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NICE DISHES.
Countess von Schimon-Schwandorf, formerly a lady-in-waiting at the Austrian Court, was last week evicted from the wretched tenement in New York,where she earns a living as a seamstress. Mr. R. C. Quin, city electrical engineer of Brad- ford, was at Tamney, Co. Donegal, on Mouday, with several engineering friends, engaged in survey- ing a quarry. While he was standing on the pier a tidal wave swept in from the Atlantic and washed him into the sea. An inquest has been held at the Convent of the. Sacred Heart, Brighton, relative to the death of Sister Christina M'Laughlin, twenty-seven, who died at the convent on Saturday from shock caused by burns. Sister M' Laughlin and another nun were engaged softening a preparation of wax used for the floors over a fire, when the turpentine splashed out and caught lire. The deceased threw her apron over the flame, and her clothes became ignited. Her companion was burnt about the arms. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death. NICE DISHES. FRICASSEED LOHSTEU. Put the meat of two lobsters, cut into small pieces, with some fat and the coral in a frying-pan, also a little pepper, salt, one-half cupful of milk or cream, one cupful of water, butter size of an egg, and one teaspoonful Worcestershire sauce. Let simmer until liquid has a rich red colour. Take a tablespoonful of flour, rub into it one-half tablespol,n'ul of butter, stir this into one-half cupful of hot milk then add the beaten yolk of one egg. When ready to serve, stir this into the lobster and one tablespoonful of sherry. JunnxNE soup.rak-e three pints of good stock, free of fat. Put into a clean stewpan with £ lb. of finely-shredded lean beef, a small carrot and onion. Beat with a whisk over the fire till the soup simmers, remove the whisk, boil up, then place the pot on the hob till the crust cracks. Strain it through a thick linen cloth that has been rinsed in boiling water, return the soup to the pan to heat; add seasoning to taste, and some previously boiled vegetables, cut into thin strips. If wine be added, put it in the tureen and pour the boiling soup on it. LRlO CHEESBCAKKS.—Rub the yellow skin of a lemon off with half a pound of loaf sugar, put this into a saucepan with two ounces of fresh butter, two well-beaten eggs, and the juice of the lemon. Simmer gently, and stir one way till it is as thick as honey. Line some patty-pans with puff-paste, pour in the lemon-curd, and bake in a quick oven. TURKISH DELIGHT.—Put lib. of crystallised sugar into a saucepan with one pint of water. Add 2oz. of cornflour mixed with a little water, and stir over a fire until quite thick (about twenty minutes). Colour and flavour with orange-flower water. Pour into a wet tin, cut in squares, and roll in icing sugar. POTATO -Orle,-Iltlf cupful of milk, a tablespoonful of butter, salt and pepper to taste, the well-beaten whites of four eggs added to six mashed potatoes. Stir all together lightly with a fork. Pile in a mound and brown. TO MAKE CHUTNEY. Two lb. apples, lib. sugar, loz. ground ginger, 2oz. salt, 111). tamarinds, loz. chillies, loz. garlic, 2oz. shallots, ilb. mustard seeds, H pint vinegar, ilb. large raisins. Pare, core, and chop the apples, put them into a well-lined pan with vinegar, and boil them to a pulp. Turn into a basin. Now cut up the chillies very finely, also chop the shallots and garlic, and, when the apples cool, add them together with the other ingredients, the tamarinds cut up and the raisins stoned and chopped. Put the mixture into bottles, and set in a, warm place near the fire for several days. INKSTAINS ON CARPET. The best way to remove inkstains that have dried is to rub them with milk till the stain fades away, changing the miik as it becomes discoloured after- wards rub with ammonia to remove the grease. Fresh inkstains should be sprinkled with salt, which absorbs the ink, and so prevents the stain from l spreading. Brush it into a dustpan as soon as it is; discoloured, and sprinkle with fresh, removing ¡. that in the sams way. "WISE DONT'S." ) Don't start nervously if a child makes a noise or breaks a dish—keep your worry for broken bones. Don't sigh too often over servants' shortcomings. Don't exhaust all your reserve force over petty cares. Each time that a woman loses control over herself, her nerves, her temper, she loses just a little nervous force, just a little physical well- being. Don't go to bed late at night and rise at day- break and imagine that every hour taken from sleep is an hour gained. Don't always be doing something: have inter- mittent attacks of idling. To understand how to relax is to understand how to strengthen nerves. •'Don't fret ar>d "Don't worry'' are the most healthful of maxims. WHAT TO DO FOR SPRAINS. Everybody nowadays knows that the joints are surrounded by ligaments, tendons, &c., that keep the bones, with their cartilage-covered ends and intervening synovial bags or bursa;, in place. It is the sudden stretching or rupture of some of the fibres of these ligaments and fascia; that is called a sprain. There may be, and indeed generally is, ) rupture of the smaller blood-vessels. The accident takes place at once, and the pain is also immediate and very severe. It is impossible to bear any weight on the part without great suffering. Then the joint begins to swell and get red, and some- times even black. The ankle is most liable to be sprained, and it. is quite impossible to hurry a cure. Rest is imperative, and the injured limb must be kept high on a pillowed chair, and lightly covered with cotton-wool or very light bandage. Hot fomentations will assist in allaying the swelling and alleviating the distress but cold water may bo used, or lint steeped in water and applied under a piece of oiled silk. Rest is nevertheless the prin- cipal thing in the treatment. If after all pain is gone stiffness remains, rubbing or massage and movements of the joint. Slighter sprains of the ankle should be strapped with adhesive plaster in long strips about lin. wide. The strapping should begin around the instep. VIRTUE OF HOT MILK. Milk heated as highly as it can be drunk, but not Jto the boiling-point, is of great value as a refreshing stimulant in cases of over-exertion, whether bodily or mental. To many who like, milk it does not taste so palatable when hot, but this is a small consideration when compared with the benefit to be derived. Its action is exceedingly I prompt, and the effects much more satisfactory and far more lasting than those of any alcoholic drink whatever. It supplies real strength as well as nourishment. BE INDEl'ENDENT. Submission to what people call their "lot" is often ignoble. If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, and you arc not sure that it is really Providential, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself, don't listen to the shrieks of your relatives, to their jibes or their entreaties don't let your own microscopic set prescribe your goings- out and comings-in; don't be airaid of public opinion in the shape of the neighbour in the next house, when all the world is before you, new and shining, and everything is possible if you will only be energetic and independent and seize opportumty by the scruff of the neck. CHOOSING. Choosing is a test of character. It is not what we get, but what we choose not money or poverty, but the love of money; not success in gaining pleasure, but what we seek first, that tests us as to what we really are. What we have said and what we do often depend on many things outside of ourselv s. What we choose is the work of our hearts and wills. MAKF. EVERY DAY COUNT. The man who starts out in the morning with a determination to do something during the day that will amount to something, that will be distinctive, that will have individuality, that will give him satisfaction at night, is a great deal more likely not to waste his day in frivolous, unproductive work than the man who starts out with no plan. Begin every day, therefore, with a programme, and determine that, let what will come, you will carry it out as closely as possible. Follow it up per- sistently, day after day, and you will be surprised at the result. OUARD THE WEA« VOfNTS. If an engineer were constructing a fortification and there should be one side which was specially exposed, he would take special pains to make the defences strong on that side. If there is a weak point in your physical con- stitution, you are careful to guard it from exposure. If you suffer from weak lungs, you are careful to avoid damp and fogs, sudden changes in tempera- ture, draughts, and everything that is likely to cause congestion. If you are about to pass an educational test and are conscious of weakness at special points, you will do all in your power to post up in those directions. Why do we not exercise the same caution and care in reference to the moral and spiritual make-up of our natures ? If we have an uncontrollable temper, one that is ready to explode on the slightest provocation, why should we not specially guard the conditions that are likely to lead to such disastrous results and hold ourselves in check against the outbursts of passion ? So with whatever weaknesses we may be specially subject to. No chain is stronger than its weakest link. No fortification is stronger than its weakest side. No physical constitution is stronger than its weakest organ. Let us specially guard the weak points. THE WIIINEK. The advice given to his race by Booker T. Washington lits ail of us. white or black. "It. is much wiser," he said, "for ti-i to emphasise oppor- tunities than grievances. The world soon gets tired of the man or the race with a grievance. We must learn to be bigger than those who would insult us. We must learn to hold up our heads and march bravely forward, in spite of obstacles and dis- couragements." Those are brave words and true. The world hates a wliir.er. Men will do twice as much for a man who does not parade his wrongs, but wears a smiling face over them. Not only } Heaven, but earth aiso,helps him who helps himselt.
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- FAR EASTERN CRISIS.
FAR EASTERN CRISIS. A GLOOMY OUTLOOK. ^JAPANESE NOTE TO CHIXA. THE REPLY TO RUSSIA. The most serious news which has come from the Far East since the negotiations betwwn Russia and Japan became critical has been sent by the Times correspondent at Pekin. The correspondent learns that the Chinese Minister at Tokio has sent to Prince Ching, at the request of the Foreign Office of Japan, a communication of the most gloomy import. The message to Prince Ching is as follows: 14The second Russian reply to the Japanese pro- posals has been received in Tokio, but is unfavour- able and cannot be accepted by Japan, who will, unless Russia recedes, be compelled promptly to resort to arms. "In view of such an eventuality Japan urges and expects China to maintain the strictest neutralitv, preserve order throughout the Empire, guard foreigners resident in the interior, and take special care to preserve order in the two provinces of Shan- tung and Yun-nan lest foreign Powers might seize the pretext of disorder and make an aggressive movement therein." The correspondent adds: The despatch has deeply impressed the Chinese, who now believe that war is inevitable. Orders for guns, small arms, and ammunition to the amount of 1,200.000 taels were recently placed in Japan by the Viceroy Yuan Shih-kai. A considerable consignment of machine-guns and smokeless ammunition is due to arrive at Chin- wang-tao VISCOUNT HAYASHI EXPLAINS. The Japanese Minister, interviewed on the subject of the Japanese note to China, stated that, though he had no information from Japan on the subject, he was of opinion that, owing to the unsuitabi'ity of Chinese characters and of the Chinese language for the conveyance of "vict thought, the telegram sent by the Chinese Mii..sier at Tokio to Prince Ching, of which the tenor was published in the Times, has been interpreted in a way which might be open to serious misapprehension. The explanation which Viscount Hayashi suggested was not that the Japanese (i-overnment had wished to point to th, conclusion that war had been definitely decided upon, as such is not the case, but that it asked the Chinese Minister to inform his Government that, whilst Japan is making earnest endeavours to maintain peace, and hopes to succee tin that object, she desired to impress upon China the duties of neutrality in the event of those efforts proving fruitless. REPORTED RUSSIAN CONCESSIONS. Reuter's correspondent at Berlin says that the Lokalanzeiger learns from St. Petersburg that the Czar has charged Count Lamsdorff to draw up immediately a communiqve dealing with the Russo- Japanese negotiations, which will shortly appear in the Official Messenger. The communique, the Lokalanzeiger states, will enunciate the following five fundamental proposals which Russia has made to Japan: 1. Japan shall receive various concessions in Corea. 2. In Southern Corea the Japanese shall have freedom to act as their interests may require, not only in economic questions, but also as regards strategic questions. 3. In Northern Corea Russia will allow Japan full Commercial freedom, but Japan shall not, either in Northern or in Southern Corea, occupy permanently any fortified place, either on the coast or in the interior. ,1 2Z the frontier between Corea and Manchuria, along the Ya-lu and Tureen Rivers, a neutral zone 50 kilometres in breadth shall be established, in which neither Russia nor Japan shall construct any fortifications. The Corean Straits shall be free to Russian ships and shall remain neutral. 5. In regard to Manchuria Russia will accept no conditions, but expresses her readiness to accord to Japan, as to all other Powers, representation for her commercial interests in that country. It is stated on excellent authority that in the aegotiations with Japan Russia has already given way to a great extent, and has officially informed the Powers that she will respect unconditionally the rights of all nations in Manchuria granted by treaties with China. With reference to this communication, it is explained that Russia at the outset refused to discuss Manchuria with Japan, on the ground that that province was neither a Russian nor a Japanese sphere of influence, and did not therefore, fall within Russia's jurisdiction. Japan s last Note practically took the form of an ultimatum, and induced Russia to yield on that point, and she now undertakes to respect the right of all peoples. This may be regarded as a good stroke of diplomacy on Russia's part, as she has thus eliminated from the negotiations one of the points on which Japan relied to obtain the moral support of the Powers, especially of Great Britain and the United State3. JAPANESE REPLY DRAFTED. The Elder Statesmen of Japan held a conference on Monday, there being also present the chiefs cf the military and naval staffs. It is understood that the conference merely adopted a draft reply to Russia's last Note, inasmuch as the latter, though unsatisfactory in substance, was conciliatory in tone, thereby inviting a continuance of the nego- tiations. Nothing in the nature of an ultimatum has yet been submitted. On Tuesday the Elder Statesmen held a further conference in the presence of the Emperor, when the reply to the Russian Note was approved. It will be presented to the Russian Minister, Baron Rosen, within the course of the next few days, and is understood to be pacifically worded, and to con- tain no time limit for the fulfilment of Japanese demands. JAPANESE CRUISERS CHANGE THEIR COURSE. A report has been received at Rome that the new Japanese cruisers Nisshin and Kassaga, which left Genoa last Saturday moning ostensibly for Suez, have been seen steaming in the direction of Gibraltar. MUNITIONS OF WAR. A correspondent states that the Chinese Govern- ment had made telegraphic inquiries of Messrs. Whitehead and Co.'s torpedo factory at Fiume, asking whether they could supply a large quantity of torpedoes for immediate delivery. As the com- pany only manufactures to order it had to reply in the negative. Four large torpedoes ordered by the Chinese Government some time ago have just been delivered. During the past few years Messrs. Whitehead have supplied the Japanese Government with 1,200 torpedoes and material for 1,000 so-called" siluri."
THE HAYLE EXPLOSION.
THE HAYLE EXPLOSION. At Hayle the inquiry into the cause of the death of the four men killed by the recent dynamite explosion at the National Explosives Company's works has been concluded. Thomas Vincent Jory said he heard two explosions, and saw smoke issuing from the precipitating house first, and then from the filtering house, both of which were demolished. Captain Thomson. H.M. Chief Inspector of Explosives, said he had made a thorough examina- tion of the probable causes of the disaster, and was of opinion that the explosion originated in the precipitating house, and was probably caused by the fall of a heavy substance. There were a few articles of that kind in the housf, one of them being the lead cups which caught drippings from the taps of the nitro-glycerine tanks, but he did not think the man was touching them. The probable cause of the explosion was that the man working in the pre- cipitating house dropped half of the lid of the nitro- glycerine tank into the latter. These lids were formed of wood and lead. In falling it struck a slanting blow, which was the worst kind for causing an explosion. He recommended that for the lead cups there should be substituted others of a lighter material, and that the lids should also be made of lighter material. He considered that no blame could be attached to anyone for the disaster, as everything was carried out in accordance with the terms of the license and the rules of the works. He was satisfied as to the experience and capabilities of the deceased workmen, one of whom he had known personally. The amount of nitro-glycerine exploded was 4,C001b. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, adding that no blame attached to the company or officials, and hoped that the recommendations of the inspector would be carried out. They also recommended that during the time charges of nitro- glycerine were being served a qualified cbeniis- should be present. When one-third of the way across the Royal Border Bridge, Berwick, the leading engine of a train was derailed through the buffer failing on to the metals. No one was seriously injured. In over thirty years a High Wycombe postman, who has just been pensioned, walked more than 150,000 miles; and a Watford postman has covered in thirty-eight years 309,000 miles.
--[ NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL. During the past year no f.iwer than 430,001 passengers crossed between Dover and the Continent. There are only three breach of promise cases to heard in the Law Courts during the present term. A woman inmate of Falmouth Workhouse was born there lifty-four years ago, and has been there ever since. Count Adalbert Sternberg, who fought on the Boer side during the late war, is a candidate for the Austrian Keichsrath. Mrs. Ann Knight, a widow, aged eighty-nine years, died at Eastbourne as the result of injuries sustained in a gas explosion. At the Ministerial Association Conference at o' Toronto the Rev. Mr. J. Moore rebuked Lord Minto for travelling by train on Sundays. A message has been received from Ciiumbi, Thibet, stating that Colonel Younghusband, commanding the Thibetan mission, has passed the Tangla Pass to Tuna. The shipping strikes in Spain are growing serious. All the ports are gradually becoming affected, and the strikers expect the crews of the mail steamers to join them. Sir Huzh Iuir elson, K,C.T.G., President of the Legislative Council of Queensland, has been appointed Governor of the Colony. The Canadian Government has decided to install at once a new submarine bell alarm system on the St. Lawrence route, for the protection of ships. Walter George Sandow, stoker, who was seriously injured in the boiler explosion on H. I.S. Wallaroo, has died in St. Vincent's Hospital. Sydney. The appointment of Mr. F. E. H. Elliot, Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of the Hellenes, as a Companion of the Order of SS. Michael and George, is announced. The State apartments of Windsor Castle will be closed on and after Friday next, January 15th, until further orders. Major Leckie, who received a severe mauling from a panther in Somaliland, has just come home, and hints that the country is capable of great development were it not fur such individuals as the Mullah. Battersea Municipal Council has appointed a lady inspector, who will be able to give poor mothers advice as to the nursing of their children. Sir Oliver Lodge, in his presidential address at a general conference of the Teachers' Guild of Great Britain and Ireland opened in London, said that reform was necessary in the schools of England, and not least in the great public schools. George Fisher, a tramp who was arrested in Lincoln Prison, after attempting to swallow a scrap of paper containing a confession of murder, has been remanded on the charge of murdering Mary Swinburne, at Kidderminster. Miss Christabel H. Pankhurst, who has been refused admittance as a student of Lincoln's-iim, states, in an interview, that it is no use the pro- fession trying to bar women out, for they mean to get in—somehow. The report of the London County Council Public Health Committee on the general state of the public health in the county of London during the year 1902 is a record of steady progress. One thousand pounds, payable in five equal yearly instalments, has been voted by the Clothworkers' Company to the King's College Hospital removal fund. Since 1895 Thomas Ball, who was sent to prison at the Thames Police-court the other day for neg- lecting to maintain himself, has been in and out of the Poplar Workhouse 164 times. The People's Refreshntent-house Association, Limited, this week opened the Waterman's Arms Public-house, Bankside, Southwark, this being the first house in London conducted on "trust" lines. The charge heard at Llanrwst Police-court against Mr. W. P. Roberts of aiding and abetting his late partner, Mr. David Jones, a solicitor, in the mis- appropriation of trust funds has been dismissed. "It has so preyed upon my mind that I can neither rest nor sleep," said a man named Daniel Stewart, who gave himself up to the Buckingham police, stating that lie had stolen some tools at Banhury. For having a defective steam gauge and neglect- ing to carry out an inspector's order to keep a steam boiler in proper repair Mr. Thomas Bailey, a Great Bridge (Staffs.) brickmaker, was fined fifteen guineas. g, At a Yarmouth inquest evidence was given that two widows, each over eighty years of age, sup- ported themselves on an allowance of 2s. 6d. a-week each, supplemented by an extra sixpence during winter. Out of this pittance they paid rent. Thomas Stephen Davis, a Montgomery publican, was, by the direction of the judge at the Mont- gomery Assizes, found not guilty of the manslaughter of Police-constable William Davies. The evidence shewed that the officer's death was from natural causes, and not, as was alleged, the result of a blow. M. Wallon, who presided at the opening of the French Senate, as the oldest member, is ninety-one years of age. He has been a legislator since 1349. Mr. Fred Winter, of Stratford-on-Avon, who is devoting Miss Marie Gondii's famous farthing to the funds of the local hospital, has now received over, 7,000 farthings. Five more bodies have been recovered from the sea at Barquero, Spain, the scene of the boating disaster of December 10th, when a small boat cap- sized and six English seamen were drowned. Z380,000 is the estimated cost of the extensive alterations to be carried out at the Royal Military College in order to provide accommodation for the increasing number of cadets at Sandhurst. The public examination of the Dowager Countess of Rosslyn was ordered at the London Bankruptcy- Court to stand over for six weeks to enable a satis- factory proposal to be laid before the creditors. A town's meeting held at Blackburn unani- mously passed a resolution urging the Government to render immediate practical assistance to the efforts of the British Cotton Growing Association to develop the cultivation of cotton within the Km pi re. Part of the railway embankment between Houiton and Seaton Junction gave way on Monday night;, and the last up South-Western train ran into I the debris. Fortunately it kept the rails. An engine-cleaner named Davies, seventeen, was run over by a train during shunting operations at l'ortmadof: on Mouday night. His legs were almost severed from his body, and he died three hours later. Accidental death was the verdict on Mrs. Gorman and her grandson, aged four, who were suffocated in a tire at Kasington. Durham. It was stated that the deceased woman itad been very drunk. Elizabeth Helsby, the wife of a St. Helens painter, told her husband when he went out that he would not find her when he came home in the evening. When he returned she was hauging from the head of the bed, dead, with a rope round her neck. At Moscow on Monday a schoolboy seized one of his co:iip-trlions, pushed him tlirough a hole in an ice-bound pond, and held him there till he was drowned. Philip Greenwood Hartley, forty-nine, a political agent, of Marlborough-road, Upper Holloway, who had suffered in health and was in financial difficulties, shot himself with a revolver. A ver- ,o dict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned at the inquest. A wing- of the gltli Native Infantry has been ordered to Aden from India. Desultory fighting still continues in connection with the rising in Uruguay. The Pretoria yews authoritatively foreshadows representative government in the Transvaal at the end of two years, when the popular vote will be introduced. Captain Ottlev, Naval Attache at the British Embassy in has been authorised by M. Pelletan, Minister of Marine,, to visit tne rrencli I naval establishments and war vessels at Brest. Officers commanding regular infantry battalions have been ordered to state by next Monday whether the full comnlement of trasied men for regimental transport special establishment has been maintained in their units, and in cases where it has not been maintained the reasons for the failure. The Queen has sent to the secretaries of the Gordon Boys' Home and the Home for Incurables cheques for £ 25. The sum represents last year's profits from the sale of Canon Fleming's sermon "Recognition in Eternity," which up to date has realised £ 1,572. Mrs. "Jack" Gardner, one of the prominent leaders of Boston society, has been required by the Customs to pay the sum of £ 40,000, which is equivalent to a 20 per cent, ad valorem duty on a number of works of art which she recently imported from Europe. The Emperor of Corea has sent a letter to the King of Italy asking for his good offices on behalf of Corea, owing to the state of affairs brought about by the rivalry between Russian and Japanese influences. It is supposed that similar letters have been addressed to the heads of other leading Powers. The Xorth-Eastern Railway scheme of electrical traction on Tyneside is nearly complete. The lines to be electrified are forty miles in length. The company has also made successful experiments with auto-cars worked by petrol-driven dynamos. The verdict at the inquest at Lambeth on John Philips Reed, fifty-two, of Guildford, who cut his throat in a train between Portsmouth and Waterloo. was suicide during temporary insanity. He was a valet, who had log been out of work. Captain frank Bevan, now at War ley, has been selected for appointment as a King's Messenger. He was badly wounded in the thigh during the South African war. The War Office has consented to a grant, of iC250 to members of the Motor Volunteer Cjrns for the exceptional wear and tear of cars vised in Inst year's Army manoeuvres.
VICAR A u MAIDSERVANT.
VICAR A u MAIDSERVANT. STRANGE CASE OF FASCINATION. At Lincoln's Inn Old Hall, before a Consistory Court presided over by the Chancellor of the Diocese of Rochester, the Rev. H. M. Marsh Edwards has been asked to explain his relations with the daughter of a Shropshire collier. On February 20th, 1897, said Mr. Hugo Young, K.C., he was appointed vicar of Wellington, in Shropshire, remaining there till October 7th, 1901. While at Wellington lie had in his service a nurse- girl of humble origin named Caroline Meeson. The girl Meeson appeared to have left his service in January, 1901, and instead of ceasing to have any knowledge of her whereabouts he sent her to a school at Oakengates, where she was until April, 1901. While she was at the school, counsel said he would prove, the girl was going out with him, and on one occasion she went away with him for tht ostensible purpose of seeing a dentist, and was away for three days. On leaving school in April, 1901, the girl went to her home at a place called St. George's. Defendant constantly went to see her, and on many occasions took her out driving. The vicar of St. George's drew his attention to the rumours that were going about, and said it was causing a good deal of scandal and trouble in the parish, in which he requested him not to be seen any more. Mr. Marsh Edwards then appeared to have taken a children's school in Birmingham at Varner- road, and to have placed the girl Meeson and an under-mistress from the school she had previously attended in charge of it. He furnished the school, ad took the whole responsibility of it. The school opened some time in Jane, and from December, 1S01, to January, 1903, defendant visited it nearly every day, and, it was alleged, was often alone with the girl Meeson. Some time after the girl had gone to Varner-road, defendant adopted a course which was somewhat extraordinary. He gave up his living at Wellington, and went to live in Bir- mingham, where he secured the appointment oi honorary sub-warden at Queen's College. Subse- quently defendant was appointed vicar of West Bridgei'ord, which closely adjoined Nottingham. It would be found throughout the history of the case, said Mr. Young, that lie was always moving the girl about to be near him. Rooms were obtained for her in the house of a Mrs. Tatham, at Nottingham. On January 10th, in consequence of remonstrances on the part of Mrs. Tatham, the girl was removed to another house, and on January 15th a child was born. Shortly afterwards a number of the leading parishioners of West Bridgeford called upon the defendant, and elicited from him a denial that he was the father of the child. He himself baptised the child, and registered its name as Herbert. At subsequent interviews he said he believed the father was a solicitor's clerk, ot Leamington. He then practically set the pai-isliioil(i-s at defiance, and said if they were not satisfied with his explanation they must "playoff their own bats." About the middle of March Mr. Edwards furnished a house in Birmingham, to which Miss Meeson, her child, sister, and father were moved. In the mean- time, explained counsel, the alleged relationship between Mr. Edwards and Miss Meeson was brought, to the notice of the Bishop of the diocese, and on April 7th the clergyman sent in his resignation. In a letter to the Bishop he denied that he was guilty of the charges made against him, but admitted having been very indiscreet. Some evidence having been given, the hearing was adjourned.
SENTENCE ON A CLERGYMANS WIFE.
SENTENCE ON A CLERGYMANS WIFE. Mrs. Georgina Henry Sparks, the wife of a Glou- cestershire clergyman, has been sentenced to five months' imprisonment—to date from the first day of the last session—by the Common Serjeant at the Old Bailey. She had, it was stated, started a laundry at Margate, and for the purpose of extend- ing it subsequently acquired the leases of two houses. In want of money, she took a copy of the leases to a certain solicitor, who made for her on stamped paper copies of the lease. With these stamped copies, which had the appearance of genuine leases, in her possession, she advertised for loans, and obtained two sums of £ 250 and £ 450 on the security of these bogus leases. The Common Serjeant said ho did not believe the matter was the emanation of her brain originally. At the same time she had been an intelligent agent in working with the forged deeds.
GOVERNESS, PALMIST, AND PARSON.
GOVERNESS, PALMIST, AND PARSON. Mme. Louisa Marriott, a Cardiff palmist, has ben. committed for trial for forging the threatening letter which led to the prosecution of Miss Augusta Iliestand, a young Swiss governess, by the Rev. A. W. A. Williams, rector of Panteg. Miss Hiestand, an attractive girl, said that the palmist told her that she had the letters "A. W. A." dis- tinctly outlined on her palm. Then the witness told of her passionate love for the rector, which led to further consultations at a cost of L3. She denied the authorship of the threatening letter, and recognised the handwriting as that of the defendant. The palmist dramatically declared her innocence.
A DEN OF THIEVES.
A DEN OF THIEVES. James O'Connell, thirty two, labourer, and Stephen Flannaghan, twenty-two, labourer, have been indicted at the Old Bailey for a highway robbery with violence on John Carr, a seaman, and stealing from him £2 17s. The robbery and the assault took place at night in Upper East Smithfield. The prosecutor was knocked down and kicked by his assailants, and seriously injured. The prisoners were arrested in a common lodging house near to the docks.— The jury found both men guilty. — Police- constable Eversfield said Flannaghan did not work, and was the associate of a dangerous gang of thieves who preyed on sailors.—The Recorder: Are these robberies very common in this neighbour- hood ?—Eversfield: Yes, my lord, they are of fre- quent occurrence, and the lodging-house where these men were arrested is a den of thieves. The officer added that the police had numerous com- plaints, but when men were arrested they had great difficulty in getting persons who had been robbed to prosecute. They usually remarked at the police- station, said the witness, "Let me fight them I won't charge them." (Laughter.)—The Recorder: Robbing sailors, then, is a regular business ?—The officer: Yes; the paying-off office is close to the docks, and these men first get the sailors to lake drink, and then they rob them and seek shelter in a common lodging-house. It is not safe for a policeman to go to this lodging-house alone.—The Recorder sentenced Flannaghan to four yearn penal seivitude. Sentence on O'Connell was deferred until the next sessions for the attendance of witnesses as to his character.