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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

THE PROCEDURE RULES.

Mr. W. H. Smith informed Mr. S. Buxton that it was
intended that the new Rules of Procedure should
become immediately operative as they were passed.
Sir L. Playfair resumed the general debate upon the
proposed Rules of Procedure, t 3 which he took excep-
tion on the ground that they would constitute the
Speaker the judge instead of the interpreter of the
feeling of the House. With regard to the power of
closure, he expressed his preference for an automatic
form which could be applied without the intervention
either of the Speaker or of any individual member. A
limitation of the length of speeches he regarded as a
corollary of the limitation of debate; and he recom-
mended a much larger measure of devolution than was
proposed by the Government.
Sir J. Mowbray gave a cordial support to the
Government resolutions, though he entertained no very
sanguine expectations that they would completely
effect the object which was desired.
The Marquis of Hartington !supported the proposed
'power of closure as a practical one, and contended
that, so far from increasing the responsibility of the
chair, it would make that responsibility less onerous.
The new rules, if adopted, would not constitute a rc.
jection or even a permanent postponement, of the
principle of devolution which the Government intended
by subsequent legislation largely to extend. The pro.
posals of the Government were chiefly in the nature of
amendments to rules the value of which was DOW
admitted, and he trusted that they would be adopted
without any very prolonged discussio n.
After the discussion had continued for several hours
Sir M. Hicks-Beach said the Government had no wish
to force the rules upon the House, but desired to
consider fairly any proposal that might be made for
their amendment. As there, however, appeared to be a
general agreement upon the main principle he urged that
the general discussion should be allowed to close in
order that the consideration of the details might be
entered upon.
On the motion of Mr. Flynn the debate was again
adjourned, upon the understanding that it should
ternana'e on Wednesday.
The House adjourned at 25 minutes to one o'clock.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

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MOONLIGHT MURDER IN KERRY.

About seven o'clock on Sunday evening an armed
and pai tially dieguised band of men visited several
farmhouses in the neighbourhood of Lockketarn, near
Killarney, and took away arms from the houses of
four men, named Lyons, Shea, Fleming, and Murphy.
The latter, in obedience to a repeated demand, also
gave up a revolver. As the last of Murphy's assail-
ants was walking away he turned round and asked
Murphy if he was a water bailiff. Murphy replied
that he had been; but had eiven up the appointment.
His interlocutor then fired at Murphy, striking him
in the leg and causing a terrible fracture. The men
then decamped, and no medical assistance being pro-
curable for several hours, the unfortunate victim bled
to death. The scene of the murder is a very lonely
spot in the mountains, and although the police were
summoned shortly afterwards the murderers got clear
away.

The Killarney correspondent of the Dublin Evening
Mail supplies the following details: Some time since
a widow having a small lot at the foot of the Man-
gerton Mountain, having decided on emigration, sold
her interest to a neighbour, Cornelius Murphy, for
over £3O, this being about six years' purchase. The
sale was carried out peacefully, and the woman arid
her family went to America with the ' proceeds.
Murphy wai not thought to have given offence by this,
but a large party, armed and variously disguised, made
a raid for arms in the surrouning district, and coming
to Murphy's house called him out. On obeying their
behest, and without further warning they surrounded
him, and firing a succession of volleys broke his legs.
They immediately decamped, and before any assist-
ance could be rendered Murphy bled to death. He
leaves a widow and large family.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

THE ITALIANS AT MASSOWAH.

A despatch from Cairo announces that M.
Saumagne, French Consul at Massowah, has asked to
be allowed to return to France on the ground of 111.
health. It is stated that he will shortly leave
Massowah, and will not be reph.ced for some time.
It is semi-officially declared that M. Saumange re-
ceived most formal instructions from his Government
to facilitate the settlement of the Italians at
Massowah, and that all the newspaper reports to the
contrary are unfounded.
Intelligence received at Rome from Massowah
states that on some Italian carabineers being sent to
arrest five of Ras Alula's officers, who had taken
refuge at the French Consulate, the Consul hoisted
his flag to protect them.

NAPLES, Tuesday Night.
Early this morning the Gottardo arrived hero
with 45 of the men wounded at Saati. They were
landed within the arsenal, only the officers, the
Syndic, and the Prefect being present. At noon
eleven ambulances, preceded by firemen, issued from
the arsenal gates into the large square, and com-
menced their route to the Military Hospital, through
a line kept by hundreds of associations, with their
flags, bacxed by half the population of Naples. On
entering the -Via Roma all the houses were decorated
.with flags, the balconies, terraces, and roofs were
• covered with people,who, preserving the deepest silence,
-showered flowers and leaves on the passing waggons.
One or two attempts at cheering were immediately
supprested, out of regard for the sufferers. Only a,
few shouts of " Bravi ! Bravi !" escaped from the by-
standers. The wounded, who are chiefly hurt in the
extremities, are progressing well. Only a few men
could be seen in the ambulances, smiling faintly at
, their reception. Very few could raise their hands in
acknowledgment of their welcome. The whole
Consular Body took part hi the reception. The
Universities of Rome and Palermo had sent deputa-
tions.
King Humbert is expected here to visit the
wounded. The festivities of this, the last and
generally the noisiest day of the Carnival, have been
suspended. All the shops were closed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

SIR H. WANES ON THE LAND
QUESTION.

Mr. Arthur Arnold has received the following
letter from Sir Henry James, M.P.: "I am very glad
to hear that you are about to place your views upon
our land laws before my friends at Hury. I see but
Mile hope of effecting any beneficial change in our
system of land transfer or of substantially increasing
the number of owners of land until we get rid of our
pernicious system of settlement and entail. So long
as land can be settled so that it may be the interest
of tenants for life to care nothing for the future of
the land or of those who occupy it, so long as land
can be securely settled on persons unborn and who
may be totally unfit to bear the responsibilities of
their inheritance, the work of the reformer will be
but cf little avail. Knowing the principles on which
the Free Land League is founded (though not agree-
ing in some details of its programme), I most sin-
certly wil,h it and you every success to the good work
you have undertaken.'
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

A STUDY IN SUICIDE'

The circumstances connected with the suicide of a
young Turkish journalist, Beshir Fuad Bey, are of so
singularly melancholy a nature that it may not be
thought prurient on our part (says the Levant
Herald) to record them here. On Saturday last Fund
Bey returned to his home at Nalli Medjid, Stam-
boul, about nine o'clock. After completing certain
correspondence he loaked himself in, and proceeded
to undress. Then, having inoculated his left arm
with cocaine to kill the pain he opened the veins of
it in four different points' cutting the carotid artery
with a pair of scissors. While the blood was thus
flowing from his wounds Fuad Bey wre'zo as follows
until compelled by weakness to desist: "My opera-
tion is performed. I felt no pain—only a slight
pricking after the loss of blood. At: this moment
my sister is outside, knocking; but I have sent
her away, saying I am busy. Luckily she does
i not insist upon entering. I can imagine no sweeter
death than this. I lift my arm to let the blood flow
freely. My head swims—l am going to faint."
I. . . . The narrative stops there. Fuad Bey
could never continue it. When the door is at length
broken open, which is not effected until his death-cry
summons the household, he is found there in his last
agony. "Doctor," he says feebly to the surgeon who
tries to administer relief, "give yourself no trouble;
I have but five minutes to live." And after a few
moments Fuad Bey breathes his last. A letter was
found, addressed to the police, in which the deceased
I
begged them to accuse no one of his death. He
l'bequeathed his body to the School of Medicine for
the purpose-of dissection. In letters to his friends,
Fuad Bey declared that his mother had died in a
mad state, and that doctors had told him that a like
fate was in store for him. Thus, after squandering his
fnrtaine of someL2o,ooo, he resolved to kill himself.
Fuad Bey was only 32.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

THE LIBERATION OF PRISONERS IN INDIA.

_
Lord Derby asked the Secretary of state for India,
whether 25,000 prisoners had been liberated by order
of the Governor• General in honour of the Jubilee;
whether there was any precedent in Engli2h or Anglo-
Indian administration for a proceeding of that nature;
and if there had been such a liberation of prisoners,
what conditions had been imposed or precautions taken
to prevent injury or danger to the public from so large
a release of prisoners, presumably, in part at least,
belonging to the criminal classes.
Lord Lytton observed that in 1877,0 n the`assump ion
of her Majesty of the title of Empress of India nearly
16,000 prisoners, or about 10 per cent. of the total
number confined in India were set at liberty, and no
bad results followed. Prom time immemorial it had
been the practice of the native Princes of India to
liberate prisoners on great public occasions.
Lord Cross read a telegram frora Lord Dufferic,
which stated that the number released was, of the
criminal class 23,700, and of the civil 298. No prisoner
had been released whose conduct in prison had not
been good and in the case of the majority of
those liberated tne sentences would have expired
between the 16th of the present month and the 20th of
next June. All habitual criminals had been excluded
from tne benefit of the act of clemency, and no bad
results were likely to follow from that act.
Lord Ripon, having regard to former experience, did
not anticipate any evil consequences from an act which
was in accordance with native opinion.
Their lordships rose at five minutes to five o'clock.
FRANCE AND THE HEBRIDES.

In the House or Commoes, Sir J. Fergusson stated,
in answer to Mr. Osborne Morgan, that her Majesty's
Government had been informed that the French plats
in the New Hebrides had been much reduced, and that
a correspondence was in progress with the French
Government with a view to arrangements under which
they would be removed altogether. The right hon.
baronet also stated, in reply to Mr. Bryce, that arrange-
ments had been made by which the Egyptian Govern-
went would be able to dispense with the Oorvee during
the present year.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

BURNLEY ELECTION.

The voting took place on Saturday at Burnley amid
considerable excitement, and about ten o'clock at night
the poll was declared as follows:
Mr. Slagg (G L) 5026
Mr. Thursby (0)

Majority 545
The vigour with which the contest was prosecuted
was abundantly proved by the fact that within 131
persons of the total of 0688 on the register for the
borough recorded their votes, as compared with no
less than 1263 abstentions on the occaston of the elec-
tion fait year, when Mr. Rylands retained his reat by
the narrow majority of 43 over his opponent, Mr.
Greenwood, the Gladstonian candidate.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

OUR ARMED CRUISERS.

The TJmbria, one of the three Cunard steamers
which the British Admiralty have taken up to act as
armed cruisers in case of war, is now being dtted with
platforms on her turtle backs, fore and aft, so that
while continuing in her regular course of her trade
she can be at once fitted with guns should an emer-
gency arise. This action of the Government hag
been very generally commended, as for a very mode-
rate sum per annum, as fee, they are assured of the
services of the fastest steamers in the British mercan-
tile marine, should necessity require them. As a
proof of the speed of these vessels, illustrations of
which have been frequently chronicled, it is reported
that the Etruria, which left the bar of the Mersey at
four p.m. on Saturday, the 12th inst., and the captain
of which was specially reminded of his instruction s
to take the most southerly, and consequently the
longest, route, to avoid the number of icebergs and
field ice so frequently reported by other steamers,
arriued at New York bar at six o'clock on Saturday
morning, making the passage from Liverpool in six
days 19 hours, a feat unprecedented in the history
of steam navigation.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

SUSPENSION OF IRISH MAGISTRATES.

The Lord Chancellor has superseded Mr. J. W.
Dunne in the magistracy of co. Clare, for taking part
in supporting the Plan of Campaign. Sir Thomas
17,nionde, Bart., M.P., High Sheriff of Waterford,
has been superseded. The fact that he had attended
a proclaimed meeting was, it is understood, animad-
verted upon at a meeting of the Cabinet.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

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will need to take a tight hold of all, and
enable the House to keep itself always well
in.hana if they are to be really valuable;
and He trust that party men will for once
put patriotism first, and combine for the
formulation of regulations as to debate of
such a far reaching and complete character
as to make the deplorable verbiage which
obstructs the true work of Parliament an
impossibility in the future.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

THE ALLEGED LIBEL ON DR. BIRD.

At the Bow-street Police-court Mr. C. J. Durant,
the printer of Life appeared to a summons charging
him with printing an alleged libel on Dr. Bird, con-
taining in an article headed " Cockiolly Bird," and
published on Jan. 6. Mr. Thomas Terrell prosecuted;
Mr. Templeton defended. Mr. Terroll, in opening
the case referred to the fact that the owner and- the
publisher of Life had already been committed for
trial for publishing an article written by E. J.
Morton. Mr. Durant was the printer of the paper
in question. Since the prosecution had been in-
stituted some correspondence had been passed between
Dr. Bird's solicitor and the defendant and the writer,
and they had given explanations to a certain extent
'as to the real culprit, which would enable the prose-
cution to reach the proper head. It was proposed to
give formal evidence of the issue of the Public Prose-
cutor's fiat, and the purchase of the paper containing
the article, and to ask for an adjournment for a week.
Then in all probability, subject to the approval of the
Court, it would be unnecessary to proceed further.
The necessary formal evidence was then given. Mr.
-Templeton, on behalf of Mr. Durant, said he was the
printer of a number of periodicals, and Mr. Telber-
man, the proprietor of Life, was merely the custotner.
He expressed regret on behalf of Mr. Durant that, in-
directly through him any libel should have been cir-
culated, but the manager of his establishment would
be called, and depose to the practice of perusing the
proofs. On this occasion, however, the manager
was away. Mr. Durant was a member of the last
Parliament, and his position as printer of so
many periodicals rendered it impossible that he
could read everything that passed through the office.
Mr. Swindale, manager to Mr. Durant, deposed that
the defendant printed a number of weekly papers.
Witness's duty was to revise proofs. He did not see
the proof of the article in question, as he was away
ill. In his capacity as reviser of proofs witness had
excised matter. By Mr. Terrell: Witness had ex-
cised matter of a libellous and improper character
from Lire. He produced the original manuscript of
the article, and identified a portion of the article as
being in the handwriting of E. J. Morton. Two of
the slips in the article were in a different hand-
writing. Witness did not know the writer. Mr.
Terrell said be was sorry to have to proceed against
Mr. Durant, but if it were not for some persons with
capital these mischievous articles would not be printed.
The case was adjourned for a week.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

THE PEABODY TRUST.

The 22nd annual report of the trustees of the Pea-
body Donation Fund has been issued. The report,
after a reference to the lamented death of the Earl of
lddesleigh, who for the past 18 years had taken an
active part in the affairs of the trust, announces that
the net gain of the year from rents and interest has
been £29,656 ss. 5. The MITI given and bequeathed
by Mr. Peabody was, in 1862, £150,000; in 1866,
£100,000: in 1868, £100,000; and in 1873, £150,000,
making a total of £500,000, to which has been added
money received for rent and interest, £4'0,66835. hi.,
niaking the total fund on the 31st of I:ecember last
£910,663 3s. id. Of the £390,000 borrowed of the
Public Works Loan Commissioners and others,
mentioned in the last report, the trustees have
paid off £88,666 13s. 46., leaving a balance
unpaid of £304333 6s. Bd. Within the past year the
trustees have expended on land and buildings
£5911 us. 96., making the total expenditure to the
end of the year £1,216,462 2s. 7d., and during the
year five blocks of buildings at Old Pye-street, West-
minster, containing 262 rooms have been opened. Up,
to the end of the year the trustees have provided for
the artisan and labouring poor of London 11,150
rooms, besides bathrooms, laundries, and washhouses,
occupied by 20,228 persons. These rooms comprise
5014 separate dwellings—say 74 of four rooms. 1782
of threa.,rooins, 2350 of two rooms, and 808 of one

Du you know 'why Professor Blank wears a plug
hiit 2 1,1,1; wt.l7 is it? To cover his head, of course'
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

THE ALLEGED PHOTOGRAPHING OF

CONDEMNED PRISONERS.
Mr. Melton Prior, correspondent of the Illustrated
London News, lecturing in Newcastle, took the first
opportunity since his return from Barmah to repu-
diate the statements with which his name had been
connected respecting the photographing of men as
they were led to execution. He never saw one execu-
tion that was not conducted in the most humane and
expeditious manner possible under the circumstancep
and many of the sentimental btatementa made about
Col. Hooper, Provost Marshall, were absolutely false.
His own fiame had been cited as a witness to so-called
atrocities, but it was a disgraceful fiction.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

ELECTION PETITION BY MIL ARCH:

Mr. Joseph Arch has finally lodged a petition
sgainst the return of Lord H. Bentinck for North-
West Norfolk, on the ground that the noble lord, paid
£3 to one Charles Wrey, of South Creeke, in respect
of his election without making such payment through
his election agent, or for a lawful purpose. Mr. Arch
does not claim the seat at present held by the noble
lord.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

THOUSANDS of TESTIMONIALS.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

A MILLIONAIRL'S WILL DISPUTED.

Mr. P. H. Butler, a nephew of Mrs. Stewart, the
,Stewa-t.
attacked
millionaire
widow of Mr. A. T.
which she left her husbancl:sil)earrtnrehersi,s.
dry goods merchant, has attat
raur.niit,
his nephew, Mr. Church
Butler alleges undue influence and fraud
daryn legatees.
of Hilton, whereby the will is void as too :1111° part
e trust
respecting the half of the residue which • vested in
Hilton. Butler claims that the property
descend as in the case of an intestacy. His constrldt
would occupy six pnges of a newspaper. He alleges
that Hilton, as executor, never filed an inventory or
an account, and that during his long adminis.
tration of the estate the widow paid all the
expenses, and Hilton derived all the profit. Then the
charge proceeds that the executor contrived an ex-
traordinary trust in order to cover the traces of what
he had done. The present proceedings appear to
have been hastened by various signs of the dispersion
of the emtate, even Garden City, A. T. Stewart's espe-
cial pride, having been broken up. Butler is a
legatee under his aunt's will for fifty thousand dollars
which he forfeits by the terms of the document on
commencing this contest. His family are legateea
for four hundred thousand dollars, and the impression
prevails that Butler is acting for others under a
guarantee that he shall be reinabursed his losses and
, expenditure.

A CHINAMAN has just published a book, in which be
save: "Woman does not require study to make her-
self perfect; she is born perfect."
HE is the greatest man who chooses the right with
invincible resolution, who bears the heaviest burdens
cheerfully, and whose reliance on truth and virtue is
the moat unfaltering,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

STARTLING APPEARANCE OF A
"THIEF IN THE NIGHT.'

----
There was an unusual scene at the London City
Temple just before the commencement of evening
service on Sunday. A congregation of nearly 3000
filled the building, and Dr. Parker was on the point
of entering the pulpit when a working man, standing
on the west side, jumped on to the dais, and, flinging
his cap to the ground, exclaimed in a powerful voice
"Behold I come as a thief in the night." Instantly
every face was turned upon the intruder, but no one
aprroached him. Continuing in the same tone the
man shouted "Ye shall worship no other God but
me," and he struck the Communion table as be spoke
several heavy blows, and then flung himself into tin
pastor's chair. Fortunately the congregation re-
mained seated, there was no panic of any kind, and a
constable hurriedly walked down the aisle from the
Holborn entrance and drew the man out of the chair.
The intruder passed out of the Temple without say-
ing another word. At the door he was asked the
reason for his conduct, when he simply replied "I
was doing the work of Him or them that sent me."
He was not charged by the officials and he walked
aw4y.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

DANGEROUS PRACTICE.

The Clyde guardship Ajax, under the command of
Captain Durrant. left anchorage off Greenock on
Friday morning for Chatham, where she w,ll undergo
alterations. While passing down the Firth of Clyde,
and when opposite Innellan, an occurrence of a most
remarkable nature happened. It appears that in
going down the crew of the Ajax were bt ing exercised
in big gun drill, with the view of expending their
quarterly allowance of ammunition. About half-put
ten, at which time the Ajax was directly off Innellan,
a shot from one of the guns of the vosel was teen to
strike the water, and then ricochet with terrific force
towards the shore. It struck the ground immediately
adjoining a villa, entering the earth about ten yards
from the north-east pab,e wall. The shot made a hole
in the ground about ift. deep, and uprooted four large
trees, breaking them in pieces and scattering the
branches and fragments all over the roof of the build-
ing, as well as over the adjoining grounds, beAides
covering the roof of the house with stones. Every
window in the place was broken, ad great rents were
made in the gable walls, the house, in fact, being ren-
dered quite uninhabitable. The force of the projectile,
even after striking the ground and doing this con •
siderable damage, was not yet quite spent, as the shot
was carried about a quarter of a mile up the hill,
afterwards rolling back for some distance. The
adjoining dwelling also suffered to no little extent. A
Vumber who was emp'oyed at the house at
at the time received injuries about the body which
necessitated confinement to bed. and the servant girl
had her hands cut. The board school is in the im-
mediate vicinity of Asherove. and at the time of the
orcurrer ce was tilled with children. A slight deviation
of the shot would have brought it into contact with
this building. The Ajax people did not apparently
notice the damage that had been done; because they
went on with their firing although the other shots
went in a more seaward directh n.
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THE EGYPTIAN QUESTION.

The official announcement of Saturday of the ar-
rangement made by the Egyptian Government, with
England's support, to :avoid summoning the col-Lye,
became the subject of general comment in diplomatic
circles in Cairo. Importance was attached to it as,
apart from the corvee question itself, it was the first
time that England had openly assumed responsibility,
for an act of the Egyptian Government. The follow-
ing semi-official note was published in Paris in refer-
ence to the subject: "The revocation of the decree
snmaioning the come mid the measures taken for the
payment of the labourers are subjects for congratu-
lation. This solution of the question justifies the
strict conditions which certain Powers attached to
their adhesion to the scheme for the partial abolition
of the corvee by increasing the expenditure under the
Budget for Public Works by -CE250,000. It proves,
in fact, that it was unnecessary to lessen the chances
of the repayment of Egyptian bondholders to the ex-
tent of £E250,000, and that the normal resources pf
the Budget perfectly sufficed for the aboli.,ion of the
corvee."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

ADMIRALTY EXPENDITURE.

The Lords of the Admiralty have, we (Daily News)
ara informed, decided to ask for a large supp!ementary
estimate, deficits having occurred under nearly every
head of service, through under-estimating the expendi-
ture at ther commencement of the financial year.
Another cause of deficiency is the rapid rate at which
the shipbuilding programme has been carried out.
The Renown and Sanspareil espechlly have been
pressed on so rapidly that additional expenditt.re of
nearly £lOO,OOO has been incurred. Another item is
Di 5,000 for armour plates required for these and
other ships, and very large amounts not provided for
have been expended in the purchase of coal and other
stores by ships on foreign stations.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

THE WORK BE} ORE THE CABINET.

. -
The Press Association understands that the de-
liberations of the Cabinet on Saturday had relation' to
the work of the session, the Irish measures upon
which a committee of the Cabinet has been engaged
occupying a considerable portion of the time of
Ministers. Lord Ashbourne catne specially from
Dublin to attend, and prioi. to the Council his lord-
ship had an interview, lasting half an hour, with Sir
Michael Hicks-Beach, at his officinal residence in
Downing-street. The state of affairs in Egypt is also
believel to have been under con•ideration. During
the sitting or the Cabinet several communications
from tlfe- -East 'were fo.rwardert-lfriftn- thi-Tareign
Office, their contents having relation to questions tele-
graphed earlier. in the day. The Cabinet sat two -tri
a half hours. . -
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

A GERMAN JINGO,

In a German military pamphlet, " Franee under
Arms," published by Major General Blanchard de
Meisendorf, the writer decitires that Belgium must
be one day deprived of her privileged position and be
drawn into a definitive membership of the Germanic)
family. Belgium, Holland, Denmark, North Switzer-
land, the Franche-Comte, Livonia, Trieste, -Venice,
and the north of France, from the Somme to the
Loire, are all to be incorporated With the Baron de
Meiendori's fatherland, if the programme be carried
out which he exposes in his pamphlet. All we have
to do, observes the author, is to make our advances
successively. By confining our efforts diplomati-
cally as well as in the field, each time to a single.
object, "we shall avoid raising up against
ourselves coalitions of various Powers." Baron de
Meisendorf regards the French and Germans as
hereditary foes, whose struggle to the death must,
soon or late, inevitably arrive. Personally, he would
wish for the encounter at once, because the courage
and heroism of his countrymen might suffer by
delay. It is their duty to crush the French for ever;
the time has come when "the empire of these Franks,
who for a thousand years and more have lived only
by intrigues, brigandage, and thefts of territory, must
be levelled to the ground." The worthy Baron, says
the Paris correspondent of the Morning Advertiser,
expressly proclaims the maritime rights of his country
not only on the North Sea, but on the Mediterranean
and the Atlantic.

FIVE great enemies to peace inhabit with us, viz.,
avarii:e, ambition, envy, anger, pride. If those
enemies were ta be banished, we should infallibly
enjoy perpetual peace.
Tiiis is a manly world We live in. Our reverence
is good for nothing if it does not begin with self-
respect. Occidental manhood springs from that as its
basis.
THERE'S generally more oomfort than ache, if we
didn't live right in the middle of the ache. But, you
see, that's the great secret to find out. If we ever do
get it—complete.
JON ES was looking around a picture exhibition with
an artist friend, who had the good luck to have one
of his pictures hung. Shoe me, he said, the successful
painting.—There it is, the portrait of a lady.—Oh !
charming as to execution, but bow did you come to get
hold of such an ugly model P.--Why, it happens to be my
mother, replied the artiit.—Youeteother r exclaimed
poor Jones, greatly embarrassed. Dear me! You
must pardon me; and still, if I hadn't been such a
stupid, I might have recognised it. Why: unfri
as alike as two peas' - -
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

A DANGEROUS CUSTOMER TO BE AT

• - LARGE.
At the Makborough-street Police-oourt on Satur-
day, Frederick Gosling, 36, hotel porter, residing in
Brewer-street, Buckingham Palace-road, was charged
on remand with assaulting Christina Tyler, a married
woman residing in Carrington-street, Mayfair. The
prosecutrix is a cook, and on the evening of the 6th
inst., as already reported, went into the Cheshire
Arms, Carrington-street, to get her supper beer.
On leaving the bar she noticed the prisoner in the
street, nearly without clothing, bolding a big stick in
his hand. Suddenly he uttered a dreadful yell, and
struck her a violent blow across the head, inflict-
ing a severe wound, and causing her to lose a great
deal of blood. She stumbled backwards, when the
accused made another blow at her, which fortu-
nately missed her, but broke the glass in the door of
the public-house. Afterwards the accused smashed
the windows at several houses in the neighbourhood,
doing considerable damage. Eventually he was ar-
rested by Constable Downton, and conveyed in a cab
to St. George's Hospital, where he was pronounced to
be suffering from acute mania. Thence he was re-
moved to the Fulham Infirmary, where, after being
treated for some days, he recovered his senses. Dr.
Henry W. Webster, medical officer to the St. George's
Infirmary, now said that the accused, when brought
to the infirmary, was suffering from mental aberra-
tion. Mr. Mansfield inquired whether the affection
was likely to be chronic. Dr. Webster said he
could not in any way account for the man's con-
duct. One day the accu=ed told him he must kill
people. He also told him on another occasion that
God bad said he was a very bad man, and that
he dreamt ho was dead. The prisoner got very much
better by the 11th inst., and was discharged the next
day. He was seen by a magistrate, Sir John Tilley,
with the view of his being put into an asylum, but he
declined to send him to one. Mr. Mansfield said it
seemed that at times the prisoner got into a condi-
tion which rendered it dangerous to the public that
he should be at large. Dr. Webster remarked that
it was impossible to send a man to an asylam if he
was sane on the day he was examined. Mr. Mans-
field then said it was evidently impossible to send the
accused to an asylum after what the doctor had
stated. He felt bound, however, in the interests of
the public to have some guarantee for his good con-
duct in future, and he would, therefore, have to find
two sureties in the sum of £25 to keep the peace for
the next three months. Two householders immedi-
ately stepped forward and tendered the necessary
bail, and the prisoner thereupon left the court with
his friends.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

EXECUTION AT LINCOLN.

Richard Insole was executed at Lincoln Gaol on
Monday morning for the murder of his wife at
Grimsby last month. Insole suspected his wife's
fidelity, and during a paroxysm of jealousy followed
her into her father's house and shot her with a rc-
volver. Berry was the executioner. Insole, since
his condemnation, had paid great attention to the
ministrations of the Bishop of Lincoln, who has fre-
quently visited him, and also to the prison chaplain.
The bishop administered the Sacrament to him on
Sunday morning, and was in attendance upon him
from eight o'clock on Monday morning until just
before the execution. The condemned man went to
bed about half-past nine o'clock on Sunday evening,
and slept until one o'clock on Monday morning when
he lay awake for an hour, afterwards sleeping until
four o'clock. He rose at five, but refused any break-
fast except a cup of tea. The chaplain remained
with him from seven until eight, when the bishop
visited him until the arvival of Berry, about four
minutes to nine. The prisoner, who remained calm
while being pinioned, walked steadily to the scaffold,
and placed himself under the beam, when Berry ad-
justed the rope and cap, drew the lever, and the
wretched culprit dropped four ands half feet. There
was scarcely a vibration of the rope, and death ap-
peared to be instantaneous.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

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EXTRAORDINARY DISAPPEARANCE
AT DUBLIN.

The extraordinary disappearance is just announced
of a girl named Ethel Roe, aged 13, from the house
of her grandmother, Mrs. Peckman Roe, 27, Pem-
brol A-road, Dublin. The girl went to bed at the
usual hour on Saturday night on the most affectionate
terms with her grandmother, but on Sunday morning,
at about eight o'clock, her bed was found empty, and
the hall doo;., which was looked the previous night,
was open. All her clothing was left behind except
her shoes and stockings, a flannel wrapper, and a
shawl, no linen or anything marked being taken.
None of the other inmates of the house was absent.
It is supposed that someone entered or was admitted
during the night, stupefied the girl, and carried her
off. Her mother is a Roman Catholic, and the father
and grandmother Protestants, and she is a ward of
the English Chancery Court.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

THE BULGARIAN CRISI S.

A letter from St. Petersburg published by the
journal Le Nord, of Brussels, is taken as a tacit under-
standing, says a Paris correspondent, that Russia will
observe an attitude of reserve with regard to the Bul-
garian question, firorder to have her hands entirely
free in case of a Franco-German conflict. While
earnestly de3iring peace, Russia would not, says the
letter, which is regarded as inspired, allow Germany
to annihilate France. This communication, confirm-
ing, as it does, previous similar views in the Moskof-
skiya Vitriomosti of M. Katkoff and the Politisch3
Correspondenz of Vienna, is looked upon here as a
virtual promise to France of a Russian alliance as a
means nt maintaining the European equilibrium.

One of the fresh proposals made by the Porte for
the settlement of the Bulgarian question is that all
the existing parties should have an equal share in the
government of the country, and should proceed by
common accord to choose a Prince.

The Peseer Lloyd declares that no agreement exists
between Russia and Austria, and that Austria would
regard the occupation of Bulgaria is a easus belli. In
the event of an occupation of the Principality Austria
would not oppose the occupying force in Bulgaria, but
would choose points of attack far more favourable
for her operations.

VIENNA, Tuesday Night.
For several days there has been no news whatever
about Bulgaria, either from Constantinople or Sofia,
but it is still believed that the Sobranje will shortly
meet. This, if true, is a serious matter. The nego-
tiations are not sufficiently advanced, nor has any of
the candidatures for the Throne assumed any novel
feature calling for a meeting of the Great Sobranje,
and if the Assembly to be convened is that which
fat at Tirnova, no other conclusion is possible, but
that the Bulgarian Government, tirtd of negotia-
tions, intend to create a fait accompli of some
sort, such as would give the Bulgarirn Question
a fresh start. It is asserted in some quarters, usually
well informed, that this fait accompli will be the re-
election of Prince Alexander. I heard this rumour a
fortnight ago, and may say that the events since have
tended to give it a show of credibility. It is, how-
ever, merely a report, and one which very much re-
quires confirmation. It could only mean that some
Power thought the moment propitious to precipitite
a solution, and that Power is certainly neither
England nor Austria.
All the Vienna papers by a strange coincidence
have leaders this morning on the conversion of M. de
Giers to M. Katkoff's ideas as expressed by the
declaration in the Nord, the Polittsche, and the Journal
de St. Petenthourg.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

STARTLING INCIDENT AT A PRIMROSE

LEAGUE MEETING.

On Saturday evening, whilst a Primrose League
concert was taking place at the Royal Hotel Assembly
Rooms, Weimouth, an event occurred which, but for
the presence of mind of two or three persons, might
have been attended with very serious consequences.
The walls had been decorated some time before with
evergreens, curtains, and miniature lamps, and during
the evening someone pushed against an upright on
which a portion of the decorations was fixed, and in
a moment the curtains and evergreens were in a blaze,
the flames reaching as high as the ceiling. At this
time the room was packed, and a rush was made for
the doors: but, fortunately, before many of the
people could get outside that portion of the decorations
where the fire broke out was pulled down, and the
audience were assured there was no danger. The
fire took place near the platform, so that it was easy
to extinguish it. For a time there was great con-
sternation, but the entertainment was afterwards pro.
ceeded with.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-02-26

THE BIRTH OF MATTEL

Human thought has never been able to form a
theory of the origin of matter, life, or force, any more
than to conceive a beginning of time or limit of space.
Of matter, hitherto men have been accustomed to
think that the 70 or more so-called elements were the
ultimate atoms. The other night, in the Theatre of
the Royal Institution, and in presence of a dis-
tinguished audienca, Mr. William Crookes, F.R.S.,
brought forward, in a lecture on the "Genesis of the
Elements," a series of brilliant experiments tending to
show that these atoms have been themselves evolved
from simpler forms of matter. The learned chemist
dealt chiefly with the substance yttrium, derived
from one of the rare earths, and to break it up
into its fractions he had to use the electric current,
the spectroscope, and phosphoresence in an
exceedingly rare medium. Mr. Crookes has
carried beyond any other investigator ex-
perimentation in the nearest possible approach to a
vacuum, and, amid loud cheers, he produced a little
phial containing air of only the fifty-millionth of
common air in density, and yet holding within fir
cubic centimetres (less than five-sixteenths of a cubic
inch), he confidently asserted, 100 million million
molecules. The experiments were made in air of
about the millionth of an atmosphere, and the phos-
phorescent glows produced were exceedingly fine.
As a net result, the yttrium appeared to be broken
up so as to yield at least six new elements; and thence
followed the conclusion that at some time in the
history of the universe these materials had been com-
bined. " A few weeks ago in this theatre," said Mr.
Crookes, "Sir Wm. Thomson asked you to travel
back with him an imaginary excursion of about
20,000,000 years. He pictured to you the moment im-
mediately before the birth of our sun, when the LucrT-
tian atoms rushed from all parts of space with veloci-
ties due to gravitation, and, clashing together, formed
an incandescent fluid mass, the nucleus of a solar
system with 30,000,000 years of life in it. I ask you
to accompany me to a period even more remote, to
!he very beginning of time, before even the chemical
atoms had con solidated from the original protyle "
and thus starting, the lecturer went on to show how,
by the process of cooling and the intervention of
varying states of electricity, the successive elements,
as we now know them, might have come into existence
from one single form of primordial matter. Pro-
longed applause followed the close of the address.