South Wales Daily News

SPIRIT OF THE DAILY PRESS. ARMY MOBILISATION AND ORGANISATION. The promulgation of the plan which hs been framed under the direction of the Fi«ld-Marshal C ommanding-ii;- Chief for the mobilisation of the armed forces of the country marks, the Times considers, tho commencement of a fresh epoch in our military history. The schcme k. been drawn up so as to take the utmost llclvantag-e of even- circumstance favourable for the dtfllce of the realm in case the command of the Channel should temporally slip from our grasp, and an enemy threpten to invade our island. Yet even this is not the most important feature of the arrangement which will be published in the furthcoming editiou of the Army List. Ifclias been more wisely determined to define not only the mobilisation but also the org-ani a- tion of our forces. The scheme is based upon defensive requirements, but is also adapted to facilitate offensive warfare. While a few telegrams w,-tilcl place in the field more than 290,000 men for the protection of the country, at least 40,000 of these could be within a few hours col- lected, fully equipped for foieign service, and ready to sail. Not the least difficulty connected with the practical working of the plan of mobilisation will be the preparation in peace of means by which a sufficient number or horses can be obtained immediately the occasion arises. In othe. respects the proposed organisation appears to be eminently satisfactory, and to have been worked out with equal caiv in (letail as witil judgment in regard to broad principles. When its provisions have been thoroughly established aI" are understood, a carefully-prepared force of nearly 300,000 men will be available within a few days as a held army for the defence of the country. GENERAL MEANING OF THE SCHEME. A plan for mobilisation simply means, says the Dailil Telegraph, a set of orders directing what shall be done providing events should compel the Government to place an armed force on a, footing available for active war. What has been clone is wholly piecauiionary, and fur- nishes a series of detailed directions which must he fol- lowed when the ocoasion arrives. If we may trust pub- lished sketches of Mr. Hardy's scheme, the whole available armed force in the realm will be, for the first time, united in a comprehensive framework, while the parts, down to tue weakest auxiliary battalion, will have special functions assigned to them. Obviously, however, ?, hi £ h standard of military cih- y, e British army, even thus potentially biA^vipHVyfip+r i a large degree imperfect. We n^arfillprv anrtm0 .mea e,10"gh nor the duo complement ei'liarv hut s, sti!lless have we sufficient sub- rl'rfnh'fi The form eight solid corps d a, nice. The place assigned to the volunteers is probably judicious, regard being had to the pecull ^condH under which they serve but if, mm, vL i 11 V 1< the knowledge that they are tobe i>nt f f entrenchments will not damp the ardenu- STSi pursue their adopted proiession. Still the demerits of Mr. Hardy's laboursXvS ei' may '1' by the fact that he has carried a ,tage t„kof weMing the hetaog,SI? into one piece, and has, so far, taken E0 needless cautions against the evils which, in our nr-e T" would f/ilow on a sadden demand for a great ^affinal exertion. THE VALUE OF THE ARRANGEMENT. The value of the isc.ieme as a whole denerd* +1,0 dard points out, upon whether it8 proposals crm be Jn%d out. lyow, the i7 battalions of infantry 011 hnmn' are to be brought up to a war strength (.f rier lv P i r'"il ranks i.e., 84,500 men. AVe hLl y 1,100 of a11 about 59,000 of all ranks From these we mult'deduct' a small number for brigade depots, say ] 500 • ,^1" a b utalion for sick and recruit,, saylsOTmcn ? L n so? absent, dftficiences in the establishment «av' 1 no-) These deductions amount to 4,000 called ahigh estimate. Tnere remain,then', 55,000 of all To these may be added say 5,000 army reserve—w« ™ i not reckon on more, '/0,800 miiitia i-e«ewe and 9nn 1 pay officers. These additions would bring up our f, f rtrv to 90,000 efiectives, whereas we only SJ s Jn; »"r:Ttuk™24"lnurhW strength by taking Z4,.)Uu o. the best of the mi'it.ia r.-»i ments, which are also treated as field troops. SimiWiv with the cav.ilry, according to the scheme <hn <!0H r,„„, *ould „c»riy 28,000 RU incS'LS'a the yeomanry, and making no deductions for'reelft? deficiencies in the establishment, absent, &c„ we could nT t get that nuinoer, leaving nothing but voluntc'er cava VtvJ the garrison snd localfprces and making „„ provision for 1 11 military police, of wuich ti'eie are to be 300 men and ''GO horses per corps a arniee. Ihe case of the artillevy is even "worse, for we have only liau tue number of field batterr« required, and those on a peace establish merit. SimiLu. marks may be made with resptcf. to the t ngineer, trans- jiort, ami adimnistiative services. In short, the scheuie with that which we do not porssesH; and unlpSa measures be adopted to 00tain a laige increase to our trained men, the ingenious document drawn up by the Iu. teliigenci) Department will be but a delusion aud a snare. THE POSITION OF THE GUARDS. The authorities have provided us at last with a very S8n_ sible scheme, so far as paper can make H, the lJaily ob- serves of army mobilisation. While the strategic dis- Tvnifcion of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th corps will probably riinmead itself to all fa r critics, tiiere will be many nninions as to the distribution selected for the troops that mike them up. Putting the volunteer question out of St for the moment, the measure cannot but he chal- lenged which assigns regulrr, enough to ft.x up the wholo 1st rori)* but gives tho 2nd omy two divisions, or two-thirds of their arm, whilst allowing the guards divi- sion to go into the 3rd. If it he really necesswy to be at least able tc semi two corps beyond oui shoies temporarily as part of a national scheme *or i-eieiice,, and^ tbesa of course composed of regulars, then the 0 i, <nd a very easy one, would be to place the guards with .he two line divisions in the 2nd corps, thus making it as complete for foreign service as the 1st, and to leave the oul corys to be made up almost wholly of niUitfa-, ns regards ifcs in- fantry; this being avowedly adopted vitii tho reinainuig five, as not being intended to go abroad under tiny possinlo circum-tanees. The official arrangement sanctioned ap- pears purposely designed to keep the iirst two corps in- complete, rather than give the guards any chance at all of foreign service. We cannot believe that such an invidious distinction would, in the day of national struggle, be de- sired by those excellent soldiers. IS THE AFFAIR REAL OR IMAGINARY? Nothing, the Morning Advertiser remarks, can be mora entirely laudable—on paper. To mobilise an army is not an eaej' task ai any time but it becoiyes inoie dijEcidt when there is no army to mobilise. And it iapalfcoriiig in a double sense—keeping the word of piomiso to the ear and breaking it to the hop?—to gi I, UYI a p!ij>erscheme for moyiux ^koletou IWU". ins.i.e"1 of a hioiuiiy uoxiceivdd -=- ami patriotically_ vigorous mei^tire for obtaining the numbers of trained lr.en that are necessary in older to place tUis country in a. perfect state of security. Ye^ "s this is the day of small things"—as the only army we yet possess is com- posed of Cardwell's men "—as we have, we believe, not one single regiment up to its minimum establishment—aa the militia, for want of sufficient training and of opportu- uities for learning how to use the rifles served out to them. are at this moment a practically useless incumbrance, it seems quite fitting that we should be thankful for having the cart before the hoise—for anything, indeed, that helps to get us free from the dead-Jock of the Cllrdinal article of the bureaucratic creed Whatever is, is right." Yet we trust this is not the maonam opus over which the War Office has been knowt, ti, b,, travail; for months past; and after Mr. Gathorne Hardy's declaration during the discussions on the Army Estimates in the House of Commons, we cannot but look for much more at his hands than a completion of hi* predecessor's depot-centre system—for this is really all that this mcbilisation IS. THE HERZEGOVINA INSURRECTION. What means wil be adopted, the Hour t bsnrves, to secure an early aud peaceful settlement we cannot even guess The independence of the Herzegovina, or even of the Herzegovina and Bosnia rolled into one, is an absur- dity. They have 110 trade, 110 commerce, no outlet for their produce aud they would begin tighting the moment their independence was secured and the Turkish gariisou withdrawn. Itoumunia is a State cf some years' standing, has g,)t a big army) a large dbt, and builds its own run- ways. But what strides towards a r»al nationality have the Wallachs and Moldavs made, and how much of the .Lll.g business of the country is transacted by un ti ve iu comparison with that carried on by the foreign Greeks and Jews, who are the kings of all its markets, all its finance, and all its t,p,(-Ie ?TIie solution. we fancy, must be a less heroic one. But it ca.11 be brought b';c- about if the three Powers :\r,e in earnest, and if they ready desire a peaceful settlement. But the primary condition of toe kottlen'ient must bo the stoppage of hostilities, or at a<!y rate the prevention of the sprend of the movement; and fur this object we can hardly see how the intervention of Austria is to be avoided. In a matter where all Europe is interested it cannot be tolerated that the rivalry of Mou- tenegro and Servia or the martial ardour of their respective populations shall set the Continent in a. blaze. POSITION OF THE EASTERN QUESTION. It may be taken for granted, the Morning Post believes, that the solution of the Eastern Question is not dreamed oi for the present. Russia is not ready for it, for internal reasons would make it hazardous to.- her to occupy Constantinople now and her army is not yet in good con- dition for piosecuting an aggressive war, wliiie her Black Sea navy is; only in its infancy. Austria finds the danger and inconvenience of stirriug up political hopes and ideas among her own and heterceneous subjects, Germany cumot with see liubsia put the key of the passage to the East in her pocket. Germany, moreover, 1ms to pay Russia nil for the interference of last spring, and if Uussia did de sigu to move seriously and active y in the liasttiin Ques- tion, Germany might be expected in her turn to say no. France is absorbed by home politics, and is watching and is by pvepaiing against Germany, and, besides, has ceased to take much interest in the affairs of the East. Hence, on the whole, it seems more than probable that, owiug to the divisions, the jealousies, the incompatibility of interests, the weakness and the aims of those who would have to do with the setilin" of the Eastern Question, that question will of necessity be shelved for a further period, and un- til the of other pending questions may permit of the solution of what now is insoluble. RAILWAYS AKD THIRD-CLASS PASSENGERS. At the present moment, the Morning Echo^ contends, a third-class passenger is scarcely treated as if he were a. human being at a11, and yet it is by thiid-class fle that the companies make their profits. On some lines he is put into a vehicle which differs only from a cattle tiuek ill that it has seats a carriage seldom clean, rarely ventilated in Rummer, and never by any chance warm in winter. The consequence is that delicate people who are not rich enough to go fjl"t or second class cannot really take long journeys m winter at all, and the fares which they would have paid are a dead loss to the companies, which, through their own neg- lect, fail to pocket them. Bow is it, we often wonder, that railway companies are, comparatively speauiug, o blind to tlicir own advantage? It would surely be their policy to make travelling not merely possible but easy. Tiiere is 110 reason that we know of WilY a nde In It rail- way cairiage should not lie a pleasure instead of an ordeal more or less unpleasant to be gone through 111 order tnat one may reach some place to which oue is bound to go. At present tho railway companies are. content to seil ttie mere necessaries of travelling let them tiuce to selling the 1 juries also, and tlioy as well as the public Will soon Ceap the benefit of the chamte

THE UNITEI) STATES PREPARATIONS r FOR WAR. The American papers of ths 24tU, referring to the acti- vity of the United States navy yards and the manning of the fleet, explain that a. controversy of great magnitude r« epectiiig the Canadian fisheries has arisen between the two countries. The Canadians are said to have ma da indirect claims concerning tIle American incursions lllto Canadian waters equal to the sum paid by England for the Alabama depredations. The Americans refuse to recognise such a claim, and of late it is said that the tone of the British Minister at Washington on this question has been peremptory, snd the preparations in tht navy yards are being made to meet eventualities in this direction. The New York Herald remarks There is reason to b- lieve that the English Govemment filJdilJ our Government wholly indisposed to proceed to the adjudication of tho a wa rd. 1« as ad op tgd a. firmer tone, and indicated its intention of pressing its demand. It is plain that they have obtained a very great advantage over us, and they do not propose to losa this advantage by the dilatoriness of our Government. In fact, the English have completely turned the tables upon oar Government, and whereas we completely defeated thorn at Geneva they have now obtained an advantage in diplomacy quite IIS great as we had over them at Geneva, A survey of what is doing at the different yards and ports shews that it is not an offensive war against tome other powers, but a strong defensive position which our government is assuming. The apparent eoncentiation of naval forces south of New York may be only a clever ruse to throw suspicion off tha real intention of the Governiv-lit, but in concentrating Iffrgo fleet of ironclads at Norfolk and Fortress Moarbe tho Government is 011I3 taking the most proper course to defend the Chesapeake Bay and the capital, which in tho I last war with England nrovèd to be our most vulnerably point."

FUNERAITOF MDLLE. DEJAZET. The Drily mv;s Paris correspondent sends the following account of the funeral of Mdlle. Dejazet, which took place on Saturday Poor Dejazet'a funeral to-day was a great Parisian sight. The subscription got up by the Gaviois did not give her a cortege such as Prince Stirbey's munificeiico provided for Carpeaux. There were only two, r.ot four, horses to the hearse, no out- riders, and tho black hangings in front of the Trinito ) Church, bearing the letter D, were of a modest character. But the crowds assembled on the occasion were extra- ordinary. Perhaps 2,000 people followed the coffin from the remote Belleville district, Etie Clavel, No. 23, where the popular actress died, along the Rues Puebh, Lafajette, aud Chateaudun. Bub in the I' precincts of the church, the crowd swelled to an enormous extent. I have heard the numbers variously estimated at from 100,000 to 200,000. Notwithstanding the intense cold, the windows in all the streets near tho church were opened to enable inhabit.anls and visitors to catch a glimpse of the procession. The church can hold about 4,COO people, and as 15,0 ;0 tickets were issued, the approaches were be. sieged by thousands, naturally thinking themselves ill used because they could not get in. Among the outsiders a were a great contingent of actors and actresses from tho principal Paris theatres. Tho actresses uid not general:? wear mourning, but seasonable and in many instances coquettish winter dresses. The funeral being got up by the Gaulois, there wan an idea that it might be made tho, occasion, of a Bonapartist demonslratio i, and 31. Renault, the Prefect of Police, took ext'a ordinary precautions accordingly. In tho environs of the churcii were 5U0 policemen in uniform, commanded by six inspectors, and there were very many agents in pla n clothes. I hear of half a-dozen a,resto growing out of street tights, and not of the slightest political significance. SI. Victorieu Sardou and the brothers Lyonnet were pallbe arers at one moment, but there were reliefs, and nr. Halanzier, M. Camilie Doucet, and others took turns. At the funeral mass in the chinch, Madame Bloch, Aldlle. Galli, and other artistes of the Opera si stg portions of Rossini's Stabat Mater,' Clierubini's 'tiid other pieces. Baron Taylor had to excuse himself frora on the ground of age_ and indispoeitiou •"1.^ Eugene Dejszet was the chief mourner. Tbi oohin bore, interspersed among the flowers, many crowns thrown to the deceased on triumphal nigh s, among which were conspicuous several handsome ones, rein s of the farewell benefit at tly Opera. Ou leaving the °"11 rcli, a monster bouquet of vhi'efcs, a yard in diameter, was Imufj; on the lack of the hearse. Tho Gaulois complains bitterly of tha cure of the Trim to Gliurch for performing, unnecessarily, as it infers, a com- memorative funeral mass just before the arrival of the memorative funeral mass just before the arrival of tho which gave an opportunity to 3,000 non-lioldeis of tickets to fill the church, and mainly occasioned the lamentable confusion outside. At the last momen t the polica Cleared the church so far as possible of those not invited. A policeman in the crowd exclaimed, This ffita is badly organised.' The expression was more true than decent, and wn» loudly censured by M. Potel, of the Opera Comi- que, who was thereupon arrested. An actress, with a pro- fessional feeling not appropriate to the oaeasion, was heard to say, 'The lepresen'fcation should have had a rehear- The poor emaciated corpse of a woman phe- nomenally little was so light that a single under- taker's man lifted the coffin from the hearse. M. Blavet, of the Gaulois, made a speech over Dejazet's grave. Ho said that although her laurels were gained in masculine Iuds, Richelieu, Lauzun, Gentil Bernard, Garat, and Figaro, she was so essentially feminine that her truest and most, original ^oiiius culminated inLisette, and he added, alluding to her maternal a'cection, that under Liselte'a Vc-clierchioi tkere beat

TERRIBLE CASE OF STARVATION. A shocking discovery has been made ata house in Lock- lane, Caetleford, near Pontefract. A miner, named John Wilson, left his home there on Sunday, the 28thult., and proceeded to his employhient at Street House Colliery 'vhere he usually remained all the week), leaving in the 'louse his wife and three young children. The latter were -eon on Monday evening, but on Tuesday and fol- lowing days the neighbours observed that the win- lotv-biinds were drawn down, and they supposed the vornan had gone to see her husband, taking the Jiiildren with her. On Friday evening, however, suspi- cions were aroused, and the house was broken into. The nother and youngest child were found dead in bed, and inside them the two other children in almost the last s age of starvation. Near them lay a knife and the jrusfc of a loaf of bread. The poor little things appeared > have carried tho loaf and the knife to their mother to isk her to give them some brend. bat receiving no reply, had nibbled away the inside of the loaf. The inquest, held '■'i Saturday, shewed that the woman had died suddenly, probably 011 the Monday night, of heart disease, and the youngest child soon afterwards of starvation. T

I Mr. Disraeli has left Longieat,' the seat of the Marquis of for Crileltill, WivAbQ=e-oa a visit to Mr. and t Lady Auiusta,Suirfc >: 1

—— — EGljPT AND ABYSSINIA. Telegraphing from Alexandria, December'6, the Times' correspondent says :—The news that the Porte has remonstrated with the Khedive on the subject ot the sale of his Suez Canal sliares is a fabrication. It is ascertained here that Egypt has no intention of annexing Abyssinia nor any of its provinces. The Abyssinians for the last five years have made constant in- cursions across the frontier. The object of the Egyptian Government is to compel King John to restrain his sub- jects and to prevent them from pillaging Egyptian terri- tory. The Egyptian troops have oiders not to enter Abys- sinia, if King John consents beforehand to give the necessary assurances to this end.

A BISHOP ON INTEMPERANCE. Preaching on Sunday night at special Advent servicM in the chapel of ease connected with St. George's Church, Wolverhampton, the Bishop of Lichfield said that drunkenness was an alarmingly fruitful parent of murder. Within the last year there were more per- sons sentenced to death for murder committed in conse- qnence of d'Tinkenness than from any other cause; and forniction and drunkenness were the two sins which at the present moment were destroying our nation. They were eating up its whole spirit, and un- doing that great and glorious work for which the Lord came dawn from heaven. In the Scriptures the fatal issue of these sins had been more plainly set forth than that of all others. But in spite of this, in spite of the 30,000 ministers of the Gospel who were denouncing thowe sins and in spite of the fact that the land was thickly set over with churches and chapels, men were committing fornication and murder with the most deplorable reck- lei.&neP-

DEATH OF MR. HEADLAM. The Ttidit Hon. Thomas Emmerson Headlam, late M.P. for Newcastle-on-Tyne, dfod on Saturday morning at Calais, he being at the time on his way to Italy. The deceased was the eldest son of tha late Rev. John Head- lam, Archdeacon of Richmond, and i-ector of Wycliffe, near Barnard Castle, and was born at Wycliffe in the vear 1813, and was therefore sixty-twa vears of age. Mr. Headlam was educated at Shrewsbury Sohool and Trinity College, Cambridge. At the latter place lw graduatedian sixteenth wrangler in 1836, the same year In which Bishop Colenso was second wrangler. Mr. Headlam afterwarpf became a member of the Inner Tetfiple, and after practising some years at the Chancery Bar, be was in 1852 appointed as one of her Majesty's Counsel. Two years afterwards he was elected Chancellor of Dur- ham and Ripon by the bishops of those dioceses. At the general electiou in ]847, after a severe contest, Mr. Headlam was returned for Newcastle in the Liberal interest. In 1852 Mr. Headlam was again returned, and also in 1857 and 1S59. Immediately after the new Par- liament assembled, and on Lord Palmerston forming a new administration, Mr. Headlam was elected to the ofpco of Judge-Advocate General, which post he held until the retirement of Earl Russell's Ministry in 1866, upon their failure to carry a. Reform Bill. At the general election in 1865 Mr. Headlam was again returned for New- castle along with the late Mr. Cowen. Mr. Headlam married in 1854, Ellen Pereival, daughter of the late Major T. ed .Van Straubenzee, of Bedale, from which period he resided at Gilmonby Hall, near Barnard Castle. He was a magis- trate for the North Riding and Durham, and a. patron of the local institutions. Blr., Headlam edited the supple- ment to Daniel's Chancery Practice," and brought out the Trustee Act as a law book. In 1852 the deceased got a select committee appointed to inquire into the law of mortmain. At the last general election, Mr. HeadUm was defeated by Mr. Hamond, since which time his health has gradually failed, and at the time of his demise was on his way to Italy to recruit it. Mr. Headlam will b# interred at Bowes. C

SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW. The 78th annual Cattle Show in connection with this society opened yesterday at the Agricultural Hall, Isling- ton. There was a sllglit, diminution in the number of animals exhibited, but the quality of the stock was such that good judges were unanimously of opinion thatit more than made up for any deficiency in numbers. The directors of the Agricultural Hall have made several improvements in their establishment since that fabal year when a cruel London fog crept in through skylights and roof, and proved so destructive to the over-fed st ck, who one after another were led away into the show-yard, only to fall before the pole-axe of their purchaser. Such an occurrence is not likely to take place again,foi the greatest pains have been tnkento secure proper ventilation,and no amount.of fog is ever again likely to have such an effect on dock as was the case in 1873. There were, as usual, great differences t)f opinion as to the quality of the cattle exhibited; but although in the aggregate there may not be a visible im- provement on that of former years, there are certain beasts which certainly possess unusual claims to special notice. The Duke of Sutherland, for instance, shewed a splendid five- year-old ox, which bad been fed on turnip and fom cake, seasoned with Thorley's food, which very deservedly was awarded the first prize in its class. Wales was only repre- sented by three beasts, but they were immensely superior to any which have previously put in an appearance in the lull. Mr. Jenkins, of Paulirion, carried away the first prize in this class. The B40 silver cup for Hereford bred steers fell to Mr. Heath, of Norwich, and the chief prize for short horns was awarded to Mr. Thomas White, of Alanor House, Carperby, for the "Bride of Windsor." a very compact little heifer of four years old. Mr. Wood, of Crauby, ran away with the first prize for Sussex stock, Rn(L the Duke of Sutherland, besides taking the first prize in his own class, had a silver cup awarded to him for shewing the best Scotch animal on show. Among the exhibitors of Devon stock were the Queen, Mr. Smith, of Exeter, who, as usual, was not behind hand on the prize list, Major Buller, of Downes,Crediton, who took the third prize for a handsome three-year old,and Captam Taylor, of Eastbourne, who carried away the first prize in the same class. The Prince of Wales exhibited some well made Devons, but was outstripped in the raco by more plebeian breeders. Mrs. Maria Langdon, ut North Moltou, was the winner in Class V., she exhibiting a remarkably handsome cow bred by the late Mr. Davy, of Titton Barton (ihort horn), whose sire was Admiral and whose dam was Princess. The quality of the sheep was exceptionally goo(l,inaiiy farmers being perfectly astounded at hearing the L, i, ge animals they were called to adjudicateupon were lambs. and not two year-olds. Of the Leicester breed Mr. Benjamin Painter, of Oakham, was regarded as the chief exhibitor, and consequently had awarded him the S20 silver cup. The prize for the Cots wolds fell to Mr. Jacobs, of Benford; and Mr. Byron, of Sleaford, was placed first on the list of exhibitors of Lincolns. Lord Walaingham, of Thetford, who has been known for many years as a very successful breeder of sheep, gained the cup for the best South Dowus, and Mrs. Beach, of Stafford, was similarly successful in the Shropshire competition; Mr. J. Overman, of Buruham, Sutton, carrying off the prize for cross-bred sheep. Among the exhibitors of pigs we recog- nised the well-known names of the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Radnor Messrs. Howard, or Bedford Messrs. Jennings and Baker, of Blandford; Mr. Homer, of Wimborne and others. Tne galleries, as in former years, are filled with agricul- tural implements, samples of manures, seeds, -and feed- ing stuff for stock. The exhibitors hail from all parts of the country,but the West of England does not appear to be so well represented as formerly. Messrs. Sutton and Cft, of Heading, display as usual a wonderful collection of seeds and roots, the vze of some of which are subjects of the wonder and admiration of all beholders. There are, as usual, eccentric churns in abundance on view, patent sack- lifters, chaff machines, reapers, cattle medicines, rakes, hoes, barrows, threshing machines, and all kinds of agri- cultural engines, which are far too numerous to mentiM^

Elizabeth Wesley, aged45.liviup in Tower-street,London, has died suddenly from" syncopal asphyxia," induced by 'a heavy supper of cold beef, cold cabbage, and pudding. Mary Easton, five years of age, has been killed at Ecole- fecban by falling from a chair, and the forked wire of an umbrella, v/ith "which she was playing, penetrating her tkroat. At a meeting of the Cambridge University Boat Club it has been unanimously resolved that the customary chal- lenge be sent to Oxford to row the annual inter-university race next Easter. Her Mijesty the Queen and the Royal Family will attend a solemn service on Tuesday, the 14th inst. (the anniversary of the Prince Consort's death), at the Royal Mausoleum, Frogmore. An Echo telegram from New York, dated November 6, says It is now announced that Babcock, who is secretary to President Orant, is indicted for being implicated in the St. Louis whiskey frauds. Colonel J. Stokes, C.B., the Commandant of the School ef Military Engineering at Chatham, has received orders to proceed at once to Egypt upon special duty, connected, it is believed, with the Stez CaNal. About seventeen hundred applications have been made for the vacant secretaryship of the Royal Dramatic College the salary being E200 per annum, with a commission on all contributions to the benefit fund, which might make the place worth 9700. 45 The local Art and Industrial Exhibition 'at Preston was formally closed on Saturday by Sir John Holker, the Attorney-General. The proceeds of the exhibition, which has been visited by upwards of two hundred thousand per- lOllS, will be devoted to two charitable institutions. Four months' exile to the Caucasus have been awarded to the Grand Duke Nicholas,the Emperor of Russia's second brother, in consequence of his disorderly life—a ballet dancer, with whom he has been intimate, being pro- visionally sent under arrest from St.Petersburg toWenden. The escape of the notorious William M. Tweed is an- nounced by telegram from New York. According to the Times' correspondent, Tweed was permitted on Saturday, accompanied by keepers, to take an airing, during which he visited his house on Madison-avenue. Tweed going vnalairs dhia.Duea.red.. Ris.aac&1J.Q causes .sxaat ouJJ-nenj¡,

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THE WAINWRIGHT TRIAL. Henry Wainwright attended Divine service on Sunday in prison. His demeanour was attentive and respectful. He oas had 110 interviews with any of his friends or relatives 4itice be was sentenced, but it is expected that the majority ,f them will take their farewell of him this week. Thomas still remains in Newgate. Meanwhile Waiu- ivright continues to employ much of his time in writing and he his not yet imparted anything in the nature of a confession to the governor-, the ordinary, or the warders in attendance. Little credit ca.n be given to the rumour that it is the intention of a number of persons who believe in t ie innocence of Henry, to petition the Home Secretary for a reprieve. The rumoured death of Mrs. Wainwright, mother of the two prisoners Wainwright, is contradicted. At the time she was said to have died—that is, on Friday—her health had improved, and, though suffering extreme mental agony, she was in 110 physical danger. Stokes, the well-known witness in the Wainwright case, has csmplained at Southwark Police court that he had received a letter threatening him with death. The following ii a copy You blagard, what better ar you to know a "Uin for 18 or 19 years and to be the means of him being put to a ear!y gtave ? You ar a blagard, and remember the ô rst, chance I git of you you will have wliafc you don't 3xpdc. You scamp, do you think you will git of. You mtiz :t great mestake, you roagaod blagard. How oouldyou ever meat Wainwright's poor, hart broken wife ? Do not think yo.i will be lat past whout a good hyiding, you brutt, atid obigard, and rong." The post card is dated Dec. 2, '75, and •iddressed, Aified Piiilep Stokes, 34, Baker's row.White- ohapel." The following is a oopv of it What do you bink of yourself, you bruitt, you scamp. I will have your lift-—Mr. Partridge askprt if he knew who wrote it ?- Stokes replied that he believed that he did. He also as- slired his worship that the proceedings had ruined him, mid that. he had lost his situation, and was unable IO obtain another.—Mr. Partridge referred Stokes to the police, to take whatever proceedings they might think pr per. he Sheriffs of London and Middlesex write as follows to the papers .-In reply to numerous inquiries, and with an earnest desire to help the deserving, we beg to say that it will give us equal satisfaction to be the recipients of auy donations your readers may favour us with on behalf of he wif" 3Hel fami y of Henry Wainwright, or of the wife I)f Thomas W aiiiwrighfc, as to continue to receive dona- tions 011 behalf of Miss Willmore and the children of Harriet Lane. Separate and distinct fundshavebeen opened by us for this purpose, and intending donors will Pi,lase specify the fund into which they require their dona- tions paid. Before leaving the court, after the trial, the Lord Chief Justice started a subscription on behalf of Miss Willmore and the children of the unfortunate woman Harriet Lane. His lordship put his name down for k20, and his example was followed by the Lord Chief Baron, Lacy Di Huddle- ston, and many others. A correspondent of the Echo gives the following account of an interview with Miss Willmore:—Miss Willmore pities Henry Wainwright from the bottom of her heart-not that she wishes to condone his cringe, but that he should so far have forgotten himself as to perpetrate it. In spite of the mysterious mode of Mrs. King's disappearance, and in the face of circumstances the IliO:<t suspicious, my infor- mant never dreamt that he was capable of murdering the mother of his Children. He was always kind to her; and then "he was so clever and bright, that he might have been an ornament to society instead of a by-word and re- proach." I asked whether she had ever known ot quarrels between them, and she said she had not. Ou the night of the disturbance in Sidney-square, Harriet," who was quick-tempered and excited through diink—quite an unusual thing—did not complain of anything having been said or done to cause her pain, aud almost invariably she spoke of Percy" in the highest terms, aud evidently loved him passionately. He was liberal when he had money, though he never gave her so much as £.1) a week, as had been said. Miss Willmore thought that an average of JE2 would be much nearer the truth, and then added that the 20s. a week he paid for the children may be said to be the most be ever gave. Of course, when he was in difficulties she did not receive nearly so much, and for weeks together never got a farthing,but even when Miss Willmore in the interest of the children dunned him he was as a general rule polite and gentlemanly to her, and, she believed, always did his best to keep his engagement. I asked what her own opinion of the Frieake incident was, and she replied that Mrs. King had always spoken of "Edward" as an inti- mate frieud of Percy's," and in tho way any lady would of her husband's intimate acquaintance. She did not believe that Mrs. King had ever gone to theatres or other places of amusement with Frieake, "for she was always circumspect and well-behaved. Had she not been.I would never have lived under the same roof with her." These was not the slightest truth, nor shadew of truth, in the rumour that "Harriet meant to take up with Frieake, for up to the very last she loved Percy, and always expressed her intention of being faithful to him. Frieake, whoever he was, was looked upon simply as an acquaintance, nothing more. What, I aaked, did you understand to be the reason of his visits ? Well, when there was some talk of Mrs. King removing to a place of her own, which Percy said he would provide for her, Mr. Frieake, I understood, had been IIsked to see to the furnishing, and making other arrange- ments of the kind." Whether Miss Willmore is right or wrong in her views, it is quite evident thtt she does not believe that the mysterious friend" acted a part in a plot to murder the unhappy woman. She under- stood that he was Mr. Frieake, an auctioneer, so that he was quite likely to be engaged in choosing furniture for a house, and that her friend always believed that this was being done. Miss Willmore told me a great deal about Mrs. King's interesting ways, happy dis- position, fondness for her children, and hopes that the difficulties of "Percy" would only be temporary, and that everything would come right in the end. Although at first she was ignorant that Wainwright was a married man. she got to know it, and was apparently contant to continue the relations in which she had always stood to him. Miss Willmore only learned his name, and the fact that he was irarried, after the birth of Mrs. King's first child. When in August it was firstmooted to provide a home for her, Harriet Lane, though previously do pressed, grew much more like her old self, and from that time to the day on which Miss Willmore last saw her aliva she was gay and hanpy, full of hope, and had, to all out- ward appearance, got rid of the gloomy fears which had been the result of Wainwright's ditiiculties, and the doubts she could not help entertaining as to her own future. On the 10th of September the money she got enabled her to pay all her debts, and to redeem her clothes from pawn, while tbe arrangements that had been made for her and the children being in themselves satis- factory, she was disposed to look upon her Ilomalolls posi- tio') lfghtlv. In answer to my question, What were tliepe arrangements ? Miss Willmore said, All along we under. stood Mr. Friealce had been busy furnishing the living rooms over the warehouse nt 215, and by the day she was to leave Sidney-square they were to be ready to go into. I was to go to The Grove with the children, we would not be far from each other, and she talked of often coming to see us, and having us over at Whi techs pel-road." Did she say anything of all this when she left that afternoon "Oh, yes we talked it all over. She told me, before saying good-bye, that she was going there direct; and she even asked me to get our favourite dinner—a loin of mutton—for Saturday, and slia would come and have dinner^ with me. I got the loin as she desired, but she never came." These wct.vcrbatim, the words used, ami as she spoke there was no appearance of doubt er hesitancy. Everything seemed clear to her mind, and she detailed the circumstances so naturally that I could not help having the scene vividly before me. That being the case, I said, you weren't surprised that she only took a nightdress with her? "Not at all. Of course, the luggage, which was all ready packed, was to foLow her, and I thought she knew the rooms were all ready to go into. I thought it strange she didn't come 011 the Sunday, but said to myself, Mr. King and she had been together or something but when Monday and Tuesday passed without bearing anything, I thought I would go over and see her." The whole king- dom knows the rest of the tragic story and it is not diffi- j cult to see what light these facts throw upon the evidence given at the Central Criminal Court. There was not the least restraint about our talk. The elder sister told me that Will-1 more was not tiii. real name, but as the rest of the family; were all in good position*, and they were afraid that in the course of the trial it might have oozed out and compromised their relations in the eyes of their employers, they had adopted it as Mr. Eeles took that of Fowler." Both the ladies have, to all appearance, been well brought up, and their father was a member of one of the liberal profes- sions. It only remains to be said that Miss Willmore it grateful to the public for the help she has already had;, that many offers have been made suitably to provide for ¡th, children that probably they will be received into one of the innumerable orphanages in the Metropolis.