The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-09 00:00:00

EPITO.V E OF NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

It is ordered hereafter that the words "laughter,"
" applause, senvition," ke., shall be omitted from the
official record of the debates in the United States Congress.

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The Select Committee of the House of Commons
appointed to Inquire into the adulteration of final met on
Monday, Mr C. S. Read, Secretary to the Local Government
Board, presiding.

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The subject of the agricultural lock-out was slie•
cussed on Saturday by the Manchester Farmers' Club. and a
suggestion was made that a conference of landlords and
tenant farmers of the district should be held to consider how
the labour question should be dealt with.

As a memorial of the marriage of the Grand 'Duchess
Maria Aletandrovna it is proposed to erect a church in Old
St Petersburg ; and the Russian World states that more
than sufficient money has already been subscribed for the
purpose.

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Advices from the famine districts in India state that
the poorer classes in Dinagepore have only one meal a day,
and in some places only one in two days. No deaths from
starvation have, however, been officially reported, though
some are stated to have occurred. Distress is increasing,
and prices arc rising.

A Paris paper, the Legitimist Union, represents
the relief of Bilhao as an unimportant incident of the war,
lion Carlos having retired, it says, in good order with an
array 4,1 50000 imien entrenched in strung positions which
command the city.

It is announced frown Paris that, although the cold
weather has injured the vines, it has not endangered the
crop. The cereals promise well.
A telegram from New York states that 50,000
rations are being distributed daily among the sufferers by
the recent overflow of the Mississippi.

The celebrated clipper Ropal Dane, belonging to
Messrs. Taylor, Bethel', and Roberts, London line, with up-
wards of 450 passengers has arrived at Brisbane, Queensland.
Her Majesty the Queen held a Drawing-room at
Buckingham Palace on Tuesday. Her Majesty was accom-
panied by the Prince mind Princess of Wales, Princess
Beatrice, Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig-1101-
stein, Prince Leopold, the Duke of Teck, the Duke of cam-
bridge, the Due On Nemours, the Comte d'En, and the
Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Almost
400 presentations were tmade,
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The papers received by the last mail report a
disastrous hurricane as having taken place in the island of
Mauritiur from the 27th to the 29th of March. They in-
timate that nearly 40 per cent, of this year's sugar crop has
been destroyed, and considerable damage has been done to
public buildings.
Telegrams from Spain state that the town of Bilbao
Iran suffered most severely from the recent bombardment,
and that It will cost at least a quarter of a million sterling
1,, repair the damage. About no of the inhabitants are
stated to have been killed, the Carlists having directed their
tire upon the town, and not upon the forts.

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The King of Holland ha,:4 jugt received from Marshal
3,1,,,mati0n. on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary
of his Majesty's accession to the Throne, n magnificent
Sevres vase, manufactured expressly for the purpise.

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The proposals of Lords Waveney, Sir Edward
Kerrilam, and others to submit the disputes between the
labourers and the farmer, to the arbitration of landowners ,if
the districts concerned, was dismissed at length at the last
meeting of the Executive of the Leamington Union, and de-
eisivelireiected.
Oti Tuesday a colony of agricultural labourers left
Liverpool for New Brunswick in the steamer Crtxpia rt. The
party numbered altogether 300 ands, and were chiefly from
the southern counties. Nearly all the men were married.
and were accompanied by their wives and families. Each
married man, who has two children, or more, gets a free
gift of •200 acres from the Government, and a small liaise
with four acres of land, cut down and really for the crop
and single men, sir married men with only one child, get MO
acres, with two acres ready for the crop.

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A Deputation from the Manchester (lamher of
Commerce waited upon the Lord Chaiimilor in Tuesday to
urge him to promote a hill in Parliament for the registration
of mortgages of premises containing fined machinery. ills
lordship promised to comply with the request it it were
possible.
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A gat of £2,400 has lately been made to the Royal
School for Daughters of Officers of the Army, for the pur-
pose of providing scholarships. which are to have the name
of the "Squire Seholarshirs," in memory of the late Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Squire, of the Royal Engineers, who distin-
guished himself In the Peninsular War arid sitoemithed from
fatigue after the Siege eq Paulajos. The inunincent donor
oestrus to remain incognita.

Sir Michael. Hicks Beach hag received a mmnter
deputation on the subject of sunday closing of public-houses
in Ireland. It was composed of trade representatives fruit
Dublin and all the chief provincial towns in Ireland. Its
contention was that Sunday closing of public-houses would
be a great inconvenience to the working classes and an in-
justice to the publicans, who were year by year improving
the character of their houses. Another member of the depu-
tation told sir Michael that Irishmen drank more porter
than spirits.
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A conference of licensed victuallers was held in
London on Tuesday, at the City Terminus Hotel, at which
a resolution was passed declaring that her Majesty's
Ministers were entitled to the confidence and support of
every member of the trade for the promptness with which
they took in hand a redress of the griemnces created by
the Licensing Act of 1572 : and further, that the provisions
of the bill introduced by them Le animal the Act are, sub-
ject to a few moduicati.ms and additions, such as should
commend themselves not only to the members of the trade,
but to the public at large.
On Saturday morning a painter's labourer named
flaylork, employed in the restoration of Ely Cathedral. was
killed by a tremendous fall from a ladder. The deceased was
engaged in decorating the lofty lantern which surmounts
the Octagon, when by some means ili9 toot slipped, sad he
fell from the ladder on which he was standing and thimigh
an aperture in the temporary flooring of the lantern to the
marble pavement below, a distance of 104 feet. As might
have been expected, death was instantaneous. Every pre.
caution against accidents had been made, and the main
opening in the floor wu kept cloeed.

During April, 1874, 15,639,6481 b of tea were eleav-ed
It the London Custom Rouse, about one million more than
in the same month last year, WS
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Mr. Samuel Taylor, a printer, of Graystoke-placc,
Fetter-lane, London, has left gl,Ooo to the Printers Corpora-
tion for the benefit of pour printers.
On Monday morning upwards of 100 agricultural
labouren left their Donee in several villages in the neigh-
bourhood of Newbury anti Reading for Liverpool, en routs
for Ontario.
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lty a return just issued it is shown that in England
and Wales, in the year ended the 30th of June last, the
number of licenses granted to spirit dealers, not being re-
tailers at £lO 10s, per annum, was 6.570, of which 6,2.29 were
for the whole year and 341 for fractional parts of the year
The additional licence to spirit dealers to retail spirits not
to be consumed on the premises, eta 30. per year, numbered
4,331-4.173 for the whole year, and 214 for fractional parts

At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the
Bengal Famine Relief Fund held lat the Mansion House on
Monday, it was announced that the subscriptions had reached
£95,12e, of which 00,000 had been sent to India.
The Hunts Farmers Association met on Saturday
at Godnumehemer, and after some discussion rejected pro-
posal made by One of their number to lock out Union IS
fencers.

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According to a French traveller, now in Japan, the
Japanese have, in the interests of the European civilisation
with which they are being no strongly dosed, renounced the
plan of cremation of their dead, and as ordered, now inter
them. Not knowing how to bury, the cLati are placed in a
sitting position in a deal box.
An advance of Is. to 2a. per ton in the price of
house coals was quoted upon the London Coal radian:M:on
Monday.
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Gallynani atates that the tomb of the father of the
late Mehemet Ali, the founder of the Egyptian dynasty. has
just been found in the Mussulman cemetery of Camila
That discovery is due to Ibrahim Bey. Uovenior of the Island
of Thassos, placed, as he is iinown, under the jurisdiction of
the khedive. The Viceroy purposes erecting on the spot
a mausoleum worthy of the memory of the man who was the
father of the Reformer of Egypt.

The House of Common-S.of the Dominion of Canada
passed a resolution on the Ist of April that no intoxicating
liquors should be sold within the precincts of the House. It
was objected .hat the members would have to go to saloons
outside the building, and might not be forthcoming when
wanted, but no member voted against the resolution.

Auieritstn belles, anxious fur "some new thing"and
we:ay of the "peach-like iloom" complexions so long
fashionable, have taken to imitating their Indian sisters. A
new unbleached face powder, of a clear olive tint, is now
considered chic, and the aristocratic frequenters of Fifth
Avenue appear every afternoon with these brunette coin.
plexiomi—a dash f rose on the cheeks with the hair parted
on one into and plastered in scallops acros, the front.

For the purpose of affording technical instruction to
artisan* in connection with the International Exhibition,
an association has been f. mined which has the approval of the
Working Men's Club and Institute Union. The Earl of Lich-
field has set the example of subscribing for a large number of
artisans' tickets to be placed in the hands of the council for
distribution.

The opinion of an American financial authority
worth quoting on the matter of too much play and pay. fie
says :-- The short hours here have driven capital, wealth,
industry, and production from New York, literally to the
extent of millions of dollars, and with no corresponding
benefit to mechanics. The eight-hour law has not only done
this, but divided both classes, to the great injury of all
material interests, with at least 25,100, mechanics out of
employ within a radius of five miles of the city. The present
time is 20 percent. off from the ten-hour rule, with really less
done in each hour than under .he old rule."

The City of Paris has more than a thousand muni-
elide structures or buildings to keep in repair. They consist
of 20 maries, 116 religious edifices, 340 scholastic mtahlish-
meats, 12 lyceums (colleges), 217 communal houses, 164
station houses for the pollee and tire brigade, 4, theatres,
21 monumental founmins, 100 barracks and octroi offices, 16
hospitals or alnishouses, 6 slaughterhouses, 3 prisons, and
14 cemeteries. 'The total annual cost amounts to 2,572,000 f.

Mr. Loyson (Father Hyacinthe) is now at Leyden.
He lion been invited to give some lectures there by the
students of the University.

A New York letter of the 18th of April says :—The
recent numerous disasters to ocean steamers have no risible
eitett in diminishing the number of passengers for trails.
Atlantic voyages. Most of the packets leasing to-day have
long lists, //MI the names Include those of not a few well-
known oity families, who are going to spend the summer in
Europe.
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An amended abstract sheet has been published in a
Parliamentary paper of the sums required to meet the ex-
penses which may be incurred In the Naval Departments hi
the year 1874-75, showing the increase and decrease as com-
pared with the sums voted for tlie preceding year. The net
Increase is put at £1741700. The expenditure in 1872-73 was
£9,531,179 On. 611.

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The funeral of Harry Ayria,the Berkeley huntatnan„
who retired some six years air° (when he was presented with
a pane of 500 guineas at the " Ship " at Alvestun) took
place on Saturday, and was attended by Lonl Fiteliardinga
and a large number of the followers of the Berkeley Hunt.
" Harry " was an excellent horseman, ethic Judge of pace, and
was exceedingly popular with "the Berkeley " lie was in
receipt of £lOO a year from Lord litzhardinge at the tinie of
his death.
A large fire broke out in the bellowx manufactory of
Moab.. Onions and Sons at Birmingham on Saturday night,
and raged for ten hours. A large building and a heavy stock
of goods have been completely destroyed.

It is stated that the borough magistrates of Wrex-
ham have expressed themselves dissatisfied with the Licens-
ing Amendment Bill. The minimum hours have been in
force in Wrexham. It is thought most IVMire to extend the
time tor drinking. Similar views are entertained by mem-
bers of the county bench.

The salmon Millings in the Tweed continue remark-
ably unproductive, especially at river stations. At the
mouth ot the river and on the sea coast the fishing is rather
better. l'rices on Saturday were— salmon, Is. 7d., and trout,
Is. 6d per lb.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges as
"conscience money " the receipt of the first half of a bank-
note for l 0 from Rusticas, and the first. halves of two £2O
notes for unpaid Income-tax from Z.

At a recent meeting of the executive aml consul-
tative eummittees of the National Agricultural Labourers'
Union it was unanimously resolved-- That the earnest and
spectful thanks of this Union be tendered the Bisnop of
Manchester for his public expression of sympathy with the
farm labourers, and with the efforts now being made to im-
prove their condition."

Exeter Hall was crowded on Tuesday with the
members and friends ot tile Church Iln.sionary Society,
assembled under the presidency of the Earl of Chichester.
The meeting was addressed by the Primate, the Bishop of
Ripon, and others. It wax shown by the report that the
ordinary inmate of the year had been £196,525, and the
expenditure £180,115. The society's establishment now
embraces 155 niission stations, directed by 207 European
cleraymen.
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Tuesday, the iith, was the forty-eight anniversary
of the birth of the Empress Eug6nie. Her Majesty had,
however, expressed a wish that the occasion should not
be made one for a demonstration, and there were
accordingly even fewer visitors than usual at Camden House.
In the morning the Empress, accompanied by the few
persons comprising the Imperial Household attended Hass
at the Roman Cathodic Chapel, the Itev. Father Goddard
officiating. The Prince Imperial was absent, pursuing his
studies at Woolwich

The death is announced of Mr. John I.IICM, the
portrait !minter, in his sixty-seventh year. Mr. Luc. during
a long and successful career painted many portraits of the
Boys! family, of members of the aristocracy, and of some of
the most distinguished men of the age.

Mr: T. Burt, M.P., speaking at the annual meeting
of the Temperance League, in London, On Monday night,
said the traffic in intoxicating drink woe very universe to the
interests of the working classes, for it absorbed an inonense
amount of capital without giving a proportionate employ-
ment to labour. The future of the working own dependent
Inn a great measure on the use they made 44 the advantages
they possess, and the attitude they assumed on the question
of the ffibullr traffic.

The returns of emigration for Ireland during the
year 1073 show a total of 90,149 emigrants, of whom 51,930
were males, and 38.219 females. The emigration was most
brisk from Ulster, Whiell sent out 33,967 emigrants and
least from Connaught, which sent out 15,728. One Galway
woman, over e. 5 years of age, emigrated, and one nuns, from
Mayo and another from Kerry were agent between 75 and 80.
7,899 of the emigrants were children under ten years of age,
A telegram from Shanghai Rays that a serious riot
occurred on May 3in the French settlement. • Chinese
mob atoned the foreigners RIO sacked and burnt several
houses. The police fired upon the rioters and glint several
if them. The Chinese Volunteers have hem, called out, and
1.110114 have been landed from the European war vessels.
Tranquillity was restored, but an uneasy feeling still pre-
vails. The Chinese population are supposed to have Seen
excited by the French making a road interferina with the
Ningpo graves. The rioters did not interfere with the Eng-
lish settlemen

The following is a list of the ships and number of
emigrants sent out to New Zealand by the Agent-General for
that colony during the month td April last :—Loch Awe, for
Auckland. with 367 souls the Caroline, Otago, 348 : Sussex,
Otago, 405 Hereford, Canterbury, 475 ; Euterpe, Welling.
109 Adamant, Nelson, 330 ; Winchester, Ilawke's Bay,
132 ; Carrick Castle, Bluff, 290 : Peter Denny, Otago, 3113
Conflict, Wellington, 430: %Blades, Auckland, 427 Eastern
Monardh, Canterbury, 520—in all twelve ships, emlisrking
4,8511 souls.

• "Every Frenchman has at present to graduate as a
soldier a young and well-known French marquis is now
doing blvduty as a private soldier. Ile arrived in Paris on
furlough and called on some lady relatives, the house porter
Inform d him the ladies were out driving, but that the ser-
vant girls were upstairs "—Court Journal.
A marine residence for the King of the Belgians has
been completed by Messrs. Lucas. The building, which loot
wood, has been constructed at a cost of £lO,OOO. It consists
of thirty-eight rooms, has live staircases, and the whole is
surmounted by a tower, which rises from the cemre to a
lien:lit of eixty feet. The structure will he placed on the
beach at Ostend over the King's private entrance.

An inquest has been -held at 16, Park-terrace,
Regent's Park, London, on William Norman, aged 87. The
&Teased was a Peninsular and Waterloo soldier, and had re.
reived the clasps and medals for Nero, Nirelle, St Seliastin,
Vittoria, Salamanca, IladaJos, and Waterloo. Sr the last
15 years he had lived at the above address, and would walk
sin or ReVen miles a day. On Sunday morning lie died fro o
inflammation of the lungs A verdict of "Death from
natural nuses" was returned.

The extensive estates in the counties of Limerick and
Tipperary. till recently owned by the Earl of Derby, have Just
beim subjected to a revaluation with sonic extraordinary
results. It was found that the land should be paying rent 25
per cent., and in several cases as much as 50 and GO per cent.,
that which is at present levied. This fact, when made
known, as May be imagined, crcatcd great alarm among the
tenant-tariners, who petitioned the owners of the property,
declaring they could nol support themselves if their relies
were raised. It has been decided to make no change In the
rentals of tenants holding under fifteen acres while tho other
eases are to be decided by arbitration.

At the annual banquet of the Royal Academy on
Saturday the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, Mr.
Disraeli, and Sir Garnet tVolaeley, were anima the distin-
gua,hed guests. In responding for the Royal Family the
Prince of Wales alluded to the death of Landseer, and
singled out some new pictures in the Exhibition as hopeful
omens (of future art Ills Royal Highness after w ards pro-
posed the health of Sir Ganiet Wolseley, to which the
General replied ill terms deprecating the praise • .ersally
bestowed upon him as exceeding his deserts The Premier a
health was given by the Presidesit, and acknowledged in a
brilliant speech.,

An open a-it: meeting, in support of Mr. Mundena's
Factory Bill, IVAS held on Saturday afternoon in Belfast.
Resolutions were passed stating that, in the opinion of the
meeting, the time has arrived when. as an act of justice to
young persons and females euiphoed in mills and factories,
their working hours should lo legislative enactment be
shortened to fifty-four
iper week, and expressing sympathy
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with and approval of r. Mundella's hill. A petition in its
favour was adopted to the House of Conimons, and the
meeting pledged itself to act in conjunction with the opera-
tives of England and Scotland iii their efforts to have the
tneakure passed.

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A gentleman living n St. John•a-wortil, attended at
the Marylebone police-court, in London, on lueiclay, to ask
the magistrate's advice. He had, he said, a valuable thorough•
bred fox terrier, and last week it was bitten in the month by
a cat He at once sent it to a veterinary surgeon. The dog
died on Monday, and fortunately it 'van chained up, for
shortly hetire its death it became very violent, and tried to
get at the two assistants. It died, there was not the slightest
doubt, from hydrophobia The mit la-longed to a baker in
the neighlsourbood, and assit might bite any person who en-
tered the shop it ought to be destroyed 'I he magistrate
said lie could not order the cat to ho destroyed; the Act
only gave him power for the destruction of ferocious dogs,
It was better that the cat should be destroyed, for it was
very fc0,1,1 for the owner to run any risk He should lee
warned, for he would be responsible if It bit nril One. It ap-
pearml that the owner objected to kill the cat luseause it was
a pet of his daughter's The magistrate finally sent an
ofthier to him to advise him that he 'Mould have the animal
destroyed,

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The Caws l'arliament is likely to send a Com-
mission to Maine, Massachusettg., and other states where
drink prohibition is in force. to ascertain the failure or
sueeess of the system, and its effect upon the mends of
scieietv.

The melancholy death ef Semphin Vanoni, a yOnng
French painter of merit, is annonneet lie was kitten
by • fan from a scaffolding in the Palate of the Legion
dlionneur, while engaged decorating the ceiling, • &Ay
for which he was selected in preference to many competitory

A compromise has been effected between the Forest
of Dean colliers and their employers, by the forme( accept
ing • lOJer't. reduction.

Consider:o.le airo.ront of damage has been canted to
the Isotato crops by the frost and cold east wind
w b have prevailed flit. 1:1st two or three night.. In some
parts oi the island w hole fields have been destroyed.
It is a common practice in Paris to take children
affected with the whooping-trough to a gas factory to mypiry
the air there. Dr. Motorola has shown that it lathe Inftworta
in the atmosphere that causes the paroxysm, and by taking
prepared carbolic acid jujubes, the spasms in the second
stage of the cough are completely allayed.
From a recent calculation it appears that there are
252 newspapers dolly and weekly), and journals uf a arious
sorts, published in Paris, which, allowing an avers,, number
of ten persons to each paper, would make nearly 3,00,1 jour-
nalbta ia Paris.

A Bill to provhle facilities for the performance of
worbilin acoonlibi: to the rites and ceremonies of the
Church of England, brou,ht forward by Mr Salt. has been
printed. Upon the application or with the conseld of the
Incumbent of &parish, the Bishop may Ilona. • cicrsynom
to officiate in any schootraim or other suitable building
consecrated or unconsecrated, within the parish. There are
other provisions to facilitate additional seniors.

The Daily News understands thit, in the event of
the second reading of Mr. Mundella's Nine Hours Bill being
carried, Mr. Fawcett will move that it be au instruction to
the Committee to oust those clauses of the Bill which Minos.
restrictions on the hiliour of adults.

Paris is again suffering from an outbreak of suicides,
some six per day a soldier threw himself off the Bastile
Column, in view of a terrified crowd that supplicated him by
signs and cries to desist ; a dramatist left a note, setting
forth that as he hint nothing more to hang on his clothes-
rack he decided to suspend himself from it. —Court Journal.

King Victor Emmanuel on the occasion of the repro-
duction of .4 ida, at the San Carlo Theatre, Naples, wet a
rich bracelet in diamonds and turquoises to NNW Krause,
who iminodiately went, in her stage costume, to thank his
Majesty in his bun. The king told her that he deeply
regretted the departure of a singer oho could not be re-
placed.
The discovery has just been made in France at
Amigny-Rouy, in the department of the Aisne, by a farmer
named Delamot e-Lavassenr, of 900 bronze coins ranging from
Diocletian to Congiautine I. They n.ere found near the
strategical road constructed by the Romans to connect the
Sworn..k'a with the l'iroinandi, in passing by Contra
ApenUM, the elation which pro-ected the paaaage of the
owe.

On Sunday an attempt was made in Madrid to
assassinate Senor Piny klargal by a man, who. after firing
two or three shots from a revolver without eftect, killed him
self before he could Pe seized.

A celebrated Murillo, known in France as the
Little Shepherd," which was presented to M. Guisot by the
kingdom of Spain, has been knocked down in Paris to the
Marquis de Greffultre for 20,000 franc*.
The Registrar General of Ireland reports that at
the end of last May there were 1,427 mills for scutching flax
in Ireland, with 9,157 stocks and 51,521 handles. 1,335 of the
mills were in Ulster, and about 30 in each of the other pro-
visoes

From a return just issued it appears that between
the eth of August, 1870, and the Ist of January, 1871, out of
15 persons who relinquished Ake and caused the same to
be enrolled in the Court of Chancery, 12 were priests and
three deacons. From the Ist of January, 1871, to the 4th
of July last the number was 35-29 priests and sit deacons.
In the province of Canterbury In the years 1871, 1872 and
1873 the-number of deeds of relinquishment recorded in the
diocesan register was 35, and in the province of York 5, under
the Clerical Disabilities Act.

Work has now been resumed on the Clyde sugar
refineries, which have been closed for months pending the
abolition of the sugar duties contained in the Budget resolu-
tion. Three thousand workmen, who were thrown idle
during the stoppage, have I,ten re-employed.

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An important deciaion affecting factory operatives
has been given by the magistrate. at Kidderminster A
married woman was summoned by Messrs. Tonikinson and
Adam, for leaving their employment without notice. The
magistrates dismissed the summon. on the ground that ahe,
being a married woman, could not make a contract with
the complainants ; but they granted a case for the superior
sour"

In London, on Monday night, at a meeting of the
Farmers Club, held In Salisbury-square, Mr. Doward. of
Bedford, presiding, a paper was read by Mr. Chaim, a land
owner in the West of England, advocating the abolition o
Mie Law of Distress, improvement lb land transfer and the
Law ot Settlement, tenant right, the cultivation of waste
leads, and the abolition of the Game Laws.

A German engineer residing in Copenhagen, Herr
Gunther, recently lost his life In an attempt to rescue a
drowning man. A public funeral was given turn, and the
German Minister had an audience ,if the King of Denmark
to ei in vey to his Majesty the thanks of the Emperor of Ger.
many for his s mpathy evinced on the occasion. lie has also
thanked the Danish authorities, in the name of the Em-
peror, for their presence at the funeral

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At the annual meeting of the Wealevan 'Missionary
Society, held in Exeter-hall, in London, on Monday, it woe
stated that the income of the society had reached during the
past year the sum of £1137,92.3, being £11,084 more than last
year, and the largest annual income yet reached. The ex-
penditure was £160.458, being nearly El 500 less than the is-
tome. During the late war in Western Africa a considerable
amount of mission property had been destroyed, including
thirteen chapels and two residences. Of these, ten were de-
stroyed by the Ashantees, one by the English troops, three 1,7
the native auxiliaries, and two by fire or other causes. It is
proposed to rebuild all these during the year. The chair was
taken by Mr. B. Mitchell, of Bradford, and addresses were
delivered by various ministers, as well as by Mr. James
Wood, of Southport, Mr. 8. D. Waddy, 5L P., a colonel of the
Madras Army, and a converted Brahmin.