South Wales Daily News

WHAT THE "WORLD" SA yg., (Notes by "Alias.") The Select Committee on the Postal Telegraphs seems to be bearing a little fruit. The Postmaster-General has deputed Mr. W. H. Preece, the well-known engineer, and Mr. Fischer, cf the London' office in Telegraph-street, to proceed on a mission to the United States to-examine and report upon the American telegraphic system. I hear that the reception accorded to the English officers invited to be present at the recent French manoeuvres was most conrteous and hospitable. Marshal Canrobert was overheard to say of two of them General Sir Charles Ellice and Major East, D.A.Q.M.G. at head-quarters that they were true types of the English officer grands, calmes et dignes." Those of the service—and they are many— familiar with the dignified bearing and imposing stature of both these officers must admit that they could not have been more happily hit off by our old friend and ally. Fancy a number of Punch. without Leech's pictures!" w:o e Thackeray in the Quarterly Review more than twenty years ago. Imagine a number of Punch without a cartoon by Tenniel! one is inolined to say in the present day. In the issne of Ptmch. bearing date of September the 3Oth this state of affairs might be realised for the cartoon in that number was the work of Mr. Charles Keene. It is many years since the accomplished hand of 1Mr. John Ten- niel has been missed from the cartoon-page. I speak from memory but I believe it has never been once absent since the death of John Leech in 1.864, though of course long before that period Mr. Tenniel was looked upon as car- toon ist-in-cliief to the paper. Cairo, I hear, is to be quite the fashion in the coming winter. Among others, Sir John Walrond, who has let his town-house to the American Minister, goes there with a large party, Lord Bridport being among the number. Well, Egypt is a very pleasant place to winter in, and it is quite proper that there should be plenty of English men and women to welcome Lord Napier of Magdala and the British regiments when they march into the Khedive's capital. More unlikely things have happened. Lord Napier, by the way, sailed last week for Gibraltar, having apparently hurried his departure, as Lady Napier does not leave until the 12th of the month. My congratulations to the London and North Western Railway Company for issuing a new rule, according to which any servants of the company who- are found drinking in a refreshment-room whilst on duty are to be instantly dismissed. Such a rule was much wanted, there being too many travellers with more money thaa WI J, who ware in the habit of treating guards and engine-drivers in a way calculated to endanger greatly the safety of themselves and their-fellow-passeugers. In the interests of a better understanding of the Eastern Question, I am glad to know that Captain Fred Burnaby has finished his account of his famous ride to Khiva before succeeding in getting himself killed.The book is now written and printed, and only awaits the completion of the maps, specially prepared to illustrate the narrative, before being published. It will be out in a fortnight, or at most three weeks. Captain Burnaby, I understand, makes no reference to the events i'f the past few months which have br ujhtthe Eastern Question once more to the front; but lie shews, as none but a military man who can read Russian and who has been in Khiva might, in what direction Muscovite Mnbition is tending in the mysterious regions of Central Asia, and what stages it has advanced towards completi.* <. The book finished, Capt. Burnaby treated himself to a little mild excitement in the form of a balloon ascent. TIIL: thousands of honest peoplewhoassembledforthe Forester^ Fete at the Crystal Palace the other day, and were much interested in the ascent of the "monstre balloon," would doubtless have experienced an increased zest if they had known that the two man who went up in the car were officers of two of her Majesty's crack regiments, who selected this means of whiling away the time before the dinner-hour, taking an ante-prandial balloon as one might take a less wholesome absinthe, or a glass of sherry-and-bitters. The voyagers alighted near Deal after a pleasant passage, and packing up the balloon (for tb, y had gone without any attendant), just caught the la-bc, train for town.

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(\UR LONDON COKRESPONDENT. vyes', LONDON, Tuesday *ecret J?- know something more about thosa iri his which Lord Lienconsfieid referred the •J nry 3P-ech, and which he declared to ■Mr. fpv 1018 tlie present troubles in the East, ''The W^f3 ?ros^' TV'"> Lwrote a Life of a boolf1 or(^ £ iytteltnn, has in the press! ^dtlieo ?nv se?ret societies in general ^Qiber +>f'iU*aa *u p^icuiar. One would like sonic ^facts f*ere°f to tell us if Mr. T<Yost is accurate in ^'adir«ti' COiIrse! both confirmati m and con Hot Ki. °rl1ro!ri that quarter are out of the question Tw'0 U7^ We believe them if we had them. plated 6 3 °' political publications are contem- r??? a ser*e3 advocating radical reforms in QIlesrPo tics, the other a series on the Eastern '^ie wr;*ers in both cases will be well- *° have01611 fancy the first set are not likely thinl?an^ rea<^ers. Just now Englishmen are about triennial Parliaments, electoral ^r°8Sed%,°r *enant-right. They are so fully en- wer6 x y foreign affairs that even if Mr. Bright W0l]>f»e* campaign of eighteen years ago J ajihnd scarcely any followers, ^aa a ^ew days back to the energy which *8 Mr i f by the postal authorities in telegraph- he Wight's speech at Manchester. It is greatly j eSretted that this energy was to a large ex- *03^ Ja^a^e(^ by the slackness and tardiness of SPeech la^8" understand that every line of the w^s banded in by one of the news associa- tive T. Yet in some places not a line was re- 40t till after eleven, and the last portion did the P.,rr,v, till more than five hours after -ertajni w»a supplied at Manchester. That y 'Was not a feat to crow about. Unfortu- 8 delay *Q ^ie transmission of news is ba- Ci^ors +^orse anc* "worse. Country newspaper me that a large portion of their tele- Sid arrive too late to be of any service. There o^iuifv61n *° a designed purpose to e drt, much as possible the Press business of 11 ql)a-1. it. In ft, the Telegraph Office is tr, c1°minST a notable example of the art "how do it." l|)8 in T^"r^'sans' Dwellings Act seems to be grow- ^P°pnlar favour, and even London vestries Ive to aPP'y Whitechapel parish was u 30' believe, and Hoiborn adopted 3ty]„i out the same time. It is understood that °Uotv °ne> Chelsea, and Camberwell will soon ePoSVl.' by pulling down some miserable deus Yes^. ctlng decent dwellings. week Faust descended beneath the 'f ftfa j ^ue^e was borne into the "flies" at tchin >|QPera Paris. Last night the "Flying ca„a'1' ^rri^d Senta aloft in London. In {*lt Q.-L e the opera was done in the national tongue, t wise, wkat a difference The Parisians l ens6 ^')e ^arg«st theatres in the world wherein h$itt musical drama; they sat amid ^'fea»er Siting they passed out into a h the glory of which, with its massive (j^Un °^. varic°l°ured marble, its sculptures, its !i%l gf ',its blaze of lights, recalled soiue poet's i? ^xurions architecture they cooled them- ,i% 0 ^°n a balcony which looked upon boule- fii one s^e' and gavo the other k Co]3 brilliant saloon, as striking 4iras art could make it. The in short, revelled in magnifi- tl wonder that every seat was Hce. vT°re the commencement of the perform- 0 j 0 wonder that all the best boxes were gone j3a^s previously. But in London English |il^,i^ll^reSeTlted a ^ouso wbich by comparison 4 60gj, y shabby the pictures in the saloon are H the stnircr-se is small and inconvenient, J5-5 the attendance was large the auditory I^Ce time absolutely full. Yet the perfor- LlHe6nVas exceedingly good. Wagner's opera ^ee put upon the'stage the little ohorus !w^ trained the orchestra is wonderfully j> Action. Mr. Santley, Mdlle. T'orriano, rc^' ^r- Stevens, and Miss Lucy b ^'4n u were the soloists. Mr. Carl Rosa 4 nt ^ter the Lyceum than he did last f gea.t l the Princess's, and that is saying Vv I eal. StiJI, there is nothing like the rush 1 it 5s which is- evident in the French capital -Hn^Qnld be impossible perhaps to say. It is (jf *o j point out that London is out of season, °h^6 el• r^s- I he fact is patent that, whether it Jin0J.Itlate or the race, we are not so determined Wfy111? Tnusic as our gayer neighbours. tJ;cEld b SaId nothing yet of Wagner's opera pro- h^ent L i • R°sa- It is no specimen of his having been composed in Paris while :t':t p eheved in the Jews," as he calls his edecessors Meyerbeer, Rossini, and the fiN ae"lcol !j o school. Pretty music is not scorned adr^e no^ deleted there are songs which VJtJAt) ers of Auber might sing with 5 a»n^ bits of joyous melody which Sladden disciples of Mondelssolin. tL'ic fnanie time there is a kind of pro- 01"efas':8 the Music of the Future in 5 full of incomprehensible dis- a storm at 8ea is portrayed. Other- i, Dutchman," now, I believe, re- \\1-:11 th. the ?reat German, composer, might have » -work of one of the writers at whom A 0Scoffs. ^«^.8!ihelt^er^on j°ins bis voice — that of Mr. • -^n deprecating the present style of T ^ticigrn. Where he has not been per- Vo ^ii i Sed for his revival of "Richard III. he lit11E1 b.be compl.,Lins, "damned with faint praise of be calls the youthful and inexperienced Timet, fie contrasts somewhat recent comments of that journal with c^? utterances of Mr. Oxenford, its former t ftlc, to whose suggestions he says the tki of Richard III." is mainly due. Ah >r^ at the time of the late Dean Hook's Ca^i. r- ^r- b). Key worth, of Hull, had M fto the Dean's face after death. From is jv.1.a photograph he has executed a bust h, js clered a very successful likeness. So !%ci ?ct»i that Mr. Key worth has been selected to k01" ^or the monument to the Dean fi Jh erected in his old parish church at toj^i e committee have decided to have an n"fr°^beYk a length recumbent m This work will be executed by Hirn and the canopy by Mr. Street. ^rnent is expected to cost £ 1,000, bas been raised. VL^id^ th» G^ey and Son are piiblishing two vol- H ch6 the ate Dean Hook's sermons. They v °n« entitled Hear the Church," tk^ev. ^eUv S° o'reat a sensation at the time that t^6l"ed, and no doubt for a long time Ijj6 .Preacher's promotion. The. Dean, Churchman, was a very decided tft,14 4re aid the subjects of five of his ser- Vi^ir,0^ Jj novelties of Romanism, the Qf Qaan^ri1' Mariolatry, Invocation I>G„ Aurlcniar Confession. The 12th s Lives of the Archbishops ,6fttle>,W^ be published by the same firm. Old xt*80 bave in the press Lord Pem- ^lic tie»\ <7^ Zealand," his mother's (Lady ^thers,Wives, and Daughters/' ei's f )ri s new novel, Joan." 00? of ^gravingci of Mr. Holinan Hunt's bej> • a'b -win be interested in knowing the9 aI*Pro*ching completion. From > a atlce(j i. Pnce of proofs before letters has h r°^r^teden The artists' proofs the Delhi Durbar on New th,ttav °st £ '500,000, an almost criminal at s«ch a time as this. But \hClll<aOWa1SnAneW tMng Illd.ia'a8 Mr- ^ovivf^ditiiv • ^ne °f the most unjustifiable to r. on6 18 ?-bat connected with the Per- th;n,T,ssio1'- It was undertaken in V 9,11 • Xji'i boundary between Persia and l1.el! 1!t1Î!l¡i ltJ. c Was more than one Commis- Hii c°st H i„Uer;ce the large retinue of the Xniil nlculated tbat this little busi-1 rio^btfui °v<vrnmenk £ 100,000. Mean- anv eood has been done* TnS rTapn 01 I"ViMinia dr.-ink himself to death. His successor, who is very young, is to have an Englishman, Dr. Skeen. to look after him and nis househokl,«"«nd to get. 1,800 rupees a month, which at the present value of the rupee means about £1.,60u a-year. Later lie is to liax,o an English tutor. This ofiicial, it is to be hoped, will be able to ueep his young pupil from the v/ine cup. The Workmen's Congress at Paris h't: been dis- cuesing women's work. One of the speakers de- clared that what was wanted was to equalise the pay of wcmn and men, but he sat down without shewing how it was to be done. Another speaker was very sarcastic upon the convents. He declared that there were no fewer than 150 convents work- ing for the great establishment known as the ltfacrasins dn Louvre." These female celibates did not object to making trousers for the otheC sex, aBd" religions though they are technically, there is a great deal of the secular in their lives.

SPIRIT OF THE DAILY PRESS. MR. GLADSTONE AND THE GOVERXilENT. Mr. Gladstone, says the TimÙ, admits that great resolts are depending upon the daily commxinkations of the European Cabinets, and that their joint action mustbethe result of approximations made from their several points of view. He expects also that our information as to the acts of the Government is imperfect and yet lie does not scruple to denounce it, with scarcely any qualification, as at variance with the public opinion of the country. and to express a belief that at the European council table, the desires of Great Britain lying in the one scale, her weight and influence are cast into the other." When such language is used by the former head of the Liberal Government we may be thankful to be able to point to the more generous, the more patriotic, the more just language which one of the most distinguished members of his Cabinet used on Saturday. Mr. Foster's speech has, at all events", this value-that it ia a sufficient reply to Mr. Gladstone's effort to destroy all the moral in- fluence of the Government at the very moment when, in the interests of peace, they need to be able to speak with the whole authority of England. Mr. Gladstone knows, or ruirrhfc know, that what is at stake at this moment is not so mnoh a fiual scheme for the settle- ment of the Bulgarian Provinces as the obtaining from the Porte and from Russia of such a respite as will enable the terms of such a set tlement to be peaceably and ma- turely debated. If he thinks it his duty to overthrow the Government, let him at least wait till this critical moment is passed. When there is a European council table at work it will be time enough, if it is ever time, to urge a party fight. Bnt when Ministersare straining every nerre to secure a peaceable discussion of the situation they should be supported by every man of influence in England. It is a most unreasonable misrepresentation of the case to ac- cuse the Government of acting with a view to securing that the amount of good done to the oppressed shall be as small as possible." This can only be regarded as the language of passion and excitement, and for the time it must be considered as wintting the person who uses it out of court. We by no means pledge ourselves, nor did Mr. Forster, to a final and entire approval of the Ministerial policy. We reserve the right of objecting to it from time to time as may sepm necessary. But we cannot forget the tremendous responsibility which lies upon Ministers, nor refuse thera a provisional confidence. Above all, we should be ashamed to accuse them in so momentous a crisis of conduct so utterly reprehensible as that of deliberately using the power of this nation to frustrate its wishes, and of desiring to do as small an amount of good as pos- sible to the oppressed. Lord Derby's despatch, says the Daily New!, taken in con- nection with the further proposal made by the Russian Government, has produced, if not, as Mr. Stansfeld said, a counter wave of opinion, at least a momentary hesitation in some minds. But only very 3angnine people on the one hand, or those who are predisposed to support the Govern- ment on the other hand, can fail to see that the proposals now made are. as Mr. Gladstone says, a change of form without any change of Now, as Mr. Slansfeld very clearly and forcibly put it. it is a change of aim which public opinion a* of the Government. The old policy of England, if Lord Derby's course is to be desci ibed by those woids, ha*- been distinctly repudiated by the English people. A steady growth at opinion has gone forward I for twenty years, and has suddenly shewn itself in the! light of the Bulgarian horrors. The Government does not represent this clevelopmentin opinion. It clings to its old policy while apparently acquiescing in a new one. This is the position of affairs in rough ontlinc. No concession has been made with which public opinion ought to be content. It is, of course, satisfactory to have moved the Government so far. Lord Derby's despatch is in a very different tone from Lord Beacon g- field's speech. But so far as the world knows what the Government is doing, and our information as to its acts is, as Mr. Gladstone says, imperfect, the refusal tij embody the changed feeling of the country in diplomatic action ie still as firm as ever. The Ministers have refused to note the movement which has taken place, but regard it as a passionate and transitory outburst of humanitarian senti- ment. It is this persistent inability to understand their countrymen or to feel with them that justifies Mr. Glad- stone in saying that his store of hope is at length ex- hausted. There has been a momentary feeling in the public mind that the Government might, after all, come round but on attempting to'grasp it it disappears in our hands. ALLEGED CHANGE OF OPINION. The deep and sincere humanity of the agitation, says the Daily Telegraph, remains indeed, ajid will bear good fruit hereafter, we trust, in the permanent amelioration of the condition of all Turkish Christians; but the political movement which was so foolishly linked with the philan- thropic emotion has worn itself out with a suddenness which may well bewilder Gortschakoff and Tchernayeff, since even here it surprises the most experienced. News- papers ard statesmen were alike caught up in the same remarkable typhoon of indiscretion, to be dropped out of it in the same ludicrous manner. The evolutions of one of our contemporaries in particular have been so trulv fantastic during this period of recovery that Bottom's difficulty in recognising himself after his famous dream can alone equal its bewildered effort to preserve identity and coherence. One day it could see nothing but what was intolerable, impofsiblel and inadmissible in the policy of the Government, which must be instantly changed for that of the administrative annihilation of Turks, pending the immediate summoning of Parlia- ment. On another it amiably marvels how anyone of sense can differ from the sagacious policy which Lord Derby is pursuing, and congratulates him on having a united nation at his back. The expla- nation of all this is simple enough—it merely implies that; topics of complicated foreign policy cannot be safely disoussed in the same breath with benevolent im- pulses, or with merely that amount of information which is harmless enough when devoted to the ordinary subjects ot the recess. The foreign policy of an empire like Great Britain involves manifold and detailed considera- tions, which an only be neglected in an access of beautiful emotion at the cost of having to return painfully to the region of the practical. We do not wish, however, to add a pang to the anguish of a conversion which helps us to be all of one mind again. At the same time it is sad to reflect that hnrfflreds of Servian peasants owe their wounds and deltth to the diplomatic warfare which Tchernayeff has carried on, encouraged by the attack made here upon her Maiestv's Government. Whatever may be the issue of the present negotiations, aaya the Standard, there is henceforth no fear that the hands of the Government will be fettered in dealing with this questi by any suspicion that the nation is not ready to support .;atever measures may be considered necessary for the maintenance of English interests. The situation has in the last fe.T days experienced many fluctuations, but the danger cannot be said to be past, even though the tone of the Russian organs is a little more pacific. The reluctance of Turkey to accept the conditions of the Powers continues, but it in quite intelligible in the face of the ostentatious preparations for organising a Russian army within the Turkish border, and is by no meane the chief obstacle in the way of peace. The danger con- tinues to reside, as it has done from the beginning, not in anything that Turkey does or refuses to do, but in the ambition, which it is no longer thought expedient to dis- guise, of Russia. So long as the Russian reinforcements continue to pour into Servia, so long is Turkey justified in her opposition to the armistice. There is still hope that some pacific settlement may be arrived at, and we may con- tinue to confide in the personal character of the Emperor Alexander and his well known anxiety for peace. There is some reason to believe that the Russian Government itself is fairly awakejied to the dangerous character of the P&nsclavist movement. and that it is inclined to check that stream of practical Russian sympathy yjthout which the war in Servia could never have been begun, and when begun could not have been maintained for a fortnight. But it would be idle to deny that there hopes are fainter than they were a week or two ago. What is distinctly a new assurance-of peace and a fresh source of encouragement to those Powers who are disposed to act loyally with Eng- land in her difinterested efforts to compose this quarrel is the fact, now plainly indicated, that there is no party in this country strong enough to thwart the policy of the Government. RUSSIA AND THE PROBABILITY OF PEACE. But, whether in conference or out of it, Russia, says the Morning Pott, is the centre of disturbance and whenever the Great Powers endeavour to formulate reforms for Turkey they will find Russian aims and pretensions in the way. An idea, we are told, has been put forward that the representatives of the Great Powers should ela- borate a project of reform conjointly with the Ottoman Government on the basis of the Berlin memorandum; and that, the sanction of the respective Govern- ments having been obtained, the' Ambassadors would be appointed to act as a permanent con- mitiee of supervision to control the exeeuiion of the re- forms. The idea would be feasible on one condition- namely, that the consent and co-operation of Russia was not reauirecU As we have ever saia. if all the other Great Powers would agree to co-operate together to the exclusion of the" sole disturber of peace the question could be settled offhand. Let the real offender find himself isolated and in opposition to a united Europe, and the Eastern Question ipso facto coases to be insoluble. But if this course be not adopted; and if a conference is not possible, then diplomacy will go on striving for a settlement that may never be attained in that way. In that event our hope is in the Turkish Government. If it should grant tu the empire and put into practical working a new con- stitution that would afford the reforms and safegualds that are sought by the Great, Powers, then Turkey, in point of fact, would have settled the question while the Great Powers were talking about it. At all events it does not seem likely to be settled in any other way for at every turn the conflict of interests and aims will neutralise the most energetic and, in most cases, the well-meant efforts of the Great Powers. TREATY OBLIGATIONS. The stream of Russian volunteers, says the Morning i th-ertisvr, increases in volume daily. Up till about a •.v ek ago these ardent friends of Servian independence vvcv; content to cross the frontier in batches of twenty or thirty, but this show of deference to international law and the provision of the Treaty of Paris is now put aside, and instead of individual volunteers putting their swords at the service of frince Milan, we hear of squadron3 and companies, horsed, officered, and equipped, going straight to Tchernaielf's head- quarters. On the other hand, there is no reason to suspect that the Government of the Porte is idle. It must not be forgotten that Turkey's best troops have not yet entered the field. Until now they have been stationed close to the Russian frontier, in readiness to oppose a general invasion from that quarter but in the face of the wholesale transport of Russian troops across Roumanian territory, it is by no means certain that they will not be brought to the scene of action at very short notice. It 11\ perhaps idle to complain of Russia's conduct in this matter and as for Roumania, the offer of absolute inde- pendence, wijich Russia is said to have made to Print* Charles in consideration of his permission to Russian forces to pass through hisierritory to Servia. is apparent., too tempting to be rejected. Still, it is well that Europ# ahooJd be thus shewn the inadequacy of treaty obligatio even when of the most precise and specific character, to re- strain the actios of aggressive Powers who feel themselves strong enough to set these obligations aside.

iÍ jitisserige'r tram from'Doncaster has run into a train of empty waggons at the Lincoln station. Fortunately the passengers escaped without sustaiiung serious injuries in any single case but the force of the collision may be judged of by the fact that three of tho waggons were smashed, and the carriages and waggons became so firmly locked together that the block on the line continued for four hours. On inquiry it was found that the signal- man had left hiS station before the arrival of his successor, leaving the signal "All right" for the passenger train shortly due. The other signal-man, on arriving at his post, finding it was too late to alter the signal, hung his lamp out, but this proved useless to prevent the collision. The guard of the goods train, which was being shunted at the time, jumped out of his van just in time to save his life.

ITEMS OF GENERAL NEWS, i The fire in the worl mgs of the Wynnstay Colliery. Ruabon, has been extinguished, and work resumed. Mrs. Cox. the late homekeeper at the Priory. Balham, who gave evidence at the recent inquiry into the death of Mr. Bravo, has sailed for Jamaica. Alexander Martin, a young surgeon. who has been acting for some time past as assistant to Dr. Craig. Pathhead, F near Edinburgh, has committed suicide by cutting the 'h. leading artery in the inside of the right thigh. At Newbury the body of an infant, with a tape tied round its neck. has been found near a railway bridge at Greenham. The body was quite warm when discovered. The police have not yet been able to detect the guilty party. A charter-master named Hill, of the Himlev-road, Dud- ley, has fallen down the pit, he was engaged in working with such force that he broke through the bars which cover up the sumph or water drain. His body was found in about three-quarters of an hour. Chevalier Periz, a distinguished littemtmr, for many years Librarian to the Royal Library in Berlin, author of a Life of Stein," and late editor of the Monnmenta Ger- manica, died on the 8th, at Munich, after a few days' illness. He was brother-in-law to the late Sir Charles Lyell. Mary Jane Williams, a servant, has been brought up at H uddersfield Police-court, charged with concealing the birth of a child, which had been found buried in her em- ployer's garden &t Clare-hill. She was remanded for a week. The inquest has been held, and a verdict of wilful murder returned. Percy Shadbolt and Lionel Shadbolt, of Beechcroft" Chislehurst, have been summoned at Bromley for assault- ing Mr. R. C. Berens, county magistrate, and trespassing on his land at Kevington. The magistrates fined one of the defendants £.5 for the assault and 10s. for the trespass, and the other £ 3 for trespass. Great excitement has been created among the fishinS populations of Maldon, Tollesbnry, and East and West Mersea by the announcement of the Bradwell Oyster Fishery Company of their intention to apply for an exclu- sive oyster fishery in Bradwell Creek, Pewit Island, and a portion of the River Blackwater. At Dorchester, the deputy-coroner has held an inquesc.. on the tody of Mr. John Randall, aged 68. It waF; stated that the df ceased was looking over her Majesty's ship Bos- cawen, at Pm tland, when his foot glipl-ed, and falling down a hatchway, he received concussion on the spine and died. Verdict," Accidental death." Major Paget, M.P., has presided, at Highbridge, at a. meeting of delegates from various highway board* in Somersetshire to consider the Highway Bill of the Go- vernment. Unanimous opposition was shewn to the pro- posal to establish county boards, but with this exception the meeting approved of the measure. The train leaving Hunstanton for Lynn at 7.30 p.m. when between Meacham and Snettisham ran into a herd of some 15 bullocks, three of which were dashed to pieces. No other damage was sustained, although the passengers were unpleasantly reminded of the pad catastrophe that occurred by bullocks straying on the line in August, 18G3. The death is announced of Mr. Themas Clark, A.R.S.A.. which took place at Dundaroch, Aberfovle. Mr. Clark was long well known as a landscape winter, and was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Scottish Academy. There will now be two vacancies to be filled at the election of associates, which takes place on the 10th of November. Jane Cartwright has charged a woman named Schora, at Oldham, with setting a bulldog at her. She had some wQrds, and the prisoner set the dog at complainant. It flew at her face, which she tried to protect with her arms. The brute bit her very severely. The magistrates, whilst characterising the assault as very serious, only fined the prisoner JE2 and costs. It is stated that the Ada Fulton had arrived at Queens- town from Halifax, and reported having p asscd, in lat. 47 N., long. 33 W., the schooner Middlesex, of Milwaukie, waterlogged and abandoned &nd,as the wreck was right in the track of Traneatlantic steamers, the captain of the Ada Fulton deemed it advisable to destroy her, and accordingly she was set on fire. Henceforth letters addressed to soldiers and seamen at Mauritius may be forwarded by French packet for a re- duced postage of 4d. each, provided that tlic^required regu- lations in.regard to the address of such letters have been complied with, and that they do not exceed half an ounce in weight. Such letters may still be forwarded to Mauritius for a postage of Id. by private ship, as oppor- tunities offer.. At Leamington the Town Council and the newly created borough magistrates cannot agree whether the salary of their clerk should be £100 or £1.10 a year. The Home Secretary will, consequently, have to be appealed to. as the council have declined to increase their offer. Alderman Gascoyne desired to resign on the score of pressure of busi- ness, and the council decided he must pay the prescribed penalty of JE25. At the City Police-court, Manchester, two young men have been fined for personating detective officers. The accused had visited a few of the numberless beerhouses in Hulme and levied black mail upon the landlords. The trick of personating policemen appears to be becoming somewhat common. It may easily be detected if men who pretend to be police officers are called upon to produce their warrant cards. Mr. Thomas Baker. C.B., late Chief Inspector of Ma- chinery at Chatham Dockyard, has died at his residence, Lewisham High-road, New-cross, in his 69th year. Mr. Baker had been many years in the service, and was re- warded (June 2, 1869) with the C.B. for his services. He was also a, Knight of the Legion of Honour, and of the 5th class of the Turkish Order of the Medjidie. He re- tired from the service since July 6, I860. A painful accident has occurred at Earlsheaton, near Dewsbury. A number of men were doing some repairs in a well into which foul air had made its way from a worked-out coalpit. One of them, Samuel Pollitt, was overpowered by the gas. and he fell into the water and was drowned. His brother, Walter, descended the well to search for his body, and he met with his death in a like manner. A third workman was rendered unconscious. The efforts made to obtain the release of Simon Black- well, the farm bailiff who was sentenced to a month's im- prisodmeiit by the Be-toonsfield magistrates on the 25th ult., on a charge of concealing a deserter from the 42nd Brigade Depot, stationed at Oxford, have terminated suc- cessfully, A reply has been received from the Home Office in answer to petitions and correspondence, intimating that be had advised her Majesty to remit the remainder of the prisoner's sentence. J A shocking fatal accident has occurred at Kitrovd, near Hoyland Nether, about four miles from Bainsley, by which Mrs. Daley, wife of a miner living at Jump, and her niece, Miss Carr, were lulled. They were proceeding from Jump to Elsecar, and as it was raining at the time tkey had their umbrellas up, and did not hear the train of corves which was being let down from Hoyland Silkstone Colliery. Both women were knocked down and shockingly mutilated. Their bodies were removed home to await an inquest. There has just been placed in the grand jury-room of the Sessions House, Maidstone, a fine full-length portrait of the late Earl of Romney, subscribed for by abont 159 Kent magistrates, in recognition of the eminent services rendered by the decease nobleman to the county as chairman of Quarter and General Sessions, and the holder of many other public positions. The painting, which is 6ft. 4in. by 4ft. 7in.. has been ably executed by Mr. H. R Williamson, from one by Lucas, in the possea&ion of the present earl. The defensive works on the Thames and Medway have all been supplied with large reserves of warlike stores for the winter, and numbers of torpedoes and electric batteries have beeii issued to the following places :—Tilbury Fort, New Tavern Port., Cliff Fort, Shornmeade and Coal Honse Batteries, the Isle of Grain, Shoeburyness. Slreerness, Hoe Fort, and Chat ham. The various depots round the coast have algo Leen just furi.ished with a fresh supply of war material, and Harvey's torpedoes in considerable num- bers have been supplied to the ships of the Royal Navy at home and abroad. A serious outoi eat ot typhoid fever has occurred at Padstow, Cornwall, where, in a population of some 2,000 persons, 200 have been struck down with fever. It appears persons, 200 have been struck down with fever. It appears that a system of drainage has been constructed, chiefly at the expense of the lord of the soil, Mr. Prideaux B) nne, but during the summer months tfiere was not sufficient water to carry the matter out of the drains, where it lay till the heavy rains stirred it up, with the result of poison- ing 10 per cent,, (,f tli,- population. There have, as yet, been only four deaths, so that the fever has appeared in a mild forIa. Admiral Saunaaree, C.B.. has appeared as defendant at the Police-court, Jet-Bey, on a charge of unlawfully taking possession of a fowling-piece, the property of Mr. De Bourchier. Complainant, it was stated, was out shooting, with permission of the owner, on land adjoining that of the defendant. He trespassed on defendant's land to get a rabbit he had shot, whereupon the latter wrested his gun from him and carried it home, refusing to restore it. The magistrate decided that defendant had no right to act as he had, and fined him 5s. A counter charge was then brought against the complainant for trespassing, and he also was fined 5s. At the Police-court, Chester, two young men, of respect- able appearance, Michael and Thomas Niell. have been brought before the magistrates under the following cir- cumstances. From the statement of the chief constable it appeared that the prisoners were wanted in Dublin oil a charge of having stolon £ 400 from their father, a cattle dealer, residing at. Baltingiass. They eluded the local police, and reached Chester by the Irish mail on Saturday afternoon. 1 hoir description had preceded them, and on tneir arrival at Chester Station they were met and taken into cuatodylhy a detective. Connell, a Dublin detective, was in attendance with a warrant, and the magistrates ordered the prisoners to be iunded over to hiul. ¡g