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MEWS JN BRIEF. The railway companies have reduced the ireightage for fruit from Kentish growers to the London markets by 20 per cent. A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office tt noon on Saturday, the Minister* sitting until rwo o'clock, A slight explosion of gas occurred at the Melyn finworks on Saturday evening at 830. The damage done is not of a very serious nature. By a fire at No. 31, Woodfield-place, Harrow- road, London, on Saturday night. Mrs. Diana Elements, an elderly woman, was burnt to death. London was enshrouded in darkness for some lours on Tuesday morning owing to thick fogwhich lung overhead, giving the appearance of Novem- ber weather. Artificial light had to be used. At Lewes Assizes on Saturday Mr. Justice Field tentenced Richard Goodhew to twenty years' )enal servitude for savagely attacking a woman with whom he lived, and cutting her ear asunder. Among the undergraduates who will take part in the forthcoming representation of Alcestis at Oxford is Mr. Disraeli, of New College, the son of Mr. Ralph Disraeli, and the late Lord Beaconsfield's heir. Penninghame House, near Newton Stewart, the seat of Mr. Edward Heron Maxwell Blair, was almost totally destroyed by fire on Sunday night, many pictures and other valuable articles being burnt. A fearful triple murder and suicide was com- mitted on Monday at Zehlendorf, a village half- way between Berlin and Potsdam, the wife of a stone-cutter banging her three children, and finally killing herself. At Dulwieh on Monday afternoon the coroner's jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder" against William Holt Brandt, who is in custody charged with killing his brother Thomas at East Oulwich on the 6th inst. The plantation property of Mr. R. N. Batt, D.L., situate in the town land of Leitrino, County Down, was burned on Sunday night, and on Monday a reward was offered for information to convict the person who committed the outrage. A Daily Chronicle telegram from Vienna states chat an exceptionally horrible case of child murder is reported from Linz, where a peasant killed his illegitimate infant, aged four weeks, by putting it in a large cooking vessel and boiling it to death. A Times Philadelphia telegram says:—The Guilders of Chicago, in view of several strikes pre- vailing, have ordered a general cessation of work throughout the city, and 10,000 men will thus be -endered idle. At Bolton on Monday Herbert Fletcher, owner tnd manager of the Lady Shore Colliery, was fined 620 for refusing to comply with the award of the Impire to stop working his mine with naked ights. The award was backed by 300 men who were employed by the defendant. On Saturday morning, at Kirkcaldy, the dead body of a man named Stables was found in front of his house. The deceased, it is believed, got out of bed in his sleep and stepped out of bis bedroom window, on the third storey, and fell to the ground, distance of forty feet. On Tuesday morning 1,200 of the girls employed n the great match manufactory of Messrs. Bryant And May, at Fairfield-road, Bow, turned out on strike owing to a dispute with their employers as to the deductions from their earnings. If the strike continues very great distress will follow. Consois at 1031! That price was reached on the Stock Exchange three times on Friday, and stands officially recorded as the highest closing figure. It is hardly necessary to point out that this is a higher price than has ever been attained before. "Two and a half per cent. Consols" would seem to be coming within measureable distance. Madame Patti sailed from New York, on board the Umbria, on Saturday. Her farewell perform- ance at the Metropolitan Opera House on Friday evening drew an enormous audience. It is announced that the total receipts of her seven performances in New York were 115,000 dollars, an unprecedentedly large sum. Mr. William O'Brien, editor of United Ireland, was on Monday nominated for the representation of North-East Cork. He was proposed by the Rev. Canon Wigmore, P.P., and seconded by William Fitzgerald, solicitor. There being no other candi- date, he was declared duly elected in the room of •fr. Edward Leamy. The Queen has, on the recommendation of his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief, con- ferred a commission, dated Friday, on Quarter- master-sergeaut Frank H. Charteris, of the 13th j Hussars, who is appointed quartermaster to the regiment, with the honorary rank of lieutenant, in place of Mr. F. Lewis, who retires. About seven o'clock on Saturday morning, aa ttie steamer Mercurius, of Amsterdam, was pro- ceeding up the River Thames, when off Mowlem's Wharf, East Greenwich, she came into collision with the steamer Lisbon, of London, bound down in charge of a pilot. The latter vessel received serious damage to port side, and now lies sunk off the above wharf. The Walker Hay Mill at Burnley on Wednesday morning caught fire, and was partially gutted. The flames broke out in the top storey of the mill at five o'clock, and the operatives, who were then beginning to arrive, rescued a large quantity of cloth and twist. The fire was got under in two hours. The amount of the damage is estimated at £16,000, but is covered by insurance. The origin of the fire is not known. An inquest was held at Rainham, near Chelms- ford, on Saturday,onthebodyof a woman which was found tied up iu a bag at Rainham Ferry on Wednesday, without the slightest mark of identi- fication. Dr. Callaway stated that the body, which was that of a woman of about 27, had been cut in pieces, apparently by an expert. He believed somebody wished to get rid of the body piece- meal. The inquiry was adjourned for three weeks. Advices received by mail steamer state that owing to the bad fishing in the north of Ice- land, the population of which subsist mostly on fish, five persons died this winter from sheer star- vation. Owing to the straits caused by the failure in the fishing and the hay crops last season, hundreds of persons have arranged to emigrate to America. The weather in Faroe has been so bad that fishing is almost a failure. A shocking accident is reported from Capel Betts, North WaJes. A young girl, named Lloyd, aged fifteen, who was on a. visit home from Liver- pool, on Monday went out with a companion to look at the old waterwheel at work at Felinfawr, and while watching the fast wheel revolve she accidentally fell into the machinery and was crushed to death by the wheeL The sad affair caused a painful sensation. At Sedgley on Monday, Westwood, a lad fifteen years of age, of Coseley, was committed for trial for wounding A'len Bellingham, a watchman in the employ of Lort Dudley. Bellingham detected the prisoner in the act of stealing coal, anl upon chasing him the prisoner said he would cut his eye out. He thereupon threw a stone at Bellingham, which struck him in the eye and rendered him insensible. He was removed to the hospital, and is now permanently blind. The wife of a dairy-farm keeper named Whitby, who was injured by some fireworks at the Crystal Palace, brought an action against Mr. Brock to recover damages. The case was tried on Tuesday, and the iury awarded the plaintilf £25. SIr. Justice Grantham said the findings of the juiy did not make the defendants liable, though they might make somebody else liable. He, therefore, gave judgment for the de- fendant, but granted leave to the plaintiff to move the court. The Farmer of Monday says:—Northerly wind, dry and harsh weather, and small supplies strengthened the market without making activity. English wheat was in request, at about 6d. ad- vance. Foreign wheat occasionally also realized 6<1. more money. Flour was firm at quotations. Barley was dull, and unchanged in price. Oats were 6J. lower for cheap sorts. Maize was firm for American and rather cheaper for European. Peas wern 6d. dearer, and beans 6d. lower, except for new Egyptians. An accident, which might have proved most disastrous, showing the dangers engendered in the use of dynamite, is reported from Aberystwith. The workmen employed in clearing away the ruins ►f the ancient, bridge crossing the river Rheidol used a quantity of dynamite to loosen the stones in standing archway. The explosion blew the tones through a window in the residence of Capt. lllis, and embedded them in the wall across the com. Fortunately the occupants had left the room. George Barne was brought before the Leicester nagistrates on Saturday charged with causing the leath of his wife. It is stated that the deceased .eca.me ill on Tuesday and went to a neighbour's tamed Boulter, complaining that her husband had ■truck out across the temples. She gave her some >randy, but Mrs. Barnes became insensible and fell the chair. She remained unconscious till last light, when she died. The doctor said the symp- .oms were those of death from effusion of blood on brain. Prisoner was remanded pending the 'nquest. A correspondent writes from WokingA cre- mation took place here on Thursday, the body remated being that of a young Indian Rajah eighteen years of age. The body was brought from Blackheath, and arrived at Brookwood Station about mid-day, when it was taken to the Crematorium, St. John's, Woking. The cremation which was witnessed by three Rajahs, with Mr. Eassie, the secretary of the society, and a few others, lasted about an hour and a half. The ashes were taken away, it is said, for placing in water according to an Indian custom. After the ashes sad been removed, the coffin in which the body was brought was burnt in the furnace. Lars Swensen was brought up at Liverpool on Tuesday charged with causing the death of Thomas Kavanagh, second mate of the Annie Guudey, at sea, on April 13. Kavanagh attempted to strike Swensen twice with a belaying pin whilst the latter was in the rigging. These blows Swensen parried, and when attempting a third blow the prisoner aimed a marlingspike at Kava- nagh, which struck him on the left side of the tead. He reeled and fell, bleeding from the head. 7our hours afterwards he died, and was buried at tea. The Magistrate held that prisoner had only icted in self-defence, and that he must be dis- :harged. Great influence is always exerted politically by ieyer cartoons. Hitherto the Parnellite and Sepa- ratist parties have had matters pretty much their own way so far as low-priced cartoons dealing with the Irish question are concerned. To remedy this defect, the proprietors of England newspaper have decided to give away, free, a coloured cartoon each week with the paper, beginning on the 21st of May. The first two cartoons will deal with certain phases of the side generally obscured or skipped over by the Home Rule party. For this reason it is, perhaps, all the more essential that they should be brought clearly before the masses. who look at a picture but seldom or never read matter.

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