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CURRENT SPORT. I -
CURRENT SPORT. The Marylebone Cricket Club Committee, in view of the great difference of opinion over the proposed alteration of Law 63—(1) rendering the follow-on optional, or (2) abolishing it and extending the power of closure—have issued a further circular requesting socmtsries- of county clubs to obtain the views of their committega as to whether they are in favour of any; alterations other than those previously suggasted,, or whether they would retain the law as at present worded. At Fallowfield, Manchester, the English. Rugby representatives on March 13 made amends tot pre- vious reverses this season, defeating the pick of Scot- land by two goals and a try to one try. It was a splendid victory, and well deserved, the Englishmen playing much the better game. It was unfortunate' for Scotland that G. T. Campbell was unable to play: at three-quarter. Leaving Wales out of the question,; each of the other countries have won and lost ai match. Under Rugby Union rules other interesting; football matches were won by Blackheatli against! Rosslyn-park, the Harlequins against the Old Ley- sians, Cardiff against Newport, and Aberavon against Swansea. Under Association football rules matches in the First Division of the League competition were won on March 13 by Wolverhampton Wanderers against Sheffield Wednesday, Preston North End against Sheffield United, Bolton Wanderers against Burnley, Blackburn Rovers against Everton, and Bury against West Bromwich Albion. Matches were drawn between Aston Villa and Liverpool,- and Sunderlapd" and Notts Forest. Other matches were won by Stoke against the Casuals, and Derby County against Edinburgh St. Bet-nards. Whoa the .corinthians met Queen's Park at Glasgow, on New Year's Day, the Scotchmen proved successful by three goals to two. In the return at Queen's Park on March 13, they looked like repeating the performance. Fine goal-keeping by W. Campbell prevented this, and the result was a draw of two goals each. The fame of racquets would appear to be flourish- ing in the United States, seeing that G. Standing, formerly of Prince's Club, London, can find backing to play Peter Latham, of the Queen's Club, West Kensington, for the World's Championship and JS1000 a-side. Latham has not played the game of late, but when the time comes he assures us that he will be found ready to defend the title hi. won from C. Sanders at Brighton in 1895. The success of the London Athletic Club team against Cambridge University A.C. was as generally unexpected as it must have been gratifying to the members of the visiting club. The presence of Dr. W. J. M. Barry (who scored a double win-in the hammer and weight) came as somewhat of a sur- prise to some of hiB fellow club-men. Dr. Barry had, however, promised to turn out, and when he makes a premise of that kind he can most assuredly be depended upon to keep it, although as was the case on March. 13, from Southport to Cambridge is a lengtkyatride. ,,1,' The young South London Hariior, C. S. Luck, was extremely unfortunate in suffering defeat in the Business Houses inter-club race. Luck held a substantial lead at three miles, but was, at that point, refused permission to follow the trail, which had been carried across some golf links. Luck was directed over a fresh course, but had lost his advantage, and was eventually beaten by that well-known Finchlev Harrier, S. C. King. The final round of the Senior Lacrosse Flags 01 the South was won by West London, but the game at Richmond was much more one-sided than the most enthusiastic supporter of the winners could have expected. Snaresbrook were weak on attack compared with the combination displayed by R. W. Frazer, A. W. Lavy, and W. D. Keith for West London, and the defence repeatedly fell to pieces Mundy was the only really prominent man in that part of the field, save W. Joliffe, in goal, who saved many good shots. The hero of the game was the new West London third man, J. C. War- brick, a Canadian player, who outshone every other, defence man in the two teams, and was in great measure responsible for the openings given to his side's attacks, and their consequent heavy Beore. Lupton and Rawson played a good game behind Warbrick, and on attack the three homes mentioned above were in capital form after the first few minutes. The wing play generally was poor, as has been the case in more than one first-class match this season, wivgs displaying too great a tendency to go into the straight and assist in bunch- ing on goal instead of playing their own useful but often thankless game. For the third time, England beat Ireland at hockey on March 13. The score eight goals to three in favour of England would lead one to suppose that the winners were far and away the better team. Such, however, was not the case. The English- men, undoubtedly, played a better game than their opponents but there is lees than five goals between the countries. In the first half there *as little to choose between the teams. The Irishmen, how- ever, in the second portion of the game 8med completely demoralised. F. Lyons (the goalkeeper) could have stopped several shots which augmented the English ocore; and the Irish forwards were at tirndtf cwttfinly slow on the ball. On the winning side, Tom and Fred Westray, E. G. S. Hose, M. M. Barter, and F. Ferraa were the best of a fine lot, whilst, for Ireland, H. G. and E. D. Rutherford, T. E.Beckett, A. M. Porter, and P. Carton did their best to turn the tide of battle. The Earl of Radnor has sold his hounds to the Marquis of Worcester, who will have sole charge of the Badminton next autumn, as be gives up his own pack at the end of the present season. Arrangements ire being made by a committee formed of the leading landowners and farmers, under the chairmanship of the Earl of Pembroke, to hunt the Radnor country with aiPtlbscription pack. The kennels will be at Wilton, near Salisbury, from which the late Lord Pembroke-tbe: present earl's prececessor-hunted the hounds before Lord Radnor, who has had them for the past eix years. Under Association rules, an international tridl football match between Aujoiletirt- and Professionals "1$10 played on March Jf, at the QufMtttOub. Wett Keukingtoii, and was won by the Professionals bjr three goal* tu one. The principal event in the fourth'day's racing TO the'Canne* International Itegntta was a race for yachts above '20 tons; pritc challenge cup. value Bt)00 francs, to become the property of t-he. yacbt.'i owner after being won by him three t^onsecutivft jean; course, .'52 miles. The following yaHits wtarted: Britannia, I I] tons. Iiis fioyni liigii- neia flife'Prince of Wales; Ailisa, 11!) tons, Mr. A. n. Walker. A fresh south-easterly breeae was bluwiu. and a splendid start was made. Britannia had ttm wfenthitr lierl.h as they crossed the lino, followed by Ailtn. *tto wa» fore-reaching her fast, and finally succeeded in getting ahead. Ailsa rounded Mie refund mnrk^boat off La Slagne a minute ahead of the- L'ritnnuia, but the latter reached so close up to lier o-jti,ftftor that somehow or other her bowsprit went through the mainsail of Mr. Walker's cutter, making such 16 bt split that she was obliged to give tip and get a tow home. Britannia completed the first round, and then resigned, the race beiug .declared null and void by tbe committee.
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MR. S. Arxjiur STRONG has been appointed by the Clrk of the Parliaments to succeed Mr. Pulmari as Librarian of the House of Lords. Mr. Strong is a dis- tinguished Oriental scholar. TROors at Lena berg, Galicia, fired npon an election mob, wounding si* persons, two of them mortally, A gendarme was hurt by a stone. THE r £ YOH'MONA''Y movement in Uruguay appeals t be spreading. Two more expeditions organised in Argentipa batf) invaded the north of Uruguay. Or the 38 Sultans who have ruled the Ottoman Empire since the conquest of Constantinople by the Tu rks, 84 have died violent deaths. THH United Statee have agreed to submit to arbi- tration their claim arising out tbo a*fault oa Mr. Kellett, Vice-Consulat Bangkok, as well as anothet old clafkfi. 4 I A FINE specimen of the golden eagre has been gajj- tured at IKmpton, K6ut. The bird bad been hover- ing ahouf-lhe neighbourhood for enteral dam Tub fesifchfor the M^Jallo be strttek at the Mint in commemoration of the Record Reign is to be ready for submission to the Queen on her return from the Continent.
IINDIAN FAMINE AND PLAGUE.
INDIAN FAMINE AND PLAGUE. MANSION HOUSH FUND £ 422,000. The London Mansion House Fund in aid of the sufferers by the Indian famine amounted on March 13 to £ 422,000. The donations received amounted to £3600, among the principal sums being the follow- ing: County of Cheshire (2nd instalment), £1000; Derby (additional), E389 15s. lid.; Mirfield, £ 300; West Hartlepool (additional), E290 6s. 3d; Gains- borough (2nd instalment), £ 200 Cupar (Fife), £160 lis. 3d.; Redditch, £ 150; Lymington, £ 107 Bedford (3rd instalment), £ 100. Colonel Blackburne, of Leamington, has, through the Mayor of Leamington, given Z4000 to the fund. Tb" Famine Relief Fund at Durban now exceeds £800..
!.. BLACK rLAGUE" REFOSTID.
BLACK rLAGUE" REFOSTID. Two cases of the Black Plague are reported as having occurred in Bombay. No hcenses hate been issued this year for the Holi processions, one of the biggest of the Hindu processions. The above news of the outbreak of cases of the Black Plague is exceedingly serious. The Black Plague is believed by the medical authorities to be identical with the Black Death which raged throughout the world in the 14th century. The Black Death ravaged Eng- land in 1348-49, 1361-62, and 1369. It is an aggravated form of the Oriental bubonic plague, with, however, special symptoms of its own. The first English victims succumbed in Dorchester in August, 1348 and the "Death" reached London in the winter of that year. The mortality in London was 100,000, and Norwich mourned 60,000 deaths. Careful investigators calculate that the victims of this one visitation must have amounted to one-third, if not one-half, of the total population of England, which is estimated to have then been from three to four millions. Ireland and Scotland also suffered terribly.
LEVEE AT ST. JAMES'S.I
LEVEE AT ST. JAMES'S. I By command of the Queen a Levee was held on the afternoon of March 15 at St. James's Palace, by the Duke of Connaught on behalf of her Majesty. His Royal Highness, attended by Colonel Alfred Egerton and escorted by a de- tachment of the 2nd Life Guards, arrived from Buckingham Palace and entered the Throne Room, shortly after two o'clock,. with Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein, Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, the Duke of Teck, and Prinoe Adolphus of Teck. In attendance on his Royal Highness were the Earl of Pembroke, the Earl of Lathom, Viscount Curzon, M.P., Lord Arthur Hill, M.P., the Hon. Ailwyn Fellowes, M.P., the Earl of Kintore, Colonel H. D. Browne, Mr. H. D. Erskine of Cardross, Colonel the Hon. H. Byng, and Colonel Lord E. Pelham-Clinton. The Diplomatic cirole was largely attended, and the general company, included Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Sir Matthew White. Ridley, Mr. Chamberlain, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, General Sir Redvers Buller, and Lord Harris. A guard of honour of the let Battalion Scots Guards, with the band of the regiment, was mounted in the court of the Palace, the 2nd Life Guards, with hand, doing similar duty in the Mall.
.ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED…
ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED HOUSES BURNT DOWN. A fire broke out in the native quarter of Mari- dalay, the capital of Burmah, on Saturday. It spread with the greatest rapidity, and in a few hours no fewer than 1500 houses had been destroyed, i ii- cluding the bungalows of many wealthy traders. There are 7000 people homeless. Fortunately, only three lives were lost, but the damage done to property amounts to P-400,000 sterling.
SHOCKING AFFAIR AT LEICESTER.
SHOCKING AFFAIR AT LEICESTER. A Leicester young man' named Harry Broughton, aged 19, returning home from work about six o clock on the evening of March 15, found his father, Samuel Broughton, in bed, and apparently drunk. Exasperated, it is alleged, by the older man's conduct, the lad got a coal hammer, and going to the bedside, struck his father a fearful blow on the head with the weapon, fracturing his skull and inflicting a ghastlj wound. The injured man was taken to the infirmary in a dying condition. The son, who made no attempt to escape, was taken into custody. t
THE WitBCK OF THE WARREN HASTINGS.
THE WitBCK OF THE WARREN HASTINGS. On March 16 Lord Wolseley issued a special order to the army, in which he expresses his gratifiea- tion in making known the substance of a teport from the General commanding in Mauritius, "ref- cording the remarkable courage and ftiemplary discipline displayed by the troops, under most trying oircumstances, on board the troopship Warren Hastings, when that ship was wrecked near the village of St. Phillippe, in the Island of Reunion, at 2.20 a.m., on January 14 last." The Commander- in-Chief in closing his order, expresses his admira- tion of the coolness, courage, and resource shown by Commander Holland, and sympathy with him and his brave officers.
IRISH LAND.
IRISH LAND. Load Salisbury on March 12 received at the Foreign Office a deputation of the Executive Cocdmittee of the Irish Landowners' Convention, headed by the Duke of Abercorn, who asked for the appointment of a Royal Commission or a Committee to inquire into the administration of the Land Commission of Ireland" which, they alleged, is working great injustice to the landowners. Having listened to Statements from several members of the deputation, Lord Salis- bury, in reply, said he could not on the spot announce any decision on the subject, which would have to be considered by the Government. But he was atrouglf of opinion that an inquiry by Royal Commission was very ill-adapted to attain the ends they had in view. What be had heard from them was very painful, and must excite the deepest sympathy in the minds of all who heard it. It did not surprise him, for it was what was foretold when the Act of 1881 was' passed. Bttt he thought the Irish land- owners did not let the world know sufficiently what was going oa in, Ireland. One of the deputation had said that the sufferers on whose behalf be was speak- ing belonged to a class that did not complain; but nowadays a class that did not complain was a class that Went to the wall;
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TUB post of Secretaw to the Commissioners ol Publie Works in Ireland has been filled by the ap- pointment of Mr. Henry Williams, hitherto First- class Clerk in the Accountant's branch of that.depart- ment. LADY LUCAIR has probably done more than' anyone to stimulate Irish industries. She has started many benevolent schemes for the poor tenant-farmer; but the most far-reaching is the making of beautiful tweeds by the small farmeriB in the long winter even- ings. The women spin and tbo men weave; even the small children assist by carding the wool. The Countess's bailiff gives out the wool, which they fake away on their donkeya. It is dyed in the fleece, and is washed by the women in tube of hot water and soap and ammonia. A mAx suspected of murder was recently put under hypnotic inlluence in Galveston, Texas, and While in that condition was closely examined in the presence °» ? °* witnesses. He made a good many statements he wonld never hare made had be been consewt^^hj^o,^ convinced the police of his innocence, and he will probably be set ft*». In this case the prisoner expressed perfect nttlingnese to undergo the experiment.
.THE EASTERN CRISIS.
THE EASTERN CRISIS. A rEACMFUL OOTLOOK. No further disquieting news had, up to March 14, arrived in Athens from the Thessalian frostier. A correspondent was informed, however, that Prinoe Nicholas and his battery are stationed on the frontier line itself. Colonel Birkenthal, of Copenhagen, who is at Athens as a volunteer, writes to the newspapers, stating that his interview with the King solely turned on the question of the formation of a Foreign Legion to fight on behalf of Greece. Athens remains free from excitement, but a better feeling now exists, because it is generally per- ceived that the Powers will insist on autonomy for Crete and the withdrawal of the Turkish and Greek foroes. "rSAOS PRACTICALLY CHR'TAIN. A Paris correspondent, writing on March 14, said I hear on the very best authority that M. Hanotaux will be able to afoSure the Chamber to-morrow that not only does the Concert of the Powers still sub- sist, but that peace is now practically certain. GREECE WISHES TO YIELD. Opinion at the Foreign Office in Rome on March 14 was that Greece was seeking an opportunity to yield, the immediate motive beiag that the insurgent chiefs in Crete, who are now acquainted with the proposals of the Powers, desire to accept the sug- gested autonomy. Besides, Greece is really alarmed at Turkey's for- midable war preparations, and now tees the terrible danger with which she is threatened. The Cretan chiefs have promised the admirals that they will not attack the Mussulmans unprovoked, but have at the same time complained of the danger created by the concentration of the Mussulmans in Canea. It Has been decided to blockade Crete very strin- gently, and Greece has made no protest, seeing in this a way out of a difficult situation. The blockade may ultimately extend to the Greek ports. FOR I'UOM PT COERCION. There has been only one feeling in Berlin with regard to Greece, and it was that the blockade should commence immediately without further parleying. The three Emperors have, it is said, given orders to thpir admirals. Germany and Austria will take no part in the pacification of the island, even if the reported international occupation be true. RUMOURS OF WAR. The war rumours now in circulation are causing the greatest excitement among the lower classes in Bucharest. There was a run on a savings bank in this city on March 13, and so great was the crowd that two women were crushed to death, while a numbor of people wfeie injured. BLOCKADE DECIDED UPOlf. It was semi-officially announced in Rome on March 14 that the Powers had definitely decided not to reply to the Greek Note, and that they had deter- mined to order their respective admirals to establish immediately a blockade of the Cretan ports. The foreign admirals telegraphed on March 14 frjm Canea to their respective Governmsnts, asking them to send to Crete detachments of sailors equal in number to those which had been landed at Can, and at Retimo, Candia, and Sitia, so as to provide relief for the members of the present force, whose work has been of the most harassing character, com- prising the functiens of both police and firemen. In response to a request from the British Vice- Consul at Alexandretta, and the Greek Consul at Beirut the British Consul-General has arranged for the British cruiser Astrsea to proceed to Alexan- dretta, where conflicts are feared between the Mus- sulman inhabitants and the Greek subjects residing in the town. It is hoped that the presence of a British warship will suffice to avert any disturbances. There is great discontent among the Turkish troop* in Syria. TUB ATTITUDE OF FRANCS. In the French Chamber of Deputies on March 15, M. Goblet brought forward an interpellation on Cretan affairs, and urged that France ought not to take part in the coercion of Greece. M. Hanotaux, in reply, said that the Government continued the policy, sanctioned by the Chamber on February 22, of the maintenance of peaee by the European Con- cert, and autonomy for Crete. The Powers were agreed on securing the autonomy of the island under the suzerainty of the Sultan, the withdrawal of the Greek troops, and the withdrawal also of the Ottoman troops except those concentrated on the points which would at the same time be occupied by the Powers. To insure order, each of tha Powers would reinforce the detachments they had already landed; and if Greece persisted in maintaining her troops in the island, the blockade of Crete would be strictly enforced and, if necessary, the effective blockade of a certain point of continental Greece would be established. Be condemned, a policy of abstention in the East, doci urged the necessity of maintaining the European Concert. A similar line of argument was afterwards employed by the Premier, and, ultimately, an order of the day ap- proving the declarations of the Government wa, carried by 356 to 143 votes. BAD ACCIDENT ON A GUNBOAT. A serious accident occurred on March 15 on the Russian ironclad Cissoi Veliki. One of her guns burst, blowing off the top of the turret; an officer and 14 men were killed on the spot, and an officer and 15 men wounded, Are mortally. The strength of the Turkish Army on the Greek frontier is said to be 60,000 men, with 200 guns.
PRESIDENT KRUGER AND THE ,.*…
PRESIDENT KRUGER AND THE QUEEN. President Kruger's reference to Queen Victoria in his speech at the luncheon given at Bloemfontein in. his honour land that of the Transvaal delegates who accompany him, has been widely discussed in the South African press. The exact circumstances under which President Kruger made the re- mark in question are as follows: He was speaking on the subject of a closer union between the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, and had just emphatically declared that in all issues the position of her Majesty's Government, must be re- spected. H. was on the- point of making a further reference to the position of Great Britain when he ehecked himself and jocosely said in a sotto voce aside addressed to the chairman, Ik zal het maar liever laaten blyven. Hare majestie is een kwaai vrouw "—that ii, I would rather leave the subject alone. Her Majesty is a determined lady." Efforts having been made in a section of the Press and public to construe President Kruger's words into an expression of disrespect towards the Queen, his Honour on learning this indignantly repudiated any such distortion of what be intended as a perfectly harmless recaark.
DEATH OF MR. SHIEL BARRY.
DEATH OF MR. SHIEL BARRY. Mr. Shiel Barry, the well-known Irish comedian, .died at Middleton,- Lancashire, on the morning of March 13. He was born in Kildare County, but early in life emigrated with his parents to Australia. Here he acquired a taste for the stage, and made his first appearance on the boards in 1859 as Dr. (J Took in The Irish Tutor." Subsequently he returnodto Eng- land, and for some time appeared in the provinces, principally in Irish comedy. In September, 1870, he made his first appearance in London at the Princess a Theatre in Dion Boucicault's drama of The Rapparee." The piece was no great success, but Mr. Shiel Barry's performance of the Doctor, with his rich Irish brogue, DI ought hi ai prominently and favour- ably before the public as a player of Irish parts. In the next few years he was contiuually engaged in one or other of Mr. Boucicault's plays in London and the provinces, or in the United States and Canada, and also in the West Indies. He returned to England in 1875, and appeared in September at Drury Lane aa llarvcg Duff, the polioe spy, in Boucicault's success- ful play of The Shaufhraun." His greatest success on the metropolitan stage was as Gasp-ard, the miser, in the English adaptation of Planquettes "Les Cloches de Comeville in February, 1878, when that successful comic opera was produced at the theatre in King William-street, then called the Folly Theatre, afterwards Toole's. He also played in the piece later, when it was removed to the Globe. Upon his per- formance of Gaspard Mr. Barry's theatrical fauia mainly rested.
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THE inventor of the Martini rifle is dead. M. Frede- rick Martini was formerly an officer in the Austrian Engineers, and as such fought m the Italian campaign of 1859. He settled in Switzerland, and gave himself up to mechanical production, inventing sometimes machines for use in the arts of peace—an embroidery machine is what the SwU* will remember him by best -and,sametimes for warfare, as in- the, case of the weapon which (joined to the Henri barrel) brought his name at one time on to the lips of all English military JMD.
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ..
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-M"cH 15. THE POWBU AND GREECE. The Marquis of Salisbury informed the Earl of Kimberley that no response had been made by her Majesty's Government to the communications from the Greek Government in reply to the Identic Note presented by the Powers on the 2nd inst. He pointed opt that, as the Note WM an.„Identic Note, the answer to the Greek communications would not be made by her Majesty's Government, but by the Powers as a whole. HOUSE OF COMMONS. CRETE. 1 There were 61 questions on the paper, but few Of them were of general interest, except those that bore directly or indirectly upon the subject of Crete. In reply to Mr. J. Lowther, the Attorney-General said he had seen statements in the Press announcing that subscription lists had been opened in England for the purpose of equipping volunteers to proceed to Greece. The facts, however, were not sufficiently stated to show that any breach of the provisions of the Foreign Enlistment Act was contemplated. Mr. Legh inquired whether it was in accordance with diplomatic usage for a foreign representative to take part in public meetings which involved discus- sion of the policy of the Government to which he was accredited. Mr. Curzon stated in answer that the presence of a foreign representative on such occasions was unusual and scarcely decorous, but no positive rule against it was known to exist, provided the representative did not actively inter- fere in a manner affecting the internal politics of the country. Mr. Dillon having asked whether the Greek Vice-Consul and all the Greek resi- dents had been ordered to leave Canea, and, if so, for what reason and under whose authority, Mr. Curzon replied that the former Greek ViCe-Consul, who no longer held any official character, was residing in the Greek Consulate at Canea with certain corre- spondents, and that all of them had interviews and were in correspondence with the insurgents. The Greek Consulate had thus become a centre of agitation, and the Admirals on the 6th inst., invited the inmates to leave for Greece next day, offering to convey them there if they had no means of leaving the island. They eventually left, under protest, on a Greek man-of- war. The Admirals acted under the instructions of the Powers, who had made themselves responsible for order in Canea. Answering Mr. Mac:ean, the Under Foreign Secretary said that in the proclama- tion to the Cretans it would be made clear that autonomy meant, in the case of Crete, that they would not under any circumstances revert to the rule of the Sultan. Mr. Balfour, in reply to Sir W. Harcourt, gave an answer similar in snbstance to that of Lord Salis- bury to Lord Kimberley in the other House. VOLUNTARY SCHOOLS. During the greater part of the sitting the House was again occupied with the Voluntary Schools Bill lin Committee. An amendment was moved by Mr. Lloyd Morgan to provide for the representation of Lloyd Morgan to provide for the representation of the patents of scholars on the governing bodies of associations of schools. Mr. Balfour opposed it upon several grounds, one being that parents were, not likely to be able to give any valuable assistance in the specific work for which the associations were to be called into existence, namely, to advise the Education Depart- ment regarding the apportionment of the money between the various schools. The amendment was negatived by a majority of 141; and a proposal by Mr. Pbrks in the same sense with regard to Voluntary School teaohen by 140. Another amendment, moved by Mr. Griffith, to ensure that the number of clergymen on the governing body should not exceed one-half of the total was, after a long discussion, closured by 138, and then rejected by a similar majority. Motions by Mr. Balfoar, first for the closure, and then for ordering certain words to stand part of the clause, were adopted' oy majorities of 438 and 142 respectively. They had the effect of getting rid of the 10 succeed- ing amendments on the paper, but the Committee was still on line 16 of the bilL Mr. Asquith moved that the constitution of associa- tions of scnools should not, as provided in the bill, be approved by the Education Department, but be prescribed by schemes made by the department and laid before Parliament. In that manner, he argued, Parliament would'obtain more effective control over the formation of these associations, and the country would not be left to what he described as the un- tempered autocracy of a Government Department. Sir H. Fowler, speaking in support, charged the Govern- ment with refusing all amendments in order to obviate the report stage of the bill. Mr. Balfour con- fessed that after his experience of the Committee stage he had no passionate desire to go through the same ordeal on report; but he could sincerely say that not a single amendment had been moved from the Op- position side which, in his judgment, would have im- proved the bill. With regard to the merits of the amend- ment, it would impose an enormous burden upon the Education Department, besides giving rise to long and unnecessary discussions in the House upon the various schemes. After considerable further debate the Closure was carried by a majority of 148, andMr. Asquith's amendment rejected by 163. Mr. Balfour then moved the Closure on the suc- ceeding three lines of the. clause, the effect being to shut out 23 amendments standing on the paper. The Closure was adopted by a majority of 154, and Mr. Balfour's main motion by 163. Shortly afterwards progress was reported. The report of the Navy Estimates in Supply was agreed to.
THE JOHANNESBURG RAID.
THE JOHANNESBURG RAID. Us. LABOUCHBRL AND SIR GRAHAM BOWKK. no South African Committee sat again on. March 12. The whole sitting was occupied with the con- tinued examination of Sir Graham Bower, Imperial Secretary at the Cape. Mr. Chamberlain read a telegram from Lord Rosmead stating that neither by Sir G. Bower nor by anybody else had he been told anything before the raid connecting the police on the border in any way with the movement in Johannesburg, The witness accepted this statement absolutely so far as he was concerned. He was very closely questioned by Mr. Blake as to his reasons for not communi- cating to the High Commissioner the statements made to him by Mr. Rhodes and Mr. Newton. In reply to Mr. Labouchere, be did not admit that Mr. Rhodes had intimated to him his intention to violate the law. Mr. Rhodes's communication involved a possible, not a probable, violation of the law. Ques- tions being put by Mr. Labouchere as to whether the witness was aware, between the 18th and the 28th of December, that Mr. Rhodes had not made any disclosure of his purposes to the High Commit-, sioner, a rather sharp collision took place between the chairman and the member for Northampton, who said that he considered the wit- ness was not speaking the truth, and threatened, if his examination were objected to, to clear the room at each question he asked. Ultimately the examina- tion proceeded. The witness waa also questioned by Mr. Bingham, Mr. Wyndham, the Attorney-General —in reply to whom he said he had accepted abso- lutely Mr. Rhodes's statement, on the 28th of Decem- ber, that the revolution at Johannesburg had fizzled out like a damp squib "-and Sir W. Har- court. The lut named examined him closely in refe- rence to Mr. Rhodes's action in the interval from December 29, 1896, to January 2, 1896, and elicited from him that during the whole of the time Mr. Bhodee never rendered any assistance or co-operation to the High Commissioner in his efforts to stop Dr. Jameson. In reply to Mr. Chamberlain, the witness said Mr. Rhodes could not have sent any message or taken any action except through the High Commissioner. Sir G. Bower's examination having been concluded, the committee adjourned.
FOURTEEN HUNDRED HANDSHAKES.
FOURTEEN HUNDRED HANDSHAKES. Mr. McKinley is making himself immensely popular (acoording to a Now York message) by his democratic behaviour, whioh is refreshing after Mr. Cleveland's autocratic condnct. He has ordered the cordon of guards to be removed from the White Home grounds,and ia showing himself aman of the people. He intends holding public eeveral times weekly, at which the poorest of the people will be made wel- come. On March IS ever, 1400 people attended his reception at Washington, and shook hands with him. There were nearly 200 negroes among the number, and all received a oerdial shake and many pleasant words. It is generally understood that Mr. McKinley will tolerate no mora outrages on American citizens in Cub*
THE QUEEN'S REIGN.
THE QUEEN'S REIGN. On Sunday, June 20, the 60th anniversary of her accession, the Queen is expected to be in residence at Windsor Castle, where she will receive the congratu- lations of the Royal family. Her Majesty will come to London on Monday, June 21, for the purpose of attending the service at St. Paul's Cathedral, and will dine and sleep at Buckingham Palace in readi- ness for the following day's ceremonial. The Court will probably remain in town till the Wednesday, and if the Queen on her return to Windsor alights at Slcugh, she will drive through Eton College to the castle, and the principal portions of the route will be decorated. On the day of the Queen's visit to St. Paul's the contingent from Aldershot is to consist of three regi- ments of cavalry, one battery of Royal Horse Artillery, six batteries of Field Artillery, 12 battalions of infantry, a company of Royal Engineers, two com- panies of the Army Service Corps, and a detachment of the Medical Staff Corps. The troops forming the Royal procession-including detachments of cavalry, batteries of Horse Artillery, colonial and Indian corps, and bands-will be formed from Buckingham- gate along Buckingham Palace-road and Eaton-place, and will be joined by the Queen as they pass the Palace. It is proposed that a large number of volun- teers shaH be .stationed along the sides of Canstitu- tion-hill, at the commencement of the journey to the City and before the procession emerges into the street at Hyde-park corner. The Bank of England have arranged for a remark- able illumination in celebration of the Qneen's Com- memoration. The main body of the scheme will reproduce the singularly beautiful design in crystal and ruby with which the whole of the facade was covered both at the Jubilee of 1887 and on the mar- riage of the Duke of York, but on the upper part of the face there will be illuminated groups in a style that has not previously been exhibited in this country. The Gaekwar of Baroda has accepted the Queen's invitation to England during the Diamond Jubilee celebration. A suite of rooms has been taken for him at the Royal Palace Hotel, Kensington. At a meeting of the Royal Botanic Society, with regard to the proposal to establish an Institute of Botanv in commemoration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, it was announced that the council of the society still had the subject under consideration, and that a meeting for the purpose of bringing the matter to a head would shortly be held. A Reuter's telegram from Perth (West Australia) states that the West Australian Parliament assembled for the purpose of passing temporary supplies for July and August, in order to permit Sir John Forrest to visit England in connection with the commemora- tion of the Diajnond Jubilee of the Queen's reign. A resolution was passed authorising an address being presented to her Majesty by both houses, and upon the question being put by the Speaker, all the mem- bers arose and sang the National Anthem with much enthusiasm.
THE GODALM1NG MURDER.
THE GODALM1NG MURDER. On March 13 Ernest Travers, who is charged with the murder of the boy Ernest Packer, near Godal- ming, on the 8th inst., was brought up on remand at the Guildford Petty Sessions. Mrs. Elizabeth M. God- dard, 4, Victoria place, Godalming, said she and two friends were walking along Langham-Iane when she heard the screams of a child in the Lady Garden Copse. There were three men listening as well. She got over the hedge, and after forcing her way through the thick underwood she came to a tree, and saw a man lying over a little boy. She saw that be had a knife in his hand, and was cutting the boy's throat with it. She parted the brushwood and screamed Ob, look at him he is catting the boy's head off A young man named Fry proceeded to"i he fpot, and found that the prisoner had killed the boy. Mr. J. Sparkes, who was in the copse at the time, on hearing the witness, came to the spot, and detained the prisoner. Dr. C. Rogers, medical superintendent of Tulbourn Lunatic Asylum, Cam bridge, identified the prisoner as one who was admitted to the asylum in the name of Ernest Travers on 14th January, and discharged on 23rd February. The prisoner was brought in by the police at Cambridge. The statement as to the man's condition said that be was suffering trom delusions brought on by the exces- sive use of narcotics. The witness considered the prisoner was a fairly well educated man. He had told him that he was educated at Newton Abbot, and that he had spent several years in India. Whilst he WHS in the asylum the prisoner never showed any sign of homicidal mania. Prisoner was committed for trial at the next assizes. A large crowd assembled in the vicinity of the court to witness his removal, and his appearance was greeted with hooting and groans.
SYMPATHY WITH CRETE.
SYMPATHY WITH CRETE. A London demonstration to express sympathy with the Cretans and Greece was held on the afternoon of Sunday. last in Trafalgar-square. There were four plat- forms, but the only considerable crowd was round the plinth of Nelson's column. A resolution was car- ried rejoicing at the success of the Cretans in throw- ing off the Ottoman tyranny, congratulating the Greeks on their gallant conduct, and protecting against the use of British forces for the suppression of a people's liberties and in defence of the integrity of the Turkish empire. A deputation was appointed to convey the resolution to Lord Salisbury. Among the speakers were Mr. E. J. Morton, M.P., Mr. M. Davitt, M.P., Mr. J. Havelock Wilson, M.P., the Rev. Dr. Clifford, and Mr. H. J. Torr.
BURGLARS AT A PEER'S.
BURGLARS AT A PEER'S. The police are actively engaged in making investi- gations into the circumstances surrounding what at present appears to be a mysterious and very clever robbery of silver plate from the London residence of Lord Dorchester at 42, Bei keley-square. From inquiries made on March 14 by a representative of the London News Agency it appears that the robbery was discovered by one of Lord Dorchester's servants. Upon a. close examination being made it was found that a very large quantity of old and valuable plate had disappeared. A messenger carried this intelligenee to Vine street Police- station, and a couple of detectives at once went down to Beifceley-equare to make investigations. They most carefully examined the place, but so neatly had the robbery been accomplished that not a trace could be discovered as to how the thief or thieves made their entrance into the place. They left no clue behind them, so far as can be ascertained, though the police are naturally very reticent in supplying infor- mation to the Prees on the matter.
NAVAL OFFICER DROWNED.
NAVAL OFFICER DROWNED. In the small hours of the morning of March 14 Surgeon Thomas Gibbons, of H.M.6. Jason, at pre- sent lying off Kingstown, and two local watermen, named Christopher and Jamea Doyle, who are brothers, were drowned in Kingstown Harbour. Sur- Eson Gibbons, with three brother officers—Second- ieutenant A. A. Ellison, Engineer G. G. Knight, and Assistant-Engineer H- W. L. Cox, travelled down from Dublin to Kingstown by the last train on Satur- day night. They arrived about 12.16 a.m., and requi- sitioned the services of the brothers royle to put them on board their vessel. When midway across the harbour something went wrong, and the six occupants were thrown into the water. Their cries brought belp-one boat putting off from the Jaaon. and a second from the coastguard station. The boats arrived in time to pick up the four naval offioers, but the brothers Doyle had perished, and their bodies have not yet been recovered. Medical aid on board the Jason restored three of the rescued officers, but Surgeon Gibbons succumbed to the effects of pro- longed immersion.
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THB new Bishop of St David's, Principal Owen, is a son of a deacon of theCalviniitic Methodist chapel at Llanengan, and his mother, who lives with Principal Owen at Lampeter, keeps up her subscriptions to the old chapeL The P-rincipal himself was a Calvinistic Methodist until his twenty-fourth year. Hzaz is an amusing anecdote of the young Queen of Holland. One day lately she entered the room where the Cabinet Council was held, and asked the Prime Minister why the postage stamps continued to to bear her likeness as a child Her Majesty intimated that she wished them to be altered as soon as possible. So stamp collectors must be on the look out. IT IS not often that a Judge of Assize gets a lesson from a High Sheriff. More commonly the positions are reversed. But the thing has just occurred in Longford, where the Rev. Sir George Fetherstonhaugh, who ia High Sheriff, preached the assize sermon. ÅnOJiE who may be anxious on the subject will be relieved to learn that Mr. Hugh Clement* "Queen's weather" for J»n £ 22, thanksgiving aervio* is to be held. It w, lMmever, itiiaKw: fine, for Mr. Clemenu looks forward to prwbabl/ some rain with thunder before midnight.
THE QUEEN'S HOLIDAY.
THE QUEEN'S HOLIDAY. HER MAJESTY EKDANGERSD. The Royal train arrived at Nice shortly before four o'clock on the afternoon of March 12. the weather being dull and overcast. Her Majesty was received at the station by the Mayor, who presented her with a magnificent basket of flowers. The general of the division, M. Gebhardt, was also present, and the Guard of Honour was furnished by the 3rd and 12th infantry regiments, under the command of Colonel Requery. As the Queen alighted the baad of the 3rd regi- ment played the English^ National Anthem, and when, a few minutes later, her Majesty left the station, the cheering from the great crowd of spec- tators was vociferous. Her Majesty drove in an open landan, and looked well, but somewhat fatigued vrith her long journey. Au accident, which might have been attended with the most terrible consequences to her Majesty, occurred as the Royal carriages drove along the Boulevard Debouchage on the way to Cimiez. A private of Chasseurs was riding quite close to the Royal carriage, when his horse shied, threw its rider, and fell. The animal regained its feet, and immediately reared up on its hind legs. For a brief space the threatening fore hoofs of the horse were raised in the air above her Majesty's head, and but for the promptitude of the driver of the carriage, who immediately pulled to the side, an accident might have happened to her Majesty. The Queen seemed much unnerved by the occur- rence, and grew very pale. Strangely enough, another horse became restive a few minutes later, and for a brief space delayed the Queen's progress to the Hotel Cimiez. Showers fell at Nice during the night of the Queen's arrival, but next morning the weather was bright, with a brisk wind. Shortly after mid-day the Queen went for a drive in her donkey-chair through the grounds of the Villa Liserb. The Prince of Wales arrived at one o'clock, and left again at four. Lord William Cecil also called at the Hotel Cimiez. In the afternoon her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Beatrice and Princess Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, drove to Rimiez, descending to St. Maurice, and returning by way of Carabacel about six. On the morning of Sunday, March 14, brilliant weather prevailed. The Queen, the Princesses, and the members of the Royal household attended Divine Service, at which the Rev. J. Frere Langford, the chaplain of the Holy Trinity Church, oticiated. A large crowd assembled to see the Queen drive out in the afternoon along the Boulevard Cimiez, which her Majesty's frequent visits have transformed into a favourite promenade. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, and attended by Lady Antrim, drove to Villefranche by way of Cap Ferrat, return- ing at ten minutes to six. Crowds everywhere lined the route, and saluted the Queen discreetly and re- spectfully, but with marked enthusiasm.
I ANTI-GAMBLING CRUSADE.
ANTI-GAMBLING CRUSADE. READY-MONEY BETTING MADE ILLEGAL. In the Lord Chief Justice's Court, on Maich 13, Mr. Justice Hawkins delivered the judgment of a Divisional Court, consisting of himself and Justices Cave, Wills, Wright, and Kennedy, in regard to two important cases under the Betting House Act of 1853, which they heard some time ago. In the first case the victorious appellants, represented by Mr. Hawke, are the Anti-Gambling League, the respondent the well- known bookmaker, "Dick" Dunn, who was pro- ceeded against for using the 4:1, or Tattersall's ring at Hurst-park Racecourse, for the purpose of betting with persons resorting thereto. The effect of the decision is to declare ready-money betting in rings on racecourses illegal, as the latter are declared to bt. places within the meaning of the Act. In the course of an elaborate judgment, Mr. Justice Hawkins said the case came on for hearing by a bench of magistrates at Kingston-on-Thames on July 23 last, when they dismissed it, but stated a case for the opinion of the Court. The respondent was a bookmaker and professional betting man, and it was not suggested that he had any control over the Hurst Park Club Company (Limited), the owners of the enclosure at Molesey Hurst, Surrey, or was interested in the company, other than that he held shares in it. The Tat- tersalls' ring was about 40 yards long and 30 yard* wide, and was bounded on one side by the stand and on the remaining side by a fence. At the race meeting in question respondent and 14 other bookmakers were admitted to it; they shouted out the odds, andso invited all the other persons surround- ing them to bet with them, many doing so. Before a backer's bet was booked he was required to pay the amount of his stake in advance. The magistrates held that the enclosure could not be considered a fixed place under the statute, for, if so, every person who resorted to and used the enclosure, and made a bet therein, would be liable to be convicted for using the enclosure for betting purposes. INTENTIONS OF THE BUTTING ACT. The question submitted to the Court was whether the magistrates came to a correct decision. It was ex- pressly stated in tbe preamble of the Betting House Act of 1853 that one of the objects proposed by the Legislature was the suppression of this kind of gaming. To pass an Act simply to forbid such gaming in houses or offices would have been com- paratively useless; it would have been to leave open a host of cases not falling within the description of house or office, and impossible of description by an- ticipation, and facilities would be given for producing the demoralising effects the Legislature had in its mind, and such obnoxious betting might be carried on with impunity. It would be frittering away the pro- visions of the Act to hold that a well-defined en- closure known by a particular name and devoted to be used as a betting ring, could not be treated as a place within the meaning of the Act, unless the person charged with usingit for a particular purpose confined himself to a single spot indicated by some such thing as a stool or a box to stand on, or an umbrella stuck into the ground and spread over his head, and that if he changed his position from time to time by walking about and making his bets upon different spots in the same ring he could avoid the penalties because he was not using a place." DBFINITION OF A PLACB." To him that view was unintelligible, and it became the more so when they discussed the authorities. In his opinion, to limit the words other place" to places ejusdem generis with house, office, or room, would have the effect of defeating the object of the Legislature. Each case must be dependent upon its own particular circumstances but after very careful consideration he had arrived at the conclusion that any area of enclosed ground—expressing no opinion. for it was not necessary to do so as to unenclosed ground-covered or uncovered, which was known by a name, and which was capable of reasonable de- scription, to which persons from time to time on any occasion resorted, and who might be properly described as resorting thereto, used by a professional betting man for the purpose of exercising his calling and betting with such persons for the purpose of carrying on a ready-meney betting business, might be held to be a place within the meaning of the statute. Fences and bounds were not necessary, and it did not matter whether the bookmaker chose to remain on one particular spot, or whether he preferred to move about within the area from one spot to another. "Place" referred to the area, and not to a per- ticular spot in it. In the case before them there was abundant evidence that the respondent used Tattersalls' ring for the purpose of betting with per- sons resorting thereto, bat in dealing with the evi- dence in each particular ease, the magistrates ehoulo bear in mind that the law did not prohibit betting itself; nor was the business of a bookmaker neceø- sarilv illegal, but what the Legislature had for j. as illegal was the use by those who made » D" of betting of any place for the P^rpo** of J* with persons resorting thereto.. £ ^neous view opinion that the magistrates of tbe law, and the case must be^ ^ndent. «hem. Tbe costs must be paid by m V" -==
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LADY ABBRDBBN, the accomplished ifE of the Governor-General of Canad^, mI to be convocation orator at the University of Chicago in April. Never before in America b- a woman been chosen as the principal speaker on such an occasion. Tn. German Emperor has 350 carriages in his .tablet in Berlin. Of these 100 are for the use of his suite. The brougham, victorias, and landaus used by the Emperor, and by the members of the royal family, are all painted alike, and are never used by anyone else. TIIKY are now talking of the eldest son of the Prince Regent of Brunswick as a possible husband for the Queen of the Netherlands-, Suoh a match woultf be most unpopular in Holland, as tending to p_i8. ascendenov.
fPNM STtM. FLOWING IN.
fPNM STtM. FLOWING IN. Down to the night of March 15 the Lord Mayor of London Fund at the Mansion House amounted to E426,000, Among the donations received were the following: Nottingham and Nottinghamshire (third instalment), £ 1000 County of Northampton, per the Lord Lieutenant, £ 600; Kendal (additional), £ 300; Reading, per the Mayor, E227 10s. 2d.; Malta, per the Governor, 9150; Bridgwater, 100; Holland, Lin- colnshire, £79 Is. lid.; E. M. 1:50; Swansea, £46 3s. 7d., Sutherland, per the Lord Lieutenant, B31 4s.; pupils of the Rev. S. H. Harris's schools at Ramsgate, E25 Is.; N. (Tonbridge), E20 anony- mous, £ 20; workmen of the Gas Light and Coke Company at Bromley-by-Bow, £15; Christ Church, Kensington, £48 2s. 4d.; Newark Parish Church, £ 31 14s. 6d.; Highgate Congregational Church, £67 3s. 4d.; St. Luke's, Nutford-place, E104 6s. 3d.; St. Andrew's, Stockwell green, and schools, jE56 3s. 3d.; per the Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, £ 100; All Souls', Hampstead, £ 21 8s. 2d.; the City of London School, £50; Lord Derwent, £ 20; the Marquis of Bristol, £10; concert at Romsey, JE24 8s. 6d.; and collection at Bishopstoke, Hants, £80 16s. 6d.