The Warwickshire Herald. — 1891-02-05 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ALLEGED MCIDER OF AN ACTRESS.  A Vienna correliondent writes:—At Warsaw lb. re Is to be a very sensetional trial shortly, which Ili, fitinsian papers will not he allowed to report. Las' June the beauty of the Warsaw theatres, Marie Wisniowdra, was found paisoned with morphia it, her room. She had gerund love affairs at the liana time, and it was bell red at first that, disgust, with her life, she had - t•iken poison. Some :mats of paper which 11We found in lite room, 11,exever, when put together shewed that one of it 1 three lorcrs, despairing of winning her, in. mated the crime. The man charged with th • I. a cornet in the Life Ouards. It is aupp.., while the murderer was preparing the pm girl wroth the notes which he afterward, h 411:1 .! • tor' up. One of them ass-s. "My last come. I have sold my gle to this man I :»y will." Another says, 0.1 not,. Man repre,ent. justice. lam I ron!,,, .nal ' myself with fright. My last thoughts i.re ‘6,11 t. mother and my art. God help me!" Witness, will appear, among timm General , the dircetcr of the Theatre, and one of the Im crs the duceaseq.  A name which was very familiar in the public mouth in the days of the great Benson turf frauds has passe.d away from the muster roll of the living. Mr. George Clarke, the detectivesphose decease is just announced, was for 37 years attached to clie Metropolitan Police, and was for many years chief inspector at Scotland Yard. It will be remembered that when Clarke exposed the transactions of Beeson and Kurr in the De Goncourt case the gang retorted by accusing him of connivance. Colonel Henderson. himself, however, bore testimony to the good services that Clarke had rendered,and to the faithful way in which he had discharged his public duties.  The Parliamentary Committee of the Trade Union Congress, in pursuance of the resolution passed at the Congress at Liverpool last year, has drafted • bill, to be introduced by Mr. Cunningliame Graham, Mr. W. Abraham (Rhondda), Dr. Clark, Mr. Ranklell, and Mr. Conybeare, for the purpose of restricting the hours of labour in all trades and industries to eight per day. The preamble states that "it is desirable and expedient to protect the industrial classes against the evils arising from excessivo hours of labour," and the bill proposes to enact that froin January tat next no person shall work, or cause, or suffer any other person to work, on sea or land, in any capacity, under any contract to agreement, for hire of labour or for personal sera; t, for more than eight hours in any one day, or none than 48 hours in any week. The penalty for any employer, manager, or other person who shall eama or suffer any person subject to his authority or in his employment to work in excess of the specified hours, except in case of accident, is to be a fine of not less than £lO nor more Hum £lOO for every such offence, and proceedings may be taken for offences against the Act or for recovery of fines and costs before a court of luminary jurisdiction.  Comparing the price Meissonier was paid for his pictures when he worked by the yard, and when he worked under a magnifying glass, the "hisNetivibse Siel,le" calculates that he was paid for "Lcit Cuirassiers" (bought by the Due d'Aumale for 1,900,000 fr.) and six others at the rate of £8 the square eentimAre, or £BO,OOO the square metre— less than 11 square feet. A mould has been taken of MeissoiCer'as hand. It was beautifully formed, delicate and small, and it has been said that he often painted before strangers to let them see it. Every morning, says the Daily News Paris