The microscope is that through which we see the indefinitely small-the microphone is meant to signify that by which we hear sounds indefinitely minute or faint; but its proper sense would be that which speaks or sings small." Douglas Jerrold's stage jests were excellent not only for their closeness, but also for their severity. As when it was said at the H aymarket that someone had actually "been bred on these boards," He looks as though he had been cut out of them," was the answer. The celebrated Dr. Adam Smith, who was a. very logical thinker, hearing his servant complain of a pain in the small of his back. said to him The pain, John, is not in your back, it is in your mind." "Deed, sir," replied John, "gif ye'll tak' it oot o' ma pack and pit into my mind, I'se be singularly obleeged to ye." An old darky was endeavouring to explain his unfortunate condition. "You see," remarked Sambo, it was in this way, as far as I can re- member: Fust my fader died, den my rnudder married agin; auddenmymudder died, and my fader married agin and somehow I doesn't seem to hab no parents at all, nor no home nor nufiin." Habit," is hard to overcome. If you take off the first letter, it does not change abit." If you take off another, you still have a "bit left. If you take off still another, the whole of "it" re- mains. If you take another, it is not t" totally used up. All of which shows that, if you wish to be rid of a "habit," you must throw it off altogether. A friend met Mr. Byron, the dramatist, and asked him, "Well, Byron, have you anything on the stocks?" Let me think—yes, I've got the 'Investors' Hanclb(,oh." "No, no; you know what I mean. Are you writing anything fresh?" Fresh! Do I ever write anything stale ?" Tut, tut? Have you a new piece in hand?" I I No, it's on foot." "What's to be it's title?" "Will Shortly-a peer." Unpunctuality has its saving qualities at times. An Irish landlord has been recently making him- self unpopular with his tenantry. Two of the latter were accordingly told oif by the local Rib- bon lodge to shoot the offender. They severally loaded their blunderbusses and squatted pa- tiently behind a wall to secure a "pot shot" at the landlord on his return from petty sessions. They waited for hours, long beyond the expected time, and began to feel the want of their sup- pers. Said Pat to Tim at last, sure the master's a mortal long time comin' Said Tim to Pat, "Bed he is! I wish no accident's happened to him!" An American paper contained the following advertise iL eiit: A practical printer, who is competent to take charge of any department in a printing or publishing house, would accept a pro- fessorship in any of the academies. Has no ob- jection to teach ornamental painting and penman- ship, geography, trigonometry, and many other sciences. Is peculiarly suited to act as pastor to a small Evangelical church, or as a local preacher. He would have no objection to form a small but select class of young ladies to instruct there: in the higher branches. To a dentist or chiropodist he would be invaluable, as he can do almost any- thing. Would cheerfully accept a po.-ition as bass or tenor singer in a choir. Would prefer to run a blacksmith's shop, a dancing school, or a saw-mill. Has no objection to take command of some European steamer, or accept the Presidency of the I'nited States. The position to drive an ash- cart would also be thankfully accepted. An Irish priest was standing at the corner of a square about the hour of dinner, when one of his countrymen, observing the worth}? father in per- plexity, thus addressed him: — "Oh. Father how is your rivirence?" "Niglltilv put out, Pat," was the reply. "Put out! Who'd put Dut your rivirence?" "Ah you don't understand! This is just it-I am invited to dine at one of the houses in this square, and I have forgotten the name, and I never looked at the number, and now it's seven o'clock." Oh, is that all?" was the cry; "just now be aisv, your rivirence; I'll settle that for you." So saying away flew the good-natured Irishman round the square, glancing at the kitchens, and when he discovered a fire that denoted hospitality he thundered at the door and inquired, "Is Father O'L&ary here?" As might be expected, again and again he was re- pulsed. At length an angry footman exclaimed, No; bother on Father O Learv—he is not here; but he has to dine here to-day, and the cook is in a. rage, and says the dinner will be spoilt. All is waiting for Father O'Leary." Paddy, leaping from the door as if the steps had been on fire, rushed up to the astonished priest, and cried, All right, your rivirence; you dine at 43—and a mighty good dinner you'll get." Oh, Pat," said khe grateful pastor, the blessings of a hungry man be upon you!" Long life and happiness to your rivirence! I have got your malady—I only wish I ha.d your oure." returned Pat.