The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-12-19 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS:
BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

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The sum expended by Mr. Irving on the preparations
for the performance of Mr. Wills's version of "Faust"
is stated to be not short of £15,000. The casting of a
'peal of eight bells especially for the occasion at a cost
of £4OO may remind some persons of the late Lord
Lytton's observation that the original projectors of the
Crystal Palace seemed determined not "to spoil the
'ship" for "a thousand pounds' worth of tar."
The Birmingham justices recently convicted a
fishmonger for selling eels, brought from Ireland
during the close time prescribed by the Freshwater
Fisheries Act. The matter came before Justices
, Mathew and Wills in the Queen's Bench on Saturday,
to decide whether eels, which did not live exclusively
in fresh water, came within the category of fish
intended to be protected by the Statute. The judges
, thought they did, and affirmed the conviction.
The late Lord Dudley's famous Raphael, "The Three
Graces," has just been sold for twenty-five thousand
peunds, to his Royal Highness the Duc d'Aumale. One
of the most justly famous of cabinet pictures now in
English collections is destined, therefore, to leave this
country. "The Three Graces," though the work of an
early period of the master's career, is unusually full of
the true Renaissance spirit. Indeed, it was suggested
by an antique in Centroialy. It is an engraved
picture. A drawing in preparation for it—with the
third %are, that on the right hand, not yet included—
F. 13 to be seen in the Academy at 'Venice.
The Dean of Worcester, Lord Alwyn° Compton, has
accented the Bishopric of Ely, vacant by the death of
Dr Woodford. Lord Alwyne Compton, who is secend
son of the late and brother of the present Marquis of
Northampton, was born in 1825. He gradurred at
Trinity College, Cambridge, and from 1852 to 1879 was
rector of Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire. In 1879 he
was appointed Dean of Worcester, in 1880 Prolocutor
of the Lower House of Convocation at Canterbury, and
:Tar, 1882 Lord High Almoner to the Queen.
Three more Browns were added to the inhabitants of
Peterh)rough en Friday, when the wife of a bricklayer
of that name gave birth to two boys and one girl, all
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Ayres Government to exhibit at the 'lnternational
Rural Exhibition, which will be held at the city of that
name on April 25 next. Kent sheep are much appre-
ciated in the South American regions, as well as at the
Antipodes.
Mr. Charles Brener, owner of Robert the Devil,
second to Bend Or for the Derby, winner of the Don-
caster St. Leger, Grand Prix de Paris, and Cesarewitcb,
died on Sunday. Mr. Brewer had been suffering for
some time from diabetes. - -

A man named Alfred Davenport was liberated from
Leicester Gaol on Saturday evening, by order of Sir
Richard Cross, having been wrongfully convicted, on
the Ist inst., of stealing two "pairs of boots. He was
found guilty by the borough magistrates on what
appeared to be conclusive evidence—the pawnbroker at
whose place the goods were pledged identifying him; ,
but after his incarceration the police obtaired infor-
mation which led them to take steps for his release. I
The real thief has absconded.
The screw steamer 01,ston, of Hartlepool, which
sailed from the Tyne, laden with coal, bound for
Copenhagen, has foundered at sea, and six of the crew
belonging to her were drowned.
A cart laden with people and goods was overturned
at Ballyloughan Moss near Cookstown, in the North
of Ireland, on Saturday night. The cart and its
occupants fell over a ledge of bog, a depth of 15 feet,
and a woman named M'Elroy was instantaneoaely
killed. _ _

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Sir Hew Pollock, representative of the oldest
Scotch nobility, and proprietor of the estates of
Pollock, Renfrewshire, dropped suddenly dead in the
coffee room of the Dover Castle Hotel, Dover, on
Monday forenoon. Death is supposed to be from
syncope.
The death is announced in New York of Mr. Benja.
ruin Gratz Brown. The deceased was Republican can-
didate for the Vice-Presideney in 1872, when Horace
Greely was nominated as President.
The action brought by Alderman Harris, J.P., of
Dublin, against Mr. Labouchere M.P. proprietor of
"Truth," for alleged libel, has been withdrawn. The
. damages claimed were £lO,OOO.
A girl, 8 years of age' named Mary Yelper Keattish,
residing with her parents at 9, Clarke's-cottages,Victor•
road, Teddington, was burned to death cu Sunday night
by her clothes accidentally, catching fire.
There is great rejoicing in Roman Catholic circles at
the unpre,..ndently large number of representatives of
that faith returned to the House of Commons at the
late general election, there being no fewer than 83
Roman Catholic Members of Parliament, whereas there
were only 60 in the late Parliament.
Francis Robin, aged 46, clerk in the Guernsey
Savings' Bank, was on Saturday sentenced by the Royal
Court to 12 months' imprisonment. The prisoner had,
for years past, while retaining his position at the bank,
induced depositors, chiefly farmers, agricultural
labourers, and domestic servants, to confide their
savings to his keeping, promising much larger interest
than the bank could pay. In this manner some £5OOO
passed intn hit hands, and widespread misery has been
caused by the bankruptcy of the prisoner. The state-
ment of affairs showed the assets to be nil.
On Saturday the Chief Commissioner of the Metro-
politan Police issued an order stating that the Home
Secretary had been pleased to sanction a pension of
£52 per annum to Police-constable Robert Hawroyd,
293 T, incapacitated for service in the force by injuries
sustained some months ago in his gallant attempt to
capture a notorious burglar, since arrested, whom he
discovered breaking into the residence of Viscount
Harberton in the Cromwelbroad, South Kensington,
and by whom he was shot through the body. Police-
constable Hawroyd was also presented with a first-clasti
certificate.
Mr. Richard Chamberlain,M.P., presided en Saturday
evening at a dinner given by the Birmingham District
of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows to Mr. William
Grimes' on his attaining the position of Grand Master
of the Order. Oddfellows were present frcm all the
principal towns of England. Mr. R. Chamberlain, in
responding for the "House of Commons," said he con-
sidered it very probable that those holding the same
opinions as himself would consider it their duty to
support the present Government as against those who
desired to see the Kingdom dismembered, provided
always that the Conservatives did not take reactionary

measures.
The funeral of James Laynbourn, one of the survivors
of the battle of Waterloo, took place on Saturday after-
noon at Nunhead Cemetery. The deceased was formerly
a private in the 14th Regiment of Foot. For many
years he was an inmate of Christchurch Workhouse,
Blackfriars-road, where he died at the age of 94. The
body, covered with the Union Jack, was drawn from
the workhouse to Nunhead Cemetery on a gun-carriage
provided by the 3rd Middlesex Artillery.
At Marylebone Police-court on Saturday, Charles
Augustus Alberga, described as a civil engineer, and
lately a solicitor's clerk, who pleaded guilty to having
kicked his wife in the back, was fined 55., with 2s.
costs, and a judicial separation was ordered with An
allowance of 10s. per week.
The death of Mr. Elizar Wright, one of the founders
of the American Anti-Slavery Society, removes from
the scene an early friend and associate of Mr. Garrison
in the abolition movement in the United States. He
was upwards of SO at the time of his death. When a
young man he was a Professor of Mathematics and
Natural Philosophy in a Western College. Nearly 50
years ago he translated La Fontaine's Fables in verse,
and the popularity of his version of that work con-
tinues to this day. Mr. John G. Whittier, the poet,
says that "in assailing slavery and prejudice against
colour, Mr. Wright's pen had the keenness of a Damas-
cus blade." He signed the anti-slavery declaration of
1833. Out of the 62 Americans whose names were
affixed to that famous document only two survive--
V.r. Whittier and Mr. Robert Putvis, of Philadelphia.

The Pederal Assembly at Berilecli Tuemay electea
M. Adolph Detwiler PreEldent of Cue cviss Cortfedera•

Thq Corporatron orbt- p LAM, MU,* euswy
-.l44o.raticn, have adopted a proposal to apply to
Parliament for powers to con,stitict a deep-water dock
at a cost of over 000,000, delusive of thelatrd. rUt
In the Court of Queen's Bench on Tuesday, MV
Crown recovered £196 penalties against a Leeds
tobacconist named Solmes for smuggling, being treble
duty and value of tobacco and cigars smuggled in
coffins or hollow bulks of timber into Hull frOm ham-
burg.
The Russian Navy Ministry has given orders to the
Baltic Dockyard for the construction of a new iron-
clad of 8000 tons, 8000 horse power, and of a speed of
18 knots. The vessel is to be completed by September,

1888.
An important meeting of landed proprietors and
influential farmers was held in Hull on Tuesday after-

noon, for the purpose of starting a co-operative com-
pany, whose object would be to supply the public
direct with meat and farm produce, dispensing with the
need of butchers and other middlemen. The project

was taken up enthusiastically, and a committee was
appointed to prepare a report for presentation at a
future meeting. The promoter of the scheme, Mr. P.
Saltmarshe, of Saltmarshe, presided, and suggested that
the company be one with limited liabilities, emlraying
a capital of £3OOO, a considerable proportion of which
should be made up of £1 shares.
A petition was filed in the Derby Bankruptcy Court
on Tuesday by Thomas Henry and George Small,
colliery proprietors of Kelburn. Liabilities between
20,000 and £30,000. The debtors are lessees of Stanley
and South Normanton Collieries, and were until
recently owners of the famous Kelburn Collieries.
For some time past they have been engaged in expen-
sive litigation.
A serious outrage has taken place at Bollinagrane,
where the house of a respectable farmer, named Teskey,
was forcibly entered by midaight marauders in dis-
guise armed with guns and ammunition. They dragged
Mr. Teskey out of bed, and beat him severely on the
face and the body, inflicting nine serious wounds. His
assailants then fired some shots on the house. Teskey
had refused to join the National League.
A fire broke out on Tuesday afternoon in the oil and
crushing mill of Messrs. Walker and Smith, of Hull.
The fire in a few minutes had obtained almost a com-
plete mastery of the building, and the bursting of
several oil tanks from the intense heat poured vast

quantities of the inflammable liquid upon the flames.
in little more than an hour the mill, Which is one of
the largest in Hull, was gutted.
The funeral of the man Rahilly, who was murdered
near Killarney, took place on Tuesday, and was attended
by Mr. Leahy, the landlord of the farm upon which the
deceased was acting as caretaker, by three legal gentle-
men, and by the immediate friends of the deceased.
Neither farmer nor labourer joined in the procession,
and the fear of boycotting evidently prevented the
shopkeepers from attending.
;Miss Gladstone and Mrs. Wickham's children
(grandchildren of the ex-Premier) arrived at Hawarden
Castle on Tuesday evening. While driving from Saltney
Station they met with an accident which, though
alarming at the time, did not prove serious. The
coachman and some of the occupants were thrown
horn the carriage, but all escaped without injury.
While the County Limerick Foxhounds,elwhich Mr.
J. Gubbins is master, were out hunting, two of the
dogs were noticed to become suddenly ill, death
ensuing in a few minutes. An examination showed
that the hounds were poisoned.
Cattle disease has reappeared in Kent, an outbreak
of pleuro-pneumonia having occurred oil the, premises
Of a cowkeeper at Milton. Several valuable beasts
have been slaughtered, with a view to prevent the
spread of the malady.
I The Postmaster-General calls attention to the fact
that the least desirable manner in which appreciation
can be shown of the labours of the postmen during the
phristmas and New Year Season is to offer them drink
whilst in the discharge of their official duties. This is
an act of mistaken kindness, which is calculated to
bring them into trouble and disgrace. The Postmaster-
General earnestly hopes, therefore, that the public
will refrain from putting such temptations in their
way.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
reading of the barometer last week was 29-98 in.; the
:highest reading was 30.32 in. on Friday morning, and
:the lowest 29.20 in. at the beginning of the week The
mean temperature of the air was 32.7, and 10.0 above the
'average in the corresponding week of the 20 years ending
1868. The mean was considerably below the average on
I each day of the -cc eek. The coldest day was on Friday,
I when the mean fell to 280, and showed a deficiency of
114.5. Rain or melted snow was measured on three days of
the week, to the aggregate amount of 0•06 of an inch.
'The duration of registered bright sunshine in the week
I was 85 hours, against 22 7 hours at Glynde Place,
! Lewes.
Between the Ist April last and the 12th inst., the
Revenue receipts amounted to £54,004,600, as com-
pared with £54,805,292 in the corresponding period of
1884; and the expenditure to £60,650,260 as agains
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£5553,043. On Saturday last there was a balance in
the Bank of England of £966,141, and in the Bank of
Ireland of £1,228,488.
On Tuesday at the Preston Police-court, Thomas
Lancaster, a man who has held a respectable position
in the town, was charged with embezzling about MO,
the moneys of Messrs. Daniel Bernard, John Mae
Bernard, and James Pringle, brewers, of Edinburgh,
by whom he was employed to sell on salary and com-
mission. The prisoner had received moneys from
various hotel-keepers which he did not account for to
his employers. He was committed for trial.
King Ferdinand of Portugal, the father of the reign-
ing King, died on Tuesday afternoon, the immediate
cause of death being a fall, which aggravated a facial
-steer from which King Ferdinand had for a long time
Jered. The deceased, who was merely
was in his seventieth year.

The Russian Central Asian Railway between Kizil
Arvat and Askabad was opened for traffic on Friday
last, thus completing railway communication between
the Caspian and Askabad.
Information has been received in Paris of further
fighting in Tonquin. Two villages have been carried
by assault and seven war junks sunk, the "rebel
bands "in the north of the Delta having been driven
back into the mountains with serious Dim
A collision occurred on Tuesday between two trains
on the Georgia and Pacific Railway, about 15 miles
from ' Atlanta, resulting in the instant death of 12
passengers and the injury of 13 others.
In the Senate of the Dublin University on Tuesday,
the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred
upon the Earl of Carnarvon, the Lord Lieutenant of
According to the Registrar-General's report, 2504
births and 1474 deaths were registered in London last
week. Allowing for increase et population, the births
were 158 and the deaths 351 below the average numbers
in the corresponding weeks of the last ten years. The
annual death-rate per 1000 from all causes, which had
been 20.6 and 19.7 in the two preceding weeks,
further declined last week to 18.8. The 1474 deaths
included 1 from small-pox, 57 from measles, 14 from
scarlet fever, 20 from diphtheria, 58 from whooping.'
cough, 7 from enteric fever, 1 from undefined form
of continued fever, 10 from diarrhcea and dysentery,
and not one from typhus or cholera. Thus, 174 deaths
were referred to these diseases, being 71 below the
corrected average weekly number.
A commission of inquiry sat at Carlisle on Tuesday i
to investigate two charges of drunkenness preferred !
against the Rev. H. M. Kennedy, vicar of Plurnpton,l
Cumberland. After hearing the evidence, the Com-
missioners reserved judgment as to whether or not a
prima facie case had been made out. The inquiry was
held under a at from the Archbishop of York, as the
Bishop of Carlisle is patron of the living.
Mr. B. Boaler, air accountant, who has been engaged ,
in various prosecutions of public companies, as he said,!
"for the public good," was the prosecutor on Tuesday,'
at the Middlesex Sessions, of Messrs. Holder and Bell
for an assault. The latter are officials of the London
and General Cab Company, and Boaler declared that,
when he went to their office to see the register of the
company, the defendants assaulted him. The prose-1
cuter had suffered imprisonment for libelling Mr.
Holder. The defendants were acquitted.
It is stated that "mid Aahburne has dra
scheme for the establishment of a system of Home
Rule in Ireland which has secured the approbation of
Lord Carnivon.

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The "Morning Post" has authority for stating that
her Majesty's Government will meet Parliament and
take the earliest opportunity of ascertaining whether
they have the confidence of the House of Commons.
The Queen has been pleased to confer the dignity of
a peerage upon Lord Henry Scott by the style and title
of Baron Montagu of Beaulieu; to create Lord Elphin-
stone and Lord Colville of Culross, K.T., peers of the
United Kindom ; and to confer the Order of the Garter,
vacant by the death of the Duke of Somerset, upon the
Duke of Norfolk.
Mr. Justice Mathew and Mr. Justice Wills, sitting
the Queen's Bench Division, on Monday, gave judgment
in an appeal case, Parkinson v. Parker. The plaintiff,
as landlord of a house at Blandford-square, sued the
defendant as lessee under covenant to pay parish rated.
The detendant had sublet the house to Signor Basto,
Portuguese Consul-General, who paid the rates
until he was appointed attaché, when he claimed
exemptThn. The county court judge at Westminster
had decided that the attaché was exempted from rates,
and that the defendant was liable. This decision was
now affirmed.

The engineers and crew of the Peninsular and
Oriental Company's mail steamship Indus, which went
ashore at Moltivoe, Ceylon, and was there abandoned,
were landed at Plymouth on Monday.
At the London Mansion House on Monday Anthony
Schepp was fired £2O or a month for selling rum in
Billingsgate Market on Sunday morning without a
license.
Sir C. Diike addressed a meeting at Chelsea on Mon,
day night. Speaking at some length on the political
situation, he expressed the opinion that as matters
stood Radicals would have a much better chance of
preventing mischief abroad and securing the passage of
advanced measures by remaining in opposition than by
taking partlin a Liberal Administration which could
not permanently retain
.the confidence ofjthe House of
Dogmond.
The vlcatage of 3t. James's ()Lurch, Jammea-roaa,
Bermondsey, has in the absence of the vicar and his
family, been entered by burglars and thoroughly
ransacked.
The Dover coroner, Mr. Payn, held an inquiry on
Monday into the death of a woman named Bishop. The
poor creature, who was in a very distressed condition,
was found dead in the snow, having laid doivn to sleep
on an ash heap. She wore no boots, and her only
clothing was a tattered w:Aerproof and dress. A verdict
of "Death from exposure" was returned.
For smoking out a coanty court bailiff with pans of
burning sulphur, and otherwise assaulting him, Thomas
Morris and his two sons were, at Eastbourne Petty
Sessions, on Monday. fined LE- each, or in default one
month's imprisonmPut.
The Council of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society
have decided to hold next year's show at Sheffield, during
the first week in August. Earl Fitzwilliam has ban
chosen president.
At Westminster rolice-hourt on Monday, a well.
dressed man, whose name was given as Tyndall, alias
Ashley, and who resided at South Kensington, was
committed for trig on a charge of selling obscene
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A queen's Ranch Divisional Court has decided that
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the Landon • and South-Western Railway Companya...
have th- .to-make extra charges for the convey,—
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Ascot;lace rateting, and that, on the question of the '
pensioa ,ofisatitiary trains, the earrte.2ll3l arr only. -jrati
andO priaaajtleeksoeable faeillty f 14#tillOi-s• 3
It is expacted that the new. station in oiteri Via- a
toria street and the bridge across the•Tchats,inno in
course of construction for the_L•entladt , -7111'ri
Dover Railway Company, will be apened for traffic
about tte commencement of the 1.16 w year. • . .
Mr. Ernest Slater, F.C.0., a sulapaofessor. of the .
Royal Academy of Music and organist of Lambeth
Parish Church, has been offered- the 'vacant Isorrt of • --
organist and choirmaster of St. Paul's Cathedral, Cal- aa •
cutta, a position which, with its emoluments, is valued
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at £lOOO a year.
A " find " of considerable interest to book cola— •a
lectors has taken place within the pat few days.
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Hitherto there have been only two known copies of 'a a‘
Charles Lamb's privately printed volume, "The Beauty • 'lila!
and the Beast," but Mr. Tickell, a Dissenting minister, •
has just found another among some old books on a
London bookstall, and has become its fortunate
possessor at the cost of a few pence. The volume is in -
excellent condition, and the hand-painted plates-per-
feet.
The whole of the jewellery stolen from Netherby
has now been recovered. The police have towel
remainder at Tebay in a tobacco pouch by the aide of
the river Lune, where it had been thrown by one of the •
thieves when escaping from the railway workmen. -
While some men were driving a headingin the Rope tilst
Pit, Nantyglo, near Newport (Mon.), an old working • Lai..
was broken into, letting free a quantity of gas which
the naked lights used by the men ignited, and an explo-
sion was the result. All the men in the other
.Parts of •
the mine were rescued without sustaining injury, but •
the three in the heading were badly burned.
At the London Guildhall, Thomas George Austin,
formerly accountant to the Merchatit • Taylors' Cora. •
pany, was committed for trial on a charge of having..
falsified the accounts of the company, in which
irregularities had been discovered, spread over a eon-
eider able time, and amounting to over £5OO. •
In a little Ohio-village where there was an tobnoxious
Brox saloon the people hit upon an excellent means
of getting ride it. One night when it was full of -
people, 'they passed a cable round it, and attached the
cable to the rear van of a goods train. Happily, the
inmates got out before the train moved off; but the
saloon, at any rate, does not stand where if did.
Cremation was oh Friday satisfactorily performed at
the crematory erected at St. John's, Woking, Surrey,
by the Cremation Society of England. In this case,
tne third within the hiet few months, the body.was that
of's lady, formerly residing -at Clapham, and several'
relatives witnessed the proem which is that known
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as the Gorini system practised throughout Italy.
At a sitting of the York Chancery Court; Lord Pena.
ance's judgment in the case of the Rev. James Bell a.
Cot, incumbent of St. Margaret's, Prince's-road, Liv.e.ra
pool, was read. It adjudged the defendant guilty of 'll4
contempt and disobedience to the order of- the court,
and decreed that he be suspended for a term of six
calendar months. •
A shocking affair has occurred in the old Norman
town of Caen. Four children of tender years had 'been
left in a room, and were found by their mother on their
return burned to death.
Lord Carrington, tho New Governor of New South
Wales, and family, arrived at Sydney, on Friday; in
excellent health, after a good passage, and met-with an.
enthusiastic reception. •
At an inquest held at Mortlake by Mr. Braxton-
hicks, on the body of a footman, named Alfred Peach-
lei', who was killed by an express train at the level
crossing at the Mot tlake Station, the jury appended to
their verdict of " Accidental death" a rider, stating
"That death was mainly due to neglect on the part of la
the South-Western Railway Company in not having„a
bridge or subway at this dangerous crossing for the
use of passengers, the company having been warned of
this matter by former juries.' - • • •
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" A sad fatal calamity has occurred at the Penrhia fen.
*ere
Colliery. Two men, named Davis. and Eddy,7*
,ere rash enough to overweight the bouk hi which they
were about to ascend the shaft, contrary to •manageririlia'.
orders. The result was that the honk capsized, arid,
they were dashed down a depth of 150 yards. Deatha&
was, of course, instantaneous.
The death is announced of Xavier Ullesberger, -the
well-known paireontologist, at Veberlingen, On the LaVe
qf Constance, at the age of 79. The extensive collec-
tion of Celtic and prehistoric objects which he' got
together in the course of his researches is preserveclat
Stuttgart.
' Nonconformists generally will hear with regret of
the death of the Rev. Charles Kirtland, at his residence
at New Wandsworth. He was in his seventy-fifth year.
Ile wrote one or two books, and his .coiltributions to
periedical literature were numerous. -
The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland has conferred the
appointment of High Sheiiff of the City of Limerick,
for the ensuing year, upon Mr. O'Keefe, a Nationalist.
When Musurus Pasha went to take leave of the
Queen, on the presentation of his letters of recall, her
?,lajesty preseeted him with a pair of China vases. •
On Safurdsy the funeral service of the late king
Alfonso took place in Madrid. Thirty ..four bishops
!were present at the altar. The scene was very impres-
tiaes and many persons shed tears.
i On Saturday the board of delegates of the Hospital
!Saturday Fund met and adopted the report of the Dis-
tribution Committee, recommending that £O5OO of the
!£11,300 already realised be distributed amorig 71 hos-
pitals, 40 dispensaries, and 19 convalescent homes and
{other institutions. - • • • •
The Lord Mayor, in distributing prizes to the 3rd
London Rifles at the Guildhall on Saturday evening,
alluded to the need for a new drill ground for the City
Volunteers. He was afraid, however,that theOorporaa
nf T.nnann nanla do littlein the matter: •
In the Queen's Bench Division on Saturday,Mr. Justice
Denman ruled that a firm of builders in Norton Fol,gate
werenot bound to pay a:Workman in theireinploynom-
pensation for injuries sustained through the-falling of
some staging which they had engaged another con-
tractor to erect. The firm in question sought to recover
from the contractor the amount which had beeh paid
to the workmen £166 7s. Bd.; but they were awarded
only a shilling damages, without costs.
For attempting to obtain by means of a forged
letter charitable contributions from the pobr-ox at the
Guildhall, William Grace, who titated that he had no
home and that he had walked the streets far three
nights, without food, was on Saturday sentenced to
three months' hard labour.
Dr. Bradley, of 'Chesterfield, who, by order of the
Home Secretary, Sir Richard Cross, was liberated a
few months ago from prison, where he had been com-
mitted for an alleged assault on a female patient, was
recently, at Sheffield, entertained to dinnet •and pre-
sented 'with an address and four hundred guineas by
the members of the profession, as a mark of their esteem
anal belief in „his innocence. Sir Wm,. Jenner was one
of the first pro/rioters' of the fund, and the adilltesa was
signed by liiintand the leading medical men throughout
the country. The presentation was made by Dr.
Foster, M.P., and Mr. Wheelhouse, of Leads.'
The body of a countrynian'was found on Saturday in
the river at Galway. When taken out it was seen that
his throat had been cut. The police are investigating
the matter.

Several attempts have been made in the pkrish of
Moore, Galway, on the property of Mr: Potts, to
serve processes for nonpayment of rent. ,The process
servers having on each occasion being driveii off by a
crowd of people, over twenty civil bills were on Friday
posted on the court-house at Ballinasloe in
_substitu-
tion of service. Great excitement prevails in the
-district, and one process server was made' to 'swallow
his documents.
A treaty has been signed which recognises the
Maharajah of Johore as the Sultan pf that Princi-
pality. '
William Natty, of New Kent-road, Walworth, and
278, Strand, was on Friday brought up at the Grays
Petty Sessions, charged with committing a breach of
the peace by engaging as one of the 13riuci/Stas in a
prize fight, at Thames Haven,- on September 14.
Mellish, one of the combatants, was apprehended at
the time by Detective Earnshaw, of the Metropolitan
Police, who was rewarded at the quarter "sea-Mons for
his plucky and courageous conduct:. Natty, however,
was rescued from the officer by the large crowd which
accompanied the pugilists, and was only apprehended
during last week in London, itt a house *here an
assault-at-arms had been got up for his benefit. The
prisoner was committed for trial to the Essex Quarter
Sessions, aid bound over in sureties to keep the peace
until next sessions.

A four-storey building at 45, East Ingram-street,
Glasgow, seas destroyed by fire on Sunday night. The
flames were first seen bursting from the top flit, which
is occupied by Messrs. Wylie and Co., shirt mann-
facturers;and there the fire raged so fiercely that the
roof very soon fell in. In a_ quarter of an hour more
the flats below, occupied by Messrs. Burch and Co.,
costume minufacturers, were' alb ablaze. As the
Central Fire Brigade station is situated within 30
yards of the scene of the conflagration, the firemen
were immediately on the spot with sever al steam.
engines, but they found it 'impossible to'-tave the
building. The damage will amount to

THE BIARKEI'L''-'-' *
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MARK LANE. "
With the change in ,the weather and the -wealrniea
reported from News York, the grain trade at Mark-lane
• has become quieter, and•is not so strong. There are fair
supples of home and foreign produce offering. The sales
of home grown wheat in the leading suarkets of England.
and Wales during the first 15 weeks tq tire iidtson we
945,067 gra,' against 1;039,931 (Ira last yeah; the average
price being 31s, against 32s 2d per qr ; .rarley, 1,541,085
against 1,665,308;i1aTera,g,e 30s sd, a4aiwt 31444.04,; and oats,
144,453, against 166,943 qrs, average 18's 11d; against 19s Scl
"per (Ir. For English wheat the demand was quiet, at
about Late rates. Foreign wheat sold slowly, and was
rather ,ess firm. The flour market was inactive, at pre-
vious currencies. The barley trade was. quieter. Both
malting and grinding sold slowly, at late curteneies. Oats
Were a quiet market, and were : bout the
.same in value,
Maize was in limited , epte'st, at last week'ls pric6s. Beans
- and peas were steadier, at late quotations. • 4
. MET MAR ROPOLITAN CATTLE KET.
The total imports of foreign, eiock into Loidait last week
amc mated to 3774 he'...d. In the eorresr)ondinvi. period la
year we received 4774; in 1883, 0185; -in s 3 st 2, 6011 ,
in 1881, 374; in 1880,• 49:..8; in 1379, 34367 ; in 1874
T 319; in 1877, 9773; and in 1876, ;b057 head.
nmpton were received 21 beasts frona.Jersey , a G
At South.-
. au
and 40 boaat,7. from Oporto. uernsey,
,• ..
METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET.
A moderate snpply was on sale.. The ;trade was
8s 44 to 38 8d • prime large ditto,3s 8d to 4s 2d : prime small ditto, 4a Od t,a'4s ti; veal,
dulL The following are the flices : Ts' •d beef, Se od
to 33 4d ; middling &Ito,
4 10d
to SE, 2cl; inferior riuttOn;' 2s: 8d to 38 4d. -;. ma,idli
'ng ditto,
3s 4d to 4s id.; p-4kne ditto4s , to 4s Sd i faFge
ilaork, 2s Sd
to 3s 2d; Erilala ditto, 3s 2d to Se 134. 'pal SID'. by the
s
CarCaSe. . ii: ,LL.,;,-
..
, pickled ditto, fle 6
• • visit,.As on , im.....A'•*- '''
Fresh herrigs, t 0.153 ;•reotilielillittO,lts lid to be 6d ;
f 1 td 7s d 7
ditto:llto 4s 4 kippered,
ditto, 6s tol's ; biontAre,•sa.to4-40. per,loo; ,co(.1, £1 to £l3
' l'er.re_ •• ' almond, ditto,' ,7k 6d .to 15s-Od .each; native
co,sters, 1-63 to 17s ; Butch,ditto, 103 .to lls ; American.
red 3 '
ditto f.i..
zi.,
-•-• ; l'ortuguse ditto, 3s tO 53 ; Welactidttto, 844 tO lOs ;
744t5 83 ier hundred
, ..., 64 to 5s • French -ditto, 43 to 83.; ISpanish ditto,
'ls to
1 No-tr;`z. Sec, ditto,
roTATc. •
, 1
.4.. , .
There was a gicA. stipply of -P-otatees on offer. The trade
was steady, as fol,ows : —Magnum bonums, 60e
.to 90s;
1
. .
regents, 90s to 1103 ; champions, 60s to 70.; Viotonn,
60s to 90e Ter ton. - - - •
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