, 1891-01-28

the expelled classes by such high hAnded
acts is, however, very great, and will at
some convenient season find expression.
\ great railway strike has broken out
this week in Scotland. Seven thousand
PERMANENT hands,. Signalmen, shutters,
rnginc-drivers and all classes employed in
the yards, making up the majority. The
Companies continue with great difficulty
to lln their paSSeugeI-trainS, but the goods
II" tlic may be said 10 he suspended, 10 the
glIt VouSanrOyance OF the cities, which are
in serious danger If a cOal-taminr. The
demand of the men is practically that The
present. minimum day Of twelve hours
shall be exchanged for a maximum day If
ten hours, Wlthplght hours fOT certain classes
whose occupation is exceptionally eXacting.
This means, EFF course, a considerable III.
crease in the aggregate payment fer wages,
and the Companies declare themselves
unable to afford it,. Though recently
highly prosperous, they are this year great
ly haraSscd Ivy the condition of The pig
iron industry. AS yet there's no prospect
OF any reconciliation, and the Con panjeS
are endeavouring to impOEt fresh hands;
but the sympathy of the public is with
the mems demand, though not altogether
with the men, a considerable proportion Of
whom have broken their agreements. 1t
is IcIG t1dl tu0 nouns lbE SISHAIuleH dIu
drivers in particular are much too long.
The men get daaed.
The efforts to secure a respite for Mrs.
Pearcey, the Kentish Town murderess, on
the ground OF her liability to epileptic
attacks, failed, Mr.. Matthews, who as re-
CARDS the admin istration of justice has been
an excellent Home Secretary, seeing no
excuse in facts which were equally true of
Mahomed and Napoleon. The fanatics of
life, who must regard Providence as lorri-
bly, cruel for killing everybody, had no
voting pressure to threaten. for the popu-
lace was deeply III censed against the crimi-
nal. She was executed on Tuesday, and in
the terrible cold of that morning a great
crowd gathered round the Old Bailey. to
= cheer Justify as the black flag went up,
and to congratulate edch other that Justice
had been done. Up to a late moment, Mrs.
Pearcey, whose nerve to The last was an
shaken, stOutly though coldIy maintained
her innocence, and amused herself by tell
ing her solicitor a wild romance about her
having, at sixteen, contracted a secret
marriage in a drawing-rOom in Piccadllly,
with some one who now lives Gin Madrid"
AS the last mOment approached, however,
she admitted to the chaplain that "the
sentence was a just one, though the evil
dence,-or much of the Evidence was
false that is, inaccurate, a f%avOurite IDEA
of criminals, who think it unjust to condemn
them for poisoning with strychninp, when
in fact they lave used powdered glass
It is said that the wretched woman has
written aletter completely generating her
pa,amour, when she wished to see On'the
day before her death, but who maintained
tie admirable consistency of his character
by refusing to go.
Tie Paris tribunals nave decided that
murder isnot a political offence, at least when
he victims are Russian subjects. After
General Seliverstoff had been murdered, a
Journalist named Labruyere heard that the
guilty man was Padlewski, and wishing
to give himself repute as a presSman of
American energy, he took charge of him,
anu carried him, as "his friend DR.. Wolf"
over the frontier into Italy. He then re-
vealed the whole story i'll the Dewspap rs,
which, Of course, made hin magniicently
notorious. The enraged police, who had
been completely outwitted, prosecuted
NJ. Labruyere before the Ninth Poiice-Court
on the charge of "harbouring' a criminal,
and he was condemned on Wednesday to
thirteen months Imprisonment, which, how
ever, will not be accompanied by hard
la5our. Considering that M. 'Labruyete
OOf,,nl fhn nnt0rio+,y Ia uy'oboI for tho