Flintshire Observer Mining Journal and General Advertiser for the Counties of Flint Denbigh

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT In the HOUSE OF LORDS, August 5, the Earl of Northbrook presented a petition from Calcutta on the subject of the recent increase of taxation, and of the public works and military expenditure. It was not at present desirable, he thought to reduce the Indian army, but rather to impose additional taxes on the natives, though the former was if possible, the better alternative. The increase on public works expenditure was probably wise if it arose from famine, but it should be watched in order to prevent undue extension, the Salt Tax did not, he considered, press unfairly on the people. His lordship asked whether the Government proposed to guarantee the Indian revenues as security for the construction of railways in Asia Minor. Viscount Cranbrook, without pledging himself on the point, could only say that no proposal as to the construction of railways in Asia Minor would be entertained without due consultation with the authorities both in India and at home. He did not see his way clear to propose any appreciable re- duction of the Indian army, and as to public works he agreed 'that too much care could not be exercised as to expenditure, though there was certain works that must be maintained and continued, specially those railways which had been found of so much service of late years in forwarding supplies to the lamine districts. Lord Napier of Magdala thought-tap Indian army could not be further reduced with safety, and that it would be false economy not to complete railway communications so much desired, or neglect the prosecution of public works necessary to meet ever-recurring famines. The subject dropped after a formal motion for papers had been agreed to. A short discussion took place on the Tenant Right (Ire- land) Bill, which, on a division, was thrown out by 25 to 8. The Highways Bill and the Duke of Connaught's Annuity Bill passed through committee, and having agreed to the Commons' amendment to the Roads and Bridges (Scotland) Bill, their lordships rose at half-past eight o'clock. In the HOUSE OF COMMONS, in reply to Mr. Hayter, Colonel Stanley said the amount taken in the Supplemen- tary Estimates on account of the occupation of Cyprus was 410,000 for Staff, £ 25,000 for works, and iC40,000 for stores. In reply to Mr. C. B. Denison, Mr Bourke said that the British Ambassador at St. Petersburg has been instructed to make inquiries of the Russian Government as to the purpose Of the expedition to Balkh. On going into Committee of Supply, Mr. Gorst called at- tention to the circumstances under which a native of Tanna was executed in September last on board her Majesty's ahip Beagle, and a .discussion ensued thereon, in which the Attorney-General, Sir C. Dilke, the Solicitor-General, Sir William Harcourt, Mr. W. H. Smith, Mr. Hopgood, and Sir E. Wilmot took part; Sir G. Campbell also called attention to the excessive loss in the Indian exchanges by depreciation in the value of silver, and after Sir M. Hicks-Beach had answered some questions from Sir C. Dilke relating to the affairs of Perak, the House went into Committee of Supply. I Lord G. Hamilton, in moving the Education Vote for England and Wales, stated its amount at £ 2,149,000, which, taking into account the Supplementary Estimate, is an Increase of L178,000 on last year. The increase was due, be said, almost entirely to the larger amount of grants earned-viz, 9168,304, representing an increased attend- ance in day schools of R,140,000 children, and in night schools of 16,000, although the addition was caused not merely by increased attendances, but also by in- creased efficiency. In the last school year the accom- modation had increased by 227,000 places, making a total accommodation of 3,626,000, and the number of schools in- spected rose from 14,273 to 15,187. Of these 10,472 were con- nected with the Church of England, 1,974 were Protestant Dissenters, 657 Roman Roman Catholics, and, 2,082 Board schools. He mentioned next the satisfactory progress visible In the supply of teachers, and, dealing with the agency by which the improved attendances had been ef- fected, he pointed out that out of an entire popu- lation in England and Wales of 22,713,266, about 13,000,000 are under School Board jurisdiction and 9,700,000 under School Attendance Committees, and about 15,000,000 altogether are nnder by-laws of one authority or the other. Only two School Boards have been dissolved under the Act of 1876, and passing to the question of expenditure he mentioned that the voluntary subscriptions Kst year amounted to £ 786,000, the rates to £ 447,000, and the school pence to £ 1,138,000. The Vice-President next went into a minute comparison of the cost of maintaining children In Board schools and voluntary schools, bringing out the general result that a system of education by which the voluntary schools would be extin- guished would impose an additional burden on the rates of between six and seven millions sterling, and concluded with some remarkable' statistics illustrating the great Increase in every item of the vote since 1870. So Seat an advance, he contended, was never before made in e education of any country, and by pursuing the present policy of utilizing and combining the various agencies the system in a few years might be made equal to the ever- n creasing demands of the nation. After the usual discursive conversation ranging over the parious items, the vote was agreed to, as were also the votes for the Science and Art Department and other services in Class IV. Some other votes having been agreed to, progress was. reported, and the Orders were disposed of.

MURDER AND SUICIDE. A shocking affair is reported to have occurred in London on Tuesday afternoon in Ben Jonson's-road, Stepney.' It appears that a man named Wood has been for some time managing the business at the "Victory" publichouse there for a Mr. Griffiths, who has also another publichouse, the "Walnut Tree," close by. Lately Wood has been very peculiar in his manner, so much so that it was found necessary a short time back to put him under restraint. However, he got better and was thought fit to return to the manage- ment of the house. On Monday night, shortly after the house closed, he obtained possession of a double- barrelled gun which was kept in the place and fired a charge into the ceiling of one of the upstairs rooms. Afterwards he again got the gun and threatened to shoot the barman, who took refuge in a stable at the back of the, premises, whither Wood followed him and fired at him ashe was getting up into a loft. The charge did not take effect, but the shot penetrated the beam in the stable close by. About 1.30 the police were sent for, an(J Sergeant Smith of the Criminal In vestigation Department, accompanied by a constable, proceeded to the house. A man named Gregory, bar- man at the other house, the Walnut Tree," had come over to the Victory to see if he could do anything towards calming Wood. After the police got to the house, Gregory went into the back parlour, where Wood was sitting, land almost immediately a double report was heard. On Sergeant Smith and the constable rushing into the room, both Wood and the barman, Gregory, were found lying on the ground quite dead. Gregory had been shot through the heart, while Wood, appeared to have held the gun to his mouth and then by some means to have pulled the trigger, blowing his head half off. Dr. Comer was fetched, but his Aid was of no avail, as death in each case appeared to have been instantaneous. Wood is said to have been 40 or 13 years of age, Gregory being about 25.

JOCULAR CUTTINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS. And what did you think of Switzerland ? asked a lady of a young American belle, who had just made the tour. Pretty place, but it struck me there were too many lakes and too few young men." An American farmer, speaking of the thinness of his hay crop, said" The grasshoppers have all got lame trying to jump from one blade of grass to another. j Several days ago a couple of Brooklyn lovers went to the cemetery, drpnk a lot of laudanum, lay down in each others' arms, and prepared to die. The laudanum didn't work according to expectation, and the young lady has now brought a suit against him for breach of contract. In turn the young man is to sue the druggist for false pretences. And the cemetery association is to sue all three for trespass. The course of true love is coarse. Edison has perfected a fog-horn that can be heard ten miles, but has failed at an invention for getting his ser- vant up in the morning. A certain California schoolma'am is said to be able to sing hymns like a ten-octave angel." The fat girl of Iowa, who weighed six hundred pounds, is dead. It used to be her regretful remark that she never found a young man willing to marry because he could not support her. One of a party of Eastern men offered a half-dollar to a Nevada miner for showing them through the Nevada silver mines. He looked at the money a moment, and then turning to the Easterner said 11 May I ask how much you are estimated at home to be worth?" "About twenty-five thousand dollars," was the reply. Well," said the miner, I guess I won't take your half-dollar. I made a quarter of a million here last year." A melodious young man in the West had a fine tenor voice,'especially adapted to serenading young ladies and hollowing up dark alleys. He sang, I'm Lonely, Tonight, Love, Without you," and I'm Lonely Since My Grand- mother Died, for the Hand is Withered that Spanked me in Childhood's Hour," and other such sentimental songs, in which the sentiment of lonely always was the refrain, representing his desire to be no longer so. On a certain Avenue where wealth and aristocracy prevailed, he was in the habit of singing tSl his Lady Love, who would appear at the window in a white angelic attire, by some called politely negligee, demi-toilette, in fact a sort of half-angel, half night- gown. One night the stern parent, as the serenader thought,' threw a basin of water down on him; so far, however, from cooling his ardour, he returned the next night, hoisted an enormous umbrella, and proceeded again to touch the light guitar, with the same old request for a snowy hand," and so forth. Presently he heard a smile, and, drawing aside the umbrella, rapturouslyltooked up at the lattice. Sure enough there was the object of his affections ib her night-gown act, but by her side was a nice young man whom she had just married, and who was the water-thrower of the previous night. The serenader sold his umbrella, guitar, and other courting implements, and lighted out for another village.

IN MEMORY OF QUEEN MERCEDES! The Fiqaro announces that the King of Spain has decided on having an immense basilica raised over the remains of Queen Mercedes, (says the Paris correspondent of The Times). A sum of 1,000,000 reals will annually be deducted from the Civil List for its construction till the building is complete. The Due de Montpensier and the Princess of the Asturias have promised to furnish yearly 200,000 reals in aid of the, work. Lastly, the Due de Montpensier has broaght to Paris with him a letter from the King to Queen Isabella asking her to join in the project by handing over for the purpose the diamonds and jewels deposited in the Cathedral of Atocha which belong to her, and represent a sum of 15,000,000 reals—more than 3,000,000f. The Queen at once telegraphed as follows in reply "My son, the Due de Montpensier has just brought me your letter. I see that, like a Catholic King and a gentle- man, you seek consolation in God, and think of Mercedes in doing good to the capital. You are going to place her beloved remains at the feet of the Virgin beneath a magnifi- cent temple. Your mother, my child, not only permits the jewels of Atocha to be sold, but she blesses you and joins in your project—a project worthy of a King, a Christian, and a good husband. For this and everything count always, Alphonse, on the immense love, the support, and co-opera- tion of your mother, who wishes it to be known that, although at a distance, she is and always will be the same for Madrid, for Spain, and for her King.

EPITOME OF NEWS. BRITISH AND ROREIGN. The show at Dumfries of the Highland and Agri. cultural Society has proved to be the most successful the society has held out of Edinburgh or Glasgow. The receipts for the four days amounted to £ 3,304. Lancashire is now represented by three Cabinet Ministers—viz., Viscount Sandon, Colonel Stanley, and Mr. Cross. The Mayor of Liverpool, being desirous of com- memorating such a coincidence, has invited these three Ministers to a banquet, which is arranged to take place on Wednesday, the 21st Inst. In connection with the recent visit to the London Hospital of the Prince and Princess of Wales, their Itoyal Highnesses have been kind enough to forward a donation of 100 guineas to the Maintenance Fund" now being raised. Tuesday, the 6th, was the 33rd anniversary of the birth of the Marquis of Lome, K.T., the newly-appointed Governor-General of Canada. An inquest has beep held. at Maidstone on the body of Victor Bevis, aged nine years, who was drowned in the Med way. Deceased, accompanied by another lad, was play- ing oD, the banks of the Medway, and whilst giving chase to a butterfly fell into the river, and was drowned before as- sistance arrived. The jury returned a verdict of "Acci- dentally drowned." As a flock of sheep were being driven along the High-street of Chatham, one deliberately jumped through a plate-glass window at the shop of Mr. Church, draper. The animal smashed the greater portion to pieces without injuring itself, Twenty francs is charged for a quarter of an hour's ascent in the monster captive balloon at the Paris Exhibi- tion. Two-boys named Townley, aged twelve and four- teen, have been drowned in a millpond near Dumbarton, one of them in trying to save the other. A return has been issued of the political treaties concluded between Great Britain and Foreign Powers from 1839 to 1878. It shows that of the 58 treaties entered into during that period, only three were presented to Parliament prior to ratification. An inquest has been held at Hutton, near Brent- wood, upon the body of Samuel Peachey, aged seventy-five, who was attacked by a number of bullocks while crossing a field. The animals fell upon him with great fury, and before they could be driven off, they had broken his arm and several ribs. The medical witness attributed death to these injuries, and a verdict of "Accidental death was returned. The Berlin Congress continues to afford plentiful material for the foreign papers. Thus the German Klad- deradatsch depicts a tottering wall, inscribed "Peace," propped up by the backs of three bricklayers—Lord Beacons- field, Prince Gortschakoff, and Count Andrassy. How long will that wall last ?" sneers a passer-by. As long as we can support it," answer the three bricklayers. After nearly four years' linking, the Barnsley seam of coal has been reached at South Kirby Colliery, near Barns- ley, at a depth of 635 yards; consequently the colliery is the deepest in Yorkshire. The coal proved to be between seven and eight yards thick, and of splendid quality. Two large shafts have been sunk, and the colliery when developed will yield from 1,000 to 1,200 per day. During the late war it was found that to bind the feet in rags was far better for the soldiers on the march, than for them to indulge in the luxuries of socks or stock- ings. A sock after hard marching soon wears into a hole. and this causes blisters, which work into sores that may compel a man to fall out of the ranks. Rags, however, can be constantly shitted, and alter a little wear are quite as comfortable to the feet as stockings or socks." The Tatler in Pictorial World. The Daily News is informed that the Marquis of Lorne will not leave for Canada until after the elections in the Dominion have taken place. His arrival may, therefore, be looked for in November next. Lord Dufferin will pro- bably resign his government, and sail for England before his successor reaches Canada. In that event, according to pre- cedent, the functions of governor-general would be tempor. arily exercised by the commander-in-chief of the forces. The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges as Conscience Money" (in The Times) receipt of L3 from X.C.Z. for legacy duty. "The Parisians certainly outdo us in many of the arts, and in one art in particular. In Paris one occasionally meets with an imitation piano artistically made and orna- mented, which is no more and no less than a cabinet or cupboard. Oh! happy invention for those who hate the hideous strumming of boarding-school misses. To go to a house for a comfortable afternoon cup of Bohea, and then to find that though the drawing-room is full the piano must needs be silent—oh! happy, happy dream I vain, vain delu- sion of bliss that's not to be!"—The "Tatler" in Pictorial World. "It is the boast of the Roman Church that her highest oftices are open to any one who represents the pass- port of personal qualities. The son of a peasant may rise to be Cardinal and the equal of princes, or to be Pope and the equal of kings. "-Leader in The Times. At Windsor on Tuesday (6th) the 34th birthday of the Duke of Edinburgh was celebrated with the customary honours. In the early morning and at intervals throughout the day the bells of St. George's Chapel and St. John's Church pealed merrily, while salutes were fired from the artillery in the Long Walk and from Fort Belvedere and the Royal Adelaide frigate, Virginia Water. The birthday of the Duke of Edinburgh was celebrated at Portsmouth Docks by the hoisting of the Royal Standard at the garrison saluting battery and the main of the flagship and by the firing of salutes by the Duke of Wellington and the St. Vincent, and by the Euryalus, the guardship. At Cowes the whole of the masts of the men-of-war and harbour craft were dressed with flags. Monday's Magnet says Considerable progress has been made with the harvest in the southern counties. It is yet too early to speak with confidence as to the result, but there are indications that the yield will on the average prove good. Five quarters to the acre are spoken of in some districts, but the average cannot yet be ascertained. The quality and condition are mostly represented as being good." The Empress Eugénie for the last few days has been the object in Vienna of the most respectful attention both from official circles and from the inhabitants in general. The day after her arrival she received a visit from the Emperor and the Archduke Albrecht, while the chief State dignitaries, with Prince Hohenlohe, Count Andrassy, Prince Reuss, the German Ambassador, and Prince Metternich have also waited upon her. The Marquis of Lorne has issued an address to his constituents intimating his resignation of his seat in Parlia- ment for Argyleshire, and concluding as follows Your interests will, as hitherto, always be mine. It is only be- cause, through the favour of the Queen, I now have an opportunity of serving a country most dear to all in the United Kingdom that I gratefully resign the position you have allowed me to occupy." One of the heaviest storms witnessed for many years broke over Lincoln and the neighbourhood on Tuesday after- noon. The storm commenced shortly after three o'clock and lasted until six. Rain descended in torrents and was ac- companied by continuous thunder and lightning. A young man was struck by the fluid and rendered insensible; and in the lower part of the city a large number of houses were inundated and several of the streets flooded. Canon Knight died on Tuesday in his 89th year. He had been 59 years rector of St. Michael's Bristol. The Journal Officiel announces that a lady, Mdlle. Dodu, in charge of the telegraphic station at Montreuil- sous-Bois, has been appointed Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur. Her merit is that of having intercepted some German despatches, at the risk of her life, while locked up in a room through which the telegraph wire pawed.-Parts Correspondent of The Timts. An inquiry has been held at Dalston, as to the death of Emma Oliver, aged 14, a nursemaid. The evidence given proved that a few weeks ago the girl lost her sister, to whom she was much attached, and grieved exceedingly at her death. She became very depressed in spirits, and manifested symptoms of aberration of intellect, but it was not deemed necessary to restrain her. On Sunday she pro- cured some carbolic acid, which had been used for disinfect- ing purposes, and having swallowed it left her master's house but after proceeding a few paces she fell down in- sensible, and was found in that state by a milkman, who conveyed her to the German Hospital, where she died shortly after admission.—A verdict of "Temporary in- sanity" was recorded. A telegram from Rome, dated Monday night—to the Daily News-says In the ante-rooms of the Chamber this morning it was reported that the Sultan had telegraphed to Queen Victoria begging her Majesty to exert her influence with the Emperor of Austria to get him to recall his troops from Bosnia and the Herzegovina, the Sultan being appre- hensive that these provinces might again becoma the scene of sanguinary strife. This afternoon's Liberte6 publishes a 'special telegram from Constantinople confirmatory of the report." The oyster season, which is fixed by Act of Parlia- ment po commence not earlier than August 4. has this year, through Sunday and the Bank Holiday, been delayed, and only commenced on Tuesday. The prices are about the same as last year, certainly no lower, and they rule from 12s. to 14s. per hundred. The Walsall Town Council has approved of the offer of two premiums of 100 guineas each for the two best schemes for dealing with the sewage of the town, and agreed upon certain arrangements and contracts with the view of further- ing the carrying out of the Artisans' Dwellings Act scheme. John Nunn, a hay carter, has died in Ongar Union House, Essex, from hydrophobia. He was bitten as long since as May, 1874, by the same dog which bit Mr. Brown, veterinary surgeon, of Stanford Rivers, whose case excited so much interest about twelve months ago, and whose death from hydrophobia occurred three years after the bite. At the auction rooms of the Hotel Drouot, in Paris, was knocked down, a few days since, a well-worn tricorne for the sum of one hundred and seventy-five francs. The purchaser, M. Armand Dumarescq, the well-known artist, was the only perscn among those present who considered the object worth bidding for there was no competition, no eagerness; and yet the hat by which so little store was set isthat which sheltered the brow of Napoleon I. on the battle-field. This historical souvenir, about the authen- ticity of which there is, it appears, no shadow of doubt, had been religiously guarded by M. Evrard, valet de chambre of the first Napoleon, during his lifetime, and bequeathed by him to his son, whose recent decease has brought it to the auction mart -Evening Staftdard. him to his son, whose recent decease has brought it to the auction mart —Evening Standard. The Warehousemen and Drapers' Trade's Journal says the tone of confidence in business circles is daily becoming more confirmed, and persons who have hitherto held aloof from man) likely business enterprises on account of the unsettled condition of affairs are now more desirous of engaging in mercantile transactions which require the investment of capital and promise a remunerative return. The Home Secretary has, on the application of the Justices, issued orders under the Wild Fowl Preservation Act varying the close time so as to be in the Coun ty of Cum- berland from thwist of March to the 1st of August; and in the Liberty of Pevensey, Sussex, from the 15th of February to the 1st of August. A shocking accident occurred at the Thornaby Iron works, South Stockton, on Monday morning. It appears that for some time past the capabilities of a Belgian heating furnace have been tested in the mill department, and that between eleven and twelve o'clock in the morning Mr. Thomas Whit well,'Okie of the partners of the firm, and Mr. John Thompson, an engineer, descended into it for the pur- pose of making an examination. While they were below the damper by some "means got closed, and the result was that the confined gas burst into flame, and enveloped Mr. Whitwell and MT. Thompson. Both were frightfully burnt before they could effect an escape, the former so seriously that death resultedi n the course of Monday night. The London and Westminster Conservative Work- ing Men's Association paid a visit on Monday to Engletleld Park, near Reading, the seat of Mr. Benyon, a former repre- sentative of the county At the dinner in the afternoon Sir C. Russell, M P., presided. In reply to a resolution ex- pressing confidence in the Government, Mr. J. G. Talbot, M.P., delivered a short address, in which he maintained that the policy of her Majesty's Ministers throughout the Eastern negotiations had ffeen-essentially a policy of peace. He added that if they hsi(Idesired,to plunge the country into war, nothing would have beep easier than to have applied a lighted torch to the mass pf combustible material fermenting throughout Europe. The'spark would have instantly burst into a conflagration. Instead of that their policy had been one of peace and beneficence towards Europe, and if Europe were in earnest there might "Still be a bright future In store for the oppressed nations 6f the East. In London,- the other evening, the Strand was illuminated by an unusually brilliant light produced by the Loutin system of lighting by electricity, which has been suc- cessfully tried in putis. The building selected for the experi- ment was the Gaiety Theatre, the hoarding and scaffolding of which assumed quite a fairy-like appearance under the strong light produced by some half-dozen lamps suspended from the windows. There seemed to be a vague idea amongst the crowd gazing at the sight that the enterprising manager was preparing a novel transformation scene outside. In view of the fact that the theatre itself is closed for repairs. The experiment may be said to have been fairly successful, the lights, with one or two exceptions, having burned steadily I from nine o'clock to about midnight The Government have decided on selling at thi) end of August all extra regimental and transport horses. The Frankfurter Zeitung says that the request of a number of people named Nobiling to change their name ba's been acceded to. They are allowed to assume that of Edeling, At the meeting of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution rewards and payments amounting to 93,021 were made on some of the 268 lifeboat establishments of the institution. Rewards were also granted to the crews of shore boats for saving life from wrecks on our coasts. The usual summtj raid against dogs has begun in New York, and non-maazled dogs are now despatched whole- sale. The authorities, however, have a very merciful method of execution-they give the doomed animals a capital break- fast, then place them in an iron-barred cage on wheels, some hundred and fifty at a time, and lower the cage into the river. A strike is threatened amongst the cabmen of Paris, and steps are being taken to prevent such an inconvenient occurrence. Her Majesty's inspection of the squadron, on the 13th inst., is expected to prove an event of great interest. In addition to the members of the Royal Family, a large number ef Peers and Commoners will, it is understood, be present. They will be conveyed by special train to Ports- mouth, and received there on board a steamer prepared for their accommodation by the Lords of the Admiralty. The British soldiers had not been established forty- eight hours under the shadow of the Cyprian Olympus before the inevitable bats, ball and stumps were produced, and the game of cricket naturalised in the island by the Black Watch and 101st Royal Bengal Fusiliers, It is proposed to initiate the Muslim inhabitants into its mysteries, as the first step towards making them decent members of the human brotherhood we are going to establish in those parts. -Echo The direction of the Bureau Veritas has published the following statistics of maritime disasters reported during the month of June, 1878, concerning all flagsSailing vessels reported lost; 30 English, 10 French, 6 American, 4 German, 4 Italian, 3 Swedish, 1 Norwegian, 1 Dutch, 1 Portuguese, 5 of which the nationality is unknown-total, 65. In this number are included -7 vessels reported missing. Steamers reported lost: 2 American, 2 English. Speaking at a luncheon given on the opening of Gloucester Gate Bridge, Regent's Park, the Duke of Cam- bridge referred to his recent visit to Malta, and said that he had been much gratified by his inspection of the Indian contingent. During the time he was in Malta not a single case of misconduct on the part of the Indian troops had been brought before the civic authorities. That was a suffi- cient proof that the discipline of the force was as good as they could wish. We had happily avoided a very serious aspect of affairs, and the men would return to their homes with the conviction—which he could not help'thinking was founded upon fact-that they had very largely assisted in the preservation of peace. The heavy mortality continues at Bucharest, there having been during the past week 56 more deaths than births. Lists of voters are now exhibited on all church and chapel doors, and will remain until the 14th instant. House- holders in boroughs and counties, and occupiers of land in counties, should ascertain whether their names are duly entered. The Archbishop of Canterbury has issued to the clergy of his diocese a recommendation that those who have during the past months prayed for peace should now- through the general thanksgiving-return thanks to God that their prayers have been thus far answered. The Mansion House Metropolitan Hospital Sunday Fund amounted on Saturday last to £ 24,600. Princess Bismarck and her daughter had rather a narrow escape at Kissingen the other day. H.S.H.'s coach- man turned a corner too sharply, the horse slipped up, and the two lady Bismarcks were flung out, the carriage upset- ting. Fortunately they escaped with a few bruises and a shaking, and were able to walk to their hotel.-The World. A Daily News telegram from Cyprus says that fever is extremely prevalent at Nicosia. On Friday two officers and ten men were invalided, and on the following day seven more men were on the sick list. This, it is remarked, is a serious percentage in a detachment only 120 strong. The bark harvest in Perthshire is just over. Since the beginning of May some thousands of persons have been peeling the bark off the oak and larch trees in the Perth forests, and some of the largest trees have yielded more than a ton apiece. Forty-eight Transatlantic medical students, all be. longing to the weaker sex, are making a tour in Europe under the charge of a Washington University Professor. The ladies, who are now at Milan, vary in age from sixteen to thirty-five, and, according to the Itatie, are chiefly noted for their green spectacles. The telegraph is popular in Beloochistan, but the form the popularity has taken appears to be a little objec- tionable. The line was cut four times within a fortnight, and a quantity of wire, ranging from 100 yards to half a mile, carried aw&y, to say nothing of a few insulators and brackets. When the telegraph was first established in India it was very popular, the natives entertaining some curious notions about its power. A Bengali Baboo, in one of the Government offices, once entered the Telegraph Office in Calcutta, and requested the operator to forward a big cotton umbrella to his grandmother- at Burdwan by the wire !— bcho. The extreme of fashion this year in Paris'is to wear natural flowers in straw hats. A little glass tube, like that worn by men in the button-hole, is fixed on the hat, and keeps the bouquet fresh. The flowers are chosen to har- monise with the dress worn. Roses, however, with plenty of foliage, are now in vogue. -Court Journal. Speaking at a Conservative fete, at Plymouth on Monday, Mr. Sampson Lloyd, M P., expressed his satisfac- tion that the end of a long and laborious session was at hand. It had been a weary and unfruitful session, Some good had, however, been done, and the secured peace with which the negotiations had ended was more especially satis- factory because, though attended by expense, it had involved no hardship for the poor. The arsenical fumes from a semi-extinct volcanic crater near Naples have been found curative in consumption and scrofula. Dr. Horatio R. Storer, of Newp6rt, contributes a paper to the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal on the subject. A smokers' strike is threatened by the Milanese, the quality of the Government tobacco having seriously deterio- rated of late, and the Milanese citizens have drawn up a resolution declaring that, after August 1, they will smoke no more Government cigars until better tobacco is supplied. The Government will thus lose a consideral source of revenue, as the Milanese are following a plan tried successfully during the Austrian occupation of Lombardy, when they refrained entirely from smoking, and so disappointed the Austrians of part of their expected receipts. A census is taken at Paris every three years of the indigent families inscribed on the lists of the Bureau de Bienfaisance. The last out shows a diminution since 1874 of 262 households and 416 individuals. Although the decrease is not very great, in 1872 the capital contained 1,818,710 in- habitants, while in 1877 the number was 1,988,206. So that in 1874 there was one indigent person out of 15 residents, while in 1877 the proportion had fallen to one In 17. The Annates desPontsetChmissies has just published some statistics which show that a person had in France, in the time of the diligences, a chance of being killed in making 300,000 journeys, and of being hurt once in making 30,000. On the railways, from 1872 to 1876, the chances were reduced to one death in 45 millions of journeys, and one injury in a million. Thus a person continually travelling by rail, at a speed of 50 kilometres (5-8the of a mile each) an hour, would have had, during the three periods above indicated, the fol- lowing chances of being killed. From 1835 to 1855, once in 321 years from 1855 to 1875, once in 1,014 years; and from 1872 to 1875, once in 7,450 years. In spite of the Peace there will be great autumn manoeuvres in Bavaria this year. "Ready, ay ready," is plainly a German motto. The French, too, will have elabor- ate manoeuvres in September, between Paris and Lorraine.— The World. Sir Julian Goldsmid, the senior member for Roches- ter, has offered to present 500 guineas to that city towards the foundation of a free library, on condition that the burgesses provide for its maintenance by adopting the Free Libraries Act, which they have hitherto been unwilling to do. If the ratepayers should now adopt the Act, it is believed that the gift of Sir Julian would be largely supple- mented by other donations. A library is much needed at Rochester. It is officially reported at San Stefano that in the army to the south of the Balkans there are nearly 21,000 army to the south of the Balkans there are nearly 21,000 sick; in the army of the north, 6,500; and in the reserve, 5,500; but there is no increase in the amount of sickness, and the rate of mortality is comparatively low. Since March last some 27,000 sick have been sent homewards by transport steamers. There are about 800 medical officers attached to the active army of the Danube. Mr. Hanbury, M.P., and Sir H. D. Wolff, M.P., attended a Conservative f§te held at Bournemouth on Mon- day. The former said that along the ridges of those moun- tains which formed the last and strongest defence of Turkey against Russia, Lord Beaconsfield had written with a firm hand, and with the point of England's sword; "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; which, though words of Scripture, were not, he considered, too sacked for a states- man to use when telling a foreign Power She will have to try conclusions with her next time she attempts to massacre Orientals in the name of God and Christ. Telegraph clerks are beings of the past. A post- office secretarial minute has abolished them. The ladies. and gentlemen who work the wires are In future to be called telegraphists.' It sounds scientific at all events, but the defunct clerks do not like it. It is lowering them to the level of the Royal Engineers, who are swarming the tele- graphic department. The 'civilians' love not the I mwng-, tary' when they come into competition, either in love or business.The World. It appears from a return just issued that the num- ber of railway and other private Bills brought before Parliament in the present session was 276, and the amount of capital proposed to be raised by them X49,361,071, of which it was intended to raise ZW,029,800 by shares, and 919,331,271 by loans. Last year the number of Bills brought before Parliament was 268, and the amount of capital pro- posed to be raised 442,0b7,129. In 1876 there were 270 Mils, by which it was proposed to raise 449,128,283. The number of bills In 1875 was" 266, and the capital £ 49,944,307.; in 1874 the Bills numbered 281, the capital being £ 63,365,240; in 1873 there were 334 Bills, the capital being £ 86,893,943; and in 1872 there were 304 Bills, professing to raise capital amounting to L86,4",831. The rumours that Parliament is to be dissolved after the present Session are absolutely devoid of foundation. There will be no dissolution this year.-Ewning Standard. Sportsmen are anticipating very good bags on the South Yorkshire and Derbyshire moors on the 12th. The prospects are more than usually enoouraging, for on all the moors in those neighbourhoods the birds are numerous,, 'strong, and healthy.' The birds are very forward, and sports- men recently over the moors agree in stating that there are no traces of disease. The Earl of Lovelace, speaking at Kingston-on- ag Thames, said. De saw no reason for finding fault with the at- titude assrjned by England at the Congress. He accepted the result together with the Anglo-Turkish Convention, not as bein^ all we could have wished had the choice been open, but PA the best which at this juncture we could obtain short of war or the threat of war. Our Plenipotentiaries, though tiiey had failed in securing certain specific pofrits on which we had set our heart, had nevertheless, in hir4 opinion, sac- Iceeded in replacing Great Britain in a portion of horaour, influence, authority, and strength. I A new instrument, the electroecope, is said to have been invented, by which two persons can talk with and see each other at a distance of 560 miles. On Sunday 112,612 persons entered the Paris Exhibition—100,702 by tickets. The trains continue to bring large numbers of people from the country and abroad. Excursionists arrive every Sunday id great numbers. At an auction art sale, the other day, a marine view wat* about being knocked down at a handsome flgnre, when a blufl sailor, who happened to wander in, exclaimed earnestly, If tMere ain't a vessel drifting on to the rocks with a strong bleeze flowing off shore!" The artist took his worlr home to re-artange the wind. There we at this moment the unprecedented number of thirty-tfrree ironclads in commission, besides many un- armoured frigates and corvettes of recent construction. Of the ironclads in commission, fourteen are in the Mediter- ranean, and fifteen are in the Particular Service Squadron and First Reserve. Scottish Clan tartan dresses are the fashion as walk- ing costumes in Paris. At the races and Exhibition several qf these tartan costumes with round short skirts, to repre- sent the kilt, were seen. The material of these tartans Is fine thin wool. but a few very pretty ones in thin silk have been exhibited. The Post Office authorities have issued a circular to the Commercial classes in London proposing the establish- ment of letter boxes in private offices. It is suggested that the boxes shall be easily accessible to servants of the Post Office, who may be thus enabled to empty them at regular intervals. The charge proposed for this arrangement is i,10 per annum. The WilhelmBpende," or national penny subscrip- tion, now being raised in Germany to commemorate Emperor William's preservation from assassination, will probably be devoted to the erection of a school for children of all creeds on the site of some old buildings adjoining Unter den Linden, where the attempt on the Emperor's life was made. A new rope-making material has been found in the fibrous leaves of a New Zealand aloe. The long tough threads are said to exceed iron wire of the same thickness in tenacity, and it is perfectly unalterable in Salt water. A paradise of gluttons is a heaven believed in by a Slavonic tribe of Moravia, th e Hanaques. In the regions of future bliss they picture an immense meuntain of crumbled gingerbread, surrounded at the base by a river of melted lard. The happy Hanaques will recline full-length on the shore, lying on their faces, with the chin supported on the hands, and into their wide open months will fall balls of flour, which have been cooked by angels in the crater of the mountain, and have been rolled down the slope into the river, so as to obtain a luscious coating of gingerbread and lard. Meanwhile angels will chant the national airs, and there will be a perpetual downpour of beer and brandy which will not wet the Hanaques, but will only fall into their mouths when they are thirsty. -Graphic. The other day, two 'brothers named Renter—one of them a lieutenant in the Swiss army-made a foolhardy attempt to ascend the Saleve by a precipitous track near Coire bearing the significant name of Roohe Pourrie. During the ascent the elder, losing his footing, tried to save himself by clutching the projecting points of a rock. These gave way, and he was killed on the rocks below. The younger, unable either to advance or retreat, shouted for help, and was rescued by villagers from Coire, who brought ropes and lowered him to a place of safety. Within ten years no less than 12,000,000 acres of forest have been cut down or burned over in the United States. Much of the timber is used for fuel, twenty-five cities being on record as consuming from 5,000 to 10,000 acres each, Fences use up much timber, and railway sleepers require the product of 150,000. acres per annum. The amount of pine and lumber timber yet standing in the forests of the timber States is estimated at 225,000,000,000 feet. The sum of 144,000,000 dollars is invested in the timber industry, employing 200,000 men. Two visitors, one of them named Sutton, of Notting- hill, a pawnbroker, and the other Clarke, a Not ting-hill salesman, fell over the cliffs at Margate on Sunday night. Clarke was dead when found, and Sutton, who was greatly injured about the head, was taken to the Cottage Hospital in a critical state. The Bank Holiday on Monday was as generally ob- served in London as on previous occasions. Many of the places of resort in and around the metropolis, such as Kew Gardens and Epping Forest, were not so crowded with visitors as on the two hoMdays held in the earlier part of the year but the excursionists to the sea-side were never more numerous. During the day the weather was fine, but in the evening there was a heavy fall of rain It is belieyed that never since the passing of Sir John Lubbock's Act did so man people make holiday as on Monday. The sale of the diamonds of Queen Isabella of Spain finished at the Hotel Drouot, in Paris, on Saturday. The total amount produced was 3,437,006f. The High Court meeting of the Ancient Order of Foresters commenced its business on Monday at Newcastle- on-Tyne. The report of th Investigation Committee showed that the number of financial members was 521,416, and that the court and district funds amounted to iC2,497,000 the increase for the year being nearly 12,000 members and £ 152,000. Last Sunday evening the Grosvenor Gallery was opened for the last Sunday this season, when about 2,000 people passed the turnstiles, all of whom with the exception of 114, were admitted by tickets obtained from the Sunday Society by written application. Many influential persons were present to witness the success of this practical attempt to carry out the objects of the society. At a conference of igpresentatives of the goods de- partments of the Londdfi and North-Western, the Great Western, and the Midland Railway Companies a new and reduced tariff for the carriage of hardware goods for export has been agreed upon. A telegram to the St. Petersburg papers states that the Shah has safely arrived at Reshdt after a calm voyage across the Caspian from Baku to Enzeli. He was accom- panied by an Immense quantity of luggage, comprising articles he had purchased on his way through Russia. The barque Highflyer, of 1,011 tons, Captain Hawkins, sailed from Gravesend on the 2nd inst. for Mary- borough, Queensland, and had on board the following num- ber of emigrants-viz., 84 married people, 163 single men, 50 single women, 44 children between the ages of twelve and one, and six infants, making a total of 337. The apple orchards in most parts of Essex present a barren aspect this season, the blight and easterly winds in May having destroyed the apple crops. Cherries are up to fair average, and there is a good show of plums and damsons. Mr. N. Eckersley, High Sheriff of Lancashire, opened the first public park in the borough of Wigan on Monday. Many thousands of persons witnessed the cere- mony. The greater portion of the land was given to the town by Mr. Eckersley, who purchased, it from the rector and patron for X2,000, and the ground have been laid out by the corporation from the designs by Mr. Maclean, of Derby. The park is nearly thtrty acres in extent, and is centrally situated. A strike of about 1,000 weavers has occurred at Oldham against the reduction of 5 per cent. of which notice had been given. A deputation of Irish Roman Catholics will shortly proceed to Rome for the purpose of presenting the Pope with the sum of 42,500, the Peter's pence offering of the archdiocese of Dublin. The men employed at the Park-gate Pit, the pro- perty of the Nunnery Colliery Company, near Sheffield, have struck work rather than submit to a reduction of 10 per cent. which the masters have felt compelled to enforce in consequence of the stagnation of the coal trade. The pit has been closed several days, but it is believed that the strike, which affects about 260 men, will not be very pro- tracted, as the company is able to purchase supplies from other collieries at a cost almost less than that at which they can get coal from their own pits. A numerous deputation, representing Conservative associations in various parts 01 England and Wales, waited upon the Earl of Beaconsfield and the Marquis of Salisbury on Tuesday, at the Foreign Office, to present congratulatory addresses to their lordships. The deputation was intro- duced by the Marquis of Abergavenny. The Prime Minister and Lord Salisbury addnessed the deputation at considerable length on the acceptance given to their policy by the country.

THE MARKETS. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.—MONDAY". The cattle trade was dull in tone and quotations wer weak. Supplies were about an average. As regards beast the receipts from our own grazing districts were on a fair average scale, and the quality and condition were tolerably good. The demand was inactive. The best breeds at one time' made 6s. per 81b., but this was exceptional, and from 6s. 8d. to 5s. lOd. per 81b. was later on accepted. From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northamptonshire we received about 1,750 head, and from other parts of England about 500 head. On the foreign side of the market was a good show of stock, principally American, and Danish. The demand was inactive, and quotations were weak. As regards sheep, the supply was about, an average. The market was quiet, and the level of prices about the same. Calves and pigs sold at previous cur- rencies. Quotations were:—Coarse and inferior beasts, 4s. 6d. to ba. second quality, 5s. to 6s. 6d.; prime large oxen, 5s. 6d. to 6s. Sd. prime Scots, 6s. 8d. to 6s. coarse and inferior sheep, is. to 5s. 6d.; second quality, 6s. 6d. to 6s. prime coarse-woolled, 6s. to 6s. 2d.; prime Southdowns, 6s. 4d. to 6s. fid.; large coarse calves, 5s. 6d. to 6s.; prime small ditto, 6s. to 6s. 6d. large hogs, 3s. Sd.'to 4s. 2d. small porkers, 4s. 2d. to 4s. 8d. and lambs, 7s. '6d. to 8s. 6d. per 81b., sinking the offaL METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET.—MONPAT; Trade was heavy this morning, although the supply was only moderate. Quotations were as follows—Inferior beef, 3s. Od. to 3s. 8d.; middling ditto, 3s 8d. to 4s. 8d.; prime large ditto, 4a. 8d. to 5a. 2d.; small, 5s. 2d. to 5s. 6<I.; veal, 5s. Od. to 5s. 6d; inferior mutton, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 4d. middling ditto, 4s. 8d. to 5s. 8d.; prime ditto, 5s. 6d. to 6s.; large pork, 3s. 4d. to 3s. 3d. small ditto, 4s. Od. to 4s. 6d.; and lamb, 6s. to 6s. 4d. per 81b. by the carcass. TALLOW. 8. d. Town Tallow, per cwt. 38 3 Rough Fat, per N)M.. 1 7 Melted Stuff, per cwt. 27 e S. a. Rough Stuff, per cwt. 14 0 Greaves 16 0 Good Drega <5 { Greaves „, 16 0 c, ( yoniir anobian, no- vu. per cwt. Australian Mutton Tallow. 38e 6d. „ Ditto Beef ditto 36s. 6d. „ GAME AND POULTRY. Capons, 7s. 6d. to 10s, tld. pullets, 5s. 6d. to 7s. 6d. fow la, • 48. to l chickens, to 38.; ducklings, 3s. to 4s. 6 d. goslings, 7s. to 10s. iurkey poults, 9; fid. to Os. ortol ans, Is. 6d. to 3s. 6d. quails, 10d. to 2a. 6d pigeons 6d. to HId. ditto Bordeaux, 1B. 6d. to 23. 6d.; leverets, Be. 6d. to 6s. bares, 2a. to raabits (wild) 9d. to Is. 4d.; rabbits 14Ume) Is. 3d. to 2s.; venison (haunch), 21s. to 428.; ditto, (fore- quarter), 6cL. to 9d. per Ib.. fawns, 6s. to 7s. 6d. HA Y. WHITECHAPBL, Saturday, Aug. &-With a goocV supply on oner, there was a fair inquiry, at steady prices,. Prime Old Clover, 120s. to 135s., new 100s. to 105& Infevior ditto, 808. to 008., Prime Old Meadow Hay 90s. to 100s.. new ditto 80s. to 85s., Inferior, 60s. to 70s., and Straw 43s. to 3s. per load, j > POTATOES. 1 There were moderate arrivals of potatoes, the demand for which has been steady. ReiMV.ts, 120s. to 14«s.; Shaws, S5s. to 120s.; Kidneys, l^Qr. tcj Tfcos.; Victorias, 120s. to 140s. pet ton.

In the HOUSE OF LORDS, August 6, the Duke of Connaught and of Strathearn (Establishment) Biil was read a third time and passed. The Consolidated Fund (No. 4) Bill was read a second time, and the Standing Orders having been suspended, was also read a third time and passed. On the motion to consider the Tramways Orders Confirma- tion (No. 1 and No. 3) Bills in Committee, Lord Norton spoke in favour of retaining the clauses per- mitting the use of steam power on the tramway lines, but the Bilis passed through Committee without the clauses relating to the use of steam power. The Admiralty and War Office (Retirement of Officers) Bill passed through Committee. On the motion of the Duke of Somerset, the British Museum (Transfer of Collection) Bill, the object of which is to transfer the natural history collection to South Ken- sington, was read a second time. The Statute Law Revision (Ireland) Bill was, on the motion of the Lord Chancellor, read a second time, and after other Bills had been forwarded a stage, Lord Camperdown asked for information as to the number of men of the Reserves who had lost their civil employment. Lord Bury said this could not be known until all the men bad returned to their own districts; but he hoped that em- ployers of labour would give consideration to the claims of these men, a hope which was echoed by Lords Cardwell and Waveney, and by the Duke of Cambridge, who spoke in laudatory terms of the soldierlike appearance and general efficiency of the Army and Militia Reserve. In reply to Lord Waveney, Lord Bury replied that the mode of dealing with the fines for drunkenness in the Militia service was still under the consideration of the Treasury. Their Lordships then adjourned. In the HOUSE OF ^S>MMONS. tha Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Commfljfc of Ways and Means, made a Supplementary Financial Statement relating to the expen- diture incurred on account of the Eastern Question and the moUe in which it is to be met, reminding the Committee that in his original Budget he had provided for an expendi- ture of £ 81,020,00^ exclusive of X2,70,000 of Exchequer Bonds issued last year to meet the charge of the Vote of Credit, which would fall due in the course of the next financial year, and exclusive also of an unascertained amount of Supplemental Estimates, which he hoped would not exceed from £ 1,000,000 to £ 1,500,QOOt To meet these liabilities a Revenue was provided by additional taxation of L83,230,000,, leaving a surplus over ordinary expenditure of £ 2,210,000, so that if the Supple- mentary Estimates had not exceeded his anticipations, there would have been £700,000 left in hand towards the reduction of Exchequer Bonds. But the expenditure had turned out to be larger than was anticipated, and the Supplemental Estimates now before the House amounted to £ 2,618,000. In addition to these L748,000 had already been voted for the conveyance of the Indian troops to Malta, so that since the Budget there had been incurred an additional expenditure of £ 3,366,885. This changed the estimated Budget surplus of X2,210 00 into a deficit the estimated Budget surplus of £ 2,210.000 into a deficit of £ 1156,000, which was due mainly to what he called the "Vote of Credit Services." It contained, however, a sum of 4344,006 for the Caffre War, and before the end of the financial year it would be necessary to come for an addi- tional sum of £ 400,000. The general result, therefore, was that for the current, nnancial year there would be Supple- mentary Estimates to the amount of 0,767,000, which, added to the 42,750,000 unredeemed Exche- quer Bonds, gave a total supplementary expendi- ture to be met this year of £ 6,517,000. The Budget surplus would provide 42,210,000, so that the actual deficiency to be met would be £ 4,307,000. Of the £ 6,000 000 Vote of Credit granted in February, about L3,500,000 had been spent up to March 31, and since that time there had been spent on .the Army £ 1,649,000, on the Navy £ 634,000, and on the movement of Indian troops 4741,000, making altogether a total expenditure of ZG,427,000 for the services contemplated by the Vote of Credit, not war services, but services intended to prevent war and which he believed had been mainly instru- mental in effecting that object. Of this £ 750,000 bad been met out of surplus revenue of last. year, kl,370,000 would be provided out of the surplus of the present year, leaving 44,300,000 to be provided. Next year In addition-to the same surplus, Y,1,370,000, there would be a remanet of tGOO,000 Income-tax, or about half the four millions odd. Consequently, next year we should be able to pay off half, and in the year after the remaining half of the £ 4,300,000 left to be provided for. As the Vote of Credit was asked for three years, and as the actual sum spent was so little in excess of the original de- mand of 46,000,000 there was no doubt that the original pledge would be redeemed, and the Government therefore, did not think it necessary to disturb the revenue system of the country at this time of the year by additional taxation. It was proposed, therefore, to issue Exchequer Bonds to the amount necessary to carry the process of redemption over the next two years, and on the present occasion he asked for power to issue iC2,000,000 of Exche- quer Bonds. The Chancellor of the Exchequer concluded by saying that he saw no reason for apprehending a falling off In the revenue, and by expressing a confident belief that the Estimates which he had submitted comprised the whole of the charges. Mr. Childers complained of the reticence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time of the Budget, because he must then have had in his mind such causes of additional expenditures as the occupation of Cyprus and the move- ment of the Indian troops, to say nothing of the Caffre War. Out of the £ 6;400,000 spent in two financial years badln connection wiT, the Eastern Question only EI,440,000 had been provided out of the taxation of the two years, and the rest had been provided by loans. guch a course, he insisted, was unprecedented, for all former Finance Ministers, as he showed by quoting pre- cedents, had provided for such expenditure within the year out of the taxes. Proceeding then to comment on the Budget Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure, Mr. Childers argued that there Willi a grave probability of the Chancellor being left at tne end of the year with about L100,000 to meet his deferred expenditure of between £ 4,000,000 and 45,000,000. Mr. Goldney pointed out that the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer was following the precedent set by Sir G. Lewis in 1855, and he thought it the proper course. As to Mr, Childers's predictions, they had so often failed that they produced no., ffect on his mind. Mr. Gladstone replied that 1855 was a time of war, and the Income-tax was then at Is. 4d. The Government, be contended, were sapping all the principles of financial control by concealing expenditure and under-cistimating, and the practice of "spreading" charges over a num- ber of years was a delusive method and contrary to all the precedents of old British finance. The Govern- ment, it appeared, had so little confidence in the glory which they had achieved that they thought it better not to try the patience of the people by a small addition to their taxation. The Opposition, however, could only protest, and no doubt the magnificent majority which had supported the Government hitherto would show the same unflinching courage in meeting the deficit. Mr. S. Lloyd thought that as a considerable portion of the money had been spent on the materiel of the Navy, the Chancellor of the Exchequer was justified in expecting a reduction of expenditure, and also in spreading the payment over three years. Mr. W. Holms, on the contrary, held that we had entered on a course of policy which would make reduction im- possible. The Chancellor of the Exchequer in replying, repeated that he had no reason to take a gloomy view of the Revenue and the only weak branches were spirits and stamps. With regard to the charge of under-estimating expenditure, he pointed out that it was impossible to forecast the course of events, and though the preparations of the Government ultimately effected their object, they did not succeed as rapidly as they expected. The policy of spreading a charge of this kind over several years, whether it were agreeable to precedent or not, was distinctly preferable to the disturb- ance of our financial system by imposing taxes for a few months. I The discussion was continued by Sir J. Lubbock, who would have preferred the San Stefano to the Berlin Treaty; Mr. Hubbard, who approved the Government proposals; and Mr. Rylands, who condemned the extrava- gant expenditure of the Cabinet. Sir G. Campbell thought the estimate of military expenditure for Cyprus insufficient, Sir G Balfour objected to the new charges to be made upon the country; General Shute, who thought Cyprus would soon pay its expenses Mr. E. Jenkins, who pressed for explana- tions as to how the convention was to be carried out; and Sir H Havelock, who opposed the whole policy of the Government in the matter. The resolution sanctioning the issue of Exchequer Bonds was then agreed to. On the motion for going into Committee of Supply, Major Nolan called attention to the present inadequate allowance granted to the wives and children of the Reserve men, and Colonel Stanley was answering him when a scene of considerable excitement occurred. During his speech Major O'Gorman persisted in calling" Hear, hear at fre- quent intervals in a stentorian voice, and on being at length called to order by the Speaker, vehemently denied that he was out of order, and asserted his right to call Hear, hear" at every sentence. Upon this the Chancellor of the Exchequer interposed, and remarked that unless the gallant Major submitted to the ruling of the Chair and apologised it would be necessary to take notice of his con- duct. Major O'Gorman again insisted that he was not out of order, and, though urged by Sir P. O'Brien and others, refused to apologize. In the end the Speaker proceeded to name" him for having Interrupted the proceedings of the House and for disorderly refusing to apologize when called upon and the Chancellor of the Exchequer moved that he be directed to withdraw for disorderly interrupt- ing the proceedings and for disrespectful belfaviour to the Chair. Mr. Lowe having seconded this motion, Major O'Gorman once more protested that as he had done nothing wrong he would not apologize, and left the House. In the conversation which followed this motion. Sir P. O'Brien expressed his belief that the Major was acting under an entire misapprehension, and Sir H. Havelock and Dr. O'Leary informed the House that he was labour- ing under considerable excitement under a sense of professional wrong, the latter giving an opinion that he was not quite accountable for his acts. Major Nolan, Mr. Stacpoole, Mr. A. Moore, and other Irish members who spoke, while desiring to maintain the .authority of the Chair, wished for a IOQUS penitentux to be given to their colleague, who, they all said, had no intention to behave disrespectfully, and for this purpose Mr. Shell moved the adjournment of the debate. The absurdity of ad- journing the question whether a member should withdraw or not being pointed out by the. Chancellor of the Exchequer, this motion was withdrawn, and Major Nolan substituted a motion leaving out the allusion to disorderly and disrespectful con- duct, and simply recording that he had been directed to withdraw, because he had refused to submit to the ruling of the Chair. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Lowe strongly objected to this alteration and insisted on the necessity of upholding the authority of the Speaker, and after some further discussion, in the course of which Mr. J. P. Smyth informed the House that he had seen Major O'Gorman, who' declared that he meant no disrespect, the amendment was negatived and the original motion agreed to. A further motion was agreed to, that the conduct ot Major O'Gorman be taken into consideration on Wednesday, and that he be ordered to attend in his place, and in making it the Chancellor of the Exchequer expressed a hope that on calm reflection he would give such an explanation as would make it unnecessary to take further proceedings. After this the discussion on going into Supply was re- sumed, and among other subjects touched on were the adjutancies of Yeomanry, the salaries of the minor officials in the House of Commons, and physical competition for the Army. Shortly before one o'clock the House went into Com- mittee of Supply, and the remaining Army Estimates were agreed to, and several Civil Service votes were also agreed to. Some other business was disposed of. and the House ad- journed at a quarter-past three o'clock.

CLAIM TO STANFIELD HALL. On Monday, at the Norwich Assizes, before Lord Justice Thesiger, an action was brought by George Taylor, a railway guard at Dovercourt, against Reginald Gwyn and others to recover possession of Stanfield Hall, Norfolk, the scene of the murders committed by Rush in 1848 upon the then owner, Mr. Jermy, and his family. Mr. Bulwer, Q.C,, in opening the case, said the plaintiff sought to obtain possession of the Stanfield Hall property, the name of which was well known, as it was the scene of one of the most shocking murders ever committed. The plaintiff claimed as the descend- ant of Robert Jermy. The learned counsel -said he should have to prove the plaintiff's pedigree—always a matter of difficulty; but if he succeeded in this he should then have to get over another difficulty —the Statute of Limitations—which had been pleaded. As Mr. Day (counsel for the defendant) was going to rely on this statute as a defence to the action, he had carefully considered the matter, and in the perform- ance of the duty which he owed to the defendant no less than to the plaintiff he could not contest the case further.' He, would have withdrawn it before coming into coiirt, but the.defendant desired the verdict of the jury. He had no other course open than to consent to it. The Lord Justice, upon this, directed a verdict for the defendants, observing that Mr. Bulwer had exercised, as he was sure to do, a wise discretion. Looking at the defence founded on the Statute of Limitations—which was not at. all "technical," but was a most substantial and proper defence in cases where land had been in the possession of a family for a long period-the learned counsel for the plaintiff feel- ing that he cannot possibly resist the defence thus set upyields to a verdict for the defendants. The jury thereupon at once found a verdict for the defendants.

In a leader commenting upon the feat of the Nautilus, the Standard remarks "Now that the sea is the highway of the world, it is difficult to realise the hardihood of those who were the first to set out, ignorant whither they were going or what they might reach—whether, as the Ulysses of Tennyson puts it, the gulfs would wash them down, or whether they would reach the happy isles and find the great Achilles still reign- ing. There is now but little of the earth's surface unex- plored-unless, indeed, it be at the extreme Poles—and the mariner who weighs anchor in a well-found vessel, properly manned and equipped—unless he be bent on forcing his way through Smith Sound into the Polar pack, or through the perpetual barrier of fog that lies far beyond the Falkland Islands, round the earth's southernmost point- has before him a task practically as simple as if he were booked from Euston to Liverpool, or from New York to San Francisco. On the other hand, the trip of the tiny Nautilus over the wide Atlantic shows us what can be done by men of courage, Of what a well-built, well-found yacht is capable we know. What Barentz did on the Spitzbergen Seas, what Columbus did when he stood boldly out to the far West. What Magellan did when he ventured through the Straits which still bear his name, that, in effect, was done by Hajah Brooke, when, in the Royalist, a small topsail schooner of but some forty-five tons, he fearlessly steered round the Cape, and, regardless of the pirates who infest the Straits of Sunda, planted the English Bag on Borneo, and offered the English Crown a colony which an unwise and short-sighted policy refused. He was the first English yachtsman of modern days who scorned the Solent and dared to victual his craft for a year's voyage. Many have followed him, but his is the first glory. Since then, Lord Dnflerin and Mr. Smith have forced their way to "high latitudes." Mr. Lamont, of Knockdow, has attacked the Kara Sea; Captain Allen Young, in the Pandora, has pushed his way to the extreme edge of the Polar pack; Lord Pembroke has cruised among the coral reels of the Southern Ocean; while Mr. Brassey, in a vessel which has not her equal afloat, has circumnavigated the globe. But few of us are millionaires who can put upon the stocks a Sunbeam or a Diana. None the less the trip of the Nautilus ought to show our young men what can be done by those who have the will. With a forty-ton cutter, for instance, a dozen young Englishmen, fairly accustomed to the sea and capable of handling a rope, could, if they chose, make their way far north beyond the Maelstrom to Hamerfest and Tromso, or might even rove to Christjanashaab, or deso- late Disco itself. The expenses of such a trip would be small, and the toil immense; but for those who love hard work for its own sake, and who revel in adventure, such a voyage ought to have far more.cbarm than a lazy sojourn of a month or a couple of months at Scarborough, Brighton, or Boulogne. Nor is a yacht of this size needed. We know what the Water Lily did on the Danube. Her "Ion" is the pleasantest nautical narrative ever made public. What the Water Lily did can be done again. For those whose daring carries them yet further, the Jordan may be ex- plored In a frail canoe, such as those which flash up and down the Thames or in a small yawl of five tons, or even less, the Channel can be crossed, and by cautiously hugging the coast a visit can be paid to the ruined cities of the Zuyder Zee, or conger of gigantic size be captured off Sark or even, if the weather be friendly and the crew capable and resolute, Finisterre itself may be sighted and conclusion tried with the Biscay billows. It is strange indeed that the old passion for the sea, which was once the soul of England, should now be so rare, and that strong, well-built young men should lie idling their time on shore when health and enjoy- ment, and what Browning terms the wild joy of living await them afloat."