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CTRN-R-V- [AIA RIGHTS HESERVED.1 STRIVE ANDTHRIVE. CHAPTER XX. T MLXK^]DTJGS °F THE WALWORTH9- R ^'an who }la,i e.!J° measure in searching for the ^^rest to j,;SU 'y become an object of so great j North's rp m an course the particulars of inquijy k*story could not long elude a vigi- in\ ver^an ^r'mP> a shrewd, active fellow, found Vale; lew days that he had removed to Crow- f ^Ported thp«e TaS very Poor, and an invalid; and he him to the r>?e aC'"S who at once dispatched ] factions somothin g more. His in- SO than to let full and minute, and in nothing more 1 thin^ of i. t no one there or elsewhere know any- 1 HP 8 eri-and. < ^VENT R? topped for 0Vr'n as a pretended cattle-dealer, and Siting the fSevcra^ days in the neighbourhood, f ^"hieh he nm a!"mer3 arid examining their stock, for had made the highest prices as soon as ha 0t" by a]i s se^ections. Of course he was made much ( J-'cular likiT,10 !Ulc^ to sell, and as he took a par- J ln^ited th(T^ Archibald Walworth's breed, he was ^'i-h £ ,ja e SeYeral times. Twice he sat at table 1 ahsent fat'h °m 110 convers(1(l with freely about her 1 c°uld „er' and everything else which he thought ( oth6rs ai, ^^rest to his employer. He questioned c ^oidTJru,V„heir means, their prospects, &c., Ration r,C-Vbald.f°und it difficult to get any further .?an to t? ] '8 talk about the "short horns," and 1 Weee, ln *-he dealer had fallen in love with his • Stoddy's, too, where Charley was f Praises J 1° emigrate, but found time to sound ^ho knev ° a.: while the muddle-headed squire, ut Was UnaS,°1rne^™& ab°ut his son's disappointment, ^sist in r • believe that the penniless girl wculd sr^diiv }.„e^-ec^^nS" bim, intimated his expectation of ^'ran<5 ^or ^'s daughter-in-law. Chariev u a St oddy, too, before long," he said, a"goin' what be's about. I don't believe he ^Uidn't h° al°ne; and you see it cause the'' ^°^or him to marry her and stay here, fhey<l a'jv^6 s keen sich a pullin' o' caps for him. U's .r'st tear her eves out, I believe; so, you see, "How °' yet'" j' Soon are they to be married ?" asked 0ri!y mvI0<3°n.'t say they're go in' to be married it's J Uirrf'V'^11' says s'ie won't have him, but and tu S only playin' off, to make him coax think j en sbe'll fall right plump in his arms. I bovs arP something about women; but these Mr. Cr-Such greenhorns a^hou»j11,tnP treasured all these things in his memory, atiy p^,ui-le Was uncertain whether they would have bf^-ri instrar ^nterest f°r his principal. But he had thf- AVairr.UC|e<^ to obtain as much information about lriWu]S(j and their affairs as possible; and he ahout the ° obe^' 's orders without troubling himself tain that Va*Ue the news he procured, being cer- ^"hile an-' event his pay was sure. ^oiediat i'6 exPectant farmers were all certain of CatUrsd(J y closing a profitable bargain with the them) ip f' 'lr> suddenly disappeared from amon £ his pr0tl,Vm" them to compare notes in regard to sto|^S' an<^ decided preference of every 'lis'em15 ,reP°rt> of course, proved highly gratifying '^ard ,P er» an<i he was surprised at the liberal ?ceived- ^"alvp18 to his wife with the welcome news. S(^ 0l*th has gone to the West Indies, in the look. consumption," he said, with a delighted P atlXu,usi ^"bat of the daughter ?" asked Honora, "^Ve]i" f/or that, she saw, was the material point, ^rriaa' f ere 's a rumour that she is on the eve of (■j to a rich farmer's son, by the name of Stoddy, M'e'i y arc going West." ^"othi'' Js good news," replied the lady. "Criv^T-011^ more satisfactory than.that." tirrif- atf/Iiranda a hint," said Eben, to improve her lt;Ss ,Tmakc hay while the sun shines." ^as eVp* needed no advice on this point. She Hot to rv,D ;lble to give her parents a few useful hints, to disr> e too much, nor to permit Mr. Belmont Carc^ fr.°V/°r their wishes. She knew that nobody Only Or truit which falls into the lap, and that it is bou"^ en *t has to be climbed for to the highest Prized' °r s^a^en off by hard exertion, that it is really buf1^a\ 'lim j13 politely as you please," she said; |jn 0n t let him think you are ready to eat him." ^I'randVlri"' ^°0' the advantage of being in demand, to a >, a ^>aTe a little fresh encouragement just now ^°Ped ear'^ despairing suitor, whose attentions she lw "Would excite competition on the part of her Bf.fn distinguished admirer. Jjj ^'mont had proved polite enough to call on the fo 8 0n tbe second day after dining there, and he und so many sources of entertainment which, "ithout seeming design, had been provided for him, that he protracted his stay far beyond the limits of a formal call. Miranda, dressed with taste and care, and still practising an interesting reserve, was even Jore engaging than when ho first saw her, and it Perhaps, not the least of the signs of his failing »oSu^' to his ideal love, that he did not inquire the Mr. Mink's researches for Walworth until an hour after he left the house. ha that he had heard nothing of him yet, Tv1 h certain that a day or two more would put •tk ri°Ssessiori °f full information on the subject. ■ > hoUrance seemed to satisfy the young man, ^iuiry Wever, was not neglecting other modes of °n thS^WaS be^ore Crimp's return to Crowvale, d • had6 when he brought his agreeable report, Ve out fai1 aPP°intment with the P'nglishman to i. ^htionf ° Some the suburban curiosities. > the P ,riot doubting that his friend would give billed f GSt news that he obtained of Walworth, Object. r°m 'trying him with questions on the !f?t theytS n°t accompany them on their drive, a lust a t° take tea and spend the evening with ut thirtv ends>" meaning, as the result proved, r FHIS WA- f^:sly f0A?re^lminary to a great party, given ex- „ 11 this nn !e !10nourable Mr. Belmont. it, jj0 sunilar festivities which followed close his hot? ar' who was quite the lion of the hour, °H. ours gracefully and won general admira- Intel1i • a^able, and courteous, quite devoid of his ur conceit, he pleased without an effort, ^ced hiaises were on all lips. The ladies pro- ^nda vvu cbarming, and looked with envy upon °, ,Vras naturally the object of no small TL%MON A^TENTION8- in686 Pleasur ^dolently gave himself up for a while to .^tc-rest in that he was not losing his -rvais "'s old friends, and continuing at ^gence rein^n^ Colonel Mink of his promised i ben Pk t G thouc]lt could no longer put him off, and when 0 re-eive th lm interested in his daughter r °lose sr.r, ?■ Pretended tidings without serious regret "I havcrutmy, he said: tbl)ugh I nm of your friends at last, Mr. Belmont, 8.:¡nt eha am sorry to say it is not of the most plea- "1 '■ asked Howard, eagerly. n sUch Ve„,Worth has gone to the island of Tobago, ^Urn alive "poor health that he is not expected to 0, That \.e. C^dren? news indeed. And what of his X0 i ey are with him, I suppose ?" Jv^Utly ,f,S ^augbter Eva, or some such name, was tbe Uamp arried to a wealthy young gentleman by ^Uires ° Stoddy' the son of one of our country r ,s, and they too have gone off somewhere in the '4 Y • you know her ?" a,S a child» or little more," replied Howard, he w lngl}T- She was a sweet girl "—how certain as of that now that she was lost to him for ever! shr) and I hope she has a husband worthy of her. I in |K be sorry to think there were any thorns planted •j*^r Pathway." hp r,nembrance of Edith's charms grew upon him Oct.. Kersati0In 'l's retlections, he did not pursue the con- »°Pes tl? had been started and Eben was in Urth0r -a the subject would be dropped, without h-ln tlis iGS- i&iself '1(^ Was disappointed, for Howard roused 1 ,r" Muhvo^ not only to question him further about Jf acquainf,ls' ^ut also to relate fully the origin of st U(^ed to tince w'th them. He had never before e^nge storJ0 su\)iect; and Mink listened to the entIrelv 11 ory as if all its thrilling details were "1. ew b do not tli^ Vonder>" he said, when the tale was Tila^ altl'r>ugh ythU.take an interest in these people, t° say, th°^ he somewhat—ah—obscure. \ir Ugh,' ,10eJ n°t seem to be known in our and a m ^Va^orth °U^' they are very respectable." Oh of much ^VUS a m°st estimable gentleman, D ) lntelligence." Ah U hn SPIINO- °UT A year T VTI *0N& HE has been ill ? t°live' an(i'beie'e leve- He gave up his house last r,n^lth a fa ° Sornewhat limited in means, went Ar.vat ^as hifl brother the country." T^BROSE" °ls "^e?" ar>y Waddress ied Mink, promptly. I will give Ehen f;r Par'tiV. ^0U "^ould like to write to obtain •VouQg sh!Calars." ofter g lllan cf?(j rewd enough to see that the frank °°> that prev SUsPect his truth, and that this r^uest 0fQ ^akin^ susPicion. He was confident, was only anticipating the arQier v, to-a-r, ut he was careful to give the rieai. ,St>lf i and county, as he had that of the ^stake ;fn?ugb enough to mislead, and hp (-r]. f Hown^ri j10 truth to make it seem only a It's addregg sh°uld ever by any means obtain ^Hed «, 0vit a\ — unCndrfimiles from here," he con- "with^tVio f'' not III any direct line of ^3 bo ci.ht if6 Cl}7' lIf/ou write, it will ^ireof t yon w:i, GI? days V>efore you receive an YR" THANJt0 my^aleg" & S°°ner by havin= S ff^^iriessTf T i certainly avail myself of Purpog^111011 1 sha11 only do> « at «on-in [th any asskfa learning if I can render Mr. ButI you said his Property?" ery large property." Ah, then of course Eda. will not see him want for anything ?" Of course NOV Howard was not conscious of the heavy sigh with which he closed this conversation, nor of his very downcast look; but Colonel Mink had some ready scheme of amusement to offer, to divert his thoughts into brighter and pleasanter channels. CHAPTER XXI. ( FLIGHT AND PURSUIT. 5DA WALWORTH believed that she was capable of snduring a great deal for her father's sake, and did not lack an"opportunity of exhibiting the extent of ler fortitude. She bore up against tyranny m every brm; she toiled daily till her whole frame was ivearied; she suffered illness and pam without com- plaining, and without claiming the abatement of a jot jf her daily tasks. «she is so handy," said Esther, "I never saw mything like it. I don't see where she learned to TSS don,t y°u g0 to overvror^ing her and dis- jouraging on her with scoldin' and frettin' said Archibald. "Scoldin' and frettin'! I don't scold Edy, not Evhen she minds her own business; but when sho mdertakes to tell me what I shouldn't make Frank :10, and that he is weak and sick, when I know he is ;hammin', then I shall scold. As long as Frank eats )ur bread, he shall mind me,. and as to his not )eing able to churn jist two or three hours a day, .t's all gnomon; a great boy like him, most eight real's old. I But the boy has been brought up so differently, suggested Archibald, rather timidly, and it don't .eem worth while aggravatin' Eddy jist for what little he can do. I saw her ironing out there in the kitchen, jist after you had boxed Franky's ears, and [ saw her tears fall on the hot irons, and heard them siss." Oh, indeed! Well, let 'em fall, and let 'em siss! 'Twas only temper. Did you hear what she had the impudence to tell me?" No." She said I mustn't do that, and that she could stand anything but that I tell you I was mad then, and jist up and told her that if she didn't mind her own business, I'd box hers too." Good said Polly; that was good. I should like to have heard that." Archibald laughed faintly, for he knew that some token of approval was expected, and he did not quite dare to withhold it. It was indeed becoming the severest parts of Eda's trials to witness the treatment her beloved brother received, and to see his pitiful appealing looks for help, which he was slow to comprehend she could not Impart. Frank was not of an indolent disposition, but he did not like to do anything for his cruel task-mistress, of whom he entertained an unspeakable terror. He worked freely and gladly whenever he thought he was assist- ing Eda, or lightening her tasks, and often when he was not employed he followed her about, patiently waiting for the termination of her toils, in order that she might sit down and read to him a letter from papa, or hear him recite some lesson which she had given him to learn. Frank was not robust; his appetite was poor, and sometimes he could not really eat the rye-bread and salt pork which, with potatoes, often formed the staple of the farmer's dinner. It's only whim," Esther said, and ought to be whipped out of him. lIe turns up his nose at every- thing on the table, and always did, ever since he came here." Let him have milk if he wants it," replied Archi- bald. Milk is cheap enough." It's cheap enough, but I don't like to see him humoured so. Then there's that meat and potatoes wasted; but it shall be kept for him, if it's a week." So it was. Three days afterwards, when Franky came in, really very hungry, from digging potatoes— a new branch of work which he was learning—he was obliged to eat the objectionable mess, or none. Eda watched him with brimming eyes, as ravenous, yet loathing, he gulped down the unsavoury food. She gave some appealing looks to her uncle, in hopes that the cruel decree would be rescinded, and, when he remained silent, rose from the table, and retired to her room. Her cup was at last full. She knelt long and silently by her bedside, but when she arose, if there was a look of resignation on her features, there was another and a sterner expression ming'cd with it. After a time Frank followed her, and, when she heard his steps, she unfastened the door, and let him in." Don't cry, sister," he said; I won't mind it, if you only won't cry." Eda threw her arms around him, and kissed him again and again, while her tears fell like rain upon his neck and cheeks. We have half an hour left yet," Franky said won't you read me again what papa said about coming home next spring, and about taking us back, maybe, to our old home ? Eda complied, though with husky and choking volcP, taking the letter from her bosom, and still holding her brother in her arms while she read. How long will it be to next spring ? how many weeks? how many days? Won't you let me keep the letter? Eda answered all his questions, soothed him with caressess and kind words; and when the sharp voice of her aunt was heard, calling him to come and join the men, who were going back to their work, she kissed him, and bade him be a good boy, and said she should have something to tell him in the evening. When she went to her room a little before dark, she found that Frank, who was waiting for her there, had fallen asleep, holding in his hand his father's letter, which he had evidently been trying to decipher. She awoke him with some difficulty. "I I want you to go and take a walk with me," said she; "and we must hurry, for we have a long way to go." I am all ready, Eda; but you said you had some- thing to tell me." I will tell you as we go along. Come It was not quite dark when they went out, and their departure excited no remark. Tell me now, sister," said the boy, when they were in the road, and advancing with rapid steps towards the distant village. Yes, yes. We are going away from here, far away, to look for another home." Oh, I am so glad-so glad But she won't let us go, sister: she will follow us and make us go back. I You don't know what a dreadful woman Aunt Esther is." Eda hurried on, explaining her plans as she went along, and scarcely pacifying the alarmed boy, who looked momentarily back, and started in terror at the scream of the night hawk, which he mistook for the shrill voice at which he was accustomed to tremble. They reached the village, where Eda learned the hour at which the night train passed toward the great city, and where, after much difficulty and delay, she engaged a conveyance to come after them and their baggage. The railroad did not pass through the little village of Crowvale, and the station to which Eda was to be conveyed was about two miles from that settle- ment, and nearly twice that distance from her uncle's house. She had a little money more than was required for their travelling expenses; but she had still a few ornaments remaining, and some superfluous clothing which she believed she could dispose of, if it should become necessary. Her plan of action on arriving in the city had been well considered, for she had long calculated the pro- bability of being driven to her present extremity, and had spent many hours in thinking what she should do in such an emergency. She knew, indeed, that these hopes might be frustrated, butall herpresent solicitude was to make good her escape, for she was certain that she would not be permitted to depart, if her design was suspected. S|»e made certain of the exact time when the con- veyance would arrive, and resolved to be ready at the gateway with her baggage, which she did not doubt her ability to drag thus far. Fortunately the night was a dark one, and her uncle and aunt were both sound sleepers, and if, as she hoped, no suspicion should be excited by her absence in the evening, she believed she could get off un- observed. She hastened back, therefore, with such speed that she was compelled to stop several times for breath, and to allow her brother to rest. Frank was discouraged when he found they were re- turning to the house, and he had no hopes of getting away again. I'd let the clothes go, sister," he said. We can both work hard and get new ones; but it will be dreadful if we get in there and can't get away again." It was past nine o'clock when they reached home, but no questions were asked, although Esther and her daughter were in the doorway through which they entered. Mind that you get up in the morning when Eda does, Frank, and don't let me have to call you," said Esther, as they passed by. Franky did not reply, but he trembled from head to foot when he got to Eda's room. "Oh, I know we shall never get away," he said. Eda locked her door, and having lighted a candle, proceeded ao silently as possible to pack all the most necessary and valuable of her own and her brother's apparel into it single trunk. When this was done, and when she and Franky had attended to their usual nightly devotions, they lay down, side by side, to await the hour of starting, which was to be a little after midnight. Franky soon fell asleep, but Eda lay listening to the gradually decreasing sounds which indicated that the inmates of the house were retiring—listening, when these had subsided to the chirping of the cricket choir beneath her windows to the baying of distant watch dogs, and the screech of the boding owl, which fell upon her excited nerves like an omen of some coming evil. Midnight came at last: the 'sounds seemed to ring with terrific clangour through the still house, and she wondered greatly why they were so much louder than usual. But, contrary to her fears, they seemed to wake no one, not even the sweet boy at her side, whom she found it really difficult to rouse. Ere he was fully awakened, she had donned her I bonnet and shawl, and was thrusting his hat into his hands. Franky was soon on the alert, and, taking their heavy burden between them, they lost no time in starting. Unfortunately, before reaching the stairs they had to pass the door of Polly's room, which always stood open, and at this critical stage of their progress the poor boy was seized with a fit of trembling, which compelled him to drop his end of the trunk somewhat heavily on the floor. There was immediately a rustling inside the room, and a sharp voice asked— Who is there?" Eda placed her finger upon her brother's lips, and both remained motionless and almost breathless for some minutes, after which they again cautiously lifted their load and descended the stairs. It was a very slow and tedious process, but it was at last accomplished in safety. They stood in the lower hall. They unfastened and passed out of the front door, and after frequent restings they reached the gate in safety,, and in advance of the arrival of the conveyance. But Polly's alarm had not altogether subsided. She lay long listening and catcliing faint, sounds of the departing fugitives, yet utterly unsuspicious of what was going on. Somebody, she was sure, must oe up -or else there were burglars in the house, and she resolved to go to Eda's room, which was nearest to hers, and inquire whether she had heard the noises that had disturbed her. She did so, and after vainly calling at the door for some time, advanced into the room, and, to her utter amazement, found that both beds were vacant. They've run away, as sure as the world!" she exclaimed, oppressed at the same moment with a painful foreboding of the loads of work which would fall back upon her hands, if their patient drudge had really gone. Goaded by this reflection she ran to her mother's room and gave the alarm, which Esther no sooner fully understood, than she leaped from the bed, looking another Hecate, and then turning round, began to shake and pummel her hard-sleeping husband with all her might. "Stop, Esther; stop, I say! I haint got it! Go away!" said Archibald. Wake up, you old goose!" she shouted, slapping him sound'y 0\1 the uppermost car, and then on the other, as lie turned over; "it isn't for the night- mare I'm shakin' you Edy has run away; do vou hear ? He "au up it last, and listened, gapingly to the startling tidings. I Slie's run away; she and Frank! They're only iist off-not ten minutes out of the house, for Polly heard 'cm go. Hurry up now. Polly has gone to call Ben, to harness the horses; and you can easily atch her." "Which way has she gone?" asked the old man, who had by this time jumped out of bed, and had begun dressing himself in great haste and excitement. To the railroad, of course, to take the one o'clock train for New York. But they must have gone afoot, and you can overtake them before they get lialf-way, even if they run." There there' I hear a wagon or carriage, as sure as I live said Polly, who, having roused both men by screaming to them from the garret-stairs, had returned to her father's room. And that's what the sly puss was gone for so long last evening, you may depend on it." The fugitives had been compelled to wait many minutes for the arrival of the conveyance, but were proceeding now rapidly on their way. By the time her husband was nearly ready for a start, Esther had driven the loitering workmen, half- clad, downstairs, and had herself superintended the harnessing of the best team before the lightest wagon, beside which, whip in hand, and with her nightcap still on, she awaited her husband's descent. Come on, old tumble-toad! she said. They 11 be in the cars, and the cars '11 be in New York afore you get down stairs." But Archibald was ready much sooner than his scolding wife anticipated. You'll easily catch them," she said, encouragingly. Jump in, Dave! Never mind your hat." Oh, yes, we 11 ketch 'em, trust us for that, with such a team as this," said Archibald, as he climbed into the wagon. Can you see, Dave ?" Like a bat," said the man, who had taken the lines and whip. "I can't see it seems to me it's very dark." Oh, you'l! see fast enough when you get your eyes open. Mind now, don't come back without them, Arch, or you'll The remainder of the sentence was lost in the noise of starting. I ain't a comin' back without them," muttered Archibald. What would Theodore say if I should let his children go to ruin like that ? NO—no (To bs continued.)
EXECUTION OF THE KOMFORD MURDERER.
EXECUTION OF THE KOMFORD MURDERER. On Monday James Lee, 45, who was convicted at the last Sessions of the Central Criminal Court of the murder of Inspector Simmons, an officer of the Essex Constabulary, by shooting him with a revolver on the high road of Eomford on the evening of the 20th of January last, was executed at Springfield Prison, Chelmsford. On the occasion of the murder Leo and two others were on their way to rob the house of a lady residing at Hornchurch, where there was sup- posed to be a large quantity of silver plate. They were met by the deceased and a constable named Morden. The deceased challenged them, and on his attempting to take tbe prisoner into custody ho was deliberately shot with a revolver, and died a day or two afterwards. Since his sentence Lee has been attended by a Roman Catholic priest. He never made any allusion to the crime to any of the officials. He has been visited on three occasions by his wife, and several of his brothers and sisters have also been to see him. Lee on Sunday night went to bed at the usual time, and slept soundly for three hours. Father Butt was with him at an early hour on Monday morn- ing, and remained to the last. Mr. Lescher, the High Sheriff of Essex, arrived at the prison at half- past seven, accompanied by Mr. Walter Gapp, the Lmder-Sheriff, and other officials. A few minutes before eight they proceeded to the prisoner's cell, accompanied by Major Lane, the Governor of the prison. The prisoner submitted to the operation of pinioning by Berry, the executioner, without saying a word, and he walked firmly to the scaffold, which was erected in one of the exercise yards. Before the cap was put over his face the prisoner said, I thank you, gentlemen, for your kindness to me since I have been in this prison." After the cap bad been pulled over his face the prisoner said in a loud voice, Oh, my poor wife! oh, my poor children! He then said, I die innocent, mind." The bolt was then drawn, and the platform fell, the rope allowing a drop of more than eight feet; and be appeared to die almost instantaneously. A considerable crowd of OCOORVIVILO/1 TLLA O'n,ol. persous usseiuuieu UULSIUO LLLt7
TRIPLE MURDER IN FRANCE.
TRIPLE MURDER IN FRANCE. At Troyes Assizes on Saturday, two men, named Arnoult and Gagny, were convicted of a triple niur- der at a house formerly a monastery, and still called Gloire Dieu. The owner, M. Delahache, his para- lytic mother, and the maid-servant being all the inmates of this sequestered dwelling, were found mur- dered one morning in January by a shepherd, who daily brought the letters from the post. Suspicion fell on a notorious poacher Gagny, who began spending money somewhat lavishly, and in his cot- tage M. Delahache's watch was found, as was also a shirt stained with blood and identified as the property of Arnoult, a sawyer. The latter confessed that they had called at Gloire Dieu on the pretence of selling fir plants; that while M. Delahache was uncorking a bottle to give them wine they struck him down dead; that they called the maid, who was upstatrs, strangled her at the foot of the stairs, and then despatched the aged mother, who was in bed. Gagny to the last denied his guilt, and 'thereby lost the benefit of the extenuating circumstances which the jury somehow discovered in Arnoult's case. The latter was sen- tenced to hard labour for life, while Gagny, unless reprieved by M. Grévy, will be executed.
BREACH OF PROMISE CASE,
BREACH OF PROMISE CASE, In the Queen's Bench Division on Monday, before Mr. A. L. Smith and a common jury, the case of Heider v. Bearsley came on for hearing. The plaintiff, Miss Emily Heider, living at Shepherd's- busli, sought. to recover damages from the defendant, Mr. George Bearsley, an ironmonger, in Dept' rd, for breach of promise of marriage. Defendant A imitted the promise, but said it was mutually rescind, d. The parties became acquainted in 1880, and in the follow- ing year he made her a promise of marriage, which was accepted. The parties were introduced to each other's friends as an engaged couple, the banns being published, and preparations made for the wedding, including the purchase of the lady's trousseau. The defendant subsequently said he could not marry her on the day appointed, as his clothes were not ready, and afterwards he refused to marry her altogether. He said to the parish clerk that he was going to throw himself away, and asked that official to give him away. Eventually she found him walking with another woman. On the plaintiff remonstrating with him, he said he never intended to marry her so long as he had breath in his body. The defendant did not appear in person. The question at issue was confined chiefly to the amount of damages, which the jury assessed at £75. Judgment accordingly.
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anere were fast coaches and slow coaches in the old days; the Edinburgh mail ran 400 miles in 40 hours, stoppages included. The Exeter day coach did 173 miles in 17 hours, and the Devonport mail 227 miles in 22 hours. But the Shrewsbury and Chester Highflyer" took usually from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. to do its 40 miles over a good road. It was a free-and-easy, no-hurry sort of coach. If a com- mercial gentleman waited to do a little business on the road, or a swell wanted to call upon a friend, the coachman was always willing to pull up and bide their time. Then there were the houses of call; half an hour soon slipped away with a pleasant landlord or pretty barmaid; then there was the I dinner at Wrexham, for which two hours were allowed and at the end of that time Coachie would thrust his jolly red face in at the door and say: The coach is ready, gen'L'men, but if yer wish for another ¡ bottle, don't let me disturb yer I"
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. THE GOVERNMENT OF THE SOUDAN. In the HOUSE OF LOBDS, May 18, Lord Wemyss :alled attention to the state of things in the Eastern Soudan, and submitted a resolution declaring that the nterests of civilisation, of the native population, and )f commerce, as well as the security of Egypt md the honour of England, required the establish- nent of a settled Government there, and that until ;his had been accomplished we could not relieve our- selves of the responsibilities we had incurred. The motion having been seconded by Lord Napier of Magdala, Lord Wentworth moved an amendment accepting with satisfaction the promise of her Majesty's Govern- ment to recall our forces from the Soudan, but assert- ng that the construction of a railway from Souakim by mili-ary force through a hostile population would be inconsistent with the pledge given to Parliament and the country; and further declaring that the House Jeclined to assume any responsibility for commercial, civilising, or philanthropic enterprises outside the admitted obligations and interests of Great Britain. The Duke of Argyll objected to the Amendment, as displaying a weakness of which he was ashamed, and said he had no alternative bit to vote for Lord Wemyss's proposal. The intention to abandon the Soudan, the noble duke said, had created terror in Egypt and imparted new strength to her enemies. On the whole, he felt that her Majesty's Government were turning their backs on their positive duty, and he owned that it was with some shame he read the qualification they had employed about abandoning Souakim unless some other Power stepped in. Lord Granville, in defending the Ministerial policy, failed to see how the fact that England had been drawn by the force of circumstances into Egypt and the Soudan for a temporary and necessary purpose should entail the necessity for a permament occupation of the territory into which she had been compelled to advance. We had, no doubt, incurred great responsibilities, but these were capable of fulfilment by the policy of the Government. As to the Soudanese, he believed that self-government would be better than what could be expected from Egypt, while a purely English Govern- ment over them was entirely out of the question. Lord Salisbury, though of opinion that it was im- possible to exaggerate the failure of the Ministerial policy in the Soudan, declined to support the resolution. If he thought any good could come from passing a Vote of Censure on the Government he would vote for it. But he had to look to TL^,FACT that it was something more than a Vote of Censure; that it indicated the course to be taken for the future, and departed from the general rule that the devising of a policy was to be left to the responsible Government, and the judgment on that policy to Parliament. Moreover, even if the resolution were carried, its fulfilment would be left in the hands of the present Government. After a few remarks from Lord Derby and the Duke of Marlborough, the resolution and the amendment were both withdrawn. NEGOTIATIONS WITH SPAIN. In the HOUSE OF COMMONS, Lord E. Fitzmaurice in- formed Mr. Slagg, with regret, that the commercial negotiations with Spain had come to an unsatisfactory termination,in consequence of the Spanish Government having refused to fulfil the fundamental conditions of the Declaration of December, 21st, 1884. Our Minister at Madrid had, therefore, been instructed to inform the Spanish Government that the negotiations were at an end. THE AFGHAN BLUE-BOOK.—ME. GLADSTONE ON HIS RETIREMENT. The House having gone into Committee of Supply, after some preliminary discussion on a point of order resulting out of the count out of Friday, a vote ou ac- count of the Civil Services amount-in to £3,360,500 was moved, and Lord R. Churchill, with the view of compelling the Government to come again to the House within a short time, moved the reduction of the vote by £ 2,000,000. This motion he grounded on the recent Blue-book, which he described as most" melancholy reading "s.):d a sorry "record," which, he believed, had deep'y offended the national sentiment. It showed frequent gaps and signs of having been carefully edited. Travelling through the salient points, he dwelt first on the sacred covenant," which he showed had been imagined by Mr. Gladstone without any sufficient warrant or foundation in the as- surances which had been given by the Russian Government. No such agreement as had been stated by the Prime Minister on March 13 had ever been arrived at. As to the support pro- mised to Sir P. Lumsden, he maintained that no effective support had been given him, and that if the Government had declared that any aUack on the Afghans would be regarded as a casus belli they would have prevented any attack being made on Penjdeh. Dealing with the series of suppositions in Mr. Gladstone's speech on the previous Monday, he insisted that there was no proof whatever that the Ameer was willing to give up Pendjeh, and urged the Government to say at once whether they contem- plated making a concession which would be flying in the face of Sir P. Lumsden and all other officers of ex- perience in the question. Mr. Gladstone said it was impossible to enter into the details of the Blue-book without having an oppor- tunity of carefully looking into it, which he had not yet been able to do. He failed to see how the Govern- ment could have prevented the Pend jeh catastrophe, and refused to admit that it could be inferred that the Ameer set a value on Pendjeh because his troops had defended it. The Government had given all the sup- port they could to Sir P. Lumsden, and had done all in their power to allay the excitement caused by the affair at Pendjeh. Some cries of "No" from the Opposition led the Prime Minister to protest against this modern style of conducting debates. I can assure hon. gentlemen (continued Mr. Gladstone) that if I take any notice of these inteiruptionsit is nojj really upon my own account. They matter very little to person whose future intervention in political conflicts is much more likely to be measured by weeks than by months, and certainly by months more than by years. It is because of the deep conviction I have that a great blow has been struck at the dignities and liberties of this House—(cheers and cries of "Oh," and laughter)- by the modes of proceeding which have within the last few years-the last very few years, speaking with the greatest respect to the right hon. baronet-been intro- duced into the debates of this House. (Cheers.) As to the agreement of Mardh 13, Mr. Gladstone added he desired to defer a full explanation until he had had the opportunity of referring to what he had said in the House; but he pointed out that the reasons why it had failed to prevent bloodshed had been made the subject Northcote, who pointed out that the papers already published contained very inadequate informa- tion, twitted the Government with always avoiding discussion because of the absence of papers. He strongly objected to being always met with the argu- ment that there were more papers to come, and was anxious to know how far the country could rely upon statements made by Ministers, especially when it was found that in one important particular at least they had been proved to be inaccurate. Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett thought the papers showed great mismanagement at the Foreign Office and Mr. Onslow complained that the services of Sir P. Lumsden and other British officers had not been adequately recognised. Mr. Biggar also spoke; and Lord R. Churchill having asked leave to withdraw his motion, Mr. Biggar insisted on taking a division, when the amendment was lost by 74 to 11. After this the Parnellite members continued the dis- cussion of the Vote in a discursive fashion until long past midnight, raising a great variety of points included in the estimate. THE CROFTEBS BILL. The next business was the adjourned debate on tne introduction of the Crofters Bill, and The Lord Advocate, in resuming, explained the main provisions of the bill. In the first place it does not in- corporate rural townships as the Commissioners re- commended, but it deals with the other demands put forward on behalf of the crofters—viz., security of tenure, fair rents, compensation for improvements on a more liberal scale, and more land. The bill enacts that a crofter shall not be removed except for breach of statutory conditions, which include payment of rent, subdivision of holdings, injury to holdings, and assign- ments. This, he contended, was nothing more than to give legislative sanction to the custom which had existed on all benevolently managed estates, and there was a precedent for it in the old Scotch Act of 1449. There would, however, be no power of assignment or sale, and there would be no limitation of rents which would' come under the bill. Adequate machinery would be provided, through the medium of valuers or arbitrators voluntarily appointed, for the fixing of fair rents and compensation. But with regard to the demand for more land" or enlargement of small tenancies, the Government, he said, had not seen its way to make any compulsory proposals. A shcrt conversation followed, in which the Bill was generally approved of, and leave was in the end g:ven to bring in the bill, which was read a first time. The House was counted out at five minui.es to three o'clock.
PROPOSED NEW TRADE ROUTE.
PROPOSED NEW TRADE ROUTE. On Thursday, the 7th iust., Captain William Adams, of Dundee, a well-known Arctic navigator, left Liverpool by the Allan Line steamer Parisian for Quebec on an important mission, namely the superin- teudenco of a marine survey expedition with the view of opening up a proposed new trade route between Western Canada and the mother country The ex- pense of bringing grain to the United Kingdom from Manitoba and other wheat-growing districts of the great North-West territory has latterly become so great, that the western farmers receive comparatively little for their produce; and the aim of the expedition which is to be placed under the charge of Captain Adams is to open a route, ma Hudson Bay, by means of which the freight will be considerably lessened. The discovery ship Alert has been placed at the service of the expedition, which is being fitted out at Halifax, Nova Scotia. It is intended that she shall be ready to sail from that port on the 19th inst., and that she shall proceed by way of Davis Strait, Hudson Strnit, and Hudson Bay, to Port Nelson. The ultimate inten- tion is to construct a railway from the city of Winni- peg to Port Nelson, where the grain would be put on board a line of steamers and conveyed to this country. This railway would be from 500 to 600 miles in length, and it is proposed to construct in the first place from the north end of Lake Winnipeg to Port N elson-a distance of about 280 miles-so that while the remainder of the line ie being formed the grain might be carried by steamers from the south to the north end of the lake. The ice belt, commonly known' as ^R Stream," at the mouth of the Hudson Strait, is the principal obstacle to be overcome in the proposed new route; and the mission of Captain Adams is to survey and report on the best course to be followed and the olass of vessels to be employed. It is considered that steamers semi- fortified would be the most suitable, and as the route is generally navigable for fully four months of the year, it is expected that two voyages could be made each season.—-En gineering.
GOSSIP ON DRESS. j
GOSSIP ON DRESS. THE fashion writer in the Queen says: It is curious to notice how the return of the Prince and Princess of Wales has quickened into life the slackened pulse of London; and the sudden show of all that is newest in dress and fashion during the last ten days is a strong proof of the influence of Royalty's presence. Amongst the many mantles especially good two should be specially described. Goffered lace, a rechauffee of our ancestors' tastes, is a decided novelty to the younger generation, and deserves their encouragement. A sleeveless casaque, called La Marquise, is made entirely of this goffered Chantilly laée, with the exception of the jet gimp, which acts as a. trimming. The back and front give the effect of a long pointed bodice; indeed, this charming covering might equally be Worn for indoor purposes, whilst, beaded by a broad band of jet, goffered lace encircles the hips, and gives the smart appearance (if I may say so) of a lady's "cover" jacket. THE "Soleil," for those who do not affect these close-fitting garments, has much to recommend it, the arrangement of the wide watered sash, which Falls over plaited lace, having a most happy effect at the back. DUUING this uncertain weather, which borders on summer, and yet is scarcely spring, guipure de laine is the most fashionable thing in summer mantles. Chantilly lace bids fair to surpass it in favour by-and- by aho, that although at present the shot parasols, for whom rain brings few evils, are now used by all, they are likely soon to be superseded by the pretty lace structures, which look as if they owed everything to the milliner's department. These latter certainly grow in grace year by year, and this seasou they bid fair to surpass their predecessors. j A LADY, writing in a contemporary on the subject of summer gowns has the following: The popularity of Bengaline or Irish poplin, shadowed forth in the early spring, is now evident. The newest colours, just off the looms, are cobra, which is a little less green than the tint known last year under the name of serpent," and has quite a brown shade over it; a deep prune, the exact tint of a damson; a dark brown with a mulberry tinge, a pale pinkish lilac, a clay red, a true blue slate, two charming shades of fawn and three of stone, a periwinkle with a strong dash of mauve in it, several mouse tints, watercress green, and a very good cafi au lait; in black anci white, a speciality being that with glossy satin on one sid e and plain silk poplin on the other. FOR afternoon and evening wear poplin is very much worn, chiefly by matrons. Moire is another haudsime material revived and combined very fre.-k quentiy with either satin, velvet, or plush. There ia a slight departure in undyed silks of the Tussore ancj, Cora kind, and a pretty one too. These new silk, are merely the undyed fabric dotted over with tiny patterns in satin when made up, as they should be, over the plain silk, the effect is remarkably good. Brocaded Surat silks are also new, and will be well worn. In these the ground is shot, and the brocade of a small design in the colours of the shot. Those in red and black, black and white, blue and gold, and pink and brown are being made into stylish dresses; the black and white is useful in mourning for demie; toilette. TUNNING to washing mateiials for bond fide summer wear, the French cashmere sateens, Canadian lawns, Tussores Anglais, mimosa fibre, Pelousse Precieux, Arabian cottons, Chene muslins, and Alpaga Francaise, are all now and fresh looking, the last- named being, perhaps, one of the most attractive in appearance; it is of almost muslin texture, but a good deal stronger, and its surface is ornamented with lines of colour in blue. pink, cardinal, brown, moss, and a number of other tints. Very pretty dresses are made of it; one with a treble scarf-like tunic, each scarf being edged with lace, arranged over a plain skirt was fresh looking the bodice was somewhat full and confined round the waist by a sash of wide soft silk tied in deep loops at the back. SASHES are again seen, particularly for young ladies wear; they are usually tied at the back in large loose loops, which form a sort of back drapery, and are of soft Ottoman silk. In some instances the sashes are only about six inches wide, and when this is the case they fasten at the side. With the blouse bodices affected just now, a sash or belt is indispens- able. » IN some of the newest morning dresses of thin cloth, the skirt drapery is gathered on over the edge of the jacket-bodice, and opens over a plain front panel with a kilting at foot; in others the accordeon skirt is still adhered to, with or without a short tunic above it. A pretty gown of check tweed is made with a narrow kilted skirt to the waist, with full back drapery, the bodice having four small points in front. The dress over-jacket for outdoor wear is modelled after the fashion of a gentleman's dress coat, hence its name, and is made of plain cloth of one of the colours used in the check of the dress. It is intended to be worn open, showing the front of the bodice, but is provided with buttons to close it in damp or cold weather. This costume is, in appearance, one of the most stylish of this season's introductions. WE are indebted to the able fashion contributor to the Lady's Pictorial for the following seasonable items: I have just seen some of the prettiest tennis hats any young lady can wish to wear. The shape is slightly shady but not too much so, and though the hats are very light, the material of which they are made secures protection from the sun which is ex- pected to favour us in the course of a few weeks. The crowns are low and round and covered with very neatly guaged nun's cloth, a piece of the same being wound round as trimming. The most universally becoming hats were white, lined with blue or crimson nun's veiling, a small flap being turned up off the left side and daintily embroidered in white with two racquets and a ball. One hat which would suit a dark, handsome brunette was of salmon colour out- side, lined with rich cardinal, and the racquets on the flap in salmon colour. But it was not everybody's hat by any means. « TIIE various shades of grey have never been so popular as they are this year. They have several great advantages, for, in the first place, with black ribbons and trimmings, they pass for slight mourning; and, in the second, they can be so combined with pale blue or pink, or navy blue and myrtle green, as to afford complete changes of costume. Of course, the light colours must be used while the dress is fresh, and the darker ones when it is a little possee. YOUNG girls still wear round hats in preference to any other kind of headgear. A young wife, of course, wears any pretty bonnet she fancies, but an unmarried fille does not put on a capote a brides before she is five-and-twenty. A girl does not wear a mantle unless it be very short; her dress is arranged without one, or she has a purine or close-fitting jacket; and women of almost all ages up to fifty wear long cloth redingot.es lined with silk in travelling or during damp I weather. 0
A DISAPPOINTED SUICIDE. ]
A DISAPPOINTED SUICIDE. A person who confesses to have passed all his life in attempting to get rid of it can hardly be congratu- lated on employing his time usefully. The individual in question, a rich Swedish gentleman residing at Brockton, in America, might, one would have thought, had he really been so bent on destroying himself, have found ways and means of doing so in spite of the watchfulness of anxious friends, or the impedi- ments cast in his way by fate." According, however, to the account written by his own hand, just before a last and successful attempt at suicide, from his child- hood till advanced manhood, he had but one ID'JA— to kill himself; and was so unfortunate as to fail to satisfy the ruling desire cf his j life, until he had nearly completed his sixtieth year. As a child, he relates, he twice threw himself into the water to be rescued by a passer by. As a young man and during middle age, he made in all thirty attempts with the pistol, with the rope, with poison, and in other ways. The bullet, he explains, played him false, only wounding him; the rope was cut by a well-intentioned friend just before life was extinct; the stomach pump, promptly applied, counter- acted the effects of the poison the window thrown open at the critical moment saved him from suffoca- tion bv the fumes of charcoal. All comes, however, to him who waits and after a lifetime spent in vain efforts to cut short an existence apparently burden- some, this wealthy Swedish gentleman has accom- plished his design by a strong dose of rat poison. =======
THE LENGTH OF HUMAN LIFE.
THE LENGTH OF HUMAN LIFE. The belief that human life could not be prolonged for a century no longer stands. Doubtless many cases of centenarianism will not bear investigation but there is at least no doubt about the date of Sir Moses Montefiore's birth and possibly other instances of men and women who have lived for a hundred years are authentic. There seems reason to believe that a certain Mrs. Clarissa Raymond, of Wilton, Connecticut, has attained the age of no less than 103. The old lady was married in 1804, and her husband died the year after the battle of Waterloo, leaving five children, of whom the youngest, now within a few weeks of her 80th birthday, is the only one that, survives. When Washington died Mrs. Raymond was a girl of 17, she is still in good health, and enjoys life, though she lately told a friend that she "believed she was getting old." The remark is not unnatural at the age of 103. Within the past year her sight is said to have become dim, and her hearing has failed, but the beginning of her 104th year finds her mind as clear, her memory as distinct, and her physical strength apparently as good as when, three years ago, she celebrated her 100th birthday. UP to a year ago Mrs. Raymond was able to read coarse print, but she has given that up and submits to be read to. She still, however, eats three hearty meals a day, is a fluent and ready talker, and nothing pleases her more than to narrate reminis- cences of her early life to a patient listener.
THE FRACAS AT A LONDON CLUB.I
THE FRACAS AT A LONDON CLUB. I At the Marlborough-street Police-court, on Mon- I day, the seven defendants-Auguste Gross, cabinet 1 maker, Pitt-street, Camden-town; Charles Schumann, 1 confectioner, Pratt-street; John Littlejohn, cabinet maker, Stanhope-street; Henry J. Reuter, ivory turner, Pratt-street; Gwilliam Stuarz, shoemaker, ] Cross-street; AngeloCuognani,tailor, Little Newport- { street; and Herbert Henrichs, cabinetmaker, London- ( street, who on Monday last were charged with G behaving in a riotous and disorderly manner in Percy- £ mews, Ratlibone-place, early on the morning of ] Sunday week, and with assaulting Police-constables Chenery, 203 E; Hillier, 382 E; Gregg, 271 E; Fuller, 148 C; and M'Kay, 359. E, again appeared, as they had agreed to do, without finding bail. Superintendent Thomson said he had to apply, on ( behalf of the police, that the hearing of the charge J should be adjourned for a week. It was a very im- portant matter; they wished to have the charges thoroughly investigated, and, as many inquiries had I to be instituted, they were not prepared now to go on further with the case. All the defendants were out on their own recognisances, and, therefore, it would not be a very great hardship upon them to attend. Mr. Abrahams, for the accused, said that on the contrary it would be a hardship upon the defendants, and the witnesses, if the hearing was further ad- journed. There were a great number of witnesses, J probably 20, for the defence, and he had been en- ] aged for many hours in taking their evidence. He had been informed that if Mr. Poland, who bad been I engaged by the Treasury to prosecute, was r. ot able to 1 attend, besides many of the witnesses had been badly injured by the police, and if further timo should elapse before they appeared, their injuries, to a great ] extent might have disappeared. If the application was acceded to ho should take the opportunity of ap- plying for summonses against certain of the police, who, it was alleged, committed assaults on the morn- ing in question. Mr. Newton: Certainly. Mr. Abrahams proposed that the manager of the club and his witnesses should accompany him to ] the police-station in the Tottenham-court-road, and when there they should be allowed to see the books containing the charge, so that the names and numbers of the constables in question could be ascertained. Mr. Newton: As I told you last week, every facility shall be offered to you in order that there may be a full inquiry into the circumstances of the case. Mr. Abrahams said that Superintendent Thomson assisted him in every way that was consistent with the duties of his office. Mr. Newton The police are just as anxious as you are that a full inquiry should take place. The investigation was then adjourned for a fort- 'I night, the defendants being allowed to go away on entering into their own recognisances to appear in answer to the charge.
EPITOME OF NEWS.
EPITOME OF NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN- A heavy thunderstorm "accompanied by hail and showers of cold rain passed over London on Saturday afternoon. Similar weather was reported from other parts OF the United Kingdom. Mrs. Nancy Riggins, of Constable Burton, Yorkshire, has just died at the age of 105 years. She was of eccentric habits, and is said to have taken a regular quantity of spirits and smoked several our ees of I tobacco every week. I Mr. James Anthony Fronde, who has been staying in Australia for the benefit of his health, arrived at Queenstown on Saturday morning on board the Cunard steamer Etruria from New York. Mr. Froude's health is stated to be quite restored. The Access to Mountains (Scotland) Bill just pub lished secures to the public the right of access to moun- tains and moorlands in Scotl?nd. A body found in the canal at Liverpool on Saturday proves to be that of the son of a local clergyman. The youth, who has been missiag some time, is believed to have committed suicide. An application made in the First Division of the Court of Sessions, Edinburgh, on behalf of the Lord Advocate, asking the appointment of Lord Rosebery as Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland, in room of the late Earl of Selkirk, was granted. The annual dinner of the members and subscribers to the Newspaper Press Fund took place at Willis's I Rooms on Saturday evening, Dr. W. II. Russell in ihe chair. Donations to the amount of nearly £ 900 were announced. One of the terrrible storms ever witnessed at Vienna took place on Friday night. The cold was so piercing that six persons were frozen to death in the outskirts of the city. There will be no contest at present for the county seat of Denbighshire vacant by the death of Sir Welkin Williams Wynn, Bart., but that the present baronet, Sir Herbert Lloyd Watkin Williams WJ-UD, will be returned unopposed until after the general election, when the Liberals will contest the seat. Frederick Bauer, of 72, ManseII street, Whitechapel, summoned at the Thames Police-court by Henry Van der Weydc, of 182, Regent-street, for an infringement of the Copyright Act by having reproduced and sold certain photographs of Miss Mary Anderson without Mr. Van der Weyde's knowledge or consent, was fined altogether £ 17 14s On Sunday evening a boy named Pritchard, of Prin- cess-street, Chester, was alone in a boat on the Dee, near that city, when he was hailed by some men on the shore. On rowing in close to the bank of the river, V-Oree men jumped into the boat, which upset, and Prit- chard, as well as one of the interlopers, Joseph Dale, of Warrington, were drowned. News has been received of the safe return of the Rev. G. Grenfell, F.R.G.S., in the Baptist Missionary Society's steamer the Peace, after a voyage on the the Upper Congo River from Stanley Pool to Stanley Hills, a distance of 1060 miles. He has explored many of the tributaries on the way, and found that the Mbura was navigable only for ten or twelve miles from its junction with the Congo, when cataracts barred the j way. The Mobangi is a fine river, but the people are very wild. Mr. Mundella, M.P., presided at the first annual meeting of the Teacher's Guild of Great Britain and Ireland, held on Saturday afternoon at the Memorial Hall. Among the speakers were the Rev. Canon Percival, Sir G. Young, Mr. E. N. Buxton, the Rev. Dr. Rigg, Dr. Weymouth, and Mrs. Bryant. A bill was issued on Saturday morring for extending to parishes in England and Wales in which the tithe rent-charge is payable under Enclosures Acts and some other local Acts, the same permissive facilities for com- muting tithe which are granted to other parishes. The parishes to which this bill seeks to extend these facili- ties are about 400 in number. While some miners were engaged iu clearing Royal George pit, belonging to Messrs. Baird, at Ardeen, Stevenston, on Saturday, a large portion of the shaft gave way, burying two of the number. The colliery is about to be closed, and fears were entertained that the men would be surrounded by water. In a short time a volunteer party descended the shaft, and ultimately succeeded in rescuing their fellow workmen.—A young man named Linnerton, belonging to Langloan, Coat- bridge, while on a visit to a friend, fell down a shaft and wag killed. Early on Sunday morning, while a policeman named Boniface was visiting Brown-street, Sheffield, he dis- covered a hole in a low roof behind Mr. O'Dell's pawn- broker's shop. On mounting the roof he found two men inside endeavouring to force an inside door. Whistling for assistance, ne boldly jumped down into the building, and succeeded in handcuffing both of the men, one of whom is a notorious criminal, named Quinn, who has already had two sentences of penal servitude, the last being eight years for shopbreaking. The other man, named Donnelly, had likewise been previously convicted. The workmen at Pain's firework manufactory, in East Fields, Mitcham, on Saturday, at 10.30, discovered that one of the sheds, in which the fireworks are made, was on fire. The hose kept on the premises was at once got to work. Seven detached huts were destroyed before the flames were subdued. The stores and forty-two other buildings fortunately escaped. Tw, men were slightly burnt about the tace and hands. In connection with St. Giles's Christian Mission, with which is associated a Home for Discharged Pri- sioners, a new commodious house has been opened in presence of a large company of ladies and gentlemen, at Brook street, Holborn. Mr. T. A. Bevan, the treasurer, presided over the opening proceedings, and the meeting was addressed by Sir W. Charley (the Common Serjeant), Mr. Flowers (the Bow-street magis- trate), Mr. Chance (the Lambeth magistrate), Mr. Howard Vincent, and others. The cost of the new portion of the building is £650, towards which f512 have been received, leaving a balan ce of £138 to be made good through voluntary contributions. The anniversary meeting of the Theatrical Mission took place on Saturday afternoon on the site of the new building to be erected in Henrietta-street, Covent Garden, and four foundation stones were laid at the same time. Professor Drummond presided, and among those who took part in the proceedings were the Countess of Aberdeen, the Lady Mayoress, Mrs. Bond- Cabbell, Mrs. Horace B. Marshall (the stones being laid by these four ladies) General Field, C.B.; Dr. Kims, F.R.G.S.; and Mr. Courthorpe Todd, the founder and director of the work. The statement which was made by Mr. C. Todd showed that the movement was per- fectly unsectarian and evangelical, and represented every section of the Christian Church. The Home Secretary, in acknowledging the receipt of the resolutions passed by the Council of the King's College, expresses his satisfaction that measures have been taken to prevent future bullying in the school, and his opinion that an inquiry might have been more promptly instituted by the authorities of the school. He considers, also, that an attempt to elicit the truth by a tribunal altogether unconnected with the school, and of a character to mark the gravity of the offence, was indispensable in order to prevent the recurrence of sucl\ incidents as the death of a boy from bullying both at this and other schools. On Saturday the Archbishop of Canterbury opened the new infirmary of the Croydon Union. The designs are for six pavilions, with 643 beds, but as yet only four pavilions with 435 beds have been erected, the total cost of building being £ 101,000. In an address the Archbtsnop contended that a great alte ration was REQAIR legislation to encourage thrift and prevent pa P ,S weU to deal with was not fair that the hard workir G « be taxed to support those who IRE U • law should be devised by which those who were able to help themselves should be compelled to do so. He commended to public attention THE American system by which men who were drunken AND lazy and who were not fit to have the care of their children were de- prived of them, the children sent to an industrial school, and the father provided with compulsory labour, the proceeds of which went towards the sup- port of his family. This would not be an undue inter* ference with the liberty of the subject A hamper was recently found in the Hirfi-road, Elounslow, with a young child in it peacefully sucking tway at the milk bottle. It was well dressed in long vhite clothes. On a piece of paper attached to its arm was written in pencil A poor unfortunate child by a soldier at the Windsor Barracks." The police handed :he child over to the relieving omccr of the distri t. The Prince of Wales has appointed Major Lord Senry Arthur George Somerset to be Superintendent )f his Royal Highness's stable, vice Colonel Kingscote, J.B., appointed Commissioner of Woods and Forests. Che Prince of Wales has also appointed Lord Henry Somerset to be an Extra Equerry in Waiting to his itoyal Highness. b The_ death is announced from typhoid fever, at Souakim, on_ the 15th inst., of Mr. Frank Roberts, iteuter s sp ;cial correspondent with General Graham's orce. Mr. Roberts, who for some years held a re- iponsible position on the editorial staff of Reuter.s )ffice, accompanied General Graham and staff to Souakim, end ably chronic ed the events of the late jampaign against Osman Digna. During a severe gale on Sunday morning a coble upset in the River Tees, near Middlesboro', and the two pilots, named Sapcett and Boardman, were i]rowned.^ke ^onI)aUg^ leaves India for England this week on a two months' furlough. Mr. Thomas M. Waller, ex-Governor of Connecticut, entered on Monday upon his duties as Consul-General of the United States in London. At Mullmgar, on Monday, a dog ate off part of the face of a child two months old, during the mother's ibsence.. tt_ On behalf of her Majesty, the Princess of Wales held i Drawing-room at Buckingham Palace on Monday, when the presentations Mere about 170 in number. In the first four montEfe of this year the tonnage or ressels built in the kingdom was 130,500 tons, or about 30 per cent. less than in the corresponding months of last year. General" Booth having had the Grantham Theatre on lease for three years, and having failed to keep it in tenantable repair, was summoned by the proprietor at the county court for £17 10s. 2d., and judgment was given for that amount. At Nottingham, on Monday, Joseph Tucker, a shoo- Bnisher, was committed for trial charged with the murder of a woman with whom he lived. It 13 alleged that he poured paraffin oil over her clothes and set fire to them. In the Divorce Division, on Monday, the Rev. A. O. H. Wilson, a clrrgyman of the Church of England, obtained a decree nisi for divorce from his wife on account of her misconduct, costs being awarded against the co-respondent. A Reuter despatch from Cairo states that the Ger- man and Russian diplomatic agents will probably pre- sent to the Egyptian Government a remonstrance against the Khedivial decree of April 12. According to a return relating to Post-office Savings Banks, there was at the close of 1884 due to depositors £44,773,7ï3. The charges and expenses incurred in the management of the department amounted for the year 1884 to 1249,017. The transport Kimberley, which was about to sail from Portsmouth, was ordered back for the purpose of taking OP bnard an 18-ton gun, which is intended to form part of the defences oi the harbour at Cape Town. It was stated in Dublin on Monday that the War Office inquiry which recently followed the recall of Lieut.-Colonel Chichester from the Soudan, in connec- tion with alleged irregularities on the embarkation at Kingstown of the 5th Lancers, has resulted in his com- plete exoneration. Several casualties were reported at Dover on Monday morning, showing that the thunderstorm which passed over the district on Sunday was very destructive. At Whitfield six sheep were killed by lightning, and at Wootton a mill was struck and burnt to the ground. A return was issued on Mondaymorning showing that a further vote on account of £3,3GO,500 is required for the year ending March 31, 1S86. Of this sum £2,350,500 is required for Civil services, and £1,010,000 for Revenue department. According to a statement by the Bishop of the North- West, the half-breeds have completely exhausted their means of livelihood in the war, and it will be necessary to send them 250,000 dollars to keep them from starvation. Several landowners in Kent who have farms vacant at the present time have been requested to let them on a new condition—viz that in future the landlord shall pay the Extraordinary Tithe. In each case the applica- tion has been refused, the amount of rent offered being considered too low. At Blarney Petty Sessions on Monday, three men, named Buckley, Lineham, and Shea, were committed for trial, charged with attacking and beating Jeremiah Meehan, sheriff's bailiff. Meehan, with his wife and two friends, was out driving, when his horse was stopped. He got out cf the car to ascertain what was the matter, when five men attacked and assaulted him. He identi- fied the three prisoners. At Edinbur h Police-court a man named James Carling, an engineer, who resides in Edinburgh, has been remitted on a charge of murder committed at the Diamond Pie-'ds, Cape of Good Hope. The arrest was made in accordance, with instructions received by the police from the Governor of Cape Colony. The pri- soner will be dealt with by the Cape authorities. Ou Monday, st an inquest held at Sedgley, it was shown that a married woman named Maria Lloyd had met with a shocking death through endeavouring to extinguisha paraffiu lamp by blowing down the chimney. The lamp exploded aad ignited her clothing, and also that of her husband. The woman died after under- going great agony, A verdict of Accidental death was returned. The steam launch Maud, from the Sailors' Home, Gravesend, when taking oJ seamen to join an outward- bound vessel on Monday evening, came into collision with the steamer Louise and a schooner. The launch was completely crushed, one of the occupants bccg injured, and all having a very narrow escape from drowning. On Monday the sub-committee of the Suez Canal Commission passed the second reading of the first half of the Draft Treaty. Two large villas at Mount Florida, a suburb of Glasgow, were destroyed by fire on Monday, damage being estimated at nearly three thousands pounds. The local Fire Brigade sent for assistance from Glasgow, but before the city engines cculd arrive, the buildings had been burnt down. The inmates escaped. Whilst the Glasgow Brigade were proceeding to another fire at M'Kinlav's Cork Establishment at Amderstojo, one of the engines ran over both legs of a boy na.med John Brown, of Helm-street, who lies in & precarious condition. The new armour-plated turret ship Ajax, Captain Kennedy, was completed for active service on Monday, and steamed to Black Stakes, Sheerness Harbour, to receive her powder and shell. The Ajax, which has cost about half a million of money, is a turret ship of the Inflexible type, equipped with four 38-ton guns, besides Gardner and Nordenfeldt machine guns, and plated with armour 18 inches in thickness. She was recently commissioned for special service, but her destination is at present unknown. The trial of the action brought by Mr. Tennent against Dr. Stocker, arising out of the plaintiff's de- tention in Peckham House Asylum, has terminated in a verdict for the plaintiff with five hundred pounds damages. Mr. Justice Grove stayed execution until a motion for the reduction of the damages had been dis- posed of, upon an arrangement that one hundred pounds should be paid to the plaintiff at once, and the remainder into court. On Monday evening, in the theatre of the London Institution Mr. Mundella presented to the Rev. W. T. Thornhill-Webbcr, the Bishop-Elect. of Brisbane, & handsome testimonial which has been subscribed for by the teachers of the Board Schools in the metropolis, by war of marking their appreciation of the great ser- vices he has rendered in the promotion of .education. In addressing the gathering Mr. Mundella condemned that pitiful economy wWch strove to starve the educa- tion of English children
THE MARKETS.
THE MARKETS. MARK-LANS. The trade at Mark-lane has been quiet. No further change can be reported, but thert is a distinct fall 011 the week. The reports of damage to the crops in Eastern Europe through the severe weather have not influenced the trade. Fresh supplies of home-grown produce were short, and of foreign moderate. English wheat sold slowly at Friday's prices, or at fully Is cheaper on the week. Foreign wheat was 1 s to 2s down in the same time. Flour was in- active, and 6d to ls lower. As regards barley, malting pro- duce has realised late pricga grinding has remained dull and weak, being 6d to lsloweron the week. Oats moved off slowly at 6d to Is per qr decline. Maize was dull, with prices 6d to Is lower. Beans, pea", and lentils wtre quiet, without change. Cakes fell 2s 6d per ton on the week. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The total imports of foreign stock into London last week amounted to 17,671 head. In the corresponding period last year we received 11,638; in 1888, 17,365 in 1882, 10,935 m 1831,15,760 in 1880, 22,700 in 1879, 15,018; in 1878, 14,376 in 1877, 10,016; and in 1876, 23,711 head. At Liver- pool were received 3i3 beasts from Boston and 4,20 beasts from Halifax, and at Southampton fo9 beasts from Jersey and Guernsey. There has been a dull trade for cattle. A heavy dead mcat market is reported from Smitlifield, and that has reflected upon business at Islington. Fresh sup- plies of beasts from our own grazing districts were only moderate. There was f, slow business roing. Frices wera weak, but no actual decline took place. The best Scot, and. crosses made 5s to 5s 2d per 81b. Foreign stock in moderate supply and slow request, at late rates. As regards sheep, about an averat-e supply was in the pens the trade was dull, but not without some show of steadiness. The best Downs and eross-breds made 5s 6d to 5s 8d per 81b. Lambs were ouiet at 7s to 7s 8d per 81b. Calves and pies sold at about late rates. Coarse and inferior beasts, 4s to is 6d second quality ditto, 4s 6d to 4s Sd prime large oxen. 4s Sd to 5s ditto Scots, &C„ 5s to 5s 2d coarse and inferior sheep, 4s 6d to 5s second quality ditto, 5s to 5s 4d prime coarse-woolled ditto, 5s 4d to 5s 6d; ^priino Southdown ditt •, 5s txl to 5s Sd lambs, 7s to 7s 8d; large coarse c .lves, 5s 2d to 5s Sd prime small ditto, 5s 6d to 5s 10d lars'e hogs, Ss 6d to 4s; m^t sm- porkers, 4s to 4s 6d per 81b to smk the off Jota! S^uSsS 1^- Scotland, 140 beasts. METROPOLITAN MBAT MARKET. ™ offered. There was a ve-rv slow A moderate supply prices. Inferior be. f, 2s 8d trade with i to idtncj, to 3s It S ^o;4s1d- Prirn^ imll ditto, 4s 21 to 4s 6d voa^ rl 2,1 to 5s 8d inferior mutton, 3s 4d to 4s middling 4s gd prime ditto, 4s 8d to 5s gd • larz'a nort°'3s to 8s 4d small ditto, 3s Sd to 4s 4d lamb 6s 4d to 7s' per Slfc bJ"tiie A moderate supply, with a quiet demiiii Prices Soles Is to is 3d; slips, 9d to lOd salmon, ls 7d to ls lOd; smoked Caiiauian ditto, l'I<i.; comrer oeJ, 3,1 to 4d hake, 4d live eels, 10a t o is lemon ioles, 6d crimped skate, 4d tr» ?od' 5 dnpd hug, 4d; plaice, 3d to 4d j andfresb J?*0 > T P01* LH MACKEREL, 2D to 6D; lobsters, 6(1 to zs OA crabs, 4(\ to 2S aud. smoked haddocks, Id to Is each; bloaters, 9d o Js 6J oysters, 6d to 2s 6d; and whiting1, Is 6d to 3s 6.1 per dozen Iligby chicks, 4d to 8d per bundle kippers, ls to per dozen pairs. POTATO. There was n moderate supply of potatoes on sale. The demand was dull, as follows: Scotch regents, SOs to 90s; Kent ditto 70s to 90s; Victorias, 70s to 9Csj maennm bonums, 60s to 60s champions, 40s tc 50s per ton. GAME AXD POULTRY. Leverets, 3s to 4s rabbits, Is 6d to 2s conies, 8d to Is pigeons, 7d to 9d B u-deru-ditto, Is Id to ls 4d; spring chickens, Is fid to 20 2d fat ortolans, 2-: 9d to 4s duck- lings, 3s to 5s goslings, 6s to 7s fat capons, 5s 6d to 9s 6< 1« pullets, 2s to 4s haunches of vemsou, 55s to 60s each; and forequarters of ditto, 10d pfjr lb.
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