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STATE OF IRELAND.
THE IRISH PROSECUTIONS.

The following notice has been served in Dublin on
the defendants in the Irish "Plan of Campaign"

" GOVERNIIZNT PKOSZCIITIONS.

"Sir,—Take notice, that the prosecutions against
John Dillon, M.P., William O'Brien, David Sheehy,
M.P., William K. Redmond, M.P., and Daniel Crilly,
M.P., against whom an indictment for conspiracy was
found by the Grand Jury of the City of Dublin at the
last February Commission, and whose trial at said
Cotumission resulted in a disagreement of the Jury,
will not be proceeded with.'
PATRICK CoLL, Crown Solicitor, on behalf of
the Attorney General, Chief Secsetary',
Office. Dublin Castle."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-04-09

CRUELTY TO TURTLES.

Lieut.-Colonel P. D. Trotter writes to the Times
from Edinburgh: "I am not acquainted with the
habits of turtle, so am unaware to what extent the
following treatment may be prejudicial to their com-
fort. As it is abhorrent to humanity, I think atten-
tion should be drawn to it. I returned lately from
Jamaica in a ship in which there were over 100 of
these reptiles, and by the time the survivors reached
England they had been four or five weeks absolutely
without food of any sort. For the first few days they
lay upon the deck on their backs, their outstretched
fins being trodden on and bruised by passers-by; the
shells of some were broken and out through, exposing
the flesh, and in many cases their eyes were knocked
out, or in. After three days they were lowered
by the steam-winch—some of them at that
time weighing over 3001 b.—in couples, suspended
by their fins, and stowed closely on the lower deck.
Their deep-drawn sighs, the only remonstrance they
make, and the appearance of their stomachs, all con-
cave and hollowed out through starvation, were
pitiable, and their loss of weight and evil condition
would have touched the heart of an alderman. When
too weak to move they were turned over face down-
wards, and all that had not been hove overboard dead
during the latter part of the voyage were landed in a
semi-dying state. The passengers, whose cabins were
mostly on the main deck, annoyed by the fcetid smell
arising from these moribund creatures, signed, on
sanitary grounds, a protest; but it seems to me a
case in which the law should step in and insist on the
turtle being killed before starting, when, stowed in an
ice-room, they would arrive in far better condition
than now."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-04-09

ALARM IN AFGHANISTAN;

A Lahore paper announces, from what it declares
to be a reliable source, that the Ameer of Afghanistan
is seriously alarmed at the combination of the tribes
against him, and has applied to the Indian Govern-
ment for help and advice.
The Afghans say that the country has been secretly
sold to the British, and that the railway towards
Oandahar has been sanctioned in order to facilitate
_their advance.
The financial element is rampant against the Ameer,
who has secured the bulk of his treasures at Fyzabad,
whither he will retire in the event of a reverse.

The Pioneer of Allahabad states that the Viceroy,
when last visiting that city, received disquieting news
from Afghanistan.
Intelligence received at Bombay through a native
source states that Nur-Mahomed and a company of
Sadu rebels are believed to have joined the Mollah
of Sagaree, and to be endeavouring to instigate a
rising in the Teerah district.
Ayoub Khan has sent money to Gholam-Haider-
Khan, the Ameer's former Commander-in-Chief, who
is now in revolt against him, and that chief has suc-
ceeded in inducing several ithilzai Khans, who were
proceeding to Cabul, to offer their submission to
Abdul Rahman to turn back, assuring them on his
oath that they should not be thwarted in a second
attack upon the Ameer's troops.
The Ghilzais are stated to be collecting in large
numbers at Mushki, and planning an attack upon
Gh uz n i _ _ _

The Russians are making roads in the direction of
Badakshan. _

The Governor of Herat reports that the Russian
railway is daily nearing that place.
According to reports received at Calcutta from
Afghanistan, the Russian Trans-Caspian Railway is
nearly completed between Chardjui and Bokhara.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-04-09

ILLNESS OF SPEAKER PEEL.

We regret to announce that the Speaker has been
suffering for some days from an affection of the veins
of the legs, due to lengtheind sittings in the Chair, and
he has been ordered to rest for a few days, in order to
avoid more serious consequences.
The Speaker had to leave town on Tuesday for his
seat in Warwickshire.

Mr. Courtney, Deputy Speaker, has had to occupy
the Chair and fulfill all the duties of the Speaker
during the absence of the right hon. gentleman.
The Press Association says "Although the recent
prolonged sittings of the House of Commons have
aggravated the malady from which the Speaker is
suffering, the right hon. gentleman's indisposition was
in no way the result of the incident which immediately
followed questions on Monday evening. Mr. Peel has for
some time been put to considerable incoLvenience by
varicose veins in the leg. During the latter part of last
week he performed his duties under conditions of
great physical discomfort, and on Saturday the symp.
torr s had become so serious that he was obliged to re-
main in his room the whole of the day. A number of
friends, including Lord Salisbury, had accepted invite.
tions to dine with the Speaker on Saturday evening,
but the host's Feat was vacant, Mrs. Peel having to
apologise for her husband's unavoidable absence The
tight hon gentleman attended at the House at
four o'clock on Monday, contrary to the wishes of his
friends, but he was anxious to be in his place when the
question of his conduct was raised. It was noticed on
Friday night that the pallor which normally charac-
terises his features was even more pronounced than
usual a circumstance which was generally attributed to
excitement; it now appears that he was in acute
physical pain. When the right hon. gentleman rose
last evening to address the House it was evident tha'•
he was sorely distressed."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-04-09

THE BELFAST RIOTS.-SENTENCES.

On Saturday evening, at the Antrim Assizes at
Belfast, Lord Justice Fitzbibbon passed sentence on
several persons found guilty of taking part in the
riots at Belfast. John Maury, found guilty of riot-
ing on the 21st September last, was sentenced to six
months' imprisonment, and at the ensl of that terra
to find bail for subsequent good behaviour for three
years, or in default an additional term of three
months. John Farrelly, Felix M‘Manus, and Robert
M`gee were convicted of unlawful assembly on the
2901 September. Farrelly was sentenced to 12
months' imprisonment, with an additional three
months in default of finding bail for his good be-
haviour for three years afterwards. M'Manus was
sentenced to six months' imprisonment, with the
same alternative in default of bail; and Robert
11'Kee, whom the jury had recommended to mercy,
was sentenced to three months, with a like period of
incarceration in default of bail. Daniel Donney, who
pleaded guilty to a charge of riot on the 29th 'January
last, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment,
and three months additional in default of finding bail.
James Parkes, Richard Flannigan, and James Moore
were convicted on separate trials of taking part in a
riot on January 29. Parkes and Flannigan were sen-
tenced to 18 months' hard labour, at the end of
which time they must find bail for their good be-
haviour, or undergo an additional period of six
months. The sentence on Moore was 12 months,
and three months additional also provided he did
not find bail. This concluded the criminal business
at the assizes, which this year has been unusually
heavy.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-04-09

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PRUSSIA AND THE VATICAN,

The Cologne Gazette publishes a report of an inter-
view which a member of its editorial staff has bad
with Monsignor Galimberti, Special Envoy of the
Pope. Monsignor Galimberti is represented to have
declared-that, with the adoption of the new Ecclesi-
astical Bill by the Prussian Diet, the Kulturkampf
was being brought to an end, and peace was being
concluded between the Prussian Government and the
Curia. The Pontifical Envoy added that the leaders
of the Centre party had been informed of the views
of the Vatican in the matter. The North German.
Gazette, with the object of proving that the main
cause of the original estrangement between Rome and
Berlin was the hostile attitude of the newly-formed
Centre party in the Reichstag, publishes the corres-
pondence which passed on the subject between Prince
Bismarck and Count Tauffkirchen, German Chargé
d'Affaires at the Vatican, in the summer of 1871;
from which it appears that the Pope (Pius IX.) at
first disapproved the tactics of the Clericals in the
Imperial Parliament. The evident aim of the publi-
cation (the Times correspondent remarks) is to
show that the Centre party has no longer any
raison d'etre now that the Prussian Government
and the Vatican are at one; but there is
meanwhile no sign that the end of the ICulturkamDf
will see the dissolution of Dr. Windthorst's fraction.
The correspondence is the subject of unfavourable
comment in all the independent papers, the semi-
official organs remaining silent. The Liberal journals
point out that the natural inference is that Prince
Bismarck has now stopped the struggle because he is
convinced that the present Pope will do what his
predecessor refused to do in 1871—namely, order the
Centre to obey the State. Such a solution seems
distasteful to all partiss, even the National Zeitung,
which is now a Government organ, remarking that
"public opinion and Parliament supported the Falk
Laws, not because the Vatican refused to grant Prince
Bismarck's wishes concerning the attitude of the
Centre, but because they wanted a permanent settle-
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Curia, and, above all, because they regarded It as
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-04-09

THE ROUMANIAN CABINET.

A. Vienna correspondent, writing said:
The Russian Government is anxiously looking for-
ward to the possible reconstruction of the Roumanian
Cabinet in a more anti-Austrian sense. The journey
of King Charles to Berlin and this capital appears to
have aroused considerable suspicion and ill-feeling at
St. Petersburg, where the possibility of a confedera-
tion of the Balkan States being formed is contem-
plated with dismay. I understand that the Regents
have addressed to the Roumanian Government, with
the full consent of Riza Bey, an important despatch
on the acts of the Bulgarian refugees in Roumania
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-04-09

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WORCESTER SESSIONS.

The following eases of local interests have been
heard at the Worcester Quarter Session, this week,
HOUSEBREAKING AT STOURBRIDGE,—WiIiiam Gruff -
it (62), painter, who, on the previous day plea.(is
el guilty to breaking into two houses at Stourbridge,
on the 21st March, was called up for sentence.—
The Chairman said that the prisoner had addressei
a httter to Lim asking for "another chance," and
stating that the chaplain ofiihe 13irnaing!ain pri3oo
was willing to send him to America in order that
he might leal a new life. He (the Cnairman) had
cotuntuaicated with the chapl Lin, who denied the
pri-oner's statement alt.iget her, an telegraphed
that he never gave the prisoner any such
promise —Prison,r was sentenced to seven years'
penal servitude and five yea s' p3lice supervision.
BILL IGNORED —The Grand Jury ignored the
bill against Anatnon P 1 tt, on hail, charged with
indecently assaulting Betsy Johnson, on January
26, at the Lye.

DIED.
BILLINGHAM.—On the Ist lust, V illiam son of
William Billingham, Gr'rainger's Lane, Crad ey
Heath, aged 13 month.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-04-09

AFGHAN JUSTICE.

A Cabul correspondent of the Times of India, says:
The Postmaster of Cabul, who also holds the rank
of colonel in the Ameer's army, had, by conniving
with Naib Mir Sultan, become possesed Of a dupli-
cate of the seal used by the Ameer in S ate matters
and had been in the habit of availing himself of it as
occasion required. The Ameer was in due course in-
formed of the fraud, but could not for some time pro-
ceed against the accused for want of some substantial
proof, which later on was forthcoming in the shape
of a forged document which had been intercepted,
and of the contents of which the Ameer was not even
aware. His Highness, in order to detect the culprit,
ordered all his courtiers, secretaries, and other officials
to appear in his presence and compare their writing
with the writing in the forged document, but none of
them bore resemblance to it. Eventually the post-
master was summoned, who appeaked in Court well
armed. His appearance from the first so much ex-
cited the Ameer that he took the law into his own
hands, and, pulling the man by the beard, flogged him
so unmercifully tt.at he became insensible. When
he recovered consciousness he was made to write, and
his handwriting was one and the same WI that on the
forged document. The postmaster alleged in defence
that the act was committed with the full knowledge
and connivance of Naib Mir Sultan. The Anieer,
after ordering the postmaster's beard to be pulled
out, sent him to prison. No action has been taken
against Naib Mir Sultan, but an investigation has
been ordered.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-04-09

THE PARIS POST OFFICE.

It is nearly two years since the new General Post
Office at Paris was completed; its inauguration has
been several times announced and postponed, and at
the last meeting of the Ministerial Council M. Granet
drew attention to the fact that two years after the
c3mp'etion of the architectural part of :he building it
is still in an unfinished state. The XIXe. Sikle,in a
sketch of the new Post Office, says that all these
delays in its inauguration are due to defects in the
architecture as well as in the internal arrangements,
the machinery being such that it is almost impossible
to put it in motion. The building, it appears, is ap-
proached by four streets, but the public entrance is
from the Rue du Louvre only. The ground floor
contains the private offices, a public hall con-
taining thirty-two postal and four telegraph depart-
ments, the poste restante, an exchange office, quarters
for the officials, and two rooms where the mails are
received and despatched. On the first floor the
letters, &c., are sorted; on the second, which, like the
first, contains three immense rooms, provincial,
colonial, and foreign letters are dispatched and re-
ceived, and the third floor is consecrated to the
archives of the administration. Underground tha
itamp offices, and the machinery at al-horse power,
which is arousing the wrath of the employ6s. The
XIXe. Siècle concludes its account by saying: "Here,
in the very heart of Paris, at a place where two
magnificent roads meet, a building has been put up
which is nothing but an absurd montsment constructed
and decorated in the most crude and disgraceful
manner." And this has been built under the diree-
tion of the Society of Arts.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-04-09

AN AWFUL BONDAGE.

A correspondent of the Japan Mail states, that
although the sales of female children for a life of
shame is forbidden by the law of Japan, the trade is
nevertheless still actively carried on. The writer
gives the following instances of the traffic, from which
it appears this new slave trade is shamelessly carried
on in the far East: While conducting a Sunday
school in a provincial city it was noticed that some
girls belonging to families that could hardly be spoken
of as "under the pressure of extreme indigence"
soon dropped out of the classes. Inquiry showed that
they were kept at home to receive lessons upon the
samisen in order that, because of this accomplish-
ment, they might be disposed of at a higher price than
could otherwise be obtained. The girls professed not
to care anything for the samisen and to be averse to
entering upon an improper life; but they must obey
their fathers. Remonstrances with the parents
availed nothing. I have knowledge of twb cases
where girls, after the death of their parents, were
sold by their brothers to pay the debts of the
family. Two or three years since, when travelling
on a small Japanese steamer, a woman brought a
girl, 15 or 16 years old, bared to the waist,
into the cabin and commenced negotiating for her
sale to one of the passengers, who appeared to be
connected with that branch of business. The matter
was discussed in the most cold-blooded manner, as
though it were a dog instead of a human being that
was being bargained for. As the girl was unabl6 to
play any musical instrument, the man said that she
was not worth more than five or six yen, and he
advised the woman to keep her until she had been
sufficiently trained to sell at a higher price. I was
recently told by a Japanese lawyer of high standing
that it would be very difficult to prove any violation
of the law against such sales. The girl would be
spoken of as owing money to the owner of the house
of rice, so that she must remain in its service until
the debt was cancelled. So far as he knew, no inter-
ference was made by the officers except when a girl
absolutely refused to obey her parents. A large pro-
port!on of the sales are made when the girls are only
10 or 12 years old. Inmates of these houses often
run away, but when discovered are forced to return.
A well-informed Japanese tells me that, even though
the girl should resist and call upon a policeman for
help against violence, he would not prevent her from
being carried back. She has at least done wrong by
absconding, and if she has had any reason to complain
of ill-treatment, she should make her appeal from the
house where she belongs. The same gentleman tells
me that many husbands sell their wives even, to
houses of an improper character.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-04-09

A SEQUEL TO TWO MYSTERIES.

It will be remembered that about three weeks ago
a well-dressed man, accompanied by a lady, went one
Sunday night to a chemist's in Camberwell, and
stated that the lady was ill, and that, before any re-
storative could be administered, she fell back in her
chair and died instantaneously. The assistant went
for the police, but during his absence the man de-
camped, and was not traced. At the inquest evi-
dence was given that the death of the lady was due
to sudden failure of the action of the • heart,
the result of some very strong emotion or ex-
citement, a verdict being returned accordingly.
Last week a man, well-dressed, had just passed the
sentry outside the Home Office when he drew
a revolver from his pocket, and shot himselt through
the brain. Nothing was found on him leading to
identity, but his linen was marked with the name of
a gentleman who attended the inquest and proved
that he had lent the linen to the gentleman, whom be
met nightly at the Criterion bar in Piccadilly, and
whom he knew as "Captain Davis." One of the jury-
men, however, who had examined the body very
closely, stated that he felt sure the deceased was not
Captain Davis, but a private in one of the regiments
which came home from the Soudan war, and this
statement appears now to be correct. Moreover, cir-
cumstances have since come to light which lead to the
conclusion that this private, Thomas Grey, is the man
who so mysteriously disappeared from Camberwell
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-04-09

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BALKAN TROUBLE.

CANDIDATES FOR BULGARIA.

IL Stoiloff, according to a Renter's telegram from
Vienna, admits that among the eventual candidates
for the Bulgarian Throne that of a Swedish Prince
has been taken into consideration at Sophia. He,
however, points out that the Conservative views of the
Swedish Royal family render the acceptance of such
a suggestion scarcely probable until the position of
affairs has become less involved, and more particularly
until Russia has abandoned her preuent passive atti-
tude. WILL regard to Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-
Coburg, M. Stoiloff says that nothing has been heard
of him since his meeting with the Bulgarian deputa-
tion in Vienna in De:ember last. On the other hand,
M. Stoiloff says that the idea of Prince Alexander's
re-election daily gains popularity in Bulgaria, although
the Regency, bearing in mind the notorious objection
of his Highness to return to the Priucipality, abstains
from affording any support to the movement in his
favour. M. Stoiloff, while at Constantinople, acquired
the firm conviction that Russia's real candidate is
Duke George of Leuchtenberg, although the Prince
of Mingrelia has not been formally withdrawn. The
Duke of Lenclatenberg, however, is not popular in
Bulgaria, while the candidacy of the Duke of Olden-
berg would meet with scarcely any opposition.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-04-09

A HUSBAND'S VENGEANCE.

In a desptch from Wheeling, West Va., the ffrew
York Times Bays: William O'Neill, aged 26 years,
was lately lying dead at the county hospital with four
balls in him, the result of attempting to meddle with
another man's wife—a former sweetheart. The shoot-
ing occurred at Elm Grove, a suburban village, about
4.30 p.m. Some mouths ago Frank Clarke, a coal
miner by trade, came here from Washington, Penn.,
and married Mollie Tanner, a sweetheart of
O'Neilrs. O'Neill took the matter very much to
heart and frequently threatened trouble. One morn-
ing he went out to Elm Grove, and, after nerving
himself with whisky, attempted to call on Mrs.
Clarke at her home. Clarke heard of O'Neill's inten-
tion, and remained at home to see that all went
well. During the afternoon, O'Neill not having been
seen for two or three hours, Clarke ventured to
leave the house, and walked down the railroad track
in the direction of the mines where he worked.
Before ho had gone fifty yaids he was suddenly con-
fronted by O'Neill, who drew a pistol. Before he
could shoot, however, Clarke opened fire, shooting
O'Neill in the arm and in the back. The wounded
man fell, when Clarke shot him again in the neck
and a fourth time in the head. Clarke threw his
pistol away and walked to a neighbour's house, where
he remained quietly until arrested. Clarke was
taken to town and lodged in gaol.

NATURE abhors a vacuum. Is this the reason that
with light-headed people all liquors go to the head?
SHALL I cut this loin of mutton saddle-wiso ? said
a gentleman.—No, said one of his guests,cut it bridle-
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-04-09

BRITISH OFFICERS IN EGYPT.

Two officers of the Welsh Regiment—Mr. Leith
and Mr. Scofield—went out the other day (according
to a Cairo correspondent) shooting near the Ghizeh
tahope
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Pyramid. About two miles from there some small
shot which one of them had fired at a bird happened
to hit some Bedouins who were passing riding on
camels. These men, dismounting, attacked the
officers, seizing their guns, one of which unfortunately
wwTehhnaettnoraffeta,ivsceoasnr_ryifti
had hold of the barrel. Three others were wounded.
en 1 ligsandei away
ifiene,
difficult
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The officers then retreated to a village close by.
ever, with the Bedouins, and maltreated them.
The police have kept the affair so secret, for
happened is no next • I, •
quite clear. It is stated
, that the women were particularly rude to the English
AN inventor at Stuttgart is said to have perfected a officers, and acted in a most offensive manner. Blame
machine for deadening the sound of a piano.. It will r attached by the Bosphore to the fact that the police
not be a success. The only sure way to keep a piano here knew nothing of the affair till this afternoon.
quiet is to deaden the pianist. But it must be remembered that the Ghizeh (Pyre-
AND so you would like to know what the M.D. mid) district is totally distinct from that of Cairo.
after a doctor's name means, Edith, would you, dear? -Fifty of the mounted police went off the same morn-
Well, it is only an indication that he possesses a license ing at a smart trot, but the 20th Hussars also went
to kill, the letters referred to standing for May off to the Pyramids at the same time, on a picnic, it
Destroy. , Was said. Twenty prisoners were brought in next
AN austere-looking lady walked into a furrier's day, and the two officers. The correspondent learns,
yesterday, and said to the yellow-beaded clerk: 1. upon. officialtatithority, that both ..tho officers were
would like to get a muff.—What fr ? demanded the I much mauled, and would have been killed had not the
clerk. To kshekarey, who ran away at the time, brought up the
eep my hands warm, you simpering
idiot! exclaimed the lady. police. The Arabs were about to hang them.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-04-09

TRUANT LIGHTNING.

The Hon. Ralph Abercromby writes to Nature,
describing a very curious observation that he has
made in his travels of a zone of almost perpetual
electrical discharge in the belt of the "doldrums"
all round the world. He says that "anywhere in
that belt a more or less intermittent display of sheet
lightning commences the moment the twilight of
sunset bas sufficiently faded away, and continues
with varying intensity till the light of morning pro.
vents further observation. The localisation of this
belt of lightinng is very obvious as we run a section
across the equator on board ship. There is very
little electrical discharge in the high-pressure belt of
anti-cyclones which encircle the earth approximately
under the lines of the tropics; but as we approach the
low-pressure band of the "doldrums," where the two
trade winch or the two monsoons meet then the dis-
play of lightning is of nightly occurrence, even if
there are no actual thunderstorms. This electric dis-
charge has a diurnal period, like every other meteoro-
logical element; for night after night, as I have slept
on deck in Malaysia during the change of the mon-
soons, I have noticed a very marked' diminution of
the lightning after one or two a.m. If a total eclipse
of the sun could last for 12 hours, I have no aoubt
that we should see more or less lightning all the time,
with a regular set of diurnal variations. Edlung and
others have noticed the gradual decrease in the fre-
quency of thunderstorms as we recede from the
equator ; but I wish to show now, not only that the
discharge is of nightly occurrence, but that the locality
of maximum effect is not so much on the equator
as in the 'doldrums.' The sheet lightning may
be the reflection of distant thunderstorms, or
it may he the silent discharge of electricity.
Meteorologists are much divided as to the
possibility of the latter; but it is certain that
the amount of sheet lightning is out of all proportion
to the frequenay of actual thunderstorms. Is it not
pos•ible that we may find in this perpetual lightning
some clue to the origin of earth-currents everywhere?
and in the diurnal variation in the discharge some
probable reason for the hourly variation of the
aurora, and of some magnetic elements? No doubt
it is at present difficult to connect the electricity of
lightning with the electro-magnetic effects of terres-
trial magnetism or the aurora; and though Edlung's
theory is defective in this respect, I cannot help
thinking that be is right in collating thunderstorms
on the equator with the glow discharge of electricity
on the Arctic circle; an it is in the hope that the
discovery of the constancy of electrical discharge,
in the `C.oldrums ' may perhaps assist in the evolu-
tion of a true theory of the aurora that I have
penned this short notic-
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-04-09

THE ENGLISH AUSICAL STYLE.

Mr. Frederick J. Crowest raises anew, in the
National Review, the good old question about the lack
of great musical composers in this country. Readmits
the lack, but accomits for it in his own way. It is not
owing, we understand him to argue, to the absence
of capacity to produce composers of that calibre; it
is owing to the defects of English musical training.
The raw material exists, but it is not properly dealt
with. A foreign, instead of a native, form is given
to it. English music, of a thoroughly characteristic
kind, exists, but it is not studied—it is not put forward
as an examplar—it has to languish in the background,
while the attention of the young English student is
given to the masterpieces of every other land. Mr.
Crowest's remedy for this is drastic. "The country,"
he holds, "must pledge itself to English music—new
and old." It must ignore the societies which aim at
promoting the works of foreign maestri. It must sup-
port all performances of national music, and none
other. Music•teachers must foster a taste for tho
compositions of native writers; and th 3 first step to
that, of course, is the dismissal of all foreign tutors.
"Banish for a season,* says Mr. Crowest, "every
vest!ge of foreign influence." Unhappliy for this
advice, the thing is impossible. So sudden a revolu-
tion could not be effected. Nor would it be wise
wholl, to discard all opportunities of studying Con-
tinental music and listening to Continental instru-
mentalists. But assuredly "an English musical
style" is what the English student ought to aim at,
and ought to have chances of acquirinT. The country
which has produced Purcell, Arne, Bishop, and the
like, has undoubtedly a distinctive school of music,
and in that school our young musicians should labour
much more than they do. At present they are by
far too cosmopolitan in their methods, and no really
great English compoeer can be looked for until
foreign writers, executants, and teachers are deprived
of the absolute rule, which, in England, a mistaken
liberality as assigned to them.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-04-09

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EXECUTION IN VIENNA.

Gcrhardus Kreitter, the man who murdered the
printer SchloFsberg in the streets of Vienna a short
time ago, and was sentenced to death for the crime,
was hanged early on Saturday morning. Although
there was nothing of an exceptional nature in the
crime, which was of a brutal and commonplace cha-
racter, a great deal of interest has centred round the
execution of the criminal for two reasons: his callous
and impenitent behaviour between the time of his
conviction and the moment of his execution, and the
fact that the sentence was carried out by the new
halgman of the capital, who is a nobleman, named
Edler von Seyfried. This aristocratic Jack Ketch,
,who wore black gloves throughout the entire
ceremony, seems to have done his work
without any bungling, although the medical
report testifies to the fact that death did not
ensue until two-and-a-half n-mutes had elapaed after
the drawly: of the bolt. Kreitter, as stated, was
thoroughly impenitent to the last moment. During
the day and night preceding his execution he ate and
drank enormous quantitiLs of food and smoked con-
tinuously, going so far, indeed, as to complain of the
quality of the cigars supplied him, and to insist upon
having Invannahs. Although nominally a Roman
Catholic, he refused to confess, and only scoffed at the
ministrations of the priest who attended him. He
wore no crucifix on his way to the gallows, and would
not allow the priest to attend him. His whole manner
was one of ostentatious indifference, in spite of the
pallor of his face. While the hangman was adjusting
the noose, Kreitter behaved in the most unseemly
manner, laughing and grinning contemptuously.
Even after death his features had the abominable
grin which they last wore in life.
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PROFESSOR HOLLOWAY'S WILL.

The Holloway will suit has been tried in the Pro-
bate Court before Mr. Justice Butt and a special jury.
The defendant's case was first opened, and several
witnesses were called to prove the execution of the
will by the late Mr. Thomas Holloway, and the sound
mental capacity of the testator. Mrs. Caroline
Young, sister of the testator, was the only witness
called to dispute the will. She admitted she never
saw anything approaching insanity about her brother;
he was peculiar, but nothing more. Although affec-
tionate towards her, three years before his death he
reduced his allowance to her to five shillings a week.
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-06-04

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