The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-01-16 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS,

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Owing to the spread of the Arab insurrection in the
Hedjaz WOO Turkish troops have arrived from Constan,
tinople to reinforce the garrison of that province.
The British Government has forirAlly recognised
Spanish sovereignty over the Caroline and Pelew Ar-
chipelago, Spain granting to England all those comt
mercial advantages in the islands which have been
conceded to Germany.
Very severe weather is reported from the North.
Western and Atlantic States of the Union. Numerous
disasters by sea and land have occurred. In the
Eastern States of Canada railway traffic is seriously
impeded by heavy snowfalls.
Lord Salisbury, replying to the secretary of the
International Arbitration and Peace Society, states
that papers relating to affairs in the Soudan, will
shortly be laid before Parliament.
Several fires occurred in the metropolis on Saturday
and Sunday. In one in Euston-road there was large
destruction of property, and in another, in Glyn-street,
Kennington, an elderly man was found to have died
from suffwation.

A disastrous powder explosion occurred in Sheffield.
park, the family residence of the Earl of Sheffield, near
Brighton, on Friday afternoon. Alterations were being
made' in the bed of one of the waterfalls, with the
object of adding to the beauty of the scene, and blast-
ing operations became necessary. His lordship bad
chosen the present time to carry out his plans in order
to give employment to labourers out of work. Un-
happily, a portion of the blasting powder accidentally
ignited, and two workmen, named Bedwell and Collins,
were killed by the explosion. At the inquests, on
Saturday, verdicts of "Accidental death" were re-
turned.

klr. Joseph Arch, the first direct representative of
the agricultural labourer returned to Parliament, is to
be entertained at dinner on Saturday evening.
On Saturday an inquest was held touching the death
of a boy, 13 years of age, who died from hydrophobia.
It appeared that, so far back as last September, the
boy was bitten by a blz.ck cat. A week ago he became
ill, and discovered all the symptoms of hydrophobia.
One of the features of the case was that the boy refused
to drink water from a cup, but lapped it from a
saucer, as a cat would.
John Knocker was on Saturday committed for trial
by the Dartford magistrates on the charge of wilfully
murdering David Smith and Alfred Kemp, the former
the landlord of the inn where he lodged, and the latter
his fellow-lodger.

- With regard to the Samoa Islands a Berlin corms.
pondent telegraphs that the German Government has
every intention to abide loyally by the convention with
Great Britain and the United States, and that there is
no question of a German annexation.
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A-t
the opening. on Tuesday, of the French Parliar
mentary session for 1886, M. Floquet was re-elected
Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies.
M. Paul Bert has been appointed Resident General
of Annam, Tonkin, and Cambodge.
Everything is now reported to be quiet at Carthagena,
where a number of the military mutineers have been
arrested.

A fearful accident happened on Tuesday, at the
Silver Hill Colliery, near Tiversall, between Chesterfield
and Mansfield. Eight men were being lowered down
the shafts about sii o'clock, when, by some accident,
the cage did not ease up, but ran with violence to the
bottom. The men were thrown out, and two, on being
brought up, were sent to Chesterfield Hospital suffering
from dreadful injuries. Some of the others were also
injured.
At West Ardsley, near Wakefield, on Tuesday, John
Fearnsides, 13, was accidentally shot by his cousin,
Mr. Arthur Fearnsides, of Saviletown, Densbury. The
boy was watching a party out shooting when the gun
held by his cousin was accidentally discharged, and the
poor little fellow was shot through the heart. He was
heard to cry "Oh, dear," and immediately afterwards
expired.
Sir Edward Dering, Bart., has allowed his Romney
Marsh tenants a reduction of 25 per cent, in their
rents for the last half-year, owing to the bad state of
agriculture. Lord Hothfield has also granted substan-
tial reduction in the rents of many of his tenantry.
Wm. Lapworth, the manager of the Oldbury Granite
Quarries, near A.therstone, was on Tuesday preparing a
charge of dynamite by warming it before a fire, when it
exploded. He was so terribly injured that his death
shortly afterwards resulted.
Pending the Croydon election, Lord Lewisham will
act as one of the Conservative Whips in the place of
Mr. Sidney Herbert.
A deputation of Irish landowners, and other persons
interested in land in Ireland, will wait upon the Prime
Minister early next week.
A Sunday Closing Bill for Cornwall will be introduced
as soon as possible this Session. Mr. Borlase will
probably have charge of the measure.
The lion. Guy Dawnay will retain for the present
the post of Surveyor-General of Ordnance, notwith-
standing his defeat in the North Riding at the general
election. There are many precedents for this course,
and Mr. Dawnay is understood to be engaged in very
important work in connection with his Department.
Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, has issued invitations to his Ministerial
colleagues in the House of Commons to the usual
official dinner on Wednesday next.
Sir John Lubbock intends this Session to re-introduce
his Shop Hours Regulation Bill in a modified form.
The object of the bill is to prevent children employed
in shops from being overworked. He will not insist on
the principle of compulsory inspection, which, it is
found, would be very unpopular with the employers.
We regret to announce the death of the Hon. James
Henry Duncombe, eldest surviving son of the Earl and
Countess Faversham, which occurred at his father's
house in Belgrave.square, on Sunday evening, after a
lingering illness. The deceased, who was in his thirty.
third year, was appointed sub-lieutenant in the Scots
Guards in 1873, and was promoted to lieutenant in the
regiment in 1875, but retired from the army in 1882,
owing to infirm health.

The abscending stockbroker named " llcrbert
Harrison" has been brought back to England by the
steamer Rose, trading between Bilbao and Newport,
Mon., and Sergeant Outram, of the London detective)
police, who had been on board during the voyage, con-
veyed " Harrison " to London.
The Minister of Education at Tokio, Japan, has
obtained leave to have translated into Japanese, Pro..
fessor Guthrie's syllabus of instruction in elementary
practical physics as pursued at the physical laboratory
of the Normal School of Science and Royal School of
Mines at South Efensington. The Japanese Govern-
ment proposes to introduce this system of practical
instruction into the elementary schools as well as into
the normal schools of Japan. Professor Guthrie has
promised to write a preface to the translation.
The leaders of the Irish party hive not decided what
steps they shall take upon the Address. We ("Daily
News ") have reason to believe that their present in-
tention is not to submit an amendment, but to await
the development of the Ministerial programme, more
especially with reference to the possibility of a bill
dealing with Local Government in Ireland. Till the
Queen's Speech is in the hands of members no decision
will be taken:

Her Majesty, on the nomination of the Secretary for
Scotland, has been graciously pleased to appoint Mr.
John Harrower, M.A., Professor of Greek in the
University of Aberdeen in succession to Principal
Geddes.

Mr. Thomas Hughes, Q. 0., one of the county.court
judges of Cheshire, has accepted the post of umpire of
the Potteries Board of Arbitration, which has recently
been resuscitated. The last arbitrator was Sir Thomas
Brassey, who in 1881 gave a decision during a strike
adverse to the workmen, and they forthwith broke up
the board. Since that time there has been no tribunal
to which wages disputes in this important industry
could be referred,

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Mr. Chamberlain was the principal speaker at the
annual meeting of the Allotments and Small Holdings
Association, held at the Westminster Palace Hotel,
London, on Monday. The right hon. gentleman dwelt
on the land question, and expressed his conviction that
no settlement was possible which did not afford
facilities to all who required them in obtaining a direct
and independent interest in the land. He insisted on,.
the right of the community to re-enter the land of the
country, on payment of fair compensation, whet-ever
it was required for public purposes.
Mr. Childers again addressed the electors of
Edinburgh on Monday night. He spoke chiefly on the
question of Free Trade.
In celebration of the return of Mr. Richard Strong,
Liberal member for North Camberwell, a dinner was
given at the Cannon-street Hotel, under the presi-
dency of Mr. H. W. Lawson, M.P. Mr. O'Connor
Power responded to the toast of "The Liberal Cause."
A conference of delegates from the metropolitSr
vestries and district boards was held in Walworth on
Monday, to consider what steps should be taken for
more effectually controlling costermongers and itinerant
street traders. A resolution was finally carried by a
small majority in favour of withdrawing the police
orders of 1882, which left the local authorities to deal
with street obstructions of the character referred to,
and declaring that the police themselves ought to
exercise the control which the statute vested in them.
In his charge to the grand jury at the Central
Criminal Court, the Recorder ref( rred to the charge
against John Magee of sending a threatening letter to
the Prince of Wales. They must, he said, find a true
bill, as there was no doubt that the letter had been
sent, or that it had been sent with the object of ex-
torting money.
Lady John Manners on Monday evening opened a
free library and reading room at Loughborough, built
by donations and subscriptions a large proportion of
which was contributed by working men. Her Lsdy-
ship had a very gratifying reeeption, and in the course
of au interesting address spoke highly of the benefit
of such it, stitutions to artizans and others. She believed
the p ople of this country hardly yet appreciated the
great passer which the intelligent working classes pos-
sessed if they only chose to exercise it. She had ex-
perienced with pleasure the hearty co-operation of the
poor in the starting of reading-rooms and coffee-rooms
where she dwelt. Mr. Johnson Ferguson, M.P., and
many of the local clergy and gentry were also present
at the ceremony.
A public meeting of citizens was held at Canterbury,
on Monday, to adopt measures for relieving the distress
prevalent in the city. The Mayor presided, and stated
that the cause of such a large amount of destitution as
at present existed was the depression in the agricultural
districts, most of the farmers having been obliged to
discharge many of their workmen. The object of the
meeting was advocated by the dean, tho Bishop of
Dover, Mr. Henniker Heaton, M.P., and other
gentlemen, and it was resolved to raise a special fund
for relieving the distress among the deserving poor.
Another resolution was adopted empowering the
committee to spend money in providing emplosment
for men out of work.
An inquest was held on Monday on the body of
Rabert Poole, 21, who came to his death from injuries
received whilst playing football last week. It ap-
peared from the evidence that he was playing a very
fast game, and that he slipped and fell, receiving a
severe kick in the chest whilst several other players
fell on him. A post-mortem examination showed that'
death WAS caused from hwmorrhage arising from
injuries to the internal organs accidentally received.
In returning a verdict in accordance with the medical
testimony, the jury strongly condemned football as a
dangeous game, and the recklessness with which it was
played.
A strange occurrence is reported from Teignmoutb,
Devonshire. An old man, who had been ill for some
days, was thought to be dead, and the relatives sent
for a nurse to lay out the supposed corpse. Prepara-
tions for this were being made when some one sug-
gested that the man was not dead, and on brandy
being applied to his lips he showed unmistakeahle
signs of vitality, much to the astonishment of those in
the room, who were still more surprised when a few
minutes later he sat up and asked" what it was all
about."
Alexander Peers, 13, and Henry Griffiths,l4. residing
at Seacombe, near Birkenhead, en Monday met on
their way home from school. Peers said that was the
first time he had seen Griffiths this year, and imme-
diately the latter pulled a loaded pistol from his
pocket and fired the charge into Peers's breast. The
wounded boy was carried home unconscious, and when
he rallied he made a deposition before a magi,tras e.
No hope is entertained of his recovery, the bullet
having penetrated one of the lungs. Griffiths has been
apprehended.
A serious explosion of gas occurred on Manday even-
ing at Leicester. Gas had been smelt during rho day
in the house of a carpenter named Gran*, who
tried to discover the escape, and carried with him
a lighted candle. On entering a room • where the
escape had been suspected a violent explosion
occurred, the windows of the house being blown
out and the furniture damaged, whilst Grant received
such serious injuries that he had to be taken to the
infirmary, where he was detained.
Seven hundred tenants on the estates in county
Kerry, of which Mr. George Sandes is agent, met at
Listowel on Monday to consider the course they should
adopt in view of the numerous processes for rents
which had been served. The tenants went in a body to
Mr. Saudes' office, and Canon Davis, on behalf of the
tenants, nnnounced that no rents would be paid unless
a reduction of 30 per cent. were allowed.
A lady of independent means, Miss Reeve, was found
dead in her room at Tutbury, near Burton-on-Trent, on
Monday morning. Her clothing was burnt, and parts
of her body were terribly scorched, showing that she had
been burned to death. No one was at hand to render
her assistance, as all the servants slept off the premises.
Lord Macdonald of the Isles has allowed an
abatement of 20 per cent, on the half-year's rent of
his Skye tenant farmers.
According to advices from New York no change is
likely to be made with regard to the coinage of silver
by the United States Government during the present
session of Congress.
Mr. Fraser Mackintosh, MY., presiding at a meeting
of the Highland Land Law Reform Association on
Tuesday night, announced that a bill would be intro-
duced in the present session for the establishment of a
Land Court for the Highlands and Islands, with power
to fix rents enlarge or create crofting townships, and
to direct that suitable houses and allotments of land be
provided for agricultural labourers on equitable terms.
Mr. Macfarlane intends to move an amendment to the
Address, praying for the stoppage of evictions pending
remedial legislation.
Mr. Blundell Maple, the unsuccessful Conservative
candidate for South St. Pancras, London, at the general
election, was entertained at dinner on Tuesday evening
at the Holborn Restaurant.

In the Court of Bankruptcy, Dublin, en Tuesday,
before Judge Miller, on the petition of Mr. R. C. Hall
and Mr. James J. Murphy, of Cork, official liquidators
of the Munster Bank, Mr. William Shaw, formerly
chairman of the bank, and late M.P. for Cork, and Mr.
Nicholas D. Murphy, formerly a director of the bank,
and MY. for Cork, were adjudicated bankrupts, the
liabilities of the former being set down at £129,887, aucl
of the latter at £24,692. The bank has securities for
Mr. Shaw's debts, the estimated value of which is
£40,902, and for Mr. Murphy's estimated at £8304.
The Brighton Town Connell. having .determined to
apply to Parliament for power to consolidate the public
debt, which amounts to £700,000, a meeting was held
O n Tuesday to obtain the consent of the owners and
ratepayers. It was explained that, if requisite, an Act
will be obtained by which the present ratepa3ers would
be 'saved nearly £7OOO a year. As the Mayor would
not adjourn the meeting until Thursday evening, a
body of working men defeated the resolution embedy-
ing consent. A poll was demanded.
At Wednesbury on Tuesday Bridget Varley was
remanded for a week for committing a murderous
outrage on Eliza Byrnes. The prisoner is engaged to
marry the: prosecutrix's son. On Monday morning
prisoner and prosecutrix were in a public-house, and in
consequence of the prosecutrix dissenting from sre-ne
observations made by the prisoner, Varley threw a jug
coutaining ale at her head, causing her skull to be
fractured, and inflicting other frightful injuries. The
police found the prosecutrix in a pool of blood.
The Hon. E. Lyulph Stanley, the inspector appointed
to inquire into the condition and management of the
Royal Liver Friendly Society, opened the inquiry on
Tuesday at St. George's Hall, Liverpool. The Inspector,
on taking his seat, said that, as an objection had been
taken by the society to the presence of the public, he
had to request all persons not members or professionally
engaged to withdraw. The strangers and all but the
celicials accordingly withdrew, and the inquiry was con-
t4icted with closed doors.

The testing of the arms of the Ist Leicestershire, at The number of shipwrecks reported during the past
Aldershot, resulted in three-eighths of the bayonets week was 45, six of which were steamers, Fourteen
yielding to the test. One hundred and sixty-six ' were lost off the British coasts, four sunk by collision,
bayonets of the Ist Seaforth Highlanders and o , four abandoned at sea, two foundered, two burnt, and
sergeants' swords also yielded to the test. The number about 63 lives were lost. Twenty-one vessels were
of bayonets in the possession of each infantry regiment British-owned, one being lost with all hands but one.
is about 750, and the swords number 50. Total number of wrecks for the present year is 54.
The Board of Trade have awarded a gold watch to I In Saturday's sitting of the German Reichstag, the
Captain Zacharias Van Hoog Teylingen, of the Dutch bill for the construction of a canal between the North
fishing smack Noordster, of Vlaardingen, and money Sea and the Baltic was referred to a committee of
rewards to his crew, in acknowledgment of their twenty..one members. In the cotuise of the debate,
humane services to the shipwrecked crew of the Herr ,von Boettichert Secretary of State, vigorously
Lucretia, of Shields, abandoned at sea on the 2811 of defending the bill, pointing out that the Government,
ember last. 1 in bringing forward the measure, had mainly been
Major-General the Hon. J. Dormer, Deputy, I guided by considerations for the defence of the country.
Adjutant-General for Auxiliary Forces, presided on Alluding to the idea which formerly prevailed that,
Monday at a meeting at the War-office, to concert instead of a canal being constructed the fleet thould
arrangements for the establishment of a corps of be increased, the Minister remarked that now that the
volunteer signallers. The idea, which has received the fleet had been increased the canal was a necessity.
approval of Lord Wolseiey and the headquarters staff, I Toalsi Was, 56, a native of Punjanb, was at the
is for the formation of a corps from the most expert Brentford Petty Sessions, on Saturday, charged with
signallers of the volunteer force, if necessary, for having been found wandering at Kew Bridge without
active service, on the principle which has worked so any visible means of subsistence. The prisoner, who
well in the Postal and Telegraph Corps, and other was in native dress, appeared to greatly feel the in-
branches of the volunteer service. It is probable that clemency of the weather, and on being brought into
other meetings will be held before a final decision is Court from the House of Detention, was allowed to
arrived at. squat in front of the fire, and was supplied with a
A public meeting was held at Yarmouth on Monday ! cigarette, which he smoked with evident pleasure. He
afternoon under the auspices of the Naval Volunteers had been stopped, as on a previous occasion, while
Home Defence Association. Lord Charles Beresford, making his way to Windsor to state a grievance to her
M.P., Colonel Sir Charles Nugent, Sir H. Tyler, M.P., Majesty, having lost a lawsuit in India. General Tre-
General Savel, and other naval and military men ad.- ' menheere the presiding magistrate at Brentford on
dressed :the meeting, and it was determined to take ' Saturday, interested himself in the "man's behalf,
steps to form a branch of the association at Yarmouth. but the prisoner declined to return to India. The
Lord Charles Beresford had a very enthusiastic recep- ,! magistrates decided to discharge him, and a large
t.on, the large audience cheering vociferously and !bundle containing his cooking utensils were restored to
shouting," Well done, Condor." him.
According to a Reuter despatch from Bombay, a sharp In the Court of Session, Edinburgh, on Saturdtty,
engagement has been fought on the Boner Border with Lord Fraser ordered that issues be prepared for the trial
party of the Boneval tribe, which was defeated with by jury of an action for libel which has been instituted
heavy loss. Colonel Hutchinson, of the Guides, was by Mr. R. T. Reid, Q.C., 43, Elvaston-place, London.
severely wounded: one Sowar was killed and three Mr. Reid was a Liberal candidate for the eouney of
wounded. Dumbarton at the late general election, and directs
On Monday morning M. Tsillandier, the new French this action against Frederick Wicks, publisher of the
Diplomatic Agent at Cairo, presented his credentials "Glasgow News," and William Douglas, Blair Lodge,
blithe Khedive. Lenzie. He claims £2OOO as damages for slander said
Mr. Gladstone, on his way from Hawarden to London, to have been contained in a letter written by Douglas,
and Mr. Parnell, journeying from London to Dublin, and published in the "Glasgow News" of the 26th of
happened to be at Chester Station at the same time November last. Wicks pleads that he was privileged in
on Monday morning. They did not, however, meet, publishing the letter, and Douglas that it does not go
It appears that Mr. Parnell, who was announced to beyond fair criticism of a public man.
preside at the Convention of Irish Nationalist members Christian Hermansen was brought up on a warrant
in Dublin on Monday, was unable to do so, having at the Liverpool Police-court on Saturday, before Mr.
lost his train at Crewe. In his alnence he was re i Raffles, stipendiary magistrate, charged with stealing a
elected parliamentary chairman of the party, and, purse containing £6 10s. from the Scandinavian Hotel,
various other offieers having been chosen, several reso- Liverpool, on the 6th instant. The prisoner, who holds
lutions were passed, one of which affirmed "the inalien- a Norwegian Master's certificate, was stopping at the
able right of the Irish people to legislate for them- hotel, as was also Captain Berndt Alfred Oberg. On
selves." the night of the sth inst. Captain Oberg went to bed;
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leaving his trousers on the chair neir the bed; in
one of the pockets of the trousers was the purse con-
taining the REJ 10s. When he awoke in the morning
the puree and money were missing. Prisoner pleaded
guilty, and was sentenced to four months' imprisons
meat.
Lord Colville of Culross (the chairman) and other
directors of the Great Northern Railway Opmpany, on
Saturday, visited Nottingham, and proceeded by special
train to Daybrook, whence they travelled in carriages
over the proposed route of the extension of their line
as a suburban railway for Nottingham. After the in-
spection the directors received a deputation from the
Town Council, who assured them of the hearty support
of the Corporation; The Mayor pointed out that the
population of Nottingham hadincreased to 228,000.
An outrage was committed on Saturday, at Fins-
derry, the residence of Mr. Francis Kelly, a landlord
and Justice of the Peace. Mr. Kelly and his house-
hold were retiring fort the night, when footsteps were
heard approaching the house, and immediately after-
wards 11 shots were fired in rapid succession. The
bullets lodged in the shutters and doors, all the inmates
escaping injury. The perpetrators of the outrage then
ran away. This is the second attack on Mr. Kelly's
residence.
A woman named Nelms, wife of a railway ganger,
living at Teddington, near Oxford, has murdered her
infant child. Her husband at breakfast time suddenly
missed her, and, going into the garden, found her
',flinging her hands and exclaiming, "Oh, I have killed
my child." The infant's throat was cut in a dreadful
, manner.
In Regent's-park, London, on Saturday afternoon„
there was a narrow escape of serious disaster. Despite
the warnings of the authorities as to the dangerous
condition of the ice' a large number of skaters and
sliders ventured on the ornamental waters. After a
time the ice broke near the large island and the boat-
house bridge, opposite Hanover-terrace, and many
persons were immersed. At two other places the ice
also gave way, causing several immersions. The fact
that no lives were lost is due to the circumstance that,
the depth of the lake was lessened to three feet six
inches after the accident 19 years ago, when 40 persons
were drowned.
At Wakefield, on Friday, Josiah Fowler, formerly,
a draper at Sheffield, an accountant at Huddersfield,'
and an eat ieg house keeper at Hull, was committed for
trial on the c,:arge of bigamy. In 1873 he was married,
at Sheffield to a woman named Ellen Buxton, with
whom he lived until 1582 and had six children. It is
alleged that be deserted them and went to live at a
young widow's named Mary Ann Wedforth, and even-
tually married her, she having since given birth to a
child by him. The accused did not deny the charge;
and declared that his second wife was worth a thousand
of the first, who bad been a drawback to him and had
ruined his business three times. The man was taken
into custody last October, whilst conducting a religious
service at Hull, and was sent to Warwick Prison for
three months. On his release he was at once appre-
hended on the present charge.
A remarkable applicatioa has recently been made to
one of the relieving officers for Leicester by a member
of the Salvation Army, the particulars of which trans.
pired at the last meeting of the Leicester Board of
Guardians. A man calling himself an officer of the
Salvation Army wrote to the relieving officer in guess,
tion asking if two of his subordinates stationed at
Melton could be admitted to the workhouse, as they
were suffering from a loathsome disease. He desired to
pay all expenses, and the reason the request was made
was in order to" keep it dark," so that the 'members of ,
the Melton contingent should not become aware of the;
matter. The relieving officer ordered the man from
his office, and the Board refused to entertain the apeib.
cation.
The Hon. 0-olman Macaulay, secretary of the Bengal
Government, who lately went to Pekin on •a special
mission on the subject of the opening of Tibet to trade
has returned to India. It is understood that his miss.
sion was completely successful, although no details
concerning it have transpired.
Lord klartington has accepted the office of President
of the Early Closing Association.
The death is announced at Bath, of Sir George
Houstoun-Boswell, Bart. He was born in 1809, and
was formerly a colonel in the Grenadier Guards.
A slight shock of earthquake has occurred at
Philippopolis. It was followed by several shocks of a
more violent character, the vibrations lasting nearly
five seconds. The movement was in a south-south-
easterly direction.
The Manifesto sigue,l by Conforming and Noncon-
forming ministers, in favour of a Reformed National
Church has now received upwards of 120 signatures.
Those who have joined in this Manifesto protest against
Disestablishment, and declare that the Church ought
to be so reformed as to become once more in fact as
well as in name the Church of the Nation.
A singular state of things has been disclosed in the
Chancery Court at Manchester. The relief fund
subscribed for sufferers by the Clifton Hall exploslon
amounted to nearly £25,000, and the committee only
distributed in relief a sum under £2OOO. The Court
sanctioned a scheme devoting the residue—over e22,0(10
—to relief in similar accidents in North and East
Lancashire.