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General News. -r_ I I At the Doyer Police COll-a=a:eJ:: has been finoJ £14 for having upwards of 201b. of smuggld tobacco concealed on his premises. The Earl of Rosebery has nppointed as hisprh"ate tecrrtnry Mr. Rudolf, who acted in »   SIOner of "W An explosIOn of gas occurred in one of the horoughfare9 of Gainsborough the other even- lng, and some damae was done to house pro- pe!y. One man was lnJured, but not serionsly. I he 2sss £, of the Hm.. Frcis John Pakenham, now Consul- to 1 Cluh, to be Minister Plenipotentiary to 11", Argentine Republic aud the Republic of r«,s»;a V p a"d 11. I::> "Iated.that proceedings have been instituted a.l'lunst certam members of the Limerick Corpora- tIon on 1he ground of 4^"°a voting as mem- ber. of he Town r without the necessary quaiifieation Co^cil without the necessary At the Liverpool Assi.cS, John Calvert gal- vaIl1ser,- wh) was found gUIlty of the manslaugh- tvr of hIs w^ if e'Twl,om he fat«»y kicked, was sen- ,„( d K. Justice Day to penal servitude for 11 e. T»ie Tli6™ in the Swallowwood seam of he Aldwarke Main COLLIE'7 haye struck work, hibS l fl- Tent inspector having pro- }Ilblted shot firIng. Bet.ween 400 Md 500 men and lati" are thus unoccupied.. re i!vfi ^o,Ule0 spiuners and manufacturers have ved give "?t'? ? ? reduce the wages of all chl'ses o? f factory workers 5 per cent TI P dhPre8Si°n °f the trade in tiie W??st' d to ? overpro?duction and keen com- pei.n tlJ?????''??' ???tford, Herts, in 1 the Jl;ift of Exeter College Oxford ? the value f £ £ 7/gGo ^ete f lias fa^llPen vacant bv the death  ? year, has ??° "?? ?' ?e death. h. h?,. "gkty.Mth ?' of the TOUi„,i b»ck «''8l° W" ■ t0 the »*» « '« ?ck ??? ?'?'? ? ? ??? ? ? Messrs Henry Brings, Son, and Co., of the Nutwood and Methley CoUieries, h?vebeen o.ered to pay ?220 damages for the subsidence of nineteen houses at Woodhouse Green, near X,)rthampton, the property of Mr. John Parkin, of j Askern, near Doncaster. A suit for 10,000 dols. damages has been in- stuuted against a saloon-keeper by a Rutland iSt.) woman, whose husband died from injuries received by jumping from the third storey of a building while under the influence of liquor, [ ciaimed to have been soldbv the defendant. There are several candidates in ihe field already for the office of Solicitor to the City of London, which was held by the late Sir Thomas Nelson for moie than a score of years. The emoluments of; the post are substantial— some £2.000 a year—and th.dutie8 are not very heavy. The death is announced of Mr. Thomas Ash- down, the well-known cricketer, at the ago of thuty-eiglit years, at Bexley Heath, Kent. The deceased played on several occasions for the Surrey CO!!R, and for some years occupied the post of pro- ies?K'naI fur the Bexlevvri"%et Club. Mr. J. L. Wilkinso f fhe Great Western, IA nway, has been appo?ted general manager of th. Buenos Ayres and Pacific Railway. We! un, rstand that about ninety miles of the line iron: Mercedes to C:tacobuco and Junin are so far finished that the ope. ing will take place in a few weeks. IJifferent forms of violence caused 47 deaths in London last week. Forty were the result of negligence or accident, among which were 22 from fractures and contusions, 6 from burns and scalds, 3 from drowning, and 6 of infants under one year of age from suffocation. Six cases of suicide were registered. Sir W. Lawson has the full courage of his con- victions. As the head of the People's League for the Abolition of the Hereditary Chamber," he is prepared to sink his titular distinction, and, at his own special request we understand, his name appears on the documents of the League as Wilfrid Lawfcon, M.P., president." An ex-temperance lecturer named Joseph Sher- wood has been charged before the York magIS- trat es with having, without authority, obtained subscriptions on beliaxf of the National Union for I the Suppression of Intemperance. The prisoner was drinking gin in a public-house when appre- hended. He was committed for trial. Salvation Army meetings and music do not appear to be appreciated by the authorities in Heywood. The Corporation has decideflto request. the Salvationiats to cease holding meetings in the Market Place, and not to parade with bands ot made on Sunday. It is understood that it this request is not complied with, "further steps ill be taken." During the first week of this season's angling on i Loch Lay seventy-fire salmon, weighing in the < aggregate 1,599 pounds, have been lauded, while on the upper reaches of the river Lay above forty- one salmon of the total weight of 831 pounds have been captured. The heaviest fish got on the Loch weighed thirty-two pounds, and on the river forty pounds. I'rom Mitchell's "Newspaper Directory, issued j on Ihursday, it appears that there are now in London 405 newspapers; in the provinces, 1,202 in Wales, 79 in Scotland, 184 "in Ireland, 161 J and in the British Isles, 21—the total thus beinff 2,052. The magazines and reviews number !1::l98, of which 335 are of a decidedly religious religious character.. Georgo William Kolmar, a tailor, was indicted I at the Middlesex Sessions for stealing a gold watcli, value £25, from Andrew Dunlop Best, on the night of the 30th ult., at her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket. The prisoner was found guihy, and a previous conviction was proved against him. He was sentenced to twelve months hard labour. The Rev. W. H. Pritchett, honorary canon of Rochester, rural dean of Woolwich, and rector of St. Paul s, Charlton, has at hisreciory, after a few days illness. The deceased gentleman entertained a dinner party last week, on the occa- sion of entering upon a new rectory house, and is believed to have taken cold in escorting his guests to their carriages. Mr. Charles G. Pickering, a gentleman residing at The Villas, Great Driffleld, has been killed by the accidental discharge of apistol. It is said he was aroused by the barkiug of the house dog, and fearing burglars, got up. and was in the act of | taking his pisol out of a drawer, when its con- tents were dichargod at his breast. He was married and in the prime of life. A desperate attempt at suicide has been made by a young man in the employ of Mr. H. Chatterton, Rose and Crown, Short Street, Walworth, by [ shooting himself with a five-chambered revolver. It is stated that he had had a quarrel with a young woman, in consequence of which he resolved to take his life. He was removed to the hospital, but little hopes are entertained of his recovery. William Taylor, manager of Whitebirk Collierv, at which three youths were injured recently by an explosion, has been fined and costs by the Blarkburn magistrates for neglecting to appoint a competent inspector to examine the mine with a safety lamp before any of the shifts went down. Til" duty had been performed during the illness Oi the fii einan by a youth eighteen 3 ears of age, who could neither read nor write. A protest has been lodged with the Protestant Primate of Ireland against the decision adopted at the recent Diocesan Synod for the election of a bishop of Meath. The names of only two candidates were sent forward to the bench of bishops, and is asserted by the protestors that three names should have been so forwarded. It is confidently stated that the assessor, Dr. Ball, ex- Lord Chancellor, was wrong in his law, and he should have directed the three names to be sub- mitted. At the Leeda Assizes, Mr. George Dawes, A Barnsley butcher, recovered 60 guineas from the proprietor of a local newspaper for a libel contained in a paragraph founded on the seizure of a quantity of goat's ik-sh by a sanitary inspector. The goat, plaintiff said, was perfectly sound. New petroleum wells have beeu found in Galicia, and the total quantity yielded by the wdls in the Krioinen district now amounts to 1,200 barrels daily. It is hoped that a local railway will soon be oailt on the spot, and then the petroleum can be sold at a mucu lotver price than is possible at present. Some females belonging to- the Salvation Army who were selling the War Cry on the Boulevard SebastopoJ, Paris, were mobbed bv a troop of boys, on account of their peculiar costume, and had to take refuge in an omnibus office, outside of which a crowd collected, until they wore enabled to retreat on a tramcar. Leo XIII. has conferred the dignitj- of a mitred abbot- upon the Reverend Benedictine Father Bernard Siai'h, Cousultor of the Congregation of t'ie Propaganda Fide, and formerly Professor of Dogmatic Theology in that college. Father Smith is well known among English students And visitors in Pome for his profound knowledge of Christian archrco'ory. An inquest has been held at St. George's London, into the circumstances atten- dent on the death of Constable Albert Thompson, :n consequence of injuries received through his í having been knocked down and run over by a pony and trap, driven by John Poulton, a hawker of wood, against whom & verdict of "Manslaughter" was returned. At the Liverpool Assizes, on Saturday, Lambert 1 at ley was sentenced to five years' penal servi- inae for converting to his own use part of the contents of a furnished house. The prisoner's operations had extended from 1S72, and were on an extensive scale. He was, it appeared, in the habit of taking furnished houses and disposing of the contents, and of hiring pianos and disposing of them. In one case a house was completely stripped, and the owner only regained possession I by force. At the Leeds Assizes, Mr. W. H. Graydon, tradesman and member of the Halifax Town Council, sued the North-Eastern Railway Com- II pany for damages for injuries received at the Leeds station last August. The plaintiff wae walking along the platform when a porter ran against him with a barrow used for c-airying lug- gage, striking him on the ankle and breaking two bones. The defence was a plea of negligence on I the part of the plaintiff. The jury, however, gars I a verdict for the plaintiff, damages L75.
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j DETAILS OF GORDON'S D! T. BETRAYAL OF KHARTOV 1. TREATMENT On HE INEABITAN FS. I (FROM THE SPECIAL COBEE8POXLENT OF THB "STANDARD.") HEAD-QUABTEBS, KORTI, Sunday. The Arab who made hia way across the Desert from Khartoum to Debbeh has just arrived here. Be Eays that he was a canvass emploved in the town, and that he saw General Gordon killed. He gives the following account of the eventi at Khartoum. At early morning on the 27th of January, Farag Pacha treacherously opened the gate in the southern wall. The bulk of the Mahdi a fighting men were close at hand, and these at once rushed into the town. General Gor- don hearing the confusion in the town went out, armed with a sword and axe. He was accompanied j Ibraheim Bey, the chief clerk, and twenty men. He went towards the house of the Austrian Consul. On his way he met a party of the Mahdi's men, who fired a volley. General Gordon was shot dead. The Arabs then rushed on with their spears, and killed the chief clerk and nine of the men; the rest escaped. The Consul Nicola is alive, and a prisoner; all the rest of the Europeans were killed. also most of the notables. The rest of the inhabitants fraternised with the Mahdi's men. in the exceptien of the firing upon General Gordon s party there was no fighting whatever. No women or children were killed, and all who surrendered and gave up their valuables were allowed to go away without harm. The Mahdi is reported to have hanged the traitor Farag. His troops were, when the man left Kliarlouiti, still too much occupied by the plunder of the town to think of moving forward against Gubat. Indeed, a great many of the Mahdi's best troops were killed at. Metemneh. The people employed in the ars nal, for the most part Greeks, were killed by the Mahdi's men. The only person beside Consul Nicola spared and kept its pri- soner was the Doctor. All the rest were kept prisoners for three days and then allowed to go free. The Mahdi did not enter the town until three days after its capture, and then only remained there for a short time. Farllg Pacha was a biack slave. He was given his free- em and advanced by General Gordon, who trusted him implicitly. The Mahdi has with him at Khartoum four thousand good fighting men, but these have been much scared by the disaster which befel their comrades who went to :l\Ietemneh and by the reports of the terrible destruction dealt by the white soldiers there and at Abu Klea. A messenger who has arrived from Gubat to-day reports that General Buller has arrived tbei-P, and has assumed the command. All the wounded have left Gubat, and should by this time have reached Gakdul. A large body of the enemy from .Berber marched to assist those at Metemneh, but were recalled by the Emir of Berber u; on the after hearing ot the Boat Column coming up the Nile towards Berber. Some deserters from Khar- tonm who have arrived at Guhat, assert that the Mahdi will shortly advance against us there; others deny this. Some of the enemy have been leaving Metemneh, and we hope to hear of the capture ef that place by General Buller in a few days. A LSiliiekh of the Kabbabisli tribe reports that men who have arrived from Khartoum say that there is much sickness and disaffection among the Mahdi's troops, and that many are leaving him and making off to their homes, and that m my more are only anxious for peace under English protection. The Mahdi has sent out a Proclamation demanding fresh levies from the tribes, saying that the English are few, but have much wealth with them, and that the gates of Paradise are now open to all true believers. There is very little response to the Proclamation, I as the tribes object to conscription, and are heartily sick of the war, and most anxious for peace and juiet again. KORTI, Monday, 1.26 p.m. The man who arrived here on Saturday fro m Khartoum turns out, on further inquiry, to be the lervant of General Gordon, Abdul Kerim. He was brought to Korti in the pinnace of H.M.S. Monarch by Lieut. Reid, and is a native of Wady Haifa. He says that General Gordon was killed twenty-one days ago in the 1 olio win tr manner:— Farag Pacha ordered the gates of Khartoum ta be opened at daybreak, and a small body of the Mahdi's followers wc-re admitted. General Gordon heard the confusion which prevailed, and came out of the Palace to ascertain the cause, whereupon the enemy fired a volley, and shot him dead. The messenger states that Farag Pacha ordered the troops of the garrison not to fire on the enemy. Seven days after, the man paid out of his savings a bribe of forty pounds to escape, bought a camel, and came across the Desert to Debbeh, performing the journey in twelve days. He adds that all the Europeans in Khartoum who refused to become Mussulmans were killed. His story is regarded as being circumstantial enough to be true, and it fully confirms Sir Charles Wilson's report, which was at first so much doubted in in- fluential quarters here. [SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DAILY NEWS."] BERLIN, February 17, (Night). A letter from Berbera to the Cologne Gazette, da'ed some weeks before the fall of Khartoum, contains iiifurniitliim respecting tho affoira of the Eastern Soudan, obtained from Soudanese traders. According to them Osman Digna remains permanently at his head quarters at Tamanieb, which he left only once for a short time after the battle last March. He has never gone to Berber or Khartoum. His influence over the Bedja tribe is said to be as great as ever, and all the reports about the desertion of his adherents are declared to be false, or invented to deceive the British authorities at. Suakim. All the tribes, it is alleged, support him, including even those who ga to Suakim with assurances of loyalty to obtain arms, money, and provisions. The entire country west of Albara and the Blue Nile is said to have declared openly for the Mahdi. The surrender of Kassala was expected daily, and all the other Egyptian garrisons were reported to have gone over to the rebels. [REUIEP.'S TELEGRAM.] MELBOURNE. February 17. The Colony of Victoria is willing to despatch for servico in the Soudan 600 or 700 men fully equipped, censistmg of a naval brigade and mounted infantry. Federal action for the forma- tion of an Australian contingent has been sug- gested, and correspondence on the subject is now passing between the various colonies.
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THE REINFORCEMENTS. A large body of the medical staff and commis- sariat and transport corps left Aldershot on Tues- day morning by special train for Portsmouth, to embark for Suakim. The men were in excellent spirits and were loudly cheered. Colonel Henry Brackenbury is gaze! ted to the local and temporary rank of Brigadier-General whilst serving with the force on the Nile. Orders have been received at Chatham postponing the departure of the 10th Railway Corps of the Royal Engineers for Suakim. It is stated that the Government desired very much to accept the spontaneous offer of military assistance made by the Victorian and Canadian colonies in the Soudan campaign, but on Tuesday afternoon, after consultation with the War Office, the latter induced the Government to believe that the troops offered could not reach Suakim in time to take part in the operations about to be com- menced. The Hon. James F. Garrick, Q.C., Agent-General for Queensland, has received a cablegram from the Premier of that colony inti- mating that the Colonial Corps has offered volun- teers for service in the Soudan. The matter has been submitted to her Majesty's Gevernment for consideration. The following telegram has been received by the Agent-General for New South Wales:—"From the Hon. W, Bade Dalley, Acting Colonial Secretary, Sydney, February 17: Munificent contributions from colonists in favour of patriotic fund daily being made number of wealthy colonists offer CI,000 while Colonial con- tingent is engaged. Colonial contingent leaves March 3, consisting of 212 artillerymen, 200 horses, 522 infantry." The Union Company s steamer Arab left South- ampton on Wednesday with 41 officers and 569 men of various corps from Dublin, Oxford, Wool. wich, Aldershot, and Devonporf, for Suakim.
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— — E ul Spencer left Dublin on Tuesday evcnin0°f for London. I There are several ice gorges in the Susquehanna river at Port Deposit and the viciniry. A fearful tune is expected when the break takes place. It was decided on Monday, at a meeting of the citizens of Salisbury, that the memorial to the late Mr. Fawcett should take the form of a eta: lie in bronze. The cost is estimated at £1,000. The Illinois Legislature is still at a dead-lock on the question of the electionef a United States Sena- tor. Each party is indefatigably iiitiiceuvriij,- to secure a successful choice. The Rev. Arthur Robins and the congregation of Holy Trinity Parish Church, Windsor, intend to a monument in the chancel to the memory of the late Colonel Burnaby. The total number of attendances at the Guild- had tree Library, Reading Room, and Museum, London, during the year 1884 were 381,861, being an increase of 2.805 over the previous year. A meeting of Natioaalists, announced to be held at Londonderry on Sunday, has been proclaimed by the local magistrates, on the ground that it would be likely to lead to a breach of the peace. A prize fight was arranged to take place at I oton, near Notting-ham, on Saturday, but the police appeared on the ground, and made several anests. The par!ie?, however, were subsequently liberated. The King of the Netherlands, who continues to sutler from neuralgia, lias been examined by Dr. Loudon, and in accordance with the advice of that physician, will proceed in May next for a course of treatment at Carlsbad. Private Hayes, of the 20th Husears-two squad- rons or which regiment are under orders forSuakim —committed suicide at Aldershot on Saturday, by cutting his throat with a penknife. No cause for the suicide is assigned.
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i I GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. I The Prince of IVales was present on Monday at the Battle of Flowers at Nice. The procession, which was nearly five miles long, attracted an immense crowd of spectators. The funeral of M. Jules Valles, a member of the Commune, at Pere-Ia-Chaise Cemetery on Monday, was the occasion of a considerable demonstration in the streets of Paris. The red flag of the Com- mune was carried in the procession without any interference by the authorities, and a band of German Socialists was admitted to join in paying 'the last honours to the deceased. The French students objected to the presence of the Germans, and some disturbances occurred, but the Ger- mans retained their place throughout. At the Cemetery M. Rochefort and others delivered revolutionary speeches of the customary type. The woman Dudley who attempted to shoot O'Donovan Rossa, was brought before a magis- trate again on Monday and remanded to prison in default of finding bail. Several witnesses gave evidence against her. Sir Owen Lanyon, Colonel White, and several other British officers left Brindisi on Monday for Alexandria in the Tanjore. A telegram from St. Petersburg, published on Monday evening by the WImer Allgemeine Zeitung, announces that the Russian Government has just issued a large order to the Krupp Foundry for guns, to be sent to Central Asia and Armenia. It is announced from Rome that a Parliamen- tary Committee recently appointed to examine the Criminal Code has almost unanimously agreed to the abolition of capital punishment in Italv. Great enthusiasm here and munificent contri- but ions to the patriotic fund flowing in" is the brief but significant telegram which comes from the Government in Sydney. An avalanche has destroyed three-fourths of the mining town of Alta (Utah), killing sixteen persons. According to a Reuter despatch from St. Petersburg, the reports of a Russian advance on Herat are declared in well-infermed circles to be unfounded. The Belgian Superior Council of Agriculture has pronounced, by 13 votes against 7, against the re- eslablishment of import duties on foreign cereals. Eiht of the organisers of the Anarchist demon- 81 ration in Paris, have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment, varying from three to six months. The Dutch Government is negotiating with the Uitited States for a reduction of the import duties on Dutch sugar, and with Japan for the conclusion of a treaty of commerce. In the course of a debate in the German Reichstag, on Saturday, on the subject of the corn duties, Prince Bismarck spoke in favour of protection, saying that those who were in favour of peasant proprietors should vote for duties 011 corn, If the owners of land were allowed to bo ruined established order would be at an end. Judgment has just been given in Paris in an appeal against a decision of the Municipal Com- mission in the case of Madame Picot and Madame Barberouse, who asked to be registered as muni- ¡ cipal electors. They maintained that the article of the Constitution, "Tout Francais, aged twenty," applied indifferently to man and woman. After considering the matter for eight days, the judge decided that as women never enjoyed politi- cal rights, and were disabled from many civil ones, this construction could not be admitted. The two ladies intend to bring the matter before the Court of Cassation. Last week a contemporary published an official statement, telegraphed from Pekin, of particulars in connection with the recent trouble in Japan: We have received from a high diplomatic source the following narrative, which puts the facts in a now light. On the 4th of December last, when the outbreak took place at Seoul, capital of Corea, the number of Japanese soldiers available for guard at the Legation did not exceed one hundred and fifty. The Chinese soldiers in the neighbour- hood of the capital exceeded fifteen hundred. As soon as the outbreak commenced the King and Royal Family found themselves threatened with personal danger. His Majesty immediately sent two messengers, one promptly following the other, to Mr. Takesoye, the Japanese Resident Minis- ter, imploring him to send Japanese soldiers to protect the King. Yet a third messenger was despatched conveying to Mr. Takesoye an auto- graph letter from the King, which contained the following words:—"Minister of Japan, will you come and protect me?" As soon as the Japanese soldiers arrived at the Legation from the barracks, some distance off, Mr. Takesoye led them to the Royal Palace, which he found but feebly guarded by the Corean troops still faithful to the King. For two days the King and his family were under the protection of the Japanese. On the 6th of December, towards three o'clock in the after- noon, the Chinese soldiers, backed by the rebels, opened an attack upon the Palace. Fighting against tremendous odds the Japanese troops and the faithful Corean soldiers defended it. At six o'clock it was evident that the over- whelming force of the besiegers must prevail. Th < Queen and the Queen-mother attempted to escape, but were captured by the rebels. The King expressing a desire to follow them, the Japanese Minister offered no objection, and his Majesty, trying to escape by a back door of the Palace, was also taken prisoner by the rebels. The King having thus withdrawn himself from his protection, the Japanese Minister retired to Seinulpo, a little- Japanese colony founded in Corea, and chiefly populated by workmen and their families. Throughout the affair Mr. Takesoye acted under the most scrupulous obedience to the wish of the King, the whole of the trouble being caused by the Chinese joining hands with the rebels.Daily Xeics. An official telegram has been received by the French Minister of War from General Briere de Lisle, giving full details of the capture of Langson. lIe states that the French loss was 30 killed and 222 wounded. The LChinese losses are said to be veiy heavy. The statement in a London paper, that Russia entertains the design of seizing Herat, is described Vy ihe Journal de St. Petersburg as a canard, and the Russian paper quotes an article from another paper, as contradicting the report, and affirming Russia's pacific feeling towards Afghanistan. The weddiug of Princess Marie, sister of the Din hess of Connaught, to Prince Albert of Saxe- Aitenburg, will take place at Berlin, soon after Easter, It will be strictly private, and will not be held in the Royal Castle, but at the palace of the bride's father, the Red Prince, Frederick Charles. The American artists residing in Paris have followed the example of the American artists in Italy, and have resolved to petition Congress, and to ask for the abolition of the duties levied in the United States on all objects of art coming from Europe. Not only do they charge neavy duties on works of art, but when they do get them they pirate them in the most shameless manner. The Paris Figaro publishes an autograph letter from General Gordon, written from Gravesend in 1871 to a French teacher whom he employed for the study of that language. The writer invites his professor to spend the evening with him, when they could arrange the work to be done in the ensuing week. If he smoked, M. Ryder is to bring his pipe; and as the general expressed his dislike of French epistolary terminations, he con- cluded with "Yours very truly." We learu from New York that in view of the suggestion of the German Government to tax barrels containing American petroleum, the. English steam-ship owners are agitating the question cf carrying American refined oil in bulk to German ports. It is affirmed that over- tiii es to that effect have been made to American, refiners, and it is claimed that great advantages will result therefrom. Such a procedure would cause a loss to a great many German sailing vessels now employed in carrying petroleum. M. Gabriel, a jeweller, of No. 2, Avenue de 1'Opera, Paris, was during Monday night robbed by burglars of jewellery of the estimated value of 800,000 francs. Most of the objects stolen, which consisted of rings, bracelets, and neck- laces, were kept in a strong iron chest, which the thieves broke open. The shop itself was entered by false keys, and by the entrance on the Boulevard. It is evident that the thieves were persons familiar with the premises. Intelligence received from Panama to the 5th inst., states that the British war vessels Sappho and Heroine were at Buenaventura, investigating the imprisonment, by the rebels, of Senor Otero, the British Consul, from whom the insurgents had I demanded a sum of 5,000 dols. j ■
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The fires in New York qity during January av raged nearly eight and a half a day. The Princess of Wales, accompanied by the Princesses Louise, Victoria, and Maud, left Simdrin?hamon Tuesday morning for London. CoUcctions were made in all the Paris churchesj on Monday for the hospital chaplaincies, which were disestablished two years ago. The Comte de Paris forwarded l,000f. to Archbishop Guibert as his contribution. >us:in Watts has been remanded at Bow Street Court, London, on the charge of stealing a book trom the Law Courts. The book was worth about 30a. She said it had been given to her by a young man who was very tipsy. A young man named James Mathers fell from a scaffolding in the yard of Messrs. Hall and Rus- sell, at Aberdeen. A plank, which he was ad- justing at the time, fell upon him while ha iay ou the ground, and striking him on the head caused almost instant death. The receipts of the Paris theatres during the months of December and January fell off by the enormous sum of 900,000f. (136,000) from the receipts realised in the correspondent periods of lbS3-4. As a proof of the hard tinHd" through which we are passing those figures are eloquent. At the JJerbyshire Assizes before Mr. Justice Diinmau, John Gelthorpe, an engine-driver at ihe Giapwell Colliery, near Chesterfield, was tried for the manslaughter of Arthur Ison, by his ne.:Iig*nce in raising the cage, without the proper signal. The jury acquitted the prisoner. Michael Joseph Mayers, auctioneer, ofE lgware Road, Loudon, was indicted, at the Middlesex Sessions, on a charge of obtaining by falsa pretences a diamond 0 ring from Air. Mordecai Alton, a diamond cutter. The accused pleaded not guilty, and in the result the jury acquitted him-
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NOTES ON NE WS. I Sir Henry Gordon is said to have come to the resolution, if the tidings of his brother's death should be unfortunately confirmed, to prepare for immediate publication the letters and other scattered writings of the hero of Khartoum, a considerable number of which are in his bands. It is the more desirable ftvhat publicity should be given to this dispo- sition because the flood of cheap lives" of our modern Bayard has already set in. A BILL is being prepared to deal with the Crofter question in the islands and Western Highlands of Scotland. It will be founded to some extent upon the principle of the Irish Land Aet. A tribunal for judging between landlords and their tenants will be set up. The precise nature of this court is kept a severe secret. But the real difficulty is to say over what extent of territory the act shall be operative. Finally it is certain to come into operation over the whole of Great Britain. IT has often been argued that a man can live just as well upon a few teaspoonfuls of beans and a slice or so of bread per day as upon a generous diet of meat. Professor Huxley, however, is of a different opinion. He argues that a full-grown man, who weighs eleven stones, ought to take each day at least five thousand grains of lean beefsteak, six thousand grains of bread, seven thousand grains of milk, three thousand grains of pota- toes, six hundred grains of butter, and twenty- two thousand grains of water. We do not know what sort of a steak five thousand grains ) represents, but it sounds very big. It will be noticed that the sage professor says nothing about alcohol. THE project of raising in the United States a sum of £20,000 a year for the payment of the Irish members is for the moment stranded. The scheme is a bold and big one, and requires delicate handling, which it does not appear to have received. The precise form of the pro- posal—that 20,000 Irishmen should contribu'e •3 dollars a year—originated with Mr. John Byrne, of Cincinnati, an ex-vice-president of the Irish National League of America. But the knowledge which Mr. Byrne's official position possessed him with does not seem to have increased his respect for the League. A short time ago he resigned his office on the specific ground that the action of the League is controlled by secret societies. Of course the League resents this, and is determined that a scheme started by Mr. Byrne shall not succeed. The League undertakes to raise the fund itself, but upon conditions." THE real purpose for which Prince Hassan accompanies Lord Wolseley is the obvious one of showing that the British army is operating solely for the protection of Egypt. He is a prince well known at Oxford and in London, the most genial of the three brothers of whom the Khedive is the eldest. But Prince Hassan makes no pretensions to military genius or ability, and is by no means likely to be left to hold such an outpost as Khartoum. His marching with the British army is nothing more than an outward and visible sign that Lord Wolseley is acting for the Khedive's Governm nt, and there is not, it may be believed, the least intention to set up Prince Hassan as a permanent governor in the Soudan. The reports which are again in circulation as to the return of Ismail Pasha to Egypt or the Soudan are en- tirely without foundation. There is good reason to believe that the question of the de- thronement of the Khedive Tewfik was never mentioned between Lord Granville and Hassan Fehmi Pasha, the Sultan's special envoy, and it may be regarded as certain that if it had been mentioned no such proposal would have been received by the Government as a fit sub- ject for discussion. A RECENT visitor to New Caledonia gives a shocking account of the state of society in that ishnd. It appears that the number of criminals living there amounts to about 10,5W0. The mortality is very great, and there are numerous fseapes. During the last ten years no fewer than 247 convicts who have managed to 1 smuggl e themselves on board ship have been discovered in the Australian colonies. The grievances of the colonists are therefore by no means remote or imaginary. In the first in- stance, no attempt is made to classify the prisoners, and the results are ofteu disastrous to those who ore only partially depraved. The convicts are ultimately divided into five classes, ranging* from men who are kept to severe labour, without any relaxation or indulgences, to men who, owing to their good conduct, en- joy comparative freedom, and are restored to family life. Many of the convicts, however, employ their conditional liberty in preying upon the free settlers and the natives, and the state of things in the colony has in conse-J quence become intolerable, iiuch being the' condition of New Caledonia, it is not sur- prising that there should be a strong feeling in Australia against the proposal to establish a Ft each penal settlement in the New I lit/brides. THE question as to the magical or the sciuüitic value of the divining rod has j u<;t been re-opened by the success which has attended its use at the Fletton Wagon Works of the Midland Railway Company with reference to the discovery of a permanent supply of water. The company required to use about 500 or GOO gallons of water every day, and the well on their premises yielded only one ha'f of that quantity. It was in c ss ay, therefore, to supplement the supply by the sinking of other wells or by the construction of an expensive system of piping from Peterborough. The former plan was preferred and two new wells were sunk to no purpose. The services of a gentleman of the district, who bore the reputation of being skilled in the art of discovering water by means of the divining rod," were then called in. This wizard or expert employed for his purpose a forked hazel twig, holding one prong of the fork in each hand, the points of the fork being directed to the sky. After walking about the premises for some time the point of the fork suddenly began to bend down purely, as the best evidence goes, of its own accord, and to point to the earth. The wielder of the wand declared that here would be found a plentiful supply of water. The same indications were repeated at another spot, where the twig snapped from the violence of its spontaneous and sympathetic motion, and the same confident assertions were made with reference to the occurrence of water— assertions which the results obtained by actually sinking wells amply justified, the quantity uf water to be obtained being apparently inex- haustible. Other persons essayed to use the wand, but it rebelled against the usurpation of its owner's functions and remained contu- macious and irresponsive. If any persons require water in unlikely localities it might be well to secure the services of this Eastern Counties diviner before be volunteers for a pat riotic mission in favour of our troops in the thirsty wilds of the Soudan.
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An Alexandra telegram says advicas from Cairo announce the settlement of the financial situation. Mr. Joseph Cowen addressed his constituents at Newcastle on Saturday night. The Australian Parliament will be dissolved on March 24, the new elections taking place in June. According to a telegram from Cairo, there is every probability that a Commission will shortly assemble there in order to settle questions con- nected with the free navigation of the Suez Canal. A cantnfa, to De sung at toe opening or the Antwerp Exhibition, is being composed by Peter B, oit, on verses of the Flemish poet Jan van Beers. The Duke of Westminster will, on the 25!h ir.,it., drive the first pile of the London Riverside 1 ish Market, at the company's works, Lower Slmdwell. In Chicago eleven labourers entered a sewer in order to cleanse it. Five of them were suffo- cated by gas, the others being taken out alive. Mr. Piers Mostyn, Inspector of Factories for North Wales, was found dead in his bed at the King's Head Hotel, Newport (Tuon.) on Saturday morning. A youth named Neville has b. en appre!|ggiled at Uxbridge on a chiti-ge "f seriously s 0 his father with a pocket-knife while wor iiji0 tr with him in a field. An Into: national Congress of Freethinker* in continuation of those held at Brussels in 18^0 and at Amsterdam in lbS3, will take place in AULwt::rp next August. At a recent Court of the LoatherselleiV Comnanv donations amounting to ti,413 15s. were voted out 01 their corporate funds to various charities and institutions. The Commissioners of Works (Iecliii,) to aliter the h.avy.metahed )amp s at the Guards' Mcmori? the S degigued ? connection with t? mmeufc^
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r SOCIETY GOSSIP. I —— I (From The World.) I I hear that the Duke of Bedford has purchase the Battlesden estate in Bedfordshire for £ 120,000. Battlesden Manor, which is a very nice place, almost adjoins Woburn Park, and is surrounded by an extensive and picturesque demesne. The Duke now possesses four seats in Bedfordshire— Woburn, Battlesden, Ampthill Park (which once belonged to Lady Upper Ossory, the correspondent of Horace Walpole, and later to Lord and Lady II?land), and Oakley Park, on the Ouse. 1 The Marquis of Ripon will be among the first visitors to the Queen after her return to Windsor; and the Gazette will probably announce at no very distant day the creation of a new dukedom. A step in the peerage has been given of late years to every Viceroy on his retirement. I hear that it is under consideration to call out 20,000 instead of 10,000 of the reserves. The ex-Khedive having expressed to General Gordon's sister his sympathy in her great alllic- tion, Miss Gordon telegraphed immediately the! following reply to his Highness's secretary:- Will you be good enough to express to his Highness the Khedive Ismail my most grateful thanks for his very kind message of sympathy, which is much prized bv me ?" Mr. Toole's Scotch tour has been marvellously j successful. He and the male members of his company were entertained at supper at the Royal Hotel, Cupar, one night last week. Sheriff [ Henderson occupied the chair, and the Hon. ,'George Waldegrave Leslie was alUong the hosts. A number of excellent speeches were made. Mr. Toole, in the course of his remarks, raid it was twenty-nine years since ho had been in Cupar, but he would take good care that he would not allow so long a period to elapse before he paid the place a visit again. 'I. A "smokeless" powder has at last been -idol); e(I bythe War Department. This has been advocated for some years past, and many well- known "shootists," including Mr. Ch. Iinondeley Fennel], have written letters to the papers on the subject. The smoke of the new "cocoa" powder, as it is called, is very thin, and is not sufficient to obscure the target. Vice-Chancellor Bacon last 'week completed his eighty-seventh year. If ho was called to the Bar at twenty-one, which in those days was the usual age, ho must have commenced practice soraewhera about the year 1819; and, as ho continued prac- tising down to the July of 1S70, must have had an almost unprecedented experience. It hag been frequently remarked that Judges and barris- te"s live to a very great age, and it is added by way oi explanation that to become a Judge or to be a successful barrister one must originally possess the exceptional advantage of an iron constitution. Dr. Farre some years ago informed us that amongst all professions and occupations barristers enjoyed the longest tenure of life. Next, if I re- member rightly, ranked clergymen. Should Sir James Bacon retire-as he will shortly be entitled to do-tbo Bench will lose a sound lawyer of the old school, with an almost unrivalled power of mastering minute details and complicated trans- actions, such as those with which Chancery Judges are more often vexed than are their Common Law brothers. Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe- Weimar drove down to Victoria Station on Friday even- ing to see Sir Owen Lanyon off on his route to Suakim. (From Truth.) The "bad coll1" from which the Queen has been suffering is really influenza, and is, I hear, the result of a chill caught during a walk in the grounds at Osborne, in the course of which her Majesty got her feet wet. Sir William Jenner went down to Osborne at once, allll ordèred the Queen to keep in her own warm rooms, and the journey to Windsor, which was postponed for twenty-four hours on Thursday eveniug, was absolutely prohibited for several days early on Saturday morning; and very wisely, as the ex- posure during the various changes from carriage to yacht, and from yacht to train, could not have failed to increase her Majesty's illness, which, as is usual in such cases, is accompanied by a general feeling of depression aud mulal'e. I see from a recent return that out of 285 men of the Battalion of Marines landed at Suez on December 31st last, 140-as nearly a possible one-half—were in hospital. In the course of three months 600 men had been in hospital, of whom only 205 had been considered fit to return to duty, the remainder being sent home or to other hospitals in the Mediterranean. These men, who have been condemned to garrison Suez, Suakim, and other Egyptian seaports, deserve a great deal of sympathy. They have suffered almost as heavily as though they had been in the field, without any of the compensations of active service. With regard to the fall in the value of land in 1110 South of Scotland, I heard the other day of a property in the best part of East Lothian being .sold for £ 16,600, which cost X27,000 only a few years ago. When the Salvation Army tramcar-drivcr was "miraculously cured of his lameness, I prophe- sied that a goodly crop of miracles would speedily follow. It seems that I was right, tor in the Potteries there is a man named Pearson, who is conducting quite a series of cures by faith. Cripples have been healed, deaf people have re- covered their hearing, and the dumb their powers of speech. It seems a pity that the police cannot interfere with the operations of Pearson and such- like miracle-mongers, who are even more dan- gerous impostors than Slade, Bishop, Esrlinton, and the rest of the spiritualistic confraternity. I am curious to know what "Gpnoral" Booth says of these cures. Does he believe in them ? If so, how does he account for one of the Lieutenants of his Army" being more poten' than its General? (From I-ifc.) The Princess Louise has lately commenced to learn the 'cello. Her Royal Highness has become perfectly infatuated with the instrument, and practises morning, noon, and night. Hot brother, the Duke of Edinburgh, takes the greatest in- terest in the Princess's latest occupation, person- ally superintends the lessons she receives, ami gives her the advantage of his vast experience as a musician of tho highest order. Some editors of newspapers ha"e got evil names for the peculiar urbanity of their manners towards would-be contributors, but the conductor of the concerts at Her Majesty's appears to exceed them all. He receives singers—ladies who have siitig with success at great Continental opera-houses— in gangways, and asks them to perform on the spot. If they do not comply on the instant, he takes French (or rather, Irish) leave, and loaves the artist standing out in the cold. A somewhat curious action came before the Portsmouth County Court last week. A fish- monger sued the officers of the Tolghemas lor £ 8 5s Gd, for fish supplied to the mess. The officers, although they had eaten the fish, resisted the claim because their messman, Ciicttoo, had absconded with the money which he ought to have seedto pay the bill; and the jurige ruled in their favour on a technical point. I do not think the Polyhcnms gentlemen came very well out of this business, for they surely ought to look after the honesty of their own servants, and having trusted a thief, it seems decidedly mean to throw the loss occasioned by their own carelessness upon the unfortunate and perfectly innocent fishmonger. I hear that Her Majesty, OM recrtving informa- tion of the death of Gordon, was deeply affected, and is now taking the keonest possible interest in tho expedition which is now being prepared tor Egypt. The latest rumour is that the Prince of Waleu's visit to Cannes will be extendod to Rome to arrange with the Italian Government for the co- operation of an Italian contingent in the Soudan. This report, incredible as it may seem, finds credence on the Continent and in the highest quarters. At Pow Si reef, last week, I observo that Sir Henry Clavering prosecuted a waiter for stealing, among other art icles, a gold presetita,ioii watch, valued at eighty guineas. This watch seems to cause the worthv baronet almost as much trouble as it is worth. It was originally presented to him by the French G ivernment, for distinguished gallantry when lie was a lieutenant in th., Xavy, and since then ir h;t,4 been stolen from him aticast three times to my knowledge, besides being the subject of a civil action between Sir Henry and a di-charg^d footman at Newcastle Assizes. It I wre Sir Henry I think I should present this troublesome chronometer to museum.
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The Ha warden Castle IM* b- en engaged by the Government to take out reinforcements to Natal. Trivate Hayes, of tho 20th Hussars, committed suicide at Aldershot, on Saturday, b--causo he had not been selected for war service. Major Chalmers M'Koau, of the Inniskiliing Dragoons, who served in the Boer war of 1 SSI, has been appointed aide-de-camp to Lieute'iant- General the lIon, Sir Leycester Smyth, command- ing the iroops at the Cape. The matrimonial cause of Durham v. Milner, otherwise Durham, is fixed for the 25th instant The case is one in which the Earl of Durham petitions lor a divorce on the ground of the insanity of the respondent. A largo "bur" has I beeu rL-Itizied 01* all(, tii« cjuo 13 expected to last Several days. Dr. Wiese, the well-known scientific agricul- ture, is being sent out to the Cameroon* by the .overnment to study the leguminous plants of I Illat 'eg1?n, and to ascertain if any are accli.natis- :.ble iii Eiirol,e. A C.'?c=oou Club has j..? Lceu ±ba?it? ed in B.r. hn, Comprising n.erc]?nta ?id travelers who ''?" ?' in West ?"?. ""?'? ?-?<- rah!?.es ? list of th ) fttir rents ,h.x?d ? by n.at?.i .-?i?.nent and with the t'mwlj'in of the L?nd C?u?i.s.h.u?. i'hd Iota! is 1,361, 117 ben?iuLon??-r, 800 in Uister, 1*0 in Minister, and ?? in <.o..tt.m?ht. Tt.e!:u":b.r agreed to with tlie sanction of the count y judges was nVG-n'\lI\c!j'. li in l" lster, 1 ill Lvinster, and 1 in Connaught. A novelty in soeial entertainment has lately been introduced in Paris by an Austrian lady. The hostess commence* her rece; tion with theatricals. Her gue.t» are invited to the theatre, for which four, five, or six boxes are taken, according to the number of her party. After- wards they drove home to supper, and utter supper comes the ball.
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Fun for the Family. I "J' A SMAIIT oia may, being called into court as A witness ,rev impatient at tho questions put to iei and told the judge that she would stand down, ter he was raly one of the most inquisitive old gentlemen she ever seen." Ax irascible Indian colonel declared at a game of whist that h. had never held a trump in his life. Ibat is impossible, remarked a young man you must have held a trump when you 1" 'S'" 1. d th ld I ,¡ .I"fl. t.. S ir, replied the old Indian, "IalwaJys I)Iis,loalt I sric by this recipe book that pear sauce if tastele'ss, is improved by adding a few fills to it, I w ill try it next time." Thin boarder: I I Yes. I have ot ten heard of that. ThiaoyaUr stew could be im- proved in the same way." rra, S. "What by abiding figs r" T. B.—"No; oysters." A yorXG lady at home from boarding school for the holidays was asked if she would li ve a second supply of roast beef, when she rfpiied: "y". I thank you, gastronomical satiety admonishes me that 1 have arrived at the ultimate stage of deglu- tition consistent with dietetic integrity." Aw exclaimed an English cockney to Western traveller in England, speaking ..f the law o" primogeniture. 'ave you hen: ail in Ame- wie t "Hentail?" said the American, looking at his interrogator with curiosity. "No, sir. We huve a cocktail in America, and a very popular lit ink it is. A i.iiri-E boy was invited out to dinner, and k, hostess mildly suggested that he should wipe lingers on the n. ''kin, instead of the table- c 1 .d J eli.th. I beg your in on, said the young hopeful; "but lthongluitwasapity to make a clean apkiii in a iiiess wheu there was such a dirty cloth oil th" table." JONES and Brown were talking of a young clergyman, "hoe preaching they had been to he; r. "What do you think of bim:" asked Iho-.vn. "I <]unk," said Jones, "he did much beller two years ago." "Why, ho did not preach then," said Brown. "True," said Jones; "that is what I mean." "THESE firemen must be a frivolous set," said Mr", Spilkins, who was reading a paper. "Why so?" "1 read in the paper that after t;ke nm was under control, the firemen played all night on the ruins. Why didn't they go homo itiitl go to bed like sensible men, instead of romping about like children f" JUST like us !-A Spaniard the other dnv, after gazing at the facade of London University, pointed to the statue of Harvey, the discoveror of I ho circulation of the blood, and remarked to the fiieml who acted as his guide, "Just like v.>-i practical English, to erect aatatue to a man bec inso he invented a »auce A YOmiO American lawyer lately concluded Vs argument in a case of trespass with the foilo-xin^ sublime burst- If, gentlemen of the jury, th.-i defendant's hogs are permitted to roam at Inr >o over the fair fields of my client with impunity, ihcti -yeti, then indeed have our forefathers fought, and bled, and died in vain. "Ana you fond of rowing, Miss Smith-rs?" Miss Smithers is a Girton girl, and that twain were out in a boat. Oh, very fond of it, indeed. I think it is such lovely exercise." Have yon rowed much this season?" Yes," Miss Smit!: rs replied, with a little cultured cough behind Lcr hand. I have ridden a great deal." AN American contemplated setting a law-suit going; his solicitor said he would undertake the matter for a contingent fee. Meeting a lii- i.-t soon afterwards, the would-be litigant asked what a contingent fee might be. A contingent fee," said the friend, "is this-if the lanvye, the pase, he get. nothing; if he wins it, you get nothing Two gentlemen are walking up the street, en- gaged in lively conversation, "since you some notion of iiiarrj-iiig," said one, "why don't you take Marguerite, your sister's charming friend P She is an angel." "I don't, dispute that but s he paints." Oh, como now, it-Y dear fellow, honestly, have you ever seen an tm?et that wa not aint.ed ?" CHF1 up. old fellow said the physician, "don't bt, Iovw;i-liearttid. I just came from your rich uncle' How is he. doctor? Tell me the truth I lean bear the worst." There I" I;') ii -ed of your feeling so badly. He is convalescing, lie is out of diiii;er." "Great Htuven* exi laiined the nephew, burying his face in hia hiijid.,4, is it as bad as that ?" A LADY is showing a visitor tho family portraits in the picture gallery. That officer there in tho uniform," she says, was my great-great-grand- father. Ho was as brave as a lion, but one of tho most unfortunate of men. lie never fought a battle in which he did not have an arm or a lpg c:mied away." Then she adds proudty, H'? took part in twenty-four eni?a?otr.?tf." AN Englishman once bouateil that he had been mistaken for a member of the Royal Family. A Scotchman, hearing this, rODlied tbal. ho had been addressed as tho Duke of Argyll. Whereupon an Irishman said that he had been taken for a far greater person than either, for as he was walk- ing along the street one day, a friend came up to him, exclaiming Holy Moses is that you P A COUNTHY schoolmaster one morning found a horse in the schoolroom. The class had collected, and with solemn countenances awaited the entrance of the master. He came in, looked around deli- berately, first upon thabor& then upon tha class, and remarked, at the same time twitching his shirt collar: Ahem you have got a new schoolfellow, I see. I'm glail it's a horae; there were jackasses enough before." AN American appetite—A recent travoller iu America gives the following illustration of tho American appetite. "I don't feel as if I could eat much this morning, said a lady to the hotel-waiter at breakfast; "but you can bring me some oatmeal-mush, some tender loill-steak snd fried potatoes, aome chicken hash, some corn bread, some griddle cakes and maple molasses, and some dry toast." INQUISITIVE inquiriol- Does a fond lover visit his u ele when he "pop." the question ? Would you call the horn of the unicorn a unique horn ? Is it a low thing to go into liy-sterics ? It you wished to have a good time, would you join the Salvation Army ? When a fog is gone, would you say it is mist ? Are sighs all one aiztj ? Is an oyster-shell a marine residence ? is "lv-an- hoo grammatical ? Should it not, be "I have a hoe ? Can bank-notes at any time be hard cash ? MR. KHASTUS WIMAN, the Canadian financier who lives (>ii St at en Island, has givon two hand- some public bath-houses to Toionto, which a") situated oil either side of the bay aii(I ins;!rib.. 11 it bold letters. Wimaii's Baths." Some timo n' as the British Association excursion was sai.ii,;>' into that city, one of tho scientists discovered I i.l. signs. All," said he, turning to :t i told you the Americans were an tinetiticatecl lot Why so ?" returned the other, in amaise-.in 101, Don't you see those signs there ? What an at rock us way to spell women 8 I" PARADISE for jovers of shell ti.,h — gentleman just returned from Toronto states that. he saw an English officer give his servant a haii- | sovereign, with instructions to "bring rn I lobsters" to his temporary quarters, wlt (ii-c ho purposed making merry with some friends, in dno timo a cart arrived laden with tho de.siu 1 i crustacea, which tllo servant, proceeded lolaii .r in creelfuls iRto the IIOUKO. "Why, what is I this about.?" inquired the puzzled provider, i < servant touched his hat, saying, Please, sir, am to say that the other cart-load wiii bu i bv-and-by."
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A French firm is about to establish a carriago manufactory in Fiume. An unusually hopeful report on the prospects of the wheat crop in India has been iSlmed by tho India Office. Dr. Walsh, president of St. Patrick's College. Maynooth, has been elected vicar capitular of tho archdiocese of Dublin. The funeral of Lady Shaw Lefevre took place on Saturday, in the family vault in the churchyard of Ascot, iSerkshire. The Queen has approved of the award of a good- service pension to Major-General W. D'Ovlov Kerrick, of the Royal Artillery. M. Grevy has just ordered the liberation of tho noted Cnmma Josephine Gabriel, sentenced in 1868 for poisoni- ng at Marseilles. Mr. Nicolson, messenger-at-armg, Edinburgh haa-ervedal the decrees of interdict a?iu?Uo crofteram DIg, Lewis, and other districta The Queen has offered the liying of C?i.t Church, Hamp8tend, to the Rev. U01*e *rick Hxieeaad u, iM n.AA., vvii^car r of Charles. PIV—- ■* An interesting bequest lias just been made to the National Gallery, iu the shape of Ary Schwffer s well-known picture of St. Monica and Augustine, by the lady who originally mat to da. artist for the saint. At a meeting of the City of London Court of Common Council, a letter was read from Earl Stanhope, chairman of the Ecclesiastical Com- missioners, offering to appropriate for the per- petual use and enjoyment of the inhabitants of the metropolis Gravel Pit Wood, at Highgate, comprising sixty-nine acres, and thirty acres of land at Kilburn, forming a portion of the site occupied ill 1879 by the Royal Agricultural Show. The annual met ting of the friends of the train- ing ship Clio, which is moored in the Menai Straits, has been held at Chester. The Duko ot Westminster, who was accompanied by tho Duchess, presided over alai-go attendance. Tho executive committee reported that tho institu- tion had passed through another year of pro- gressive efficiency. The number of boys on the books was 273, against :!tjO tho previous yea'- T".>: was a deficiency on the revenue account of £lï7, Ihe Governmcnt ? T.??uia hM'O :?et'? ?.au-ed a lease of Maria Island, confiin r 2..?'. acres, to S?nor Bernacchi for ?  lT ?n.ulture and vine growing, at a rc?n? '„! Is. per annum. The !eMee is to exneiul nn dn, ing that period in establishing the industries-' when ? tue le?e may be extended for a further 1):I,od °If °g.ty  ? an annual rental ot !i?. ?? J. If Signer Bemacchi produces w?th of OOl^ha8 silk or wine of hov..e 01 ?000, he 1-n?Med to ? bonus of 12.00"