The Pontypridd Chronicle and Workman's News

GREAT POSTAL ROBBERIES IN SPAIN. Reports from Madrid state that the authorities there, in consequence of the frequent complaints of bankers, shopkeepers, and newspapers, had watched the post-office servants, particularly those employed In sorting letters on the arrival of the mails. Grave suspicions caused the police to arrest a postman on leaving the office off duty, and the letters found in his possession led him to make a complete confession of a system of robberies and frauds extending over seven months. Five thousand letters have been stolen. Their contents, mostly bills, bank notes, coupons, and lottery tickets, were disposed of by accomplices in Madrid, in the provinces, and even abroad. They so used tb3 contents the letters as to procure payment by forging acceptances; and often they answered letters themselves. The culprit seized had clothes made expressly to secrete plunder. Sixteen persons havo been arrested, including several connected with the post-office. The Government is determined to punish the offenders severely. Several hundred valuable letters directed to important Madrid firms have been found at the houses of the accomplices. Many arre ts have been ordered in various parts of the kingdom.

(All Riffhit Rsitrvti.) -.> SHADOWS IN THE SUNLIGHT." BT E. OWENS BLACKBURNE, AUTHOR OF "The Love that Loves Alway," "The Queen of her Race, A Woman Scorned." What are the WTlJ Wan. Slaying?" "Illustrious Iriahwomen," .\0. t -:).1/ CHAPTER XXIX. INTO THE SHADOW. Doctor Sharpe looks gravely and Clerlously at William French. He is more distressed than puzzled at his symptoms. "Surely, French." he says, "your husband must have had some stimulant of some kind." Yea, he did not feel very well," at length re- i)life Kate, temporising, and seeing she can no onger keep the truth from the doctor; he felt quite rundown and he just took a couple of glasses of sherry." The doctor shakes his head. The couple of glasses of sherry have done the mischief," he says, "they have hurried him into the fever," It is only too true. Like wildfire the news spreads Ihroughout the village and neighbourhood that W lliam French is sick unto death, for such soon proves to be the case. Kate never leaves the bed- side of her idolised husband. No hand but hers »m< oths the sufferer's pillow: and no voice but Iters does he seem to recognise. Sometimes, in the delirium of the fever, he does not even recognise her; and he raves wildly tbottt her meeting with Charles Felton in the churchyard at Dundenny; raves so oddly that Doctor Sharpe's suspicions are aroused,and he asks Kate what is the meaning of her husband perpe- tually harping on the one string. Kate makes a reticent and evasive reply, which only whets Doctor Sharpe's curiosity, for he is as great a gossip as the veriest old woman. Whatever it may be, it has preyed upon your .1111 band'a mind, and has helped to drive him ii t," this fever," he says, in his blunt manner, un- k o wing the stings and arrows of remorse which are pricking Kate French's outraged conscience. "I say. my good woman," exclaims Doctor Sharpe, as Rose Dogherty meets him in the hall "can you tell me what this is that your maater is raving about ? "What is it, sir?" Haven't you heard him ? he asks. No, sir, my mistress will not have me in the room," -he replies meekly. Why not ? I cannot say, sir," she says, in a tone calcu- lated to fully arouse the doctor's easily-excited curiusity. hy your master is raving about a Charles Fel- ton, and your mistress, and somebody meeting somebody in Dundenny Churchyard! What is it all itbout 7" he asks, peering into her impassive face. I think I know about it, sir she says, raising her glance to his, but formy master's sake I can- not say anything 1" "Why? what's the secret?" 1 This is exactly what Rose Dogherty wants to be asked. She knows perfectly well that one secret of William Frer ch's extreme popularity and the large practice he has alreadygained-despite Doctor Sharpe's longer residence in the neighbourhood— is simply to a large extent owing to the fact that i jiam French never retails gossip whereas, • his patients' most private affairs are never eacrei 1 to Doctor Sharpe. Rose Dogherty pretends to hesitate and Doctor Sharpe is on tenter-hooks. Laying his hand upon her arm, he draws her into the dining-room, and asks— Is it possible your master and mistress do not live happily together ?" Don't ask me anything about them, air she says in a tone of seeming reluctance. They have always been looked upon as a model couple," he continues, can it be that there is a skeleton in the cupboard, and that they do not agree so well as was supposed V Don't you think there is a skeleton in every house, sir ?" suggests Rose Dogherty, demurely looking down, and playing with the handle of the door. "But what is the particular skeleton here ?" he pereifts. Rose Dogherty heaves a deep sigh. To tell you the truth, sir, my master and mif tress don't agree at all as well as people suppose." Yon surprise me!" he ejculates, and he means it too. I daresay I do, sir, but the truth is my master is not satisfied at having no children, that's one cause of unhappiness." Oh, very true, very true But you say that is one cause of unhappiness. Are there any others 7" Oh, indeed there are, sir You don't mind telling me, do you ?" Before he leaves William French's houaw, Rose Dogherty insinuates to Doctor Sharpe— rather than actually tells him-that Kate French has in some way or other been acting very badly and treacherously towards her husband. So choice a bit of scandal tickles the Doctor's mental palate. He goes home and retails it to his wife who hints it to somebody else,and thus it is that an intangible shadow is cast upon the sunlight of Kate French's fair fame in the neighbourhood. The weary days wear on, and the fever increases. There is now no gleam of sanity, and William French lies there unconscious of all surroundings. A kind of numbness seems to have taken posses- sion of Kate. Mechanically she goes about her duties in the sick-room, not daring to let herself think her husband is really so very bad. She knows it, but tries to blind herself to the fact, knowing but too well that when she realises the fact she will break down. I must call in further advice, Mrs. French," -18 Dr. Sharpe, one day. He watches Kate keenly and curiously, and, not understanding in the least the rigid self-control which she exercises over herself, he sets down her quiet to apathy and culpable indifference to her husband's state. Very well, Doctor Sharpe." she says, quietly, in reply to his remark, have anyone you like." I shall telegraph to Dublin for Gregory," he continues. "Gregory," she muses, I have heard the name, I think. Oh! of course; why, he is a friend of William's." So utterly has she forgotten the existence of Charles Felton that she does not recognise Doctor Gregory as having sent the telegram from the Shel- bourne Hotel in Dublin. Doctor Sharpe telegraphs to Dublin,and the dawn of the next morning sees Doctor Gregory by William French's bedside. But a greater than he has asserted supremacy, and he sees that the sands of life are very nearly run. Kate tells him everything, and Doctor Sharpe tells his part of the sad tale. A gleam of con- sciousness comes into the dying man's eyes, and he whispers faintly- Kate I" y darling and she bends over her husband. "Say it is not true, Kate," he says, in a voice which all can hear. What, my love?" for a minute Kate utterly for- gets to what William alludes. Charles Felton and everything connected with him have faded into nothingness compared with her great sorrow. Felton," he murmurs, and as he speaks his eyes dim and fast-glazing, rest upon Doctor Gregory. My dear fellow," says the Doctor," don't think about poor Felton. He would have liked to see you, if possible. Before he died he charged me with a message to you." Before he dird 7" echoes Kate in an awed tone. Yes, poor Felton is gone," he replies gravely. The strain is too much for Kate to bear. Had she been thus suddenly told any other startling piece of news with her nerves in their present excited state the effect would be the same. Dead," she wa Is, the baby's father dead 1" The next minute Kate falls, a nerveless heap by the bedside of her dying husband. The lamp of life is faintly flickering in its sockc t. William French closes his eyes as though to shut out from his gaze the sight of the wife he has wor-hipped, and who. he now feels convinced, has deceiv d him. Rose Dogherty comes to the bedside, d is is,-he who catches his last breath. He mur- murs— It was t,-ue, fien Kate's heart had gone from me and Willi arn French's spirit returns to the Gui ho g ive i'. As sou as Kate is restored to consciousness she knows the cup of her grief has been filled up. No power will induce her to leave the body of her dead darling. She frantically kisst s the pale, cold lips, calls him by every endearing name, and is only finally removed by main force. Before Dr. Gregory returns to town by the next train he learns fwm Dr. Sharpe that wailbs mks" r^'nioTi of Kate French. But although he lifltcvno, ] r Gr. gory is far too acute to make any le- n < respecting Charles Felton confid, d to S e listens to his irurrulous brother pvacti- i, -i r,, thinks over what he htis told him all h- is rapidly whirled back to Dublin by express tiain "Felton's child he suddenly says to himself, why F lton told me the child w:u< dead. Sh irpn must have made some mistake. Felton told we distinctly the child was dead what an old go-sio Starpe is I" and the good doctor settles himself i<> the perusal of the latest work on medical science. CHAPTER XXX. A WHISPERED WORD. So William French passes into the land of the shadow of death, and his place knows him no more. It is night, and Kate French, now dry-eyed in her awful agony of grief. lies passively upon h< r bed. unable yet to realise the crushing blow which has stunned her. Her mother lies ill at her old home. so there are none but servants with the be- r, aved wife. Is it a profanation to class Rope Dogherty's grief with that of Kate? Yet it is hardly less in its intensity. Like one in a dream the woman moves about the house, her face deadly pale. save where the red scar burns on her forehead like Cain's brand: so abnormally quiet and self-contained is, that fhe is considered by Bridget and Pat to h ive no heart in her at all." They can have no concep- tion of the agony of repression the woman is suffer- ing. But it is midnight now, and the household is sup. posed to be all at rest. In Ksue's room Bridget sleeps upon a BOfa-sleeps the sleep of labour.sound and sonorous; whilst Kate lies there as wide awake as though sleep were a thing which never could again visit her aching eyeballs. There is a stealthy step on the stairs, but Kate's dulled ear hears it not. It is Rose Dogherty. who pauses for a minute at the door of Kate's room, then. as though re-a-sured by Bridget's regular breathing, she passes onward, and enters the room where William French lies dead. Two candles are burning on a table at the foot of the bed. They shed a weird and ghostly light around and Rose Dogherty shivers as she enters the room and softly closes the door behind her. Rose Dogherty approaches the bed.and looks at the still, white face. It has changed strangely since the morning. The worn ho'low look has gone from it. and instead the countenance almost wears a smile Rose can restrain herself no longer; stoop- ing down and kipsing the dead lips, she throws herself across the body, and stifles a wail of agony on the d, ad man's breast. Passionately, "ilently, unrestrainedly, the woman cries. The sluice gates of her grief are un- loosened, and the torrent carries her away unresist- ingly. Her sobs become more and more hysterical. She cannot now hinder herself from giving a wail of agOiiy. It reaches the ears of the widowed Kate, and she sits up in bed and listens. A sound in the room where her William is! Who can be there 7 Or—Oh vain thought I pitiful in its impotence—can it be that her William is calling -that all that has gone by is but a cruel dream ? Kate is out of bed in a moment, and swiftly.noise- lessly, she gains the landing, and as noiselessly opens the door and advances to the bed when (in lies the dead body of her husband. With a little cry Rose Dogherty springs to her feet. For a minute she believes Kate to be some supernatural being; and the two woman stand facing each other, one at each side of the dead man. How dare you come here?" exclaims Kate, hei eyes flashing like coals of fire out of her pale face. How dare you desecrate this room by putting your foot in it I How dare you touch my h'f-band Your touch is pollution to him. Leave the room Little Kate triumphs. Rose Dogherty sli- ka away without even making a retort and Kate French stands looking atthe body of her dear rie<td husband. It is very pitiful to see her. Gradually the awfulness of the separation seems to dawn upon her mind that she must never again hear that beloved voice nor the quick firm step, that to her Had music in't I As he came up the stair," 1 never again, never again. It all now suddenly flashes upon Kate she gives a piercing shriek that arouses even Bridget, and throws herself upon the bed beaide her hus- band's form. The dead has been buried out of sight. From far and near had come the mourners—the high and the lowly-to pay this last tribute of respect and affection to one so universallyestcmed and beloved a", William French had been. Kate lies like one dead. They think she does not know what is going on but she is keenly alive to everything. She hears the muffled footsteps, as the coffin is borne down the stairs, and Kate French prays as she has seldom before prayed, that the God who is called I- Good and Merciful may be merciful enough to take her, and let her join her William. Oh God I" she moans, "let me <ro to him he cannot be happy without me." After a few days they take Kate French to her own house; the girlhoods home, where William French had wooed and had won her for bis bride. Bu' before she leaves Kilmahon, Kate pays Rose Dogherty her wages, and sends her away. K,te." says her mother, when she hears of it, why have you done such a thing ?" Mot her, I cannot discuss the matter," she re- plies, it is enough for you to know that Rose Dogherty is unworthy, has proved herself un* worf hy of all the kindness you have shewn her." But tell me what she has done ?" persists the old lady. Do not ask me about her, mother ? pleads Kdte. I know yon never liked Rose Dogherty," con- tinues her mother, "you always had some foolish and unreasonable dislike to her." I- Yes, instinctively I have always disliked Rose Dogherty," says Kate quietly, my instincts are seldom at fault, and they certainly were not in this instance." Ah, well, dear, please yourself," replies the old lady, placidly. Now there was poor dear William, he often told me that Rose was his right hand in the surgery. And indeed," she continues, unknow- ing the stabs she is giving to this loving and lonely heart, 11 1 wonder you did not dismiss Bridget ra' her than Rose,with that little child such a care upon you and Rose so useful ?" Kate makes no reply, bub a deadly pallor over- spreads her countenance, as she listens to her mother's words. By-the way, Kate, what are you going to do with that child,you cannot keep it now.I suppose?" "The child will stay with me for the present,' replies Kate in a reticent tone. "There he is, I hear him crying," she says,rising, and leaving the room. No sooner does he see Kate than the little fellow crows and holds out his hands to her. The poor, stricken, loving heart bends over the babe, and her tears fall hot and fast upon the chubby little hands. Little baby," she says, passionately, they shall not take you from me I You love me. little one you have now neither father nor mother, and I will try to be both to you 1 No I have risked much to keep you, and I am willing to risk more— no one shall take you from me now." Thanks to Dr. Sharpe's gossiping, it gradu- ally becomes noised abroad that William French was driven to drink, and hurried into fever by some misconduct of his wife's. No one can tell exactly what the whisper means, but the weeks go by and the scandal spreads. No one can be quite certain where he or she heard it first, and Kate's latest social crime is that she summarily dismissed her faithful servant, Rose Dogherty, so MS net to have about her the one who knew most about her misconduct. So the whisper spreads like a canker. Friends come to call upon Kate. and find her nursing the- baby, and they go away and denounce her conduct as heartless and indecent, thus to flaunt before the eyes of the world her love for the child, whofe father-and upon this point the gossips are unanimous—whose father had been the cause of Kate's heart swerving from her husband. At length a day comes when Kate's mother hears of it. An officious friend tf-lllll her of it, and the wIman indignantly denies it. My Katp guilty of such a thing!" exclaimed the justly irate mother. My Katie why, she idolised p< or William." My dear madam." the speaker is Mrs. Sharpe — "before you say anything to Mrs. French upon the snl'jict. srppose you speak to Rose Dogheity. She Cbn tell you more than anyone else can." (To be cintirivtd.) ?Re presfaenc or the Antf-rrotrgint,' Ceague, hav- Ing drawn the attention of the Lord Chancellor to the mse of a deformed lad heinu brutally beaten alx ut the bead and face by a constable outside a church, for which the officer was fined to the inadequate extent of 18. without costs, a reply has been received from Lord. Selborne stating that the law has committed to magis- trates the duty of dealing with cases brought before them. and that his lordship is not prepared to say whether he would have come to the same conclusion as waanin il at in this case.

IRELAND. Mr. fiaw, M.P., has resigned his membership of liJe H HI'" Rn! L,.a.gue. A (ontradii-tion i& given to the report that Mr. Par- nn] has be>Mi removed from Kilmainham Prison to Armagh Prioon. The Dnke of L°inster has consented to the revalua- tion of his Kildare estates, and has stated that he will accept a surrender of all leases. TV. K. nny, now imprisoned in Kilmainham, has n handed by Mr. Gray a cheque for over £ 1,000 whi h lit, been subscribed by his sympathisers. Th? Ladies' League has instructed its branches in the country to reconstitute themselves as a political prisoners' aid scheme. A fi r m in Dublin has received orders for 100 beds for (irange Gorman Female Prison, in anticipation of the arrest of members of the Ladies' Land League. Arrests under the Coercion Act still continue, 81 veral being announced every day. The suspects are uokn wn outside the immediate neighbourhood of their residence. While hunting in the neighbourhood of TuIIagh, Mr. Brock's harriers were stopped by a large num- ber of farmers and labourers, who would not allow the hunt to proceed, and it had consequently to be abandoned. At a meeting of the Corporation of Cork on Friday it was stated that a resolution calling upon the Government to release the suspects, had been for- warded to three hundred public bodies in Ireland, but had been adopted by only seven. A meeting has been held af Dublin at which a re- s'lotion was passed on the motion of a local councillor declaring the circular of warning to the Ladies' Land League to be another effort of the Government to terrorise over the Irish people. A Dublin correspondent states that it has come to the knowledge of the authorities that some designing individuals are endeavouring to foment disturbances in the south and west, and have even gone the length of offering money to aid their object. At Athea, near Listowel, co. Kerry, a farmer named Cuttoner, while on his way home,was attacked and savagely beaten by a party of disguised men, a:med with guns and pitchforks. The man had written letters to Conservative journals in defence of ti,e landlords' claims. A singer has been sentenced at Tullamore, Kind's County, to a month's imprisonment, for singing a song calling on the people to pay no rent.-At Tralee, Pat Macguire was sent to prison for a similar period for shouting in the street that he would put lead into anyone who paid rent. Intimation has been received by a member of the Ladies' Land League of Great Britain in London, tha1 in view of the threatened impending arrests of some of the principal members of the Executive of the Irish Ladies Land League, it is their intentiou to leave the country either for Paris or London. A night or two ago two farmhouses on school lands about a mile from Swanlinbar, Enniskillen, be- longing to two men named Gibride and Gibson, were set fire to, the supposed cause being that the tenants had paid their rent. The flames were dis- covered when the dwellings were about half burned down. Hunting by the Muskerry hounds having been put a stop to, 24 couples of the dogs have been sold to a French gentleman for use in the south of France. Between 50 and 60 high-class hunters from the Tipperary, Kildare, and other Irish hunts have been Bol, i without: reserve at Rugby, very high prices being obtained. The Sheriff for Douglas on Thursday seized for nOli-payment cf rent the farms of two tenants and a large number of cattle. A strong force of military and police were present, but nothing occurred be- yond their being hooted by the crowd. The rents and costs were subsequently paid and the tenants re- instated. Recently a large number of men assembled with dogs on the property of Mrs. Barry, Moscollo, co. Waterford, for the purpose of killing game for the use of the suspects. Some hundreds of hares and rabbits were killed and forwarded to the gaols. The game-keepers endeavoured to prevent the slaughter, but without effect. Six hundred of the tenants on the estate of Colonel Cross at Darton, co. Armagh, have refused to pay any rent until the suspects are released. The tenantry j on the Londonderry estates of the Drapers' Company are determined not to accept a less reduction than 6s 8d. in the pound, and unless this is granted at once they will enter the Land Court. The suppressed journal, United Ireland, is the property of the lri-h National Newspaper Company, Limited, which has a capital of jE5,000, in JE10 shares. Of these Mr. Parnell, M.P., holds 237 shares Mr. Pal rick Egan, secretary of the Land League, 237 shares; Mr. Bigo(ar, M.P., 10 shares; and Mr. Justin M'Carthy, M.P., 10 shares Dr. Kenny, Mr. W. 0 Bri n, the manager of the paper, and another person, hold each two shares. A few days ago a carpenter named Sullivan, residing at Broadford, in co. Limerick, was returning home from his work when he was met by two dis- guised men who warned him not to work for any landlord.—The ears of a horse belonging to Patrick Brosnen, a tenant residing in the same locality, were cut off. Brosnen was tenant to a Mr. Jenkins, and occasionally acted as rent-warner. He served writs recently on the other tenants,and the outrage followed. A number of workmen who were recently sent out from Cork to repair the Protestant Church at Ahabollogue, which was wrecked by the people in c« n-tquence of the arrest, have been boycotted by the fanners of the district, who declined to supply any of their wants. They ware lodging in the house of a man named Scannell, at Coachford. Scannell's windows were smashed, and a notice was posted stating. that he would be visited by Captain Moonlight" if he continued to harbour the workmen. Lord Cabery's agent attended at Ballimore to receive rents. A large number of tenants si;- sembled, but scarcely anything was paid. The tenants in King's County have almost unani- mously refrained from paying rents. Colonel Wolsely Cox, of Clara, attended to receive his r nts and arrears, and was informed by a deputa- tion of the tenantry that they would expect the pro. perty to be valued by two or three farmers chosen be- tween landlord and tenant, but that even though that were done, and satisfactory rent fixed, they would pay nothing until every suspect arrested under the Coercion Act was released. Colonel Cox refused to comply. No rent was paid. At Munster assizes Jeremiah Synet and Denis Fotey have been sentenced to 15 years' and Jeremiah Shea to 12 years' penal servitude f. r the manslaughter of John Sullivan, near Ktnraare. At the Connaught winter assizes over 90 per ons were sentenced to periods of from two to 18 months' imprisonment, with hard labour, for unlawful as. embly and obstructing bailiffs, process- servers, and police in discharging their duties.- James Gannon was sentenced to five years' penal servitude for attacking the house of a labourer who had been boycotted" for working for an unpopular land bailiff. After breaking into the labourer's house the party who accompanied the prisoner held a pistol to the labourer's bead till he swore to discontinue working for the obnoxious bailiff, after which they gashed him in a frightful manner, and placed him on a large fire for over 10 minutes.—John JJreen was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for past- ing up Mr. Egan's "No Rent" manifesto. An address signed by Messrs. Joseph Biggar, Thomas Sexton, Richard Lalor, Arthur O'Connor, and F. U. O'Donnell, has been sent to the Ladies' Land League, expressing their deep gratitude for the great services they had rendered to the "cause of humanity," and observing: "The Act of the Irish Executive by which you are assailed is one to which modern history does not afford a pnrailel. All constitutions throughout the world, and all governments but that which controls the Irish people, encourage and not impede the sacied missirn of charity. All races on earth but one t eem women most worthy of reverence, wh' n in response to the cry of need she passes the threshold of her house, and brings comfort and assist- ance to those who suffer and those who are in need. It has been reserved for the present Government of England, led on by the assailant of foreign despo- tisms, the ch; nipion of the women of Bulgaria, to stigmatise public spirit as lawlessness, to strike at chaiity as a cume, and to threaten the ladies of In hu d, the pride of their country, with the penalties of the common gaol." Notices have been posted on the doors of all the tenants on the Newmarket-on-Fergus estate of Mr. John Bouch'er, J.P-, threatening them with a visit ir.mt.he Boys" if they paid any rent. rl ht- enai.t^ holo under leases, some at Government v"j,i'I', ""d others less. Two years ago the lea-ehi'I ••! « interest of 12 acres on this estate waa told fur i.^00. In Derbyshire placards, dated from Dublin Castle, have I eon posted inviting applications for employ- mei-t in the Royal Irish constabulary for a limited l» ixi, from men of the first-class army reserve, army, mat ine,and police pensioners, not exceeding 40 years of m e. and from other persons between the ages of 20 an l 40 years. The mtn are required for "special pi .evtioa duty."

THE SENTENCES FOR BRIBERY. DECISION OF THE HOME SECRETARY. On Friday the memorials for the remission of the bribery sentences were presented at the Home Office. The i.umber of signatures was 43,841, made up as follows Members of the House of Lords. 32; members of the House of Commons, 75; bankers, 313; clergymen, 1,113 justices pf the peace, 1,015; mayors and ex-mayors, 162; members of public bodies, 2,005; professions, 4,623; solicitors, including thote contained in the separate petition, 3,597; and traders and others, 30,816. The docu- ments were bound up in five large bundles, and were conveyed from the offices at the Westminster Palace Hotel in a cab. A letter signed by the secretary by order of the committee accompanied the memorials. It stated "You will observe from the memorial that they proceed on a sincere condemnation of the offence of Bribery; we do not therefore attempt in any way whatever to excuse or palliate the offence for which the sentences were passed, and we desire to point out that their effect will be a full deterrent of the offence for the future, which could not be made more effectual if the whole of the terms of punish- ment were endured. The law having been vindi- cated, and the example made, the prayer of the peti- tion is that mercy may be allowed to prevail, and that you will feel it to be consistent with your official duty to ad vise her most gracious Majesty to exercise her Royal prerogative of pardon." At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Borough of Chelsea Liberal Association, the Right Hon. A. S. Ayrton in the chair, the following resolu- tion was unanimously adopted This committee earnestly trusts that the Home Secretary will not be Eersuaded to interfere with the discretion exercised y the judges of the Queen's Bench in the recent sentences for bribery." From the Home Office the following reply was on Saturday received by the secretary of the com- mittee at whose instance a memorial for the remission of bribery sentences was promoted Whitehall, December 24, 1881. Sir,—I am directed to acquaint you that the Secretary of State has considered the memorials and petitions forwarded by you on the 22nd inst., praying for a remission of the sentences recently passed on John Frederick May and nine others for the offence of bribery. The Secretary of State regrets that he is unable to find in these memorials and petitions such reasons as would justify him in advising the Crown to interfere with the sentences pronounced in these cases by the judges appointed to adminster the law. —I am, sir, your obedient servant, signed, A. F. O. LIDDKLL." — e

KING KOFFEE'S GOLD AXE. The gold axe of King Koffee, of Ashantee, lately sent, for an unexplained reason, to the Queen, has been, by her Majesty's order, deposited in the South Kensington Museum. It is a triangular blade of iron, apparently cut from a piece of boiler plate, roughly stuck into a clumsy handle of African oak. The handle is covered with leopard skin, part of which, immediately above the blade, is deeply soiled, ap- parently with blood. Bands of thin gold enriched with uncouth chevrons and lunettes en repoussfc, are placed round the handle. The sheath of the blade, which is of tiger skin, accompanies this hideous imple- ment, and attached to it is the sole element which has anything like artistic merit. This is a nondescript object of beaten gold, shaped like a large cockle shell with curved horns extended from the hinge, and not inelegantly decorated with lines and punctures en repousse and open work of quasi-scrolls.-Athenceunu

BLOCKS ON RAILWAYS. The Board of Trade, in February last, addressed a circular letter to the various railway companies calling attention to the inconvenience which was caused to passengers by their being allowed to proceed by train when ifc^ was within the know- ledge of the railway officials that the line had, from one cause or another, become blocked. It ap- peared to the Board of Trade that in all cases when it was in the knowledge of the officials of the company that a line of railway had become blocked, by accident, stress of weather, or other cause, the passengers, or intending passengers, should be made acquainted with the fact, and be informed that if they decided to proceed with their journey they must do so at their own risk. From the replies to this circular it appears that the precautions suggested were already observed by most of the railway com- panies but the secretary of the Great Northern Railway Company points out that during the snow- storms in January last the cause which operated against the usual working of trains also interfered with telegraphic communication, and thus trains were despatched from terminal points which would not have been started had the officials been able to obtain Information as to the condition of the line.

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE. The London correspondent of the Manchester Guar- dian states Mr. Lyon Playfair on his recent return from the United States was requested to furnish a memorandum for the information of the Government embodying his views for the reform of the procedure of the House of Commons. Mr. Playfair has now, there is reason to believe, followed the Speaker and Sir Erskine May in submitting his opinions. Mr. Playfair is said to be of opinion that the classification of questions rather than the distribution of printed replies will be found most advantageous both in reducing the number of questions and also the time bestowed upon them. It appears probable that he concurs with other authorities in the view that the power of moving the adjournment of the House with reference to the reply to a question is > eminent unsatisfactory. As to general reform it is believed that, together with the Speaker, Mr. Playfair would be disposed to rely largely upon such proposals as were made available last session. No one, perhaps, can speak with greater authority upon those rulea of urgency, for Mr. Play- fair's experience of their utility as chairman during the long passage of the Protection Bill and the Arms Bill through committee was such as was not equalled by that of any other member of the House. He always held the opinion that those rules required considerable modification for the purposes of Supply, because as they stood for use in committee upon a bill there was nothing to prevent interminable motions in Supply by the suggestion of successive reductions of a vote. It is now understood that the Govern- ment proposals will cover much ground and refer to many points, so that the hop 3 of getting them very speedily adopted is generally abandoned.

A memorial to the Home Secretary is in eourae of preparation respecting a sentence of 10 days' impri- sonment, and three years' confinement in a reforma- tory, which was passed at Stornoway, on Murdina Maclean, a girl, ,f 12, for btealing a pair of stockings, value Is., from t' shop of a relative. Intelligence fr, m Appledore states that the Norwe- gian barque Admiral Peter Tordenskjold from Car- diff for Madeira, laden with coals, has struck on Braunton Sands, in Bideford Bay, and went to pieces. The captain and four of the crew were drowned six were saved. The Admiral Peter Tordenskjold was a vessel of 445 tons. Mr. Samuel Storey, the junior Liberal member for Sunderland, was on Wednesday presented with a lifesize portrait of himself, subscribed for by the Sunderland town council, which the hon. gentleman entered 12 years ago. Mr. Storey has for the past seven years occupied a leading position in the cor. poration, and he thrice filled the office of mayor. A mass meeting of operative potters held at Hanley on Thursday, definitely brought the strike to an end. A remarkably good feeling exists between masters and men on the whole, and several of the manufacturers have advanced their workpeople a week's wages to enable them to enjoy a good Christmas, whilst in almost every case in which work has been resumed a bounty has been given to the operatives to enable them to have a little conviviality. We (Daily News) learn that in view of the defeat in the last session bythe action of Lord Salisbury in the House of Lords of the Government Bill to re- form the administration of charitable trusts, the Westminster Liberal Union have decided to urge upon the Government to re-introduce the bill and in order to strengthen their appeal they have resolved to hold public meetings in support of their object, and to invite the co-operation of Liberal associations through- out the country. A fortnight ago a married woman named r Sophia Hyde, of Acton, Middlesex, eloiped with John Gay, a labourer, who lodged at her house. They stayed for a time at Bristol, and then went on to Cardiff, whence Mrs. Hyde wrote to her husband asking for money and forgiveness. The husband proceeded to Cardiff, and gave both into custody for stealing elothes. The woman had left a family of five young children. On the lessees of th9 Royalty and Princess's theatres, Glasgow, applying for a renewal of their licences the magistrates granted them on certain precautions being taken against fire-the widening of passages, round- ing corners in same, removing of barricades at the pay boxes, and having separate gas mains for the audi- torium, stage, and lobbies. It was also suggested that an officer should periodically VISit the theatres, to see that these precautions were adopted. The good relations between Russia and Germany which the interview at Dantzic re-established appear, states a Berlin correspondent, to be gradually giving j way, and there are evidences of the existence of the former tension. German semi-official writers continue to hold Count Ignatieff in mistrust, and unflinch- ingly demand the upholding of the Treaty of Berli n Last year there were 28 convictions for murder, against 34 in the previous year. Of the 28 sentenced to death, seven were women; 13 men were execu- ted, and the others sent into penal servitude. The number of known thieves at large last year, including depredators, receivers of stolen goods, and suspected. vlo was 39,465, against 41,048 in the previous year, and 40,626 in 1878. The total police and constabulary force last year numbered 31,488, being an increase of 441 on the preceding year. There were 520 detectives.

REFORMS IN ARMENIA. A Central News telegram, dated Constantinople: on Friday, says: It is confidently stated here that the Sultan, yielding to Lord Dufferin's represen- tations, based upon the reports of her Majesty's Consuls, on the wretched state of Asia Minor, has decided to accept Mahmoud Nedim's resignation and to replace him by Ahmed Vefik Pasha. The latter Insists, all condition of his taking office, that he shall be ensured protection against Palace intrigues, which have hitherto nullified all attempts at internal reforms.

AUSTRIA AND RUSSIA. A SECRET AGREEMENT. A remarkable document has been published in certain Russian and German newspapers purporting to be the basis of an understanding relative to the Eastern Question, which was agreed upon at the Imperial interview at Dantsic, has since been formu- lated by Count Kalnoky at St. Petersburg, and has obtained the approbation of the Governments of {Russia and Austria in the shape of a protocol signed by Count Kalnoky and M. de Giers. The purpose of this accord is to assure the peace and security of the Balkan Peninsula, which is essential to the commercial interests of both empires, and to indicate the steps to be taken in attaining the com- plete and integral execution of the Treaty of Berlin, and in the eventuality of complications which may arise in the East. There are 12 articles in the alleged protocol, which (briefly) stipulate The per- manent maintenance of the mandate of Austria- Hungary in Bosnia and Herzegovina; the consolida- tion of the independence of the principalities of Servia and Montenegro the execution of that clause of the Berlin Treaty relative to the construction of railways across Servia and Bulgaria in favour of Austrian views on the subject; the regulation of the navigation of the Danube in the interest of the States watered by the river; the recognition of the high importance which Counts Kalnoky and An- drassy and M. de Giers attach to the independence of Roumania; continued assistance to the Bulgarian Government in the task of organising the principality ion a co-operative basis. An end is to be put to anarchy in Albania by the provincial organisation provided by the Treaty of Berlin, and by giving satisfaction to the reasonable wishes of the Albanian population The two high contracting parties "solely Imbued with a sense of care and solicitude for the in- terests of the country in general and the peninsula in particular, agree to oppose the ambitious views of all other Powers in that region." In case grave com- plications threaten the security of the communica- tions across the peninsula or through the passes which unite the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, or !the peace and order of the capital of the Ottoman 'Empire, necessary measures of precaution are to be taken in concert by the contractingparties. Counts Kalnoky and Andrassy and M. de Giersare of opinion that the Suez Canal and Egypt should eontinue to be protected by a common guarantee of all the Great Powers. The Government of the German Empire is to be invited to take note of the protocol and to participate in the deliberations as to the ulterior arrangements or measures to be taken in case of emergency; and finally that the development and modification which the natural force of things may introduce ipto the order established by the .Treaty of Berlin must be submitted to and con- secrated by all the signatory Powers of that treaty. A Berlin correspondent states that the reports that Count Kalnoky has concluded a secret alliance with Russia are not deserving of credence. "The only point," says a German paper which quotes the alleged protocol, "on which the three great Conservative empires appear thoroughly united is hatred to England and her Liberal Govern- ment."

I! TERRORISM IN RUSSIA. I The Berlin correspondent of the Morning Pott states that persons well informed on Russian affairs are seriously afraid that a revolution will ultimately tweak out in that country. Telegraphing from Warsaw a correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says Since the winter set in the condition of this unhappy country has been going from bad to worse. Notwithstanding the devouring activity of General Ignatieff, the incessant labours of innumerable commissions, and the ever increasing vigilance of the police, the state of Russia is vastly more alarming than it was at the time of the late Czar's death. Between the legislation and the administra- tion there is an abyss as wide as it can exist between the will and the deed. # General Ignatieff is daily losing ground with his master, and it is not only by his enemies .that his fall is pre- dieted. The protocols drawn up by the different commissions remain a dead letter, and have tended rather to confusion than improvement. There is not a single instance where it can be said that they have been of the slightest practical use. If the newspapers were at liberty to deal with the suhject, it would be seen to what extent time and money have been recklessly squandered in these futile attempts at reform. Not only, however, is the Press muzzled, but it is becoming next to impossible for outsiders to get at facts that the authorities wish to con- ceal. The police have ascertained that reformers, Socialists, and terrorists are now working m re or less together, and are, at all events, in close communication with one another. Their tactics lot- the moment seem to consist in spreading panic amongst the population. The exterior aspect of St. Petersburg, Moscow, and the other large centres is tranquil enough, but in the people's minds prevail terror and anxiety, as if some great catas- trophe were at hand. In the night between the 19th and 20th of last month the dead bodies of a dvornik, a policeman, and an officer were found in the streets between the Emperor's Palace and the Circus. Shortly afterwards a report was circulated in St. Petersburg that the ghost of the late Czar had been seen during the night in the Kazan Cathedral. It had come out of the sanctuary, and had proceeded to light the candles on the high altar. It had then turned towards the body of the church, and said My son, come to me; thou shall meet with the same fate as thy father." The next night a sen- tinel was placed on guard inside the Cathedral, and it is said that he witnessed the same apparition, and was afterwards found half dead with fright. The population believes this story, and that is all the Nihilists want. Whether somebody attired in a uni- form similar to that worn by the murdered Czar really did go through the above performance, or whether the whole tale is a Nihilist invention, I cannot say, but it fully answered its purpose, and scared many people almost out of their wits. To be brief, the situation in Russia is more critical than ever. The system inaugurated by the late Czar and intensified by his successor has had its trial, and has proved a deplorable failure. The Emperor was of opinion that General Ignatieff was the only Russian statesman who could apply it with success, and, thanks to his personal representations, foreign Governments silenced the apprehension with which j Ignatieff's presence in office inspired them. But he is as powerless to check the rising tide of revolution as were his predecessors. The Colossus with feet of clay is more tottering now than when General igna- tieff first became Minister of the Interior. A few months more of the present regime will land it to the brink of destruction.

At Cheltenham a lad of 11 named, Henry Lyens, having threatened to strike his brother, was ordered upstairs by his mother by way of punishment, Ten minutes later he was found hanging from a beam in his bedroom quite dead. Evan Owens, of Patley-bridge, a leadminer in the employ of the East Craven Moor Lead Company, had fired two shots, and thinking that a third had missed fire he went up to the charge, and as he ap- proached it the powder went off. His right arm was blown off and his face severely burnt. It is proposed to completely isolate the Pantheon of Agrippa at Rome by demolishing the surrounding houses, in order to preserve it from the danger of fire. Much excitement was caused in Brighton the other morning by a report that the Pavilion had caught fire, but it was discovered that in removing some fire alarms connecting the building with the town-hall, which had been experimented with dur- ing the recent Health Congress, one of them had accidentally been set in action, working so well that the fire apparatus was at once turned out at the hall, and help sought from the district stations. 1 The alarm was a telegraphic one, intended for use in streets and this application of telegraphy was carried rfurther by all police stations in the town having been recently connected by telegraph, the machines x ioum& boine toe WheatrtoM

WISE AND OTIIERWISE, "FairTraders."—Youn: ladies shopping. rawkes hunting is popular in November. A Land" League.—Three miles across the country. Court Intelligence.—Every sovereign has four crowns. Idleness is the refuge of weak minds,and the holiday of fools. Do not sow wild oats unless you wish to reap that kind of harvest. We hear a great deal about" prcsents" of mind. fT hey are needed. In these days we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses. Be careful about going out of doors without any- thing on your head,or into company without anything in it. A lady asks a young village maiden, who is about to marry a widower: "Did he make his first wife happy?" "Make his first wife happy? I should think he did Why she has over and away the finest tombstone in the graveyard One of the old laws of Connecticut said, No one should run on the Sabbath day, except reverently." Imagine a man just out of church pursuing a flying hat reverently before a high wind and in the pre- sence of an interested congregation. Lord Erskine had regular form of reply to those who wrote to him soliciting a subscription and the form was this: "Sir, I feel much honoured by your application to me, and I beg to subscribe" (here the leaf had to be turned over) myself your very obedient servant, ERSKINE." A nervous looking man went into a store in Detroit the other day and sat down for half-an-hour or so, when a clerk asked if there was anything she could do for him. He said no, he didn't want anything. She went away and he sat there half-an-hour longer, when the proprietor went to him and asked if he wanted to be shewn anything. "No," said the nervous man, I just want to sit around. My physician has recommended perfect quiet for me, and says above all things I must avoid being in crowds. Noticing that you did not advertise in the newspapers, I thought that this would be as quiet a Elace as I could find, so I just dropped in for a few ours of isolation." The merchant picked up a bolt of paper cambric to brain him, but the man went out. He said all he wanted was a quiet life. De Chaillu's travels in Africa once fell into the handtt of the" Buttons" of a. large club, over whose imagination the description of the gorilla exercised a strong fascination of terror. Among the members of the club were two gentlemen as remarkable for personal vanity as they were for their want of ex- ternal attractions. One of these was unmistakably a half caste, the other very swarthy. The features of both were unpleasantly suggestive of the monkey tribe, but while each was keenly alive to the defects of the other, each was serenely unconscious of his own. On one occasion "Buttons" had prolonged his studies to a late hour, wi,en he was suddenly aroused from the thrill of delightful horror they had produced by a tap on the back. Looking round with a start he saw a dark face at his shoulder. "Golly!" cried the terrified boy with a scream, the Gorilla I" and fled. It was never known with certainty which of the two members was the one whose sudden apparition struck such terror into the youthful reader's heart, for each was wont to tell the story ever after with infinite relish of the other. Prominent members of the theatrical profession are too accustomed to receive extraordinary epistles from utter strangers to take much note of them but we doubt if any actor ever had a funnier offer made to him than was once made to the elder Booth. Here it is: "West House School, Prospect, N.Y., Decem- ber the eighth, 1818.—Mr. Edward Booth.-Dear Sur and Frend, Heering that you was going to come to Utica to perform in a play called Ham!it,'I would like to say that us boys is gitting up a Exibition for the benefit of the diseased soldiers and their widows and orphans, and would like to engage you too take the leading part. I have talked it up with the boys, and we will do the squire thing with you, and I am arterised to make you the following offer. We will come down after you with a good con- veyance, and will give you at the rate of 10 dollars per day and board, and shall want you about one weak. If you think it necessary, you can have one or to of our best wimmen actors come up with you but we can't pay them over three dollars a day and feed. You know how that is yourself, this kind of bisuness is awful uncertain. You can have some fun out of it a hunt- ing dear and foxes around Flamsburgs and Ed. Wilksuns. Please let me know as soon as you can. Yours truly, James Sweet. P. Scrip.—If you come callating to hunt, get Frank Meyer's hound. She is a good one." It used to be all the fashion with lecturers to have the mayor of the town or some other pro- minent citizen introduce them to the audience as a send off, and upon on9 occasion in the years gone by when the Temperance lecturer struck a cer- tain town in Michigan the Mayor stood up before the audience and began, Ladies and—r.nd—ladies and—and "Gentlemen," whispered the lecturer. "Yes, of course-ladies and gentlemen, I have the honour to-to-I have the honour to-to- In- troduce," again whispered the lecturer. That's the checker—I have the honour to introduce you to the notorious — hem, the honourable — the honourable Mister—Mister Here occurred another painful pause, during which the Mayor walked over and asked the lecturer his name, Simpkins," was the reply. "I have the honour to introduce," he repeated, as he walked back, "the honourable Mister—Mister—hang it, I never could remember a name two minutes It's of no account, however. He and I have been playing poker all the afternoon at the hotel, and I give you my word that he is as straight as a ten foot pole. Git up, Judge, and shoot off your lecture!" Wanted to be Dead Sure.—When the Third In- fantry cf Michigan State was encamped just above Georgetown, in 1861, a picket was nightly thrown across the Potomac into Virginia. One night, when the Muskegon company was detailed for this duty, the countersign was Portland." As the advance pickets were posted the officer took care to explain, "Now, then, if anyone approaches, you must halt them." "Yes." "And ask who there." "Yes." And if they answer that it is a friend with the countersign, you must tell them to advance and give it. Be sure that they say Port- land.' All the sentinels seemed to understand, and by and by the last man was uosiecI,!»nd the ot!icer returned to the reserve. Half-an-hour had slipped away when one Joe Cook came sauntering in off ':is post and observed, "Say, Captain, I ain't quite dead lure on this countersign business." "What! Have you forgotten the word?" I. Oh, no -the word is 'Portland. "That's right, and now what's tho trouble?" "Why, there is a Portland in Maine and another in Oregon, and I'll be hanged if I knotv which is the one you mean 1 If it's the one in .Maine just say so, and I'll bayonet the first rebel who tries to git in on the one in Oregon A Child's Dream.—One evening not long ago a little nirl of 9 or 10 entered a place on Gratiot avenue, which is a bakery, grocery, and saloon in one, and asked for five cents' worth of tea. How's your mother ?" asked the boy who came forward to wait on her. Awful sick, and hain't had anything to eat all day." The boy was just then called to wait upon some men who entered the saloon, and the girl sat down. In five minutes she was nodding, and in seven she was sound asleep and leaning her head against a barrel, while she held the poor old nickle in a tight grip between thumb and finger. One of the men saw her as he came from the bar, and after asking who she was, he said," Say, you drunkards, see here. Here we've been pouring down whiskey when this poor child and her mother want bread. Here's a two dollar bill that says I've got some feelings left." "And I can add a dollar," observed one. And I'll give another." They made up a purse of an even five dollars, and the spokesman carefully put the bill be- tween two of the sleeper's fingers, drew the nickle away and whispered to his comrades. "Jist look a- there-the gal's dreaming." So she was. A big tear had rolled out from her closed eyelid, but the face was covered with a smile. The men tiptoed out, and the clerk walked over and touched the sleeping child. She awoke with a laugh and cried out, What a beautiful dre)arn Ma wasn't sick any more, and we had lots to eat and to wear, and my hand burns yet where an angel touched it When she discovered that her nickle had been replaced by a bill, a dollar of which loaded her down with all she could carry, she innocently said, Well, now, but ma won't har(liy believe that you sent up to Heaven and got an angel to come down and clerk in your grocery I "— Detroit Free Press. First Vagabond: "See here, John, how do you stand on the question of the income-tax?" Second Vagabond Well, Joe, if the Government will pro- vide me with the income, I won't mind their taxing it." The Turkish woman is marriageable at the age of 9 years, and by the Turkish law at that age, if married, she is competent to manage her property and dispose of one third of her fortune. The law allows her to abandon her husband's house for just cause, and will protect her in so doing. She cannot be compelled to labour for the support of her husband. On the contrary, he is compelled to support her; and it is a penal offence to insult or ill-treat her. Should he not furnish her with funds she is authorised to borrow in his name, and even sell his property. After marriage she has the absolute control of her own property, which he cannot touch. A cremation society has been formed at Zurich of those who intend kiln people after they are dead. In a certain town in New Hampshire resides a worthy woman who keeps a Ladies' Furnishing Store." Her husband is rather a bad lot, and too much addicted to the use of beverages. Against the wishes of his wife, he occasionally insists upon "tending store." On one occasion thus engaged, a young lady entered to purchase a pair of mohair mits, and upon selecting a pair, inquired the price. The question of price was one upon which he was always mixed but, assuming a business-like air, said, Two dollars and fifty cents." The lady was sur- prised, and said it was too much. Well, ma'am," said the man, it is high, but the fact is Mas are scarce there were five men down in Maine six weeks hunting 'em and thev onlv caueht one Mo I"

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