The Warwickshire Herald. — 1896-10-22 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

GLADSTONE ON LORD ROSEBERY'S RESIGNATION.  In the course of a speech at a Liberal meeting in the Accrington Town Hall on Saturday evening, Mr. Herbert Gladstone referred to Lord Rosebery's resignation and said he hoped that the late leader's high ability was not lost, but would be available to the party when he was wanted. (Cheers.) Personally he viewed Lord Rosebery's resignation with very great regret, but they must beware of overstating the difficulties which had temporarily arisen and the possible effects to the party caused by the resignation. Lord Rosebery had stated the causes of his resignation, and it was no business of his to go into them or behind him. Lord Rosebery had referred to the last straw which broke the camel's back. It was not the last straw that broke the camel's back—the camel's back was broken by the cumulative effect of the mass of straw placed on it from the first, and they might depend upon it that if that proverbial last straw had never been added the camel's back would not have been equal to the strain. He accepted Lord Rosebery's simile. He only regretted that too impetuous writers in the Liberal cause had put an unfair, unwise, and erroneous construction*ppon the use of the proverb. The right hon. gentleman afterwards paid a high tribute to Sir W. IlarcKirt's leadership in the House of Commons.  MURDER OF A BERLIN LAWYER On Sunday morning Herr Levy, Councillor of Justice, one of the best known and oldest lawyers of Berlin, was murdered in bed by two men, whc crept into the house when the baker-boys delivered the breakfast rolls. Dr. Levy was stabbed to death by knives, and his wife severely wounded, so that she had to be taken to a hospital. The house in which the crime was committed stands at the corner of the Mohrenstrasse and the Friedrichstrasse, in the most frequented part of Berlin, and yet the murderers were able to escape, although the whole house had been alarmed by the cries of Frau Levy and her servant maids.  MUTINY OF ALSATIAN RECRUITS An extraordinary incident is reported from AlsaceLorraine. As usual in October. the recruits from Alsace-Lorraine have been called up. As may be known, Alsatian and Polish recruits are for the moat part not allowed to serve in their own countries. While a number of the new men from Alsace were on their way by train to the station to which they were being drafted they committed serious excesses, refusing to obey their ;•scort. At Rastadt station they smashed everything in the refreshment-room, including 118 beer glasses. Finally they were persuaded to continue their journey, but between Carlarube and Heidelberg they began their work of destruction in the train, breaking everything in the carriages. They are said also to have smashed the windows of a passing express, and to have stopped the train by pulling the communication cord. From Carlsruhe military assistance was wired for to meet the train at Heidelberg, but as the telegram arrived too late the gnarls of the train were there armed with revolvers. At Darmstadt the train was being awaited by a battery of artillery. It is stated that cries of "Long live France' were heard from the men.