The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-03-06 00:00:00

EPITOME OF NEWS

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

The cremation of a body which had been brough
from Texas took place at Manston, Dorset, and was
completed within an hour and a half. This is the
fourth successful cremation which has been accom-
plished there. The ashes were collected, and after
being placed in an urn, were deposited in the Mauso-
leum.
The statistics presented at the meeting of the
Asylums Board showed the satisfactory fact that only
eight cases of small-pox had occurred during the fort-
night all over the metropolis:and that there was only an
increase of two in the number of fever patients re-
maining under treatment in all the hospitals of the
board. There was a total number of 14 small-pox
patients remaining under treatment, and 241 fever
patients, of whom 198 were suffering from scarlet
fever and 38 from enteric fever.
The death is announced of Sir Henry Ricketts,
which event took place at Oakhill-grove,
Surbiton. The deceased knight, who was hi his 84th
year, held several important offices in the Hon. East
India Company's service from 1821 to 1860, and was a
member of the Council of the Governor-General of
India from 1851 to 1860.
On Saturday afternoon the police authorities gave
information to the coroner's officers for the parishes of
Lambeth and Newington, London, of the finding of the
bodies of three dead children, wrapped up in parcels
in the street, two having been found in South Lambeth,
and the third near Trinity-square, Newington. They
were all of recent birth and fully developed.
The first stone of the Chapel to be erected at Cannes
to the memory of the late Duke of Albany was laid on
Saturday by the Prince of Wales.
In the Court for Crown Cases Reserved, on Saturday
morning, the Lord Chief Justice and four other judges
quashed a conviction of the Recorder of Leicester, who
directed a jury to convict a man of larceny who had
appropriated to his own use money paid to him in mis-
take. Their lordships laid it down as a well-established
law that where there was an innocent receiver of
money, and a subsequent fraudulent appropriation,
there could not be a conviction for larceny.
On Saturday a shocking fatality occurred at Newlyn
near Penzance. During the ordinary preparations for
blasting a quarry the charge in one of the holes, at
which a young man was employed, suddenly exploded,
killing him on the spot, and the falling debris also
struck another workman, crushing his legs in a terrible
manner. The foreman narrowly escaped injury. The
deceased leaves a widow and five children.
In Esther ix. 19 we read as follows: "Therefore the
Jews of the villages that dwelt in the unwalled townu,
made that 14th day of the month Adar a day of OA-
ness and feasting, and a good day, and of seneeng
portions one to another." In the third chapter, the
seventh verse, we are told that Nisan was the first
month of the year and Adar was the last. Nine, then,
corresponds to our March, and therefore Adar to
February. It is thus a curious coincidence that on the
14th day of February, our Valentine's Day, there should
have been a festive celebration on th 3 part of the
ancient Jews.—" Notes and Queries."
The Press Association learns that the Queen's
Proctor has decided to intervene in the divorce suit of
Crawford v. Crawford and Dilke

It is stated that the Indian contingent at Scuakim
will be relieved by Egyptian troops at the commence-
ment of May.
At the Surrey Sessions, on Tuesday, two young men
!lamed Lyons pleaded guilty to stealing a quantity of
jewellery, worth -£350, from Mr. Folkarcl, pawnbroker.
The prisoners were sentenced to 12 months' hard labour.
Last week at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the
mean reading of the barometer was 30013 ; the
highest reading was 30.23 in. on Monday at noon, and
the lowest 29.94 in. on Thursday afternoon. The mean
temperature of the air was 32.2, and 7.6 below the
average in the corresponding week of the 20 years ending
1868. The mean was considerably below the average
throughout the week. Melted snow was measured on
Tuesday to the amount of 0.01 of an inch. The duration
of registered bright sunshine in the week was 7•2 hours,
against 11.7 hours at Glynde-place, Lewes.
The death has occurred, after a long illness, of
Cardinal Jacobini, the Papal Secretary of State.
The total amount subscribed in America to the
Parnell Parliamentary Fund is a little over 66,000
dollars.

The Council of Ministers bas decided not to fill up
the vacancies in the Egyptian army caused by the re-
tirement of English officers, pending the negotiations
for the reorganisation of the Egyptian army.
The following communication has been received by
Messrs. Cassell and Company in reference to "Cassell's
National Library" . Windsor Castle, February 28.
Sir Henry- Ponsonby is commanded by the Queen to
thank Messrs. Cassell for the volumes of the National
Library' which they have been kind enough to forward
to her Majesty. The Queen was much pleased with
this selection of books, which are published at so small
a price."
At Salford Polka-court on Tuesday, a coalheaver
named William O'Neale was charged with attempting
to put his daughter into a hot oven. The girl, who was
seven years old, was seized by her father when he was
drunk, and her head and the upper part of her body
held in the oven. She was so severely burnt about the
hands that she could not hold the Testament in the
witness-box. The prisoner was sentenced to a month's
imprisonment with hard labour.
Application was made to Sir James Hannen in the
Divorce Court on Tuesday in the case of the Hon.
Lincoln Stanhope, as executor of the Hon. Wyndham
E. Stanhope, who had cbtained a decree nisi for a
divorce from his wife, Caroline Camilla Stanhope, to
make the decree absolute. It concerned property left
to trustees for the wife of the late Hon. W. E. Stan-
hope. Sir James Hannen said the right to move for
the decree absolute was personal, and the petitioner
having died, the marriage had been dissolved by death,
and no one could now move for the divorce.

David Roberts was executed at Cardiff on Tuesday
for the murder of David Thomas. near Cowbridge, in
October last. The sentence of the law was carried out
in a small courtyard of the gaol, in full view of three
reporters, who state that after the drop fell the.
fortunate man struggled for fully three minutes. They
were at this time requested to leave the yard, and death
had not apparently put an end to Roberts's sufferings
even then. Subsequently at the inquest the officials
alleged that death had been instantaneous, and Berry
in an interview with the mporters made a similar state-
ment.

The Treaty between Germany And Zanzibar comes
into operation on August 19 next, and will remain in
force for a period of 15 years. Under its provisions,
German residents may acquire real and personal pro.
perty in the Sultanate. The general import duty has
been fixed at five per cent., and the duty on spirits at
25 per cent, ad valorem. The export duties range from
five to 30 per cent. Goods in transit are exempted
from duty.
Two foreigners named Finkelstein and Trusovitch
were again brought before the magistrate at the
Guildhall on Tuesday, charged with torging and utter-
ing a number of bonds of the City of Paris Loan of
1871. The latter prisoner was apprehended at Stock-
holm, and a large sum of money and some valuables
were handed by the Swedish authorities to the English
officer who received the prisoner. A. sub-director of
the Belgian Caisse Generale describod how the bonds
in question were received from London and sold by the
Caisse, who had no complaints of their genuineness for
a month. A gentleman from tho Prefecture of the
Seine said the forgeries were skilfully executed, and it
was only by comparing them closely with a good bond
that the fraud could be detected. The prisoners were
committed for trial.

The thirteenth annual banquet of the British Chamber
of Commerce of Paris was held on Tu3sday evening.
M. Wilson, replying to the toast of the President's
health, made an urgent appeal to the commerce and
industry of England to assist in furthering the French
Exhibition of 1889. Replying to the toast of " Com.
merce," M. Leroy Beaulieu delivered an eloquent
speech, in which he pointed out the causes of the
present commercial crisis the chief of which was, he
declared, not excess of nrOduction. but Protectior

The salvation Army on Tuesday appealed to the
Queen's Bench Division against a conviction by the
Croydon magistrates for playing a musical instrument
in a street on Sunday. The proceedings were taken
under a bye-law of the Corporation, than which Mr.
Justice liawkins said ho never mail any thing more
egregiously unreasonable, as a man playing the most
enjoyable music or a boy a Jew's-harp would equally
come under it. The appeal was allowed with costs.
It has been notified that the men belongine to the
several sections of Class 11. of the Army Reserve
will not be called out for exercise during the year
1886-87.

The Second Reading of the Crofters Bill introduced
by the Government will be taken on Monday. When
it raaches eommittte a proposal will be made to apply
the provisions for the extension of holdings to arable
as well as grazing lands. An effort will also be made to
include the counties of Perth and Aberdeen within the
scope of the bilL
A serious collision occurred on the North British
Railway, near Linlithgow, on Tuesday night. As a
passenger train from Edinburgh, for Glasgow, was
approaching Linlithgow Station it came into collision
with a goods train standing upon the same line. The
guard of the goods train was killed on the spot, and
several passengers were severely bruised and cut.
Considerable damage was done to the rolling stock
and permanent way, the lines being blocked against
all traffic. A heavy snow storm prevailed at the
time.
The receipts on account of revenue from the Ist of
April, 1885, when there was a balance of £4,993,207, to
Feb. 27, 1886, were £79,160,314, against £78,884,101 in
the corresponding period of the preceding financial
year, which began with a balance of £5,632,569. The
net expenditure was £80,839,150, against £76,550,155
to the same date in the previous year. The Treasury
balances on Feb. 27 amounted to £6,883,180, and at the
same date in 1885 to £8,404,541.
At the London Diocesan Conference on Tuesday, the
Bishop of London, who presided, advocated the co-
operation of the laity with the clergy in the work of
the Church. A resolution in favour of tee appointment
of a Diocesan Evangelisation Council was adopted. A
motion in favour of opening museums, libraries, and
picture galleries on Sunday afternoon was lost by a
large majority.
The passenger station and general offices of the
Canadian Pacific Railway at Winnipeg, together with
their contents, were destroyed by fire on Monday. The
loss is estimated at £40,000, a portion of which is
covered by insurance. The rebuilding of the premises
will be commenced immediately.
Thomas Hearn, farmer, a voter in the Romford
Division, was on Saturday committed for trial by the
Stratford magistrates on the charge of personation at
the late general election.
A serious accident happened on the Serpentine in
Hyde-park on Sunday afternoon, by which two
gentlemen lost their lives, and a third had a very
narrow escape. Although the ice was unsafe, and, in
addition to the prohibitory notices, policemen were
patroling round the waters to warn people of danger,
the three gentlemen rentured to walk across the ice.
When within about 60 or 70 yards of the shore the
surface gave way, at a point where the water is
between Bft. and 9ft. deep; and two of the gentlemen,
named Albert Karlquist, aged 24, of No. 38, Fermoy.
road, Harrow-road, and John Holmger, aged 24, of 19,
Sherwood.street, Golden-square, disappeared beneath
the surface, while the third, with great difficultys
reached the bank in safety.

On Saturday the Senate of Dublin University met
under the presidency of Vice-Ohancellor Ball to con-
sider the adoption of an address to the Lord. Lieu-
tenant, the address proposed expressing an earnest
hope that every tie which made Ireland an integral
part of the great British Empire would be preserved.
Several riders were proposed, and eventually with only
one dissentient, it was decided to introduce a clause
expressing a hope that the legislative union would be
maintained. Mr. Wilson declared that the quest:on
was not one of politics but whether a set of con-
spirators against life and liberty should bo governors of
Ireland.

Mr. St. Clare Bedford held an inquiry on Friday at
the Guildhall, Westminster, into the circumstances
attending the death of Martin Crayon Lynch, aged 55,
late landlord of the Rifleman publichouse, Horseferry-
road, Westminster. On the evening of the 9th of
February, the deceased, hearing that the rioters were
approaching Westminster, and having no shutters to
his windows was in the act of examining his revolver,
when it accidentally went off, a bullet passing through
the palm of one of his hands. He was taken to the
Westminster Hospital, where erysipelas having set in,
he died on Tuesday last. The Jury returned a verdict
of "Accidental death."

A coroner's jury at Buttershaw in Yorkshire found
that the death of a widow, named Barstow, ag,s,i 609
was hastened by starvation. She lived in a boils°
found filled with filth, including about 80 pairs of old
boots and clogs, rags, bones, about two sacks full of
bread crusts, and a hundred gallons of dirty watei:
as many dirty pots. Two cartloads of rubbish were
removed from the house, and in the bedding on which
the woman lay, black with dirt, and nearly naked, was
found hid £3l in gold and silver.
. . .

On Saturday an engine with twenty waggons, some
of them loaded, ran down an incline near Ludlow Sta-
tion, and passing into a siding, forced the block stop
into a field twelve yards distant. The driver and
stoker had a narrow escape.
Two murderous attacks were on Saturday reported
from Killarney. John Cronin, Lord Kenmare's lodge-
keeper at Mahony's Point, was fired at from behind a
fence, and, it is feared, mortally wounded. Randell
M'Sweeney, a Nationalist farmer, at Deer Park, was
walking over his farm with a gun when he was attacked
by three disguised men. He resisted the demand for
his gun, but was disabled by being shot in the arm.
The men then decamped, taking the gun with them.
On !Saturday, while a number of workmen were
engaged painting the ceiling of a Wesleyan chapel at
Burnley, a portion of the scaffold on which they stood
gave way, and five of them fell into the gallery below,
a distance of about 20 feet. Three of them were
severely hurt, one of them sustaining a severe con-
cussion of the spine.
A married man named Packer, of New Buckenham,
Las been committed for trial by the Norwich naagis-,
trates, on a charge of the abduction of Agnes Robin-
son, daughter of a chemist, carrying on business in that
city. The girl, who is nearly eighteen, met the pri-
soner, after a previous acquaintance, at a theatre,
where he induced her to go with him to Yarmouth that
night. They were found there two days afterwards,
having occupied the same bedroom.

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On Saturday an informal meeting of the Cork Steam . Lord Leigh presided at the annual meeting of the
l'aeket Company was held to consider propositions for W arwickshire Scripture Readers' Society, held at
tne settlement of the dispute with the Cattle Trade Coventry, and expressed his regrpt that in a large and
Association. Between 80 and 90 shareholders were populous county like Warwickshire only £lOO had been
present, and it was unanimously decided to accept the subscribed during the past year towards that excellent
terms proposed. These are that all disputes and oppo- society. Owing to depressed times, he had been
Innen are to end; the cattle of the Cattle Trade obligee to give up hunting, and he thought it behoved
Association to be carried free during the months of gentlemen who often gave £3OO or £4OO for a hunter to
March and April, and at half-price during May and come forward and assist in so good a cause as that of
Juse. the Scripture readers.
A mass of Jacobite correspondence at Levens's Hall, The legal representatives of the Royal Liver Friendly
Westmoreland, has recently been examined, and it Society and those of the Syndicate, with a view to its
contains ' a number of historical documents of great refoim, have, to avoid further litigation, come to an
value. There are several letters in the handwriting of arraingement. The chief points include resignation of
James 11. that have never been published, including the three committee men, and the two secretaries (Messrs.
original draft of the manifesto written by the King Liver sage and Atherton). In their places five of the
at Rochester after his flight from London in 1688. Syndicate will take office, and a meeting of the society
There is also the first letter written by James after is to be called to consider certain urgent reforms, and to
landing at Boulogne. confirm the above arrangement.
At a special court of the Plumbers' Company a A fire broke out on Monday afternoon in a group of
number of gentlemen were admitted to the freedom timber-built cottages at Foots Cray, Sidcup, and before
and livery of the company. In the course of an in- the local fire brigade could subdue the outbreak a child
teresting speech by Mr. Philip Magnus, detailing the was burnt to death. In an adjoining cottage were five
extension of classes of instruction for plumbers in children, who had been locked in by their parents
London and the provinces, he said it was an indis- during the absence of the latter at work.
potable fact that the initiation and great advancement of The case of Peat and another v. Fowler came before
technical education in England was due exclusively to the Divisional Court on Monday on appeal from the
tree liberality, public spirit, and foresight of the Livery county court judge at Oldbury, Staffordshire. The
Companies of the City. Sir Algernon Borthwick said plaintiffs, as trustees, sued to recover the balance of a
he could not conceive any subject connected with sani- loan from one of the members of a mutual loan
tation more demanding the attention of Parliament society. The judge held that the society had no power
than plumbing. Mr. J. A. Hardcastle and Mr. W. DignY unless registered under the Friendly Societies Act.
Seymour referred tia the importance of securing a The court held that the society, having been formed
genetally higher standard of efficiency in plumbers' for the purpose of mutual loans under the authority
work, of the Treasury, had full power, and allowed the
A remarkable case of indifference to exposure is appeal.
reported from Bude. A young woman named Batten The following gentlemen are to constitute the
lett her service to find a refuge at her sister's house, Select Committee on the Shop Hours Regulation Bill:
four miles distant, but she was delivered in the lane Mr. Barry, Mr. Broadhurst, Sir J. Ferguson Me.
soon after starting. She wrapped the child in a cloth Theodore Fry, Sir John Lubbock, Mr. F. Powell, Mr.
and walked two miles when she was overtaken by T. Rogers and Mr. Stuart-Wortley. Sir John Lubbock
exhaustion and cold. Recovering herself after resting, will be the chairman.
she walked the remainder of the distance, and was A fatal accident occurred at Bury on Saturday. A
found by the side of the hedge near her sister's houseiese steepig.jack
The mother and child were conveyed thither, and are named Robert Williams ascended a
chimney belonging to Messrs. Smethurst and Sons,
both progressing favourably. bleachers, Woolfold ; but when he had reached the
Ives, an undertaker in London in the time of top he suddenly slipped, and fell a distance of 43
William 111., made a fortune by embalming bodies. yards. His body was tearfully mutilated.
On Saturday night, shortly before 11 o'clock, a fire George Colville was on Saturday committed for trial
broke out at No. 7, Angel-court, Strand, Loudon. by the Moot Hall (Newcastle-on-Tyne) magistrates on
Police-constable Morris, 539 E, made his way up the a charge of forging the name of his mother (the pist-
stairs to the back room on the third floor, where he mistress) to a withdrawal order for £25, and appropria-
found two children in bed. The smoke was so thick ting that sum.
and suffocating that he was overcome, and when a corn. A discovery has been made at Charleroi which should
rade named Parsons, 464 E, reacted the room he found greatly cheapen the manufacture of window glass,
Broths lying exhausted on the floor, with the two chile without decreasing the labour demand. Close burning
dren in his arms. Parsons, however, succeeded in coal has been found to servb as well as live coal, and
effecting the rescue of all three, and the firemen having the difference in price is about 7f. per ton.
by this time arrived, the flames were soon subdued. The wife of the British Ambassador at Athens has
A committee of doctors and painters has met at the made an appeal to Englishmen for the relief of die-
Casine of the Cloitre, Notre Dame, Paris, to examine tressed families of Greek Reservists. She declares that
about 100 infant candidates for the baby show. Many "the mobilisation of the Greek forces, by withdrawiree
were rejected. Several of the babies were discovered almost all the ablesbodied men from their work and
to be afflicted with diseases and ailments, the existence homes, has caused an amount of poverty nod misery all
of which the parents were not aware of. The doctors over the country which makes one's heart ache."
have reported to the effect that baby shows might The Canadian Pacific Railway Company has decided
become one of the best means of sanitary inspection, to adopt the 24-hour time throughout the whole of the
which parents would not shrink from, but on the con- Canadian North-west.
trary would court, in order to gratify their paternal Wateringbury Church, Kent, took fire on Sunday,
and maternal vanity and affection, and the steeple was destroyed. One of the firemen
The death is announced of Mr. Peter Reid, a well, was severely injured.
keewn Scotch journalist, in his seventy-seventh year. A terrible accident occurred at Madras on Friday
Deceased was the originator of the newspaper press in last. A wall of a new building fell, burying 30 or 40
the extreme north of Scotland, having founded the
persons.
"John o' Groat Journal" in 1836. An exciting balloon accident occurred on Sunday at
The Superintendent of the Royal Courts of Justice a fete at Perpignan, organised in honour bf the Argo
has issued the following notice respecting the transmis- centenary. The authorities objected to the assent
sion of telegrams to the Royal Courts of Justice—viz., being made on account of the high wind: The seronaut
telegrams will be wired direct to the office, No. 605, in persisted, however, and attempted to ascend. The
the Royal Courts of Justice, and will be delivered balloon was dashed against houses and trees, and ulti-
therefrom by a messenger into the rooms indicated. The mately burst, falling on the sea-shore from a consider'
surname, number of room,and "Courts Justice" will be
the recognised address for all town messages," Lou. able height. The mronaut was seriously injured.
There were 40,000 persons present.
don" being added if sent from a country district. No A pauper lunatic, named Edwards, at Merthyr
title, initials, or Christian name will be necessary, Tytivil, has, under a will, come into a farm in Car.
except only the latter where two officers of the same marthenshire, bringing in £l5 a year. The local
name occupy one room. guardians are going to endeavour to recoup themselves
A dreadful accident occurred at the terminus of the from the legacy of the £3OO Edwards has cost them
Caledonian Railway, Edinburgh. A woman named since 1872.
Mrs. Crawford, after taking farewell of her son, who The estimate for all matters in connection with the
was starting for Liverpool to sail for America, was lighting and paving of the City of London during the
leaving the train when it moved. The woman and a current year, is about £93,500. The cleansing and
gentleman were dragged between the outgoing train watering will cost nearly £30,000, the whole sum to be
and the platform. In the case of the man, who is not expended on the streets amounting to, as nearly as
yet identified, death was instantaneous. The woman, possible, 2123,000.
who was seriously injured, was removed to an hospital, Two members of the Imperial House of Hapsburg—
where one of her legs were amputated.
the Archduke Carl Stephen, brother of the Queen
At Scotstown, about seven miles from Monaghan, Regent of Spain, and the Archduchess Theresa,
four evictions were to take place on Friday. The daughter of the Grand Duke of Tuscany—were married
sheriff was accompanied by 20 constables, and when on Sunday with great splendour in Vienna. The
two evictions had been carried out the crowd began to Emperor and Empress were present.
throw stones. The mob became so threatening that A memorial, subscribed for by the officers and men
the sheriff deemed it advisable to withdraw from the of the Ist Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment (49th)
locality, to those who fell in the Egyptian and Soudan cane-
In reply to an invitation to become a member of the paigns, has just been placed in St. Mary's Church,
Cirencester Liberal Association, Sir Thomas S. Bazley, Reading. It consists of a very large illuminated brass,
Bart., wrote on the 24th inst.: "Under present cir- inserted in a block of marble.
cumstances I cannot identify myself with any existing At a meeting of East and Mid-Kent hop planters at
organisation of the Liberal party. It is a matter to me Canterbury, on Saturday, a resolution was passed
of unceasing wonder that those who believe in the declaring the present system of beer adulteration to be
watchwords and practice of Liberalism can support a prejudicial to the public health, and approving the pro-
Government whose blunders of the last five years have visions of Baron Dimsdale's Bill for the better securing
been so disastrous, and whose attempts to solve the
Irish question have now brought us to the alternative . the purity of malt liquors.
A sad case of fratricide occurred at Stone, North
of civil war or Aismemberment of the kingdom." Staffordshire, on Saturday morning. The two sons of
The sum of £350 has been awarded, at the Birminge
6 farmer named Daniel, of Leaden Hall Farm, Rough
ham Assizes, as compensation to the widow, the seven 'Close, appear to have had a quarrel, during which John
children, and the mother-in-law of Abraham Atkins, I Daniel, aged 36 years, shot his elder brother William
who was alleged to have met with his death through the I 'with a gun blowing :away a portion of the skull and
negligence of the servants of the Great Western Rail- Icausing instantaneous death.
way Company, at Hockley Station.' After s strike, lasting 19 weeks, the quarrymen at
Speaking at a meeting of the Limerick National inberis State Quarries resumed work on Monday on
League, Mr. Stephen O'Mara, M.P., said he believed the 3 employers' terms.
Irish people were within measureable distance of self- The disasters at sea during the past week have been
government. That belief was founded on something sin number than usual, 23 only having occurred.
more tangible than hearsay.
A committee has been formed at Ripon to organise a ght were British vessels.
After a stormy meeting on Saturday, it was decided
celebration of the thousandth anniversary of the incore amalgamate the Worcester Public Library, the
t
poration of the city:
'tools of Science and Art, &c., and locate them in one
The losses of the Commercial Bank of South AU+. ling, to be erected at a cost of some £lB,OOO.
tralia are estimated at £300,000. The manager has been -
suspended, and is under surveillance. 0 Lieutenant-General T. F. Wilson, Military Member
'of the Calcutta Viceregal Council, who contricted
Prince Albert Victor has signified his intention of sungle fever towards the end of December last while on
of being present at the National Eisteddfod, to be held
visiting North Wales during the coming summer, and a shooting excursion with Prince Napoleon, died on
at Carnarvon. A great fire occurred on Monday morning on the St.
At Odessa they are having the most severe winter Sunday evening.
I
Ouen border of Paris, causing immense destruction of
known during the last quarter of a century. The
English steamers have had some difficulty in cutting property and loss of life.
I Three young men were drowned on Sunday while
their way through the fast accumulating ice in the elidine on a pond adjoining Prince Christian's residence,
harbour.
The Italian Minister of Finance has declared that i Cumberland Lodge, in Windsor Great Park.
The steamship Missouri, of the Warren Line, bound
the finances of the country had never been in a better from Boston to Liverpool, went ashore on the Holyhead
position, and denied that there was a deficit, coast on Monday morning during a heavy snowstorm.
The movement against Home Rule on the Liberal The Missouri is a three-decked iron steamer of 5146
side of the House of Commons is receiving considerable gross tonnage, and was built at Glasgow in 1881.
support, and it is said tnat between sixty end seventy 1 On Saturday the French Chamber, by an overwhelm-
members have already declared themselles oppo-ed lug majority, sanctioned the ratification of the Mada-
to the establishment of a National Parliament ,in 1 smear Treaty.
Dublin. I The German Ereperor fell down at a Court ball
The Home Secretary has intimated in the vale of and braised his left hip.
Llangollen that the Director of Public Prosecutions will .
1 Sir Edward Reed, Liberal, was re-elected for Cardiff,
take proceedings in the case of the great lottery frauds, on Saturday, on his appointment as a Lord of the
by which 50,000 people have been swindled. Treasury. His opponent was Mr. Llewellyn, who un-
g The official return of expenses of the re-election of Successfully contested South Glamorgan at the general
Mr. Gladstone as member of Parliament for the county election. Sir Edward's majority on Saturday showed a
of Midlothian is as follows: Returning officer's ex-
large increase over that by which he was returned in
penses, £l4 7s. 6d.; election agent, £5 55.; cabs,
postage, and telegrams, £2 12s —total, £22 4s. 6d. I Presiding at the annual dinner of the London and
A beautiful mosaic pavement has been discovered in Suburban Railway Officials' Association, at the Free-
the Via Appia, four kilometres outside the Porta 'November.
masons' Tavern, on Saturday evening, Mr. J. Fletcher
Portese, Rome. It dates from about the first century, Moulton, Q.C., M.P., said that the social aggregations
and is the floor of an upper room of a tomb or colum- of those who had common interests, formed an in-
barium. The mosaic is finely coloured,
teresting and promising feature of the present day.
Two gold watches and chains have been sent by the , Lord Morley, First Commissioner of Works, received
President of the United States to Captain Hughes, and
Mr. Roberts, second officer, of the British steamer Lord ' a deputation on Monday from the Royal Institute of
British Architects, who protested against the proposed
Gough, for rescuing the crew of the American secooner treatment of the site of the new Government offices in
Cleopatra, on the 27th of December, 1885. Springsgardens, London, and advocated a scheme which
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James Whelan, a young sailor, was on Saturday corns rd Morley promised to consider.
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nutted magistrates,
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charged with the wilful murder of George Richardson. 1
on the high seas on the 15th November last. The pri-
soner was a seaman on board the Emma Shaw, the
deceased being the second mate. There was bad blood
between them, and when on a voyage from New York
to Buenos Ayres it is alleged the prisoner knocked
Richardson on the head with an iron belaying-pin, and
afterwards pushed him overboard.

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