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LONDON LETTER. lSPECIALLY WIRED.] r [3*C OUR GALLERY CORRESPONDENT.} LONDON, Friday Night. Reuters correspondent at Korti has taken care that his plucky achievement in return- ing throughthe desert from Gakdul Wells to the main body, with despatches from Major Kitchener to Lord Wolseley, should not be unnoticed by the British public, and his telegram detailing the con- voy-capturing operations of the gallant major have been read with much interest to- day. A very optimistic spirit is displayed in many quarters with regard to the future of the expedition, and there are not wanting military critics who believe that we shall very soon be hearing of the presence of British troops in Khartoum. Judging by the progress already made, it will not be long before some of our men are at Shendy, and as the latest information indi- cates that General Gordon's adherents still hold that town, there may be good reason for the hopes now expressed. But it would be useless to disguise the fact that serious difficulties remain and although all that our spies tell us of the waning power of the Mahdi may be true, it is in the highest degree unlikely that the "False Prophet" (a name not heard so much just now as it was when first its bearer caused a stir in the Egyptian world) will succumb or even retreat without a severe struggle for the mastery. It is not very difficult to understand the feeling of elation under which Mr Parnell spoke at Clonmel this morning. His especial nominee, Mr O'Connor, for whom he had taken such risks, and on whose behalf he had caused a Tipperary Conven- tion to eat its own words with an appearance even of liking the process, was about to be returned to Parliament without opposition, and the circumstances were sufficient to justify a victorious strain. The great lesson- of the whole alfair, far as England is concerned, is drawn by >ralists to-night as being never to pro- *>ht sy Mr Parnell's downfall as long as he |L a single chance of recovering himself, j.. le*.1 n°t require the possession of a very lon^ u -A >m°ry tG recoIlect ^at when the IrUh 1M r was liberated from Kilmainham Xie Wk English d 3 af| ° 0 practical certainty of hi^ soon being abandoned by his followers. *'9 ™chnth<l fme kl[^f thing was he ard raisf hl» Voice at the .Dublin invention against cer- tain items Cf Mr Parne. U 3 Thl3 wee^ it has been similar, and Vn^osed nomination at '.Clonmel is i ed ^'r0 the completest k nswer yet gi\ tne repeated cry thai Mr Parnell's u J3 as lea^er of the Irish people are numbered. The ancient proverb which declare that "A stitch in time.saves nine" is evide. y believed in by the various political bodusa throoghout the country, which are forming 1 new organisations and choosing fresh candi- ) dates as if the Redistribution Bill had already beeU passed into law. To be in a state of thorough preparation is a highly desirable thing, but there seems a danger of tho matter- being a little overdone. TlÙS, at least, is the-opimon of one of the London Liberal Associations, which, upon being in. vited this week by one of its members to coma"t the happy^despatch, declined to accede, on the ground-that the z, bill was not yet law, and. froUl mairy reasons it might not become lawv this year, and that even if it did it would not be in operation for another twelve months, during which time such contingencies as deaths, promotions to office, an d successions* to the peerage will cause bye^elections, whnch will have to be fought in the existing constituen- cies and under the prese.nt system. These are details which appear to have escaped the notice of some of our mare eager political' organizers, but they are amortli bearing in mind all the same. <, The trial of Madam*; iSClovis Hugues has excited much interest .here, and if we exclude the result as ooinr not quite in accordance with our insuhxr notions of jus- tice, the attenuated proverb that these things are better managed in ;France might be likely to recur to the mind. > In London such a case as this would have v-aken at least a week to try, the court sitting live hours a day.$To one can imagine All English judicial tribunal sitting until haL?'Pas^ I two in the morning, although, no dou,t, in the Penge murder case at the Old Bai ley, the prisoners were not sentenced until nearly midnight, in consequence of the abnor anally prolix summing up of the presiding ju which was not brought to a close until ten o'clock at night. If our ideas of Fren* justice in its results are not very high, ou v justice in its results are not very high, ou v increasingly cumbrous mode of conducting judicial inquiries is certainly open to I improvement. ->- It is not so many years sillce the Emperor Napoleon and King Victor Emmanuel were 11 two of the most prominent figures in Euro- pean politics. One died on the 9th of January, 1873, and the other on the same date in 1878. It is doubtful whether the •lates are remembered, of either event to- day. Pius the Ninth, an intimate political acquaintance of both sovereigns, died a month after the King of Italy, in the height of the Jingo excitement here. The claimant, who does not find his starring tour through England very lucra- tive, has turned his eyes towards the rich tield of the United States. Arrangements are now nearly completed for his visiting that country, where he will be under the direction of an enterprising agent. A society has been formed bearing the sonorous title of Ticiioorne Release Association," which guarantees a certain sum of money that has proved irresktibly tempting to the unhappy nobleman lately languishing in prison. They intend, preliminary to the visit, to educate the American mind, to which end they are even now distributing pamphlets purporting to give the true history ot the Tichborne case. This fable appeals also to) religious feeling, showing, as the late Mr Whalley often attempted to do in the House of Com- moi:" and elsewhere, that it is the Jesuits who are at the bottom of the whole business. It is dem-mstrated that if Arthur Orton had been proved to be Sir Roger Doughty Tich- borne, the result would in some occult manner hav e led to an increased charge of 15 per cent. upon certain lands held by the Jesuits. difficulty that suggests itself in connection with the proposed visit is the toils in wiiuh the claimant is still held. Fie is on ticket-of-leave, one of the conditions of which is that he shall at stated intervals report himself to the police. If he goes to the United States on a prolonged lecturing mission, it is evident that he cannot fulfil this condition, where- upon his licence would lapse, and on re- turning £ • England he would be liable to he remitted to prison to complete the full term of his penal servitude.
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j The Old Man's Spirits. The following is a chapter from "The Red Manor," a novel written by Lady Betty Lytton, which is at present appearing in Temple Bar. Ladv Betty Lytton, who is daughter of Earl Lytton a id granddaughter of the famous novelist, a young lady not yet out of her teens — The drive was long, and they went but slowly ,a account of the heavy snow. At last, however, le coachman descended from the box, opened two iron gates, and drove through them. Leoline had fallen asleep in her husband's arms. It was a clear, frosty night. Tho snow by deep upon the earth, and the moon shone bright. They were driving d'uvn art a venue of yew-trees, the sombre branches of which were covered with snow. At the end of the avenue the house rase clear and dark in the moonlight. No cheerful light was visible in any of the windows, and the whole building looked black and srim. The carriage stopped; and as the coachman rang the bell an owi hooted from a neighbouring true. Leoline woke with a start. She feit a vogue sensation of fear, and instinctively she clung to her husband. After a few minutes, the door (a low one inside a porch) swung back with a creak- ing sound, and an old woman appeared with a lantern in her hand. Her face was wrinkled, her nose was aquiline and crookcd; and two ugly yellow teeth projected from her thin, colourless lips. She wore a black cap, with, long black ribbons dangling from it, and a feu- grey hairs appeared from underneath it. From her waist hung a large bunch of keys, which rattle# whenaver she moved. "Are you the housekeeper?" said Zvlauricc, springing out of the carriage. Yes, sir." mumblerl the old woman, looking at him with an ugly leer. I've prepared everything for you, as comfortable as possible. Come in, ray lady, out of the cold air. Ah I | see the lady is tired she wants to get to a wtriii fire. Come along, come along." Leoline and Maurice were standing in a large square hall. It was surrounded with figures in armour, and a broad oak staircase led from it to the rooms above. The floor was stone. Through two large windows on each side of the staircase the moonlight streamed into the otherwise dark hall. The old woman led the way upstairs, and Lord Maurice and his wife followed. On the first landing was a small latticed window in the waH, and as they passed it the window was violently tapped. "Oh. Maurice!" cried Leoline, what can that be?" The old woman turued round and sii(i Don't ye bo frightened, ma'am. That's an old owl, as always comes and beats agin that window. It's a tiresome old bird, but ye'll soon get accus- tomed to it." "WeILgoon," said Lord Maurice, sharply; we don't want to stand here any longer in the cold." Softly, softly. I'll go as quick as my old hones will carry me. This way, gen'elman." The old woman now turned into a long, narrow passage, and,opening a door richly carved, showed them into a large, low room, hung- with tapestry so old and worn that it seemed only held to the wall by one or two threads. There was a four- post bed in this room, a heavy oak table, a few hard, high-backed chairs, a, moth-eaten sofa, a washstand* and a chest of drawers—the two last- mentioned articles having evidently been recently put there. Opposite the table was a large chimney- piece, reaching to the ceiling, and a warm fire was blazing up the chimney. There was a window facing the bcd, and the curtains of it were drawn. "You have not seIecte-l the most chearful room for us," said Lord Maurice. Oh indeed, sir, this is far the warmest room in the house others haven't been used for ever so I long, and we hadn't time to do em up for vo. I -iiii sure ye'll I)e it your etse I)ei,e, tu(f I can answer for the bed being well aired, for I an my diusband have slept here for the la,t I F. lits. t.: The other two did not seem to relish tins re- l assuring information, but the old woman con- tinued— "This is the bedroom, and the sitting-room Ie ads out of it." Here she opened a door opposite tilc fireplace, and ushered Lord Maurice and his wi, into a smaller room of the same character. It had I iiit one window, opposite to which was a bookci "e, filled with old books, all in a torn and t,tttere,. I co,idition and facing the fireplace was a large n ,cture, reaching nearly from the coiling to the floo v' It -was the life-size portrait of a man, rWsspd in :A'oosi i dressing-gown, and seated in a chair LoV grey ban- hung down over his shoulders, an J liis countenance, a strange but noble one, worc an expression ot the deepest melancholy. Leol ^ne could not repress an ex- clamation as the pi cture caught her eye. "Who is that?" s he said. "That picture, • ^111 ? answered the old womtn. "That was the grandfather of my late master. He was a wo uderful man. I was with him three years before he d',ed. These are the rooms lie. always lived hi- Will yolt have your supper downstairs or v\ ould you like it up here, ma'am?" Leoline said sl^e would prefer having it in the sittinz-room. My man will bring up y lugguage. And, now, is there anything more J- can do for yon? They replied that they required nothing but rest and quiet, and the old woman withdrew. When she was one, Leoline drcWed into a chair and sighed. "Leoline," cried Maurice, "uVoes the place seom very lonely? Ah! I oug-ht. uot to have brought you here before everything, vas made fit to receive you more comfortably.' T\"0> n0j Maurice. I am euchante; 1 with the place, and it will look cheerful enough^when we have been here a short time. Indeed, 1 .im only a little tired." The caress which answered her was interrupted by a knock at the door. It opened, and an old man looked in. He was short, and his back was bent with age. His face had a malicious expression, and a large wart at-, the end of his nose did not improve his;appear- ance. After watching the lovers for some seconds in silence, he pulled his forelock, aud in an indistinct, stuttering voice Good-od pvening, 1-1-lady and gentleman. I'm Will I Crotchet, the husband of the worthy dame who has just left you. I've brought up your box, and, if you wish it, I'll now bring up your supper. The old man withdrew, and shortly reappeared with the dinner cooked by his wife to t tie best of her abilities, which were not vit. When they had finished their meal 6" (A I were alone again, Maurice and Leoline exan 'med the room more carefully. He opened the bo r,'<case' an<^ attempted to take out one of the boo ,C3' kut as-soon as he let go the glass frame he had 1 as^ °Pene(^ shut with a snap, and he narrowlv «scaPed pinching his finger. All his efforts to re- °ljen t'ie bookcase were in vain. "How ver ;Itrange," he said. "It opened so Ca" Tt LsOTobab a spring door," said Leoline. Maurice sat do wn musingly. I cannot under- stand this place at 'l'5 ,sa^» after a pause, and taking Leoline' x ha"d, }a "wn 5 Jthe cold- ness of it startled him, ^nd he noticed that she was trembling. „ Leoline, dearest, whc. 113 I don't know," she sak •L,u': thought I heard a low moan, as if som. 1 one were m pain close beside me." They both listened, and afte^ time the moan was repeated. „ •, "There must be someone outside," said Maurice, and he sprang up, openeu the window, and called out, Who's there ?" A gust of cold blew into the room.. „ "It must have been the wind, aftei au» 110 said. "Shut the window, dear Maurice, anu \r?mre and talk to me. Everything is so still, and that picture opposite haunts me, and that moan— ) Jt am sure it was a moan—made me so frightened. Maurice drew his fair young wife to him. She nestled herself upon his knee and they began to t ilk of what is always the most interesting thing to young lovers—themselves and in the pleasant discussion of that subject they soon forgot eviiry other. The night was far advanced, and the houses as ) still as dgatli. Maurice and Leoline had fallen asleep in each other's arms. Suddenly a shriH scream echoed through the house. The sleepers were awaked by it. The scream was repeated. Maurice tried to speak, tried to move, but some invisible power held him back, and he could not utter a sound. His wife clung to him, her eyes wild with terror. The fire had died down upon hearth. The window had been blown open, and the caudle blown out. The moonlight streamed into the room. The scream ceased. The attention of both Maurice ancl Leoline was now involuntarily attracted by the large portrait opposite them. Tte head of the portrait slowly moved; the mournful eyes turned with a look of supplication towards them. The whole portrait moved the hands were lifted from the arms, of the chair, on which they had be,,n resting in the picture; the figure of the old man rose, straightened itself, stepped out of the frame, and disappeared. The picture frame was empty. The !> ank wall behind it was distinctlv visible in the >1m1.ght. At this blank wall the terrified •-•vner.s of the Red Manor were still staring .I'.ch =nically, when they became conscious of a iusky space in the centre of it, which appeared to be a wooden panel. The panel, as they watched it, slid noisely into the wall. The aperture it revealed was impenetrably dark but out of the darkuess of it a horrible image uow emerged. This image had the apearance of an old hag, in a loose, black garment, the hood of which was drawn over her head, completely concealing all her feature except the mouth. The expres- sion of that one feature, however, was ghastly in the extreme. The lips seemed shrivelled away from the gumless aud projecting teeth, which glittered in the moonlight, tightly clenched as if in a contortion of pain or passion. The apparition iri its place, and the human beings in theirs, thus stood confronting each other all three for a while silent and im- moveable. Presently, however, a long black sleeve was lifted and stretehed through the empty picture-frame a bunch of bony fingers, long and sharp as the claws of a bird of prey, protruded fro the black sleeve, and slowly opened and shut, as ii clutching at some invisible prey. A low chuckling sound was audible umlerjthe black hood, and the apparition was no longer in the picture frame. It was now in the room itself. The bag ap- proached the lovers. Again the silence wa oroken by a shrill scream. This time, however, it was a human scream—the scream of Leoline for the hag was stooping over her. She seemed to whisper something (something which to Maurice was inaudible) into the ear of the senseless form he now held in his arms. Then the hooded face turned towards him. He saw the glittering teeth a sensation of intense cold seized him, aud ] he too lost eon.c:cionsnoss. How long Lord Maurice Chistlewood remained insensible he knew not. It was still dark when he recovered from the swoon into which he had fallen. The moon was setting. The dawn had not yet brokn, ld ouly a dim Wey light came from the uncurtained window..lie awoke with a sensation of numbness, as one who had been stunned by a hr->avy blow or a severe fall. His wife was lying beside him on the floor. She was still insensible. He spoke to her she made no answer, but she was breathing heavily. Not. dead, thank God he exclaimed, as he lifted her gently in his arms, and, with his precious burden groped his way to the door of the bedroom. The door was shut, but a dull'light was shining through the chinks of it, and as he opened it Maurice per- ceived, to his surprise, that the bedroom fire was burning brightly. It lit up the whole room with a cheerful ruddy glow, and the flickering gleam of it played warmly among the crimson folds of the heavy bed-curtains, which were closely drawn. Maurice felt his strength and spirits rapidly reviving in the warm atmosphere and comfortable aspect of the room. He bent over the face cf his beautiful wife, who still by insensible in his arms. Her eyes were closed, and the look of pain and terror upon her countenance vividly recalled to hunthc g'ha-tly expeririu-es of the room he had ju-t left. He shut the door behind him, but was unable to lock it. The larce brass box-lock attached to the door, could it been used, would have been stout enough to withstand the heaviest pressure, but there was no key in it, and the old-fashioned door-boit, which seemed to have been added as an extra precaution, had been removed from t! I brass Hockots. Maurice hastened to the bed, and, still support- ing Leoline on one arm,with the other drew aside the heavy curtain. As he drew it the warm fire- light fell brightly over the coverlet, and, to his, amazement and horror, ho beheld the old man sitting up in the bud, wide awake, aud looking steadily at him. At this aightbis indignation, and ungpr was even greater than his horror. Miserable and impudent imposter he exclaimed—but again, as before, his utterance was .stifled by a sudden and mysterious paralysis of power. All the nerves of sensation remained acutely, and, indeed, preternaturaliy active, but the nerve of motion seemed to have suddenly lost their function, and no longer responded to the will. The old man's face was tha same as that of the portrait in the sitting-room. His eye3 had an expression of intense and painful espacta- •> tion, as if he were watching for some- thing, and the full blaze of the tire dluminated his face, which was deeply wrinkled and very hairy. Maurice could not avert his own eyes: from this singular figure. The two men (if two men they were) gazed steadily and silently at each other but the oid man seemed to be gazing not so mudl at, Maurice as through him, and ti something behind, or behoud him. The next moment Maurice was again conscious of a sudden sensation of cold, similar to what he had ex- perienced in the adjoining room at the approach of the old hag. The light between the lire-place v and the bed was slowly darkened by a faint, form- less, indeiinite shadow.The old man's eyes were fixed upon it with a dilating glare of intense animosity, mingled with extreme fear like the look in the eyes ot a savage animal at tho approach of a savage master. The shadow strengthened, as it were, in substance, but not in form that is to say, it grew darker and denser, and at last completely .•paque; but all its outlines seemed blurred and fluctuating, as if from the quickness of some strong inside motion, confined within a narrow space like. the spokes of a wheel when it turns swiftly, or tbe.;tigures on a banner violently agitated by the wind. Then the old man stretched out, toward* the approaching shadow, a long hairy arm, as if' to repel it. Again that low chuckling sound, which Maurice recalled with a shudder; and in, the central darkness of the shadow there was it, motnementary sinister gleam of white teeth, an(i a quick clutching movement as of dusky prangs or fingers convul- sively opening and shutting. The shadow was now close to the bed. The old man sank back upon the pillow. The shadow was upon him, and then between the palpable, human form, and e the impalpable, inhuman formlessness, there seemed to be a terrible struggle, all the more terrible because it was absolutely noiseless. No description of a nightmare, however vividly the details of it may be recalled by the awakened dreamer, can convey to others, or even to his own waking senses, any adequate idea of the abject and impotent horror of its sensation during sleep; nor can any description of this noiseless struggle represent the sensations with which it was watched by Maurice Chistlewood; till at last tha increasing terror of it become intolerable, and he ^fairly screamed aloud at the pitch of his v oice. The sound of his own scream at once dis- solved the spell which had been upon him, Panting and gasping, as if lie himself had been in conflict with some impalpable but tremendous power, he passed, with a desperate effort of the will, and at confused but deliriously, thankful sense of escape, from an unnatural in a natural condition o,^ consciousness. The apparitions that had haunted' him were no more and, if the liie- light were tihe element in which they lived, it, too, bad OLJ r: out. The dawn, grey and cold, but clear, wa»< in the wintry sky. He looked around him, tho bed was empty, the bed clothes undisturbed. Hre placed Leoline upon it, drew her hands in his, .sank down by the bedside, laid his head upon the l.and he clasped, and exclaimed, Thank God!" Dee,-jlyseated in the human nature is the instinct of pi ayer and thanksgiving, and, whatever his race, ihis creed, or his language, man's first impulse in t,110 moment of escape from some awful peril, or some awful fear, is to exclaim Thank God Maurice was still in this posture when he heard steps in the passage, and son one opening, not the door he had closed, but th 5 one leading to the staircase. Maurice's nerves w 'ere still so upset that he shrank from ascertaim the cause ot these sounds, n.nd did not lift his h ad, though he heard two people enter the room tn(, "tpl)r,)achithe bed. A hand was laid upon him, a.he felt it stroking him all over, with a doubtful, inquisitive touch. "Jim," said the voice'of Mrs Crotche in a tone of grim satisfaction, hf,*s dead she's L t)ad; they're both dead-dead as two stones. 1:11 hi! hi!" Maurice sprang to his feet. "Youwretcheu I old people," lie exclaimed, what are vou doing here?" The old woman screamed, but her hus- baud said, with a malicious grin, "Bles, yer, sir, we only thought ye was both dead." Dead ? And why should you think so, vil- I lain, eh?" Only, sir, because people who come to visit t his house sometimes do die can't tell why, to be sui "e •_ hut I've seen strange things here myself." >• You wretch," cried M'mrice, attempting to seize hut the old man evaded his grasp. "You Wretch? what i::famou< tricks have you and that villainous old lmg presumed to play upon me a. Id my wife this night?'' IVill Crochet laughed. "So you've been frightened by the old man's spirit, have ye ?"
LORD A';BERDARE ANDI EDUCATION.
LORD A';BERDARE AND EDUCATION. Lord Aberdare has consented to preside at a projected conference, to beh\ ..ld in Manchester on the 14th of April and following days, to discus the condition and methods u. education in relation to health.
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I YANKEE YARNS. — I OE IORE HONEST MAN. When the conductor had passed through the front part of the smoker to the Denver train as it pulled out of Crete yesterday afternoon, he was called back by a tired looking inin with a faded terra cotta moustache. Do you see any check in my hat-band ?" he asked. The conductor looked and confessed he did not. "Do you re- member collecting any tare from me?" "No, I guess I skipped you; irnmc your ticket. "Now, I suppose.1'said the tired man," tha most men would have let you go when you didn't notice them." "Yes, but you tind your ticket ?" But I don't believe in letting a man suffer for a mistake even if it is his own." Want to pay ill cash? How far are you going?'' asked the con- ductor, tilling out a drawback. "There arc a great IInny people." continued the terra-cotta. moustache who think it is all right to beat a railroad corporation, but I'm not <>ne of them. My conscience wouldn't have let me rest a minute if I had let y^u go by. "Fare to Lincoln's fifty cents," said the conductor with a sign of impa- tience in his face. No, I couldn't go to sleep at night if J had soruetbing that belonged to another." lie dropped t tear, and reaching down into his vest pocket, drew forth a worn and soiled annual pa&s. lIe was an editor, but the conduc- tor was a new man, and had never seen | him before. He made some remarks that left a blue streak behind them as they ran along over the heads of the passengers, and returning tho docu- ment, passed oil through the car.—Lincoln State .T 01/Tmtl. O:T 01,' nil-: "PLAIN HIGHWAY OR TALK." It is of no use in "the States for an Eastern man to try to tell a big story when there is a Wes- tern man about. "When I was a young man,' 1; "we livcd nois. The hrlll had been well wooded, and tho stumps were pretty thick. Butweputthecorn in among them, aud managed to raise a fair crop. The next season I did my share of the ploughing. We had a sulky' plough, and I sat in the seat and managed the horses, four as handsome bays as ever u iiiin (Irew rein over One day I found a stump right m my way. 1 hated to back ()ut, so I just .said a word to the team, and, if you will believe it, they just walked that plough right througb%that. stuuip as though it had beeu cream- cheese." Not a soul expressed surprise. But xVlajor s» Western man, who had beon a (iuiot listener, remarked quietly, "It's curious, but I had a "imir experience myself once, My mother always made our clothes in those days, as well as the cloth timy were made of. The old bdy was awful proud of her homsspun—said it was the strongest cloth in the State. One day, I had just ploughed through a white oak stump in the way you "pak of; Colonel, but it wa,, a little too quick for me. It jeunie together before I was out of the way, and nipped niy trousers. It felt mean, I can tell you, 'bnt» I put the string on the ponies, and, if yc,tl behove it, they just snaked that stump out, root.4 aud all. Something had to give, you know." arc TXtAN'f'IT. As the train roiled into Fremont, Ohio, the fat passenger ramaa-lred, "If we had time I'd sto).» and take (L liner with old Hayes." With whom asked the sad pasenger .severely. Oid Hay's, the fat ^passisnger replied. Didn't you know him ? Used to ho the President of the Republic. Somi months v»f»o people were calling him'His Most Excellent Excellency Rutherford B. Hayes, "President of tiie; United Scates of America and Commander-iii-Chief of, the Army and Navy.' Then he got (Yii the cars one (,ay iii March to riue west, and, when he got as far asAltoona, calling him 'Rutherford B. Hayes, ex:iJresident of the United States.' When he reached PJh;,bul'g, they called him 'Ex-President I Haves.' When the train got as far west ap. Cleve- tile Val of it. B- Hayes.' And the day after he reached Fremont an old Fremont'.r, lighting a spring fire with an ancient pea-brush, and blighted boots in his back-yard, said to his neighbour, with little grammar, and less reverence, 'Old Hayes is got. rich.' transit gloria of the United States of Ail-ter;ca jfesterday rtien Would chase after Hayes s carriage fifteen miles thronh mud and dust to be £ h?in for a little Missouri corner post- 1 LV ofiice worth three • hundred and pixty five dollars^ a, year and pay your own rent. Ifo-d-,lty lie II)-* ;I bt all tli" cit!rk sav. t\Vt..ut.tsaTm.le-r<)om. Mr. Hayes?' He pees to the bank, arici tire ('¡.;h¡el' ]ouiw at him ple.is.-jatly, but wito intense scrutiny, and says, Could you I get oi this for us, please?' • Verily, my brother, all is vanity So is the greatness of the uiau who bath been President." KYKlYTKiNlj'S CHANGED'" I E ();il _.ur "histleuod looked very dejected as he I came into the ornate sanctum of the lli'.vikeyc. and t (i o w n in the society editor's favourite chair. ^hn' isn't like it used to be," mid the old man. -Everything's changed." Right," said the sporting editor, feeling in his other pocket first, and there is precious little left of the cnan^e.3' And a look cf woe came over his countenance as he wondered what he did with it. '• Wnats the matter now?'' the city editor asked the visitor. "Well," Thistlepod replied, "I've been put jookm at the boys piay football. Now, there aint any science in football. Anybody knows that. I've played football' 'n' you have 'n' you know tnere aint 110 science in it. They've run all the old ball games out. Boys to-day are too delicate to play sock-a-bout/ Moses in Egypt! If I aint had i>ill Simpson fire a red hot sold injin rubber ball at me so as t'I couldn't think for week but it'd gone piuin thru me You hit a boy a crack like that w|th a ball to-day an' he'd cry 'n' lay down 'n'^ ''There have been base ball players killed by a There have been base ball players killed by a ba" from the bat," said the sporting editor, in- tent outstanding up for the boys of to-day. An so they'd ought to ben roared the old man, in a burst of wrath. "So they'd ought to beu Every last one of eii Any man that'd go inaskerdin' around in such a gaine had ought to be killed. "i-aint anything like a Christian game o' ball, knoekin' men to pieces like that way. Tain t played right, nohow. Kin you cross a. man betwixt No, vou can't. Kin you lilt him a clip with the ball when he's runnin' betwixt bases, and put him out an make him think you ve, bored a hole clean thru' him at the same time. No, you can't. Ye got to run after him weth one foot on yer base and tech him with the ball in yer hands. Is that any way to play ball, 1 d like to know t Kin a fellow knock a ball ? mile and then run around the ring three times an bring- the whole crowd in ? Or kin ho bring another feller in when he runs around onccfc wethout stoppui ? N", .lie can't. Do you choose sides ? No you don t. You have teams an'- "Oh, well, Mr Thistlepod/' said the sporting editor, that's old town ball; nobody I'lays that now. That's ballhowled the old man. "Didnt I play ball afore you was born ? Reckon nobody plays one old cat' nor two old "cat' now, nuther. plays onR old cat' nor two old cat' now, nuther. Nor Andy -over,, n,)t 'bull pen,' nor anything. Don't talk to "But about this game of foot-ball?" asked the city editor, anxious to get the old man back to his item. Oh! Well, they call it foot-ball, but good- ness only knows what it reely was. They bed j two teams hope to die if thev didn't. An' the more I looked an' the more I listened, the less I knowed. They bed goals and half-backs-now, what'n the name o' sense is 'half-backs?' An they had touch downs,' whatever they may be, an' rushers and full backs, an' quarter backs, an^ tilpl.e, was off sides, au' safety touch downs, an ■b-ou kicks, an' dribbled kick oils, an' pa»tecl L h„ hs, au' all that sort o' nonsense. Now 'Vol a way is that to play foot-ball, I'd llke kmc. ■' to«pr0 w did you used to play foot-ball, Uncks William"' f the society editor. Kicker !'shouted the old man. "Slapped it d«t,iexian: Tr™ couldn't get to -ot an' kicked some t k'SnV'i, j null- kicked back H sVid hCr 3?it !l t hav0 iise « backs n' no gaols n no nonbQ Jeit kicked! Like th 1s,' .nPd And the boys cheereu tho ol1 up, backed across the san, m' a°djnado at the waste basket to shev. v rjov>' .hfl ti„e it." He caught it low, and *ahr "f' out cerulean dome of the ceiling we ^vo clear of the open wmuow, and in gr; i f. rained across the street, and for two long original poems, sonnets of all sorts tributions fancy names, and two-ton political c, i for the and faded correspondence, and deinane ,its P,nd stoppage of the paper, threats of libel si. -»'sug- a miscellaneous shower of advice, dictation and gestiou, approbation, abuse, cheek, news political wisdom from Taxpayer, Constant R x der, Old Subscriber, Fiat Justitia, Citizen, Vo. Ponuli. Lex, Americus, and One Who Knows. Howling and groaning under the table lay old Mr Thistlepod with a broken toe, while a big stone- ware Queen AJlIIG spitcoou that had been through three Presidential campaigns by in its place by the side of the waste basket without a dent in it. Football used to be a great game when Uncle William was a boy, and they just kicked.—Bur- lin!J:r¡lt Iiawkcgé.
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FACTS AND FANCIES.
FACTS AND FANCIES. THE AGE OF REASON.—Very hard to tell. A CIRCULAR "SAW."—A saying that cuts all round. PAT'S HEIGHT OF MANNERS."—The top of the mornin' to you. When is a book like a lost dog that has been found ?—When it is recovered. FASHION NOTE.-All sorts of sleeves are admis- sible for ladies' dresses, but the coat-sleeve round the waist remains the favourite. Why should candidates for a racing crew be less than 21 years of age?—Because miners know best how to handle the ore. A Philadelphia coal-dealer recently received from a prominent shoddyite, who had been to Europe, an order for five tons of coal delivered (t'la cart. Now, I understand, remarked Oldboy, with a sigh, at a matinee, after vainly trying to get a view ;<>f the stage over the bonnet in front of him, "rvhat they mean by the 'height of fashion. It is said that under the laws of the pilgrim fathers a man could not kiss hi3 wife on Sunday. "•Judging from the pictures of some of the pilgrim mothers." savs a wag, "one day's vacation a week was none too much." was none too much." A B.E.T-MIN"I >K! >NE.RS ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE. —Considerable surprise and excitemeut were created on the London Stock Exchange the other day by a prominent operator appearing with his hands in his own pockets. A well-known testhete, paying a morning visit to a lady, surprised her dusting some china too precious to be entrusted to any hands but her own. "Oh," said he, what unnecessary labour Oust should never be removed it is the bloom of time." Monsieur Gomgom, who had been married only a few day. happened, in company with his wife, to pass near a beehive. The bees stung his wife, aud Gomgom, instead of pitying her, said, "How intelligent are these bee3, my dear, to know that we are on our heneymoon THE INFLICTION OVER.—Scene—In the nudi tonuni of a theatre. Actor, who has appeared in the first piece Good evening May I take the seat next you ?" Lady Certainly. But don't you appear any more to-night Actor No." Lady Oh, I am so glad Pray sit down. A party of Texan wagoners, after a hard day's pull, were chatting around the camp fire while they smoked their pipes. "Sambo, me b'y," exclaimed Pat, a rollicking Irishman, to a jolly '^key, "tell us what makes yer nose so flat." ) Uun'no, Mars' Pat,'1 answered Sam; but I spec it's to keep me from pokin' into udder people's business." P-ETK'S DELIGHT.—A rather elderly darkey was inquiring of a policeman if he knew anything of his son Pete. Tha policeman replied that there was a young darkey in the lock-up for breaking up a meeting with all axe-haudle. Dat's him Dat's my chile Pete exclaimed the overjoyed parent. lie told me he was gwine to 'muse himself." A Syrian convert to Christianity was urged by his employer to work on Sunday, but ho declined. But," said the master, do°s not your Bible say that, if a man has an ass or an ox that falls int') a pit on the Sabbath-day, he may pull him (,iit ?-" Yes; answered the convert but, it the ass '.ia-i a habit of falling into the same pit every Sabbath-day, then tha man should either fill up the pit or sell the ass." TIIK GREAT ENGLISH CEMETERY.—Not long after his removal from the House of Commons to the House of Lords. Disraeli met a brother-peer in t.ie street, who asked him how he liked the change. ''Like it," exclaimed Disraeli, fojget- ting himself for ibe moment, and blundering out the truth, "like it I feel as if I were dead, or buried alive?" Then, seeing the expression of disooinfituro on the peer's face, lie added hastily, with a courtly bow and au irresistible smile, And in the land of the blessed TREADING ON THE TAIL OF HIS COAT.—-A member ot the House of Commons has discovered that it is not always safe to make jokes. Talking with a prominent Land Leaguer, that gentleman happened to mention that as soon as Parliament was up he was going to Ireland to do a little shooting. What's your name," asked the facetious member—" landlords ?"' The joke was obvious; but the Land Leaguer was not in a humour to take it, and there was soma talk of the interycnti m of the Speaker. ''MOSSOO'.S" ENLIGHTENMENT. — While on a visit to the recent Paris Exhibition, an American went into a grocer's shop in Paris and asked for A tin of corned beef. While his purchase was being wrapped in paper, he asked the shop-keeper whether he sold much of this meat put in tins. Yes, a good deal to foreigners," said the man the French do not dare for it. You see, we can get fresh meat in this country, but in America, where this comes from"—pointing to the tins on the shelf-" all the meat is salt." A parsimonious laird was once at a party at Kelly Castle. It was customary for the guests to give a small sum of money to the servants, who were drawn up in tne hall to receive their "vails The gifts of those who preceeded the laird were received gravely, not calling forth smiles, or even thanks; k,ut,, %vlieii he passed, the faces of the ♦ servants brigntened up as if he had given them gold. W hat did you give them, I-,(jbbie ?" asked his friends. They looked as sour as vinegar till your turn came." De'il a bawbee did they get frae me answered the laird I just kittled [tickled] their palms." When the Duchess of Edinburgh was in Paris this spring, her Royal Highness went about a good, deal .shopping on her own account One evening quite late she arrived at the establish- ment of a celebrated coutariere, Everybody was gone, and the bonne sent the Duchess away, saying that her mistress had retired for the night. ,inor"? bo rive reported that a Madame d Edmborg had called late, and that she had refused to admit her. "Do you know who it is you have treated thus?" asked her mis- tress. I hat was a daughter of a Czar of Russia, and she is the wife of a son of the Queen of Eng- land. Tiens,' exclaimed the bonne, greatly exercised at her lost opportunity, "and I let her go without having a good look at her 1" t One of the driest American jokers of the day is Judge Allen A. Bradford, of the Pueblo Bar. He is a little eccentric, but withal one of the best lawyers in the far west. He was engaged upon a case a few years since before a judge to whom he took a dislike. The judge was undecided in his rulings, and would change his conclusions |X.ery time ths opposite lawyer argued a point. When Bradford came to address the jury, he took occasion to express his contempt. Said he Gentlemen of the jury, the indecision of this Court reminds me of the fabled ass that died between two bundles of hayfor want of decision." The Court could stand this no longer. Calling the attorney to order, the judge fined him five dollars for contempt. With all the coolness ho is capable of, Bradford felt in his pocket for a moment, and then, producing two dollars fifty cents, said. in his peculiar intonation of voice, Your honour, I have but half the amount. I will pay for the hay, but let the ass stand." M. L6on Gambetta has recently, incurred tne vehement displeasure of a Gascon poet named Cassaignau, who, indignant at the ex Premier's ommission to acknowledge the receipt of a volume of lyrics in dialect forwarded to him by their author, gave vent to his wrath in a briskly vituperative letter, After rating M. Gambetta soundly for his lack of courtesy, the irate rhynister, in a burst of scathing irony, observes, You may be an intelligent man but you most certainly are a very badly-bred aud ill-con- ditioned fellow, smelling unmistakeably of the grocer's shop in which you were brought up. It is this unpleasant odour, believe me, that will eventually mar your candida- ture for the Presidency of the French Republic." From this sarcastic epistle M. Gambetta will no doubt have learnt that the sen- sitive appreciation of a poet, and more particu- larly of a Gascon poet, is not to be slighted with j "npunity, even by so eminent a personage as liim- s'el f. He would never have fallen into M. Ca;s- i" mu'.s ill-graces had he acknowledged that ex- citèab 1e bard s book of verses in some such terms A J employed upon innumerable occasions diirino^tli Past llaIf century by Victor Hugo, in answil tr, t he letters addressed to him by poets i woured him with copies of their i w« ;uvariable formula of aeknowledg- woi'Ks. J.1* i 'WS_U M.U1 { You are x ih™ *•fvuW| Victor fioso eaba. V» you witbout
I CARDIFF SCHOOL BOARD.
I CARDIFF SCHOOL BOARD. The Opening of the Higher Grade School. A special ineetinl, of this board was held at tho Town-hall on "day, Mr Lewis Williams in the chair. there were also present—Mr Thomas Kees (vice-chairman),"Mr J. Gunn, Dr. Edwards, ilev. J. C. Thompson, Dr. Wallace and Rev. G. A. Jones. The meeting was called for the purpose of electing- assistant masters and mistresses to the hiariier grade schools. The higher grarle school committee reported that they had received 89 applications for the appointments in connection with the boys' and bad selected several to attend the special meeting. OPENING OF THE HIGHER GRADE SCHOOL. The CHAIRMAN, prior to the commencement of the proceedings, said that it would probably be expected of him to make a brief statement with reference to a telegram and a letter which he had received from the Education Department. The telegram, which he received last evening, had ap- peared in the morning papers, but he had re- ceived that morning the following letter Privy Council Office, 8th January, 1835. ^ir,—I sent you a telegram this afternoon in com- pliance w.th Mr Mundella's wishes, telling you that ne had returned to-day, from Folkestone, where he opened a school-board school, suffering from a severs cnill and a bronchial attack. He is in bed, and has lost his voice and tno doctor says that he will not befit to speak in public for three weeks or a month. lie (le- sires me oo express to you his great concern and regret that he sh- uld be obliged to postpone his visit to Cardiif, and be unable to carry out, at present, ou. ga<v ruonts to which he has looked forward with so much interest and pleasure.—I remain, sir, yours faithfully, 11. T. BRYANT.—L. Williams, Esq. He (the chairman) was sure that Mr Mundella's illness had caused a general feeling of disappoint- ment in the town, the inhabitants generally having looked forward to his visit with much interest. He thought the only course left open to them was tu defer the formal opening ceremony until Mr Mundella's health would be sufficiently restored to enable him to visit Cardiff. This, with the public mieting, could be deferred, but the actual opening of the school must tako place at the time appointed. As Mr Mundella was compelled to postpone his visit in consequence of illness, he (the chairman) was of opinion that they should send a letter to him expressing their regret at his illness, and also expressing a hope that in a month or six weeks he would be able to pay his visit to Cardiff. Tho chairman also mentioned that he had received a telegram from Lord Aber- dare, advising that all matters should be held in abeyance until Mr Mundella was able to visit Cardiff. Some discussion followed, but the suggestion of the chairman was adopted, and the school will be opened by the school board without ceremony, the formal openingbeing deferred to be carried through by Mr Mundella. The school will be formally opened by the school board on Tuesday. It will bo opened on Wednesday for enrolling- scholars, and the work of the school will commence on the Monday following. .For the office of assistant mistress for the girls' schools, Miss Ellen Jane McLellick, of Kil- marnock, was elected, and for the second assistant-mistress, Miss Mary Jones, 6, Great Frederick-street, at present assistant-mistress at tho GTangetown School Board School. For the office of science master for the boys' schools three candidates were in attendance, the choice tailing on Mr Charles Joseph Gaban, 19, Montpelier-road, South Kensington, London, S.W.
THE STRANGE FIND AT SWANSEA.
THE STRANGE FIND AT SWANSEA. Identification of the Remains. I The Inquest. Mr Coroner Strick, on Friday afternoon, helci an inquest, at the Centre Hotel, on the portions of a human body which, as we have previously announced, were "picked up in the, scooos of the laige dredger while it was working, on Tuesday last, olf the Swansea Extension Pier. In opening the proceedings, the Coroner explained that con- sidering the small portion of a, body picked up, lie should not have thought it necessary to hold an inquest but for the fact that the po- lice had ascertained that people were m a position to identify the face. He then called Martha Howard, the wife of John Howard, who said she had seen the remains which, amongst other thing, tiie scalp of a man, show- ing the ears and beard, and she was or opinion that they resembled very much Robert Wood, whowasempioyeda.s a weighman at the Manure Works at the llafod, and had lodged with her for eleven months. He. was -about 58 years old. During the time lie was with her he had had several drinking bouts. He had to leave her house in consequence of his intemperance, he having for a month previously been drinking whiskey continually. He was a widower, and a boy and girl lived with him. On one day he had fallen three times into the canal. She had heard from Wood's daughter that he had been missing three weeks before the skull was picked up. Wood, while hober, was of a saving disposi- tion, but when his drinking bouts oom- menced his craving for drink was so great that be had once endeavoured to pawn his little girl's boots in order to obtain money.—James Coch- rane, captain of the No. 1 dredger, spoke to the discovery of the remains.—Catherine Devine said that when she last saw Wood he was gettilig over his drinking bout, and his fellow-workmen had made up a subscription to enable him to go to Glasgow. Three; weeks before then lie had been dismissed from the works.—James Williams, the second mate of the dredger, corroborated the evi- dence of Capt. Cochrane. The Coroner, in summing up, said though the law said an inquest must be hold on a body found under circumstances similar to tlioic in question, it did not say it must be a whole body or a very considerable portion of it. In this case it seemed that there were sufficient of the fea- tures to be identified, and ho suggested that perhyps the case would be met by the jury saying that from tho evidence they firmly bsheved"tho remains to belong to llobert Wood.— The jury expressed themselves hardly satisfied that it had been conclusively proved the remains were those of W cod, though they oeiieved them to be, and therefore found That the said Robt. Wood, who was much given to drink, was misa- ing- on Tuesday, the 16th Dee. last, and the jury are under the impression that the remains which they viewed, and which were dredged out of the entrance to the harbour on January 6th formed part of the body of the said Robert Wood, but how they got there there is no evidence before the jury to show."
ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. '
ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. TIPI'EKARY.—The nomination for County Tip- perary to fill the vacancy caused by tne resignation of Mr P. J. Smyth (Home Ruler) took place at Tipperary on Friday. Mr John O Connor (Nationalist) was the only candidate put forwaro, and was declared duly elected.
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THE COAL TRAFFIC BY RAILWAY…
THE COAL TRAFFIC BY RAILWAY to London from South Wales, 1<384 It appears that the quantity of coal sent ov\* various lines of the railways in 1884- felt conV siderabiy off what was forwarded in 1883. Thss falling- dr principally affected Midland ami the London aud North Western lines, whilst the Great Western also shows a decline on the of fully 90,000 tons, tho greater part of which ftjl upon the colliery owners of South Wales, uhds1 Derbysitire and otiier parts of the Midland shared the deficit on the other two tines It cannot be said that the depiction in trad generally was the c aise of this; the contrary, there t* no thaf. the comparatively mild won th«r ui.icb' Prevailed throughout the greater part of the year, and more particular the many economical a, appbances that have been introduced for the pur- poses of economy in the consumption of iiou.<v hOidfuel during the last 10 or 12 years ha\e had inonii 'y'o vvith the decreased quantity of coal sent to _uom.U during the past year. Indeed, the ex- eept oiudtv high prices of coal in 1872 and 13?5 have greatiy injured tha trade, and have done more than anything e.se to lessen the consumucion of house coal, and nave also set aside all calculation* previously made as to the future increase. Tiie Royal Commission on Coal, which sat in 1873. re ported that the consu-iption of coal ill Lon don and throughout tiie country might be be expected to increase passu with the increase of the population. But this has cer- tainly not been the case, so tar, at least, «8 London is concerned. The population has greatly increased, whilst many new streets and roads have been opened, requiring an increased amouiifc of gas, yet with all this less curtI was reqaired last year. It may be said that comparatively- little steam coal is sent to the metropolis by ran way, nearly all being used for home and C::t3 purposes, and there has been no falling oft as regards the latter, but just the reverse. During; last year several attempts were made to indue", the directors of tho leading lines to reduce their rates, :md this they might well have done, and, at the same time, Gbtam a good profit. The mineral traffic is the- most important of all, for of the 250,000,000 -m of goods that are carried annually by oui rail- ways, 181,500,000 tons are minerals, leaving "niy 74-,500,000 tous o: general goods. In carrying minerals the railway companies have the gr; t advantage of full trucks, which they have not in either goods. This v/as clearly shown by Mr i! indley, the manager of the London and .North- Western Railway, who, in his evidence bef rt- v select committee, said as a result or a night'* work at the London goods station 26 traint Aem despatched carrying 1,447 tons in 876 wagons, the-, average weight in eacli wagon being 33owt. Whilst a wagon would carry eight tons of ordinary goods, as before stated, it is very diff rent with coal and other minerals, for the waon, a. e filled to their utmost capacity before they ;ry sent away from the mines. With respect to year's traffic, however, it may be said that tne quarter ended in December was the best. TJia tonnage carried during that period was as ,)I- Iowa Tons. Tons. Oct. No-. Dye Midland 211,407 211,41;7 London & North-Western. 146,6P2 136.170 149*965 Great Northern 103,206 9o,50cj 100*3* Great Western ?617ij.T 77,611 r>7.. j'3 £ Great Eastern 60,704 77*,326 7I,&03 Other Lines 9,65b 8,162 B-149 622,423 607,081 643..M Other Lines 9,65b 8,162 B-149 622,423 607,081 64.LU It will be seen that there was a 'consider,.tbl, in- crease in the quantity of coal carriect by the prin- cipal lines in December as compared with the previous month, aiii this was more especially the. case with the Great Western, which took rioi t) than usual from the pits in the Aberdare. district. The Midland and the London and North Wgg. tern's increase was principally from Lanca^-mra and Derbyshire. The Lonuon and North- Wes- tern, it may also be said, took more from some of the collicncs in South Wales in December than it did in the previous month, whilst the Mid- land hau also some coal put on to it from Aberdare. Taking this year, however, it appears that the Great Northern had nearly 26,000 tons of coal put on to it irom the Abordaro district, whilst the Aberdare Iron Company alonl: put 56,000 tons on to the Loudon and North Western. On to the sfflie line there was also sent from Fforchaman 13,600 tons, iiesoiven lO.cJO tons, and Bvvllfa 17,600 tons. The Great We.-t >ra took its largest tunny p-e, about 50,000 tons, f" ,m the Aberdare Iron Company's pits, 46,000 ton* from .Nixon's Navigation, 44 000 from a man, auu 55,0*00 t.ms irom Lwlifa. A good deal of coal was also sent during the year from Wayne's Merthyr and M^rthyr and Aberdare. Nearly 34,000 tons of coal were forwarded during the year from C.vm- darc, 24,000 tons from Blina, 26,000 tons from. Iiesoiven, and 52,000 tons from Mountain Ash. A considerable tonnage was also Hunt from h pits of the Plymouth Company, as well as I.I:J iibbw Vale, Tredegar, and Aberaman. The tonuage sent over the various lines in 1853 and. 1884 was as follows :— 1833. 1HS-. Tons. Midland 2,3o4,318 2,27e,47? London & North-Western 1,638,772 1,5E.í,PS Gi-eat 1,130,83.5 1.12^,102 Great Western 1,08! ,096 992,66- Great Eastern 730,591 V»;y/r.- Other Lines 01,&5a C 7.ciLl,,1;;
---_--LORD BUTE ON THE REFORMATION.
LORD BUTE ON THE REFOR- MATION. The new co'tegiat-e buildings of St. Aloy ins, Glasgow, were formally opened on Thursd.ty uy the Marquis of Bute. Among those present a v. the caremony were tbt Archbisnop or C¡',a.g the Bishop of Dunkeid, the Jdi.shop of Ga!;ov»y„ the Very Itcv. Monsignor Smith, the Very K"V. Provost Monroe, the very llev. Oanon.< ;)e ■iViaCiarlane, Cavan, Conclon, tho^tsry Hev. Jerome Vaug'IJ;:w, the Very Rev. Prior Ar..ouiu«i, O.S.K., Mr A. Campbell and 'Airs Cawp.y.dl of Locimeil, Mr Monteith of Car^tairs, &e. The noble AIABQUI.S, iu the O«;UI.J LA *d- dress, congratulated rb:» fathers of tiie soei-fev upon the completion of a bunding so neco-iWy for the success of an important and bc.U- cent scheme. He a's > congratulated I Catholics of Scotland upon step in the resumption of J;'1** 1 dition which from tiie earliest asea <« rne naf •••»; history had united higher educationthe Catholic Churca. To deny such a trasiti ;!b regard to that highest educi ion voij.u ;:av ,.y im- regard to that highest educi ion voij.u ;:av Uo.) possible in a country where tnree oI tiie > »u^- Universities were ot Oa-uolic institution. 'mcv were sometimes favouied ivifcb the assertion for the school system beiow the universitip t e; were indebted to Joan riie belonged to tne same class as tho statom nt • Mahoinedans tank that women nave t>'>, tnafc nobody was ail owed to eat; and drink at fcr receiving extreme unction, or t un. firework*. fiction with which, among othet tlimgs, a limited ritt-h ceutenary • of Wycliiie. Education was ear.v connccted with the monasteries and con- tinued to be so, but grammar i-ohool* wer • also instituted in such nauiOHie ill 1496 an Act of Parliament could i„s:- it, and did make it, compulsory HM alt p. of a, certain social position to send. ■ oeu n,uC)> ■ sons to one, the object obviously ocmg tnatthe proprietors of the CLmntry fbomn ad i* mon ot culture. It was not till lo10 ve«t,rs afcerooiui Knox was laid in l"3 srave~7«aat toy an act ot toe Parliamentary Council an au -;iipt w.w made ai.. mor* meral system. 1 no reformation, in s >m<. respects leas destructive than in England, spared the "rammar schools, only subjecting tiio "■ to the'approval of the n-w clergy but iv formers no mor.) created these schools built St. Giles's Church in E,iinln.¡,j¡, :1:7 took possession of both. On the otfl," "anu. d" tuSk created by the extinction of i»OI\a 'te' in time supplied by tho eroctio» :iev, schools, suoa as Glasgow He ;.v;saed the iathers of the society '-m i snotu enduring success in WalJ 1 the knowledge, not ontfoungs wh.co.are more dir.ctiy or God,of human daarmng.
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