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THE COBDEN CLUB. l The Cobden Club has issued an address, signed by Lord Welby, which declares that the coming election involves graver consequences than any election since 1852. The nation has to say whether the food of the people shall be taxed, whether the lot of the poor and unemployed, hard as it is, shall be made harder by iniquitous legislation in the interest of privileged classes.

The party leaders have been exceedingly busy since the New Year began, and political speeches of great importance have been delivered in many parts of the country. The Prime Minister, Mr. Balfour, the Duke of Devonshire, Mr. Chamber- lain, and Mr. Asquith have all entered the fray, while almost every constituency is now in the throes of the General Election.

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BURNING HOUSE MYSTERY. I There has been an extremely startling and un. osual development in the mystery surrounding a fire which broke out in Norwich on Friday morn- ing and causedthe death of James Kowen. After investigation the police have arrested Mrs. Kowen on the charge of having caused her husband's death, and she was on Monday brought before the loeal magistrates. The house in which the outbreak took place was in Railway-street. Mrs. Kowen says she and her children went to bed on Thursday night, but her husband, who came in late, sat up reading. In the small hours the fire broke out, and soon spread through the lower rooms. By the aid of neigh- bours, Mrs. Kowen and her children were rescued from the bedroom, but the husband was found dead in the room below. The police found that on his head were several wounds, which had apparently been inflicted by a blunt instrument, and arrested the wife, who said: I did not plan to murder him, or to hurt him in any way." Mrs. Kowen, who is a short, dark woman, of thirty-eight, did not seem to realise the seriousness of her position, and was remanded.

A ten-year-old boy, in endeavouring to ride behind a timber float, at Leicester, got his left log fixed in one of the wheels, and' was dragged along the road. It was ten minutes 'before a wheelwright could loosen the hub of the wheel and release the lad1, who was taken to the infirmary. The passengers oil the mail packet Engeland1, which left Flushing for Queenborough, arrived 1 after a voyage of seventeen hours, the ordinary time being seven hours. Fog caused the long dlelay. t The 2nd East Yorkshire Regiment has Left Aldtorshot for foreign service. r

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I KING EDWARD AND PEACE. I THE NEW CABINET AND FRANCE. The Paria "Matin" publishes a declaration which King Edward is said to have recently made to a French statesman at Buckingham Palaœ. "I have reaetons for believing," his Majesty is represented as saying, "that whatever impres- sion may have prevailed! on the Continent, no nation has really thought of troubling the peace of Europe, and I am certain tjta-t, at present, no nation thinks of disturbing it. The new Cabinet and its head, Sir Henry j CMnphell-Bannetrtnan, aire,animated by sincerely pacific intentions. As regards the relatione of France and England there will be no change whatever. All the members of the Government ai* firm friends of France, and Sir Edward Grey, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, is a particularly loyal and determined partisan of the entente cordiale." Referring to Anglo-Russian relations, King Edward remarked— "Under the preceding Cabinet England has already sought to (bring about a friendly under* standing with the Russian Empire. It is the intention of the present Liberal Cabinet to oontinne aad to increase as far as possible this raproohement, in order to completely dispel all cause of misunderstanding and any conflict of interest between the two countries.

THE ROYAL TOUR IN INDIA. On, Saturday morning the Prince of Wales presented! new colours to the 1st Battalion Royal Lancaster Regiment at Calcutta. In the afternoon their Royal Highnesses attended the raoek*. An immense crowd was present, including Lord taardl Lady Minto. The special 100-Guinea Cup, presented by the Prince of Wales, was won by Dr. Spooner Hart's Long Tom. The Prince and Princess attendied Divine Service in the Cathedral on Sunday morning. The Prince of Wales attended a parade of itroopis at half-past eight on Monday morning held in honour of the anniversary of the pro- clamation of Queen Victoria as Empress of India. The Princess attended a Purdah (ladies') parity at Belvedene at half-past two, and in the afternoon steeplechases were run at Tollygunge, Tiheiir Royal Highnesses, however, were not pre- eent ait the races, and went instead to take tea with the Agha Khaln. Their Royal Highnesses on Tuesday received visits from the Tashi Lama of Tibet, the Maharaj Kumar of Sikkim, the Maharaj Kumar of Bhutan, and the Tongsa Penlop. The Tashi Lama was accompanied by the most weirdly outlandish retinue which their Royal Highnesses have seen in any part of their travels. They bought gifts of cloths, scarves, and stone and metal work. The Tashi Lama himself handed the Prince an ivory-hilted dagger. In the afternoon the Prince and Princess attended a great popular fete in the Maidan. Buddhist priests offered an address. A choir of Bengali musicians then sang a Bengali song of welcome. The entertainment further included Sikkim and Bhutanese dances, a Tibetan ghost dance, and Indian quarternstaff play. Afterwards there were fireworks and illuminations, which the whole population turned out to view.

GREAT RAILWAY MAGNATE. I Mr. Charles T. Yerkes, the railway magnate, who died recently at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, where he had been lying ill for some time past, was born at Philadelphia on June 25, 1837, and was educated at the Central High School and the Quaker School there. He was for some time in the grain commission trade, and afterwards became a banker, but failed in 1871. Subsequently he became connected with steel railway operations, first in Philadelphia THB LATJJ MB. O. T. YERKES. I ax-d then iu Cbiesgo, aRd amassed an immense fortune. He founded the Yerkes Observatory at Lake Geneva-^ Wisconsin. and presented to it, thefinest;tel-escope, in the., world. During., the last few yem-s he has^exrbended "hie railway? enter- prise in thiw.country. The. electrification of the District-iRraatway, s^iue to his initiative, and he was •aloo^dttrgelj^inteTested in tube railways and electric^ramway undertakings.

A FAMILY SUFFOCATED. A shepherd, named Basille, and his wife and three children have just met a terrible death. The family were tramping in search of employment, and on reaching Fleville, near Conflans, were given shelter in the casual ward. After partaking of food supplied by the mayor the family settled down to sleep round a stove. Breakfast was sent in next morning, but the shepherd and his wife and children were found dead.. It is (supposed that they were suffocated by the fumes given off from the stove.

DEATH OF A BARONET. I Siir William Kellelfct recently died at Plymouth ait itfee- age of seventy-six years. He succeeded to the (title in 1886, but it brought him but a barren honour as the eefcaites were voty hoovilv mort- gaged. Sir William had been ma,ried,but his wife died twentty years ago. He was incapaci- baibed for work, and was glad to accept pecuniary SIR WILLIAM KELLETT, BART. I lid firom h,ig Roman Ctaitholic friends, and at one ime subsisted mainly on a pension of 3s. a week :rom ithe Totnes Board of Guardians. :rom ithe Totnes Board of Guardians.

Mother: "I don't like the looks of that boy who has just moved in next door." Small Son 'Nuther do I. He's awful wiry, and I'm afraid when it comes to gettin' acquainted, I'll be the ane to get licked." "Starr's manager has promised to give a pre- sentation of that comedy of mine," said De Riter, "but I don't know when it's to come off." 'Probably the night after it's put on," sug- gested the cruel critic.

THE NIGHT. What mystic silence shrouds the silver night, Bo deep, so still ? Yet can I think a voice Ot tuneful cadence echoes through the sir, Bo soft and soothing that I scarce conceive I am alive and breathing God's pure air. What means the solemn silence of the night, So deep, so strange, beyond my mortal ken- The gentle breeze that rocks the trees and sings, Rustles the leaves, and makes me think the sound The faintest whisper of an angel's wings ? f GLADYS EMANUEL. I

MELOX acknowledged to be THE FINEST DOG FOOD IN EXISTENCE. ONE LB. OF MELOX IS EQUAL TO TWO LBS. OF BEEF. TRY IT. TO BE HAD OF ALL CORN DEALERS, GROCERS, &c. Or TEST SAMPLES FREE of the Inventors, W. G. CLARKE & SONS. LIMEHOUSE1 LONDON, E. Makers by Royal Warrant TO THE KING. >J J

By the will of the 1a.te Mr. Thomas Barclay, a Glasgow solicitor, poor widows in Perth benefit to the amount of £ 17,000. The late Sir Henry Charles Fischer, of Bromley (Kent), formerly Controller of the Telegraph Department, left property worth £50,061.

When Baby had rash, we rnbbed in VINOLIA. When she was a Child, she cried for VfjNTOLIA. When she became Miss, she clung to VINOLIA. When she had children, she gave them YINOLl A, Vinolia Cream, 1/9; Vinolta Powder, Ih 119; Premier Vinolia Soap, 4d. I \—;

Four tramps were sentenced the, other day at Colchester to imprisonment for smashing windows and furniture, and attacking the master and engineer in the Lexdien Workhouse because they did not reoeive Christmas fare.

sixteen tramps were provided on (Jhristmaa morning at the Newton Workhouse with a breakfast of fried bacon, bread and butter, and coffee. They were afterwards told they could leave the house or remain and have the full Christmas fare providled for the regular inmates. With the exception of one old man, who com- plai-ned of sore feet. the whole of them left.

NO BETTER FOOD." Dr. Anttrem Wilton, F.R.8.E., V 300 COLD MEDALS, &c.

A young [girt najme<I Wilms was found strangled at Liege, in a tobacco shop, which had been ransacked by thieves. A "kailyard" melodrama compounded from Ian Maclaren's stories was produced at the St. James's Theatre by Mr. William Mollison.

I LINER ON FIRE. I A !KHREE DAYS' FIGHT. Thrilling was a story of the sea brought to Queenstown on Tuesday night by the White Star liner Oceanic, which arrived from New York. It concerned the voyage from Antwerp to Boston of the Johnston liner Arranmoor, of Liverpool—a voyage so full of remarkable incident and perilous risks that it seems a miracle she ever reached her destination. It was on November 25 that the Arranmore left Antwerp. Her troubles began early. Defects to her machinery compelled her to put in at Southampton. There she had to wait three days for repairs. On resuming her voyage to Southampton every- thing promised well, but when well out in the At- lantic a grave fire broke out. This was on December 7. The outbreak occurred in the after-hold, stored with rags and bags of phosphate. These formed ready fuel for the flames, against which the crew fought with desperate energy. For three days the dread conflict was waged between the fire and the crew. The battle was all the more despe- rate because on the forward deck there were fifty barrels of chemicals, that were to be used for the manufacture of dynamite. Once the flames reached these the doom of the Arranmore and her crew was sealed. At first the men, well aware of their perilous position, opened the hatches in the hope of re- moving part of the cargo, but the draught so fanned the fire that, after 48 hours' incessant effort, the batches were again closed. The next manoeuvre was to inject large quantities of steam into the hold. Whilst this was in progress a steamer flying the French flag overtook the unfortunate ship, and signals of distress were made and answered. The French vessel, however, continued on her course without offering assistance. It was not until December 10 that the conflagra- tion was subdued, and the crew were then in a terribly exhausted state. But their troubles were not over. Off the banks of Newfoundland a violent gale was encountered. Heavy seas that were shipped loosened some casks of aniline dye, and these being smashed the forward part of the vessel was dyed a bright yellow. But, all her trials over, the Arranmore at length reached Boston safely after a month's long voyage of extraordinary adventure.

CHAMPION SHOT IN THE NAVY. Ernest Frederick Sheath, able seaman, of the battleship Hindustan, is the champion shot of the Navy in the heavy gun competition for 1965. It is a remarkable fact that although the best shot Sheath is, nevertheless, the youngest turret-gun layer in the Service, being only twenty years of age. The weapon with which ERNEST FREDERICK SHEATH. he achieved his remarkable record is the 12in. Mark IX., the most powerful gun in the Navy. Its tremendous energy may be realised even by the ordinary civilian when it is remembered that a iship armed with it could bombard a town twelve mile inland with Mont Blano (15,750 feet) standing between.

FIRE BRIGADE AND MADMAN. A novel method of subjugating a madman has been tried with success at Pontedeeirao, near Genoa. A man employed on the railway suddenly went mad. Loekinghimself in his house, the madman set to work to destroy the furniture. Articles were smashed to pieces, and those that, could not be broken were thrown out of the window, several persons in the street having narrow escapes from serious injury. Of the crowd of neighbours not one dared to attempt to break open the door, as it was feared that the madman was armed. Finally the fire brigade received a call, but not to extin- guish a fire. The firemen directed their hose on the madman, who withstood the merciless play of water for several hours, but was eventually paralysed. He was conveyed to the hospital.

Eighteen months will be occupied1 in trans- forming an old-fashioned house in the Galla Fernando e1 Santo, Madrid, into a. modtern residence for the British Embassy. When finished, the building will be one of the hand- somest diplomatic residences in existence. Some £ 570 worth of jewellery was stolen by a daring thief in Bond-street on Christmas Day.

r- -r T8.. I ONE START THE NEW YEAR WELL rwo PENNY I BY READING i SERIAL WEEKLY. TIIE CHARIOTS OF TIE LORD," STORIES BY THE rd., 1: -%r J G S EP Jf3[ JEt Q) C 3K: X M G-. ■ ™ This WoncSefful Story' COMIMENCES in p 11 THE "GHRISTiAN HERALD" ,1 ON JANUARY 4th, 1906. j. I ENJOY IT YOURSELF, AND TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS B «| that, as well as this magnificent Serial Story, the "Christian Herald" always contains about |1 j T'W PICTURES AND PORTRAITS; I l{¿¡¡¡¡ and SERMONS by Revs. -Or. Talmage & C. H. Spupgeon & Rev. Dr. Torrey. mmmKmsmOBKi p Exposition of the jUternational Sunday School Lesson by .Mrs. M. Baxter. | TWO Reports.and Incidents in Connects,on with the Great MELIGIOUS |f ONE REVIVAL in Wales and Elsewhere. ag I II It gives a FREE RAILWAY INSURANCE of £ 750 for Death; also a Special Insurance gg Ij SeiEsAL Ig of £ 12 for Railway Employees. gfl J P Order at Once of any Newsagent ONE (PENMV WEEKLY. H

I THE GENERALELECTIOIM. I SPEECHES BY THE PARTY LEADERS, j The party leaders have been exceedingly busy Mace the New Year began, and political speeches of great importance have been delivered in many parts of the country. The Prime Minister, Mr- Balfour, the Duke of Devonshire, Mr. Chamber- lain, and Mr. Asquith have all entered the fray, while almost every constituency is now in the throes of the General Election. MR. LtLO YJJ-GEORGE. Mr. Ldoyd-George, after a friendly foursome on PwHheii Golf Links, motored to Criceieth on Saturday afternoon, and in the evening ad- dressed a great Literal mooting in the town hall. Mr. Balfour, he said, had done him the honour of noticing staAQmentta he had made in recent speeches in Carnarvon Boroughs on the ques- tion of religious instruction in schools. He (Mr. George) said that Carnarvonshire had adopted a fiyHalbue of religious instruction. Mr. Balfour in this speech of Friday laot paid that this sylla- bus wa-s "County Council Religion." The ques- tion was not one of the county religion or paro- chial reffiigion: it was a question of denomina- tional inetrudtion or religious instruction. Mr. Balfour thought that was re- ligion that was not the opinion of the country, and he believed Mr. Balfour would be made to know that at the coming General Election. Mr. George devoted the remainder of his speech to the fiscal question. ./11. _.a, -?, lU!í.tiAJ.lfU U tl. AT JLiilAlVlljNIjrXUJM. "I "I air. xsauour, speamng on Monday nignt at Leamington in support of Mr. Lyttelton's candi- dature, dealt chiefly with the question of Chinese labour in the Transvaal, declaring that the alle- gations of the displacement of European labour by the introduction of the Chinese and of the prac- tical slavery" of the coolies were false. The whole Radical propaganda in respect to Chinese labour he characterised as a political hypocrisy, and a gross breach of political morality. Replying to an interruptor who asked what his policy was, Mr. Balfour said his foreign policy was that which the present Government were going to try to imitate if they could. His policy on colonial matters was to treat the opinions of the colonies with respect. He did not belong to the party which could hear the colonies expressing their desire for closer commercial union with the Mother Country, and which yet was prepared to close its ears and shut its eyes and mutter some shibboleths about what it erroneously described as froe trade. r<t. YT .T""to rilrb ii. iti. j? u vv JjJiiK. oir ki. Fowler, speaking on Monday night at Wednesfield, Wolverhampton, said the real ques- tion before the country was that of free trade or protection-the greatest issue that had been put before the nation for half a century. Protection was unsound in principle, and would be disastrous In its results. IUII. WAJUX £ iI4 J-iUiNlj. _w Mr. waiter Long, M ir., speaking on Monday night at Bristol, said it was with profound regret and amazement that he had read the Duke of Devonshire's letter, because the duke had thrown the cloak of his great influence and authority over a party which, under the guise of free trade, was really fighting the battle of Home Rule. 1IKU 'DT1'UT1'O TCJ 4 A r<Ci 1U.J.W iliUf UO iur. nuius Isaacs, tne Mem Der i or ixeaaing, opened his campaign on Monday night with a mass meeting in the Corn Exchange. He said he noticed that his opponent had placarded the town with posters, stating that every vote given for a Radical was a vote for Home Rule." He (Mr. Isaacs) contended that the Duke of Devonshire's manifesto was the best answer to such an absurd statement. The hon. Member declared that the next Parliament could not possibly deal with Home Rule without breaking faith with the electors. 1'" r-o. LiUJtOJ liulit-i UEUIL. Lord Hugh Cecil, speaking at East (Greenwich on Monday night, said he was being attacked for holding much more moderately and diffidently the opinions on Free Trade which Mr. Chamberlain held twenty years ago. Why should he be turned out of Parliament by Mr. Chamberlain for main- taining views which Mr. Chamberlain formerly maintained with the utmost vigour and vehe- mence ? "IT- T" "T''IIT ,T.- .P:'i. jUJH..  0  Mr. namoerlalD, in ms election address, issued on Monday night, affirms that the new Ministry is essentially a Home Rule and Little Englander Government. In its professed anxiety for peace, it will not face necessary sacrifices to maintain it, and its members have shown a pro- found indifference to the wishes of our colonial kinsmen for a closer commercial union. The country will suffer if it is not prepared to deal with the question of preferential treatment at once, but the miseries of the poor will ultimately force the only solution. Mr. Chamberlain adds that his system of a general tariff would neces- sarily provide for the free admission of raw materials, and he maintains that his policy is not I protective, but defensive, constructive, and practical. u AIR. MURXMJSlVt) VAMjfAlljrjN. I Mr. r red Horner, the sitting member, is conduct- ing his campaign in North Lambeth in what may be regarded as reposeful confidence. He thinks he will win hands down, although there are five candidates, of whom the principal is Major H. Gastrell, the official Conservative. THE LABUUlS I The Labour Representation Committee on Monday issued its final list of the candidates who will contest constituencies with the approval and endorsement of its Executive Council. The list named contains 51 allotted to as many constituen- cies. In only one case will a Labour candidate have to fight a Liberal alone, but in eighteen other instances Liberal aud Conservative candidates are also in the field, including two double-member constituencies. In the Jarrow Division Mr. Pete Curran will have to fight the sitting Liberal member, Sir Charles Palmer; Mr. A. Henderson, M.P., in Bar- nard Castle Division, will probably be opposed by a Conservative candidate, but the selection has not yet been made. Mr. D. J. Shackleton, in Clitheroe, Lancashire, will have an unopposed return, neither Liberals nor Conservatives intend- ing to nominate a candidate. In the case of Mr. Ben Tillett (Eceles), it is not expected that the Labour candidate will return to England in time for the election, and therefore in all probability his candidature will not be pro- ceeded with. In the other 32 instances the Liberals will support the Labour candidate in a straight fight against the Unionist; 11 of these latter are double-member constituencies, in which only one Liberal is nominated for the two seats. "'fr r'tT"r.6.T";1" -viiv. UJdlAivl±>x3iXvljAx^i AT JJiKMliNUiiAM. .J.ur. unamoeriain, aaaregsing ms constituents in West Birmingham on Tuesday night, vindicated the record in foreign, colonial, and domestic policy of the late Government. He contended that the new Premier had been consistently a Home Ruler, and that the present Government were wholly at the mercy of Mr. Redmond. The negative policy of Unionists was that of steadfast opposition to Home Rule; their positive policy was that of Tariff Reform. He advised them to treat the foreigner as the foreigner treated us and our friends. On the present system we were losing both ways, for while foreign countries were sending us more, we were sending them less. If he had the power, he would put a duty on luxuries and imported manufactures to-morrow, but not on jra w material.—Speaking at a second meeting, at which he met with sonsa opposition, Mr. Chamber- lain said the principle of preference was a human principle- and why should it not actuate public as well as private dealings ? It was also a practical remedy for the unemployed problem. "T'Io -T" JM.JK. JU-H1N -tJUKNS. oonn jd ux us, rreswent or tne .Local } Government Board, speaking on Tuesday night at Nottingham, denounced Mr. Chamberlain's fiscal proposals as unsound and as being contrived in the interest of the moneyed classes. Our foreign policy under Sir Edward Grey would, he said, justify his appointment. MR. A. BIRRELL. ivir., A. Birrell, president of the Board of Education, opened his electoral campaign in North Bristol on Tuesday night, and said there could be no settlement of the education question until every public elementary school in the country had been placed under complete popular control. MR. BALFOUR'S ADDRESS. Mr. Jjaiiour on Tuesday night issued his address to the electors of East Manchester. While com- plaining of the obscurity surrounding the pro- gramme of the new Government, he says that some things are plain enough. Home Rule, Disestablish- ment, the destruction of the voluntary schools, and the spoliation of the license-holders have lost none of their ancient charm for Radical lawmakers, and only one thing is sacred in their eyes-the practice of this country. Mr. Balfour believes in adapting our policy in fiscal matters to the changing con- ditions of a changing world. I MR. LLOYD-GEORGE AT CARNARVON. J I Mr. Lloyd-George presided on Tuesday at I the annual convention of the Welsh National Liberal Council at Carnarvon, and in his address referred chiefly to the question of Disestablish- ment. DEMONSTRATION IN IRELAND. J A great demonstration under the auspices or the Ulster Unionist Council, formed a few months ago for the purpose of organising the Unionist associations throughout the province, was held in the Ulster Hall on Tuesday night to protest against Home Rule and devolution. Lord Abercorn was the principal speaker, and said that the Home Rule danger was most imminent. They had assembled for self-defence, and were determined, ceme what might, not to live under the yoke of Irish Home Rule. The Unionists of Ireland could not and dare not entrust their liberties to the members of the present Government, Lord Rosebery had raised the danger signal, but his conclusions were somewhat feeble and his remedy worse than use- less. &. TTfimn 1 T T" TTT A TmT\m AL OiXVAljiJi VY .AJLJULiNU-. t Australian politicians who a,re in favour of pre- ferential trade within the Empire are anxiously awaiting the result of the general election in Great Britain. If the verdict shows a majority or a strong minority in favour of preference, the Federal Parliament will formulate proposals next session covering the Empire. In the contrary event, Australians will limit themselves to the completion of the South African and Canadian arrangements.

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I BACK TO JAPAN. I TRANSPORTING THE MANCHURIAN I ARMY. Almost one-half of Japan's huge army in Manchuria have now been transported to Japan. The work has been expedited as much as possible, although, in view of the fact that at the end of the war there, were over 700,000 troops and camp followers to be repatriated, the last regiment will not be home until March. The whole of the work of transport is being carried out by the Japan Mail Steamship Com- pany, and as soon as their steamers are released by the Government, the regular service with Europe will be recommenced. The Japanese naval authorities have already released the large liners which were used as auxiliary cruisers, and the American and Australian mail services have consequently been resumed. Arrangements have now been completed for the repatriation of the seventy thousand Russian prisoners in Japan. The Japanese Government has consented to the men being shipped! in the first instance to Vladivostock, whence they will be sent to Odessa. The Russian Volunteer Fleet and the East Asiatic Steamship Company are to carry out the work of transport. Many British owners have tenderedl to participate in the work, although so far the only British steamer fixed: is the Monmouthshire. Altogether some fifty steamers will be required, the rate indicated being aloout P,12 per head for the troops and' £ 35 per head! for the officers.

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