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GBEAT REFORM DEMONSTRATION…
GBEAT REFORM DEMONSTRATION AT BIRMINGHAM. The Open Air Meeting. r The great open-air demonstration in favour of Par- liamentary Reform took place at Birmingham on Monday. Soon after the vote of the House of Commons which resulted in the retirement of the late Ministry, it was determined that a demonstration of this kind should take place; in order, as it was said, that the true sentiments of the mass of the people of this town should be fully known, and that the people ia other parts of the country might be induced to kindred action. Soon after nine o'clock on Monday morning the teeming population began to muster for the rally the divisions from the auxiliary branches of the Re- form League in the district came in early. Coventry, Oldbury, Smethwick, West Bromwich, Dudley, Nun- eaton, Bilston, Kidderminster, Stourbridge, Kings- norton, Stafford and Wolverhampton, all contributed to the gathering multitude. At nearly all the manu- factories work was abandoned for the day, the various trade societies and co-operative societies of every class joined heartily and spontaneously in the movement and no element to mar success was interposed from any quarter. A few minutes before twelve o'clock the Mayor (Mr. Edwin Yates) arrived at the central rendezvous, the Town-hall. His worship was received with applause, as were also Mr. Bright, Mr. Scholefield, Mr. Edmond Beales, Mr. Mason Jones, and other leaders of the popular party, who followed. A preliminary con- ference between the joint committees of the Reform League and the Liberal Association was soon afterwards held, but no business of importance was transacted. Meanwhile the streets were filling rapidly with an eager but orderly crowd. It had been arranged that the procession should move in six divisions—the first to consist of the great body employed at the Metro- politan and other carriage building works, and the Birmingham jewellers; the second comprised the Mayor, the borough members, the aldermen and town councillors, the members of the Liberal Association and of the Reform League: the third, of the auxiliary branches of the Reform League; the fourth, the Birmingham and district trade societies; the fifth, the temperance societies; and lastly, the ^friendly and other societies. They were to move from six different points, and rendezvous at the Town-hall. To marshal suoh a mighty body as was assembling required some skill, and could not have been done in the narrow streets and avenues of a town bat for the spirit of order and discipline shown by the closely packed crowds who lined the way. By a quarter to one o'clock Mr. Glosaop, the chief of polios, had got his array into order and marching trim. There was a long line of carriages in a narrow street by the side of the Town-hall, in which some of the principal guests took seats, and they did so without the least delay and inconvenience. A few minutes before one o'clock the procession started. A mounted force of the police was in attendance to preserve the line; but the people did that for themselves. The route taken was through the principal thoroughfares, and the dis- tance traversed to Brookfield was about two miles and a quarter. Throughout the whole of that space, and every avenue loading to it, was one dense mass of people; every window, and parapet, and balcony, was filled with people. From every window streamed gay colours, blue greatly preponderating. There were scores of banners of the trade societies, many baads of music playing, and every accessory to produce a scene which it would be very difficult to describe. Brookfields, where this great gathering was to halt, is just without the borough of Birmingham, in the county of Stafford; it is a plot of some 50 acres, abut- ting on the Great Western Railway. The procession reached this at two o'clock, in perfect order, a large portion of the ground having been previously occupied by those who had not chosen to join the moving mass. Unfortunately the ground was barely reached before there came down a pelting storm, which lasted full 20 minutes, but which the people bore with remarkable good humour; but even after it had passed over the effect of the spectacle was much marred. It was a splendid sight notwithstanding, for over a space of fully a quarter of a mile from the crest of the rising ground, was to be seen one dense mass of people, eagerly listening to the orators ab the half-dozen plat- forms which had been prepared for the purpose. Then the air rung with the great huzzas (as it had done at every stoppage in the streets on the way through the town), and the sentiments uttered by each of the speakers were received with the warmest acclamations. Mr. Mason Jones, Mr. J. S. Wright, Mr. Bea,les, and many other gentlemen spoke, and from each platform the following resolutions were put and carried unani- monfily:-I. "That the present House of Commons has, by its rejection of the very moderate measure of Parliamentary Reform proposed by the lata Go- vernment, proved itself utterly unworthy of our confidence and support, and that it in no sense represents the wishes of the commons of Great Britain. We, therefore, hereby pledge ourselves to demand, agitate for, and use all lawful means to ob- tain registered residential manhood suffrage, as the only just basis of representation, and the ballot to protect us from undue influence and intimidations in elections." 2. That this meeting tenders its warmest and most grateful thanks to the Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, John Bright, Esq., John Stuart Mill, Esq,, and all the other' true friends of Reform, who throughout the late discussions in Parliament vindicated the character and protected the rights of the people." 3. That this meeting presents its sin- cere thanks to Mr. Beales and the other members of the Reform League, for their exertions in defence of the right of public meeting, and of the true principles of Reform—Residential and Registered Manhood Suf- frage." Mr. Bright and Mr. Scholefield were present, but did not speak. Meeting at the Town-hall. In the evening a meeting was held in the Town- hall, for the purpose of presenting addresses to Mr. Scholefield and Mr. Bright. Mr. Edwin YL6tes (the Mayor) presided. Both Mr. Bright and Mr. Scholefield were enthusi- astically received by their constituents, who filled every portion of the large hall. The whole of the audience rosa as they entered, and cheered again and again for several minutes. The Mayor briefly opened the proceedings. He con- gratulated the meeting on the success of the open-air demonstration in the afternoon, which he hoped would at last convince the opponents of Reform that the people of England were in earnest on this question. Mr. George Dickson moved, and Mr. Lampard, a non-elector, seconded the addresses to Mr. Scholefield and Mr. Bright. Mr. E. Beales, who supported the motion, was most warmly received. He cordially thanked them for the manner in which he had been received. It was, he said, a more than sufficient recompense for the insults and calumnies with which he had been assailed by the upholders of class legislation for maintaining the rights of the people (cheers). The legislature, as at present constituted, was a mockery of the rights of the unrepresented millions. For having warmly supported the rights of the people, and taken part in an agitation of no ordinary character, he was no longer revising barrister for the county of Middlesex (cries of "Shame! ") His object was to secure to the people the rights accorded to them by the constitution of their country, which in statute after statute ordained that no laws should be passed or taxa- tion levied without the assent of the whole common- wealth. He bore strong testimony to the qualities of Mr. Bright as a statesman and an orator, who had de- voted his great talents and his whole hfe to the ser- vice of his countrymen. If there waa one man more than another who had done hia best to maintain all that was valuable in the institutions of his country, that man was John Bright (cheers). The addresses, which were carried by acclamation, and presented by the Mayor, were as follows :— To "WILLIAM SCHOLEFIELD, ESQ., M.P. Sir,-On behalf of the Liberal electors and non-electors of Birmingham, we desire to take this opportunity of pub. licly recognising the great services you have rendered to the town of Birmingham, especially in connection with the Liberal cause. Independently of your personal claims to our gratitude, you, sir, have a hereditary claim to the con- fidence of the Liberals of Birmingham. You bear a name long and worthily honoured in our political annals. As the friend and associate of Thomas Attwoo/i, your father was one of the founders of that great political union which virtually carried the Reform Bill of 18313, and when, by that measure, Birmingham was for the first time admitted to the right of representation in Parliament, your father was unallimously selected as the worthy colleague of Thomas Attwood in the Reformed House of Commons. Throughout your public life, you, sir, have trodden worthily in the steps of your father. Thirty-four years ago, in the first Beform campaign, Joshua Scholefield was one of the trusted leaders of the political union and now, in this second struggle for Eeform, nSr!v occupies an equally honourable position. It is now nearly 20 years since you were elected to represent this borough m Parliament During the whole of that lengthened period you have deservedly commanded and fully received the con- fidence and respect of your constituents. Elected as a Liberal, you have abundantly justified the choice by your unvarying, earnest, and consistent support of all Liberal measures, especially those designed to extend the liberties of the people, by correcting the anomalies of the eonstitu- tion, and conferring the franchise upon the industrial classes, now excluded from their just share in the govern- ment of this country. For these services we heartily and earnestly thank you, in the name of the Liberals of Bir- mingham. "We assure you that the confidence reposed in you 20 years ago not only remains unabated, but increases with the lapse of years; and we earnestly pray that, re- stored to perfect health, you may long be spared to continue your services as the representative of Birmingham, and to witness the triumph of the great cause which you have so honourably, consistently, and earnestly supported. To JOHN BRIGHT, ESQ., DI.P. Sir,—The meeting which has been held to-day—in its objects, occasion, and circumstances recalling the great fi- assemblies held in this town 34 years ago—affords us a fitting opportunity to address you ou the present aspect of the question of reform; and on the distinguished part you have taken in this and all other movements of the Liberal party, during the whole period of your public life. After repeated pledges, made only to be broken, we nave lately witnessed the introduction into the House of Commons of a moderate but honest measure fur the extension of the franchise. We have also witnessed the rejection of that measure by the combination of the Tory party with certain pretended Liberals. As the consequence of rejection we have witnessed the fall of a Liberal Government, and the acces- sion of a Conservative minority to office, but not to power. Therefore, in common with the Liberal paity throughout the country, we have felt ourselves compelled to re- commence a labour which we lately hoped had ap- proached its termination-the labour of obtaining from Parliament a substantial measure of reform, in re- cognition of the just rights of the unenfranchised classes. Without detracting from the claims of other statesmen who have laboured to bring about salutary mea- sures of Parliamentary Reform, we turn to you as the representative of this great cause, and as the espeeial advo- cate and leader of your unenfranchised count'ymen. The whole tenor of your pubhc lifainspires us with "ratitude for what you have done, and with perf, et confidence in your future course. Whoever else may prove false to the cause of the people, you will always remain true in the time to come as you have been true in times past. We turn, there- fore, to you as to one who has never forgotten his promises or denied his principleand who never can betray the cause to which his life has been devoted. We should trespass too greatly upon your time, do violence to your feelings, were we to recount ever so briefly the services which you have rendered to your constituents and your country. The page of history will record your plea for justice to India, your sympathy with misgoverned Ireland, your ceaseless efforts to promote the welfare and to broaden the freedom of Great Britain. From the moment you entered upon public life until now, you have been the advocate of all Liberal measures-of free trade, of financial economy, of non-intervention, of a free press, of religious liberty, of Parliamentary reform. So far as these have been accom- plished, we owe them greatly to your labours; so far as they have yet to be achieved, we look to you as their most prominent and most efficient advocate. In common with millions of your countrymen, we feel towards you sentiments of gratitude and affection which can be but faintly expressed in words. With eloquence unsurpassed, with energy unri- valled, with devotion unyielding, at all times and under all circumstances, undismayed by opposition, uninfluenced by calumny, yon have nobly and consistently advocated the prin- ciples of right and justice towards all classes of your country- men. Though unadorned with titles, though neither endowed with nor seeking the honours and emoluments of office, you have reaped a reward higher and richer than these. You have earned the confidence of millions of your fello-wciti- zens you stand the trusted and acknowledged representa- tive of the people's cause. Enshrined in the gratitude and affection of your countrymen, your name will live as long as England shall endure-enrolled with those of Cobden, of Russell, of Gladstone, and of Peel, conspicuous in that glorious band of patriot statesmen, to whom it has been given- "Th' applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise; To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes." Mr. Scholefield, as senior member, thanked the audi. ence from the very bottom of his heart for the unan- imity with which they had voted the address just presented to him. He declared his firm adherence to reform, and assured the people that ere long they will ba under the guidance of such men as Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright, and not be governed by Tories. Mr. Bright, in an elaborate speech, denounced the present Government for opposing reform, and dwelt upon the rights and principles that the working men should have extended to them. He then pictured the political principles of Lord Derby, which he said were such as to lead him to despise the claims of five or six millions who are unrepresented in Parliament. The hon. gentleman concluded a speech which occu- pied more than an hour in the delivery in the follow- ing words :-You may work, you may pay taxes, may serve in the army and fight. Seventy thousand or more of your brethren are now living under the burn- ing sun of India, and twice as many more are serving in the ranks in different parts of the world; and you, the body of the people from whom these men are drawn, are not considered worthy to do so simple an act as to give a vote in your great town for your present or for any future representative (loud cheers). You are to have ne vote no share in the Government the country you live in is not to be your country. You are to be like the coolies or Chinese imported into the West Indies or California. You are to work, but you are not to take root in the country, or to consider the country as your country; and, in addition to all this refusal of the commonest rights of the constitu- tion, you are insulted by the cheers of a great party given to the language which I have read to you to-night. Yon are to be told that you are so ignorant, and so venal, and so drunken, and so impulsive, and so unre- flecting, and so disorderly, that it is not even safe to skim as it were the very cream of you, to the number of 116,000—(cheers)— or it may be 204,000-to vote for members of the House of Commons. This is the Tory theory, this is the faith of Lord Derby,- and I am not saying one word that is in exaggeration of the truth, for I have heard them over and over again voci- ferously cheer sentiments such as I have described. Now the Government that has been overturned was certainly a very different Government. Lord Rasseli has no fear of freedom. The Government that was led by Lord liussell in one House and by Mr. Gladstone— (cheers)—in the other, was founded and acted upon the principle of trust and confidence in the people. Some said there was no great difference be- twesn the Derby Government and the Russell Go- vernment. Lord Derby asked Lord Clarendon to take office in his Government (laughter). There is some- thing shoaking in the very audacity and effrontery of that offer. Lord Clarendon was an eminent Minister of a Government that brought in a bill which the Tory party declared subversive of the constitution, and then Lord Derby asked Lord Clarendon to keep the Foreign Office in the new Government The Government of Lord Derby in the House of Commons, sitting all in a row, reminds me of a number of amusing and ingenious gentlemen who I dare say some of you have seen and listened to—-Christy's Ministrels (laughter and cheers). The Cnrlsty s Minstrels, if I am not misinformed, when they are clean washed are white men; but they come before the audience as black as the blackest negro, and by this transformation it is expected that their jokes and tneirsongs will be more amusing to the audience. The Derby Minstrels (loud laughter) pretend to be Liberal and wfaito; but the fact is, if you come near them and examine iihem closely, you will find them to be just as biack and curly as the Tories have ever been. I do not know, and I will not pretend to say, which of them it is that plays the banjo (laughter). But 1 have no doubt that in their manoeuvres to keep in office during the coming session we shall know something more about them than we do at present. In point of fact, when they pretend to be Liberals they are usurpers and impostors (hear, hear). Their party will not allow them to be liberal, and the party only exists npon the principle on which they have acted in til their past history—of resisting and rejecting every proposition of a liberal character submitted to Parlia- ment (hear, hear). Now, what is this Derby principle ? It is the shutting out of much more than three-fourths —live-sixths, and even more than five-sixths ef the people from the exercise of constitutional rights. If any of you take ship and goes to Canada, he will find tha Derby principle utterly repudiated; but in Canada there is no uprooting of institutions, and no distinc- tion of property, and there is no absence of order, or of loyalty. If you go to Australia, you will find there that this Derby principle is unknown; yet there reigns' order as it is iu this country, contentment with the institutions of the colonies, and regard for law and for property. If you go to those great and glorious colonies ef this country, the United States of America (eheers)-there you will find the people exhibiting all the virtues which, belong to the greatest nations on the face of the earth; there you will find a people passing through a, tremendous war, a tremendous revo- lution, with a eondact, and a, success, with a generosity and a magnanimity, which have roused and attracted the admiration of the world (l<ud cheers). As you come to Europe, you will find in the republic of Switzerland, in the kingdoiag of Holland and Bel- <. gium, in Norway, in Sweden, in France, and now you are about to witness in Germany also, a wide-spread exercise of the franchise hitherto in our time unknown in this country; and neither emperor, nor king, nor noble believes that his authority, his interest, or his greatness, or the happiness of any one of his country- men, will be jeopardised by the free admission of the people to their constitutional privileges (cheers). In Germany a vote is to be given to every man of 25 years and upwards, so that, if we were to propose a measure that would give a vote to every man of 25 years and upwards in this country, we should be in advance of the great country of Northern Germany, which is now being established. What is it that we are come to in this country, that which is being rapidly conceded in all parts of the world is being persistently and obstinately refused here in England. In the home of Freedom, the mother of Parliament- England, of which one of her poets has said— "Though o'er our heads the frozen pleiades shine, 'Tis liberty that crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile" In this England five millions of grown men, represent- ing more than twenty millions of the population, are to be persistently denied that which makes the difference between despotism and freedom all the world over (cheers). I venture to say that this cannot last very long. How does it stand at this moment, that the noble and illustrious lady who sits on the throue of England—(cheers, and cries of "God save the Queen") —she whose gentle hand wields the sceptre over the wide empire of which we are the heart and the centre —she was not afraid of the franchise which the late Government introduced during the late session ? Seven times, I think, by her own lips or by her pen, she has recommended to Parliament the ad. mission of a large number of working men to the Parliamentary franchise, if this proposal was so destructive would not the Queen be the first to discover it; and if the bill of last session was so sub- versive, would the thirty millions of the people of the United Kingdom not have been able to produce a single meating in condemnation of it P Look at the middle classes of your towns; they are by a vast majority in favour of it. Look at the meeting of to-day; the whole of the middle classes of Birmingham have sym- pathised with the proceedings of this day. If we go to the House of Commons—although it is elected, as I have said, by the landlords' compulsion in the counties, and by corruption, intimidation, and tumult in the boroughs.—Do not suppose that I am charging the House of Commons with what it does not itself admit and acknowledge. Have you read the reports of the commission for Yarmouth ? Did you not read that a late member for that borough is said to have spent no less than £ 70,000 to maintain his seat ? Did you read that one gentleman, the inferior partner of a brewery unbeknown, as Mrs. Gamp would say, spent .24,000 for the election of his senior partner?—that another person, knowing nothing of the borough, went down and spent X-6,000 to contest it in a few days ? But do these things only happen in Yarmouth, or any other borough that is brought before the public ? It is only the sample of a very considerable sack, and for every borough which is theirs there are probably 10 or 20 other boroughs which are, to a very large extent in the same condemnation. But, notwithstanding this, the Parliament of England at this moment is about equally divided, and about half of the House was in favour of the late bill. Well, if this be so, what is there wanting in this poising and balancing of the scale ? It only wants that the working men of England should boldly throw their influence into the side which is for their interest, and that side will prevail. Now you have before you to-night my friend Mr. Beales, and you have the National Reform League, whose head- quarters are in London. Mr. Beales knows-you know-that I have preferred that the franchise should be established on what I consider to be the ancient principle of the country. I am not afraid of the prin- ciples of the Reform League. I have no fear of man- hood suffrage, and no man is more a friend of the ballot than I am. It is a great cause which is offered to your notice to-night, and it is a grand and noble flag under which you are asked to enlist yourselves. Now, what I would recommend you to do is this-and I imagine myself to be at this moment speaking in the hearing of every intelligent and sober and thoughtful working man in the three kingdoms—let us try to move on together, let us not split hairs on this question; let us do as your forefathers did 34 years ago; let us have associations everywhere; let every workshop and every factory be a reform association; let there be in every one of them a correspondent or a secretary who shall enrol members, and shall in every way lie can assist this great and noble cause. I would recommend that the passages I have read from that celebrated and unhappy speech should be printed on cards, and that a card should be hung up in every factory and in every workshop, and in every room of every factory, and in every club-house, and, in fact, in every place where working men are accustomed to assemble. Let us raise the spirit of the people against these slanderers of a great and noble nation (loud cheers). There will come soon another election (renewed cheers). The working men may not be able to vote, but they can form them- selves into a powerful body, and they can throw their influence in every borough on the side of candidates who pledge themselves to the question of Reform; and, if they do this, depend upon it the will change -y many seats, and give a certain majority for Reform in the next Parliament. It may be necessary and desirable to meet Parliament again with petitions from all parts of the country, signed by numberless names. There is no effort whish the constitution and which morality permits us to use that we should leave unused and unmade for the purpose of furthering this great cause; and let us ba sure of this, that we demand that the question of Reform shall only be dealt with by a Government honestly in favour of Reform. The address which has been presented to mo has referred to the time of 1832. I remember that time well. My young heart then was stirring by the trumpet blast that sounded from your midst. There was no part of this kingdom where your voice a, was not heard., And let it sound again (cheers). Stretch out your'hand to your countrymen in every portion of the three kingdoms, and. ask them to join a great and righteous effort on behalf of that freedom which has so long bean the boast of Englishmen, but which the majority of Englishmen have never yet pos- sessed (cheers).^ I shall esteem it au honour which my words cannot describe, and which even in thought I cannot measure, if the population which I am per- mitted to represent should do its fall duty iu the great struggle which is before us (cheers, and cries øf -,It will!") Remember the great object for which we strive. Care not for calumnies and for lies. Olir object is_ this, to restore the British Constitution, and with all its freedom, to the Bcitish people. The hon. gentleman, after speaking an hour, resumed his seat amidst the loudest demonstration of applause, the cheering and waving of hats and handkerchiefs lasting several minutes. A vote of thanks to the strangers who had kindly assisted at the morning demonstration was acknow- ledged by Mr. Aarori Jones, and the usual vote to the Mayor for his courtesy is presiding brought the pro- ceedings to a termination. 0
BPITOMB OF MEWS.
BPITOMB OF MEWS. A manhood suffrage association has been formed in Leeds. There is a new provision in a recent Act with res- pect to hackney carriages. A penalty of £ 5 is incurred by a driver, a-id .£10 if the driver is the owner, of a hackney carriage not authorised by license to be used on a Sunday, etanding for hire within the metropolitan police or the City of London on a Sunday. Collision at Sea. The screw-steamer Fairy Queen, laden with cattle, has brought the crew of the Dutch galliot Herman and the master's wife into the Tyne, the Fairy Queen having sunk the Herman off the Tyne on Sunday, by striking her on the starboard side, which sank her in a few minuted. The crew of .the galliot had a narrow escape from being drowned. The opening of the Kalisch Canal has just taken place. It passes through Cairo, and' spreiida l-tsel with its different ramifications, over a great part ol the provinces which border the eastern bank of the Daml- etza branch of the Nile. The Suffolk Child Murder.-Mr. J. Alloway. governor of the Suffolk county gaol, has received a communication from the Homo Secretary, granting a reprieva to Hannah Colthorpe, the young woman under sentence of .death for the murder of her ilffwiti- mate child, at Sproughton, near Ipswioh. ir October, T ISoo. She is to oe kept in penal servitude daring the term of her natural life. According to a Greenock paper, the appren- tice lads is. the carpentering department ef Messrs. Caird's shipbuilding yard" struck," because a man had been employed who they considered was not entitled to work there. This person left the place, and the apprentices returned to their duty. Joseph Dismore, in the employ of Mr. Hender- son, of Rotherhithe, was working a barge down the river Thames, when passing under London-bridge the craft struck against one of the piers, the force of which concussion jerked him overboard and he sank and was drowned. It is estimated that since the commencement of the manufacture of locomotives in Newcastle nearly 3,000 of them have been made in that district, and of these upwards of 1,000 have been exported. Taking the average cost at X2,000 each, it would result that the value of this branch of manufacture to Newcastle alone has not been less than £ 6,000,000. On Monday a large cotton and woollen mill at Greetland, near Halifax, belonging to the Victoria Mill Company, and in the joint occupation of several firms, was destroyed by fire, the damage being esti- mated at £ 10,000. The workpeople were at the mill when the flames were observed, but they all escaped without injury, notwithstanding the alarm and con- fusion which followed the discovery of the fire. The adjourned inquest on the body of the boy Jefiferys, who was found hung in a cellar in St. Giles's, was resumed on Wednesday. A letter was read from the Home Office, explaining that the Government could not offer a reward for the apprehension of the boy's father until the jury had returned a verdict of wilful murder against him. The jury then found a verdict of wilful murder against Richard Jefferys, the boy's father. A Fatal Mistake.—A boy named Thomas Hay, of Leeds-road, Huddersfield, employed at Messrs. Joshua Schofield and Sons, manufacturers, got out of the upper storey, the other day, intending to go down by the hoist. He got hold of the iron at the top of the hoist, which is a circular one, and then dropped down, but instead of going down inside as he intended, he fell outside, a depth of five storeys, and died from the injuries in 15 or 20 minutes. The deceased was 15 years of age. Whitebait in the River Liffey, Dublin.—Mr. W. Brabazon, author of The Deep Sea and Coast Fisheries of Ireland," has made the agreeable dis- covery that whitebait in abundance is to be found in the River Liffey, Dublin. It appears that boys have been up to the present in the habit of catching them with a minnow hook, that they are to be found in large quantities along the banks of the river, and that the fishermen, always looking upon them as fry, have not even attempted to take them. Singular Case of Suicide at Etruria.—A young man named Abraham Powell, 18 years of age, shot himself in the head in Etruria Woods on Sunday evening. He left the home of his father, a commission agent at Hanley, in July last, and nothing was heard of him by his parents till Monday morning, when they received a letter addressed by him from Liverpool appointing to meet him in the woods. It appeared he arrived at Etruria by a train from Liverpool late on Sunday evening, and spent the afternoon at an inn there, where he stated that he had been travelling over great part of America, and produced a stiletto and a six-chambered revolver. He also threatened to blow the landlord's brains out. He was conveyed. to the North Staffordshire Infirmary, where he died on Mon- day morning. The Late Suicide of a Man Unknown.— The man who committed suicide in M'Guinness'a eating-house, Dale-street, Liverpool, has been identi- fied as William Cooper, 25 years of age, a grocer's assistant, at Wigan. His sister at the inquest de- posed :—" He suddenly went off at noon on the day he killed himself at Liverpool, without assigning any reason. He has been keeping company with a young lady at Tamworth for some time, and I think she must have trifled with him, which has preyed upon his mind, for I know he loved her." Two Men Killed.—On Friday morning two men, named James Doyle and George Roberts, miners, were killed by a fall of coal in the California Pits belong- ing to the Earl of Dudley. The men were engaged in loading a skip," when nearly, 20 tons of coals sud- denly fell from the roof of the pit, crushing both men in the most frightful manner. Doyle at tha moment was standing near the skip, and one of the iron bands placed to keep the coal in its proper position, fell across his neck, completely severing the head from the body. Eton College.—At the election the school numbered 339 scholars, being 20 in advance of last year. Among the sons of the nobility were the Mar- quis of Stafford, Earls Elgin, Pembroke, R in furl y, Waldegrava, Guildford, Offaley, and Charlevilie; Lards Wodehouse, Clifton, F. Gordon-Lennox, H. Somerset, H. A. Somerset, Duulnce, Mansers, Lewis- ham, Godrich, Reidhaven, Macdonald, Seaham, Bel- grave, Bernard. Stopford, A. Kennedy, Rossmore, Inverury, and R. Graham; thirty Miaters, and three Sirs. Approaching Marriages in High Life.—It is said that a marriage is arranged and will shortly take place between Mr. Henry Arthur Herbert, of Muck- ross, Killarney, and M.P. for ICerry, and the Hon. Emily Keane, only child of Lord and Lady Keatie. iu is also reported that a marriage is arranged to take place immediately between. George Malcoxnson, Esq., of Old Court, near Waterford, and the young aDd beautiful widow of the late Arthur ITssher Roberts, Esq. A marriage is arranged to .take place between the Hon. Augustus M. Cathc&rt and the Hon. Jean Orde Powiett, only daughter of Lord Bolton. IVew Zealand's Wants.—The census returns show, as all the preceding statistics ot the colony have done, that the great want is a very large infusion of robust, vigorous, and industrious womea. We find that the number of males of European descent in New Zealand in December, 1864, was-exclusive of the military—106,508, or 61.91 per cent, of the whole popu- lation. The number of females was 65,578, or 3S.09 per cent. Steps ought to be taken by the various emigration agents throughout the country to supply the colony with honest, virtuous, and able-bodied women. The Bishop Designate, of lTelson.On San- day the Rev. Andrew Bern Suter, M. A., the incumbent of All Saints Church, Mile-end New Town, preached his farewell sermon to his congregration on his ap- proaching consecration as Bishop of Nelson, New Zealand, The Bishop Designate addressed the from whom he is about to part in the words of Matthew's Gospel, What think ye of Christ ? rev. gentleman was educated at Trinity College, Cl-,tl- bridge, where he graduated in 1853, when he> w s twenty-seventh senior optima in the mataem tripos. He was ordained in 1856 by the -fis -P> London to the curacy of St. Dunstan s-in- J, Fleet-street, in. 1859 was presented by P to the incumbency of All Saints, Mila-end. A frightful accident occurred on Monday at the Belley Paper Mitis, about » nad -WmJbne city of Durham. A yonner girl,- named fifteen, years, who had been employed utth" went mto dusting rooca to show pokiou & B8w machine which had. recently bee:n erected. The young woman cautioned her -<? S 1 9 raacame, bat this caution was disregarded, and same portion of her wearing apparel being cangl lU te Machinery, she was instantly drawn m and cut to pseces. When the machine had baen stopped a most sickening spectacle presented itself. The 8 head and arms were com- pletely severed from the trunk, and she was otherwise so fearfully mangled tuat the remains could scarcely fee recognised as shosa ot a human baing. Double Explosion at Hartlepool.-On Satur- day morning au took place on board the schooner Wingate Grange, Captain Clarke, of Hartle- pool, at present lying is. tho Victoria dock of that port. The vessel had wdy been in the dock two days, and had token in a cargo of Shottea gas coal. By the ex- plosion George Levrie, aged 24, a was seriously burnt abanf the head and hands,, but his injuries are not likely to prove fatal. The vessel was ready for sea on Sunday morning, and the orew were preparing 1;0 move her, when another and more serious explosion took place. The decks were torn up some distance, and the flames rose to the height of the masts. A seaman named William Hanley, aged 19, was very such, hurt about the face and hands. He was con- veyed to the hospital, as Levrie had been on the pre. vious day. The vessel has sustained considerable dac-i.age by explosion, and will have to discharge for repairs. {.Wilful Child Murder.-The adjourned inquest on the body of a. female child, aged two months, that wm found dead, having been suffocated by a bandage r.ied round the nose and mouth, on the step of a house, Nfo. 6, Eton-road, Hampstead, was resumed on Tuesday a .'moon, by Dr. Lankester, 'at the Elephant and C,BfeIe. It was: stated that the endeavours of, the police to trace either of the parents of the child had been without avail. The coroner remarked that this was exceedingly singular, as some one must be aiding and abetting the murderer or murderers. It was im- possible that a child could have lived two months without being known to some one other than the parents. Verdict, "Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown." There were two other inquests at the same place on children, ene of whom had also been murdered, and the other had died through the neglect of the nurse to whom it was entrusted. A Troubled I-Ioneymoon.-A girl 18 years of age, and her husband, a youth of 20, named Richard- son, h&ve been given into custody by the father of the former, on a charge of robbing him of .£60 in bank notes. They appeared at the session at Torrington, near Wisbech, and the principal witness was Zaohariab Randall, the prosecutor. He said that his daughter was married the day before (Sunday) at Wisbech, and that whilst they were in his houae after the marriage he missed twelve X5 bank notes which he had put in a drawer in his bedroom. He asked his daughter if she knew anything about the money, but she denied all knowledge of it, and then went out of the house with her husband. Both were apprehended a few hours after their wedding. Evidence was also given to show that they had bought goods and paid for them with bank notes of the same firm as those which prosecutor had placed in the drawer. Both prisoners were com- mitted for trial, the female being bailed out by her prosecuting parent. Gallant Rescue of a Lady from Fire.-A fire, which was very nearly attended with a fatal re* suit, baoka out about half-past three on Wednesday morning in the prsmises of Miss Pitts, 13, Lamb's Conduit-street. Tha whole of the inmates, except a lady named Emmeline Sarah Bedwell, on being arouse managed to effect their escape in safety; but she being in the third floor back room was unable to leave it owing to the density of the smoke. Conductor Last: of the Royal Fire Escape Society, after mounting his machine found her almost suffocated with the heated amoke. He instantly seized her, carried her from the third to the second floor, and the escape being in front of the building, handed her over to Conductor Thompson, who carried her down to the street in a very exhausted condition. The flameS were confined to the lower part of the premises. The fire was caused by an escape of gas. The property wBi1 insured. Narrow Escape of a "Fire Kinp-- The Journal de Rouen relates that two days back the in combustible man, known as the" Fire King," wilo going through one of his exhib,tions at Dieppe, dresse1 in his apparatus in the midst of a quantity Of burning fagots, when those which formed the vault over his head fell in. He staggered under the weight and went down, rose, and again came to the ground, and finally managed to get out of the flaulOOt but after making a few steps he fell a third tjme, almost suffocated. Immediate attention was paid to him, but his body was covered with severe burns. # French Fenians.—The Illustration of Paris Pn^ lishes an account purporting to come from Centre Stephens of the grand dinner given to him Paris by the Marquis de Boissy. A large party 0 senators, generals, and titled and decorated person- ages were invited to meet the Fenian. Before he conversed for a long time at a bay window Yiscount de la Guerroniere, in answer to whose tions he gave an account of his career. When chief butler announced Madame la Marquise servie," the marquis requested him to give his arm t° the Marchioness de Boissy to take her into dinnr. Stephens confesses to have blushed a little at this tinguished honour. At table he sat on the lady's rig'1 hand, and at dessert the Marquis' de Boiasv, getting 0 his legs, introduced him to the company as the flltur president of the Irish republic." Married Beneath Her.—At Wakefield Police, court the other day a miner, named William about 20 years of age, was summoned for allowing.'1 wife to become chargeable to the union. The wife person of very superior position to her husband, it was much against the wishes of her relatives, are persons of some social standing in the neighb" 0f hood of "Wakefield, that she had married him. AiLg living with her for a month he turned her pens''•* t from the house, on some trifling excuse, retaining a clothes and a large number of valuables ahehad br with her and her friends refusing to have aaytj11 further to do with her, she had been compelled to herself upon the parish. It was arrange", U Rotherey, who waa in receipt of 37s. a week) sh°a^ allow hia wife 8a. a week, which sum waa_ stated to P, barely, if at all, tha interest for the things she h brought him. Murderous Assaults with a Hammer- Daring the afternoon of Sunday a man and womf11' named Alfred Jones and Mary Daffy, and representing themselves to be man and wife, went to the Model Lodging-hoase, in Miilsands, Sheffield, kept by 91" Walker. They stated that they had been living a Doncaster, and had just come from RotherhaO" During the evening a man was seen more than oo lurking about the door, but little notice was iaka^^ him. ^At twelve o'clock Jones went upstairs to and the woman followed him. She had BC»^ c, reached the first landing, when the man, who had » seen near the door, rushed up to her and striking her over the head in a most mercu manner with a hammer he had. Jones sprang fro,o the second landing to protect her, but tha WOl11fLd assailant dealt him a tremendous blow over tha g< with the hammer, and sent him reeling md help e lld The woman's skull was fractured, and both she f!¡il# Jones are in the infirmary. The name of their j1,SS:Jt ant is James Green, a shoemaker. It appears y some time ago he cohabited with Daffy, but m quarrelled, and she left him, and has since been l-v with Jones. Green has been apprehended. On Tuesday evening,»n inquest wag held Prince of Orange Tavern, Brewer's-green, the death of a young woman *0 years old, and Jane Isabel Murpny. feme had been in service Arundel-street, Strand, and obtaining leave of abse» for a short time on banday week she stayed a* longer than was intended, and then refused to retu at all. She took lodgings near her father's house Hemlock, street, Lincoln's-inn-fieM 3, and waa there about midnight on Monday last week, talki^ with her young 'man." On Tuesday morning young mm saw her again, and after thafc she onssing. About eight o'clock on Sunday morlU a park constable, on duty in St., James's-patk, s* 0t body of the girl in the water there. She had no on, and there was no money in her pockets. In °. a pair of black kid gloves a piece of parchn'O" It f°und, having her father's address written upon was evident that the body had been in the<( j several days. A verdict waa returned, stating deceased had been found drowned, but that there no evidence to show how she got in the water. A Borough Member on the Malt Tax-^ „ George TomJine, M.P. for Shrewsbury, has & letter to the chairman of the proposed Shrops^y Chamber of Agriculture requesting that his name 0 be added to the list of members, and enclosiSp £ cheque for £ 100 in aid of the funds. On the subj of the malt tax Mr. Tomltne Bays "My Btituents, who are working men, p *y a tax or I0o cent, on their beer, supposing it to be made or *V,j, ana hops. This is easily proved. I have barley I will sell at 21s. 8d. a quarter. wi.h to mal' g The duty is 21s. 8d. That is 100 per eenc. WOT* men cannot know this. The anon} mons writers press drink their claret almost tc« free. Is ia i worth their while to mention the subject of they are silent. Mr. Gladstone, we have seen, upLflf. this style of free trade, but I thmk it ia unfair. t organisation, I trust, will help to reform this abuse, and obtain free trade for the working & whether he work in a town or in the country." Intemperance, Indigence, and Over crop. ing.—A sab-committee appointed recently W a 0> town council of Liverpool to investigate the eau8^ the excessive mortality of the town have the health committee that the chief causes assig^r; for the excessive mortality were intemperance, 1n gence, and over-crowding. As a remedy the mifctee suggested the provision of decent dwelling3 the working classes, the opening up of close and fined courts, and encouragement of cleanliness w securing1' an ample supply of pure water, and the stitute of water-closets for the open privies. 1b Bub-oommittee also recommended- that the cOlbO should be asked to apply to Parliament for an Ac; t: ;■ control the sale of exciseable liquors, in ordar to cleo t if possible the spread of drunsennees. The nuilbe of deaths registered in the borough of Liverpool^irifs the week ending tha 18th of August were 51i, in crease of 200 over the corrected average of th 1^B ten years. i