The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1874-10-24 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

PRISONER ATTEMPTING TO ESCAPE.-A.Tdesperate attempt was made by a military prisoner to escape the other afternoon by jumping out of a train on the North Kent Railway. A young man, named Charles Harris, aged 22, in the Army Service Corps, stationed at Chatham, was being conveyed in custody to Woolwich, when, between Erith and Belvedere, he suddenly jumped out of the train, which was going at full speed. The ad was noticed by the officials at Erith, and they telegraphed to Belvedeie, the nearest titation. The soldier was found lying on the aide of the line. lie Jiad fortunately fallen on a soft place, and was not very seriously injured. He said hie intention was to have committed suicide, and not to have made his escape. He was taken to the Woolwich Police Station and charged with attempting to commit suicide, when the magistrate fined him 205., or 14 days' imprisonment.  MR. O'SoLtivwx. M.P., sign ins CoNsvirmorrs. —At a meeting of the Limerick and Clare Far. mere' Club on Saturday, a deputation of Nationalists attended from Limerick. Mr. Daly, the spokesman of the deputation, taxed the club with impertinence, for preAuming to fix the time and place of the approaching Howe Rule Demonstration at Ka. mallock, without consulting the party. Another member of the delegation gave the chairman to understand that the people of Limerick did not want moral force in Ireland, but something more effectual. Mr. O'Sullivan, M.P., was fiercely attacked for having abandoned the members who were the men to whom he owed his election. He was warned to beware of the lot of November, and told he would be put out of the county at the next election. For a time it .eemed probable that the parties would come to blows; but the deputation finally withdrew, after a scene of Indescribable confusion.  THIN BISHOP OF LINCOLN AND THP SPORTING Panson.---The ectotor writes on this subject as tollowst—Either it is sinful for a rich layman as well as for a rich clergyman to own a racehorse, or it is sinful for neither; and then the most that can be said against Mr. King is that. in running a racehorse, he is not very careful of the external proprieties of a clergyman s position. It will never do to raise all this cry against a sacerdotal caste, and yet make clergymen feel that there is one morality for them and another for the laity. Our own feeling is, that a clergyman ought to be even more profoundly devoted to his profession than average laymen, because it is hardly one to be idly chosen; and that such a clergyman would not be apt to burden himself with any exeiting omitpation running into questionable spheres, and as a matter of fact, though not of teceesity, tending to foster a brood of parasitic vices. (One would certainly like to know how Mr. King employed the great winnings his horse' gained for him.) Undoubtedly there are a good many clerical occupations almost as liable to abuse as that of breeding and owning a racehorse; and as regards Bishop Wordsworth's pompous rebuke, wee,annotrecognise it as having any deeper source than a habit of mind which makes a prim and rigid, but not very potent, religion of rather shallow social conventions.