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AX ET.OPEMEM' AX I) Al'f)r.ICAI'I(- )N,- FOR rilO'I'KCTiOX. At I.iiriiiifi Drewet.t, wifo of John T. Dioweti n beer eclier, applied to Mr. i';n l.rid^t: fur a protection order, and iu suppoi fc of her ti £ >|<i<c;«t inr; -wore ta the foliuwinf^ fll !t anient :—That ,s!io IVM man ied in dud walked with her husband in a beer- house at Ealing. Eventually they were enable i by their joint to take ch.) Uiley Arin.i, Ki. ig'a Hoad, t'h'jl."<e«, wdiero they lii'ed unl.il the 5LIi of July last, when her husband wont away wit-it tho servant, the eouple taking with them about £ 2')0. Since that tillle she (applicant,) had not seen or heard of her hu^ban I. Since tho de- sertion aim had aeipiirei about CUM, but ttlrc had no moans of support, cxeept. by the su!'franeo of I Messrs'. \Natne}ran<l Co., the brewer*, who per- mitted her to remain iu occupation. She was now promised another bcervliop. and the desired an order for. tllC pm/eetioll of her money (about -t'1.00) and furniture which she ha 1 came 1 or been given to her by her mother. Air. Partridge granted tin protection.

ATTEIPTED WIFE M URDER. Ab the Central Criminal Conrt, (London), John Allison (52), described as a dealer, was indicted before Mr. Justice Cave for feloniously wounding his wife, Miriam Allison, with a hatchet, with in- tenlJ to murder her or to do her some grievout bodily harm.—Mr. Austin Metcalfe prosecuted, find Mr. Bootli defoii(I-o.(].Tijo iii this c,%se had been married for IS years, but they had sepa- rated for a fortnight) before the occurrence, and the prosecutrix liveil by herself at, Dattersea. She wae employed nt the Army and Navy Co-operative Shores, and worked at their factory ab Pimlico. On the morning of Sept. 5 she w as going to her work, and just as she arrived at the stores she savf tile prisoner approaching lior with a chopper in his hand. Without saying anything tho prisoner at- tackcd the prosecutrix in a most savage manner and ho cub her on tho head and shoulder and other parts of the body, and she was for some time in *3b. George's Hospital. After the occurrence the prisoner e^id he hoped that his wife was dead, and if she was not, he would "do" for her yet. The prisoner appeared to have been drinking, but he was sober when the assault was committed, and knew perfectly woll what he was doing. The hatchet appeared Lt, have been broken while the prisoner was using it in the way described, and he told the constable Who apprehended him ihab if the weapon had nob broken ho should have killed the prosecutrix. When tho charge was read over to him ab tlio liolice-stalioii, he said, that, is right; I wish I had killed her."—The jury found the pri. Boner guilty of wounding -with intent to do his wife grievous bodily harm, and lie was sentenced to five years' penal servitude.

THREE MEN SUFFOCATED. Throe men including one who wont to then ns8istnnee, have been sutl'oeated in a boiler which they proposed cleaning at tho Cyf n l lifa ui ks. Tiiose who wont through the man-hole first worj nob hoard nt work, and it was ascertained I bat they had been overcome by ga*, which escaped through on aperture incautiously left open, and which should have boon shut off, the boiler being heated by fuel saving gas obtained from a blast furnace. Men were lowered into the "death trap" with ropes attached for .safety, anil the living and tho dead brought out. Three or four wore after some elfort resuscitated. Three were dead. These were —Win. Jones, labourer, who leaves a widow and two children; David Joseph Williams, single and John Jones, engineer. The latter was the son oi a gaffer at the steel works, Joneslost his life in going into tho boiler to look for the others. The bodies havo been taken home.

[ALL RIGHTS nSSEKVEIK1 GEORGE JOCEIJYJS TPtOUJSLES, BT ELIZABETH J. LYSAGIIT, AVTHOK OV "OTBt THB BORDER," "UNDKB THE SWOKD." Fiaz OPAL," ETC. •4 -J" J CHAP fER II. = TIle little world of Kingslxirou.sh was in a pro- liuiou# etate of excitement. The town divide 1 itself snto two tactions—one certain that George had litvu drowned, and the other, and much smaller party, equally sure that he was far away and alive. Hail. roads had but just penetrated to Ivingshoroiij?- Even that wonderful palace of glass that was soon to make London so famous was yet in the future, and such a toj»ic as the disappearance of the man found guiliy of Abraham Giili's death could not hut be a fruitful subject fur debate and discu.s.sio i. Through all the talk, apparently as much at a loss as the rest of them—either walking stoutly, basket on her back, for miles into the country, or sitting at home, working briskly in that tumble-down old house of hers on the quay, go close to the dark ti ie that rose and fell that the windows were obscured by the shadows cast on them by the vessels that lay red in it—$ar* Manuel kept her presence of mind and Apparent unconsciousness of anything iike a participation in George's plans of escape. Many a lime the police and prison-warders, sorely chafed by the obstinate and successful concealment of the voung man, looked HI upon her as she sat at work, "jiut, bless you! who was more blandly wondering at the whole affair than WMS Sara Manuel herself-: Her door was open all through the day, and nob.xly erer thought of that dusty little reccss, against which those great harrois, and broken nets, and Worn-out household gear were carelessly heaped. All the ditv long did George Jocelyn remain in that little room, to winch the daylictiit found but faint entrance through tho skylight-all the day long (and surely, as he thought, the hours seemed to pass by with feet of lead) lie pined and longed f >r freedom, for one word from Noel Ward, for the power of sending one worrl to her. But this last small bit of comfort Sura Manuel •ternly set her face against, j ¡ \Vhat! Dont you know that it would be matinees't Why, Master George, they're watching her, and watching every letter site gets. They know that you and he were Iweethearts, and of course, wiiat'd be more likely than that you'd send line to her, or a message, if you "4lre alive ? Yet. eren George, counting the hoursAud minutes, and feeUng this life to be little better than death, nmst acknowledge this. Sara Manuel, pitying him as she did, was not one of your weak-minded women. She had made up her mind to a certain plan, and she was determined to carry it through. the first moments of agitation, when ho hardly knew whether to be gia t or sorry for his flfcsp), he began to think of some outlet from his present captivity. And here Sara came again to the fore. Aftsr the first heat of the pursuit and excitement was orer, it might be possible (and possibilities were thing' of moment in his case) to get him away from King;borough by sea. At present, every vessel was t 'o closely watched but Sara kept those keen eyes of hers open—those sharp ears of hers equally on th3 qui rive. She managed to give out, casually, as it were, and carelessly—but with a widespread garrulity that made every second person aware of lite rews—-that her cousin was coming to see her. She made all due preparations for the reception of this visitor. She laid in a supply of new bread and fNIII butter, of a rather finer kind of tea than she gem rally partook of, not forgetting some strong liquor. "Them seafaring chaps, she said, with mopi vigour than good grammar, they like a sup hot md strong." Siie said this to her friends and cronies, to the Eolicemen, to the seafaring men who called in to ay bit of "pig-tail," or a gay pocket-haudker- chioi, such as they greatly affect. And Sara, a clever woman, used to the cajoling and pleasing of her customers, knew exactly when and where to drop a hint. ••ilave patience! do have patience she would "1 to the young man, who was, to say the good truth, getting very sick and weary of this dark abode Of his. Chance, after all, did for het more than her best eBortt would have done. While she was yet laying a train that was only waiting for time and opportunity to be fired, there came Mhore on the straggling beach near Killgs- borough a poor dead body, from which the waves had beaten and torn aU semblance to comely human* ^Bnt it was that of a young man; so much could be told and as well as those who took it 111', and thot* who heedfully looked at it, could determine, the remains mast have been those of George Jocelyn. George was, or had been, very tail. So was this poor waif and stray, litis "flotsam and jetsam, that was brought back to mother earth after the ¡ cruel water had sported with it. They could not absolutely swear that it was his I bod, j but there is such a thing as being pretty sure of a matter, and very sooa everybody in Kings- borough, and everybody for many miles round knew I that George Jocelyn had been drowned in making his escape, and that his dead body hai been washed ushore. Amongst those who came, liko many others, to look at it, shocking as the sight was—was a tall, dark woman. It was Sara Manuel. She declared, with much earnestness that it was George Jocelyn • body; the had known him from a boy; she was teady to do everything but wear to Who could swear to it, even though in their hearts they might be satisfied that it was he and none other ? Sara Manuel WM, a clcrer actress her look and manner of sorrow, and horror, and conviction, was pcrfect. So they took it away—the poor body that had onco been so precious in some one's eyes—and though they wero not able to declare that it was George Jowlyn yet unanimous opinion avowed it to he > »j. A f/pr thin tli" f'try and action of the chase cio'led down as'it will do when there is little doubt gSithe hunted thing has escaped onejay or ^ti»r. To the living George—shut tip m t 'ftc d*.r* reces., wliewthefXbrow,, spiders that climbed up and down their silver ladder» were his on.y hy dar—Sara brought this good news, tier pw-"3 liad been carefully and wel1 *or s!,e wag one of those cle^* exceptional women who cat) JotU with eoutl clearness to the pas', to the present, and to the /mure. Her Hps were sealed as to the rc.-ison for her taking all this trouble; but she was com- municative enough as to her intentions. II Titer all think it's your poor bwly that they've just buried, r the told him, "amianotlwr day or two it irill be time for my cousin to come-10 you see, sir ? Noel Ward had heard the jiews. It came to the quiet Vicarage: how, nobody knew, but at ail events Noel heard it. She shut herself up in her own little room, and when she came out of it, she looked like one who had been very ill. Yet perhaps theto Will the sharp agony of suspense than tho Otiiet despair that is almost like death itself. When her old grandfather attempted a word of comfort slu heard him paticntlv Perhaps in her heart she fuit that such a death was better than the shameful one he had epcd. He was dead—nerer moro to be seen by her- aevermoretosectet.. She put on a Mack dress, in wh.ch she looked just like a fair lily, on which the unkind storms ot a WlCnewT umvefilng^^Vist, as I think all ill news does travel) reached "'Iho Hill, where proud Mr Jocelvn was shut up in his state .y rooms. A touch of "the gout," he e*hl. Jiut it was a tone/, that 'aid more sorrow on his thfa h,ur, and brought lines on hi. tine, patrician face, and him toss- itx sleeple.s ttiultsr his brocaded silken curtain*. Perhaps, not? that Gaarge was dead—kuled not bv the hand of mar. but by his own desperate at- tempt to escape—thv proud oW ni*i: .ialf hini Bu* what was tlu use of forgiveue»» t i i'^e was'that v»" will of his, by tfhich poor George was and by which all the Jocoh n estate went to Wtuer n«rl*w-did, lie »K«,t uowol that? Wfltxttiy saw him grieve for that, of (9jr$Ue dfiiw pi? vto U4 toft IQ 4f tqJdm. J Ile s,,it iiill on the broii'i lidds, on the shining blue ri\c", on :i u j distant roofs of King-sborough. lie did not rc-co-r J his strength; still he *:iid '"it was o:i'y a lunch of' thegont." That oilier nephew came, and sat i,y him, and read the Shnidard to him, and tried to cheer him up. Now it iiapp-ncd t' at this n(,%v ficir wai filil,. flooded, healthy squire, already quite rich unoug i, snd with no greedy desire to come in for Mr..ioeo- Moreover, he had a good, strong s:f- will of his own, and very decided opinions—ami he hid not the least objection to holding his own, b^tii iU to will and opinion, against anybody, lie and George had not been "friends." They had fought ab)ut a trifle, frolll %A'liicii ti-ifl. t qtlurel. George, hot and hasty, Charles, obstinate and liking his own way—neither of thelU would g'.ve in to the other. And now, George was gone, and Clerles had stejped into his shoes, and one would have supposed that under the circumstances Charles would have thankfully t;dcen the vacant place, and ministered unto the rich t Id uncle, and devoutly thiinlced t r >> i donee that had (even with some shame and dis-r.v :■ to the family name) tiirii.se such fat possessions into Jlis hands, .ft *as plainly his "'cue to k. ep aw.iy all softer, more tender thoughts or memories of the lost- nephew from old Mr. docvlyn it was elcarl;. his part to agree with the latter in his estimate el the yourg man s guilt. # Wliiit do ynii ihink of this most foolish Char.es? One of >¡, views was that Geor.) illig-hi 1: 1\ leen innocent. This view was clearly against re ts .n. against the evidence, against the opinion o: t!\( cl -verest man in linglan I, and, what was more t > the purpose, against t.ie opinion of the jury. Charles had unde" the rose'' engaged t'nn e clever counsel who ban defended George: he ha! himself tried to hunt up s inie evidence iu his fn vou. and it w.is not his fault that the e;ise was jusi one of those it, wliieli every ct'-ort Iwtrle in his favour only succeeded in clouding nis case with fresh and darker tints of guilt, lie would have thrust aside all coolness, a>id visited Geo go in prison, and at- tended him to the trials, he would have stuck by him to the very last shamefm ending, but that a serious illness had tied him by the leg at the very time; and while the judge and jury were holding George Jocelyn's fate iu their hand i at Kingsborough- on-Sea, Charles wa; undergoing a hard penance from the hands of doctors and surgeons. Afterwards, and when the lattcv wise moil gave him lea' he came to ''The Hill," and tried his honest best to be some comfort to his rich old uncle. This was all as it should have been. Excellently well; but Charles never coitH hide his light under a bushel, and when old Mr. Jocelyn began to talk of poor George, Charles had not the sense—thi "good taste." no doubt your wise, worldly creatures would My-to tlgrce with him. Foolish Cliarlei I What did possess him to hesitate when the unpleasant topic was iiitroclucel-flrst, to hesitate, then bluntly to say, "Upon my honour, sic, anl with all uue deference to you, I can't quite agree with yoa. Poor George was a headstrong fellow, I grant yor that, and he had his faults. I never cli*,t go with him about thosa wild fits of travel. An English gentleman ought to have something better to do than to be rushing about the world with a rifle in his hand. But as to that love affair of his, why, upon my word, I don't see ho v he could have done otherwise. You see he loved the girl, and she cared for him, and the fact of her being poor is, to my mind, no reason at all that IL 81veetheart should treat her badly." "This is not a pleasant stiliject, sai(I the old man, rather unfairly, for he had commenced the subject, and [ ÙOIÙ at all ngrec with YOI1. George knew my wishes on the matter, but his whole con- duct was bad, and yet who could, who would have thought that he could have ended by such a crime —hy such a death? Death is bad enough, but iviial is it to disgrace ? and we used always to say that the Jocelyns had never known disgrace." Charles made an effort to change the subject, very prudently feeling his own inability to "keep silent, even from good words." But Mr. Jocelyn would not have it 50.\ With the obstinate petulance of an old and sick man he returned to the topic. "I see," he said, that you have your opinions about it, yet, for the life of me, I can't see wily you should take his part—you were never very good friends," "Bless my "ou]! 8ir," said honest Charles, bluntly; "a man must have his own opinions some- times. I don't want anybody to think as I do, but if you 1dll have it, I must say that I don't and can t blame him for sticking to Ills sweetheart through thick and thin; and as to his being guilty, why, I have my own thoughts about that, too." Oh, indeed Well, Charles," with a poor -it. tempt at a sneer, that sat ill on his pale and worn face, "I am sorry—very sorry that I can't agree with you." "Oil, sir, I won't ask anybodv to do that. I may be all wrong, and, indeed, I hardly know what make, me so very positive about it; out a fcllow can only say what he thinks." There was the evidence; what do you make of that I Clear against him! You talk-I w-.ts g(iitig to say, like a fool, my good Chn.rlcs-hllt 1 will say, like a man who does not know wont he is saying." "I'm sure I'm very sorry if I vex you," said Charles but I can't'help thinking of him and that poor girl, too, "Upon my hououf-, sir, she is greatly to be pitied." "Stop! you will drive me mad 1cried the 0111 man, putting those trembling white hands of his to his head. Charles was very penitent, hut for nil that he could not, and would not withdraw that opinion of |,ls—tiiat the evidence proved nothing, that the jury had been mistaken, that the dead George—who never could come back to prove hia innocence—yet was quite innocent, after all. Another oninion of his about this time was greatly opposed to that of the community in general, lie went, with the rest, to see the poor body that the wind and waves had cast hack to the earth. Lvcrv- b,,(Iy wlio F;t%v it, froiii the officials to the jedhir, Sara Manuel, pronounced it to be that of the miss- ing George Jocelyn. Charles—always positive, always holding his own views against those of every- body else-declareti that it was not the body of his cousin. Nobody heeded him. lie was known to be i pig-headed man, who took "ideas" iiito iii-a but none the less did this idea stick to him. He »ave no reason—indeed, he could give no reason for it—but he stuck to it Always unlucky about concealing his sentiments, they speedily came into fresh conflict with those of his uncle. Yon mean to tell me," said the latter, "that yon think that he was innocent, and now you say you don't believe that he was drowned, though he was heard to fall Jato the water—though every- body who has see* the. -the body—says that it is his? I don't ask you to believe me," said Charles "hnt i y>n put it tc me in this way, I must ay that i think lis was innocent, and that it is very possible he may be alive." Unlucky Cbarteal lie was not at rdl prepared for tho effect of these words. Ilia uncle, after an attempt to uttuf ft word or two, sank back in his armchair. ifiMlselefis. H'.ess my w),at liava 1 done?" said Char!o)í!, in litter dismay. TO BE CONTINUED]

A LORD SENT TO THE WORKHOUSE. Lord Ogilvy, 4i>, described as of 1.01, Piccadilly, WM charged at (iroenwieh Police Court, with being drunk and disorderly and using obseeiis language in Dartmouth Row, Blnckheath.— Prisoner denied being drunk, and Dr. Tnylor saill that when he was caliu 1 to see him he had evi- dently been drinking, and made several stranga remarks.—Prisoner said ho did not, wish to have anything t,o do with his relatives, and his brother was his worst, enemy. He had taken the advice of I)r. Savage,and was trying to carry ib out.— Major Davies, of Blnckheath, said that the pri- soner had been three or four times under restraint), and his friends refused to do anything for him. He ought not to be about except under caro. On the previous day ho ordered a coach to be built ab Lowisham, and went to the Ship and Trafalgar Hotels, inelatiollill" Itis (Major Davies) name.— Mr. Fenwick remanded the prisoner to the work- house.—Prisoner You will ruin me it is too bad.

THE EAST EX DM U RDERS. A STABBING CASH. Ab the Middlesex Sessions, James Phillips and Williain Jarvis were indicted for maliciously wounding Detective-sergeant. Robinson, and also for maliciously wounding Henry Doncaster. The prisonerppteadedncbguitty. Sergeant Robinson was on duty with Detective Mather and a friend named Doncaster in Piloellix Placo, Clerkenwell. Robinson was watching a man supposed to be •'Jack the Ripper," and had disguised himself in female attire. He concealed himself behind a cab in a yard, when the prisoners who were in the employ of Air. Kite, cab proprietor, came up and -na commenced an altercation. Robinson told him lie was a police-officer. Contradictory evidence was given as to whether Jarvis or tho officer struck the r first blow. Robinson was stabbc 1 in tho forehead, and Doncaster was also assaulted. Both prisoners bore good characters. Phillips was acquitted, bub Jarvis waa convicted, but recommended to mercy. He was sentenced to six weelisl imprisonment.

A man With three wives. Ab the Woolwich Police Comtó, George Clarkson, aged 45, a workman iu the Royal Arsenal, was charged with trigamy.—As his first and only law- ful wife, Francis, could not give evidence against him, her sister-in-law, Mrs. Sarah Ilolliiigsworth, was called to prove the marriage in Radford Church, Nottingham, in March, ]5A. She eaid they lived together fill, 21i year?.—Jane Purbrick, a young woman residing at Slonoy Lane, South. wark, flaid she was married on VvC. 18, 1886, to the prisoner, at the Church of St. Stephen, Lewis- ham, and Boesie Peard said sue went through the form of marriage at. St. Andrews, Hastings, on Ocb. 8 last.—The prisoner, who declined to ask the witnesses anything, but voluntarily corrected some of their dales, was remanded.

MURDEROUS ATTACK ON A WOIAN. Henry Baker (33), was indictcd with feloniously wounding Alary Cowan, with intent to murder, and to do her some grievous bodily harm,—Mpf Poland and Mr. C. Mat thews prosecuted for the Public Prosecutor.—Tho prisoner and the proeecu- trix appeared to havo fornioi iy lived together as man and wife, but about three years ago they separated, although some sort of intimacy ap. peared to havo still existed between them. On the nighb of July 10 they met in tho London Road, and fidter some angry words the prisoner stabbed the prosecutrix in the chest and other parts of the | body, and she was in Ibe hospital for sever*! weeks in consoquence.—The prisoner pouvicto^ ot unlawful wounding, but recommended to mcrcypii account, of tho provocation lie had received from the prosecutrix. -Ho sentenced to 12 uioiithr imprisonment with hard labour.

PAYING A PRISONER'S FINE. Henry Thompson, a hawker, was summoned for exi),c-iiig puzzles for sale in St. Paul's churchyard. —Police-constable Cnu.stiu said he 8a IV tho defend- ant selling puzzle* in Sc. Paiirs-qhurchyard. Ha had a large crowd round him, and was summing pn the footway. The inhabitants had frequently complained of tilis sort of 1,11 i itg. elliltlit said he had a wifo and family, and was trying to ge|b a living for them.—Alderman Wilkii) fined him ft)., without cost-—Dcfendont enhj he had np money, but. would pay it if time yvero giyei}.—7 I Alderman Wilkin I will lend you 64., bliel).- This remark was groole.l with upphnise. Sixpence was then handed to Sergeant Egau by the cashier Of the court.

THE HUNTINGDON "MURDER, David iVotnblyePi was brought up on remand at the Huntingdon Borough Court, charged with causing the death of ^lliam James Sijeilifjg by shooting him with a gun at a local brewery. The pvidenco Against the accused consisted mainly of OCJH'epsatifns which passed between himself and other workmen, prisoner making incriminating ad- missions, A policeman found in the brewery some cartridges containing No. 5 shob similar to thosg pxfcracted from the wounds of the deceased. Wib. pessjes were called for the defence, their evidence e being to the effoijl that prisoner was seen going up the stairs to the room whore decoased wag lyji)g after the report of t lie gun was heard. The prf/ soner protests his innocence. He was committed | for trial at the assizes.

Cotinb Grenaud, says a Itel,,ci,.iin from Sofia, Grand Marshal of'Prince F court, die ( suddenly the other morning. Queen Nathalie has entered a formal protest against the decree of divorce, and describes ib as an arbitiary measure. The Supreme Court of Canada lias decided ^gainst the Red River Railways Company, in rq, epeeb to the construction of a crostiug gyar W10 j pan&dinn L»«?.

-4_ SUPPOSED MURDER AND MUTILATION. Some boys were proceeding to Park, Edinburgh, when they found tho body ot u child wrapped up in a. cloth, ibe ai ins and legs had been severed from the body, and I bo remains mo so mutilated that, it is at present impossible to iscertain the of tho child.

THE WII IT EC H A P E L MURDERS. The Centrat News learns that Private-detective Slater, of Basinghall Street, has submitted to the Scotland Yard authorities information of a most valuable character in connection with the person- ality of the Whilechapel murderer. Ib is believed that a most important arrest will shortly be made. Recently the police had made no special arrest regarding the late murders. The various dist ricts are being patrolled by extra constables, and their zeal has led them into several excesses, notably all arrest of three young mou made in Berner Street.. The police have so much in mind the vague stories of an American perpetrator of the dastardly crimes that any person in a wide-a-wake or sofb felt be. comes all object, of suspicion. A comic singer was unfortunate enough during a professional visit to Whitechapel to wear one of these hats and when daring the interval he and two friends strolled round the neighbourhood, bo view tho sceno of the Berner Streeb tragedy, they were promptly de- nounced by some too quick-sighted citizen, avari- cious of the promised rewards, and marched off by the police. It. is only due to the lat ter to say they were detained but a very shorb time, suffi- cient to test the truth of their statement. It is stated that the words, "I shall do another murder and will receive her heart," have been found written in chalk on tho footway in Caniplin Street, Deptford.

SIR CHARLES WARREN ON HIS DEFENCE Sir Charles Warren, in his Apologia, in Murray's Mnjtazine, defends himself by pointing out, first, that the short-comings of the police are not his work secondly, that, though the Metropolitan Police is not perfect, it manages somehow or other to keep this capital 111 better order than almost any greab city in the world. One hundred yea'-s ago, under a disjointed parish police servico, LOll. don is said to have been more disorderly and policed than any city of Europe it has now, under a police force, taken the first placc among European cit ies in regard to orJer ami afes ence of crimo, and this with a very moderate number of polico-officers. During the past year the principal officers of police from LIlt) most im- portanb cit ies of the world litvo come to London to study our polico organisation, and to endeavour to ascertain how we are enabled to detect crime." In 117!J7 the estimated number of persons supposed to supporh themselves by pursuits either criminally illegal or immoral amounted to 115,000 in a popula- tion of 1,250,000, or nearly 10 percent. "Itis difficult," says Sir Charles with truth, to realise what would bo the condition of London at the pre- sent day wero there now such a percentage."

THE TUNBRIDGE WELLS MURDER. Tho following letter has been received by tho TI)o let(er If, Captain of the Salvation Army at Tunbridgo Wells from William Goiver, one of tho young men await- ing their trial for the Tunbridgo Wells murder :— My dear Captain and Friends of the Salvation Army,-I am now in my coll awaiting trial. I cannot say that I am unhappy, because I know that Jesus is with me, and is willing to help me through all my tt-iali and temptations. An the officers aii(i ivar,g Reeiii very kill#]. I was visited by the chaphunaurinR the dinner-hour, who spoke to me very kindly. He told me I was to prepare for what had to come, I feel sure that God has forgiven mo all my sins. The day we gob into the cells we began to whistle praises to God for pre- serving us thus far, but we soon got stopped. Never mind, we can praise Him all tho same. We are both in separate cells, so wo cannot communi- cate with one another. I have several printed prayers and advice for Christians in my cell, also a Bible, Prayer-book, and hymn-book, and abound volume of solos. Please, Captain, read this in the meeting and deliver this message to them all, especially on Sunday, 4 Prepare to meet your God.' rours. WILLIAM GOWER.

ACTION FOR LIBEL —HEAVV DAMAGES. In the Queen's Bench Division, before Mr. Justice Stephen and a common jury, the hearing of the case of Roberts v. Daniel Owen and company was resumed. This was an action for libel brought by the Rev. E. G. Roberts, Nonconformist minister, lato of Cardiff, against Alessrs. Datliel Owen and Com- pany, Limited, proprietors of the Wi.fun Mnil, the nJlegeillihel being contained in articles and letters published in that newspaper in the early part of the present year. TI'Q plaintiff claimed damages to the amount of £ 5,000, his case being that the writings complained of imputed to him that he was father of the illegipijiiate child of a girl who had been in hia service. Tila defendants pteaded tllI the writings were bona fitje comments on a mal-tor of public interest, and denied malice.—Air. Justice Stephen, in summing up, said the whole matter resolved itself into the question which side the jury believed. Ha pointed out that the evidence given by the girl now differed in some material particu- lars from tile account she gave in the affiliation case.—The jury, after deliberating for nearly all hour, returned with a verdict for the plallltl/l- damages His Lordship gave judgment for the amount, with costs.

1 -=L BRUTAL ASSAULT ON A WOMAN, At the Dalston Police Court, John Horsley (23), chimney-sweep, of H^nipt°n Road, Holloway, was charged on remand with violently assaulting Susan Elliott, a married woman, by kicking her.—Tho prosecutrix said that she resided At Nicholay Road, Holloway (II larg* hn.3 to of people), nod she "lIew tho prisoner, whnso brother occupied the room next to hers. On tho 18th iust. her husband had a dispute with the pri- soner's brother, and the next day he (the husband) left London, he being a travelling tinker. About eight o'clock that evening s|ie went to bed and eight o'clock that evening ebe went to bed and I locked her door. Soon after the prisoner came to the passngr, burst hor door open, and then Poizing hor by the hair dragged her out of bed, and when she was Iving on f lip floor he gave her two severe kicks in the stomach, She cried Murder and Hell) bub the prisoner and his brother rtri singing to drown her cries. She lay there for over an hour and then the landlord came, and the polico and tho doctor wero sent. for. Tho prisoner then' hastily left the house, but ho was brought back be- tween two a)j())htoe(/c)(.ck in the morning and she charged him with the tonced prisoner to six mouths' hard labour,

ATTExMPTEQ SUICIDE. The other afternoon n. barber mmle It tnnt determined attempt, at self-destruction in a tavern at Walworth. Ho was seen to fall back upon one of tho scats, and this aroused the suspicious of a person present, whoexamilled him and found an amply hindannm bottle Lightly clenched in each •and Iho police were fetched, a.jd at once con- «reye l him in a comatose state fco Guy's Hpsmird. 0.. his nrr.vu another bottle was found in his coat pocket. Artificial respiration and tho galvanic uattery were applied, with the result that after nany houra labour he partially regained con- •ciousiicss hut tl ,s reported that the doctors give no lopes of his recovery. The rash act is said to bo ,11 consequents of domestic trouble,

Tho Irish Exhibition, after being open nearly 11s months, was closed on Saturday nigfit," The itlendance on the closing day was very large. Mr. Phelps, the American Minister, has loft Lqh~ Ion Oil a visit to Lord SaH.b"rv at Hatfield, £ j +-- Tho West Indian mail-? of I lie British steamor j li, li:lt-boll" ("I the insl. havo beou r-c. vorcd in fair condition. nioro accural o i:i I heir shell lire again-i, t he forts. Tho Emperor Francis Joseph has sent, a tele- gram Lo M. do Giers, congratulating him 1,111011 liis jubilee. Tho forthcoming number of tile Kiwtffvth Century contains an nrticlo by Mr. Gladstono on of Pi usidunl ( a> not has i.-sne i a deoreo extending foi- granted ] j to foreigners settled in Franco. All anonymous donor has forwarded to tha fund for maintaining the cruising hospital ships of tho Mission to Deep Sea Fishormen. Lord and Lady KnuLsford-havo left Wherstead- | park, Ipswich, and have gone to Brighton for a few j days before returning to London. This week tho Duke of C ambridge completes his 51st) year of service in the army, having been Y, gazetted as a colonel in Novemhet, I801, 0 A t elegram from Aro)sen announces the death of Princess Heleno of Waldeck Pyimont, mother of the Queen of tho Netherlands. Natives who have arrived at j\ any Haifa from Sarras state that, alad-el-Xjuini, the leader of lha Dervishes, has died at Dongola from the enects of poison. „ Mr. J. D. Sheehan, M.P. for East Kerry, has been arrested under the Crimes Act ab lralee, and charged with inciting tenants to ntlopb the j plan of campaign. General Miribel, the newly-appointed Commander of the Sixth Army Corps, made his formal entry into Nancy, and was welcomed by an immenso concourse. The Firsf) Lord of the Treasury has issued a circular to tho supporLers of Lho Government in view of the opening of the adjourned Parliamentary Session on tho titli November. The semi-official journals, in contradiction to the statements lately made by some French papers, declare that Italy has had 110 part in the reeenb disturbances in Albania. The Jit forma, in a review of Italian commerco, declares that Italy is about to seek fresh outlets for her goods with a view to compensate herself for the loss of the French market. A private telegram from Rome to the Ge'rmania states that the Pope has written to AL Carnob, the President of Lhc French Republic, inviting him to join in n policy of reconciliation. Twenty-three fresh cases of yellow fever and bwo deaths liavo occurred ab Jacksonville, making tho total number up to the prcsenb 3,9n casos and 341 deaths. A meeting ab Barraduff, at which Mr. Sheehan, M.P., was to havo addressed his constituents, was attempted to be held. A strong detachment of police and military, from Killarney, however, interfered. Ib is stated thab the German Foreign Office has received orders from the Emperor to convey to the Governments of the countries recently visited by His Alajesty his thanks for the reception accorded to him. A telegram from Madrid, says :—Telegrams from Paris announco thab Scuor Pi y Margall, Lfco Federal leaner, has arranged terms for n coalition with Senor Zorilla. No details of the arrangements are given. A Vienna correspondent telegraphs that Baron Max voti SIei-tiack been promoied io 1 Le rank of Firsb Admiral in tho Austrian navy, ami b'arou Wiplinger and Count Bombclles to tho rank of Vice-An mirals. A tclegram from Madrid says :—An order of the Minister of War is gazetted, direct ing tho observ- i ance of tho rules for promotion and ..ihor rewards in the army, which were fixed by General Narvaez in 18H6. A young man nanvd Thurlwall suffocated In Boston Spa churcn tho other afi i rooon. He had one illto tho church, and sat down near to the heating apparatus, and was overpowered by the fumes. Intelligence has readied New York from Alaska that thirteen whalers arc ice-bound liol.1,11 of Behring's Strait*. Their position is said to bo hopeless, an 1 as their crews number over 500 per- sons tho loss of life threatens to be calamitous. It is stated that 72 Yorkshire Volunteer officers havo qualified themselves for (lie army certificates for proficiency in tactics. Of the 72, I belong to artillery, 1) to engineers, and i'2 to infantry. The Leeds Corps stand exceptionally well. A telegiam states that tho British steamor Abeona, from Newcastle for Stockholm, has arrived I ill Elsiinore Roads and landed the body of tho cap i Vain, who had died at «oa. Tliu vessel proeoodod in charge of tho first officer. At tho banquet to bo given by Irish Noncon- formist ministers bo Lord Salisbury and Lord Ifarb- ington on the 14th November, an address will bo I prsellted to the noble Lords, and wili bo spoken to by A telcgrn 111 from Paris says :—Twenty persons wore injured in the disturbance at tho Boulaugist I meeting in the Salle Wagraui. AL Luilier, who was the mosb injured, was able to return home after his wounds had been drossed. Ab the Lancaster County Petty Sessions, a young woman named Agnes Walker, 2"> year." of age, was charged 011 romand with murderihg her infant child on the (Jth instant.—Tho prisoner was committed for trial to tho assizes on tho capital charge. Ib i announced from Bucharest thab Queen Nathalie has refused to receive the document notifying the dissolution of her tnarrmgo with King Milan, sent to her by special messenger. It will, therefore, be transmitted tluough the Foreign Office. A boy aged 1.4, named Clifton, has met, wilh a shocking death atOldbury. He climbed ifpa pole to fix a flag prior to a football match, when ho fell upon the roof of a injuries that ho died soon after hi" removal to the hospital. A telegram from Bnmhny announces tho cR-Uh of the Dowager Maharanee of Jndurc. The Maha- ranee left the to tlm next senior Dowager, and previous to her death informed the British Resident about the fut ure succession, and also sent a telegram to the Viccroy. Tho death is imnounced'of the Abbe Crcfre*, he venerable chaplain of I,a Roquetto, who had, uuung iiis lifetime ofleted religious consolation to so many modern criminals at the moment, of exe- cution, and whose recollections wero of the most dramrttic kjiuj. The Haytian Minister tib has re- ceived information that tho American stcamci Haytian Republic has been captured whileattompi ing to enter the harbour at Saint Marc with rebel- and ammunition. The prisoners were Lakon Lc Port au-Prince. According to Kemp's Merwiti/fi Garette, i.lib num- bar of failures iu England and Wale* gazetted dut .ingthe week cii liiii, October 27th, Willi VI: The number in the corresponding week of last year w a- 8<>, show ing iut increase of 13, being a net increase jit 18t?8 to ;jRte pi 22. A meeting has been hold in Cologne to promo! the suppression of slavery in Africa. A resylut ioi> w«s adopted declaring the suppression of slavery to be a Christian duty, and urging England and Germany to take up and cany through .the till, avoidable struggle. At tho Central Criminal Court), Thomas Young was indicted for feloniously shooting at Edgiu Wool ley, at Morton, wiLli Intent to do him grievout bodily iWm. The case resulted in the •julsouei being bound over in his recognisance of £ 20 to kue¡:' the ponce for 12 months. King Milan of Servia has issued a proclamation to tho Servian nation calling upon the pe"letl jjombine iq erecting a fitting memorial ,,|t Crown in 188P, the great anniversary of1 of Koso in 1380, by the foundation ot a sliUition. A special Constitu- appointed to draw up tho p"' 1 r \i T..1110S O'Kclly, AT .P., against 1 lie appeal of Mr. Jam*. « is-0„mBnl l0«;|| Act Court' at L'oyf^ >»^zs eSui"K,'came lcforo ilr. O'Connor, County Uunt JlHjgC| n{ Boyle, the other day. i he com t was crowded. After hearing tl.e arguments, tho learned Judge reduced the sentence to two months, and made Mr O'Kelly a ln^t-ciass misdemeanant. An English 'bus driver named Higgi,18) „ |10 i9 well known m London as a pedestrian nmdo a successful parachute descent, a|, Loa Green from a fi oill it balloon at an altitude of J,t!U0 yards. There was n strong wind, and he was slightly stunned on reaching tho ground. Hfl will vepeub the ex peri incut on Saturday,

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