The Herald of Wales. — 1887-11-05 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

GREAT STRIKE IN BELGIUM.  AC entral News telegram from Brussels, on Thursday, says : —Sixteen hundred miners have struck in the Branage district. Much uneasiness 'prevails, a renewal of former labour riots being I feared.  The Daily Nests of Thursday, says :—"Mr. F. W. Maude has accepted an invitation to join the provisional committee of the Home Counties Division of the National Liberal Federation.  A Daily News Paris telegram on Thursday, says :—George Buy, one of the alleged accomplices of General Audlui, in obtaining goods on credit from tradesmen, and then selling them, has committed suicide. He had been hiding near Bt. Maur.  Writing to the London newspapers respecting the withdrawal of Messrs Halle and Comyns Carr from the management of the Grosvenor Gallery, Sir Coutts Lindsay says he intends to make no change in that institution, but will continue his endeavour as hitherto, to promote the ' interest of art, of his brother artists, and of the At Birmingham, Edward Malcolm Brandt, of Northampton, and Henry F. Btrker,of Hyde Park Mansions, Landon, both gentlemen, wire remanded at Shrewsbury on Wednesday, charged with obtaining £2O by means ot a forged cheque, the money of Henry Hinton, of Wem Mills, Shropshire. The cheme was presented at the London and County Bank, on Friday, and the money paid. The prisoners were arrested at a Birmingham hotel, on Tuesday night.  In the Queen's Bench Division,on Wednesday, Signor Ruacio, the well-known tenor, sued Mr J. H. Mapleson for £2OO odd, balance of salary, due under an agreement to sing in various operas, at Covent Garden Theatre and other phwee. Defendant set up a counter claim for breach of contract by plaintiff not appearing at several performances. These charges plaintiff denied. In the result judgment was given for plaintiff with costa. One of the victims of the recent storm woe a Wolverhampton boy who was killed by the fall of a wall ache passed by. From the Sunday. school story-book point of view, it is to be re- I Vetted that the destination of the poor lad has I been mentioned—he was going to school. In the moral tale, dear to our youth, it was always the naughty toy who want fishing who fot killed, not the good one who went to school. ! But facts don't always fit in with morals, and the naughty boy somehow has too much sense to go fishing when there is a storm on. What ta the "indignity" which poor Sir Coutts Lindsey has been doing "to art," " compelling" his directors to resign and his favoured artiste to refuse to exhibit P Surely no allusion can be made to pictures by himself and others which Sir Conde occasionally exhibits—in compliance more with personal considerations, perhaps, than with the claims of mire art? Or has Ruasophobia invaded a new Lid and the admission of a Russian artist driven his English brethren to protest against such a slight to their high calling? The Times is requested to state that a sensational story now going the rounds of the previa. I Mal press, to the effect that the late Lady Bras,,ey in a fit ondelirnm, arising from fever, leaped overboard from the Sunbeam, is totally untrue and without th... smalleet foundation. The Sunbeam reached Port Elizabeth from Australia on October 12, and the same day the following telegram was received from Lord Brassey "Lady Braseey died of malarial fever,' September 14, seven days after leaving Port , Darwin. Buried the Fame day. Calm , patient, I affectionate, to the end. We all return in the Bunbeam, after spendiig a week at Cape Town." Letters containing details of the sad event cannot possibly arrive in this conntry before November 8. The Sunbeam sailed from Cape Town on October 24, and should reach England about December 1.  MERCHANTS, 101,