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oup, LONDON CORRESPONDENT. Tho Easter of 1896 will be remembered for a long period by many a pleasure seeking Londoner as an extremely dull season. Even the period that was dry proved dreary, while that which Wis damp was dismal to the last degree. It is always at such a time that the suggestion is to bo heard that it is too oarly in the year to take a holiday, and that every really sensible person would wait at leafrt until Whitsuntide. That is all very well when the Easter is dull and damp, but when, as some- times is the case, the weather is springlike and balmy, what more pleasant than a break in the continuity of one's work, and the enjoying I of a few days either in the country or by the aula- of the soa." After the dark days- of winter, there comes an added keenness of joy in hearing the birds once more among the trees, and watching the foliage as it gives fresh beauty to the hedge- rows and those of us who have London constantly for a home can best appreciate these innocent and natural joys. Those, therefore, who growl whenever the Easter weather is not to their liking, and who vow that never again will they venture out of town before Whitsuntide, may be taken to 3peak only for themselves and in a moment ot spleen for the majority of those who have the chance of securing a breath of fresh air outside London at the first great holiday season of the year will, of a certainty, hope for better weather next spring, and will take that chance whether their hope is realised or whether they are once more doomed to meteorological disappoint- ment. As the War Office is this year giving greater attention to the wants and wishes of the Volunteer Force, the Easter manteuvres of our citizen soldiers have attracted more note than usual from the experts. In these days, the metropolitan volunteers do not concentrate at Brighton or Dover or on Dunstable Downs on the Easter Monday for a sham fight and a march-past. They spread themselves in de- tachments over a large tract of country, and spread their tactical movements over several days. At this Easter, for instance, the head- quarters of the South London Brigade were at Shorncliffe Camp, where the Civil Service, the 5th and 9th Middlesex, and the Cyclist Corps were quartered, the Queen's Westminster, the Artists, the South Middlesex, and the West London being at Folkestone, the London Scottish at Hythe, and the Honourable Artillery Company at Sandgate. While these various corps were thus concentrated, nearly live thousand men of the Surrey Brigade were assembled at Eastbourne, three camps of metropolitan volunteer Engineers were at Brighton, the City of London Artillery were at Sheerness, and the West London Volunteer Infantry Brigade were concentrated at Win- chester. No one having any acquaintance with military training will doubt that this process is far more effective than the old one, the best test of which is the great improvement that has taken place in the handling of our volunteers within the past score of years. So far as the average user of the telephone is concerned, no difference has been experienced by him this week, because the Government, as represented by the Post Office, has taken possession of all the telephone trunk wires of the United Kingdom; but the step is one of much significance that may ultimately have important results. The Post Office, it need hardly be said, does not intend to work at once the whole of the trunk lines, for its operations will for the present be con- fined to those in the southern part of England. The remainder, however, will be taken up by degrees, until the whole trunk system is worked by the Post Office by means of its own staff, a consummation which should do something to make telephony at once more cheap and more accessible than it has ever been before. Seeing how willing the English people are to welcome anything in the nature of im- proved communication, it has been a standing puzzle why telephony has so lagged in this country. One answer is that the Government, owing to its possession of the telegraphic monopoly, has seriously hampered the develop- ment of the telephone; but now the two interests are being more closely worked toge- ther. that reason can no longer be considered to exist. In journalistic calculation, the silly season," when all kinds of social problems are being discussed at great length in the corre- spondence columns of the newspapers, does not set in until after Parliament has risen in the early autumn. But this year there has been a kind of advance skirmish, in the shape of the starting at Easter of a correspondence directed against morning street noises in London. The original, protest was against the cries of itinerant hawkers, but this was speedily fol- lowed by even more energetic objurgations against church bells, mechanical pianos and Btreet organs, muffin bells, milk-carts, and shoutings outside shops. It is not necessary to wish London, in point of quietude, to resemble a city of the dead, to sympathise with much of this combined protest. Not all of us are as full of nerves as poor John Leech, who was driven to his death by the perpetual persecu- tion of barrel organs but even more robust natures occasionally suffer torture from the hideous variety of street noises with which the capital abounds. Owing to the fact that Mr. Justice Charles was prevented from taking his seat on the bench through illness, and that the election petitions have kept some other judges away from the usual business of the courts, it is admitted at the Bar that the Jaw term which has just come to an end, was probably one of the worst in legal annals, so far as the disposal of the ordinary business of the Queen's Bench Division was concerned. An agitation has accordingly been set on foot to secure the appointment of an additional judge in that iivision, but the reasons given will not impress outsiders as much as they seem to, do those at the bar. The illness of Mr.j Justice Charles may be hoped not to last! for over, and the election petitions are virtually over and probably, if all the judges of more 1 than fifteen years service on the Bench were to retire on their full pension, as they are en- titled to do, their younger, fresher, and more; vigorous successors would make shorter work of the cause list than is efiected by these veterans. A good timo is promised in the not remote future for the Thames anglers, as there are now two re-stocking associations at work, which may! be considered certain to do much service, to the river. Lord Inverurie, is the President of the new Thames Re-stocking; Association, which has just placed a thousand! fine roach in the Thames between Teddington Lock and the Water Gallery at Hampton Court. This is in addition to what the Thames Angling Preservation Society has done, that having ]ust contributed to the Thames a thousand ltchen trout and two thousand roach, as well as a number of other fish. The heart o every lover of the angle should rejoice at this intelligence, as the introduction of such new Thames cannot fail of good' effect. ames angler has not always got an easy time of it, and it may be wondered whether he condemns the more heartily the practices of the steam-launches at one period of the year or the ravages of the floods at another. But, as a rule, he is possessed of the patience which is the distinguishing virtue of all true disciples of Izaak Walton; and, armed with this and strengthened by the knowledge that the fish in the river are being protected and added to, he can go on his philosophic way rejoicing. The time of year has now arrived when the —— prospeqts ot the cricket season are an ^apropos subject for conversation and 5t ^pleasantto know that, m the opinion of experts, it is likely to prove a more than usually interesting ?ne: ,m> ?. C0Urse, will greatly be accounted for by the Visit 0 £ tho ninth Australian team le and, as an eleveu has not coma from the Anti- podes for three years, its performance will be keenly awaited. It is necessary to re- niember t at, m view of the pressure of fixturé1 caused by the Australian tour, the committee of the Marylebone Cricket Club has agree that, during the present season, six out-and-homo matches shall be sufficient to qualify for the county championship instead of eight, as was the case a twelvemonth since. Interest will largely centre upon the question of whether Surrey will retain the position at the head ot the counties it has held during tho past two years, but it will be handicapped by the loss of Maurice Read. R.
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THE NILE EXPEDITION.
THE NILE EXPEDITION. IMPENDING ATTACK BY THE DERVISHES. A Cairo telegram says that the Korosko-Mprat telegraph line has agam been destroyed by the dervishes, a strong force of whom is in the neighbourhood of the Assouan Berber road. The enemy have assumed a threatening at) tude, not only against Murat, but u,o against the Egyptian fort Helaib on the Egyptian coast of the Red Sea. A dervish force has also arrived at Kokreb, 50 miles west of Souakim. This- makes it necessary to send another battalion to Souakim to reinforce the garrison. The dervishes are evidently preparing to attack the now Egyptian entrenched positions. It has now been decided that Colonel G. E. Lloyd, South Staffordshire Regiment, who has been in com- mand of the base at Cairo, shall return to Souakim forthwith and resume the Governorship of that place. Colonel Parsons, R.A., who has arrived from Wady Haifa, will in consequence take over the com- mand of the base at Cairo. A Mas&owah telegram says that Colonel Stevani is still at Kassala. A caravan which left that place has arrived at Sabderat.
NATIONAL UNION OF TEACHERS.
NATIONAL UNION OF TEACHERS. The 27th annual conference of this body was opened on Easter Monday in the Royal Pavilion, Brighton. The Mayor having welcomed the delegates, Mr. T. B. Ellory, the retiring president, took the chair and opened the proceedings. After the trans- action of some formal business, Mr. T. J. Macnamara was installed as president, and delivered an inaugural address which was almost entirely devoted to discussion of the new Education Bill of the Government. He thought it a measure calculated to work, in the long run, greater changes in the system of popular education than any legisla- tive enactment yet placed on the Statute-book. Its immediate purpose was the dispensation of additional financial assistance to very needy Board schools and to the voluntary schools generally, through the agency of a new and important local educational authority its ultimate effect would probably be the gradual extinction of all Board schools as such, and the gradual municipalisation of all forms of publicly assisted education. The bill commended itself to him, chiefly because under it there was consti- tuted, in every county and county borough, a para- mount education authority. He proceeded to criticise the details of the bill, warmly commending many of its proposals, but regretting that there was no provision against the imposition on voluntary school teachers of extraneous tasks and no means of appeal provided for teachers against unjust dismissal. He was sorry that the thorny religious difficulty had been raised in the bill at all.
THE STEVEDORE AND THE SNAKE.
THE STEVEDORE AND THE SNAKE. On Easter Monday a curious scene was witnessed in a Liverpool dock on board a steamer from an Egyptian port, with a cargo of bones and skeletons. While workmen were engaged taking out the cargo they discovered snugly ensconced in a camel's head a large serpent, which caused a general stampede. One of the men, more intrepid than the rest, having had some eastern experience, coolly caught the reptile by the neck in such a way that, wriggle as it might, it could not inflict personal injury. The dock labourer then, with an air of triumph, took the reptile to land. It ultimately found a home in the local Zoological collection.
THE EDUCATION BILL
THE EDUCATION BILL At the conference of the National Union of Catholic Teachers of Great Britain in Manchester on Easter Monday, Father Bernard Vaughan, alluding to the Education Bill, said that the leader of the Anglican body in the country had sold the position of the voluntaryists. The Bishop of Salford said the bill was a statesmanlike measure. He was disposed to judge favourably of its possibilities if it was carefully watched and amended. Its chief defect was that the maintenance of the voluntary schools was not by a very long way placed on the same footing as that of Board schools. The Rev. Canon Nunn, a member of the Manchester School Board, has stated to a Press representative that he is greatly disappointed with the bill. He characterises it as unjust, inadequate, and ineffective for the relief of the intolerable strain on voluntary schools, and a great bribe for the country and agricultural vote.
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SIR EnwAJw CLARKE, who leads in the Jameson case at Bow-street, has 100 guineas on his brief, besides a special fee of another 100 guineas; Sir Frank Lockwood a special of 100 guineas and-a retainer of 75 guineas; and Mr. Carson a special of 100 euineas and a retainer of 50 eruineas.
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IsEWS NOTES. IN accordance with custom Easter Monday was a great day for the volunteers, not only of the metropolis, but of many other of our big towns, lliousands of the citizen soldiery were mobilised for the purpose of exercise and drill. Some specially interesting and important manceuvres were carried out at Folkestone, Canterbury, Brighton Eastbourne, and other points on the South Coast, about 30,000 men being engaged at these centres alouc. The operations were conducted under the super- vision of well-known officers of the regular army, who in most cases expressed their appro- bation of the manner in which the civilian soldiers comported themselves. THERE is'no longer any doubt, a contempo- rary says, that it is intended in the early autumn to send out a senior officer to conduct the operations in Egypt, and army rumour points to General Sir Redvers Buller, V.C. Should such be the case, this fine soldier would, for the first time, have an independent com- mand in the field. THE new narrow gauge railway to the summit of Snowdon was thrown open for passenger traffic on Easter Monday, and the occasion was marked by an accident which fortunately was unattended by fatal results. Two trains, carrying about 100 passengers each, had ascended the mountain with safety, but when the first was descending the cogwheels of the engine got out of gear and the engine dashed off at a tremendous speed. Having left the line at a curve, the engine plunged over the Cwmglas precipice, struck a huge boulder about 100 feet below, and was smashed to pieces. The engineman and driver jumped off before the engine fell over the preci- pice, and escaped without serious injury. Luckily, the carriages were not coupled to the engine, and are provided with powerful breaks. These breaks were at once applied when the engine ran away, and the carriages were brought to a standstill. Some of the passengers, how- ever, jumped out of the train before it was stopped, and one of them sustained injuries which rendered the amputation of one of his legs necessary. PEOPLE who dwell in towns and complain of high rents should go (observes a correspondent of a London daily) to the country and take to agriculture. It is not a flourishing occupation, but at all events those who pursue it need not have to complain of burdensome rentals. What, furl instance, could be a cheaper tenancy than this A comfortable farmhouse containing three sitting and six bedrooms, good farm buildings, stabling for three nag horses coach- house, four cottages, 220 acres of arable land, 137 acres of grass land, 21 acres of woods—the lot for 2130 per annum. This is not in deso- late and derelict Essex, but in the midst of the best scenery of rural Surrey, which contests with Kent, and perhaps a few other counties, the right to be truly described as the Garden of England. THE Lord Mayor and Corporation of London attended St. Paul's Cathedral in state and took part in a special service held there to mark the completion of Mr. W. B. Richmond's mosaic decorations. There was a long double line of craftsmen, wearing a red pectoral badge, followed by the" Master Workman in Uni- versity gown and hood. The cathedral clergy were represented by the Dean of St. Paul's, the Archdeacon of London, Canon Scott Holland, Canon Newbolt, and a number of prebendaries. THE coming Cardiff Exhibition will, we learn, be by far the most important venture of the kind that has ever been identified with the Principality. The guarantee fund, irrespective of donations, amounts to 1:21,000. The expen- diture by the council for buildings, grounds, lights, &c., will amount to between £ 25,000 and £ 30,000, and a further sum of over £ 20,000 will be expended in the formation of a lake and canal, a water show, arrangements for mimic naval battles, a cycle track, a representation of Old Cardiff, and an Indian Bazaar. The exhi- bition will be illustrative of the Fine Arts, marine architecture, coal mining, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering, and it is aesigneif to'be educative. Its site is close to the centre of the town in Cathays-park, part of the demesne of the Marquis of Bute. A NOTABLE instance of the Queen's minute attention to details is related. One of the ancient trees at Holyrood (her Majesty s Edinburgh residence), said to have been planted in the time of Mary, Queen of Scots, was blown down in a gale at the end of last year, but before the gardeners were allowed to touch it a photograph of it had to be taken and forwarded to the Queen, who, assured that any hope of saving it was impossible, gave her consent to its removal, which was accomplished only last week. Not a single tree, it appears, can be removed from the grounds without her Majesty's personal permission. THE courtships of kings are not, we are told, conducted precisely after the fashion of those of ordinary mortals, and one may safely suppose that it is very unlikely that the King of Servia has given any hint of his intentions with regard to the Princess Marie of Greece Nevertheless it is an open secret tha e Grand Duke Michailovitch were rivals for the lady s hand, and there was ag°0<^ ,of ^terest felt as to which would be successful. The matter has been settled now by » mouncement of the betrothal of the Hto,th Gr»nd Duke, and King Alexander must look elsewhere for a Queen. A* amusing incid^^T^ Volunteer Camp at ShomcMe just before the second half of the briga^0 1 £ #: m.a out for outpost work Suddenly the fire alarm W^°thn9deali™d Vthe buglS?. The^ alarm was originally P™™ D lines, where a fire was ass"™15 out. Instantly there «« » K™?1 J1" i 11. *Ua cawP' Men left what skurry throughout the haatened with tho they were engaged upon gcreGn8j buckets> engines, fire-hose, rfire was supposed to in the direction where a « false alarm» be raging. Of course, i h the troops carried but the smart way in w efficient they werQ in [>ut the work showed n*7 their duties in this resPOC
- THE NEW SNOWDON RAILWAY.
THE NEW SNOWDON RAILWAY. ALARMING ACCI1HNT IX TUB 1>K3CJSNT. The new narrow gauge railway to the summit ot Snowdon was opened to passonger traffic on Easter Monday, and the occasion, was marked by exciting incidents and an accident which fortunately, though alai^ning, was unattended Dv fatal results. The train, with a full complement of passengers, arrived at the summit safely, but on the return journey just before reaching Clogwyncoch, where the gradient is very steep, the engine suddenly increased speed to the terror of the passengers, two of whom were so scared that they jumped off. The rest retained their seats, and were none the. worse save for a little fright. The powerful brakes were applied, but, unfortunately, too suddenly, the result being that the couplings attaching the engine to the train snapped, and the locomotive rushed down the declivity. The carriages were brought to a standstill by the brakes, but the engine, getting off the metals, ploughed up the permanent, way and eventually toppled over a precipice and fell to the bottom of the pass, where it lies a complete wreck. The engine-driver and stoker had previously leaped off, and so escaped death. Both the pas- sengers who jumped off the train were injured-the first, Ellis Roberts, of Llanberis, sustaining a frac- tured leg, and the other, a young man named Jackson, son of the deputy town clerk of Oswestry, being cut about the back of the head. The cogs of the engine, it is believed, became blocked with the mettling, and the result was that it left the rails. With remarkable presence of mind the driver applied himself to the brakes of the car- riages, but immediately afterwards the locomotive fell down the pretapice on the Llanberis Pass side. The carriages were at once brought to a standstill, but before this had been accomplished several of the passengers, frightened almost into a state of 1)1" 3, jumped out, and a few of them were injured. Unfortunately the engine, in falling, shrasW, e telegraph pole and disarranged the service, with tja result that another train dashed into the stationary one, but without doing personal injury. The car- nage, however, was destroyed. Fortunately all the passengers in the first train bad dismounted before the second train dashed into it, or the results would have been appalling.
THE MATABELE RISING.
THE MATABELE RISING. JI3. RHODES MARCHING ON GWELO.—BURNING NATIVE KRAALS. A Buluwayo telegram says that communication with Salisbury has been again established. A tele- grani from Mr. Rhodes states that Gwelo is safe, and that he himself, with 100 mounted and 50 unmounted men, will leave Salisbury immediately for that place. Much anxiety has been felt for the lives of the miners at Belingwe, but it is now learnt that they are safe in laager. The Hon. Maurice Gifford's party of horse are scouring the country to the north and west of Buluwayo. The Matabele are in force on the banks of the Khame river, at a spot about 15 miles distant from Buluwayo in a south-westerly direction. Mr. Selous will be dispatched to-day with infantry to endeavour to drive the enemy away from kobjes 18 miles along the Salisbury-road. The rumours current that Captain Brand's column had met with a disaster prove to be unfounded. A body of 200 natives tried to surprise him at Uinsingwani, but were driven off without inflicting any loss. The mounted force under the command of the Hon. Maurice Gifford was, according to the latest report, 15 miles north-west of Buluwayo, and was engaged in burning the kraals of the Induna ring- leader. A Cape Town telegram says that rumours are again current in Rhodesia that King Lobengula is not only alive, but is now massing an impi with the intention of attacking Buluwayo. Four machine guns have been landed from the flagship St. George and for- warded to Buluwayo for the use of the volunteers there.
:1 EASTER VOLUNTEERING.
1 EASTER VOLUNTEERING. INTERESTING MAN<EUVS35S. Almost the whole of the London V olunteers, and many provincial corps also, occupied themselves in important military exercises during the holidays. We give a brief resume of the principal manoeuvres. CANTERBURY. The Easter work of Lord Falneouth's Volunteer command was brought to a conclusion on Easter Monday afternoon with a field-day. The general idea governing the operations was that an enemy was advancing from Hytbe with the. object of seizing Canterbury. This force, which was the stronger, consisting as it did of the- Victoria and St. George's, London Irish, Finsbury Rifles, and Central London Rangers, was commanded by the Brigadier himself, while Colonel W. E. U. Kelly, 3rd Regimental District, had command of the defenders- the Paddington and Bloomsbury Rifles. The orders for the general conduct of the manoeuvres, issued by Colonel H. R. Abadie, commanding the Canterbury garrison, were as follows Invading Force.—The invading force has advanced as far as Stone-hall and has ascertained from his cavalry that a defending force is in possession of Chartham Ridge. The artillery tire of the defence having been partially subdued, the invading force has orders to attack and seize the rail- ways with as little delay as possible. The invaders will rendezvous at Thannington-road, south of Elham Valley Railway, at eight a.m. Their cavalry will not go north of a line drawn east and west of Chequers Farm before- 10.15 a.m., at which hour the attack may commence. .The boundaries will be Stone-street-road on the east and a line between New House Farm on the north and the east corner of Kenfield's-park on the south. Defending Force.—The defending force is in position on Chartham Ridge, and has ascertained that the anenjy has advanced as far as Stone-hall, and that the main attack will be between the Stone-street and the, Pelham roads. It will hold the position until reinforcements arrive. The defending force will ren- dezvous at Thannington-road, south of Elham Valley Railway, at 9.15 a.m. Their cavalry will not go beyond the Chartham Downs before 10.15 a.m., at which hour the action may commence. lhe boundaries will be the Stone-road on the east and a line between New House on the north and the east comer of Ker.fi eld's-park on the south." In strict accordance with the above-mentioned arrangements the fighting began at 10.15, the first sign of the enemy being given by some of his hidden skirmishers firing on a cavalry patrol of the de- fenders, who had advanced their line of skirmishers to the brow of Chartham Ridga while their main body was under cover in the wood behind. The enemy had no men exposed in this way. It was the evident object of the attack to move from under cover and endeavour to drive the defenders from their position. The enemy came forward with a very broad front, with the intention of attacking all along the line and apparently of turning the flanks of the defence at the same time. At eleven o'clock, when the fighting became general, the scene was btrikingly interest:ng as the attackers' skirmishers, supports, and reserves came down the slopes facing Chartham Ridge under the incessant fire of the skirmishers of the 18th and 19th. Nothing could check the advance the aggressors crossed the intersecting valley, swarmed up the Chartham-hill, drove the defenders' skirmishers in on their supports, and through the wood which had given cover to the latter, into the fields belonging to lffen's Farm. After the "cease fire," the whole force marched to the Old-park, where a march. past took place. FOLKESTONE. Fine weather prevailed in the neighbourhood of Folkestone on Easter Monday, when the South London Volunteer Brigade brought its muster to an end by a field day to the westward of Shorncliffo, in which the corps were joined by the regular troops at the camp. Some of the Folkestone battalions marched away between seven and half-past, to join the force of Colonel Barrington Campbell, the rest of that commander's troops being drawn from the quarters at Shorncliffe, Sandgate, and Hythe. The general idea assumed that, the British Navv having been destroyed, a fleet of invaders had on Sunday disembarked part of its forces in the vicinity of Folkestone, and was wait- ing till Monday to land the remainder. Those already on shore had on Sunday seized a posi- tion at Shorncliffe, and had reason to suppose that there was an opposing force in the direction of Post- ling and Brabourne. This was the position of affairs on Easter Monday morning, when Colonel Featherstonhaugh, at the head of the invaders, found himself in command of a couple of squadrons of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, the 3rd King's Rifles, and some other Regular details, the South Middlesex and Artists Volunteers, and a company of the Volun teer Medical Staff Corps, which had come over from Walmer in the morning. In addition, the invaders, who officially were designated the "Eastern" Force, had a couple of position guns be- longing to the Sandgate Volunteer Battery, and these—the only guns in the day's operations —were posted on the left of the Eastern" main position, at St. Martin's Church, just a little to the westward of Shorncliffe Camp. "Colonel Featherstonbaugh's orders for Monday were to take any measures he might think necessary to assist in the further disembarcation of invaders and to prevent this object being defeated by the islanders: The latter, the Western" force, which on Sunday had 'two battalions at Postling and the rest of its advanced troops at Brabourne, was directed to advance on Shorncliffe and ascertain the strength and position of invaders there. Colonel Barrington ClttnpbeU wMin command of this Western force. His infantry were all Volunteers, and, beside sharing as many 3rd Dragoon Guards as his opponent, he had the Volunteer Mounted infantry and the Cyclists Corps. Each side was allowed to send out scouts at half-past nine'ptmt the main line of the South-Eastern Railway, which formed a sort of boundary between the two forced, was not to be crossed by either till 10 o'clock. At that hour both commanders began with sending ih,eir hiounted men to seek each other's whereabouts, the Eastern" Volunteer battalions following theif scouts and cross- ing the railway line towards Beachborough and soon drawing the fire of the "Western" infantry. For about an hour, backed up by their two position guns, the Eastern troops managed to keep the West- ern" foe well away from Shorncliffe and the informa- tion which the "Western" commander desired, but when the latter brought up the rest of his force from Brabourne at eieveu o'clock the superior nmiibers of the" Westflrn" column—they were as four to two and a half—began to make themselves felt. The Artists and South Middlesex retired very steadily towards St. Martin's Church, a position which Colonel Featherstonehaugh appeared determined to keep. The "Eastern" Volunteers were we]i supported by the Regular troops, the King's Rifles, too having a machine gun which tTiey used frequently and the northern approach to the St. Marrin's position was kept by a portion of the Shorneliff6 Bat- talion, in which the Cameron Highlanders appeared very strong. At half-past eleven Colonel Campbell wa pushing his attack very vigorously. At noon the order to cease firing was given when' the opposing lines were getting into close proximity, but for some reason it was not in all cases obeyed with the promp- titude to be desired, and a movement of the 3rd Dragoon Guards in leaving the field immediately on the troops halting provoked volleys from some of the battalions of the Western" force which were alto- gether unaccountable. Without any delay the troops were at once moved to the old drill field of the Shorn- cliffe Camp, where a great concourse of people had assembled, and marched past Major-General Wood, C.B., who had acted as umpire in chief during the morning's operations. After this final parade dis- play the several corps marched back to their quarters for the last time, and after dinner entrained at dif- ferent stations for London. WINCHESTER. The West London Brigade at Winchester carried 3ut their manoeuvres on an extensive scale, the general idea being that an invading force, represented by the let, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Hants R.V., had landed at Southampton and were endeavouring to establish themselves in a position south-east of Winchester, frith a view to invade the town when reinforcements arrived. The town was defended by the West London Brigade, composed, of the Ist, 2nd, and 3rd V.B. Royal Fusiliers, 2nd V.B. Middlesex Regiment, 17th North Middlesex R.V., and 3rd Middlesex Rifles. This brigade, commanded by Major-General Trotter, attempted to drive back the invaders, but when" cease fire" sounded the umpires announced ,hat the honours lay with the invading force. Further operations followed, and the troops after- wards marohed past Major-General Nicholson and the chief umpires on Morn-hill. BISLKY. The London Rifle Brigade left Windsor on Monday morning, where they had been in barracks since ShurBdav last, under the command of Colonel Chol- Btong'eJey,, ^olopel .iioyes,; ^nci Captain Glynn ("Adjutant), for Bisley, and on detrain- ing at Brookwood marched away to the long range butta at Stickiedown to carry out a scheme previously arranged. The general idea was that "an op- posing force occupied a position at Stickiedown Butfra, Bisley. The London Rifle Brigade will dislodge thiforce by a frontal attack from a point about noo yards south-west of the position." To effect this purpose the right half battalion, under Colonel Boves, was pent forward to attack the position, the left half, under Colonel Matthey, forming the reserve. Every advantage was taken by the right section of the ridges and hollows, and the tin discipline showed a great improvement on last year. The section commanders had the men well in hand throughout- At the 300 yards distance independent firing took place until the ammunition- 20) rounds ner was exhausted. The charge then took place, and the earthwork was carried. Colonel Mildmay Willson, cornmanding 1st Scot* Guards, who had accompanied the corps from Windsor, expressed bmiself pleasedI with the accuracy of the nractice. The left half battalion, under Colonel Matthev, then took on the attack, the right half battalion 8uvphng. aDd was every bit its fat I'" factory. KASTBOrRNE. The scheme of operations in which the Surrey Brigade were engaged on Monday was that iiast- botirne was a beleaguered town. The enemy were represented by the 2nd East Surrey, the 4th Queen's, and the Cadet corps while the attacking force from the north to relieve Eastbourne consisted of the remainder of the Surrey Brigade with the 1st Volunteer Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment and 2nd Sussex Artillery, with four guns. The fight began about ten o'clock. The battalions- -at Jevingtoa were SOOIa repulsed, and the enemy were driven back by the relief battalion from the north. A stubborn fight ended near Hill-green Cottage, where the northern battalions completely routed the Anetny. A march-past afterwards took place on the Golf Links. at Eastbourne in the presence of thousands of spec- tators The brigade subsequently marched to the station and entrained for their various headquarters. DOVER, Practice with their 16-pounders was again the prin- Ji pal work of the 3rd Rent Artillery Volunteers at Dover on Monday, the right wing of the corps pro- ceeding to Arcbclitfe Fort and tiring at the targets seawards, whilst the left wing were engaged in various drills at the castle. A change-over of these duties took place in the afternoon. The weather has been line, and some excellent practice was obtained. The majority of the corps left for Woolwich on Monday night. The 1st Volunteer Battalion the Buffs on Monday proceeded from the various towns in East Kent to Shepherd's-well, near Dover, and thence marched to Fredville-park, the seat of Colonel Plumptre, where some interesting manoeuvres took place. THE ATTACK ON BRIGHTON. The engagement between the opposing forces at Brighton took place in and around the old Roman Camp, immediately in front of the Dyke Hotel. Colonel Josselyn, commanding the invaders (the 1st Middlesex), held a remarkably strong position, while Colonel Wifherby (commanding the defenders, who comprised the Tower Hamlets and the City of London) delivered the full effect of his attack on the centre and right of the crest of the hill. Both sides fought stoutly until cease firing sounded. A march past on the Ladies' Golf Club ground followed, after which the combined forces marched off to Shorebam. Colonel Athorpe acted as chief umpire.
A BRITISH VESSEL LOOTED.
A BRITISH VESSEL LOOTED. Reuter's correspondent at Gibraltar, writing on April 2, gives the following particulars of the act of piracy committed by Riffian Moon on the British felucca San José, of Gibraltar, last week. The San Jos6 left Gibraltar on March 26 with a general cargo for Tetuan. Two days later, at about four in the afternoon, while becalmed between Rio de los Alamos and Islande los Cbumbos, at a distance of three miles from the African coast, she was boarded by Riffian pirates armed with rifles, swords, and knives, who com- pelled the master, crew, and passengers, six in all, to lower their boat and tow the vessel in shore. The cargo, ships' stores, and everything that could be removed were carried off in five karabs manned by about 90, Rifflanii, A sum of money amounting to 750 dollars, intended for the purchase of eggs, oranges, and other commodities at Tetqan, was also taken. While the looting of the ship was being carried out, the passengers and crew In tbe a ship's boat were ordered by a number of the Riflians to tow the vessel out to sea, in order to deprive the rest of the pirates of their share of the spoil. On their attempting to comply with this order, the other Biffians promptly opened firo upon them. Subsequently they were tied together in couples and sold by auction for 150 dollars. Until one o'clock in the after- noon of the following day they were detained as prisoners and without food on one of the karabs. They were then set free and placed upon tbe San Jose utterly destitute. In their passage back to Gibraltar, which they reached on March 31, they suffered great privations, neither provisions nor water having been left on board. They are now under medical care, and one of the passengers is seriously ill in consequence of.the ill-treatment to which he was subjected.
MUTINY ON AN ENGLISH SHIP.
MUTINY ON AN ENGLISH SHIP. By the Pacific steamer Orcano, which arrived at Plymouth on Easter Monday, there were brought under arrest from Valparaiso, two coloured seamen of the English sailing ship Western. While off the Pacific coast, they refused duty, and subsequently endeavoured to induce the remainder of the crew to mutiny. Failing in this, they attacked the officers, one of whom, in self-defence, shot.one-mutineer through the bead. The other coloured seamen theu attacked the second officer with a knife, inflicting a in serious wound before he could be disarmed. Five witnesses, including the third officer of the ship, have returned to England to give evidence at the trial at Liverpool.
A HIDEOUS FASHION.
A HIDEOUS FASHION. There is a myth that the schipperke breed of dog is born tailless. It is only a myth, for no breed of dog has such a peculiarity, although some few schipperkes are so born in Belgium in consequence of the long- continued practice of removing the tails. To the "yo of the fancier the rounded quarters of the taillers schipperke ere altogether lovely, The Stoekkeep-er describes the consequences. It is an incontestible fact," it says, that lit ters of schipperkes in this country and in Belgium have had their tails carved out of their bodies. We know how it is done with curved surgical scissors, and two juts are necessary. The operation is a barbn.rouely r ki el one, and men and women who profess to love their dogs dare not perpetuate it for the sake of winning prizes with the victims of such vanity or ,i-eed."
BRITISH VESSEL f ATTACK ED…
BRITISH VESSEL f ATTACK ED BY PIRATES. A Gibraltar telegram states that tho British vessel San Jose, of Gibraltar, has been attacked by pirates wlnle becalmed off the Riffian coast. About SO liifimns, in three boats, descended on the vessel, overcame the passengers and crew, and carried off the cargo and valuables. The crew and six pas- angers were fired on by their captors and then taken )=hore and sold, t.ed in couples, for 150 dollars, they were, however afterwards released. The San lose 18 now at Gibraltar.
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HKRB is a pretty ana true story, told by W- Clement L.cott, of the good old actor lately passed away-IIeiiry Howe. lt c„ntrasts pieasantly with the tales in circulation of exaggerated salaries'claimed. and given for poor, indifferent merit. "Some time since Henry Howe lost his wife, and in an interview with Sir Henry Irving intimated to him that, as his wants were now very nuieh less, he considered lie was receiving more salary than his work justified, and therefore asked Sir Ilenry Irving to reduce it bv half as the sum was more in accordance with the work lie was doing. Sir Henry replied, There is only ono man in England ,vho underrates the services of Henrv Howe, and that .a Henry Howe himself. His sal irv would continue just as it was before until the bell ran^ down the final green Cllrft,iw •' Anij
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SINGULAR FATALITY NEA.R -,-ILKESTON.
SINGULAR FATALITY NEA.R ILKESTON. A singular fatality occurred on the lat inst. ai the Stanton iron works, near Ilkeston. A Workman earned Arthur Redgard, 45, was missed, and » search was made in the tunnel under the fining shop, where it was supposed he had gone to oil the shafting of the machinery. The searcher did aot, return, and a second man went in, but failed to reappear. An alarm was raised, and the men were brought out in an unconscious state. Artificial ustoration was resorted to, but was successful only in the case of the two searcher*. The deceased must have been in the tunnel a considerable time, and wu iuffocated by an accumulation of gas. ————.—————————————
RAILWAY COLLISION AT v HATFIELD.''.
RAILWAY COLLISION AT v HATFIELD. An alarming accident occurred at Hatfield, on the Great Northern Railway, on the morning of the let inst. A Luton driver, named Johnson, was bribging his engine from one of the sidings at a good rate of speed when he collided with a passenger engine travelling in an opposite direction, with the result that both engines were derailed, one being toppled over and considerably damaged. Fortunately, with the exception of a severe shaking, the drivers escaped uninjured. Mr. J. Alexander, superintendent of the line, visited the scene of the accident, which is-aueged to have been brought about by one of the drivers mis- taking the signals.
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A LECTUR-BII In ritish itule in Malaya was delivered at the Royal United Service Institution, before a fecial meeting of the Royal Colonial Institute on e 31st ult., by Mr. F. A. Swettenham, Resident- General of the Malay States, who gave some interest- ing details respecting the social conditions, the poIi- tical organisation, and the recent material develop- ment of Mnlaya under British rule. THE Japanese battleship Fuji was successfully launched on the 31st ult. at the yard of the Thames Ironworks Company, where she has been built. She is the heaviest battleship ever launched from a slip, either in a public or private yard. The ceremony was performed by Madame Kato, wife of the Japanese Minister.
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MOKE LIGHT. In his concluding la me on L ^,ht" at the Coyal Institution, iu lcniifii, Lord Jliiyltigh deemed it meet to say a few words on tho mysterious "Uontgen rays," although not without some scruples, since he thinks it has not yet been shown that the "X rays j are strictly "light," or even vibrations. The mere fact of photographing by invisible rays was of course no now thing at all; but lliintgen rays were not ordinary light rays. It might bo doubted whether they were rays at all. Kontgen called tliem strahlen," but strahi. in German signified a jefc or stream as well a3 ray-a let, it might be, of electrified particles. And some held that these rays really were electrified P.aT ticles, running, of course, at an enormously hig speed, and so far as the idea was conlined to whn- was happening inside the vacuum tube, there were bo particular difficulties in the way. But when you g° outside the vacuum tube this theory was not so ea". It required rather a stretch to say the particles cou^ penetrate through the glass. However, no one, far as bo understood, believed that the partic went right through. J One idea was that they might, bombard one side and cause corresponding J particles to be shot or torn off the other side, just as happened when billiard balls were put in a row. end ball being struck, the opposite end ball blew off- It was, of course, not very easy to understand ho such a thing could happen as was supposed by hiíJ theory. Still, as they had to deal with a phenomenon so now and strange as this, the theory mtlst not be excluded. On tha ether hand, suppose "8 imagined these rays to be vibrations of the ether. Then came the question, were they transverse vibrations (oscillating across the .P8".— in which they were travelling, like ordiuar7 light waves), or were they longitudinal vibiratpons, series of alternating compressions and rarefacti° travelling in the direction of propagation, as was t case with sound ? To answer ihia question there IN at present little evidence one way or the ot« Hoivever, although we could not decide at whether they were longitudinal or transverse vibrl- tions, wa could not doubt but that they were of tremely short wave-length, otherwise they c°u never throw such good shadows. If they were transverse vibrations they must certainly be veY much shorter than anything within our the ordinary spectrum.
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