The North Wales Chronicle and Advertiser for the Principality

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CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. j SiB,-It is now nearly thirty years since I endeavoured to enlist the sympathy of the Baroness Burdett Coutts on the subject of the cruel neglect and shameful ill-treatment of poor dumb animals, especially the domestic oat, by the ill-taught and undisciplined ohildrsn wbo at that time attended the village school at As it always struck me that the great doctrines ol mercy and humanity were most important elements in a Christian education, and that cruelty in a child should on no aocount be tolevated, my English friends and I lost no opportunity of rebuking such wickedness; IInd,thinking it desirable that some memento of the higher instinots of our nature should be placed oontinnallv before the eyes of those who were being instructed and brought up in the way they should go, I made application to the great lady I have just above- mentioned for a few of the very clever and exceedingly pretty piotares illustrative of Rots of kindness performed by little children towards those whom God in his wisdom has created with much the same feelings and certainly as susceptible of pain and hunger as themselves. As the increased prosperity and perhaps too abundant indolgence of the children of the working-classes does not seem to abate this Inhumanity, which is certainly a disgrace to any oivilised community, as shelterless, hungry cats and dogs still pitifully appeal to one who has 80 long befriended them, so that I am sometimes tempted to stoop and pick up some of tbe nice pieces of good bread and butter, cake, &c" which these pampered ecbool-ohildren have wantonly thrown away, in order that I may be prepared to ■ itisfy the cravings of my many dumb applicants who of a cold, wet winter evening do not fail to come to me for food and shelter. If such little pictures or wood engravings as I have mentioned are to be bad, one or two framed and hong up in every board school could not possibly do barm. They would not cost much'; and if such kind of things are entirely out of print, there are plenty of artists in the country, and what nobler purposes ooild the study of art be devoted to than in the illustration of acts of self-denial, of humanity, and of chanty ? This would be better than a whole cartload of such rubbish as school children oonld be expeoted to write on, a subject too about whioh, I fear, the great majority of the ohildren here aN yet know little or nothiug,-Yours respeotfully, know little or nothiug,-Yours respeotflllly. B. I Anglesey, 21st Januarv.

SUICIDE BY A BOY. I On Sunday, a boy named Samuel Higginbottom, I a weaver,'aged 16, who rasided in Nuto .Itreet Derby, bung himself to bed-post. It 86emB that the lad I bad bee. ??t npatairs hy bis father as a pu.ish- I ment for :"me slipbt offenoe,

SUFFOCATED BY GAS. I Joseph Kerr was employed at the Langholm Gas Works. He went into the purifier to charge it. He neglected to shut thevilveg properly. Afterwards I a oflmrade saw him lying dead on the ground, sufto- I cated by the inrush of gas.

A CRAZE FOR TWIN BABIES. I Mrs Wunsil, a wealthy woman of Hartford, has a great affection fir twin babies. Whenever twins are F.r. in Hartford, she at once calls npon the mother, whether she knows her or not, and presents to each I baby a silver onp.

SMOTHERED IN A SAND-PIT. I An elderly man named Franks, a sand dealer, of SittiDghonrne, was found delld on Saturday in a sand pit. He was at work procuring sand, when a slip occurred, and he was buried alive. Help vm soon at hand, but when dug out Franks was found to be dead.

TERRIBLE REVELATIONS. I Serious men in America bave been saddened by I some terrible revelations of immoral dens in tZe woods of Wisconsin. Robberv, outrages, and murder are declared to form the regular routine of these in. famouf resets. Mra K,,t? B,h 11, the well-known Ame,i,an doctor &?(I teetotaler, went there disguised &? th" agent of a patent ccrset, Her revelations of the life are inconceivably painful.

PARLIAMENTARY PRANKS. ThE" hon. member," paid the Speaker of the New South Wales Parliament. is not in order in alluding to the Government as these men. Yon are qaite right, Mr Speaker they are not men." The hon. member is not in order in calling hon. members not men severely retorted the Speaker. Then," said the unabashed one-Davii Buohanan by name-"will von please inform mA bow I am to classify then, ? Are they old women ?" Order, order," was the Speaker's retort.

AN OFFICER SHOT DEAD. I Lieutenant ileath was an ofbeer on "Nelson." When the vessel was at the Dntch settlement of Kcepang, in Timor, he gave bin loaded rifle to a marine, who was standing by, to hold for him. Suddenly, while atilq in the hands of the marine therifle went off. Yiunt? Heath was not a couple of i ardf, distant, and the charge entered his body, passing tbrousrh the liver. The unfortunate officer fell on the deck of the vessel, dying instantly, and without uttering a w. rd or emitting a groan.

USING ADEAD MAN'S HAND TO MAKE A I SIGNATDRE. Btindwood, in New South Wales, has beta roused to indignation ugainst the Chinaman. This i. why. When Ah Jal'k died, several of bis sor- rowing relatives decided to acnox £ 85 he had left in the local bank. So they wrapped the body in a blanket deilared the dead man was ill.demanded the coin and one of the sons of Confucius direoted the dead man's hand In making the necessary signature. "You acknowledge this to he your mark ?" said the manager, unexpectedly. The mysterious silence that followed induoerl him to tesr all-Y the blanket. He was horrified to find that Ah .Tack waa dead.

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DEATH OF DR HUGHES, BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH. We record witb sincere regret the death of Dr. Joshua Hughes, the esteemed Bishop of St. Aeapb, who, afti>r a long but somewhat painless illness, died on Monday afternoon last at the ?dvauoed age of 82, tbe scene of his Ia«t moments being the Drummond Arms Hotel, Crieff, Perthshire, The deoeasod prelate was the son of the I.t. Mr Cbarles Hughes, of Newport, romuroKesmre, ana was bom in 1807. His school days began at Ystrad Meurig Grammar School, from whence he pro- ceeded to St. David's College, Lampeter, where be attained the highest honours, gainiug the degree of B.D. He was ordained deacon io 1830 by the Bishop of Bristol (Dr. Gay). and priest in 1831 by the Bishop of Bangor (Dr. Bethell). After serving the onraoy of Aberystwith, which was then in the parish of Llanbadarn, he was preferred to the living of Abergwili ill 1839, wbere he remained for seven years, during wbioh period he suoceeded in teaoh- ing the eminent scholar and distinguished divine, the late Bishop of St. David's (Dr. Thirlwall), the Welsh languagellnl846he was appointed to the liviDg of Llandovery, where be remained 25 years. Whilst there he became visitor to the distinguished Welsh College at Liaceovery, and was appointed prootor in Coovooation for the diocese of St David's. In the year 1870, on the recommendation of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, be was elevated to the bishoprio of St Asaph, on whch occasion he had conferred upon him the degree of D.D. by the Arob. bishop of Canterbury. In the elevation of the Rev. J. Hughes to the See of St, Asaph, Mr Gladstone paid a high tribute and honour to the Welsh people, and showed how well he nnderBtood the needs of Welsh Chnrobmen by appointing a Welsh-speaking bishop. The Rev. J. Hughes is the first Welshman since 1727 who was thus bonournd by being a bishop in his own oountry. It is true Dr John Thomap, a native of Dolgeiley, was nrminated for the see in 1743, but before his consecration he was transferred to tbe diocese of Lincoln. He was consecrated 70th Bishop of St. Asaph by the Arch- bishop of Canterbury, assisted by the Bishops of London, St. David's, and other prelates, and took up his residence shortly afterwards at St. Asaph, where, during bis ocoupancy of the see, he nominated the dean (Mr James), recently appointed head master of Cheltenham College, and the Arch. deacons of St. ABanh and Montgomery, and Canon Howell, as also the Chancellor, the Worshipful F. ,Teune. Canon Hugh Jones is the only member of the Chapter who was there attbe Bishop's entbrone- ment. Bisbop Hughes was a prelate of retiring habits, mainly ocoupied in tbe work of his diooese, rarely seen in the House of Lords, and taking compara- tivaly little active part in the proceedings of the Upper House of Convocation, where, however, he apokle to the point on subjects affeoting the Church in Wales. He took great interest iu his diocesm conferences. He was a great advocate for co- operation between the clergy and laity, and he devoted great; care to his confirmations. The Bishop's contention was that Lampeter men not only knew the wants of Wales, but were quite as well trained in general kro vledge by a succession of very able tutors as graduates of the old universi. ties, and were more adapted for the requirements of parishes in the interior. The Bishop was a decided Evangelical—the most prononnced member of that school of thought ever nominated by Mr Gladstone-and some of his appointments in the earlier years of his episcopate evoked much adverse comment; but on the whole his distribution of q e wan in favotir of natrouage wan fair. He wan in favour of k system of travelling preachers, able to address the people in their own tongne, going abont to assist the parochial clergy. He was no orator himself, but his sermons were earnest and practical, and his confirmation addresses very pointed. He had a very kind manner with children; ai d though he was an ardent supporter of 13hureb Defence, he never came into collision with the Nonconformists. He married, in 1832, Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas M'Kenney, of Ullard, Kilkenny, and widow of Captain Wynn, of County Kerry- The Bishop was at the Lambeth Chutoh Con- ference. and np to the day of being seized with the paralytic stroke wrote his own letters and oondnoted all the correspondent connected with the diocese. He bore bi8 82 veart, well, and to the last, for an old man, was vigorous. Mrs Huehes and several I other members of the Bishop's family were present at hiq deceape. Tne death of Dr. Hughes oreates a vacancy on the episcopal bench, and admits the Bishop of Exeter to the House of Lords. The vacant deanery falls to the Crown. Sir J. P. Deane, Q.C., Vioar-General of the Pro. vince of Canterbury, has taken possession of the spiritualities of theses during the vaoaroy in the name of the Arobbishop of Canterbury. Sir John Hassard, Principal Registrar of the Province of Canterbury, has appointed Mr J. Sisson, of St. Asaph, to act as registrar during the vacancy. The O'west.ry Advertiser alludes to the decease of the late Dr. Hughes in the following terme:- The news of the death of the venerable Bishop of St. Asaph will be received withotft surprise; all the activities and enjoyments of life ceased for him months ago, and to pass away is in snoh circum- stances a merciful release. But there will be sincere regret among many persons that the oareer of a good man, who sought in all thinss to discharge faithfully the duties of his high office, has come to an end, though he was fall of years, and bis years. were full of work. The prelate whose long life came to an end on Monday at Crieff will be remembered aq the first Welsh bishop of modern days, and his episcopate will mark a fresh era in the history of the Anglican Church in Wales, an era in which the Welsh branch of the Church is to be governed with an eye to Welsh interests and not for the purpose of filling English pookets. The new bishop will live in more stirring times; and, unless he is a very old man will most likely see the Disestablishment of the Church in Wales. The London Echo says -The aged Bishop of St. Asaph is dead, and the Law Officers of the Crown and the Archbishop of Canterbury will accordingly be saved any further perplexity as to the proper oonrse to be taken when a bishop is incompetent to resign. The deceased prelate, who was in his 82nd year, has held the See of St. Asaph since 1870, when Mr Gladstone gratified tl B Welshmen by giving them a Welsh Bishop. If Lord Saiisbuty is wise he will appoint a Welshman in place of Dr. Hughes. The diffloulty is thst there are so few distinguished Welshmen in the Church. The Dean of Llandsff. though not a Welshman bred and born, has a Welsh name and disarms hostility; but he is not only growing old, but has refused a mife already. Dr. Jayne is a Welshman, but he h9.S just been ap- pointed to Chaster, There are two Perownes, one of whom is Dean of Peterborough and the other Prebendary of St. Asaph. But better an English- man than a Welsh parson who spends his time in banning his fellow-country men of a different com. munion from his own. The death of the aged Bishop of St. Asuph, which took place at Crieff, affords (says the Manchester Examiner) escape from a very awkward dilemma, So completely was the bishop stricken down bv his prolonged illness that be was not only unable to make any arrangement for tho fulfilment of his episcopal duties, but coold not even give his sanc- tion to arrangements made on his behalf. The prostration under which he laboured also deprived him of all powpr of making way for a successor by resignation. Now that the increased activity of the English Church has imposed on its chief ministers far more strenuous duties than thev once bad to perform, the polioy of appoints elderly and worn out clergymen, however respectable from their lives or sanctity, seems to be open so serious objection. The See of St. Asaph is not a very populous or trying one, but it has been practically without a bishop for years. THE FUNERAL. It has been arranged that tbe funeral or ttie late Lord Bishop, whose death oocorred on Monday. shall take place to-day (Friday). TheremMns?n be interred on the west side of the cathedral, where several other bishops have been buvied, and will be placed in a vault in whioh the remains of his lord- ships son and step-daughter have been deposited. No interment has taken place iu the grounds of the cathedral for some six years, the last funeral being that of a lady named Luxmore

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BANGOR BANKRUPTCY COURT. Before the Registrar, Mr J. Glyuna Jones, Re William Humbcrtton* Moatyn Arms Hotel, ot. A..aplt.-ThlS debtor appeared for his public exam- i ination. His liabilititn amounted to £ 583 8s 2d aud, after deducting £40 13" 6d in renpect of rent.. taxes, Sco., the deficiency was £ 52017a 7d. The debtor attributed his failure to nafl traue ami tiii)e»s in the family. The observations of the ottisinl receiver (Mr William Evans) were lo tbe eficd Uiut the debtor, who filed his ow,- it tition, httfl fa intention to offer a composing.. The bnlk oi liabilities were for trade debtB, but be owed for money said to have been lent to him bv b.o mother-in-law, Mrs Varnon,and £30 for money bor- rowed from a bank on the guarantee of a neighbour. About four years ago be retired from the Salford Hotel, Salford, which he bad conduoted at a loss, witb;clooiu cash and some furniture, and he con- sidered that he was theu solvent on the ground that he did not think he would be oalled upon to pay Mrs Varnon. Most of the 2100 had been lost befose be entered opuu the business at St. Asaph, when he had Duly ?0 of Mpit&). hich he used, with £ 60 of borrowed moc?v, to purchase fnrnitare. etc. Taking into Moount his debt to Mrs Varnon, it was clear tbat he bid not been solvent for many yeMN. —Mrs Vrnon's represectahves said that the debtor's statements as to the mouey he owed Mrs Varnon were intrue, as she always expeoted to be repaid with interest,-The examination was closed subj, ot to the production of additional accounts and the signing of notes. lie Henry Jeffs, Fishmonger, Coltcyn Bay.-This debtor before he came to Colwyn Bay, a few months ago, carried on business as a wnolesale fishmonger at Great Grimsby. Hie liabilities amounted to £ 10l9 15s 9d, and his assets to R246 8s 4d, leaving a deficiency of 9773 7s 5d. The causes of failure were b&d trade and bad debts, the official receiver's observations being to the effect, that in April last the debtor, having about 2200 from the sale of the business at Great Grimsby, purchased a fishmonger's business at Colwyn Bay, for which he paid E200 cash and Rave a bill of sale for other 9200. In July be executed a deed of arrangement, undertaking to pay his creditors 3s in the pound, but although his brother guaranteed the composition, the terms of the agreement were not carried out. In the oonrte of his examination the debtor said that, owing to the keen competition in the fish market at Great Grimsby, he had very often been obliged to s'lI at a loss in order to keep up his oustom.-The Offioial Receiver: Then many of the Grimsby fish- mongers may be bankrupts ?-The Debtor: Many of them have become bankrupts daringthepast two or three years.—Mr Stubbs, of Colwyn Bay, appeared for one of the creditors, Mr Charles Jeffs, the debtor's brother.—The examination was adjourned, pending the holding of a creditors' meeting. Re Thomas William, Tyddyn Uchaf, Llanllechid. -The public examination of this debtor, woo is a quarry labourer, also took place. His liabilities amounted to E86 4a 3d, with no assets, the oanses of failure being long sickness and inability to earn anything through having been hart in the quarry. According to the official receiver, the bankrupt had commenced working as a quany labourer eleven years ago. A creditor issued a writ for 922 in 1883, and in October of that year a sale took place. With the exception of £10, the remainder of the liabilities were small shop-debts.—The examination was closed subject to the signing of notes. He Isaac W. Evans, Compton House, Carnarvon. -This debtor, a boot and shoe dealer, appeared for his public examination, his liabilities amoanting to jE386 14s, and the assets to £ 61. Previous to Octo- ber, 1884, the bankrupt bad resided in America, and he came over to Penygroes, Carnarvonshire, where he bought the business of a boot and shoe dealer for £137, his capital amounting to £95. Sub- sequently he carried en a similar bosiness at 398, Stanley-road, Liverpool, and lastly at Compton House, Carnarvon. In November last, being pressed for money, be assigned all the stook, effects, and certain book debts to his father, who, according to the official receiver's observations, disposed of the stook, consisting of about 1500 pairs of boots, for JE150. but he bad at Penyeroes 176 pairs which were not so assigned. The Bankrupt, who caid that the assignment to his saveral hundreds of poands, denied having any pro- perty in America.-The examination was ad- father was given in full di?,obarge of a debt of journed. Re Charles Turner, Confectioner, Vaw-street, Den- bigh. -Thia bankrupt, whose liabilities amounted to £183 8s lOd and his assets to £45 9s 3Jd, appeared for his public examination. The alleged causes of failure were loss of trade by fire, illness of family, and losses by trade.—The Official Receiver said that the bankrupt, who had been at one time a journeyman baker at Den. bigh. commenced basiness for himself three and a half years ago with a capital of £40. He had never made any attempt to ascertain his financial position during the time he had teen in the business.—The examination was closed. Tbe following examinations were adjourned :— John Roberts, Emmanuel House, C'olwyn Bay; John Williams, timber merchant, Denbigh; and David Hughes, grocer, Penmaenraawr.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN SOUTH WALES. An alarming railway collision occurred at Car- diff on Saturday evening. A beavily-laden pas- senger train from Penarth was rounding the ourve where the Taff Railway joins the Great Western Railway main line a few hundred yards below Car- diff Station, when the train ran in a Great Western engine which was loose preparatory to going into the sheds. The latter was very much damaged, bnt being without a load behind it gave way to the on-comitig train. The driver and some of the passengers were severely shaken, and the guard had a finger out, off.

A house situated in the Quartier Bellemai, Mar- seilles, and inhabited by Italians, suddenly col- lapsed on Monday night. Seven of the inmates were killed and nine injured, two of them seriously. The Gminen for January has just reached us. The literary matter presented to the readers is of a high standard of merit. The Rev. E. Roberts continues his articles upon the Welsh Language. Professor Rowlands, B.A., ably discusses in the affirmative the question whether the Welsh National Eisteddfod is worth the time and money spent upon it. An article taking up the negative side of this question will appear in the next issue. The Rev. M. O. EVAns writes upon Sectarian Creeds and Con- feBeions," and the Rev. H. Elfed Lewis upon Welsh Poetry." The matter presented to the readers in this issue will be found very interesting. The Geninen well maintains its character of a national magazine. Publishers: D. W. Davies and Co., Carnarvon. Ladv Alfred Paget has rented a villa at Cannes, where she-will "winter with her family. The following advertisement has appeared in the London papers:—" Annie Roberts, Sinking Scholar &t the Royal College of Music, returns her sincere thanks to an unknown donor for fifty pounds. Margaret Lady Sandhurst, who has been elected for Brixton, and is therefore a council calleaffne of Captain Verney, is a very remark- able County Councillor, with exceptional gifts, both social and magnetic. Some of the feats of healin which she has been able to perform at her little hospital in Northern London nre almost incredible were they not well authenti- oded, °S River fishing and sea fishing were formerly prosperous industries in Wales. The Dovey was once the scene of a busy little community of fishermen, who were able to make comfortable licing by the exercise of their skill. Now, how ever, the river from Dinas to the estuary is in the hands cf an exclusive club of thirty, mostly strancers and the number of fish is diminishing from year to year. Banished from the river, the fishermen betook themselves to the estuary or common waters, and their industry is now further hampered by tne bea i?sher)ea Act. Much sympathy is felt with the men, and an inquiry is much needed to ionstigate their com- p?int". and to take all steps necessary to remove the hardship now existing. The spell of peace is over for the present, and we are novr <rradually tiding into a period of political viirour and activity. Parliament, it is said, will meet on the 21st of February, and the Parnell Commission has r'sumed its sittings. Seeing how monotonous and protracted the pro- ceedings of the Commission have so far been, it is refreshing to learn that hy next week it is expected that a more interesting stage of the enquiry will be reached. The Attorney-General hopes to approach the subject of tbefamoug letters," in which case pu?lic attention will again be focuased upon the proceedings of the Commission.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY Traffic Return, Week ending January 20tb, 1889 Passengers, Parcels, Ac., and Mails,££,6,977 Merchandise, Minerals, and Live Stock.£121 8f4 Totalfor the ..eek.£Iq 851 CcrK-eMndiot week in 1888 £ 183,724 i At-areaaie to data>«.«> £ 540,111 I F. H&RLBY,Ucm&Rir.

INTERESTING TO MEDICAL MEN. Dr. Riva reports the oaae of a women who was I wholly blind in one eye. She suffered from a I carious tooth on this side, and after its extraction the vision was restored.

I A SERVANT GIRL S étÚME. I At Lancaster JCastle oil Saturday a young girl, named Elizabeth Annie Rendall, waseammitted for trial on a charge of arson. The girl was in service at a farmhouse, and when arrested she confessed that as the baby was cross she went into the barn, struck a match, and set fite to a quantity of brackens stored inside, in order to quieten it.

COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL. Another seriona collision occurred in the Chan- nel, off the South Foreland, on Satarday night, re- snlcing in the loss of two lives and the sinking of the full-rigged ship" Denbighshire." Thelatterwas being towed from Dunkirk to Cardiff, when, in calm and clear weather, the steamer "Duke of Buckingham ran into ber and caused her to sink.

LORD DERBY ON EMIGRATION. Lord Derby, in be course of an address at the annual meeting of the Liverpool Self-help Emi- gration Society on Monday, referred to the con- stant growth of the population of this country, and advocated unambitious schemes of emigration, to be prudently directed so as not to irritate the Colonial authorities or peoples. By such means, he thought, a partial remedy would be found for the difficulties whioh faced thsm.

ALLEGED "MIRACULOUS CURES." I Many sick persons and sufferers have flocked to Dalbeitb Convent, Glasgow, where Canon Larkin. the young Roman Catholio priest, is reported to have performed" miraoulous oares." Pertons have, it is said, entered his presence witb crutohes and left without them. Daniel Flinn,a miner,aged 70,who has been afflioted for many years with rheumatism, and was scarcely able to stand, walked smartly away," The oares are said to b, performed by prayer and the laying on of hands."

FIRE AT A BALL. During the progress of a ball at the residence of Mr Henry Nixon, 89, Cromwell-gardeus, South Kensington, au alarm of fire was raised at the back of tbe premises. l'be guests left the house in harried confusion and assembled in the street. Foar fire engines and an escape were promptly on the scene, but the timely aotion of the household rendered their services nnneceseary. The fire originated through some curtains ooming into contact with a lighted candle which had been left on a dressing table in the room, the contents of which were only slightly damaged.

WHAT DID SHE MEAN ? As the eleven o'olock train from Liverpool to Rancorn was approaching Halebank on Saturday night the passengers heard heartrending soreams, and a boy shouting Don't, mamma, don't." On tbe train stopping the guard found a boy of aboat six years, who said his mother had attempted to throw him oat of tbe carriage and had him balf- way through- the window. The terrified boy was placed under the care of passengers in another compartment, and the woman, who was drank, was locked in. At Runcorn she was set at liberty on giving the name of Mrs Hazleburst, Jaoksons-lane.

A COUNTY COUNCIL CANDIDATE'S EXPERIENCES. A County Council candidate, describing his ex. periences with lady voters during the coarse of his canvass, says :-One old lady insisted on entering into general topics of conversation, and introduced roe to three of her daughters. Another said, Ah I I{suppose I should have a vote; yes "-meditatively —" I dare say I have. But I shan't up it. I don't care about these things. Hadn't yr setter see my son 1" Said another, Now, look yon 'ere, sir 1 I don't care nothink about this bact. All I want is plenty o' shirts to wash and gentlemen's collars to irou, and if YOIl can send me some o' them I shall be much obliged to you." In vain I showed that this would be a dear case of bribery and cor- ruption, and that besides I lived seven miles off, bad a private laundry, and so on. II Ho I" she said, "don't let Jhave no bribery, o' course. But jest look 'ere at this sbirt I've done for Mr Jones." She turned to get it. but I Was gone.

WAS HE A WELSHMAN ? A man named Roberts, who had a mania for in- salting women, indulged his scoaadrelly propensity at the expense of two respectable ladies in Genoa, Nebraska, and was arrested and lodged in jail. About midnight, a mob of masked men entered the jail, and carried Roberts to the woods, where a rope was tied about his neck, and he was drawn np five times. Being still alive after the fifth time, he was laid ont on the ground with a note pinned to his coat ordering him to leave the country as soon as he regained consoiousne«s. He has not been seen sinoe.

FIGHT IN A BAPTIST CHAPEL. A Stourbridge correspondent states that a scan- dalous seene was Witnessed on Sunday evening in the Baptist Chapel at Cradley. For ac-me time pait the congregation has been divided by a bitter feud, and unseemly disrates have resulted, which have sometimes bad to be settled in the local courts of law. On Sunday night a strong body of partisans in the gallery attempted to foroe an entrance into the body of tbe ohapel. A stubborn resistance was offered, and after a straggle, lasting forty minutes, the gallery man ..re defeated, and driven out of the chapel.

THE BRADFORD U U RDEit. T fI i tt,&D iO-R- The solicitors acting for Barrett have received a letter written by the Town Clerk of Bradford, on behalf of the Watob Committee of the Corporation, with reference to a communication from them asking whether it is intended to compensate their olient. The Town Clerk says, however paiuful the eiroumstances may be, it appeared totheCommittee tbat the police bad throughout acted to the best of their judgment in the honest discharge of their dnty, and neither they nor the local authority were responsible for the result of the proceedings before the Bench, more especially as the Treasury had 1 taken up the prosecntion.

HEROISM OF A SERVANT GIRL. An annual mothers' dinner was held at Dor- king on Monday. An interesting incident was the presentation by Mrs Cubitt, wife of Mr Cabitt, M.P., to Minnie Matilda Murrell, aged fifteen, of an illuminated address and £5, a.wa.rded to her by the Society for the Protection of Life from B'ire. She was a servant at the honse of Mr Icglis, in High- street, whioh a short time ago was burnt out. There were three children iq a bedroom on the first floor. She rescued one, and then, rushing up again, took the others down through the blinding smoke and heat. On her way she dropped one on the stairs, but afterwards groped baok and recovered it. Finally, she handed out the two children from tho front window to tbe people in the street. The heroic girl bad an enthusiastic recep- tion.

A CONVICT CEMETERY. A half mile east of the prison, upon a woody knoll, the oonviut burying ground is situated. It is an inoloBure of about two acres, and tbe only resemblance the spot has to a City of the Dead is in the long rows of monnds that extend east and west, denoting tbe resting plaoe of the unhonoared dead. No stately monuments here, no marble shafts or broken columns erected by loving hands in memoryof the departed; no beautiful flowers or grassy lawns, not even a respectable marble slab of any kind to recall the memory of the malefactors. All identity is lot. When the dead is baried beve tbe grave is marked by a small pine board, on which is printed the prison number, name, age, and date of death; the elements soon erase these, and in a short time no one can tell the occupants of these :at te-"Ji:nC t. o::no: t1 I I

1 THE PARNELL COMMISSION. At the sitting of the Parnell Commission on Wednesday, Sir Henry James continued the read, ing of the letters which had been seized at the Land League offices. 10 one of these documents Mr Campbell, M P., promised to superintend the' re- moval of the League hooks from Dublin to London. Sir Henry afterwards handed in other documents of the League authorising the defence of certain prisoners.- Evidence waa then tendered by Mr R. Maeeey Sanders, land agent in the County of Cork, who narrated several cases of intimidation and boy- cotting.—Denis Tobin, a moonlighter," wis called, and examined by theAttorney-General. The witness stated that he was sworn in as a moonlighter" by one Molneruv,» a prominent member of the Land League. Witness had taken part in raids, and had assisted in the sJanaht^lj of oattle. He understood that the payment be had received bad come from the central office of the Land League. Eventually he was himself boycotted for having taken a farm from which the previous tenart had been evicted, and his wife was wounded.-A storekeeper in Cork gaol deposed that Cronin, a member of the League, brought food to prisoners awaiting trial for "mOOD" lighting," ana that the same priaoners were visited by Mr T. Healy and by Mr John O'Conner, members of Parliament. The Court again adjourned after other witnesses had been oalled.

Gossip of the Week. No less than six female barbers ply the razor in Brooklyn. It is stated that Mrs Cleveland has violated the traditions oi the White House and gone calling. Her Majesty will hold a drawing-room at Buckingham falace on Tuesday, February 26th. The wedding presents of Mrs Chamberlain are shown in the Birmingham Art Gallery. There were 10,000 visitors last week. Rider Haggard has become a vegetarian. He found by experiment that he could work longer and to better effect on a meatless diet. Mias Hu King Eng is a Chinese beauty, who is making quite a sensation in Washington sooiety. She is said to be a relative of the Emperor of China. Miss Ellen Terry's portrait as Lady Maobeth will probably figure in the Academy this year. She will appear reading her lord's letter by the light of the brazier. Tbe German Emperor's birthday is to-morrow (Sunday). Most of the German Sovereigns are expeoted in Berlin to renew their assaranoe of attachment to his Majesty, The Queen of itbe Belgians is rnnning a ladies' magazine with her young daughter and the Queen of Roumania as her leading contributors. Mem. for ladies. Actually the turban and jhe marabout feather are coming in again for the EJyséean receptions at Paris. Misses Mary and Carrie Hastings, are daughters of President Cleveland's sister. Miss Mary is at present a teacher in the Houghten seminary, and Miss Carrie,who has considerable talent for painting, is studying art in New York, The Empresa Frederick is a most accomplished player on both the violin and the guitar, and not a day passes bat she amnses bereelf for an hour or two with one of these instruments. The Duke of Marlborough manages his orchid houses on business principles. Whenever a rare flower turns up among the imported speoimens he sells it. He never gives 50 guineas, or anything like that sum. for a plant, but be sold one the other day for 190 guineas to Mr Sanders, the famous dealer. The outcry about the dearth of dancing men again rings through the salons of Mayfair and BBlgravis, *nd the. wail of the wall. flower is heard in tlie land. Mrs Chamberlain has already betn photographed, and there is quite a block in the pedestrian traffio on most days outside the New-street establishment at Birmingham in the window of which the lady's likeness is exhibited. It is stated that Dr. W. H. Rassell is preparing his reminiscences. The first of war correspon- dents, his experiences on the battlefield will, of oourse, be the great attraction of his memoirs. He is also a brilliant raconteur, and possesses a tund of good stories if he likes to tell them. Years ago I heard him" chaff Thackeray at the Fielding Club, with a laugh all on his side. The Emperor of China has a large domestic establishment, consisting of no less than 426 per- sara. Of these, 75 are astrologers, 50 are priests, and 30 doctors. His health and fortunes are, there- fore, well looked after, and his comfort equally so to all apnearance, as his suite also includes 50 tailors and 25 fan-bearers. Mrs Langtry, as it happens, has sucoeeded. But she might have failed-dislutrously; and but for her beauty she would have failed. She first appeared on the stage. at the Haymarket, in December, 1881, when she was 29 years old. The piece was She stoops to Conquer." In the interval Mrs Langtry has made a fortune, to which the Yankees have been the most admiring contributors. A man considerably the worse for drink was, the other day, ejected from a fashionable church in New York. The clergyman, whose personal ugliness was only equalled by his deep learning and benevolence, was explaining a diffionlt point in theology when the ejected one, unnoticed, popped his head roond the door. QIh h the clergyman; "Beloved brethren, let me makft.niyself a little plainer." You can't do it, guvlnor, if yor tried for a month," responded the tipsy ejected one. Her Majesty Queen Victoria possesses, says Trade, Pittance and Recreation, what is probably the finest Sevres dessert service in the world, and it is kept in the private apartmenls in Windsor Castle, being arranged in cabinets round the green drawing- room, It is valued at £ 50,000, was made for Louis XVI., and purchased by George IV., when Prince Regent. The ground is of grotb'tu, with gildings by the renowned Legoay, and exquisite medallion subjects by Dodin. A. fancy-dress ),11 is a very charming form of amusement, and it is enormous fan to meet on n't friends and feel in doubt as to their identity. Bat the humour is apt to become a little one-sided (the Manchuter Ma;l thinks) when one gay and festive reveller takes advantage of his disguise to serve a writ upon a brother gay and festive one. Yet this farcicul-comedy episode actually took place at a fancy ball held recently, unless rumour is not onee more guilty of berfivoorite pastime of romancing. Mrs Langtry has, says the London Echo, a great deal to answer for. This is unmistakably sug- gested hy the revelations just made in the Law Courts, about the tricks of persons oalling tbem. selves theatrical agents. Because Mrs Langtry passed without any training of any sort, without even the A B C of the dramatic art, direct from Society" to the stage, many a young woman of a romantic temperament, and gifted with good looka, fancies that she, itoo. can make her fortune behind the footligbts. These young women are the agents' dupes. In the Woman's Wor'd for this month we read that one hundred pounds has been paid for a fan. The writer says that this extravagant price was not paid for an old fan of historic or artistic interest, not for a relio to be preserved to show new genera- tions how their forefathers lived but a hundred pounds for a modern fan, to be carried, soiled, and rained." The art of the painter is not enoouraged, we think, but degraded and no one, and no art is benefited by the extravagance. We can say, with onr informant, of all vanities, thie is the vainest; of all luxurious waste, the moat wanton." yes I'll tell you bow I managed it, my dear," said t??ifeofa well-known member of Parlia- ment to her friend, who had been asking her how she managed to got her husband to pay her extrava- gant dressmaker's and milliner's bills without a scene year after year. "It is like this, dear I always wait till I know the Army or Navy Eati- mates are being voted at the House and then, when Edward comes home late some night and tells me he has been helping to pass votes all the evei.ing, I at once get. out Elise's latest, bill and ask him for a cheque. For Edward has been bearing and voting so long about enormous amouuts- thousands and millions, yoa know, my dear-that Elise's total seems the merest trifle in comparison. And so be pays it without even a murmur." Friend, the man who "invented" the "electric" sugar, about which we have heard so much lately, died of alcoholism. Dr John B. Crosby, who attended him, declared to a reporter of the New York Ilerald that be used to drink one gallon of the best Vw-Jidy that he conld get every day. It was simply idle to try to stop him. He was accostomed to having his own will gratified, and could not be broken from it. He oonld talk entertainingly on any subject, but when that talk would drift towards chemistry, he was positively charming. It was a queer family the Friends bad at their home in East Sixtieth-street in New York, while they were mani- pulating the moneyed men of the two continents. Friend himself had a great love for musio, and, in addition to a viana, ho had handsome music-boxes, one of which oost 1500 dollars, placed in every room. When he would become mellow with brandy he would order each of these boxes wound up and set the whole agony in motion. To intensify the matter, be would insist that Mrs Friend, who didn't know ¡ one note of masic from another, should play a ga- votte upon the grand piano." Noah Brooks has written an article on Stanley for te February nomber of St. Nicholas, in wbioh he eays:—" Stanley was born in Wales, near the little town of DmMgh.tand bis parents were so poor that when be was about three years old he was sent to the poorhouse of St. Asaph to be brought up and educated. When he was thirteen years old he was turned loose to take care of himself. Young though he was, he was ambitions and well in- formed. As a lad, he taught sohool in the village of Mold, Flintshire, North Wales. Getting tired of this, be made his way to Liverpool, Eng- land, when he was about fourteen years of age, and there he shipped as cabin boy on board a sailing veseel bound to New Orleans, in the promised land to whioh so many British-born vonths ever turn their eyes. In New Orleans he fell in with a kindly merchant, a Mr Stanley, who adopted him and gave him bis came; for our young hero's name was John Rowlands, and he was not Stanley until be became an American, as yon see. Mr Stanley died before Henry came of age, leaving no will, and the lad was again left to shift, for himself. Young Stanley lived in New Orleans until 1851, when he was 21 years old, having been born in 1840. Then the great Civil War broke out and Ptanley went into the Confederate Army."

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Political Notes. Earl Compton is very likely to be invited te con- test Barnsiey. Mr Kenny, M .P.. is quite wtthog to place his resignation in the hands of the Liberal CM F Another electoral v&Mnoy. This time at St. Austell. The state cf the health of Air W. A. M'Arthar, the present memoer, will compel him to live abroad for a while. It will be a stiff ftghfc. Mr M'Arthar only defeated Mr Brydges-Williams in 1887 by 211. Lord Derby, addressing a great meeting of Unionists on Wednesday at Ashton under-Lyne, contended that the accusations levelled at Liberal Unionists as seceders were wholly absurd when applied to such gentlemen as Mr Chamberlaii and others. They objected to the Home Rule proposal because they were Liberals and because it was a reactionary measure. As to the Irish members, if they took the most active amongst them, he would ask whether they were men upon whose judgment they could rely. He did not denounce them or criticise them but if any one were 10 say that they were I- peculiar products of an imperfect civilisation," that description would not err en the side of COWNTT COUNCILS AND POLlTlcs.-Somebody, writing in the Pall "tall Gazette, s-ya that the programme of the majority of the members of the London County Coencil is so advanced as to strike dismay into the hearts of the Government. Such a result might certainly be produoed if, instead of devoting itself to the matters which Parliament has delegated to it, the new Council were to meddle with groand rents, the endowments of the City Com- panies, and other questions with which it has no power whatever to deal. But there is no reason to anticipate that anything of the sort will happen. Disregarding party politic) in a. large measure, if not entirely in many cases, the ratepayers have retarued men of common Bense aud business capacity, who will, we may assume, address them- selves to the work which properly calla for their attention. Even if the programme in the mind of the Pall Mall writer should hereafter call for serious notice the" dismay" would be conspicuous by its absence. Mr Chamberlain on Wednesday e veniiag delivered bis annual address to his constituents. He com- menced by referring to bis two visits to America and their objects, expressing his regret that the fisheries eaty had not found acceptance with the American Seaate. As to the County Council eleotiotis and recent elections in Scotland, he denied that they showed that the cause of Home Rule had advanced ou the contrary, he believed it to be farther in the background than ever. He spoke with approval of the passing of the Local Government Bill, some of the good points of which, however, were killed by the attentions of the Glad- stonians, but ia the coming session he hoped that its defects would be remedied, and tbat the Scotch Local Government Bill and the oondition of the crofters and cottars would receive attention. Having spoken in favour of a review of the system of national defences, the right hon. gentleman enlarged upon two subjeots which might very well be dealt with by a Unionist Govern men t-free schools and land reform. He then dealt at some length with tbe subject of Ireland, pointing out the necessity and advantages of removing canses for discontent, at the same time admitting that much bad already b3en accomplished in this direction. Mr A. B. Forwood, M.P., speaking at a meeting of Conservatives in Skelmersdale on Saturday evening, said that he was not surprised at tbe result of the Govan election,' and be did not, mean to exaggerate the viotory gained by their opponents, but he thought that it was not right that it should be minimised. It ought to prove an additional in- centivo to the Unionists to maintain their princi- ples, or else they would behaving a claim for Home Rule from Scotland and perhaps from Wales as well as from Ireland, As to the County CODncil elec-I tions they had not been satisfactory, for while the Conservatives had acted npon the non-political principles of the bill, the Liberal Pirty had treated the elections as entirely political, and they now laid claim to party victories alt over the country. In future it would be necessary to have a more definite understanding. The Hon, G. N. Onrzon also addressed the meet- ing, and said that be was perfectly certain that the more men studied their newspapers and their books of reference the more surely would they, whether miners or of any other class of workmen, develop Conservative instincts. A change had come over the district since Mr Forwood bad become its representative, and there was little doubt that it was due to tbe diffusion of sound knowledge. With opportunities of independent study, he did not see why every mining constituency in the oouutry should not become Conservative,

Foreign Intelligence. The new commercial treaty between Italy aDd Switzerland was signed in Rome on Wednesday. Under the presidency of King Milan, the Servian Constitutional Committee, Bitting in Belgrade, on Wednesday, resolved to send delegates to Denmark, France, and Greece to study the electoral system of those countries. In Madrid, on Wednesday, c. Royal decree was gazetted granting pardon for press and political offences, and oommuting the sentences passed upon soldiers who had taKen part in the rising of 1886. The Bordeaux police are engaged in tracing the circumstances of a tragedy in which the victim is a well-attired lady of about 25, whose body was found in a ditch much mutilated, an attempt having been made to reduce it to ashes in order that recogni- tion might be impossible. At Cairo, on Wedneaday, the new wing, which has been added to the infirmary, in commemoration of the Queen's Jubilee, was opened in the preseuce of a distinguished gathering of Enropeaus and Egyptians. Proceedings against the Zulu chiefs were re- sumed, ou Wednesday, at Ekowe, where one of the prisoners contended that the Znluland Government was responsible for the disturbances because it had supported Usibepu. He demanded a most search- ing investigation.

Jokes and Jokers. I I'm playing on words. as the fireman exclaimed "I??In extinguishing a fire in a library. Youri is » very hard cuse," as the countryman said to the oyst or, when he could not get him opeu. Id wring your uosefor you," as the farmer observed to the pig. Towher-11 How is the eart: divided ?" Pupil—'• By earthquakes, When is a lilmp in a window like a tombstone ?— When it is set up fur a late husband. Some people are so constituted that they can never see the bright side of anything but a sovereign. It was a little Boston girl who, when asked to define faith, i eplied-" It is believing what you know isn t true." The young man on the look out for a sott place," through a dislike for honest hard work, will find one undet his hat. Beauty is but skin diep, they say but as long ns skin remains in fashion, that is deep enough for all practical purposes, Wtvaein consists the humanity of a hor"" ? He parts with the very bit in his mouth, and is narer deaf to the call of wo(el, A schoolboy, asked to define the word st)b," answered, 1, It meaus when a fella don't want to cry, and it burst out itself When a woman is first married she desires to be called Madam" Some years Inter she te, Is tremend- ously complimented by being called Miss." Home Tooke, being asktd by George III. whether he played at cards replied," No, your majesty; the fact is, I o iimot tell a king from a knave." "I walked he floor all night, with the toothache," said he. To which the unfeeling listener replied. You didn't expect to walk the ceiling with it, did you ?" yo 4? What are the Jt teeth that come ?" asked a Lynn tei.f'ter to her class in physiology. Fivse teeth mum. replied a boy who had just walked up on the back .e"t A wise man has just rushed into print to declare that Jonah was swallowed by n earthquake. Oyes; that's reasonable enough instead of a fleh it was a fissure. There's one way to stop tho high hat nuisance at the theatres. It's to make the women sit at one side of the hou. and the men on the other as they do at Quakers' mee injs. Brown (who has given a fr'end a cigar)-" These are something like cigars ell old boy?' Jone. (dubiously regarding his)-" Yes-er. something like-what are tbey ?" tb,. y Why do driuk so much ?" 'said a ryman to a hopeloss drunkard. To drown mv troubles" And do you succeed in drowning them ?" "No. hang 'era they can swim." Father-" Come, Bobby, you are all tired out; so hnrry off to bed." Bobby (with a slow and reluctant movem"nt)—" Pa you oughn't to tell a boy to hurry when he's all tired out." Sunday schoolteacher—" Tommy do you know what ,tile meaning of' Amen' is ?" Tommy—" Yes; it's what the people say when th»y think its time for the minister to stop," Wife to unhappy husband-" I wouldn't wirrv John; it doeVt do any good to borrow trouble" Hnsband-" Borrow trouble ? Mv dear, I'm not borrow- Ing trouble I have got it to lend."

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News of the Week in Briet Victoria has enfranchised the police. The habit of opium-stnokilig is spreading among the young girls of Boston, U.S. St. Paul. Minnesota, has lost its opera-hoau-by fire. It was a building worth 200,000 dollars. The wonting of forests in India will yield a revenue of 4t lacs of rupees for the year 1888-89 The freedom cf Leeds. which Colonel North is receive, will be contained i<> a casket of gold. Joseph Joachim epeak. oi brahros' new Son. for violin and p'&no as "quite magnificent." The University Boat K-nnjhas been fixed to t. place on March the 30th In Queensland no h «- 'han 68,750 of tho t< '■ deaths are those of infai" William Perkics, a bnl boy of Owensborou Ky, has perfected a wrll ¡"!of machine for the bli The shares of the Panama Canal Comple Company will number 60,000, at 500 francs share. V Pennsylvania is about to pass a law requirijg the Stars and Stripes to float over every 8Cbr1 house in the State. The Raman Catbolio members of the Victor: Assembly are mostly Free Traders. In New SoIl, Wales they are Protectionists. It may not ba generally known that there it missionary attached to the General Post Offi Be is about to retire after 37 years' service. The December trade returns of France show decrease in every item as compared with t returns for December, 1887. One hundred and five collieries are now open India. Amongst them they raised nearly 1,400,0.3 tons of coal in 1886. Air B, C. Hemy, of Newcastle, is at presei engaged on a new mass for five voices, conceive upon a large scale. Germany is bent upon amending her patent lawr and there is also a prospect of long-wanted reform; being introduced in the Austrian patent laws. Mr McArthur, M.P., savs that he is not unwil), and has no intention of resigning his seat for 8 Austell. A curious feature of the theatres in Melbourne remarks a newspaper writer, is that they are mostly all equipped with billiard-rooms, The Banbury Board of Guardians have declined to prosecute parents who refase to vaccinate their children. Brockton (Mass.) last year turned out on an aver- age about forty-five pairs of shoes per minute for 300 days of teu hours each. The Danish Government, in its solicitude for the Esqnimaux, prohibits absolutely the introdaotioa of alcoholic liquor into Greenland. Fonr members of one family in Wellington county, Ontario, have been killed by falling trees in the same piece of forest within three months. Lord Loughborough, son and heir of the Earl of Rosslyn, is reported to be lying very ill at Stamford, suffering from inflammation of the bowels. Tbe death is annonnced of Dr. Francis Hueffer, the well-known musical critic, who was the first to recognise the merits of Wagner. Botany has a Borgia. Her name is Mrs Collins. She has just been convicted of poisoning her second husband; and it is declared she procured the death of her first spouse in the same way. It is stated that two or three days after the Horse- shoe Hotel had been sold, as we reported,for RW,000, the purchaser was offered £100,000 £ T the place by a great firm of caterers, and he decline'. Joseph Joachim speaks of Brahms' ne.r sonata for violin and piano as quite magnificent." It is to behoped that the great Hungarian violinist will bring it over with him to the Pope." With the death of James Winterbottom there OJcurs a break in a line of sextons at All Saints' Church, Glosop, which has reached through one family for 200 years. Among the brides who are to be presented at the first Dr&wing-Room are the Duchess of Marl- borough,Lady Alice Stanley, Mrs Chamberl&in,and Mrs Hulse. Tbe master of the Elbam Union, near Folks] stcne, declares tbat daring his twenty years'expe- rience be has not had a total abstainer under his charge. The three Socialist members of the Newcastle School Board polled 41,000 votes at a total cost of £5 4s. Friendly contributions amounted to a 2s 5d. There is tbus a balance in band of 18s 5d. Mr Gladstone has become wise by experience. I write this in English," says he to an Italian corre- spondent, "in order to avoid the risk of endanger exact expression by my faulty Italian." According to a London paper a fire-proof ruom is to be built outside of Hawarden Castle in order to store Mr Gladstone's correspondence, extending over his public life, and now numbering 60 000 letters. We have lost all our money at the Casino, and it is our intention to commit suicide." Thelsst words of a letter found in a room at Monte Carlo. On the floor were the bodies of a young ladjrind b man. Dr. McLaren has greatly felt the sultry heat. Australia, but he is now restored to his usual health, •'» and his, on the whole, greatly enjoyed his visit to the Antipodes, where he has been most cordially received. Several extensive forgeries in American stocks have just been discovered. In connection with these a man named Jervis bas been arrested at Philadel- phia, and another named Barton is wanted by the Macclesfield police authorities The fog was very dense in Glasgow and neighbour- hood on Wednesday. At an early hf • :n< and two horses stumbled into the 1. Canal aud were drowned. It was so dark th., assistance could be rendered, "f On Tuesday night Bertha Trintharo, of Wortben, Shrewsbury, aged six months, died from the scratch of a cat. The child, it appears, was playing with the animal on Tuesday week last and received slight soratch, and thongh attended by a medical man she grew worse, and died as stated. On Tuesday last the marriage of Lady Eleanor Lambton, sister to the Earl of Darham, with Lord Robert Cecil, third soil of the Marquis of Salisbury, was solemnised at St. George's Church, Hanover Square, London. The number of bills of sale in England and Wales registered at the Queen's Bench for the week end- ing January 19th was 175. The number in the corresponding week of last year was 224, and the corresponding weeks for the three previous years 252, 224, and 210. The firm of Bass is said to have £750,000 invested in casks uses a hundred tons of hops a week, at a cost of from ten to thirty guineas a hundredweight and has three breweries in the town of Burton, one of which alone cost E90,000 to build. William Moffat, a bombardier in the Royal Artillery,was charged at the Woolwich Police-court on Saturday with unlawfully taking from the pro- tection of her parents his niece, Emily Jane Sholton, under the age of eighteen years. He was committed for trial. The other day stones were thrown at the plate. glass windows of the jewellery shop of Mr Bow- man, Old-street, St. Luke's, London, a crowded thoroughfare, amasbing the glass and scattering the jewellery abont. The policeman on daty seized two tramps, and stood by the window until assist, ance arrived. A London correspondent bas recently compiled some interesting statistics as to the engine power of a different railways, from which it appears that the London and North-Western Railway has 2543 engines, the Midland 1777, the Great Western 1600, the North-Easlerti 1506, the Great Northern 829, the Great F astern 710, the Caledonian 690, the London and South-Western 533, the London, Brighton. and South Coast 410, and the Sooth Eastern 334.

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