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DEVONSHIRE AND CORN- WALL SNOW-BOUND. Our Plyinoutil.corresl)-)-neent, telegraphing on Friday evening, says :—Dovon and Cornwall are 0-1" still experiencing a full measure of inconvenience as the result of Monday night's blizzard, which has been from tune to time renewed. The im- mense efforts made by the railway authorities to clear the lines to London had wcll'-nigh succeeded, when another heavy fall of snow, to the depth, in some places, of two or three feet, destroyed the results of previous efforts, and to- mght neither the Great Western nor Southwestern lines Will open for traffic. The Cornwall main line is open, but the trains arc running very precariously. 1 here has been only one London mail into or out of Plymouth sinc<> Monday. The Leat conveying water to the town is still blocked with frozen snow. The 300 soldiers who went out by special tram this morning to help clear the Leat were driven back by the severity of the storm.

A MAIL STEAMER MISSING. From Plymouth the most serious news is that the Hamburg-American steamer Suevia is miss- ing. She arrived in the Channel off Crawl Point on Monday afternoon, when the valve of her low pressure condensing engines gave way.. With the strong east wind she drifted down Channel, encountering terrible weather on Monday night and Tuesday. The steamer Acme, of London, responded to her distress signals, but was too small to take the Suevia in'tow, but took off the chief officer, who was afterwards transferred to a,. pilot cutter, and landed at Falmouth on Wednes- .day night. He afterwards came on to Plymouth, and the powerful tug Smeaton was sent in search, but the latest advices from Plymouth are that after two days' steaming she had been unsuccess- ful, and a steamer from Southampton and one from r, almouth are now in the Channel on the look-out.

DEATH FROM EXPOSURE AT BLAENAVON. The body of a man named Jereinitli Buckley, aged 25 years, was found lying in the snow, on '+- the Varieg Mountain, near Biaenavoii, yesterday afternoon, death having evidently been caused by exhaustion and exposure. It transpires that de. ceased left a public-house at eleven o'clock on Monday night, and proceeded in the direction of his home, which is situated near Messrs Vipond and Co. Tol) Pits, a mile and a half away. The storni was at its height. Nothing more was seen of the unfortunate fellow until his body was found as described. The poor fellow must have died almost within sight of his own house, which was only 200 yards away. He had evidently fought hard for life, his hands and face being- covered with scratches.

A RUSSIAN MILITARY BRAWL, SUICIDE OF ONE OF THE ChARS AIDES-DE-CAMP. [FROM on: CORKESI'ONDKNT.] ST. PETEBSBUKG, March 13. A great commotion has been caused in Russian military circles by the suicide of one of the Czar's aides-de-camp, Captain Michel de Kauf- mann, of the Artillery of the Guard, who was also a well-known figure in the most fashionable sporting circles. The suicide was the result of a quarrel between M. de Kaufmann and an officer of one of the line regiments. It seems that a few weeks ago the deceased guardsman went with a comrade, Count Jean Tolstoi, who is an officer of the navy, to a place of public resort, known as the Arcadia, where they met an officer of a third branch of the service, the infantry, whom they found drink- ing champagne in the company of a troupe- of gipsy singing girls. This seems to have irritated the two young military dandies, v ho were slightly the worse for liquor. In distinctly audible tones they began to reproach the gipsies with compromising themselves in the company of a mere foot soldier." M. Dvovjetsky, the officer referred to, is a man of cole-ssal stature. He not unnaturally took offence at the insult thus publicIy offered. Springing to his feet he "went for" M. de Kaufmann with his fists, and roundly thrashed him before the atten- dants could intervene. In the course of the following day the friends of the young man, anxious to avoid a scandal, succeeded in patching up the quarrel, and a reconciliation took place in a restaurant. It was agreed that the whole should be kept secret. M. Dvovjetsky, the infantry officer. however, not content with his victory, siibsequently boasted'pub* lic-ly of the thrashing he had given thejfashionable young guardsman, and rumours of the occurrence at length reached the Crurt. The result was that when M. de Kaufmann and Count Jean Tolstoi presented themselves at the next State ball they were universally "cut." Seeing how matters stood, General de ivichter, chief of the Emperor's military household, advised the young men to retire, and ordered them to await him at his private residence. At the interview which followed General de Richter told Captain de Kaufman that since the outrage &-t which he had been subjected bad not been wiped out, and had become a matter of public notoriety, he had no alternative but t report the case fci the Czar, who would be anything but pleased to hear such an account r-f one of his aides-de-camp. Captain de Kaufmann was so distressed at this prospect that he went straight home and blew out his brains m his mother's bedroom. On hearing of his comrade's suieide, Count Jean de Tolstoi challenged M. Dvovjetsky, and it is expected that a duel with pistols will be fought in a few days. The deceased officer was a son of the celebrated conqueror cf Turkestan, Genera Kaufmann, who died in 1882.

NEW YORK PRICES. [REUTER'S TELEGRANT.1 NEW YORK, Friday.—Money easy. Stocks opened firm, and a general advance afterwards took place. Towards the end a reaction set in, and the market closed generally weak. Cotton on the spot steady, and quotably unaltered; futures declined on bears raiding the market, and closed weak. Petroleum has been a weaker market. Lard weaker, with less business doing. Wheat declining, owing to realizations by speculators. Flour has had an easy market. Corn dull and declining freely offered. Sugar steady at yesterday's rates. Coffee an irregular market, closing dull. Tin market quiet, closing steady. Iron continues firm and unchanged. Copper nominal. GOVERNMENT BONDS A.iD RAILWAY SHARES. Quotations! Mar. 13 Mar 12 Call Money U.S. Gov. Bonds 2' p.c 1 2' p.c Ditto, other Securities 2\U p.c j 2V> p.c Exchange on London, 60 days sight C80V4 4.8o'/4 Ditto. Cable Transfers 4.89 4.89 lixchange Paris, 60 days' sight 5.19% I S.19% Exchange on Berlin Days S5V4 95l 4 Four per Cent. U.S. Funded Loan 122 122 Western Union Telegraph .Shares) 801/, gQ% Atchison, Topeka, &S. Fe 25VI 35V4 Do. Do. 4 p.c. Mor 7bVt 76'/4 Do. Do. 5 p.c. Income.. 40% 39% Baltimore & Ohio 88 85 Canada Southern Shares 49% 4914 Canadian Pacific 75',s ?5% Central of New Jersey 113 115% Central Pacific Shares 28% 28% Chesapeake & Ohio Common 17% Vjy2 liiwigo, Burlington <fc Quincey.. 77% 77y4 Chicago & North-Western, Ord 103% 105 Chicago & N. Western Preferred. 133 133 Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul 54V. 53% Chicago & Hock Island 66% 651/. Cleveld, Cin., Cli., <fc St. Ls. Ord.! 59% 59% Delaware & Hudson 130% 131 Delaware, Lackawana 133% 135'/s Chicago & Rock Island 66% 651/. Cin., Cli., <fc St. Ls. Ord.! 59% 59% Delaware & Hudson 130% 131 Delaware, Lackawana 133% 135'/s Denver & Rio Grande Shares 17% 17% Denver Preferred 58% 57V, Ulinois Central Shares 93% 92" Lake Shore & Michigan Southern 109% 108% Louisville & Nashville Shares 73% 73% Michigan Central Shares 9O2 I 90' Missouri, Kansas, and Texas 11% 11% Missouri Pacific 6f%' 55% New York, Lake Erie, & Western 18V. 18% Ditto, Second Mortgage Bonds 98* 98 New York Central & Hudson River 101% 101 > New York, Ontario & Western, Ord 16% 16% Northern Pacific, Common 27% 27% Northern Pacific, Preferred 71% 72% Norfolk & Western Preferred 52% 52% Ohio and Mississippi Ord. Shares 16V, 16 Pennsylvania and Philadelphia 51 51 Philadelphia and Reading Shares 29% 30 Philadelphia&Reading5 p.c.lst Inc 49 4 8 1, Do. do. 4 p.c. Mor 9 79 I Union Pacific Shares 44% 44% w,I)ash, St Louis, & Pteific 9% 9 Wabash, St Louis, &c., Pref. Srs. 18% 17% COTTON AND PRODUCE MARKET Cotton, day's receipts at U.Sts.por 7,0C0 5,000 I Cotton, day's rec'pts at Gulf Port., 5,000 6,000 Cotton, day's export to GtBrit'n.. 17,000 17,000 Cotton, day's expt to Continent.. 0,000 3,000 Cotton futures, Apr. delivery. 8.77 8.77 Cotton futures, June delivery 8.95 9.5 Cotton,middling upland New York 9 9 Cotton, middling New Orleans. 8(4 Bfi Petroleum, crude at New York 7. C)u 7.10 Petroleum, sta/dard white, N.York 7.00 7.25 Petroleum, st'd white,Philadelphia 7.00 7.25 Petroleum, Pipe Line Certs. Apr. 73% 73 Spirits of Turpentine 41 41 Lard, Wilcox's Spot 6.32% 6.45 Tallow, Prime City 4% 4% Sugar, fair refining Muscovados 5% 5% Do 96 p.c, Centrifugal. 5, Gt- Corn, New mixed, Western spot 73 74 Corn futures, Apr 70% 68% Corn futures, June 63% 67% Spring Wheat, No. 1, spot 122" 124 Wheat, red winter, on the spot 116 117% Wheat, delivery May 110% 111% WheRt,delivery June 108% 110 Coffee, fair Rio 20 "20 Coffee, good Rio 20% 20% Coffee, Rio, No. 7, Low Ord., Apr. 17.00 17.45 Coffee ditto, June delivery 16.95 17.00 Flour, ex. State Shipping brands.. 3 95 -4.15:3 95—4- Iron, No. 1, Coltness 20.10 20-10 Tin, Australian 20.15 2015 Copper, Apr 13.9.3 13.90 Steel Rail.. 28 28 Freight Grain Liverpool steamers l'/jd l%d Freight Grain steamers London 2d 2< t Freight Cotton to Liverpool 7.64 7.64 Silver Bullion 99% 99% Wheat, Chicago, May delivery. 101% 103% Corn, Chicago, Apr delivery 60% 63% Corn, Chicago, Apr delivery 60% 63% Turpentine, Savannah 37% 37%

HOUSE OF LORDS. FRIDAY. The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the woci- "lC];: at a quarter-p'tst four o'clock. THE NEW EDUCATION CODE. Lord JN'OKTON called attention to the new Education Code, which he thought should not receive the assent of Parliament without some explanation from the Minister in charge of the Education Department. He thought it very doubtful whether the teaching of drawing should be made imperative in small schools. What, however, he principally condemned in the Code was that it uneradicated the principle of payment by piecework for national education. (Hear, hear.) He thought the proposal that the State should pay .school fees ought not to be adopted, becausc it would abolish the la-st vestige of parental responsibility for the education of children. (Hear, hear.) The Earl of HARROWOY and Earl FORTESCUK having spoken. Lord CP.ANBROOK said he believed that our system of elementary education was now working well. The code of last year had tended to the 'te advantage of both teachers and pupils, and had materially diminished the friction which pre- viously existed. The subject then dropped. The House adjourned at 6.35.

8 HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY. The Speaker took the chair at three o'clock. THE CARDIFF DAY TRAINING COLLEGE. Mr POWELL gave notice that on Tuesday, 17th March, he will ask the Vice-president of the Committee of Council on Education whether his attention had been called to the prospectus of the Cardiff Day Training College, stating that In respect of the subjects in which normal students 'receive instruction in common with other students of the college, the Educational Department accepts the results of the sessional examination conducted by the professors of the college a" qualifying for a certificate of merit; and whether these examinations arc held by the department as equivalent to the independent and uniform examination of the department for the same purpose. LOCAL GOVERNMEN T. Mr ROWXTREK (for Mr Arthur Acland) gave notice that that day four woeks he should call attention to the unsatisfactory position of local government in the rural districts, and move a resolution thereon. SMALL HOLDINGS. ill" ESSLEMOXT asked the President of tilie Board of Agriculture how he proposed to meet the difficulties which the local authorities would experience in obtaining good and cheap holdings to meet the requirements of the various districts if the price was fixed by her Majesty's Govern- ment at 30 years' purchase. Mr CHAPLIN said it would be most unusual and inconvenient for a member to be called upon to explain the provisions of a Bill not yet introduced by way of answering a question across the floor of the House. The assumption contained in thequestion,that the price of holdings was to be fixed by the Govern- ment at 30 years' purchase, was entirely gratui- tous. THE COURSE OF BUSINESS. Mr W. H. SMITH moved a resolution permit- ting reports d committees of supply and ways and means to be entered upan at any hour, though opposed. Mr J. ELLIS proposed to limit the operation of the resolution y the insertion of the words until the House adjourns for Easter." The House divided, and the numbers were:- For the amendment, 39 aguinst, 197; majority against, las. j j NEW BILLS. Dr CLARK obtained leave to brino- in a bill to amend the law relating to the disabihties of mar- ried women in municipal and other local elections and Sir W. Foster a bill to facilitate the recovery of rent charges and other payments owing to charities. Both bills were brouelit in and read a. first time. THE TAXATIOF GROUND RENTS. On the motion for going into committee of supply, Mr JAMES STUART rose to bring forward a resolution respecting the taxation of ground rents, but The SPEAKER interposed, and directed attention to the terms of the motion, which declared that in the opinion of the House the freeholders and owners of ground halves m the Metropolis ought to contribute directly a substantial share of local taxation. The House would be aware that for several years a Town Holdings Committee had been sitting, but was unable to make a report last session, and that a few days ago it was re- appointed. That committee was considering the question of the taxation of ground rents, and though he was not prepared to say that the bon. member would not under the circumstances be in order in bringing forward his resolution, he thought it desirable to call attention to :t Pi\) ceeding" which was unutua!, and in his opinion inconvenient. (Hear, hear. 1 Mr W. H. SMITH appealed to the lion, member after that expression of opinion not to proceed with his motion. Mr GLADSTONE could assure the right hon. gentleman and the House that if he believed the course which the hon. member proposed to take would introduce a new precedent he should be disposed to join in the appeal to him not to pro- ceed with his resolution. But with great respect and with some reserve he ventured to say that the First Lord of the Treasury was under a. mis- apprehension as to the practice of the House. (Hear, hear.) He thoucrht he had in his recollec- tion conspicuous cases in which while a matter was under consideration by a committee a debate upon it was raised in the House, and very im- portant consequences followed upon the debate. (Hear, hear.) Sir W. HARCOURT observed that if they established the precedent of refusing to allow discussions on matters which were before com- mittees, it might have the effect of closing the mouth of the House. Mr J. STUART, while he felt the force of what the Speaker had said, held that there was good II reason for the non-applicability of his advice in the present instance. If the Government were desirous that the question should not trouble the I House because it was under the consideration of a committee, he would ask them whether they would do what the county council had for two years been asking them to do, namely, to pass an Act or resolution that the agreements which cnntracted either party out of the payment of taxes and rates should not hold good, If he got I a promise to that effect, he would withdraw his resolution. It was the cause of the poor he was pleading. The question of the housing of the I poor would hang fire until it had been decided upon whose backs the burden of the cost was to fall. He concluded by moving his resolution, which Mr Montagu seconded. Sir H..TAMES stated that if the resolution be- Mr Montagu seconded. Sir H. JAMES stated that if the resolution be- came a substantive question, he should propose to strike out the words "in the metropolis, so us to bring the proposal to bear upon the rest of the country because there were some communities in Lancashire which, he thought, were suffering more than the metropolis from the particular manner in which local taxation was imposed. The question ranged beyond the point as to whether the owner- occupier should bear the principal burden of taxatiou or local rates. The ground landlord was paid by the yearly rent for the use of his ground and by the •(•version of the buildings upon it, and no doubt the c-ontract was entered into oil the condition that the occupier should pay the rent. But since the leases were entered into the condition of thills had been very much changed, and improvement rates imposed upon the occupier had materially enhanced tho virtue ot the ground-owner's reversion. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER assured the House that the Government considered it impos- sible to come to any conclusion upon the question submitted to the House until they had before them the report of the committee and the evi- dence upon which their conclusions were based. (Hear, hear.) The House adjourned at 12.25.

SWALLOWING AN INCRIMINATING LETTER. In the Divorce Court on Thursday, Sir Charles Butt had before him the case of Faullcs v. Faulks and Stainton. The petition was that of the husband, a journeyman jeweller, for a divorce by reason of his wife's adultery with the co-respon- dent. There was no defence. Mr H. B. Deane,, who appeared for the petitioner, said that his client now resided at Hockley. He was married to the respondent at Birchfields, Handsworth, on the 5th November, 1877. There was one child. In 1881 he found a letter in his wife's dress from a man named Hicks, and from its contents there was no doubt that adultery had taken place between them. He handed the letter to her father, but the respondent who was present, snatched it out of her father's hand and ate, it. (Laughter.) Subsequently she admitted the adultery, and he refused to livo with her any more. He made her an allow- ance, and afterwards obtained cmploymentabroad. As soon as he got the means lie filed this peti- tion, charging subsequent adultery with the co- respondent, by whom she had had four children. res —The petitioner was called, and bore out the opening statement of counsel.—Mrs Kirby, a widow, of 7, Newhall Hill, Birmingham, said that Mrs Faulks was her niece. She remembered the respondent living with Stainton in the Monu- ment-road, Birmingham. She was living with him. She had had four children.-Hic; lordship granted a decree nisi, with custody of the child of the marriage.

DEATH OF A FAMOUS MIDGET." A New York telegram to Dalziel says:— General Turner Wood, the oldest and smallest midget in the world, died on Wednesday through suffocation, caused by the escape of gas in his bedroom. General Wood was a coloured dwarf, and drove the carriage of General Tom Thumb when the latter was in England, and when he visited the Queen.

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THE STRIKE AT AN END. The deputation appointed to see Sir William Thomas Lewis will wait upon that gentleman to-day (Saturday), and the strike, even in its outward manifestation, will have terminated by this evening. The men on strike will continue to receive 15s per week strike pay until they are again at work, and there will be no more proces- sions nor any other appearanco of conflict. The question between the Federation and the Seamen's Union is to come on for debate next week,and the most cheery results are anticipated in view of the rapprochement, now existing between the hitherto conflicting organizations—Federation v. Union.

THE SHIPPING FEDERATION. INTERVIEW WITH MR LAWS. Mr Laws, the secretary of the Shipping Feder- ation, on being interviewed by our representative in London yesterday, said the position of the Federation in regard to the Seamen's Union is unaltered. The council adhere to the notice pub- lished on the 15th nIt., and decline to meet the representatives of the Union until the block is removed at Cardiif. On being questioned as to the probable result of next week's conference, Mr Laws remarked that it would be soon enough to discuss that when the date was fixed, and he could say nothing at present. He added that the Federation would remain firmly by their published declarations.

LONDON LETTER. [SPECIALLY WIRED.J [FROM GUi: LONDON CORRESPONDENT, j LONDON, Friday Night. tar. LABOUR COMMISSION REMEMBERING THE FOURTH PARTY. Almost the only thing certain at the l'esenr time with respect to the constitu- on of the Labour Commission is that Sir ohn Gorst, the Minister who is more inti- ately acquainted with the question than sy or his colleagues, will not be included. ^1 John is. in the opinion of some of the jiSt judges on both sides of the 11,e, in the very tirst rank of llnIsterlal ability, as it is at present 'splayed on the Treasury bench. It is tj culous to think of Mr Matthews at the °ifte Office, Lord George Hamilton at the 0f j-he Navy, and Mr .Stanhope looking per the Army, with Sir John Gorst in the position of Under Secretary for <ua. His continual passing-over is under- co°cl to be due to personal unfriendliness 1 the part of Lord Salisbury, who has ver been able to forgive the inconveni- j Ce he and his colleagues have .f0rri time to time suffered at the hands of e Fourth Party. Sir John Gorst makes complaint, but, like a wise man, intends take advantage of his freedom from the °j-k of the Commission by making holiday i "eneriffe. No announcement has yet 11 made as to the personnel of the Comniis- but I hear to-night, from a very good i that Sir M. Hicks-Beacli will the chairman — not Mr Goschen, has been reported in some quarters. WttD COLERIDGE ANE JUSTICE STEPHEN. i* am told that* the scene at the interview s*^een Lord Coleridge and Sir Fitzjames ,ephen was exceedingly painful. It took on Tuesday last. Lord Coleridge j VlHg gathered in conversation that Sir Stephen was absolutely ignorant of Reports current with respect to the state of 4 s health, felt that he would be performing ( Public duty and a private service if he (j°* £ on himself tiie disagreeable task of I I'lunie,-Ltin,- the facts to his old friend. Mr llstlce Stephen heard the story with a ^'Prise that was pathetic. It appears that •,s family and those immediately surround- him have been at infinite pains to keep 40rti him any newspaper or letter containing feferenee to himself. This ill-advised t.atch and ward had proved so successful he was absolutely ignorant of what [seryone was talking about. When he j^Ded the facts, he at once decided that jjf Would withdraw from the bench till he Submitted himself for the examination medical man. It was finally resolved he should finish the cases upon which had charged the grand jury but he ™ Hot go to Bristol. NE TEMPORARY WITHDRAWAL FROM THE BENCH. ij Ahe cases that had come before him up to ci.«*Uy were of a comparatively trivial f^j^cter, and had not led to anything ^arkable. According to the testimony a Hear relative of Lord Coleridge, who going the circuit, and who narrowly tched the judge, there was nothing in M 'Qanner indicative of any change having place in his mental condition. A severer test awaited him at Bristol, the cases are heavy and more in- > MR GLADSTONE'S RETURN TO ETON. 1t1 hear that 1\11' Gladstone is looking for- y; with almost boyish enthusiasm to his to Eton to-morrow. All liis family Ij. Nations are with Eton, both on his own and on that of Mrs Gladstone. In ^Ptember next seventy years will have s'nce 'ie went up from Liverpool, jU had his rtame entei'ed on the Eton °ol list. The records of Eton contain L Parallel passage where one of the old has come back after three score years J ten, full of honours, with a fame that h:\ti the world, and lectured in the familiar s. :£ EX-PREMIER'S LITERARY BEGINNING. Gladstone, amid his multitude of still preserves, I believe, a few stray of the Eton Miscellany," to which, year 1826, he largely contributed. W Co^eague in this work was the Eton ^ho afterwards became Bishop Selwyn. contributors were Sir Francis Doyle Arthur Henry Hallani. The miscellany ht. to only two volumes, at least as far as a Gladstone's connection with it went. In Jj, first volume, continuing contributions in and July, 1827, there is a very remark- ^.Passage, forming one of the paragraphs of L,e introduction to the new venture, written H Gladstone. In my present under- 'ltbng,. he writes, there is one gulf in ^,ch I fear to sink and that gulf is Lethe. is one stream which I dread my owb!% to stem—it is the tide of popular I have ventured—and, no doubt, »vniy ventured, like little wanton boys that on bladders—to try my fortune in a k°f glory but far beyond my depth. At l^ent it is hope alone that buoys me up. more substantial support 1 must be t^hted to my own exertions, well knowing in this "land of literature merit never I j11*-8 its reward. That such merit is mine ij, not presume to think but, still, there ^inethmg within me that bids me hope <L I may be able to glide prosperously 11 the stream of public estimation." e/ar this forecast has be en fulfilled may food for reflection for Mr Gladstone, «o^1>rjing after these many years to the 1\1< of his boyish efforts, hopes, and fears. RP A MUCH-LAMENTED DEPARTURE. V -^r Peddie has created of spread feeling of regret in the House 0rmiions, where the former member for "niock liad many friends. It was that le state of his health was deli- V^' ^Ut 'r' v,as 1)ot expected that the end so near. He was a most useful member it Gpular on both sides. Since he left the he has had many opportunities of <li,| l7ling, but the general state of his health *»ot make it advisable that he should to the cares of his business engagements. 'r1 THE BARBARITIES OF SOCIETY. t\1I le barbarity of fixing drawing-rooms for tk Ininth of March was sharply illus- 't d to-day. The thermometer has very low, and a horrible wind () been blowing, making it melancholy w 21 tb\Igh for people briskly going about °*n iusiness but for ladies, 8 and old, to be sitting, inadequately ecl, for two hours or more in the slow- l'oach to Buckingham Palace, it must been really dangerous—the under- savouring of suicidal intent, as the tlw&iers of the carriages went in own freewill. Sympathy is !è e justly claimed for the unfortunate k,li 44t.,i and horses and for the police and 'W °f the Life Guards, the latter sitting 0riless on their horses for hours, whilst A tain of carriages went on and returned. "t"e Uty e is no reason—except the absence of a thoughtfulness and consideration for 1 people—to prevent these functions 1 w log place later in the year, when the her is warmer. LOCAL TAXATION A BROTHERLY 0 RESEMBLANCE. •# kind of stupor which lies over the {ify-?6 of Commons just now was not to be M* this evening by the circumstance that ttlart had obtained the first place for a raising the question of the incidence taxation in London and other large Gladstone was present during three iirsi speeches, and at one Wj looked as if he had in- to take part in the debate. 15 Was 's intention, he altered qi nd, an went off in good time for er- An incident of the debate was the "f ^l'ance of IMr Gerald Balfour, brother Vff.1e Chief Secretary, usually a silent ^3^ er- He had undertaken to move the fY°Usl0n Stuart's motion, and the bVlst' which at this point still included Mr ^tone, listened to him with interest, f N<5h°^Ce '5 si"g«larly his brother's—so t? Si S° that, shutting one's eyes, it might ,e but for one thing, that Mr I 4ki tir Was speaking. It is his speech, I all the fire and force.

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THE CHILIAN REVOLUTION. A DESPERATE BATTLE. DEFEAT OF THE GOVERNMENT FORCES. 200 MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN BURIED ALIVE. 200 MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN BURIED ALIVE. [ KKUTKK'S TELEGRAM, NEW YORK, March 13. A letter from Santiago, dated February 11th, has been received by the Herald, giving particu- lars regarding the events of the Chilian revolutioji. A bloody battle had been fought at Pisagua, in which the Parliamentary forces were defeated, 40 of them being killed and 34 wounded, amongst the latter being Colonel Vergara, the commander. His injuries wei-e serious. The Government continued to exile all persons in any way inclined towards the insurgents. Both natives and foreigners were suffering from this action, and several German and English merchants had been given thirty-six hours to leave the country for ever. Great surprise had been caused by the Government decree expelling from the country the Austrian consul at Val- paraiso. The consul seemed much inclined towards the Parliamentary party, and in an un- guarded moment stated his opinion to a friend of the Government. The prisons were crowded with insurgents who were considered de- serving of imprisonment by President Balmaceda. The latter was described by the insurgent party as a modern despot. Con- fiscation on a grand scale was being resorted to by the Government, and the entire property of Don Edwards, the richest man in Chili, had been seized. A terrible disaster had occurred at Port Coronel. The warship Esmeralda appeared in the harbour, and made a demand for the sur- render of the town, and being refused open fire. The people fled to the heights, and others took refuge in the railway station. Finally a shot struck the station. This was followed by several others, and, before anybody could escape, the roof and wall fell in, burying over 200 men, women, and children. The bombardment continued, however, and this, added to the cries of the dying, caused the com- mander to surrender. As soon as word to this effect was sent, the captain of the Esmeralda sent surgeons, with a detachment of marines, to help to clear away the wreck, and 67 dead bodies were then taken out of the debris and 100 persons more or less seriously injured, The blockade of Valparaiso was beginning to tell upon the resources of the city, and provisions were scarce and expensive. Two cruisers were blockading the port and kept an incessant and vigilant watch. No vessel could get in or out, and a desultory fire was kept up, which was far more fatal than a bombardment

ILLNESS OF PRINCE NAPOLEON. [REUTER'S TELEGRAM.] ROME, March 13. Prince Napoleon passed a very bad night, and was at times delirious. The end is believed to be imminent. King Humbert visited the prince a.t six o'clock this morning, and remained two hours, [REUTERS TELEGRAM.] ROME, March 13, 3.15 p.m. Prince Napoleon is sinking. The doctors h\ve just ordered inhalation of oxygen. Queen Margherite visited the patient this morning. A crowd of perscns are in front of the hotel waiting for news.

A FRENCH RESIDENCY ATTACKED BY PIRATES. THE CONSUL BEHEADED. [CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.) PARIS, Friday Evening. The steamship Saghalieu, which arrived at Toulon from China to-day, brings bad news from Tonquin. Last January a band of pirates, estimated at 500, attacked the French residency at Chobo. They beheaded the French resident, and ransacked and burnt the town. Many of the natives seemed disposed to join the pirates, and 10,000 men were deemed necessary to quell the rising. Information is brought by the same mail of a fire which destroyed 208 houses and four pagodas at Hanoa. The fire is attributed to the carelessness of a smoker.

BISMARCK AND THE KAISER. EXPECTED RECONCILIATION. [FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.] BERLIN, March 13. Speulation is rife as to the further Ministerial changes that everybody believes to be impend- ing. An impression prevails that Count Waldersees' visit to Prince Bismarck on Wednesday was intended as a prelimi- nary to a complete reconciliation between the ex Chancellor and the Emperor. In some well-informed quarters it is considered probable that Prince Bismarck will return to power at no distant date, and this impression is strengthened by constant rumours of General Caprivi's resigna- tion. -h-

AN AUSTRIAN OUTRAGE. A NOBLEMAN WOUNDED BY HIRED BRAVOES. [PEUTEB's TELEGRAM.! VIENNA, March 13. The Marquis Lebrun de Sesseral, a French- nobleman possessing an estate at Bokszegpiear, Szegeari, in Hungary, was to-day driving from the railway station to his chateau, accompanied by his bailiffs, a man named Zabinot, and the wife of the latter, when a volley si shots was w I fired at the carriage from behind a wall. M. f de Sesseral was severely wounded in the side and back, and M. Zabinot and his wife also sustained seriens injuries. It is believed that motives of private vengeance are'at the bottom of this murderous outrage, and the perpetrators are suspected to be hired bravoes. No arrests have been made. There appears to be no reason to suppose that the crime is due to agrarian disputes.

A STOCKBROKER SENT TO PENAL SERVITUDE. A Southport stockbroker named iNiarrison,lwa. yesterday sentenced by judge Day, at Liverpool, to seven years' j>enal servitude for forging three transfer forms, each for £ 1,000, of the North British Railway stock, whereby Mr and Mrs Kay were defrauded of nearly £2,000, paid on account of shares transferred. 'After the forgeries the prisoner absconded, and was discovered six months later in London living under an assumed name.

TO-DAY'S WEATHER, 1 A.M. ¡ TO-DAY'S FORECAST FOR ENGLAND, S.W., AND SOUTH WALES. Northerly winds, falling light; fine; very cold in the ntorning. Gr,NMAL.-The weather appears to be quieting down generally in the south. GENERAL FORECASTS. The following forecasts were prepared last night at the Meteorological Office at eight o'clock DISTRICTS— _U_- 1 South westerly breezes, I 0. Scotland, -N. r freshening; some showers; J warm. 1. Scotland, E.80^ • Jest*rly breezes, 2. England,N.E- j Si?!^ a whol! Wamier; I MiScounti^^ ™inds, fall- 5. Eng., S. (Lon. | ? g' llght; fine5 very cold ana Channel.) J 1,1 6. Scotland, W. Same as 0. 7 Enel. NW ) South-westerly breezes, light & North Wales. | to mod,erate 5 faf; warm ) some showers later. 1 Wind becoming south-wes- v g. Ireland, N j- terly weather milder, and J fair to showery. 1 Very light airs, followed by 10. do. S [ southerly breezes; fair as ) a whole; warmer.

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ANOTHER WRECK OFF THE START. HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE. A NEWPORT VESSEL CAST AWAY. LOSS OF 58 LIVES. INTERRUPTION OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC. The Central News says :—The most terrible of all the disasters which have resulted from the blizzard of Monday was, as far as is at present known, the loss of the fine iron screw steamer Mirama. It was known on Thursday that a steamship had been wrecked at Start Point in the height of the hurricane, but it was not until yesterday that her name became known. The Mirama was of 1,680 tons register. She was owned by Messrs George Bell and Cc., of Liverpool, and was on her way from London to Colombo with a cargo of railway sleepers, intending to call at Swansea to take in coals, when the cyclone on Monday night struck her. The vessel was headed for the open ^away, but so terrific was the force of the wind that at about six o'clock she was blown upon the Blackstone Rock, which lies a short distance out from the Start Point. Nothing could be done then to save the ship. The waves were breaking against her with terrific force, and the crew, seeing she must soon break up, took to the boats as the last expedient for saving their lives. The captain, chief engineer, three mates, and the steward left the vessel in the starboard small boat, and the remaining 22 hands in the starboard lifeboat, most of the crew wearing lifebelts. The captain and the small boat were not seen afterwards, and in the heavy sea it is believed that she foundered. The lifeboat, in charge of the boatswain, proceeded along the shore towards Prawle, and in due course reached Horsley Cove, a small cove immediately beneath the coastguards' station at Prawle. Had the boatswain been aware of it this was the. best point for him to have run his craft ashore, but he appears to have considered the risk too dangerous and headed the boat for the sea again. Directly afterwards the boat capsized, but all the crew managed to cling to her as she righted. Then she wasfull of water and agam turned over. Finally she was driven to the Mag Rock, slightly to the east of Prawle Point. At this time, with the exception of four men, all those on board of her had succumbed through exhaus- tion and the fury of the waves. The fonrsurvivors were Swedes, and all were stokers from the engine-room. On landing at the foot of the cliff, they commenced to climb the steep rocks. One of the men, who suffered terribly from exhaustion, was gallantly helped upwards by his comrades. They finally succeeded in reaching the summit, and had made half their way to Prawle village when the injured man could proceed no further. He laid in the road, and two of his fellows stayed with him, while the other proceeded forward for help. He reached Prawle at half-past 10 at night, but, being unable to speak English, it was some time before he could make the country folk understand what was wanted. At length a rescue party started out with warm food and clothing. They found the other three men, two alive and one dead. The two survivors were much ex- hausted, but recovered after careful treatment. By the wreck of this steamer the fine barque Dryad, the Barrow schooner Linesdale, and the Chester schooner Lizzie Ellen, no less than 58 lives have been lost at Start Point.

LOSS OF A NEWPORT VESSEL < SAFETY OF THE CREW. Shortly after seven o'clock yesterday morning the master and the other seven men which formed the crew of the barquentine St Harvard, owned by Messrs E. J, Rees and Co., shipowners, Dock- street, Newport, arrived by train at Newport station, and during the morning had the usual interviews with the owner and with the R.eceivpr of Wrecks, -_n __n -nm. The St. Halvard, which belonged to a young and enterprising firm, which it is hoped may one day take their place amongst the merchant princes of Greater Newport, left the Usk on the 1st instant with a cargo of Monmouthshire coal for Laguna, in the Gulf of Mexico. She remained wind-bound in Penarth Roads until Sunday last, when she sailed with a fair wind. On Monday, when about 150 miles westward of Scilly Islands, the barometer suddenly went down, and the blizzard, which struck the English coasts in the evening, came sweeping across the Bay ef Biscay, in which the gallant little ship had just entered. The sails were close reefed with quick despatch, but the sea, momentarily increasing in fury, began to break over her. One huge mass of water, which the ship could not be manoeuvred clear of, swept everything off the deck. Spars, boats, and even the cabin (built on deck) went later in the day. The crew battled bravely all through the livelong night to save themselves and the ship, but she strained badly, sprung a leak, and in the morning the pumps showed that she was gradually filling with water. Everything else on the horizon had been cleared by the storm, but during Tuesday afternoon the crew espied the ss. Hibernia, bound for Bremerhaven, and made signals of distress. The captain of the Hibernia. called for a volunteer crew for the steamer's lifeboat, and this put off, the St Halvard~being helpless and lying without a boat left, in the trough of the sea. The men were taken off the derelict ship, the deck- line of which by this time was near the water, and received every attention. They were Landed at Dartmouth last night, and forwarded on to Newport this morning. With one pxception they are all Newport men, and their names are as follows:— Mr John Jones, master, Risca-road, Newport, Lewis Jones, mate, Newport. Charles Naumann, boatswain, Elliot Home, Newport. Wallace Pitt, A.B 75, Commercial-road, New- port. J. P. Barron, A.B., 1, Lower Lewis-street, New- port. James Oswald, A.B., Liverpool. Harry Bilsborough, O.S., Elliot Home. Newport. Thomas Caden, steward, BJaina Wharf. Newport.

SAFETY OF A MISSING NEW- PORT STEAMER. Our Newport readers will be glad to learn that the s.s. Trinidad, which left Newport a. week or so since, with a crew of Newport men on board, and of which no tidings were to hand on Thursday, is all right, having escaped the blizzard whilst in port in Spain. She left Decido, near Bilbao, on Thursday evening with a cargo for Cardiff and Newport..

A LIVERPOOL MURDER, SENTENCE OF DEATH. At Liverpool Assizes yesterday.Arthm- Edward Penfold (31), porter, was indicted for the murder of Margaret Stewart, alias Isabella Cowie, in December last. The prisoner came to Liverpool from East Grinstead, Sussex, and lived for some days with deceased, a native of Aberdeen, who was a woman of immoral character. While driving with her in a cab one day he stopped the vehicle and told the cabman he had klUed the woman. It was then found that the woman -was fatally stabbed. A question as to the prisoner's sanity was raised, and the prosecution said evidence would be called on that point. Evidence as to the facts having been given a med-i cal witness said he considered the prisoner quite sane, and could not support the idea that the prisoner at the time of the mur- der was suffering from epilepsy. Another medical witness who knew prisoner's family said the mother died during an epileptic seizure, and a brother showed great mental instability. Both brothers were subject to fits, and the prisoner, who was in- valided from the Lancers, had done a number of eccentric things. Prisoner had twice tried to commit suicide, and was acquitted of theft at East Grinstead on the ground of insanity. Absence of a motive for the crime was com- mented on. Dr Morton, of Chelsea, Police- Superintendent Berry, East Grinstead, and prisoner's brother, Charles, gave strong testimony to prisoner's insanity. A verdict of guilty was, however, returned, and sentence of death was passed in the usual form.

A STRANGE INFATUATION. The registrar of Cheltenham county court, Charles Francis Gale, solicitor, came up yester- day for his public examination in bankruptcy at the Birmingham Bankruptcy Court, before Regis- trar Parry. His liabilities were set down at L19,000 and assets at 2951. The debtor filed his petition himself, and issued a receiving order against himself. He attributed his losses to an infatuation which had led him to advance to a horse-dealer large sums of money on the faith that the horse-dealer's wife would eventually come into £30.000. The examination was adjourned.

IMPORTANT CONFERENCE ON ABUSES. SHIPPING SWEEPS AND SHOEBLACKS AS SEAMEN. THE STRUGGLE VIRTUALLY CLOSED. The dispute between the Shipping Fpcteratin and the Seamen's and Firemen's Fnion now understood to be virtually at an end, for the federation having expressed readiness to discuss differences provided the interdict on the Federa- tion ticket is cancelled, and the Sailors' Union again having now resolved to assent to this policy, the tension is removed, and there will in all likelihood lie an early meeting between the parties to the dispute. The decision, it is said, was forced upon Mr Wilson by the Union trustees, who would not sanction the expenditure of £900 per week as strike pay in what was termed a useless struggle. Meanwhile the Shipping Federation is not relaxing any of its elaborate precautions. They are now engaged in weeding out the men termed" Federationists." and those who are suitable for the work will be permanently engaged. A new departure was made by the Federation on Thursday to encourage the men. Although the minimum rate of payment to all the men is guaranteed at 30s a week, with board and lodging, they are paid at the rate of Is 6d per hour for coaling, and many of them are earning exceptionally good money. Six hundred and fifty are still at the depot.

THE CASE FOR THE DOCKERS ANOTHER DEPUTATION TO SIR W. T. LEWIS. A private meeting cf the tippers, hydraulic men. Ac., on strike was held in the Colonial-hall yesterday. Mr Ben Tillett presided. The resolution which was passed at the Labour Conference on Thursday was snomitted and discussed. Addresses were de- livered by Mr Tom Mann, the Chairman, and Mr H. Orbell, and eventually a deputation was ap- pointed to wait upon Sir W. T. Lewis to-day (Saturday), at 12o clock. Thedeputation consists of four tippers, two hydraulic men; and one horse driver. A basis ot negotiations was dis- cussed and agreed t\ Tlie men were in- formed that as soon as the difficulty is closed with regard to the Sailors' and Firemen's Union a.nd the Shipping Federation, an effort will be made with a view to pay 15s per week per man until such times as they are reinstated in their employ- ment. Mr Tcm Mann announced his intention to return to London, and three enthusiastic cheers were given for him.

CONFERENCE IN LONDON. t, SPECIAL l'KLKGf'.AW FROM OUP. OOP.P.ESPOVDRNT.} LoxDOX, Friday Evening. ThL" afternoon, at the instance of the Seamen's and Firemen's Union, an important conference of members of Parliament and others took place in the Westminster Palace Hotel with reference to alleged abuses and neglect in the administration of the Merchant Shipping Act. Sir Edward J Reed, M.P., was called upon to preside, and amongst the members of Parliament present were —Professor Bryce, Sir Thomas Esmonde, Mr Long, Dr Cameron, Mr E. Robertson, Mr J. Shiress Will, Mr J. Duncan, Mr Peter MacLagan, and Air Esslemont. MrJ. H. WILSON, secretary of the Seamen's and Firemen's Union, said that their first com- plaint was that the Board of Tradedid not enforce those clauses of the Merchant Seamen (Payment of Wages and Rating) Act, of 1880—that no one should be signed on as an able-bodied seaman who had notpreviously served four years at sea. During the Cardiff strike it had been proved, over and over again, that men had been signed on as A.B.'s" who had never been to sea before. He had present, for instance, five such men, who were shipped 'by a boarding-house master at Cardiff, one of whom was a sweep, who had just been liberated after two months' imprisonment; another was a shoemaker and so on. Such a system not only increased the labour and responsibility of competent sea- vnen, but also seriously increased the danger to lives and property buth in the vessels on which they served, and to other vessels met at sea. The superintendent" at several ports, when questioned on the subject, simply replied that they had received no instructions from the Board of Trade to carry out and enforce the provisions in question. There was also extreme laxity with regard to the illegal supply of incompetent men, who were furnished by "crimps" with clothing, and parsed off as seainsn without inquiry as to qualification. Although the Board of Trade had declined to prosecute the boarding-house masters who were at fault, the union had prosecuted and trot a conviction. An inquiry was asked for from the Local Marine Board at Carditf, but it was far from satisfactory, and the gentleman who owned the vessel in question was himself one of the judges in that court. The CHAIRMAN said the recent reply of the President of the Board of Trade to a question by Mr Chamberlain 011 the grievances now com- plained of did not seem at all satisfactory—even to Sir Michael Hicks-Beach himself—although it might be necessary to remind Mr Wilson that members of Parliament had no executive func. tions, and had no responsibility or power to see Acts of Parliament carried into effect. At the same time, there would be in the House of Com- mons a general feeling of approval of the course taken in this instance—at all events, by the Sea- men's and Firemen's Union—in urging that the existing legislation should be put in force both for the sake of competent seamen and for the public interest. Mr ROBKRTSON, M.P. Has Mr Wilson formally laid the complaints in question before the Board of Trade ? Mr WILSON We have had some correspondence from time to time on the subject, but not, 1 think, with the present president of that board. Mr LENG, M.P., said he thought that, if the provisions of the Act of Parliament in question were quite clear it was the duty of the proper department of the Government to see them en- forced, and he would be glad to concur in any action resolved upon with that view. There could be no doubt that it was a very serious peril to vessels and to all on board, if the men who were shipped as able-bodied seamen were not what they professed to be, but were really "land-lubbers," who did not know how to steef or to work a vessel. Such men were especially unqualified to act in an emergency and, in the interests of all classes—seamen, shipowners, pas- sengers, freightowners, &c.—it was most desirable that the provisions of the Act of Parliament should be carried out. Mr ESSLKMONT. M.P., concurred with Mr Robertson in recommending that the Board of Trade should lie officially approached on the sub- ject. He happened to sit as a representative of the Board of Trade on the Marine Board of Aber- deen, and would like to have at baud some official correspondence in dealing with the subject, a* he would endeavour to act impartially and with. sincere desire to see justice doiie to all the interests concerned. Mr ROBERTSON, M.P., said he was sure that all present would be willing to consult with and co- operate with Mr Wilson in obtaining a distinct official statement of the policy of the Board of Trade in this matter; and then in taking farther action, should that be found necessary. Mr rILSO explained that there were present delegates representing 98,000 seamen in different ports, and this question, he added, was one which deeply concerned both union and non-union men. Mr Taunton (Liverjiool), Mr Robertson (Middlesbrough), Mr Butcher (Hull), Mr Gammon (Whitstable), Captain Anderson and Mr Clark (London), Mr Begg (Hull), and other delegates rxidre&«sed the meeting on the object in view, urging various reason? in its support. The CHAIRMAN moved the following resolution: —" That the members of Parliament present strongly sympathise with the object of the Union in seeking to have the clauses of the Act of Par. liament enforced, recommend the officer* of the