The Warwickshire Herald. — 1888-03-22 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MATTIIEWI AND TRE PRIZE RING.  The Saturday Prrico says it is certain that pugilism is illtgal, and that the enactment in its disfavour should either be reyealed, or eliould be carried out in the spirit as in the letter ad rigorously and exactly as possible. It is useless to wait for the principals in a prize fight. Mitchell and Sullivan, like Smith and Greenfield and Kilrain before them, trained quietly in England, crossed the Channel, did their business on rrench soil, and, being taken into custody and, liberited on bail, found it to their interest to forfeit their recog,uisancea, and come home. The law must be more alert than that, or, as Bumble puts it, " the law is a bass.", If, as Mr. Matthews is inclined to believe.it is as punishable to publish a challenge as it is to take part, whether as principals or accessories, in an actual tight, then the scandal of the recent tight becomes all the more flagrant, andthe torpor of the adn.inistration all the more repeats sible and amazing.  MR. JOHN MORLEY AND THE HOUSE OF LORD&!. It has always seemed to the Spectator a matter of considerable doubt whether the additional weight of responsibility cast upon a single Chamber by the knowledge of the finality of its judgment might not more than compensate the advantages to be derived from a rival Chamber which might excite the jealousy of the more democratic assembly, and spur it on into excesses otherwise likely to be as unpopular as they would be unwise Discussing the debate on Mr. Labouchere's resolution, the Spectator says: Had Mr. Morley been wise he would have said that the question is far too large and difficult to raise enly in order to beat up recruits to the policy of Home Rule. and that be would far rather plead the c ',use to which he is already fully committed as a sedate and responsible slat-snian should than rally to his aid a mass of ill-digested Radicalism which does not really know its own mind, and is sure in such a country as ours to arouse a great deal inure suspicion and dislike than it will bring him political confidence or support. What can be said of an ex-Minister who, with a great cause like 'lrish Home Rule on his hands, virtually pledges the Liberal party to get rid of the hereditary prii:eiple in the Legislature, before he and his friends have made up their minds whether when that principle is been condemned there is to be any second -I:amber at all, or whether there is to be none':  Sensation has been oscited in Hertford by the suicide of tate of tlio wim,sses at the 'rupiley nmrder trial. Heorm. Parry, a I,,,,anian, who deposed t,4t he saw tho pviAouors crouching under A hedge on the night tho wag committed, had been despondent ior some t i at, and on Sunday night, after returning from c;,:tpol ho drank a quantity of landanum, from tin. etlots Lich he died. . . . .  The governors Of .iy*AII have determined on the erection of s ntial medical college upon a site immediately adjoinin4 the liosliil. It is proposed that t 17,.. rectu lr 1 f..r this purpose, estimated at J:20.00), s'!toidd be rai-d by private subscription among the governets, the medical staff, „the Jectirrers and to'eteliers; in the niedical school of I:ny'l 110,1..44 and their friends.