The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-08-15 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS:

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

At the Liverpool Police-court a man named Westfield
has been remanded on a charge of fraud. Some months
ago an optician named Morris was charged at Liverpool,
on the statement of his sister-in-law, with poisoning his
wife, but was acquitted. Some time afterwards West-
field called on Morris, told him that the Treasury
intended to reopen the prosecution, that he was person-
ally acquainted with the inspector who was to be sent
down, and could influence him if he had the means pro-
vided. On the strength of these representations he
obtained from Morris, who was greatly agitated, over

£lOO.
The Nottingham magistrates have remanded Alfred
Harrison, Agnes Oakes, and Godfrey Stargett, charged
with coining base florins and half-crowns in Nottingham.
The police entered the house with a warrant, when
Stargett desperately opposed them. They forced their
way up-stairs, when the other prisoners were found in
the act of making coin, with a melting-pot on the fire,
and all necessary materials around. Harrison regretted
not having blinded the detective with the molten metal.
At an inquest at Winchester, on the body of a man
aged eighty-four years, it was stated that he and his
paramour and three children the youngest eight
months old, had occupied a brick-floored room Bft. by
10ft., and that the woman's father and mother occu-
pied another room. They all took their meals in the
first-named apartment, where the old man died on the
previous day from natural causes. The medical man
who was summoned said it was the most miserable, un-
healthy place he had seen; and the attention of the
Corporation was directed to the matter.
A young man named Palfrey, of Whitstable, hat'
been sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment by the
Canterbury magistrates in default of finding sureties to
keep the peace, on a charge of stealing a pony and
trap belonging to his father, and threatening his life.
The prisoner, a very passionate man, attempted to take
off his clothes in the dock, with the evident intention of
assaulting his father, when a constable closed with him,
and an exciting struggle ensued before Palfrey could
I be overpowered and conveyed to St. Augustine's Prison.
Some extraordinary revelations were made in the
Sheffield Police-court by a boy, named Waterfield, who
was charged with burglary. He stated that he got
into the house of a pork-butcher, and went up to the
bed-room where the butcher and his wife lay asleep.
He took a bunch of keys, opened the safe, and ab-
stracted three bags of gold and silver. The money was
squandered by himself and a few companions, ponies
and traps being amongst the purchases.
As the anver or tne e.au p.m. tram on r naay was
about three miles on the Cookstown side of Randals-
town he observed an old woman named M`Groggan
walking between the rails. He instantly applied the
brake and whistled, but she was struck in the back, and
picked up dead.
A fire occurred on Saturday at Meadow Bank, Wink.
field, the residence of Lord George Pratt, seven miles
from 'Windsor. A couple of hayricks in the vicinity of
the stables, and about 50 yards from the mansion were
found alight at noon and the Windsor and Eton
Volunteer Fire Brigade were summoned to the spot.
Owing to the long-continued drought, however, there
was a scarcity of water, and the firemen Were compelled
to abandon the ricks to their fate. The cause of the
fire has not been ascertained.
The Public Health (Metropolis) Bill was issued on
Saturday. The measure contains no new legislation
in reference to a possible outbreak of cholera, but con-
eol;dates with amendments certain Acts relating to
nuisances, infectious diseases, and other matter con-
cerning public health in the metropolis. The object of
the bill is to give effect to the recommendation of the
Correlnission on the Housing of the Working Classes by
repealing and conselidating for the metropolis certain
Acts, as has been already done for the rest of England.
The bill is, therefore, strictly a Consolidation Bill,
with the addition only of certain new provisions, some
of which are, however, of interest and importance. It
is pointed out that by the bill the result is attained of
finally clearing the Statute Book of 14 statutes, all of
which are already repealed with regard of the rest of
elan rl.
A new convent has just been built at Brilgewater.
Sit. John Strachey has been appointed to a seat on
the India Council.
The eev. S. Bowles, rector of Beaconsfield, was found
dead in his drawing-room on Monday.
The British Government has sent to M. de Giers an
official centradiction of the alleged Anglo-flshiness
alliaure.
The visitors to the various departments of the South
Kensington Museum during last week numbered 23,834.
A stranger es tered a shop in Birmingham and asked
for some tobacco. While being served he dropped
down dead.
A party of directors of the Forth Bridge Railway
Company, including Mr. Allsopp, ALP., Sir Matthew
Ridley, M.P., and others, have inspected the Forth and
Tay Bridges. They wee accompanied by the con-
tractors, and the mode of construction was fully
explained. The party expressed general satisfaction
with the progtess which is being made, especially with
the Tay Bridge, a considerable portion of which has
been completed and the rails laid down.
The salmon fishings on the lower reaches of the Tay
have been more successful than for the last twenty
years. One day this week a firm of fish dealers in
Perth had 300 salmon and grilse from one station a few
miles below the city, and at all the other lower stations
large catches have been made. During one tide between
two and three tons of fish got in the estuary between
Broughty Ferry and Cainoustie.
So far everything has gone satisfactorily with regard
to the New Guinea expedition sent out by the Geo-
graphical Society of Australasia.
The number of failures in England and Wales gazetted
last week was 67. The number in the corresponding
week of last year was 04.
The Montezuma Hotel at Lasvegas, New Mexico,
was burnt on Saturday night. Eight guests perished.
The loss is estimated at 300,000 dols.
A singular fact is reported from Spalding. There
are now fewer paupers in the workhouse there than
there has been since its erection in 1836.
In London last week 2164 births and 1720 deaths
were registered. Allowing for increase of population,
the births were 470 below, while the deaths exceeded
by 8, the average numbers in the corresponding weeks
of the last ten years. The annual death-rate per 1000
from all causes, which had steadily increased in the
six preceding weeks from 16-3 to 22.4, declined to 22-0.
The depression in trade has affected Swansea like
other places. The working of the harbour for the year,
however, shows a surplus of over £4OOO.
Before the Brighton magistrates Susannah Shuttle.
worth, of Braeford, was charged with, falsely register-
ing the birth cf a child as her OWD. The defendant was
entitled to £14,000, which would afterwards go to her
children. Evidence was given showing that defendant
was never confined.
Messrs. J. S. Morgan and Co., of 22, Old Broad-street,
London, have been requested by the American Com-
mittee to receive subscriptions to the Grant Memorial
Fund from their fellow-countrymen.
Dr. Felix &mon has pronounced that the affection in
Mr. Gladstone's throat is purely local. He is confident
that Mr. Gladstone will recover the use of his voice,
but rigidly prohibits him from speaking in public.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
reading of the barometer last week was 29-76 in. The
mean temperature was 594 deg., and 3.3 deg. below the
average. The mean was below the average on each day
of the week. The duration of registered bright sun-
shine was 288 hours, against 47-8 hours at Glynde
Place, Lewes.
From April Ist to the Bth instant the Exchequer re-
ceipts amounted to £28,000,170, as compared with
£28,015,141 in the corresponding period of last year.
The expenditure has been £34,735,052. On Saturday
last the balance in the Bank of England was £1,367,122,
and in the Bank of Ireland £970,770.
One of the officers of the Assize Court at Leeds, on
Saturday evening, finding that he was likely to be late,
telegraphed to his wife," Detained in Court." It was
translated "Died in Court." Happily the wife felt sure
it was an error.
The Servian Budget shows a deficit of 3,500,000
francs, the revenue from the taxes on land, tobacco, and
liquor having failed to reach the amount at which it
was estimated when the Budget was prepared. The
financial difficulty has been followed by a split in the
Progressist Party, the seceders putting forward a pros
gramme in favour of a reduction of the laud tax and
economies in the public expenditure.
The steel armour-plated turret ship and ram Con-
queror, 6, is now completed for active service, and will
form a valuable acquisition to the ironclad fleet of the
British navy. The Conqueror carries two 43-ton guns,
four Gin, guns, six 6-pounder shell guns, and nearly a
dozen machine guns, besides torpedoes. The Conqueror
has tested her armament at Sheerness with satisfactory
results, the two 43-ton guns being fired simultaneously
with scarcely any vibration in the turrets.
During the storm on Monday afternoon, while the
2.20 express from Chester to North Wales was travel-
ling at great speed past Mostyn, facing the sea, the
wind struck the train with such force as greatly to re-
duce the speed, and then entering the window of a
second-class carriage, which remained open, it blew the
heavy lamp completely out of its socket, and hurled it
into an adjoining field. The sea was very rough at
Rhyl on Tuesday morning.
It is announced from Simla that the proposed
camp of exercise" will probably be held at Lahore
about Christmas time, when a force of 50,000 men will
be assembled. The increase in the English garrison of
India will amount to 6000 men.
Letters from Askabad report heavy mortality
amongst the Russian forces on the Afghan frontier,
particularly in the neighbourhood of Penjdeh. Forty:
four thousand Russian soldiers are at present stationed
in the Trans-Caspian territory.
A Reuter despatch from St. Petersburg states that
fifty torpedo boats for the Black Sea Fleet wore for-
warded to Nicolaieff by land a few days-ago--e-. 0.6- -
The sueen has been graciously pleased to bonier the
dignity of the rank of a Viscount upon. General Lord
Wolseley,

Mr. Herkoiner has been elected Slade Professor of
Fine Art at Oxford, in the place of Mr. Ruskin.
The total expenses for the re-election of Sir M.
Hicks-Beach for East Gloucestershire was £239 155. Id.
At Glouceater Chaaceller Jeune hr-& ordered the Rev.
Mr. Horwood, vicar of Tetbury, to restore to the church
an ornamental cross and candlesticks which he had
removed without faculty, and to pay the costs of ihe

Euit.
A man named Hayes, caretaker on an Evicted farm
near Clonakilty, was fired at on Saturday night and
wounded severely in both legs.
During service in the Cemetery Church at Dorking
on Sunday morning a woman named Greenfield, about
60 years of age, an oia inhabitant of the neighbourhood,
suddenly fell forward and expired before medical aid
arrived.

Great damage has been done to the corn crops over a
wide area in South Lincolnshire, an unusuAlly heavy
storm of hail having covered the ground to a depth of
several inches. The ears of wheat and barley were cut
off the stalk as though by a knife.
Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone and several friends embarked
on board Sir Thomas Brassy's yacht Sunbeam at Green-
"lithe, on Saturday evening, for a voyage to Norway.
Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, M.P., and suite left
London on Saturday morning en route for Constanti-
nople and Egypt on a special mission.
The Hon. Judge Walsh, of the Irish Bankruptcy
Court, has died in London.
Pleuro pneumonia is spreading very seriously in
Kent. _

The Secretary of State has directed a special allow-
ance of £25 per annum to be awarded to Superintendent
Thompson, of the Bow-street Division of the Metro-
politan Police, for meritorious service.
At Blackburn a newsagent named Joseph Ferguson,
aged 45 years, has been discovered lying in a pool of
blood with his head nearly severed from his body. A
razor was found near the body.
About 6000 volunteers, representing 35 battalions
belonging to various parts of England, arrived at
Aldershot or Saturday to engage in a week's drill and
manwuvring in conjunction with the regular troops.
With the object of testing the desire among the
local peasantry to become proprietors of small holdings
thirty-eight small plots of land have been offered for
sale on liberal terms in the neighbourhood ot Colchester,

but no purchaser came torwa-rd.
The neighbourhood of Chamounix has just, been the
scene of another alpine accident. Two tourists, named
Rey and Fantini, left Courmayeur to cross the Col du
Gant. Near the summit Rey slipped on some rocks,
and, falling a great depth, was killed instantly.
A. meeting was held on Saturday at Belvoir
near Belfast, the residence of Sir Thomas Bateson,
M.P., to consider a proposed scheme for promoting 103 at
and constitutional principles in Ireland generally, with
a special view to the approaching general elections.

A temporary stoppage has occurred in the extensive
steel works of Messrs. Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co.,
Attester), Middlesbrough. The firm have some good
orders, but the specifications come in very slowly. The
stoppage is not expected to be longer than a week or
ten days, and everything will be kept in readiness for
recommencing work.
On Saturday, at the Folkestone Police-court, Pierre
Bartholomew, W. Merlin, and Jean Baptiste, French
fishing masters, were each fined the full penalty of £lO
for fishing, contrary to the Sea Fisheries Act, within
three miles of the low-water mark on tha English shore.
Evidence showed that when the Government cruiser
was on one side of Dungeness the French boats would

fish on the other.
In accordance with a very ancient custom, the
Fruiterers' Company presented their annual gifts of
fruit to the Lord Mayor, M.P., at the Mansion House,
on Sunday morning. In the absence of the Master of
the. Company, Mr. White (the acting master) asked his
lordship's acceptance of the gift. The Lord Mayor
briefly acknowledged the compliment.
For some days immense forests have been burning
on the western frontier of Tunis. The fire forms a
vast belt of flames. The high temperature brought
about by the conflagration and the lone-continued
drought are causing a very high death-rate. The
deaths are very sudden, and due chiefly to cerebral
congestion.
Before starting on his yachting tour, Mr. Gladstone
declined to give his friends any definite information re-
garding his future action. Soon after his return ha
will decide whether he will again offer himself for
tfialothian, and lead the Liberal party at the general
election. -
- At Leeds Assizes fifteen colliers were indicted for
rioting at Denaby Main, near Rotherham, in connection
with the strike of colliers on July 12, when great
damage was done to property and several persons were
injured. Five of them were sentenced to four months'
imprisonment, and the rest were bound over to come
up when called upon.
Despite the fact that manufacturers have slopped
quite one-half the pannage salt trade of Chester dues
not improve. There is an increase to be noted, he w.
ever, with Russian ports, the exports for last month
being 5053 tons against 1463 last year. British North
America, India, and Scotland still take the bulk of
Cheshire salt.
A marked improvement has taken place in the York-
shire coal trade with Hull, the official return showing
146,960 tons, against 104,560 tons for the corresponding
month of last year. An advance is also reported in the
export trade, the quantity of Yorkshire coal sent from
Hull to foreign ports during July being 70,909 tons, as
compared with 54,692 in July last year.
The relations bet Ween the British Embassy and the
Porte have recently become much more cordial. The
Sultan has shown the utmost interest in the mission of
Sir 11. Drummond Wolff.
From Paris a correspondent telegraphs that since the
accession of Lord 54itibury's Cabinet to office the
relations between England and France have become
ir.sre friendly than they had been for some years past.
The war party seems to be gaining the upper hand at
St. Petersburg, supported, it is now said, oy the Czar
himself. The " Nord " scouts the idea that Russia
should bind herself by treaty to respect the new Afghan
frontier when it shall have been defined.
M. Jules Ferry, to whom a banquet was to be given
by his friends on Sunday night at Lyons, met with a
hostile reception on arriving at that town on Saturday.
A scene of disorder was kept up in front of his hotel
till long after midnight.
A monument to DI. Blanqui was unveiled on Sunday
in tho cemetery of Pere Lachaise. Subsequently the
Communists held a meeting at a public hall, at which
violent speeches were delivered, and a police agent,
who was denounced as a spy, terribly maltreated.

On Saturday rolls for signatures, to be attached to
the petition for the Protection of Young Girls, were
exhibited in various parts of the metropolis. Many of
the signatures were penned by working girls, who sur-
rounded the costers' barrows, which were stationed at
the corners of streets leading out of the principal
thoroughfares.
The Board of Trade returns for July show that the
total imports for the month amounted to £31,847,616,
being an decrease of £2.355,800 compared with July
last year. The exports for the month amounted to
£19,173,846, being a decrease of L'1,866,076 as corn.
pared with the corresponding month of last year.
The Russian Government has for certain strategical
purposes given orders for 283 kilometres of railway to
be constructed as speedily as possible along the Russo-
Austrian frontier. The new lino will embrace Zwier-
zynka, Mohileff, and Novsielico.
In tlr. Dublin Bankruptcy Court on Saturday Robert
Farquharson, the absconding manager of the Munster
Bank, was adjudicated a bankrupt. Under an order of
the Master of the Rolls a reward of £5OO is now offered
for his apprehension.
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Bavaria, the son-in-law of
Queen Isabella of Spain, who received the diploma of
surgeon at the Faculty of Munich, has been of late
rendering great services at the hospital of .Nymphen-
bourg, where he is practising.
•A telegram from Warsaw states that the mann-
factu:ing c;ty of Kinachma, in the province of
Haskama, has been completely destroyed by fire. The
loss is estimated at several million marks.

The reliquary containing the remains of St.
Eanswythe, the patron saint of the parish church of
Folkestone, which was recently discovered, was corn.
mitted to the sanctuary after a short service.
. _

Madame Gamin' who in her religious character is
known as Sister St. Cyprien, has been appointed a
Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. She is Superior of
the Sisters of Charity of Saint Augustine at Mar-
seilles. She has attended the sick during all the
epidemics of cholera, typhus fever, and smallpox which
have visited the hospitals since 1842.
M. Grevy, whose term of office as President of the
French Republic expires in January, will not object to
being re-elected, though he will not present himself for
nomination. The other candidates are MM. Brisson,
Jules Ferry, De Freycinet, and General Oampenon.
The Nottingham county magistrates investigated on
Saturday a charge against Ernest Burnham, a boy of
15, of killing Herbert Hawkins' "a little lad, at Beeston„
The lad, who was the son of a Nottingham tradesman,
was passing a holiday at Beeston, and was in the
cricket field where the prisoner quarrelled with and
fought a lad named Bottomer. Burnham, getting
beaten, flung a stone at his assailant, which, missing
its mark, struck Hawkins heh;nd the left ear. He fell
to the ground and immediately expired, death being
attributed by Mr. Sprott, surgeon, to effusion of blood
on the brain. The prisoner was committed for trial.
The Lord Mayor visited the Easteed of London on
Saturday to preside over a meeting held in Victoria-
parkin aid of the Bethnal-green Free Library. Reply-
ing to an address, Sir It. N. Fowler, M.P., said that this
institution must command universal approval, and ie.
marked that it was important that the industrial classes
should not allow the reading of newspapers, valuable as
they were, to supersede the study of the works of great
writers. A procession, in which several trade and
friendly societies took part, was organised in connec-
tion with the meeting, which was followed by a con-
cert. . .
Preaching at Poi tsmouth Cardinal Manning, referring
to the unity of the Church of Rome' said there never
was a time when it was more marked than at present.
It was a matter for thankfulness, he said, that while
the nations of Europe were being disturbed by the
besom of destruction, the monarch of England cons
tinued to reign, though the Government had entirely
passed to the Legislature from the Sovereign. In the
religious condition of England, however, they saw any- i
thing but ChriStian unity, because the teachers were
content to contradict one another, with the effect that
they had whittled away the very outlines of the truths
they undertook to teach.
The crew of the screw steamer Furniss, of London,
748 tons, were landed at Plymouth on Saturday, having
been brought over from Corunna in the schooner
Elfrida. The Furniss was overtaken by a gale whilst
running for the coast of Spain. Her steering gear re-
fused to work; she veered round, and her engines
were at once reversed, but she grounded heavily on
some sunken rocks. She fell to port, distress signals
were burnt, and the crew had to take to the boats.
They had a dangerous passage to the land, being nearly
swamped.
Mr. W. O'Brien, M.P., at a meeting of Irmen, held
in Sheffield on Sunday afternoon, denounced Mr.
Mundella, and said there never was a time when Ireland
had such a chance of freedom as she now had. The
Irish Parliamentary Party had so managed things that
Ireland had become the greatest difficulty_ telngliall
statesmen. It had °yeah] own the strongest Ministry
of this century. The Irish party were matters of the
situation, and the sooner England gave, ireland Home
Rule the better

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Two 'hot which 'ere grizing on a farm from which
the last tenant had been evicted, at Shanballymore, near
Ballydnff, county Waterford, were found to have had
their ears cut off, besides being otherwise cruelly
treated. The Rev. T. Hearn, parish priest of Ballydnff,
has directed an indignation meeting of the local branch
of the Irish National League to be bald on Sunday nest
in connection with the outrage.
The Khedive has, in recognition of Colonel C.
Watson's services in connection with the organisation
of the Egyptian Army and as acting eirdar or com-
mander-in-chief of that force throughout the late
operations on the Nile, promoted him to the rank of
Brigadier- General.
At Leeds Assizes, on Saturday, Joseph Boulton, a
miner, pleaded guilty to firing a loaded revolver at
Joseph Hutchinson' with intent to murder him at
Mexborough,duringthe riots. Prisoner was one of
imported Staffordshire miners, and being pursued by a
crowd of miners on strike on the 12th of July, drew a
revolver and fired, with the result of wounding
Hutchinson in the thigh. He was sentenced to six
months' imprisonment.
As a cabman named William Heslop was driving Lord
Zetland at Barton, near Richmond, Yorkshire, on
Saturday, the horses bolted,and Heslop was thrown off
and killed. The horses ran into a hedgeside, and one
fell, the other breaking free. The earl, who was in the
cab, was then able to get out, no worse for the accident
His valet, who rode by the side of the driver, and wh•
was also thrown off, ale° escaned unhurt.
According to intelligence under date July 30, re-
ceived at Teheran from Herat, the British Boundary
Commissioners were at that date about nine miles to
the west of Herat, and had been buying and hiring
mules and camels, The fortifications of Herat were
being actively repaired, and the Heratis were deter..
Mined to defend the city should it be attacked. The
railway to Askabad will be completed in October.
The reports concerning an alarming rise in the Nile
are exaggerated, as the water has been falling at
Assouan for the past three days.
A letter received by Major Chermside from Ras
Aloola's camp reports the repulse of the rebels, about
the middle of last month, with the loss of seven
sheikhs and 370 men, at a place called Algeden, about
fifty miles from Kassala, the garrison of which town is
hard pressed by hunger. Ras Aloola is collecting
levies
The Czar, on Sunday morning, reviewed all the war
vessels assembled in the roads of Helsingfors. His
Majesty and the Czarina have left that port.
The International Telegraphic Conference has opened
I in the German capital.
; On Sunday night the local police at Bristol received
I information of an intended prize-fight between two
I men. Nothing further, however, could be ascertained
I until Monday afternoon, when the authorities were in-
formed that a " battle " was taking place at Green
Lanes, Bucknell. The police at once drove to the spot,
and met a number of men coming away. One of the
alleged principals was arrested, but the other escaped.
The former was much bruised about the face, but
denied that he had been engaged in a prize-fight, stating
that he had fought three rounds "for love." He was
released.
Notwithstanding a heavy sea, four competitors took
part on Monday in the annual contest for the Ladies'
Championship of the Portsmouth Swimming Club, off
South Beach, Miss Julia Green, the former champion,
being again the winner.
Upwards of 10,000 men composed of regulars and
volunteers engaged in a ;ham fight at Aldershot on
Monday, and a march past followed. Three of the
brigades were commanded by volunteer officers. The
Duke of Cambridge, Prince Albert Victor' and the
headquarters staff took an acti7e share in the day's
operations.
In the shell competition with Cl-pounders at Shoe-
buryness' the Secretary for War's prize was won by a
Sheffield detachment.
Sir M. Hicks-Beach has informed a deputation of
ladies at Clifton, that while he was not opposed to con-
ferring the franchise on unmarried women possessed of
the necessary property qualification, he could not con-
sent to the enfranchisement of female lodgers or mar-
ried women, _

Mr. W. B. Barker, described as a Parliamentary
candidate for the borough of Finsbury, was, at the
Thames Police-court, London, on Monday, found guilty
of causing an obstruction by addressing a street crowd
on" The Advantages of Socialism," and was bound over
in the sum of £2O to keep the peace. The magistrate
also censured him for endeavouring to set class against
Class.
Evidence was given before a coroner's jury in London,
en Monday, that the death of a young woman who was
represented as a victim of phthisis, was really due to a
etrong irritant poison, and the coroner decided to place
the facts before the Home Secretary.
The Allan Line Royal Mail steamer Sardinian, which
arrived at Quebec on the 7th inst., ran aground on a
mud bank while proceeding up the St. Lairreuce to
Montreal.
The lowering of farm rents continues in East Tent.
A change of tenancy has just taken place in one of the
largest and best farms in Sheppey, and the rent has
been reduced by 1 500. The extent of the holding is
1080 acres, of Nvll:eh 800 acres are pasture. The
previous tenant v.i.l £l5OO a year, but his successor is
to pay only £lOOO. It is stated that reductions on a
similar scale will Lay,: to be made at Michaelmas in
respect of eeveral farms which will then become
vacant. _ _ _

Mr. Harrington, M.P., has received from Australia
£lOOO for the Parliamentary Fund.
Mr. Bruce Joy has been commissioned to execute the
memorial to Bishop Berkeley, which is to be placed in
Cloyne Cathedral. The design is a recumbent figure of
the well-known philosopher and writer.
A. distressing discovery was made in Edinburgh on
Monday. A. young lady, 23 years of age, residing in
the most fashionable part of the city, has for some
time been afflicted with the habit of sleep walking, and
on Monday it was found that she had walked out of a
bedroom window and fallen a considerable distance
into the area below. When discovered the unfortunate
lady was dead.
The managers of the Yorkshire and Derbyshire
Colliery Company, prosecuted at Barnsley on Monday,
no less than 46 boys, on a charge of causing a stoppage
of their colliery employing over 600 hands, by refusing
to work. The lads on their side alleged that their
wages had been been improperly stopped. The Bench,
however, ordered each one to pay a BUM of Bs., waking
a total of £lB Bs.

The prospects of the partridge season in Kent are
exceedingly good. The hatching period was favourable,
and young birds are plentiful and healthy m nearly
every district. Capital sport is anticipated on the Ist
of September on the estates of the Duke of Edinburgh,
at Eastwell ; Lord Hothfield, at Ashford; Sir Edward
Dering, Bart., at Pluckley, and other famous shootings.
Writs, signed by the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, has
been served on the special defendants in the suit
recently instituted before the Vice Chancellor, requiring
them and their agents, wider penalty of £lOOO, to
desist from carrying into effect any resolution of the
Dublin Corporation in regard ta the renaming of Sack-
ville-street.

The important Horse Fair at Horncastle took place
on Monday. Horses were not so plentiful as on some
occasions; first-class animals being scarce. The foreign
trade, principally with France, Germany, and Italy,
was good. Prices for good hunters ranged up to £2OO,
good harness horses to £l2O, and a large number of
Irish from £5O to £lOO.

The seventy-eighth session of the General Conference
of the New Church (" Swedeuborgians") has been held
at Derby.
The Sadlers' Company have established four student-
ships, each of the annual value of £3O, and tenable for
two years, at the Finsbury Technical College of the
City and Guilds of London Institute. The student-
ships will be competed for at the entrance examination,
to be held at the College on October Ist, and are open
to pupils above 14 years of age who have attended any
public elementary school in the United Kingdom.
The names of the Commissioners under the Land
Purchase Bill are, we believe, regarded with satisfaction
by the liisn members on both sides of the House.