The North Wales Express

U HAT.F AS MUCH AGAIN."— Consumers say" half as much zgain." of the cheap tea is required to make a beverage with my strength at all, and even then there is no pleasure in lrinkingit! The remedy is simple. Horniman&Co., London, ?!! through theirAgentsTea atft-redprices,ancigilaranteethe jnality. See list of Horn iman's Agents printed in all papers. ALBERT ISATES, 20, drayman, in the employ ot Messrs. Butler and Co., brewers, Wolverhampton, in company with a fellow drayman named Davenport, was returning from Smethwick with a two-horse van laden with empty barrels, and when near Gospel Oak-road, owing to the darkness, he got out of his proper road. The waggon and horses rolled down an embankment. Bates was pitched out of the cart, and the hocsefl HI across his breast, and he received fatal in furies

r NEWS NOTES. (We (le?m it right to state that we do not identify our. selves with our Correspondent's opiuions.1 TnE reason why the International Danubian Conference is to Le held in London rather than Vienna may be accounted for by the circumstance that one-half of the carrying trade of the greatest trading river in Europe falls to the share of British vessels. The difficulties relating to the control of the navigation and the imposition of dues, with which the Conference has to deal, owe their origin chiefly to the jealousy existing between the two great Powers—Kussia and Austria—and the smaller riverian States, Rou- mania, Servia, and Bulgaria. There are in existence two European Commissions for regu- lating the navigation-the one from Galatz down- wards to the mouth of the river, and the other from Galatz upwards but these Commissions, owing to fresh difliculties which have arisen, re- quire a new code of instructions.

THE Trade Council of Birmingham has passed a resolution strongly supporting the projected scheme of a ship-canal from Liverpool to Man- chester on the ground of the advantages to in- dustry resulting from enlarged facilities for con- veying raw material to manufacturing- centres and the hope is expressed that this scheme will prove the pioneer of other works of a similar kind elsewhere. Liverpool, for reasons easily recognisable, is the only town that has set itself dead against the project of connecting Man- chester with the sea by means of a ship-canal.

THE preliminary inquiries, extending over a considerable time, which have been held at Kil- mainham Court-house, appear to leave no doubt that the real perpetrators of the atrocious Phanix-park murders have been at last dis- covered, and that when they are brought to trial sufficient evidence, furnished by informers and corroborated from other sources, will be produced to bring: about their conviction and their con- demnation to undergo the last penalty of the law. If the assassins who ruthlessly slew Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke had escaped arrest, encouragement would have been given for the continuance of political crimes in Ireland.

FROM: the evidence which has been adduced, it appears that the assassins made no attempt to escape from the country, and that they con- tinued their abode in D,wlin. This is just what Stephens, the Fenian head-centre, did when he made his clever escape from gaol. lIe never left the Irish capital, though he was supposed to have fled to Pans; and he even took drives occa- sionally in the streets without being detected. In the loft of the house inhabited by Carey—one of the men in custody—a rifle and two long knives were found, and these knives are believed to have been those which were used when the Chief Secretary and Under-Secretary were, I- done to death." They are just such knives as would have inflicted the frightful wounds that were found upon the unfortunate victims.

IF the statement of one of the informers is to be believed, there was no premeditated intention to murder Lord Frederick Cavendish, who, indeed, had not been allowed time to make either a friend or an enemy in Ireland. It was Mr. Burke only whom the Assassina-ion Council had doomed to a violent death, and it was simplv because Lord Frederick Cavendish did what he could to defend Mr. Burke, when the attack was made, that he, too, fell a victim to the knives of the assassins. The Under Secretary, it appears, had been under sentence, so to speak, for several months, and a favourable opportunity was being watched to effect his murder. The trial of the prisoners, when it begins, is certain to excite deep and widespread interest,

THOUGH meetings under the auspices of the Farmers' Alliance continue to be held in different parts of the country, there is little likelihood that the land question will be brought up in the en- suing session of Parliament. The point which receives the greatest prominence in the resolu- tions bearing on the relations between landlords and tenants is compensation for unexhausted im- provements, and as there is manifest justice in this demand, it will require to find a place in any bill that may be introduced. Farmers must necessarily take a greater interest in improving the quality of the soil when they know that they are working for their own advantage also, and not merely for that of the landlord.

THE Sultan of Turkey has had a good deal to trouble him since England resolved on taking the Egyptain difficulty energetically in hand, and his troubles do not seem to be quite over. The proposals of the British Government with refer- ence to the future concerning that country, whieh were contained in Lord Granville's dispatch transmitted to the European Powers, did not at all suit the Sultan, as they seemed to ignore his suzeranity altogether, and he was cogitating if he might not best sustain the dignity of the Sub- lime Porte by putting on a defiant air. But when he found thao all the Powers, with the exception of France, which has also been put in the background, were agreeable to the proposals, the Sultan considered prudence to be the better part of valour, and he seems to have attained at last the subdued Oriental mood of submission to fate.

"KEATING'S COUGH LOZEXGrES."—Cure Coughs, ASTHMA, BaotfcaiTis.—He licil testiinoay states tha.t no other medicine is so efectual in the care of these dangerous mala lies. Oa; Lozenge alone gives ease, one or two at bed time ensures re<t. Sold in Tins. Is. lid. MR. DAVID DA. VIES, M.P. for Cardiganshire, was recently presented with a very beautifully illumi- nated address by the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists of Cardiganshire, at their association meetings at Llanid- loes. Mr. Davies is a prominent and highly-esteemed member of that body, and a very liberal supporter of its various societies. FROM THE DISTRICT of Mymensingh, in Eastern Bengal, comes news respecting the proposed changes in the rent law, to the effect that discussions regarding those changes have given rise to a crop of wild rumours among the ryots. An idea has got abroad that the Government has passed an order fixing thirteen annas per Bigah as the maximum rent to be paid by the tenants. The ryots of several villages have accordingly stopped the payment of rent. A GAS EXPLOSION has taken place at a grocer's shop in the North End-road, Fulham, London, only recently opened. It appeared that the manager lighted a piece of paper to discover the escape of gas in the shop, and it was immediately followed by an explo- sion, which blew out the front windows and caused other damage. The manager and another man were severely injured. CO AGOTJNE.—The Best Cement for Broken Articles, 6d., la. 2s. Postage 2d. Kay Bros., Stockport. Sold everywhere. AT the next meeting of the Liverpool School Board the Finance Committee will recommend that a precept be served upon the City Council for the sum of JE42,000, being the estimated amount of the deficiency in the school fund for the year ending March 25, 1882. BOURNEMOUTH.—BOUHNE HALL. (Conducted by Resi- dent M.D.) For those Visiting the Seaside under Medical Advice. Prospectuses forwarded.

J A SELF-MADE MAN. The funeral of Mr. Josrph Shuttleworth, of Old War- den Hall, Bedfordshire, and Hartsholm Hall, Lincoln, has just taken place. The career of the deceased gentleman is a striking instance of what can be accomplished by in- domitable perseverance and sterling integrity. The son of a working boatbuili'.er at Dogdyke, a village near Lin coin, Mr. Shuttleworth some forty years ago left his native place, and, with a fellow-workman named Godwin, started as boatbuilders on a piece of ground near the Stamp End Locks at Lincoln. Near the premises of the new firm Mr. N. Clayton, then the captain of a small river steamer, carried on the business of an ironfounder. Mr. Shuttleworth soon after joined Mr. Clayton, and the new firm then added to their business that of agricultural engineers. From this small I eginning the manufactory of Messrs. Clavton and Shuttleworth has become one of the most extensive of the kind in the king- dom, and the firm also posse,ses extensive branches at Vienna and Odessa, with London offices. Besides a close application to his private business, the deceased gentleman took an active part in public affairs. For more than twenty years he was a member of the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. He was also for some years a director of the Metropolian Kail- way, which oflice he resigned to join the Great Northern Board some ten or twelve years ago, and to the latter company he devoted much time and attention. Mr. Shuttleworth was likewise a deputv-lieutenant for Bed- fordshire and Lincolnshire, a justice of the peace for the latter county, and a member of the Lincoln Bench of Magistrates. He had filled the office of chief magis- trate of Lincoln, and was for some years a member of the Corporation of that city. In politics Mr. Shuttleworth was a Liberal, and he rendered great service to his party in the district.

A POLICEMAN CHARGED WITH ASSAULT. At the Surrey Sessions (before Mr. W. Hardman), Charles Burgess, 28, a member of the Metropolitan Police force (183 M), surrendered to his bail to answer an indictment charging him with an assault on John Fudge. Mr. Hawick prosecuted, and Mr. Horace Avery defended. Prosecutor stated thai he resided in Market-street, Borough-road, London. On the night of Sunday, Nov. 24, he was standing outside his own door looking at a bit of a row," and saw two men taken into custody. Shortly afterwards prisoner came along, and, seeing witness, struck him in the eye with his lantern. He went to the station to make a complaint, and the inspector told him to come when he was sober. He returned to Market-street, and the same constable again came up, and said to him You have been to the inspector, haven't you ? I'll kill you." He then struck witness, who hit him back, and they had a fight After a struggle prisoner kicked him on the shin, and he fell. The prisoner then knelt on his stomach, drew his truncheon, and struck him with it several times. He called out Murder," and after some time another constable came and pulled prisoner off, and took witness to the station, when he complained to the inspector of being shamefully treated by the prisoner. On cross-examination prisoner admitted that he was drunk on the night in question, and only par- tially remembered what took place. The evidence of the prosecutor was corroborated by two men and two women, who stated that theie were thirty or forty persons present at the time, but none of them interfered in the quarrel, because, as one of them said, they were afraid of being locked up themselves. Mr. Avory, for the defence, contended that the charge against his client was altogether unfounded, and that the prosecutor was not in a condition to know what took place that night; in fact, his evidence was a pure inven- tion. The real fact was that the constable was attacked by the prosecutor, whom he took into custody, and used only such force as was necessary to secure his prisoner. He then called Inspector Kemp, M Division and other officers, whose version of the affair was very different to that given in support of the prose- cution. According to their evidence, the constable was sober at the time, whilst the prosecutor was drunk. In consequence of the complaint made by the latter of being assaulted, the inspector sent for Dr. Evans, the divisional surgeon, who stated that he found a slight abrasion on the back of prosecutor's head and another mark on his shin, but the wounds were so slight that they did not need surgical treatment. Prisonbr seemed very exhausted, and was unable to go on duty for some days. The jury, without any hesitation, returned a verdict of not guilty, and in ordering the prisoner to be discharged, Mr. Hardman said he left the court without a stain on his character, a remark which was received with applause.

THE ALLEGED EXTENSIVE SMUGGLING FRAUDS. At the Liverpool Police-court, before the stipendiary magistrate, Mr. Baffles, John Rafferty, an Irish tobacco manufacturer, has been charged on remand with import- ing or otherwise dealing in a large quantity of tobacco concealed in flax seed with intent to defraud the Revenue. Mr. Paxtsn, who appeared on behalf of the Board of Trade, said that he had re- ceived the following instructions from the Com- missioners of Customs: It having been repre- tented to the Board that John Rafferty, now in detention at Liverpool for being concerned in illegally importing a large quantity of tobacco, is also implicated in three other smuggling transactions of great magnitude, the Board direct that the charge before the magistrates be not pro- ceeded with, but that John Rafferty be forthwith prose- cuted by writ of capias in the Queen's Bench division of her Majesty's High Court of Justice for the whole of those four transactions, and for penalties of treble the value of the tobacco so illegallyimported." Under these circumstances Mr. Paxton asked that the prisoner should be discharged. In reply to Mr. Walton, who appeared for the defence, Mr. Raffles said that the E1000 which was deposited in court in the stead of one of the bail would, of course, be refunded. The prisoner was then discharged.

THE MURDER OF PROFESSOR PALMER AND PARTY. The following has been received from the Admiralty Information has been forwarded from Sue; that Colonel Warren reports from Wady Sudr that a portion of Cap- tain Gill's journal had been discovered completed to Aug. 8, also official correspondence, a leaf of Professor Palmer's note-book, and Lieutenant Charrington's journal, dated Aug. 9, scattered over many milts, of desolate waste. Vestiges of looted baggage, including two naval swords, had also been found. Funeral service had been read at the place where the murder actually occurred, in the presenci of Colonel Warren's party and Mr. and Miss Charrington. Colonel Warren further states that he was erecting on a conspicuous hill overlooking the spot a cairn, 15ft. high, surmounted by a wooden cross, as a temporary measure, presented by Miss Charrington. Colonel Warren adds that he had visited Bedouins of various trib s, and reassured them that the guilty alone will be proceeded against. They were quite quiet. He expected shortly to return to Suez.

KAY'S COMPH:NI> for Colds and Cough", cures 9 cases out of 10. Sold everywitcro. 9^1., Is. lid &c. A DIOCESAN MEETING to promote the fund to raise a memorial to Dr. Pusey has been held at the Bishop's Room, the Close, Salisbury. Sir Edward Hulse, Bart., presided, and the Archdeacons of Dorset and Sarum were present. It was unanimously resolved to collect subscrip- tions throughout the diocese and district. THE annual meeting of the Kidderminster Chamb 'r of Commerce has lately been held, and amongst those who spoke was Mr. Brinton, M.P. He alluded to the commercial depression which existed, and said it was not to be wondered at when they remembered the state of agriculture. BENJAMIN SINGLETON ABBEBLKY, solicitor, Hanlev, has been charged before the stipendiary at Long- ton, with stealing two copies of the probate of a will, the copy deed of a disclaimer, and forty other packages of important papers, and also with embezzling and misappro- priating sums of money to the amount of £1000 while in the employ of Messrs. Clarke and Hawley, solicitors, of this town, as their confidential clerk. The prisoner, who commenced practice for himself, in September last, was remanded, bail in £1000 being required. THE Dudley police have made a minute ex- amination of the house at Pennsett, near the town, wherein Mary Powell, an aged widow, who was alleged to be destitute, was recently found dead. They found a bank-book containing entries, nine deposits for £ 50, and 50s. in silver. In the cellar there were four tons of coal. The deceased had suffered two terms of imprison- ment rather than pay small fines, and has recently been in receipt of parish relief. KAY'STICPILLS,for Nsuralpia, Faceache, &c.,9id., Is. LID. Postage Id. Sold by all chemists. Kay Bros., Stockport. Ar, the Borough Police-court, {Derby, four summonses were heard against a man named George Wilson, of Stafford-street, for selling intoxicating liquors without a license. The Bench inflicted a penalty of JE25 and the coste in each of the four cases— £ 100 altogether -in default a month's imprisonment with hard labour, the liquors found to be forfeited.

FATAL SNOWSLIP IN AMERICA. I A snowslip has occurred in the Rocky Mountains, near Cre-ted Butte, Colorado, U.S., crushing a house in which I thirty coal miners were sleeping, and hurling its occu- pants down the mountain side. Seven of the men were killed and eighteen injured, several fatally. In the same locality an engine which was detached from a train to clear the track was buried under 20ft. of snow. Another engine was sent with provisions for the passengers, who were in a starving condition.

DESTRUCTION OF A NEW YORK LANDING PIER BY FIRE. A Reuter's telegram, from New York states: The Inman Landing' Pier has been destroyed by fire. The National ine steamer, Egypt, which was alongside the pier at the time, sustained considerable damage. The Guion Line steamers Alaska and Nevada, which were at the next pier, narrowly escaped. Th3 cargo of the City of Brussels, which was brought out by the Egypt, and had been unloaded, was destroyed with the pier. The loss caused by the fire, including the merchandise, is estimated at $1,000,000. A later telegram from the same source states It is now stated that nearly all the Egypt's cargo had been dis- charged before the fire broke out, and the loss is therefore proportionately diminished, but it is still estimated at $500,000. It is believed that the fire, which occurred early in the morning, was due to accidental causes. Some 150 men were engaged in unloading the cargo from the Eygpt, and of these two are unaccounted for, but there is little or no reason to suppose that they have come to any harm. All the books and papers in the Inman Company's office at the dock, except those which were in the safe, have been destroyed. As soon as possible after the outbreak of the fire the Egypt was towed out into the stream. Only her sails and running rigging were burned, her port side was slightly scorched, and she was damaged below by water, but the vessel was otherwise unhurt. As already stated, the Egypt, which belongs to the National Line, was discharging at the Inman pier. No other steamers were damaged, but the German ship Henry was some- what injured. It is said that there were 600 cases of goods, mostly silks and satins, on the pier when the fire occurred.

THE LOSS OF THE "CIMBRIA." In a recent sitting of the German Parliament, Herr Sonnemann brought forward an interpellation, asking whether, in consequence of the loss of the Cimbria, the Government intended to propose any new regulations or bring about some international arrangements for the prevention of collisions at sea. Herr Sonnemann, in justifying his interpellation, suggested that endeavours shoald be made to introduce the use of electric light in navigation, and, in conclusion, expressed the hope that the Government would make a satisfactory statement on the subject. Herr Scholz, replying, in his capacity as Federal Commissioner, declared that the Government fully shared the universal sympathy which had been aroused by the disaster to the Cimbria, but this feeling was necessarily coupled with a sense of the responsibility devolving upon it. The Government would not fail to keep the matter in view. It was not able to reply at once to the definite questions pnt by the interpellation, either in the affirmative or negative. An official iaquiry had been instituted, and was still pending, and until it was concluded the Government could take no decision of any kind. It could net an ticipate the result of the in- vestigation, and meanwhile must reserve its opinion. The subject then dropped.

CHARGE OF MURDER AGAINST A FATHER AND MOTHER. Mr. George Collier has resumed the adjourned inquiry, at the Star of the East Tavern, Commercial-road, Lime- house, London, respecting the death of a male child, who was alleged to have died from poison. Bertha Jupp, 31, Pickett-street, stated that she lived with Alexander Steffens, a clerk. The deceased was her child, and was three weeks old, but was not named. It was fed on con- densed milk, and she did not suckle it, although she had abundance herself. On the fourth or fifth day after birth the deceased was taken with convulsions, and had several fits, which after a few days became more frequent and intense. The father of the deceased gave him some laudanum once to her knowledge, and that was a few days before the child's death. After taking the laudanum the deceased slept better at night. Mr. John James M'Andrew, surgeon, stated that he had attended the mother. About a week before the death of the child he was told of the convulsive fits, and he prescribed for them. He only knew of the administration of laudanum a few hours before the death. The child was then comatose and dying. He had made a post-mortem ex- amination, and found the cause of death to be poisoning by alcohol. He should consider one drop a poisonous dose in such a case; and the quantity of laudanum accounted for the comatose state and the insensibility. Professor Charles Meymott Tidy, professor at the London Hospital, stated that he had made an analysis of the contents of the stomach. He found very definite evidence of opium. Considering the age of the child, the peculiar susceptibility of chil- dren to the action of opium, and that the poison found on analysis was probably in excess of what was required to destroy life, he had no doubt that the cause of death in this case was poisoning by opium. Supposing only one drop had been given he very much doubted whether he should have found any trace of the poison, considering the time that had elapsed since the administering and the time of death. The jury, after a lengthy deliberation, returned a verdict of Wilful murder against Alexander Steffens and Bertha Jupp, the mother of the child." The woman, who was in court, was immediately taken into custody and conveyed to Newgate by the coroner's officer; but Steffens is missing, and the female expressed an opinion that he had committed suicide, as since this affair he had been very depressed. Steffens is a Norwegian by birth.

APPREHENDED ON A WEDDING MORNING. A detective at Sheffield recently apprehended two young men, named Wild and Brooker, both in respect- able positions, on a charge of stealing two pairs of boots and a hearthrug. Wild was to have been married to a widow with a fortune of £10,000, and when apprehended he and Booker were in a cab on their way to meet the bride and her friends at Ramoor Church, which is in one j' of the most fashionable quarters of the town. Three carriages were waiting at the bride's residence. Wild pleaded hard to the detective to allow him to be married, and said if he would he could apprehend him imme- diately after the service was over but the officer was inexorable, and removed him and Booker to the police- station. The case against them is that they stole the boots and rug from two shops and subsequently pledged them. Wild had the ring and the marriage license in his pocket, and wore patent leather boots and white gloves. The affair has caused great excitement in the district.

HAVE IT IN YOUR HOUSE-LAMPLOUGRYS PYHETIO SALINE-and use no other. The only safe antidote in Fevers, Eruptive Affections, Sea or Bilious Sickness, Small-pox and Head-ache; having peculiar and exclusive merits. Use no substitute. See perpetual injunction against imitators; also the unanimous judgment before the Lords Justices Bramwell, Brett, and Cotton, 22nd Jan., 1878, in Lamplough's favour. 113, Holborn-hill, London. A TELEGRAM has been received in South Shields, announcing the safe arrival at Baltimore of the screw steamer Hamsteels, belonging to Messrs. Pynam, Bell, and Co., of Newcastle and West Hartlepool, which was a fortnight overdue, and about wh )se safety great fears were entertained. The vessel had encountered heavy gales and high seas. While crossing the Atlantic her sails were blown away and the boatswain was washed overboard and drowned. The vessel sailed from Hartle- pool, and the deceased belonged to that plice. KA Y'S COMPOUND, a demulcent anodyne expectorant, for Couuhs ;iu<i CutJs. Sold ererywhere, 9 £ d Is. Hel. MR GROVE, Director of the Royal College of Music, recently addrcs-ed a meeting of gentlemen, con- vcned by the Mayor of Blackburn in the Town Hall, and explained the objects of the college. A resolution was adopted pledging the meeting to use its best exertions to carry out the proposal so far as Blackburn and its neigh- bourhuod was concerned. SIR II. B. LOCH. Commissioner of Woods and Ftrc:;t«, Sir James Campbell, Bart., surveyor, Mr. M illiam Farrant, and Mr. Skrimshire, Crown agent, and tiie Governor of the Isle of Man, have been inspecting the planting operations on Archallagan Mountain. The pn. ty were met on the ground by a representative of the lirm that has centracted for the planting. The various works of draining and planting and the positions of the proposed drives or roads were pointed out and examined. After an exhausted survey and traversing the greater part of the mountain, Sir Henry Loch expressed his entire approval and satisfaction with the progress of the work. Shotfld the present plantation in the island prove successful, it is intended to plant a considerable portion of the northern slopes of South Barrule, comprising many hundreds of acres.

SHOCKING ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE. At the Worship-street Police-court, London, William Phillips, 34, described as labourer, of Queen's-place, High-street, Whitechapel, was charged with having attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a razor, and otherwise wounding himself. The father of the prisoner gave evidence that on the morning of October 2nd last he discovered the prisoner in his bed- room with a dreadful wound in his throat. He was lying on the bed undressed and nearly covered in blood. A constable was sent for and a doctor fetched, and eventually the prisoner was removed to the London Hospital there, it appeared from other evidence, he had been ever since. The medical gentleman who attended him on his admission, and for about three weeks after- wards, deposed that he found the prisoner had a wound in his throat which cut through the windpipe, and a second wound extending from the chest to the pit of the stomach, but the weapon had not entered the abdominal cavity. For weeks he was kept in one position, and fed through a tube passed through the nostrils. The wife of the prisoner said they had been married six years, and there were three children but she felt she could cot live with her husband, as her life was not safe, and he had repeatedly threatened her. The father added that the prisoner had b -en twelve years at sea, during Iwhich he had a sunstroke, and since his marriage a severe kick from a horse. The prisoner had been treated in the workhouse infirmary for affection of the mind on three occasions. Another of the house surgeons of the London Hospital, replying to the magistral, said that for three months he had attended the prisoner, and discovered no mental ailment. He was much liked in the jhospital ward. The prisoner was remanded, in order :that he might be seen by the surgeon of the House of Detention.

ENGLISH UNIONISTS AND FRENCH WORKMEN. A short time since the cotton spinners of Lille struck work for a reduction of the hours of labour from 75 to 69 hours per week, and for an advance of wages— the rates being from lis. to 12s. per week, the men paying for the use of steam power and the repairs to machinery. Delegates were sent to London to solicit aid from the trades' unions, and they received about £100- 150 of which was given by the Amalgamated Society of Engineers—to assist the men on strike. Mr. John Burnett, general secretary of the Engineers' Society, has lately receivod from the Executive Committee of the Chambre Syndicate Ouvriése of the Lille cotton spinners, the following letter, addressed To the English Trades' Unions Citizens,—The Executive Com- mittee of the cotton spinners' trade in Lille has instructed us to let you know their feelings of gratitude towards you. We express to you, in their names, our best thanks for your kindness to us, which will produce the best results, above all to you, English workmen. We send our felicitations to you for the disinterested manner in which you have come to our help in the struggle we have had with our employers. Although they charge us with want of thankfulness, we will carefully preserve in our records the names of the trades which have generously come to our assistance. They are the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, the London Trades' Council, the Saddlers' and Harness Makers', the Iron Founders, the Bookbinders' the Printers', the House Decorators' and Painters', the Bricklayers', the Cabinet Makers,' the Viaduct Workmen (Lancashire), and the Shoemakers' Societies. All these have proved that for them there is no frontier, and that they consider the French toilers are simply workmen having the one object-their emancipation. We cannot close this letter without expressing our best thanks to Citizen Burnett, general secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers George Shipton, secretary of the London Trades' Council; Edward Shackleton, member of Council of the Amalgamated Engineers and Citizen Young for the kind manner in which they co-operated and helped us. We shall never forget that it is in a very great measure due to their devotion and international amity and prac- tical sympathy that we are reaping the good results of the steps we took; and we owe it to the fraternal help they gave us by coming to our assistance and rescue when we were engaged in our struggle that we have not been vanquished. For the Syndical Chamber of Cotton Spinners of Lille-Cattaret Putjdaz, the secretary." The document is also signed by some members of the Execu- tive Committee.

SAD RAILWAY FATALITY. Miss Brown, a lady aged 32 years, whose home is believed to be in Leeds, and who has recently been living as governess with Mr. G. Gent, of the Grove, Ilkley, recently met with a very shocking death at the Crossgates Station, near Leeds. The young lady had been, it is believed, to make some engagement with a lady at Crossgates. Having transacted her business, she returned to the station, where a passenger train from Leeds was standing. She waited till it moved away, and then endeavoured to walk across the lines to be ready for the train for home, when a fast luggage train dashed up unobserved by Miss Brown, knocked her down, and ran over her. The body when picked up was frightfully mutilated, the head and lower limbs being almost com- pletely severed. The remains were conveyed to the Travellers' Inn, to await an inquest.

THE HOLYWELL SHOOTING CASE. The hearing of the charge of murder against William Roberts, mason, of Penyball, near Holywell, has been concluded at the Chester Assizes. Roberts was indicted for shooting one of two brothers named Thomas, who went up to his house on the night of Nov. 4 for the pur- pose, it was suggested, of interfering with his wife, to whom deceased had at one time paid his addresses. The first witness for the defence was Sarah Williams, who said she remembered the two brothers coming to the Half-way House at Penyball between ten and eleven o'clock on the night in question. They took away a pint cf ale in a bottle, which resembled the fragments which had been picked up near prisoner's house, and were alleged to have been the re- mains of a bottle with which the brothers Thomas assaulted the prisoner and his wife. As they were going awav from the inn Thomas Thomas said he was going up to Fenvball, and there would be a row somewhere. Wm. Roberts, father-in-law of the prisoner, gave evidence, from which it appeared that the deceased, Edward Thomas, called at the prisoner's house while they were getting supper that night, and made a pretence of asking for a light for his pipe. Enoch Davies, of Holywell, said that on the night of November 4th he met Thomas Thomas at midnight in Hotywell. The man was looking for a police-constable, and kept beating his hands together, and saying, It was me that enticed him up. Oh dear, what will his wife and children think of me for enticing him up here to be shot?" Mr. Swectenham, for the defence, compared the action of the two brothers to that of the "Moonlighters in Ireland, and said that in attempting to violate the pri- soner's wife they had proved themselves a disgrace to the name of Welshmen. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge having summoned up, the jury found the prisoner guilty of manslaughter, with a strong recommedation to mercy on the ground that he had received great provocation. His lordship said that shooting was, as a rule, a most deadly offence, and tho-e who had at all watched his '1 course knew that he had come down upon such offences with a heavy hand. Prisoner had broken the law, but he had broken it under every possible excuse which a man could have. He could not in his conscience punish him with anything but a nominal sentence of one day's imprisonment.

A STARTLING DISCOVERY has been made by the police in a house at Attercliff, near Sheffield. The tenant is Robert Parrott, a labourer, and the neighbours state that he and his wife were heard quarrelling. The i woman was not seen again until found dead at the bottom of the cellar steps. AT Middlesbrough a miner, named William Beaglehole, has met with his death in Messrs. Bell Brothers' Huntcliffe ironstone mines. Deceased blasted a hole, and was cutting out a piece which was left, when a quantity of stone, about two tons in weight, fell upon him, killing him on the spot. Deceased was a local preacher with the Primitive Methodists, and was re- spected by all who knew him. THE annual fancy dressball in aidof the Brighton charities has taken p'ace at the Pavilion, but the attend- ance was greatly affected by {a private fashionable ball given at the same time at Hove, and the company did not number more than 350. The decorations were simple but effective, a novelty being introduced in four designs at the foot of the grand staircases in the corridor, repre- senting the seasons, the name of each being worked in berries, flowers, and leaves. AT a meeting of the Cardiff School Board, Mr. Lewis Williams presiding, the seal of the Board was affixed to a contract for building new fchools at Grange- town at a cost of £10,000. A communication was re- ceived from the Education Department setting forth that, having regard to the number of children in Cardiff above the fourth standard requiring a high elementary school, my lords are prepared to sanction the building of a separate school for 800.

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THE Council of State at Geneva have taken a strong course in forbidding further demonstra- tions on the part of the Salvation Army, as they lead to disturbances and breaches of the peace. While this is being done in Geneva, our own Home Secretary recently rebuked the Mayor of Honiton for saying that he would take no steps to protect the Salvationists if they chose to excite hostile feeling by their public parades." It is not very easy at times to know how to deal with the over demonstrative Salvationists; but harsh measures, elevating them to the dignity of religionsts persecuted for their faith, only serve to increase their self-importance and the fervour of their fanatical zeal.

+ MR. EDWD. FREEM IN has resigned the Aoting- Secretaryship of the Soci Ity of British Artists, and haa accepted the management of the Nineteenth Century Art Society, the exhibitions of which will be held at the Con- duit--treet Galleries. THE Chanoellor of the Exchequer and Mn. Child ers have returned to town. THE Prime Minister will give a full dress Par- liamentary dinner at his official residence in Downing- sireet, on Wednesday, the 14th inst., to the mover and seconder of the Address in the House of Commons, the Speaker, and a party of about forty members of the Cabinet and Government having seats in the House of Commons. THE President of Trinity College, Oxford, has presided at a large and influential meeting at the Town Hall in connection with the National Agricultural Labourers' Union. Mr. Arthur Sidgwick, Fellow of Corpus College, in the absence of Mr. A. Toynbee, bursar of Balliol College, moved the first and only business resolution—viz., That in the opinion of this meeting the time has now arrived that the household franchise hould be extended to the counties," which was seconded by Mr. T. Boulton, secretary of the local Labourers' Union, and supported by Mr. R. F. Horton, Fellow of New College, and carried. Amongst those present besides the above were the Alavor of Oxford (Mr. A. Wheeler), Mr. H. F. Pelham, Fellow of Exeter College, the Rev. L. Phelps, of Oriel College, and a number of senior and junior members of the university and townspeople. During the evening the names of Mr. John Bright and Mr. Gladstone transpired, and were both received with immense cheering. A BEAUTIFUL SXAINED-GI.A'-S WINDOW, placed in the north transept of Canterbury Cathedral in memory of the late Dean Alford, has lately sustained consider- able damage from the violence of the weather. EARL FORTHSCUE has presided at the meeting of the Devonshire Chamber of Agriculture, when Lord Ebringtm, M P., introduced the proposal for levying a tax on eutire horses. The chamber declined to affirm the principle of a tax, but passed a resolution that some means were desirable to secure a good sound breed of stallions, and such system should be based on pedigree being properly vouched. A NOTORIOUS WIFE-BEATER, named Farrell, has been dealt with by the Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Magistrates. The case has been three timea previously before the Court, and on the last occasion Mrs. Farrell was committed to prison for seven days for refusing to give evidence against her husband. On being placed in the witness-bex the woman again declined to be sworn but ultimately she consented to take the oath and give evidence. The magistrates sentenced the pri- soner to three months' imprisonment. AT the Stipendiary Court, Tunstall, a singular case of assaulting a sweetheart recently came up for hearing. A labourer, named Moses Malpas, living at Smallhom, was (harged in custody with committing an aggravated assault on Sarah Smith, at Burslem. Police- constable Hale deposed that about twenty minutes to eight p.m. he was on duty, when he saw the prisoner !trike the complainant in the face the complainant also said that prisoner knocked her down and kicked her badly, and she had to be assisted home. He had i'saultad her wo years ago. Prisoner was fined 20s. and zosts. THE local Liberal paper at Salisbury announces that it is probable, considering the refusal of Baron Pol- ock and Mr. Justice Manistv to grant an application for in inspection of the vouchers of the Conservative ex- penses, that at the hearing of the election petition an ipplication will be made fnr an adjournment, to allow Of jte inspection.