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THE H"J7EICS NEWS. John Davies was executed at Chelmsford for the murder of Police-sergeant Eves, at Hazeleigh, Essex. Nine men were more or less seriously injured at the Pomona Docks of the Manchester Ship Canal by the collapse of a large iron shed they were engaged in roofing. A mad woman, named Ann Munnagh, com- mitted suicide at Fintona, County Tyrone, by kindling a huge fire and throwing herself into the flames. She was burnt to a cinder. Cholera has broken out at the military camp at Bruck, a town only twenty-three miles distant I from Vienna. Another death has occurred in Berlin, and two patients are under treatment. After a hearing lasting the whole of a day, the Nantwich mag it trates committed William Roberts, of Whitchurch, and James White, of London, for trial on charges of stealing ten cattle from the Royal Farm, Combermere. Major J. W. Preston, the governor of Strange- ways Prison, Manchester, has received the per- mission to retire on the customary superannua- tion allowance. In all Major Preston has been twenty-four years in the prison service. At Dundee, James Farley, an old pensioner who was believed to be insane, shot at and woun- ded two women and two policemen, and stabbed an inspector of police. He was then secured and taken to the police station. One of the women and the police inspector are not expected to re- cover. A labouring man named Chambers living at Nottington after attending to the wants of his sick wife, who was in bed, took away her clothes and went downstairs. An hour later he was found hanging from a door completely dressed in his wife's garments, and even having her earrings in his ears. At an inquest on the body of Lucy Laura Mallett, an infant of five months, found drowned in a bath in her parents' house at Beach-road, Litherland, on Saturday, the jury returned a ver- dict of Wilful murder against the mother, Mrs Mallett, who was committed for trial at next assizes. Two game-keepers, named Cleaver and Smith, employtd on Lord Sudeley's Gloucestershire estate at Toddington, were drowned on Saturday in a lake near the mansion. It is supposed that one was seized with cramp while bathing, and that the other went to his assistance and was also drowned. Some artificially-made rain in Kansas-who can doubt the story, considering the district it comes from ?—caused the destruction of a crop belong- ing to a churlish farmer, who has begun an action for damages against the rain-maker. He has been supported by a lady whose husband, an engineer, was killed by a flash of the manufactured light- ning. She lays her damages at 10,000 dols. A terrible boating fatality has occurred on the Shannon. A party who had been on a holiday excursion at Moyne, Kilrush, and Kilkee, County Clare, were returning to the Kerry side of the river late on Tuesday night in an open boat, when the craft capsized, all on board, numbering at least seventeen, mostly females, being drowned. The upturned boat was discovered the next morning. There was nearly a repetition of the Ponty- pridd accident at Cogan, the next station to Car- diff on the line to Barry. While slowly lounding a very sharp curve, said to be dangerous when traversed at a greater speed than five miles an hour, three carriages of a crowded passenger train left the metals. Fortunately there was no em. bankment for them to go over, and the passengera escaped with a shaking. At Manchester City Council, Sir John Harwood stated that next year would be the most memorable year in the history of Manchester. It would see the opening of the Ship Canal, which has cost £ 15,000,000 the opening of the Thirlmere Water- works, costing X2,500,000, the indugratijn of a new and very costly sewage scheme, the opening of the Municipal Hydraulic Power Works, and the municipal supply of electricity. The great heat prevailing last week is said to be responsible for many of the suicides occurring in and around t aris, and to it is also attributed the increase of lunacy. On Monday a well- dressed young woman went mad on the Place de Temple and tried the to stab people who were near her. On Tuesday morning a maniac who wanted to kill his wife with a hatchet was arrested by the police at Montmatro, after some cajoling. The Vicar of Oswaldtwistle and the bell-ringers of the parish church have disagreed, and as a con- sequence the latter have struck work. The ring- ers have heretofore had their services remunerated by a special collection at church. This, however, has been so meagre in amouot, that the men have requested the vicar to give them a fixed salary. The vicar has refused, so the bells of the parish church have remained silent for one or two Sun- days. ihursday was the 231st anniversary of a not-ible event in the history of the religious life of Eng- land, for on it the farewell services were held, in 1662, of the two thousand clergymen who, in the 1-1 y following week, were ejected from their liviogs owing to their fidelity to conscience. The churches, so the record runs, were filled to suffo- cation, while the churchyards and neighbouring streets were crowded with sobbing crowds bidding farewell to their pastors. John Thomas Hewitt, a miner, nineteen years of age, was executed at Stafford for the murder, near Cannock, of William Masfen, a gentleman farmer, who had found Hewitt poaching on his property. In the case (f Frederick Cook, aged sixteen, who waa sentenced to death at last Leeds Assizes for the murder of his infant brother, a reprieve has been granted and in the case of the murder of a police sergant near Maldon, in Essex by two brothers, Richard and John Davies. the capital sentence passed on the former has been commuted to one of penal servitude for life. A sad accident occurred at the Surrey Com- mercial Docks, Rotherhithe. As Captain Charles Scheen of the Norwegian barque Ax, in company with a lady and gentleman, was proceeding along the Albion quay he mL-sed his footing and fell int the water. His male companion threw out some wooden planks, and the captain cried out that he would keep swimming until a boat was procured. Afterwards he xsured the lady (to whom h was 'o have been married next week) that he was all right, but sudden y he exclaimed, "Oh, help me!" and disappeared. I he corpse was recovered later. It is all very well to preach about the rE- fining influences of flowers and such like. Mary Manner, Peckham, is a flower seller by profession, yet P.C. Tyrer found her in the Tilson-road, Camperwell, drunk, disorderly, and quarreling with her husband, having pulled all the clothes off his back, including his shirt. The woman said her husband bad deserted her, which he denied. The magistrate at Lambeth Police- court advised the spouse of this Peckham virago to make some arrangement with the relieving officer, presumably with a view to Mrs. Harmer's separate maintenance. The trial of one Bazin, a farm labourer, on the cli -rge of the murder of his employer's wife has been concluded at the Rhone Assizes. The man became passionately in love with Madame Tisseui. Taking advantage of the absence of the husband and children, Bazin entered the room of Madame Tisseur, who was in bed ill, and made infamous proposals to her. These she indignantly rejecte 1, and rushed terror-stricken out of bed crying for help, and tried to shut herself up in the kitchen. The miscreant followed her, brew her down, and ch kei her to death. Bazin at first denied tha he had perpetrat, d it, but he finally made a full confess .i n. A strange discovery of a miser's hoard has just been made at Northampton. The neighbours of an old woman named Mary Ann Gordon complain- ed of the stench which was emitted from her house, and an the relieving officer visiting the place it was found that the old woman was in a frightfully neglected state, and covered with filth und vermin. As she appeared to be insane it was necessary to remove her; but on the officials at- tempting to do this she offered a violent resistance In the struggle her dress was torn, and a .£20 Bank of England note was revealed. After her removal a search was made, and a further hoard of money was discovered, including X240 in Bank of England notes. The whole amouat has been handed to the poor-law guardiaue.

IN PARLIAMENT. MONDAY.] =- In the House of Commons Mr Asquith said the petition signed by Irish women against the Home Rule Bill will be placed before the Queen as soon as the physical difficulty of transporting it has been surmounted. A number of inquiries were made referring to Welsh intermediate education, and the House then resumed consideration of the Home Rule Bill as amended. Discussion was continued on Mr Carson's new clause, which set forth that the Land Commissioners should still be appointed by Her Majesty. Mr Chamberlian strongly sup- ported the clause, saying that under the Govern- ment proposals the Commissioners would be ap- pointed by the representatives of the tenants, and that would be a gross injustice to the landlords. Mr Morley stated however, that he had never con- templated a state of things under which the Irish Legislature would not be able to make laws wit." regard to the land. Mr T. Healy spoke for the tenants, and Mr D. R. Plunket for the landlords. Mr Gladstone frankly admitted that he did not see how it would be possible for Parliament to pase over the three years without some further legisla- tion respecting Irish land but he held that there were abundant safeguards against revolu- tionary notions about property in land, even if the Irish Legislature indulged in them. The land- lord class would do well to reckon with the fact that there wauld be awkward tenants among the loyal minority, for the Ulster tenantry were by no means satisfied with the land laws. It would. he considered, be to the interests of the landlords if the appointments were made by the Irish Leg- islature. After Mr Balfour had spoken, the clause was rejected by a Government majority of 35. Other clauses were discussed, and the House adjourned at ten minutes past twelve o'clock. BT A TUESDAY. In the House of Commons, Sir E. Grey, reply- ing to Mr Macfarlane, said it was not the town of Witu that had been attacked by a force landed from Her Majesty's ships, but a fortified strong- hold, where a chief had established himself with a band of robbers. The latter treacherously fired on an escort, and it therefore became necessary to tahe the position by storm. Replying tu ik Bartley, Mr Gladstone said that any statement ill the newspapers that the Welsh Suspensory Bili had been abandoned this year was unjustified. In answer to Mr H. R. Farquharson, Mr Gladstone said it would not be in the public interest to im- pose an import duty on coal during the period o1. the mintrs strike, even if the Government were at liberty to do so; but they were under treaty obligation to Germany not to impose such a duty. The Attorney-General informed Sir Thomas Lea that there was not in the Ballot Act any expres;, clause preventing a Parliamentary e'ection taking- place on a Sunday, but section 56 of the schedule implied such a prohibition. Questioned by Mi Tonilinson as to the correctness of the statement that the Behiing Sea Arbitrators had given their award, Air Gladstone said that a private telegram had been received,the subbtance of which was that the award, speaking generally, was satisfactory to British interests. amii)oii The House then resumed the consideration of the report on the Government of Ireland Bill. Mr Kimber moved a new clause providing for the suspension or repeal of any Irish Act on an ad- dress from both Houses of Parliament. Mr Glad- stone pointed out that the Bill provided machiney whereby any Acts of the Irish Parlia- ment which were ultra vires could be annulled, and he could not consent to supersede that machinery by the method proposed in the clause. After remarks by Mr Balfour, Mr Chamberlain, Mr Sexton and others, the clause was negatived without a division. Another proposal by Mr Kimber to disqualify for appointment to executive authority in Ireland all who had been found guilty or criminal conspiracy by the Special Com- mission of 1888, was ruled out of order. A new clause, proposed by Mr Gerald Balfour, the object of whicu was to prohibit the service upon persons domiciled or ordinarily resident in England or Scotland writs or civil processes issued from Irish courts, was negatived by a majority of 51. The new clauses being then exhausted, Mr Heneage proposed to leave out the preamble; but after dis- cussion the preamble was retained by a majority of 4o. Mr Dalziel proposed an amendment on the first clause, with the object of dispensing with the second chamber. Mr Gladstone said the representatives of Ireland were contented with the second chamber as pro-! posed in the Bill, and that was an important con- I sideration. The point, however, had never been treated by the Government as a vital part of the Bill they had always desired that it should re- ceive the impartial consideration of the House. But looking to the whole of the circumstances of the case the Government felt they must oppose the amendment. The amendment was negatived by a majority of 83. WEDNESDAY. In the House of Commons consideration of the Home Rule Bill as amended was resumed. Mr Ambrose moved that the words for the peace, order an i good government should be expunged from the second clause, and that power should be given to the Irish Legislature simply in all mat- ters that related to local goverment. The amend- ment was negatived without a division. Mr John Morley moved the insertion of words in the third clause prohibiting the Irish Legislature from any law authorising the carrying or using of arms for military purpo-es or the formation of as- sociations for drill or practice in the use of arms for military purposes. The new sub-section was agreed to. Mr Barton moved that the Irish Legis- lature should not have power to make any law with regard to criminal procedure. Mr Asquith characterised the proposal as a grotesque one, and it was negatived without a division. A long dis- cussion took place on the amendment moved by Sir John Gorst that the question of the hours and conditions of labour in factories, workshops, and mines should still be dealt with by the Imperial Parliament. Mr John Morley said English work- people had never found the Irish members hostile to their industrial interests, and he could not ac- cept the amendment. Mr Hanbury, Sir F. S, Powell, and Sir Henry James were anxious for the Lancashire co-operative's sake that the amend- ment should be adopted, believing that the action of the Irish Legislature, presuming they lengthened the hours of labour, would be inimical to English trade. On the other hand, several hon. members, including Mr Wolff and Mr Oldroyd, did not apprehend that the Irish Legis- lature would attempt to increase the hours of labour, or that the shipbuilding, woollen, and cotton trades would suffer as some anticipated. Mr Balfour nevertheless thought the sympathies of the Irish members would be with Irish indus- tries. The amendment was rejected by a Govern- ment majority of 45. Mr Provand's Shop Hours Act Amendment Bill was read a third time, and the House adjourned at twenty-five minutes to six o'clock. THURSDAY. In the House of Commons, Mr Asquith stated that an omaibus proprietor might charge what fares he liked, as long as he kept a table of fares painted m a conspicious manner inside the omni- bus. He would consider the question of a change in the law, in consultation with the Commissioner of Police. Mr Radcliffe Cook took his seat for Hereford. The Home Rule Bill was further considered on r-port. An amendment by Mr V. Gibbs, to substitute "currency" for "legal tender," as one of the Subjects of Clause 3, which the Irish Legislature were restricted from dealing with, was defeated by a majority of 42. Another amendment by Mr V. Gibbs, to except bills of exchange from the powers of the Irish Legis- lature was defeated by 190 to 156. A division on an amendment by Mr Marcartney to make marriage and divorce prohibited subjects, showed the Government to have a majority of 49. An amendment moved by Mr Heneage, with the view of enabling the Irish Legislature to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases by the importation of animals was accepted by the Government. Lord G. Hamilton moved a proviso to Clause 3 to restrain the Irish Legislature from dealing with any ques ion. FRIDAY. In the House of Commons Mr Gladstone reply- ing Mr Dalziel as the likelihood of adjournment for the recess, said the Government were under obligations with regard to the Home Rule Bill land Supply. They did not know what amount of impediment they would hare to encounter in the: shape ameadmoiite OR irxvgukr 4UCWH»B, con- sequent y hon. members on the Opposition benches would be better able to give information as to the length of the sittings. The Government desired that a reasonable vacation should be allowed before asking the House to resume their labours. The Primier said that on Monday he proposed to submit to the House a resolution which. if adopted, would have the effect of securing the close of the debate en the Report stage of the Government of Ireland Bill on Friday next, an announcement that was received with prolonged Ministerial cheering. Mr Chamberlain gave notice, amid laughter and interruption, that he would move an amendment to the effect that the House 'should call on the Government to withdraw the resolu ion and advice Her Majesty to dissolve Par- liament. In reply to Mr Balfour, the Premier said his resolution would provide that by a certain hour on Friday the matter would be brought to an issue by the same method as had been adopted on former occasions. Answering another queetion, Mr Gladstone said the resolution did not specify a day for the closure of the debate on the third reading. The House then resumed consideration of the Home Hule Bill as amended. An amend- ment moved by Mr Hobhouse against giving un- due preference to any industry in Ireland was re- jected by a majority of 45. Mr Balfour moved an amendment to the effect that the Irish Parlia- ment should not be allowed to make laws for the establishment of any denominational univer- sity ,or college out of public funds. After discus- sion he allowed the amendment to be negatived in favour of one proposed by Mr Morley, that the Irish Legislature should not be allowed to make laws under which there might be established and endowed out of public funds any theological pro- fessorship or university or college in which the conditions set out in the University of Dublin Tests Acts, 1873, were not observed. The Chief Secretary's amendment was agreed to. A long discussion, which included a lively encounter be- tween Mr Morley and Mr Gorchen, followed, and the House adjourned. I;u.

THE POLIIICAL WORLD. i < Mr William Rathbone, M.P. for the Northern division of Carnarvons-hire, has paiied with Mi James Rankin, M.P., for the remainder of the session. The polling for the Parliamentary vacancy at Hereford caused by the resignation of Mr W. H Grenfell, Liberal, took place on Tuesday, and resulted in the return of Mr Rndcliffe Cooke, the Conservative candidate, who polled 1,504 votes, against 1,460 recorded for Sir Joseph Pulley, th, Liberal candidate. Hereford (says the Daily Chronicle) has main- tained its reputation as a political seesaw. It. votes are obviously devoted to the principle of the political pair, only instead of pairing with anoth constituency they pair with t hemseives in alternate years. The result is an exhibition of selfishnes on the part of a small body of working men Railway men at He eford poli a coiasiderabl, number of votes, and these were cast against Si: Joseph Pulley because he would not lightly pro mise to support the anitndmeilt to the Employers' Liability Bill. The annual conferences and public meeting in connection with the Liberal Federation of South Wales and Monmouthshire were held at Abeidare. The morning conference was presided over by Air Thomas Williams. The conference recorded itt- convictions concerning Home Rule, the Welsh Land Commission, and various suggestions for land reform, the appointment as justices of the peace, and the course to be adopted by the Gov- ernment in the event of the Home Rule Bill beino rejected by the House of Lords. The afternoon conference, Mr D. A. Thomas, M.P., having been: elected president ot the Federation, was entirely devoted to the discussion of Welsh Disestablish ment and th attitude of the. Government. This was also the subject uppermost in the mind of each speaker at the evening meeting. The leaders of the forward" section of the Welsh party were present in strong force. How THEY GET ALONG.-The Parliamentary mill grinds slowly, and it grinds exceedingly small on days like the present, when the total yield is an intolerable amount of chaff and a qui'e miscroscopic residuum of meal. The man who is not in very strenuous earnest may indeed well ask whether it is for the privilege of listen- ing, through a sheltering afternoon, to prosy repetitions of contentions, never of any real importance and already subjected to so much attention as to have assumed the roundness of pebbles, that a large number of estimable English r, gentlemen go through the excitement and labour and incur the cost of troublesome Parliamentary contests. Why, the treadmill itself is gay amusement to this, and a place on the treadmill is at any rate the consummation of a more or lets enjoyable fling. The only point in which man con- demned to servitude in the House of Commons has an advantage over his fellow sufferer in the House of Correction is that he can step off the treadmill at his own sweet will, and need not turn the crank longer than he phases him. So the wheel has groaned, and creaked, and moved laboriously, going painfully round and round with quite barren results. Machinery in the House where, makes the most noise when it is running at large with no material to manipulate. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE WELSHLIBERAL MEM- BERS.—It is stated that though the Welsh Liberal members have adjourned their debate on the Dis- establishment correspondence with Mr Gladstone until the date of the third reading of the Home Rule Bill, it is not the intention of any individual member of any section of the Welsh Parlia- mentary party under any circumstances to take any action likely to prejudice the passing of the Home Rule Bill. Lively interest in the deliberations of the Welsh Liberals was (the Daily Telegraph states; felt in the lobby, and it was admitted by friend and foe alike that Church Disestablish- ment in the Principality threatens to be a thorn in the side of the Government next year. The Gludstonians from Wales are supported by the Liberation Society, and unless Ministers give way a serious result is imminent. Several of the Welsh members have resolved upon independent action if the Government do not yield, and pub- lic opinion in Wales is said to point unmistakably to that as the only path open.—The Standard be- lieves that there is little probability of any divided action on the part of the Welsh Liberals in regard to the remaining stages of the Home Rule Bill. It is a serious question with them, however, whether after this Bill has been read a third time they shall continue to obey the Govern- ment Whips, in default of a distinct undertaking as to the tuture action of the Government in re- gard to Welsh Disestablishment.

A MIRAGE. The following account of 1 mirage neqr the seashore is given by the Ko jigsberger Aligemeine Zfitung"; On Mouday atternoin a number of fishermen were in their fle-t of fisher boats about half-a-mile distant from Grent Heydekrug. The wat'r w-.s Cilm, the temperature high, and the sun's rays beat hotly upon th<- wide expanse of sea. The fishermen at about two in the afternoon had their 'ttention drawn to a peculiar phenomenon. On look- ing about, threat was their astonishment in not being able to see their hom-ly strand. Nothing waa visible but an immense tract of water. Presently above the water shadowy outlines appeared then, taking more definite form, the villages of Great Heydekrug, Mar- gen, Widitteu, together <vith the forests, appeared to be swimming about. But these places did not hold their usual positions, for the villages and forests were upside down. This picture, to th* fishermen, was a j'nzzt ng arrangement, and bothered them much. Whllø wondering bow it would all end, they saw the people of Great Heydekrug and surrounding districts moving aboat, but not in their usual way-they were walking upside down. Seawards the stealers and Failing boat were careering in precisely the same manner, and the whistle of a di-tant steamer was twice heard. Under this inverted arrangement was still to be seen the well-known villages as firm as ever. The fishermen saw people on the shore and elsewhere feet downwards, whereas in the upper picture they stood upon their heads. This illusion continued for 0 about a quarter of an hour; then the sun was obscured by a rain-cloud, and the Fata morgana vanished.