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large "s'A-.N-c-s''. being held at Stith K
ton, at Uverpool, inEdinburgh, and at Folka
stone. The Colonial and Indian Exhibition,
the last of the South Kensington serit,s, was
a gigantic success and from it grew arrange-
ments for a permanent Imperial Institute,
as part of the celebrations of her Majesty's
Jubilee, for which all the Queen's subjects
seem now to be preparing. The cordial
feeling between the
,Motherland and the de-
penden.cies has been increased much by this
exhibition and the visits of colonists to the
old country which it has occasioned. Some
sensational court cases, civil and criminal,
have held attention during the year, notably
the Crawford-Dilke and Colin-Campbell
Divorce ,suits, the Sebright Nullity case, and
the BArtlett-Dyson murder trial'. Space falls
here even; to glance at many important
events, such as the opening of the Mersy
tunnel. The
.death-roll of 1886 is happily
such as to again justify the description of
the year as commonplace. Chief among dis-
tinguished names in the obituary of 1886
may be note, however, the Abbe Liszt ;
Samuel Morley, the merchant,philanthropis t-
politician ; Archer, the jockey ; Dr. Han-
nington, the martyred missionary Bishop of
Uganda; John B. Gough, the temperance
orator Von Ranke, the German historian ;
-Hobart Pacha ;'General Macpherson ; Baron
- Monk-swell (better known by his ante-en-
nobled name of Sir Robert Collier) and
General Arthur, ex-President of America.
May 1887 be brighter and more prosperous
to every reader than has been the "year_
that's awa."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-01

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THE BALKAN STATES.

THE DELEGATES IN LONDON.

VIUNNA, TVIG(lay
It is announced from Sofia that the Mining,.
War haa issued an ordinance abolishing the emr
meat of the Russian language in the army, all wc
of command and military regulations having hithc
been given and printed in Russian. Hencefor
however, nothing but Bulgarian will be used bc
for verbal commands and written and print
orders.

PARIS, Monday `Sight. -
If the news published in Paris be true, there is every -
hope that, as far as Germany and France are concerned,
the peace of Europe will not, be disturbed. It appears
that Gereral Boulanger, at the last Cabinet Council t.
consented to abandon, temporarily at least, his
demand for £16,00Q,000 for war credits, and
that the sum of less than L 2,000,000 will suffice. The
news was telegraphed by M. Flourens to M. Herbette,
French Ambassador in Berlin, and was well received.
Count Herbert von Bismarck at once informed ',Le
Emperor, who requested the Count to wire W the
German Ambassador in F.7is expressing hi- - -eat
satisfaction. The questior. 'll ,%.1- er
General Boulanger has acti
his pertfolio, and to ask for ,redits at ...a
fitting moment. In any case the attitude of the
Goblet Cabinet, influenced as it is by the wise counsels
of M. Jules Grevy, cannot fail to influence the vote of
the Reichstag, and may end in the refusal of the
increase of 43,000 men asked for by General
Bronsart von Schellendorff. It is certainly
interesting to note the swiftness with which
something approaching a war panic has
given place to optimist ideas because of a
change of front on the part of one Minister. The
conclusions to be drawn are pleasing for the moment,
but they prove too much. The influence of General
Boulanger in the- Cabinet is so weighty, that a day
may come when he may trade upon his undoubted
popularity. For the present, however, it is pleasing
to feel that both the nation and the army are united
in their desire for peace.
VIENNA, Dec. 27.
The Politische Corresponden: publishes a telegram
from Sofia stating that Dr. Voulkovitch, the Bulgarian
representative at Constantinople, has received a tele.
gram from his Government'instructing him to reply
. to the Grand Vizier's recent note enclosing the
memorial from 34 Bulgarian refugees resident in the
Turkish capital, by declaring that the complaints
formulated in the memorial concern the internal
affairs of Bulgaria, in which the Porto, according to
the Treaty of Berlin, has no right to interfere.
The Bulgarian Delegates arrived in London from
the Continent on Tuesday.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-01

MORE TROOPS FOR INDIA AND
BIIRMAH.

Orders have been given at the War Office for her
Majesty's ship Jumna, which only arrived home from
India with time-expired men last Friday, to start for
Bombay agair. on Monday next with about eleven
hundred officers and men to reinforce regiments now
serving in the East. The most considerable draft being
sent is about 240 from the 2nd East Lancashire Regi-
ment at Enniskillen, for the Ist Battalion at Peroze-
pore ; and the other drafts going out by the Jumna
are-165 from the 2nd Suffolk at the Curragh, for the
let Battalion at Kuldunnah ; 156 from the 2nd Berk-
shire at Athlone, for the Ist Battalion at Cyprus; 144
from the Half-Battalion of the Oxfordshire Light In-
fantry at Parkhurst, for the 2nd Battalion at Banga-
lore; 42 from the 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade at
Woolwich, for the Ist Battalion in Burmah ; 92
from the Ist King's Liverpool at Dublin, for the
2nd Battalion in Burmah : 113 from the Ist High-
land Light Infantry at Belfast, for the 2nd Battalion
at Dugshai ; 52 from the let Derbyshire at Kilkenny,
for the 2nd Battalion at Bum Bum; 52 from the
2nd Leinster at Limerick, for the Ist Battalion at
Fort William; and 41 from the 2nd King's Rifles at
Shorncliffe, for the 4th Battalion at Peshawur. The
officers going out with the troops are Major Curtis
and Lieut. Childers, Oxfordshire Light Infantry;
Capt. Richardson, Liverpool Regiment; Capt. Mar-
shal, 2nd Cheshire Regiment; Lieut. Cowans, Rifle
Brigade; Lieut. Mullaby, 2nd Middlesex Regiment;
Lieut. W. F. Nash, 2nd Border Regiment; Lieut.
Bannerman, Highland Light Infantry; Lieut. Bram-
ball, East Yorkshire Regiment; Lieuts. Carey and
Lethbridge, East Lancashire; Lieut. Money, South
Yorkshire; Lieut. Coope-Smith, Inniskilling Fusi-
liers : Lieut. Merewether, Leinster Regiment; and
Lieut. M. S. Stewart, Royal Scots.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-01

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The CANADIAN FISHERIES QUESTION'
(Reuter'd Telegram.)

Since the abrogation of the Fishery Treaty the
Canadian Government has found great difficulty in
dealing with the fishing population residing on the
borders of New Brunswick and Maine. The sardine
tinning factories at Eastport, Maine, which are depen-
dent on Canadian fish, have resorted to the device of
poaching in Dominion waters and smuggling the fish
into Maine. Canadian trading vessels manned with
American crews, which have evaded the Dominion
Custom Houses, are freely permitted by the American
revenue officers to smuggle fish into Eastport. The
craws of these vessels thus obtain the Canadian bounty
and at the same time enjoy the advantages of American
citizens. The Dominion Government is attempting to
suppress th 7.5 illegal combination, and the Canadian
authorities lately seized the schooner Stevenson, her
captain, crow, and outfit being American. The owners
were fined 400 dols.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-08

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TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENTS

A fast passenger train bound westward, on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, came into collision
with a freight train near Tiffin, Ohio, early on Tues-
day morning. Both trains were wrecked. Nineteen
bodies were at first extricated from the debris up to
the present, and a number of other passengers are
injured.
Three of the carriages caught fire and were
burned.

The latest reports received in New York regarding
the railway collision near Tiffin states that 22 persons
lost their lives. A number of them were killed out-
right, while others were wedged in among the debris
and were burned to death. Two of the cars were
telescoped before becoming ignited.

There was a block on the Metropolitan and Dis-
trict Railways on Tuesday, about one o'clock, near
Edgware-road Station, in consequence of an engine
getting off the line. In about an hour the block was
removed.

-
The 8.25 a.m. Edinburgh Caledonian express for
Glasgow on Tuesday came in collision with some
waggons which were projecting from a siding near
Shotts towards the main line. The handles of the
carriage doors, windows, and footboards were
smashed, and twenty passengers received cuts on the
face by broken glass. When the line was cleared they'
continued their journey to Glasgow, one only re-
turning to Edinburgh. The traffic was delayed fully
an hour.

During a dense fog which hung over Bolton on
Tae:day morning a collision occurred at Trinity-
street Station, on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Rail-
way. A train for HelHeld was standing at the
extreme end of the platform, when the Manchester to
Blackpool express came into the station, and the
driver was unable to see the danger of the collision
before it was too late. Fortunately, however, the
vacuum brake was instantly applied, and acted so well
that the force of the concussion was much minimised.
The hinder carriages of the slow train were damaged,
and passengers of both trains were severely shaken.
Restoratives had to be applied to several of the
Blackpool passengers, who resumed their journey by
a later train. The injured included a Manchester
commercial traveller, Mr. John Vaughan, wsunds to
the knee, rendering an immediate return home impera-
tive; Benjamin Mitchell, furnaceman, Paaitiam, and
his wife Betty Mitchell; Mrs. Dawson, Clitheroe ;
and Benjamin Hitchin, Padiham, all severely shaken
No blame attached to the driver, who could not see
owing to the density of the fog.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-08

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HOW LOTTERIES ARE CONDUCTED.

A prosecution for extortion in connection with the
Ischia lottery bas, says a Paris correspondent, just '
made the public acquainted with some interesting
features in connection with these institutions. Tho
prisoner Didelon was accused of trying to extort
money from M. Avenel and M. Duseigneur, who were
promoters of the Ischia lottery, by threatening to ex-
pose their dealings as fraudulent. Didelon could not
make good his contention, and was sentenced to six
weeks' imprisonment, and to pay £BO damages. It
appeared in the course of the evidence that in the
Ischia lottery only about half of the tickets were
sold. The agents for the sale of the tickets received
a commission varying from 15 to 60 per cent, of the
sales, this commission being payable in lottery
tickets. Duseigneur admitted that he had 3000
tickets for his shale, with which he won 30 prizes.

A MAN mid to me the other night, remarked a well-
known clergyman, I wouldn't have misled your
sermon for £lO, and yet when the plate was parsed
round that man !,,,ut in a penny.

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A BRA.VE BOATMAN.

A public subscription list has been opened for the
benefit of the Dover boatman Al. Keen, by whom, on
the occasion of the wreck of the Russian vessel
Joutsen, no less than 11 men were saved under cir-
cumstances of extreme peril. The fury of the gale
was so terrible that he vas in danger of being car-
ried off his feet and dashed against the vessel or the
stone "apron," but he never for a moment flinched
until the last of the survivors was safe on :shore.
WKeen is a native of Dover, and about 35 years of
age. He is engaged Ps a yachtsman in summer and
as a boatman in winter. In the course of his career
ho has effected several other rescues.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-08

COCOA

ANONYMOUS LETTERS.

On Saturday a court-martial assembled at the Main
Guard, Portsmouth, under the presidency of Major
Lake, R.A., for the trial of Stjtff-Sergeant J. T. Coe,
Medical Staff Corps, on five charges of writing anony-
mous letters and post-cards to various persons cast-
ing reflections of a scandalous nature on the character
of a nursirg sister at the Station Hospital, named
Miss Walker. Evidence was called showing that the
epibtles in question, one of which was addressed to
Sir Anthony Home, at Porsmouth, suggested that
the nurses failed to properly discharge their duties,
and that one of them in particular was upsetting
everything by her Jesuitical ways. Suspicion fell upon
Coe because some of the details mentioned could only
be known to one who had long been connected with
the hospital, and because of the systematic disrespect
which he-had manifested towards the sisters. It also
transpired that he lodged with a sergeant-major who
had been discharged from the position of steward
because of the complaints that were made with regard
to the diet.

Mr. G. F. Nethercliffe, expert in handwriting,
deposed that the caligraphy of the documents com•
plained of was similar in twelve pari..c..:-rf.. to that
in a letter swora to as having been written i. the .
prisoner.
Mr. G. Feltham, solicitor, acting as the accused's
friend, contended that his client should have been
charged before a tribunal where he would have bad
greater facilities for his defence. If it was not a
civil offence why did they in the first instance consult
the Chief Constable of Portsmouth, who, if there had
been the slightest evidence, would have instituted
proceedings. Finding that this was the case the eisters
had put their heads together
,and .preferred a
charge against him which that Court was altogether
unsuited to try. He contended that prisoner was
not the author, and that the evidence of comparison
bad utterly, failed. It was clear that when Mr.
Nethercliffe received the document alluded to be was
informed that it was in prisoner's handwriting, which
was a most unfair course, and which had been
repeatedly condemned by the judges. Finally be
claimed an acquittal on the ground that the clargei
were vague and unsupported by evidence which would
be accepted by any competent court of jurisdiction.
Prisoner was convicted, and the sentence will be pro-
mulgated after it has been confirmed.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-08

MURDEROUS AFFRAY AT CHESTER

On Tuesday evening an exciting scene occurred at
Bridge-street-row, one of the most crowded thorough-
fares of Chester. A. middle-aged man and his wife
were seen quarrelling. The woman left the Old Rows
by the steps and descended into the street, and the
man, who was greatly excited, was heard to say he
would "do " for her. Ere followed her into the street,
and when there drew a large clasp-knife and plunged
it into her breast. lie withdrew the knife and ran
away up Commonhall-street, whither he was speedily
followed by the police and taken to the police-station.
He turned out to be Edward Davies, a labourer in the
employ of the Great Western Railway Company. In
the meantime the poor woman, who bled profusely,
was conveyed to the infirmary, where it was found
that the knife had penetrated up to the haft in the
poor woman's lung. At eight o'clock on Tuesday
night she lay in a most critical condition. Davies is a
pensioner, and was at one time in the Canadian Rifles,
While in Chester he had borne a good character.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-08

ROADS AS i'LIEY ARE AND AS THEY
SHOULD BE.

The question of roads, and the'condition in which
they are kept, are matters of interest to all classes
of the community. The advent of railways is
supposed to account for the neglected state into
which many of our national highways have fallen.
Increase of railway travelling has not, however,
lessened the use of roads to the extent often sup-
posed; and, indeed,
we question whether there in
not more wear and tear as a of railways. an
the traffic conveyed to and from the various railway
s talons all over the country, than there was before
Btepheiimen's first crude lccomotive tbr. atened the
peace of mind of th • historical "coo."
.The disturnpiking of roads has thrown the cost
of their maintenance on the ratepayers, but if such
loads in every Highway District ae repaired to the
satisfaction of the county surveyor, one half the
cost is borne by the county, and a further quarter
is udmitted as a charge against the Consolidate I
Fund. It therefore follows that in every Highway
District wi.ere the dis:urnpiked roads are properly
~nd efficiently repaired and maintained, one quartir
niy of the cost of such repair falls on the local rates,
ut where the county surveyor is unable to certify
hat steii made have been lepairecl to his satisfaction,
he whole cost faLs on the local rates. In other
words, Highway Districts wi, h bad main roads are
tined three-quarters the cost of their repair as a
punisiina,nt for the inefficiency displayed. The
ei,o; moos importance of the subjeet to the already
.ve, burdeneu local ratepayer is therefore at once
,pparesA, and eveiy ratepayer should see that the
Highway Board of his particular district does its
duty in the way which will secure the approval of
the county surveyor
Bad reads arise from many causes, the principal
of which are the unsuitability of the material used
tor repair, the loose and ignorant way in which
such material, even when m at suitable, is too often
used, and the large size to which stones are broken
under a tale idea of economy. It v, oul,i Lc beside
our purpose to enter into a technical disquisition
here on such matters. An association, called the
Roads Inakrovement Association--with offices at
87 Baainghall Street, London, E. C.—has beta

formed specially to take up the whole question,
and its published pamphlet; written by competent
authorities for the guidance of all those who are
interested, form valuable and instructivo reading.
We cannot help thinking that such an Association
will supply a long -felt want, end numbering as it
does among its patrons many influential names, it
apr-eals to the public, in whose intereA it ha l besn
forme 1, with all the additional welzht whicl such
support can lend to it.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-08

M eL. CHILDERS,

•g bnlletin 'WAS lAsued yesterday room-
ing from Mr. childer's residence iu Piccadilly,
Lcwdon . Childers has had a severe chili.
He was Setter yestsrday morning, but still confined
to his room: '

L• )RI.) E. CAVENDISH.

YesterdAy rnoruing':4 butic!iii tates : Lord Riward
Caven,iii,i, P.: ia rather better.

L.,rd arrival at flowsley station from
Lodon last uignt a mew minutes after seven o'clock,
alv.l a,t .'lee :rovo t.) Ullanhvortli Hail in a carliaBe
wnmeitv,r;.ttt(-1 him.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-08

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-08

THE PEERAGE.

According to the Court Journal, the only peer who
is a minor who comes of age this year is Viscount
Avosmore (Nor. 19). The peerage is an Irish one,
and the holder has no seat in the House of Lords.

The other peers under age and the dates of their
majority are as follows:
1888. Earl of Dudley, Lord Southampton, Lord
Borthwick. _ _ _ _ _

1889. Earl of Craven, Earl of Huntingdon, Lord
Asbtown, and Lord Louth.
1890. Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord Amothill.
1891. Earl of Westmeath.
1892. Marquis of Downshire.
1893. Marquis Camden, Viscount Mountmorres,
and Viscount Southwell.
1895. Earl of Cottenham,
1897. Earl of Guildford.
1899. Lord O'Flagan.
1905. Duke of Albany.
The following eldest sons of peers come of age
during the present year :
Viscount Dangan, Wiltshire Regiment, son of Earl
and Countess Cowley, Jan. 14.
Hon. John Gaspard Le Marchant Romilly, son of
Lord Rornilly, March 1.
Hon. John Walter Edward Montague-Douglass.
Scott, son of Lord and Lady Montagu of Beaulieu,
June 10.

Lord PoreheTtter, eon of the Earl of Carnarvon,
June 26.

Hon. Francln Denzil Edward Baring, soy of Lord
and Lady Ashturton, July 20.
Viscount En nismore, son of the Earl an Countess
of Listowel, St pt. 12.

. _
Viscount Rsynham, on of the Marquis and Mar-
chioness Tomuihend, Oct 16.

On! I do co dote on the sea! she gurgled. If you
only had a yacht, Augustus, dear !—I have no yacht,
Wilhelmina, he sighed; but I can give you a little
smack. And then it sounded as if a cork had flown
out of a bottle.

Now, John, if you're going to a fishing excursion. I
suppose I had better pack your bag to-night? So
spake Mrs. Brown to her liege lord and master.—
Yes, dear, I wish you would, for I make an early
,tart.—What shall I put in it ?—Let me see, replied
8.-own thoughtfully. Urn! Well, put in that
bottle of whisky I had sent up to-day, two boxes of
cigars, a bottle of brandy, a dozen lemons, some
sugar, one or two tin cups, and—and—let me see.
I've forgotten something. I know. Oh, yes—put in
a couple of bottles of that old sherry !—Yes. Any-
thing more ?—No, I can't think of anything at pre-
sent. Oh, sold on ! You'd -better put in my fishing.
tackle and a flannel shirt. I may need them, you
know.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-08

Mit-. GT, :Ds rosos BliMiDlY

A s,rvants' ball was tz;ven at Hawarden Caste
on Thursday night ie our of Mrs. Glad4.)ne's
s,--venty-fift'n b:rth,lny Mrs. Gla.dstYas lea off the
dance with th- r.oase ,tewatd, and Ur. W. H. Glad-
stone with the h.,usekeeper. IV. E. Gladstone.
when piese,st, appeaied very idessed, and in high
spirits. Plo,essor Stuart, 31. tied. the Hon. aiid
Mrs. Arthur Ly zelton were present.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-08

THE TERRIBLE COLLIERY DISASTER.

On Sunday large crowds of relatives and friends of
the ten poor fellows who were smashed to pieces at
Houghton Main Colliery, near Barnsley, on Thursday
night, lingered about the colliery all day, anxious to
recognise the bodies which were recovered during
Saturday night. The work of tubbing water out of
the " sump " was finished at an early hour on Sunday
morning. bodies, which presented a ghastly
appearance, all being more or less mutilated, were dis-
covered huddled together in the top deck of the cage.
Coffins, provided by the colliery company, were in
waiting at the pit bottom, and taken close to the
cage. The bodies were placed in them with as little
disturbance as possible. Nearly all the limbs were
fractured, and the remainder were much bruised. All
the bodies were recognisable save three—those of
Baxter, the elder, Pearson, and Hardcastle. These
were found in fragments, and it was impossible to put
all the parts of any one of these bodies together.
Consequently identity in these three cases cannot be
absolutely sworn to. Breast-plates, with the names
and ages of the deceased, were placed on them. The
colliery company have undertaken to defray all the
expenses of removal and interment. The bodies were
brought to the pit bank on Sunday night. Several
days will elapse before work can be resumed at the
colliery. Mr. John Scott Elliott, certificated manager;
Mr. Gardiner, surface manager; and Mr. Gerrard,
consulting engineer to the company, have superin-
tended the work of repe:rs and the recovery of the
bodies. Many harrowing scenes were witnessed on
the colliery premises during the day, relatives and
friends of the unfortunate men meeting together on
the spot.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-08

KIDDERMINSTER.

BOARD OF GUARDrA.NS.—The fortnightly meeting
was held cn Tuesday; Mr. John Brinton presiding.
—The number of inmates in the workhouse was 398,
compared with 344 in the corre.spendiLg week la: t
year. The out-relief for th.: fortnight adnounteil to
i'66 13s 3d. in the borough district, and 9s.
31d. in the tura]. district. The Master's report
mentioned the Chris..mas fare pinvide.d for the in-
mates and acknowledged a number of presents for
the inmates on Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
A letter was read from the Local Government
Boatel stating that they had no power to st:nction
ploi•osed subscription by the Gimrdiate, to the
A.seciation for the Boarding-out of Childr.n The
ur ait man paentioned the • letters of Mr. Saniut 1
Smith o the Tithes on this subject. and Mr. J. P.
Ilarvey remarked that it was a matter well wort ay
of tbeir euneideratlon.—Mr. Young, relieving officer
for No. 2 district, has been unable to attend to his
duties for the last twelve weeks o:%ing to iilneF,s ;
and the CI qardians voted Mr. T. Wallis a sum of X2O.
for having, with assistance, discharged his duties in
the interim.—The question of the desirability of
connwing the Woikhouse viith tle Telpher°
Exchange was put before the Board. It was pointed
cut that it would be of great value in case of fire, of
any urgent medical ease, and in other ways. On
the motion of Mr. Backus'', seeonded by Mr. Miluts,
the letter was referred to consider and report upon.

BItIERLEY HILL.
CAUTION TO COAL-STEALEII9,--At tilePOliCo Court
on T: ursday, before Mr. Neville (StipendlarY),
William Humphries (14) and Ana Jones, a married
sornan, were charged with stealing a pennyworth of
Mr. Waidron gtroo
slie
c; .uotee boy and woman
l .—T Gi tings, chartermtister.
r
were sem h together, and the former was caught wit.he
the coal in his possession. He pleaded that his
fat t,er was ill in bed and had no food or fire.—He
was discharged, but the SiipendiarY said ho believed
the woman irstiga•ed She theft, and so he sevtenced
her to a month's ..uprisonment.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-08

A GALLANT LIFEBOAT SERVICE.

On Tuesday evening the crew of the Eastbourne
lifeboat were entertained at a public dinner in honour
of the gallant rescue of the crew of 16 of a Norwegian
barque during a gale and snowstorm near Beachy
Head. The lifeboatmen were received with enthusiasm.
The master of the wrecked vessel and others went
out in boats to the scene of the wreck. The barque
was found on the rocks in a hopeless condition and
full of holes. Three days after leaving New York all
the ship's boats were lost during violent gales in the
Atlantic. The snowstorm prevented the crew seeing
the danger light near Beachy Head, when the shin
drifted towards the rocks. The Norwegian consul
has visited the crew.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-08

A FRAUDULENT CLERGYMAN.

At the Berke Quarter Sessions, on Tuesday, W.
Shipley, who described himself as a clergyman, was
charged with obtaining goods by false pretences. Last
October the prisoner took a large furnished house at
Bradfield, Reading, telling the owner he was a friend
of Lord Hopetoun'e. He obtained goods from
Reading tradesmen, but suspicious circumstances
arose and the owner took possession of the house,
and the tradesmen went to the house but could
obtain no money, the prisoner saying he had no
means. Among the various articles obtained
were a pair of serviette rings, which were sent to
the Earl of Hopetoun on the occasion of his mar-
riage. The prisoner formerly resided at Harwich, and
left in considerable debt, but being found, was com-
mitted for 42 days under a judgment summons.
Counsel for the prosecution said the prisoner had com-
mitted fraud by falsely holding h;.mself out as a man
of means and position. The prisoner now stated that
he formerly held a benefice under the Duke of Rut-
land, and was private tutor to the Earl of Hopetoun.
His Lordship was present in Court and admitted this,
but denied that the prisoner was an intimate friend of
his. The paisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to
six months' imprisonment.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-08

AMERICAN JOURNALISM.

Journalism has driven out literature, and the re-
porter bids fair to drive out journalism. The era of
"news" has come. The average newspaper cares
more about an accident in Harlem whereby a man
broke his leg than about the cleverest editorial that
could be written, if he can get a "beat on its con-
temporaries in the shape of an exclusive account of
a dog fight in Arizona, about which none of its
readers cares two straws, there is more joy in the
editorial and proprietorial heart than all the letters
of Junius would excite. In New York the papers
pay 2 dole. a column more for news matter than for
literary criticisms. stories, art reviews, and all kinds
of "specials." I have known of 200 dole. being paid
by every morning paper for a duplicate copy of a
two-column article about a seduction case of no parti-
cular interest, while important and excellent items of
news occasionally bring thsir purveyors from 500 dole.to
2000 dole. No former era could compare with this in
the development of news-gathering faculty and facili-
ties, and a clever and enterprising reporter can earn
more money than a brilliant editorial writer now-a-
days. The great metropolitan editor has passed away,
and the speculator has taken his place. Joseph
Pulitzer, Jams Gordon Bennett, George Jones,
Whitelass Reid, are not editors in the sense Horace
Greeley and Henry J. Raymond were. They are busi-
ness men running their papers as money-making
machines. and rarely putting pen to paper save in the
signing of cheques and the writing of private letters.
Charles A. Dana is the only one of the old regime
that is left. The really able writers are not now to be
found in New York, but, like Murat Halstead and
Henry Watterson, are getting papers of their own
in various cities throughout the country.—Tle Earth
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-08

THE MARKETS.

MARK-LAN E.
At Mark-lane about an average busine. s las been don 9
at steady prices. Fresh supplies of produce were mode-
rate. The ale 3 of home grown wheat in the leading
n arkets of England and Wales during tau first 13 weeks of
the season we e 91e,645 quarters, as agadust 1,(3..7,417
q tar ers last year, the average being bls 9d, against
d per qua ter. 'the sales of barley were 1,5(3,4:33
q larters, ag4.ht 1,850 9titi quarters, the average being
2s 2d, agaiust Boa sd per quar er ; and of oats 173,277
q t aters, against 172,65 u quarters, at an average of us 4d
p)e quarter against Its 4d per quarter. English wheat
w s in fair . equest, at Is to .2s per quarter advance on the
week, foreign a heat was thin, at a similar improvement
About an average business was passing in ii ur, and pi ices
were quite Is h gher on the week. In barley a ()aerate
bus Less was transacted at full prices for both malting and
grind:ng samples, 3d to 6d advance being Ire4oeutly
realis(d. Oats were iu moderate supply and quiet re-
quest at late currencies. Maze changed lv,nds qui t.y
on former terms. Beans and peas were firm, and 'I 'V
as dear.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
The cattle trale has been very dull; sapplies were about
the average. Ihe liceipts of beat- ts from our ewn gearing
that icts were fairly goad, the quulity generally being up to
ations. Trade ?ai throughout been very bad, Lind
buy irs hive had the aovant age. '1 he Lest Scots and crosses
realised 48 4d to 4s 6cl per rib. Foreign beasts ware in very
short supply and moderate request at barely the paces of
last wees. Teo sheep pens were fairly well filled. There
was a want of animation in the demand. Only chcece imall
anima's maintained their value, heavy breeds being lower to
~ca. The best eowns and half-brects made 58 So to Sc per
tlo calves and pigs were quiet, without particular chiti4e.
Coarse und inferior heasts, 3s Ott to 3s tici; second quality
ditto Bs 6d to 48 Ott; prime large oxen al , 4s to
4s 4d; ditto Sits, &c., 4s 4d to is 6d ; coa s, Cu infer:or
sheep, 48 Ott to 48 6d ; second quality uitto, 4s 64
to Ps ; prime coarse-woollcd ditto, 5s 6cl to is 8a ;
prime Southdown ditto, 5s td to Os Ott. large coarse
calves, 3s Bcl to 48 4d; prime small ditto, 48 8d to Is 4.1;
large hogs, 28 4d to Is Id; neat small porkers, Is 8d to
48 6,1 per lb to s nit the offal. Total Supply: Beasts,
Oslo; sheep and lambs, 11,370 ; pigs, 10; calves, 80; much
(tows, 40. Foreign: Beasts, 100 ; otires, 19. From
the midland, home and western counties we received
2e90 beasts; from Nor folk, Suffolk, and Essex ; from
Ireland, 8O; uud from Scotland, 110 beasts.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-08

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IM2Oi.TANT NOTICE.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-08

THE JUDGES AND THE WINTER
ASSIZES.

The business of the Winter Assizes will be com-
menced on Monday, when the commission will be
__. _ _ _

opened at Reading, on the Oxford circuit, by Mr.
Tustice Manisty. On the following day the commis-
sions will be opened at Huntingdon, on the South.
Eastern circuit, by Mr. Justice Grantham ; at Maid-
stone, on the home circuit, by Mr. Justice Denman ;
at Aylesbury, on the Midland circuit, by Mr. Justice
Field; at CarliLle, on the Northern circuit, by Mr.
Justice Hawkins; and at Newcastle, on the North-
Eastern circuit, by Mr. Justice Day. Eight of the
judges of the Queen's Bench Division and a commis-
sioner (Mr. Kintyre, Q.C.), will be away at the com-
mencement of the assizes, leaving seven of the judges
in town to carry on the business in that division, one
of whom will be in attendance at Chambers. Later
on several more of the Queen's Bench judges will have
to attend at the assizes, leaving only two or three in
town until the circuits are over.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-01-08

REPORTS OF DIVORCE COURT
PROCEEDINGS.

The following memorial has been published :
We, the undersigned, reqpectfully suggest to all
those who have the control of the daily press, the
desirability of some combined action by which they
may minimise, if they cannot wholly suppress, the
details of divorce cases and criminal trials, such as
those which of late have occupied so many columns of
the newspapers. We are aware that the fear of pub-
licity is one of the most powerful deterrents to the
commission of crime, nor have we the least desire to
shelter the misdeeds of offenders because of any posi-
tion in society which they may occupy; but we have
a strong conviction that the necessary publicity
would be secured without the divulgence of
detail of a demoralising character, and we
have reason to fear that the full record of
incidents in these cases ministers to a diseased
appetite, and produces a most unwholesome effect
on many minds. We desire further to call attention
to the inevitable evils which must result from thus
familiarising with vice the minds of tens of thou-
sands of young persons of both sexes from
whom, in these days, it is impossible to keep
the daily newspapers. We do not reflect for
one moment on the motives of any who have con-
sidered it part of their duty to publish full reports of
these trials, but we are sure that a combined effort to
keep the pages of newspapers as free as possible from
the stain of such impurities would be conducive to
the public good. WESTMINSTER.
SELRORNE.
Dec. 20. F. W. FARR.t.It

Among those who have signed the memorial are
Mr.:Gladstone, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Car-
dival Manning, the Bishop of London, Professor
Huxley, Professor Tyndall, Lord Iddesleigh, a large
number of members of Parliament, and others.