South Wales Daily News

SPIRIT OF rHIP, DAILY PRESS. THE NEW ARMY MOBILISATION SCHEMB. This sebeill e of mobilisation, the Times points out, has evidently been carefully considered, and it is highly satis- factory to find that such good fruits have sprung from the Intelligence Department which Lord Card well bequeathed ,t,, the War Office. The orders for the movements of the different regiments to their appointed places of concentrn.- tion have been prepared, and wili shortly be in the Innds of commanding officers. The points at wliich the troops are to be concentrated have beeii surveyed, and arrange- ments have been made for the formation of camps. Should the orders of the War Office be carried out—and there is no reIHlon to doubt that such will he the case-there will in future le no delay in placing in the field eight army corps, composed of regular troops and iui!ithi, while, at tlie same time, an adequate force will be provided for the defence of the coast and of fortresses. There is a great ad- vance in our military organisation, as hitherto no prepara- tions were made in peace, and all arrangements were necessarily improvised on the outbreak of war. It will insure that our available forces can be placed on a war footing, as far as organisation is concerned, J in a few days, and, in some districts, within a few hours. This alone would be a satisfactory result. The Si at difficulties of organising a miii tary system liaveleer- tainly been overcome. Men to fill the ranks should be provided by the natural development of the re- serve system, and this development only requires time, Should the necessary time be denied, exceptional measures call then be taken to meet exceptional needs. The supply of horses is solely a matter of money. We have now at least the scaffolding of a military organisation. Steady care and time will, doubtless, fill in the necessary details. SCHOOL BOARDS AND VOLUNTARY SCHOOLS. It has been alleged, says the Morning Post, that the Eluoation Department lias shewn favouritism to the volun- tary schools. If that is true it must be capable of proof. At present it is an unsupported assertion. The Birming- ham League will have au opportunity when Parliament meets of challenging the department in any facts it may be able to bring forward. In the meantime we have Lord Sundon's distinct declaration that while he is favourtible to the voluntary system of education he is not debarred on that account from identifying himself with the School Board system. This is the very spirit of g the Education Act. If that measure had not dealt equal t1 stipe to both systems it could not have been passed. ut it is not merely on account of what the voluntary •choo's have done for the educat ion of the people that they are entitled to respect and fair play. It may be dotibtell whether the zeal of School Boards will continue to maintain that fervour which has enlisted the services of so many members of a superior class. But in the case of the voluntary s-chools there can be no doubt that they will always have the aid and supervision of the most intelli- gPIlt inhabitants in their districts. People who maintain 8 dwols out of their own pockets may be trusted to see that they are efficiently managed. This is an advantage on the Bide of the voluntary schools which has not been slifficieiitly considered. But why should there be any objection to the existence of the two systems workizj, side by side ? a THE COMTCLSOET ATTENDANCE QUESTION. An interesting and vital question is touched the Standard considers, in Lord Sandon's deprecation of head long and headstrong severity in the «pp icaf.ion of com- P T?f London School Board is making I,he very name of education hateful by its oppressive and inconside- rate tyranny and .t officials will not leave mothers at berty to go out to work and leave their eldest daughter of k°use and baby, or will send proud and honest men to prison for not providing their boys with boots when they can scarcely find shelter! will'dn »iC ? provoke a reaction which Telves bfli'T "i", >m,ch harm as the Dissenters them- ine on thl ^ff 8' ,We d° nofc C0ncnr with l,im in ,ook- l > i of the?vfr^n0«b8t7reen the m,mbe,s 0,1 tbe ,)00,<8 moderate ,XvSV;tte,fa"Ce -as c!^a-V indication of books, not in fm;<e1i;,fJhild;en 01' to tlie is exercised. If B cl.iTd aL T' tyranny seven days a for™t tl d^s.f,we;k. molest its parents. But°such a child wUl'iirn^L g J aelass m which there are 25 per cent, of .,„h chi dren'will Iff™ 7nd I e 'w 1 Ca" ?eVer 011 where he Teft off and the w,.ste of tune is enormous. Tf there be one thing m winch the School Board may usefully be Btnct, it IS iu enforcing regular attendance from day to day on those who do attend, end in putting down mere truancy while to those who are kept at home for dimes tic duties for weeks togetner it can hardly be too considerate. WORK OF THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. The School Boards, the Hour observes, deserve on the wliole-thougli there are excephon-the commendation which Lord Salidm bestowed upon the judgment of dis- cretion" with which they have exercised their compulsory powers. It is certain that if tL y had inaugurated a system of general espionage, carried out by intruding únoll the homes of the poor, without discrimination, the system would have broken down long ere this. But the School Boards have been restrained within tolerable limits by the powerful voluntary forces which are doing such good educational work. On the other hind, the voluntary schools have had higher stand- ards to go by and bet.ter ideals to work up to in many de- partments, in consequence of the organisation which has been encouraged under the Education Act or J- question of religious instruction has no doubt hsui its diffi- culties but so long its the power of appealing, to the Bible, tile bil.t.igilt of "Englishman," and fortifjing llIS instruc- tionin regard to moral principles from its pages, is re- BBI ved to the teacher, there need be no illaupclnble bar- ttertt to a fair w orking compromise. m. • ,J,EKEy AND THE GREAT POWERS. A"e l"te?>ity of Turkey, the Daily Telegraph notes, ™MUr po!icy wi,en t!:« disintegiati. n of that trl.uliL™ one of tWQ things, anarchy or ag- f B o. i l>et''aP* both. Twenty years aj;o tlie tribu- Kow w« know that Kgy'l.S^rVi^ TTr1 »tend alone and Mo.2L-SL' Roumania can reckoned a part of Tu>kev~h t1 somet'mes i^.orantly The deicav of the eenf. 1 ti completely maependent. «»« i » £ ol the cental authority would not, therefore. Russia's share of the spoilt Germany From a geographical and ethnological point of view B' snia and Heuegovina seemed suited to Austria yetTs Kussia likely to force on the East.ui Question m.'rely to extend Austrian rule ? Its present contingent of Solaves U troublesome enough to the Austro-Hungarian relllm, aiid though political lIecessltIes may compel her to take more we may be sure she is as reluctant to do so as we should have been in, say, O Connell's time to covet another Ire- land in addition to the island "on band." Here we see clearly motives quite sutiicient to induce the three empires to unite in a policy of peace, self-denial, open counsels, fr.uik statements, and complete patience, as far as the facts will allow. If the Eastern Question is kept oa this platform *ve no cause to fear war. rOPULAR CSI OP ANESTHETICS AND NARCOTICS. The SMd accident which has caused the death of the wife of a member of the last Cabinet may, the Morning Advcv* tiser trusts, help to check the modern practice which ex- ists mem^trs of tho nml inicidie clashes of resorting to the use of ansu*thetics and narcotics for the relief of triMing maladies without havi..g previously sought professional ndvice. We are iniormed that chloral which is closely allied to chloroform—in now imported into this country in such large quantities that they amount to tons. Although a large quantity of this drug is used b> medical practitioners, yet it is a well kuown fitct thufc the re- mainder is sold to persons who take it without medical advice. At present it, has nearly ousted chloroform from the field in the treatment of painful maladies but, like other medicines, it will merely have its day, until one that is yet more powerful is discovered and brought into popular use. Had the unfortunate lady whose iife has just passed away under the saddest and most exceptional circumstances, been in the hab'fc o" taking or using the powerful drug which killed her, idle would have been better informed concerning it-a poisonous properties, she would iiave exercised more e.utioa. ^"1 the home sha loved would not have bfiiitt __r- made desolate, guch reme,ufo we have spoken about are valuable aids to life in limt- of sickness, when they are ulle" sktlfully by persons who have studied their power an(1 the etlects they produce on the different constitutions of individuals, as they are its most treacherous foes when they are taken igfADi-antly and rashly. THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND. What, the Daily News asks, is the due regard which a Chief Secretary for Ireland should pay to the divergences of opinion among the Irish people ? Hithertp it has been held to amount in Ireland itself to an almost complete abstention from party politics. We have no desire to ob- struct the Chief Secretary in any measures he may pro- pose for the good of Ireland. If we have regarded it as a little inopportune that he should have made his visit to Belfast the occasion of a purely party demonstration, it is b ^ause nearly every Irishman out of Ulster would admit, and all Englishmen know, that the Toryism of which Sir M. Hicks Beach boasts has been the antagonist and not the friend of the chief measures which have ensured the progress and prosperity of the country. Wo do not for one moment fear that the Chief Secretary's glorying in his Toryism is any sign that he, or the Govern- ment of which he is a member, will attempt to carry those principles out. Tory principles are things to glory in, as the suits of armour worn by some remote ancestor are gloried in by being blazoned on the walls of the entrance- hall of a modern home. Sir M. Hicks-Beach will glory in them, but he will refrain from putting them on. He will keep them to be exhibited in such select assemblies as that which gathered to the banquet in the Ulster Hall, and then lav them aside, and go on slowly in the Ordinary Liberal route which modern society must run, till the proper time comes for glorying in them again. BISHOP FRASER ON THE STAGE. The Bishop of Manchester, the Morning Echo thinks, is too sweeping in his censure. The stage as generally ad- ministered is not opeu to the reproach which he hurls at it or, if it be, then the educated and refined lay popula- tion of this country are wrong, and the Bishop of Man- chester alone is right. Will Dr. Fraser contend that the Vast majority of the people by whom dramatic art is ap preciated are persons of depraved and impure minds, and that the theatres which cater for their amuse ment cannot be described as contributing anything but a very serious element of mischief" to the morals of the people? We hardly think so. The fact is as Dr. Fraser would be aware if bishops were in the habit of frequenting theatres, that the sins of the British stage at the piesent day are in most cases rather sins of taste toan of morality. The steps of a danseuse in a ballet may often be a triflo more vigorous than graceful; her skirt may sometimes seem as if it would be vastly improved b} the addition of another flounce. But, unless the Bishop of Manchester is prepared bo condemn as indecent the oidiiiar-y ball-room dress of English ladies, he has 110 right to condemn utterly the nymphs of the ballet. Conven- tionality alone pronounces between a "low body" and a short skirt. Ko eternal law of morality, as far as we are aware, has declared that one shall be positively indecent and the other perfectly proper. We have often, we must confess, wished that the ladies of the ballet would wear a little more than they do, and jump about a little less. But ye have nbrer thought, and we do not think now, that {speaking generally, of course there are exceptions) their skipS and their curtseys constitute a serious national peril.

AFFAIRS AT ZANZIBAR. We hear, says the Globe, that the Vice-Consul at Zanzi- bar, Dr. Kirk has communicated to the Colonial Office his opinion that it would be desirable to increase the number of her Majesty's ships employed at Zanzibar.

SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW. Yesterday, her Majesty's cattle, intended for exhibition at the Smith field Club Show, arrived in London. The animals consisted of a Devon heifer and ox, fed at the Norfolk Farm three short horns, fed at the Shaw Farm and a Hereford heifer, fed at the Flemish Farm, Windsor Park. The cattle were in splendid condition. During the transit, however, a fat heifer turned furious and brok- loose, gored one man severely, and knocked down several people.

THE NORTHERN POWERS AND TURKEY. A special telegram to tlie Pall Mall Gazette, dated Berlin Friday, «uyS :—Count Andrassy has now submitted to the Cabinet at St, Petersburg the proposal with the draughting or which lie waS entrusted by the three Northern Courts, enumerating the administrative reforms to which it is considered desirable the Turkish Government should pledge itself, and pointing out the guarantees which must be demanded on the part of the Powers. Baron Langenau, the Austrian Ambassa dor at St. Petersburg, has been the bearer of the proposal, the leading points of which were discussed by Princes Gortschakoff and Bismarck, the Austrian Ambassa dor at Berlin, Count Carolyj, (who had only just Lft Count Andrassy in order to return to Berlin), explain ing them to the Chancellors. The latter are reported to have expressed their approval in principle, and as soon as the preposal has been finally approved by the three Impe- rial Governments, it will be submitted by them to the ober Great Powers, with the iuvitation to join in its adoption.

THE CITY AND COUNTY BANK. At the Mansion House, London, yesterday, the directors of the City and County Bank (Limited), Messrs. Cox, God den, Hole, Marsh, Redmond, M.P., and Jones, and the manager, Mr. W. R. Crowe, again attended before Alder- man Sir Robert Carden, upon a summons at the instance of Mr. Charles O. Pulley, a farmer,in Essex, charging them with having, in January last, unlawfully made, circulated, and published,or concurred in making, circulating, and publish- ing, a certain written statement and account, namely, the prospectus and a report and balance-sheet of the bank, well knowing it to be false in certain material particulars, with intent thereby to induce Mr. Pulley and others tp take shares in the concern.—Mr. George Lewis, jun., solicitor, again conducted the prosecution the defendants were represented by Mr. Poland, Mr. Straight, Mr. Keoh, ami Mr. Edmund Thomas, barristers, and Mr. Plunkett, Mr. Lee, and Mr. Crook, solicitors.—Mr. Cooper, a partner in the firm of Messrs. Brown, Janson, and Co., bankers, who was examined at considerable length on the last occasion, was cross-examined. He said he had had experience in banking matters for about 15 years. The senior partners Were at Leeds,$Jr. Hauisor being one of them. Witness first became acquainted with the defendant Mr. Hole, in about April last. It was a mere accidental cil-cullistance that the entry of the loan of 215,00,0 appeared first in the ledger account. He was now aware that the bank obtained an advance from the Royal Bank of Scotland. He did not know what the amount of it was. The liquidator probably would. Mr. Redmond, M.P., did not join in giving promissory notes to guarantee the repayment of £2,000, Witness never saw Mr. Redmond in any of the affairs of the bank., He did not see the original prospectus before it was issued, to make any alteration in it. Ho dm not recollect having altered the prospectus. It was altered in the papers, and some of them were sent down to Leeds to be circulated there. By the alteration the words, Messrs. Brown, Janson, and Co. are authorised to receive subscriptions," were taken out, as they were o ijec ed to by the firm. On the 31st of December • ff P,ounty Bank was indebted to them, and i t TQn,,«. presented to them for £ 1,600on the ■n* A ilH rVi'i » a,,<* 110 had been made to them, n"A uaV? honoured their draft for that amount Ontheday the bank stopped payment his firm received cheque, on various banks for between £ 2,000 and £ 3,000 for Cr vv'That rhpv day the firm gave notice to Mr. +1 fa 1 fuiinrtni j° re''mn their draft as soon as t iey had found out they had much exceeded the amount they wei-e at liberty to draw. The li udt of credit was in. definite, aud i„ bad been a decrease limit for some time. Oa the Ihursday before the bank atopped, it had been", arranged that witness s firm were to have an equitable charge on the property of the company. Witness was the person who had mainly transacted business with the bitul, for his firm. A few days before the bank stopped Dav- ment, defendant, Mr. Jones, or Mr. Crowe used to co-ne and asked whether witness s firm was going to honoui their drafts any longer, and whether things were all right Against the loan of £ 15,000 jn June, 1874, and that of £ i0 400 i» December, bis firm held securities for more than the amount, but they had only been realised to the extent of £ S C00.—Mr. George Smeatli, a public accountant, de- posed' that the liabilities at the stoppage of the bank im till new were about £ S5.000, which included tlFe liability to the amount of £ 38,000 to Brown, Janson, a.n.1 Po the Royal Bank of bcotiaiia, ana some other nartiea The assets consisted of bills running, amounting to £ 51.600. There were loans to customers on securities £ 8,900; over orafts, £ 50,700 overdue acceptances, £ 2,300 an'J then there were »«'«•». o. house i»ro»ertv £ 3 5 )0. The office furniture and books sis,' aa.a- •»«II. The paid up capital of the bank was £ 30,700. llie bank stopped payment in May, 1875.-After some further orinal evidence had been given, it wns intimated tba- the cast _for the prosecution was occlude*, tut theia wUl be another J examination to complete the case.

Messrs. Rothschild iiave contributed 21,000towaxtis the establishment of a new West end Synagogue, The total amount subscribed ia now £ 4,000. The Rev. Angus Maciver, of Macdonald Free Church> has resigned hid appointment as a minister in the Fre Church of Scotland, having received a call from a congre- 8atiou of the Established Church. gatiou of the Established Church. The cab strike at Wolverhampton is considered virtually at an end. The watch committee have given way so far as to reconsider the request of the cabowners for an in- crease of the tariff to 1., per mile, on the condition that they will at once ranew their licences and return to duty. The Lato Times announces that the members of the North and South Wales circuit will celebrate the appaint- meut of their leader, Sir Hardinge Giffard, Q. C., to the Solicitor-Generalship by entertaining him at a dinner on the 11th instant. The directors of the Eastern and Eastern Extension Telegraph Companies have decided to call their share- holders together, on the 16th inat., to consider a proposal to duplicate their lines from Sum to Adea d. Bombay, and from 441-wi-P to Penani^

THE WAINWRIGHT TRIAL. The execution of Henry Wainwright has been fxed for Tuesday, the 28th of December. Henry Wainwright has requested an interview with bis brother, and the visiting justices have determined to permit it. Henry will there- I fore see Thomas before his removal to Pentonville Prison to undergo the first portion of the term of penal servi- tude. The Under-Sheriffs of London, Mr. Edgar Alexander Btylis and Mr. Henry Homewood Crawford, write as follows to the London papers Per- mit us through your columns to inform the public that, with the approval of the Lord Chief Justice of England, we have constituted ourselves honorary secretaries of a fund to be raised on behalf of Miss Willmore and the children of the unfortunate woman Harriet Lane, who have recently been so prominently and! painfully brought into public notice in connection with tb. Whitechapel murder, and who are ia great poverty. A list of the subscriptions already received will be published in the daily papers in the course of a few days, and further subscriptions can be either paid into The Willmore Fund" account at the London Joint-Stock Bank, Princes street; or will be gratefully received by the Under Sheriffs at the Old Bailey. The rumours which were prevalent before the trial of the two men charged with the murder of Harriet Lant. that they would change places on the trial—arose from a knowledge of the different characters of the men. Up to three or four years ago Henry Wainwright held a very high character in the estimation of his neighbours, and haying always taken an active part in politics on the side of the Conservatives he was able, even at the last election, to do the Conserva- tive cause in the Tower Hamlets practical good. He was a prominent speaker at the Beaumont Institution meet- ings on all public questions, and he was also a member of the East and West-end Musical and Elocution 10 Societies and it is remembered that one of his most frequent recitations in public was "Eugene Aram's Dream." For the last year or so he had become greatly lowered, and through neglect of business since the murder he was sometimes forced to the expedient of asking petty tradesmen to stand drink. The character of the brother Thomas was never high. He was apprenticed at an ironmonger's in Fleet-street, and his indentures, from his bad conduct and untrustworthiuess, were cancelled. He was recognised as a member of the Long Firm," and it was suspected that of late Henry had some dealings with those trading sharpers. Though Henry's wife and children were but poorly off it is an un- questionable fact that up to the 10th of September last he was paying sums of one or two sovereigns a week to a woman who had some claim upon him. S. D. S." writes to the Times I think most per- sons will agree that 230 is a very inadequate remuneration f)r tli i witness Stokes. Had the mutilated remains been f innd 2100 or E,200 would have been offered for the appre- hension of the murderer. Had it not been 'tor the conduct and energy of the man Stokes en the occasion of the re- mains being removed from Whitechapel to the Borough,' as the Lord Chief Justice expressed himself, probably the murder might never have b-en discovered." On the 30th October, 18G7, Henry Wainwright delivered a lecture in the old building of the Leeds Mechanics' Institution and Literary Society, on The wit and cogent: icities of Sydney Smith." The following is the svdabus ".Early life and habits. Goes to Salisbury Plain. Makes friends with the squire, who takes a great fancy to him. Journey to Scotland-finds they do everything (even make love) metaphysioally. Our hero marries. Founds the Edinburgh Review. The Court of Chancery humorously depicted. The enslaved state of Englishmen and their escape. The" feelings which guided Sydney Smith through life—energy, good humour, and self-reliance. Peter Plymley's letters to his brother Abraham, who lived in the country. The conduct of Mrs. Partington on the occasion. His great popularity. Decision of character. Starts for Yorkshire—character of the peasantry and specimens of his neighbours. How long a joke lasts in the country. Sydney Smith's butler ('Bunch'). His u niveraal scratcher and lobster sauce. A very nice person. Burlesque of Sir James M'latosh. His weekly suppers. A few wittioisms. Conclusion." The protracted nature of the proceedings at the Central Criminal Court in the trial of the Wainwrights for the murder of Harriet Louisa Lane renders it impossible for us to give in this week's impression a scientific review of this remarkable case. In the mutilation of the body, it resembles the case ef the woman Brown, for the murder of whom a man named Greenacre was tried and convicted in 1837. On this occasion the body of the murdered woman was cut into three portions-the head was found at Paddiugton, the trunk in the east of London, and thp lirnbq, six weeks afterwards, in the district of Camberwell. The identity of the body was clearly made out in spite of this attempt to defeat justice. In the Wainwright case the evidence shews that an attempt had been malle to dispose of the body by burying it under the floor of a room, a quantity of chloride of lime being thrown over it and freely mixed with the earth of the grave. This was the mode in which the Mannings, husband and wife, disposed of the body of a man named O'Connor,and of whose murder iqjq were co^'i'ted at the Central Criminal Court in 1849. These criminals used oil of vitriol and unslaked lime in burying th,3 body, with a view of causing rapid decomposi- tion. According to the evidence given in the Wainwright case, a large quantity of chloride of lime was used, for the purpose, as it is suggested, of destroying the smell likely to arise from the putrefying remains and con- cealing the crime. The attempt thus made to conceal an atrocious act of murder has signally failed. Assuming the correctness of the general and circumstantial evi- dence laid before the court during the last week, this crime has been accompanied by circumstances which only find a parallel in the former proceedings of the Ttiugs in India, so well described by Captain Meadows Taylor. The unsuspecting viotim, while feeding with the assassins one on each side of him, was within a short distance of the grave in which his body was to be laid. The digging of the grave went on while he was engaged in friendly converse with his hospitable murderers! According to the evidence adduced for the prosecution in the case of the Wainwrights, the grave had been de- liberately prepared for the victim, and the chloride of lime had been already purchased as an aid to concealment. The medical evidence presents a number of important features which are likely to render this a leading case in medical jurisprudence. We reserve our comments on this evidence until next week. -British Medical Journal. A write; in the Globe thus describes an interview with Miss Willmore I found quite a party assembled in Miss Willinore's neat little parlour at Stratford—three ladies, including herself, and four children. A fair- haired little girl with soft blue eyes, and a sturdy two year old, with sandy locks and a tendency to rioting, were introduced to me as Beatrice and Miriam. Here Miss Willmore came to a stop for a moment. Wainwright I was going to say, but now, of course, they're Lane." Taking flaxen-curled Beatrice on my I.,p and giving the obstreperous Miriam my watch to play with—I made known the purpose of my visit. Miss Willmore had no objection in the world to teil all she knew; had not the gentlemen in the court interfered, she would have done so there and then, We presently fell a chatting. Piecemeal, by fitsand starts, poor caruworn Mils Willmore communicated to me the fol- lowing details, with full permission for publication. What she wished to state in court was that Harriet Lane, before leaving her house, had stated that she was going to Henry Waiu wright's residence in the Whitechapel-road. The unfortunate woman appeared in the highest spirits both then and for some time previously, and always sooke of Wainwright in the warmest terms of affection. On one occasion a chance conversation cropped up between her lond Miss Willmore on the subject of the supposed Mr. Frieake's attentions. Miss Willmore, after expatiating on the merits of matrimony, asked whether her friend cared sufficiently for this gentleman to beeome his wife. Harriet Lane at once answered that she did not Mr. Frieake was very kind-hearted, but 11 nothing on ettrth should ever part her from Henry." Of course, the Mr. Frieake here spoken of must have been Thomas Wainwright. Mis* Willmore never knew the latter by his own name. Here is a copy of a state- ment written by herself spontaneously, to set at rest doubts on that and one or two other important points :— co E. Willmore begs to contradict certain rumours respecting Thomas Wainwright. She never knew such a person existed until he was arrested after the commence- ment of the trial. When Harriet Lane left 3, Sidney- square. the said she was going to 215, White- chapel-road, the warehouse of Mr. Henry Wain- wright." Judging from what fell from my informant, I should infer that the murdered woman was pas- sionately attached to Henry Wainwright up to the very l*'t. On one or two occasions she certainly let drop words interpreted by Miss Willmore as expressing a fear that he would cast her off. These appear, however, to have been but vague alarms, bis general conduct leaving nothing wanting as regards kindness and considera- tion. He was also most prompt in paying for the maintenance of the ohildren until he fell into difficulties, in last June. Then the payments stopped, and from that i irUut* Miss Willmore received only a few s nliings from him. While on this part of the subject, it seems rigtt to mention that some £ 15 odd is still due to iss Willmore for her car* and maintenance of the little nes dunng those three months. Subsequently she re- ceived. assistance from several quarters, and very grateful she is to these good Samaritans. But the debt for that quarter still remnins outstanding a heavy loss to one in narrow circumstances. She neither complains 01 this, however, nor hopes to receive the money. Broken- down and hysterical as she may be at present-no wonder after VI hll she has gone through—Miss Willmore has a very proper pride, that shewed itself in more ways than one during my visit. On one of the ladies mentioning certain details of the straits to which she had been driven to keep the children alive, she expressed a timid hope that I would not mention the particulars. Suffice it to say that but for family help, the crucial time would not have been tided over. The appealanee of the two little girls proves that, however their protector may have been pinched, they were never allowed to want for anything. Plump, clean,merry, and neatly dressed, these poor bairns frolicked about the room, evidently in the best of health and spirits. Not on them yet rests a shadow of their mother's dishonour or their father's crime. Sitting on my knee, and trying in vain to fix my eye-glass in her eye, Beatrice was full of the grand doings they bad on Guy Fawkes was full of the grand doings they ba4 on Guy Fawkes OU. ,( ReioltireworkAJollkuow. lantba -.e.wt and a bonnre, and then—we bang Gay. A very charming child, this sunny-haired ughter of a murderer so charming that several offers of adoption have already been made to the kindly woman whom the and her sister call nr&mma." But MissWillmore is of opinion that the two children should always live together, aud she therefore refuses to part with Beatrice unless the less prepossessing Miriam is taken with her. That this difficulty will be in some way surmounted I make no question. Putting aside the extreme injustice of allowing their voluntary guardian to remain burdened with their maintenance, and dismissing the idea of the Union — Miss WiUmire resented that notion as if I had suggested poison it is the duty of society to see that tliess poor little innocents are at once cut off from everything connecting their names with shame and crime. If my expedition to Stratford in a snow storm has none other effect than this, the freak, as aome may imagine it, wiil not be without good re- suits. But I entertain faint hope that somo of the scant information I extracted from scared Miss Willmore may serve to remove erroneous impressions. P.S.—Ihe above was written before the appeal from the Under Sheriffs came under my notice. I trust that what I have said may have some influence, however slight, in promoting the good work taken in hand by these gentlemen, with the approval of t&e Lord Chief Justice.

TWO WATERLOO WARRIORS. There has just died at Hoxton, London, at the ad. vanced age of 90 years, Richard Franeis, who had aerved in the British navy under Lord Nelson at fhe battle of Trafalgar, and also under Wellington at Waterloo. He had disqualified himself by desertion from receiving a life pension, and he and his wife—who is 66 yearB old — were in receipt of relief from the Hackney union. His re- mains were interred at the cost of the parish. William Clark, 74 years of age, has been admit- ted into the Hackney Union Infirmary. He had served in the 3rd Buffs, and was wounded at Quatre Bras, Ligny, ard Waterloo, afterwards joining the Royal Marines, in which he became a sergeant-major. He went through the Spanish war, and was badly wounded and pensioned off with 21s. weekly. Being found in the act of drilling some Chartists, his pension was struck off, and he has since obtained a precarious livelihood, Both Clark and his wife are now in the Union Infirmary.

THE MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT. The Merchant Shipping Act, 1875. section 4, paragraph 4, repealing section 11 of Merchant Shipping Act, 1871, says The owner of every British ship shall from time to time register at the Custom House of the port in the United Kingdom at which such ship is registered, the name of the managing owner of such ship, and if there be no manag- ing owner, then of the person to whom the management of the ship is entrusted by or on behalf of the owner, and in case the owner fail or neglect to register the name of such managing owner or manager as aforesaid he shall be liable, or, if there be more owners than one, each owner shall be liable in proportion to his interest in the ship, to a penalty not exceeding in the whole £500 each time that the said ship leaves Itny port in the United Kingdom, after the 1st day of November, without the name being duly registered as aforesaid." The Board of Trade have just issued a notice to owners and masters of ships that the penalty will be enforced.

PARIS WINTER FASHIONS. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph states that the Paris winter fashions are beginning to make their appearance. It cannot be said that they shew much novelty of conception on the part of the celebrated lady- tailors or man-milliners who lay down the law in such matters. Dark green and grey, with check patterns, are the favourite shades for dresses. These are worn both in and out of doors much longer than last year the skirt, flat in front, grazes the ground at the sides, and runs off in a long narrow peak, tr;,i:iug.IL f-,ill i ard on the ground. Bonnets have never been xodevoid of character, and consequently less worth describing. All that can be said about them is that those which deserve the name of bonnets are worn very high, and that, with the big feather which usually adorns them, they put one in mind of a French fireman's helmet. As a set- off to these unsightly productions, Parisian ladies are made to wear small hats as low and flat on the head as the bonnets are high and heavy. These hats are generally the shape of a soup plate, and sometimes assume the form of a mushroom. They are trimmed with birds or birds' wings. Very young ladies can wear these without absurdity, although such light wear does not seem very suited to the inclement weather from which we have been suffering for the last fortnight. But middle- aged ladies are told it is the fashion, and they do not scruple to add to their mature appearance by don- ning this youthful headdress. With long skirts, high- heeled boots are more the rage than ever. As for gloves, they are slowly but surely getting to what they used to be under the First Empire. No Parisienne who can afford to bid la mode goes about without imprisoning her hands in gloves which reach half-way up to the elbow. When she goes to the theatre the gauntlet is much longer, and only lust allows the joint of the elbow to be seen. The reason for arms being put in this kind of strait-waistcoat is probably that the sleeves of the tunic are made loose, and expose the arm farther up than hitherto. Englishmen will he glad to hear that false hair is going out of fashion, at least wherever Jiature has nofc been too spanng of her favours. The hair i. now worn plaited and twisted in wreaths round the head, or brushed sharply away from the temples, and arranged in artistio ringlets at the back of the neck. Whenever a more complicated style of coiffure is insisted on by an artiste capillaire, as Parisian hair- dressers now call themselves, a pad made of fine silk thread, dyed to match tlie shade of the bair, is the substitute for the unpleasant chignon. Those becoming belts, from which hang Jh.l'ge wooden fans with artistic designs in colour on the left corner, are still very popular. But this ornament, like many of its pre- decessors, will hardly continue to be fashion- able now that it can be obtained so cheaply. Watch-chains for ladies have been quite discarded. The chronometer is now made hit to the belt by means of a small chain and clasp. I had nearly forgotten to mention the only real novelty which this early winter has suggested to couturieres. The cloak lined with fur, which was so commonly worn last season, « « J. c T4. k~. Has Undergone a complete LI»U»IUIUJIHUUU. X» AI" UWU turned inside out. The lining is made of white, pink. or blue satin the fur Is set off by trimmings of the same colour as the lining and by the enamel or metal clasp which fastens the cloak under the neck. Nothing can be more graceful and more generally becoming than this new garment. The poorest fur pelisse worn in this way has a rich genial apptarance, while those who can buy good fur insufficient quantity to make one of these immensely wide cloaks might easily pass themselves off as prinoesses. A real princess, who was on her way through to Nice the other day, the Princess Dolgorouky, wore a pelisse made entirely ef ermine, studded allover with diamonds set in turquoises. The cloaks which are to be seen every after- noon iu the Bois, on the fair shoulders of the Princesse de Sag an, Madame de Talleyrand, and Alsclame de Roths- child, represent each, in fur alone, a value of £ 4,000 sterling.

MANCHESTER CHURCHMAN SHIP. A correspondent of a contemporary writes i—" It mKf not be well known that mare than sixty gentle* «f KM. cheater have guaranteed the present energetic Biahep glo,000 a piece, to be paid in ten years, for Chureh put. poses.' I pre%;hed there myself during the last Month, In the morning, i.t a church built by a nobleman, at a east of more than M,000, and in the evening where a Man- chester man' had expended £ 30,006 on a church, par- sonage, and schoo, in the most densely populated part of the city. The reproach that the Church had never in- eluded the manufacturing populations is, we =ay tgv*, being fast wiped out."

ESCAPE OF A LUNATIC. A man named Hugh Laurie, who has been an inmate at Larbert Asylum, made his escape in a eomewfeai i. manner, and appeared unexpectedly in the midst ef his family at Tillicoultry. A pane of glass in the apart- ment where he had been confined was newly put in by glaziers during the day, and Laurie, conceiving that an excellent opportunity for escaping had presented itself, removed at dusk the still soft putty and glass, mg got out through the window. He then carefully replaced the glass in its former position, and, clambering over the high wall, made for home with all despatch. He wu returned to his old quarters, where the officials were at a loss to account for the manner in which he had effected his escape, till he himself, with much evident satisfaction at his own aeutenes*, volunteered an explanation.

ALTERING CHEQUES. At the Manchester Assizes, three men, named FredqcielC Whitby, John Clarke, and Henry Harrison, have been con- victed of forgery. The prisoners, along witn a woman who turned Queen's evidence, went to Manchester from London and altered a cheque from F,3 to OW, but the fraud was detected, and they were apprehended. After the pri- lonets bad been found guilty the prosecuting coujwel instanced a number of cases in which Whitbv had been concerned in the alteration of cheques, by whicu means several banks had been defrauded. In one can the Cheque Bank in London had been swindled out of £ 1,000 by Whitby by the alteration of a cheque from UOO to 91.400. It was further stated that for 15 year* Whitby and his confederates had been the terror of &nkf and the Post Office. Whitby was sentenced to ead and the other two prisoners to seven years PfBU act- vitude.

ITEMS OF GENERAL NEWS. The Mansion House Inundation Relief Faid now womp to over 214,000. The Great West- Railway Company haw beau Inti, at Bristol. JE20, for not disinfecting cattle trucks, Mr. Bryan, M.P.¡ has been seriously ill for soma days at the Sbelbourne Hotel, Dublin, but is much better. The weather is so severe in the North of Spain thaa as officer in the Royal Army is reported to have beea hum to death. At Bristol, George and Matilcla Young. the kaepars of a private house, have been fined £50 for having eold spirit* without a licence. The collection of Mr. Wyan Ellis, said to bays bow bequeathed to the nation, is especially rich in ths works of the Dutch masters. A body of workmen engaged is excavations discovered .he skeletons of four or five persons in tjembttd etreet, Bouverie-street, London, At Leeds, a knife-grinder named William Smedley has been sentenced to death for the murder of a woman with whom he bad been living. Experiments with the eighty-ton gun will be resumed at Woolwich next week. The cost of firing the gu&i* stated to be M each time. The Duchess of Manchester is reported to be progressing favourably her arm, which was found to be broken fit two places, having been Bet. The expenses incurred by Mr. T. Thornhill, Jun., ILIP., in securing his unopposed return for Weat Suffolk In tober were M. In this total agency figures for BM The death is announced in London, from typhoid fever, of Mrs. Charles M. Palmer, the wife of the member fat the Northern Division of the countyof Durham. Professor Hunter's work on Roman law will describe the rise, growth, and ultimate development of Roman law. fs4 make what may be regarded as the first real attMSipt to codify that law. The Daily Telegraph?t Berlin correspondent states that the action of England in regard to the Suez Canal ia full* approved by the Northern Powers, as is also the EngUtO policy in the East. A marriage is arranged between Visoount Btonfozd, eldest son of the Earl of Courtown, and the Hon. Caioena# Neville, eldest daughter of the late, and niece of the present, Lord Braybrooke. The Earl of Kiml-eriey hs* declined to act as upon the South Wales Conciliation Board. It is stated that Dean Bagot, after nearly feirET4iot years in the ministry, has compounded, and consequently resigns the vicarage of Newry and the Deanery of Dromore. By the Irish Church Act ha retains for life the title precedence of dean. It is understood, says the Manchester Guardian, that Mr. Valentine Baker has been lately employed in writing his personal experiences of the Russian campaign a Khiva, and that the narrative will be shortly published kf Messrs. Chatto and Windus, of Piccadilly. The late Mr. Wynn Ellis has bequeathed a legaey of k2,000, free of duty, to the British Asylum for Deaf tad Dumb Females, Lower Clapton a secoud legacy of at same amount to the Metropolitan Free Hongtal and third to the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society. A dreadful occurrence has taken place near JOBW borough, county Armagh. Two men, who were both drunk, quarrelled, and one of them, named Kelly, knocked the other, M'Caher, into the fire, burning him is a shock- ing manner. The injured person's depositions un boo taken. At Edinburgh, sixty days' imprisonment has Us" awarded to a young man, named Burn., who went home the worse for liquor, became riotous, and attacked hif mother, striking ber several blows on the head and faoa with his fists, knocking her head against a wall,and other* wise ill-using her. At Bristol, a publican named Pearce has been fined £5 for assaulting his servant. He bad told a eustomeff to drench her with a mixture of eggs, ink, and ashes, because she had resented some liberties taken with her by some men. It was shewn that her muter had also h.. her down and kicked her. The Princess of Wales will, it is understood, return ia 1 Windsor Castle next week, on a visit to the Qum, pre* J. vious to her departure for Copenhagen, where it is the 1%» tention of her Royal Highness to spend the Christmas with her parents. The Princess is expected, according to the latest arrangements, to laave London about the 15tti inst. for Denmark. The National ZeituM§ says that the effort to ereaH a feeling in Kussia against the Suez Canal purchase hu proved a failure, and it adds that a. glance over Ifarppa shews that the transaction is received iu a ganecaliy friendly spirit. Lord Odo Russell has had two interviews here with Prince Gortschakoff,and it is assumed that if t8- assuring explanations were necessary he wu able to give them. 1 Th; katter of the Bolls has granted an ord to sommok I the Rqv. W. Simcox Brieknell, ALA., vioar of XyoshMts r Oxfordshire, for contempt of court. It appeared that ho had been ordered to render an account of the income sea expenditure of the Eynsliam Charities. The amounts to between £ 300 and £ 400 a-year. Mr. Brickjutf! furnished an aecount of the iucome, but refused l» gt«« i any account of the expenditure. 1 The Biahop of Ripon, presiding at a meeting of CIa" men held at Loeds, pointed out the urgent noossriiy jW } Church extension in that town. At least 15 new churahtf were required to meet the wants of the increasing ptpsUi < won, an4 for this purpose £ 100,000 would be necessary. A resolution, affirming the desirability of further Cnui«h extension, was carried, and first subscriptions were N- ported amounting to between 930,000 and £ 40,000. It vol resolved to erect at least two memorial ehurches to ) late Dr. Hook. f Yesterday a shocking accident happened to Mra EJBIJS -i Anne Whitmore, 32, who resides in the Dartmouth roa4t Hammersmith, whieh, it is feared, will prove fatal. It ap- peared she was reaching something from the maatisshefe when her dress came against the bars of the grate, and caught fire. Her screams brought assistance, sjid OW flames were extinguished, but there is little hope of her lito covery.—Another accident occurred to Sophia Bell, aged six years, living in Little George-street, WeatmlDlter. The deceased got playing with the tire, bn her clothes be- came ignited, and such injuries were inilieud that she died on her admission to Westminster Hospital. THE WLATMM. -Friday. -The barometer has SOM- tinued to fall at all the southern stations tb8 t changes have been very slight and northern sta- tions, excepting Christiansund, but at the irregular. The highest readings are reported from the wapt ef Ireland, and moderate gradients for northerly winds prevail over the United K^pgdom generally, as nj) as in Franee, whije those in the Netherlands are slight foe easterly winds. Temperature bas risen a. few degress In Scotland, but has not changed much in other places. It is still very low in the north east of France. Light to moderate westerly winds prevail generally over the British Isles and France, but on the eastern shores of the North Sea the wind is easterly, and in the west of Norway south- easterly. Suow has fallen, more or less, in most puts of the kingdom, as well as in Belgium and some parts oi Franee. In the east and north of England the nil fan beep heavy. The sky remains very cloudy, and mow still falls on our south cooct, Xhe saa is moderat* to «

WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will, dated October 17, 1874, of Mr. William John Blake, late of Danesbury, near Welwyn, Hertfordshire, who died oa September 15 last, was proved on the 18th nit-, by Henry Wollaston Blake, the brother, George Robert Martin, and Randolph Alexander Hankey, the nephew, the executors, the personal estate being sworn under 2140,000. The will, dated July 8,1873, of Sir George Essex Honyman, Bart., one of the justices of the Court of Common Pleas, late of Park Cottage, Lee, Kent, who died on September 16 last, at Tunbridge Wells, was proved on the 20th ult., by tie Rev. Sir William Macdonald Hony. man, the brother, and Herbert Riversdale Mansel Jones,"the executors, the personal estate being sworn under £ 60,000. —The will, dated March 3, 1873, of Mr." James George Tayler, late of No. 23, Norfolk crescent, Hyde-park, who died on October 23 last at Brighton, was proved on the 9th ult. by William James Tayler, the brother, Henry Rutter, and James Alexander Tayler, the son, the execu- tors, the personal estate being sworn under £ 60,000. The will, dated February 22ud last, of Mr. Thoml.8 Ville- lieuve Jean, formeily Assistant Colonial Treasurer of Tasmania, and late of No. 28, Oxford-terrace, Paddington, was proved on the 6th ult., by the Rev. William Nash, William Villeneuve Gregory, and Philip Spencer Gregory, nephews of the deceased, the executors, the personal estate in England. being sworn under £ 35,000. —The will of Mr. John Charles Corner Gamble, formerly of Dacre terrace, Lee, Blackheath, and late of Manor Way, Kidbrooke, Kent, has been proved under C25,000.- The wills of the following persons have just been proved, viz.:—Mrs. Ann Price, of Stoke Newington, under £ 3,000; Mr. Richard Wyatt Edge'l, late of Lympstone, Devonshire, under £ 3,000 Mr. William Gordon Young, formerly of No. 73, Gloucester-place, and late of No. 1, Norfolk-crescent, Hyde-park, under 910,000; and Mr, Francis Samuel Daniel Tyssen, late of Castle House, Sandgate, Kent, under 96,000.-rllusti-ated London Hews.

An inquest has been held in Dublin on the body of a man named Mason, who died there in consequence of in- juries whiwh he received by being drawn into the machi- nery at Roe's Distillery, where he was employed. Almost every bone in his body was crushed. A verdict of acci- dental death was returned. Richard Charlton has been sentenced to death at New- castle-on-Tyne, for the wilful murder of his wife. Owing to a taniily dispute, it appeared, deceued had left her husband, and was residing with her sisters. Irritated. her refusal to return to him, prisoner went to the house where she was living, a.nd shot the unfortunate woman. He also shot two of her sisters, one of whom has since died. He then attempted his own life, and in consequence of self-inflicted injuries he was unable to appear at the last a'sizett- The London Common Council have af reed to a report recommending the supply of a suitable service of china and class, at a cost not exceeding one thnusand Bounds.for 1 use at the M^usioa Fouse, 1