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rIlE PROTESTANT CRUSADE. i ^OVSTRE DEMOXSTEATION IN LONDON. A NATIONAL CALL TO ARMS. TLLIEGRA31 DESPATCHED TO THE QUEEX. nnited Protestant demonstration to na-ti0j? and maintain the Protestantism of the lias/ and to demand the suppression of th9 CtCrf,fnd the Confessional in the Established Oil tzrch was held in the Albert-hall, London. ^lie eveil'ng The gathering was under ^ts f ]es the religious societies from all ^'elsh0xr/u^e United Kingdom, including the atA°n' Protestant League and the vrf r°icstant Union. A remarkable iog aL 8 Witnessed outside the colossal build- °c^°ck Kensington between six and seven the entrances were beseiged, the ca.bs, a utlderground railway, the hansom ctargin„ +, omnibuses on the route dis- *0rce of 5rhousands °f Passengers. A small afi(| Metropolitan police was on duty in Sficl tjj the royal portico regulating traffic, ^^rnstijo £ JreS3:are of ticket-holders at the several of prona r* Waf tremendous. A large amount aI)r')Pagandist literature was distributed, and xQtended to illustrate "an impossible 8tabie 1STe, Wa9 scattered freely. Con- ^onetrJ- BuU waa depicted as with a carter, in the Ij'y, dri the Archbishop of Canter- i? a Vehicle g loa.d of vestments and images, t 6 wheei« ?0"se3s'Ei° ocid wheels on one axle, Forbid*^? Scribed, "The Mass as by t8 by Law F,t.K,.and Protestant Church a deenlv fblxsked." The Pope was shown £ °ntained nn 3ted spectator, and the sheet f^op ofRl Quotation from the °°n as the door= 111x11 Congress speech. As fenced to ranirn Were opened the public com- a? ie well know™7 6<?ier tile vast hall, which, ^°it lo.ooo people a^rdS accommodation for ,11 Parts of the hini,i ^okly crowded into number of ^dlng' and a short time a t?. the uppermo^t ^-6 )f6at3, from the platform i*^13 time the bail y> Were occupied. At tl^t a little later tiT3^ not ade<luately lighted, rp}e 0rganist (Mr Tit Was turned up, and IT16 audience t.W Balfour) took his place, fs-niment of th« ^ter filed in to the accom- which cominencedfl™5 of hymns, the first of Christifth^StoensSh" with all thy might; told on i^a^h and Chri £ t tllJ. Ught; Ihy Jo7 and crown ShaU be Tie arri f °Wn eterjially." past John Kensit at twenty ejl £ ausia3tt L, provoked a great outburst of ti, any of th.e audience, including ^eerino. », Pn. the platform, rising and ^t>on +i r" Kensit afterwards took a seat 110 Platform. Several, other hymns 1)^. Sung, and at half-past seven another tjj of cheering proclaimed the arrival of t e chairman and his immediate supporters. a Kinnaird, as chairman, was supported, Sa °Qest others, by Lord Wimborne, Colonel ^ys, M.P., Sir Henry Bemrose, M.P., Lord ertounl Mr. Round. M.P.. Mr. Samuel ty- {th, M.P., Archdeacon Taylor, Prebendary ^at -^r. J. Inskip (Bristol), and Mr. C. \V. Cooke, M.P. Amongst others who Drev Promised to attend, and who were mostly ere Were Mr. J. Bryn Roberts, M.P., Bishop ge> Bishop Dicksee, the Countess of Sea- liyj.' I-ady Wimborne, and Lady Frances A number of nob' men and gentle- oij; ^"rote expressing their sympathy with the tllQ pt °f the demonstration. Those included llej.t7rar(lues3 of Abergavenny, the Marque?s of the Marqtiess of Ailsa, Viscount il.p r> and Mr. W. Abraham ("Mabon"), tl to r° Chairman first called on the Rev. H. Fox Wri,ead a portion of 46th Psalm and to cffer The hymn, "O God, our help in ages followed. It was sung with thrilling v°ice- grand organ accompanying the 4om s of the massed thousands beneath the -^s "viewed from the pre39 circle, the fv"" vvac; a deeply impressive one. ff0ni p^airman then announced a telegram 6feet Aae Bishop of Liverpool, whose name was ed with cheers. Dr. Eyle's message was Syjjj was couched in these words:—"I 9. I Dathi¡;e with you to-night." Next was read 'tb.ietter from the Bishop of Sodor and Man, in tJly ? bis lordship said:—"I write to express *Hee, .arty sympathy with the object of the at Albert-hall. I trust that means devised to purify the Church, and true to itself. I am of opinion tha.t, *"°testant bishop"—(much cheering)—"my y to Et1^ve t°r this object in S 'n ^ave a recognised place." 'etter was being read voices were c^c-aiming, "Where are the other and "Where is London?" .A EECOED TELEGRAM. coinv ^airman in his address said that was H*blned Protest against the secret con- J: which was seeking to promote re-union It waB their intention to fight to Kley H-'1 their Protestant inheritance. (Cheers.) 'ibert not wish to interfere with personal ^Ju- they sp.id that the law must bo Cheers.) The point they had to con- who should uphold the law. (A Voice: anient.") In the first place they looked r1^8^10133" (Laughter, "No, no," and They looked to the bishops to do their ("No, no," and laughter.) They (the the jj ^-e thought everyone would agree, were who had been given the power, and °n^y sorry that they did not exercise it; *'■> eDf°re' they must call upon the Government T 06 the law. (Cheers.) 0n- Secretary, in order that the demon- m'Sht have its right influence in the Hnd with Parliament, related the fol- facts: There were, he said, 10,000 people CillUs 1' and t^ey ^d to reject 5,000 appli- ^t>p0 0r tickets; the demonstration had the or BymPathy of over fifty Protestant ^^th tlons or societies; and the chairman si0n~ e Personal support or had received expres- Nsenf°f resret at not beil1^ able to be from 110 Peere and members of Par- e)nt-. Since four o'clock that afternoon "airman had received no less than 685 ?f t| ms expressing sjnnpathy with the object eliev demonstration, and they had reason to JUg e that Lord Salisbury wa3 hat even- ^Eivareceiving a like number. Those tele- 3 Came from every kind of organisation. vGro Wer-e also telegrams of sympathy from "t d Eome, and Spain (Cheers.) Last, Jb;6 least, the chairman had had a remark- h ^e?ram 'rom Nottingham. The Notting- jj'ranch of the National Protestant League the followirig telegram:—"We, the under- English men and women, loving civil y and freedom of conscience, heartily r>rt your efforts to maintain the grand ■ip). °f Protestantism, to which England owes V>r6 greatness." Attached to the message W r 'f^ names. (Cheers.) The total num- Words was 7,306, and the cost of despatch- ^(J aa "15 ^s- 5d. Tne Postmaster-General k Rifled that that was the longest private °st rm t^at kad ever passed through the There was only one other tele- that he would mention. The Manchester ^tant Thousand telegraphed that they °n ]jQst interviewed Mr. Balfour—(laughter)— ^Wleggness in the Church and the Roman iQ,.yoiic university. He (Mr. Balfour) asked Nla Patience—(laughter)—with the bishops Shter)—before proceeding with the Bill. w- teiogram added: —"The deputation W^~y 1101018 Wlth y°ur meeting. (Cneers.) uti0 Overtoun then moved the following reso- Q:—"That the meeting views with alarm %011 ?°rrow the extensive re-introduction "etern ut 011 r land (1) 'of doctrines, rites, and the ]?°nie5 which were distinctly rejected by tion nf?lish nation at the time of the Reiorma- being Romish inventions contrary to HiCk "°rd; (2) of the sacrifice of masses, "ere then declared to be 'blasphemous v0Unp and dangerous deceits'; (3) of the evils ted with the confessional; and, as the vv-ii?-3 111 io° many cases appear unable or tiiis ? to arrest these mischievous abuses, Qieeting hereby demands that the conduct of public worship by the clergy of the Estab- lished Church shall be brought within the limits imposed by law, and that public patronage be no longer employed for the furtherance of Romish principles." Pastor Cuff seconded the resolution, Mr. Samuel Smith, M.P., in supporting the resolution, said England was waking up to the greatest question which had ever agitated her. The resolution was unanimcusly adopted. TELEGRAM TO THE QUEEN. The Chairman then rose and called on Mr Miller to read a telegram which it was pro- posed to send to her Majesty. It was in the following term.s:- "To her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. "May it please your Majesty,—Ten thousand loyal subjects, now assembled in the Albert- hall, dedicated to ths beloved memory of his Royal Highness the late Prince Consort, humbly pray your Majesty to be graciously pleased to accept a copy of Mr. Walter Walsh's book, entitled 'The Secret History of the Oxford Movement,' and that your Gracious Majesty will be pleased to give to your Prime Minister directions to take the necessary steps in the coming session of Parliament to suppress the Romish practices now in vogue in thousands of churches, as described in the above-named book and to compel the bishop to enforce obedience, to the decisions of your Majesty in Council, which are now being openly violated in every' diocese, and thus to put an end to the anarchy and lawlessness which convulse and distract the National Church of whom your Majesty is the supreme governor, and to redress the in- tolerable grievances of loyal Churchmen who are now crying out from end to end of the land against the tyranny and dishonesty of the Romanising clergy.—Signed on behalf of the meeting, "KINNAIRD (Chairman)." The words of the message drew forth renewed sympathetic manifestations from all parts of the vast assemblage, and when the closing sentence was reached the entire audience rose, waving hats and handerchiefSj and spontaneously gave voice to the National Anthem. "I take it to be your pleasure that the telegram be sent?" the chairman interrogated, and the reply was a great show of approval. Colonel Sandys, M.P., next moved That this meeting is of opinion that legisla- tion is imperatively required (1) to compel obedience to the law, and (2) to give the laity free access to the courts of the realm, and hereby invokes the aid of her Majesty's Government towards the passing of a Bill in order to secure these objects during the ensuing session of Parliament." The Bill they intended to lay before Parlia- ment and ask the Government to support was completed that afternoon. lLoud cheers.) Three bodies had united together, each having their own views, and the Bill now drafted, which was to be called the Church Discipline Bill of 1899, was the result of the united efforts and counsel of those three bodies. It was not too drastic, but it was a very firm measure, and would compel immediate action against any clergyman doing any illegal act. (Cheers.) The Bill would very shortly be public property, and it would be pressed forward by the Pro- testant party in the House of Commons. Mr. John Inskip, who seconded the resolu- tion, said that there was but one alternative in this matter—either the laity must have access into the courts of law, or the laity would enter into the churches. (Loud cheers.) Mr. Austin Taylor Taylor appealed for com- bination on this question. The resolution was then put to the meeting, and carried with acclamation. CHEERS FOR LADY WIMBORNE. Prebendary Webb Peploe moved the third resolution—"That in the opinion of this meet- ing the demand by certain bishops for the cessation of a few extreme Ritualistic practices cannot be considered as satisfying the just requirements of the Protestant laity of Eng- land; that the law and order of the Estab- lished Church should be duly observed and carried out by the clergy thereof, and that what are commonly know;! as the six points should not, as umti.ara-.of ritual, be considered by the bishops in defiance of the ruling of the Queen's courts." Mr. Radcliffe Cooke, M.P., in seconding the resolution, doubted whether the bishops could be trusted. They were too busy courting the scarlet lady—daughter and cheers)—though they did not call it that. Lord Wimborne was next called upon, and a?^^f1?ced. t° speak, but there were loud cries o* Kensit," which lasted some time. The Chairman and the Secretary appealed by motions for silence, but the audience continued to call "Kensit," and Lord Wimborne was unable to speak. At length his Lordship got so far as to remark, "I have only to my a few brief words," when Mr. Kensit, who had been sitting at a corner of the platform, rose and advanced somewhat excitedly. Lord Wimborne at once gave way, and Mr. Kensit was most enthusias- tically received, the audience rising and waving hats and handkerchiefs. At the same moment a gentleman came forward from the opposite corner of the platform, and, addressing Mr Kensit, said, "I implore you not to speak. Do not speak." Both the chairman and Mr. Kensit, however, desired this gentleman to retire, motioning to him to leave the platform, and he did so. Then Mr. Kensit, addressing the audience in tones of subdued excitement, said: —My Lord—My dear friends,—Owing to an arrangement which I consider disgraceful. I am not permitted to speak this evening, cut I shall g'ive in the official report the speech which I intended to deliver. (Cheers.) Will you kindly listen to Lord Wim'oorns? (Cheers.) Lord Wimborne was then able to proceed, and expressed his gratification at standing on the same platform with Mr. Walsh and Mr. Kensit. The methods of Mr. Kensit had been called into question, but he had no other course open than that which he adopted. (Mr. Kensit here called for cheers for Lady Wimborne.) The laity had very little encouragement from the High Church clergy, but the next thing was a Bill before Parliament, and, if not successful, the laity had one more thing-the power of the purse. (Cheers.) They would see that their money was not given to swell the funds of those who were doing the work of Rome. (Cheers.) Lady Wimborne only came into print when unable to avoid it. and she now desired to subsid into the retirement of an ordinary English lady. (Mr. Kensit: "No; we want her," and cheers.) His lordship then proposed a vote of thanks to the chairman. The proceedings ended with the National Anthem and the Benediction.

3IH. BALFOUR) AND THE PROTECTANTS. A DEFENCE OF HIS IRISH UNIVERSITY SCHEME. LAWLESSNESS IN THE CHURCH. PLEA FOR TIME FOR TfiE BISHOPS. At the Carlton Club. Manchester, on Tuesday '-L Mr. Balfour received two deputations—one representing the "Protestant Thousand," wnich embraces many religious denominations in the city, and the other from the Protestant League, which consists mostly of Churchmen. Five speeches were delivered to him, in most of which the revival of extreme Ritualism, and especially of the confessional, in the Church of England was denounced as audacious lawlessness on the part of a, numerous body of the clergy, and in some of which complaint was made ol the position which the right hon. gentleman has taken up regarding Roman Catholic university education in Ireland. One reverend speaker (Mr. Fenwick Ward) predicted the destruction of the Unionist Ministry and party if it adopted Mr. Balfour's views on this latter question, Mr. Balfour said the deputations had lain before him views representing, he believed, a very large and important body of opinion in Manchester, upon two widely divergent sub- jects. One was the subject of university educa- tion in Ireland; the other was the subject of what was now only too properly called lawless- ness in the Church of England. (Hear, hear.) On the first of these subjects he did not find himself in accord with the speakers who had addressed him. On the second, so far as broad principles were concerned, there was no dif- ference between them. One would almost have conjectured from the speech of Mr. Ward that tho recent letter was the first indication he had had of his (Mr. Balfour's) views on the subject of university education in Ireland. But these views had been publicly expressed on the platform and in the House of Com- mons for nearly eleven years, and since he became publicly responsible for them he had gone through two contested general elections. Mr. Ward had said that the proposal was con- trary to our existing principles of legislation. He (Mr. Balfour) must entirely differ from him. The principles of legislation accepted, rightly or wrongly, by Parliament, were embodied in the Tests Acts. The universities conforming to the Tests Acts were such as Oxford. Cambridge, and Trinity College (Dublin), and he entirely denied that a university in Belfast on the prin- ciples he had suggested to meet the needs of the Presbyterians of the North, or a univer- sity in Dublin to supply the needs of our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects, were in any way divergent in principle from the three universities he had spoken of, whose confor- mity with the provisions of the Tests Acts was universally admitted. He was told by Mr. Ward that this fancy of his. that Roman Catholics could not find, or could not be expected to find, fitting education witain the walls of a university whose atmosphere was so prevailingly Protestant as that of Trinity College, Dublin, was disposed of by the fact that Lord Russell of Kilowen was educated at Trinity College, and the Marquess of Bute at Oxford or Cambridge. [Lord Bute was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford.—Ed. "W. M."] Mr. Ward could hardly expect him to treat that argument seriously. In the letter he had published, he had put the plain ques- tion whether Protestant parents of Protestant children would send their sons to a Roman Catholic university—that is to say, a univer- sity Roman Catholic in the sense that Trinity College. Dublin, was Protestant. Until Mr. Ward and others answered that question directly, he should continue to think that Roman Catholics were justified in feeling a natural reluctance to do so. Ho had been told by Mr. Ward, or one of the other speakers, that the plea, he put forward, that Protestants should cxpect education, would further the spread of liberal considera- tions of religion and other things on the part of Roman Catholics. That was a plea con- tradicted by history, because persons were to be found, eminent in literature, in art, and even in science, who, in spite of the higher education, had, nevertheless, remained what Mr. Ward had described as bigotted Roman Catho- lics to the end of their lives. Another speaker, M" Spencer, had said that the Nonconformists, for whom he spoke, were strongly opposed to this proposal. Well, the great mass of the Nonconformists had supported Mr. Gladstone's Home Rule Bill, and that Bill permitted the erection of just such a university as that which he now proposed for the Roman Catholics. while it made no provision for any university being granted by the Roman Catholic majority in Ireland to the Protestant minority. He could not feel, therefore, that the Noncon- formists who were Home Rulers had really any locus standi upon this question. It had been indicated to him by both the speakers whom he had named, and not obscurely hinted, that in taking up this question as he had done now for eleven years, he was performing an act extremely foolish in a polltician-(hear. hear) —and that he was injuring his political pros- pects. (Hear, hear.) It had even been said that he was injuring the party to which he belonged. (Hear, hear.) In regard to the party. he would say that, as a party, it was in no sense committed to the views he held, that the narty organisation was not employed to carry those views into effect, that no party whip had been, or ever could be, used in furtherance of those opinions, and, therefore, that he failed to see how the party was interested. As far as he was concerned, it was a matter of indiffe- rence to him whether he remained in public life. 'But it was not a matter of indifference to him that, remaining in public life, he should be prevented from expressing, even against his own interests, views which he conscientiously held. (Cheers.) He quite recog- nised the duty under which any party leader lay to the party to which he belonged; but if his duties were held to carry with them the obligation to keep silent even when his conscience moved him to speak, if they carried with them the necessity of not exercising his mind independently even on questions which he thought affected his party—if, in other words, when a question was presented to him in which he though his Protestant friends were making a mistake injurious to Protestantism and his Unionist friends were making a mistake injurious to Unionism, then, he said, if his connection with the party was to pledge him to keep silent, it seemed to him the position of a party leader was one that no self-respecting man would for a moment undertake. He now came to what was a question still more impor- tant. He accepted as a most unhappy fact that at this moment there were in certain churches practices going on which were contrary to the law of the Church of England. (Hear, hear.) He entirely concurred that that state of things was a danger to the Church, was a danger to religion, and was in itself highly objection- able. It was not right that those belonging to the Church should violate the law, but he was glad to notice that nothing had fallen from any of the speakers reflecting upon the personal character of the offenders, who were men of even exemplary piety and self-devotion Nevertheless, they were attempting to alter the centre of gravity in the Church of England. Some of the methods by which they were making that attempt were directly against the law of the Church of England, and it was equally beyond doubt that, by some means or other, those violations of the law of the Church of England should be put an cad to. (Cheers.) But, while the deputation and he were agreed as to the end to be attained, there was some divergence as to the means by which m the immediate future it should be reached The deputation was clearly of opinion that Parliament sh6uld at once intervene. (Hear hear.) He doubted whether the members of the deputation were well advised in that view because he thought they bad too soon despaired of the constitutional action of the bishops ?l >r .they OUE?ht to give the bishops (A Voice: "They have had it.") Sir ^tha^tSTV Caidi aS 116 ,Mr' Balfour) deal w *h li! ^°PS h/d a"ffic:ent power to deal wi.h the evil, and concluded that we must be convinced that the bishops either had not the will or the power to do their duty before we forced upon them any fresh LgislX tive prerogatives. Churchmen should nS be drawn into any course which would alienate the sympathies of those who agreed S them. The great body of the High Church party were as opposed to lawlessness in the Church or to those Ritualistic exce-=es as were the Evangelical party. The Hi»h Church party hnd as much right to be in the Church as any other. Let them be careful that the lovers of law, who belonged to all sections of ecclesiastical opinion, were permitted to act together as one united body in this matter Let them have the bishops to use the great powers which they possessed to enforce discipline. The bishops had clearly indicated their unanimous desire to see the law obeyed. It was only common fairness and common policy that they should have time to carry out the line of action which they had commenced themselves to carry out. The deputation thanked the right hon. gentle- man for receiving them, and then withdrew.

SIR W HARCOCRT AND THE RITUALISTS, PROPOSED PROTESTANT PLAN OF CAMPAIGN. SUGGESTED STOPPAGE OF CHURCH SUPPLIES. In Monday's "Times" Sir William Harcourt returned once more to the attack on ritualism, and is very severe on the bishops for omitting "to correct and punish the disobedient by the authority committed to them in the Ordinances of the Realm." He thinks that the time has arrived when the laity, "who are the Church," should organise themselves, and take the matter in hand earnestly and unitedly and firmly. In order to show the mischief that is being done, Sir William quotes the fol- lowing words of the late Dean Hook, once vicar of Leeds:—"Calumniators of the Church of England and vindicators of the Church of Rome; palliating the vices of the Romish system and magnifying the deficiencies of the Church of England; sneering at everything Anglican and admiring everything Romish; students of the breviary and missal, disciples of the schoolmen, insinuating Romish senti- ments, circulating and republishing Romish works; introducing Romish practices in their private and infusing a Roman tone into their public devotions; in- troducing the Romish confessional. en- joining Romish penances, adopting Romish prostrations, recommending Romish litanies; assuming sometimes the garb of the Romish priesthood and venerating without imitating their celibacy; defending Romish miracles and receiving as true the lying legends of Rome: almost adoring Roman saints and complaining that we have no saints in England since we purified our Church; explaining away the idolatry and pining for the mariolatry of the Church of Rome; vituperating the English Reformation and receiving for true the false doctrines of the Council of Trent; whispering in the ears of credulous ignorance, in high places aa well as low, that the two Churches are in principle the same." These words were written at the time the late Dr. Pusey estab- lished a mission in Dr. Hook's parish in Leeds. Sir William proceeds to point out the lines on which the laity should conduct the cam- paign. The following are the first steps that should be taken. 1. To draw up and circulate among the laity a schedule of practices already pronounced illegal by the courts or condemned by the bishops. 2. To obtain reports from vigilance com- mittees in different localities upon "malprac- tices" prevailing in the several places of wor- ship 3. To bring thess reports to the notice of the bishops, and to demand action on their part, or, failing that, to obtain power for laymen to prosecute. 4. To obtain authentic reports on publica- tions circulated among thB congregations, and more especially among the children -W thb Church schools of each diocese. Sir William dwells sneciallv on the ppucd of getting responsible men and trustworthy re- ports. There is m mcst cases not lnittch diffi- culty about the reports. All the prances and most of the literature complained-'of are already sufficiently well known. The difficulty is that moderate people who carry weight, and are ths strongest opponents of ^extreme ritualism, prefer, as a rule, to stand aloof from organisations of this kind, which usually fall into the hands of extreme partisans who carry little weight. '? Sir William thinks that the expense neces- sary to carry on the extensive campaign thus mapped out would be forthcoming from the laity. To still further prod the bishops to activity. Sir William in the last place urges the application of the following policy:— There is.another remedy which is already in operation, .perhaps the most efficient of all. It is the constitutional remedy that "redress of grievance should precede supply." I have the means of knowing—what the bishops know still better—that already to a considerable extent subscriptions for Church purposes have fallen off owing to "the troubles in the Church." I saw a public statement to that effect. I think. in an appeal by Lord Egerton of Tatton. Nothing will bring conviction more home to the ecclesiastical mind than this poetical evi- dence of the mistrust and dissatisfaction of the laity. There are many people who will not open their purses to schools where the children are taken to Mass or reared in the confes- sional; who will not patronise theojfe&ical col- leges where the unroformed doctrnifc is incul- cated, which are. in fact, Romanising semi- naries; who will not contribute tb diocesan funds or additional curates or otlrsr ecclesias- tical endowments until they have. the assu- rance which they do not now possess that the money will be appropriated for the support of the Church to which they are attached and will not find its way to those whojtfe working to destroy i\ It mas' be said that this will operate hardly upon innocent people as well as upon the guilty. That is the consequence of aU great public misdemeanours. But it will have, at least, this wholesome effect—that it will make it the interest of the sufferers to sneak out and use their influence, which h83 hitherto been, unfortunately, wanting, to dis- avow and deter the men whos'3 conduct is pro- ducing consequences which are fatal to the welfare of the Church as a whole. This is a practical argument which is likely to carry quite as much weight as the most elaborate theological discourse or the best composed epis- copal pastoral. The reasonable and law-abid- ing clergy will decline to allow tGemselves to he disestablished and disendowed for the sake of the transgressors with whose misconduct they have no sympathy.

Mi, JOHN KEN SIS AT CARDIEF, ï VIGOROUS ATTACK ON THE RITUALISTIC CLERGY. Mr. John Kensit on Wednesday paid his second visit to Cardiff, and in the evening, in Wood-street Chapel, delivered a lecture in answer to the query as to why he is a Protes- tant. Half the proceeds were to pe devoted to the Wycliffe Preachers' Fund. There was a crowded attendance, and the proceedings were opened with prayer. Mr. Clifford Cory, who presided, expressed regret at the death of the great Non- conformist divine, Dr. Berry, and, pass- ing on to allude to the object im- mediately in view, said the present was or ly one of many such meetings in the country. Many people at first blamed Mr. Kensit for his methods, but the speaker never did, because he failed to see -*{i £ t. oth' r method was opea to him. It must have been a. proud moment for Mr. Kensit at the great meeting in the Albert-hall, London, on the previous evening to find that he himself was the one object of greatest interest, and that a peer of the realm, to his credit, was on the same platform. (Applause.) It might be said that Nonconformists had no right to discuss Church of England matters, but he did not admit that argument. They were all members of the Church of England, whether they would or not, so long as that Church was by law established. So long as national funds were employed for the furthe- rance of Romish principles they had a distinct right to object. (Applause.) He (the speaker) was the largest landowner in the parish in which he lived, and. presumably, he paid the most tithes, and, therefore, he had a valid right to object to pay tithes to carry on prac- tices to which he objected. (Applause.) Mr. Kensit, who was received with ringing cheers, first expressed the pleasure he felt at the efforts recently put forth in Cardiff in vindication of free speech. At his last meet- ing in the town a Romanist, or, probably, a sham Ritualist, in front of the platform opened a bottle of chemicals with a horrible odour, which some gentlemen were accus- tomed to in the smoking pots used in the churches. (Laughter.) The Protestant re- action, he was glad to say, was setting in rapidly, and the reason for his not speaking at the great meeting in London was entirely due to underhanded trickery, which, for the sake of the cause, he would not say much about. Many people were sorry he was not permitted to speak, and the first letter he opened that morning was from a very dis- tinguished nobleman, whose name he could not mention, enclosing a cheque for jEloo in aid of the work. (Applause.) He had also received a number of smaller cheques with the same object. In a vigorous attack upon the Ritualistic clergy, Mr. Kensit described them as sham ministers and conspirators, who. through deliberate trickery, had deceived many thousands—largely through the schools-during the past 40 years, '.L fie only doctrine those High Anglican Dissen- ters had not re-introduced was the infallibility of the Pope, and, personally, he would prefer such to the infallibility of some little curate or vicar. (Applause.) He longed for the time when they would have to go to museums to see those petticoat vestments and the effigies of the men who wore them. (Applause.) Even in Cardiff churches men and women bowed down to baker's bread, which he denounced as a form of superstition worse than heathe- nism. (Applause.) Those Ritualists made their God and ate Him; the heathen also made their god, bui; never -ate him. (Laughter.) Decrying the confessional as practised in the Church of England, he said some disapproved of his methods, but it was time they ridiculed such rubbish, and he specially took exception to what he described as a fact. that young laè.;es preferred as confessors the young curates to the old vicars. (Laughter.) The Bishop of Bangor, he had been informed, was an Evan- gelical. Well, if so, more shame to him than if he were a sacerdotalist to appoint as his examining chaplain the Vicar of Holyhead, who, as a member of the English Church Union, was pledged to bring back the mass and the confessional. (Applause.) He found he had the power to stop the election of bishops. When he made his protest, two years ago, against the Bishop of London's confirmation they sent a policeman to lock him up, but when the policeman came he forgot himself and joined in the cheering. (Laughter.) They were now more respectful, and the Bishop of London, laying his hands on some "queer sticks," looked up, as much as to say, "Please, Mr. Kensit, don't interrupt." (Laughter and applause.) The bishop would have to do his duty now, and he was determined to follow him up. (Applause.) Referring to his protest on the occasion of the confirmation of the Bishop of Bangor, Mr. Kensit went on to say that he then learnt what he had not known before, that if he wished he could take the case to the courts. Well, when the opportunity next presented itself, he would not only protest, but say "Yes; whatever it costs, I will take it to the courts, and I know the public will pay the cost." (Applause.) Coming to another matter in which in the near future he is likely to figure prominently, Mr. Kensit pointed out that in a few weeks, unless they could stop it, a crucifix 9ft. long would be carried in front of processions at services in St. Paul's, the great national cathedral. ("Shame.") Mr. Kensit produced an illustration of the said crucifix, the exhibition of which created quite an uproar, which was intensified when thi lecturer spoke of the image as indi- cating rank Popery, and declared that all in favour of the abominable thing, if they pre- ferred Romanism, should go straightway to Rome. (Applause.) The Bishop of London, he knew, was trembling for fear of the action he (Mr. Kensit) would take. and he might say that if this image was carried in firont of the bishop he (Mr. Kensit) would get up and say, Take that abominable thing out of God's house." (Applause.) He had been informed that he would be given in charge and locked-up. He hoped that would be so. and that they would give him a month, and then 100,000 Eng- lishmen would know the reason why. (Ap- plause.) Speaking as a Conservative, he main- tained that they should put Protestantism in the first place and politics in the second. (Ap- plause.) At East Manchester he had been asked to fight Mr. Balfour. (Applause.) Lord Salis- bury had appointed Romabisere-bishops and I other dignitaries—and that would have to be stopped. (Applause.) While thanking Sir Wm. Harcourt for his letters, he disagreed with one sentence in his last, in which he suggested that the bishops should have more time. The speaker would give them more rope. (Laughter and applause.) They could see the evils of Ritualism in certain parishes in Cardiff, and it was time the Bishop of Llandaff or the parishioners took action (Applause.) He hoped they would take up the cudgels and demand that the mass, the confes- sional, and other rubbish should be cleared out of the churches. (Applause.) The meeting lasted until close upon half-past ten, and concluded with the adoption of a ievo- lution, proposed by the Rev. W. Spurgeon and seconded by Alderman H. Cory, suggesting that legislation was immediately and imperatively required to compel the C'C1'6:" to be faithful to their ordination vows; or, failing that that i law be passed to deprive such clergy of their livings. The meeting began, was carried through, and closed with enthusiasm.

MYSTERIOUS THAGEDY AT E UilY, SENSATIONAL DISCOVERY IN A HOTEL. A tragedy occurred at Bury on Sunday morn- cc ing, and is at present shrouded in mystery. On Saturday night a lady and gentleman arrived at the Derby Hotel in Eury, and engaged a room. The gentleman spoke broken English, and appeared nervous as he wrote "Mullcr and Co." in the visitors' hook. They j were shown to their room by the chamber- maid. Whilst their travelling-bags were being brought in the gentleman asked the barmaid to direct him to a chemist's shop. She did so. and the couple went out together. Later the gentleman ordered a decanter of brandy and several bottles of Schweppe's waters, lie also directed that lie and his friend should not be disturbed very early next morning, as they were fatigued with much travelling. Nothing further was heard of them, and at two o'clock in the afternoon a page-boy entered the room, and found the pair in bed, clasped in each other's arms, quite dead. On searching the room the police found that the deceased, who were appa- rently in good circumstances, had endeavoured to hide their identity by destroying marks on their portmanteau and linen, but the letters "J. K." were found on the gentleman's handkerchief, and tho letters "1Ir. R." on some of the lady's linen. There was also a portrait of a lady taken in Paris, and some gold and diamond jewellery. A letter wa< found con- taining some money, and stating that they had travelled, and that it was no use trying to ascertain who they were. They had agreed to die together, and directed that the money left should be used for burial expenses, the pay- ment of their bill, and if anything was left it was to he given to the poor. bottle contain- ing poison and some headache pcwder3 and capsules were in the room, as well as the pro- gramme of a London music-hall. Both are of dark complexion, the man, apparently, about 35 years of age and the woman about 30. On Tuesday morning the Bury police received a telegram announcing that the address of Mr. Knight, who is supposed to have been one of the victims of the hotel tragedy there, was "Fendrachtaweg, 16, Rotterdam," and that his office was "Zuidblaak, 43, Rotterdam." Messrs. Kerslake and Dixon, tailors, of London, state that Mr. John Knight, of the Bury hotel tragedy, was an insurance broker, and that he and his brother, Mr. Edward Knight, were the principal partners of the firm of Messrs Knight and Co.. carrying on business at Zuidblaak, Rotterdam. The de- ceased was about 35 years of age, and re-ided with his parents at Eendrachtaweg, Rotterdam, but he often visited England on business. He was a man of fine physique and of striking figure. He possessed an extremely genial dis- position, and was popular with all who knew him, and is stated to be the last person one would expect to commit self-destruction. PATHETIC LETTER READ AT THE INQUEST. The inquest on the couple was opened at Bury on Tuesday afternoon. The Coroner intimated that it would be necessary to adjourn the inqnest pending the result of the inquiries now being prosecuted on the Con- tinent. Evidence was given as to the arrival of the couple at the hotel on Saturday. On retiring they requested not to be disturbed. Early on the following morning no answer was given to a knock at the door, and an entry was obtained by the bedroom window, when the couple were found in bed. apparently dead, clasped in each other's arms. The chambermaid said she noticed the parties on good terms with each other. Some papers had apparently been burnt on the fire. A railway porter deposed to collecting two third-class tickets, Euston to Bury, from the deceased on Saturday about eight p.m. The following letter was found on the dress- ing-table:— To the Coroner for the Inquest.—We die of our free will, and for a supreme request we ask to be quietly buried together. We enclose JE10 for our burial. What is left will be in favour of the poor, also the proceeds of our luggage. P-ease do not remove the bracelet, the earrings, and the rings, as we want not to be separated of them. Inquiries about who we are are useless, as we have been travelling too long. If accidentally later on the truth would be discovered, it is still our wish—and that cannot be refused to the dead—that our corpses should not be separated. We want to sleep the long sleep where we are now, and where we have come to find at last a loving rest. Of course, the names in the hotel register are not correct. We further enclose E3 for the hotel till. What is left pleise give it to the poor:" Superintendent Noblett said that he had no doubt that the man would be found to be John Knight, of Rotterdam. He had made inquiries of the police there, but there was no reply yet. He publicly thanked the press for the assistance rendered the police. Dr. Mitchell expressed the opinion that the couple had been dead about twelve hours when he saw the bodies on Sunday afternoon. He attributed both deaths to prussic acid poisoning. The inquest was adjourned for a fortnight, but in the meantime, if the relatives are forthcoming, the jury would be called together immediately. The Bury police on Tuesday evening received a telegram confirming the belief that the man found dead with a lady in a hotel was a Mr. J. Knight, who had acted as Turkish and Belgian Consul at Rotterdam. He was a single man, and had been in England on business.

T'RE PO'ULETT PEiEiRAGE, The Press Association says:—Mr. G. H. Hall, of 3, Warwick-court, London, who has for many years acted as solicitor to the senior claimant to the Poulett title and estates, on Friday saw the solicitors on the other side in reference to his client's case. Hitherto he has been in a measure free to discuss a matter of public interest, and has courteously con- sented to give any information respecting the history of the Poulett family, so long as this was not regarded as inimical to his client's interest. Now that the parties have come to close quarters the case is different, and. both sides are agreed that it is advisable to withhold further information for the present. In this circumstance it is not possible to verify or otherwise test the report that a compromise has been arrived at. The Press Association is in a position to state that in at least one inte- rested quarter the notion of compromise was entertained from the first, but it is understood that this readiness applied merely to the ques- tion of the estate. The desire was to avoid the impoverishment of an estate already reduced in value, supposing a perusal of the re-settle- ment deeds had the effect of establishing the conviction that there was any room for contest. Should it transpire that a contest at law is unavoidable, it is confidently believed that the senior claimant will have no lack of moral and material support in prosecuting his suit.

OLD AGE PENSIONS. A meeting of the visiting committee of the Cardiff Board of Guardians was held on Tues- day afternoon for the purpose of considering the suggestions sent down by several members of the House of Commons upon the subject of old-age pensions. After a long and desultory discussion, the committee decided that it was more a question for experts, but expressed most favour for the "suggestion No. 4," in favour of giving authority to the Poor-law authorities to deal with the matter, but with greater powers of discretion than they have at present. The committee also expressed the opinion that the old-age pensions should be a distinctly State affair, and that recipients should not be disfranchised.

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SUDD EX DEATH OF THE REV. DR. EERny. WHILE CONDUCTING A FUNERAL SERVICE. THE REV. CHARLES A. BERRY, D.D. photo by Vhitloek Bros., Wolverhampton. The Press Association Wolverhampton corre- spondent telegraphs that the Hev. ;)r. Berry, of Wolverhampton, fell dead while conducting a funeral service at Bilston, Staffordshire, on Tuesday. The Press Association adds:—A later message states that the Rev. Dr. C. A. Berry had only resumed his duties three weeks ago, after a long and dangerous illness, which, it was believed a couple of months ago, would nave had a fatal termination. His strength had. howevtT, only partially returned, and. except to preach once each Sunday, he was not per- mitted to perform duties calculated to in- terfere with his complete recovery. On Monday he h'11 a sharp seizure, whilst attend- ing a meeting at Wolverhampton, but ap- peared none the worse for it in a few minutes. On Tuesday he had arranged to conduct the funeral of Dr. Totherick, an old friend, at Bilston, and it was whilst the body was being interred that the deceased fell and expired. Deceased, who was about 47 y:ars of age. was pastor of the Queen-street Congregational Church, Wolverhampton, which position he took up in 1883 He was elected chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales for the year 1897, and was first president of the National Council of the Evangelical Free Church. Dr. Berry, who declined many calls, including an invitation to succeed the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in America, was the author of several publications. At the Cardiff Free Church Council on Tues- day night the Chairman (the Rev. J. M. Jones) said the death of the Rev. Dr. Berry. first president of the Free Church Congress, would be a very great loss to the whole Christian world.—The Rev. J. Williamson moved a reso- lution expressing high appreciation at the life and work of Dr. Berry and of condolence with his Church and family. He could not, he said, adequately express the loss they had sustained.—The Rev. W. E. Winks seconded, and the resolution was adopted by those present rising to their feet. At a meeting of the deacons of Queen-street Chapel, Wolverhampton. on Wednesday, it was arranged for the funeral of Dr. Berry to take place on Saturday, when a memorial service will be held in that place of worship, and will probably be conducted by Dr. Guinness Rogers or Dr. H. R. Horton.

STRANGE AFFAIR IX! MID- CHANNEL. ENGLISH CREW THREATENED BY FRENCH SAILORS. Details of an extraordinary affair in mid- Channel were supplied on Monday at Brighton by John Cohen, the captain of the fishing lugger Elizabeth, of Shoreham. The Elizabeth. a vessel of ten tons, left Shoreham Harbour on Tuesday last, in charge of Cohen and two other fishermen. James Rolf and George Thwnites. On Thursday morning the French trawler, L'Ogre, of Boulogne, seventy tons, ran into her, and the two drifted side by side for half a mile. The Shoreham crew, believing their vessel to be seriously damaged, prepared to jump on to the deck of the French trawler. The crew f the latter, however, endeavoured to prevent them doing so, and the Englishmen had to break through them, and struggle on to the deck of their vessel. The Frenchmen, although evidently hostile, made no interference until thue o'clock in the afternoon. The English skipper implored the Frenchmen to take him and his comrades to land, but the French captain refused, and said that he and his men intended to throw the Englishmen over- board, rnd knock ihem on the head if they swam. Rolf, one of the Shoreham men, begged for mercy for the sake of his wife and six children, and the mate of the French vessel at once stood apart from the discussion in which his comrades were engaged, and promised to stand by the strangers. On the following morning—the men having lived through a night of horrible suspense—the English captain was asked if he and his mates would take up their .own lugger again if they were towed to it, for the vessel had not yet sunk. Cohen and his mates refused, as it was proposed to take them off in a small and unseaworthy boat, and eventually the French captain towed the damaged lugger off Shoreham Harbour, and there put her men on board, and left them to struggle To land as best they could. The English captain says that the affair took place within fifteen miles of the English Coast, off Brighton, and gives it as his opinion that if the lugger had sunk the Frenchmen would have thrown them overboard. He would not go through such an experience again for any con- sideration. He and his mates were worn out with excitement, and only got to land after being at sea for four or five days. The men speak in strong terms of the conduct of the EVench D3hcrmcn. and say that it is a common thing for the English sailors to have their nets cut.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. APPEAL BY THIE DUKE OF: DEVONSHIRE. The Centval News says that a well-attended meeting of influential gentlemen was held on Tuesday afternoon at Devonshire House. Lon- don, under the presidency of the Duke of Devonshire, the Chancellor, to consider the financial position of Cambridge University. The Chairman made a very interesting speech, in the course of which he said that an erroneous traditional belief was general that Cambridge Diversity haa ample endowments. Even during the present generation the university, as dis- tinct from college teaching, had undergone an immense expansion, and the revenue had at the best been stationary, and in some instances had diminished. The university was deficient in buildings, ani it was crippled in the provision of the necessary educational staff. In fact, some of their distinguished graduates were carrying on the work gratui- tously or at perfectly inadequate remunera- tion. He trusted that they would not have to call in the aid of Parliament. About £ 500,000 was required. He intimated that he would subscribe £ 10,000, and Lord Rothschild said his firm would give a similar amount. It was decided to form an association to further the objects of the meeting.

41st REGIMENTAL DISTRICT. Colonel J. O. Quirk, C.B., D.S.O., half-pay, late 1st. Welsh Regiment, has taken over the com- mand of the 4lst Regimental District at Car- diff, in the place of Colonel H. B. MacCall, C.B., appointed Deputy-adjutant-general of the Army of the Punjab. Colonel Quirk, who com- manded his battalion for use years, was placed upon half-pay in April last, so may be consi- dered extremely lucky in having been elected for re-employment so early. He is. however, an extremely smart officer, and, having in view the fact that the regimental district has not been commanded by an officer of the terri- torial regiment for many years past. it was decided to give him the first offer. Under the age clause, he can complete his full period of five years, but there is every likelihood of his receiving a far. more important post at no late date.

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THE WINTRY WEATHER. FIRST OF THE SEASON'S SKATINCa FATALITIES. Ten degrees of frost was registered in North "Tales on Saturday, and every available sheet of water was crowded with skaters. In the afternoon a sudden thaw set in, and in many places The ice gave way, immersing skaters, who had narrow escapes. Snow fell in several parts of Beds and South Bucks on Saturday morning, and the frost continued to be severe. All the flooded lands are frozen over, affording some good skating. Hunting- has been entirely suspended. The flooded surfaces on the low-lying pas- toral lands of North Lancashire are ice-bound, and thousands of people were on Saturday morning enjoying themselves on extensive areas of glass-like surface. On Saturday night two lads, named Burges3 and Smith, aged eleven and ten years respec- tivtly, were drowned while sliding on a mill- pond near Carrickfergus. The former got out safely after the ice broke, but gallantly returned to the assistance of the yxmnger lad. At Northwich. between four and five o'clock on Saturday night, a number of people were skating- on Newman's Pit, which is a large and treacherous hole formed by subsidence, when the ice broke, and two young men, named Sidney ^Alcock and Arthur Whitehead, of Castle Northwich, were precipitated into the water. Whitehead was immersed to the chin, but James Knowles, of Chimmington, a chemical worker, approached the hole, and, despite cracking ice. effected his rescue with a strap and cord. Alcock, who sank to his arm pits, also escaped. At Burnley on Saturday afternoon two boys, named respectively Daniel Dixon, aged six- teen. son of Elijah Dixon, a weaver, and Harry Hartley, aged nine, were drowned in Pleasant* ford Reservoir. They were skating with about fifty others, when the ice suddenly gavt way, and four of those on the ice were im- mersed. Two of them were rescued amid scenes of great excitement. The ice was little more than an inch thick. The bodies of two men were on Sunday recovered from a lartre reservoir at Havdock, near St. Helens, where they had been skating. While men with grapplers were at work look- ing for Dominic Corcoran, aged twenty, who it was known had gone through 1lie ice. they were astonished to find also the body of James Butler, aged 29. who must have gone under the previous evening. At an inque-t at Sledmere Castle on the bodies of the two boys drowned whilst sliding on a pond the evidence showed great bravery on the part of Annie Healar.d, a domestic ser- vant at the castle. Two boys and one girl were immersed beneath the ice. Healaud plunged in and saved the life of Annie Lathom. sister of one of the boys. She then brought up one of the boys, but he fell out of her arms and perished. The jury, in recognition of her bravery, gave the girl a sovereign. A Central News telegram from New York on Wednesday save :-A telegram from Vancouver to the "Sun" states thlt a snow-slide has occurred on the Canadian-Pacinc line neai TIoeer; Pas; Seven riilwaymen were entombed, and it is believed they are all killed. DROWNED THROUGH FOG IN SCOTLAND. The dense fog still prevails in Scotland, and navigation on the Clyde and Forth is practi- cally at a standstill. Numerous fatalities have taken place through people walking into watei by mistake, and railway traffic has been greatly disorganised. At Port Dundas a man walked over the canal bank, and later a boy fell ic at almost the same spot, and before they could be descried were drowned. A labourer stepped into the canal at Garnethill, but he was rescued. At Glasgow Harbour two Custom House officers were walking along the quay. They both stepped into the harbour. One saved himself by clutching a crane chain, but the other, Thomas Odeer, was drowned. Cries of distress were heard in the Queen's Dock, but owing to the fog nothing could be done. A large number have had narrow escapes through walking accidentally into the water.

MOXMOUTHSHIRIE! TRAGEDY, "STORY OF A SCHOOLMASTER'S SAD DEATH. Mr. M. Roberts-Jones, the coroner for Soutt Monmouthshire, held an inquiry at the police station, Machen, on Wednesday touching the sad death of Mr. Edward Connor, schoolmaster, aged 58 years. Mr. Gilbert William Harding, superintendent of the Industrial Schools, Caerieon. identified the body, and said he last saw Mr. Connor alive at 4.50 p.m. on Sunday, when he left Caerleon for Newport by train. He had been at Caerleon from 1.50. Deceased's practice on Sundays, when he visited Caerleon. was to go from Newport to Risca by the 5.30 p.m. train. and walk across the mountain to Machen. Deceased told witness that he knew every yard of Machen Mountain, and was not afraid of walking it at any time. The Coroner: Do you know that he had not walked the mountain on a winter's night for twelve months? Witness: No, I don't know that. He had walked it in the summer very frequently. The Coroner: Do you know that his memory or his intellect was fai-in," Witness: No; his memory and his intellect were as strong as ever, and so also was hit general health, which was very robust. The Coroner: What do you think wat the cause of the accident?—He must hav< missed the locality by about fifty- yards, got over the fence, and fell down the embankment on to the railway near Macher Limekilns. The Coroner: Do you think he died fron. exposure or from the shock?—Witness: Oh, from the shock, I should think. He fell a sheer I distance of 23ft. without anything to break the fall. The embankment is of rock, and tS quite perpendicular. The Coroner: What marks were there about the body?—Witness: There was a mark on the right temple. Mr. William Henry Duffield stated that about 7.30 on Sunday evening he was showing two women who had missed their path the way to Church Road, when deceased, attracted by the light of the lantern, shouted, Where am I?" Witness accompanied him for some distance and pointed out the way to Machen. He told deceased not to cross near the limekilns. The night was very dark and misty. Edward Davies, platelayer, spoke to finding the body on the Brecon and Merthyr "a. 11 way about seven o'clock on Monday morning. Police-constable James found that the watch in deceased's pocket had stopped at 1.10. Tha jury returned a verdict of Accidental death." For the present the boys' school at Machen is closed, as it is without either headmaster or assistant master. The bandmaster of the Grenadier Guards, Mr. Albert Williams (who succeeded Mr. Dan Godfrey), has promised ro attend the funertl to-day (Thursday), Mr. Connor having been one of the earliest tutors in band music.

ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER AT LLANELLY. At the Llanelly Town-hall on Monday John Evans and Ann Evans, of Seren, Cwmfelin, were brought up before Mr. Ernest Trubshaw and Mr. Robert Margrave, on a coroner's warrant, charged with the manslaughter of their infant d4ughter. Mr. Howell prosecuted for the police, defendants being represented by Mr. Arthur R. M. Samuel. The facts have already been reported. The hearing lasted for nearly eight hours, and the Bench ultimately com- mitted the two defendants for trial to the next Carmarthen Assizes. Bail was accepted in two sureties of L25 and one of £50 in themselves.

SUICIDE AT ABE.RBEEG. The district coroner held an inquiry at Aber- beeg on Wednesday afternoon into the circum. stance attending the death of Matthew Tipper 47 years of age, employed as a collier, whe committed suicide by hanging himself on Sun. day- The unfortunate man had been aii inmate of an asylum for eighteen years, and had only recently been allowed home. Hf: had appeared very strange for the last few ) days, and a close observation was constantly kept over him.