The North Wales Express

BREACH OF PROMISE CASE. In ihe Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, befors Nlr. Ju,tice Stephen and a common jury, the ca"e of Shaw r. Egan was hoard. Thi* was an action for breach of promise to marry, brought by a young lady, daughter of Mr. Charles Shaw, of Grove House, Hackney, against a young gentleman, who carries on business along with a partner at Maddox-street, Kegent- street, as a fine art workman. Mr. M'lntvra, Q.C., and Mr. Nasmith appear(td as counsel for the plaintiff while the defendant was represented by Mr. Tatlock. Mr. Nasmith, in opening the case for the plaintiff, said the acquaintance between the parties began in 1878, when the defendant and Mr. rirtcher, who wai now his partner in business, were on a visit to Paris. The plaintiff and her sister were in Paris on a visit at the same time, and resided in the same hotel as the defendant and his friend were living at. The acquaintance, which originated in that way, eventually led to the defendant and his friend become engaged to the plaintiff and her aster respectively. The engagemeut between Mr. Fletcher and his choice was spo :en of as still subsisting, while that netween Mr. Egan and the other young lady was the subject of the present action. The learned counsel for the plaintiff was proceeding to read some of the correspondence between Mr. Egan and Miss Shaw in order to establish the promise of marriage, when Mr. Tatlock said the de- fendant would admit the promise .tbe defence other- wise being that a reasonable time f«r it» performance had not elapsed, and that it was rescinded by consent. The plaintiff aplwared in the wihiess-box, but the defendant was not called, Although his partner in business, whom counsel termed also his partner in courtship, way called by the plaintiff. The evidence showed that the parties were on very affectionate terms up to some time in year, when they had a great quarrel," and when strong language was used on both sides. The deieiitiattt said he would not marry the plaintiff if he were rich, and if poor be would be still loss inclined to do so while the plaintiff admittel that in consequence of the treatment she ha 1 experienced she did call the defendant a villain. The trial resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff— Damages £50.

Pu.ts,for Neurals*i.i, Faceacho, ke., glil., 13. 1M. I'ostnije hI. So d by all chemists. Kar Bro-s Stockport. AT Brighton the remains af Sir John Forsyth, K.C.S.L., C.B., who died at the residence of his son, Major-General Forsyth, at West Brighton, have been interred in Hove Churchyard. There was a large atten- dance. The deceased, who was in his 84i^_ year, was late principal Inspector-General of her Majesty's Indian Medical Department, Bengal. SHOllTLY after ten o'clock in the morning a large black retriever dog, believed to be mad, was seen running along Stepney-green, London. It was howling terribly, snapping at everyone it met, and foam was low- ing freely from its mouth. The attention of l'olice- constables Bernard, Meci aH, and Ilellabv was called to it, and they at once gave chase, and after a long spin they ran tho bru^e into Messrs. Field's timber-yard. Here the dog turned to bay, and ::ew saragely at the ollicers when thry went towards him. They drew their truncheons, but t' ese produced no effect, and ultimately one of them procured a large hammer, with which be killed the animal. Six or eight persons are said to have been bitten. THK smallpox epidemic seems to be making headway in Wolverhampton. Within a few days three cases have appeared ia the town itself, and at Heath Town, an outlying part of the borough, there have been tnothar two cases reported, one of which has ended fatally. There are now eight patients in the hospital. TO YOUXGER SONS AND OTHERS desirous of increasing their incomes. A London firm of wine merchants, established in Mark-lane, are open to make arrangements with gentlem n who are well connected, and able to introduce business. Liberal terms. Address Vino, care of Housekeeper, 72, Mark-lane, London, E.G. AT ACCIUNGTON two juveniles named Alice Smalley, 15, and John Switzen, 14, were charged with felony. The girl packed up a bundle of clothes in a neighbour's house at Oswaldtwistle, and the boy stole a pair of hoots from the same house. The police said the prisoners were troublesome, bad characters, and they were committed to fourteen days' imprisonment, to be followed by three years in a reformatory.. THE financial position of some of the medical charities of the metropolis have for some time past been in a serious position, owing to the necessity of having to sell out stock to meet current expenses. The funds, however, of the King's College Hospital and the Middlesex Hospital have ju9t received the addition of a munilicent donation of £ 1000 each from T. W. R. who has also given £ 1000 to the Infant Orphan Asylum and £ 500 sach to the Brompton Consumption Hospital and the British Home for Incurables, Clapham. EMVJMTO WATSON, chief goods clerk at Driffield Junction, has ve: charged at the East Riding Petty Sessions Triffield, with embezzling JE13 from the North-eastern Railway Company. The prisoner, by an ingenious system, had falsified th" abstract sheets, and was detected erasing the figures wi.h knife and rubber. He had been in the company's servict. twenty-two years, and had applied for superannuation. Or. pleading guilty the Bench sentenced hrm to six months' hard labour.

I ROBBERY OF BUGS IN THE CITY OF LONDON. J At the Guildhall Police-court, London. John Clark, a porter, arid William Lovsey, a coachman, both in the service of Messrs. Tapiing and Co., carpet manufacturers, ef Gresham-street, were charged on remand with stealing six rugs, the property of their employers an 1 Peter Ve/ey, 20, Gosweii-road, not connected with the prose- cutors, was also charé;d on rsmand with receiving the same, well-knowing them to have been stolen. Mr. H. F. Wood appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. James Chap- man for Vezey. The short facts of the case were that Messrs. Tapling found that they were being systematically robbed, and applied to the police. In consequence, the matter was placed in the hands of Detective-sergeant John Mitchell, who with Detective Hutt watched Messrs. Tapling's premises, and they Saw Clark bring down the rugs, give them to Lovsey, who put them into his trap, anl drove off with them, followed hy 1tlitchell and Hutt, on foot. At the corner of Bunhill-row Lovsey gave a signal to somebody inside a public-house at the corner, and then drove on. Directly afterwards Yexey came out, and joined Lovesey, and they drove away together, went to a mattress maker's in Curtain-road, and de- posited there the rugs. After Lovsey left the officers arrested V'ezey, and afterwards Lovsey and Clark. Mr. Wood said he thought the proceedings would be very short, as he understood the prisoners would plead guilty, and the p osecutors desired to leave the matter in the hands of the Court. Messrs. Tapling I had been very badly treated. The two first prisoners had been in their employment for a number of years, and had been treated with great generosity, and in return they had abused the confidence repo«ed in them and had robbed their masters. He understood that Vrezey was prepared to plead guilty to the unlawful possession, and the prosecutors wished the matter to he dealt with by the Court. A legal difficulty arose, because Vezev did not come into possession of the rugs until they were out of the jurisdiction of the City, and he was not charged with the rnlawfu) possession of them, but with receiving them, well knowing them to have been stolen. After a long legal discussion the prisoners pleaded guilty to the charges, and Mr. Chapman called evidence to the character of Vezey, and asked to have the case dealt with leniently, a request in which Mr. Woo l joined. Alderman Water- low sentenced them each to six months' hard labour.

MURDER AXD ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. A shocking occurrence ha.s happened in Mile Town, Sheerness, a blackmail named William Browr, about 50 years of age, having murdered his wife by cutting her throat with a razor, violently attacked his stepson, aged 2'>, with a knife, and then set his house on fire and cut hid own throat. The first circumstance which drew attention to the horrible deed "ras the discovery of Brown's four children standing, early in the morning, at an open bedroom window in Eb"n /er-road. where the family resided, screaming ''Murder" and "Fire." Before any one could get to the house one of them, a girl of about 9, jumped from the bedroom window to the ground. The height was not great, and she escaped serious injury from her leap. A man named Husson, a watchman in the employ of the London. Chatham, a"d Dover Railway Company, assisted the remainder of the children from the bedroom, the house being of low pitch. They made statements to the effect that their father had killed their mother, and had set the house on fire. Huss-rn and Police-constable Jacobs and others there- upon burst open the front door. Brown's st'-pson inane- diately staggered out into the street, where he fell insen- sible from the loss of blood, from seriou-t wounds in his thigh, chest, and head. It is said that, bearing his mother's shrieks, he went downstairs to her assistance, and Brown thereupon made a most ferocious attack upon him, hacking" him about with a razor. The body of Mrs. Brown, who was rather a fine muscular woman, was found lying in a room which was in flames. She wad quite dead, her throat having been cut. The exertions of the police and firemen were suc- cessful in speedily get-ing the ¡Ore under. A search was then made for Brown, who was found lying in an attic upstairs with his throat cut, and an open razor lying- by his side. This attic was filled with such dense smoke that it was expected he had I)e'n suffocated, if the gash in his throat had not caused death but it was discovered that he was alive, although the wound is an ugly one. It is extremely doubtful whether the unfortunate stepson will get up again. The tragic occurrence has caused great excitement in Sheerness, where Brown was a familiar tlgnre. Formerly he was a seam.- in in the Royal Navy, and was discharged with a certificate for good conduct and a pension. Since then lie has been able to angumcnt his pension by doing oid jobs for contractors and for the Sheerness Local Hoard of Health. Some years ago hemnrel the deceased, w ho was then a widow, and by whom he has had four chil- (lIen. She assisted in gaining a livelihood by washing for sailors. The children state that their father and mother had had a frightful quarrel during the nL,ht-a not altogether unusual occurrence and neither of them had been to bed. Brown was a very quiet man in the ordinary way, but had a terrible temper when aroused or when in drink. Mr. W. J. Harris, coroner for the Sittingbourne district of Kent, opened an inquiry at the Victoria Tavern on the body of the deceased. He said that, as the accused man was not in a fit state to attend, and the principal witness was in a very critical condition, he only proposed to take sufficient evidence that day to warrant him in directing a post- mortem examination to be made and also in grant- ing an order for the disposal of the body. Daoiei Burrows, a rigger, employed in Sherrnesa Dockyard, de- posed that the deceased was his sister, and was 4t> years of age. She was the wife of William Brown, a labourer, employed by the Sheerness Board of Health. He was also a naval pensioner. The coroner at this stage held a consultation with Dr. Arrol and Dr. Bland, and as it ap- peared from their statements that there was very little prospect of the accused recovering, the t oroti(r decided to adjourn the, inquiry for a few days. He also requested the medical gentlemen abovementione l to make a most minute post-mortem examination of the deceased. The surg ons afterwards visited Alfrerl Rnmp, the stepson I' of Brown, and hold out no hope for his recovery. He has three wounds, one of which has penetrated the left Inng in the region of the heart. The oth'r woands, which were indicted with a large clasp kni'e, are at the back of the head and in the thigh. Rump's depositions have been taken. He states that he was aroused from his sleep by hearing a quarrel between h:s mother and stepfather There was also a quantity of smoke in his bedroom. He went downstairs, and upon entering the back room he found a portion of it was on tire. He saw his moth r lying on the floor in a pool of blood. He asked his father what was the meaning of it, when he seized him, Bitd endeavoured to throw him into the fire. He struggled when the latter indicted upon him with a ra'.or the injuries described. The door was almost imme- diately broken open, and he made his escape. He fell down in the street exhausted, and was conveyed to the residence of Mr. Baker, his uncle, in Chapel-street. Brown was afterwards removed to the Tfnion Hos- pital, and soon after his arrival fell asleep. His children had preceded hint there, and the sc. no upon their arrival was of a most harrowing description. They cried most frantically, and would not be comforted, although they were treated by the officials with great kindness. From the statements made by the stepson it is supposed by the police that when the door was forced Brown ran upstairs and attempted self-destruction. He had not made the attempt when la t seen by Hump. Brown's bedside is watched by a policeman detached for the purpose. At the Sheppey Board of Guardians, the chairman (the Mayor of Qtieenborough when the facts were reported, said he knew Brown to be a most Indus- trious persevering man, and he had frequently held him up as an example to his own workmen.

CoAGni.iNK.—The Post Cement for Broken Articles, fid ,?s., 2s. Postage Zd. Kny Bros., rstockl'(1rt. Sold everywhere. THE LOUD CHANCET/LOR has bestowed the vacant living of Whaplode, Lincolnshire, on the Rev. John Collin." Great Ay ton Vicarage, Northal- lerton, Yorkshire. The living is worth £ 700*por annum and a splendid house and grounds. It was recently offered to the Rev. F. Fenn, Principal of Trent College, Nottingham, and refused. B'K'iiXEJtou'fir.—Kouune Halt.. (Conducted by Resi- dent M.D.) For those Visiting the Seaside under Medical Advice. Prospectuses forwarded. AT Maidenhead, a man named Henry Dance has been sentenced to fourteen days' hard labour for assaulting two lads named Bushnell and Simmons, and behaving in a disorderly manner in a licensed place of public worship. The assaults were committed during a prayer meeting in the Blue Ribbon Gospel Hall. AT a meeting of creditors of the Maryport IleniaMtc Iron Company at Carlisle, Mr. Charles M. Palmer, M.P., in the chair, the statement submitted by the accountants showed that, omitting creditors fully secured, whose claims amount to £ 110,IO4*. and partly secured crelitors, whose claims ars covered by £1:.1,141 securities, the liabilities of the firm are £ 132,108. The assets are estimated at £ 16,488, leaving a deficiency of £11 !í,620. It was received to liquidate the affairs of the deoi.?r.s by arrangement, and not in bankruptcy. Two trustees were appointed, with a Committee of Inspection.

y | EXTRAORDINARY ABUSE CASE. At the Woolwich Police-court, London, Emma Cann, spinster, was summoned for abusing Captain William Parker Snow, described as a public lecturer and philan- thropist. She was also charged with abusing Albert Clark, a youth employed by Captain Snow as ama- nuensis. Mr. Kimber, who prosecuted, said that the do- fendant had been repeatedly at this court for annoying Captain Snow and his wife, who had for years past en- deavoured to look after her. The captain, who had served in South America and in one of ths searches for Sir John Franklin, had no vin- die-ative motives in this case. IT is philanthropy had outrun his judgment, and had encouraged the defendant's annoyances, but all he asked was protec- tion. Evidence having been given to prove the two complaints, the defendant, with great fluency and frequent sobs, proceeded to give an account of her history and connection with Captain Snow, mixing up with the narrati ve in a compromising manner the names of several well-known noblemen and distinguished per- sons. The magistrate (Mr. Marsham) occasionally checked her volubility and arrested further disclosures, and even when induced to confine herself to a cross- examination of the witnesses she could not be kept to the point at issue. In answer to her questions and state- merits Captain Snow said that he had been acquainted with her for thirteen years, that she ad lived part of the time in his house at Bexley Heath nd quite recently was lodged in apartments commnnicating with his office, bis wife at the same time residing in the house. For several years past he had tried to get free from her, but by her representations of being in want and threats of suicide he had been induced continually to assist her, even up to the present time. She had been sent to prison for seven days about a month ago, and had twice been plunder bail, the first time in May, 13S2. Defendant: You have been with me to Ramsgate since then? Com- plaiuant: Because you said you had a situation to go to. Defendant: And you brought me back again? Com- plainant: Yes, because you threatened suicide. De- fendant: Have you not taken me to Scotland and Oxford, and givea out that you were away from home on business ? Complainant: You followed me to various places. Dc- fendant: Have you not represented meas your wife? Com- plainant: That was a good many years f.go. Defendant: We roughed the world together for years, and now you want to cast me off, in order to make yourself a good character at my expense. Have you not asked me to clear your name before the public, and satisfy the clergymen and persons who have taken up your lectures ? Complainant: No. Defendant: God forgive you. William. Mr. Marsham You must keen away from him if he wishes it. Defendant: I have not been to his house since I had the seven days in prison, but he has sent me money and clothes every day by his clerk. Complainant: Because you said you were destitute. You were at my house and climbed over the fence two days ago. Mr. Marsham ordered the defendant to find one surety in JE20 for her good behaviour, which she said she was unable to do, and she was thereupon committed to prison for a month. Defendant: I hope the press will ta\G up my case. Will you please tell the press that ? Mr. Marsham: I have no power to interfere with the press.

SINGULAR CASE OF ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. At the Wandsworth Police-court, London, Lucy Morris, a married woman, living in Raynes-road, Witü- bledon, was charged with attempting to commit suicide on the South-Western Railway. Poliee-con'table Smith said he was on duty in the Merton-road, near the level crossing passing over the South-Western Railway, when he saw a man and woman walking along the line in the direction of Clapham Junction. He watched them, and saw the woman, who left the man, sit down on the inside rail of the up-line. The man ran up, and pulled her down the embankment. A minute afterwards the express train passed. She went on the line a second time, and then a platelayer caught hold of her. Witness went up, and found her in an excited state. When he charged her, she said, I do not care if 1 had been killed." The signalman, who was in the box 100 yards off, said the man nulled the prisoner otT the line twice. He (witness) stopped a good3 train. The prisoner told the magistrate that she had no intention of destroying herself. The husband, who was in the employ of the company, said lie was with his wife at the time. He went down the embankment to avoid the train, but his wife fell across the rails. He pulled her off, and after the train had passed he told her to return for her bonnet, which had fallen off. He then complained of the rough treatment which he alleged his wife received, adding that her dress was torn. The constable was recalled and denied that any violence was used. Mr. Hannay accepted the hus- band's recognisances in the sum of £5 for his wife's good behaviour for three months.

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NAVAL ENGINEER STUDENTS. The Lords of the Admiralty have issued a new code of regulations for the entry of engineer students in her Majesty's dockyards, with 2. view to their being trained for service afloat as engineer officers of the navy. The vacancies for appointments as students in the dockyards- will in future be tilled principally by means of competi- tive examinations, open to all sons of U.-itUh Mib|ects being of the prescribed age and of good moral character, but the Admiralty reserve to themselves the right to nominate a few candidates at the entry, who will be appointed on passing a test examina- tion. The candidates to be nominated will be selected by the Board of Admiralty from sons of officers of the navy, army, or Royal Marines, who have been killed in action, or who have been loot at sea on active service, or killed on duty, or who have died of wounds received in action, or injuries received in duty within six months from the date of such action or injury or sons of officers of the navy or Roval Marines who have performed any meritorious service. The number to be so nominated will not exceed one-fifth of the total number of engineer students to be entered. Except as regards exemption from competitive examina- tion, these candidates will be subject in all respects to the ordinary regulations. The number of appoint- m ilts to be made in each year, and the dockyards. at which engineer students are to be entered, will be tixed by their lordships. The Hit of candidates- for these appointments by open competition will as heretofore be kept at the ofiice of the Civil Service Com- missioners, and the li-t of nominated candidates will be, kept at the Admiralty. Applications for nominations, must be made before the 1st of February each year, and should lie addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty if the candidate is the sun of an officer of the navy or Marines; to the Military Secretary, Horse Guards, if the candidate is the son of an olUcer of the army; and to the Jlilitary Secretary, India Office, if the candidate is the son of an officer of the Indian army. The following will be the subjects of the competitive examinations, from which it will be seen that there is a material alteration from the original regulations: Arithmetic, 300 marks; handwriting. 40; accuracy and intelli- gence in writing from dictation, 60; composi- tion, 100; grammar, 150; translation into English of French or German or Italian, 150 marks; translation of Latin into English, 150 geography, 1CO; algebra, up to nnd including quadratic equations, 300; Euclid's Elements (Books 1 to 1, and Book ti, and the definitional of Book 5), MOO; mechanical drawing (elementary), 100 total 1750. The parent and guardian of each engineer student entered in the future will be required to n.ake- four annual payments during the first four years of the student's training, namely, £ 30 each ear for the llrst two years, and 1;20 each y: ar for the two subsequent years It will, however, be in the discretion of the A Imir.dtv to re,luce these annual payments in the case cf soil i of Officers killed or drowned on service. In other n tho reflations are similar to those now in force.

AT the Potty Sessions, Shrewsbury, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the borough were summoned by Isaiah Lindop, a proprietor of several traction engines at Shiffnall, for permitting a steam street roller to pass along the highway ot the borough without having three men in charge, as re piired by the Act and Henry Thomas, the driver of the roller, was summoned for driving it alonff the streets daring a part of the day pro- hibited by the !ye-)aws. The last 'ase was dismissed, as Mr. Lindop could not prove it from the bye-laws, and the charge against the Mayor and Corporation was dismia ed.

LONDON CORRESPONDENCE. tWo deem it right to state that we rlo not identify aur- selves with our Correspondent's opinions.] German newspaper writers are too much in the habit of drawing reasons or motived for everything out of their own inner consciousness. They are not satis lied with the announcement that Mr. Gladstone has gone to reside for a time at Cannea for the simp'e purpose of re- eruiting his health by rest and change of air in a milder climate. They aver that it is dissensions in the Cabinet with reference to the Egyptian question which have caused the Premier to transfer himself from llawarden Castle to the Chateau Scott. 1% hat a mere change of resi- dence could effect, if such were actually the case, it is not very easy to understand. This short sojourn of Mr. Gladstone in the eouth of France has r.aturaily drawn attention to the circumstance of the rarity of the occasions on which the Prime Ministers of England, or Secre- taries of State, can afford the time to go abroad for recruiting or recreative purposes. Except when he went to take part in the Berlin Confe- rence, the late Lord j leacons.ield never went further afield than Paris since the beginning of the period when he began to play a prominent part in Parliament. Even the Duke of Welling- ton, when he ceased to be a warrior and became a statesman, was content to stay at home. With the exception of the duke, no Prime Minister of this country has ever been in India, and, with the exception of the late Lord Derby, none have ever idsited the North American continent. It might have been supposed that, since the chief complaint against the old Law Courts in London was want of light and ventilation as well as sufficient room for the comfortable discharge Df business, an entirely new order of things would have been instituted when the new Law Courts were erected. Hut such unfortunately is not the case. Tb" internal defects, inseparable from Gothic architecture, are already so much fen that complaints are numerous. The dim religious light" which prevails in the corridors and staircases would have been better suited to a cathedral. But, perhaps, it is just ai well after all that Law Courts should not be made too attractive. The proposed extension of tramways to lead- ing thoroughfares in thejWest-end has revived an old controversy. The deputation that waited upon the Metropolitan Board of Worlds for the purpose of opposing the movement revived the old stock arguments on th"irside of the question. The cars will take customers past our premises is the selfish outcry of the proprietors of large business establishments. It was this out ry which deprived Tottenham Court-road of the benefit of the tramway which traverses Hampstea I-road. But it is all a. mistake. The tramcars take cus- I tomers, who want to go there, to the doors of the chief clothing, furniture, and general supply eetaHisbmenta. Indeed the selfishness, no less than the short- sightedness of these monopolising shopkeepers is'rather too apparent. When they say, !h, fcut you will take customers past our sliops," the proper retort -,s, "Then they will go to other shops which perhaps ttand more in need of their custom, and thus the briskness of business will be more generally diffused." As It fa t, however, tramway-cars do make regular stoppages opposite the doors of the leading supply establishments on those lines of route for the purpose of letting out and taking in passengers. Pretty severe comments appeared in some of •the metropolitan papers with regard to the width pf scope which Dr. Dip:ock-who presided as ijoroner at the inquiry into the cause cf the death '.f J r. Edwardes at L'ouislow—allowed the evidence to take at the various adjourned sittings of the jury in the shored-up billiard-room vf the Red Lion Hotel. Hut the fact is that, unless the inquiry had taken the range it did, it srould have been impossible for the jury to have appended to their veidict the rider in which they attributed the insanity that resulted in suicide to the pressure brought to bear by Dr. Whit- marsh upon Dr. Edwardes to quit, the partnership account of the falsa charges leveiled against lira by the woman Bignell. whose hysteria de- veloped itself in a manner which, we may hope for • the sake of the medical profession, is exceedingly Are. The fatal fire in Bishopsgate- a treet, occurred in one of thosn miserable wooden i ookeries, teeming with poor inhabitants, which j vtilI abound in some parts of London, notwith- standing the clearances and improvements which have been effected of late years. If the Peabody lund had been employed more in accordance with the intentions of the deceased benevolent millionaire than the trustees have thought lit to do, the deserving poor would have derived benefit from it in th" way of better habitations, to which many of them are yet strangers. D. G.

NEWS NOTFo I I (We deem ft rurlit »u»i•• wo dc, not identify ow: I selves with our i;0rrl'Spowt(;t'ij O]}llllUllS. I THE postponement of the silver wedding cere- monial of the Crown Prince ;:n l Pjinces, of Germany must have caused a disarrangement of plans and preparations of which it is impossible to form anything like an accurate estimate. Great disappointment must, also have been caused to the large numbers of peop'.e who hai arrived in Berlin to take part in the festivities some days before the death of the Emperor's brother was announced. The deceased Prince was the father of the Red Prince, and grand- father of the Duchtss of Connaught. The Count de Chambord is said to have had nothing to do with the Legitimist conspiracy alleged to have b-en discovered in the west of France, though the Koyaist newspapers declare that there was no conspiracy, and that it was a mere ruse got up io serve Republican ends. J nit assuming that there was a conspiracy of the kind described, it would have existed all the same whether the Count de Chambord resided in or out of France. His expulsion from the country would therefore be of little use. Smxs of movement among the Bonapartists and the Royalists occurrin at the same time may have the effect of causing measures to be talien, such as the one proposed in the Legislative Chambers, to prevent the Orleans Princes from continuing to hold commissions in the French army. No doubt threatened risings of Bona- partists, Legitimists, or Orleanistsare aggravating enough; but the l,epubll, is suiheiently strong to take care of itself without needing to send into exile all the members of former reigning families. n DR. OLIVER WEN-DELI. TIOLJIPS has given, from his own experience, an amusing account of the persecution to which authors of repute in the United Siates are subjected by interviewers, autograph hunters, letter-writers, and other bores. The same thing goes on in this country, though not to the same extent as in America, where the pertinacity that characterises oiiice- hunters appears to be pretty genera ly diffused. Dr. Holmes suggests that accredited interviewers should wear badges like war correspondent:, and should carry about with them testimonials from three clergymen of the same denomination and from as many deacons as can be got to agree about theii^merits. PniLic men are at the mercy of interviewers in two ways. If admittance is denied to them, they can retaliate by hostile attacks in the news- papers which they represent: and if they arc admitted there is no guarantee of a faithful report appearing of what was said in answer to their questions. Interviewing is an American invention, and it was the encouragement it received there from the variety of public men that made it grow into the great nuisance it has become, as described by Dr. Holmes. Theiie appears to be good ground for hope that th, authorities in Dublin are now in the fair way of associating the large body of conspirators, whom they have in custody, with the assassina- tions which have cast such an indelible blot up jn recent pages oi' Irish history. The details given by the informer, Robert Farrell, concerns the inner circle of conspirators who plotted tho murders of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke, and who had also made attempts, which were accidentally frustrated, to assassinate Air. Forster when he was Chief Secretary for Ireland. It will be a day for thanksgiving when the blood- stained band of conspirators are at last brought to justice.

"KEATINTf'SOOrjGrU LOZKV.iS.3."—Care Coughs, ASTHMA, BSHOAT—Me lieU teitiinjay SCAIE.I that uo other medieino is so -j.faattwl in tie care of tho"c dangerous 'aaLvIies. L>«onafa al vae giv-it eise, ono or two at bad time a'nares -*old in Tins. la. Hrl. Speaking at Talk-o'-th'-IIill, Mr. W. Y. Craig, M.P., confined his remarks to what he termed tile morality of party polities as at present practised. Refer- ring to the Conservative party as having for its cJÚd object the preservation of order, he said that ai though this constituted the first duty of the St.ue, yet, if it be unduly insisted upon while the duty of reform was neg- lected, it would lead to consequences. m.bt disastrous, as instanced by Ireland. At the same time, while neglect of order on the pait of a Liberal Government, honestly en- deavouring to extend the liberties of the people, might lead to lawlessness and neral insecurity, the denial of a just measure of heform 011 the part of a Conservative Government would inevitably lead to a dangerous agi- tation, or, it might be, to open rebellion. A, to the Iri-h Home Kule pirty, he ohi' rvcd that while they h .d declined to submit to Parliament a formula.cd statement 0" what they meant IT Home Ride, they ur "cd the people to a course of actbn which neces-itated coercive legis a- tion. While Mr. Gla '.stone was labouring 10 ameliorate the condition of Ireland by remedial legislation, Irishmen outside were clamouring for something which their representatives in the House had net the courage to define, while they did their utmost to thwart the efforts of the Government 0.1 behalf of Ireland, and brave th Parliament of the T ititod Kingdom. The disposition of the British people towards Ireland was now favourable to progress, and the efforts of the Libetal party to pro- mote the interests of the Irish people were genu/n". To TRUSTEES AND OTHF.BS.—Safe investment; paying regular cividends of srven per cent. £500 stock in an old- established and sound tracing concern. Would sell a portion. Full particulars of Fo,tcr, Hight and Co., Chartered Accountants, 3, Coptliall-buildings, E.C. THE church of St. Paul, Broke-road, Hagger- ston, Lend i-), has bet'a broken into. The thieves g-ained access through one of tl1" able Nviricloivs. ari(I vainly ransacked the building in search of the Communion plate, forcing open also the alms-boxes, which had b.ec previously emptied by the churchwardens. The thieves moved the altar candelabta, but evidently found them too pond-rous to carry away. E-voiid the damage cf the broken window ard" the breiking of soma woodwork thechu ch has not suffered, an I the thieves fortunately gained nothing. THE work of restoring Peterborough Cathedral 13 proce ding as rapidly as possible, and the organ has been moved from the choir screen into the north end of the nave KAY'S COMPU-NI) for Colds and Couarlis, cures 9 casos out of 10. Sold everywhere, 9^1., la. ljd &■ AT the Potteries Stipendiary Court, Turn tall, a biitcjier named h'aiuuel Shwtt was tined JE20 anu costs, or in default three months' imprisonment, for exposing the carcase of a diseased pig for sale in public market. The carcase, when seized, was in a semi-putrid con litiou, the animal having, according to medical evideaco, Buffered from scrofula. A "WHOLESALE SVVINDLE by two servant girls has been befor.; the city magistrates at Exeter. The girls, named Ivingdon and hnott, had recently left their situations and set about defrauding tradesmen in a very daring manner. Their plan was to call at a shop, repre- sent that they were servants with a family residing iu a respectable neighbourhood-, and that thdr mistress wished to have certai:l goods sent her. Just before tea- illg the prisoners would express a wish to take some- thing themselves, which they alleged their mistreis wanted immediately, and this was to be paid for when the other things were delivered. On the articles bt-ing taken to the address given, it was dis overtd that the persons named by the prisoners had no c Six cases, in which they had been successful, were gone into, after which the prisoners w re committel fortrial. j A MEETING has been held under the auspices of the Artisans' Association for the advancement of technical cd tcation in the Lecture Hall, Stamford-street, Hlackfriars-road, London. In the absence of Mr. Hodgson Pratt, the chair was u\k at by Mr. G. N. Hooper. Letters were read from 1 r J Clarke Lawrence, Sir W. M'Arthur, Professci Kogers, Messrs. Andrew Dunn, Alexander nations, and other gentlemen ex- pressing symniihy with the movement. The Rev. Henry Solly, the Rev. Copeland Bowie, the Rev. G. M. Murphy. Mr. Lucraft, and other gentlemen addresac.i the meeting, and resolutions were carried lo í.ect that technical classen were of great benefit, and that such classes shoukl be bdd in the place of meeting. The fee will be low, and Mr. J. N. Lee, who ":M' appointed sec- retary, will rcciive names of artisans willing to join.

HORRIBLE DISCOVERY IN THE METROPOLIS. A great deal of excitement has been eansed in the neighboarV-cj of Old-street and (loanel 1-road, London, by a ro[K>rt, which .gained rapid currency, that a horrible n-ardcr had been committed. The facts disclosed are at present enveloped in a certain amount of mystery. On Dec. 11 a ro igh-looking common deal box, about 2ft. iong, ISin. high, and abont 18in. or :?Oin, in breadth, was received at a general shop in the Cambiictge-heath- r< ad, which is a reviving house of Ma^rs. Carter, Pater- son, an,1 Co., the well-known railway and general carriers, and in the ordinary course forwarded to the chief oilice in Goswell-road, to be from there forwarded to its destination. It was addressed as follows Mrs. Green, 3, Abbev-roal, St. John's-wood, N.W." The carman in that neighbourhood, not being able to find "Mr. Green," returned the box to the chief office, where it remained in the care of Mr. Ailen, the manager, until quite recently. Noticing a dis1\ree:J.ble smell emanate from the package he ordered it to be opened, when to his horror and surprise he found it to contain the body of a child far advanced in decom- position. Mr. Allen at once went to the police-station, where he saw Actii g-Inspector William Davis, 2 G H, to whom he related what had been discovered. Inspect jr P.tvis at once despatched Sergeant Briars Fearbin for Dr. Yarrow, the divisional surgeon, and the remains were taken to the mortuary. Dr. Yarrow pronounced the body to be that of a girl between 13 and 14 years of age. It measured four feet in length, and was that ef a fair- haired child, good-looking, with excellent teeth, but rather thin. It was a matter of wonder to all who saw it how it had been squeezed into so small a space. Dr. Yarrow is strongly of opinion that the child has been starved, but cannot, of course, speak positively as to this until he has made a post mortem examination. The body thus discovered resembles in many particalars that of the girl who has been so long missing from West Ham, and for whose recovery large rewards have been oil'ered, and a description of whom has been. extensively cir- culated.

TIIE MILE A PLATTING- CASE. At a recent meeting of the clergy of the Sheffield Rural Dianery, held under the presidency of the Kev. Canon Plakeney, it was resolved to ;-resent an address to the Ilishop of Manchester, commending thr; course pur- sutfl by him in reference to the nomination to the vacant incumbency of St, John's, Miiea Platting. In acknowledging the address, his lordship writes "Manchester, Jan., 1883. My dear Canon Blakeney,—I acknowledge with thanks the address of sympathy which you have for- warded to me, and which you inform ma was unani- mously passed at a meeting of the Ruridecan.I Chapter of Sheffield, and is signed by fifty-two of the clergy. Such an address, thus numerously and intluentially signed, cannot hut be encouraging to me in tho difficult positioa into which I have b'en forced, and in which I am simply endeavouring, with no partisan motive, but in the discharge of what I deem to be my duty as a bishop, to maintain the supreme authority of law in the regula- tion of Public Worship aa the only effective gaarantee for the protection of the rights of Churchmen, clergymen, and congregations who wish that their own self-will should override all authority do not appear to me to have adequately measured the consequences of letting loot-ethe principles of anarchy. At tho present moment the ex- treme party amongst us refuses alike to recognise the ad- monition of the bishop and the decisions of the Court of Final A jpeal, and it is time that Churchmen generally should consider whether such a spirit can be tolerated ill theChurch without destroying that trarvpakl freedom which Cicero says is true peace, and exposing the Church itseif to perils of the very gravest kind. I thank you and your co-sigu.itories for the assurance of their moral support, and remain Yours very faithfully, "J. MANCIIKSTHH.

SUDDEN DEATH OF A GENTLEMAN. Mr. S. F. Langham, deputy-coroner for the City- of Westminster, recently opened an inquiry at the West- minster Sessions House, concerning the death of Rosaman Percival, aged 57, an independent gentleman, of 34, Mont- pelier-street, Brompton. Amelia Percival, daughter of the deceased, deposed that she saw her father at a' out half- past ten in the morning, when he was leaving home, He then appeared to be in his usual health, and s'no heard nothing of him until the following morning, when he was brought home dead. Pclice constable Artli-it Knight, 472 13, gave evidence to the effect that at half-past six in the morning he saw the deceased sitting on a doorstep in the Brompton-road. Witness spoke to him, but he made no answer, and he then took hold of his wrist and found he was dead, although the body was quite warm. He sent for Dr. Macintosh, who pronocinceo him dead. On his person witness found £1 4s. 4 jd., a gold chain, four studs, a latch-key, and a purse. Dr. u Hugh Macintosh, of Brompton-road, stated that he was called in to see the deceased. He was quite dead. His opinion was that death had resulted from syncope. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical "vidence.

HAVE IT IN YOUR HOUSE—Lamplouoh's Pybetio Saline—and use no other. The only safe antidote in Fevers, Eruptive Affections, Sea or Bilious Sickness, Small-pox and He&d-ache; having peculiar and exclusive merits. Use no substitute. See perpetual injunction against imitators; also the unanimous judgment before the Lords Justices Bramwell, Brett, and Cotton, 22nd Jan., 1878, in Lamplough's favour. 113, Holborn-hill, London. A r Liverpool John Purrows, secretary to the Children's Burial Society, St. Helen's, has been convicted of having obtained various sums of money amounting to £ 106", by filling up fictitious orders purporting that children of persons represented to be members had died, and burial allowance was required. The prisoner's' counsel said his client had became involved in betting transactions, which had tempted him to commit the fraud. Ho was sentenced to nine months' imprison- ment. A Barnstaple BUTCHER, named Watts, has been apprehended on a mail steamer at Plymouth as an absconding debtor. AN inquiry has been held at West Bromwich, before Mr. J. 1', Harrison, one of the Local Government Board inspectors, respecting an application made by the Gas Committee to borrow JK5000 under the Gas Act, 1^76. Evi lence having been submitted, the inspector promised to lay the matter before the Board. KAT'S COMPOUND, a demulcent anodyne expectorant, for Coughs and Colds. Sold everywhere, 94d 13. ljd. Thomas Bakkow, jun., has been convicted at the assizes, Carlisle, of setting fire to his charcoal mill at Upperby, in July last, in order to defraud an insurance company of .SloOO, and was sentenced to five years' penal servitude. AT the Police-court, Cardiff, eleven seamen: have been charged with wilfully disobeying the orders of the master of the British barque Prince Amadoo. The men had been shipped on a voyage from Cardiff, to Rio Jajeiro, but on being ordered to work the vessel in tho dock they refused and went ashore, but returned after- wards. They still declined to go on board and do their work, and they were sent to gaol for four weeks, with hard labour. A correspondent writes from Naples Having seen from several journals that the notion is prevalent in England that Professor Palmieri, of Vesuvian celebrity, is dead, I am glad to inform you that this is not the case, and that the illustrious professor enjoys good health, and does not feel too severely the weight of his years. Last autumn he had the misfortune to lose his son, also a professor, and it was this that led to the mistake. Pro- fessor Palmieri gave a lecture here the other day befc.e ■ a large audience on the Temperature 0" the Atmosphere." The COMMISSION appointed by IvI. Antonin Proust during his tenure of office u^^er M. Gambetta's Premiership, to consider the condition of art industries in France, is to continue iis researches, after being 'interrupted for some time under t'ie direction of M. Logerotte, the present under-secretary of the Fine Arts Department. The causes which led to the nomination of this commission were the frequency of the strikes in these industry, and the fears which are entertained of foreign competition.