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ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE RAILWAY PARCEL POST. , .
MR. BAXTER, M.P., AT BRECHIN. PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF THE
both KING OF ITALY. AMEER SHE RE ALI KHAN.
Twenty-five railway companies of England, Scot- On Monday night the Right Hon. W. E. Baxter MP. for t.,
AFGHAN COMMITTEE. Lucerne. It is d t t t petition • Sheffieldi-Th -declares that thatgthwe 62.4. r r
The Times of Monday gives the following, from their
Houses
,a,fliptiptislmiaecee
jailed to have
At a meeting ef the Executive Committee, which was this-sense to the National Assembly
Correspondent at Rome, under date November 17 : land, and Wales have resolved to issue, from and after the montrose Burghs, addressed a crowded meeting of his "An Anglo-Indian," in the Graphic, gives the following •
held in London on Tuesday at the Westminster Palace famishing condition?"
the Ist of January next, railway stamps to the public interesting particulars re.P CtiLg the Ameer Shere At the electric light iit Mr. SALLI Bouirh R.S.
" An attempt was made at Naples this morning to constituents at Bre shin.
Khan : - , A.. the well-lrn 0'
of the denominations of fourpance and eightpenee, Dealing at length with the financial condition of the Hotel, Lord Lawrence, chairman of the Committee, made
assassinate King Humbert. As the Royal carriage, country, Mr. Baxter said it was such as to cause the 'I first met Shere Ali, the present Ameer of Cabul. the following statement : few days, and it is confidently hoped that by the time the age of flits • seven. -Althonish
.-- , O in which were their Majesties the King and Queen and
the Prince of Naples, accompanied by Prime Minister and h
Cairoli, was entering Naples to-day from the railway which shall carry parcels of two pounds and four
pounds respectively throughout their whole systems
have agreed to accept parcels at these weights and
at these rates througheut the whole of their systems, gravest anxiety to every thoughtful mind. Trade '
was had, and might be worse; revenue was falling off with 'l
'n March, 1869, when he visited India for a conference Gentlemen —I beg to read to you my letter to the Prime
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in all its important branches, and the national expen- ' Earl Mayo at Umbelhe He was then a man re Minister, asking him to recsiv
fifty About years of age, of middle stature, with marked ruittee, and his reply, e a deputation from this Come
which I only received a couple of ~ onSessions meets, the arrangements
The German papers q
the proportion of married will be complete.
note some etatietics comparing
persons in the populations of the 8.0 eh
, Carlisle in 1821.
There are now about 230 pairs of r
Presto,-
station, an individual who was among the trade asso- ' different countries of Europe.
and to grant an insurance up to 20e, at these rates, diture was rapidly rising. We had traduced and aquiline features, and with a fine soldierly bearing hours ago. Germany ranks only seventh nearly 3.50,0e0 spludiee, idie in pr . t
ciations which were drawn up with their banners, and I think it would be well that we publishe 1 these in the list. To 10,000 souls in each country, there are in looms. The numbs!. toppede increase''sor
thus placing all the stations on these twenty-five cora- insulted one of the great European Powers, and we Indeed, so anxious are the Barakzai rulers of Cahn' to
letters in extenso, leaving the public to judge the merits Hungary 6.475 ;in France, 5,566; in England and Wales,
who also carried a flag, suddenly lowered it and made Near Plymouth Hoe, on Sun&
panics at the command of the public, for the receipt were out of harmony with all the other Powers in be considered soldiers and chiefs rather than kings that 5,398; in Austria, 5 271: in Italy, 5 270 ;in Denmark, 5 191 ;
a thrust at the King, wounding him slightly on the of the case. My letter is as follows:
, and delivery of parcels not exceeding four pounds in Europe. We had got into a new quarrel on the fishery they have never assumed the title of Shah, but merely in Germany, 5,107 ;in Norway, 6,065 ;In Sweden, 4,952 ;In man. while waking on the edge
arm with a dagger with which he had armed the head "Stonehouse, St. Peter's, Isle of Thanet, Nov. 16. the Netherlands, 4,948: in Scotland, 4678- in Belgium citadel, was seized with a tit, and
weight. The Irish companies are not represented, question with the United States, and we were on the •
that of Anteer, Shere Ali struck me as a man of re-
, of the staff. The King instantly drew his sword and The Highland Railway Company, London and verge of another war with Afghanistan. markably good common sense, and his powers of con- "My Lord,—A number ot gentlemen of influence, among 4,634; in Switzerland 4 582 • and in Ireland '
4,313. ' two companions to hold him he r
- , • struck the assassin on the head, and at the same v s
South-Western, esternLondon, Brighton, and South In dealing with the Eastern Question, the right hon. versati . y great. g y .
'on were very Durin his stay at Peshawur• formed themselves into a committee, of which I have con- Not long ago a large hotel was burned at Selina, from the sea by diving
moment Signor Cairoli sprang th the ground and Alabama, and during the burning a continuous swarm of-•
Coast, and Sou'll-Eastern Companies will not tobserved T those h • d accept gentleman :— o ose who eve examine both on his way, to Umballa, and on his return to sented to be chairman; and we ask that you will be good " A Scot" writes :—"
caught hold of the man, receiving at the same time aCabul, he held daily levees, and spent most of his time enough to receive a deputation from our body on the earliest moths from the cotton fields on the other side of the •
Parcels at these rates. In a circular containing the f 11f 'th g e the question from a points o view, especially e • • attracted by the light, poured into the fiemel se There river "A
parts of Scotland people it
wound on the thigh. 'rhe captain of the Royal ee, • f ~,in friendly interviews with the European and natives date convenient to your lordship, begging that it may not be fuse to cook them, but v
ove in ormation it is stated that a public meeting is to geographical, the idea of danger to India from anot thousands, but millions of them ' , and the volume did
Cuirassiers secured the assassin, and, dragging him on • • 11 •
who visite him, In his lengthened conversation with later than Wednesday next, the 20th inst. the streams of Pertheld•
. be held, at which the course of action to be taken tobring Russian invasion must seem simply preposterous. not diminish while the attraction lasted. Hundreds wit-
to his horse, rode with him out of the crowd. The influence to be th ' t di
ar upon ose companies san ng out, She wou av e o convey an army old h t f 200 000 European vieitors (with whom he always took tea) " Our object is to endeavour to induce you to send out In- nessed the scene, and all were surprised at the uumber of skinned, fried, and ea,
. King afterwards appeared on the balcony of the Royal to thank the companies who have taken the public into with 400,000 camels, 300,000 horses, and a million and
, men! he evinced a very rue nslndia • • • ' st tio to by telegram forbidding the commence- moths thus tempted to de
correct acquaintance with the leadingstruction. It is suggested that a stupid prejudice a,
Palace, and finally, in answer to the enthusiastic cries their confidence, and initiated t fraught with half f followers the desert
a movement wi ao camp across ebetween facts of European history. This was all the more until specific mnt of war with the Ameer of Cabul for the present, and burning an hotel or waste material might be a n effectual country which tims
- of the people, rode, wounded as he was, through the blessings to the companies and the public, and to urge Orenburgh and Tashkend, and through the passes of notable b h
because e was unable to read or write, and instructions are received from England.
"We further desire to urge on your lordship the propriety and economical means of getting rid of these pests. A six days' c
principal streets of the city. The assassin is a cook by
s, upon the Post-office to co-operate and deliver the the Hindoo Koosh, before even reaching Afghanistan, had thereby acquired his information from converse- of at once publishing all the papers, Among the valuable objects in the Paris Exhibi-
official or otherwise, baton lottery, the 1 - ship of the wor"
log at the Agr
-- profession, aged twenty-nine, and a native of Potenza. parcels, thus placing all at the command of the public which is a broad region of lofty mountains and tre- tions with those of his attendants who were able to counected with the relations of the Government ot India of winnerlucky
may,
for instance, find him-
self possessor' gate, a locomotive steam•engine A returr
will be considered. mendous defiles. Every round shot brought to read, and a special clerk a •
, acquainted with English, has with the Ameer of Cabal since the Ist of April, 1876, down a tower, a smith's bellows an anvil a barrel of salted cod county be
Writing from Rome on Monday, the Correspondent of The always been kept at the Court f Cabul to translate to the latest date, as well as those which relate to the Central
Central Asia costs her two pounds in transport alone,l 000 000" ' '
„ pins, a stained window, a live monkey, a fixed houses ir
Times says :--articles and telegrams f o Abi au question.
from the Indian newspapers. Icannon, twelve dozen false noses, a church clock, a plough, 1877, th
" I may complete the particulars of the attempt WAGES IN THE FARMING TRADE. and on emerging from the last of the many terrible found he knew much of the h' of Napoleon the "We further desire to urge on your lordship the advise fifty packages ot.mustard, a Life-sized statue, a boat, a ' I
passes she would encounter an enemy whose resources historygrind or n •
upon King Humbert's life which I sent last night with First, Peter the Great, Alexander, and even Alfred bility of assembling Parliament by as early a date as may stone, &c.
are boundless, having railways at command and T•
the G be practicable, more particularly should your lordship
e Great. His favourite character was Napoleon, The A • e Agricultural Labourers' Union of Kent and th,
the following more exact details :—The affair occurred The subject of agricultural labourers' wages is (says undisputed sway on the ocean. Well might the think fit to delay the publication of the papers above al-
as the Royal carriage was enteriug the Via San the Statist) treated as though it were not a business and on no account would he yield the palm to our Sussex report that between 600 and 700 men have been e'
present Emperor of Russia say that for Russia toiuded to.
Giovanni from the Strada Carbonara. The assassin, matter, as if the farm workman were a national Wellington, His sense of humour was very great. T locked out in the various districts and that other masters
menace India would be an "act of folly if practicable." ee ' - "I request that your lordship will issue instructions that are waiting to see "how things turn' out" Info
whose name is Giovanni Passanante, came up to the pauper to whom it is well to apply a labour test, but Even our warlike spirits have at last found this out, know lam a savage,' he said one day, 'but you Lug- the answer to this letter may be addressed to me, care of the to active measures. re proceeding
side of the carriage as some persons were pre- whom it is a peculiar national duty to see well fed and andaccordingly they hchanged th • ey have their ground. lish were just as bad three hundred years ago ! ' Once, Secretary of Afghan Committee, Westminster Palace HoteL
renting petitions. He had the dagger hidden in the cared for by his employers. Inasmuch as the rate of Ad •tt• th mi mg at an invasion now or at any reasonable when he was unusually talkative, he said, 'How —Your most obedient servant, "LAWRENCE. Miss X. was asked recently whichpreferred
she
folds of a small red flag on which it is said were wages on English farms goes but a little way in deter- future time is out of thed
question
an impossible, they d df 11 f 'cl E r -
rea uy a rai you ng ish are of t e ussians 1 t H th E 1 tße fi ld KG" gh on. ear o aeons e , . . the two bi--Others L. She responded : " When lam s
either of them I prefer the other."—Court Journal.
the words, "Viva la Repubblica Universals," but it its mining the price of corn, there is some explanation of ' Not •in the least,' I replied; 'we shall be excellent
say that Russia may creep on slowly, gradually Mount Etna is reported to be showing signv
so torn that they are now no longer recognizable. The this prevailing disregard of the effect upon the cost of neighbours some day!' ' Ah,' he said, 'if you The following is the answer returned by the Prime
uniting the tribes on the frontier against us, and in eruption. Several severe shocks of earthquake r
, man struck at the King with the dagger concealed as farm produce which high or low wages might have. f
1 . it was in the flag, and His Majesty instantly swung Farmers, who have endured great straits from want of
, • round his sheathed sword and struck his assailant labour and from the higher wages of the past six years,
with the scabbard over the head. Nothing daunted, are now endeavouring to reduce the cost of labour on the end • t I.northern boundary • managing ome our with
a compact body of enemies. Surely it looks like a
burlesque on statesmanship to make costly and cruel were not afraid of the Russians you would not
ke ma so muc o me . h f 1' 11. d t t b • e affecte no o e im-
pressed with the beauty of English ladies, and several
times remarked as he passed them, •Ah 1 I see you Minister :
"10, Downiugestreet, Nov. 19, 1878.
"My Lord,—l have the honour to acknowledge the re- town altogether,
ceiptof
late
lordship's letter of the 16th t., which I subterranean rumblings continued recently for a
the inhabitants of Mimes were so alarmed as'
German artists are complaining bitter'
provision now for possible, but to m mind most mm- received ,
ate yesterday, on my return to town.
the assassin returned to the attack. The Queen, who their farms, but find nearly all the outer world against I)
contingencies hundred h Th
probable, contingencies a years hence. e keep all your pretty women at home !' He frequently times, and scarcely any pictures have been
I showed admirable courage, cried out to Cairoli to save them. But neither labourers nor philanthropists will danger to India is of a very different kind; ''t
expressed his abhorrence of low•necked dresses and "The opinions indicated therein as to the policy which vete persons at the Annual Exhibition ,
the ICing, and as the man aimed a second blow the in the end prevent a reduction of farming wages if the - Academy. Indeed the Coancil of the
is internal, not external, arising from neglect and ment at home and in India will not fail to receive the tioned Governmentt o devote 150,000 r
Prime Minister threw himself between him and the business principles of supply and demand allow of a of civilisation were contrary to his religion, for they attention of
mis-government, with which Russian intrigues the Cabinet; but I confess lamat a loss to purchase of picturesi n order to sup
King, caught him by the hair, and received reduction; by successful lock•outs, by unsuccessful were forbidden by the Prophet! He professed to be a perceive what useful purpose would be served by a more favourable circumstances.
the dagger in his thigh, but held firmly on to strikes, or more quietly by natural selection, thedevout and pious Muslim, but numerous empty extended expression of those opinions from a deputation,
t fablestg d • d• .1 9
o our an most experience civil servantslntelligence has been receiv,
t his capture until he was fast secured by a Municipal labourer will have to perform more work for former h d • h• kthat9
sure us in is most recent work • •
bottles told of frequent departures from the strict in-he Government and the country have already especially as t Govern y y destinations of the ships May Qr
frequently and so recently had the advantage of copious
Guard named TelemAco Giannettini, who was wages, or accept lower wages for the same quantity of junctions of his religion, and when at Jalandar, where es 4 conveying emigrants to Auck,
, the assured
are only waiting a favourable !mations of them both from your lordship and others
- promoted by the Syndic the same evening to the work. The law which governs wages must operate, he was received in the most friendly manner by Sir respectively, and despatched'
opportunity again to try to throw off our yoke. I have who act with you. General for kew Zealand, iID
rank of sergeant. The struggle between Signor and there is not necessarily any hardship to one class D. Forsyth, he did not hesitate to suggest that cherry
only two more sentences to add on this branch of the "With regard to the assembling of Parliament, Her b-
is
and the &Bassein is described as desperate. It more than another in its operation, as an examination sue,brandy was much more suited to his taste when served Part of one of the b
pct. Russia, we are constantly told, is an • - R •• Majesty's Government will, as a matter ef course, be pre-
is evident the blow was aimed at the King's heart, of that law will show. Farming is a trade and cannot in tumblers than in email liqueur glasses. pared, in the event of hostilities being commenced in India, Canal gave way late or
ambitions, aggressive, and annexing Power, and that Little Lever, at a spot
but, as he had time to start aside, it merely scratched altogether escape obedience to the natural laws "He was most impressed by the tine manly bearing to advise Her Majesty to make such communication to Perlis-
' such Powers ought to be checked in their career. If about 26 years since. '
his left arm. Signor Cairoli was struck above the knee, governing trades, whatever accidents may occur in the of the Viceroy, and all present at the Umballa Durbar merit as the letter and spirit of the Act of 1858 would seem
that be so, what about ourselves? During the last be i i f the River Irwell ber
' but, fortunately, the wound, though a long one and weather, or whatever philanthropy and legislation may 138 R 'haeu ed 1 642 0, 0 .1 years mina scnq er „ square mi ee, observed how this semi-savage, fresh from hie native .
to require. " Ihis would appear to a not ees sat , ectory
.ana scarcely less constitutional mode of meeting the could be stopped, I+
. causing considerable loss of blood, was not deep. The attempt in a particular island. hills, quailed beneath the host •bl butß •• h tita e,truly British, most dry. Anr
inhabited by 17,133,000 people. During the same, occasion than a process of memorials and deputations.
whole affair occupied but a few moments. As the grasp of Lord Mayo's hand, It was a long time before •• , Subsidence of Lb
period Great Britain has conquered, altogether apart The papers connected with the present aspect of affairs ing in them hal
' Cortege proceeded on its way, the King's aspect was so k h any one new t e real results of the Umballa Con-
calm and Signor Cairoli's countenance so smiling that A HUNTING DISPUTE. it.
from colonies like Australia, annexed w hout con. in the north-west of India, commencing not with date of the so frightened
ference, but it was to Shere Ali's interest • ' lordship,but t much
to make it bit of April, 1876, mentioned by youra a
quest, 2,650,000 square miles, inhabited by 250,000,000
no one suspected what had happened. On reaching the appear that he d T d•• possessed a Treaty, an it was this im- earlier period, have been h b for some time in preparation. . A corree
people. It now seems certain that public opinion in t • •The Ru,
Palace the Prime Minister was immediately placed In the High Court of Justice (Queen's Bench Division), pression that he endeavoured to give upon his return They are voluminous, and this circumstance alone has de-
,in bed, his wound bound up, and ice and leeches the cause of "Paul and Others, Appellants v. Summerhaves, India, as well as at home is greatly divided in regard journey, nevertheless I can now recall a gloomy mood layed the publication;but I isamciassured that they will be in • ' fot:ling•
t the ad f ' t frontier, the
Respondent" has been heard, and was an appeal from a 0 e adequacy o our present e propriety f the Legislature before the d t• a lace
the hands of members o e ore een o
applied. Later the King went down to visit him, andof depression and despondency which was a marked fenna;
conviction by the Justices of Somerset. of forcing an envoy upon the Ameer, and the wisdom the month.
remained some time, In a telegram which Signor„ ~ . contrast to the high spirits with which he entered
The Appellants were summoned for trespass and of departing from that "masterly inactivity which Lord oar lordshi 's - •
I have the honour to remain, my , y p tb
Cairoli dictated in reply to one from the Syndic of _ . Indi 'I a. am n 0...
... a king 1' he over mid over ex- faithful servant, " BEACO.NSFIELD.. • ,
Rome, he said his slight wound was most amply com- 6
as amt. it appe ared that the Appellants were seen distinguished the Governments of Lord Northbrook •
claimed, as he witnessed the lavish expenditure of "The Right Hon. the Lord Lawrence, G.C.8."
.. .
' pensated for by his having helped to turn aside the joiningy. . leisurelyfield d d Lord L I opinion,the d
b the Respondent riding along aa . anLawrence, nmy e prepon er-
money
upon his reception, but doubtless, when he
,dagger of an assassin. The assassin has confessed hish ' being out with the Taunton Vale ance of testimony against the resent and in favour of
his fat er s, . Aft having read the above letters Lord Lawrence pro-
of crime, making at the same time a kind of declaration d thepast•
overwhelming;ple 't t
foxhounds, the hounds having previously crossed policy is - After
remark that it appeared to hinithat theriovernmer
ship for his dynasty, an idea as cherished to a Barakzai oleded to rema
t flapPe d then tott
India wanted to fight rat, an en show cause why
1 connecting him with the International. He 'hots so are yougoing to undertake a war which some of
the field in pursuit of a fox. 'When the Appellants , y . . .
as it is to a Bonaparte, his heart failed him, for he saw had d d far as they knew the Ministry ha,
one so, an so
said he detested all kings and emperors, and n yards of the Respondent's your best Indian authorities tell you would be an •
were within about ten . . , . . y in the future but a repetition of the past—civil war! them in this action. There was one good thing, hower
1 desired
to see monarchies, ministries, authorities field he said "Gentlemen, I forbid. you. from coming unjust one, and which even if. successful would
dethronement! death! the Prime Minister's letter, and that was the ho'
and to
abolished;
that he had committed on this land." Paul said to his friend, "Come land you in a series of interminable difficulties? "The Ameer's youngest son, Abdullah Jan, was all the papers on the subject would be r
on this is the Prince of Wales's land," and tried Supposing you overrun Afghanistan and dethrone • • by the end of the month; and so far as I
• the crime with a calculated deliberation and • , with him, and appeared to be a youth of some promise
had sold a jacket to obtain means to buy the !,t2 get through the gap inhedge,e -
the but the Re the Ameer, what is to follow? The country i • s in' cerned (Lord Lawrence said) "there is no one
he was then about twelve years of age. He could
'that h al had badwho spent too
knife; e waysmasters, habited b'b
spondent pushed his horse back. The attempt was y mountaineers as rave as any that exist which has passed between the Afghan Governr
read and write Persian, and was then learning Eng- self in former days that lam not willing en
much on themselves, and he wanted to make an ex- repeated to enter the field. but without success. Then on the face of the earth; they abhor the idea of be. Hell. The Ameer often spoke of his eldest son, known through the length and breadth of
ample. His bearing showed most revolting cynicism. Paul struck the Respondent more n once with re than *th his coming vassals of any foreign State and the lean
It is stated that letters from Internationalists were riding whip. The Respondent took up a stone, when to Russ'than to Britain, because' y Russia rather
fan they suspect Yakoob, in terms of admiration, and told me he was a ferring to the statement made in Sir Bart
he d •very fair English scholar, and a fine soldier, The randum written in 1874 and recently pr
found h. d t his lodging many others were
.upon him, an a Paul and bis friend got off their horses and entered t designs o the. latter more: Lord Bericonefield's Ali was anxious when he met Lord I'
Ameer generally spoke Persian, but to the Afghan
sequestered,
which have led to a number of arrests the field, where a ,struggle ensued between the three, speech in the Guildhall is an indication that even he • should appoint as his permanent repres
villager and hill-men he spoke Pushto ; he could
d •h b
The Respondent summoned them for an assault and an his colleagues have begun to e aware that the some officer with whom the Ameer r
, being made. It is a somewhat curious circumstance also, make himself understood in Hindustani, and
that the surgeons declare the knife found is not that The Justices convicted the on nation is alarmed at their policy. (Hear, hear.)
trespass. e
.municate, Lord Lawrence reads n,
with which the King and Cairo • •li were wounded. The appellants
• "The hair-brainedchatter f irresponsible*frivolity"
the ground that there was no evidence to satisfy them o could give the military words of command in from Mr. Scion-Kerr, a steam,
English. He has had the reputation of being Foreign Secretary to the r
assin obtained greater facility for carrying out his are strong but not too strong terms for the Prime
that a fox had been seen on the day in question. It , , , , . . an author, for a book against Wahhabyism 1869, and was with Lord, '
daessign through the King's objecting to Cuirassiers was contended for the appellants before the magistrates Minister to characterise the recent writings and utter- bears his name, but it was written by a Monlvie t ill n torlre
says i ntetriLir
sir IV
riding h side of his carriage according to cus-
gon each s that the defendants should be allowed to sever their ances of his warmest supporters. How in his heat he
in the name of the Ameer of Cabul. He always
d f as to be able to give evidence one for the must deepise the whole tribe of Jingoes. (Laughter inforMed. subject c
tom. or to be atteuded by any police agents in plain e ence, so eemed much interested in the manner and customs of was broached, but b. th '
clothes." 4 his views about
other, but the justices refused the application. It was and applause.) B the state of i
the English people, and conversed for hours on subjects that they could not sec
contended that the Respondent, who was a son of the Tiirkey and its future in my opinion are wholly
connected with our national and domestic life. When with suspicion, ther
A telegram from Rome says that on Sunday night the occupier of the land, had no authority or power to chimerical and impracticable. To reform and regene- and if te ything h
city of Rome presented an imposing spectacle. Fifty forbid those gentlemen from trespassing. The maqie• rate a set of men so debased I believe to be beyond in India he bought up all the second-hand uniforms of
would be blamed
thousand persons, with flags and bands of music, assembled Eofficers h could 1 la• hands f th
e • European e cou ay is on or e use he might have
on the Corso for the purpose of manifesting the public joy trates, hower, convicted
,the Appellants, from which our power. So far from the capital being im-
of his staff, and he also purchased rather an extensive his chiefs and
' at the escape of the King, and there was another popular they now appealed.pregnable," the handwritingthe 11
e on e wall may even
Englishwardrobe f himself, H 'el the E
• or e said e European Englishman ; t
demonstration at the house of the Syndic, who addressed Mr.clearly seen in Constantinople as it was in
H. T. Cole, Q.C., now contended that the now be as . f
dress was the dress for soldiers, and the Oriental dress merely to e
the crowd in a patriotic speech. The cry everywhere was Respondent, who was attending to the business of the Babylon. Lord Beaconsfield himself has been a party for women and priests. When asked by Lord Mayo manner he
for prompt justice to the would-be assassin. The palace of farm for his father, who was afflicted at the time, had to "dividing the kingdom," and you may depend upon
• the Austrian Embassy, situate in the Piazza Colonna, was .it that the "finishing" is not far off. (Applause.) how he liked the dress of the Highland regiments, he one. Mr
no authority, expressed or implied, to forbid any perconfider
' • . d having cheered the
splendidly illuminated, and the crowf his address M Baxter • d said it was "terrific," hut "was it decent?" Of all
and hi,
Ambassador, his Excellency appeared at the window and ex- from coming on the land. There was no evidence At the close o s r. receive a
son gthe presents he received at T.Tniballa, the mountain train
to show that he was any other than a servant. The cordial vote of confidence. on br
pressed his thanks. battery of guns and the two English horses which Lord ,
father, who was an old sportsman, would, no doubt, Mayo gave him appeared to delight him most. Both to '
Rota, November 18. willingly have let the Appellants come on to that -
•
The Pope has addressed a congratulatory telegram to King land. Fox7-hunting was a recognised sport, and A LONG RIDE. and from Unibatla, a distance of about 5.0 miles each F
Humbert, and Herr von Kendall, the German Ambassador, according to the Game Act a fox-hunter was at way, he was driven in a Government van by Mr.
as doyen of the diplomatic body, has also sent a despatch to .. Faichnie, the English Superintendent of the Posta'
• et the liberty to trespass on the land of others when fresh in An exploit of a peculiar character is reported in the
his Majesty felicitating him upon his happy escape. A Department, to whom he gave a handsome gold watt.'
members of the diplomatic body went to-day to the Ministry pursuit of a fox, which WAS vermin and a noxious last number of an Italian military paper. On the During his journey he was accompanied by the '
for Foreign Affairs to express their congratulations on the animal, doing no unnecessary damage. The remedy morning of the 3rd inst. a party of officers, consisting Colonel Charles Chamberlain, a brother of S'
fortunate issue of the attempted assassination —lt is said was by action for any damage done, At common law of a captain and eight lieutenants of the sth Regiment Chamberlain. This was at his special reque
that as many as 1,000 telegrams nave already been received a man in pursuit of a fox might go anywhere after it, of Cavalry, left Milan at three o'clock to ride 310 miles upon his first arrival at Jumrood he requefe
by King Humbert. and no one could forbid him lawfully, and here they in five days. Starting from Milan they were to ride on some relative of his old friend, Neville Chr
Writing from Rome on Tuesday, the Correspondent of were stopped before they got on the land, the first day through Bergamo to Rovato ; on the might attend him during his visit to -
T Lord Coleridge: Admit that; but a gentleman in 4th, from Rovato, through Brescia to Verona; on
Since says :—" Giovanni Passanante manifested the Umballa he refused to receive a visit fre
most 2perfect unconcern and brutal self-assurance while fresh pursuit of a fox has no right to horsewhip the sth, from Verona, through Mantua, to Modena; Lumsden on account of some long-at'
undergoing the preliminary examination. It was evident another. on the 6th, • from Modena, through Reggio which he, true to the Afghan char
act
• that he had calmly meditated the commission of the act Mr. Charles, Q.C., with whom was Mr. Warr Y 9 and Parma to Piacenz s•, and on the 7th, to re- forget or forgive." . .m,-
, and fully made up his mind to the consequences. At
one point, when the magistrate expressed horror supported the conviction. A fox hunter, he Cons turn to Milan through Pavia. The horses ridden
of the deed he had attempted to comma, he said, tended, had no right to trespass on land against the were the chargers of the officers, and were not of any
'alu seemsbeing
ei e
dto i f use rand are t
inegettingvve d too excited.'tep 0 will of the occupier or owner of land, particular breed; neither had they been trained in any
h people Lord Coleridge, in delivering judgment, said the way for the journey, the object in view in undertaking
would have torn him to pieces but for the police, he point with reference to the Defendants having the the expedition being
1,
replied, 'The people are fools; they always act that
way.' To the question whether he had intended to kill
the King or merely wound him, he answered, 'aly
intention was to finish him; and if I had had money . ,
opinion that
(dared that he had no ill-feeling towards King Humbert as this trespass. T simply to ascertain what an
right to sever their defence was a matter in the dis- ordinary horse might be expected to achieve in case of
cretion of the Justices, and the Court saw no reason emergency in actual warfare. Of the nine officers who
to interfere with their decision. He was also of left Milan seven arrived on the sth at Mantua at half- Nis-
the Respondent had authority to forbid past ten in the forenoon, and left aeain at 11.30 a in.
The Game Act, the let and 2nd William for Modena, but on the 7th three only reached Milan '
LESSONS OF THE r
It is quite possible that 11,
movement connected wit
rove to have been the ir
distant parts of the c
' eye to the main chr
should t have failed.' He de-
enough to buy a revolver, I shon noshow. The French r
an individual, nor the slightest sentiment of rancour. From IV., did not apply to the case of fox-hunting. The arriving in the town about half an hour before mid- of artisan visitors
the Italian Government he had never suffered any wrong; claim put forward with reference to the Prince of night, having therefore ridden the 310 miles in 103
he sought to kit's- ) King as a means towards an end—the Wales was not bond fide so as to oust the jurisdiction hours. of the biggest lot*
attainment of teuniversal Republic, which he described as
of the magistrates. Then with regard to the real —, carrying out p,
his ideal. He said he was neither an Internationalist nor • is not new te
in this case whether the circumstances
a Socialist; he did not know what the words meant. Being question , . . .
f the CARDINAL MANNING ON CHARITY. oftewconsec,
asked where be obtained the Internationalist code found at justified the Respondent in resisting the entry o e
his lodging, he replied he had written it himself out of his appellants after they had been forbidden, he was therm, oth
own ,
head; but on being questioned as to the meaning of some clearly of opinion that lie was, and that fox-hunting At St. George's Cathedral, Southwark, on Sunday, originally
• •
of the more recondite words in the document, ha could not could not be exercised adversely to the owner of the his Eminence Cardinal Manning preached on behalf a _
explain them. His profession of tattle was, he said, inscribed . d of the Aged Poor Society. High mass was sung by gambl'
land, No such right existed, but it must be came
on the red flag he carried—' Viva la Bepubblica li2ziversale: Right Rev. Dr. Danell, Bishop of Southwark, resul
like 11 other sport, subject to the general rights of the.
He desired it should be noted in the proces verbal that he had on e a o
also written' Viva Orsini 'on the flag. It appears that he mankind with reference to the ordinary and and a full choir,. Gregorian music only being used, sat•
• was arrested a in the course of his sermon defined 1.1•
d t Salerno in 1870 for affixing placards bearing established rights of property. There was nothing to His Eminence, . ,
the words 'Death to all Kings and Sovereigns.' The people
I
were he lived had noticed nothing unusual in his habits or
siniatee in his manner. They had not the slightest suspicion
their lodge; quid be such a man as he has turned out.' justify a field of fox-hunters entering a gentleman's what real charity was, and concluded with a powerful
garden, trampling it down and destroying the flowers and moving appeal on behalf of the society. Founded
and plants. No such right existed at common law.— in
Ala Justice Mellor concurred.
1708, just 170 years ago, at a time when thei
forefathers were in poverty and suffering per'
ee The appeal was consequently dismissed, and the cution, it had continued dispensing its bless'
The correspondent of the Daily News writes :—" The
conviction affirmed. ever since to those who had the greatest r
Popular superstition that the overflow of the Tiber portends on their consideration by reason of the
a national disaster was verified in Naples when for the first and poverty. And here he felt bound to ae
, time in the annals of the Rouse of Savoy a dagger was
pointed at the breast of the Kin. THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT. a rebuke, not merely to them alone, but to r
' g"
their forefathers had not done more for the
The Prussian military weekly 1
journal, which is edited by In London, on Tuesday night, Exeter-hall was thronged were doing for their successors, they
ry•
the military authorities (says the Berlin Correspondent of in every part by an audience eager to hear one of Mr. assembled in that noble church that de
lowing noteworthy declaration:—" The whole civilised et R.
the standard), publishes in a prominent position the fol. oough's orations on temperance. Dr. B. W. Richards ,n,
session of that exuberance of liberty
13., presided. enjoyed. There were only 130 P
universe is filled with horror at tbe attempted assassination e er.
m Gough, who was received with loud and con- their oldest charity, out of a Cs'
. ~ of the King of Italy, but particularly the .Pruisian armv.
jo tinned applause, expressed his deep gratitude that 230,000 in the metropolis. One
- which is loyally attached to ties alty, and pays homage 3
1 there were in this country men of the stamp of Dr.
Richardson who had fully identified themselves with of those he addressed, receive
aged poor, many of them in the
- Zing Humbert as the Chief of the lot Hess Hus . '
-,
Her Majesty Queen Victoria, immediately on the news this movement, and made their utterances felt in the to £lO per annum. Forty ,
her consciences and hearts of the people. For himself he and the whole income of t 1
Augustus Paget received instructions
.to repair at once to
The EARTHQU'
* teaching her, telegraphed direct to Naples expressing
horror at the attempt made upon the King's life, an con-.
gratulating him on his escape,
Naples and convey personally to the King Q
the fullest expressions of Her Majesty's regard.
i
and at the same time Sir son,
and Queen of Italy
d should have been glad to be a listener to Dr. Richard-
for in the terrible English climate he had caught
whichrendered 't hard f h•
another cold ior him to
speak. The great object which temperance men had in
view was to stir up people to do something against 21,400 a year.
this fearful curse of intemperance, and it was thought Pe earthqua'
e.----
1 that some part of the work was carried out when portion of the,
THE INCREASING ERUPTION OF people were made acquainted with the evils of this America, on'
MOUNT VESUVIUS. curse.
But many people said they did not see these to have bee
4 evils. If one were to take a cannon on the Thames • Gazette). rr
A Correspondent writes to the Daily News from Naples on
Embankment and fire five or six times on the other lage of J-
, the 13th:— side with shot, the alarm would come that people were partme,
, "The stream of lava is slowly extending from the killed; that houses were down; but the firer might Jucua-
I cone towards the Atrio del Cavallo, the ravine or reply—" I don't know that," because he had not the r
valley which separates Vesuvius from Somme. At been there, Let those who denied the evils of in- My
first it appeared but a thin thread of red at night,
of limited length; Professor Palmeiri, however, hinted
temperance "go where the shots struck." If at
he could take that audience down to those places ,
' that the full moon of Sunday night might exercise where the shots bit, and lifted the curtain
1 an influence upon the mountain's activity, and
that they might see into the charnel-houses, they 4, hence all Naples was in expectation of a serious in- would be horrified at the spectacle; but no man
I crease, and on Monday evening a slight increase in the power to convey to the mind anything of
1 the extent of the stream of red-hot lava was apparent. reality of the evils attendant on the curse of e
I On Tuesday the mountain was hid in clouds, but some All these evils, which could be seen, arose fre
i rain fell during the day. A storm came on during the thing—the use of strong drink as r.t.bever
I evening, and rain fell heavily during the night, and it urged the fearful individual responsibility w
was an opinion advanced we believe in the first in- upon those who in any way encouraged
t stance by a well-known fellow of the Geological caused so much misery and sorrow. H
; Society, who has supported the views advanced by those who had fallen into evil ways
'r
Professor Challis, of Cambridge, before the Victoria -
Institute, that a serious increase to the state of the first good impulse, and he as earnes'who thought that the passion fr
• volcano's activity might be anticipated. Wednesday conquered them to give up that
.: was therefore a day on which anxious eyes were turned much evil,
--
towards the mountain, and towards sunset the clouds,
Which had obscured the view of the top of the mountain
for so many hours, cleared away. It was then seen LORD HENRY LF"
that the stream of red lava extended almost the whole EASTERN
Way into the Atrio del Cavallo, and had divided into
no less than three large streams. As the night wore Lord Henry Lennox
on these increased in size and extent, and the slight M,P., were present c
shower of lava had also increased, but it was not suffi- dinner of the Chiche
. cient to be observable from Naples," responding to the
- - . Lennox said he'
THE CHURCH OF THE H
SEPULCHRE. OLY
the Governmer
approved by i'
MOLUi as a
based upo-
. An English gentleman, who has lately travelled in peace—,
Palestine, recently gave a description of the curious The tw
scenes that are enacted in the Church of the Holy saw ,
Sepulchre. He said when you first entered the church, fee •
You would be surprised to see a party of soldiers with pr'
their swords by their sides, and their guns within reach. rr
, It seemed a sacrilege in auch a holy place, and struck
One
one rather unpleasantly; but he soon found out t
necessity for it. According to the laws of the county-
every sect Is allowed 4- 1 '
.0 worship there, RAG RS i
considered eqnally sacred both by Christiene
Blahommedans, all wish s time for their mode r
chip, The law allows them an hour each,
commence at six in the morning. At that h,
' who have the first privilege, enter, brir
them whatever is necessary to condur
' ticular religious rites. They go throng'
and all is very quiet to about
,
. seven, when those who have the
next hour begin to arrive. At fret
Presently the new comers begin tr
their numbers increase, and t'
they push and crowd, and av
get more and more bold. A
they proceed to more fore
' think if they can clear on'
:lutes before the time the
While the worshippers
Can keep posseresion •
have done an eqw
Recta use torches
their worship, V
in the soldiee
In betweer
and leav'
the
effence or del"
1
.
day,
4 Prer
Al tie
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