Wrexham and Denbighshire Advertiser and Cheshire Shropshire and North Wales Register

I TilE FLECT OF LIVERPOOL. I > letter s-nu „nI .sed to '? Wiitten to the House of CommoM .?.-?-)g Mr Smith, the newly elected M.P. for <T "? v" ??"?? notc 911 L<md). T ?n ?.u M.R- now in Town, I., ,I. 'ute Labour, t'n" \11 ,1,1 » iruitlef -tS to cut t<lV' "II I 1 1 h""?'?'" ?'? :Q we send you Mr Smith \\¡:!1t<,to kb f 11 f 'h Y !'nV tii"' his i,'lck-boue ful1 of pith. ..i: w-ide the Grand Old Man, \n.i t\.t? straight a* an arrow u> ieel art- nor tricks of yours \II" I I' h ?i!f '? tthis Hrm ?cn'ch marrow yet u .« a perilous thing to do, e. 't 't', •f0 s' n't a man to sit with you y^r s is /t the ch dcest school en earth, 0: niann- rs (,r of morals Soiue "f }«>» wear, from our standpoint, questionable laurels And tiiik such language as secures, outbid-, a dtfereiit Whip" from yours Pnr d not spoil our Mr Smith Ji. isn't a ilume l'artlett Don't teach him a'kee, talkee, like The »'ndlp*s Aslimead-Hartlett !)(!)< t let him learn from Drummond Wolff, To )AWII like the old hoiiau gulf The vesst I of the state are you j? All, now and then your lurch ill We hope jour sickness won't make Smith As rude as Randolph Cliitrchill \8°'" only art is throwing dirt, Which sometimes sticks but doesn't hurt. 'f the miners of Northumberland, H td told their man to model His mminers upon Lord Handolph's, Albeit his ducal noddle, Would uot the world's indignant voice Have said they had disgraced their choice ? He colliee with a heart as fresh as what A Scotchman calls a gowan Warton, don't teach him how to block, Nor teaeli him treason, f owen, Don't teach him counting, Joet)h Big^ar, Nor to gi-iii tind chatter like a nigger. A certain iSeot too let him eschew, And that is Sir George Campbell He takf-a the wid.> w-rld for his text, But is very much given to ramble, And talk an infinite deal of rot '1h\l' Scotch let Smith, admire him not. Teach him to speak, if speak he must, When he some hing has to say Teach him to work to be returned, With pririe an -the- day. To shape li-msf-If in all he can, On the model of the Grand Old Man. I FiTz-ROBERT.

11 "NT M AN'S TE\ IS THE BEST, for those consumers .1 ile-ire a pu..e and refreshing beverage without the Vraheous mutter, (Prussian blue. gypsum, &c.) used thtf ( iiii.ese on UacL and green tea alike, to elis- i— the inferior wintry growth. Of all beverages tea is the most important, a»i.-ts digestion, produces cheerfulness enables and young to equally enjoy life, recalling the a.-ures of the past, and yielding to the imagination pictures <;f future happiness, Ilorniman's Tea is -ti oiik,, rich, delicious, warranted Pure, and sold in f kets at fixed prices, by Chemists and others in the ''ountry, and Confectioners in London. List of local traders supplying Homimaii's Tea in this district :— Wrexham—Potter, 18 and 19, High-street. Shrews- bury—Salter, chemist. Chester—Thomas, 13, Bridge- street How. Mold—Hughes, 23, New-street. Llan- gollen—Ditcher, stationer. Barmouth-Kynock. < iiergvvrle—Williams, corn dealer. Brymbo-Jones, haper. &t-. Flint—Jones & Son, chemists. Connalis t/iav—Jones, chemist. 13 "PEBKECTED "COD IIVEH Mi. is as nearly tasteless as Cod Liver Oil can be. -Laiiect. "1\0 nauseous eructations follow. II["/Ù' Press. Sold everywhere in capsuled bottles '1,lr. Tonga (" Invaluable in facial Neuralg'ia,"—Mcdical fis now reduced in price to 2s 9d. Of all iieinists. THE SKIN.—The Glory of Woman, the Pride of "faii. -It contains the delicate lines of beauty, and ::<iitutes all that we term "Loveliness," yet how :n:i!!V have their skins blemished by irritant soaps, trf.olic Coal Tar. Glycerine, made of putrid fats. Tin: ALBION MILK AND SULPHUR SOAP" i. tlt purest, the whitest, and most purifying of all • ■'i's. It removes all pimples, blotches, and r iugh- By all chemists, in tablets, 6d and Is. 7 i'repart-d Malted Food for Infants and Invalids "¡.¡ all the flesh forming properties so essential Infants and Invalids, and is palatable and capable retention by the most delicate. Packets 5d each, ^■-10 1. All patt-nt medicines at store prices for cash 1"3, High-street. 808 Teas, Coffees, General Groceries and Frovisions, at lesale prices, at C. K. BENSON, AND Cols., Ncrtb \11('- Supply Stores, 14. High-street. Wrexham. P'• INDIAN TEA.—Have you tried the Rich ■Syrupy Miming Congou, at One and Sixpence per ii,)w I-,eizig soId at the Hope-street Market, rexham ? This is the best value in Wales.-Note eidress, I)., Hope-street. 1377z Hoi.I.OWAV H PII.LS.—In the complaints peculiar to '• nules these pills are unrivalled. Their use by the 0,.11 sex has become so constant for the removal of t; :1 ailments that rare is the toilet that is without t!I" Amongst all classes, from the domestic *"rv;,nt to the peeress, universal favour is accorded to ■ tiusp renovating Pills their invigorating and pu i- vi''properties render them safe and invaluable in cases thev may be taken by females of all ages ■ r any disorganisation or irregularity of the system, vedily removing the cause and restoring the sufferer robust health. As a family medicine they are un- *i'jToaehable for subduing the maladies of young and

General News. -r- .r-r  6e/Jorca ia Sou h Australia has been mcreascd to 1,500 men. .n Mr..Gladstone and ?? Lord Chancellor h? ve each .Ubaenbed ?100 to the Fu Memorial Fund. The, Md.lagadY E'tvoy? pa d a visit to Woolwich on q and fr luncheon visited the arsenal on T^ ^Vu announced of Mr. Dmiel Guile latfl i M?etary of the Iionmoulders' TrSe Union. in afarAy 200 members have almdy been enrolled In th Queen's  ?'?' recenLl>'  ? South SKee?nsinn? gton on Conservative principles. M«lhn„J^e ^u elSCtriclty ? ???ly advancing in Melboure. he Spencer Street ?iLway station and th?? o?T ?7 ar sholtIy to ? thus lighted. A Se   Wl"y politician, Mr. Bernal Osborne hhala a ?° undertaken by Mr. Philip H. Bl\genl, the risin¡ literary man on the Tory ? ? ?? uu,™'J, ?? °u ,h« in Ct £ tnhJf'jr'S"In"el D"reaval. lately a draper In Ohelsea ?en commuted for trial on a charge &S ESSIv E? 0,n E"sU,ld wil1" ?? w defral1d his creditors. t? ^i16 Accrington Health Committee have decided to keep the d'lY school clg« j, on account of the er°' X 116 schools ?—iy ?- opn 4 i f, ort,nigT ht since Jaly. hL/vmit L0rdJ^eh0? of B?th and Wella has reopened hT 2?????' rhlcb was the firt pref rme- t held by Oâdinal W obey, to which he was presented bj the^M^uit utS ?? ? ?-?  Ma.rquis and Mllr,hione:os of lltu at Longleat, which wae poat.o .e in conseq ience ,f his i.lne a M JJ0W expected to take place early n xt mon h. Ihe Great Yarmouth herring fishing dur ng the week has been successful, a large number of boats .andedgood carg es, the prices for whi h ftaye been high, ranging from 15 to £3) per last. ine Hamburg Lloyd's have ordere all captains ot jernian Transatlantic steawers proceeding o New York to leave Cape Race at a distance of 100 mi es, wi hout regard to the extra tioie occupied in the voyage. The natives of Swi zerland, who were in luced by unscrupulous agents to enlist into the Egyptian gtu-iarm",rie, have returned home iu a pitiable con- dition, having by their ab ence lost their former means of s bsistence. During the last uuonth the officers of the Fish- mongers' Company, out of 13,748 t >ns of fish re- ceived at billIngsgate, condemnei for human food. Of this six toua c.,me by land au the rest by water. It is stated that in consequence of the long-oon- tinued depression in the Bradford trade seven or eight large manufacturing concerns will cease work at the end of the present month. Already a good many hands are idle. Two horse-dealers and a shoemaker, who seem to have worked in partnership, have been sentenced at the London Guildhall to three months' imprison- ment for having sent to the Loudon market meat unlit for human food. The vicar and churchwardens of Tunstall, D irt- inouth, Devonshire, h ve be:n ordered to give up some building materials they had illegally seized when the contractor, who was repairing th"u church, suddenly bolted to Am rica. The Atlienmum states that Mr. Pater, who is about to leave England for a stay of some weeks in Borne, is engaged on a considerable work written in dia- log ue form. The scene of it is laid in the Eternal City, in the reign of Marcus Aurelius. A new Club has been instituted in New York. It is partly social in character, but its main object is to unite American authors, with a view to -ecuring some protection in the way of copyright for native writers within the United States. Tho Brighouse cotton spinners' strike haa now entered upon its fifteenth week with no dgns of either ma ters or workmen making au advance to- wards a set lement, or approach to terms. The contributions from neighbouring towna are pretty well kept up. Last week different forms of violence caused 75 deaths in London; 68 were the result of negligence or accident, among which were 24 from fractures and contusions; 10 from burns aud scald., 5 from drowning, and 22 of infants under one year of age fro-n suffocation. A painter named John Maruey was found guilty at the Surrey Sessions of maliciously wounding a marrie i woman named Eliza Cumming", and aa several previous convictions were also proved against tho prisoner, he was sentenced to lire yeara' pjnal servitude. Tho death is announced from Paris of Madame Laceue, sister-in-law of M. Camile Jordan, aged 104. She had formerly a much-frequented salon at Lyons, where she received Madame de S iiel, Madama litcatnier, and many of the moat brilliant celebrities of the Restoration. At a special parade cf the Royal Engineers at Chatham, the officers and men of the 8th, a railway company, wero presented with the Egyptiau war medal by Colonel-Cominandant G >rdon, who spoke 'I in high terms of the services rendered by the company duci l the campaign. The Lord Mayor of London announced at a meeting of the committee formed to r .ide a fund for the relief of the aunerera by the Clay CNSS Collie y disaster, that the amount sent to the Mansion Hou-e was £1,300, and that the local fund raised was £4,300. At least £10,000 was require In Paris a woman named Tannour has shot the Abbe Pahier, who is director of the schools of St. Suipice. tie was wounded, but his lite is not in danger. The woman, who is mad, was under the Abbe Pahier, who is much respected, was in league with her relatives to imprisonher in a mad house. Mr. falconer At ee, who was for many years private secretary to Lord Cowley when he was Ambas-adorin Paris, and who has since then, with- out losing his diplomatic rank, fulfilled the duties of Consul at the British Embassy, was on Eriday night gazetted a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. I At a special meeting of the Metropolitan Com- missioners of ewers, a previous resolution to leave the electric lighting in the hauds of companies was formally rescinded, and a select committee was appointed to enquire into the necessary steps to be taken to enable the Commission to supply electric light. A Parliamentary returu just published gives the names, residences, and qualifications of the fifty- nine gentlemen who have been appointed investi- gators to hold local enquiries pursuant to Section 5 of the Irish Arrears Act. Of the total number fifteen have been appointed for three months, thirty- nine for one month, and five have now resigned. A shocking accident occ irred on Friday at Havant. Captain Dupre, 3rd Hants Rifle Voluu- teers, a gentleman widely known and respected in the district, took his revolver, telling his children he was going on the lawn to shoot some birds. He left the house, and a t-hot was heard, his body bei. g afterwards found, he having accidentally shot him- self. The Washington Census office has just issued a special return, giving statistics of illiteracy in the United States at the late census-taking. The 'I aggregate number of persons ten years old and up- wards in the States and territories of the Union is ¡' 36,761,607. Of these, 4,923,451, or 13*4 per cent., | are returned as unable to read, aud G,239,95S, or 17 per cent., as unable to write. The Australian paper. state that legal opinion, obtained with referenee to the appointment of a Bishop of Sydney, holda that the previous action of the synod has been illegal, and that, in order to appoint the bishop from the two gentlemen already selected, it will be necessary either to petition the Crown to grant letters patent, or to apply to the Colonial Legislature for a apecial Act. I At a committee meeting of the Congregational Union of England and Wales Jubilee Fund, at the I 'I Momor:al Hall, it was reported that the promises now exceed £210,000, exclusive of what is being raised by the Welsh churches in England and Wales. During the meeting a cheque for £1,000 was received from an anonymous donor, who described himself as "A friend to the removal of II chapel debts." The eni of the world, which, according to the false rhyme of Mother Shipton, was to occur in 18 <1, having been unavoidably postponed, another prophecy has been dug up from the French. This: distich declares that when Good Friday falls on St George's Day, and Easter on St. Mark's Day, and Corpus Christi on St. John the Baptist's Day, the final consummation will arrive. These conjuuc- tions will occur in 1886. At the last meeting of the Glasgow Town Council it was reported that the Queen had consented to j send a number of valuable objects, including a I m?tchlesa shield worth some ?5,000, as her contri-I bution to an art exhibition to be held in Glasgow I this month, under the auspices of the Corporation. Among the other contributors is Mr. Gladstone, who will send some vary fine carved ivories and some splendid examples of Italian jewellery. I The Malagasy envoys now on a visit to this country have brought with them various publica- tions in the native language. They include the I recent correspondence between the Malagasy Government and the French Consuls as well as other official documents, which, although issued from a native printing office, are not inferior in point of appearance and typographical accuracy to our own blue books. The Malagasy compositors have all been taught by English printers.— Aihenvum. The Derbyshire Chess Club have arranged t chess tournament to take place early next year, in which ladies and gentlemen will take the place of the various pieces. The proceeds are to be given in aid of Children's Hospital now in course of con- ctruction. ) A medical man in India has examined thirty- j1 eight young boys from the Mofussil district, who I smoked tobacco. In twenty-seven he discovered inj urious traces; in twelve bleeding at the nose; ten h id disturbed sleep; and twelve elight ulcera- tion of the membrane of the mouLh. A beautiful memorial tablet, of Derbyshire alabaster, has just been placed in a conspicuous position on the south wall ot the chancel of Swan- wick Church, to the memory of the late Rev. Henry Wright, who was accidentally drowned in a lake in | Switzerland about two years ago. During the performance at the Ode n Theatre, Barcelona, on Saturday evening, a thief raised a1 cry of-fire, and a panic ensued, in which several; of the spectators while endeavouring to escape I were thrown down and trampled upon. One per- Ion wae killed, and eighteen others sustained in-   juries. A

I RIOT IN A VIENNA REFUGE. On Tuesday night serious disturbances occurred im n ?th?e .? old pn.on used as a refuse for the destitute One man who had behaved ba*dly to some of th« others, on beiug led away to a separate cell, threw himself upon a policeman and cut his throat. This was the signal for a general riot. The inmates ??c? k?" d th policemen, violently knocking the? down > tn} r! ™«»«<ing many. One attendant was taken up by two strong men and pitched out of a second-floor window, whence very soon afterward! flames broke out. They bad thrown the petroleata iV?h! upon the straw ??re.sea and very?oon paX' of the huuse W* in n?e.. The rioters to esSp., the fire ran inYto th& courtyard, where a n3S en.ue?, in which the policem.n were victorious. Wnen order was restored it was found that S the?i majority of the 250 inmates were all more or less ir A great many po icemeu also came off badlv.! Thirty-five men were arrested, among them beiM' the incendiary, who was found concealed in th!? collar on Wednesday morning.

I ALABlIINtf ACCIDENT TO THE FLYING I SCOTSMAN. j On Wednesday morning an accident or a seriou.' character from the cause 0 character from the cause that led to it happened to the Scotch express from Edinburgh to London after it had left Gr?nthtm for Pete i borough. The train.! whuh contained a Pullman akeping car, waa' passing Essendine, where there is a junction with tamford, when it came into collision with a heavy brake van, left foui of the up line. The engine of the express dashed into the obstructing van, and ¡ sent it rolling on to the side of th9 four-foot way. but not clear of the carriages. All the carriages then came into concussion with the capsized van, one end of the Pullman car being smashed in, whilst door handles were wrenched off, windows broken, and other damage done. As soon as pos- sible the express, which at the time was travelling at a s^eed of fifty miles an hour, was pulled up, and a stoppage made at the Graatf.rd Signal-box. It was there ascertained that although the passen- gers w, re slightly shaken and alarmed no one had been materially inj ured. The train then proceeded to Peterborough, where the Pullman car and the da maged carriages were remove i and replaced by others. The buffers of the engine were twisted and I its aides considerably battered.

I DISASTROUS COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL. I The English sailing ship Knight of the Thistle, 1,000 tons, with a cargo of jute, from Calcutta to Aberdeen, put. into Portsmouth on Wednesday afternoon, aud reported being in collision with a large steamer off the Divers on Tuesday night. The steamer sank and lost three hands. Nothing was known by the Knight of the Thistle except that the other vessel was of Spanish nationality and that the remainder of the crew proceeded in a passing steamer to Dover. A telegram from Dover ou Wedtiesdity night sa.Ts:The shipwrecked crew of the Campeador, screw steamer, were landed here to-night at half-past nine o'clock. They in. clude the captain, Gabriel Ollargo, and his wife and sixteen men. The vessel, which belongs to B ircelona, left London on Saturday, witha general cargo for Carthagena and Barcelona. When off the Orse Lightship, near the Isle of Wight this morning, about half-past one, she was run into by the ship Kuight of the Thistle, that vessel striking her on the port side forward ot the bridge. The Campeador filled rapidly, and sink within five minutes after the collision. Fortu- nately, the vessels remained in contact for nearly the whole of the time, or the fata iiies might have been much more serious. Half the crow aud all the passengers were below. As it was three poor fellows lost their lives, namely, the second mate, the chief steward, and a fireman. The survivors saved themselveit by clambering over the bows of the Knight of the Thistle. None of the men saved any of their effects, and some of them were just as they left their work. They were subsequently transferred to the steam ship Edward Willin ii and brought in to Dover. On arriving here they were received at the National Sailors' Home, where their wants are being attended t I. Some of them are in a very distressed condition, and three ot them have received injuries which are b ing attended to by the surgeon of this Home. One man has lost two of his fingers and the captain sustained a scalp wouud.

DEATHS FKOM EXPOSURE. I A snowstorm has again vhite I Westmoreland. Four persons are missing in the Kirkby Stephen district since the la e storms. Thousand s of sheep have perished. The outlyng villages are cut. off from communication. At the Curragh Military Caiup, Ireland, on Tuesday nig t, two sentries on duty at the magazine were fr zen to death. An order has now ben given to change the sentriea hourly. A tcdegra w from Dundee says :—" Tne storm which has been experienced here during the past ten d.ys th,)ws no sign of abiteiueut. There was au < xcessive fall of snow on Wednesdiy I morning, but there is little wind, so that there ¡ is no drifting. On Tuesday night the thermometer registered 2i deg. of frost, and in exposed situations the mercury fell to zero. Much inconvenience is felt by householders in consequence of the freezing of gas and water pipes. The body of a tramp was discovered on Tuesday night boiwocn Lirbort and | Denny, Stirling, hah buried in a snowdrift by the wayside. The storm in Fiieshire seems to bd more severe than in any other part of Sco:land. On Wednesday thirty-two degrees of frost were registered, and a dense fog enveloped tho c mutiy, reudering public tritfli • difficult and dangerous. The railway and mail services arc greatly dis- arranged. A man named Alextnder Jackson has heen found dead in a:snowdrift near Dunfermline. I He had evidently been endeavouring to drive through the snow, when hia van overturned, and, falling benea h it, he perished.

DAMAGES FOR THE BITS OF A DOG I At the So-ithwarc Cou nLyCourt on Wednesday, before Mr. Stonor, the j udgo, an action was tried in whi h Cornelius Johnstone, i pensioner from the army, and a member of the Corps of Commis- sionaires, soughL to recover dam geafrom Mr. King, the proprietor of the Ship public-house, Rother- I hithe Street, for damiges sustained by him in consequence of the lefeudim's dog having ivitten I tiiti wife's leg.—Mr. Armstrong, solicitor, conducted I the plaintiff's c ise, at the instance of the Society for tho Protection of Women and Children and Mr. Brough appeared for the defendant.—It ap- peared f, om the evideuu; of Mrs. Johnstone that Ii slie livod near the defend nt's public-house, aud on the morning of the 29 h of March last entered i', with a child in her arms, to get half-a-pint of beer, when a dog belonging to the defendant, a large black retriever, rushed at her and bit her leg. The defendant calied the dog away, and she went home. By the adv!oe of a neighbour she put some salt on the wounds, which were three in number. H(?r husband soon returned, and he took er to Dr. Nichols, of Rotherhithe, whose assistant cauterised the wounds, and she was unable to do any work for six weeks. She still suffered from the pain, and wa! unable to follow her employment as a dressmaker. Andrew McGregor, a labourer, stated that a few weeks pre- viously this same dog bit his hand severelv.-His Honour, after a great deal of evidence, said' he was satisfied that the plaintiff's wife had been injured af-er McGregor, and gave him a verdiot for £10 and costs. I

TOBACCO IN AMERICA. I The practice of tobacco smoking appears to be I largely on the inc ease in the United States. Among youths especially it is rapidly extending. The head master of the Latin School at Boston, Mass., states that tobacco is used by half the boys in the upper classes in his establishment, while the Principal of Harvard Grammar School in Charles: own gives a still more surprising account. That gentleman says: Out of 300 boys I find very few who have not had a cigar in their mouths at some time, and about 40 per cent. use tobacco habitually." Among other signs of the times, it may be noted that an association of ladies has been formed quite recently in Philadelphia, the members of which pledge themselves not to kiss any man, young or old, who is addicted to smoking.

The Paris Press have formed a committee for the I purpose of organising 8ula ription6 in aid of the suffeier.* by the Seine floods. A woman has been imprisoned for a month at Lyttleton for thrashing her husband. Several churches in London IInd the suburbs were without their preachers on Sunday owing to their being lost in the fog. The distinction of being the beat shot in the British army is possessed by Drummer J. Savage, of the 2nd B ittalion North Staffordshire R"giment, and he has consequentl y been awarded the prize of 120 and a silver medal. An anonymous donor has presented the Ventuor Consumption Hospital w th fuuds for an additional house and furniture, to meet the great pressure of applicants for admission. The committee are desirous of receiving offers to erect two more houses, so that a complete block may be built. ) The Liverpool emigration returns for the past month show a great decrease in the departures compared with last year, the total being 10,482 last month, against 13,252 in November, 1881. Of the emigrants last month 6,431 were English, and the xreat mltjorifY were bouud for Canada. -1 I The remains of the late Arc'ibishop of Canterbury were iuterred on Frid ty, in the churchyard of Ad- dlngton, in the pre euce of numerous distinguished persons. Thd f LL zieral, in accordance with the wish of the lat Primate, was of a very simple character. The QLLe,!u and th Prince o. Wales were rGtre- sente i at the ceremony, which was attended by, amongst ohe a, thn Duke of Connaught and the Duke of Albany. The funeral proc ssion I\a-; met at the entrance to the churchyard by the Arch- bishop of York and the Rector of Addington, the latter reading the opening sentences of the buri 1 j service. Inside the chuich, which had been taste- fully adorn d with white flowers and ferns, the J service was conducted by tit., son-in-law of the de* seasad prelate, t Ie beneditioa being pronounced by the Archbishop of y,), k.

GREAT Flitti, IN LONDON.—ENORMOUS DEbiiiUCliON OF 1KOPERTY. I Early on Friday moruiug nre broke out in the City, and it is believed thu the damage done is greater than has been caused by any single conda. gration siuce the great Xooley SLreet tire, twenty years ago. The bCeno of ilie tire ill within a few hundred yards of tha which took pllce in Cheapside, causing extensive destruc.iou of valuable property, about eighteen months t?o, :md Ü is in the heart of that part of the city in which most of the large warehouses devoted to the dress trade are situated. The block of buildings in which the fire broke out, and which has been almost entirely gutted, is bounded on the north by London Wall, on the south by Addle Street, on the east by Philip Lane, I and on the west by Wood Sire.it, and is occu- pied by Messrs. Peter Rylands and Co., the well-known general warehousemen, of Man- cheater, Bradford, Glasgow, &c.; Messrs. Foster, Porter, and Co., hosiery, glove, shawl, mantle, and ribbon merchants; Messrs. Silber and Fleming, manufacturers and importers of fancy goods; Messrs. Sargood, Butler, and Nichol, IIhip. pers, and others. All of these firms have been heavy sufferers by the fire, and several other per- sons occupying smaller portions of the block have sustained considerable loss. The fire appears to hive been first discovered in the premises ot Messrs. Foster, Porter, and Co., which face Addle Street. A poLceman was patrolling his beat when his atten- tion was attracted by an uuusual glare in one of the windows of the warehouse in question, and immedi- ately afterwards flames but-at lorlh. He raised an alarm at once. Assistance was telegraphed for to uli parts of the metropolis, and within 40 minutes of the first alarm being giveu at 2.50, no less than 30 steam-engines and a number of manuals were pouriug water on to the burning buildings. Captain fcjh iw arrived shortly after three, and during the whole of the night his exertions were incessant to I try and save some portion of the block from destruc- tion. Despite the attempts of the firemen t-) itiolale the burning warehouse, and despite the favourable direction of the breeze, which carried the sparks away from the part of the block occupied by Messrs. Rylands and Messrs. Silber aud Fleming, trie premises of the Manchester warehousemen caught ifre, and the inflammable nature of the materials herein stored at once assisted the progress of the dames. The ignition of the ware-'iouae ot Messrs. Silber ande Fleming followed in a few iitiuatea, and at this time there seemed to be little doubt that the whole block must be gutted. Thu scene was now terrible in its grandeur. In an in- credibly short space of time the two list-named warehouses were in full blaze, aud the tons of water poured into the burning malla only seemed to add fuel to the flame. The gooda atored in Messrs. liylauds' premises were mainly silks aud other valuable materials, and as bale after bale was con- sumed, many were the laments of the employes of the firm, many of whom watched the tiro from points of vantage. After the struggle between the two elementa had lasted for some three hjurs the limits of the destruction seemed to grow better defined, and though by that time the ware- house of Messrs. Foster, Porter, and Co. was completely gutteJ, the premises occupied by Messrs. bilber and Fleming and Me-sis. Sargood, in Wood Street and Piilip Lane respec- tively, were in a fair way te be overtaken by the same fate, and the warehouse of Messrs. Rylands, in Wood Street, London Wall, and Philip Lane was evidently doomed, yet it was now certain that no extension of the fire beyond this block need be feared, and it was evident, moreover, that one Muall portion of the block itself would escape from the general wreck. No accidents are reported in volving serious personal injury or loss of life. There were a few persons sleeping on the premises, most of them in the capacity of caretakers, but all were rescued safely. The damage is estimated at between two and three millions sterling. At noon on Friday, although practically burned out, the fire was still smoking, and heavy maaaea of matonry and brickwork fell from time to time. Many of the firemen had very narrow escapes, and in several instances were compelled to eever the hose and drive off with their engines to escape being overwhelmed by the falling walls. Many hundreds of people will be thrown out of employment. Nearly all the insurance offices are affected to some extent. Messrs. Rylands are insured in one office for a quarter of a million, besides holding sm .Her policies. Messrs. Foster, Porter, and Co. hold one policy for L200,000, besides the smaller ones. All the other buildingt destroyed are iusured, ani the claims ¡r m all the buildings in the vicinity will be heavy. It is difficult to say as yet what each insurance effice will lose, but the aggregate sum assured seems roughly to be about £850,000 on the various at cks in trade held by Foster, Porter, and Co., Kylauds, and others, and A;150,000 on buildings. Th principal losses have Leen roughly ehitiluateil s it'liows :—The North British and Mercantile, X,sz), uoo Coiuuierc al Union, 950, OOU oyal Ex- change, £ 42,000; Pnueuix, £ 45,0JO; Guardi n, £ 3-3,000; Royal, £ 30,000; Liverpool, £ 30,000 L" -dotit 120,000 N rthern, L20,000 Suu, £ 29,01*0.

AN UNSEAWORTHY VESSEL. I The Board of Trade enquiry into the loss of the I steamship Secret, of Hartlepool, off Pakefield, on the 28th October, concluded at Lowestoft on Wed- nesday. The Commissioners gave judgment that the vessel was in an utterly unfit and unseaworthy condition when she left Shields. Mr. Tuomas H. Williams, the managing owner, was to blame for the loss of the vessel and her crew, and he would have to pay 1200 towards the cost of the enquiry. The Commissioners regretted that Mr. Huutley, who sold the vessel to Mr. Williams, was not amenable.

A SOLDIER SENTENCED TO DEATH. I At the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday, ] Alfred Harris (25), corporal in the let Wiltshire Regiment, was indicted for the murder of Corporal J John Edgar, of the same regiment, at Woolwich. Prisoner had been ordered uuder arrest for insub- ordination, and when deceased was about to effect the arrest he drew a sword stick and stabbed him. In defence it was plealed that prisoner was excited with drink. The jury found a verdict of guilty, and sentence of death was passed.

=^=== THE LOUGH MASK MURDERS. I At the Dublin Commission, on Wednesday, Pal. Higgins (Long) was found guilty of the murder of II Lord Ardilaun's two bailiffs (fcfuddy), and he was sentenced to be htnged on 15th of January next. Judge O'Brien occupied over three hours in charg- ing the jury. He told them that they were not to be I influenced by the supposed necessity of the time. The real necessity of the times was law aud justice. Their verdict was to be regardless of consequences. Not their verdict, not the law, but the prisoner's crime condemned him. Prisoner invoked P God and the V.rgin to witness that he was innocent, and when sentence was pronounced he threw himself on his knees, and looking towards Heaven, with out- stretched hands, said, Welcome be the will of God." The jury expressed the opinion that the prisoner was the least guilty of the murderers, and in this the judge concurred.

THE FALL OF A RAILWAY BRIDGE N KENT. On Wednesday afternoon the inquest was re- sumed on the bodies of the seve I men who recently met their deaths by the falling of a bridge by I Bromley station. Mr. Mills, chief engineer of the Cuatham an i Dover Railway, said on examination ho found that the northern pier had sunk 9in j which Wtf the cause of the bridge falling. Colonel Yolland, who held he Board of Trade enquiry, 8iJ he co"8idered the subsidence of the north arch was due to the wet weather, and the construction of a siding in April last. A verdict of II Accidental I death" was returned, a rider being appended that! there was no errer in judgment by those respon- si le, but that proper means were not taken to secure the south arch. I

Messrs. Moody aud Sankey made their arat public appearance in Brighton on Tuesday. During the last five days seven shocks of earth- quake have been felt in the province of Almeria, S, ain. Colonel Bernard, her Majesty's Lieutenant for King's County, died suddenly on Wednesday morn- ing at his seat, Castle Bernard, near Parson town. He presided on Tuesday at the local sessions, ap- parently in good healtl. At the meeting of the Oldham Sanitary Com- mittee, it was reported that 76 pigs in the borough had been attacked with swine fever, and they were ordered to be destroyed, at a cost to the Corporatioon of 167. The Epping Forest Royal Reception Committee of the Corporation have, bays the Citizen, ordered of a firm in 13ruseels 400 medals, at a cost of £ 600, to commemorate the visit of the Queen to Epping! Forest. There has just died at Chath tin Asylum a pauper, lunatic, named Charlea Ruths, who since 1835 has been maintained by the Dover Union. It is esti- mated thit the man has cost the Dover ratepayers about 15,000. Mr. D'Oyly Carte will have enough to do in saving "lolanthe from the American pirates. Half a dozen companies are now forming, it is said, to do the new opera, without the align eat moral right to it. The committee of the Vienna International Electric Exhibition have finally arranged the details of next year's display. It will open on August 1, and con- tinue for hree months. Entries may be made up till March 1. The men of the Household Cavalry who took part in the Egyptiau campaign nave now been served out with new uniforms us well as the medals for the cam- paign, and have returned to duty. They find the guard a; Whitehall d ily. Levels are being taken for the construction of a new line connecting Dover town with Folkestone. Tne line is to lie made by the London and Chatham Company, in order that they may ruu tra ns in con- nection with the Boulogne boats. A meeting of the local railway committee was held in Bournemouth on Friday evening, when it was resolved to give a cordial support to the New- bury and Didcot scheme, and to attempt to arrange with the promoters for certain modifications.

I GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. I U FRANCE. I M. Spuller went on Friday to see M. Gambeits, and reports that the inner part of the wouud is healing and that the two orifices in the hand anl arm are healing. There is, however, the Gam- Bettist journals now admit, no chance of h a attend- ing the Army Committee, of which he is president, until January. The Telegraphe asserts that under the auspices ef a member of the House of Commons, well-known for his sympathies with France, negotiations have been opened between the English Working Men's Associations and some English politicians with the object of organizing meetings in Paris and London to protest against the policy which at the present I time divides England and Erance on the Egyptian question. FIRE IN ROME I Considerable sonw.- 3n has been caused at Rome, I where conflagrations are so rare, by a fire breaking out in Prince Ruspoli's house in the Corso. Through the efforts of the fire brigade and military the tire has been extinguished. There has been no loss of life. What property may have been destroyed is Still uncertain. ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS. I Captain Normann has returned to Copenhagen from St. Petersburg, where he has beun on an Official mission to arrange for a Search and Relief Expedition for the Danish stea ler Diempnah and the Dutch steamer Varna, ice-bound (and in all probability crushed in the ice) on the Siberian Coast. The Expedition will probably consist of fifteen sledges, and will be accompanied by a Dane, M. Larsen, who took a leading part in the Jeannette Search Expedition. I THE COLD IN AMERICA I Seve al persons have been frozen to death in various parts of the country. HEAVY WEATHER IN THE BLAfJK SEA. 'Lloyd'. agent at Seb?atopol tologt?pha under date of 9th Dec. that during the late gales 8evr" 1 casualties had occurred amongst the coasters. The Russian Company's passenger steamer Michael had her paddle-box smashed, "ut had since been docked. The Trebizond, schooner, had stranded during the gale near Cape Tiolent, but had been go. off and assisted into Sebastopol by Greek fishermen and a steamer. Fears itre entertained at Sebastopol ior the safety of the war steamer Y uglll, bound ftom Bebaatopol to Nicolateff, which is much overdue. COLLISION ON THE LOWER DANUBE. On &turd:ty last a Ru sian passenger ship, be- longing to Prince G r ganin, on the way from Rustchuk to Odessa, came into collision with an English merchant vessel near Tulcea, and foun- dered shortly afterwards. Lives were lo t, but the number of persons drowned is not yet. known. THE GERMAN BUDGET. Prince Bismarck, owing to ill heaith, was absen t from Saturday's sitting of the Reichstag, in which the question of the Biennial Budget was discussed. Prince Bismarck is suffering from a severe afracic oi neuralgia. Herr Eugene Richte attacked the project of a Biennial Budget in an extremely epgroel 't itv speech. Replying to the many comments which had been tn:t a in Lhe course ot the debate by the Conservatives regarding the quarre-s within the Pro^ie-sist Party, he declared that all the Liberals, Progressists, aud Secessionists, were united in their opposition to the Conservative party and its reactionary measures SCENE IN THE HUNGARIAN PARLIA- MENT. In Saturday's sitting of the Lower House of the Diet, during the debate on that portion of the esti- mates of tile M-aistry of Communications which -clatteci to the improvement of the Theirs, M. lio- honczy denounced tho alleged abuses of the repre- sentatives of that Ministry in giving contracts for public works. AL. tiierunymi, the Secretary ot State, refuted the assertions of the previous speaker by means of statistical data, and defended the system of embankments on the Theiss. He read a judg- ment of the legal tribunal which completely justified the ao a of the representatives of the Department of Communications, whom Rohonczy had accuse: of falsifying plans.—M. Rohonezy, in reply, declared that there existed in the Ministry a band of scoundrels, of whom M. Hieronymi was the head. On being called to order for this expression, M. Rohonczy asked the pardon of the House, but said he would never ask that of the Secretary of State. M. Hieronymi then rose and characterised the conduct of the previous speaker as indecent and villititiouis, au expression which was severely con- demned by the President.—M. Fekete, the expert em; loyed by the Tribunal, stated that although he was the principal oppouent in Hungary of the uicihod adopted for the mprovement of the Theiss, he had been convinced that as far as regarded the charges made by M. Rohonczy, the repre- sentatives of the Department of Communications hit., acted in a perfectly correct and z.alous in inner. A duel with pistols was fought on timidty af r„ rnooa between M. Rohonczty and M. Hiero- lioliiyi, Stere ary of State, in consequence of the seen in Saturday's sitting ot th 1 Lower House of tite Di,,t. Each of the comb. tants tired two shots, bu. without effect. In Monday's itting of the Lower House of the Hungarian Diet, At. 'l'Ú.z: referring to the scene of last St-urday, decl>red that to address insulting observations to Government officials in Parliament was most irregular au I uaseetuly. The Premiur appealed to the D-jputie* of all partial to render similar excesses in ftrure impossible. M. Roiionczy made fresh apologies, and expliiued thaL he did not refer to all Governimnt official- but only to certain functionaries iu the hydro-technical depart- ment, with regard to whom he reserved further com- ment until the result of t ie inquiry into their conduct became known. SERIOUS EXPLOSION IN AMERICA. Biglit persons have been kttto i and i hrue injured by a boiler explosion at a siwmill, at Shawueetown, in Illinois. SOUrti AFRICA. The arreingements rendered necessary by Cete- wayo's return to ZlllulanJ are on the eve of com- pletion, and he will shortly set out for that country. EH Y Pl. The hired transport Lusitania arrived at Alexan- dria on Monday morning with reliefs. She was to sail on Friday for England. Ara i and the other exiles with their families will leave for Ceylon as soon as a suitable steamer cm be provided. Arabi's coausel has writteu to the President of t e late Commission expressing his thanks for the courtesy, fairness, an I impartiality displayed by the Court during the last six weeks. It is expected that a Kliedivial decree will be issued within a few days degrading Arabi and the other condemne 1 Pachas, and ordering the confis- cation of their private property. Should the English public labour under the im- pression that the Egyptian army has ceased to exi-its it may be wcrth mentioning that 3,000 infantry soldiers, fully equipped, daily march past Ghizeh, headed by sappers and a military band, and occupy the barracks near Gbizeh Palace. where is stored the wherewithal to arm 20,000 men. This large quantity of weapons is exclusively confided to the custody of native officers. Of the men, many are old soldiers, who were present at the action of Tei-el-Kebir. The wisdom of quartering so large a native force close to Cairo may be ques- tioned. The general belief, in Egyptian circles, seems to be that the English are about to evacuate Cairo, and that, upon their departure, these indigenous troops will forthwith reoceii,y the citadel. MR. GLADSTONE AND GREECE. I On Sunday the Senate of the University at 1 Athens held a meeting and authorised the Rector 1 to telegraph its congratulations to Me. Gladstone on the fiftieth anniversary of his entrance into! public life, and to express the earnest hope that his life, so valuable to his country, literature, chiliz- II a ion, and all oppressed nationalities, may long be preserved. The Rector was also authorised to tele- graph to the Greek Minister in London to inform Air. Gladstone that it had been decided by universal consent to erect a marble statue in his honour. I

Primroses in full bloom were gathered in the open air at Lytham on Sunday. A fire broke out on Monday in the pattern shop of the Globe Ironworks, Bolton, by which damage to the extent of 110,000 was done. It has been ascertained that the gentleman upon I whom an inquest was recently held at Swaleclitf e, near Canterbury, he having committed suicide by shooting himself with a pistol, was Mr. James j D'Arcv. of Liverpool Street, King's Cross. The heeds Stercury says an uneasy suspicion pre. vails that the fires in the different parts of the country are not accidental. The threats of the Home Rulers to make the &axon suffer are not for. gotten, and it is thought not impossible that in- oendiarism may have been adepted as the latest skirmishing" weapon. The prelimiaary in vestigation into the circuin- stances connected wrh the fearful railway accident at Hugs: ettin, in Baden, last Mtti, has now been concluded, and the result is that four of the rail- way officials are to prosecuted for neglect of duty. Eight of the sufferers by the collision are still lying at Freiberg, in Baden, under medical treat- j ment. Saturday was the anniversary of the surrender of Plevna, which took place in 1877. 0 >inan Pacha, reduced by want of supplies, desperately endea- voured to break out of the fortress, but he was immediately surrounded and defeated by the Russians. He afterwards surrendered uncon- ditionally, with 30,000 men, 128 officers, and 100 guns. It is arranged that the new comedy, "Comrades," at the Court Theatre, shall, if possible, be produced on Saturday, and the management intends handing over the whole of the first night's receipts to the fund being raised for the employes oi the Alhambra Theatre, who, through the disastrous fire at that establishment, have loat their Christinas engag" meats. ■=■ >

I OTES ON NEWS. MR. TBOLLOPB has J8 t his legacy behind him. He published more novels than any other man who evei lived. He was publishing novels at the time of his death. The novels he published are not the full record of his industry, for some three or fuur completed stories still remain to see the public eye. W B understand that the Treasury, the General Post Office, and the railway companies have a 1 come to an agreement as to the terms on which the proposed parcels post is to be worked. In order to ensure the succ ssful working of a reform of such magnitude numerous details have had to be very carefully cousi lered, and some delay must yet ensue before the Post Office authorities will be able to give the public the benefit of the scheme. It is, however, confidently expected that within the next two montha the parcels poat will be in effective operation. IT is expected that General Gordon will be sent back to Egypt. In South Alriea he was not appre- ciated. A good story is told of the old soldier. He wa, dining one day at an hotel in Tadlea, and the landlord was so obsequious that he refused to let the wikiters attend to so distinguished a guest. Finding the proprietor of the house behind him constancy, th General a,.ked. uim what he was doing. 14 Wait- ing on you, General—delighted I'm sure." Do you wa t on the other guests ?" "No, ne." "Then l'll trouble you not to make me an exception," said the hero of China and Soudan. The landlord no longer cares much for the General. IT is not true that the tension between England and France in regard to Egypt has reached the point of rupture. Our offers have been refused, but refused in such a way as to lead to the im- pression tnat tne r rench Government expects a higher bid—which they will not get; and the idea ot a confeience finds no favour, it is probable that when France tinds us quietly proceeding with our work she will come round and make a sugges- tion of her own. It need hardly be said that, if she docs not claim distinctly political influence, such as would restore in fact the old partnership and lead to new difficulties of the type which led to the war in Egypt, Lord Granville will be anxious to meet French views. j THE efforts of the Indian Government to relieve the ryots from the crushing pressure of the money lenders have resulted in the preparation of a bill called the Advances W Ryots Bill, which is now before a Select Committee of the Viceregal Council. Previously existing Acts on the subject have failetl to realise the intentions of the designers, owing to the complicated nature of the provisions laid down. By the new bill it is providedthat advances may be made to any person who is entitled t J make improve- ments in land, and the largest discretion is left to the local governments. The local conditions and peculiarities of the several parts of India are so varied that it is only by leaving great dit!cretion to the local governments that rules suitable to the working of an act of this kind can be formed. I A ROVING correspondent of the Daily Notes gives a comparatively cheerful account of the condition of Ireland, and rejoices in thd fact that there is not so much distress either present or in prospect as he had been prepared to expect. Much, of course, de- pends upon the anticipations the correspondent had formed. A letter received by Mrs. John Bligh, of Liverpool, from the superioress of a convent in Mayo speak* in gloomy terms of the outlook in that quarter, and urgently pleads for assistance, and the newspaper correspondent admits that as the winter advances distress will increase. Wo; k or chanty, he thinks, must interpose between some ot t<.e people and famine and as th-re is little prospect, unfortunately, of work, chaiity becomes iniperati ve. let, though charity may give freoly, it cili-not but. be felt that Ireland will never e as it should be un- til the people can keep themselves. EITHER the dying wish of the ArchMshop of Canterbury or the overthrow of Mr. De la Bore's appeal in the House of Lords has impeded Mr. ^ntckonochie to announce his resigntttion of St. Alban's, Holborn. There is no don t that Dr. Pu?y had advised this course, that Mr. Macko- nochie at first consented to do so, and then at the wish of the militant Working Meu's Society de- termined to hold on to the end. It is s'ran?e that both the late leader of the High Church party and ti-e Primate should have recommended the same course tor the peace of the Church, and that the English Church Union should have favoured it also. The patronage of St. Alban's, Holborn, fortunately for Air. Hubbard's seat for the city, has been assigned by him to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, and they have offered the living, or agreed to do, to the Rev. A. J. Suckling, "Father" j Lowder's successor at St. Peter's, London Docks. Tn is living is in the hands of trustees, and it is said that they havedetermined torecall 'Mr. Mackonociiie to the scene of his early labours its curate of St. (ieor,-e's-iii -the- East, where he went through all the riots with the Bryan King, who, like the late vicar of St. Alban's, Holborn, advocates disestab- lishment pure and simple. AMONGST the papers contained in the Spanish Red Book are the notes exchanged with the English Government in reference to the limits of English jurisdiction in the waters of Gibraltar, a note de- manding that the United States shall not enjoy the exclusive right of intervention in the Panama Canal, and note in which Spain claims a right to be re- presented in any Conference for the settlement of the Suez Canal question. If the Panama Canal is 'I to occasion as much trouble to politicians as the Suez Canal, it might almost be wished that its completion should be indefinitely delayed. Recent rapid voyages across the Pacific show that the canal, if once it becomes easily navigable for great steamers, will be a powerful rival of the Suez Canal so far as trade with China and the Antipodes generally is concerned, and Eur,pe:tn Powers will consequently be quite as slow to admit American preponderance there as they are to admit English supremacy at Suez. It is no; at all improbable that England will send more ships than any other nation through the Paumm-t Catial, and if Spain objects to the application of the Munroe doctrine to the canal, England may do so with much greater reason. A NEW departure of an almost startling character has just taken place amongst tho ladies of India. The ordinary lite of Hindoo ladies is very secluded, and it is coutrary to their social custJlDS to force themselves upon public attention, but a highly- gifted and well-educated lady, the Pundita Roma- bai, has astonished her countrywomen, and her countrymen also, by appearing upon a public pi at- form and, inanaldress toalarge assembly of Hindoo and Parsee ladies, urging the claims of female education upon thO::l' attention, 'the lecturer is a widow of about twenty-five years of age, nd one of her chief grounds for impressing upon the ladie* the necessity for higher culture is t .e fact, that the gentlemen of India are advanc ng in learning, and if the ladies are to be their companions they must advance also. At t he close of the uddress f e ladies present were invited to express their opini na, and, after a little hesitation, the ice was broken and half-a-dozen speukers rose one after the other and freely expressed their thoughts. Such a meet- ing affords as strong evidence of the progress of English thought in India as does the newa that two elevens of native gentlemen have been playing a cricket match in India. I T THE Roman Catholic community in London are greatly delighted at H, r Majesty having sent hei portrait to Beaumont ('ollege, near Windsor. This establishment is an offshoot of Stonyhurst College, the great Jesuit establishment. It was established fifteen years ago as a school for the sons of the Catholic upper and upper middle classes. It contains about 150 scholars, the head boy of the I school being the eldest son of Sir Evelyn Wood. Not that the gallant general is himself a membei of the Roman Church, but Lady Wood, who was a daughter of the late Viscount Soutnwell, belong; to that communion, and the children are educated in their mother' creed. When an attempt wa; made on the Queen's life some time ago, Beaumont College was one of the several places where there were great rejoicings. H r Majesty visited thf College, and received an address from the recto) and the professors, a a well as one from the students. Her Majesty was greatly pleased with her re.ep! ion, and resolved to show her apprecia. tion of it; but until a very few days ao no one' connected with Beaumont had 1 he least idea that Her Majesty would pay the College such a compli- ment.

The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon continues to enjoy good health at Mentone. Arthur Hamilton has been remanded at West- minster on a charge ef personating police for felonious purposes. In his sermon at St. Michael's, Folkestone, on Sunday night, the Rev. E. Husband, the incumbent, announced that a second donation of £1,000 had been sent him during the past week towards the completion of his church. The Polytechnio School at Rio de Janeiro has recently acquired the Halfeld mineralogical col- lection, said to be very complete in Brazilian speci- mens. ,1 Lord Ripon, high steward of Hall, and formerly member for the borough, has promised a donation of 1250 towards the establishment of a free public library in Hull. Mrs. Long, wife of Mr. Robert Long, proprietor of the principal hotel in Thirsk, suddenly dropped down dead in her own house on Friday night. She had been ill some time. There has been wholesale slaughter during the last three days at Lord Wimbourne's estate at Canford, Dorset. 2,382 head of game have been killed in three days oy eight noble sportsmen. The season for shooting grouse and blackcock on the Scotch and Eugliah moors terminated on Saturday, and this heather game will now have an immunity until the 12th of August next. A "Tait Memorial Fund" is being raised at the Oxford and Cambridge Clubs, to perpetuate the memory of the late Archbish. p in connection with the club, of which he is one of the oldest members. Mr. Watney, who has been prevented from at- tending to his Parliamentary duties by a severe i attack of illness, ia now convalescent, and is about to ALtsrt on a sea voyage to complete his recovery.

t I SOCIETY GOSSIP. I (From The World.) When Lord Wolseley can be promoted from Lieutenant-General to General, «nd Sir Archibald Alison from Major-General to Lieutenant-General, for war services, it is a ii tgr.tnt act of inj ustice not to give Sir Frederick Roberts the promotion hitherto denied to him, for the distinguished manuer in I which he conducted the Afghan campaign. Lord Spencer evidently thinks well of the peace of Ireland during the com:ng winter, as I hear ho is pu; ting together a stud of hunters for the after- Christmas season, generally by for the best of the five months accorded to fox and stag hunters. Hitherto his Excellency has only enjoyed the chase in a vicarious fashion, which is not quite satisfying to an ex-M F.H. The Corporation of Liverpool have consented to lend Mr. D. G. Rossetti's great Picture Dante's Dream to the forthcoming exhibition of his work at the Royal Academy. I will not vouch for the truth of the slory but I have heard that an opulent picture-dealer, lay- ing down his morning's paper the other day to write accepting an eminent artist's terms, altered Shakspeare by one letter, and scribbled, 4 • I'll take the ghost s work for a thousand pound." A private letter from New York tells me of Mrs. Langtry's first appearance in The Honeymoon, on the 27th ult. "The houie was indifferently filled. She looked wond rfully handsome, in white velours frappe, with the front embroidered in Roman pearls. Her flowers were superb, and one virginal heart, three feet in diameter, in tuberoses and gardenias, was offered by an admirer. The audience was cold, the weather ditto, and everybody shivered. The death of Louis Blanc reminds me of a curi- ous incident. More than a quarter ot a century ago, I used to meet him at Airti. Milner-Gibson'@, in Wilton Crescent. Ho was a. singularly tiny man, with smooth cheeks and a bullet-head, and he used to wear a tight-fitting little coat with brass buttons. One night a man, only hall looking round, said, U Take this, please," and handed him an empty coffee-cup. He thought he was a page. Mada ne Patti had to sing in Fartse under very trying circumstances in New Yoik the other night. In the morning she received a let er written in French to the following effect :—" Madame Patti, if you sing to-night you are lost. Take heed of my warning.—A FRIEND." The letter was at once sent to the police authorities, and every precaution taken but it is eaiy to imagine how aeverely poor Madame Patti's feelings were strained during the performance. As it was, nothing more was heard of the matter, although precautions were taken on the following eveuings to insure the safety of the diva. Kindly people who feed the starving birds at this time of year may be reminded that the poor creatures suffer from thirst as well as hunger, and that a saucer of water is a real boon to them, now that the rain puddles are frozen. (From Truth.) Some or the vacant niches in St. George's Chapel, W ndsor, have been filled during the last few weeks with atittue-, carefully executed from ancient studies, of Henry III., Edward III., Edward IV., Henry VI., and Henry VII. They were submittei to the inspection of the Queen and Princess Beatrice before being put up. The banners and shields of two new kuights will be placed in the choir shortly, above the stalls occupied by the late Lords Beacons- field and Hirrowby. The insignia of the Tory leader was delivered up to the Queen at by Mr. R. Disraeli as far back its August, 1881, and the new Lord Harrowby will have an audience to deliver up his fath-n-'s insignia in the course of next month. The splendid robes are at the same time delivered to Dean Connor too his perqui- sites. Not long ago a co ntry house of Lord Hertford's, which had been just rebuilt, was burnt down, and 913,000 was tost, its the insurance had been ac- cidentally postponed. At Stanford it is th* sani) thing. There was an old insurance on the house of 41090000 but nothing on the contents. Sir Francis Winning) ou had been for some time nego- tiating with an office, and on the very morning of the disaster the forms came down to effect a further insurance of £ 50,000. The total dam ge an loss are estimated at £80) 000. The letter-bags between the station and the vil- lage of Cardcross have for some time been carried by a collie dou, who has never made the smallest mistake respecting his destination, nor has he ever lost anything. The Post-Office authorities at Edinburgh, however, ordered his services to be di continued, so this faithful and intelligent animal is for sale. A case of considerable importance is I kely to come before the Law Courts. The defendants are a leading Telegraph Company, and the charge is that they have stolen and appropriated to their own use, and to the me of certain of the directors, important news entrusted to them by the plaintiff for transmission over the wires. The plaintiff alleges that he has proprietary rights in all messages sent or received by him, and that the Company has committed a fraud in divulging their contents. I "to told that one of the statements is that the telegraph clerks of the company were actually in- etructed to overhaul correspondents' telegrams, and pick out important items for the benefit of directors. tamitgas are laid at £ 15,000. Not the least satisfactory feature about the Ajax performance at Cambridge is that, contrary alike to expectation and to precedent, the experiment has been a financial success, there remaining a balance after all expenses have been paid. (From Life.) It is said that the Jituipress of Austria will bo again to the fronl, duo ing I.! ,e hUlIl,illK 8 "°11 in Eng- t- e hunting seisou in Eng- land, and intends to take up her qnartersut C'oml.er- mere Abbey, Cheshire. 11. r majesty, who may bo expected over here early in January, will as usual be accompanied by Prin< e Rudolph of Lichtenstein. A short time ago, whilst a number of workmen were employed on the property of Hugh Montgom- ery, Esq., of Roscmount, Co. Down, t1 ey dug up the head and anilers of an Irish elk. Tne greater portion of a complete skeleton was subsequently brought to light. The a itlers of this specimen of a long extinct race measured ten feet fr m tip to tip. A new way of "raising the wind has just been practised in Vienna with considerable succoss. Herr Von after having vainly exhausted every possible means of making a fortune, sud- denly grew ill, took to his bed, and, on his doctor giving him up, sent for a lawyer to mako his will. The lawyer whom he prudently select, d is a notorious blab. No wonder, then, that within » few hours after the will had been made, all the friends and acquaintances of Herr Von learned, greatly to their surprise, that he had bequeathed many millions of florins to his wife, his family, and various eharitable institutions. Immenso was the chagrin of the fortune-hunters and the mammon-worshippers at having neglected to pay Court to the now dying millionaire. But-as good luk would have it-Herr Voo recovered. Immediately afterwards, he was literally over- whelmed with offers from his friends, etc., to lodge money in his hands at very moderato in- terest; to obtain unlimited credit he had but to ask for it. Though at first he rather shunned accepting these flattering testimonies of confidence. he gradually relented, and-to cut a long ta e short -was trusted as few men have ever been trusted before. Need I add that Herr Von has jlUtt failed for an enormous sum, and that his many creditors have fully made up their minds nevJr in future to believe that a man is at death's door until he is dead nor to put faith in a will until it is proved. According to Dr. E. M. Hammond, of New York, our Mr. Marwood has yet a good deal to learn. The proper way to hang is to staud the criminal on the ground, and adjust the noose carefully round the neck below the larynx; then raise him by pulling on the rope, which should pass over a pulley above, and he should be allowed to hang for thirty minutes. If he ia let fall through a trap, or lifted suddenly from the ground, the noose is almost certain te be displaced, and death be less sudden than it should be." (Well, that is according to circumstances, Dr. liammond.) Mr. Marwood has even something to learn in regard to the tools of his profession. The r pe," siys Dr.. Hammond, "should be soft and flexible, so as to fit closely to the neck (clesely, quotha !)—"probably one of cotton or flax would be preferable to the usual hempen cord." Dr. Hammond speaks from disagreeable experience. In order that he might know something about the subject he "had himself partly strangled in a chair."

The illness of Mrs. Lang try, who is now in Bobton, is only slight and temporary. A concert in aid of the Royal College of Musio was given in the Theatre Royal, Bournemouth, on Saturday afternoon. The president of the Royal Academy, Sir F. Leighton, distributed the prizes on Saturday to the students at the Royal Academy School. Tho president gave a short address upon the character of the works in the various competitions. „ of May" is very uearly fu The town "till goes to the Gloo., but. it K? to 8 and even laugh derisively night at;r Bight.. The sequestration of the steamers Socrates and Diogenes, seized at. Kiel, on the ground that they were built for one of the belligerents, in the war between Chili and Peru, has been annulled, but only on condition that the ships are taken to Southampton by their now English owner, who has to deposit half a million marks ( £ 25,000) as security for the fulfilment of tha order of the Court. A story is in circulation that at the last New- market Meeting Lord Houghton, going to the Travellers' Club with the intention of ordering luncheon, saw, stuck up where the menu is usually fixed, a list of the horses running. Putting up hilt glasses, and running hia eyes over the bill, he turned away with a pettish exclamation, Same old story Nothing one can eat at this club Arrangements have be, n made that the modals and prizes gained by students in connection with the Leicester School of Art will be distributed by Mr. Mundella, the Vice President of the Council, on Wednesday, the 20th inst. On the following day the right hon. gentleman will be presented with an address by the Leicester Liberal Association, and it is expected that Mr. Mundella will dflliyey political speech in ropy.

I HIGHER EDUCATION IN WALES.  We publish the foUowin? letter, which has been I &I iressed to Mr MUl1ùdla by Mr W. Cornwallis lN,e4.t;- I To the Jiii/ht Hon. A. J. Mundella, M.P. I Kuthin Castle, Huthin. North Wales, Nov. 17th, 1882. OE\R MR am anxious with your permis- t 11. taddress a few observations to you on the subject of proposed College for North Wales. ) only allude to Wales because I am better >r ted with it than with South Wales, to which my tpiimrks would not apply, for there you find large popula- t,,Iis iii great centres of industry, and the circumstances of thi: i-,trt of the country are totally different. I am aware tbr I dilf-r from the recommendations of the able com- saittw on higher education in Wales, but I venture t think there are many who share my opinions on the mVei't. In the tlrst place it appears to me that there is much lis.eti.iinty in the public mind as to the general scope and t ir.u ter of the proposed college for which a grant is to t," "1., by the (ioY.-rnim'nt, and no reliable estimate has t-Wi fount d as to the probable or possible number of ,f.: i -nts Likely to lie attracted to it. l'»r\ond p iu ral expression of opinion as to the urgent •l-i >sity for intermediate education, I have failed to per- ceiv in the titter..nees of public men on the question even an attempt to grapple with tne detiils of the scheme or its re-ults. Owing to the small size of the towns in Vorth Wales, ,:iol to the population in the rural districts being much »c,it'ert:d, it is exceedingly doubtful whether a college on a scale »«>u!d not e:id ;n an experiment as unsuccessful sio the coll. ge at AVery st with, where it has unfortunately been conclusively proved that sufficient students are not foUhi'oiuii.(j t- make such a costly institution of any real service, mid where, as a matter of fact, in 18S0, 20 out of 57 students were merely il'.int; the work of a second-grade Cgraaini.tr ■ chool. Be''re. tV.eTefore, any tinal de. ision is made as to the establishment of a college, I "i..h re.,I)ectfully to draw the attenrio.-i of the KdmatiDii Department to the more iMjnefi'cu/ resiu't whn-i: ivou!<! accrue to middle class student* in Norrli Hales lj_v thu duvulopment of the ^ram.'iia: schools. If 4.,s;-te4 by a grant of money for new buildings, class- laboratories, and appliances for scientific study, ate fully competent, at any rate at the present time, t' deai with intermediate education and prepare boys t-i:hei f. r a university career or for any other they may t" lollow. Tlw demand for a college appears to me to spring in a ire.it nn-aMiie from ignorance of the standard of parents can obtain for their sons at the grammar 8.lJ,q. With pecuniary assistance, and under new conditions, I there i> no teason why special subjects, such as agricu!- tu: d chemistry and natural science in its many branches, u.l.t not be dealt with in the grammar schools, and such s ]: i. ticai technical education be given a boy as would +:t i.im for either a professional or a commercial life, vh .laishij'S uttered from some central fund to all first and II "lid grade schools in North Wales, which would carry !• -M" Oxford, Cambridge Liverpool, Manchester, or to 11;. l.iidon or Kdinburgh medical schools, would be an iua. eim. ■incentive, anil the money spent in this direction "I,¡ in my opinion, be of more practical benefit than in the budding and establishment of a new and costly institu- t: ii su. ii as the proposed College. II.e ( i.uiiuitiec on A'elli t(luc;ttion admit, in their rer it, that until the inteimediate education of the •■'titr\ i- p'aceil on a more satisfactory footing, and a ;1 oJ. feii.-ial sense of the need of early and thorough ( r. [ ,rati o) is thus created, the succ-ss of the higher i:i-i:ti:t:ns can oniy be partial." Why, then, should an St' ii p; t.. made to establish a college in North Wales, *l.i' i. i- «ell provided \\ith first and second grade echools, development ? II: >. r oiis question also arises (supposing it to be "i-dly decided to establi-h a college) how far such an in- •tifiti.'ii > compatible with the very existence of the 1.1,,1], r >cI.ols in its neiglibouihood. Its doors will not i" cl, .1 to boys of 15 (if Aberystwitli is taken as a i.-b and this will, if the college succeeds, be fatal to in .pi ..v-nseiit in tlie grammar schools. The question t. 11st i v e aiivantagvs of different towns for the experi- i • "fa college is one upon which I will not venture to give i- i "pillion, To be successful it would seem essential t;1 -i'nid be in the midst of a large centre of popula- '■ kt where is this to be found in North Wales ? On considerations can influence the 1. to be made, it may be a question whether an m ■ -lit foundation like the Huthin Grammar School, with high educational traditions and its prospects of being I- i1 \ears one of the richest endowed schools in the imtiv having an income of £:i 000 a year, may not ei.title it to be raised to the status of a college.—I remain, faithfully Jours, W. COKNWALLIS WEST. 1" the Kigiit Honorable A. J. Mundella, M.P.,&c.