The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-10-24 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS:

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Six young fellows were condemned, in Paris, to short
terms of imprisonment for disorderly conduct last week
in front of the " Gaulois "office.
Saturday was the 32nd anniversary of the birth of
her Royal and Imperial Highness the Duchess of Edin-
burgh, who was born on Oct. 17, 1853.
A correspondent at Capetown states that efforts are
being made to induce the Government to remove Sir
Hercules Robinson before his term of office expires.
Friday being the anniversary of Marie Antoinette's
execution, funeral masses were celebrated in the private
chapel of St. Ferdinand, Paris, belonging to the Orleans
family, and at the Madeleine.
The authorities are now taking active steps to clear
out the House of Detention in Clerkenwell and
Coldbath-fields Prison. Both buildings will be ready to-
come down soon after Christmas.
Before leaving her Majesty's ship Excellent at
Portsmouth, Prince George of Wales madela number of
presents, including a large silver cigar-case to the
Wardroom Mess, and a silver cigarette-case to Lieut.
Percy Scott, who acted as his governor.
No fewer than 4470 persons have been charged or
summonetl before the aldermen sitting at the Guildhall
Justice-room for the year ending Sept. 29. This
number does not include any cases where parties have
been summoned for non-payment of rates, or under the
Employers and Workmen's Acts, Sze.
A letter from Constantinople computes the expenses
imposed on Turkey by the war preparations at over
£T2,000,600. The sum to be paid to the Austro-
Hungarian Lloyd for the transport of Redifs amounts
to £T1,500,000, and the Krupp guns are to cost
£TBOO,OOO, of which £T90,000 is to be paid on the Ist
of January.
Paris advices state that the wheat trade has ruled
very_tpriet during the week. Upon the French country
markets the tendency of prices has, if anything, been
downwards. At the same time it is considered that sdl
the probabilities of the case are in favour of a rise. In
the French ports prices have been generally maintained,
but trade has, at the same time, been inactive.
At the Atlas Steel Works, Sheffield, four men were
at work in the Bessemer converting house, standing on
a scaffold 40 feet from the ground chipping slagg from
the walls, when a mass suddenly detached itself and
fell upon the scaffold, wrecking it and dashing portions
of it to the ground. Three men escaped by leaping to
a ledge, but the fourth fell to the ground and was
severely injured.
The promenade known as the Dufferin-terrace,
Quebec, has recently been lighted with &eerie lights.
Power for generating the electricity is supplied by the
Falls of Montmorency (some nine miles distant), which
gives a strength equal to about 1600 horse-power. The
experiments have been satisfactory and successful, and
the question of lighting the entire city in a similar
manner is now under consideration.
A crowded meeting has been held in Hull, represent-
ing 1100 clock labourers and others who are in a state of
semi-starvation, owing to the scarcity of employment.
Heart-rending experiences of deprivation were related,
and the men asked that the Corporation should do
what they could to find them employment on public
works, or assist them to emigrate to the colonies.
Two powerful vessels are now being constructed at
the Elswick works for the Japanese Government. They
are called the Naniwa Kan and the Takachiho Kan, and
bath are armed with two 10 inch and -six 6-inch Krupp
guns. Ito official trial has yet taken place, but at the ,
preliminary trial the former exhibited a speed of 19
knots an hour. Some Japanese officers have already
arrived to take charge of them, and a full complement
of officers and men will be sent from Japan to take
them out.
A large congregation assembled on Friday evening in
the ancient parish church of St. Catherine Oree,
Leadenhall-street, London, to hear the discourse known
as the" Lion Sermon," which is delivered annually on
Oct. 16, and was on this occasion preached by the
rector, the Rev. Dr. W. M. Whittlercore, M.A. The
delivery of the sermon dates from the reign of James
1., and commemorates the marvellous deliverance of Sir
John Gayor, a wealthy merchant, from a lion which he
met while travelling in the deserts of Arabia.
The toted number of plaints isf,ued in the City of
London Court during 1884 for SUMS under £2O was
25,294, wh'eh is more than in any preceding year. For
' sums over £2O there was a decrease from 385 in 1853 to
304 last year. Only 10 debtors were actually sent to
prison, although 170 warrants were issued. The learned
judge (Mr. Commissioner Kerr) sat on 205 days against
157 in the preceding twelve months, and 173 in 1882.
The total amount for which plaints were issued was
£143,411, whereas in 1883 it was only £138,836, £13,649
was the amount of the court fees. i 6836 being paid in
costs and attendance of witnesses, counsel, solici-
tors, Sze.
On Saturday morning, while some workmen were em-
ployed at Portsmouth Dockyard in unloading the
Government storeship Discovery, a boy employed on
board let go a wrong rope, and the main boom fell on
the jetty, crashing two men named George Sawyer and
Henry Emery. The former expired in 15 minutes, and
the latter was seriously hurt.
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A lad was hammering a ship's distress rocket in the
street at Walton, Liverpool, on Saturday evening, when
it exploded with such terrific force that a Nfo man who
was passirg, six boys and girls, and the lad himself
were so severely burned that they had to be taken to
the hospital. The windows of several houses were
blown in, and great alarm prevailed for a time in the
neighbourhood. .
At Leicester on Saturday Key Can, a performing
Zulu, was charged with assaulting a butcher named
Hubbard. The evidence which was very conflicting,
showed that Hubbard, while in drink, interfered with I
two Zulus, and a violent struggle took place, which
ended by the prisoner thrusting his weapon under
Hubbard's eye, inflicting a serious wound and com-
pletely destroying his eyesight. The magistrate held
that Hubbard was the aggressor, and although greatly
regretting that he had sustained injuries, discharged
the prisoner.
Lieutenants Frederick St. L. Luscombe has been
appointed to the Ganges, and Harry Jones to the
Hecht, additional. Engineer George E. Bench to the
Flora, additional. Hugh Wallis to be surgeon and agent
at Cuelcmere and Crowlink.
A valuable horse, the property of Mr. Lowe, of
Runporn, took fright in the High-street, Aldershot, on
Saturday morning, at the sight of a large elephant
belonging to a travelling circus. The horse became
very excited. bolted a tow yards, broke a blood-vessel,
and dropped dead on the spot.
On Saturday morning a shark, measuring about
seven feet, got entangled in the mackerel nets of some
Hastings fishermen, who were trawling in the Channel,
off Folkestone. The nets were greatly damaged, and
it was with considerable difficulty the huge fish was '
caught. The men made a triumphal procesEion with
their trophy through the town of Sandgate, and the
town crier preceded its entrance into the neighbouring
towns, where attempts were made to raise a sum of
money sufficient to buy new nets.
On Saturday Julia Buckingham, dressmaker, aged
eighteen, and a single woman, was taken into custody
by the Barnstaple police on a charge of having con-
cealed the birth of her illegitimate child, and afterwards
burning it. The neighbours noticed that she was
enciente, and did not see her for some days, when they
detected a peculiar smell from the house. On being
interrogated by the police, she at first denied having
been confined, but afterwards admitted that a child was
born, and that she had put it on the fire and burned it.
On Saturday, at the West Bromwich Police-court,
Clara Caddick, eighteen, single woman, of Tunnell-
street, Roseville, Coseley, was committed to the Stafford
Assizes on a charge of concealing the birth of a child at
Handsworth on September 20. The child was born at
the place where the prisoner was in service, and death,
according to the medical evidence, was from suffocation.
There were no marks of violence. The prisoner it was,
stated, tied the body up in brown paper, and threw it
into the grounds at Endwood Court, where it was found
by the gardener.
Mr. William Carter has held an inquest at St.
Thomas's Hospital, London, on the body of Ernest
Richard Seymour, aged eight years of 65, Hackney-
road, Brixton. On the afternoon of ;he 3rd inst. a one-
horse coal van was passing by the Half Moon public-
house, Dulwich, when the deceased ran behind it, and
while hanging on his left leg got entangled in the
spokes of the near hind-wheel, and he was hurled round
and round. The van was stopped, and the deceased
was extricated. He was taken to St. Thomas's
Hospital, where he died. The jury returned a verdict
, of " Accidental death."
1 A singular incident took place on Friday night in
I connection with the candidature of Mr. Lopes for the
I Totnes Division of Devonshire. Mr. Lopes was invited
' to meet a few of his supporters at Kingsbridge. Upon
his arrival he was surprised to find nearly 400 persons
: seated to dinner. Tickets had been given away by
1 several gentlemen, and Mr. Lopes refused to take the
1 chair unless all present paid for their tickets. Several
' labourers then left the room. It is understood that
Mr. Lopes regarded the distribution of dinner-tickets
as bribery which would disqualify him if he
countenanced it.
1 There were special services in the French Protestant
churches in London on Sunday to celebrate the bi-
centenary of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
Sermons were also preached in Canterbury Cathedral,
i in the afternoon by the Dean, and in the evening by
1 Canon Freemantle.
' In connection with the boycotting of the Cork Steam
Packet Company by the Cattle Trade Association, a
meeting of the Defence Union was held at Cork on
Saturday. Great unanimity was shown with regard to
1 the necessity of resisting the association, and a belief
' prevails that the Union will soon be able to ship as
. many cattle as were sent over before the association
decided to boycott the company.
Durirg a dense fog on Saturday evening the Violet,
1 One of the express steamers of ' the London and North.
. Wetstena Railway Company, grounded in the Liffey.
1 ' The passengers and luggage were transferred to a tug,
and in the evening the Violet was floated.
'According to a tflegram published by the Paris
I 9 Univert " 7000 native Christians, 10 native priests,
' and a missionary have been massacred in Annan,

A collision occurrea on the Birmingham g.M Midiacd
Steam Tramway at Smethwick on aturd3y, An
engine, with a car attached, coming from Birmingham,
ran into another engine and car travelling in the opro,
site direction. The front parts of both engines wern
smashed in. The engineraen and passengers escaped
with a severe shaking. A dense fog prevailed at the
time. _ _ _ _

- On Saturday, at Birkenhead. James aybie, late
secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters
and Joiners, was indicted for embezzling three sums of
half-a-crown, £5, and £lO respectively, belonging to the
society. The total defalcations were stated to be
upwards of £lOO. The prisoner had been secretary of
the Birkenhead branch for several sears. He was
found guilty, and sentenced to si months' imprison-
ment.
John Sinclair Mofrat, a law student at Edinburgh
University, has committed suicide by placing a Pistol
to his head aud blowing his brains out. The deceased,
who was a promising student, was 23 years of age, and
was the son of a Castle Douglas landed proprietor.
The Lord Mayor of London has bar ded over to the
trustees of the Gordon Boys' Home the sum of
P 20,320 3s. 4d., being the amount collected at the
Mansion House as a national memorial to General
Gordon.

A telegram from Rome states that the German
Government has persistently urged that the Pope
should assume the ponition not of mediator, but of
arbitrator, in the difference between Spain and Ger-
many; but that it is as mediator that the Pope has
continued to receive documents from both parties. The
studies preparatory to the mediation are now almost
terminated.

rt is stated by the Hamburg correspondent of the
" Mouvement Gezgraphique" that the safe and deep
port of Dar-es-Salem, which the Sultan of Zanzibar has
ceded to Germany, will attract the caravans and
absorb the whole traffic of Zanzibar; and that, as the
Sultan will now lose the whole of his revenue, which
he derived exclusively from the Customs, he will be
finally obliged to place his possessions under the pro-
tectorate of Germany.
While a German infantry.offieer was walking, in
civilian attire, over a portion of the Metz fortifications
last week, he received a challenge of a soldier on duty;.
stud as he took no notice of the warning the sentry
fired and the officer fell dead on the spot.
An extraordinary case of boycotting has just
occurred at a funeral near Macroom. Over 2000 people
had assembled to participate in the funeral rites of a
farmer, named Sullivan, who was a relative of Mr.
Jeremiah Llegarty, the boycotted trader at Mill street.
The moment Mr. rfegarty was seen coming to the
funeral, all the people, including two clergymen, left
the demonstration, and only the immediate relatives of
the deceased remained.

--Invitations to the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs' Banquet
at Guiidhall on the 9th of November have been accepted
by Lord Salisbury, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Iddes-
leigh, Lord Cranbrook, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
the Home Secretary, Mr. W. 11. Smith, Lord George
llatnilton, Lord John Manners, and Mr. E. Stanhope.
Some of the Ambassadors, several of the iudge=, the
Speaker. Lord Brownlow, Lord Bradford, Lord Beau-
champ, Lord Dunrstven, Lord Bury, and Mr. Plunket
will also be present.
The other day, in Derbyshire, a clergyman who was
solemnising a marriage, and was in a hurry to catch his
train, got on swimmingly with the service till he came
to the question, "Wilt thou have this woman to be thy
wedded wife ? " The groom then responded—" She
hasn't come yet, sir." The bridesmaids were there, but
not the bride.

A Berlin correspondent telegraphs that the Bruns-
wick Diet have adopted the report of the committee
rejecting the Duke of Cumberland's claims to the suc-
cession in the Duchy.
On Tuesday, in connection with the National Liberal
Federation, a conference of representative Liberals for
the ccunties of Berks, Oxon, and Hants was held at
Reading. Resolutions in favour of a reform of
procedure in the House of Commons, of an amendment
of the land laws, and the establishment of a system of
local government were passed. In the evening a great
meeting was held, addressed by Mr. H. H. Fowler,
and Mr. Shaw Lefevre, who dealt with the land
question.
Speaking at a Baptist Conference at Walworth road
Chapel, London, Mr. Spurgeon urged the establishment,
in connection with every Baptist Church, of what he
called a " Lay Preachers' -Association." for the
encouragement of all who could preach.
The City Commission of Sewers have adopted a long
rsport from a special committee, who, after careful
consideration, have arrived at the conclusion that the
administration, of the Education Act by the London
School i3oard is extremely unsatisfactory. The
committee have been empowered to wait on the Vice-
President of the Con-mittee of Council on Education
and place their report before him.
In aid of the National Association which has been
formed with the object of supplying medical aid to the
women of India, a meeting was held at the Mansion
House on Tuesday under the presidency of the Lord
Mayor. A letter was read from Lord Randolph Church-
hill approving of the work of the association. Lord
Ffobhouse, Sir R. Temple, Mr. Wilfrid Blunt, Mrs.
Garrett Anderson, and Field-Marshal Lord Napier of
Magdala were among the speakers. Resolutions ex-
pressing sympathy with the association and appealing
to the public for aid were adopted.
The civil marriage of Prince Waldemar of Denmark
and the Princess Marie of Orleans took place on Tues-
day, in Paris, the Prince of Wales being among those
who were present. The religious ceremony took place
on Wednesday at the Chateau d'Eu.
The memorial to Arrhbishop Tait, which has been
placed in Canterbury Cathedral, was on Tuesday en-
veiled in the presence of Archbishop Benson and r. dis-
tinguished assemblage of clergy and laity. The cere-
monial was of a simple character. Brief addresses were
delivered by the Archbishop, as well as by the Dean
of Canterbury and Earl Sydney, all of whom empha-
sised the words of the flscription, particularly referring
to Archbishop Tait's great aim--namely, to make the
Church of England more and more the Church of the

people.
The Archbishop of Canterbury commenced his
primary visitation on Tuesday in the cathedral of his
diocese, and delivered the first of seven addresseq,
which will constitute his charge. The subject was the
work of the cathedral as the mother Church of the
diocese; and, after dwelling upon its influence in
various directions, he said there was no department of
Church life in which the service of cathedrals was not
beyond reckoning.
The Bishop of Durham, in opening his Diocesan Con-
ference, said he believed that the Disestablishment of
the Church of England would inflict a moral blow on
this country, under which it would reel and stagger for
many generations, even if it ever recovered. There were
abuses in the Church, and the true way of dealing with
them was to reform them. He counselled his clergy as
to the attitude they should adopt, and the course they
should take, in view of the danger menacing them.
The Bishop of Ripon, addressing his Diocesan Con- ,
ference, strongly deprecated the Church of England '
allying itself with any political party. He regretted
that Disestablishment had been made a party question,
and said the Church had a right to demand that this
question should not be dealt with as a political matter
until the people bad had an opportunity of discus-
sing it.
Mr. John Dillon, speaking at the National League
meeting, said there were struggles now commencing in
some parts of Ireland on an unprecedented scale. He
advised tenants to lodge what rent they were prepared
to pay in the hands of trustees, and let it be used as a
campaign fund against the landlords.
The revenue receipts between the Ist April and the
17th October, when there was a balance of £4,993,207,
amounted to £41,476,456, as compared with £41,920,013
in the corresponding period of last year, which began
with a balance of £5,632,563. The net expenditure
amounted to £51,281,225, as against £47,158.043. The
Treasury' balances Oct. 17 amounted to £1,987,343, and
at the same date in 1884 to £1,748,741.
At the London Guildhall on Tuesday, a working
man named Sutherland was summoned for intimidating
a fellow-workman, with the object of preventing him
from following his occupation as a packing-case maker.
The charge arose out of picketing owing to a trade
dispute. The alderman sent the prisoner to fourteen
days' hard labour. Notice of appeal was given.
A Russian named Souchaneff was on Tuesday charged
at the Bow-street Police-court, London, with stealing
seven five-pound notes at the Grand Hotel, Charing-
cross, from Mr. Thomson, a physician. Evidence in
support of the charge having been given, a further
charge of stealing ten ten-pound notes, at the same
hotel, from a visitor from Buenos Ayres, was entered
upon. The prisoner was committed for trial.
An influential meeting of the clergy and laity of the
Diocese of Salisbury was held at the Chapter House,
on Tuesday, to consider the advisability of perpetuating
the memory of the late bishop. The chair was occupied
by the Dean. The Earl of Pembroke proposed—
" That the ability, high character, and single-minded
service of the Right Rev. George, late Bishop of
Salisbury, demand a permanent memorial in the
diocese over which he presided for 16 years." Sir T.
Baker seconded, and Archdeacon Lear supported this,
and it was carried. The Mayor of Salisbury moved—
" That a recumbent effigy of the late bishop be placed,
with the consent of the Dean and Chapter, in the
Cathedral as a memorial to the late bishop." Arch-
deacon Sanctuary seconded, and it was carried. The
I bishop-elect, in a brief speech, spoke of Dr. Moberly as
his old and dear master.

About 40 of the county magistrates for Buckingham
attended at Stow House on Tuesday and presented to

the Duke and Duchess of Buckingham a handsome por-
trait of the duchess in oils, painted by Mr. Arthur
Cope, as a marriage present. The address was read
and presentation made by Lord Curzon. The duke
made a suitable reply, and the company then lunched
in the State gallery.
A Conference of the South Wales Liberation Society
was held on Tuesday at Aberdare, Mr. D. P. Davis
presiding. The delegates unanimously adopted resolu-
tions in favour of Disestablishment being pressed for-
ward in the next Parliament, and of the introduction
of a revised Intermediate Education Bill for Wales. A.
public meeting was held in the evening.
The action of Mr. Winans in closing a road at Guisa-
chan has caused great indignation in the North. On I
Sunday evening, it is reported by a Beauly correspon- I
dent, that while Mr. Winans was proceeding through '
the village of Tornich, near Guisachan, he was stoned
by some person unknown. It is added that he imme-
diately offered a reward of 500 for the capture or dis-
covery of the offender.
As Mr. J. B. Slater, Carlisle, was fishing in the Eden
with fly and single gut, he hooked a salmon apparently
about 30 pounds in weight. After four hours' struggle,
without a moment's rest, the gut was cut through by
the rocks, and the salmon, though fairly hooked,
escaped. The fish was more than four feet in length,
and of great thickness.
The South Stoneham Guardians were occupied for a
long time on Tuesday in discussing the question of the
chargeability of the Claimant's wife, who, with her two
illegitimate children, has been for some time an inmate
of the workhouse on removal from the Greenwich
Union. A letter from the Claimant, in response to a
demand from the Board, was read stating that his wife,
by her conduct during his imprisonment, had forfeited
all e:aim upon him, and he declined to support her. A
letter from the Claimant's solicitor stated that pro.
ceedings were about to be commenced in the Divorce
Court. The Board ultimately decided by a majority of
seven to five to issue a magistrate's summons.

On Monday atternoon a number ot delegates from
the vestries and district boards of the metropolis met
at Westminster to consider the question of the local
government of Lendon. A resolution was submitted
to the meetingin favour of an exhaustive inquiry by a
Royal Commissron. This was objected to by one or
two speakers, who thought sufficient evidence on the
stibject was alreadf available, but ultimately it was
adopted.
Mr. Parnell has promised to attend the Irish League
Convention, to be held at Chicago in January.
The scientific explorieg expedition to Hudson's Bay,
from which the Arctic steamer Alert has just returned,
adds little of practical value to present knowledge of
the navigability of Hudson's Straits.
The " Novosti "announces that a special committee
is sitting at the Ministry of Finance to examine the
question whether railways and tie interest derived from
railway stock should not be subjected to taxation.
At about twelve o'clock on Sunday a band of armed
men attacked Woodville House, Castleisland, the resi-
dence of Mr. James Evraught, under-agent to Mr.
Hickson. Mrs. Evraught shut the door against them,
but they broke the windows, and only decamped when
they saw Mr. Evraught returning from mass. The .
police left the church during Divine service pursuit
of the assailants.

At White Abbey, near Belfast, on Monday, a coroner's
inquest was held on the body of Wm. Richards, seaman
on board her Majesty's ship Belleisle, who lost his life
in Belfast Lough, while engaged at torpedo practice.
The deceased and two other men were in a small boat
close to the Belleisle, when that vessel reversed her
engines. The result was that the boat was capsized
and Richards was drowned. No neglect was attributed
to any person. The Jury returned a verdict of
"Accidental Drowning," adding that as Richards lost
his life in the execution of his duty, they hoped the
Lords of the Admiralty would favourably consider the
case of his widow and orphan child.
Twenty officers and 500 seamen and Marines of the
Channel Fleet at present lying at St. Margaret's Hope,
Firth of Forth, were on Monday afternoon entertained
by the Leith merchants to a banquet in the Volunteer
Hall, Leith. Provost Pringle presided. After the
banquet the Provost proposed "The Navy and Army,"
to which Mr. White, of the Minotaur' and Sergeant
Baker responded. Lieutenant Young, Minotaur, pro-
posed "The Port of Leith." Mr. James Currie re-
sponded.
The Munster and Leinster Bank was opened in the
Dublin premises of the late Munster Dank on Monday.
Ten other branches throughout Ireland were also
opened. The business transacted was very encouraging,
and considerable lodgments were made. The clerks of
the old bank hare been retained, and they were kept
busy all day. The official liquidators of the old bank
carried on their busineae in a special compartment. The
capital of the new bank is one million, and the manager
at Dublin is Mr. Lillis, who now fills the post occupied
by the absconding manager of the old bank, Mr. Far-
quharson.
At the Armagh Quarter Sessions, on Monday, Mr. J.
Howard Parnell, of New York, and brother of the
member for Cork, had several cases of ejectment against
tenants for non-payment of rent. In the case of one
man named Hughes there was seven years' rent due,
and the judge, Mr. Gamble, said the defendant had
evidently taken his instructions from Mr. Charles
Stewart Parnell instead of from Mr. John Howard
Parnell. Decrees were given in two cases, and a third
case was dismissed.

An inquest was held at Wormley, Hertfordshire, on
Monday, respecting the death of Mr. Alfred .7. Cattle, a
farmer, who was killed whilst rabbit shootino• on his
own farm. Mr. Cattle was carrying a gun both barrels
of which were loaded, and at lull cock, when, in tr3ing
to get up a bank he fell, and the charge lodged in his
head, a portion of his face being blown completely
away. Death was instantaneous. Mr. Cattle was b 9
years of are.
About £3500, including conditional gifts, have been
promised towards the erection of the proposed public
building at Slough, which is to be named the Albany
Institute, in memory of the late Prince Leopold. A.
site in Liackenzie•street Las been offered by Mr.
Frederick Charsley, and a very handsome design for the
Hall and Institute by Mr. Cheers, of T.eddington, has
been selected.

An inquest was held at Ryde on Monday, on a lad
named Wickens, aged 14, who while raking over a heap
of ashes in search of coal, was soddenly buried by the
shifting of the cindets under his feet. Half an hour
elapsed before he was extricated, when he was quite
dead, his mouth and nostrils having been filled with
fine ashes.

Two colliers, named Buckley and Lofthouse, of
Leigh, Lancashire, found a tattered old vest lying near
a field path on Sunday. One pocket was stitched up,
and on opening it they found notes of £7OO value.
The men retained the notes, but informed the police
of their discovery.
The whole of the " Pathe " estate, situate in the
parishes of Ottery and Aller, and which includes the
far-famed Buirowmount, one of the oldest historical
objects in the county, and embracing nearly 500 acres
of rich land has been disposed of by public auction
(about 50 awes reniainirg unsold), for the sum of
L 21.637.

The Elcho Shield, won in July by the English team
was, on Saturday, escorted by a number of metropolitan
volunteers to the London Guildhall, and handed by Sir
H. Wilmot to the custody of the Lord Mayor.
Mr. 3. Marshall applied to the magistrate at the
Hammersmith Police-court on Saturday for a summons
against a local baker for selling bread without weighing
it. The defendant had been fine] forty shillings on
Friday for a similar offence. Mr. Paget, finding that
Mr. Marshall WRB not acting for himself but for tha
Master Bakers' Associatim, declined to grant a
summons.

Benjamin Dean, an oilman, was summoned to the
Lambeth Police•court on Saturday, at the instance of
the Metropolitan Board of Works, for having on his
premises a quantity cf petroleum beyond what his
license allowed. The magistrate, observing that it was
a very proper prosecution in the interest of the public,
imposed a fine of O.

At a special sessions held at Stradbally, near Mary-
borough, on Saturday, no fewer than 200 inhabitants
of the town were charged with riotous behaviour, and
with boycotting, or conspiring to boycott, the tenants
of" evicted" farms. The prosecution was conducted
by the Crown, and defendants were represented by
counsel sent from Dublin by the National League:
After hearing evidence, the resident magistrate ordered.
the defendants to find security for their future good
behaviour. This, however, they refused to do. Ulti-
mately the magistrate gave them a fortnight's remand,
to consider their position.
It transpired at Cork on Saturday that a hundred
head of cattle belonging to a boycotted landlord in
county Clare had been booked by the Clyde Shipping
Company for conveyance to Glasgow. The local cattle
dealers drew the attention of the cowpany's manager
to the fact, and stated that they would withdraw their
cattle then on board the steamer if the beasts of the
landlord were forwarded. The manager replied that he
had no legal power to refuse them, and later in the
evening the steamer left with the boycotted cattle and
those of the dealers on board._

A county meeting, presided over by the Lord Lieu.
tenant of Denbighshire, was held at Ruthin, on Saturday,
at which it was decided to open a subscription list to-
re-erect on Moel Fammau—one of the highest moun-
tains in the county—a pyramidal structure in com-
memoration of the 50th year of her Majesty's reign.
The pyramid was built by public subscription in 1809 to
commemorate the jubilee of the reign of George 111.,
and collapsed during a terrific gale in October, 1862.
The Dungarvan Branch of the National League have
issued notices warning masters of foxhounds to discon-
tinue hunting in the district. It is said that the notice
is principally directed against the Master of the Olon-
coskraine pack, Sir Nugent Humble, Bart., who, it ig
stated by the Nationalists, was one of the justices re-
cently sitting in petty sessions when a leaguer was sen-
tenced to seven days' imprisonment for assaulting a man
while assisting a boycotted farmer.
At an eviction on the Duke of Devonshire's property
at Tallow, near Waterford, on Saturday, there was a
large concourse of people, who hooted the Sheriff, and
became so unmanageable that the police had to draw
their bayonets. Stones were thrown at the Sheriff, who
narrowly escaped injury, and black flags were hoisted
in the district to indicate that an eviction was taking
place.