The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-01-30 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS:

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

A meeting of the Free Land League was held on
Saturday, when Mr. Arch, M.P., gave somo account of
the operation of the allotment system, and the treat-
ment of labourers in Warwickshire. The meeting was
addressed by Mr. J. Howard, Mr. Johns, M.P., and other
gentlemen.
The Land -Law Ireland (1881) Act, the first bill in-
troduced into the House of Commons this session is
backed by Mr. Connolly, Mr. Parnell, Mr. Healy, Mr.
Sexton, and Mr. W. O'Brien, and the second reading is
set
_down for Wednesday, March 24. _ _

The work of fitting the steam transport Kimberley
for the conveyance of the new gunboat Ernest to Egypt,
for service on the Nile, was commenced in the Medway
on Saturday. The Ernest will be armed with two
p_o_under a_uick-firing guns.
TheleienüëiébWed froin Ajcril 1 to the 23rd inst.
amounts to £65,053,492, or £859,847 less than the
£65,913,339 received in the corresponding period end-
ing Jan. 24, 1885. The expenditure up to the 23rd
inst. was £74,464,481, being £5;171,202 more than the
expenditure for the similar period of 1884-5. The
balances on the 23rd inst, amounted to £1,519,752, and
On Jan. 24, 1885, to £2,650,329.
A meeting of the British and Colonial Emigration
Society was hebton Tuesday in the Mansion House, the
Lord Mayor presiding, at which it was resolved to
appeal to the public and to the Imperial and Colonial
Governments for assistance to enable the committee to
relieve distress by promoting, in conjunction with the
Colonial Agents General, the emigration of suitable and
deserving families. It was also resolved that local
emigration committees should be formed in districts in
which distress prevailed, and that local funds should
be raised to aid emigration.
A considerable portion of Victoria Station, Norwich,
was destroyed on Tuesday afternoon by an explosion.
No person was injured.
Mr. Justice Chitty delivered judgment on Tuesday
in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice
in re Lord Chesham, who had died in 1882, and by his
will had left certain heirlooms, value £4OOO, to his
widow for life, after her death to be sold for the benefit
of his two younger sons. It had been suggested that
Lord Chesham should elect to pay the value to his
brothers or to allow the heirlooms to be sold. Mr.
Justice Chitty said that the late Lord Chesham had no
right to dispose of these articles, which were settled
property, and therefore there was no call on Lord
Chesham to make any election in the matter.
In the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of
Justice, the action of " Elvan Barlaud ' was tried
before Mr. Justice Denman and a common jury. Plain-
tiff sued to recover £Bl7 for the conveyance of a
picture said to be by Paul Veronese, to Moscow and
back. The cbarge included insurance and other
heavy expenses, and the jury found a verdict of
£BO5.

The Danish Folkething having rejected the financial
bills of the Government, a Royal decree has been issued
provisionally authorising the Government to defray
current expenses.
The Committee of tilt, French Chamber on the
Amnesty Bill is stated to consist of six members
averse to granting any amnesty, thrce agreeing to a
limited measure, and two in favour of a complete
amnesty.
At the weekly meeting of the Canterbury Board of
Guardians on Tuesday a letter was read from the
Local Government Board requesting to be furnished
with a report from the medical officer of the workhouse
as to the effect of the fish diet upon the health of the
inmates. During the sitting a letter was received from
the medical officer stating that the fish dinners were
very beneficial to the health of the inmates, and, with
one or two exceptions, were well liked. The experiment
has been tried for three months, and, with the sanction
of the Local Government Board, will be continued in-
definitely.
At the annual meeting of the British Shipowners at
Liverpool on Tuesday it was announced that in conse-
quence of the bad times the directors were unable, for
the first time in the history of the company, to declare
a dividend. The fleet, however, was in the best pos-
sible condition, and should any improvement in busi-
ness take place, the company would be able at once to
take full advantage of it. The reports and accounts
were unanimously adopted, and the meeting expressed
confidence in the management and directors.
At the Gloucester Assizes, on Tuesday, Mary
Hannah Leach, 21, was indicted for the murder of her
child, aged two years. She had gone from Northbeach
to South Cerney with her two illegitimate children to
see the father of the youngest, and shortly afterwards
the elder child was found drowned in a canal. When
arrested the prisoner said the child fell in ; but there
were houses near, and no alarm was made. The jury
found her guilty, but recommended her to mercy.
After being sentenced to death a jury of matrons was
empanelled, and they having found her enciente the
sentence was respited.
A gang of forgers, over 30 in number, has been
arrested at Catania, Palermo, and Cagliari. At the
first,named place some printing machines and ten
million forged notes were seized.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. the mean
reading of the barometer last week was 29.21 in.; the
highest reading was 29.41 in. on Friday evening, and
the lowest 28.85 in. on Monday morning. The
mean temperature of the air was 32.9, and 6.3 below the
average in the corresponding week of the 20 years ending
1868. The mean was considerably below the average
on each day of the week. The duration of registered
bright sunshine iB the wee% was 82 hours, against 7.8
hours at Glynde Place, Lewes.
On Saturday, at the West Bromwich rolice-cf:urf,
wolnan named Louisa Cook was fined 20s. and cests for
biting a large piece of r.esh off the eyebrow of a
neighbour named Emma Mar, with whom she lal
quarrelled.
Two Japanese sailors having died from cholera
during the short journey from Kobe to Nagasaki, and
their dead bodies beinc, thrown overboard, the
Japanese authorities immediately forbade fishing along
the coast.
Mr. Carvell Williams has introduced a bill for
extending the hours within which marria3es may be
lawfully solemnised.

It is- announced that the health of Sir Wilful
Lawson has been so impaired that, acting on the advice
of his physician, he will go at once to Egypt.
At the Norfolk Assizes, John Thorston, a labourer
was sentenced to death for the murder of Henry
Springsll, at Hingham, in December last.
There has been a subsidence on the London, Chat.
ham, and Dover Railway, near Llerne Bay Station,
about 50 feet of the embankment having given way.
The French Minister of Marine has given orders
for the suspension of the construction of two large
ironelads which were to have been commenced this
year.

- The result of the trial shroting at armour-plated
turrets intended for the fortifications of Bucharest has
led the commissior el experts to pronounce in favour
of the German turrets on the GrusorrSchurnann
system. The French turrets have been condemned.
The inns of Court are said to have withdrawn the
concessions formerly made to students for the bar, by
which, if they passed satisfactorily in certain subjects
and failed in others, the former were omitted in future
examinations. It will be now necessary for students
to pass all subjects, with the exception of Roman law,
at one examination.

The export of grain from South Rustia con4-inues to
increase despite the enormous American and In lien
competition. For the year just closed they would have
reached 100 million poods but for the failure of the
crops in Cherson, Ekaterinoslav, and Taurida. Nine
hundred and forty-five English grain-laden steamers
cleared from this port in 1885.
It is said to be the intention of the Prussian
Government to energetically proceed with the iiitemg
colonisation of its Eastern provinces with r
esTates that
element and to buy up certain larr
amongare offered for sale, and - t em" out
German peasants. A 4. e same time, the number of
German b
.ould be greatly increased.
Ec
.1-3vernment contract to the Limerick Army
clothing Factory has been extended from one to three
years in consequence of the representations of Lord
CorParvon. The contract has invariably been for the
term of one year. The contract now obtained will
amount to something like a million military garments,
and will give remunerative work to about 600 operatives
for the next three years._

On Saturday a dog was observed running about the
streets of Westminster in a frantic state, and as be
passed by a pedestrian near Westminster Abbey, he
suddenly flew at him and bit him on the leg. The un-
fortunate man was taken to Westminster Hospital,
where the wound was cauterised by the house surgeon.
lie gave the name of John Reynolds' residing in Cloud.
eqley-place, Islington. Soon after this occurrence a
boy aged seven years, named Alfred Smith, was taken
to the same institution suffering from the effects of a
bite from a dog which answered to the description of
the animal that had attacked Reynolds a short time
previously. It is not known what ultimately became of
the dog.
A fire broke out on Saturday morning in Colmore-
row, Birmingham, in the music warehouse of Messrs.
Sabin and Stockley. Before the areival of the fire-
engines the great block of buildings was i3l ablaze, and
in pouring water on the tire the firemen did great
damage to the valuable contents of the premises. Three
firemen were severely injured. In addition to the
damage done to the music warehouse, about twenty
sets of offices were burned out. The loss is estimated
at £lO,OOO.
The residence of Lady Frederick Cavendish, on
Carlton House-terrace' where Mr. Gladstone is staying
at present, has a good deal of sad interest attaching to
it. It was whilst dining there that the late Duchess of
Argyll was seized with a fatal stroke, and it was there,
too, that Lady Frederick, on that memorable evening
in May, received the dreadful tidings of her bereave-
ment. The house was presented by the Duke of Devon-
hire to his son on his marriage.

O'Donovan Roma says his work is odered to be stopped
until it becomes evident that Parliament and the I
Government intend "to keep their claws clutched upon
Ireland's throat." He does not wish to renew the
war, but he will do so unless something is done for Ire-
land. He announces the discovery of a new explosive
of amazing strength and convenience. He also says
that he has plenty of money. Doubtless he does re-
ceive some, but his chief assistant has been compelled
to seek other means of livelihood. The enthusiasm of
the Irish in America, says a correspondent, is un-
flagging.
Mr. Justice Mathew gave judgment on Saturday in
the action brought by Mr. W. E. Mirehouse to recover
£2OOO, with interest, from Mr. Edward Easton, civil
engineer' of Westminster. The defendant raised
£60,000 from the plaintiff, the Duke of Sutherland,
Mr. Justice Grantham, and others to work a !arming
estate near Cairo. The speculation collapsed when the
Egyptian war broke out, and this action was brought to
compel Mr. Easton to reimburse Mr. Mirehouse the
amount of his advance with interest. The judge held
that the plaintiff had failed to establish the greater
part of his claim; but he gave judgment in his favour
for the amount of a guarantee for interest on hia
advance.
A dreadful murder has taken place in Paris. A man
was told that his wife had formed an intimacy with
another man. Watching for them, the husband ran a
swordstick, which he had concealed in an umbrella
thrdtgh the body of the lover, who shortly afterwards'
died. He wounded the woman in the wrist. "
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At a meeting of the shareholders of the Munster and
Leinster Bank on Tuesday evening it was decided to
appoint a `cammittee, with a view to arriving at an
amicable arrtmgement with the Provincial Bank, in
reference to the opening of branches of the Provincial
in Bantry and Kinsale, contrary to an alleged promise
on the part of the directors not to open business in
towns where the Munster had a footing if the latter
bank should be reconstructed.

At Nottingham on Tuesday an inquest was held on
Thomas Smith, who amassed a large fortune in business
as a silk merchant, but of late years became greatly
impoverished, and resided with relatives in a poor part
of the town. An affection of the spine confined him
to bed, and he was scarcely able to move, but during
Monday night he slowly strangled himself by tying a
skein of silk and a handkerchief tightly round his neck.
The jury returned a verdict of felo de se.
The South-Western mail and passenger steamer
Laura had to be brought to anchor about fifteen miles
north of Guernsey at half-past four on Tuesday morn-
ing, the bottom of the high-pressure cylinder having
blown out, scalding one fireman to death. She bein,
totally disabled by this accident, the tugs Rescue and
Alert left Guernsey on Tuesday evening to render her
assistance. The Laura left Southampton on Monday
night for St. Malo.
A body of 10 armed men made their appearance in a
mountain pass in the province of Jaen on Monday, and
fired upon the military sentiaels who were guarding the
line. A fight ensued, and two of the men were killed.
The men are officially described as robbers, but are sus-
pected to be Republicans.
Mr. Flowers, the well•known magistrate at Bow.
street Police-court, died on Tuesday afternoon. He
had been ill for some time. Mr. Frederick Flowers was
the son of the late Rev. Field Flowers, of Bartnev,
Lincolnshire, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's.
inn in 1839. He was Recorder of Stamford from
1862-4, when he became a metropolitan police magis-
trate. The post thus vacant is worth £l5OO a year.
A disgraceful scene was witnessed at the annual
meeting of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce on
Tuesday. The report presented by the Council con-
tained a sentence deprecating any 'interference with
the unity of the Empire, and this gave rise to energetic
protests from a ctompact body of Nationalist members,
culminating in loud shouts and continued uproar. A
vote was eventually carried that Mr. Harrington,
M.P., who took a leading part in the affair, be no longer
heard, and, amid further scenes, the report was
adopted.
Early on Tuesday morning a landslip was discovered
on the North British Railway in the Penmanshiel
cutting, Berwickshire, by a goods train running into
the mass of rubbish which had cone down into the
cutting, owing, it is believed to the recent trs ing
weather. A portion of the train became embedded,
and the driver and stoker had a narrow escape. The
line was not cleared till a late hour.

Two mad dogs were at large in the streets of Brad-
ford on Su.ioay, and at least 20 persons were bitten by
them. In some cases the wounds are of a serious
character. In the evening one of the animals was
killed by the men employed by the corpoiation to clear
the snow from the roadways.
There were 32 shipwrecks reported during the rust
week, making the total for the present year 122
Fifteen were British-owned, five of which were lost ff
the British coasts, ens was reported as missing, one
lost with all hands, ore burnt at sea, and two sank by
collision. Four vessels foundered at sea, two :than-
doned,three (foreign) burnt, and one (Ametiean) lost
with all hands. The number of lives lost was 44.
The Rev. John Augustine Grace, the head of the
Order of Christian Brothers in Ireland, died on Mon-
day, aged 86. He was 62 years in the Order, and was
formerly well known in Preston and London.
The death has occurred at the age of 91. of M. Cha •
rarnule, one of the Republicans of '4B, who strongly
protested against the Coup d'Etat. Victor Hugo de-
voted several pages to him in his " Histoire d'un
Crime."

The materials for the first railway in Fiji are about,t3
be shipped from t..e Tees.
An inquest was held in Liverpool on Monday on the
body of Rachel Ella Bennett, aged 24, of Loßdon.
lady was visiting some friends at Prince's-Park, Liver-
pool, and on Friday morning she was found insensible
in her bed. Medical men were called in, but she did
not recover. An odour of gas was present in the room,
and the gas jet was found turned partly on. A verdict was
returned 0 the effect that death was due to congestion
of the lungs, caused by inhaling gas.
The Khedive has conferred the rank of Bey upon Mr.
Charles Clarke, C.M.8., in recognition of his services in
the Egyptian Telegraph Department.
At Barrow-in-Furness Mrs. Ainsworth, the wife of a
gentleman well-known in the town, committed suicide
by jumping into the Devonshire Dock. Although alive
when res.f.med, she died shortly afterwards.
On Sunday a student at Cheshunt College died
suddenly whilst at prayers in the College Hall. An
inquest was held by the Hertfordshire coroner, when
the medical evidence showed that death was due to
apoplexy.
Mr. Hutchison, builder and inspector of works for
the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, was
crossing their line at Bootle, on Monday, when a tram
from Liverpool ran over him, killing him instantly.
Another vacancy among the Scotch Representative
Peers has been caused by the death of Viscount Strath-
allan, at Strathallan Castle, on Saturday last.
The Postmaster-General, replying to a deputation
representing various commercial interests at Liverpool,
said he hoped that before long direct telegraphio com-
munication might be established between Live.pool and
Havre. The Government were desirous of acting in
concert with the cable companies in order to
the matter.

Fort), two children were, at the annual meeting of
the London Orphan Asylum on Monday, elected to
benefits of of the charity. It was stated that last year
seventy-seven children were admitted to the institu-
tion, in which there are now nearly five hundred et Ll-
dren.

In the City of London Cola, on Monday, Mr. Harris,
a dentist in the Mile End-road, sued the United Tele.
phone Company for £8 155., expenses incurred in r(l.-
pairing a wall which, it was alleged, had been so much
weakened in consequence of a telephone pole leaning
towards it that it had to be rebuilt. He was awarded
the amount claimed.

At Clerkenwell Police-court, on Monday, William
Lake, an engine-diiver, and a woman named Page, with
whom he had eloped. were ccmmitted for trial on a
charge of stealing various articles of furniture, the
property of Henry Page, a cabdriver. When the pro-
secutor returned home on Saturday night he was told
that his wife had gone away with Lake,and that they
had taken' certain pieces of furniture. Shortly after-
wards Lake entered the house and was immediately
given into custody.
Henry Brewer, a car man, who is charged with
committing a burglary at Charlotte-court, Whitechapel,
London, and attempting to set fire to the premises,
was again brought up at the Thames Police-court, on
Monday, and after further evidence had been given, was
committed for tiial.

The Egyptian Government has ledged an appral
against the decision in the case of the "Bosph( re
Egyptien" on the ground that the Press law extends
to European journals.
The late Mr. Crawford, Paris correspondent of the
"Daily News," was an honorary member on the French
List of the Cobden Club. At the meeting of the club
held on Saturday a vote of condolence with Mrs.
Crawford was passed, and that lady was elected an
honorary member. She will be the only lady memh,---
on the rolls of the club. natu-e is
An occurrence of a very ext-Plifil.n Blonday night
alleged to have hapPellq.o&oCir. A woman, who gave
between eightsi Kelly, and stated that she lived in
Ther nnfothinick-street, was admitted to Jervis•street
Lioppital suffering from a wound in the back of the
head, stated by her to have been inflicted by a bullet.
She says that she was sitting in her room a short time
before she came to the hospital, when the door was
opened by a man, who fired at her with a pistol. ad
then went away. She says that she knows who he
hut that "she is not such a fool as to tell." The wound
is not a danzerous one.

A fire broke out early on Monday morning at the
house and shop of Mr Dickinson, newsagent, Nott.iece
hare. At about two o'clock Mr. Dickinson notice,' a
smell of burning, and at once went downstairs. On
his reaching the ground fluor the smoke proved to I:o
so dense that he found it imp3ssible to return to I
upper rooms, in which were his wife and eight children.
He succeeded in gaining the street, and some workmee
engaged at a neighbouring brewery and some compo,i-
tors who were leaving work rendered him aid. The
flames were spreading upwards with great rapidity, and
the position of Mrs. Dickinson and her family was roost
perilous. Ladders wei e, however, speedily obtained,
and by their means Mrs. Dickinson and her children
were with great difficulty rescued. The fire brigade
non afterwards arrived, and the flames were subdued,
but not before the premises were almost wholly
destr( yed.
An inquest was held on Monday at Adare Manor, the
residence of Lord Dunraven, by the Coroner for
Mitchelstown, on the body of Louise Jones, aged 19
years, who committal suicide by drinking oxalic acid.
The mother of the deceased stated that her daughter
joined a Revivalist sect, and her attendance at their
services had produced peculiar impressions on her
mind. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide during
temporary insanity," and exonerated the servants at the
Manor from an allegation that they had ill•treated the
deceased.

At a meeting of Presbyterian farmers, held on
Monday night in Saintfield, county Down, a resolution
was passed in favour of Home Rule. It was announced
that it would be "a monster meeting," but the
attendance was small. A resolution was passed to
support Mr. Parnell with all the strength in their
power, and they impressed upon that gentleman to
accept of no reform for the South and West of Ireland
in which Ulster is not included. Resolutions were
adopted on emigration and other subjects, and a good
many speeches were delivered.
An inquest was held on Monday at Leiston, Suffolk,
on the body of a bank clerk, named Sherwood, the
son of a farmer in the neighbourhood. The deceased
and his brother were out pigeon shooting, when the
former got into a hedge to shelter himself from the
sight of the pigeons. He passed his gun to his brother,
and by some means it was discharged, the contents
lodging in the upper part of the right arm of the de-
ceased. He was conscious for a time, but soon after-
wards died from loss of blood. A verdict of "Acci-
dentally shot " was returned.
The Loughrea branch of the National League on
Monday expelled a man, named Forde, for buying two
boycotted animals at a recent fair at Ertnistymon,
county Clare. The matter was repotted by the local
branch of the League, and it was stated that a
"Leaguer" came 20 miles to the fair in order to prevent
the cattle from being sold. Forde who is a cattle
dealer, states that he did not know that the animals
were boycotted.
As a luggage train on the Settle and Carlisle Railway
was passing Dent Head, on Monday afternoon, one of
the waggons left the metals, owing to the large
accumulation of snow upon the track. Both lines were
immediately blocked, and the Pullman express trains
to and from St Pancras were each delayed for three
hours:in consequence. Such a hea-vy fall of snow as the
one that occurred on Sunday has not been witnessed
for Born!) years past.

_
- At Gloucester Assizes, on Monday, an innkeeper,
nameditobert German,was sentenced to five years'penal
tiervnde•for setting fire to. a house at Lyclney, with st
• view to defraud the Norwich.,4lfrigirre,9o..NAllPl. •.

Lloyd's agent at Amoy reports that the Corinth
(steamer) of London has been run down and sunk by
her Majesty's ship Firebrand. All on board were saved,
The Corinth arrived at Yokohama about the 28th
December from London. She was an iron acres
steamer of 2568 gross tons, and owned by Messrs
Nelson, Donkin, and Co., of Newcastle.
An inquiry has been held at Guy's Hospital, London,
concerning the death of a farrier named Stock from
hydrophobia. The deceased worked at a farrier's shop
at Kingston, and about three months, ago, while he
was engaged in shoeing a horse, a dog came into the
shop and commenced to bark at him. As this caused
the horse to be restive, the deceased made a- feint of
throwing a horseshoe at the dog, when the animal flew
at him and bit him severely. The wound was attended
to and he resumed his work, no ill effects being ap-
parent until the end of last week, when the symptoms
of hydrophobia manifested themselves, and the man
died. _

The Canterbury Board of Guardians recently sold
two small landed estates, the property of a lunatic.
On Saturday the result of the sale was made known.
The amount realised for the properties was £265 18.7 d.,
while the legal costs came to no less than £124 is 7d.
Surprise was expressed at the• large amount of ex-
penses, and one guardian caused some amusement bss
gravely saying "Let us all pray that we may never
have any land left us"
Mr. Justice Chitty has committed to prison W. H.
Chubb, ironfounder, West Bromwich, for contempt of
court, in violating an undertaking given by him not to
mark, or sell, or advertise for sale locks or keys
marked so as to make the public believe they were
manufactured by Messrs. Chubb and Son.
Particulars have been received at North Shields
respecting the wreck of the barque Kearon, of that
port, and the loss of all hands. The vessel got ashore
in the Baltic; she was communicated with. but the
crew, numbering eleven, refused to leave the vessel.
A storm subsequently came on, which drove the vessel
further ashore. The captain and crew then endes,-
voured to land in a boat, but it capsized, and the crew
were all drowned. Captain Clarke was picked up
clinging to the boat, but he subsequently died from
exhaustion.

The "Mariehamn," Troberg master, arrived at
Uddewalla from Charleston, reports that on the 30th of
December, in lat. 48 deg. 38 min. N., long. 10 deg. 57
min. W., she fell in with a steamer on fire, which
proved to be the "Viceroy," of London. The after-
deck was already burned through, and the fire rose high
above the bulwarks. No one was seen on board; and as
the weather was too stormy to send a boat to the
steamer, Captain Troberg proceeded. The crew of this
steamer were landed in London on the 3rd of January
by the barque " Laurel," as previously reported.
A severe storm, with hurricane, has recently raged
along the Pacific slope, west of the Rocky Mountains.
It is said to be the severest storm ever known at San
Francisco. It reached its height on Wednesday, when
the wind blew eighty-two miles an hour. Houses were
unroofed, frail buildings blown down, church-steeples
destroyed, telegraph-posts prostrated, cars blown from
railway tracks, and the Mechanics' Institute building
was partially destroyed. Several persons were fatally
injured. Heavy rains filled the cellars, burst the
sewers, and railways were flooded.
At the Anglesey Assizes, before Mr. Baron Pollock
and a special jury, Margaret Williams, a dairymaid,
obtained £320 damages from Mr. Richard Greaves, a
Merionethshire quarry proprietor, for negligently
shooting her. Defendant, it appears, was shooting
over a farm occupied by the plaintiff's master, near
Portmadoc, and in firing at a covey of partridges that
rose opposite the house a pellet lodged in one of the
plaintiff's eyes, destroying is sight. Defendant, who
had without prejudice offered £2OO compensation,
alleged that the occurrence was purely accidental.
One ground on which damages were claimed was that
the plaintiff's matrimonial prospects were materially
depreciated by the injury.
Eight hundred men out of work in Vienna marched
to the Town Hall and peremptorily demanded employ.
ment. On being refused they repeated their request
at the police-station, where they had to be dispersed by
force. Several of the leaders were arrested.

At the Birmingham Police•court on Saturday a pugi-
list, named Frank (alias Pat) Murphy was sent to gaol
for one month. He was apprehended the previous
evening by the police as he was on his way to contest a
prize fight with another pugilist, called Tomer, for .(25
aside.

On Friday afternoon a shocking accident occurrA at
Wombwell Main Colliery, near Barnsley, by which one
of the workmen was almost decapitated. The name of
the deceased was John Fretwell, aged 44, of Womb-
well Main. He was following his employment on the
surface, when his Lead was by some means caught
between the rope and drum of a small surface engine,
and nearly severed from the body. He was found dead
by another workman.
The death at Hampstead has occurred of Mr. Joseph
Hoare, formerly a partner in the bank of Barnetts,
Hoare, and Co., the Trew-urer of the London City Mis-
sion, British and Foreign Bible Society, Church Mis.
sionary, Society, kc., of all of which he was a generous
supporter.
An explosion ocPurred on Friday in the shell foundry
at the Royal Arena, Woolwich, of a seven-pounder
shell. A workman Lamed Harris was badly burnt about
the head and face.

The Rev. Sir F. A. Gore Ouseley, Bart., Mus. Bac.,
M.A., has been appointed Canon of Hereford Cathe-
dral, in the room of the late Rev. Dr. Jebb.
A youth, named Walker, aged 16, employed as a
clerk in the audit office of the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway, Victoria Station, Manchester,
committed suicide in an extraordinary way at ten
o'clock on Saturday morning. He airived at the office
at the usual time, and nothing in his demeanour seemed
unusual. Suddenly the clerks working in the same
room were startled by a loud report, followed by
Walker's falling from his stool. He had shot himself
through the temple, and died immediately.
On Saturday morning a lady named Heath was walk-
ing along the Victoria-road, Birmingham, when she
slipped on a slide and fell with such force that she
died in a few minutes. The doctor who was calied in
states that the fall broke her spine and produced con-
cuesion of the brain.

Sunday was the anniversary of the outbreak of the
Indian Mutiny, which took place on January 24th,
1857.
On Satur3ay John Day, a master sweep, living in
Lambeth, was engaged cleaning out the flues of Lam.
beth Workhouse, when he was suffocated in the boiler
flue.

Henry New, aged 63, a candle maker, of 6, Ander-
son's-walk, Vauxhall, who had coffered from a
complication of complaints, and was an out-patient at
St. Thomas's Hospital, partook of some hot gin in a
neighbouring tavern on Friday night, Eitel asked the
landlord and the potman to assist him home, as his feet
were very tender. They did so, but he died on the
way. Dr. Farr attributed death to the cold weather.
Ed ward Popgee, aged 66, a potman, living at 8,
Devonshire-place, Newington causeway, returned
home on Friday night and complained of feeling cold.
The next morning he was found by his son lying dead
on his bed (consisting of an old straw mattress), and
covered only by an old sheet and rug. Dr. Pain
expressed an opinion that death was due to CXIDn.--

the cold. _
~ aged six years,
On Saturday afternoon satialy- swallowed a half-
named Flora Corwin the throat. She was taken to
..,
penny, whiYhiospital, and an operation was success.
karnerforrued by the house surgeon.