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BTMflgtfBATa JANTTAHY 22, BT A MKDICAX MAX. The first thing to. be noted kbontthe present epidemic is, that its recurrence for the third year in succession is entirely in accordance- with previous experience and was onlr to be expected. The disorder shows itself in succeeding in milder and lees neral form. 1 So Sir Tbmmai WaUon on the 4 of February, 1837, in the uiddle of rery twvere visitation azid the words of that most admirable observe? are exactly tree ci preaent occasion.

We need wit, tit t- forA has oome to stay, and that ahali it every yw. On the jontxarj, after thin tar. i or per next, we shall probab.j see no more of it tut an epidemic fcffsoms tome tooonie. Apparently the poiaon lingers, and getting gradually weaker, eventually dies out except for a few sporadic cases. It plain that this ii happening now.

The character of the attack differs markedly from that of two years is ma oh milder. The lamented death of several prominent persons and a high rate of mortality hare led to a rery general and natural mistake on this head. The mistake is embodied in a remarkably inaccurate article in a weekly paper. "The fever, at first regarded as an accidental exaggeration of the ancient malady called has reappeared over an increased area, and with an accentuated virulence." So many so many errors. The nature of the malady was pointed out in the St.

James's Gazette on December Hth. a fortnight before appearance in England and no one with any knowledge erer supposed that it was other than a specific epidemic ferer caring no relation to a It came and behared exactly as it was expected to da Again it has not re-appeared over an increased area, and virulence is not accentuated but diminished. The last point is important. The present alarming mortality it due mainly to two simultaneous of severe coldland the insidious Bess of the attack owing to its mildness. The first visitation occurred in a mild winter, the second after the winter was over.

This year it has caught us at the very worst time and whereas previously the severity ef the onset permitted no mistake, bnt sent people to bed the Local Government Board's report), they now get it without knowing and face the bitter weather with the thing on them. Here lies the danger and the explanation of so many fatal cases. Hence a rule may be laid down. If you feel qu-ser, heavy-headed, shivery, and languid, with or without symptoms of aoold, go to bed and hare a fire in your room. As to farther proceedings, take a mild aperient and confine your food to slops.

If you feel very hot, a teaspoonf oJ of sweet spirits of nitre or of mind ere rus spirit will be useful. Uncomplicated which is a simple fever, needs no other treatment. But if there is any difficulty of breathing or pain in the cheat, indicating the existence of complications, send for the doctor, and meantime put on a large linseed poult joe all round the and front- As for quinine, for which there was a groat craze two years ago, take it If you have great faith in it. Quinine is a good thing, and faith a better; but the drug will probably be of more aw during oon- The main thing, however, is bed, and then the doctor. If he oomes yon will, of coarse, follow bis directions but if you manage without him, as you very likely may in a simple case, get up when you feel better say, after one, two, or three days bat stay in the house until you have recovered your strength, and when you do go out wrap up carefully and avoid fatigue.

Eat and drink wnat you please so loog as it is good and wholesome. It is impossible to say more than this usefaliy, and 1 am aware of some unwisdom in saying to much. Mankind may be divided into those who take Coo much care of themselves and those who take too little The former will grasp at every excuse to jamp into bod, and will experience the rymptcms of at least once a day while the latter will say, "It is only a fererisb cold," and will go about their business when they hare really got it- Bat, even at the risk of encouraging shirkers and it is worth while to try and save others from a very real danger; and therefore I repeat, Go to bed it you feel decidedly out of sorts. A feverish cold Is not to be trifled with in an year. Nor is there any economy in fighting it: the earlier you takf it, toe sooner you will get over it.

No treatment of a drastic kind can be universally applicable to this or any other disorder, because different people are so differently affected that what suits one case will dot suit another. The Duke of Clarence and the Khedive died from nominally the same followed by pneumonia but the leading features of one case were high temperaturo, delirium and collapse; while those of the othe were pain, inflammation of the kidneys, aiid untrmio poisoning. How can there be a routine treatment in severe cases The danger of relying on it is shown by the extremely unsatisfactory report on the Khedive's illness- One more ooint: how is to be avoided From the immense mass of observations that have been collected it is clear that the disease is infectious, but only formidably so where numbers of people are congregated in the House of Commons, nchools, workshops, and so on. The poison seems to be bred under these circumstances in very large quantities or in a very virulent form. At any rate, crowded plnccs are dangerous.

Therefore, avoid them i possible. For the rest "take care of yourself," live wholesomely, avoid fatigue, cold and wet. Mere again the shirker will set? his chanco, but that cannot be helped. I THE ROOM WITHOUT A DOOR. BT W.

B. 5ORRIS. ACTHOS or MxsxovxxTun, "Mr "StiTxmoirr," 4c. the matter, Vut bid tome uncomfortable ljmptrifaa Ismsdlwaaquite presently I o4D tbetxnrnatahigh rateof way be told raa that ha bad been consulting some of my London who bad dona their best toWfbtsMbiflL if getting was likely to prolong-one's life 1 However, I should fast like tJ hear what yon think of me. There are onuor tww which I ought petfcapsto sea to, bteasai I really think that the time has now come when wtut I may relate, without danger or indiscretion, the accidents.

i- The coachman did not turn in at the gates of Sandrfdge-park, as I bad expected him to do, bat, in abruptly to the right, conducted us along a running parallel with the paUfngs and pndrtil np beside a small iron gate. ISFLCENTLA The Daily Graph AND rm VlCTIMB. belieres that the greatest havoo caused by has been among the well to-do classes. Seeing that careful nursing has much to do with the prevention of pneumonia in cases of influenza, the absence just now of any markedly abnormal increase in tne death rate in such districts as the East-end of London can only be ascribed to some peculiar immunity. Were this not so, an outbreak of the malady at this of the year iu a poverty-stricken quarter would prove a perfect scourge.

It seems probable that the predisposition to lung diseases fs not so widespread among the lean and hardj poor as it is among the sedentary and well-fed better classes. INXLUEXZA IN THE TIME OP GEOBGE III. In view of the epidemic of Madame Arblay description of the existeuce of influenza at the Court of George will be read with interest. Writing under the date of 3rd. 17SH, she says This morning I was so violently oppressed by a cold, which turns out to be the influenza, it was with the almost difficulty I could dress myself.

I did indeed now want some assistance most woefully. The Princess Koyal hn al ready been some days disturbed with this influenza. When the perceived it in me told His Majesty, who came into the room just as she waagoing to breakfast. Without mak ing any answer, he himself went immediately to Mr. Clerk, the apothecary, who was then with the Princess Royal.

Now, Mr. cried ho, here's another patient tor Mr. Clerk, a modest, sensible man, concluded, by the Kinghim- jwlf having called him, that it was the Queen he had now to attend, and he stood bowing profoundly bufore her but soon observing that she did not notice him, he turned in some confusion to the Princess Augusta, who was now in the group. No, no! it'B not me, Mr. Clerk, thank Heaven cried the gay Princess Augusta.

Still more confused the poor man advanced to Princess Klizabeth. So, nol it's not cried the King. I had held back, haviig scarce never to orjon my from a vehement headache, and not, indeed, wishing to go through my examination till there were fewer witnesses. But his Majesty drew me out Here, Mr. ho cried, this is your new Ho then came bowing up to mo, the Xiug standing close by.

and the rest pretty near. You -yon are not well, maam he cried in the greatest embarrassment. No, sir, not answered. Oh. Mr.

Clerk will cure cried the King. Aro you feverish, ma'am Yea, sir. a will send yuu saline draught. If yon And then he bowed auid decamped, Did you ever hear a more per fectly satisfactory oxurnination? The poor, modest man, ovorpowered bv such royal listeners und epoctatora, and I little bettor myself. I went down to but was BO exceedingly oppressed, I could not hold up my bead and as as I could escape, 1 went to my own room, und lay down to my noon attendance, which I performed with so much difficulty I was obltcedto relnro to the same indulgence the moment I was ut liberty." O.N the evening of the 12th inst.

the Drug shop the and Market ol Spiers and Tond Limited, in Water-lane, caught fire. A fire engine was speedily ou the spot. In the course of an hoar the flames were extinguished, but not until the whole of the valuable Btcck had been practically destroyed. This untoward event, occurring as it ilid in the height of Spiore and Pond's annual general satB. must haw been a source of much inconvenience to the in an age-men and disappointment to the numerous customers who, when flocking to the various departments, found that the perfumery, toilet seta, hair brushes, and toilet soapa, which they contemplated parchasiog at the Drag had been suddenly deprived of all marketable valuv.

the Company, with thVeoergy whichdiftingniahea them, at once cava instructions for the stock and fltfingste be entirely replaced. Good pcogroas already And we ore assured that another week or two the Drug shop and ita con tents will be completely restored. In the meantime rjrosanptlooB aba orders by poet are being attended to as if nothing Itad occurred. of annually yard for the protection of the oustomers of the Belgravia Dairy Co, I one adventure which has befallen me in a life I am thankful to say, baa been otherwise remarkably deroid of startling experienoea. It happened many yean ago, all tha peraous chiefly concerned in it are dead, and I dareaai that by employing fictitious names I shall fulfil the requirements of prudence.

Workingham, where I have exercise my calling medical saau throughout my professional career, is a manufacturing town which has, I beUare, returnsd Liberal or Badieal members to Parliament ever since 1882; to that ererybody was surprised when Horace Sib thorp, one of the principal territorial magnates of the country, came forward to solicit our He came forward, it is true, as a Radical, and even as what to those days was esteemed a very extreme Radical that of course, only increased the general surprise. What his motives were for thus departing from the traditions of bis order I did not I have never taken much personal interest in party he was triumphantly returned, and his skill in possibly also the incongruity of his earned for him a popularity far greater than had been enjoyed by any of oar previous repre- sentatiyes. It was on account of what I had been told about his eloquence that 1 attended a great meeting which he addressed shortly after his election and I must say that a finer speaker I never listened to. He talked what teemed to me at the time to be rather wild and dangerous nonsemre, although many of the which he advocated, hare siuce become law; bnt the faacinatian of his voice and gesture, and his art of thorough, enthusiastic conviction were such that one oooid not help being carried away by him, and I scon found myself applauding as loudly as anybody. He was a tall, spare man, with singularly bright brown eyes.

His age waa probably nearer sixty than fifty; bat be had ayouthfal carriage and, but for his grey hair, ha might hare passed for being on the better side of middle life. His speech, as I hare said, I interested me but as he went on I began to take another and a more professional interest In the speaker. Those curiously brilliant eyes of his, the pallor of his complexion and ablaish tings about his lips, which grew mere apparent as he approached his peroration, were symptoms of an unmlstakeabie kind, and it was rery evident to me that Sir Horace political career would be a brief one. He sank back into his chair at last, completely exhausted, amid a tremendous outburst of cheering and I observed that be left the platform Immediately afterwards, leaning upon tne arm of one of his friends, while somebody else rose to address the meeting. Not being particularly oniious to hear this gentleman's views, I slipped away, and was leaving the hall when a messenger ran after me and caught me by the arm.

Dr. Drew, you're wanted," said he breathlessly; Sir Horace Sibthorp has been taken I went at once into the little room behind the platform, where, as I had expected, I found Sir Horace lying in a dead swoon, with two or three frightened-looking gentlemen standing helplessly round him. It was some little time before I was able to restore him to consciousness; but when 1 his senses returned they did so with astonishing rapidity, and our grave faces seemed to amuse him. "Don't look so solemn, all of you," said be. laughing "Didn't you ever see a man faint before? It's a little way I have; it doesn't mean anything serious, I assure you." I oouid hare assured him that in all probability it meant something very serious indeed, and I almost felt that I ought to enlighten him, although, of course, I was not his medioal attendant, and my opinion had not been asked.

No doubt my face reflected the thoughts which were passing through my mind, for presently Sir Horace said, in the same jesting tone: "I know you're dying to listen to my heart, Dr. Drew. Well, I'm not going home so it you'll oome round and smoke a cigar with tae at the Bed Lion, where I intend to sleep, you shall be gratified. Moreover, you shall have the additional pleasure of prescribing for me." I accepted his Invitation all the more willinglv because his Kurds seemed to show that there was some genuine alarm underlying that assumed jauntineas of manner but unhappily the careful examination which I made after aooompanyir-g him to hii hotel did not justify me in saying anything ss or ing to him To put things plainly, his oondltion was such that he might die at any moment, and under the meet favourable circumstances, he was rery unlikely to lire more than another year or two. Naturally, I did n-jt tell him that; but I warned him that he could not i afford to trifle with health, and that ft was ab- solutelr necessary for him to avoid excitement "My dear he returned, smilingly, "you might as well order me to avoid meat and drink.

You give me to understand that nnlen I retire from public life I shall kill royaelf, and I daresay you are right; bnt there is another fact to be taken into consideration, namely that, for reasons with which I need not trouble you, private life would kill me. I firmly believe that my best chance is to go on with this sort of thing. It is ridiculous onough," he added, with a shrug of bis shoulders, yet, somehow or other, it exhilarates I ifaieeay yon didn't know that I hare a tiny abode here which belongs to me amid Sir Horace, as he jumped out. Well. I can take yon Into it; but 111 lav you ten to one in anything yon like that nobody else can." He dismissed the carriage and led the way into what, to far as I could see in the darkness, waa a small circular building, surrounded by clando columns and snrmonnted fay a dome.

It dated, no doubt, from that eighteenth century period when such constructions were fashionable. I followed Sir Horace into a dark vestibule, and thence through a. door which be opened, into a brightly- lighted and comfortably furnished study. While I was glancing round it, I heard the click of a closing lock behind me. said Sir Horace, triumphantly, "how did we gist in here The room was panelled with oak and had neither door nor window, only a oupola in the roof to almit the daylight.

Opposite me hung a red curtain, bnt it was obvious that we had not entered that wsy. Well," I answered, I suppose we got in by opening one of those panels." "Quite so, my dear sir; bat whioh of them And if yon were to hit upon the right one do yon think you would hit upon the dodge of making it yield Simple though the trick is, I doubt whether yon would discover it, because nobody has' done so yet. And I hare every reason to added Sir Horace, with a twinkle in bis eye, that some people hare tried their I presumed that be alluded to his wife, and Indeed he presently avowed, wifh his accustomed candour, that such was the case. Lady Sibthorp," said he, "Is a woman superior to nearly all the I defects srhich disgrace erring mortals like myself still to prove to her and others that she is not absolutely angelic, heaven has afflicted her with one small failing, in the shape of an insatiable curiosity. So, yon see, this unpenetrable den of mine serves the double purpose of protect ug some of my papers from inspection and humiliating her I feel sure mnst be good for her souL have a little bedroom beyond that curtain, and sometimes I sleep here.

However, I don't often do that, because it Is inoonrenient, having no place to pot my man, Thompson. 1 generally send him to London with the luggage, as 1 have done tonight, and follow by the last train. By the way, I hope you don't mind walking back with me to Workingham. It's a fine night, and there's a short cut across the fields, you know." I said I should enjoy the walk and then be made me sit down In an armchair and gave me a aigar and fetched decanters and glasses from a oapboarri. Be was in the act of opening a bottle of soda water when he suddenly started, staggered forward and fell heavily to the ground.

I was not surprised, far I knew that in his condition a very slight strain would suffice to bring on an attack of synoope, and the exertion of drawing a cork was enough to account for It; but the look of his when I stooped down over him frightened me, and a few moments later I became aware that a great misfortune had happened. There could be no doubt about Sir Horace Sibthorp was stone dead 1 I hardly know how long it was before the awkwardness of the position iu which I was placed dawned upon me but I daresay it may have been some little time, for of course 1 was very much shocked and distressed and had not all my wits about me, I believe it was the necessity of raising poor Horace's body from the floor, and the difficulty of doing so without help, that first enlightened me. Help there was none within reach, and what was worse, I knew not how to get oat and give the alarm. I made a long and laborious examination of the panels, but could not discover that any of them differed from its neighbours; I "shouted once or twice with just a faint hope of receiving some responfie, and then I resigned myself to the inevitable. I should be able, no doubt, to make myself heard in the morning, even if I did not, with the aid of daylight, find some means of exit; meanwhile I managed, by using all my strength, to dmg the dead man into the adjoiniog beoroom and to stretch him oat decently upon the bed.

I have seen and handled too many corpses to be affected by that repugnance and terror which seem to be the instinctive sensations both of human beings and af the lower animals when brought into contact with the dead of their species; yet I most confess that that night appeared to me very long and rather especially after the lamps wont oat. I neither slept nor attempted to sleep; my one anxiety was for the day to dawn. 1 don't wonder at that, Sir Horace." said nor can I see anything ridiculous in the strong pjUtlcal convictions that you bold. 1 am not ashamed to own that you carried me with yon this evening, though I am pretty sure now that 1 think over your speech in cold blood, that 1 utterly disagree with it." "Dear me!" he exclaimed, with an amused twinkle in his eye; "so you took me seriously, did.you You really bettered that 1 was sincere Well, between ourselves, that Is just what I believe as soon as I get upon my a queer, but at the same time a rery enjoyable Illusion. In reality, 1 need scarcely tell a sensible man like you, democracy will never do for such a great, scattered empire as ours.

Theoretically, this or that may be the best form of government, but what is the best for any given nation is a question chiefly of geographical conditions, and I have no sort of doubt that the best form of government for Great Britain is an oligarchy, rt'ben power gets into the hands of the ignorant it inevitably shall either smash up altogether or fall under the heel ef a second Cromwell." But if that ts your opinion, Sir I objected, somewhat shocked by his levity, why do yon use snch language as you used at the meeting to-night Only because, as I tall you, it exhilarates me to reuse the passions of several thousand fools. I couldn't rouse anybody's passions by talking Toryism, you see, and I hare the comfort of know- But when the first grey light of dawn came, and when, a little later, the sun rose, and when, inter still, his rays began to stream down through the cupola, I was no better off than I had been iu the dark; in vain I searched and sounded tho walls of my prison in vain I hallooed at the top of my voice; and at length I sullenly flung myself down in the armchair again, fairly exasperated and worn out. Of course both Sir Horace and I would be missed, of course inquiries wo old be made, and of course I should sooner or later be released but it seemed quite npon the cards that I might have to remain where I was for another day and night or more. With that agreeable prospect before me it may bo thought somewhat strange that I should have closed my eyes and dropped off to sleep but the fact is that I was dead tired. I I afterwards discovered by consulting my nine oclock or thereabouts, when 1 awoke with a start to find a tall, handsome lady with black hair and cold, clear grey eves, standing before me.

1 guessed at once who tine must be, and I scrambled to my eset. too much ashamed of myself to wonder how she hod got in. Lady Sibthorp?" said 1. She bowed and ad me with an air of serene interrogation. explained my pmence, and broke the news of her bereavement to her as gently as I ooold.

If I had had more time to collect myself I might hare been rathar less abrupt; but I am bound to say that her nerve showed no sign of being shaken, though she frowned and looked distressed. "This is most unfortunate," was her rather odd comment upon my narrative. And then, looking me straight In the face, she added calmly, but a trifle sternly, Sir Horace must not die just yet." But, my dear madan, he la dead," I remonstrated. "It is she continued, without deigning to noUae my interruption, "that he may die attend an anjtf one osswu The; inquest difficulty it one of your own creating; It riwU with yon to if gn the death certificate, and gWe the directions to thai J. "WeJl, a I wont waste breath by arguing with yon, nor' will-I tall you, what! think of your neartletsness and dishonesty; for I feel sure that yon orepexfectly indifferent to toy opinion, I flatly refuse to obey your orders and I re the bononrto wJahjon maning." ooey 6 rejoined calmly.

"If jon don I ahaH simply leare yon where yon axe. As you are nnt proVwoned, I am afraid you will be half so ur as yon will be when I oome out and rereal4ne truth, Isvdy I retorted. 44 Oh, I am net afjald of your rerelations. Nobody will believe that I found my way In here; still lees will anyone jrho knows me believe that I could behare in racKe rr yon represent. Nererthelais, I trust-thai yon will not drive me to 1 She sow changed her tone, and condescended to plead with me.

After all, she said, she was not asking me to injure anyone, she waa merely assigning to me the part of a benificent manipulator of events. Admiral Sibtborp 's girls would be amply prorided for; "riches would bring them no additional happiness; but poor Dick and hie wife were In danger of being crippled all their Urea long by a cruel freak of For herself, she had nothing to gain or to lose; her jointure was 1 aasureo, and not a penny more than her jointure would she receire. But since, I remained deaf to these entreaties, and declinecTthe bribe which she was once more kind enough to offer me, she broke off the negotiations abruptly with a stamp of her foot Very well, said she, yon may stay here and starve. Yon needn 't trouble to call for help you might yell till yon were black in the face before anybody would bear you." How, I need scarcely say that I had no intention of letting Lady Slhtnorp quit that room without me. If ahe oouid get out I could follow ber, and most egregiously stapid it was of me to allow myself to be tricked by a transparent device.

Good heavens! she exclaimed, suddenly, staring at the curtain, towards which my back was turned. "What Is i whisked round, bnt neither saw nor heard thing, except a eUplr. behind me, which let me know too late that I had fallen Into her ladyship 's trap. Well, she was gone, and I was once mpre a prisoner. I was furiously angry bnt there was no more use in being furious than in i as of course I did diaoorer the panel through which she made her exit.

I had to coo- I tole myself as best 1 oouid by reflecting upon the I revenge which must eventually be mine; for, infamous woman tboogh she I hardly thought she would run the risk of letting me die of hunger. Added to which, my housekeeper must be raising a hue and cry. I had been awaiting events philosophically mr something Uke three hours, when all of a sudden I perceived, to my amazement, that one of the panels had moved slightly back from the beading which surrounded it. I started up It yielded to my touch, and in another moment I was out in the open air, and face to face with Lady Sibthorp, who bowed ironically. ''Yon are like the prisoner in Artemus Ward's book.

Dr. Drew," she said suddenly a bright Idea has occurred to hare opened the door and walked out. Allow me to congratulate you. I am sure "That yon will congratulate me when I tell yon that Admiral Sibthorp expired yesterday morning. They might hare telegraphed to me; but they neglected to do so, and the news only reached roe by the second post, which has just come in.

All 's well that ends well. You can go away and tell the whole truth; for you see, the Admiral did die before Sir Horace, after all." "Do yon look forward with pleasure to my tellins: the truth about our recent interview, Lady Sibthorp'" I enquired, grimly. You can tell It If yon like," she answered; but I really think yon bad better hold your tongue. In self-defence I must give you the lie, and I think 1 am more likely to be believed than you are- Be- pidee, what will yon gain by telling your preposterous story? You won't injure me, for I shall leave Sandridge very shortly, and you won't do yourself much good by incurring the wrath and ill-will of Dick Sibthorp, who will now be your great man in these parts. Dick firmly believes me to be the best and kindest of indeed 1 am to those I care for.

Ha will certainly conclude that you were either intoxicated or the victim of some hallucination, and you may depend upon it that nine people out of ten will agree with nim." Well, there was something in that; and I am a quiet, peaceable man, constitutionally averse to being mixed up in scandals. Duty no longer compelled me to expose Lady expediency seemed to ooumel silence. So, iu giving my account of the circumstances attendant upon Sir Horace's death, I merely stated that, after having vainly jcught the secret entrance through a night and half a day, 1 had at last found that some agency for which I was unable to account had caused it to fall ajar. I never taw Lady Sibthorp again. She died, a few years later, in Italy, and I do not know whether there was ML Benjamin Scott, the OiSmoerlala of the City of London, died on Sunday morning at his residence.

Hotting Hill. Mr. Scott entered the Corporation in 1827, and has bald the Chamberlainship since 1858. The succumbed to an attack of bronchitis, and was nursed by his wife until last week when she fall a victim to influenza and died last They were within a few weeks of celebrating their golden wedding, Hrinrieh Dorn, whose death at the ripe old age of 87 is announced from Berlin, was a prolific composer of operas, symphonies, cantatas, and smaller works, but his fame was chiefly established as a conductor and critic of the Berlin Post and other periodicals. The son of a merchant, Dorn was a parol of Zelter (the teacher of Mendelssohn, and himself a pupil of was a pupil of Bach), and he successively succeeded Wagner as opera conductor at Riga, Conrad Ereutxer at Cologne, and Otto Nlcolai as conductor at the Royal Opera, Berlin, where he remained 19 years, till his retirement in 1868.

Dorn taught Schumann counterpoint, and was a more or less intimate friend of Mendelssohn, Moscheles, Spuntini, Devrient, Weber, and other celebrities of their period. It seems, says the Daily Xact, that there is really a whistling language. A French traveller, M. Lsjard, has written a work on the has just been occupying the attention of the Paris Academy of Sciences. It is in the Canary Islands that people whistle instead of speaking when they hold converse with each other.

is the whistling language a mere language of conventional sounds. It is composed of words, a as it were, like any other language, and the inhabitants of the Canary Islands attain great proficiency in it, so that they can converse on all sorts of subjects. The whisting noise is produced by placing two fingers inside the mouth. M. Lajard declares that the language has a great affinity with Spanish, being in fact a sort of whistling Spanish, M.

Lajard learnt enough of the language to converse to a certain extent with the tires. A copy of the Christmas number of the PnUctarttt Pottct Anrj has arrived from Bechuanaland. The Issue consists of four pages of ruled foolscap, and is produced by means of a cyclostyle. Its contents comprise a survey of the evsnts of the year in the Protectorate, and some paragraphs of gossip, mainly of local interest. The following note will, however, he read witn interest on the Stock Exchange.

says the editor, speaking of the conflicting reports of prospectors for gold, "we should rvcemmend any one holding syndicate shares to stick (in as an investment for the present. Even if the claims that are pegged out turn out a frost, we can pig out near somebody wbo has better claims. No une wants claims to work, but claims to ceil, and io spread pessimistic reports is simply to ruin the market snd make it exceedingly Cimcult to And a purchaser for the claims who will float a company. Even yet some of us may make a not insignificant amount out of the British public." This, comments the Daily Grapkie, is indeed candour earned almost to the verge ol cynicism. A painful shock has been caused in Chatham by the announcement of the death of Rear-Admiral Kelly, Superintendent of the Dockyard.

It was extrtmely sudden, the gallant officer having axu-ndrd to bis official duties on Friday. Rear Admiral Edward Kelly was nearly 56 yean of age. He entered the Navy as a cadet in July, 1849, and rvt-d on board the Castor during the Kaffir war in the following yt-ar. He was first-lieutenant at Bombay when she was burnt at sra, and distinguished himself by great gallantry on that occasion, his conduct being highly praised in the official drspatches. After be became Admiral-Superintendent at Chatham it was hfs practice to assemble the few survivors of the crew wbo shared with him tiiat terrible on the anniversary of the disaster, in order that they might enjoy bis boapitality.

During the Egyptian war of 1S82 he had the honour of commanding the Achilles. In November, he received the appointment of Admiral-Superintendent of Chatham Dockyard, an office which io the ordinary course of events be would liave relinquished in a few months' time. or was not any truth in the report that had lent largo sums to HirKichard, which Refunded on coming into his uncle's I after filling various minor offices, took up wealth, 1 THE NEXT A WEEK A JOHN STRANGE WINTER, Author of Bootlea' ke. HOUSEBREAKING AT DULWICH. roaie tnybooVt br talking 1 to-morrow, for Kil brother.

Adminl Sibthorp, 1 1 1 Mid to unking- tat; Kill people of tan linger on longer thu Uupsetod. It ti ttreeoa. to to en tar into explanations; bat I rappaee the position of affaire most be nude intelligible to TOO. Admiral Bibthorp, ar pornape 70a mar be aware, ie heir to the baronetcy, and the entailed ettatee. Ae he haa halt a down danghtera and no eon, the nextin.enooenion la Dick Btbtbsrp, the only child of Kir Horace younger brother, who died many jean ago.

Dick is married to my sister, and I am Tery fond of them both: that, I suppose, is one reason why Sir Horace has chosen to bequeath his personal property, whioh is rary Urge to the Admiral, lnstrad of to them. Disk is only to inherit in the event of his anrrlTing his uncle. I may Utl roa," ehe added with a eaominJ smile, that I am ecimaintad with the oontenta of my late husbands will, and that I long ago found my way into thU closet of bis, of -whioh be was soohildiihly proad. Sinoo be chose to defy me, I thought, and still think, that, hating out- meniEU vred him. I was fully entitled to take every advantage of my Wei), now you understand how things are The Admiral course, hare made a will leaving all that be to dispose to his family.

If. therefore, he survives Bir Horace, his will divide a great sum of money between them, while poor Dick will come into a property which he will not be well enough off to keep up." uia uomrorto ing that I do nobody the slightest harm by my extravagance. The rule of democracy Is quite certain to come; all the oratory in the world won't check or hurry (ts advance, and as for me, mv strutting and shouting will have been forgotten long before the last act has begun. 1 need not relate more of the protracted conversation whioh ensued. It was a conversation which Interested me very much it the time, though lest perhaps on account of ita intrinsic meriui than of the light which it threw upon the character of my Interlocutor.

He expressed himself with the most perfect frankness throughout, and when at length I rose to take my leave, he waa so kind as to aay that he congratulated himself npon the little which had procured him the pleasure of my acquaintance. He was going up to London the next morning, without returning home, he told me. Indeed he seldom paid more than a flying visit to Sandridge Park, hie place, which was situated ahout three miles from Workingham, although Lady Sibthorp customarily resided there. Ir nonr the effect that happTTn hb Sir Hoi impyj IU domestic relation! bat of eourse, were oonrern of mine, nor had I troubled myself to make enquiries abont them. Kow, howsTer, my curiosity being somewhat excited.

1 took ocossion to put a few questions to one of our local goafine, from whom I learnt that Lady 6ibthorp was an impossible person to lire in the house with. Sir Horace, at all erents, had found ber so. Sbe was biaseoood wife, and his junior by many years; she was childless, as ber predeoassarhad beea; her moral conduct was irreproachable, bnt ehe was bellered to have a rid est temper, and she had worried and Interfered with her husband until ahe had fairly arisen him out of house and home. They had not openly quarrelled, bnt they net as seldom as might he. It was possible, my inform, ant said, that there ware faults on both sides, but CTerybodyV sympathies vtro with I saw no more of Urn for Soros months af Urthh.

Towards the of the sueuuer, when Parliament had risen, he came down to address his, constituents onoo more, and I had promised myself plesiure of listening- to 'him again pteCj rented from, ddinsr br rmJlesssiooel aafagft- I was walking horns wards, iate on erasing whioh I had seen adrertiesd as appointed for his meerisf, when a poke in the back from a walking-stiok mads me turn round, and there ws, Sir Horace himself. I rT.t, as a medical man: yon need -You're tie rery man I dooborP- he oeUrf SSjoo were osllrd awajto out cheerily. "Jire joo too Busy to drire home teu I quite understand all that. Lady Sibthorp." I replied." What I do not understand is why you shoojd imagine that I am likely to assist you in perpetrating a fraud." Ii shall be made worth your while," the retained composedly. I nerer, if I can possibly help it, lose my temper with a woman; so I took no nodes of Lady Bibthorp's insolence, beyond pointing out to ber that, eren if were at great a scoundrel aa she obligingly assnmed me to be, there would be in- nperable objection in the way of my doing what ahe wished.

Under the peculiar oircumstanoes of of the rase, might be requisite to hold in inquest afebtorfi Ijody; eary for the ihtejrmect eat ttrt be delayed; finally, Bir Horace's rlsoodon, and my absence from home during a night, Af course, give rise to an enqnlry. "ffo tmguiry will be made wfrtmt Six Honoa, smtweW, haa always beta eaoentric and nsosztab. in his morementa, and TbAmpson, quite to losing sight of have the adyaitage of A At the Lambeth Police-court on Tuesday, Charles Viuey, George Fremlln, 16, were charged on remand, with being concerned in breaking and enuring 20, Dulwich, and stealing various articles, value £3, tho property of Alfred Darts. PoUce-oonstable 534 said on the evening of December 28 be stopped the prisoner Viney at Peck ham, carrying a portmanteau. He asked him what he had in it, and he raid it belonged to bis mate, and he did not know what was In it.

Witness was not satitfled.and took the prisoner to the station. Upon opening the portmanteau he found in it a quantity of jewellery" afterwards identified as part of the property stolen from the of Mr. Davis. Mr. Alfred Davis, solicitor's clerk, living (n Blackwater-street, East Dulwich, said he left hii home on the 2.

December, and returned the following day. He then found that the house bad entered from the back window, and property valued at about £3 stoUn. George Barber, an ex- police-constable, said from his window be saw the prisoners in the back garden of the houje of the last witness on the afternoon of the 36th of December, each carrying a bundle. They got over a fence and disappeared. Mr.

W. A. Howe, 36, Camterneld-road, East Dolwich, said on the 26th of December he left hone, leaving no one there. On his return be founo a glass panel in the door broken, which would allow of the lock bring reached. The place was in great confusion, and matches waa about He missed a watch and chain, sflrer and gold locket, and other property, value A IB.

Mr. W. A. Allen, commercial traveller, Beuiah- roed, Thornton Heath, said he left home on the 24th of December, learing no ooe in the house. He retxtr oa the 38th, and found that an entrance had been effected by breaking a glass panel in the street door and getting at the look.

Ue misstate quantity of property, value aboat A 25. The prisoner Prtmlin was now wearing a coat and waistcoat which were part of the stolen property. Mrs. WetJdaa, of Petrcyroad, East Dolwich, said ahe left home with ber huaband on the of December. Upon her retarii, on the 28th, she found the front door wide open.

The lock had been reached by the breaking of a glass panel. Bbe missed a silver-plate tea and coffee texrice and other property, now produced, rained about Henry Cater, eating house keeper, of Highstreet, BoroQgh, said the prisoner Fremlin came to the place and took a bed for 'he night. Be had the portmanteau now prod need with him. In the morning witness missed two and two ties, and -asked the prisoner to show him what be had In the portosaBieeu. After some hesitation he opened it, and witness found the two ties, as well as the tea.

and coffee service produced, and identified br the last witness. He told the prisoner that he believed it waa stolen, and he then said he did not take it. Witness detained the property, and told the prisoner to oome back in the afternoon, and he shoold hare it. He did not oome beck, and witness sent for the police, Mr. De Rotten com mi tied the prisoners for trial.

HOW TAB tit POOR NEW AKK HOUSED Lady Henry Sccaersei, After her close inquiry peroal. fjaininatioa into the condition of the of it more terrible, in-London, by theOandiorda out of the mboW.m poorTln the hoaaeriafted by £SL fey drinptas; wtth etar three aenUleetisne; hernia fruit, which they would tmthe fatfae atreete. The floor on which 04 10 the inter stood to Pooh. pail thirty-fire cente apiece, or Is. 6d.

English- money. Majesty the Queen haa approved the appointment of Bight Hon. Sir Henry Drunatnond 0 13 as Majesty's Ambassador at Madrid, fly this pl-mntrot-qt Sir Henry succeeds Sir Francis Clare ford, who has beea transferred to Constantinople, aod vacates the office of Minister to the King of Kouroania, The new Ambassador was bora in ird is the son of the late Rev. Dr. Wolff, vicar of lie Somerset.

Uti entered the Diplomatic Service as a clerk in the Foreign Office in In he became toe acting Charge-d'Affaires at Florence; was assist ant-secretary to the Earl of MaJmrsbury, when Foreign tJecretary, In 18S8 and, the Im- pirtant post as the rvpresentative of Great Britain the European Commission (or organising Eastern Buuroelia. In the Government availed themselves of his knowledge of Eastern affairs on a special mission to the Sultan. From 1874 to 1380 the right hon. gentleman sat In Parliament for the borough of Christchurch, and for five years ensuing for Purtamoutb, when. In 1886, ho was defeated.

Sir Henry was subsequently employed for two years as Minister to the Court of Persia, and in LS91 transferred to Bucharest. It is a frequent complaint smangst those respoa- cible for the maintenance of museums and other national collections in this country that they have not money rnough to purchase valuable objects which corae Into the marlut, and thus prevent them I rum being lost to the country. Foreign countries, and especially the United are said lo act in a different spirit. It is interesting, noticu that precisely the same complaint nude ty the secret-jry to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington in regard to the United States Museum. Professor says such is the competition fci material Uiat the cause urn fs unable in hold its own, not only with foreign Gov-rnmeiita and with local museums in other Amman citic-, but is even st a duadvtntage wlu-n its collections are compared with of i mmy private colli triors.

TIITO are in the Ccited I pi ivale collections of minerals, oljecls, ami of specimeos in the difftrt-nt ol the owners of which pay more for choice otj is needed to com- 1 pltU- collections than thu Government of the United statfs will do. It is somewhat mortifying to reo collections of American objects which a years twnce will undoubtedly be recognised by as essential to be pn-serveil in the Maticnal Museum of this country tafcea a way to foreign rouniriei because their value is more highly appreciated Uiere than at The deaih La recorded of Lord Abingrr, C.B., at Fortwiliiam, Jnveroeai. Bis lordship was attacked a week ago by influenza, to which pneumonia followed and ended fatally on Saturday. The late William Frederick Scarlett, third Lord Abinger, was the elder and last surviving son of Robert Campbell, the second Baron, and was born in 1828, was in his 66th year. Ue entered the Army in 1846, as cornet ia the Scots Fusilier Guards, and served in the Crim-an campaign of 1854-56, including battles of Alma, Inkerman, and Balaeiava, the siege of Srbastopol, and sortie on October 2tkh.

Be was extra cams to bis uncle. Sir James Yorke Scarlett, who led the famous charge of the Beavy Brigade at Balaclava, in November, 1854, and rejoined his regrment in the succeeding April. For his services he received the Crimean medal and four clasps and the class of tho Medjidie. Lord Abinger retired on half-pay. with the rank of lieutenant-general.

In 1882. The late peer succeeded to the family htnmm on the death of bis father in 1861, and two yrars later married Helen, niece of Major-General it. then eoaunaadin? the Confederate In Texas, by which lady be leaves an only son (the Boo. Jamea Yorke MacGregor Scarlett, his successor in the barony) and three daughters. The new peer was born in lo71, and is a lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion of the Cameron Highlanders.

The late Lord Abinger commanded for some years the West London Volunteer Ooe of Ue last public appearances was at tne opening of the new Drill-hall In North London for the lOddleeex Volonteera. A human being, says Mr. Labouchere in Tma, seems to have- a certain amount of heat stored up in bim, but if st any time there is too heavy a draw upon the store, the lost heat is never ren laced. A penon going to live in Russia does not require fan during his first winter, and be wonders at the Russians not being able to go out of doors without them. The next winter he has to wear them, and be is nerer reasonably warm in winter again unless he be well wrapped up.

I rtally believe that I am aa cold in winter as many people would be at the North Pole arrayed in a light Iawn-tranis suit, and I ascribe this entirely to my baring been robbed of my legitimate share of beat iu Russia. The following specimens are given In a preliminary rough survey of stories by working men, sent in, Id competition, to the Liverpool Weekly Jfereurjt "The above man was a rery peculiar man, as strong as a lion, and full of schemes, possessing a physique bis bead poised upon massive shoulders, his arms being of medium length, and fully developed, to have such a man as defender, seemed a tower of strength, a well-built man, fully proportioned, with mental qualities well balanced, seems to us, to be tho masterpiece of tho great builder and designer of mankind, when well-built man has, in addition to a well-balanced mind, a large soul to Inhabitate his earthly tabernacle, ia truly a monument to the ability of the creator." "Don't you think them is a Nice Sample of Men Which We all thought We Wer Six Inches higher to be congratulated So Soon Well I must Skips little He missed the blow Wicn am very Glad he did until this day." "Celestial benedictions," an the poet has said, sometimes "assume a dark disguise." In the case of Mr. Charles Robertson, a chip's steward at Hull, the "dark disguise has come in the shape of a wholly unfounded charge of fraud which kept him in prison so long that he lost his berth sboard ship. The offence of which he was accused was that of obtaining board and lodging by falsely representing that he had been authorised to spply for these by Mr. Begg, of the Seamen's Union.

As a fact, says the Xcrt, he (Robertson) had not been authorised by Mr. Begg, but by Mr. Brown, of that society. He bad simply made, a mistake in the name, and this was so clearly established that the Recorder, in ordering bis release, declared that he left the dock without a stain upoo his character. Meanwhile the vessel aboard which he was employed had sailed; but Mr.

Robertson has, after all, no need to regret this fact, for the news has since been received that the unfortunate vessel has foundered at sea with all hands. After much consideration of plans, says the the and Chanter of St. Paul's Catiiedral have commissioned Messrs. John Smith and Sons, Derby, to make a new clock to replace the old one in the south-west tower of the cathedral. The old clock strikes the hours on the old bell, but the new one will strike upon "Great PauL" which is nearly 17 tons weight, with a hammer weighing SSOJb.

quarter-chimes will be struck much the as before, hut provision will be made in the clock so that chimes on four bells may be added at a future time. The twa dials, which are 16ft. diameter, will be unaltered, except that the central part will be arranged for illumination at night. The clock movement will be a very large piece of machinery, designed by Lord Grirothorpe, and it is guaranteed to keep time with very great accuracy. There will be special precision apparatus, whereby the first blow of the hours will fail within one second of Greenwich time, and the first blow of the will also strike with the same accuracy.

NEW EATTJRE FOR THE SEASOX SIXTEEN SHORT STORIES, A.C7THO&S. BY A NEW COMPLETE ST0SY WEEKLY. THE FIRST APPEARS STORY THIS WEEK COLUMNS OF THIS JOURNAL, IT IS ENTITLED THE ROOM WITHOUT A DOOR. BY W. E.

NORRIS, Author of My Friend Jim," A COMPLETE TALE WEEKLY by a well known Author ia a feature which is be received with favour by our readers. udenble expense we have secured a splendid Mat of Complete Tales by Leading and many of them standing at the their profession. The Penes of Sixteen Short Complete Tales by well-known Novelists, which we have arranged to publish, consist of the following HE ROOM WITHOUT A bv E. NORBIS, author of Misadventure," ic. HAT BABY! by JOBS STBASBE WI.VTM anthor of Bootle's Baby," io.

ISS QUILT: A OP THE AUSTRALIAN GOLD FIELDS, by FAHJBON, author of "So. 119, Great Porto Square," ix. B. AMPUTATION- "KJTIVES bv JES3IE FOTUEaoaL, anthor of "The kc "I ENTLEHAN- SIEaRAS. anthor of Anthor of JACK: AX IDYL OF THE by LADY DCFFCS HABDY.

A Dangerous Experiment." JANE by S. -G author of Mehalab, Jcc A LEA END OF BOHEMIA, by MONA A anthor of The Wings ot Azrael, SLC VTHER JOSEPH'S ITANT, by MCBBAY, author of "A Deputy Jcc. ENHT ProTt A FALSE CONCLUSION, by MRS. HCNGEB- XX FORD, anthor of Molly Bawn," ic A Royal tomb, belonging to the XVIIlth Dyuaaty, haa been discovered in Egypt by M. Grebaut the village of Tet-el-Amarna on the right bank of the Nile, between Asaiout and Minieb.

It that of sovereign wbo, uneasy at the growing encroachmi-nta of the priests o' Ammon on the political domain, moved the capital from Thebes, and tried to shake their power by setting up tbe worship of the sun at Tel-el-Amarna. On bis death, however, Thebes again became the capital, and the priests of Ammon iucrt-ased in power until they supplanted the Hoyal house and founded the Twenty-first Dynasty. I'p to now only the tombs of high court officials have been found in this place, and the discovery of the Koyal sepulchre is likely to throw fresh lijrbt on tho history of a reign about which little is known. The burial place ts composed of a gallery about 54 yards in length, from which branch out two corridors, one straight, the? other curved, ending in several sepulchral chambers destined for the wife and daughter of the King. The chief gallery ends in a quadrangular room sustained by four pillars, and holding Lhe Koyal tomb.

The sarcophagus is in pieces, but the inscriptions and reliefs are in a good state of perservation, although the colouring haa disappeared. Lord Forester sends to the Times some interesting reminiscences of the early years of the late Cardinal Manning, which he obtained from Mrs. Thomas Mortimer, a sister uf the late Mr. R. BY-van.

the well-known banker, llenry Manning was a school- fellow of Miss Bevan's brother Kobert, and wont to spend the greater part of holidays at 1 Trent Fark. His great desiro was to enter Parlia- 1 ment; but, hia father having all his property, his prospects in that direction were dashed to the ground. "His chief failing, in those days, was i excessive ambition. He would say that what he I should like, if in the House ef Commons, would be to take up some great alone, to have the by K. E.

FBASCIU.O.Y author of the Bounce Bahawder," Ice. HE STRANOE FACE IN THE GLASS, by ALBTHEA author of A Romance of the OW JACK HAWKER MET HIS BRIDE, CoMifA.VIJKS CAMERON, author of -The Cruise of tbe Black kc. DREADEUL NIGHT, by JL DncDSEY, author of When we Two Parted," ic. OMEWAKD BOCND: A NAl'TIC'AL HKETCH. bv T.

SOCTHEE. author of "Lady Fenton's Will," TOP THIEF by FLORENCE HARKYAT. anthor of Fighting the Air," tc- A CRUEL 3IUME. by FREDKUH'S BOYJ.K. jTi- author of A Good Hater, A.e.

The above Liflt of Stories will afford delitfh'-'r. I reading, aud we beapeak for them a large audie r. TIIK THE FIRST STORY. ROOM WITHOUT A D0OI w. N'ORRia, CiKKKXWICH DISTRICT WOBKs.

The ordinary meeting of the Crreenwicii Hoard nt on Wednesday Mr. y. G. I.uudon preniding. TIIK LEATH Or THE UFEK OK CLAf.F.S The Chairrnun said he felt that the mem', the Board would like to join in the sympathy with the Koyai family on tbo tle't the Duke of Clarence which been espi wbjle Senate against him, but.

by dint of persever- not only from afl pivrta of the Kinoi- ing advocacy, ro romjuffr and carry his point TUese were bis After hia father's losses, which changed his whole career, when he next came to Trent Miss Bevan perceived how depressed he was; in their walks together shf endeavoured to rlx-er him, him thr-re were higher aims still that he had not thought of. What are they of Heaven against jwu did nut lni' readit-c tie asti heavi i. She refilled, ily atrbiticns a lUned, and said, n-jht. suit- h'T bn i i i r' join than, did ilr r.n-j if mat vacation, mnn.nn,' alter il ii was her conviction thai this Henry Manning'! II- to speak of her ai his spiritual i h-n 'if came for bim ai-d ht-r brutli- n-turn to Uxford, she i proposed that they should ntinue reading the same portions together, he and ber brother at OxforJ, and she at Trent, and they were to corre- spond on the subject. The result was that she had I piles of his letters.

After hi.s change of faith, and when ahe wad living at firosel'-y, be wrote to her, asking her to return hint his letters, as he said they might compromise him. With regret (die sent them but from all parte of the world. Ho moved 'I h.i the members of the Greenwich District Works djsire to take the earliest opportunity expressing their deep regret at the death of i Duke of Clarence and Avondate to Iler the Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales the Royal Family, and the respectful of extreme sympathy for the bereavement The Kingdom ftC a me 0 plunged them In the not closed grief." in reply, i Mr. AHworth seconded and the vote oi. She suggested the whole of the members standing, that slits was On the motion of Mr.

SyliM-v This wari rea vet 10 e.Vend the termi uf the i vt the Princess Victoria of Teck. 1 It was decided that the resolution should U- warded to Sir Henry Ponsonby and Sir Probyn. It was also decided uniy to takt; business. The available balance was for were ordered to drawu all back to him, asking hirr, at the same time, tc return hers to her. In reply, he said if she would allow him to keep them he would wish to do so." A portion of the evidence in the case of Knob- lancfa v.

Kitchin. in which plaintiff sought ta recover damagi-s for the loss of 10 tons of cranberries, throws a curious upon the tricks of the wine trade. An analytical chemist waa called Co describe the condition of the cranberries, and, after remarking that a from ooe of the casks waa "perfectly putrid, full of maggots, and a mass of vermin," he said he bad "endeavoured to abstract colour from them, but they rotdd aot tttm ft. AK. B.

Boyd, of St. Andrew's, ia a riRld obeerrerot domestic punctilio. After a Sabbath bnapco cot a jeentleinan, ia him, and entered into Struck with bi4 conversational Irtgh-toned fcourtesy, tvbfch contrasted vividly with tw rooghnrts of his attire, the rector that ha4 bis dress been dinVient be would have preeeuted him to Airs. Boyd. Yoa are right, sir," the stranger, "my clothes are scarcely flr.

for place of worship, and certainly are not good flbobgfa for Boyd's Pray tell! her that, had lie the'Earl of Aberdeen would made hex; The Constantinople correspondent of the pan; Ed air reporU tbe discovery of a plot againn Ail tan, in connection with which more than 300 arresti have been made. The Toronto Globe, which has connected Lady Macdocald's name with the alleged improper transactions in landing the north territories, has unreservedly withdrawn the charge and tendered a bumble apology to her ladyship. Acting on the opinion of Sir Charles Russell, the Solvation Army have taken out summonses against three members of the Eastbourne police force for assault alleged to have been committed while dispersing the Army meetings on the beach. Ic Is believed that Mrs. Osborne, for whose arrest in connection with the pearl robbery a warrant has issued, recently passed through Seville, and that an Engliah detective ii following ber.

She ia to have been in Madrid, and subsequently in Granada. Now Stores Blackheatb, fur Groceries. Proviaiona, Wines, Spirits, Bottled Beers, Ac. The Largest establishment of ita kind in the Village. Pwrorietor, Ernest OTOE Found of Ernest Two Shining' Tea goes as far as 2 Jbs.

sold at Is. and what is more, is pore and wholesome. Try it The Village TUaV UalftY COXPXXY, aas particulars of "the analyses of over 80,000 of thair milk; for refemoe. A perusal of pamphlet, a Revelation aboat milk," win con the public that rvery precaution is taken to raftgnard the milk told by this OliD BHIBTS BJ3-F1TTJSD with Irian Idaec fronts, cufis, sad seekbssds, and returned ready for OM for HALP-A-CBOWN. A.

B. Thomas, Hhlrt- tnaker, 2, tiipay HiB, Upper Norwood. Over 1L00C hiit repaired la The following motion, proposed by the man, ond seconded by llr. W. R.

Smith, w.t- ried: That the County Council formed, that if the Council will carry out the 1 Lane improvement, under Part i'. of the i of the Working Classes Act, lSifO. the Boar-1 contribute one-balf of the cost." BO.U> ISSPFATOR FOB ST. DKPTV'lie It was resolved to appoint a pavement inspector for the parish ol St. Paul, I)eptiW'f.

a salary of i'2 2ft. per week, and that menlH be issued inviting applications tor t. 1 pointment. TJIX CLOCK AT ST. I'KTEH'- On the recommendation of the St.

1 mittee it was resolved to inform the vuMf churchwardens of St. Peter's, BrockJey. Board did not it advisable to defr.iy ti of illuminating the of the new clock can RADrns OF TUB METSWOLIS. On the motion of Mr. O.

W. S. the expressed itself in favour of an cab radius of the metropolis to a distance miles from Charing Cross, and it was resoi forward to tbe Vestry Clerk of Hammersnis" 1 the Secretary of State a copy of the resoh't AN0THEB RAILWAY ACCIPKN'T AT LONDON BRIDGE On Monday night at eleven o'clock an occurred on the South Eastern Railway to tbe hill train, after passing through Loudon En-ip Station, anthe same spot where the disaster to Hastings train a few days ago. Tbe passed the point safely, but a third class immediately following the engine became 1 and ran off the line. The upper portion carriage was splintered by striking against a and signal post, which alone prevented the carnage from into the thoroughfare below he point where the Borough Market is situated.

The carriage tell at an angle of forty ard th'' passengers were considerably shaken. Tbe 1 Keating, of the Guardian Angel Church, Miie was found to be suffering from a' contused eye. and was sent home in-a cab. Tho wen removed from the train, and sent on by the trainOo Cannon-ttreet. The line was cleared alter work and traffic resumed as nsua.1- COMJTEKCB the New Year well, and deal Tfcr Village Stores, Blackheath.

Ernest Turner. ADVT. EBXKST TimirEB's Two Shilling Drawing U-x-m Tea, refreshing and invigorating- Try.