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RAILWAY WAITING-ROOMS. With the complaints about over-pressure Mr. Mundella must be a much-worried man but as we know that his ambition, both as an official and an in- dividual, is to disseminate knowledge by all manner of means, might we suggest that a fine field lies open to him in the improvement of railway waiting-rooms ? He cannot dictate to the railway companies, nor can Mr. Chamberlain; but Ministerial influence might do much towards persuading the companies to make the walls of their waiting-rooms instructive. In the principal French railway stations there are admirably- executed maps in relief of the country through which the lines pass. Such maps are always useful; but it would be well also if, in the waiting-rooms of every pro- vincial station, there were hung up a plainly-printed account of the adjoining town, and of the objects of in- terest in its neighbourhood. How often it happens that a traveller, having two or three hours to spend in a a town, wastes them in a desultory walk or in loafing near the station, because he knows nothing of the place ? If some paper on the wall of the waiting- room informed him of the town's history of its arch- Ecological relics, curiosities, natural beauties, special products, manufactures, &c., his time of waiting might often be converted into a. very profitable visit; and, what is more, he would probably be induced to return to the town, in the same way passengers having but a short time to wait between two trains might have their curiosity excited, and the companies would therefore find the printed summaries which we sug- gest remunerative to them as means of advertising their lines. The Midland, which has always been foremost in popular innovations, might take the lead here. Descriptive tracts, we need scarcely add, would not serve the same purpose as wall notices. People have come to be shy of tracts; but good legible posters, framed and glazed, and set where they would be sure to attract the eye, would go far towards en- abling intelligent people to spend pleasant quarters of an hour in waiting for the ups and downs."— Graphic.

My dear Horatio, I had a very mysterious dream about you." "What was it, dear?" "I dreamed I saw you carried up to heaven in a golden chariot, surrounded by angels clothed in white and purple. What is that a sign of dear ?" It is a sign of a foul stomach, my dear." Mr. Doughnut—My daughter, the bride." "Most charmed, indeed, I have not yet met your husband- that-is-to-be,—the—ah—groom." Groom, indeed Sir, there is no groom here. No, sir my daughter s't marrying a coachman."

THE ASTON POLITICAL RIOT. At the West Bromwich Police-court on Saturday, before Messrs. J. H. Pearson and William M. Ellis, magistrates, Walter Kirton, engineer, Murdoch-road, Handsworth, appeared in answer to a summons- charging him with inciting William Kirton, printer, to forge tickets in connection with the recent Conser- vative demonstration at Aston. Mr. A. A. Hopkins said he was instructed to prosecute. The prosecution was instituted by the Birmingham Conservative Asso- ciation and Mr. Reeves Smith, the lessee of the Aston Lower Grounds. The defendant was a young gentle- man employed at the works of Messrs. Tangye, Limited), at Soho, and at those works some sort of political organisation existed amongst the employis. On the 13th of October last it had been arranged that there should be a Conservative demonstration at the Aston Lower Grounds. Tickets of admission were to be given away to certain persons, and nobody without; such tickets was to be admitted except on payment of the gate money. The meeting at Aston Lower Grounds was disturbed and broke up in disorder, and the Conservatives believed that many persons gained admission to the grounds by means of forged tickets. He was not at present in a posi- tion to submit evidence of the forgery, but he could give evidence of the attempt by Kirton to get those tickets forged. On October 6 Mr. Walter Kirton wrote a letter to Mr. William Kirton, employed by a firm of printers at Gloucester, asking him if he could print some tickets like those to be used at the Con- servative demonstration. He would be able to prove that that letter was in Mr. Walter Kirton's hand- writing. The Birmingham Conservative Association felt that if gentlemen were to write letters inviting persons to forge tickets of admission to political meet- ings, those gentlemen must be taught that they brought themselves within the four corners of the law. Mr. G R. Smith deposed that in September last he agreed to let the grounds for October 13 to Mr. Barton. It, was arranged that persons who bad tickets should be admitted without payment, but those who had not tickets were to pay sixpence. White tickets were to include free admission to the grounds, and red tickets entitled bearers to reserved seats. William Barton, secretary of the Birmingham Conservative Associa- tion, stated that he caused to be printed a number of tickets for admission from a place specially prepared for the occasion. The signature on the ticket produced was a fac-simile of his signature. He gave orders for 123,500 white tickets to be printed, and personally issued some of the tickets to Liberals who wished to attend. Mr. Pearson, the magistrate, said the Bench were anxious for the political element to be kept out of the case. William Kirton said he was employed by a firm of printers at Gloucester. The defendant was a rela- tive of his, and he knew the handwriting. On the 7th of October he received a letter containing a white ticket for the Conservative demonstration. He handed the letter with the enclosure to Mr. Moore Bayley. The firm did not print any of those tickets. Mr. Young, for the defence, said that if the case was sent before a jury he should admit the young man wrote the letters, but the defendant had not any idea of defrauding any person, for it was only a boyish and foolish freak. In inciting his cousin to print those tickets there was no offence, and it was ridiculous to suggest that he ever contemplated to defraud any- body. Mr. A. A. Hopkins submitted that on the facts before the Bench they were bound, until it was dis- proved, to believe that there was an intention to defraud. Mr. Smith said, in answer to the Bench, that on the day of the demonstration there was over S15 taken in sixpenny piecesr at the gate. Mr. Pearson said the Bench could not see any other course open to them than to commit the defendant to take his trial at the assizes.

MR. RUSKIN ON "PROTESTANTISM; THE PLEASURES OF TRUTH." Mr. Ruskin delivered the fifth of his series of lectures on The Pleasures of England," in the Lecture Theatre, University Museum, Oxford, on Saturday afternoon, the subject being Protestantism; the Pleasures of Truth." He said the space of history in Christendom of which the temper was represented by the changes in architecture and in all other art, and which he proposed to illustrate in that day's lecture, was not definable by the reigns of kings, be- cause it took place in different parts of Scotland, Ire- land, and the Continent, especially Germany, at different times. He could therefore only define it by its character, calling it the period of Protestantism -that was to say, the bearing witness for spiritual truth against manifest falsehood, or the bearing wit- ness against such falsehood in the interests of justice. There were two protests which were absolutely dis- tant, and merely by chance coincident. The first pro- test for the principle of religion was in all countries that properly termed the Reformation; the second protest —that for the right of the subject—was properly called and known in all countries as the Revolution. The Reformation meant, in the summary, John Knox; they could thus always concentrate the regular policy of the mob movement into one man, who was its head —-Luther if they liked, but be liked Knox better. John Knox was the Reformation John Hampden was the Revolution. The one said, I won't be cheated in my religion;" the other said, I won't be taxed in my pocket." It, indeed, happened continually that, the Protestant was fighting at once against lies and taxa- tion. All the beauty of Protestantism they would find embodied by these two great masters, Scott, for English, and Goethe in Continental literature. He read further from the chapter on Divine Right" in St. Mark's Rest," and coming to a description of Venetian maritime enterprise, he stopped, and, referring to our own navy, said we spent about a hundred times more now than we used to spend, upon what he called iron bubbles, which only burst. He had a cousin who went down in the London. There was nothing the matter with it, except that it was made of iron instead of wood by those don- keys who governed such matters. It was not the scarcity of wood which led to the building of iron- clads-not at all; it was the competition of iron- mongers, who got the poor Government-the Govern- ment was honest enough-but the goosefied Govern- ment was hunted down by these ironmongers, and had simply purchased those pretty toys of ironclads that the ironmongers might have something to do. What had taken place? They simply went upside down, and there was nothing so costly -in all naval expenditure as the loss of the London. And what was the reason ? Because it was built of iron. A gale was nothing at all to a wooden ship—Venice would have laughed at it, rejoiced in it. They never heard of a Venetian being upset or making for the shore. Why ? Because they had been broken in to the life of the rough sea. But with the London, she was crossing the Bay of Biscay when it got a little rough; the wind blew the bulwarks down, and down the ship went bodily. The only grand thing connected with it was that the captain, looking over the bulwarks as the last boat was launched, gave the crew their lati- tude and said he would go down with his ship, and be did. Contrast this with our present day seamanship. We thought it something in war, did we ? It was some bombastic blarney — Irish — no, English blarney, because there was always some wit at the bottom of Irish blarney; but English blarney was nothing but a double blunder. Why, what did they do ? They went to fight in the Baltic they knocked their head against Cronstadt and came back again. Cronstadt cared as much for them as for a straw. They next went to Sebastopol; they hurt their head there, but it was glossed over by lies in the papers. Of course they all knew well enough in their hearts that the British fleet got considerably well licked. Why, lately they had been very nearly caught by a few Arabs, and the whole thing that did them credit was the gallant action of young Cochrane, who did more than the whole fleet did. They might say all that was irrelevant, but they did not know of a finer art than shipbuilding, and they would find that out when he set them to draw ships; they were only drawing shells now. Even a draughtsman could not draw two sides of a ship alike nobody but Turner ever did. They might say one of the subjects forbidden to him was political economy; but they would find it would be forced on them all pretty soon. When all the present ships were destroyed (the Government would ask for a loan pretty soon), the new ones would also all go to snap in a very short time. Mr. Ruskin concluded his lecture by reading a passage from Scott's "Lady of the Lake," and ob- served that he found scarcely anybody bad any poems or novels of Scott. Therefore he was going to send them forth by the gross among the schools of Eng- land-not as prizes, but for governesses to give to good girls. He would recommend that the pupils should draw lots for the volumes. The governess might say, Here is a pretty book; I do not know who shall have it, so it shall be drawn by lots." The girl who then got it would choose to whom she should give it away to. That would serve the purposes of a very subtle little moral lecture. The subject of the next lecture will be "Atheism: the Pleasures of Sense.,

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SOCIETY OF ARTS. Sir F. Abel, as chairman of the Council, delivered on Wednesday evening the opening address of the 131st session of the above society. After deferring to the death of Sir W. Siemens on November 19 last year, the chairman referred at some length to the steady progress made during the past year in the appli- cation of the electric light, particularly at the recent Health Exhibition. As an instance of the economical working of a short line of railway by electricity, he quoted the case of the railway at Brighton, which during the past six months has carried about 200,000 pas- sengers, at a cost of 15s. 6d. per diem (100 miles run). Having referred to the efforts made to steor balloons, and to the latest invention in torpedoes, Sir F. Abel pointed out that the Americans are elaborating an application of compressed air to war purposes, viz., the projection by a dynamite gun of gigan- tic shells filled with a violent explosive agent, at a velocity sufficient to ensure accuracy of flight. Although the firing of shells loaded with gun cotton might be accomplished without risk of the shell charge exploding by concussion, there re- mained, he said, several elements of uncertainty in applying such shells, which might at any time jeo- pardise the safety of those using them. Having pointed out the importance of the conferences on various subjects at the Health Exhibition he thought that our hope for radical improvement in the water supply lay rather in the application of some simple mode of chemical treatment to the supply from sources now in use, previous to filtration, rather than in a complete change in our source of supply. The advance made in technical education next claimed attention in the chairman's exhaustive address, which concluded with a brief reference to the approaching International Exhibitions of Inventions, "the pro- saically utilitarian character of which is to be tem- pered by its association with all that is most interest- ing in the history and the later development of music." The society's gold medal was presented to various exhibitors at the Health Exhibition, and the silver medal to the Marquis of Lorne for his paper on Canada." _—.—————

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