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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, June 20th. Their lordships met at four o'clock, when the royal assent was given by commission to the County Courts Bill, the War Office Bill, the Poor Relief (Metropolis) Bill, the Railway Powers and Construc- tion Bill, and a number of private bills. The Com- missioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Bessborough, and the Marquis of Normanby. THE RITUAL COMMISSION.—The Earl of Shaftes- bury presented a petition from the Church Associa- tion praying that no action may be taken on the third report of the Ritual Commissioners, and that no alterations may be made in the prayer book un- til such times as the Commissioners have performed the duties enjoined upon them, and reported upon such changes as to them may seem expedient with a view of explaining and amending the rubrics, or- ders, and directions, so as to secure uniformity of practice in such matters as may be deemed essen- tial. THE DEFENCE OF THE COLONIES.-Earl RUS- SELL moved an address to her Majesty stating that this House has seen with great satisfaction the spontaneous expressions of loyalty and attachment to the British Crown which have lately emanated from many of the colonies, and that this House humbly prays her Majesty to appoint a Commission to enquire into the means best fitted to guarantee the security of every part of her Majesty's dominions. .Lord NORTHBBOOK said that the Government were fully alive to the importance of maintaining the ties by which Great Britain and the colonies were bound together. With regard to the motion he hoped it would not be pressed, as it was not neces- sary, and the scope of such an enquiry would be far too gigantic for the investigation of any single com- mission. The motion was then withdrawn, and several bills having been advanced a stage, the House adjourned at eight. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY, June 20th. A few minutes afterwards the Speaker was sum- moned to the bar of the House of Lords to hear the royal assent given by commission to several bills. LOCAL TAXATION.—On his return, Mr. GOSCHEN, in reply to Sir Massey Lopes, said that he did not think it possible that the Government could bring in the measures they were desirous of introducing on the subject of rating and the collection of rates during the present session. THE REPORTERS' GALLERY.—In reply to Mr. Taylor, Mr. AYRTON said that the subject of im- proved and increased accommodation for the repor- ters had been under his consideration, and he pro- posed to submit a plan in the special estimates. RATING OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS.—In reply to Mr. Charley, Mr. GOSCHEN said the Government would be unable to proceed with the bill for the rating of public buildings this session. VAGRANCY.—In answer to Mr. Brodrick, Mr. GOSCHEN stated that the Government hoped to be able to deal with the question of the repression of vagrancy to a certain extent this session. DUTY ON FARM HORSES.—The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated, in reply to Mr. Welby, that he was not prepared to remit the duty already paid this year for licences for farm horses occasionally employed in drawing road materials. THE SPEAKER.—The Speaker having stated that he had been invited to Oxford to have conferred upon him the honorary degree of D.C.L., Mr. GLAD- STONE expressed the gratification with which the House received the announcement, and moved that the chair be taken during the Speaker's absence by Mr. Dodson.Mr. DISRAELI, who also con- gratulated the Speaker on the circumstance, second- ed the motion, which was agreed to. THE EDUCATION BILL. Mr. W. E. FORSTER stated, in answer to Dr. Lyon Playfair, that as soon as a deficiency of school accommodation was ascertained after the passing of the Education Bill, steps would betaken to have it supplied. In answer to Mr. Pell the right hon. gentleman stated that there was no probability that the local rate would exceed 3d. in the pound. In answer to Lord R. Montagu, Mr. GLADSTONE stated that Government had severed the tie between the local educational boards and the voluntary schools. There was no intention to exempt subscri- bers to voluntary schools from being rated. On the motion for going into Committee on the Elementary Education Bill, Mr. H. RICHARD moved a resolution to the ef- fect that the grants to the existing denominational schools should not be increased, and that in any national system of elementary education the attend- ance should be everywhere compulsory, and that the religious instruction should be supplied by vol- untary effort, and not out of the public funds. The hon. member complained that the Government pro- positions were highly objectionable to the Noncon- formist bodies, and were opposed to the feelings of the great bulk of the community. Sir C. W. DILKE seconded the motion, regret- ting that an education bill had been attempted this year; for at this period of the session they had not only made no advance, but found themselves in opposition to a Ministry so generally entitled to con- fidence. The Dissenters were struggling for a principle, which the Government in their new amendments still ignored. Mr. GATHORNE HARDY opposed the amend- ment, and complained of the changes introduced by the Government. Their result would be to set up rival schools, one assisted by State grants, the other by local rates in addition to the State grants. He pointed out the great results attained by the reli- gious zeal of clergymen under the denominational system. He insisted that these efforts ought to be respected and preserved by the State, and not al- lowed to be undermined by a rival system. He quite approved of the conscience clause as original- ly framed, but strongly deprecated the further con- cessions of the Government as yielding to a cry got up for political purposes, for no religious grievance had ever been felt in the country. At the same time, the bill as it stood gave no guarantee that the in- creased grant would be secured to the denomina- tional schools. This being the case, he argued strongly in favour of Scriptural and religious in- struction in the schools which were perfectly free, for between that and purely secular teaching there was no resting place. The Government admit- ted that the country had pronounced for religious education, and why did they now permit any authority to interfere with it and thus run the risk everywhere of stirring np religious strife and dis- cord. If this was to De done at all, it ought not to be left to town councils or to vestries, but to boards directly elected by the ratepayers. He wished to assist the Government in passing the bill, but their ooncessions were entirely one-sided. They were no concessions to those who had hitherto borne all the burden of education, and who had given up too much already. The latter showed facts, which they had already achieved; the others only showed words. If they were sincere, let them expend some of their £50,000 in establishing what they had never done yet, a purely secular school. In conclusion, heap- pealed to the Government not to destroy the zeal of those who had established all that they now had in the way of education, but to confine themselves to their original proposition of supplying the gaps and deficiencies of the existing system. Mr. W. E. FORSTER, who was received with a general cheer, said that he was anxious at once to declare the opinion of the Government with respect to the amendment. The amendment contained three distinct propositions. One of them was that attendance should b. everywhere compulsory, and he took this first in the hope that the House would not allow itself to be engioaBed with the religious difficulties, but would rather look to the. general scope of the bill. As regarded this point of com- pulsion, there had been no practical alteration in the amendment except to make it clear that it should not be applied to religious teaching, and it was provided that this should take place at the be- ginning or the end of each attendance, and not of school day, so that there would be a choice of four periods for it. With respect to the next point of the amendment, he did not quite under- stand what was meant by supplying religious instruction by voluntary effort, or how it was to be practicably carried out, unless it was that no school should be aided from the public funds in which there was religious teaching. With respect to the third point, that the grant to denomina- tional schools ought not to be increased, he con- tended that the denominational system had achieved great results, and that no general system of educa- tion in this country would be complete without them, as a very large number of persons would prefer them to schools established by the boards. Their object was not to destroy or undermine the exist- ing system which, as far as it went, had worked well; hut to supply its deficiencies and extend the blessings of education to every home in the country. On the motion of Mr. MI ALL, the debate was ad. journed. HOUSE OF LORDS, Tuesday, June 21st. NEW PEER.-Lord O'Hagan took the oaths and his seat. MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY BILL. — Lord CATRNR moved the second reading of the Married Women's Property Bill. He briefly explained the provisions of the Bill, which, as it dealt with cases of undeniable hardship, he trusted their Lordships would assent to.Lord PENZANCE admitted that there was a very fair case for the bill but it went far beyond what was required, and would produce far more evil than good. It gave to married women not only the sole right over their own property but, having wasted that, to still claim maintenance at the cost of her husband's children. It gave also married women the power to sue any person, even their husbands, and to carry on business without the consent of their husbands. Surely this was not necessary to protect their property against a dis- solute or profligate husband. The bill was a total revolution not only of the common law but of the marriage state, which imposed on the husband the duty of maintaining the household with the control of the common property. An extension of the power of obtaining protection, as at present, would do all that was necessary.Lord WESTBURY con- sidered that the bill went to an extravagant length, and must be reduced to a more sensible form before it could be allowed to pass. It seemed to proceed from that sensational desire which was now so pre- valent, of changing what had been not only the law but the domestic practice of this country for a thousand years. There were evils undoubtedly which required alteration, but not in this subver- sive manner After some further conversation the bill was read a second time, and ordered to be referred to a select committee. The Appellate Jurisdiction Bill was read a third time and passed. The Gas and Water Facilities Bill was withdrawn. HOUSE OF COMMONS, TUESDAY, June 21. THE EDUCATION BILL. The adjourned debate on the motion for going into Committee on the education Bill was resumed by Mr. MIALL (Bradford), who protested against the position in which Mr. Forster had placed those who refused to accept the religious clauses of the bill as finally settled by the Government. It was unfair to cast upon those Members the sole respon- sibility of defeating the bill or preventing a measure for the Education of the people passing this session. There might be many circumstances beyond this which tended to produce such a result; as, for ins- tance, the fact that the clauses had been submitted prematurely, that the bill contained principles to which the House and the country could not accede, that there had been long delay in announcing the conclusion to which the Government had arrived, and some mystery now that the matter was at length cleared up; but he considered it unfair on the part of the Government to impose something like moral coercion upon the House and call upon it to accept the altered scheme, however distasteful it might be. He was convinced that the measure as it now stood was not adapted to the wants of the country; that it effected no compromise between the two sections of opinion existing in the House that it would not secure the permanent settlement of the question and be should, therefore, support the amendment moved by Mr. Richard. Sir C. ADDERLEY (Staffordshire) denied that the country was indignant at the alterations which had been made in the measure. The religious dif- ficulty was the only difficnlty in the way of the set- tlpment of the question, and that difficulty would only apply to the new schools for by long habit and custom it had already disappeared from the old schools. He admitted that the solution of the difficulty provided by the Government was unsatis- factory, but it was better than their original pro- position, and better than the proposal of the Hon. j Member for Merthyr. Being, however, a rough and unsatisfactory solution, they ought not to at- tach it to more schools than was necessary. Mr. V. HARCOURT (Oxford) contended that the plan of the Government was a plan of religious State endowment and nothing else, whether the money was to be supplied by the Privy Council or by local rates. The amendment, on the other hand, was in favour of purely secular education. He asked if there was no middle course between undiluted sec- tarian denominational education and secular educa- tion. He deplored the illness of Mr. Bright, which had prolonged his absence from the Councils of the i Cabinet, because he believed that if the Right Hon. Gentleman could have been present, the religious difficulty would have been satisfactorily settled. He (Mr. Harcourt) believed that if the present pro- posal were carried it would form the subject of an annual vote, and also of an annual battle. He was in favour of unsectarian and secular education, and could not vote either for the bill or the amendment. On the motion of Mr. DIXON, (Birmingham) the debate was adjourned, and the sitting was sus- pended at a quarter before seven o'clock.: At the evening sitting at nine o'clock, the chair was taken by Mr. Dodson, who announced that the Speaker was indisposed. BISHOPS IN PARLIAMENT.—Mr. SOMERSET BEAU- MONT (Wakefield) moved for leave to bring in a bill to relieve the Lords Spiritual who may be here- after consecrated from attendance in Parliament. He urged that the presence of the Bishops in the House of Lords was neither of advantage to the Church nor to the people.Mr. LOCKE KING (E. Surrey) seconded the motion.Sir W. LAWSoN (Car- lisle) supported the motion Mr. GLADSTONE (Greenwich) said it was the intention of the Govern- ment to resist the motion. Were they disposed to support such a proposition, they ought not to have left it to an independent Member to bring it for- ward, but ought themselves on their own responsi- bility, to have introduced it. The bill before the House would have the effect of giving the present occupiers of the Episcopal bench a new form of vested interest, which would amount to a recon- sideration and stamping afresh of the title they pos- sessed to seats in the House of Lords. In all pro- bability it would be at least thirty years before this new title could be extinguished. Did the hon. gen- tleman who had brought forward the motion mean by this to give a similar lease to the Establishment of the English Church ? In the consideration of this proposal, they had to regard it in two points of view. In regard to the Church and its connection with the State the bench of bishops was a venerable portion of the English constitution, and with regard to the interference of their political with their Epis- copal duties, he reminded the House that the bishops had long ceased to reside habitually during the session in London, and that with the exception of those who might be termed Metropolitan Bishops their attendance in London was only exceptional. After a few words from Mr. Somerset Beaumont in rpply, the House divided with the following re- sult For the motion. 102 against, 158; majority 56
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The Morning Post fans correspondent writes:- His Excellency Lord Lyons is about to sign the new postal treaty between England and France, which I referred to some time since, as reducing charges and calculated to promote the interests of intercom- munication and commerce. The Emperor Napoleon has replied to an address presented to him by the Town Council of South- ampton. He says the sympathy manifested to- wards him with reference to the recent design on his life touches him deeply, and in it he sees fresh proof of the ties of friendship which unite France and England. He trusts, most heartily, they may ever continue. RUINED BY BETTING.—A messenger in the Office of the Registry of Designs has given himself up to the police on the ground that he has been guilty of embezzling the sum of JE33. It is clear from his statement that the betting-ring has been his rum, as it has been of so many others before him. Instead of taking the money to the bank he went to West Drayton races and lost some of the money by bet- ting. He then went to Manchester races hoping to recover some of his losses; but, instead of suc- ceeding in doing that, he lost the whole of the re- mainder. A BETTING BETTER HALF.—Mrs. Gorst, wife of a surgeon at Prescott, near Liverpool, has obtained a decree of separation for cruelty, her husband hav- ing often struck her with his closed fists. The hus- band admitted he had struck her, but declared she had a very abusive tongue, and that she spent his money in betting. In cross-examination she ad- mitted that she was in the habit of betting upon horses, but said she never did so before she was married. Her husband used to follow the practice, and she saw no reason why she should not do so.- Lord Penzance What is the largest sum you ever laid ?—Witness 10s., my lord.-Lord Penzance: And what is the most you ever won?—Witness: .£112, and that I did not get. (Loud laughter.)— Lord Penzance: You won X112 for 10s?—Witness: Yes; it was a double event bet. (More laughter.) Lord Penzance: 224 to 1 then? (Laughters- Witness: Yes.
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TERRIBLE ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT I NORTHERN RAILWAY. SEVENTEEN KILLED AND MANY INJURED. At about one o'clock on Tuesday morning, an ac- cident, which caused the death of seventeen per- sons and serious injuries to several others, occurred to an excursion train on the main line of the Great Northern Railway, about a mile south of Newark. Seventeen passengers are unhappily already in- cluded in the list of killed; about 40 have been in- jured, many of them very seriously, and it is feared that some of them will not recover. The cause of the accident was so simple that the sad story can be told in a few words. Two cheap excursion trains ran to London on Monday-one from Hull, which returned at 9-20 the same night; and the other from Halifax, Bradford, and Leeds, which started on the return journey at a quarter to ten at night. The Hull train got home all right; and the West Riding train travelled safely until arriving within a short distance of Newark, when the passengers felt an ex- traordinary shock. A goods train was running at full speed south when the axle of one of the trucks in the middle of the train gave way and threw the truck across the down line, just before the excursion train. The latter was travelling at the rate of 30 or 40 miles per hour, and the force of the collision may be imagined. The engine was tossed into the air, turned completely round, and finally rested upon the embankment, while the tender was detached and thrown on to the six-foot. The two carriages next to the engine were completely shattered into fragments leaving the dead and wounded pas- sengers in the debris. Most of the other carriages were also smashed and thrown off the line. The driver, Thomas Hurst, who had saluted the driver of the goods train on passing him, was instantly killed, and the stoker, Joseph Watson, died in the course of the day. Being in the dead of the night, no assistance was at hand, and the shrieks of the injured would have failed to attract attention if other means had not been used to secure help, the place where the accident occurred being in a retired part of the country. The guard gave an alarm to the occupants of the nearest house, and the services of the medical men and other residents of Newark were soon secured. As the telegraphic communica- tion was stopped, the driver of the goods train pro- ceeded to Grantham with his engine, and gave in- formation of the occurrence to Mr. Smeetham, the district superintendent, who went to the spot with a staff of men, and directed the clearing of the line In the mean time the killed and injured were taken to the Newark Dispensary, but the resources of that institution not being sufficient for such an emer- gency, several were taken to the hotels and private houses, where their requirements were kindly at- tended to. As the morning advanced fresh arrivals of m en cam e from Doncaster, Retford, and Grantham. Their services were directed, in the first instance, to the removal of the dead and in assisting the suf- ferers, and they next proceeded to clear the lines, which they succeeded in doing so as to admit of traffic being resumed by nine o'clock. The pas- sengers who were not injured, and those who were only slightly hurt, were sent on by special train about five o'clock. The friends and relatives of many of the deceased visited Newark and identified the bodies; It is estimated that, in addition to the 17 passengers who were killed, about 40 have been injured. The following have been identined :— KILLED.-Thomas Pbilpotts, Nile street, Leeds Frederick Philpotts, son of the above; Isabella Hallon, of Chapeltown, Leeds Frances Robinson, Leeds, Major Kershaw Hurst, tobacconist, Leeds; Thomas Hurst, driver of the passenger train; Mrs. Haddock, Land's Lane, Leeds; Jpb. Watson, Don- caster, stoker of the passenger train. THE INJURED. Thomas Marshall, Kirkstall, Leeds; John Cooke, printer, Leeds; Wm. Shuttle- worth, Ikley, Leeds; Christopher Alford, guard of the passenger train; Ann Burnett, Cross Park, Kirkstall, Leeds; Mrs. Anderton, widow, Leeds; a girl, 11 years of age, daughter of Thomas Groves, Leeds; Joseph Mellor, artist, Leeds Gerrard Toft, a foreigner; Mrs. Smithson, wife of a commercial traveller, Leeds; Thomas Greaves, farmer, Stock- ton Lane, York Mrs. Greenwood, Wortley, Leeds; William Pitt, Beeston Hill, Leeds; Charles Albert Wilson, Fenton-street, Leeds; J. Booth, of the firm of Whiteley and Booth, Halifax; W. Hellen, Leeds; Charles Wray, Castleford, Leeds; Mrs Richardson, an elderly lady from Leeds; Mrs. Holmes, Leeds a French gentleman, name unknown. Many others both killed and injured, were not known. Most of I them were taken to the Newark Dispensary; others at the hotels and private houses; and the rest of the injured were enabled to proceed home. Workmen were engaged up to a late hour on i Tuesday night in removing the debris, and in re- storing the line. The luckless passenger engine, still lying on the embankment, and the shattered i carriages spread in all directions, show too plainly the completeness of the wreck, Not one of the 23 carriages of which the excursion train consisted escaped from injury. All the windows were smashed, and it is said that the accident left many of the carriages in a heap. OFFICIAL ACCOUNT. The following is the official account of the acci- dent :— Sir,—It is with the deepest regret that I have to inform you of a very serious accident which happened on the Great Northern Railway, near Newark, early this morning. The brief particulars furnished by telegraph are as follows:- A Manchester goods train left Retford station for London at about one o'clock this morning, and when passing about a mile south of Newark one of the axles of a waggon belonging to another company broke close to the wheel, that waggon and others were thrown off the up line on to the down line, which was completely blocked. At this moment a return excursion train from London to Yorkshire was passing the spot, and ran into the waggons, which were thrown on to the down line. A disas- trous collision thus occured, in which I grieve to say thirteen passengers and the driver are reported as having been killed or so seriously injured that they died shortly afterwards, and several others are re- ported as much hurt.—I am, sir, your obedient ser- vant, HENRY OAKLEY, Secretary. THE INQUEST. The inquest was held at the Town Hall, Newark before Mr. Coroner Griffin two of the Directors of the Great Northern Railway (one being chairmar. of the Company) being present. The Coroner said the Great Northern Company courted the fullest inquiry into this most dreadful accident, and, after identifying some of the bodies, he propssed to ad- journ the inquiry until Thursday, when the Govern- ment inspector would be present. The train started to London for a day's excursion, and left Halifax at 12 55 on Monday morning, calling at Wakefield and other places. On its return it left King's Cross at 9 25, and all went on right until the accident I occurred. The first witness called was Samuel Tetley, Moor Lane, Leeds, who said he was a passenger by the excursion train. The train left London at twenty- five minutes past nine on Monday night. There were five first-class passengers in the compartment he was in. The deceased Major Kershaw Hurst was one of> the passengers. He was witness's brother-in-law, and carried on business as tobac- conist at Leeds. He could identify the body of deceased as his brother-in-law. He could not tell how the accident happened. All went on right from leaving London until the collision took place. Sarah Philpotts, of 12, Mile-street, North-street, Leeds, said Thomas Philpotts, deceased, was her father and Frederick Philpotts, also deceased, was her brother. Her father was a straw hat maker, 42 years of age. He carried on business at 72, Mile- street, North-street, Leeds. Both her father and brother were killed by the collision. She was not a passenger in the excursion train. Thomas Haddock said he was not a passenger by the excursion train. He had been to the hospital and seen the body of his wife, Hannah Haddock. She was 41 years old. Witness's son and a baby, 13 months old, were in the hospital. They were al ive, but wounded. His wife and two children were passengers in the excursion train. Bentley Allen, of Newington, in the employ of the Great Northern Company, said he had nothing to do with the special train. He had seen the body of Thomas Hurst (who was killed on the spot), the engine driver of the excursion train. He was 35 years of age. Elizabeth Martin said she had seen the body of Isabella Hallam, of Leeds, her sister, at the hospital. She was 26 years of age, and was a married woman. At this stage of the inquiry the Coroner said that eight bodies had been identified out of the sixteen, and as there were none of the friends of the others present, it would be necessary to have an adjourn- ment. Colonel Packe (chairman of the Great Northern Company), said everything that the company could do to make the inquiry full and satisfactory should b" done. At the next meeting, on Friday, the Go- vernment inspector would be present, and render every possible asoiataucg. The iBSOurj was then adiooxxttd. NARRATIVE OF THE ACCIDENT. The following statement of a passenger has been furnished to the Bradford Observer — "The train left King's Cross on its return journey punctually at twenty minutes past nine o'clock. The collision occurred at exactly twenty five minutes past one, near a plaoe called Clay Bridge Lane, about a mile on the London side of Newark. There is no station or siding at the spot, and at the time the majority of the passengers would probably be asleep. No intimation was given to the passengers before there was a tremendous jerk and crush, so violent that the whole of the train was at once thrown off the line. It should be here explained that the train consisted of carriages from four towns. Those from Leeds were first, next came the Bradford train, then those from Halifax, and lastly those from York. I was in one of the Bradford carriages, and therefore at some considerable distance from the front, where, of course, the greatest collision occurred. The first shock, though it threw the carriages off the line, fortunately did not upset any of them. The collision was, however, instantly followed by a train of luggage vans running down the length of the trip train, against it, taking off the doors, smashing the handles, breaking all the glass, and driving in the sides of the carriages. I was sitting near the door with my face to the engine, and the door, with glass window, was driven in upon me just as I was moving my head towards the window to see what was the matter, when the luggage waggons thus came down. The carriages of the trip train were all shaved as by machinery. I first tried to find the handle of the door, of which the top had been staved in, in order to get out; the bottom part of the door still re- mained, but the handle was clean off. I made the best of my way out from the doorway of the next compartment, the door here having been completely carried away. On getting down I saw at the tail end of our train the trucks which had passed us piled one on another, and some of them toppled off the low embankment into a pond. Everybody was hastening to get out of the carriages, and the scene towards the front was, as far as I could discern in the dim light something terrible-carriages piled one on another, and many of them smashed literally to pieces. The heavy engine had been toppled on to its back, and lay inclined, with the wheels partly in the air, and some of the first carriages had of course gone past it. From thisfront part of the train, where the carriages had been so completely des- troyed, piteous cries and moans were proceeding. Those who had been slightly injured in theBradford, Halifax, and York carriages lost no time in ascer- taining the extent of their hurts, but moved at once to the front to see of what service they could be There being no station nearer than Newark, and no force of railway servants within call, the work was of course left to those of the passengers who had escaped serious hurt. It was soon seen that a number had been killed and others seriously hurt, while there was reason to believe that several be- sides those who were half buried or whose cries could be heard, were lying under the piled-up de- bris. The efforts of many of the passengers to re- lieve their unfortunate companions were most praiseworthy, and among these was a lady, whose name we do not know, but who displayed great activity and zeal, encouraging the men, and rally- ing them to fresh efforts. The dying and badly in- jured soon began to be removed into an adjoining field, the hedge of which had been broken through. A little baby, six months old, was got from among the debris, with its arm torn from wrist to shoul- der; the mother was at the time lying apparently dead among the debris. The child was taken to the railway station, and it was there stated that both the father and mother were dead. About four o'clock, however, the mother was got out alive, though it is not yet known whether she will sur- vive. Many of the dead and injured being fast among the wreck for hours, and in their efforts to relieve them by trying to lift up one por- tion of the superincumbent debris, the workers found that they were either pressing it on the other parts of the sufferers' bodies, or upon some other victim of the catastrophe. Ultimately, after the lapse of some hours, a special engine brought up a heavy crane, by which the wreck was being rapidly and safely removed. When I left by a train about five o'clock, it was said by some that ten, by others that twelve bodies had been extricated; but others were still to be got out. The engine driver was among the killed, the poor fellow's head having been completely cut off. The guard or the stoker —I am not certain which—had his leg taken off. In reference to the cause of the accident, I could not learn anything definite or satisfactory, but it was stated, I believe, on the authority of the guard of the luggage train, that very shortly be- fore the collision an axle-tree on his train, which was running on the up line, had broken, and thrown some of his carriages quite across our line. The engine was thrown on the left and the tender to the right. It was said that the officials in charge of the luggage train had not the time, even if they had had the opportunity, to signal the trip train." REMARKABLE ESCAPES. The Leeds Mercury says :—Amongst those who returned to Leeds was the son of Mr. Freeman, oil merchant, who had a marvellous deliverance. Three minutes before the accident he had changed places with a neighbour in the compartment in which he was seated. He escaped without a scratch, but his fellow traveller was nowhere to be seen. Mr. John Bickers, of the firm of Messrs. W. and J. Bickers linen drapers, Commercial-street, had his hand in- jured. He also returned with the special train- He rendered material assistance in rescuino- the stoker from underneath the engine. When the ac- cident occurred Mr. Bickers, with great presence of mind, caught up a child that was in the carriage, but the next moment they were pitched out of the window headlong into a ditch. They both escaped comparatively uninjured. Miss Rayner, of Vernon- road, the daughter of Mr. Rayner, woolstapler, sus- tained a very severe shock; but, like a Florence Nightingale," as our informant said, she devoted herself to the care of the injured and dying, sooth- ing their sufferings, and administering with tender hand the restoratives that were brought from New- ark. Amongst those injured who returned with the special train is Mrs. Elliott, of Finsbury-street, Leeds, wife of a watchmaker. She, with two chil- dren, were in a carriage near the engine. But the top and bottom of the carriage they were in were carried away, and Mrs. Elliott felt the steam in her face, after which she became for a short time in- sensible. Her back is sprained severely, her neck and face cut with glass, and since her return home she has been attended by two surgeons. Her case, however, appears at present not to be a dangerous one. Several of the citizens of York and a number of workmen and their families sustained injuries, amongst whom are Mr. Thomas Greaves, of Stock- ton Lane, farmer, who is reported dead; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kilvington, wireworker, of Stonegate, who had only been married on the previous Sunday', and the former of whom is injured severely on the ankle, and his wife cut and bruised about the head and face. Similar injuries to the last mentioned were received by Mr. Gell, assistant to Mr. Dove, ironmonger; Mr. Lee, dyer; Miss A. Shackleton, and others. Mr. Dalton, newsagent, of Walmgate. was severely injured by several pieces of one of the carriage doors striking him over the hend, and being thrown violently on to the opposite seat. The names of the following injured passengers who have arrived at their homes, have been fur- nished :— HALIFAX^-—Mr. James Wright, law stationer; Mr. J. Booth (Whiteley and Booth), printer. BRADFORD.—Mr. John Bowker, dyer, Thornton Road; cut over eye; Mr. Eltolf, picture dealer, North Parade: severely injured internally; Mrs. Tatham, greengrocer, Darley-street; very much shaken, and nervous system severely shocked; Miss Mary Arnold, Keighley; hands very much cut, sup- posed to have been done in breaking windows to escape from the carriage; Sarah Arnold, sister of the above; severely shaken; Mr. James Hanson, late newspaper proprietor; very much cut about the face; Mr. Rowbotham, fruit merchant, Sunbridge- stall; knee injured; Mr. Joseph Armitage, cloth manufacturer, Pudsey; fingers severely crushed; Mr. Oddy, Pudsey; ankle sprained and injured; James Russam, maker-up, at A. S. Henry and Co.'s; ut and scratched about the neck; Thomas Firth, maker-up, at A. S. Henry and Co.'s: bruised leg. LEEDS.—Mr. C.Wilson, music seller, Albion-street. Mr. Edward Bissington, hatter, Briggate. Mr. Sydney Smith, jeweller, Commercial-street. Mrs. Smithson, staymaker, Bond street. Mr. Freeman jun. oil merchant. Mr. John Bickers, draper, Com- mercial-street. Miss Turner, Vernon road. Mr. «nd Mrs. Driver, of the Leeds Industrial School. Mr. Hennessey, manager, for Mr. H. B. Legg, hat- ter, Briggate. Mrs. Haddock, of the Rose and Crown Yard. Mr. Duncan, tobacconist, Bond street Mr. Gribbon, jun. china dealer, Brijjgate. Mr, Baxter, cloth merchant.
DEATH OF LORD ARTHUR CLINTON.I
DEATH OF LORD ARTHUR CLINTON. I A rumour which was current late on Saturday regarding the death of Lord Arthur Clinton is con- firmed. His lordship died on Saturday morning at the King's Arms Hotel, Christchurch, Hampshire, where he had been staying for a few days on a fish- ing excursion. The illness which caused his death was scarlet fever, on the discovery of the first symp- toms of which he was removed to a cottage in a village named Muddiford, adjacent to Christchurch. The services of Dr. Wade, Dr. Fitzmaurice, and Dr. Roberts Thompson, were at once obtained, and a telegram was sent to Mr. W. H. Roberts, of Moor- gate street—Lord Arthur Clinton's solicitor—re- questing him to procure further medical assistance. On Mr. Roberts's arrival at Muddiford, however, Lord Arthur Clinton's case was hopeless. The news of his death was telegraphed immediately to Lon- don, but it was discredited, and was not definitely confirmed until Sunday night, when Mr. W. H. Roberts, who resides at Hendon, gave specific par- ticulars regarding it. These were obtained at mid- night from Mr. Roberts, from whom the following letter has also been received:- "In confirming the announcement which has ap- peared this evening in the columns of some of your contemporaries of the death of my unfortunate client Lord Arthur Pelham Clinton, I beg you will allow me space in your journal to enable me to carry out his last wishes in reference to the charges pre- ferred against him-the awful nature of which in no slight degree accelerated his end. It was only early on Friday that I was advised, by telegram from his medical attendants, of his critical state, when I immediately proceeded to Christchurch, where he had been staying for some time past, and remained there until his death, which occurred this morning at 1.5., from exhaustion resulting from scarlet fever. In pursuance of his instructions I had previously prepared, and he had approved, the letter Of which I enclose you a copy, and which I beg you will in justice to his memory insert with this. His state, however, of utter prostration did not permit him to sign the copies which were made, although in full possession of his mental faculties. It may be satisfactory to his relatives and friends to know that in the presence of Dr. Wade, and myself he, when conscious of his ap- proaching end, in a solemn manner reiterated his denial of any complicity whatever in the wretched case and alleged conspiracy, and his entire inno- cence of the graver charge imputed to him." The following is the letter which Lord A. Clinton had prepared to send to the papers :— In the extraordinary position in which I find my- self placed, and from the peculiar course adopted by the Crown in this matter, I feel justified in ask- ing for the insertion of this letter in your journal. I am now, as I hitherto have been, anxious to give the most unequivocal denial to the accusations which have been made against me; and I most earnestly beg the public to suspend its judgment until the full investigation of a public trial has cleared away and explained the circumstances of suspicion alleged against me. I pledge myself to surrender on the trial at the Central Criminal Court on the day appointed, as I am desirous of courting the fullest inquiry, being conscious that the greater the light which can be thrown on this unfortunate case the clearer will be my exculpation. I am now, and have been for some time past, prostrate on a bed of sickness, or I would, ere this, have sur- rendered to the warrant and submitted myself to the authority of the Court. I have instructed my solicitor to retain the services of counsel to repre- sent me on my trial, when I shall clearly and honestly show that nothing can be laid to my charge other than the foolish continuance of the impersonation of theatrical characters, which arose from a simple frolic in which I permitted myself to become an actor. It would ill become me to animadvert on the course the prosecution has deemed fit to pursue in silencing, by including in the indictments those who could otherwise throw light on the case. That I leave to my counsel and advisers on the fitting occasion, and to the common sense of the community, whose calmer judgment cannot possibly exert itself until the mists of prejudice naturally excited by the enormity of the offence charged against me shall have been dispelled by the full light of a free and impartial trial. Lord Arthur Clinton was the third son of the late Duke of Newcastle, and was 30 years of age. He was educated at Woodcote School, near Reading, and at Eton. He entered the navy in 1854, served in Captain Peel's Naval Brigade in India, received t two medals, and was made a lieutenant in 1861. At the general election of 1865, Lord Arthur Clinton was returned without opposition for Newark, in conjunction with Mr. Grosvenor Hodgkinson. He described himself as a Liberal, but voted against Mr. Gladstone's Reform Bill of 1866, was opposed to the ballot, and to the total abolition of church rates. After his retirement from the House of Commons in 1868, his lordship passed through the Court of Bankruptcy.
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A portion of the MS. of Oliver Twist," which originally appeared in Bentley's Miscellany, is still in Sir. Bentley's possession. The British Museum might fittingly place it by the side of the MS. of Sterne's Sentimental Journey." With regard to the Belhaven Peerage, it is stated, that the long litigation on the succession to this an. cient Scotch title has resulted in judgment having heen given on the 14th inst. in favour of the claim oi Lieutenant-Colonel Robert William Hamilton (late of the Grenadier Guards) to be served heir mate to tl lat- 1tOiI\\ Eelhayett and Stenton.
GREAT FOREST FIRES IN AMERI;
GREAT FOREST FIRES IN AMERI; (From the Toronto Globe, Jun Rpn8atioOS, The past fortnight has been one o one and it is not easy fully to realise m a time. startling episode of contemporary even nothing But now that the Fenian raid is over, re- but a sense of national satisfaction rem ere met mind us of how the would-be mara,l\ contem- and discomfited, we may look around a that plate the effects of some of those catastr p ^vaS. have lately been desolating whole dnst:sands tating peaceful homesteads,and rendering nCy of penniless and destitute by the terrible ao ^oU3 fire. How terrible, even the dwellers in p ^he cities know only too well. Surrounded V,jen(jly appliances of a public organization, and the j^le help of hundreds of willing hands, it is stil to grapple with fire. To bear from its geCure old and cherished souvenirs of other days, to the books that record our business transacts save some costly jewel, or to recollect at ^as moment that one dearer than jewels or f°rt" £ r0m been left sleeping while others have rusk eg0rts the threatened destruction, and to make huge ^r0ui to effect the rescue as the cruel flames m9 _0ry basement to roof—all this is too exciting for to linger over when the moment of peril oi a& is* past. It is with visitations of this desperate qe»™_ that the North American Continent has had d the last few days to contend. Great forest Sre yx cuTring almost simultaneously at Thunder New Brunswick, in the Saguenay District, I Edward Island, and the State of New York, the conflagration which on the Queen's g 0{ destroyed a large portion of one of the Quebec, will, in many memories, make sadly orable the month of May, 1870. The first is Srtgji ally described by our correspondent who, ajjd broke out, was on an excursion up the count!f' narrowlyescapedbeinghemmedinbythefastsp ing and encircling flames. He caught sight o threatened danger at a distance of some sis from the Government station at Thunder Even then escape was difficult. Two great fire were rapidly crossing the country to a point. A strong wind aided the course of o0 g> them. Nothing seemed able to arrest its P^^afy It sprang up the trees, and, blasting all their greenness, left behind in a moment smoking t'at blackened trunks. It swept across the swamp 1 was vainly regarded as protecting the clearing* up for a moment the humble homestead of the se aJl and ruthlessly blotted out in the twinkling °* eye the fruits of years of labour. It sprang acr^! broad rivers as though they were rivulets, consUIH ing bridges and earth-covered culverts. The cor., wood stacked upon the beach, the shanty of the ha*' breed, the dwellings of the miners—all were n lowed up as in an instant, women and childre d having barely time to rush from their homes take shelter in the mouth of a silver mine for ty, whilst all their fowls, dogs, and worldly Pr0^.e ty were swept away. Such was the great forest O of Thunder Bay. et At the eastern extremity of the Dominion another conflagration was raging. In New Brunswick destruction of property from this cause has even more appalling, and it is melancholy to of the mill, the farm, and the store being in succession visited and reduced to ashes. The ,g treme rapidity with which this fire travelled 3hown by the narrow escapes from danger of Pe. £ pursuing their avocations in the Two men are fishing in the mill stream when fire is upon them, and they only escape *>y flat on the logs with their faces to the watersink- A wag- ing their canoe to save it from the flames- jfivei' gon crossing another stream is caught, ^~Led, the and horse escape, but not altogether unb*x"^ 'ey to vehicle and its contents being left to f^-o^nswick the fire. It was in the province of Ne^ alBicbi that the awful and extraordinary fire of ^ir r:cftoi occurred in 1325. A correspondent of an ^Sand- paper has recalled some of the circumstances a ing that terrible calamity. The fury of excited by a tornado that raged at the ment-thunder, lightning, andrainadded to the wild horrors of the spectacle, snd the destruction ot a large number of human beings, made the story shockingly tragical, that it was long regarded by the people as a direct visitation of the vengeance o Heaven upon their sins. i Noticing, in passing, that Prince Edward's j was during the past month visited by this fear devastator, the particulars of which conflagrati are not at the moment before us, we turn to t narratives of its more recent appearance in some ° the rural counties of New York State. The DelØ1' ware mountains have been wrapt inflames—cin. and burning chaff have descended with destruc^^ results on farms and dwellings, the rivers .aZet brooks became blood-red with the reflected g1' and the forest birds, the cattle of the farmers, ge the fish in the rivers perished by thousands. :^g boulders cracked and splintered, and the ruulolbae streams became boiling hot. A railway crosses district, and many of the rails were bent and ? ted by the heat; yet even as it raged the nati express, with a pilot engine ahead, 1^p9X' through the fire, blistering the paint upon riages, and covering the windows with smoke. 9 the most appalling story of all is of human ?r0Xji being seen raising their hands in wild distress g a rock encircled by the flames; of human vt>aIjd shrieking for aid that could not reach then the awful silence that told of human sacrificed to the remorseless destroyer. nit/ Lastly, but demanding perhaps above any of and sympathy, we have had the fearful bur^fgbt the woods in the Saguenay district. A 5-luge3 ago the primeval forest, prosperous farms, and churches, stood where now the eye can nothing but fifteen hundred square miles of ness, ruin, and devastation. From Lake St. to Chicoutimi there is want, and suffering* gg> misery, where till lately was plenty and ^PP,1 -on Some lives have been lost although in the 00 jsely on such an event it is not easy to ascertain how many are missing. The inhabitantsi ne g^. safety to the lake, and many had „„ her fearful atruggie for life. One J them on whole family, eleven in number, ? areiv saved him- a nearest water; a mf^Lmaining with his self by springinginto aweU+f.?the fire swept by; a head just above the surface t ^eoome a mother husband saved his wife—b^ J and leaving her —by carrying her to a ^w y, return awhile, found the flames had cut off his iet Nearly seven hundred families are rendered totally destitute, numbering some five thousand souls. Ihe mind shrinks from imagining the scenes of heari- rendinc grief, of piteous helplessness, of blank des- pair involved in this wide-spread calamity, in Power that tempers the wind to the shorn lamb ca alone estimate the sum total of the sorrow, °i'Pr vide an adequate consolation. How these fires have originated 'tis hard to tell, or even to speculate on Lightning-incendiaries-carelessness, the smallest spark, when the heat has dried the ground, may sj the country in a blaze. But the visitation, howe^ caused or permitted, may be ameliorated by humaO agencies. The Quebec Government is already ad' ministering some aid to the destitute families. Prl" vate benevolence should supplement their efforts, and those who have plenty may surely spare sOØ1e' thing to aid their afflicted fellow-countrymen. A frugal race, it will not be long before they find once more sufficient for their simple wants. But ill the meantime the story of their overwhelmingmlsfOfd tune constitutes of itself the best appeal for aid, the hand of the liberal and merciful may find a work to do in relieving the homeless and destit0 sufferers by the great fire on the Saguenay.
ITHE BRIXTON BABY-FARMING…
THE BRIXTON BABY-FARMING CASE. On Monday afternoon, at Lambeth Police Court, Margaret Waters, aged 35, having also the aliases i of Willis, Hurley, Walters, Ellis, Oliver, Blackburn, Fort, J. W. and M. T. and described as a nurse, was again charged with neglecting to provide proper food and nourishment for the illegitimate male child of Jeannette Tassy Cowan. She was further charged with Mary Ellis, 29, her sister, with having in their possession four other infants, names unknown, and not providing proper food and nourishment for them. It is stated that the house has been thoroughly searched, and several letters found which relate to the "farming" of infants. Among the bottles found were several labelled "Paregoric elixir, poison," and some packets of poison. Letters showing the system adopted have come into the possession of the police. Mr. Poland said it was a case in which it would be necessary to have a full investigation. The charge was one of a very serious character, for in the neighbourhood where the prisoners lived some seven dead bodies were found, and he thought he should before long be able to show that the clothes in which some of these bodies were found bad be- longed to the prisoners, or to one of them. One child was found alive. One child had been identi- tied as that of the daughter of Mrs. Cowan; but it would also have been thought that after the pub- licity given other mothers would have come forward if they possessed a spark of motherly feeling. Ellen O'Connor said she was 14 years old, and knew the two prisoners as living in Frederick Ter- race, Gordon Grove. She was servant there, going there first about three months ago. She went gene- rally about twelve o'clock in the day, leaving about ten o'clock at night. This was for the first fort- night, when she lived entirely in the house up te the time the prisoners were taken into custody. She was engaged by Waters, or as she knew her, Mrs. Blackburn." She knew the other prisoner by the name of Ellis. When she first went there were seven infants. That number included Mrs. Ellis s baby. She only knew three of the children by the names of Teddy, Joe, and Willie. The num- ber increased shortly afterwards to eleven. The prisoner Waters used to go out and bring the chil- dren there. While she (witness) was there, four children were taken away. Two were taken by both prisoners on one night some five or six weeks ago. This was about ten o'clock at night. The infants were a boy and girl, both in long clothes. Those two had been there about one month before being taken away. The prisoner Waters said she should be late for the train unless she made haste. She also said she was taking them away because they were ill. She always made that remark when she took babies away. They brought the babiea back about half an hour after midnight, Waters remarking that they were too late to meet the train. On the following night the prisoners took the same two babies away. On their return about half-past eleven o'clock they were without the infants, and said they had taken them home. The girl was not very ill. When the prisoners had come home, they brought back a hood, cape, and cloak. Mrs. Wa- ters also afterwards took a little girl away, and re- turned without it. About three weeks ago a fourth child was taken away by Waters. The witness had not seen either of the infants since. Witness was told frequently to go to the Post-office in Zoar Place, Brixton, and get letters addressed there to Mrs. Oliver." She obtained letters in that name, sometimes as many as six at a time. After Waters read them she generally burnt them. She read the in to Mr. Ellis.—The case was adjourned.
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A Melbourne paper states that some wild were lately captured near the summit of ?heit Abrupt, Hamilton district. The wool frolu jo backs was twelve inches long in the staple, fro ,t the pile, and fine in quality. It was presume ere the fleeces were three years old. The sheep ^r0 six-toothed, had never been ear-marked, an perfectly free from disease. Ko_ ST. JOSEVHAT.-We call the attention>urMul. man Catholic contemporaries to Professor ig ler's assertion that St. Josephat, whose test celebrated in the Roman Church on .the.r,t aU, vember, never was a catholic or a Christian » but only an alias for Buddha — his story bei B &g least precisely identical with that of Bu > given in the Buddhist books. St. Josephat s n ^g was written by Johannes Damascenus, ana een spoken of as a young prince of whom it a (j0 prophesied that he should embrace Christian! b0 prevent this his father excluded him as ..ying could from all knowledge of human misery, to absorb him in the pursuit of P^^ure J^ Western Churches, without any suffiewntiy ^identification of his personality. Profe^or^ Muller asserts that his history ^only a of that of Buddha. Cmi the Roman^thojo^ quarians refute him P We admit that it them to have questions of personal at this distance of