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CONDUCTOR KILLED ON A TRAM. A remarkable fatality occurred in Balham High-road, London, on Sunday. An electric tramcar from Tooting to Blackfriars had just reached Marius-road when the conductor, a voun<? man named Elford, who was on top col- lecting fares, happened to look over the side. At that moment another car passed, the top of which caught the unfortunate man and smashed I his head. He died in a few minutes.

Messrs. Vickers, Sons, and Maxim have in- formed the "British-Australasian" that they have followed the example of William Beard- more and Sons, and withdrawn from partici- pation in the syndicate which holds the con- tract for the new Australian mail service. A number of music hall artists recovered sums of money varying from F,15 to £20 from Mr. Samuel Barnard, proprietor of the Theatre Royal, Woolwich, for breach of contract, owing, it was stated, to the county council having re- fused a music hall licence to the place.

MINISTER ON THE LORDS. Mr. Lloyd-George, President of the Board of Trade, speaking at Berkhampstead on Satur- day, said If the House of Lords were really, us they claimed, the guardians of the people, how had their guardianship been honoured ? Had they looked after the poor, the weak, the wretched, the trampled, the crushed? They had been the supporters of great brewing syn- dicates that had robbed the people. Their claim was a vicious one.. It had no foundation in fact or in history, and it was about time that it should be reproved and that the verdict of the people should be given upon it. To describe the House of Lords as giving an impartial judgment upon great questions was a fraud upon the intelligence of the people of the country. If we were to have a second Chamber at all, let us' have a right sort of one, and if we were going to keep the present one, let us see that its influence in the state was in proportion to its intelligence. Well," continued Mr. Lloyd-George, "we mean to deal with it. I know our friends are getting impatient, and our enemies are taunting us and saying, 'You started by saying that you were going to tackle the House of Lords. When are you going to do it? Let them wait. After all when you are attack- ing a job of that kind you must think it out, and if you find we have not proclaimed our plans you are safe to infer from that that it is really because we mean business, and that we are thinking out the problem. But I have no hesi- tation in telling you that we mean to deal with it, and, what is still more, that we know how to deal with it. That is just as much as I can tell you to-night, but you won't have to wait very long before you know more."

■■■:■. DR. CLIFFORD AND MR. CAMPBELL. Dr. Clifford, addressing a crowded congrega- tion on Sunday night at Westbourne-park Chapel, on the subject of the Rev. R. J. Camp- bell's book, The New Theology," said that notwithstanding what appeared to him to be the chief defects of the volume, he doubted not it would prove of signal service in the recon- struction of the theology of the future. He knew that the book contained phrases that must offend. There were teaching of interpre- tations of facts he could not accept, which seemed to him to fall short of the teaching, of Christ concerning God, man's sin, the power of evil, and the Atonement—teachings that did not square with a true psychology and a true philosophy. But he held that the book regis- tered the high-water mark of a revolution in Christian thought concerning the immanence of God. This was a permanent gain and an immense one. It would help men to trace the workings of the Eternal Christ where before they had not I been ready to see them: to see proofs of the j continuation of the Incarnation of God in the experiences of to-day, after the pattern shown us in the Gospels of the Lord and Saviour. It 1 struck a fatal blow at some pathetically vital f but undeniably false interpretations of New Testament facts. It extinguished the dogma of the "total corruption" and" worthlessness," of man, asserted his dignity as one who, in the making of'him, was intrinsically capable of en- teiing into communion with, and participating in, the holy and loving nature of God. Dr. Clifford thought the book started as many questions as it answered, and in that way would provoke further inquiries and so aid in bringing in a more true and complete philosophy, and a more comprehensive and effective theology

FIRE TRAGEDIES. Exciting scenes were witnessed at fires at Be fast and Thornton Heath on Saturday and Sunday. At Belfast a commercial traveller, named Arthur Higginson, awoke to find his house in flames. Mrs. Higginson was about to leap into the street when a ladder was brought, by means of which she was rescued. Mr. Hig- ginson appeared at a window with a child in his arms. The firemen made heroic efforts to rescue them, but both were driven back by the flames and perished. A servant escaped by jumping into the back yard. 3 (Poli,ce-constable Anderson, of Thornton Heath, discovered the fire at the Albany Laundry receiving office, London-road, Thorn- ton Heath, occupied by a man named Michael Martin and his wife and three children. The inmates were aroused, and Martin was induced to drop the three children into the policeman's cape. The man and his wife escaped by drop- ping from the bedroom window. Andrew Hay, 86 years old, was burned to death in his house at the Berwickshire village of Paxtoh, on Sunday morning. Another timber-ytrd fire occurred on Satur- day in Gloucester, at the yard of Messrs. Price, Walker, and Co., and it is believed that it was caused by incendiaries. This is the fourth timber-yard fire in Gloucester this mouth.

At a sitting of the Departmental Committee appointed to inquire as to the advisability of an eight hours' day for miners, a mining engi- neer stated that Durham miners already worked less than eight hours. The body of Mr. Arthur Frederick Herbert, the King's messenger, who was drowned on the Berlin off the Hook of Holland, was interred in the family vault in the church of Wrockwardine, near Wellington, Salop. The Birmingham Jewellers' Association, in their annual report, state that nearly £ 1-0,000 worth of gold and silver were offered for sale bv suspicious persons in Birmingham and dis- trict during the past year.

MARQUIS'S MISHAP. I The Marquis of Linlithgow, who recently met with a somewhat serious fall in the hunting field, is best remembered by the general public as the Earl of Hopetoun, a title now borne by his eldest son. His lordship (John Adrian Louis Hope) was born on Sept. 25, 1860, his father being the sixth Earl, and his mother- a lady bearing the unusual name of Ethelred- a daughter of Mr. C. T. S. Birch Reynardson, of Lincolnshire. He succeeded to the title of Earl of Hopetoun when only thirteen years of age, and he married in 1886 the Hon. Hersey de Mo- leyns, daughter of Lord Ventry. After visiting Turkey and Egypt in 1881, and America in 1882, his lordship became a whip in the House of Lords, and in 1885-86, and again from 1886 to 1889 was a Lord in Waiting to Queen Vic- toria. From 1887 to 1889 he was Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scot- GOW. MARQUIS OF LINLITH- land, and then until 1895 was Governor of Vic- toria. He was Paymaster General in Lord Salisbury's Government, from 1895 to 1898, when he was appointed Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household, which post he held for two years, in 1900 going out to Australia as Governor-General of the Commonwealth. This position he resigned in 1902, and was then raised to the Marquisate. His last official appointment was that of Secretary for Scotland, which he held when Mr. Balfour went out of office in 1905. The Marquis, who for five years was President of the Institution of Naval Archi- tects, is Brigadier-General of the Royal Com- pany of Archers and Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the Forth Division Submarine Miners (Volunteers). He owns about 42,000 acres of land, with a magnificent residence at Hopetoun House, Linlithgowshire, where he owns a pack of harriers and a pack of beagles.

I DEATH OF A FAMOUS SURGEON. I The death is announced from Berlin of Pro- fessor Ernst von Bergmann, the famous sur- geon. He was recuperating at Wiesbaden after a heavy winter's work, and caught a severe cold last week. A malignant growth of old standing developed on Friday, and at his request Pro- fessor Schlange, his former assistant, who was staying with him, performed a slight operation, which proved unsuccessful. A second operation was performed on Sunday, but von Bergmann's strength failed, and he sank gradually. Professor von Bergmann, who was born at Rugen in 1836, was chief of the field hospital organisation during the war with Austria in 1866, and the Franco-Prussian war. In 1882 he was called to the Berlin University as professor of surgery and 'director of the surgical clinic. The Kaiser gave him the title of Excellency and a seat in the Prussian House of Lords. The Sultan of Turkey, who was his patient, and whose third daughter he attended last year, conferred the Grand Cordon of the Osmanieh with the star in brilliants on him, and presented him with a fee of £ 4,500. Professor von Bergmann was best known in England in connection with his famous contro- versy with the late Sir Morell Mackenzie. Both were in attendance on the Emperor Frederick during his last illness, in 1888, and their acute difference of opinion as to his malady caused I something like a scandal. He also attended the late Empress Frederick.

NEW ZEALAND'S PREMIER. Though representing the most distant of the oversea self-governing possessions of the Um- pire, Sir Joseph George Wapd, K.C.M.Gr.j the Prime Minister of New Zealand, wal the first of the delegates to reach London for the ap- proaching Colonial Conference. Sir Joseph, who succeeded the late Mr. Richard Seddon as Premier, is no stranger to this country, as he has visited London on more than one occa- sion on public business connected, with New Zealand. He represented his Colony at the Postal Union Congress last year, and came on to England before returning home to take up the Prime Ministership. In Mr. Seddon's I SIR JOSEPH WARD. latest Ministry out of eighteen departments Mr. Seddon and Sir Joseph directly admin- istered no fewer than eleven, the remaining seven being entrusted to as many colleages. Sir Joseph's energy even now. shows no signs of abating, for, in addition to being Prime Minister, he also holds the port- folios of Colonial Treasurer, Postmaster- General, Commis- sioner of Electric Telegraphs., and Minister of Industries and Commerce and Defence, lhougn ne nas been in public life for many years, Sir Joseph is still one of the youngest of Antipodean states- men. Besides being a successful administrator and an admirable man of business, he enjoys a reputation for prescience, and his qualifications as a speaker are also well recognised. He is quite as enthusiastic as even Mr. Seddon was about the future of New Zealand, though he may use less picturesque language when referring to "God's own country." He is extremely popular with the New Z^rnlers who once made him an offering of £ 18,000 when through no fault of his own, he was in financial straits. Sir Joseph, however, courageously refused all help, and retrieved his position entirely by his own efforts. He had failed because being chairman of a Farmers' Association which had collapsed, he had thought it his duty to pay the creditors out of his own pocket, and in re- cognition of his generosity the creditors pre- Sented him with a dinner service.

I CAUGHT UP A CHIMNEY. I An amusing story of a bookmaker's device to escape arrest was related at Liverpool on Mon- day 1 when John Gain, aged 28, was charged with keeping a betting house. Three detectives went to the house on Saturday, and found Gain standing at the back door taking bets from two young men. When he saw the detectivos he ran in and fastened the door, having pre- viously let a bull terrier loose in the yard. The do<* however, was pacified, and the detectives burst in the door and entered the house. Gain, however, had mysteriously disappeared. Eventually, after a long search, he was found up the chimney of an upper room. He was quite out of sight, and it was only because soot was noticed in the fireplace that suspicion of his hiding place was aroused. Detective-ser- geant Whitley put his hand up the chimney and caught hold of Gain's boots, and he was then carefully pulled down and taken into custody. Papers were found on the premises relating to betting) and the prisoner was remanded.

Siberia, commonly imagined to be a region of desolation, is in reality a productive country,, with large rivers, extensive forests, and ample mineral wealth. In the sea there are no vegetarians. Fish I live on each other, and the whole ocean is one great slaughter-house, where the strong prey I endlessly upon the weak. The Sikh of India prefers to die on the bare [ ground. Regardless of rank or age, no rug j intervenes .between his body and the earth when he breathes his last.

I THE UNIVERSITY SPORTS. Oxford won the University Sports, at Queen's Club, West Kensington, by 8 £ events to 1^, Cam- Club, West Kensington, by 8f events to I., Cam- 2 bridge gaining their only success in the hurdles, while the hundred yards race ended in a dead heat. Oxford's victory constitutes a record for the University sports, which have never been won so easily before. The results were 100 Yards Race.—N. G. Chavasse (Magdalen College School and Trinity, Oxford) and K. G. Maeleod (Fettes and Pembroke, Cambridge), dead heat; C. M. Chavasse (Magdalen College School and Trinity, Oxford), 3. Time, lOsee. 120 Yards Hurdles.—K. Powell (Rugby and King's Cambridge), 1 E. R. J. Hussey (Repton and Hertford, Oxford), 2 R. T. Gladstone (Up- pingham and Trinity, Cambridge), 3. Time, j 15 3-5sec.-equalising British amateur record. Putting the Weight.-R. L. Robinson (St. Peter's College, Adelaide, and Magdalen, Ox- ford), 37ft. 7in., 1; A. Petrie (Ineravon and Trinity, Cambridge), 2; J. L. Michie (Aberdeen and Trinity, Cambridge), 3. Long Jump.—P. M. Young (South Dakota University, U.S.A., and Oriel, Oxford), 22ft. 4in., 1; N. H. Evans (Charterhouse and Mag- dalen, Oxford), 2; K. G. Macleod (Fettes and Pembroke, Cambridge), 3. j Half-mile Race.—P. S. Darling (Winchester ) and New College, Oxford), 1; E. S. Doug-all } (Tonbridge and Pembroke, Cambrdige), 2T. H. Just (St. Paul's and Trinity, Cambridge), 3. One Mile Race.—S. P. Lloyd (South-Eastern College, Ramsgate, and Magdalen, Oxford), 1 H. G. Weber (Rsgby and Clare, Cambridge), 2 H. Sutton (Adelaide and New College, Oxford), 3. Throwing the Hammer.—A. M. Stevens (Yale University, U.S.A., and Balliol, Oxford), 146ft. 9in. (record for the sports), 1; R. H. Lindsey- j Watson (Glenalmond and Trinity, Cambridge), 2; P. G. Masters (private and Selwyn, Cam- bridge), 3. High Jump.—P. M. Young (South Dakota University, U.S.A., and Oriel, Oxford), 5ft. Slin., 1; A. N. Doorly (Queen's Royal College, Trinidad, and St. John's, Oxford), 2; W. H. Dunnett (Ipswich and Queen's, Cambridge) and C. C. Barclay (Harrow and Trinity, Cambridge), dead heat. Quarter-mile Race.-C. M. Chavasse (Magda- len College School and Trinity, Oxford), 1 N. G. Chavasse (Magdalen College School and Trinity, Oxford), 2; R. B. Horsfield (Harrow j and Trinity, Cambridge), 3. | Three Miles Race.—N. F. Hallowes (Felsted and Leeds University and Ke'ole, Oxford), 1 F. M. Edwards (King Edward's School, Bath, and Queen's, Cambridge), 2; A. H. Pearson (Westminster and Queen's, Cambridge), 3. Time, 15min. 6 3-5sec.

EX-M.P. AND CLERGYMEN. I I Mr. Thomas Bevan, of Stone Park, Green- hithe, formerly M.P. for Gravesend and a Sheriff of London, who left net personality sworn at £ 376,862, made the following remark- ¡ able announcement as to the possible marriage of his daughters or granddaughters with clergy- men Convinced as I am that it is impossible in these present times for a man possessed of the combination of the quality of straightforward- ness with the ordinary intellectual qualification to make the solemn declaration required at ordination, which requires him to affirm, for example, his belief in the historical accuracy in I the Book of Genesis, including the history, cir- cumstances, and account of Noah's Ark, as contained therein. and that the writers of Matthew, Mark,' Luke; and John were more than feeble and fallible, who often did great injustice to the Greatest of Men. for instance, when two of them attributed to him the expectation that figs were to be found in Judasa. before Easter, and a curse from him, being hungry, to a fig-tree be- cause there were none—I should regard with the gravest misgiving were my daughters or either of my granddaughters to marry a clergy- man, believing, as I do, that in the near fmure there muet be much distress, »rieasiiie.ss, arid trouble in store for rtght-minded vnien of that calling, and I bequeath to them and each of them my devout honest and earnest hope that they will never do so." they will never do so." In connection with this statement it is inte- I resting to note that the testator leaves a life annuity of £ 200 to Kathleen, wife of the Rev. Canon Murrav, and a life annuity of £ 150 to Mildred, daughter of the Rev. Canon Murray, the rector of Stone, Greenhithe. Mr. Bevan ordered that his body should be cremated, the ashes to be ground to powder, burnt again, and dissipated in the air.

HAMBURG DOCK STRIKE. I The situation at Hamburg produced by the dispute between the shipowners and the dock labourers has assumed a more serious aspect. The local dock labourers who have been thrown out of employment are apparently becoming desperate, as thy perceive that the masters have no difficulty in obtaining outside help. During the past few days several men have been captured on their way to work, and most severely mauled by the dockers before the police came on the scene. On Friday evening a num- ber of German workmen, who had arrived in Hamburg from the provinces in response to the shipowners' advertisement, were being1 con- veyed by rail from the Central to the Hanover station. Between the stations the train was bombarded by strikers with great stones, and every window in the railway- carriages was broken. A Liverpool dock labourer named Frank Picket was returning from the town to the Anchoria, the vessel in which the Englishmen are quartered, when he was set upon by two men. They stabbed him with knives, inflicting several wounds. They then dragged Picket to the quay and dropped him into the Elbe. He was rescued just in time. In seven great public meetings held by the trade unions of Hamburg at Altona a resolu- tion was passed describing the treatment ac- corded by the Shipowners' Association to the dock labourers as unheard-of brutality. The Hamburg papers are advising the labourers to enter into negotiations with the employers. The accumulation of ships in port waiting to he unloaded still continues, and some liners which, owing to mail and other con- tracts, are obliged to start for foreign ports in a definite time have had to leave Hamburg with cargoes which they brought with them. 0

THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. Lord Courtney addressed a large meeting under the auspices of Young Liberals at Stock- port on the subject of proportional representa- tion. He said it had been commonly thought that if they had equal electoral divisions, and one man one vote, one member to be eledted by each separate constituency, they would rea- lise representative government in its purest I form, and get a reproduction of the voice of the people. He told them boldly they got nothing of the kind. Many divisions showed that the ex- isting representation did not represent the voice of the people. Salford, Sheffield, Warwick, Leeds, Sussex, and Kent had provided them with examples. They could have no certainty under the present system that the final choice was the final voice.

"Gentlemen, the nurses nurse the patients back to life, after the surgeons have done their work," said the town clerk of Walsall, moving a vote of thanks to the local hospital nurses. "My Heart's Delight," her favourite song, learnt over 90 years ago, was sung by Mrs. Ann Elliott, an inmate of the Whitechapel Work- house, at a tea-party in honour of her 101st birthday. Bermondsev Council has voted £25 to one of its scavengers, who suggested a reform in the method of street cleansing, whereby, it is stated, thousands of pounds sterling per annuiv have been saved.

EXTRAORDINARY FATALITY. An extraordinary fatality was investigated on Monday at an inquest near Dublin. On Saturday the body of Mr. James Kevin Shaw, an accountant, who had been out shooting, was found in a pool of blood. Close by was a dead fox and a fowling-piece broken at the stock. Some time ago deceased saw a fox crossing over the wall of his garden, and said to his mother that one day he would bring home the animal dead. He apparently wounded the fox, and then struck it with the butt-end of the fowling-piece, when the second charge accident- ally went- off and lodged in his bodv. A verdict of "Accidental death" was re- turned.

In the Chargers' Race at the 8th Hussars Steeplechases, held near Colchester, Major H. T. McClellan, who was riding the favourite, Kitty, was heavily thrown at the second fence and pitched on to his head, and he sustained concussion of the brain. His condition occa- sions grave anxiety. A Brighton police-court missionary has been conducting Sunday services for the past 17 weeks at the East Preston Workhouse,. and m his report to the board of guardians he pbinted out that the casuals were not selfish in spiri- tual matters, inasmuch as they had been grum- bling because the guardians and officials did not attend the services instead of th-einselves. The Swansea Town Council decided to sell the municipal telephone undertaking to the National Telephone Company. The terms of transfer provide that the National Company are to repay the whole capital, the esistiug staff are to be taken over, and there is to ba complete inter-communication between the sub- scribers of the two systems; which will ba worked as one.

SUFFRAGISTS AT COURT. I Sennty-five women-and one man-who were j arrested in connection with the attempted raid "Oil the House of Commons, appeared at the Westminster Police-court, the proceedings against them occupying nearly five hours. The "adieu were of all ages, from sixty to sixteen, and A I of all classes from lady doctor and novelist to raill girl and servant. One wore ermine, and one appeared in a nurse's garb, some wore .jewellery and fashionable costumes, while others were most humbly clad. Mr. Muskett, who prosecuted for the police, appealed to the magistrate for severo sentences. These misguided women were, he said, seeking "Constitutional reform by unconstitutional and illegal means. The utmost indulgence had been shown them, but the indulgence had had no good effect. The authorities in the past had taken the most lenient view, but was there now any reason why those people who repeatedly broke the law of the land should not be dealt with as ordinary law-breakers? The Chief Commissioner of police feared that unless the arm of the law was used strictly he might have serious difficulty in coping with the disturb- ances in the future. The accused were brought into court in ones, twos, and threes. With the arrival of the first "mill girl, Dora Thewles, of Huddersfield, the magistrate asked, "How old are you?"—"Six- teen, sir," replied the girl. "I pity your position, then," said Mr. Horace Smith. "Who let you escape from Hudders- field?"—"A lot did," was the laughing reply. "This girl ought to be at school, and not turned loose on the London streets," continued the magistrate, severely. "It is disgraceful." —"I've come for my mother and sisters-not for myself," replied the girl proudly. "You ought to have come with your mother, and not for her," continued the magistrate, in- dignantly. "Here is a young girl-not vsjt Seventeen—enticed away from her home and let loose on the streets at night to come into colli- sion with the police. It is disgraceful for every one concerned. This child must be remanded, and I will communicate with her parents." A pale-faced married woman admitted that Miss Pankhurst paid all their expenses from the Borth out of the suffragist funds. After Mr. Smith had remanded a seventeen- year-old girl from Blackpool, Mr. Pethick Law- rence asked that the women on remand might be released on bail. "These are the girls from the country, are they not? Then certainly not," was the magistrate's decisive refusal. When Miss Mary Leigh, a London girl, was Ordered to pay 20, or suffer 14 days, she fumbled in her blouse, and produced a small --tag with "Votes for Women" on it, which she flourished. Instantly it was seized and trampled VQuderfoot by the gaoler, while the magistrate at once' doubled Miss Leigh's sentence to a xaouth, saying sternly: "It is not a decent thing to bring such a thing into a court of justice." Miss Loui Naici-Peters, a Norwegian artist, wajs, the police said, the only lady who really got into the yard of the House. "In fact, she got in twice," remarked the officer. Miss Naici- Peters paid the 20s. fine, as she is busy painting pictures. Emilia Cimino, a dark little woman of 30, blandly surveyed the Bench through a pair of lorgnettes. "Where do you come from?" queried his worship.—From Rome. "From nome Y" Mr. Smith gasped. "From Rome," she smilingly replied. Mr. SmiTti.—And you mean to say you came all the way from Italy to ? Twenty shillings or 14 days. The defendants were dealt with as follows:- One month's imprisonment: Miss Patricia Woodlock (Liverpool), Madame A. Chatterton {Manchester). Forty shillings or a month: Mrs. Sproson, Alice Milne, Mrs. Barrett, Miss Julia Varley "(Bradford),. Miss Lena Marsden, Miss Mary Lee (London). Twenty shillings or 14 days: Miss Evans, Miss "Crummey, Lizzie Price, Bessie Smith, Miss Sal- -tonstall, Mrs. Codnelley, Miss L. A. Wilcox, Mrsi Lacon, Mrs. Hollowell, Annie Hawkins, „7„rSj Mrs. Bennett, Miss Jane Lock- wood (Sheffield), Miss Alice lobotson (London), Mrs. Montgomery (Glasgow), Mrs. Atkinson (Newcastle), Miss Margaret Sidley, Miss Lizzie Berkeley, Mrs. Jenkins, Miss Jessie Arnott, Miss Winifred Bray, Mrs. Lillingstone, Miss Cecilia Clifford, Miss Rozier, Miss Elizabeth Schofield (Rochdale), Miss Lilian Cobbe, Nurse Alice Roberts, Miss Jackson (Preston), Miss Annie Hobson, Mrs. Sarah Pogson, Mrs. Hannah Mitchell, Mrs. J. Smith, Miss Irene Mitchell, Miss Cimino (Rome), Mrs. Cooper (Dewsbury), Mrs. Emily Caroline Townsend (London), Mrs. Ann Jane Marrow (London), Mrs. Alice Mary Toyne (London), Mrs. Mary Scamthorne, Mrs. Mary Burrows (Preston), Mrs. Sarah Ann Wilkinson (Rochdale), Mrs. Sheard, Mrs. Irnpey, Miss Biggs, Mrs. Con- stance Clyde, Miss Florence Graves, Mrs. Mar- garet Clayton, Miss Nellie Kerwin, Miss Bessie New, Mrs. Pinnace, Dr. Mabel Hardie, Miss Ada Wright, Madame Naici-Peters, Miss V. «erome. Bound over: Kate Ford (Bolton), Mrs. Arn- clifle-Sennett (London), Miss F. Smith, Mrs. •Jessie Smith (Glasgow), Mrs. uiarian Holmes (Croydon). Charge withdrawn: Mr. Or age, journalist, the only man arrested. Adjourned r Miss Ellen Brooks (Huddersfield), Miss King Townend, Miss Annie Evelyn Arm- strong and Dora Thewlis (Huddersfield). Miss Ellen Brooks and Miss Mary King Townsend, both of Huddersfield, appeared gain on Monday at Westminster, and Mr. Horace Smith imposed a fine of 20s. or fourteen days' imprisonment on them. Later in the day Miss Evelyn Armstrong, of Blackpool, who is only seventeen, was brought lip. Mr. Horace Smith said he understood she "as willing to return to her friends, and he discharged her in the care of a woman mis- sionary. It was stated that Miss Armstrong's father died on Saturday last, and her release Was the result of a special appeal by her friends.

GREAT CHEMISTS BURIAL. I The national funeral ceremony of the great chemist Berthelot and his wife took place at the Pantheon on Monday with much pomp, but 'Without religious ceremonial of any kind. The two coffins had been placed in the centre of the Pantheon, at the foot of a magnificent Pyramid of violet velvet, trimmed with goid, and brightened with golden palms. Municipal Guards, in gala uniform, were "drawn up round the coffins, and formed an Avenue to the main door of the Pantheon, up 'Which President Fallieres, the Ministers, and the official guests walked to their places. The ceremony itself was of the simplest kind. The Marseillaise" was played, and other music, and after it was over the President shook hands 'With the members of the family. The coffins Tffre placed provisionally in a" tomb next to the one occupied by the remains of Victor Hugo.

A sad story of a death due to want of fencing a tug's machinery was told at an inquest "attersea, on a fireman named ^Matthews, into the engine of the tug Diana. One Q! the owners said there was no actual inspec- On of river vessels. There were no rules about Hr*\clnS the machinery, and they did not come vprV'10 Factory Act. The jury returned a rclict °f Accidental death," and expressed opinion that some inspection of machinery on pgs should be made.

I WATCHMAN'S TERRIBLE DEATH. A terrible death has befallen a night watch- I man at a cement mill at Unterterzen, Switzer- land. While on patrol he passed through the huge iron doors of a blast furnace. While he was inside a gust of wind suddenly blew, and the door, which could only be opened from i the outside, shut with a snap. The man was a helpless, prisoner, for no cry j for help could possibly be heard outside. The heat and poisonous fumes must soon have killed him, and hours afterwards his dead body was discovered. The unfortunate man, who was aged 33, leaves a wife and three children.' -—; —

TRAINS IN COLLISION. I When crowded trains of people were arriving at Liverpool for the Grand National, a railway accident occurred in Lime-street Station. An inward-bound heavy excursion train from Bir- mingham and Stour Valley by some means or other overran its distance and crashed into an empty train standing at the same platform. Several of the excursionists complained of shock, but none had to be treated at hospital. The standing train was damaged, buffers and windows being smashed, while both the incom- ing and standing engines were also damaged.

RUSSIA'S BEST HATED MAN. I By the death of M.Pobiedonostseff, ex-Procur- ator-General of the Holy Synod of the Greek Dhurch, which occurred at St. Petersburg on Sat- urday. evening, the most powerful enemy of re- form in Russia has disappeared. He was the apostle of absolutism, and for nearly half a century exercised a sinister influence over suc- cessive Czars that did incalculable harm to the Russian Empire. He was born in Moscow in 1827, and from the day in 1860 when he was appointed tutor to Alexander III., he may be said to have been the dictator to the imperial throne. He op- posed with fanatical hatred the education and the uplifting of the masses of the Russian people, and when he became Procurator of the Holy Synod in 1880 he devoted himself heart and and soul to the enforcement of the idea that absolutism and Greek Orthodoxy were the only trustworthy bases of Russian statesmanship He persecuted the Jews, crushed the Stundist.! and Doukhobors, and ruled the Polish Roman Catholics with relentless severity. He was al- ways an inveterate enemy of Count Tolstoi, and was mainly responsible for Tolstoi's excommuni- cation. He had hundreds of students arrested for complicity in the demonstrations against Tolstoi's treatment, and some were killed and many injured in the conflicts which took place. When M. Pobiedonostseff resigned his office in 1905 he addressed an extraordinary document to the Czar, couched in semi-Biblical language, telling his Majesty that as "autocrat and the anointed of God it was his duty to uphold his absolutist rule. It was characteristic of his medioeval temperament that twice a year he re- tired with one manservant to an island monas- tery in Lake Ladoga, where he Gpent days in a lonely cell, fasting and praying. Although he was for a quarter of a century the head of the richest Church in the world, he died a poor man. The little foundling girl of five whom he adopted recently will inherit no property from him, but the Czar promised to look after her when her protector died. Two attempts were made on his life. In 1893 a student called on him in his library, and, drawing a table-knife, aimed at him a blow which barely missed its mark. Five years ago a man fired two pistol shots at him through an open window, but without effect.

RUSSIAN SAILORS' VISIT. The Russian Squadron, which arrived at- Spithead on Saturday, entered Portsmouth Harbour on Monday morning, and moored alongside the dockyard. Commodore Roussini's .flagship, the Tsarevitch, was assigned a posi- tion at the South Railway Jetty, where she at- tracted a considerable amount of attention. The day was chiefly occupied by the officers in ex- changing official visits with the naval, military and civic authorities. Commodore Roussini and his officers were the guests at night of Admiral Sir Day H. Bosan- quet, Commander-in-Chief, and Lady Bosan- quet at a dinner at Admiralty House, Ports- mouth Dockyard.

BAND OF BOY BURGLARS. An amazing story of the exploits of Frank Taylor, the boy burglar of Sutton, who was ar- rested charged with shouting at Mr. Damon, a solicitor, of Carshalton, was told on Monday when the boy, who is only fifteen years old, was brought up on remand at Croydon. Taylor was caught in Mr. Damon's house, and when his story of having entered it by mistake was not believed he fired a shot at Mr. Damon from a revolver and attempted to escape. He was captured after a struggle in which he bit Mr. Damon's hand severely. Edwin John Barrett, aged fourteen, was arrested as one of his accom- plices, and in a confession he declared that he had accompanied Taylor on ten expeditions, the object of which was robbery. He said that Taylor forced him to accompany him, and stand outside while Taylor entered the houses. The police stated that they had discovered that two other boys were also members of Tay- lor's band, and that they had traced fifteen rob- beries which occurred since Christmas to the band. When they visited Taylor's house they found the following articles in his room: A pair of handcuffs black velvet coat with ruffles and trimmed with lace at the cuffs pair of jack boots with spurs; three sword bayonets; three air guns a breech-loading fowling piece several whigs and moustaches, and a theatrical make- up box. They also found a large quantity of sensational literature, and they learned that the boy had taken lessons in wrestling and in the use of firearms. A solicitor who appeared for Taylor urged that his mind was unhinged by the literature he had r been reading, but the magistrate decided to send him to e Cornwall reformatory ship for three years. They discharged Barrett, believing that he was acting under the influence of Taylor.

KILLED BY ROYAL MOTOR-CAR. A royal motor-car conveying the Queen- Mother and Prince Alfonso, the brother of the King, to the theatre at Lisbon, ran over a lady carrying a child eight months old. Both were caught under the car. The Prince helptfd the bystanders to lift the car and to extract the victims. The child was already dead, and the lady was dangerously injured. Queen Maria sent back the car witb- the lady to the hospital, whither she was accom- panied by the Prince, while the body of the child was conveyed to the morgue. The Queen was completely overcome by emotion, and was driven back to the palace weeping. An inquest was held on Monday at Bridge- foot (Cumberland) on the four-year-old daughter of a coalminer, named Graham, who was run over by a motor-car. The evidence showed that deceased was playing with other children, and crossed the road as the car approached. The driver, an Egremont man named Stout, tried to avoid the girl, but one wheel passed over her. She died in 15 minutes. A verdict of "Acci- dental death" was returned. A motor-car plunged through a fence near Llangollen, and a lady was thrown into a tree.

f UNIONIST FREE TRADERS. The position of the Unionist Free Traders in the Unionist Party was raised by Mr. Aus- ten Chamberlain at a Tariff Reform Leagua dinner at the Great Central Hotel on Monday night. "Last week," he said, "the Unionist Free Trade Club held its annual meeting. That is a club in which there are a number of pro- minent men, but it is only a stage army. It has its leaders, but it has no followers, and when the two pikemen and the one halberdier have crossed the stage there are no more to- come till they have gone round behind the wings. "It is time for those responsible for that club to ask themselves whether they still desire to maintain their connection with the Unionist Party, and whether they are still Unionists in anytning more than name. The great bulk of the Unionist party is in favour of Tariff Re- form. We are entitled to ask those who differ from that majority what is their position. Is it fair for a man to stay in a party simply in order to oppose its policy, and from within its ranks to accuse the majority of introducing anarchy and confusion?"

MAIL STEAMERS COLLIDE. Some excitement was caused in Dover oa Monday by the news that the Lord Warden, from Calais, and the Princess Henriette, from Osterid. the early Continental mail packets, had come into collision. This proved to be perfectly true, but happily rio one was hurt, though the vessels were damaged. The Lord Warden was struck on the star- board side, just behind the bridge, the plating being torn away, cabins and sleeping-berths wrecked, and two boats smashed up. The bow of the Princess Henriette was considerably damaged. The Belgian steamer went astern almost as soon as she struck, otherwise she would have suffered far more serious injury. Both vessels were safely brought alongside the landing-stage, and the mails and passengers landed. The collision is stated to have been. caused by one of the mail-boats having to go about in order to avoid another steamer, going up Channel.

I ECHO OF THE THAW CASE. I Captain J. C. Hines, who is said to be a British officer, has shot and killed Count Pod- oovsky, and son .of Princess Radziwill, in a restau- rant at Goldfield, Nevada. Captain Hines and wife met the count in 1905 at Nome, Alaska, ^here they have mining property. Captain says that he tracked the count for 700 tIles. It is stated that jealousy was the cause 2p. the crime, but his friends say that Captain 'ne's mind was unhinged through reading the i-1 haw ease.

FRANCE AND MOROCCO. 0. A French doctor named Mauchamp, of the local dispensary at Marrakesh, Morocco, has been murdered by natives, who were agitated by the installation on the roof of the doctor's house of signals which were used for the geodetic operations of the Gentil mission. A mob of the natives stoned the doctor, who ex- pired shortly afterwards. The authorities are stated to have done nothing to calm the excite- ment of the people. The news of the murder was announced to the French Minister, M. Regnault, who advised his colleague of the murder. The Ministers of all the Powers and the Shereefian delegate ex- pressed their indignation, and the meeting was adjourned as a sign of mourning. The Ministers also conveyed their condolences to M. Regnault. Dr. Mauchamp had been eighteen months at Marrakesh, and by his assiduous attention to the natives he seemed to have at least gained their neutrality. After the murder the Europeans were be- sieged in their houses by the natives. The British Vice-Consul fired several shots at the rioters. All the British residents are safe, but are confined to their houses. The Basha has provided guards for the Consulates and Euro- pean residences. As soon as the news from the French repre- sentative in Tangier announcing the murder, was received in Paris, the Minister for Foreign Affairs asked the Minister of Marine to despatch the cruiser Jeanne d'Arc to Moroccan waters. Orders were immediately given by M. Thomson for the vessel to get under way. It is believed in the lobbies of the Chamber that heavy compensation will be demanded from the Moroccan Government. News has been received at Paris which states that the British Consular Agent (Mr. Alan Lennox) was wounded in the attack on his house. It is not stated whether any of the many European residents who had taken refuge in the Consulate Buffered harm. The French Cabinet met on Monday and de- cided on measures to obtain reparation from Morocco for the murder of Dr. Mauchamp. In- structions have been telegraphed to General Liauty, the military commandant of Southern Oran, to cross the Moroccan frontier and oc- cupy Oujda, and two cruisers, the Jeanne d'Arc and Lalande, have left Toulon for Morocco. The Government has decided further to settle at the same time some old accounts with Morocco. The Sultan of Morocco has hitherto feli him- self safe behind the influence of Germany. He has always relied on support from the Kaiser in the event of complications with France. It is not thought likely that Germany will oppose France's action, as it was made quite plain at the Algeciras Conference that she could not rely on any European support in an attempt j to defeat the aims of France in Morocco.,

COLLISIONS WITH WARSHIPS. The Orient Royal Mail Company's steamer I Ormuz, bound from London to Australia, collided with the battleship Africa off Portland on Saturday morning. She was struck on the port quarter, and two port holes were slightly damaged. The warship quickly swept clear, and at once sent aboard to ask if assistance was j required. The Ormuz, however, required no j assistance, and after calling at Plymouth con- j tinued her voyage to Australia. S Lloyd's Agent at Port Said reports that the Lloyd's Agent at Port Said reports that the British steamer Castello, Kurrachee for Hull, j and the man-of-war Bedford collided near New- I port Rock at daybreak on Saturday. The Bed- < ford proceeded apparently undamaged. Divers will examine the damage to the Castello. I The battleship Commonwealth has arrived at Devonport to repair the damages 'which she received in collision with the Albemarle just before the naval manoeuvres off Lagos last month. j The Glasgow steamer Handa and the Liver- j pool tug Hornby collided off Gourock Pier, Mid both vessels have been beached. The Hornby will probably' become a total loss. j

CARRIED OFF THE SAFE. I The safe, weighing one and a half hundrel- j weight, and containing about C40 in cash and a gold watch and chain, were found to be mÍsslPg on Saturday when a clerk entered the office on the first floor of 14, St. Dunstan's-hill, City, occupied by Mr. Nash, his employer. ( Informed of the robbery, Detective-sergeant Crouch, from the Minories, at once got to work, and having traced a man to the East-end arrested him on suspicion of being concerned in the affair. It has transpired that the thieves before re- j moving the safe, covered it with straw, which j they bound in place with a rope. They then called up a van which was in waiting and gave a passer-by a shilling to help them lift their bootv into the vehicle. j .—————————