The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1883-03-17 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN IRON TRADE.

On Saturday a meeting of delegates representing
the finished iron trade of Cleveland, Durham, and the
northern counties was held at Darllngton, twenty-one
works being represented. The following resolution
was unanimously passed :—"That this meeting of
delegates, acting under the authority of the various
lodges of ironworkers in the north of England district,
after full and careful consideration, are unanimously
of opinion that restriction of the output in the finished
iron trade is ab-olutely necessary, and if adopted will
be beneficial to the employers and workmen, and in-
struct the operative secretary to give notice to the
board of conciliation and arbitration that after April
9 the number of shifts to be worked at all works
connected with the board shall not exceed ten per
fortnight."

On Monday the Board of Arbitration for the
Northern Iron trade considered the "restriction of
output" demanded by the ironworkers at their meet-
ing at Darlington. The employers, it was stated, were
unanimously avainet the proposal, because it interfered
with the law o: supply and demand, and never had
answered. The question of the basis of wages for the
future it was decided should be referred to an arbitra-
tion.

Fffty•seven British and foreign actual shipwrecks
were reported during last week, making a total of 531
for the present year, or an increase of 185 as compared
with the corresponding period of last year, the increase
for the week being 35. British-owned vessels num-
bered 31 ; 9 were steamers., with an aggregate tonnage
of 4 236 tons, 7 being British steamers, with a tonnage
of 2,76 tons. Total tonnage lost for the week, 13,446
tons. Total number of lives lost and missing, 126.
Canon Knox-Little occupied the pulpit at St. Paul's
Cathedral on Monday. Notwithstanding the severity
of the weather a large congregation assembled, the
vast space in.der the dome being crbwded. The rev.
Cmion did not appear so well in health as on the
occmi„n of his addresses in Lent last year; but as he
proceed,d with his discourse his usual eloquence and
pathos appeared to make a deep impression upon the
assembly. Canon Knox-Little preached from the
text, "Dost thou fear God?" (Luke =Hi. 40).

EPITOME OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

We learn that the Farmers' Alliance propose to take
steps t move for a Select Committee to inquire into
the importation of live cattle.—Daily News.

The German Emperor has sent the sum of 3,000
marks to the United States of America for the benefit
of the sufferers by the inundations.
The Queen has forwarded, through General Sir
Henry Ponsonby, her annual subscription of £5O to
the National Lifeboat Institution, of which she is
patron.

"Somebody said, within Mrs. Ramsbotham's hear•
ing, that, in the streets, all dogs should be led. 'Yes!'
she excLitned, 'and all pigeons should be clay:—
Puna.

The Macclesfield silk trade, which has been so long
depressed, has shown signs of revival during the past
few weelrP, and many looms which have been idle for
months ar.) how at full work.

The owners of the steamer Marie Stuart, of Leith,
have now given her up as lost. She carried a crew of
about twenty hands.

The passage of the Alaska, which arrived at Queens-
town from New York, early on Wednesday morning,
was seven days three hours thirty-six minutes, her runs
being as follows for each of the diyl-304, 410, 393,
410, 355, 399, 395 and 232 miles.

The polling at Wycombe took place on Saturday,
when 1,105 votes were recorded for Col. Gerard Smith,
and 557 for Major Carson, the Conservative candidate,
thus showing a Liberal majority of 548.

Two youths, aged fifteen and sixteen respectively,
were skating on a brickfield pond at Wakefield on
Saturday afternoon, when the younger got under the
ice and was drowned, and the elder one in endeavour-
ing to save him lost his life.

At the anniversary dinner of the Royal Society of
Musicians, Mr. Arthur Sullivan who presided,
mentioned that during the present century the Society
had distributed among its members no less than one
hundred and sixty thousand pounds.

A New York telegram says that a Pullman sleeping.
car attached to a train on the Pennsylvania Railway
took fire during a journey, and was totally consumed.
The fire raged so rapidly that the occupants had tn
make tbuir escape unclothed.

A telegram from Cairo says that the 19th Hussars,
and the 9th and 32nd Regiments have been ordered
home. This will reduce the Army of Occupation to
about six thousand men.

A shower of snow, the first for thirteen years, has
fallen in Rome, and whitened the cupola of St. Peter's
for some hours.

Last weeks receipts of cotton at all United States
ports were 123,000 bales; since lit September,
5,016,000 bales. Week's exports to Great Britain
70,000 bales; week's exports to the Continent, 59,000
bales. Total since let September, 3,383,000 bales.
Stock at all ports, 906,000 bales.
As an illustration of the considerable increase in the
correspondence passing from this country to the
United States, it may be mentioned that an additional
sum of g 14,000 was paid last year by the Post Office
for the conveyance of the mails to America. The
freight is paid by weight.
Mr. Samuel Smith has given notice that on an early
day he will move that, in the opinion of this House,
"it is desirable that the Local Government Board
should offer every facility for the emigration of pauper
and destitute children."

The Bombay Town Council has insisted that all
electric light cables shall be laid underground, or if
carried overhead by special permission they shall cross
no street, and shall not come within thirty feet of any
existing telegraph or telephone wire.
At a meeting of the Central Council of Diocesan
Conferences held in London on Tuesday, a resolution
was carried declaring that the proposal to relax the
law which at present forbids marriage with the sister
of a deceased wife is objectiotable and should be
opposed.
A telegram from New York says that great suffer.
jug and sickness prevail among the inhabitants cf the
towns inundated by the recent overflow of the Ohio
River. Four children have been drowned during the
floods on the Mississippi owing te Mae destruction of a
house near Helens, Arkansas. Six adults who were
in the house were saved after they had been clinging
to the roof for three days.
An accident oocurred at Oonsett Ironworks on
Tuesday morning. A ponderous fly-wheel, about 30
tons in weight, suddenly broke when in motion, huge
pieces of metal of over a ton weight each flying in all
directions through the roofs about 60 yards into the
air, and alighting in different parts of the works.
The workmen had a narrow escape. One man and a
boy were severely injured.

The Government have introduced a Bill in the
House of Lards for enabling the trustees and director
of the National Gallery to lend works of art to other
public galleries in the United Kingdom.

A scheme is proposed for lighting the whole of the
Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, by electricity. The
motive force would be derived from turbines of 5,000
horse-power at Vallorbes, and the water supply being
constant and abundant, it is believed that gas, which
is very costly in Switzerland, may be entirely dis-
pensed with throughout the district,

The Court on the Alabama claims is busy bearing
cases at Washthou._ Clv.r 1,500 olftim have been
filed for a total amount largely in excess of the undis-
tributed balance of the award with interest.

It is claimed that in a London temperance hospital
upwards of 1,600 in-patients have been treated without
alcohol, with results of a highly satisfactory character ;
while in the single case in which it was thought neces-
sary to prescribe alcohol, the effect was not good.

Two matches at 100 pigeons, SO yards rise, between
the two experts Carver v. Bogardus, have recently
taken place in America. In the first match a tie was
the result, but in their second match, shot at Chicago,
Carver won, killing eighty-two birds to his opponent's
seventy-nine. An enormous crowd witnessed the
match.

A New York telegram says that the visible supply
of wheat .on March 9 was 23,300,000 bushes, as against
22,500,000 bushels the previous week. Visible supply
of Indian corn 13,600,000 bushels, as against 11,500,000
bushels the previous week. The export clearances of
wheat for Europe during last week amounted to
670,000 bushels; the export clearances of Indian corn
for Europe during last week amounted to 2,010,000
bushels.

Mr. Arthur Arnold will, on Monday, the 19th inst.,
move for comprehensive returns of electoral statistics
with reference to Parliamentary reform, and on
Friday, the 30th, if the Raster holidays have then
terminated, he will propose resolutions for establish-
ing uniformity of franchise throughout the United
Kingdom, and for the equitable redistribution of
political power.
The German Emperor will complete his 86th year
on the 22nd inst., but in consequence of that date
falling on Thursday in Passion Week, his Majesty has
commanded that the usual military and official cele-
bration of the event shall take place on St. Patrick's
Day (Saturday) the 17th inst.
During an auction sale of machinery in the third
storey of Higher Carr Mill, Stockport, the floor
suddenly gave way, and nearly a hundred people tell
to the floor below. A scene of great confusion and
panic ensued, but it was found necessary to remove
only two men to the infirmary, one suffering internal
injuries, and tiro other having been dangerously cut
over the eye.

On Monday morning two goods trains were run on
the railway from Geneva to Bellegarde for the first
time since the landslip which ocoarred two months
ago, near Fort de l'Ecluse. In less than a fortnight
the passenger service will be resumed, and communi•
cation between Geneva and Paris and Lyons will eon•
tequently be greatly simplified.
Lord Shaftesbury has been invited to take charge in
the House of Lords of Mr. Anderson's bill relating to
cruelty to animals. His lordship, while extiressing
his warm approval of the measure, has suggested that
a peer having more interest in the sporting world
should better perform the task.
The frightful storm predicted by Professor Wiggins
of Montreal was due on Sunday, but failed to make
its appearance. The weather, indeed, instead of bevng
boisterous, was exceptionally calm; and its placid
demeanour was utterly at variance with what we bad
been led to expect would be the case on the 11th of
March.

Writing to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Mr.
Gladstone states that the quedtion of placing the
management of Scottish affairs under a Cabinet
Minister has been occupying the attention of the
Government, who are anxious that the administrative
system in each of the three kingdoms should be such
as to promote the highest attainable degree of efficiency
in the working.

Large quantities of ice are prevalent in the Atlantic
as far south as lat. 420 north. A steamer arriving at
Liverpool from New Orleans had a very narrow
escape. The committee of Lloyd's have notified by
cable to the principal southern ports of the United
States the existence of this ice in order that proper
caution may be exercised by shipmasters navigating in
that latitude. Steamers arriving at ports on the other
side of the Atlantic similarly report having fallen in
with large masses of ice.

On Monday a deputation from the Council of the
S -nisi Science Association waited upon Sir Charles
"hike, M.P., at the offiee of the Local Government
Board, in support of legislation for the notification of
Infectious dtseasee. The right hon. baronet said it
was the opinian of the Board that the time had not
yet come to give universally the compulsory powers
propostd in the Bill now before Parliament. Should
it obtain any chance of a proper discussion he would
be disposed to support the second readirg, on the
understanding that the measure would be referred to
a Select Committee.

A statistical report on suicides in Russia has been
issued. The figures do not include three or four
provinces whence information is lacking; and yet it
appears that some 2,000 persons in each year make
away with themselves. The greatest number of cases
occurs in the district of Moscsw, after which come St.
Petersburg, Warsaw, and Irkutsk. During the last
five years, 7,713 cases have been registered. Suicide
in ti 5 Russian Army, as in that of Germany, has been
on the increase during the last few years.
A meeting under the auspices of the lJnited
Kingdom Alliance was held on Tuesday evening in
the Birmingham Town Hall in favour of Local
Option, the Mayor presiding. A letter was read from
Mr. Bright, in which he said that, although he
was not a member of the Alliance he hoped the
temperance cause would advanoe.—A.-resolution was
passed deploring the evils arising from the sale of
intoxicating liquote, and expressing the conviction
that legislative suppression of the traffic was now
becoming the greatest social problem of the age.—Sir
Wilfrid Lawson, who spoke in support of the resolu-
tion, strcngly insisted that it was nunnery that the
Government should interfere by restrictive measures
to diminish the evils arising from this drink treble,.

A Blue-book has been issued containing the report
of the Chief Inspector of Factories and Workshops for
the year ending October 31 last.
The Sanday Closing Bill for Northumberland has
been prepared, and will be introduced at an early
date, either by Mr. Grey, member for South Northum-
berland, or by Mr. John Morley, the member for
Ne wcastle.

Shipbuilding is proceeding actively on the Clyde
where trade is reported as healthy.
A fishing-boat was capsized off the coast of Arran
on Sunday, and the crew of five men were drowned,
in sight of their comrades on the shore. No assistance
could be rendered, owing to the violence of the stam.

The French Budget for 1884 was distributed to the
Deputies (,n Monday. The total increase of expendi-
ture is £2,300,000. The estimated revenue is
3,103,700,843 fr., and the expenditure 3,103,441,193 fr.,
leaving a plu of only 250,61i0 fr.
We (Standard) understand that the Government
Bill with regard to tenants' unexhansted improve-
ments, which is now in course of preparation, will
include provisions dealing with the law of distress. It
will be proposed te limit tits amount a distress to one
year's rent.
In the Queen's Bench, on Tuesday, the judges
quashed a decision of the Swansea police-magistrate,
who held that under the Welsh Sunday Closing Act,
Christmas Day and Good Friday were included.
Their lordships held that Sunday could mean no other
day than Sunday.

A gale, accompanied by an exceptionally high tide,
prevailed off the coast of Nova Scotia on Saturday.
No damage, however, was caused.
On Saturday a young man named John M'Kenna
was titan near a revolving grindstone in the works
of Messrs. Thomson, engineers, Glasgow, when the
stone suddenly split, and portions struck Mlienna,
killing him instantaneously.
The Town Council of Paris has referred to com-
mittee a proposal to re•establish the National Guard,
to arm all citizens, and to abolish the municipal
troops.

While Mrs. Maria Sharp, of Brentford, was crossing
the line at Strawberry-hill Station on Tuesday night,
she was knocked down by a passenger train and
killed.

A petition is being circulated in the University of
Cambridge and has already received a large number
nf nism.thragi a tha I... Manta againet the Rraithw.ito
and Buttermere Mineral Railway Bill, which is now
before the 11=se of Lords.

The new Irish Sunday Closing Bill was issued on
Monday. Its main clause proposes to extend the
present Act to the whole of Ireland, including Dublin
and the other exempted towns, and to make the law
permanent.

Monday (12th) wax the anniversary of the founda-
tion of Chelsea Hospital, which took place in 1682.
The building, which was formerly used as a theological
college, was converted by Charles 11, into an asylum
for wounded and superannuated soldiers.

A Dublin telegram states that over seventy thou-
sand pounds have been paid out of the Arrears De-
partment to landlords under the Arrears Act, and It
is calculated that nearly three thousand pounds per
day will be disbursed till the claims are satisfied,

The working classes of Derby have decided to show
their respect for Mr. Gladstone by presenting him
with a breakfast, dinner, and tea service of the
choicest Derby china. Each of the pieces will be
specially stamped.
It is said to have been decided that none of the heirs
apparent of the European thrones will be present at
the Czar's coronation.

The Underground Railroad Commissioners hare re-
ported unfavourably regarding a proposal for con.
structing a railway under the Broadway, New York.
Tbe limited breadth of this famous thoroughfare, and
the need of space for water and gas pipes and electric
wires are stated to be insuperable obstacles to meth a
scheme.

The sentence of death passed upon James Smitht
for shooting a gamekeeper on the estate of the Earl of
Stair, near Girvan, Ayrshire, has been commuted to
penal servitude for life.

On Tuesday the officers of all the ships in commis.
sion at Devonporf; mustered on the .&yal tide/aide,
and the officers and men who had returned from
Egypt were formally presented with the war medal,
amid much cheering. The senior officer present ex-
pressed his pleasure at being the medium of conveying
the appreciation of the country of the part taken by
the navy in the late campaign.

By command of the Queen, the Pr ince of Wales
held a lev6e on Monday at St. James's Palace. The
Foreign Ambassadors to the Court were present with
few exceptions. Nearly all her Majesty's Ministers
were also present. The services were well represented,
as was also the Diplomatic Corps. The Prince left
Marlborough House, and entered the Throne•roorn at
two o'clock. .

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General Thomas Charlton Smith, late of the 27th
Regiment, died on Sunday at Cambridge-street,
London, in his eighty-ninth year. He entered the
army in 1813, and served throughout the Peninsular
campaign, and was wounded at Waterloo. He ob-
tained field rank in 1854, was promoted to Lieutenant-
General in 1871, and General in 1877.

The divers engmed upon the wreck of the Citniria
report that one large lifeboat is in its place on the deck,
wh•roiii..parto uf huusau bodies art found jAMMOG
in among the gear, while the entrances ta the cabin.
are closed by compact masses of bodies. It will be
next to impossible to SAVO Any of the cargo.
At the instance of Mr. George Palmer, M.P., the
bridle which was formerly used at Reading, to stop the
mouths of scolding women has been deposited in the
museum of that town.

The Pharmaceutical Registrar's Report for this year
shows that the number of qualified chemists and
druggists on the Register for Great Britain was 13,447
on December 31, 1882, against 13,655 at the same date
in the previous year.
The arrivals of live stock and fresh meat at Liver-
pool during the past week from the United States and
Canada amounted to 326 cattle, 1,157 sheep, 4,05$
quarters of beef, and 517 carcases of mutton, and show
a somewhat large falling-off in live stock, and a alight
increase in fresh meat, when oompared with the totals
of the previous week,

A Madrid telegram says that a great fire has
oocurred at the village of Poroariza, in the Proyinoe
of Leon, by which 56 houses were destroyed; one
woman was burnt to death, and several persons were
seriously injured. The loss is estimated at 09,000
pesetas.

The committee for the approaching International
Electrical Exhibition at Vienna decided at its last
meeting to prolong the term for giving notice by ex-
hibitors till the 20th inst. Taking the notices already
received, a t)tal illumination equivalent to that of
272,000 candles is expectod to be secured,

The ship Lothee, of 1,728 tons, Captain J. Raeburn,
chartered by Sir Saul Samuel, K.C.M.G., Agent-
General for New South Wades, sailed from Plymouth
for Sydney on the Eth inst., with 416 emigrants, under
the supervision of Dr. 0. E. Strutt as Burgeon-super-
intendent, with Alias Jones in charge of the single
women.

The Municipal Council of Paris has allotted a sum
of 3,000 tranci for this year to defray the expenses of
organising a pharmaceutical night-service for Paris,
on a basis similar to the present night-servioe of
physicians and midwives which that city possesses.

A Renter's telegram from New York states that a
despatch from Brownsville, Dakota Territory, reports
that a lodging-house at that place has been destroyed
by fire. Eleven men perished in the names.

The preliminary report of the Royal Commission
appointed to inquire into the administration, dis-
cipline, and condition of prisons in Ireland has been
published as a Parliamentary paper. In regard to
Spike Island, the Commissioners earnestly press the
urgent necessity for removing without further delay
all the prisoners and closing the prison within three
months of the date of the report (February 3) or earlier
if possible.

Advices received at New York from Havana report
that a portion of the roof of the Payret Theatre in
that city fell in on Sunday last, killing some persons
who were in a oaf 4 adjoining the building, among
whom was one of the proprietors of the theatre.
The sudden death of the Rev. Aaron Levy Green,
chief mlnister of the Central Synagogue, London,
took place on Sunday. Mr. Green was returning
from tne Working Men's Club, in Great Alle.street,
where a large gathering of old pupils of the Jews'
Free School had taken place, convened and presided
over by Sir N. IL. de Rothschild, M.P. Shortly after
he had quitted the club he was seized with an apo-
plectic fit, and almost immediately expired. He will
be greatly missed by the community to which he
belonged, for he had, by dint of rare perseverance and
great love of study, worked his way to the foremost
rank of the Anglo-Jewish ministry.
At Windsor, Sandringham, and in London, the
twentieth anniversary of the marriage of the Prince
and Princess of Wales was celebrated on Saturday
(10th) with the customary honours. The bells of some
of the London churches were rung; the band of the
Grenadier Guards played in the morning in the court-
yard of St. James's Palace; and at Windsor the bells
at the Ca.tle and St. John's Church were rung, and a
royal salute was fired in the Long Walk.

The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens,
Regent's Park, London, during last week included a
Macaque monkey from India, presented by Misi
Annie M. Davis; an ocelot from South America,
presented by Mrs. A. Harley; a grey ichneumon
from India, presented by Miss G. Gordon Clark; a
black rat, British, presented by Mr. H. B. Stott ; a
tawny eagle from South Africa, presented by letr.
Roland Trimen, F,Z.S. ; a slender-billed oockatoo
from South Australia, presented by Mr. A. Anderson;
a common magpie, British, presented by Mr. Charles
Davis; a ring-necked parakeet from India, presented
by Miss Bibby; a common curlew, and &golden plover,
British, purchased.
The Czarina's coronation mantle will be a marvel
of heraldic embroidery. The ground will be solid
cloth of gold, from which the Russian black eagle will
stand out in relief, bearing on its chest the arms of
Moscow ; while the arms of the provinces of Kazan,
Siberia, Poland, Astrakan, Georgia, and Finland, and
of the Grand Duchies of Kiel, Vladimir, and Nov-
gorod, will be emblazoned on the wings.
Mr. Buckmaster, of the Science and Art Depart-
ment, visited Nottingham on Saturday, and addressed
a meeting at the Exchange on the importance of
teaching scientific principles of agriculture. The mayor
presided, and there was a large attendance, principally
of landowners and farmers. Mr. Buckmaster pointed
out the loos to the country consequent upon the pre-
sent unscientific methods adopted, and complained
that an industry which needed more intelligent appli-
cation than almost any other eh uld have been left in
so many oases to the least educated portion of the
community. He explains i the proposals of the Go-
vernment for popular Washing on the subject. A hood
CIONITOittee was appointed.

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TAL PARLIAMENT. form, and they have reported against the red uniform, On the motion of Mr. Forster, the debate was then ad-
on the ground that it is too visible and not sufficiently ser- journed. ACTIONS FOR DAMAGES AGAINST MR. SAMUEL MORLEY, MM EW
.P: ON EPITOME OF NS. A Blue-book has been leaned containing the report
of the Chief Inspector of Factories and Workshops for •
viceahle, They recemmend gray or khakee colour, between Some other business was disposed of, and the House ad- RAILWAY COMPANIES. CHURCH WORK. BRITISH AND FOREIGN the year ending October 31 last.
which it is difficult to choosb as far as visibility is con- journed at a quarter to one o'clock. .
'l)9, March 12, the Archbishop of cerned. There is, however, this difficulty about applying In the High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Divi- On Monday evening Mr. S. Morley, M.P., occupied The Sunday Closing Bill for Northumberland has
the Bishops of London and Exeter, khakee dye to sage—namely, that it is not durable. But the sion, the cause of " Denyer ta the Great Northern the chair at a public meeting held at the Surrey We learn that the Farmers' Alliance propose to take
-pal Bench, and subscribed the difficulty has been overcome, and the recommendation of the THE LAND LAW (IRELAND) ACT, 1881, AMENDMENT ..., „
xxauway Company" has been heard, and was an Chapel, Blackfriate.road, London, in celebration of steps t move for a Select Committee to inquire into
committee is being carried mit axperimentally. This is a PILL. ' date,
either
prepared, ,marn
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member
introduced of
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South
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th earlyri
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berland, or by Mr. John Morley, the member for
and after a brief conver- matter which Involves sentimental cnnsiderations, and it action for compensation for serious personal injuries, the fourth anniversary of the Rev. B. Seniors the importation of live cattle.—Daily News.
epeinted to oonsider the is by no means etttain that either officers or men wculd In the HOUSE 07 COMMONS, March 14, Mr. Parnell, in and the only question was the amount of compensation pastorate, and also "to express thanks that a portion Newcastle.
willingly change the colour of red, to which they have been moving the second reading of this Bill said it was drafted of the property" known since the days of Rowland The German Emperor has sent the sum of 3,000
Shipbuilding is proceeding actively on the Clyde
-e House and irillerics,
hearing, and report- so long accustomed, and which has linked with it so many to rreemf-oerdeyteceeurtaainna defects
pointed i n the t Act e
no f Bill, said
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to f p
aas e whichd, to
mber.awwaardddeyd: Q
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Hill as the marks to the United States of America for the benefit
of the sufferers by the inundations. where trade is reported as healthy.
,em„,e could be honourable memories. (Hear, hear.) The khakee colourand Mr.
and others which had become evident during the working tiff, and Mr. Digby Seymour, d4.ec:earendformthr.e plpaoidnd e Surrey Chapel, has been secured for
Divine worship. A fishing-boat was capsized off the coast of Arran
has, however been long used in India, where, I believe, it The Queen has forwarded, through General Sir
Is popular. But it would not be wise to force the change of the Act, and had arisen in consequence of the judg• f the ordefendants, Mr. Morley, having expressed his sympathy with
'own on the upon the Army, and we shall, therefore issue a certain ment in the case of "Adams v. Dunseath." It also provided
The plaintiff was a foreman bricklayer, who was the objects of the meeting, remarked that the work Henry Ponsonby, her annual subscription of £5O to .on Sunday, and the crew of five men were drowned,
in sight of their comrades on the shore. No assistance
'on by the amount of clothing of the new colour as a tentative test for the inclusion of certain classes in benefits of the Act the National Lifeboat Institution, of which she is
I.zikment in which his hearers were engaged was of national could be rendered, owing to the violence of the sterna.
only. It should be noticed that the committee do not who were left out, such as leaseholders and occupiers of town forty.three years of age, and lived at Wood-green,
°ski!! recommend any change of full-dress uniforms. They only re- parks; while it proposed the extension of the purchase near London. On the evening of the 25th January importance.
cottages, the AhsoniCelisrisotfianthienfipueeonpclee,ensot,erheed ianrtgouethd,e The French Budget for 1884 was distributed to the
Deputies c‘ri Monday. The total increase of expend!.
clauses. The chief provisions of the Bill were as follow : last year he travelled in a third-class carriage from
would purity, morality, and real life—that higher ing, that, in the streets, all dogs should be led. ' Yes ! '
patron.
"Somebody said, within Mrs. Ramsbotham's hear'
commend
,that an undress suit of khakee colour shall be the 1, The dating of the judicial rent for the next gale-day
service uniform of the Army. Vire propose to issue to the troopsture is £2,300,000. The estimated revenue is
succeeding the tenant's application to the Court; Finsbury. to Wood-green, and the train stopped
life—be given. As a national safety might Christian she exclaimed, 'and all pigeons should be clay. '—
at certain stations an undress uniform of the new c010ur,3,103,700,843 fr., and the expenditure 3,103,441,193 fr..
2. Power of the Court to suspend ejectment proceedings, at Hornsey for ten minutes. Whilst it WAB stationary
ge people look on the question, while they endeavoured Punch.
end to issue similar uniforms to certain battalions at home leaving a ei.‘eplue of only 25a,650 fr.
,tommauding officers are willing to- try the experiment." and for the recovery of rent, pending the fixing of a fair another train ran into it, and the plaintiff's cams
to bring others to this higher life. To make men
We (Standarl understand that the Government
rent, upon payment by the tenants of a rent equal to the was separated from the rest of the train, and WWI The Macclesfield silk trade, which has been so long
'ing with the store vote, the noble Marquis said the poor law valuation of his holding. 3 Definition of the driven along the line, and it was A good deal broken Christian., observed Mr. Morley, did not necessarily
depressed, has shown signs of revival during the past
,ce Committee had recommended that all guns should term improvement, as any -work or agricultural labour ,rn. mean to make them members of a particular sect or
few weeks, and many looms which have been idle for Bill with regard to tenants' unexliausted improve-
enetructed of steel, and accordingly the Depart- executed on the holding which adds to its value, or any -L-- sachvoololci.m:Ellemhdacti been struck with an appalling fact mente, which is now in course of preparation, will
low engaged in the manufacture of steel guns, for The plaintiff was called to speak to his injuries', and ' months ar,) how at lull work.
ay and the Navy. In conclusion, he again re- expenditure of labour or capital which adds to its value.
4. Direction to the Court that in fixing a fair rent, he came into court on crutches and gave his evidence alluded to by Lord Shaftesbury, that we are living over include provisions dealing with the law.of distress. It
'eyptian expedition, which, he said, had put the increase in the letting value of the holding arising seated in a chair on the floor of the court. He said • that, with people living under a oondi- . The owners of the steamer Marie Stuart, of Leith, will be proposed to limit the amount of distress to one
to a practical, if not severe, strain, and tion which induces total indifference to places of wor- have now given her up as lost. She carried a crew of year's rent.
from the improvements effected by the tenant or his pre- that the second train ran into the rear of the one in
towTnhefrpoamssaNgeewof
ythoerksef,./aeasrkaly, police-magistrate,
-licit to say that it had worked success- decessor in title shall belong to the tenant, and the landlord which he was, and pushed it forward. There were ship, or of religion, there was need on the part of Chris- about twenty hands. In the Queen's Bench, on Tuesday, the judges
that the country had reason to be
of recent changes. shall not be permitted to make an increase of rent in respect
of that increased value. 3. The use and employment by several jumps of the carriage, but the first shock put Cans for tenfold earnestness. He thought the common
-, discussion followed, in which the tenant of his improvements, or the forbearance of the out the lamp, and he became unconscious for a short People—as they were designated by some—were never
more easy of approach by ministers of the Gospel than ewlsahnsSeaunpcloalyiceo-mloas
time When he came to he was In the dark, and could
- and the salient features of landlord to exact an increased rent in respect of the ins-
were tell
were canvassed by Colonel provements effected by the tenant or his predecessors in n what was the matter; an
dwhen the carriage at the present day. He had, after hilly considering being as follows for each of the days-304 410 393 Their lordships held that Sunday could mean no other
wenhiNveheadrnreivsdeadystmQourneeinngs: ewuhaoshheedldatclheactiusinodnerofthteheWS
was seven days three hours thirty-six minutes, her runs Christmas Day and Good Friday were included.
thet the that they t ' ' ' d
r men seemed to fly out at the top of question come o e conclusioney must 410, 355, 399, 395, and 232 miles. ay than Sunday.
W. Barttelot, Sir .I. Hay, title, shall not be held compensation for such improvements. stopped the other
others. In the middle 6. Presumption as regards the making of improvements the carriage. A porter then came and drew him up look after the social position as well as the spiritual
notion to reduce the is to be in favour of the tenant 7. Power is given to between the seats. He was more than seven weeks comfort of the people. The daily life of the masses The pollieg at Wycombe took place on Saturday,A ale, accompanied by an exceptionally high tide,
-rounds, which was leaseholders to apply to the Court to fix a fair rent, and .in St. Bartholomew's Hospital. His left thigh was must be taken into consideration, the sympathies of re Smith, prevailed o the coast o ova Scotia o
when votes were corded for Col. Gerard S • g•
d offt f N n Saturday.
.91". to holders of town parks. 8. The Land Commission • r and WI for Major Carson, the Conservative candidate, No damage, however, wall caused.
is directed to adv.nce the full ameunt of the purchase money b oken hes' h up, his hip seemed knscked up into his the people must be enlieted, or rather the masses must
thus showing a Liberal majority of 548.
endment was be sympathised with. On Saturday a young man named John M'Kenna
to tenants purchasing, and in cases of tenants under £3O body, and the leg was permanently shortened half an
valuation they are allowed to extend the period of repayment inch. He had suffered very much with pain in the Two youths, aged fifteen and sixteen respectively, was sitting near a revolving grindstone in the works
back since,crucahned s. he could walk only a few steps
'lowances, to 52 years. The Prime Minister had always said that the bwere skating on a brickfield pond at Wakefield on of Messrs. Thomson, engineers, Glasgow, when the
w
.ng been action of the Land Act would be to facilitate mutual agree-THE LABOUR MARKET. Saturday afternoon, when the younger got under the stone suddenly split, and portions struck M'Kenan,
a twO ments between landlord and tenant, and that had been so to
. a limited extent, but not to the extent which had been Medical evidence was given that probably the ice and was drowned, and the elder one in endeavour- killing him instantaneously.
anticipated, for out of 500,000 holdings in Ireland, there plaintiff would never be able again to do the ordinary Trade continues fairly good. According to the ing to save him lost his life.
Board of Trade returns for February, it appears that The Town Council of Paris has referred to corn-
had been, in eighteen months, but 23,000 judicial deci- work of a bricklayer; he would not be able to go up
business in all our industries is steadily and surely At the anniversary dinner of the Royal Society of mittee a proposal to re-establish the National Guard,
'ions, and 22,000 settlements without the intervention of ladders for instance, nor could he do much stooping Musicians, Mr. Arthur Sullivan who presided, to arm all citizens, and to abolish the municipal •I
- Court; while, owing to the naturally tardy action increasing. The imports for January and February of 4
whilst the back remained in its present state. mentioned that during the present century the Society troops.
-e Courts the landlord who intended to fight his
,_, this year amounted in value to g 72,626,942, as against had distributed among its members no less than one While Mrs. Maria Sharp, of Brentford, was crossing
to the last, was able to put off the fixing Several medical gentlemen were examined for the £65,022,359 in 1882. For the first two months of this
'lcial. rent for years, and all the while to exact the defendants, and they gave a much more hopeful year the value of the exports has increased 2132,792 hundred and sixty thousand pounds. the line at Strawberry-hill Station on Tuesday night,
lin the tenant. That was the chief obstacle to opinion as to the futiire of the plaintiff. It was said .
-
Nttlement between landlord and tenant. The that with proper care and treatment he might walk over those of 1882.
Employment in indoor industries throughout the _ A New York telegram says that a Pullman sleeping- she was knocked down by a passenger train and
'll was that part which defined the nature of car attached to a train on the Pennsylvania Railway killed.
without crutch or stick in six months, and that
country is on the whole fairly good. The severe took fire during a journey, and was totally consumed. A petition is being circulated in the University of
for
'sin
itchhe the eo
world
dnacno
could
dc
be
claimed m
more ed e exemption ee mn
benefited
eo
dn
shortening of the leg half an inch was not of much
,n
•rai improvement than Ireland, but consequence' probably, however, the plaintiff could weather, onthethaenrdhtahnrdo,whnaeasitaorpgpeendunmeabrelryoafli
moue! The fire raged so rapidly that the occupants had to Cambridge and has already received a large number
make their ea pe unclothed. of nirfn.trirea of the reeirlente ageinet the Rraithwalt
their improvements if they were not prudently in the future go up ladders and door occupations,
e • . {
,
their work. The only protection scaffolds, chanics and labourers out of work, especially in the A telegram from Cairo says that the 19th Hussar. and Buttermere Mineral Railway Bill, which is now
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—damages,
'hem was to enable them to pay building trades. and the 9th and 32nd Regiments have been ordered before the Hernia of. Lords.
,
'r improvements a portion of e, ,•,,,,,
The cotton market in some departments is still home. This will reduce the Army of Occupation to The new Irish Sunday Closing Bill was issued on
'or the purpose of making zleooo.
'ion of the tenant's right depressed in tone, and there is not much change to about six thousand men. Monday. Its main clause proposes to extend the
decided that in respect In the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court report. A shower of snow, the first for thirteen years, has present Act to the whole of Ireland, including Dublin
-ey should take into Of Justice the hearing of the case of "Bullock v. the Business is rather flat in every branch of the woollen fallen in Rome, and whitened the cupola of St. Peter's and the other exempted towns, and to make the law
Which such tenants South-Eastern Railway Company," which had occu- industry. The return of winter weather has checked for some hours. permanent.
eats, and should pied the Court since Saturday last, was again re umed the demand for spring and summer goods. In the Last weeks receipts of cotton at all United States Monday (12th) was the anniversary of the founds-
and concluded on Tuesday. The plaintiff in it sought lace and hosiery branches a fair business is being ports were 123,000 bales; since let September, tion of Chelsea Hospital, which took place in 1682.
,ch enjoyment.
-le Minister
recognise to recover damages in compensation for personal in- done. 5,016,000 bales. Week's exports to Great Britain The building, which was formerly used as a theological
1 quote juries which she alleged she had sustained through the Although the business done in the iron trade is 70,000 bales; week's exports to the Continent, 59,000 college, was converted by Charles 11. into an asylum
,pport negligence of the oefendants, while travelling as a
' the passenger upon their line. The defendants denied limited there is generally a better feeling noticeable in bales. Total since let September, 3,383,000 bales, for wounded and superannuated soldiers.
all the districts. The manufactured iron trade con. Stock at all ports, 906,000 bales.
•c• A Dublin telegram states that over seventy thou- - ~ s
1 their negligence, and pleaded contributory negligence. tinues quiet, but there is no further giving way in As an illustration of the considerable i • the 'd fA D increase in e sand pounds have been paid out o the Arrears se,
Mr. Matthews, Q.C., and Mr. Lehmann appeared prices, The coal trade is brisk, correspondence passing from this country to the partment to landlords under the Arrears Act, and it
-i• the plaintiff; and the Attorney-General, Mr. The operatives in the Staffordshire nail trade are United States, it may be mentioned that an additional is calculated that nearly three thousand pounds per . -
an, Q.C., and Mr. Bremner were for the railway.
making great efforts to improve their condition. At sum of £14,000 was Paid last year by the Post Office day will be disbursed till the claims are satisfied.
-fly. Sedgeley a good trade in spike nails is done. The for the conveyance of the mails to America, The
aared that the plaintiff is a young lady, Miss hardware branches, both at Birmingham and Sheffield, freight is paid by weight. The working classes of Derby have decided to show
,ck, residing with her mother at 20, Col- are fairly active. Most of the large engineering firms their respect for Mr. Gladstone by presenting him
Mr. Samuel Smith has given notice that on an early
Notting•hill, London. She is a member of in these districts continue well employed. The filewith a breakfast, dinner, and tea service of the
theatrical troupe known as Bullock's makers at Sheffield are still opposing a reduction in he will move that in the opinion of this House -
day , ' choicest Derby china. Each of the pieces will be
.
it is desirable that the Local Government Board
the 6th of August last, Miss Bullock their wages. The brass trades are busy, so are the "specially stamped.
lied down from Hastings to Dover nut and bolt makers, the gunmakers, and the edge facility f the emigration f
should offer every
~ y or o pauper .
vid Ashford, on the defendants' tool makers. and destitute children. It is said to have been decided that none of the heirs .
apparent of the European thrones will be present at -
the arrival platform of the The Bombay Town Council has insisted that all tiCzar's coronation. .
.
a accommodate a length "MISCELLANEOUS" electric light cables shall be laid underground, or if
'•
'nary vehicles; and upon CIVIL SERVICE carried overhead by special permission they shall cross The Underground Railroad Commissioners have re- .
train in which the EXPENSES. no street, and shall not come within thirty feet of any ported unfavourably regarding a proposal for cone
ter length than this, existing telegraph or telephone wire. etructing a railway under the Broadway, New York.
A Parliamentary return, moved for by Mr. H, H. .
he rear carriages At a meeting of the Central Council of Diocesan The limited breadth of this famous thoroughfare, and
1
Fowler, was issued on Monday, showing the details of
he train brought Conferences held in London on Tuesday, a resolution ,
the need of space for water and gas pipes and electric
expenditure in the supplementary estimate for mis•
'opened to be ex- was carried declaring that the proposal to relax the wires are stated to be insuperable obstacles to such a
' VII 2 d i collaneous expenses Class ~ vote , an n the
9 alighting, law which at present forbids marriage with the sister scheme,
first three items of the estimate for miscellaneous
from the of a deceased wife is objectiosable and should be
repayments to the Civil Contingencies Fund. The sentence of death passed upon James Smitht
A when opposed. for shooting a gamekeeper on the estate of the Earl of
Under the first head is the sum of 2870 of arrears
-oerd
by creation and other ancient fees, due to the "Duke A telegram from New York says that great suffer. Stair, near Girvan, Ayrshire, has been eon-muted to
ng
.. of Norfolk," with regard to which it is explained that ing and sickness prevail among the inhabitants cf the penal servitude for life. i
"this grant (which was made to the Duke of Norfolk towns inundated by the recent overflow of the Ohio
River Four children have been drowned during the
•-,v Henry VIII.) has not been claimed 14t years, and • . . . . , . On Tuesday the officers of all the ships in commis.
'amount has become a saving at the end of each floods on the Mississippi owing to tee destruction of a
sion at Devonpor's mustered on the .Royal Adelaide, .
^lid year. The annuity is now to be commuted, house near Helens, Arkansas. Six adults who were and the officers and men who had returned from
l'
'vision has been made for this purpose in the Egypt were formally resented with the war medal,
in the house were saved after they had been clinging. 37 P_ . _ -
for Commutation of Annuities." to the roof for three days. amid much cheering. The senior officer present ex
pressed his pleasure at being the medium of conveying
i sum is £B7B 6s. Bd., fees paid on the in- An accident oocurred at Oonsett Ironworks on
",13 Kings of Saxony and the Netherlands Tuesday morning. A ponderous fly-wheel, about 30 the appreciation of the country of the part taken by
9 Garter," and it is explained that tons in weight, suddenly broke when in motion, huge the navy in the late campaign.
on the installation of a King pieces of metal of over a ton weight each flying in all By command of the Queen, the Pr ince of Wales
eats) to £439 3s. 4d.,de of which directions through the roofs about 60 yards into the held a leve.e on Monday at St. James's Palace. The
0
be Registrar of the
T r, £47 air, and alighting in different parts of the works. Foreign Ambassadors to the Court were present with
ter, Church and Choir of The workmen had a narrow escape. One man and a few exceptions. Nearly all her Majesty's Ministers
•tary Knights, £2l to the boy were severely injured, were also present. The services were well represented,
s also the Diplomatic Corps. The Prince left
' the Order, £2O to the The Government have introduced a Bill in the a' was dTh
Marlborough House, and enters the rone-roora at
ad, £lO to two Kings- House of Lords for enabling the trustees and director Mar
lock.
two o'clock, ,
' £5 to four Pursui- of the National Gallery to lend works of art to other -
me for banner, public galleries in the United Kingdom. General Thomas Charlton Smith, late of the 27th
a Garter King Regiment, died on Sunday at Cambridge-street,
A scheme is for lighting the whole of the
•aes, installa- s pr London, in his eighty-ninth year. He entered the
Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, by electricity. The
in 1813, and served throughout the Peninsular
motive force would be derived from turbines of 5,000 army .
spenses horse-power at Vallorbes, and the water supply being dwounded tWt l Hob-
tained• campaign, an was a aer 00. e
11. J. constant and abundant, it is believed that gas, which -
field k • 1854 promoted to Lieutenant'
fie ran in , was promo
the •
is very costly in Switzerland, may be entirely die- General in ,an General in .
l• 1871 dGe l• 1877
penned with throughout the district. The divers engeezed upon the wreck of the Citniria
The Court on the Alabama claims is busy hearing report that one large lifeboat is in its place on the deck,
a•ro aloe part. of liousau botiieS arcarcfound jammed
as Vireffitllngton. Clver 1,500 °Wren have been wi
40r a total amount n among the gear, while the entrances ta the cabins
largely in excess of the undis-
i
-I balance of the award with interest, are closed by compact masses of bodies. It will be
next to impossible to BIM any of the cargo.
,med that in a London temperance hospital
At the instance
of Mr. George Palmer, M.P., the
1,600 in-patients have been treated without
bridle which was formerly used at Reading, to stop the
exults of a highly satisfactory character ;
'9 case in which it was thought neces• mouths of scolding women has been deposited in the
'lOllOl, the effect was not good. museum of that town.
pigeons, SO yards rise, between The Pharmaceutical Registrar's Report for this year
'
v. Bogardus, have recently shows that the number of qualified chemists and
Tn the first match a tie was druggists on the Register for Great Britain was 13,447
'match, shot at Chicago, on December 31, 1882, against 13,655 at the same date
birds to his opponent's in the previous year.
es's(' witnessed the The arrivals of live stock and fresh meat at Liver-
pool during the past week from the United States and
visible supply Canada amounted to 326 cattle, 1,157 sheep, 4,05$
,s, as against quarters of beef, and 517 carcases of mutton, and show
'nle supply a somewhat large falling-off in live stock, and a alight
1,500,000 increase in fresh meat, when oompared with the totals
-ces of of the previous week.
'to A Madrid telegram Ilflys that a great fire has
'1 occurred at the village of Porcariza, in the Province
of Leon, by which 56 houses were destroyed; one
-oman was burnt to death, and several persons were
'ously injured. The loss is estimated at 89,000
Is,
ammittee for the approaching International
Exhibition at Vienna decided at its last
-rolong the term for giving notice by ex-
20th inst. Taking the notices already
illumination equivalent to that of
'rooted to be secured.
' 728 tons, Captain J. Raeburn,
Samuel, K.C.M.G., Agent'
"lea, sailed from Plymouth
ith 416 emigrants, under
-utt as surgeon-super-
-barge of the single
allotted a sum
expenses of
for Paris,
evioe of
ass.
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