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It is stated that 311-. A. W. Hall, the late member v. 111 oppose Sir William Harcourt's re-election for < ).\ AM d. committee of inijuiry into the question ot Chinese i uMiur and immigration has been granted by British Columbia. line, n The Britannic, of Ow White ?tar line, arrived ?n ?\ York on Sunday, making the passage n ? ;?t d.> sixteen h"ur. Th? Baltic has arrived ho n. time—S dny? twenty hours. At Govan, near Glasgow, Elizabeth Kyle, dress- maker, quarrelled with her sister, and going to a i ighbour's house she plunged her infant, twelve days old, into a cistern filled with water, an d held it down fur the puipose of drowning It. She was, however, interrupted by neighbours, who dragged the child from her. Respiration was with difficulty 11 -iored by a medical man. A policeman named Plumly has been arrested at Llansaulet, near Swansea, on a charge of murdering a night watchman at a colliery, named Fowltr. Fowkr was found insensible on the colliery premises, and (lied from the injuries he had received. The constable has been arrested on the evidence of a man who asserts that he saw the officer strike the old iaan with a thick stick. There had been disputes betwcen Plumly and Fowler. \t the Stafford Police Court two bakers have been charged by Mr. W. D. Cramp, her Majesty's inspector of factories, with the illegal employment of lo\ s under eighteen in the bakeaouses during the I ni"ht George Stonier was fined £ 1 and ?. 6d. (:(J7 ? and Albert Hammersley £ 1 and costs. The moceedin^s were taken under the Factoiy and Workshop Act, 1878, by which bakehouses we now re?ul&ted.
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DUAL DUTIES IN THE MINISTRY. ——— Mr. Gladstone, in taking upon himself the duties and responsibilities of the office of First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, follows an example set by several of his predecessors in Downing Street. The two posts were held simul- tancously by Walpole, Stanhope, Grenville, Pitt, Addington, Perceval, Canning, and by the late Sir Robert Peel in 1834 and 1835. Mr. Gladstone him i self also, at the close of his last administration, icted as l is own Chancellor of the Exchequer. In the early part of last century Mr. Gladstone might have employed his spare moments as Chan- cellor of the Exchequer and First Lord of the ,-e l l(,r Treasury by occasionally sitting with the barons oi | the Exchequer in what was called the Exchequer Chamber as a court of equity. In Michaelmas term, i 173), Sir Robert Walpole sat as Cha cellor of tlm Exchequer in the case of "Naish t. the East Indi i Company." In this case the barons were equally divided in opinion, and the decision given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, after a hearing of three lavs, is repoited to have given general satisfaction. The transfer of the equity jurisdiction of the Court i Exchequer to the Court of Chancery in 1S41 put ) fi; cad to the judicial duties of the Chancellor.— Mull Gazette.
WHAT THE WORLIJ SAYS.
WHAT THE WORLIJ SAYS. Prince Leopold, who was to have sailed on Tues- day in the Sarmatian for Canada, on a visit to Princess Louise, has postponed, but not given up, his intended voyage. Much gossip has taken place, and no little speculation, as to the reasons which have induced this change of plans at the last moment. The most probable solution I at hat which may be gathered by a glance at last week's record of Royal doings at Windsor, and of the visit which his Hoyal iiighness paid the week before. The young lady is, Ihear, very attractive, and is pos- eessed of a colossal fortune. Tile visit, in company with Princess Beatrice and Prince Leopold, to the Prince Consort's Mausoleum at Frogmoie, looks very like the impending announcement of a fresh break- down of the social barrier which until the marriage of the Marquis of Lome, existed between the Royal family and the English Aristocracy. Such a marriage, if it comes off, might have some advantages to recommend it; but on tne other hand, there would be endless difficulties as to the etiquette. True, precedence might be given by the Queen to the young lady by creating her "Royal Highness but it would be diihcult for society to treat the young Duchess oi Albany with the same forms of deference as it naturally does the Duchess of Edinburgh, the Duchess of Counaught, and the Princesses of our own j Royal Family. 1.5 Buckingham Palace haunted, or are the drains out of order, or what Her Majesty returns in hot haste, by special trains and steamers, to meet a great political emergency and save unnecessary delay; but instead of going to the official residence provided for her in the centre of London, she withdraws to Windsor Castle and so, apart from the labour in- vol ved to the statesmen concerned, the crisis is pro- longed over many days, instead of being settled, as it otherwise might have been, in the course of forty- eight hours. The object of the Prince of Wales in calling on Mi. Gladstone was to assure him. that he had no sympathy with the hostility to the right hon. gen- tleman which exists, or is supposed to exist in the highest quarter. The Prince tolu the Premier that in the pulitical struggles of the country, the position of the Court should be one of strict neutrality, and that it should never assume an unfriendly altitude to any statesman. The Heir Apparent is a wise man in his day. 1'erfect smoothness did not characterise the pre- liminaries to the request that Mr. Gladstone would visit Windsor Castle. When, is obedience to the summons suggested by Lord B. aconsfield, Lord Hartington went down last Thursday, he found the Queen the reverse of complaisant to his firm assur- ance that Mr. Gladstone must have the offei to con- struct a Liberal Cabinet and the utmost the Royal restiveness would then concede was that he should submit the Queen's feelings to Lord Granville. This lliorded Lord Hartington the opportunity to strengthen his representations by the personal sup- port of that nobleman, who accordingly went with him to the Queen on Friday morning. The inevit- able then was iinally made apparent, the instincts :if constitutionalism prevailed, and Mr. Gladstone was summoned. Mr. Gladstone, I believe, takes office right in the teeth of the advice of his medical advisers, who are concerned as to the consequences of that continual blain excitement which Mr. Gladstone's singularly aervous temperament so dangerously stimulates. His mercurial high spirits since his return to town have seamed at times verging on the spasmodic. —
I MURDEROUS ASSAULT UPON A…
MURDEROUS ASSAULT UPON A CONSTABLE. At Southwsirk 1 olice Court, London, on Weclncs- lay, Daniel Batt, 22, and Eug( •no McCarthy, 30, were ,i -tl--ed with committing a brutal and savage assault' upon Police Constable 134 L on the morning of the 1th April, inllicliiig inj uries of so serious a character that he had to be conveyed to St. Titoiiias's Iloipitzil. Detective Inspector Chamberlain, L Division, prose- cuted on behalf of the police, and Mr. Edwin Appeared for the p--isoners.-Tlie constable, who ap- peared very weak from the injuries indicted on his heud, said that between twelve and one on the morn- ing of the 4th April he was on duty in Stamford Stieet, when his attention was called to a disorderly mob surrounding two men fighting. There were 3creams and loud cries of Murder lie endea- voured to disperse the mob, when McCarthy knocked him down and Batt kicked him on the head. He lost his senses, and on re- covering he found himself in St. Thomas's Hospital, where he had remained ever since.—Thomas Packer, j residing in. Grifiin street, Lambeth, said he was going home on the morning in question when he heard cries of Murder I" and, forcing his way through the crowd, he saw the last witness on the ground insensible and bleeding from the ears and mouth. Witness lifted him up and, with assistance, convey ed him to St. Thomas's Hospital. He believed the prisoners were kicking the constable, and as soon as he came up they ran away, and the mob dispersed. In answer to Mr. Edwin, witness said he could not swear to the prisoners.—Thomas Bewfoot, an engineer, said he saw the constable hustled down by some persons in the mob, but he could not see who did it, as it was so dark.—It was shown that the constable's injuries-chiefly upon the head-were very serious.—Mr. Edwin, for the defence, said, after some further evidence had been given, that he was instructed to say that the prisoners were not near the spot at the time, and he called witnesses to prove that fact.—Mr. Slade committed them for trial, accepting bail for McCarthy.
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EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR AT A CATTLE SHOW. At the animal open show, held at Ayr, on Wed- nesday, under the auspices of the Ayrshire Agri- cultural Association, quite a sensation was created by the judges disqualifying three animals belonging to the Duke of Buecleuch on the ground of having been doctored. The class for which the animals were entered was the principal one in the show. It has been alleged for some considerable time past that exhibitors have been tampering with the teats of the cows shown, the object being to prevent the outflow of milk. To put down this practice measures were recently taken by the management, but no ca;c for some years has been detected by the inspectors until Wednesday, when three of his Grace's fine,t cows were found to have been tightly bound with tape round the teats. The Duke's representative protested, but the Committee remained firm, and the animals were ordered out of the judging ring.
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The dinner at the Devonshire Club to the unsuc- cessful Liberal candidates for Westminster and Middlesex is fixed for the 12th of May. The Mar- quis of Hartington will preside, and Mr. Gladstone has promised to attend Many who would havt been glad to be guests oi the Club on the occasion will natumily 1m disappointed on nccouut of tin limited capacity of the clubroom. Prior to the departure of Princess Frederica and Baron Rammingcn froyn Windsor for Claremont an amusing incident occurred Jt is a common practice 111 this country to salato a newly-mairird couple with a shower of rice and clippers But it seldom happens that this aruutc is paid on the occasion of a royal marriage by a Braemar Highlander in kilts, and that AAlgmaiuier John Biowil I mui informed that the faithful henchman of the late Prince Contort ful- filled his duty in this respect with a skill which gained for him the admiration of the bystander*. « The Right Rev Monsignor Patterson, an Oxfo-4 convert, has resigned the office of president of St. Edmund's College, Ware, in which post he is sue- cecded by the Rev G. Ken;, of Mailing Abbey and Oriel College, Oxford onsignorPatterson was to have been chosen Itisl-r: p of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Northampton, but his health did not per- mit of his acceptance of this position. He will, however, succeed the late Canon Oakly in the vacant canonry of Westminster, --Aiid be consecrated bishop in pKfltbus injidvluoii. The consecration will take place in Rome next month, Cardinal Manning and the Bishops of Saliord and Clifton being the ofliciating prelates. Bishop Ryle's retirement from the Church Asso- ciatiun is generally approved, f I is letter signifying his retirement is generally disapproved. It gives a hint that he will carry on as a bishop that policy against High Churchmen which, to say the least, is not fatherly. Should he attempt anything of the kind, he will de more harm in the diocese than any lack of epi copal supervision could have wrought. He has, in fact, done some harm already by thus as it were taking up at the outset a position of antago- nism towards one party in his diocese. Persecutions, it is true, must come but when they come from a "right reverend father in God"-which is a bishop's title—-they are always mischievous. I-. J. L. Toole says it is quite true that he paid £ •">,000 for the sole rights in Mr. H. J. Byron's comedy, "The Upper Crust," which Mr. Toole is now performing at the Folly Theatre. It is the popular comedian's intt ntion to send out two eoru- panies to represent the piece in the provinces, and ilr. Toole expects that it will run in London for a year at least. The Foilv Theatre is crowded nightly, booking being three weeks in advance, and while theie is Upper Crust on the stage there is upper crust in from for the stalls are occupied by the elite of society. The story that the play was written for Messrs. James and Thorns is incorrect, a sketch only having been submitted to those gentlemen. ■* Mr. Dion Boucicault's re-appearance on the London stage on Saturday night must have been gratifying to the author of the ishauyhnutn Since his return from America Mr. Boucieault uas been in indifferent health. So late as the previous Thursday his con- dition led to the belief that he would be unable to assume the part of Conn, on the production of the Shaughraim. To prevent any disappointment in the performance, Mr. J G. Taylor, an actor well known in Manchester, had delegated to him this important role in the event of inir. Boucicault being too unwell to appear. As it turned out, however, the veteran actor and playwright was sufficiently well to give his inimitable representation of his humorous pro- duction, much to the gratification of his numerous admirers. <(, Poor George Grossmith is dead. A kindlier soul never lived, ile was a man of infinite jest, with a sharp eye for the humourous and the pathetie in human nature. He was a great friend of the late George Dawson, concerning whose sudden death he remarked to me that in the matter of dying, Mr. Dawson was greatly to be envied, for it saved a lot of anguish that was not to be measured by sick beds. Curiously enough, George Grossmith fell in the midst of his genial and congenial work of ministering to the enjoyment of others and the Savage club, at whose table he died, has never mourned a better fellow among the long list of those of their members who have joined the great majority. Mr. Grossmith was best known as a public enteitainer, but in the strictest meaning of the term, he was a newspaper man, having for many years been re- porter of the London press at Bow street Police Court, the end of which as a building he would have seen had he survived only a few days. < Probably benefiting by the experience gained in the great Tichborne case, the authorities at Liver- pool have very summarily disposed a claimant who sought to possess himself of an estate. To a certain extent the two cases were on all-fours. The would- be Roger Tichborne turned out to be someone else, and the individual who on Saturday alleged that lie was a certain John Pierce could not prove his title to the name. The Liverpool claimant sought to prove that he was the son of a man named Pierce, who formerly lived in that town, in order that he might obtain possession of some property left by his granumother. The dofence was that the claimant was not the son of Pierce, but of a man named Buckley, with whom his mother lived both in this country and in America Under these circumstanccs it is not surprising to find that the evidence was conflicting. The Hon. Justice Denman, however, settled the matter by giving a verdict against the claimant. We trust that this decision will not lead to the establishment of another Magna Charter As- sociation for the assistance of distressed claimants, and the upsetting of all established rights and reg- ulations. ♦ Mr. Gladstone, in taking upon himself the duties and responsibilities of the offices of First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, follows an example set by several of his predecessors in Downing Street. The two posts were held simulta- neously by Walpole, Stanhope, Peinam, Grenville, Pitt, Addington, Perceval, Cunning, and bv the late Sir Robert l'eol in 1834 and 1835. Mr. Gladstone himself also at the close of his last Administration acted as his own Chancellor of the Exchequer. In the early part of last century Mr. Gladstone might have employed his spare moments as Chancellor of the Exchequer and First Lord of the Treasury by occasionally sitting with the Barons of the Exchequer in what was called the Exchequer Chamber as a court of equity. In Michaelmas term, 1735, Sir Robert Walpole sat as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the case of Naish v. the East India Company. In this case the barons were equally divided in opinion, and the decision given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, after a hearing of three days, is reported to have given general satisfaction. The transfer of the equity jurisdiction of the Court of Exchequer to the Court of Chancery in 1841 put an end to the judicial duties of the Chancellor. ♦ ♦ Fuller accounts of General Stewart's battle with the Afghans shows clearly that this was by far the most fiercely contested engagement which we have ever fought in that couutry, and that at one moment, had the enemy been more skilfully handled, the result might have been not a little doubtful. Our line was penetrated and both flanki turned, the artillery having fired away all their case. The infantry stood firm, mowing down the enemy with musketry fire, but the right of the brigade was shaken by the determined onslaught of the enemy. At this moment the Ghuznee horse charged despe- rately down on our left. The cavalry were rolled back before the weight and impetus of the attack, and, mixed 10gether in a struggling throng, the mass af horsemen bore down upon the 3rd Goorkhas." Evidently the Afghans fought uncommonly well, ind our men had a narrow escape of being swept away but coolness and the Martini Henry rifle soon righted matters, and in the end the Afghans were completely defeated. It is fortunate for us that such a powerful army as they had should have determined to meet us in the open field and try their fortuues in a pitched battle, where bravery and determination alone could but win them the day.
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The Greek societies in Cyprus (a Nicosia telegram says) expect great concessions from the Liberal party in England. The town of Altona and part of St. Pauli, a suburb of Hamburg, arc to be incorporated into the German Customs Union. A marriage will shortly take place between Sir Philip Payne, of Wooton House, Bedfordshire, and Miss Winifred Doyne, only daughter of Mr. Richard V. Doyne, of Stratton Street. It is stated that the Powers have addressed a col- lective note to the Porte, demanding that the terri- tory occupied by the Albanians be immediately re- occupied by the Ottoman troops. The Liberals have finally decided upon petitioning against the return of Mr. Charles Schreiber, who was elected by a majority of six votes over his opponent, Mr. Charles Waring.
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The report that Mr. Bright feels precluded by the state of his health from becoming a member of the new Government is untrue. Richard Grant, letter-carrier, has been committed for trial on a charge of having coiiiinitte(I vari(j,,i- robberres at Margate Post-otu.-e. Major-General Biddulph, High Commissioner of Cyprus, is to be appointed a Knigt-Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. 1\1 1 1. A Moscow telegram states that six more political j offenders have been tried by the military tribunal of that city. Mr. Gerard Gould, her Majesty's Minister Resi- j | dent at Belgrade, is to receive the honour of Com- pitiiion of the Bath. Intelligence received from the coast of MarotTo j j SM YS abundant rains have fallen all over the inferior. There is no foundation for the report that Ali Pasha, the Albanian Chief of Gusinj e, contemplated t resisting the surrender.
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f\.TTHRAAi OKDIKARY CHARGE OF ASSAULT AlI KOIJbEliY. I Mulborough Street Police Court, London, Daniel &««»«,• FruxioUman^ dcocribcd "I nù'lY an t; t. h d nd- ti residence nr occupation, was charged <  ?fe?ton, 'th 1 D D ,Newton, with assaulting Dr. Dean ?? .?t. Martinole. physician, of No 20, Brewer l'll'tlt (;I tiid with stealin, from him a 1'Ïl"I' ,Iin 1'??' '? ?"? of the v'?ue of £ 7. The 1. I I, h. 'I h ,1,,1" ?? gave ?"' ?''?"? ? a rather unin- rl,il1,]'t' manner, ?.(tcd th?t on the 21st inst., at ?? prisoner, who had iormerly j1 'i ui the morning, tile prisoner, who had formerly 1 in die sjiJiie house, came Into IS room, and t 'T'» k hi"1 011 1,10 ?'?'? with ?? fist (but he believed 'TI siii:ill pair of 9eissors in his hand), and h' Ill' k } 1 t. 'h t j-Wirtl^ struck him severa l t imes saying he mean t 't.'r\ Th' h ,J h' I, I ?iIH' ??' prisoner then seized him by the t;' ,t,t. :tllll :llatl'hcÜ his,dlain, locket, and medal V th« value of them being about £ 7. lie ('om- :I'11<'11 wit h 1111' police ?t Scotland Yard, and t1' dr.. f l'jj HJ,,nilay si«- the prisoner in custo d v. Chid on, ,tur (.?L' <.r?nh).m, of Scotland Yard, said III'P' thn o clock the previous afternoon he, along tL,t a t t t I'} !h TnT''c*"r ?'?' ?'nt to a puo lC- louse in l'lt an 1 saw pr i soner. "1'1' in an ,).l?'?' 'Tlie prisoner in an [. .i?,)t-r. beie snatched a steel pm from the .1.1 b t .t 1 f istnit iraoler Vine, but it was at once taken from > (in telling the prisoner the charge, he :LHl III!i'1 'I ri!:lll tv do ?? ?? had done, as the prosecutor he', ¡'ilJl money, ?nd the prisoner then bolted out 1"'1", h" ?"? was ncaptured. At the Vine I, ,I: St.liLt- ()f tin- articles missed bv the {^. CV.i- m ixtur were found. — Mr. Newton remanded the J.r for a week. rn"')
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vKMlN<i ua i KKEXCK JX A GAMBLING \0, ALtHI);, ?rt!v b. tore ten o'clock on Saturday ni?ht a *• ,.fextraordinaryexcitement and alarm took ?? in:)'' .isiiio of Monte C?rio, Monaco, f ts i'?'y ?'" x?l"?i"nofa char? of gunpowder. ''11l' t L 'J h.?! ''?'I'??'"?'? the chimney-piece of the 1 S I I  .t!Lt:? sa l oon. Severa l persons in the ,(: I ;i- i,,J¡kllll'lwoù were thrown to th g-nmwl ,1 .l. ,¡. M.. and many had their faces und hands :dl'i wntched by na?n?-nta of broken ?L?s luii from the windows in the roof. ??nu?th?  M'?'n t Th? .m-<a t  o?-it. Tlit, greatest confils' :I"l.,¡ '"? W>MM' time. Ladies screamed and |while mo.-t of those presem precipitated   it, ti-I t]L(, doors, leaving in many cases ("1:11' v '? the table. If the outrage was V tr.it> .1 in the hope of its authors hpin? aMe, in !n<?!t'?'y bands ?n the cash boxes of the tuii k, th. y hiiled in their attempt. llad the ¡, ¡Iii' ] I I: t I somew hat larger tho con- V he.-n most disa.^troUd. ¡II, I
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I A -ALT,IA-NCE. Mli'Maii newspapers write ot the betrothal of Wurtemburg to a certain Dr. U'l'Iiiu. piactisiiis? as a physician in Breslau. Hav- .isioii to attend the Dowager Duchess at i.riMiii". in 1-1-lit,r Silesia, in the capacity of to distinguished medical professor in young doctor appears to have uncon- ». i 'i-!v l'a ilet p impression on the heart of the I" r }'ii:ic, who peremptorily declared she ,i.iii m-vt-r•' ;l happy conj ugal existence with any ,]I *Lbe object of her aifeetions passing ,I } ].. ",Il the King of Wurtemberg is said to ii.-i■ at 1" ."nstnted to her marriage on condition h" assuniing the name and title of Fraulicn von K! 4ih. l'rincess Pauline, a a g-]alll" at the "]- „, de (ili,;¡" will show, is i,ulittel to some of Iri'linir families in Germany, and distantly, oihers. I" l'rineess ictoria of Augustcnburg. i.riiir i let; oi Prince William of Prussia. It is :i;vhat singular that an aunt of the Princess -i lia al so bestowed her affections on a medical i*. ft >ur at KM.
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I A LICKNCE BY A FALSE DECLARATION. A' 1! street Police Court. London, Jamvs \Yil- It A':tiixii;ill I)j-itige road, has been before Mr. Vaughan with making a false ii-atii.Ti for thf purpose <:f procuring :t hackney ■ Ii ■ — Inspector P>( avis said that on the Man i. the prisoner applied for a licence as a t i ILl, kiiev curi-iagc. ll" signed the usual dei 1 aiing that he had never been convicted of e •. lime, and the licence was issued to him.—Ser- Preston, of the li division, said that on the [ "I tli(- prisoner was convicted and sentenced to two Tiiel-c were then. previoufj tioiis for similar offences proved against him. i .v prisoner said that since he came out of prison he i, i i wmked hard to net a living,andthathaving fallen ii; ie, was induced to try and get a licence.—Mr. V i-iifhan said the regulations were drawn up for the tion of the public, as it would never do lor nest people to become drivers of public vehiclf. ) ■in that position having frequently valuable d'trty under their charge. lie lined the prisoner in default one month's imprisonment.
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I THREATS BY A BARONET. j A' the Marylebone Police Court, London, on M ■ lay. the summons against Sir AYilliani Call, I'iit., i'or unlawfully usinu; certain threats towards Mr. Sydney Augustus Paget, came before Mr. Cooke. Th.' the threats complained of were was written l,- Sir William Call in reply to a tier sent to him by Air. Paget challenging him to Jd a dud. Alter hearing tV letter read and the it.-inents of counsel. Mr. Cooke said lie thought di iVndant had :iots-ti properly in not com- mitting a breach of the peace by going out and ting a duel. But he>id. s refusing to fight the I i t, udant had threatened to do personal injury to complainant. that Mr. | i" i_' t had cause to fear that tin* threats would he, out. and he Bhould, therefore, require the 'vielaiit tu find two s in £ 250 each, and into his own recognizances in £ 500 to be of i ..able behaviour for six months. Mr. Serjeant, lantine said they would be content with the de- int's l ee ignizances, and 3Ir. Cooke said he would •. -n-iiept them.
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I 1 A1I1 < it THE KX-STLTAN OF KULDJA. 1 K II' !!»• (iuu" contains a letter from Kuldja, announc- :ii.-death there of Sulran Ahil Ogla Ibrahim. .I,N IIM-II was struck with apoplexy while out n.l died shortly after, being borne lioiiit :1:. bv his attendant a. Abil Ogla raised him- ? .• :L. mnk of ultan of Kuldja shortly "When '.i:«:?.n :m:unst the Chinese in 1SG5. Who!) ■ invaded tin* eonntiy six VI ,;us later, lit •• j "it. d to Yiernoe, when a pension of 2,ó)OC year was settled upon him. He has left bim a wife and three children—two girls an? ?.?h'a<'(-orJing to the Oolos1 correspondent. 'lies*. j
'V-i:i;!nrs DISAPPEARANCE…
'V-i:i;!nrs DISAPPEARANCE FROM A s T K A M E li l'^rni- L" last outward voyage of the Inman ('it v of Richmond, which arrived at Now i. tilt 12t]i a very unusual circumstance Amongst the passMigers who went on • tlueeiistown, was a young good-looking > a.an named Elb-n ynii. She was accoui- I" a vouth, whose name at present is iizi- lioth were ri. lives of the same town, and i .lido-stood that the object of their emigrating t)¡,ir condition. During the voyagt of tht., young woman was most exein- >iie<qipeared to look forward to the end of 1 with a gTeat d. al of cheerfulness, and "a.-nothing in her manner to attract attention. •a* M-en at the dinner hour on Thursday, the and at tea time was reported missing. Ilei-  'fancc was reported to Mr. I. Jones, the of the steerage, whoa: once began a •' :'nd?\ti\ li;il,l of tlii? til(?rou(? '••*•••• 'K but without success. None of the steerage had s.ri her on deck that afternoon, h« — ..ii an .j p.ni., and her youthful friend ap- i nuich in the dark as the others a.- :o About the time of her disappearance the of Newfoundland, and tia weather was rough few. if any, heavy i- ^nipped. It did not seem probable, r. -tic could have been accidentally '• <rd, nor was there any evidence to i; of suicide. The oflicers of the City ii i t e: thing in their power to solve b ",it \\jlll'Jut an,' rcsult. On the arrival "ii ■ i at New York the case was at once re- the company.
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•'•nouiired thai Mr. Charles Frederick Abney- L:ts been creattd BarOll Donington. of 1 ii. of Leicester. I to prosecute a petition I* '"union's return for South Norfolk have to juocei d further with it. • *gnuiis of news from the Australian coln?ir. hat aH the !n' mbcM of the new Cabinet in i 't have been re-elected unopposed, andpolitieai .1.: k" j,rL\ailed since. ?/?' "'Don?hue, Mr. Biggar, and Mr. A. M-? vAv ar 1havf j.oined the Parnell ptrty. (J. I the Y. ork A sizes, Isaac Stone, charged with i ^"ohter, was declared insane. il Cia enock has suddenly found out t' )'if t iiiilllcp- of money. (" J 1 I'(-'nli(;n of ZCIOO has been conferred ( r II, Fi t dl for botanical researches. '!L ;? announced of Mr. Edward Enfidd, t ..? '?"' t ut Univ?.?ily College Hospital.  '(' 1 d t tj S ??"?t "ill- Tivror is to be raise d to the *ritift'- 'J the ti. tle of Jv,rd Dun?nnon. ,\I' '). F  1f'a< taken place in the French I, '1:1' IJI t I' '?.'?' ''? "uni-tration of Algeria. ? !t.,j'1j,I "I I. I. 'tl c't ''?'?'??"? h is to receive the Star ;(?.'?'?.'h.?r..t Vieioii.i and Albert. Itrl\ '4,"V "?'?"?" has been been nned ;t ,1." dr k 1, ? ''?u)runkwhiLtondutyatasignal-box. ,)<!l'. 'J¡..t t I ?t'tti?'? u be conferred upon Sir Edw?'?
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A SICILIAN TRAGEDY. A correspondent in Italy writes"Who that has ridden along the loveliest of roads can have forgotten Cefalu, the bold square head-land with its ruined castle on the top, the town upon the narrow strip of shore hoW, the ivied slopes, the long de- oolliivve e, Th?0011 ?11? netting in groves of palm and ohve, the grand cathedral of old Kin? <. I?.-cr the boundless outlook "?' the bright blue Hi?n! erwards, on the enmÎng of all (JdolJcr day, was drivillg home, in company with his farm bailin, Glliscppe Catalfamo, of Cefalu-a gentleman farmer, as we should say in England, joint owner with his two others, of a snug country estate hard by— When suddenly, at a dip of the road called Cirincione, where a small thicket slopes down to the soa, five nlen, masked and armed, sprang out from the under- weod with shouts of 'Faccia a t«n*a' (faces to the ground). The terrified three lost no time in obevin-. Coachman and farm-bailiff were at once seized, bound, and safely deposited in the bottom of the ravine. Their unlucky master was dragged down to the beach, placed in a boat belonging to one of the band. and the next evening landed near Palenno, hurried up the steep sides of Monte 1 eUegrmo, and finally hidden, with three men to guard hini, in a narrow cave all overgrown with brushwood and wild fig trees, and somewhat in- appropriatt-ly named the cavern of Pensabene (of good thoughts). Meanwhile, at Cefalu, whither <_atallamo s servants had by this time contrived to make their way, the ?c??, as these anairs are /••a n(_. S i• n k oi- cily, had caused equal confusion and dis- rn, Lility- -Ltie captors and their destination were alike unknown. Only from time to time came letters to the brother bearing the Partinico or ( Jirgenti post- marks, and pitcously imploring then, to send tilt f^' "? ""??'- One letter ?'"? ?"ke of ()O,OOO lire, a sum that the enlire ustate would scarcely realise. Eight thousand live hundred lire were actually sent; the bearer as directed, having a red piteli upon his hand, and handing over the nionev, -,N-itliout. speaking, to a mounted man who iiiut liiiii it thw Corsair's Well and a ked -a light f,,i- his cigar. The carabineers, too, left no stone unturned, and before long suspicion fell upon two nu n, Guiseppee Venturelli, a barber of Lascari, and Pasquale Sansfilippo, vaguely denominated as a pusidente.' Imprisonment and cross-examinations were inciiectual; but Italian jiolice are not easilv beaten. With a decision worthy of the great. Lord Clive, though, like the act which saved British India, not ot a kind to lind favour in our courts, the biigadier made to the nearest telegraph olliee an*! had a form filled up at once Bay lo,000 lire and set at liberty the man who gives you the information necessary to secure release of Signor Catallamo,' signed it with the prefect's name, and returned with- aut wasting a moment to the prison. Sanlilipno read and fell into the snare. Catallamo, lie now confessed, was to he found in the cavern known a:- j the Orotto del Pensabene. That night the carabi- neers surrounded the spot. The birds, however, hud | already flown. Only the ground showed marks of having bewi disturbed, and then; were traces all around ot blood. A few seconds of spade work brought to light a headless bodv easily identified hy certain marks as that of the un- fortunate fanner, and a day or two afterwards, near the entrance, the head itself was also discovered, hacked off-so medical evidence pronounced—by some rude-cutting instrument while the victim was still alive. The barber now told all he knew. and justice made a mighty haul, arresting the entire band of twenty all but two, who are still lutilunti somewhere in the hills. Last week the whole eighteen stood side by side in the Bale? mo dock, the barber again, to the intense fury of his accom- plices, cynically supplying any deficiencies in the evidence. In spite of all the efforts of their ad- vocates the sentence was three to death, ten to tniro.itcforns for twenty years, five to truvuux foi\-<n I for fifteen, and two, the least guilty, to three years of
THE ROYAL VISIT TO Tlmno.…
THE ROYAL VISIT TO Tlmno. ————— Arrangements for the ceremony of May 20, when j their Royal Highm SM-S the Prince and Princess of Wales will risit Truro for the purpose of laying the foundation-stone of the new cathedral. are making ] rapid progress. Their Royal Highnesses will be the guests of Yiconnt and Vicountess Falmouth, It Tiegethnan. Addresses will be presented by the Mayor and the High Sheriff, on behalf of the county -iiit f 11 itx and the city; and there will be a gland demonstra- tion of Freemasons, l.oOO of whom are expected to be present. The highest dignitaries of the Church, together with some 300 of the <_ k-rgy of the diocese and lsewbcre will meet their Royal Highnesses at, the cathedral gates, and the Prince will then lay the for the masons', then that iit the western end. A luncheon will follow in the Market House, at which 1,000 guests are expected to sit down, and subsequently the Royal pariy will a giaiul Review of the Duke of Cornwall's volunteers, and probably the militia, at Treliske. At a meeting of the citizens a committee has been appointed to make arrangements for giving the Prince and Prin- ci s* a fitting reception, and a fund has been started to cover the expenditure.
I PROBABLE WAR IJKTWKKX AUSTRIA…
PROBABLE WAR IJKTWKKX AUSTRIA AND RUSSIA. The London correspondent of the Leah Mercury writes A friend who has returned from the Daniibian Prin ipalities telis us that a war hdween j Russia and Austria is considered only a question of time. This is the danger to which' l-ord Beaconstield rc-fer.ud iii his extraordinary manifesto. It is well known that Austria has; secured a poitiun in the Balkans which endangers: th" supremacy of Russia there. The latter power is i preparing for contingencies by getting the Bul- g.iii.iu army into order, the assistance of Bulgaria hi ing, of course, secured to Russia, lioumani t, on the other hand, sides with Austria, and M. Bratiano, the Roumanian Premier, recently gave a per- sonal assurance to that effect at the Court of Vienna. Great activity prevails in the Austrian army. It remains to be seen what effect the change of Government in this country may have upon the state of affairs. The Russians" will doubtless count upon the countenance, if not the direct aid of Mr. Gladstone, while the Austrians are aware that he will oppose them. Should Austria secure the ac- tive support of Germany, then the defeat of Russia is certain.
EMIGRATION TO AMERICA.
EMIGRATION TO AMERICA. Emigrants are arriving in the United States in numbers beyond all precedent—Irish, Germans, and Swedes chiefly. Over 34,000 have arrived at New York this month, 3,342 landing on Saturday. Castle Garden is overflowing. The railwiys were com- pelled to despatch extra emigrant trains on Sunday to remove them, in order that this week's steamers may land fresh arrivals. At other ports a similar state of things exists. The steamer Strasburg, from Bremen, landed 1,914 persons at Baltimore on Sun- lay, being the largest number ever brought on one steamer seven infants died on the voyage, and two born. The entire party went west on four Irains, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to settle in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Nebraska. Complaints are made that too many emigrants were crowded oil each ship. The German steamer Ohio, frlnl Bremen, for New York, brought 1,342 on Friday, including 272 children. Thirteen children lied oil the voyage. The emigration officials are into this case. — Times Telej/ram.
! THE EXPLOSION AT THE WIXTER…
THE EXPLOSION AT THE WIXTER PALACE EST OF THE MISSING WORKMAN. A cot respondent of the Uaibj JVctelegraphing from St. Petersburgh on Tuesday says: I have reason to believe that the missing workman, who had been lodging in the basement under the guardroom in the Winter Palace until the day of the explosion, on February 17, was arrested in St. Petersburg on Saturday night last. His name is Shevitch. He is J. native of Lithuania, and well connected. His uncle* is at present governor of the province of lvalouga. Shevitch left the St. Petersburg Univer- sity in 1870, having been well known whilst there, one of my informants tells, as entertaining visionary schemes. After leaving the university ho associated i himdf with the revolutionary party, and in accord- ance with their frequent habit, learnt a mechanical le thai of carpentering. About six months be- fo:o :11" < nplosion he obtained employment and lodcing bv order of the Executive Committee at the ti where he was known as a clever workuK'n. lie has been recognised by one or more otiieers of il: Palace for whom lie specially worked. T understand that he has confessed to being the author of the atrocious deed. I am also informed that three other arrests in a higher rank have been
I - - -'.-"| THE ATALANTA.
 THE ATALANTA. Since our last issue nothing has been heard of the missing vessel. Among the passengers of th e Tamar, which reached Portsmouth on Monday from Barbadoes, was an able seaman named Varling, who was invalided from the Atalanta on the 3rd of January, and received on board the Tamar on the 9-nd of April at Barbadoes. He left in hospital two ordinary seaman named Thomas Westlake and Alfred Stansoll, belonging to the same -hip. He also states that Frank Ellis missed the training-ship at Barbadoes, and was m consequence transferred to the Tonedos, and that two young seamen, named ?L M'Cormick and John Je?op, had been ss? ent on shore for 42 days' imprisonment. The T?r?w nothing of the Atalanta, nor of any wreck- aage-e e tthhaart migh^ t possibly indicate her fate. Varlin? JS miS8ing training-ship as being exceed- iugly crank, AS overweighted with ship rig instead Of hJinr ^fif °n fSa barque, and as having aroused t t Captain Stirling. She left England, on the 7th of November, and arrived at Teneriffe which was the 6rst port called at, in 21 days. She remained three days at Teneriffe, after leaving which place they were obliged to heave to for seven days' and as many nights in a gale of wind, under close- reefed main-topsail, storm staysail, and storm try- sail, the togallant mast being housed and the upper yards sent down upon the deck. She rolled 22 deg. I and Captain Stirling is reported as having been heard to remark that had she rolled one degree more she must have gone over and foundered. During this trying situation the peculiar weaknesses of the ship's company were brought prominently into notice, as with the exception of two, the officers were almost as much out of training as the crew. Clipt, Stirling scarcely ever left the deck, and the work of shortening sail and sending down the spars was left to the able seamen on board, who, including marines (mostly servants), petty officers and cooks, only numbered about 50 in a crew of 250. The number was fur- ther diminished at this time by the death of John M'Clure, an able seaman, who fell into tho sea from the top-gallant-yard, and was drowned, despite t-very possible effort made to save him. In confirmation of what we have already anticipated, Varling states that the young sailors were either too timid to go aloft or were incapacitated by sea sickness. He adds that they hid themselves away, and could not he found when wanted by the boatswain's mate. It took the ship 31 days to go to Barbadoes from Ten- eriffe, the former port being reached on the 1st of January, or about nine days after time. The result was that provisions ran short during the voyage, 151b, of biscuit being served out every two days for a mess of ten men The Atalanta left Barbadoes on Friday, the 9th of January, for Antigua, where tliev caught the yellow fever Two men, whose names Varling cannot remember, bad already died from the the disease. When on their way from Antigua, they met the Tourmaline, to whom they signified their condition, and, after transferring their sick, they proceeded to Halifax. There the training ship received sailing orders for England. The ship called in at Bermuda on the 30th of January for provisions and water, and finally left for home on the 31st, since which nothing has been heard of her.
t■ Â. BRIDEGROOM"S SUIGIDE.…
Â. BRIDEGROOM"S SUIGIDE. A BRIDEGROOM'S SUICIDE. John Petri, a Baltimore county truck gardener on the farm d Mr Alexander Brodie. was a Scotch- man, who by patient and untiring industry had accumulated a snug sum of money and was in com- fortable circumstances He was a rig-ill teetotaller, a strict and consistent member of the Presbyterian Church, and by his integrity and honesty, as well as his faithfulness as an employe, had won thii esteem and respact of all who knew him Coming to America from Scotland when a young man, he had lived on the Brodie astate for 2C) years Before coming to America from his home in Scot- land, Petri had been the suitor for the hand of a young lady of his native town. He came to America to seek his fortune, with the promise that when this was secured he would return and claim the hand of the girl he loved. Patiently he worked, and as patiently she waited for twenty years or more, while he little hy little added to hi s possessions and upon the farm of his employer a house- was built t.) be the home of his Scottish bride. All being ready, a few years ago he went to Scotland to marry his sweetheart, now a woman, with whom he had kept up n faithful correspondence during all his years of absence He found her t.-ady for the nuptials, but her mother interposed and forbade the nuptials, but her mother interposed and forbade the marriage unless he would remain in S, otland, as she could not consent to have her daughter leave for America, lie was obliged to give up hi t cherished plans, which had been the comfort of his whole life and work, and to return to America without his bride. In the family of Mr. Brodie lived a servant, Celia Graham, of Irish birth, whom Petri, though 50 years old, wooed and won She is about 35 years old, and is a woman of excellent character. Her religious faith was Catholic and his Protestant. A year ago the marriage license was procured, but the ceremony was not performed until last Tuesday evening. It took place at tli., parsonage of the Aioquitli street Presbyterian Church, the pastor, Uw. Mr Buchanan, oili¡;iatinf{, she consenting to have the marriage performed by a Protestant clergyman At the time of the wedding, both seemed in the happiest mood, and spoke cheerfully of their future prospects. Yesterday morning. Petri rose about five o'clock, and, telling his wile he would be back to breakfast, went out. He was not seen again until an hour later, his lifelt ss amI mangled body was found lying by the yard in which the hot-house frames are kept, By his side lay a single-barrelled shot-gun, be- longing to Mr. Brodie, with which the deed had been committed. That it was pioneditated was ? clearly seen, as he had tied a string to the trigger of the gun, looped it round his foot, and thiiii dis- charged the weapon. His foot was still in the loop when his body was found. The muzzle of the gun he had placed in his mouth, and by the discharge a hole several inches in diameter had been bored through his head. i ■
I THE LABOUR MARKET.
I THE LABOUR MARKET. I In the home labour mar ket the coal and iron trades in most districts continue unsatisfactory. The ship- building and engineering industries are, however, brisk. The textile trades generally are fair, at Not- tingham the lace manufacturers are well employed, and ?t Leicester the yarn spinners are full of orders. At Sittingbournc the brickmakers have more work than they can execute. At Birmingham most branches tend to dulncss. At Glasgow the eoal- masters have determined upon a largo reduction of wages. In North Wales work at the quarries is ex- ceedingly slack. In South Wales there is consider- able activity, and fresh furnaces are being opened with good prospects. There is an improvement in the boot and shoe trades at some centres, particularly in London. In the Forest of Dean the house coal improvement is maintained, and a number of the unemployed have migrated to South Wales. In the United States the larger industries are moderately amployed, in the Pennsylvanian mines full time has bLen resumed. The French and German coal and iron trades do not yet manifest any sign of re- vival. In New South AValus dulness prevails, while III Victoria, some improvement is manifest. In Jttawa agents for lumbar firms are linding it ddfi- milt to obtain a sufficient number of h;tnds.-Laboiti, Xews. j
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Three young men, named Armstrong, Hunter, and Fairless, sailed out on Tuesday in a jolly boat into Hartlepool bay. It capsized, and all were drowned. The Chinese Ambassador to America, with his suite, arrived athc Charing Cross station on Tuesday evening, from Paris and drove to the Langiiam llotei. The Royal Agricultural Collfcge diploma 3ia» K "Il c .iferred, together with the Ducie Gold .Medal, on Charles Frederick Hope, of Siratton, nuir Ciren- cester. The Lord Mayor of London talks of giving three conversazioni, at one of which the City Companies will exhibit some of their records, at another their plate, at a third general objects of interest which tuey possess. A gentleman who has just died at Everton ha the Lit-ci-pool Post says, left Y,1,5,000 to the Roman Catholic Poor Schools Committee. The bequest will he divided among seven Roman Catholic dioceses in England. A jury at the Liverpool Assizes awarded £ 300 condensation to a woman who had fallen in alighting loom a tram-car, owing, as was alleged on her be- half, to the conductor having restarted the vehicle before she was safely on the roadway. At the York assizes, before Mr. Justice Stephen, John W. Turner, aged nineteen, was convicted of shooting at a police-constable with intent to murder, at Hull, in March last, and scntonc. d to twenty-five penal servitude. The Academy says the French Government have- decided to send a scientific expedition to Mexico, ttit(I ii)oi-e, particularly Yucatan, and it is sta'n-d tnai JIr. Peter Lorillard, of New York, who is interested in the subject, has offered to contribute £ G,ooo to- wards its cost. #
- j SINGULAR CONDUCT OF ZULUS.…
j SINGULAR CONDUCT OF ZULUS. I I Between three and four on Wednesday afternooa. great excitement was caused outside the* Bow Street Police Court, London, in consequence of the arrival of the prison van from Westminster, containing five Zulus. It appears they had been imported for the purpose of exhibition at the Westminster Aquarium, and arrived in London from Liverpool on Tuesday night, in charge of Captain Williams. They were taken to & Coffee House in Westminster, where they stayed the night. About six o'cl ck on Wednesday morning they insisted upon leaving, and dressed in I a strange variety ot olt coats and trousers, and wearing tlieir native he:, d-dress, ornamented with feathers, they proceeded to the underground station of the Metropolitan District Railway, where by their extraordinary behaviour they caused great alarm. They were ultimately prevailed upon to return to the Coffee House, but later on they again broke out and proceeded to the Victoria Embankment, where they speedily attracted by their singular con- duct, a large crowd of persons. One of them was flourishing a knife, and as the disorder increased, it became necessary to take them into custody. On arrival at the court four of them quietly left the van, but the fifth, a fierce and determined-looking man, refused to do so, and it took about half-a-dozen con- stables to remove him. In the passage of the court he uttered some guttural sounds, and accompanied these by threatening actions, such as, for instance, drawing his hand across his throat as if in the act of cutting it. Large numbers of persons collected round the court, and tried to obtain admission to see the prisoners, who were taken to the gaoler's room and guarded by a strong force of police. It having been stated to Mr. Vaughan by Inspector Beard that the services of an interpreter had not yet been obtained, the hearing of the case was adjourned to enable that to be done. Later in the afternoon an interpreter was found, and the case pro- ceeded. The charge-sheet described the prisoners as five male Zulus, names and addresses unknown, charged with disorderly conduct. Inspector Beard deposed that at eight the previous morning, the five prisoners were brought to the King Street Station by a constable. One of them, who spoke English, said that Captain Williams had charge of them. He was communicated with, and subsequently took charge of the prisoners, who left the station quietly. About one o'clock information was re- ceived at the station that the whole thoroughfare about Westminster Bridge and the Embankment was completely blocked by a crowd of persons who had collected round the prisoners, who were behav- ing in a very excited manner. Two constables were sent, and they were brought to the station.—Police- constable A R 47 deposed that the prisoners were verv much excited when he arrived at Westminster Bridge. There was a crowd of about a thousand persons assembled, and the prisoners were flourish- ing sticks. One of them had a knife in his hand, which he was drawing across hiuhroat. Some gen- tleman tried to get it away, when they all became very excited. With assistance they were removed to the station —Captain Williams deposed that he had served as a volunteer at the Cape, and had brought the prisoners over for the purpose of being exhibited in England. He had agreed to give them £ 3 a month, and a wri.ten agreement had been drawn up by the inspector of police at Natal. They knew perfectly well what it meant, and knew the value of the money paid to them.—The evidence was inter- preted to the prisoners by a gentlenjan who had spe nt some years in Natal, and through him they com- plained of some arrangement that had been made for their transfer to Mr. Farini's troupe atthe Aquarium. —Mr. Behrin, manager for Mr. Farini, stated that he had negotiated with Mr. Williams for the removal of the prisoners to London, as that gentleman had been losing money by exhibiting them in the country. They were paid the wages that were due to them, and they promised to perform with the Zulus who are now engaged at the Aquarium, but as soon as they received the money they raised objections, and declined to do anything.—One of the prisoners who spoke a little English made a short statement, and was under- stood to say that they were afraid they should not get the money.—Mr. Vaughan directed them to be told that they had no cause to fear about the money and recommended them to go back to the Aquarium, and do what was required of them.—One of the prisoners complained that there was too much dancing to do.—All the prisoners appeared to object to go back, and carried on a conversation in the dock in a very excited manner.—The interpreter said it was the old story, and that they were trying to get out of the engagement they had made, now that they had received the money.—Mr. Vaughan said he could not allow the streets to be disturbed because persons enoose to bring Zulus to this country for the purpose of being exhibited. Steps must be taken by Captain Williams to look after them and he must endeavour to make some arrangements to satisfy them.-It being explained that they were not to create any complaint but to make it in a proper man- ner to the magistrate, they were discharge.'
RECKLESSNESS OF COLLIERS.…
RECKLESSNESS OF COLLIERS. On Wednesday, the Barnslpy magistrates com- mitted George Ashton., miner at Church lane colliery, near Barnsley, for one month, without the option of a fine, for damaging safety lamps, with which the colliery is entirely worked. The prisoner was guilty of a similar offence five weeks ago, when he was fined. Herbert Bailey, another collier at tha same place, was fined 20s. and costs for a similar offence. IInth of the accused were shown, to have endangered the lives of other workmen.
CUTTINGS FROM THE COMIC PAPERS.
CUTTINGS FROM THE COMIC PAPERS. (From Punch.) A YOTTNG DARWINIAN.—Jack (to his Married Sister) Hi Polly Look Here's your baby trying to walk on its hind legs THE LAST MAN."—Tne Parliament is now com- plete. Orkney and Shetland have returned their Member. It will now be apparent, even to the meanest capacity, why these islands are called Ultima Th'de. SAVE ME FIWM My FRIEN-XXS.—Artist: Oh, SO you think the background's beastly, do you ? Per- do you? Per- haps the cattle are beastly too, though I flatter my- self-. -Fi-iendly Critic Oh no) my dear fellow That's just what they are not SAI.I.Y FROM BELOW STAIRS.—The subject of vac- cination has again turned up, and arguments are advanced anew for obtaining vaccine lymph from the calf. Mr. John Thomas writes to say that he would prefer being vaccinated in the arm. INITIALS ON A IIOCK.-Our comic religious con- temporary, the Rock, advertises itself as opposed to Ritualism, Rationalism, and Romanism." These may be called the Rock's Three R's ahead. R for Rock is a fourth a fifth is the Reliyion it sets up exclusive claim to; to which may be added a sixth, the Risibility it provokes. (From Tun.) EGGS-ACTLy.-Asparagus and eggs is a dish re- commended by a contemporary. Well, asparagustibus iioii eat dispuland/lln: GIVING a man handle to his name.—Making him one of the knobs"! CUTTING.—Major Morningcall: Now, my dear Miss Lancytt, whilst I enjoy a little Madeira, favour me with vour latest song.—Miss Lancytt: Certainly, Major My last is Drink, Puppy, Drink, you know. CHANGE OF NAME.—Mr. Algernon Borthwick, proprietor of the Morning Post, will now, by the Queen's good pleasure, be able to put Sir before his name, instead of plain Mister. Under the circnm- stances,it would only be appropriate were he to alter the title of his journal from the Morning to the Knight Pout. A "CAPITAL" PUNISHMENT.—Landlady: Lor a mussy, Mr. Brown, what's the matter, Sir? Madder Brown (with lively demonstrations of delight): Glorious news, I'm going to be hung at 0 last. Hooray! (But he only meant his picture was going to be hung at the Academy. (From Judy.) SOMETHING LIKE A RIDDLE.- Why ought your crockery to know when it's going to be broken f'- Because, don't you see, it must be a-ware. A-ha THE BUSY TIME Up TRAIN.—The cool, calm, collected, deadly deliberate Young Lady, of great local consequence. And we're ever so much over- tlu, as it is, and it was all owing to our being late last week that the smash happened. Tit-E.-A gentleman advertises in the Times that his portrait (in oils) has been stolen. There is nothing remarkable about this, though, for everyone is having his likeness taken nowadays. FASHIONS-ABLE.—Ladies' dresses, which have been going backwards of late years, are this season, i-s. J. hears, going- to take a jump forward. This will be mostly observed in the Spring fashions.
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The American Senate has passed a Bill providing for the equipment of an Arctic expedition to estab- lish a temporary station at Lady Franklin's Bay. Petit ons have been filed with respect to the elec- I tieilS at Barnstable. Bury St. Edmunds, Stroud, Leominster, Chester, and Londonderry City. For personating his uncle at the recent South-wt .t í. i-.icashire election, James Graham, of Warring'on. was at Kirkdale Sessions sentenced to three I'Llontl, imprisonment. I'he undistributed balance of the Geneva Award, with interest, in the American Treasury, now reaches 10,000,000 dols. A centenarian has just died at the village of Cum- nor, near Oxford, named Thomas Hutt, a fanner, who completed his hundredth yeal" in July last. Sir Edward Lee has addressed a memorial to the Lord Liou tenant of Ireland, praying for a patent authorising theatrical performances in the Exhibition Palace, at Dublin. Two process-servers have been attacked by mobs and prevented from serving notices in County Sligo, in spite of a large force of armed police, and the en- treaties of tne parish priest. | Canon Ryle has intimated his intention of with- drawing from the Church Association. It is though that his consecration will take place in the Chester Cathedral on the Feast of St. Barnabas, should the Archbishop of York consent. A Lloyd's telegram from St. John's, Newfound- land, reports that the overdue steamer Glcnsannox arrived there on Wednesday, all well. She left Liverpool on March 16th, and has probablv been de- 1> ed by ice.
I SHAMEFUL TREATMENT OF A…
SHAMEFUL TREATMENT OF A COLOURED CADET. The American papers are filled with reports of an outrage alleged to have been committed on Mr. Whitaker, one of the cadets at the West Point Military Academy. lIe is a light mulatto, and the only coloured cadet now in the academy. Occasion- ally West Point has achieved a momentary notoriety by the hazing or maltreatment of negro cadets here- tofore but Whitaker never aided the institution to achieve fame in this way until a couple of weeks ago. One morning he was found lying unconscious on the floor of his room, his hands tied, his feet lashed to the bedpost, his ears partly mutilated, his hair cropped, and blood spattered about the floor, beading, and walls. When restored to. consciousness he re- lated how three masked men, whom he could not. recognise, had got into the room during the night and inflicted the indignities. The case has attracted the widest attention, with public opinion divided- and generally alon the usual dividing line of politics—as to whether it was a genuine outrage or whether Whitaker inflicted the inj uries upon him- self. It has been discussed in Congress as well as in the American newspapers, and it is being investi- gated not only by the officials of the Military i Academy, but also by a committee of Congress. At first, when it was considered that Whitaker was not getting on well in his studies, and might have failed at the examination, and was also socially under a ban at the academy, the belief was that he had inflicted the inj uries upon himself as a means of securing popular sympathy, and this belief was generally encouraged by the outgivings from the academy as well as by the denials of the othercadets, and the fact that no one in any adjoining rooms heard the noises accompanying the outrage. But, as the investigation has gone on, the evidenc(- has been quite strong against Whitaker's participation other- wise than as a victim, and sympathy is the stronger for him on account of the earlier aspersions on his honour. The affair is shrouded in mystery, and has caused much ugly criticism of the Military Academy, and Whitaker shares with the New York pedestrian champion the notoriety of the hour.
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Emigrants continue to arrive in the United States in numbers beyond all prek- ,ik iit--Irisli, Germans, and Swedes chiefly. The brothers Nestor and Venoa, trapezists, met with a serious fall at the Temple Opera House, Bolton, No bones were, however, bioken. The American House "f Representatives has adopted a resolution callii g or the production of the correspondence with England with reference to the Fortune Day dispute. General Roberts has given orders that no villag- are to be burned. A petition against the return of Sir H. W. Ty. At. P. for Harwich, has been filed. Our Maidan force has destroyed the towers of the hostile chiefs without opposition. V petition has been presented against the return oi Cap; Percy Bernard for Bandon. The Sultan being unable to pay his forces, has disbanded ten companies of marines. The Duchess of Marlborough has written a farewels letter, previous to her departure from Ireland. The British Archaeological Association pro- poses to hold its annual congress for 1880 in Devizes. A body of Canadian troops, 10,000 in number, is to be formed for English service either in mother- land or the colonies. The judges on the rota to try Parliamentary petitions are Mr. Justice Manistey, Mr. Justice Hawkins, and Mr. Justice Lopes. The territory ceded to Montenegro, in compen- sation for the districts of Gusinje and Plava has been handed ever to the Montenegrins,
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Fun for the Family. ONLY a question of time.—Asking the hour. SomE of the dearest spots on earth are mortgaged. You never see a woman button anything she can pin. BETTER have large feet than a small understand- ing. AN ÍMill to be put down by the police-Ituffiian- ism. A GIIIL may smile and smile and be unwillincr still. How TO MARK. TA RLE-LINEN. Upset the gravy. j WHAT the cabbage said to the cook—"My heart is thine." A MATCHLESS STolty-One in which there are no weddings. LEAP-TEAR MOTTO.—Look before you leap into matrimony. WHY are blushes like girls?—Because they be- come womea. WHEX do do-ze resemble cards ? W, hen they be- ion.- to a pack. IT'S meet and drink that is depriving many a family of food. A WOMAN'S curiosity will always go further than her pin-money. THE person who retires with the sun must have a warm bedfello w. A LADY is not benefited by the length of dress trailing the floor. THE most disinterestedly good.—Those who are sjood for nothing. THE career of the unsuccessful drainatist.-All work, and no play. A firm advertises 11 raw silk stockings." Who wants thorn cooked ? WHEN- does a criminal resemble an old book r- When he is bound over. Ix what kind of a vehicle does time travel r-In a gig-the whirligig of time. MY wedding trip," said the groom, as he stum- bled over the bride's train. THERE is a distinction with a difference between ittic rooms and rheumatics. A WOMAN and a ship always want to be full -rigged when they go out a trading. THE married editor is reminded of his courting days every time he goes to press. WHEN a woman bestows her hand upon a man, can he be said to bear away the palm r IT is no sign that a hen meditates evil to her owner simply 1, atise she lays for him. WHY is a widower like a house in a state of dilapidation ?—Because he should be repaired. SOXG of the poor young married couple occupying a single room—" We'll have a suite by-and-by." THE bride who sings, "Do they miss me at home? is unreasonable. They speak of her as Mrs. now. THE only thing which can run in the sun and cast no shadow is a country road with no trees on it. IF a man gets" the sack," he is unhappy; but if a lady gfets the Back-a seal-skin—she is de- lighted. A COQUETTE is a rose-bush from which each young beau plucks a leaf, and the thorns are left for the husband. JAPAN must be a poor place for a labouring man, for we arc constantly hearing of the lacquer work in that country. IT has been discovered that the man who stuck to his colours as a painter who sat down in one of his paint-pots. WHEN two girls meet, they kiss. When two young men meet, they don't. That shows who wanta kissing the worst. WHEN we see XX or XXX on a liquor cask we always think of the amount of cris-crosses walking condensed inside of it. WITHOUT saying which one does the hugging, Miss Muloeh says bears and forbears are the two great bears of matrimony. A PHILOSOPHER says, You require in marriage precisely the same quality that you would in eating sausages—absolute confidence. MANY a man who has been a negligent husband decorates his dead wife's grave with flowers. Why not take the boquct home beforehand ? A SHREWD trader says that there are two reasons why we don't trust a man one, because we don't know him, and the other because we do. WHAT tells one not to hit a man when lie is down ? Honour. And what warns one not to hit him when he isn't down ? Discretion. FIRST married man How is your mother-in- law ? "—Second married man: Well, thank you how is yours P -First married man "Dead, thank yoa A MULE'S head does not contain a brain capable of culture and refined rearing, but it is wonderful to what an extent 1110 other end of his form can be reared. HENS will set on a nest of eggs for a day and not murmur, but let a man set on a basket of eggs but for a second, and he will use fowl lallguag. enough. IN front of some of the furnished apartments in Pans are the words, English taken in here," and a notice in a shop window runs, "English smiked within." MOKE L\-<U Can a fee given to a quack doctor be said to be a real fee simple, and ran bills of mortality" be said to be also dQ]) i -i ,f nature r" IF a man brawls, he is regarded with contempt. If a brook brawls, it is looked upon with admira- tion. Is a puny stream of water of more account than a man ? A HOLD youn,z:, man explained why he h ,d a pretty girl on his lap with his arm around her, by saying that he was engaged in the study of weight's and measures. "DuTY stares me in the face!" as a certain prominent senior remarked, when the custom house officers caught him smuggling a few doze II promenade kids. r x anciellt days the precept was know thyself" In modern times it has been supplanted by the far more fashionable maxim, Know thy neighbour and everything about him." A LITTLE boy once asked his mother whether some act for which he had been rebuked was wicked, and mamma rr-plied, -No my dear, it was worse than wicked it was vulgar. MisxuEss: Why what is that smell, Jane ?— Jane: Please, m'ni, the brandy got spilt, and I-I done my best with the puddin' but I'm afraid it don't flare much with paraffin: WiiE-, an exchange mentioned "a message of di eath, and the compositor altered the word to ii sausage, the fact may have been all right, but liio pathos was knot-ked end wise. A LITTLE girl was asked what was the meaning of the word She gave a pretty answer, saying" It is to feel as if you wanted to give all your things to your little sister." A LADY who had quarrelled with her bald-headed lover, said, in dismissing him, "What is delightful about you, my friend, is that I have not the trouble of sending you back any locks of hair." SAID a parent to his little swn who had committed some act of indiscretion, "Do you know that I am I. ] 'I h 1 I going to whip your" —"Yes," said the boy, "I sup- pose you are, because you are bigger than I am." ECCENTRIC old lawycr to new footman: "Now then, Patrick, call me a cab. "-Ptt, who thinks this a dodge to try his sincerity: "Och, no, yer bonoiir, it's not uiesilf that'll be callin' ye names at all. II
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^Draham aylor, cord wainer, ludsey, has committed suicide by opening a vein In his arm with a pocket-knife, and allowing himself to bleed to hath. His landlord heard him groan at about 1:10 in the morning, but before be could effect an entrance to the room the man had expired. A strike has broken out among the navvies employed on the Mont Conis Tunnel. Many of lhclll have long complained of their wages being paid in Italian paper money, and they marched to Lugano, assembled before the cmi tractor's house, -lm1 the militia had to be called out to disperse them. The Italian notes will in future be prohibited. The increasing number of spelling reformers in England and America and on the Continent has ■reated a desire among the members of the various associations for some means of strengthing the bond oi union. There is some talk of an International Congress of Spelling Refoimers, to be held in London or on the Continent, in the autumn. Three pilots, named John Williams, aged seventy- out* ♦ John. Jones, cicrod scv: ntv • T>; V J VV illiauis, aged thirty-four, have been drowned near lortmadoc Harbour, Ca?vonh?re?h swanipin,, of their boat in a storm. A fourth nilS' Lvan Mcrns, sacceeded in Swimmino t?Se b?acn' ^ter battlmgwith the waves t?- t?ohou? ?a half At the York Assizes, two nic", wt sentenced to tell penal servitude for a guro.e* robbery of a bad type, and Ur. Justice Stephen ordered that one or the ruihans should uudel-go the punishment of .wenty-hve strokes of the" cat," his lordship re- I mar.xing that if criminals of this class indicted bodily pain they too ought to be made to feel it.