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BANGOR CATHEDRAL. KIR,—Mr Dickson lust Sunday informed his bearers that it was a fallacy to say that the money of the Churoh was wasted in the maintenance of cathedrals and their staffs. May I ask what return is made for the money spaut on this purpose in Bangor? Are we to look for it in the administrative power which makes the appointments in the diocese a series of ecclesiastical surprises, or at the folded bands of the chapter (where indeed there are one or two shining exceptions to the rale), or in the canonry with its broken w indows,empty for half the year? Are the Cathedral services and s-rmons to be our oulv returu?-If so, the percentage is not I arge. X.

CARNARVON TRAINING COLLEGE. DEAR SIR,-My attention has been drawn to a letter in your issue of August 18th, in which the writer quotes a remark I made at St. Asapb, that 11 Welsh students generally pass well in rfiiigious subjects, but were backward in the secular, and then proceeds to refute the statement by giving statistic-) as to the results of the examination at the end of the first and second year of residence in the college. M) remarks had nothing whatever to do with these, but simply referred to the result of the scholarship examination held in 1887, when ten times the number of Welsh candidates passed the religious knowledge examination as compared with those who passed in the Becular subjects. I am glad to bear my testimony here, as I also did at at Asaph, to the diligence and snrc)ss of the Welsh studentB who have entered this college.-Your obedient servant, obedient servant, JOHN FAIRCHILD, St. Marv's College, Carnarvon, August 28th, 1888.

VALE OF CONWAY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. SIR,—In your report of the dinner held in connection with the above show at Liatirwst, Mr Thomas Roberts, of Aber, who responded to the toast of successful competitors, apart from the political allusions that he was allowed to make, which ought to be entirely forbidden at such gatherings, made remarks that were anything but complimentary and totally uncalled- for. What motive he had no one knows, unless it was to expose himself to public ridicule. Amongst other statements be re!erred to the apathy shown by 'he tradespeople of Llanrwst to subscribe to ,h funds, consequently did not deserve to have the show held there I cannot, as a resident-tradesman and a subscriber, allow this statement to go to the public unchal- lenged. If Mr Roberts had mad a little enquiry from the secretary he would have saved hiinse'f from the clutches of thoie who seemingly are in a position to know better the state f afhi.,<, when the Isociety wis involved in a ilefieit of £:!5 last year. Let me ask him who subscribed to make up the deficit ? Echo answers, the tradespeople of Llanrwst, many of whom are already yearly subscribers, and do not benefit any- thing through exhibits; if they did, probably they would return half of their prizes towards the maintenance of the show in the future. People who live in glass houses should not throw stones." Toprovemv YP"1ub,I quote tbefollowingBtatistics of this vear Six new Llanrwst members at 10-1 6d each, £ 3 3*; twontv-nine old ditto, £ 18 5^; ditto at 5s and under, £ 1017s; total from Llanrwst, C32 5s. As compared with Mr Roberts' district, which is £ J 10s 6d, it l-'aves a difference of E30 in favour of Llanrwst. Facts are stubborn things, Mr Roberts, Tour editorial remarks in last week's issue were timely, and it is to be hoped that the general committee of th^ Bocietv will remedy existing grievances by appointing on its working committee members who directly represent the tradespeople of the towhen we shall hope to see still more interest t in the society's doings in the future, and the: eHy encourage good farming and help to imnrove the trade and commerce of our country.— Yours, Lte. A SUBSCRIBER.

THE LAND QUESTION. Sln-It is not very long .i"c L')rd Derby stated publicly that only a few years back the land of Ensl and was valued ili round numbers at one thou- sand millions of pounds; but that now, through the depreciation of all agricultural produce caused by forei. i and colonial competition, land alone has lost its value by three hundred millions. Conse- quently England is three htiudred millions poorer than she was about ten to fifteen years ago, and she is therefore so far less trustworthy as a borrower. This bv itself is a serious consideration, and the large figures of value and depreciation are so great that few or any of us can grasp or understand theiu. Three hundred m'llions are absolutely lost, the capital is gone, and the interest or revenu which thev once produced is also gone. The land- owners have so muoh less to spend, so much less money circulating to employ the poople and give them an income. Besides this, Mr Caird, a high authority, com- putes the capital whioh farmers have invested in cattle, machinery, implements, etc., as four hun- dred millions. Thus the value of the land even now, when so heavily depreciated, and the farmers' capital put together, represent one thousand one hundred milliong-by far the largest aud most im. portant industry in the country-and yet this is the industry which tco many of us, who live by manu- factures and by trade and commerce, are read) to slight, despise, and allow forela competition to perrranently ruin There are only three great sources of wealth and permanent prosperity for any nation. These are the productive ones first and foremost is the product of the surface of the soil second, the industry of the people exercised on raw materials third, the minerals, if there be any. In the last category coal, iron, copper, tin, leid, gold Rnd silver, salt, etc., will find their relative places. When the foregoing are added together we mav afford to throw into the bargain all the profits made bv distributing the products of the earth, the buy- ing and selling, the carrying hither and thither and the banking profits, which are only the outcome of buying and selling the precious metals in some shape or other. and even all the fisheries. The conclusion arrived at--if the above be correot-is that if the greatest and most important interest of the land be kept at a high point of value by the profits arising from a high state of cultivation, the home market for manufactures will be iu a siate of remunerative activity, for then the farmers and the labourers will have profits to spend but if agriculture be unprofitable, the home demand for manufactured goods will be small. Land is truly the first and best moving power. and as Burke aoM U ThA n]onh is the first creditor," J W. E. R.

THE DEAN OF BANGOR ON THE TITHE QUESTION. I- SIR,-In the account which appeared in your last issueof the proceedings of a public meeting held in the Penrhvn Hall on the previous Monday evening, Mr T.Lewis, M.P..after touching upon thep,reat need of a Land Bili for Wales, is reported to have said that The tithe question iu Wales was one of the first difficulties which should be dealt with, and that was bv the application of the impost to national objects an1 n it towatds nuonortin" an alien church, the ohnrch of th minority N >.v. it would be difficult. I think, to link together in such few words a greater number of fallacies, or suggestions of 1&\I.ie., which fall to pieces the moment they are oonf" mted with fct. There are no difficulties in connection with the payiDg of tithes in Wale" excepting such as are common to other properties, and such as are felt only by those who are either too poor or t »■ dishonest to pay what they owe, and tithes are an impost only in a sense similar to that in which rent for land or for a house is an ( impost. In truth, the title of the titheowner tc his tithe is prior to that of any existing landlord to his land; and yet, I snpnose Mr Lewis would be am l1J'! the frs' to deuouuce as unj ist a proposal to dbprive him of any property he may po-B««s. But this is the way in which he propos es to deal with the tithe 'wner, and apparently also with the landowner, although in the latter case he do"s not say how far he means to go. The tithes were r iven originally for the maintenance oc the Christian faith as received and taught in the Chnr.'h, which then existed in the country, alone and without a rival; and it would be difficult to conceive an object more national than that for which th tithe. were intended, as it is one by which all, rich and poor alike, may derive the greatest benefit. Accordiug to Mr Lewis the Church in Wales is an alien estab- lishment, and that is one of the reasons why he proposes to rob her. Bat how can that be an alien church which has existed among the British r people, ministering to all without distinction the consolations of religion, and has been identified more or less with their history for about 1800 Vea,? The Christian Church was planted in this count-v in very early times, Sonne centuries before the m rival of Augustine in 595, and has existed here without a break ever since. The Church in Wales cannot be alien in any other sense than that in which it is alien in every other country but in Judea, where, having descended from heaven, it a8umed its human side. But if th" Church in Wales is alien, what can be said of the Oalviaistie body, to which the speaker1 belongs, and which has sprnng certainly from the bosom of the Church? Is that alien, too ? There are offsprings and offsprings, and although the Church does not recognise this Calvinistic body as possessing some of the powers Hhe ha" to bestow, yet, as it has sDrutig from her it is difficult to see how it can be entirely free from the alien taint which belonged to the parent. How is Calvinistic Methodism, or any other form of Christianity in Wales, benefited by the attempt to prove that the Church is alien, and therefore has no claims npon the Welsli people? Is she not the mother of all the Christianity there is in the conntry.and are not all the other bodies separatists from her communion, which existed in this country many centuries be. fore they came into being ? All this is well known to all who are in any way acquainted with the his- tory of our country, and it is painful to be nnder the necessity of refuting statements which are so persistently repeated, and yet have no foundation in fact. Another reason stated for the proposed robbery of the Churoh is that she is the Churoh of the minority. But this reason, if honestly acted upon, will be found to cover more ground than is intended by those who use it. There are other re- ligious bodies in Wales besides Ithe Church, which have endowments. Are they also to be disendowed as well as the Churoh ? It cannot be pretended that anyone of these singly has a majority of the people on its side; Bnd if they are not to be disendowed, on what principle is their property to be spared, when that of the Church is to be confiscated ? But our opponents do not propose to deal thus impartially with religious endow- ments. The Church alone is to be robbed. Other religious bodies are to remain in undisturbed possession of their property, while she is to be deprived of hera. although no reason can be alleged to excuse such conduct which would not apply with greater force to the endowments of anyone of the Nonconformist bodies around her. If the Church in Wales is to be plundered because she is now in a minority as regards the whole of the population, the same reason is equall good for 1hs plunder of all the Dissenting bodiei because there is not one of them which is not in a similar minority. It is too much the custom to look upon them as if they were one solid body. But in no sense can they be so regarded. Among themselves there is as much antagonism between one sect and another as there is between them and the Church, and the chief occasions on which they are able to act cordially together are those from which some advantage may be expected from their united opposition to the Church. The great cry of our opponents appears to be "Religions Equality," which, however, can be reached only in one way. If religious equality bo an honest lesire on their part, then let all religious bodies be dealt with bv the same rule, and let our opponents propose that all alike should be disendowed. In that case we should at least respect them for their impartiality, however much we might question the justice of their proposal. Rut during the process of applying this rule, the Church by no means would be the first to suffer. If voa begin with the smallest Christian body, which, on the principle of counting numbers, should ho R..U>Y1prl tn h"vo the It i-t claim (d its en iowments, Áad If you advance onwards to the next in the scale, the Churh. it is thought, would be the last to be reached, for she is, according to the estimate of some who have paid great attention to the subject, numerically stronger than anyone of the Noncon- formist Beets in the whole of Wales. But we do not accept this doctrine of majorities as having anything to do with our right to preserve our endowments. It is difficult to realise the moral obliquity which can sanction the confiscation of property, given for any legitimate purpose, on the plell that the persons who care to benefit by it do net form a majoritv of the people. There are meeting-houses in Wales which have been endowed by pious Nonconformists, but the worhipper. In those meeting-houses are not, and never were, a majority of the surrounding population. But to confiscate such endowments wonld be, on the part of the State, a wanton act of oppression and injustice. The endowments of the Church are the growth of more than a thousand years, and they are still growing, as new parishes or districts are formed with new endowments attached to them; and they are given, not to the Church as a whole but to separate parish^, for the purpose of securing to them for ever the ministrations of the Church of Christ and opportunities of public worship. I cannot oonceive anything more palpably unjust and immoral than to seize such endowments and apply them to any other purpose whatever than the sacred one to which they were originally devoted, and I think it is the dnty of every honest, man to denounce the attempt to do so as a wicked and dis- honest thing. The present agitation against the payment of tithe is a part of this disendowment scheme, and the unfeeling cruelty with which, in some plaoes, it is carried on, causes a great amount of suffering to the clergv, and it is to be feared that in some cases it will have the effect of generating an unpleasant feeling between them and their parishioners. Nevertheless, I hope and trust that what is for the present a great evil will be over-ruled in God's wise providence for the good of all. The great patience with which the clergy endure their sufferings, and the Christian spirit which they manifest under great provocations, cannot fail to produce a good effect, and eventually turn the tide of sympathy in their favour. In spite of this agitation and other difficulties, there is no doubt that the Church is rising, step by step, out of her former weakness into a condition of more healthy action and of greater strength; and, with God's blessing on the labours of her ministers and people, there is every prospect of her winning back, year by year, in increasing num- bers, the sheep that have left her fold. There is no wish dearer to the heart of a true Welsh Church- man than the wish to see all his countrymen united nnno more in the one communion of the Chnrch.- Vnnr*. fjiithfnllv. Yours faithfully, EVAN LEWIS. Y01m  The Deanery, Bangor, Annt 29th. 1888.

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LONDON >ND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY Traffic Return, Week ending August 26th, 188 Passengers, Parcels, dfce., pnd Mails £ 105 794 Merchandise, Minerals, and Live Stock £ 115.054 To al for the week.£O 846 Correspond:! i week in 1887 £ 214 147 Aggregate to d,te il,768,481 STEPHEN REAY, SECRFTARY.

Political Memoranda. Mr W. J. Lane, M.P. for East Cork, was on Monday presented by his constituents and admirers in Cork witb an address and a sum of £880. 't is said that the Marquis of Salisbury will re- main a week longer at Koy&t, and the. go to his place Dear Dieppe for a few weeks. The Irish Laud Commissioners annonnce the creation of a new offici i perintenden1 Statis- tics of Irish Agricultural Prices. The Liberal Party in Canterbury is in dis- organised and despondent a condition that it is said they will not be represented in the forthcoming Registration Court, but will leave the work to the Revising Barrister and the Conservative agent. Mr William O'Brieu is mistaken in supposing that Mr E. 1). J. Wilson is the author of parnellism and Crime" "I understand (sava the London Cor- respondent of the Manchester Guardian) that these articles were written, not by Mr Wilson, but by a gentleman occupying a subordinate position or. the staff of tue Times. The Times is still punishing Mr Morley for having said that its proprietors had been guilty of "the deepest infamy in their treatment of Mr Redmond, M. P. As a specimen of the art of" killing two birds with one stone," it is a long time since we eaw anything as good as the following extract from a leader,the other day,in reference to the riht hon. gentleman's speech at Nocturn Park, near Lincoln (the seat of Lord Ripon), on the previous Saturday -11 It is scarcely too much to say, hard as the say- ing is, that Mr Morley's speech might have been delivered by Lord Ripon himself, and that, if it had e perhaps in been printed, with a slight change perhaps in a single sentence, uoder Lord Ripon's highly re"pect. able name, uobody would have the faintest suspi- cion of the substitution." HISTORY A LA GLADSTONE.—"This I will tell you, that, bad as the govunment of Naples and of King Bomba was, he did not put his political prisoners iuto the company of felons."—Mr. Gladstone's speech at Hawarden. "Among these I myself saw a political prisoner, Romeo, chained in the manner I have described to an ordinary offender—a young man with one of the moat ferocious and sullen countenances I have seen among many hundreds of the Neapolitan criminals." "Never before have I conversed, and never probably shall I converse again, with a cultivated and accomplished gentle- man (Baron Poerio), of whose innocence, obedience to law, and love of his conntry I was as firmly and rationally assured as of your lordship's, or that of any other man of the very highest character, whilst he stood before me amidst surrounding felons, and clad in the vile uniform of guilt and shame."— Mr. Gladstone's letters to Lord Aberdeen, July, 1851. A Parliamentary Return, moved for by Mr John Ellis, was issaed on Saturday. It shows that in the Session of 1887 the closure was moved thirty-two times by Mr Smith, and the Speaker's or Chair- man's "sent was withheld three times was moved once each bv Mr Courtney, MrT. M. Se?y. and Mr J. F. X. O'Brien and also by Mr Labouchere and Mr W. P. Sinclair; but the Chairman's assent was withheld in the two latter cases. In the Session of 1888 Mr W. H. Smith moved the cloauie eighteen times, the Speaker's or Chairman's assent being withheld three times; Mr Aird moved the closure four times, the Speaker's or Chairman's assent being withheld twice Mr Bradlaugh, Dr. Tanner, and Colonel Saunderson moved it twice with success Mr Buchanan moved it twice, once with success; Mr Chaplin moved it twice, once with success; Mr Byron Reed moved it twice unsuccessfully. Mr Anderson, Mr Came, Mr Fulton, Mr Kenyon, Mr Labouchere, Mr Mclnness, Mr Macartney, Mr Parnell, Mr Ritchu, Mr T. W. Russell, Mr James Stuart, and Mr Waddy moved it one each success- fully; Sir W. Foster obtained the assent of the Speaker on one occasion, but the motion was negatived on a division; ant the motion was mpde, but not allowed by the Speaker or Chairman to be put, on one occasion each bv the following mem- bers Lord Charles Beresford, Mr Brookfield, Dr. Cameron, Mr Conybeare, Mr Donald Crawford, Sir W. Crossman, Mr Gedge, Mr Heneage, Mr Howorth, Mr Johnston, Mr T. Lea, Mr W. Lowther, Mr Mil- vain, Mr A. O'Connor, Sir John Simon, and Mr Staveley Hill.

PRISON PUNISHMENT. I IN IRELAND. At the coroner's in- quest on Mr John Mande- ville, Captain Feather- ston-Haugh,examined by Mr Morphy, deposed—I have been Governor of Tullamore Gaol for the past 21 years; Mr Mande- ville arrived at the prison on the 2nd of November. On the 3rd of Novem- her I asked lir Mande- ville to put on the prison clothes he refused; I went to his cell on the 5th in consequence of a commun'oation I re ceived; the chief warder was with me and he re- ported Mr Mr.ndeville in his presence to me, for not wearing the prison dress I sentenced hi III to bread and water for twenty-four hour, the sentence was carried out in his own cell between the 5th and 14th Novem- ber I had conversations several times with the deceased with reference to his refusal to wear the prison clothes I advised him to put them on, and told him it would be my duty to punish him if he still refused on the 14th of November he was brought to me byWarders M'Cullogh and Mooney. and was charged again with refusing to put on he clothes; I then sentenced him to three days' bread and water in his own cell; the last day of the sentence was re- mitted by direction of the medical officer oil the evening of the 22nd of November I went to Mr Mandeville's cell with the warders A-hose names have been already mentioned the gas was lighting in the cell; the chief warder opened the door I told Mr Mandeville that the suit of clothes that were brought up were perfectly new and had been aired he still refused to put them on I then directed the officers to take off hi3 clothes, which they did. On the 28th November Mr Mandeville was brought before me by Warder ii,clillogh for refusing to clean out his cell, and I sentenced him to twenty-four hours' bread and water in his own cell afterwards I often spok" to him about the cleansing of his cell, advising him to conform to the prison rules on the 8th December Mr Mandeville was again charged by M'Culbgh with a similar offence.and I sentenced him to forty- eight hours on bread and water on the 20th De- cember Mr Mandeville was charged before Mr Smith, K.M.,with re- fusing to clean out his cell it was Warder M'Cullogh charged him, and the evidence was taken on oath; .Mr.Mande- ville admitted the offence and he was sentenced to two days solitary con- finement in the punish- ment cell; he was given his mattress; the tem- perature of the punish- I ment eell was 58 degrees, it was heated by hot water pipes. I have had other prisoners in my custody who were put in uader the Crimes Act. and they have conformed to the prison rules; MrDoughty, an Englishman, did so.— Cork Herald, 26th July, 1888. IN' ENGLAND. Some Ktrange dis- closures as to the treat- ment of prisoners were made at an inquest at Chelmsford prison on Saturday. The inquiry was into the death of Thomas In- gate, who, on May 7th, was sentenced to four months' hard labour for assaulting a police con- stable at West Ham. Maj jrLane (governor of the prison) said that Ingate had been in prison five times previously. In those periods he had once received extra punishment for laughing while on the wheel. On another occasion he had been put on bread and water for three days for defucinq a meut tin. A third occasion he had been given extraliar(I labour for loitering white on the wheel. And on a fourth occa- sion he had been given an additional fortnight on the wheel/or lookiiki round in chapel. In reply to the coroner (Mr C. (i. Lewis) Major Lane said that the latter punishment was the heaviest he had the power to inflict. The coroner said he thought that in such cases as this it would be well to err on the side of mercy. He suggested that the pun- ishment should be modi- fied in future. Medical evidence was given to the effect that Ingate's death was caused by jaundice, and a verdict was re- turned acordingly.— Dublin Mail, 14th August, 1888. Mr Henry B. Doughty, referred to by Captain Feat herston-Haugh, when cross examined at the Old Bailey as plaintiff against the St. Stephen's Review for libel,stated on oath:—■ He had no complaint to make against the prison authorities in Ire- land. They treated him well enough. The Go. vernment treated Irish prisoners better than they did Irish citizens.— Times, 2nd August,1888. Tile Free mint Journal fund for the defence of Mr Puniell tioountu to nearly £ll00- Mr Wnddy, M P.. accompanied by Mr Evehn, lute IlIewl; >' for Deptford, visited Mit ;helstown on Monday ai: i IrJe an inopection of i lie square and the police i, ■. r» ( cka. It has arranged that no joint meeting of Merthyr Tydvil aDd AbercarneLiberal Associations shall be held this week. A mass meeting of colliers is called at Abercarne for next Monday. A report has reached ns that in appreciation of the patriotic services of the Tim" the Liverpool Workingmeu's Conservative Association are about to open a recognition fund, an example which will, no donbt, be speedily followed by other branches throughout the country. I have observed with much gratification the vigour with which the Conservative Party carried on the recent contest, and trust that the success which attended their exertions on that occasion may encourage them to make as great efforts in the future."—Lord Salisbury's reply to a vote passed by the Isle of Thanet Conservative Association. The annual conference and meetings of the National Union of Conservative Associations have been fixed to be held in Wolverhampton on Friday and Saturday, 2nd and 3rd November. On the Friday evening a public meeting will be held, at which the principal speakef will be Mr A. J. Balfour, M.P., Chief Secretary for Ireland. Lord Salisbury's secretary, in acknowledging a resolution passed at the Drummond Wolff Habita- tion of the Primrose League, Bournemouth,says :— Lord Salisbury has derived much satisfaction from the expression of confidence contained in your re"olntion,and from the emphatic proof of the senti- ments of approval with which the present policy of the Government in Ireland is regarded by the English people." Mr Gladstone, in the course of an article which he contributes to the Nineteen'h Century upon Mr Wemyss Reid's life of Mr Porster, gives his former colleague credit for consistency, bnt in a hesitating and qualified way. Mr Gladstone admits, how- ever, that the real object of his contribution is not to review the life of Forster.bllt to explain to the whole world the circumstance nrider which Mr Parnell was released from Kilmainham Gaol, and the part which Mr Forster took in the transaction. He contends that the refusal of the Lords to pass the compensation for disturbance bill led to the necessity for coercion, and that the form of coercion npon which the Cabinet decided was obviously founded by its author in the belief that disorder in Ireland was the work of men well known to the local agents of the Government, and that the sum. marv incarceration of euch men woild obviate the mischief. There were no facts to justify the sup- position that this form of coercion was forced upon Mr Forster by his colleagues, but Mr Forster was laden, in the public eye, with a heavier responsibility for coercion than was justifiable. There was no foundation for the supposition that the Cabinet was divided and wavering at the time of Mr Forster's resignation, and there was no evidence to show that Mr Forster reluctantly countenanced the" negotiations between Captain OShea and a member of the Cabinet for Mr Parnell's release. After having entered minutely into the details of the Kilmain- ham Treaty negotiations, with a view to justify the Government as against the views of Mr Forster, he goes on to argue that the upshot of the matter is that the way in which Mr Forster managed to con- vince himself of the necessity for resigning remains an unsolved riddle, VISCOUNT CROSS ON CURRENT POLITICS. I Viscount Cross, Mr Bromley Davenport, M.r., and Mr J. IW. Maclure, M.P., were present at a Conservative, Liberal Unionist, and Primrose League pic-nic 1\t Traffovd Park, Manchester, on Saturday. Speaking to a resolution approving the administration of the law in Ireland, Lord Cross said that, although it pleased Mr Gladstone to declare that Ireland blocked the way, during the past session the Government had passed great measures for the benefit of the English people. Why did Mr Gcscheu's conversion scheme suceeed ? Simply because he went about it in a business-like way (hear, hear). For this riner-eBB of Mr Goschen the country ought to be extremely grateful. He (Lord Cross) had accomplished a similar benefit for the people of India by a scheme that saved that country a quarter of a million a year. The Local Government Bill gave to the inhabittnts of the counties the power to manage their own affairs in the same way that the inhabitants of boroughs at presert did. No material power or advantage hitherto possessed by the magistrates was taken from that body their rights as magistrateB were preserved, but the people had the management of the money now spent in the administration of county affairs, and the Government bad decided to make a grant of t7,000,000 a year for local pur- poses. Passing on to speak of foreign affairs, he said it was well known that the British power in Europe was greater tbac it ever was before, and that our influence was used for one object-and the highest interest of England, if it oonld be had with honour-ijamely. the interests of peace among European nations. Britain bad no ambition for the acquirement of territory. He was aware of the amount of abuse which had been poured on the heads of the Government for what they had done in Ireland. He maintained that they had con- ferred upon Ireland the greatest blessing the country had enjoyed during the last century, for honest people were now protected in the discharge of their daily duties. He denied that what was called coercion was in reality coercion. Those who honestly land loyally performed their duties were not touched by the extraordinary law that had been passed. It was only those who songht that which was wrong, bad and mischievous, and ktew it was wrong, bad and mischievous, who were restrained by tqe law. In his judgment, those who did such things deserved to be punished. It was only right and proper that persons who incited to crime should meet with their deserts. The law was equitably administered all-round. His hearers might depend upon it that the Government would go on, not looking back, and not swerving to the right or to the left. He was perfectly certain that when the time came for the electorate to record its vote it would give its verdict in favonr of the course pursued by the Government (cheers).-The resolution was unanimously carried.

Literary Notices. 4, I. is a monthly magazine admirably edited by Mrs Stephen Menzies. Toe number before us is beautifully illustrated, and the letter press thoroughly sound. Practical Ilint, on Gas Consumption is the title of a pamphlet by Mr Joseph Shaw, Albert Works, Lockwood, Huddersfield, showing the advantages to be derived from a proper application and use of gas, and how to obtain the best results. The September number of the Monthly Reporter of the British and Foreign Bible Society contains among other things interesting selections from Canon Cros's graphic sermon on behalf of the Bible Society preached in Westminster Abbey on Sunday. April 29th. Part 44 of the serial issue of Our Own Country Illustrated is devoted to Leicester, Wicklow, and the Isle of Man. The illustrations are remarkably fine, and the descriptive matter delightfully written. Messrs Cassell and Co. are the publishers. ||The Encyclopedia Dictionanj.—This very excellent work, whioh embraoes all the words in the English language with a full account of their origin, mean- ing nronunciation, history and nse, is being issued An monthly parts bv Messrs Cassell and Company. London. Part fifty-six begins with the word percnopterns" and ends with" piercing." Wherever an illustration is necessary it is given. The. Loss of the Empire.—This is the title of a pamphlet by Arthur Law, late of the Royal Scotch Fusiliers, in which he seeks to open the eyes of the nation to the condition of our imperial defences. To the question, Is our home army sufficient in numbers and so efficient in organisation as to justify our considering ourselves secure from soc- tessful invasion the writer answers with an emphatic No and a like answer is supplied to the question Is our fleet cap- able of holding command of the Channel, and able to blockade an enemy's ports ?" The pamphlet is written by one who appears to have given much thought to the subject, and who makes snqgi?stiong which are de.?erviog of tbe most serions consideration of our Igi.!ators. The little work is rendered additionally usefnl for future reference by the publication as an appendix of the famous article, "Eneland in Danger," in the Daily Telegraph of May 11th of the present year, and the discussion which took place thereon in the House of Lords. The pamphlet, of which 25,000 copies have already been prep'\red. is pubHshed by the Hansom Cab Publishing Company, Lnndon.

INTEMPERANCE CURED. A Wealthy American I.,dy wnose only son was for vears a slave to intemperance, after seeking in vain for a cure, and trying all known remedies, at las', found a simple means that cured and saved him from a drunkard's grave Any one suffering or desiring to help others in tills worthy cause, by sending a self-addressed stamped envelope to Mr James HoPand, 'o. H?,t Street, Hi*h Holborn London, will receive this information free of charge. Mention thi paper. The Dublin Gazette of Tuesday evening contains ths proclamation of the barony of Arklow, in the County of Wicklow, nnder the provisions of the Crimes Act. The proclamation of the baronies of Ress, Ballynahinch, Moycnllen, Clare, Ennis, and Tirawley, ttre revoked.

Churches and Churchmen. It iti 'ted, with some appearance of authority, that next Conference of the Anglican Commu- nion ,iv possibly he hold in America. Tin- Rev. [I. G. Mathews, curate of Nuneaton, has been printed by his father, the Rev. G. F. Mnthew. to the Vicarajje of Hartshill, which is in his gift as Vicar of Maocetter. A gentleman, who wished to remain anonymous, has in.imated to the Bishop of Nottingham that he de-ires to give X2000 towards the erection of a. church in the parish oi St. Andrews, Grimsby. The "threepenny bit" is evidently a popular coin among Scotch churchgoers, at all events, when, after they have done duty at their regular places of worship, they are called upon for a supplementary contribution. At the collection at Dr. Parker s Sunday evening meeting in Queeu Aune-strset Church, Dunfermline, there were no fewer than 1400 threepenny pieces. The total collection amounted to fully £30.-Newc.lstle Leader. Mr Gladstone has replied as follows to a Welsh gentleman who recently asked his opinion on the authorship of the well-known hymn, Art thou weary ?" Dt'ar Sir, —I thank you for your enclo- sure. I regret that I can only very briefly answer your question. Dr. Neale was the translator, St. Stephen of Saba the author. Being of the Eastern Church, his name does not appear in the Latin haiologie. I imagine the hymn to have been com- posed in the Servian tongue.—Your very faithful and obedient, W. E. GLADSTONE." Renewed effort? are being made to raise funds to complete the restoration of Peterborough Cathedral. Canon Argles has promised a second subscription of f-300, in addition tothejEtSOOeiveubyhimfora bishop's throne and choir pulpit, and a further £500 for other choir fittings. Miss Argles has col- lected E300 towards a choir near, aud Lady Elizabeth Villiers has given JE1200 towards choir stalls. Canon Clayton has promised £250 towards the general restoration fund, the contribution to be spread over five years; and Mr H. P. Gates has offered E350 (to be paid ia three years) as a special donation for bell-frames in the north-west tower. A subscription of £150. to the general fund has also been received from the Bishop of Leicester. Col- lecting boxes placed in the Cathedral have realised £955. WELSH CONFIRMATION STATISTICI- AND THEIR LESSONS. The nature of the Liberationist attack on the Church in Wales makes it a duty for Churchmeu in England to acquaint themselves with the r"l state of affairs. The Liberationists would fain have us believe that the Church numbers among its adherents only one-seventh or one-ninth of the population of the Principality. At least they talked thus two or three years ago, but people in England are becoming somewhat better in- formed; so now we hear them say that Churchmen, at any rate, do not numb3r more than twenty per cent, of the whole population. Unfortunately, the political Dissenters, both in England and Wales, strenuously oppose the taking of an official Creed Census. We are, however, not altogether without the means of ascertaining with some approxima- tion to accuracy the number of members of our communion in the four Welsh dioceses. Though Welsh Nonconformist statistics are, its a rule, nn- reliable, there is one set of statistics of Church work as to the entire accuracy of which we may rest fully assured, and that is the statistics of con- firmations in the several dioceses. A few months ago -ve Rave a table of the con- firmation statistics of the whole country We now extract the lower portion of the table, i.e., the litlif containing the Welsh dioceses. We should, how- ever, mention, before giving these figures, that con- firmations are still, practically, only held every alternate year in St. Asaph diocese, and we have, therefore, taken the average of the two years 1883-4, as otherwise we should give the diocese too high a percentage. I.E .1 .Iõ ¿I"  g § ii .¿  ? ?.iH??i?i?M g £ Diocese, tion in  8 ?- -? !??SSS g I .E   g' 0 &3 ø. Q Asal)h IS, "c :¡ :d '< 1<° °5t 40 St. AsapK 268,901| 4842) 1951 7 9S'08 38 Worcester 1,124,688 20.242 7SK1 61 )8,437. 8 37 London.. 12,920,36252,560 19,501 15'19,21? 3 37 Southwell? 1 .594 ,40? 28 Ci99?lO?61() 79 20IS'? 4 37 Southwell '853,72 "'?"61 5MI 84 10,103 6 36 York .1,287,02923,16Bj 8571 59 21,8'4111 35 Durham.. 867,42715 506, 5157 43 20, t7 2 6 35 ManC'8ter¡l,'i97,o.I51"I,:H6'14.5Io. 68 33,7.9 7 32 Liverpool :C?85,634 19,5 10 6310 52 '20,877? 4 31 rjandaff.. 603,020 10,851 33921 39 15,46 »| 6 31 i'p.. 1,578,58228,413 8 ?9.'1 '27:69 9 28 St David', 482,245 8676 2419 39 12,365, 10 2811'rUrO. 330,766 1 5952? 1663 39 ??6 23 Ba'?or.. 226,040 4068 98 21 '0,7647 From this table it will be seen that there are no less than ten English dioceses standing lower on the list than St. Asaph, a diocese in which no less than thirty per cent. more are confirmed than in the very important diocese of Ripon, now, fortu- nately, itself to be sub-divided by the foundation of the See of Wakefield. But though three out of the four Welsh dioceses do stand low on the list, relatively to the English dioceses, the percentage of the population of the Welsh oonnties who come to confirmation-large numbers of them being adults—has of lato years been increasing with marvellous rapidity. In St. Asaph diocese in 1877 the number confirmed was 3181 in 1879 there were 3449. In 1881-2 the num. bers were 3625, while in 1883-4 they were 3903. Thus, in six years, the number confirmed in the diocese of St. Asaph had increased no less than twenty-three per cent., while the population of the diocese had only increased four per cent. For the diocese of St. David's we cannot do better than quote the following paragraph from a December issue of the Western Mail, of Cardiff, the Conservative daily paper of South Wales "The Bishop of St. David's completed his confirmations for the year 1887 on the 30th ult., having held forty- five confirmations, as against forty-three in 1886 and having confirmed 1264 males and 1740 females, in all 3004 persons, as against 1032 males and 1507 females, total 2539, in 1886. The annual average, token on the last three years, has advanced at the following rate of increase :-Annual average during the three years ending 31st of December, 1885, 2419 ditto ,1886, 2613 ditta 1887, 2759." From this it will be seen that its number con- firmed has increased by no less than fourteen per cent. in the short space of three years. The popu- lation of the diaocese during the same period has inareassd only three per cent. II. the other diocese of iouth Wales the popula- tion has increased with very great rapidity. The Bishop of Llandaff (Dr. Lewis) stated last July at the annual meeting cf the Church Defence Institu- tion that during the last three years of his pre- decessor's episcopate, ending with the year 1882, there were 7000 confirmed in that diocese, but that in the three years ending with December last he would have confirmed considerably over 10,000. Thus, while the population had increased by twenty per cent., the number confirmed had increased nearly fifty per cent., or nearly two-and-a-half times as fast as the population. But the most astonishing increase is in the diocese of Bangor, the most Welsh of all the Welsh dioceses, where almost every cl-^rgymau in the diocese bears an unmistakably Welsh name. It is true that Bangor stands lowest of all the dioceses both of England anrt Wales, but the rate of increase in the oumber confirmed is truly surprising. In the three years, 1877 8-9 there were 1993 came to the bishop to be confirmed in 1880-1-2 the number was 2566. while for 1883-4-5 it was 2843. Thus, while in the six years from 1879 to 1885 the popu- lation of Bangor diocese had increased five per cent., the number confirmed had increased forty- two pe. cent., or no less than eight times as fast as the population. The number of persons con- firmed in the four Welsh dioceses in ten years from 1877 to 188G was 65.284. being a yearly average of 6528. The actual number confirmed in the year 1887 was 11.977, or not far short of double the previous average, thus showing that the Church is indeed nroaressing bv leaps and hounil." in the esteem and affection 'of the people of Wales. To put this last fact in another form, we may mention that while the population of the Welsh four dioceses between 1871 and 1881 has increased eleven per cent., the number of communicant members thus admitted to the Church last year was no less than eighty-three per cent. above the average of the previous ten years. Mr L. L. Dillwyn, M.P. f(,r Swansea, has an. nounced his intention to move the Disestablishment of the Chnrch in Wales, on the ground that it ministers only to a small minority of the popula- tion." Do such statistics as theBe-on the accuracy of which we may implicitly rely --look at all as if Mr Diilwyo's contention held true? We scarcely think so. On the contrary, the Church at present claims forty per cent, of the people of Wales, and at her present rate of increaoo Blie will in another half-dozen years haie ceased to be in a minority at all as regards the actnal nnmberof her adherents. It is well that Churchmen in England should be enlightened as to the true state of affairs in Wales, and the sooner and the more systematically this enlightening process is undertaken the better for ns all. Magna est veritas et p'evalpbit. H. C. B. in Church Bella. The Earl of Shrewsbury has had placed at his disposal the Vicarage of Upton Warren, near Broms- grove, Worcestershire, of the value of E749 a year, by the death of the Rev Francis H. B. Hooper,who had held benefice for 52 years. By direction of the trustees of the late James, seveuth and last Earl of Cardigan, who1 ire lords of the manor, the beautifal ruins of the Abbey of St. Mary the Virgin, Kirkstall, will soon be np for sale at auction. The Rev. H. Pelham Stokes, who is well known as a mission preacher, and has receutly been rector of Wareham in the diocese of Salisbury, has been appointed by the Dean and Chapter of Windsor to the Vicarage of Isleworth, vacant by the resigna- tion of the Rev.. Prebendary Richards. The Rev. W. H. Bulmer, who for nineteen years was rector of Bolden, near Sunderland, has, owing to increasing years, resigned the benefice. The rev. gentleman is in his eighty-seventh year. The living, which is of a gross value of £1100 per annum, is in the gift of the Bishop of Durham. The hading Hebrew congregation of New York has now added a Sunday service to its Sunday- school. The congregation sits in pews, ladies and gentlemen together, instead of the women being compelled to climb opotalrs into the court of the women and the gentlemen remove their hats, instead of donning them as heretofore. A synagogue in Chicago, and another in Philadelphia also have now Suuday services. The diocese of St. David's is, in point of area, the largest in England or Wales, but it is one of the poorest. Of the 404 livings in the diocese, 226 are worth less than JE200 net a year; of these 226, fifty- nine are wort less than :c loo a year, and 119 have no parsonage. Among the occupants of the see the most notable besides Gower and Thirlwall have been Peter de Leia, The founder of the present church, Chichele, Lvndwood (the canonist), Barlow (the consecrate of Parker), Laud, Bull, and Lowtb. The Dean and Cbapter of Exeter annoance that they are prepared to make grants of £50 a year to a certain number of students who are willing to pro- secute their theological studies at Oxford or Cam- bridge for one or two years, as the Dean and Chap- ter in each case shall decide. Candidates must be not less than 21 years of age, and must have passed the examinations entitling them to the degree of B.A. Seven of these studentships are offered for competition on the 9ch October next. Fall parti- colÚs may be obtained from the Chapter Clerk, The Close, Exeter. The Rev. Charles Stirling, vicar of New Maiden, Surrey, has issued an appeal to his fellow Pro- testants" among the clergy,1who "will count the cost and are prepared for sacrifices," to secede from the Church. He says: A prayer book completely revioed on Protestant lines is ready for our use,and there will be no difficulty in supplying episcopal organisation from existing religious communities externa! to the Established Church. Thas a thoroughly Protestant Church of England might be reared, such as our martyred Reformers intendad the Chnrcb of England to be--such as she would have been but for the Laudian reaction." Speaking from the chair at the annual meeting of the York Diocesan Church Temperance Society, held at York on Friday, his Grace the Archbishop of York, referring to the Sunday-closing question, said he would not have a public-house where mere drink was sold open on a Sunday if he could help it. titi was the last to wish to curtail the freedom of any man whatever, or to make special laws for those who were less favoured the. himself, but be did say that the English Sunday was the greatest blessing to the people, and that anything which took the blessing away and interfered with the true uses of the Sabbath was a great evil and wrong,aud an invasion of the right of the people.

Items for Farmers. The Duchess of Westminster has consented to distribute the prizes at the annual show of the Chester Dairy Banners' Association. Lord Edward Cavendish,M.P.,speaking on Satur- day at the Barrow Agricultural Show,prognosticated an early returu of prosperous times for farmerS,aud expressed the hope that the appointment of a min- ister of agricultUre-which without foundation had been stated as being likelv to be conferred upon bim-woald be of re il utility to the country. He said that he considered it to be the duty of railway directors to give all possible facilities, and he trusted that they would utilise the measure recently passed into law in the interest of the agriculturists and their traders. THE AGRICULTURAL OCTLOOK.—On the whole pro- spects have improved with a preponderance of fine weather during the past week,bnt the position has be- come more critical with lapse of time, and the out- look is far from cheering. A fair amount of hay has been secured in some sort of condition, and the later crops were so heavy that when cut the fields seemed scarcely big enough to make them in. The spell of cemparatively dry weather has enabled the root crops to be cleared to some extent, aud we all hope the sun will shine-fiay in September.-Mark Lane Express. I THE PROPOSED BOARD OF AGRI. CULTURE. I Just before Parliament adjourned a Bill was brought in establidiing a Board of Agriculture for I Great Britain, and read a first time. The powers to be transferred to the proposed Board for exist- ing authorities are as follows Clause 2.-(1) There shall be transferred to the Board of Agriculture-(a) The powers and duties of the Privv Council under the Acts mentioned in Part 1. of the first schedule to this Act; (6) the powers and duties of the Land Commissioners for England under the Acts mentioned in Part II. of the first schedule to this Act or under any other Act; (c) all powers and dnties vested in the Com- missioners of her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings under the Survey Act, 1870. "(2) The Board of Agriculture shall also under- take the collection and preparation of statistics relating to agriculture, the inspection of, and reporting on, any schools which are not public elementary schools, and in wlvch technical instruction, practical or scientific, is given in any matter connected with agriculture, and in aiding any school which udmits such inspection, and in the judgment of the board ia qualified to receive such aid. 1, (3) The Board of Agricultnre msy also make or aid in making such inquiries and experiments, and collect or aid in collecting such information as they may think important for the purpose of promoting the advancement of agriculture. "Clause 2-It shall be lawful for her Majesty the Qneen in council from time to time by order t) transfer to the Board of Agriculture sueh powers and duties of any Government department as are conferred by or in pursuance of any statute, and appear to her Majesty tc relate to agrioulture, and to be of an administrative character. Provided that, before any such order is made, the draft thereof shall be laid before each House of Parliament for not less than thirty days on which such Motioe is tqittina, and if either of such Houses before the expiration of such tbirty days presents an address to her Majesty against the draft, or any part thereof, no fnrther proceedings shall be taken thereon, without prejudice to the making of any new draft order. Clause 8 —(1) There shall be transferred and attached to the Board of Agriculture such of the persons employed under the Privy Councilor any otber Government department, in or about the execution of the powers and dnties by this Act transferred to the Board of Agriculture, as the Privy Council or Government departmeut, with the sanction or the Treasury, determine. "(2) There shall be transferred and attached to the Board of Agriculture all persons employed under the Land Commissioners for England. (3) The Board of Agriculture may by order from time to time distribute the business of the Board among the several persons transferred thereto in pursuance of this Act in such manner as the Board may think riht, and those officers shall perform such duties in relation to that business as mv he directed by the order. Provided that sncr. persons shall, while they continue in office, b in no worso position as res- pects their tenure of office, salaries, or superannua- tion allswances than they would have been in if this Act had not passed."

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I News in Brief. Manchester proposes to borrow £490,000 for the purpose of carrying out a sewage scbme. The Queen and Court are expected to return to Windsor on November 23rd. Count Andrassy is suffering from cystodyniti His symptoms are not alarming. The Queen has seat t50 to the Lord Ilayorld Mansion House Find for the relief of the distreai caused by the floods m ihe Isle of Dogs. The Pop? has ins i uted an Order of Knighthood for Women, the III, of which will bear the title of Matro-te dc Into Sep)!cro. During Tnesdll)" Jit's gab the Salvation Army barracks at Bishop- stortford were completely de. molished. Mr Gladstone to a long drive on Saturday. He readbothlesson.su..l^warden Church on Sunday morning. There w, i e many strangers present. Mr Warner hller, a seuator of New York, has been nominated Governor of the State of New York. Mrs Mandeville has been presented with an illuminated address signed by 132 ladies of Lon- don, and Mr aud Mrs Gladstone have tent her aa expression o their sympathy. Mr Richard Powis Monk, a lunatic inmate of Wyke House Asylum, Isleworth, was found dead on tbe floor of his room. Apoplexy, from natural causes, said the coroner's jury. An awfully sudden death. George Miller, a sani. tary inspector, was talking to a mac in High-street, Bradford,when he suddenly dropped down aead from heart disease. Three miners working in the Ritton Colliery,near Sunderland, on Tuesday, were crushed between a full tub and the roof, one of them, named Best, being killed and the other two severely iiijured. John Crossan, an old man of eighty-zizx, com- mitted suicide at Holbeach, on Monday night, by hanging 111 msel!. Deceased had been worried by a threatened law action. At Middlesborough, on Friday, Earnest Tod!, a boy of 10 years, was struck by a beer barrel which was being slid from a trolly in Denmark-street, and was killed. The Lord Provost of Glasgo, > M'Cowie, and Dr. Warwick, town-clerk, attendee ) h8wood in obedience to Royal commands on Frida). were knighted by the Queen. The Union Company's steamer" Tartar," Vv" arrived at Plymouth on Saturday from Capetown, made the passage in seventeen days six hours, this being the fastest on record. John Stevens, a labourer, of 21, Montague-street, Canning Town, was struck by a coal tank at the Beeton Gas works on Friday night. His back was broken, and he died almost instantly. Sir John Rose, formerly Finance Minister at Canada, died suddenly on Friday while in the act of firing at a stag in the Duke of Portland's deer forest at Caithness. The child Katey," abandoned on Pevensey Marshes, is to be adopted by a lady from Cardiff, who has become interested in the child through reading of her adventures. A prisoner in Fermoy Bridewell, named Michael Flynn, attempted suicide in his cell on Saturday morning by tearing the steel tip off his boot and backing at his throat, iuflictiug serious wounds. Sir Charles aud Lady Dilke will leave Liverpool for India on the 10th of October, on a visit to Sir Frederick and Lady R ibsrts, and they expect to be absent from England n n til February. Father Kennedy was arrested at Meelic, County Cork, on Monday, for having held a suppressed meeting of the Irish National League at Duhallow. lie was conveyed to Cork. The amalgamation between the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain and the Parkes Museum has taken place, and the former will ill future carry on the objects of the two societies. MrB Harriet Beecher Stowe is reported to be losing health and strength rapidly, being now hardly able to walk out of doors. She is at Sag Harbour with her son, the Rev. Charles E. Stowe. Daniel Cooke, a millwright, was fined £2 and costs, at Blackburn, on Monday, for assaulting a young woman named Arthur Lang. The defendant, it walo stated, followed her along the street, put his arm arouud her waist, and kissed her. Frank Mortimer IReddington Casey was again brought np at the Guildhall Police Court, London, on Tuesday, and committed for trial en tha charges of stealing American bonds for upwards of £10,000, and il9GO worth of Spanish securities. j Walter Welsb, an inmate of St. John's Home—a j Roman Catholic institntion-Portobello-road. Not- ting-bill,was found dead in the garden there. He had either fallen or thrown himself from the dormitory window. On Sunday night a destrnctiv3 and fatal tire occurred in Hamburg, by which seven lives were lost, and many persons received serious burts. Damage was done to the amount of several mil- lions of marks Mr De Kevser, the Lord Mayor of London,arrived on Sunday at Termonde, his native town, where he received a very hearty welcome. Many of the houses hoisted Belgian and English colours, and triumphal arches were reared in the streets. A fire which caused damages estimated at be- tween VO,000 and 140,000 occurred on Saturday at Dsbroyd Wollen Mills, Holmfirth, near Hudders- field, owned by Messrs Jonathan Thorp and Sons, cloth manufacturers. The Local Government Board having refused its sanction to a scheme for building public offices at Barnet at a cost of £3500, nine members of the Local Board tendered their resignations at a meeting held on Tuesday night. Jack. I seem to lose the use of my arms," said James Chilton to a pauper comrade at St. George's Workhouse, Fulham-roid. They were Chilton's last words. He immediately dropped down dead from heart disease. Sarah Rayner, of Canterbury, now stands com- mitted to the Kent and Sussex Assizes. Old Mrs Church is said to have been her victim. The evidence alleges that a hammer was the instrument with which her death was accomplished. A Renter's telegram from Sofia on Sunday says: -The twelve men who were recently sentenced to death for participation in acts of brigandage and murder in the district of Jeteven for several years were hanged on Mondav. John Owen, of Crewe, saw Pat Dooley sitting on a stone on the roadside. He appeared very ema- ciated. Two hours afterwards he was returning along the same road when he saw Pat lying on the other side in a recumbent position. He was quite dead. Mrs Linn, a miner's wife at Douglas Park-square, Bellshill, took her infant in her arms and slept out in a field. In the morning she came home and handed the corpse of the infant to her husband. The chiid had died from a fit induced by exposure. Oscar Moeller was again charged at Bow-street on Monday with the abduction of an American heiresB, Eliza Elias, sixteen years of age, and was further remanded, it being intimated that the German Government would apply for the defen. dant's extradition. A curious case as to the right to wild birds' eggs was decided in the Newcastle County Court a few days ago. The judge held that so long as the birds remain on the mail' s laud they, and their eggs, be- long to the owner; and he may slle anyone who carries them off. Haymakers at Sawtry, a Hunts village, wsre amazed the other morning at finding the dead body of a man of about 60 dead by the side of a hay- cock. 11 Congestion "f the lungs from the heavy fog and dew in the early hours" was the doctor's verdict. A box containing C300 in notes aud gold was given on Friday to Gilbert Seals, a junior clerk, aged 16, employed at the Coleman-street post office to convey to the bank. He has not been seen since. Th > lad had only been in the employment of the postmaster for two weeks. A fourth death has occurred from the explosion of a spirit lamp at Mold-green, near Euddersheld, a bny named Ben Messenger, son of a greengrocer, having succumbed to his injuries this morning. There are onlv slight hopes entertained of the re- covery of the fifth boy, Fred Longiield. Robert Roberts, the sixteen-vear-old son of William Roberts, a prominent ranchman, bad been working for Andrew Saline, auother ra-,chmau, at Denver. The father went to Saline's hut to visit his hoy. The place was in ashes. Young Roberts and his master had perished in theflvm s. Dr. James Bell Jardine, meoical officer for the borough of Chatham, died on Saturday from the effects, it is believed. of an overdose of morphia. The deceased was in the A,.bit of taking nightly small doses of morphi-, but on Friday night he is said to have taken half a wineglassful. Ha bncime unconscious and died, the efforts of three radical men failing to restore him. Monday being the annual wake at Darlaston, arrangements were made for a dancing party to take place at the Q ieen's Head Inn at night. Whilst a good number of persons were dancing to a polka, one of the n, Thomas Williams, aged twenty-six, fell down d 'ad. Death is believed to be due to excitement. The party abruptly termi. nated. A pony, which for "Ieven days h9.il been missing from a field at Mold, in the occupation of Mr Bow- deu, Railway Inn. and which it was thought was stolen, has been found in a large cnl. vert in the field,which contains water from the ad- joining colliery. It was wedged in, and kneedeep in mud and water. That the animal should have, existed for eleven days in this position is remark. able.