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THE BIRMINGHAM DAILY POST, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1888. THE WHITECHAPEL MURDERS. LONDON CORRESPONDENCE. London, Monday Night I leaks' that at the meeting of the Incorporated aw Society, to be held at Newcastle on the 16th 17ft iustant, a paper will be read by a Scotch ATr. A P.Pnrves.

of Edinburgh) "on property would be made to pay via fair share towards imperial taxation. But the Gversmwnt did not mean that. (Laughter.) Tho Government would not tar landed on its value thsy would only tax is upon what it was worth on the man's life going to sueceed to it. Mr. Gladstone fought against the anomaly wiAunsurpassed ability, but he was defeated.

Tho Liberal party only say that they did not accept that vote as the final settlement of tha matter. They regarded it-as class legislation, enacted by and in the interest of one specific section ot tbe community. (Cheers.) With regard to the alteration which was effected by the Chancellor of the Exenecraer the interest paid on the National Debt he said that the Chancellor of the Exchequer offered 100. stock, to bear 2. 15s.

per cent, interest for fifteen years and then Sd. 10s. per -cent, interest for another twenty years, together with 5s. for every 100. down, iu exchange for the 100.

bearing 3. per cent, interest. Mr. Goschen also gave bankets and financial esperts a cominiasioa on all the stock in respect to which their eaatoraers and clients, not listen for a mom'entrito separation anyiape or form; they would resist it to the the-supremcy of the Imperial Parliament There cooni be but one Parliament in the British empire. It could have no rival, no ally, no equaly.

It was supreme and every other body must be subordinate to it. neexs-j They would uphold tha supremacy of integrity of the empire, and the management by tne ixi sa people of thoir-own affairs; and they said they would also protect to the utmost the rights of minorities, subject to the qualification that there could not be any nangee in taking the step which was now so" Sea? dSsw They might delay the matter, but no one soald doubt tnat in the end Homo Kale would succeed. The empire woaia not be dismembered, Parliament would not be dethroned from its constitutional supremacy, peace and property would not be engolfed in one common ruin, but the scppici folly of our misgovernment of Ireland would be swept away, Ireland would have to grapple with her own difficulties, and thus, and thus only, would the Irish grow into a perfect statue of a free, a prosperous, and seii-SvernmS by a bloody smear. It is not necessarily assumed that this has been the work of the murderer, the idea that naturally occurs being that the whole thing is a practical joke. At the same time the writing of the previous letter immediately before the commission of the murders of Sunday was so singular a that it does not seem unreasonable to suppose that the cool calculating villain who is responsible for the crimes has chosen to make the post a medium through which to convey to the press his mmly diabolicalhumour.

The letter and post-card are hands of the police, and will, it is understood, be photographed. PETITION TO THE QUEEN. TheVigilinca Committee in tha Whitechapel district, of which Mr. George Lusk is chairman, rerjort that among all the respectable residents in Whitechapel the greatest indignation prevails at what they regard as the apathy the Home Secretary in face of these appalling outrages. To make o.j for the Home Secretary's inaction a3 far as possible, the committee determined to offer a reward themselves.

Many of the leading residents have assisted them, and they hiva received promises of subscriptions amounting to about 300. Ia addition to this, Mr. Montagu, M.P has offered 100., and a dmilar sum has been forthcoming from another private source. But it is felt that these sums will not AST WOLYEEHAMPTOXiaBERAL ASSOCIATION, ADDRESS BY MR. H.

H. FOWLER, M.P. Mr. H. Fowler, M.P., delivered his -annual address to his constituents in the Eastern division -of tha borough in the Agricultural Hall, Wolverhampton, last night Mr.W..

M. Fuller presided, and in addition to Mr. Fowler and Mrs. and the.Misses Fowler there were upon the platform the Revds. T.

M. Prentice, W. H. Addkott, 3. H.

Norton Messrs. J. C. Tildesley, C. E.

Shew, C. Walker, B. F. Williams, H. Loveridge, E.

Pritchard, O. S. Tttorne, O. E. Shaw, E.

Birch, J. Harper, W. J. Saunders, J. W.

Sankey, T. Graham, J. Major, G. II. Cocking (secretary), Sea, The hall was crowded, The Chairman eaid there was no-csastiteency-ia Eagfewjd that had more confidence in its representative than they had in theirs.

(Cheers.) Mr. Biichie, the President of the Looal Government Board, paid a graceful compliment to Mr. Eowler in the House of Commons when he acknowledged the great assistance he received from the member for East Wolverhampton during the passage of the County Government Bill through Parliament, and in an equally graceful manner the Corporation of Wolverhampton acknowledged the great services rendered to tho town by Mr. Fowler in respect to the same bill. (Hear, hear.) The Town Clerk of Wolverhampton told him the other day -that it was impossible for anyone not in actual touch with municipal life in that town to understand what Mr.

Fowler's services were, but he was the means of saving' the town from losing a great deal of its prestige. In season and out of season Mr. b'owler was incessantly at the call of those who required his services in connection with the borough, and the result was not only that Wolverhampton had gained in prestige, but it had also been saved the serious financial loss which would have occurred had the County Government Bill passed in its ordinary form. (Cheers.) The Chairman lamented the loss Liberalism had sustained by the death of Mr, Thos. Walker, who for fifty year3 took an active part in political matters on the side of the party of progress, and then referred to the aDoroachine visit of Mr.

Gladstone to Binningham. He said that the Conservatives were going to have a grand neia-aay ia oivernampwn anonry, ana ne uiougui. iau Liberals should have a grand field-day also. The Tories would have some of their best generals at the review, and ho would like to see the great commander-in-chiBf of the Liberal party in Wolverhampton also. (Cheers.) If he would come and raise the standard, the whole of South Staffordshire would rise almost en masse and give a hearty welcome to the grandest man England had produced this century.

The Liberal workers in Wolverhampton and the district were about to meet to endeavour to bring that about, but he wanted the meeting that night to say whether they would like to see Mr. Glalstoue. (Cries of "Yes," and cheers.) He asked all those who desired that Mr. Gladstone should visit Wolverhampton, and that the representatives of the borough should bring a little nressnre to bear to get him to come, to hold ud their hands, Every hand iu the hall was held up, amid loud and prolonged cheering. The Chairman then said that the message from the meeting would be sent to Hawarden, and he was sure that if it were possible for Mr.

Gladstone to come he would do his best to favour them with a visit. (Cheers.) Mr. H. H. Fowler, M.P., who was received with great cheering and the singing of For he's a jolly good fellow," said that he bad chosen to deliver hisannual address to his constituents at the present time in spite of tha fact that Parliament had not finished for the year.

The winter session would be occupied mainly with financial details, and with winding np the ordinary legislative work of the year. He did not think that any impartial witness would deny that the legislation of 1833 had been of considerable magnitude. It had effected great changes great in themselves, but far greater in the ultimate development of the principles which they embodied. But the Parliament of 188S had left some work of pressing importance undone. It had not grappled with some problems with which it was pledged to grapple.

Ip his judgment the political situation and the political outlook were disheartening and unsatisfactory. (Hear, hear.) But before he said anything in detail he thought he might make one claim on behalf of Parliament and on behalf of those who represented Wolverhampton these. It had not been an idle session. Thev had worked very hard. It had been the hardest session of hia Parliamentary work Koyal Commission work, committee work had added to the public and private business of the House a burden which taxed physical and mental endurance to the very uttermost.

He divided the work of the past session into three classes-procedure, finance, and general legislation. Last year the House of Commons embarked on the consideration of those amendments iu its procedure which were necessary to adapt itself to the altered state of public-affairs. This year Parliament had completed that consideration. The three pmcipal reforms had beenthedosure, the delegation to large committees of detailed work, and the limitation of the hours of sitting. Two out of these three reforms were proposed in 1882, and the very existence of the Government was threatened by them.

However, a Liberal Government succeeded amidst terrible predictions as to tho policy of free speech and the gagging of the right of the House of Commons and the tyranny of majorities they succeeded in passing a rule giving tho Speaker or chairman, as the case might be, the power to tell the House that he thought the question had been, discussed long enough, and if the House was anxious that ths discussion should be brought to a close if a majority of at least two hundred membere were in favour of brrngmg the discussion to a close the debate might terminate. Any member could move that the question should be now put, and if only one hundred members agreed the debate would terminate and the question would bo put. They had revived what was called the prindple of devolution. They had revived the principle that to representative cmmifctees composed of all sections of the Hoose miniatures of the Hoase should be entrusted the working out details of non- political bills, and by that means saving a vast amount of public time. Lastly, they had got rid of at all events minimised the absurdity of turning night into day, and ot voting and talking when most sane men were sieepmg.

Now a sitting which commenced at three o'clock in the afternoon must, except in very exceptional cases, terminate at one o'dock in the morning. That was, they only sat for ten hours, and only up to so early a time as one o'clock in the morning. (Laughter.) He approved of all these changes he had supported them alt, and he had done his best to ensure their being carried. Therewas a good deal of friction, a good deal of discontent in respect to the working of the dosure rules bat he thought that experience and mutual consideration and mutual concession would enable a rule which was essential to the efficiency and dignity of the House of Commons would enable that ruie to be fairly applied without unduly restraining debate or depriving anyone unjustly of their individual rights. (Cheers.) They knew that they were all interested ao matter what their political opinions might be in the character, the influence, the authority of the House of Commons.

(Heartbeat) The financial legislation of the year had not been the least distinguished of its characteristics. He was aware that one portion of it, in which Wolverhampton took a considerable interest that which imposed an additional tax on carta and" horsea had not yet been submitted to the judgment of Parliament but, subject to that exemption, the whole financial pohevof the year had been approved of by Parliament, and was matter for farther discussion in the constituencies of the country. The receipts in 1387 were so largely in excess of the estimates of the year that tha Chancellor of the Exchequer was enabled to reduce the income tarfrom at which it then stood, to the normal figure of without interfering with ths amount which was appropriated in aid of the reduction of the National Debt but this year, in order to reduce tho tax to 6i, ho had been compelled to reverse the policy which he (Mr. Fowler) thought, and the Liberal party thooght, Sir Stafford Northcote wisely inaugurated ten or twelve years ago. (Cheers.

He then provided that every year a fixed sum of 28 millions should be annually applied towards paying the interest of the debt, and the balance appropriated towards paying off the debt Mr. Goschen reduced that to 26 millions, aod practically that was abandoning the redaction of the debt in order to relieve taxation. That he ventured to think, in the state of the country, was unsound financing, and was very unfair to the bulk of the taxnayers and this year, in order, not only to carry out this" reduction, but to enable him to make a contribution to local taxation, he had to put on certain new taxes. He (Mr. Fowler) did not tbmk anyone should object to taxes of luxuries.

In his opinion luxuries were not sufficiently taxed. (Cheers.) There was room for i a considerable increase in that direction, but in imposing a new tax in a country like ours they had to consider all the results which would follow from the imposition of taxes. (Hear, hear.) The proposal was to put a duty of 5s. per dozen on On the first sight that appeared a very fair and proper tax, but when they came to consider that all the great bulk of our bottled wine came from France that whereas a duty of 5s. would be a very moderate duty on wine that was worth 60s.

a dozen, it was a very high duty on wine worth only 15s. a dozen (hear, hear) that our commercial rdations with Franco were delicate, and that it would not be to the interest of this country to provoke any feeling of irritation, much less to impede what was called "the most favoured nation clause" these were considerations which could not be put lightly on one The Chancellor of the Exchequer had to abandon the tax on non-sparkling and still wines, and at tbe present moment what he called this very laboured and ineffective legislation amounted to this that the most expensive as the still and bottled wines, the clarets, some of which might be worth 1. a bottle escaped taxation, while if wine happened to sparkle it was subject to a taxation whether it was cheap or dear wine. (Laughter.) That was one of the principal alterations in this year's taxation. But the battle of the Budget was fought on a much broader area and wider principles than the taxation of champagne or the dealings of the Stock Exchange.

One hundred years ago, when Pitt first imposed in this country a tax upon property passing at death a legacy duty he proposed that the legacy in land should pay a tax as well as legacy in money. (Cheers.) But the landed interest was too strong for him, and the landed interest defeated him, and he had to withdraw, that proposition, and from that date to 18S3, no taxation was levied on the transfer of property on the occasion of death (shame! but in 1853, the greatest and ths soundest financier of this generation, Mr. Gladstone (cheers) proposed to grapple with the question, and after a very fierce and protracted opposition he succeeded in subjecting real property to a portion only a portion of the duty that was paid ou personal property. The restrictions and qualifications to which he had to submit in order to carry that proposition were so considerable that the tax called the succession duty, which was estimated by both friends and foes to be likely to produce several millions per annum, had never yet in one single year produced one siogie million of money. Last year in this country the death duties produced 8 millions, mUlioas being paid by personal property alone.

Fmancial reformers had contended before Mr. Gladstone's scheme of 1853; and ever since, 'that the inequality should be redressed, and that both descriptions of property should be taxed alike. But they were always met with the argument which, to a certain extent, was a very fair argument that the bulk of the local taxes of the country waa imposed on real property, and that personal property did not pay its fair share of the local rates, and that if it was unjust that the owner of real property should pay too little to the Imperial tax gatherer, that injustice was rectified by the fact that it paid too much to the local rate collector. No responsible statesman had ever argued in favour of any adjustment as between real and personal taxation without admitting that personal property must pay its fair share towards the local rates. It was stated that tbe question was to be settled this year.

The Chancellor of tha Exchequer proposed to take half of the death duty paid on personal property and hand it over to the looal authorities, and also to take certain other taxes paid mainly in respect to personal property and hand them over to the local authorities, believing that, that would fairly and finally settle the oft-disputed confliot between real and personal property, and that personal property would pay its full share to the local authority. It was expected when that was carried out that real, club-or premises. The names and addresses of all present were taken, and they were also searched. The body was lying with the face towards the wall. As soon as the police came I took no more interest in the matter.

I did not notice the position of the hands. The doctor then came and felt the bosom of the deceased, and said the body was quite warm. Have you ever seen men and women in the yard Never. Have you ever heard of anyone being there No. By the jury The body was some distance from the wall of the club' By Inspector Beid All the people who went into the yard were detained, and their names and addresses were taken.

They were searched, and their hands and clothes were examined. By the foreman If anyone had run up the yard when I drove in I should have seen them. The Coroner The body has not been identified? Inspector Beid Not yet. The foreman But we have been told that her name is Stride. How is that 2 The Coroner Something is known of her.

She has- hepm rin.i-tiallv identified. Inspector Keid intimated that he would be prepared with further evidence. The Coroner accordingly adjourned the enquiryiill this atternoon. SUPPOSED IMPORTANT CLUE. During the day all sorts of stories were brought to the police as more or less effective clues to the perpetrators of the murders, One informant deposed that about half-past ten on baturaay night a man, aged about tnrrty-tnree years, entered a public-house in Batty Street, Whitechapel.

Whilst the men in the public-house were talking about the Whitechapel murders he stated that he knew the murderer, and that they would hear about him in the morning, after which he left. It being thought that this was merely idle talk no notice was taken of the matter. Another story was to the effect that- a man of light complexion had been struggling with the woman Stride in Berners Street, and that he threw her down but it being thought that it was a man and wife quarrelling nobody interfered with them. A description was circulated yesterday morning of a map. who is said to have accosted a woman in the vicinity of Commercial Boad on Saturday night, and to have threatened to out her throat if she did not give him money.

The woman gave him a shilling, and he went away. The young man Albert Bachert, of 13, Newnham Street, Whitechapel, made a further statement yesterday morning to a representative of the press. It will be noticed that the man who spoke to him in the Three Nude Hotel on Saturday night carried a black shining bag, and it is remarkable that the only man Mrs, Mortimer observed in Berners Street nearly two hours afterwards also carried a bag of that description. Mrs. Mortimer said, "The only man whom I had seen pass through the street previously was a young man who carried a black shining bag who walked very fast down the street from the Commercial Koad.

Ha looked up at the olub, and then went round the corner by the Board School." Albert Bachert says On Saturday night at about seven minutes to twelve I entered the Three Nuns Hotel, Aldgate. mile in the an elderly woman, very shabbily dressed, came in, and asked me to buy some matches. I ref ased, and she weut out. A man, who Lad been standing by me, remarked' that those persons were a nuisance, to which I replied Yes. He then asked me to have a glass with him, but I refused, as I had just called for one myself.

Ee then asked me if I knew how old some of the women were who were in the habit of soliciting outside. I replied that I knew, or thought, that some of them who looked about twenty-five were over thirty-five, the rsason'they looked younger being on account of the powder and paint. He asked if I could tell him where they usually went with men, and I replied that I had heard that some went to places in Oxford Street, Whitechapel, others to some houses in Whitechapel Boad, and others to Biahogsgate Street. He then asked whether I thought they wonld go with him down Northumberland Alley a dark and lonely court in Fenchurch Street. I said I did not know, but supposed they would.

He then went outside and spoke to the woman who was selling matches and gave her something, I believe. He returned to me, and I bade him good night. At about ten minutes past twelve I believe the woman was waiting for him. I do not think I could identify the woman, aB I did not take particular notice of her, but I should know the man again. He was a dark man, about thirty-eight years of age, height about 5ft.

6in. or 7in. He wore a black felt hat, dark clothes (morning coat), black tie, and carried a black shining bag. The Press Association learnt last evening that a singular discovery, which is supposed to afford an important clue to the murderer, is being investigated by the pdice at Kentish Town. It appears thai about nine o'clock yesterday morning the proprietor of the Nelson Tavern, Victoria Boad," Kentish Town, entered the urinal adjoining his premises, for the purpose oE pointing out to a builder some alterations he desired executed, wheu a paper parcel was noticed behind the door.

No particular importance was attached to the discovery until an hour later, when Mr. Chinn, the publican, while reading the newspaper, was struck with the similarity of this bundle to the one of which the police have issued a description as having been seen in the possession of the man last seen in company of the woman Stride. The police at the Ken-lash Town Boad Police Station were acquainted with the discovery, and a detective officer was at once seas to prosecute enquiries. It was then discovered that the parcel was not picked up, bat was kicked into the roadway, where tho paper burst, and revealed a pair of dark trousers. The description of the man wanted for the murder gives the colour of the trousers he wore to be dark.

The fragments of paper were collected, and found to be stained with blood, and it is stated that some hair was also found amongst some congealed blood attached to the paper. It was subsequently ascertained from some lads, who had been dragging the trousers through Castle Koad, thai a poor man picked up the article of clothing, and carried it off. Detectives are investigating this strange discovery. The Press Association learns from an authoritative source that the police are convinced that the Whitechapel murders are committed by one person. The description nublished of the man seen in company with one of the women murdered on Sunday morning corresponds almost exactly with that published a few days ago of a man who nsed violence towards a female in the same district, bat made-oif on her screaming for help.

THE HOME SECRETARY AND THE OFFER OF A EEWABD. The following letter was received last evening by the editor of the Financial ffencs: October 1st, 1S88. My dear 6ir, I am diresied by Mr. Matthews to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date containing a cheque for 300., which you say has been contributed on behalf of several readers'of the Fwaaciallfews, and which you are desirous should be offered as a reward for the discovery of the recent murders in the East End of London. If Mr.

Matthews bad been oE opinion that the offer of a reward in these cases would have been attended by any useful result he wonld himself have at-once made such an offer, but he is not of that opinion. Under these circumstances I am directed to return you the cheque which I enclose), and to thank you and the gentlemen whose names you hae forwarded, for the liberality of their offers, which Mr. Matthews much regrets he is unable to accopt. I am. sir, your very obedient servant, Leigh Pbmbesios.

Harry H. Marks, Esq." And where, forsooth, is Mr. Matthews all this while lacks the Dailv TdtaravK). What has her Majesty's Secretary of State for Home Affairs been doing about these very disquieting home attarrs we ao not even know whether these regularly repeated assassinations of hahaless fallen women have sufficed to bring Mr. Matthews up to town, except that the issue of a letter on the subject of offering a reward for the detection of the criminal appears to prove that our Home Secretary has at last heard of what is happening.

Truly, the public generally would like at last to know whether Mr. Secretary Matthews still sees nothing in the present case to justify a aepartnre irora tae raie. persuuiucu uu-happily just now in the helpless, heedless, useless figure of the Bight Hon. Eenry Matthews ought at length to arouse herself, and scour the capital, obliterate the shims, search between the very bricks and mortar in order to unearth this unspeakable villain whose deeds appal a whole kingdom. If it be of any avail, we would onoe more urge Mr.

Matthews to wake up and do hia duty. If it be of no avail, then the protest against his ineptitude will assuredly become a clamour, a demand, an insist-auce and Lord Salisbury will have to dismiss the Minister who had not good sense enough to resign. SINGULAR APREST65rA REPORTER. Yesterday morning a newspaper reporter, who has been on the look out for the murderer for several nights past, thinking it quite possible that after the cool audacity of the murders on Sunday he might poasibly repeat the murder during yesterday morning, shaved off his whiskers and moustache, and, dressing himself as a woman, walked from his home in Leytonstone to Whitechapel, and made the tour of the streets frequented by the assassin, passing several detectives and con stables on the way. He was unmolested until after he had covered a great deal of ground.

Upon getting into Whitechapel lioad again, however, he was pounced upon by Police-constable Ludwig, 273 who said, Stop, you are a man." Seeing that it was useless to deny it, the reporter admitted the fact, upon which he was asked, Are vou one of us 1 and was answered in the negative and it was explained why the disguise had been adopted. The constable, however, said he must take the reporter to the station, and he was conveyed to Leman Street, where tbe inspector on duty, after several questions, said, "I must detain you until enquiries are made," After a delay of an hour and a half," the officer was satisfied of the reporter's bona, fides, and he was liberated. THE ARRESTS. Darina Sunday m'eht and vesterdav no less than five men were arrested in the Bast End of London in connection with the murders. Three were at different times conveyed to Leman Street Police Station, but one was immediately liberated another was detained until noon, wnen ne was set at lioerty after giving a statement or nis movements.

He was found to have been ia straitened circumstances, and to have passed much of his time in common lodging-houses in Whitechapel, bnfc there was nothing to show that he had anything to do with the murders. The third man was detainod until the afternoon, when he, after due enqniry, was also liberated. One of the two men detained at Commercial Street wa9 liberated soon after his arrest; but the other, named Frank Baper, was kept in custody. It appears that he was arrested late on Saturday night, at a public-house known as Dirty Dick's," near Liverpool Street. He sras standing in the bar, while under the influence of liquor, and made a number of extravagant statements about the murder of Mrs.

Chapman and Mrs. Nicholls. The bystanders sent out and obtained a constable, and when the' policeman entered he was openly boasting of being the murderer, and complimenting himself on the means he had adopted to destroy all trace of his identity. He was removed to the police station followed by a large and excited crowd. On being charged Eager, said he had no settled address, and enquiries have satisfied the police that he is not the man wanted, so he was set free later in the day.

There was a rumour early yesterday morning that a man naa oeen arrested in SoutawarK, out no intelligence of the fact was communicated to tbe City or Whitechapel police. AN EXTRAORDINARY POSTCARD. A cost-card, bearing the stamn "London. October 1," was received yesterday morning, addressed to the Centra! News Offiee, the address and subject matter being written in red, and undoubtedly by the same person from whom a sensational letter was received on Thursday last. Like the previous missive, this also has reference to the horrible tragedies in East London, forcing, indeed, a sequel to the first letter.

It runs as follows: "I was not codding, dear old boss when I gave you the tip. You'll hear about Saucy Jacky's work to-morrow. Double event this time. Number Ons squealed a bit couldn't finish straight off. Had not time to get ears for police.

ThankE for keeping last letter back till I got to work again. Jack the Rippeb." The Central News adds that the card is smeared on both sides with blood, which has evidently been impressed thereon by the thumb or finger -of the writer. Some -words are nearly obliterated REWARDS QFS'EEED. INQUEST ON" ELIZABETH STRIDE. The Piesa Association says the public indignation at the inability of the police by their easting methods to bring to justice the murderers of the six unfortunate women who have been so fouly done to death in the East End of London daring the past to months, foand a practical shape yesterday.

The harder ot reticence which has been set op on all occasions when the representatives of the newspaper press hare been brought into contact with the police authorities for the purpose of obtaining information for the vise of the public has been suddenly withdrawn, and, instead of the costomary stereotyped negatives and disclaimers of the officials, there has ensued a marked disposition to 'afford all necessary facilities for the publication of details and an increased courtesy towards the members of the press concerned. Another direction in which the officials have come to a sense of their publio lesponsibiiity has been by the spontaneous offers of substantialxewards by public bodies and private individuals towards ths detection of the criminal or criminals suiity of these desperate crimes. Following upon the refusal -of the Homa Secrstary to place Government funds at the disposal of the police for this purpose there was much dissatisfaction expressed, and the feeling which thisrefnsal proToked, though not finding pubic expression at the time, has been stinralaied by the more recent crimes to outward manifestation. A meeting of the Vigilance Committee, which has forsometimebeeaforaied in Whitechapel, was held yesterday at Mile End, and a resolution passed calling upon the Horns Office to offer a substantial Government reward, for the capture and conviction of the murderer, and a letter embodying this was at once sent to the Home Secretary. One of ths murders of Snnday morning took place within 4he precincts -of the City of London, and this tact led one of the common couneilmsn yesterday to gie notice that at the next meeting he would move that a reward of 250.

Bhould be offered by the Corporation for the detention of the Mitre Square murderer, but the necessity for this step was removed when later in the day the Lord Mayor (Mr. -de Keyser), after consulting with Colonel Sir James Fraser, K.C.B., Chief Commissioner of Police of the City of London, announced shat a reward of 500. would be given by the Corporation forthe detection of the miscreant. The-proprietors of the Financial A'ejcs, a monetary organ, also cams forward on behalf of several readers of that iournal with a cheque for 300. which was forwarded by their request to the Home Secretary, who was asked to offer that sum for the same purpose in tbe name of the Government.

The proprietors of the EvmiixQ Post, which is also chiefly devoted to the interests of the financial world, has commenced a subscription list with a sum of 50 guineas, and has. invited other contributions towards a reward fund. The excitement which was created io parts of London by the news of the atrocious crimes of Berners Street and Mitre Square was doubly intensified yesterday morning when the dairy newspapers carried the startling news into every household, and yesterday there was but the one subject of conversation everywhere. Thousands of people visited the localities of the crimes, but thtre was nothing then to see. The police had removed all traces of the murder from the yard iu Beraers Street, where the unfortunate Elizabeth Stride was found with a terrible gash in her throat, while at Mitre Square there was nothing which could recall the horrible spectacle which met the eyes of Constable Watkins at a quarter to two o'clock on Sunday morning.

The remains of the disembowelled victim had been removed to the city mortuary, and the pavement cleansed. In connection with the latter place, however, a startling discovery was made yesterday afternoon. Sergeant Dudman had his attention clrawa to36, Mitre Street, a house a short distance from the spot where the murdered woman was found, and there he found what appeared to be bloodstains upon ths doorway and underneath the window, as if a person had wiped iii3 fingers on the window-ledge and drawn a bloodstained knife down part of the doorway. Mr. Eurtig, who lives on the premises, said he had only jusi before noticed the stains, and then quite by accident.

Almost immediately afterwards the -same police-officer had his attention drawn to similar marks on tho plate-glass window of Mr. William Smith, at the corner of Mitre Square, but Mr. Smith scouted the idea that they could have anything to do with the murders, as the windows were covered at night by shutters. The discovery notwithstanding caused increased excitement for a time in the locality. The only other traee left by the murderer was a portion of an apron, picked up in Goldston Street, which corresponded with a piece loft on the body of the victim.

This seemed to show that the murderer had escaped in the direction of WhifcechapeJ. A reporter of the Press Association who was engaged during Sunday night in prosecuting enquiries in the East End concerning the revolting murders says Whitechapel appears to have a charm for one person only, and that person, who is at present known as the "VYhitecbatiel Murderer," continues to make his presence dreaded in every nook and corner in the locality. The dreaded word AYhitechapel" was to be heard on all sides. Policemen, cabmen, coffee-stall keepers, the very lowest types of humanity, such as prostitutes, tramps, ic. to whom the open thoroughfares in this quarter of London appear to afford a home were to be found eager to disouss the latest tragedies, which have not only brought before all grades of society the shocking condition of the East Knd noor.

but have revealed a Btate of things hitherto incomprehensible. Mr. Walter Besant pro vided some remarkable details of Hast iiud We, but never before has the neighbourhood been shown more strikingly than at the present time, when not only women and children go in fear ot their lives, but even men express a dread of the Whitechapel The exception to this fearful community are the policemen, who with measured tread, patrol the Thoroughfares and bvewavs with an anxiety which almost amounts to a determination to track the dastardly coward to justice. To have been present in the viemity ot the crimes at midnight one mizht well have felt surprised th atizmenfcation of "the ordinary patrols which had been made by the authorities both of the Metropolitan and City forces, who have, undoubtedly, by tbe latest additions to our long list of tragedies in that quarter, been awakened toa senseof duty which until now has seldom boen apparent. In every street was to be heard tbe regulation" steo of the policeman.

It was only he who-disturbed the silence- of the night, for, with very ow exceptions, the detective officers were invisible. Walking along the main thoroughfare one wonld occasionally be startled by the sudden and unexpected appearance of a plainclothes officer from some obscure doorway or recess, where, unless he had made his presence known, much to the beholder's dismay, ho and his oomrades might have been passed nnobserved. It is necessary to speak in the plural, for the force at hand appeared to be all that could be desired; but unfortunately for past victims, had been taken too late. Nevertheless, it may have the desired effect in the future. One can but doubt that the strength of the force in this rough and notorious locality is sadly deficient, and that many blunders have been made over the recent crimes but the police must, notwithstanding, receive a fair share of compliment for the very hard task they are set.

The force is deScient, and an exceptional emergency has to be dealt with. Since Sunday morning a remarkable change has occurred in the disposition of the orbcers, and what was hitherto denied is now wUlingly supplied, possibly at the instigation of the chiefs, who, after all, are about to admit in an indirect manner that publicity is the best detective. Both Sir Charles Warren, for the Metropolitan police force, and Colonel Fraser, of the City police force, have drafted a large force of men into the neighbourhood for special duty. The has ordered constables on to Commercial Street and Iman Street police stations from tbe A and divisions; while Colonel Fraser has drawn men portion of the area nearest Whitechapel, which is considered dangerous. These augmentations are only at night.

Thanks to the courtesy of an officer, the reporter was escorted through what he thought the worst slums the East End, but was informed that this was nothing compared to some." Five minutes' observation off the main thoroughfare was sufficient proof that nothing was too bad for the East End. "Why," remarked my guide in aaytbing but an encouraging manner, murdejs might at the present time be perpetrated on either side of us here. How should we know And yet," said he, we are supposed to know and be there also." After trying to force several doors not of private houses, for they had no doors to force hesaid, "Why, thatmightbetheverymurdererwho nas just passed us. How arc we to know We can't arrest the man." We passed through several narrow streets, if such they could be called, from which at a glance thereappeared to be no escape for a stranger, and at every house was to be found the door wide open, affording ingress for any person who felt disposed to run the risk of entering. The clock chimed three as we passed through some dreadful "dens," on which I was about to remark, when my friend said, Every one of these-places is full of the worst of thieves.

We have to provide men to watch the ends of the thoroughfares." As if thin was not sufficient, he pointed to a dirty street of small houses opposite, and guaranteed to show me "thirty women sleeping in a shed." This is a brief illustration of Whitechaoel. One would not credit the dreadful sur roundings unless they were seen, ana once seen one can easily imagine how crime goes unconvicted. The police-force is blamed, with the responsible patties are the Board of Works. Enquiries as to the general condition of the neighbourhood of Mitre Square, the spot where the mutilated body of an unfortunate was found on Sunday morning, elicited the fact that it was very respeciable. Tbe borly of this poor woman has not yet been identified.

Edward Watkins, S81 City Police, found the body. In answer to enquiries, he said he had never seen a body so dreadfully mutilated before, and he hoped he never should again. The square is very small There is only one occupied dwelling in the square, which is tenanted by Pohce-conBtable Pearce. Tho square bas three entrances, the main ingress being from Mitre Street, while the Becoud and third are by Church Court and Mitre Passage respectively. It was in the south-cast or right-hand corner of tbe square, entering from Mitre Street, that the body was found by AVatkins, He says: "I passed the spot at half -past one, but there was nothing in the corner then.

J. came rouna again at L45, and entering the square from Mitre Street, on the right hand side, I turned sharp round to the right, and, flashing my light, i saw the body id front of me. The clothes were pushed right up to her breast, and the stomach was laid bare, with a dreadful gssh from the pit of the stomach to the breast. On examining the body I found the entrails cut and laid round the throat, which had awful gash in Ttndnre from ear to-ear. In tact, the head was nearly severed from the body.

Blood was everywhere to be seen. It wasdimcait to Uiscoru iuc iu mo iuue iua j-u-r. of nnri wllicn covereu it, I cannot sav whether JuauTiv been cu one ot ora had been cue on. xae muraerer nau. iu- i nnrlflr the lflfi eve.

and. drawinff it JmiW r.he nose, cut the nose completely from the face, at same time inBicting a dreadful gash down the right cheek to the angle of the jawbone. The nose was laid over on the cheek! A more dreadful sight I never saw it olfL tked me over. I went to the watchman, Morris, 5 So and Tonge's tea warehouse, and "i-Ste hfanSSSi He went tor other officers, and I ri ft Dr lequeia, of 34, Street and Dr. the muer heanns approa unfinished, and escaped oy must have been ways above referrea to.

Ihe mur committed Peditaoasly and fich the wa8 there appears to be little doabt that both this crime and the murder of the unfortunate in Berner Street, about the some time, is the work of the 6ame hand that perpetrated the previous tragedies, all committed within a radios of about a mile, the doctors are of opinion that the murder ia Mitre Court is a brutal imitation" of the Hanhury Street murder. The post-mortem examination was held on Sunday afternoon, when it is understood it was that there were indcaiions of an attempt having been made to remove the organ alluded to, but nothing was missing from the body. It is also asserted that there are indications that mutilation was evidently meant in the case of the woman who was foand in Berner Street, but the man baing disturbed, it is snpposed he left his work in this case also incomplete. The police believe thai the one person murdered both these women. They favour the theory that the man, being disturbed with his first victim, left her and induced the second one to go with him, being disturbed io this case by Constable Watkins just as he was completing his operations.

It is Denevea tnat tne moiaerer ctecoys tne women in selected spots by means of gold, which he takes from their pockets after he has taken their lives hence the turning out of their pockets. They do not believe it is robbery. It is further believed that he wears gloves when cutting tae poor women to pieces, and these he takes off immediately his work is done. A representative of the Press Association yesterday morning visitea tne loogvng-noose in ilower and faucet, where the murdered woman, Elizabeth Stride, passed the day before her death. Turning off the High Sfcreot, Whitechapel, on the left gomg east, one enters commercial street, and some few turnings down on the right is situated Flower and Dean Street, a narrow thoroughfare with perhaps, for the East End, a fairly presentable appearance.

One side of the street is mainly occupied by a huge pile of moaem buildings, mtenaea xor occupation Dy ine ramuies or artisans, and rented almost exclusively by a colony of middle-class Jews. The other side presents a far more dingy appearance. The brickwork of the houses is blackened with age, and doors and windows alike present the only too familiar aspects betokening the abode of the extreme poor. Most of the houses are registered lodging-houses. and it was in one of these places, at the entrance to the Btreet from the main road, that poor "Long Liz," as she was familiarly known by her associates, spenu her last night on earth.

In Flower and Dean Street numbers are unknown, or at least not in visible appearance, and a certain amount of enquiry was absolutely necessary before No. 32 could be unearthed. Although the external appearance was poor. yet within, for a house of its description, things seemed to look uncommonly comrortable, especiany considering the fact that here nightly nearly 100 of the London poor Snd their resting place. Calling at an early hour yesterday morning the reporter found the occupants all astir, and the one topic of conversation amongst both sexes seemed to be the diabolical murders perpetrated in the early hours of the Sabbath morn.

This was the experience that had likewise been gained just previously hastily traversing the street from end to ena search of "No. 32." Some knot of people, in more or less eomplete attire, where' to be seen standing at the doorways discassing the all-absorbing theme, and the inquisitive stranger was regarded if not with terror, at all events, with interest. A palpable shudder ran through the frames of the three or four elderly dames who were gathered in front of a glowing fire when the reporter entered the portals of No, 32, and opened a conversation with the enquiry if any of those present had known Long Liz in her lifetime. A chorus of voices for bv ths time several curiosity-stricken, sleepy- lookine youths had gathered ronn3 readily answered Yes and then an'old gentleman, one of whose eyes was carefully bandaged, stepped forward from out of the throng and enquired, with rough courtesy, what the unexpected visitor required.to know. Mutual explanations resulted the owner ot the damaged eye stating tnat his name was Thomas Bates, and that he was the watchman of the house, and had held that post for a good many years.

Off and on, said he, "Long naa uvea wren them for five or six vears: bnt her real name he never knew. She was a Swede by birth, and some vears aeo lost her husband, who was ship wrecked aod drowned. Ha had always known her as a clean and hardworking woman. Her usual occupation was that of a charwoman, and it was only when driven to extremities that she walked the streets. Amongst her companions and the occupants of tho house she was extremely eormlar, despke her quiet and some times reserved demeanour.

She would at times disappear for a month or so, even as much as three months, but she always turned up again, and they were ever glad to see her and welcome her back. She returned to the house on Tues day last after a somewhat prolonged absence and remained there until Saturdaynight. That evening she wentoutabout seven o'clock, when she appeared to be in the most cheery spirits and in excellent health. The fact of her not returning that night was not taken any particular notice of, for it was by no means an unusual circumstance. Their apprehensions, however, were aroused when rumours of the murder reached them, and their fears were confirmed when in the afternoon a man who knew Long Liz" well in life- called and informed them that he had identified her bodv at the mortaarv.

While narrating these facts the old fellow was visibly affected, and wound up his statement by exclaiming, Lord bless you, sir, when she could eet no work she had to do the best she-could for her living, but a neater and a cleaner woman never lived." Mrs. Ann Mill, the bedmaker at the lodging-house, stated that she bad known the deceased for some years as nong Liz," though until now she was never acquainted with her real name. Mrs. Stride cams to the house after a long absence on Tuesday nitrht. and she last saw her on Saturday evenine.

when she went out about seven. On that Darticolar dav the whitewashers were in the house, and in the course of the morning she had assisted her (Mrs. Mill) by cleaning two of the room3 where the workmen had been. The deceased at the time told her she wished she had known it before, as she would have given further help. Mrs.

Mill further mentioned that "Long Lte" had told her more than once that she was over fifty years of age. Finally, the old lady, who is verging. on eighty years of age, said, A oetter-oeartea, gooa-natu'ted, cleaner woman never lived, God bless her soul Though a poor unfortunate, she worked when she could get it." Other inmates of the establishment, who were present while this conversation was going on, corroborated the statements of the old couple, but bo faT as could be gathered no one living in the house saw the unfortunate woman after seven o'clock on Saturday night. The sad event has cast quite a gloom over the inhabitants of Flower and Dean Street, amongst whom the deceased appears to have been fairly well known. INQUEST ON ELIZABETH STEIDE.

Mr. Wynne E. Baxter (coroner for East Middlesex) opened an inquest this morning, at ths Vestry Hall. Cable Street, Commercial Bead, on the body of Elisabeth-Stride, who was found murdered in Berner Street. The enquiry was held in the same hail as was the inquest on the body-of Miriam Anqel, who was murdered by Lipski some fourteen months ago.

William West was the first witness called. He said I am a printer, and live at 40, Berner Street, which is the International Working Men's Institute and Club. There aro windows at the front of the house, and at the side there is a passage leading to the yard. At the entrance to the yard there are two large wjoden gates, which are sometimes left open all night bnt they are generally closed. No particular person looksaf ter the gates, so far as I know.

In the yard there are two or three small tenement. There is no way out of the yard except through the gates at the errirnnce. The witness explained the construction of the club premises, and said that at the, back of them there is a printing office, which consists of two rooms in 110 way connected with the club. He went on to say The compositors loft work about two o'clock on Saturday. The editor was in either the club or his own office until the discovery of the murder.

The clnb consists of about saventy-five or eighty members, no special qualification being necessary. It is a Socialist club, and persons of all nationalities are eligible. I was in the club on Saturday, and left once or twice for I returned about half -past ton or eleven, and remained till the discovery of the deceased. The Coroner What was going on when yon returned Thev were discussing, and continued doing nnh'l half-cast eleven and twelve. Ths bulk of those present then left the dub by the front door.

While the discussion was going on some of the membera were practising singing. The windows were partly open. I left the club about half-past twelve ana went home. But you said you live at 40, Berner Street? That is my business address. I live at 2, William Street, Commercial Road.

Before leaving I took some papers from the olub to the printing office, and noticed that the gates were open There is no lamp in Berner Street to light the yard. The only light is obtained from the windows of the club and the you see anything on the ground when you looked towards the gates? I cannot say there was anything imnsnal on the ground but it was very dark at the did you look towards the gates? SMSt7 frenuentiua Berner Street Z. in Commercial Street. I sometimes see men and women standing talking in Fairclough Street -Have you ever seea anyone your yard cro beard some chatting, and I at once wet About a year ago 1 heard some chatting, and 1 at once went -f- aSd woman went out of the yard, and I shut the gates. That is the only instance I know of.

Bv the jury I am the overseer at the prmting office. Morris Eagle said I live at 4, New Bead, Commercial Koad. I am a travelling jeweller. I am a me mbet 0 the club spoken of by the last witness. I was at the club on Saturday.

I left about a quarter to twelve to take a ioung woman home. I irent back at twenty minutes to one. As the front door was closed, I went through the gateway into the yard. na 5 The Coroner: Did yon notice anything, on the groand-Not as I went in. The gateway passage is about 8f t.Jm.

wide. It was rather dark, and I could not see very well. Ton form no opinion as to whether there was anything on the ground No I don't remember seeing anyone Berner Street or in the yard. If there had been a roan in the yard I should certainly have seen him. I remained at the club about twenty when one of the members, nameu came upstairs and said, "There is a dead woman yard." I went down, and having struck a match 1 saw a woman lying on tbe ground near the gate by the side ot tne club' wall.

Several other members of the dab came out and one named Isaacs went for the police. Did yon "oa the body? No; we all were afraid to touch it, as we could see the blood. Were tho clothes disturbed I could not say. I also went for the police, and returned with them. When we reached the yara there were several strangers ana memoere ui there.

They did not touch the body. The policeman sent for the doctor and the police inspector. I first saw tne body about one the body near the wall 01 the club? I could not say how near. By the jury On Saturday nights the discussion is free to everyone, and women were present on Saturday. By the Coroner There may have been one or two enunles dancing.

If there bad been a cry of murder would you have heard it? Oh, yes. -rx, rj: An ClMf. am steward "of the club. I am married, and my wife lives at the club with me. Ou Saturday I left home at half-past eleven in the morning, andlreturnedhomeatexactlyoneo'clock on Sunday morning.

I was riding in a kind of barrow drawn by a pony. I drove into the yard, as both gates were wide open. As I went in the gate my pony shied, and I looked to see the cause. I could see that there wsb something on the ground, bat could not distinguish what it was. I few it with my whip-hamdle, and tried to lift it up.

I could not do so. I jumped down at once and strack a light, ana saw it was a woman. I went into the dub and asked wnere my wife was. I saw her, and told ber and several members that there was a woman in the yard but Ieoula not say whether she was drunk or dead. I got a candle, and could then see the blood.

I did not touch the body but went at ones for the police. When I returned a roan came up with us, and when we reached the yard he took hold of the head, and saw tbe wound in the throat. The Coroner Was the constable there At the very same moment Eagle and the constable was the man's name who touched the woman I do not know. Detcotrve-irispeotoT Beid I can supply that name. Witness, continuing io one was allowed to leave the iX-f mpr.r to Found Jurisdiction in Scotland, with Arreruiw pmJi Walter.

speci; Mr. rurves will eontine nimseir io the iistorv of the subject and its actual operation, ana not discuss whether Mr. Tamel2's arrestments a-e "ood or the reverse. He will, however, add some remarks as to whether or aot tte esiatenco of such a mode of founding jurisdiction is desirable or legitimate at the present day. In view of the striking Radical Unionist deraon-stratkm at Bradford a fortnight ago, and last week, the openin sentences of an article Lord Camnerdown contributes to the new number of the Liberal Unionist, issued to-day, reans curiously belated.

His lordship's remarks- The Liberal Unionist party must prepare for a s.unnR political autumn: Gladstone ha lost no lima in betaking himself to public plat-iorms, and Liberal bniomsts have every reason for readily following his example, seem to to their having been written 311st after the -Premier had spoken at Hawarden and Wrexham. As a fact, the autumn campaign which Lord Caraperdown now suggests was resolved upon by the Liberal Unionist leaders, largely at the instance of Mr. Chamberlain, nearly three laonths ago and at this moment it is not the Liberal Unionists, but the Gladstonian Liberals, who are complaining that their platform arrangements are not equal to the needs of the situation. "The Murders," as the Whitechapel atrocities are now generally called, formed the one topic of conversation among all classes in London to-day, and the details were sought for with a persistence which was well-nigh revolting. The news-boys tiki a great trade, and one Fleet Street -vendor was so busy dispensing the papers that he could not take the money fast enough, and had to have it thrown in a heap.

The feeling against Sir Charles Warren is no less deep than it was yesterday. It is possible that the Home Secretary will constrained by public opinion to reconsider his determination not to offer a reward but it is certain that Sir Charles Warren trill be compelled to lessen the miliiurisnms which under his direction is blighting the London police. Six Charles Warren is announced on the official programme of the Church Conayess to intend speaking at Manchester, on Wednesday, upon Temperance Demoralisation of Uncivilised and Heathen Races by the Drink Traffic." I have not yet heard whether he still intends to go north on thai day, but the probabilities are that he will con-i-iiler that the uncivilised and heathen races" with whom he has to deal just now in Whitechapel suiikient for the present. It was a complaint the time of his predecessor that Sir Edmund ii nderson used to occupy his leisure by painting pictures, and probably, if Sir Charle3 Warren hold much longer the position of Chief it will be publicly hinted that he thinks mere of Palestine and temperance than of the The man Piser, better known as "Leather who was arrested in connection with the fourth 01 the Whitechapel murders, is determined ccc carry his case to law court against the two Loncon evening papers wnich, ne alleges, pointedly inferred to him a3 being the murderer. The matter is in the hands of an energetic solicitor, and damages, I learn, are fixed at 5,000.

Those who wish to see the new Wimbledon" located at Cannock Chase need not at all despair success because of the unexpected delay in settling the matter at the meeting 01 the liiile Association last week. The movement in favour of Cannock Chase continues to strengthen, and when the next meeting of the Midland Counties Committee is held at Stafford and that is likely to be long hence considerable progress is certain to be reported. As one method of helping it on a pamphlet Las been prepared by Mr. Croxden Powell, who has had the matter in hand all through, setting furth the facts of the cases respectively presented bv Cannock Chase and the Berkshire Downs. 'irhis, accompanied by a map clearly showing the Cannock site and the proposed ranges, will be published this week, and will, I learn, be sent, not only volunteer officers throughout the kingdom, buHo the lords-lieutenant and high sheriffs of counties, the mavors of boroughs, and other public officials who may fairly be presumed to be interested in the welfare, of our auxiliary forces.

The map will show that the original ranges have been abandoned in favour of those suggested by Sir Henry Half ord; and if these be adopted there will be the added advantage of having a railway station within the enclosure. What distinctly makes in favour of Cannock is that al! the other suggested sites are practically ''out of the running." That near Brighton was decisively rejected by the association at the first time of asking Staines Moor, supposed to be eligible because of proximity to Windsor, is subject to frequent floods, and has, I believe, been under water even within the past fortnight and Berkshire Downs received what ought to prove a death-blow by the vote at the association meeting last week, when, it is understood, only five voted in its favoar, with thirteen against. The disadvantages of all these sites lie literally on the surface, for they are all on the chalk, which would mean dust arid glare in fine weather, and widespread whitewash in wet. But, of course, there are strong influences at work to secure that the annual ritle meeting shall continue to be held near London, and to overcome them will need the unremitting toil of all who wish to see it made more of a business sathering and less of a picnic. Although because of the comparative coldness of the summer there were not as many complaints tills vear as last of the foul smells which are accustomed io haunt the Palace of Westminster, the drains were still known to be in an imperfect state, and, for about the fiftieth time, efforts are being made to set them in order.

The inner court of the House of Commons i3 "up," and fresh manholes are being put in, but he must be sanguine indeed who believes that the air at Westminster will be much purer in the future than it has proved in the past. Now that the scaffolding is removed from the front of the new branch of the Bank of England in Fleet Street, nest to the Law Courts, it is plain to all that a very striking building has been added io the architectural features of the metropolis. Its designer had a somewhat hard tasif in placing the edifice contiguous to Street's great work so that it. should harmonise in a sense with its neighbour and yet not be overshadowed, and in this has succeeded admirably. The old talk that London is an ugly city is likely to disappear vow that so many fine buildings are being erected in various parts of the metropolis.

Mr. August Manns has put forward an excellent programme for the thirty-third annna! series of Saturday afternoon concerts at the Crystal Palace. Tiiis will commence on Saturday week, and as among the vocalists engaged are Mile. Kordica, Mile. Antoinette Trebelli, Mdme.

Valleria, Madame Patey Bldme. Belle Cole, Mr. Edward Lloya, and f.lr. iVictjuckin, and among Barton McGuckin, and 'hp instrumentalists Joachim. Janotha.

Johannes U'olff, JNorrnan-Neruda, and Otto Hegner, all the success ought to attend the venture. When at a Quarter of an hour before m'ldmght he curtain fell to-night on the first performance the Lyceum of A Parisian Romance, it was wident that theaudience, which had much dwindled a-ithm the nrevious half-hour, was not unani mous in its favour. This was to be accounted for not only by the fact that the play was too long, and tne tilth act at once tedious ana almost snperunwis, oat that the one character, the Baron, de Chcvriat, acted by Mr. Mansfield, in which those present could feel an interest died at the end of the fourth act. The Diece is so thoroughly French in tono and its insistence neon the ma mere idea is so pronounced, that it could scarcely in any case suit an English audience but the acting of certain of its leading characters makes it well worth seeing.

Mr. Mansfield, as the ihron with a taste for all the grosser vices, was inclined at points to be ultra-pantomimic, but his (loath scene was remarkably powerful, and the American verdict upon his performance was heartily 1 clorsed. Kest to him distinctly came Miss hnenaan, who, as tne JSaroness, strucK a Natural note, which was much needed, and acted with a power which the audience was swift to recognise. Miss Miss Maud White as an exceptional specimen of the Ballerina was acceptable sud though Mx. John T.

Sullivan, as the nominal tero, proved to be no elocutionist, he suggested in parts thai he could play with strength in a suitable character. The drama, however, deserves to be seen for Mr. Mansfield's Baron and though the liole impression is far from agreeable it -nil. secure success. The main piece of the evening is preceded by Mr.

Pvichard Davey's pseudo-classical one-act comedy Lesbia," which does not improve upon acquaintance, and which might well give place to something at once more substantial and to live. 9p bottle ttMlajcf Perry Davis1 Paia-KSHer. tbeoltet, best, jwt nasi wiiriy-tnora ftsuviiy Medicine in the world. It taatonUy va cares Serero Scalds, Bums, Sprains, Braises, Tootbsche, if iaiBS the Sioe, aod Limbs, and all KearsJgic Pains. Taken internally Cares, at once Oouchs, srnaet Colds.

Craiap in KSomsea, Colic. Diarrhea, and OwjJeb SSiTTO- Pain Killer ia thegrcst Hooseiiolfl MeSiciae, and aflanla SS1 to bo obtained by othar Remedies, ihroagh. their agency, accepted the Government terms. It was worth remembering that foar years ago a liberal Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Ohilders, offered the fundholders a great deal better terms.

Instead of offering 2. 15s. percent, for every 100., he offered them 102. for the 100. But he offered no commission (laughter) and Mr.

Cbtlders's scheme failed. Mr. Goschen offered a commission, and his scheme succeeded. (Laughter.) Mr. Ohilders told him that he had letters from lady friends ladies were the main sufferers in that boldness saying that the eama bankers who in 1884 told them they must on no account accept the 102.

because it was too low, in 1888 told them that they mast accept tbe 100. or else worse things might befall them. (Laughter.) Turning to legislation accomplished by means of Grand Committees, he said that one Grand Committee passed a bill consolidating and amending materially ir.j whole of the law relating to County Courts, and a bill routing to bequests to charities, both of which had beea passed into law. The same committee considered two other bills, one of great importance to Wolverhampton, amecdingthelawrelating to the liability another relating to trustees. Those bills were now awaiting tbe consideration of the House of Commons in the autumn session.

The other Grand Committee grappled with that very complicated and difficult question relating to railway rates, and after a great deal of very exhaustive discussion they passed a measure which the leaders on both aides of the House fully approved, and a bill which he believed would be beneficial, not only to the trade of. the district, but the trade of the county, and especially to the great agricultural industry. The bill which attracted the greatest public attention, and to which the House devoted the greater portion of its time and attention was the Local Government Bill. (Cheers.) The principle which the bill embodied was 'this that the affairs of the counties should be administered by the elected representatives of the ratepayers in the same manner as ths affairs of the boroughs were adrcinistered by the elected representatives. That princiole he considered had been wisely and honestly applied in the bill.

It was confessedly a measure dealing with only one section of it, and the difficult points which would be raised with respeot to the constitution of the district authorities, their jurisdiction, and their powers, would be far better dealt with in a separate measure. The complete settlement of county government involved two totally distinct questions the central authority and the local authority. The central county authority was the connty council, which was how established, and the local authority was the council, which was to be established, and which would enable local affairs to be administered by local men. The stronger the local district eouncii was the better. They wanted an area suffidently large io pay the expenses of its establishment and staff, to attract to it the best men of the neighbourhood, and to make it worth their while to devote their time and attention to it.

They wanted to consolidate all their local authorities into one body, to levy all their local rates, control ail their local expenditure, guard all their looal rights, and promote all their local interests. In the district councils which would be established they would have tbe true complete development of the great municipal institutions which had served them so Ufastri-ously in the past. (Cheers.) sections ot the House of Commons aevoteu tne oest or tneir time ana experience to make the Local Government Bill impartial and effective and he maintained that the work had been well done. He was not satisfied with every provision in the bill he regretted a great many erave omissions but, takinv the bill as a whole, as dealing simply with the question of the constitution of the central authority, ne saia teat it laia a sure, sona foundation, on which a broad, generous, and effective system of local government would be hereafter reared. (Loud cheers.) It must not, however, be thought that tho session was an English session.

Every question discussed and determined during the session was determined simply and solely on the Hone Bole question. They had seen daring the session Liberals renoundng the Liberal creed. Liberals resisting Liberal legislation, and they had had Liberals repudiating Liberal finance. On the other hand, they had had Tories embracing and adopting Radical principles which they had hitherto detested and denounced. What did all that political topsy-turveydom mean It did not mean that Liberals had become Tories and Tories Liberals.

It did not mean their party system of government had collapsed; it did not mean they were going to exchange the conflicts of party hosts for the guerrilla warfare of sections it meant that there was one question which, like Aaron's rod, swallow3d up all the rest. (Laughter and cheers.) The Irish question was the only battle cry of their political conflicts, and until that question was satisfactorily settled all other questions would be either imperfectly solved or hopelessly arrested. The Irish question was tbe gravest problem of this century. It could not be dismissed, it could not be evaded, it could not be postponed it. must be solved.

The question was what could and ought to be done. Two years ago he asserted that there was but one alternative to the policy of conciliation and that was coercion. That statement was disputed. It was alleged that there was another course namely, similar "institutions for the three kingdoms. (Cheers.) what wm-A thft nlftrlcrsa civen not onhr on the hustinffs but in Parliament given oy the responsible leader of the Ministry the House ot Uommons given as he had toM them after having been carefully written out and submitted to and approved of by the Prime Minister and as he (Mr.

Fowler) happened to know, approved by a stHl greater personage than the Prima Minister. What did Lnrd Bandolph Churchill tell the House of Commons He said, the great sign posts of our policy aro eqtraliiy, sinnlarity, and simultaneity (laughter) equality in character, similarity in politics, and sunultaneity in power, as tar as practicable, in the development of a genuine-popular systero-of local government for the three countries which form the United Kingdom." The House of Commons had this session refused to entertain any proposal for conferring any sort of self-government on Ireland. Force begot force, force necessitated force, and they could not give- local government tnatwas not to De trastea wren. self-goveniment. (Cheers.

If it was not fit for the central it was not fit for the local, and every argument which was used against conferring any power of government of their own affairs on the Irish people, these arguments were as powerful against granting a limited amoant of local government, They had another potiey altogether. Upwards of a thousand people had been sent to prison (shame) members of Parliament and priests hid been sent to prison, and the governmenfrof Dublin Castle, the magistrates, and the police bad all dine their utmost they had had at their back the strongest Parliament of the day; there had beeri no flinching, public meetings had been suppressed, in one or two instances there had been a determination on the part of the Executive not-to pause on the ground of any apparent constitutioaai objection. (Shame.) In 1877 the prison law of this coantry was consolidated and altered, and by an Act passed that was for Ireland as well as for England it was required that all persona convicted of misdemeanour should oe divided into two classes. The Home Secretary bad ordered that first-class misdemeanants should not be placed in-association with criminal prisoners that was, they could wear their own clothes, supply their own food, and should not be obliged to perform the disgusting functions of their cells some of the best of the Irish members of Parliament had been compellad to perform. (Shame.) They were also to be allowed books and a variety of privileges.

Bat his point was this that there was in English law, as there was in every Englishman's heart, a distinction between different dasses of offences. Scoundrels, and ruffians, and brutes should not be placed side by aide with men of pure and honourable and elevated patriotism, men of unsullied lives and spotless character man like John Dillon. (Load cheers.) Mr. Gladstone made a mistake; he said these political prisoners were treated worse than King Eomba ever treated his prisoners in times gone by, and there was an outcry in the Tory papers. Oh, ao, they were not treated worse, only as bad (laughter) as bad as the worst Bourbon that ever occupied a throne in Europe treated hi3 prisoners.

(Shame.) They were told that 'the coercion which had been tried so vigorously and relentlessly was used against crime, but he should Kke to know what crime it had detected. He thought the police could be baffled in England as well as in Ireland. (Cheers, and Whitechapel. Coercion had been used to obtain the payment of unjust rents, to protect unfair and unjust evictions, and what had been the result Two years was enough to teat any experiment. Tha object of the Coercion Act was to suppress the National League bat had a single branch bean suppressed Was it not more powerful to-day than it was two years ago'i and cheers.) Were the arrears of rents being paid? Were farms from which tenants had been evicted and this was one" of the strongest tests being occupied and cultivated.

They would neyer give them a return about that (Laughter and cheers.) This wasaboutoneof the most accurate teats they could have of the effect apd Dower of the coercion Act. When he was told that the coercion Act had beea a success he said Are the farms from which tenants had been unjustly evicted are they -taken of occupied. (Cheers.) The secret of the failure of the Act was this They could not coerce the majority of any nation into supporting the views of a minority. (Cheers.) What was the state of Ireland now? Coercion or no coercion, Home Kale or no Home Rule, the landlords were bankrupt (cheers) the peasants were ruined, commerce in Ireland was paralysed, the law was defied on the one side and justice was denied on the other, and not one end of government was secured. (Cheers.) He contrasted the police force necessary for the government of Ireland with that required for England, and said that soma politidans told them that irritation would pro-dnoe tranquility, that cruelty would produce confidence, that the "violation of every constitutional privilege would engender attachment to the system under which that violation took place but the men who believed that in their hearts were yery few.

As practical men they had to face the question what was to he done. There were two courses open to them. They could go on with coercion they could persevere with it, and carry it to its bitterest end. They might try to stamp out the national eentiment of the people of Ireland. England was strong enough to make Ireland another Poland, bat that course would be impossible.

England had something stronger than her armed battalions, something more invindble than her ironclads, and that was her moral force of a great, free, religious people. (Cheers.) England would nsverallowthat Poland to be created. Their opponents knew it to be impossible, and they were uneasy Never mind Bradford, never mind Nottingham (laughter and cheers) tnair opponents aid not like it, and they were not iale. The Radical Union, as it called itself, had propounded a scheme for the local government of Irdand a scheme which bore the imprimatur-of Mr. Chamberlain (groans) a scheme with respect to which Mr.

Chamberlain said, "In this direction the ultimate solution of the Irish difficulty is to be found. He then, at some length, contrasted the salient features of this scheme with Mr. Gladstone's proposals, remarking that there were considerable differences between them. But it was simply nonsense for anyone who supported tbe Radical Union scheme to denounce the supporters of Mr. Gladstone's scheme as engaging in a conspiracy for destroying law and order and dismembering the empire.

The platform of the supporters of Mr. Gladstone was that a solution of the problem would be found in granting to the Irish people the management of such affairs as Parliament-should detarroxfl.ibicdjiiilvIrish. Tfaey would Mr. J. C.

Tildesley (Willenhall) proposed Thai this meeting of electors of the Division of Wolverhampton records its unabated confidence in the Right Hon. H. H. Fowler as their representative, and most heartily thanks him for his consistent advocacy of Liberal principles, his unswerving support of Mr. Gladstone's policy of right and justice towards Ireland, and bis untiring devotion to his Parliamentary duties." Mr.

G. S. Thome seconded the resolution, which was supported by Mr. F. Birch (Wednesfieid) and Mr.

Bobotham, and carried. A vote of thanks was accorded to the chairman for presiding, and the meeting then. terminated. THE BAPTIST UNION. During the present week the autumnal assembly of the members of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland is being held at Hudderfield.

Arrangements have been made for several meetings each day until Friday evening. The session of the Union does not commence until to-morrow, when the presidential address will ba delivered by the Rev. John Clifford. The proceedings hi coanection with the conference commenced last evening by a public reception in the Town Kail, by the Mayor (Alderman Joseph Brooke), who is himself treasurer of the Yorkshire Association of Baptist Churches. The Mayor having bid the delegates hearty welcome, proceeded to express the hope that the series of meetings wouid be successful.

Might truth and charity, hand in hand, be ever present on all occasions, and as they prosecuted their beneficent mission to the churches might it spread all over the community at large. The Rev. John Haslam, president of tho Yorkshire Association of Baptist Churches, welcomed the delegates to the county, and said he hoped the result of the meeting would be that they would be brought into closer contact together. Why should they still maintain tho absurd distinction, as he called it, between General and Particular Baptists (Applause.) The names were-misleading. The outside world did not understand them.

Tha separation in Yorkshire was a diminution of force, led to useless multiplication of organisations, was a waste of effort, and needless for practical work. He did not advocate any compromise or sinking of opinion. He did not wish to interfere with opinion ia order to secure union. It was poisibie to differ on the teaching of Divine truth, and yet work together. If they were honest there would be differences amongst them, and i they differed sincerely they would respect each other.

The speaker advocated greater attention being paid by town churches to village churches, and afterwards spoke of the work done by the Yorkshire Association. The liev. Dr. Clifford, president of the Union, heartily agreed with the previous speaker on two points the working of Particular and General Baptists in unity, and the care which ought to ba bestowed on the village churches. There was no reason why they should not work harmoniously, thoroughly, and efficiently together.

They had done so in the Metropolis, and the example could and should be followed in the country. There were abundant reasons when contemplating the state of the country for economising spiritual resources. He explained what had been done in the way of visiting coantry churches, and expressed tbe hope that this was merely the beginning of a greater ami more extended work. Obstacles made men. for thsy had to be removed or overcome, and no doubt Yorksbiremen owed much to the obstacles they had beaten.

That was the backbone of old England, and it was beneficial to them to breathe that bracing air. A church which did not grow men was losing its right to exist It was time the feeling in favour of other free churches was fortified. Fashion was still against them, and he thought the swim was stronger than ever. They were not now required to iace the fiercest ant-agonists, but they had to face the more subtle one, and the refined antagonisms were far more likely to weaken them than tha fierce and outspoken ones, At the present time they had great social forces co-operating against them, and against this they must be on their guard. Tbe Bev.

J. T. Ssannard (Congregationalist) read an address of welcome from the Huddersfield Ministers' Evacgeucal Union. The Rev, Dr. Bruce, chairman of the Congregational Union, who has been in HuddersSeld for th.irty-8.ve years, supported the address.

He explained that if the clergy did not appear there, they would by hospitality and prayer express their kindly feelings towards them. That week they were not Churchmen or Dissenters, they were all Churchmen, and would all try-to speak and act in the spirit of Christ. The Eev. Dr. Clifford and other ministers reciprocated the fraternal greetings to which expression had been given.

A meeting in connection with the Baptist Total Abstinence Society was also held in 5neen Street Assembly Room; Mr. Joseph, Woodhead, M.P., presiding. Addresses were given in. favour of temperance by well-known ministers of the denomination. To-day a series of missionary meetings will be held, when valedictory addresses will be given.

DEATH OF MR. W. G. PALGRAYE. A Beater's telegram from Montevideo announces the death of Mr.

W. GSfford Palgrave, British Minister aft Uruguay. "Men of the Time says William Grfford Palgrave, son of tha late Sir Francis Palgrave, was born at Westminster, January 24, 1826, and received his education, at the Charterhouse. He was captain and gold medallist of his year, and obtained a scholarship at Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated B-A. in 1846, taking a first-elass in classics and a second-class in mathematics.

The following year he was appointed a second lieutenant in thes 8th Bombay Native Infantry. After a short period of service he became connected with the Order of the Jesuits, and in due course he was admitted to the priesthood. Daring his engagement with tha Freneh and Italian branches of the Society of Jesns he resided in Southern. India till 1853, at Home till the autumn of 1855, and subsequently in Syria and Palestine, where he was actively errrolojed in the interests of the order till 1860, by which time ho had asquired a complete mastery of the Arabic language, both literary and vernacular. Mr.

Palgrave was summoned to Francein the summer of 1860 by Napoleon. IIL to give an account of the Syrian rKsturbartcea and massacres and he returned to Syria in 1861, charged with, the task of exploring Central and Eastern Arabia in the service of the Emperor. This he accomplished in fee years 1862 and 1863, traversing the entire Wahabe kingdom, and subsequently the provinces adjacent to the Persaar; Gulf and Indian Ocean, During bis prolonged ane-varied residence and journeys in Syria, Mesopotamia, Arabia, Egypt, and other regions of the Ottoman East, he paired such a familiarity with Arabic and the Arabs that he was looked on by the latter as one of their own leaders and Sheyhks and on several occasions acted as." 'Imam' and 'Khutub' in their mosques. Mr. Palgrave, having obtained the pemristion of the French Emperor, published a work of great- merit, entitled Narrative of 3 Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia 2 London, IS65, which has been translated into.Freneh by M.

E. Jonveaax. In the preface theauthor thus describes the object of his iournev 'The hone of doing something towards the permanent social good of il 1 3 1 il. uuvttn icjjitfiio Mio uesire OL uruimg tae UbagniUH. waters of Eastern life into contact with the stream of European progress perhaps a natural ctrriosity to know the yet unknown, and the restlessness of enter prise not rare in tnglisnmen these were the principal motives.

The anther may add that at the time of tha undertaking he was in connection with the Order of tha Jesuits, an Order well known in the annals of philan thropic oaring he has also gratafuUv to acknowleage that the necessary funds were furnished by the liberality of the present Emperor of the The resaroi necessarily maintained by the author respecting the precise object of his wanderings tended to increase the interest of the public in this remaricable publication. Having at last returned to England, Mr. Paterave was, after some farther stay in France arid Germany, sent out by tha English Government ou special service for the release of Consul Cameron and the other prisoners ia Abyssinia, in July, 1865; and remained in Egypt, by' order, till 1866, when he returned io England. Ee was appointees Consul at Soukheum-Kaie July 23, 1866, at Trebizonde May 20, 1867, at the Island of St. Thomas February 19, 1873, and at Manila (Philippine Islands) April 3, 1876; and' Consul-General in the Principality of Bulgaria September 23, 1878.

In January, 1880, he was-appointed Consul-Geaeral in Siarn, to reside at Bangkok. His mora recent works are Essays on Eastern 1872 Hermann Agha an Eastern a novel ia 2 1872, and 'Dutch anaccount of a fortnight's stay there, 1876. Mr. Palgrave is a Fellow of tier Soyal Geographical and the Rovs.1 Asiatic. SWatHwL anrl an honorary member of several foreign scientific instita-.

VTi j. c. ine narvest festival was held last Sunday in this church, the services being largely attended, and the edifice being decorated with ths laste usually displayed on these occasions. The altar was draped white, ornamented with scarlet geraniums and barberries, and bore an inscription in letters of gold and red, Thou blessest the earth." Clusters of grapes, shaded by vine leaves, formed the sole decoration of the pulpit; whilst she font was surmounted by a large fioraf cross, rising out of a mass of ferns and flowers. In tbe sids windows were placed effective representations of fields of standing corn, cnt wKofr nr.A 1 1 m-j.

Aire nuerai oneriug ot fruic and fiowers made by various members of the con- o-, ujr a iia.ge nana ot iaQlea amongss whom were Mrs. Stiff, Mrs. Wilcox, Mrs. Ledsam, and the Misses Arllard. RlnTbsim TIvm.

Tr.i..-r a Wheeler. The offertories 41. in mnrmwiH hfi nrin- oipaily applied to a fund for aiding those clergy who are in straitened circumstances throuzb. tha failure of their tithes. Moajurrois at Walsall.

On Friday night Mr. G. E. Oldbury, of Upper Bath Street, Walsall, late of Victoria Road, Aston, on turning over a piece of cedar which he brought from Brisbane, Queensland, last spring, andwhkh has for some time been lying in his cellar, noticed a few mosquitoes, and on looking closer discovered twenty os thirry- Some of these he captured and imprisoned in a phial with a gauze top, and they have since appeared pretty lively and ready for blood-letting if only given tha opportunity. Mr.

Oldbury's supposition is that the ova was deposited in the open grain of the cedar in the colony, and that a combination of favourable circumstances here in England bas led to the development of the insect. Sc-ddki Death opa Town Oushe. Mr. Bartholomew Gidley, town clerk at Exeter, died suddenly yesterday He was seized with paralysig-wnile atterrdiae.tbe Mawfe consciousness. Mr.

L. Laurence Oliphant coatirmes to improve. For some time past ha has beea ca-efnU arranging matters with a view to his returning 'TZ as ms physicians will admit, to his resident iTsvrift assuming there the work to which h9 ba. devoW Sir Charles Rdssell, at Lowttw o-Charles Russell last night delivered ptStflu to the Lowestoft and District UbfSSifH8 said that no doubt when the great issue ofHoi came before the country it was unprered things had nowmateriaUychangedrandtt. regarded as a fearful bogey.

It was 88 no ner attempt to put the responsibility for thac the Irish people, through po iZ Parliament to a legislativVernblvlli 9" demned the action of Mr. ChamhL? and. He con-Liberal Umonists aB taedyjg. Ani so-called Liberal nrineiDles, at the mooeasof true have the same effect as a reward offered on the authority of the Government, and accordingly it wa3 suggested at the committee that as the Home Secretary declined to do anything tha Queen herself should be asked to authorise tha issue of a reward. Mr.

Lusk drew up a petition, which on Saturday night of coarse before the knowledge of the new atrocities was sent to her Majesty. The petition concluded with the following prayer That your Majesty will graciously accede to lis prayer of your petitioner, preferred originally through the Secretary of State for the Home Department, anddireet that a Government reward, sufficient in amount to meet the peculiar exigencies of the case, may immediately be offered your petitioner, and those loyal subjects of your Majesty whom he represents, being convinced thai vrithout such reward the murderer or murderers of the above four victims will not only remain undetected, but will sooner or later commit other crimes of a like nature. And your petitioner will ever pray, MEETING IN WHITECHAPEL. A meeting of the "Whitechapel District Board of Works was hdd last evening Mr. Bdbert Gladding presiding.

Mr. Catmtrr said he thoDSht that the Board as the local authority should exprers their horror and abhorrence of the crimes which had been perpetrated in the district. The result of these tragedies had bten loss of trade to the district, and the stoppage of certain trades by reason of the women being afraid to pass through the streets without any escort. The inefficiency of the police was shown by the fact that but an hoar or two later than the tragedies in Berners Street and Mitre Square the post office in the vicinity had been broken into and much property stolen. The Eev.

Daniel Greatorex said the emigrants' houses of call were feeling the panic to such an extent that emi-: grants refused to locate themselves in Whitechapel, even temporarily. He ascribed the inefficiency of the police to the frequent changes of the police from one district to another, whereby the men were kept ignorant of their heats. Mr. Telfer said he hoped that these recent crimes might result in a reversion to the old system, by which constables weEe acquainted with every corner of their beats. Mr.

G. T. Brown suggested that the Government should be communicated with, rather than the Home Secretary or the Chief Commissioner of Police, who were themselves really on their trial. Mr. said the change in the condition of Whitechapel in recent years would suggest an entire revision of the police arrangements.

Whitechapel was now a place for the residuum of the whole country and' the Continent, but it was not so a century ago. After Eurther discussion the following resolution was carried, on the motion of Mr. Catmur, seconded by Mr. Bonham "Thai this Board regards with horror and alarm the several atrocious murders recently perpetrated within the district of Whitechapel and its vicinity, and calls upon Sir Charles Warren so to locate and strengthen tbe police force iu the neighbourhood as to guard against any repetition of such atrocities; and that the Home Secretary be addressed. in the same terms." LATEST PARTICULARS.

A telegram received after midnight says up io a late hour praotically nothing fresh had come to the knowledge of the police in reference to the recent- murders. A representative of the press, in an interview with Superintendent Foster, of the City police, was assured that the rumour that a portion of the body of the woman found in Mitre Square was missing was totally unfounded. The inquest upon the body, which is still unidentified, has been fixed for Thursday next, at eleven o'clock. It is significant of the state of public feeling in the metropolis that constant reports are being received of the movements of what are supposed to be suspicious characters. Considerable excitement was caused in the neighbourhood of Fleet Street last evening by the extraordinary statements and Behaviour of a man, who was eventually taken into custody, but it is understood simply because he was creating a disturbance, and not from any belief that he had any complicity in or knowledge of the crime.

People of a similar character have been detained in other parts of the metropolitan district. LIST OF THE EAST END MURDERS. Six women have now been murdered in the East End under mysterious circumstances, five of them within a period of eight weeks. The following are the dates of the crimes and names of the victims so far as known Last Christmas week. An unknown woman nound murdered near Osborne and Weatworth Streets, White chapel.

2. August 7. Martha Turner found stabbed in thirty-nine places on a landing in model dwellings, known as Georee Yard BuildinES, Commercial Street, Spitalfields. 3. August 31.

Mrs. Nicholls, murdered and mutilated in "RnrfVfl Row. WhitechaoeL September 7. Mrs. Chapman, mordered and mntilated in Hanbtrrv Street.

Whitechapel. 5. September 30. Elizabeth Stride, found with her throat cut in Berner Street, Whitechapel. 6.

September 30. Woman unknown murdered and mutilated in Mitre Square, Aldgate. THE WIFE MURDER IN WESTMINSTER. The man John Brown, a labourer, employed in St. James's Park, who on Saturday surrendered himself to the police, and said he had murdered his wife at 11, Eegent Gardens, Begency Street, was charged before the magistrate, at Westminster Police Court, yesterday, with the crime.

At the police-station, on Saturday, a large spring bladed knife, with a single blade, stained with blood, was found on him. He was detained, and tha inspector went to his address, and on the ground floor saw his wife lying in a pool of blood, with her throat enfr in two places. She was qaite dead. Two little boys in their shirts, stepsons of the prisoner, were standing at the door crying. Charles Budding, who lived next door to prisoner, was among the witnesses called yesterday.

He said prisoner and his wife frequently quarrelled. On Saturday night he beard a scuffle and a woman cry, Oh, don't." This was followed by a dull thud on the floor; and then all was quiet. Witness went to the door, and saw the prisoner leave very hurriedly. He had observed that the prisoner had been strange in his manner of late. Eobert Young, nine years of age, a Btepson of the prisoner, spoke to the latter's strange conduct, and said he was jealous of his mother.

He sharpened the knife produced every day before the deceased. When he came home on Saturday he told witness that he was going to try to kill her. Prisoner, who during tha proceedings had maintained a very indifferent demeanour, was remanded. THE GATESHEAD MURDER. The man Waddell, who is suspected of being the Btrtley murderer, was yesterday arrested near the village of Yetholm, about miles from Kelso, and is at present in custody there, awaiting instructions from Inspector Harrison, of the Gateshead police.

Considerable excitement has prevailed all along the borders of Northumberland and Roxburghshire, owing to the frequent rumours current that Waddell was in the neighbourhood. The police were on the alert, but though the man wanted was reported as having been seen first at one place and then at another, he managed to keep out of their hands. A man answering the description of Waddell was supplied with food at various places, but sometimes he decamped before his wants could be supplied. He professed also to be in quest of harvesting or labouring wotk, but in a like manner, he generally disappeared when it was offered to him. A Kelso correspondent telegraphs that the arrest was made by Mr.

William Stenhouse, vool-dealer, Yetholm, who encountered ths man on a lonely road leading out of Yetholm on to the hills, by way of Halterburn. On being questioned he admitted that his name was Waddell, that he came from Birtley, and stated that the woman Savage was his wife. He professed to be looking for harvesting, but Mr. Stenhouse remarked that he would not get what he wanted amongst hills, and offered him work if he would return. Quite willingly, apparently, he retraced his footsteps, and Mr.

Stenhouse conveyed him directly and without resistance to the police station, where, in the absence of the policeman, who was out on his beat, he was locked up. Waddell confessed to having had his clothes changed at Berwick, as detailed in the police information. Superintendent Harrison, "of the Gateshead county police, proceeded to Yetholm yesterday afternoon to take charge of the prisoner. It is stated that Waddell called at a second-hand clothes shop at Berwick, and made a bargain with tbe woman in charge for exchanging his clothes for an old suit and 5s. The police have obtained the original suit, and there are suspicious stains on the waistcoat.

Mr. Lambert, solicitor, Gateshead, has received a telegram from the Treasury, instructing him to conduct the prosecution. REVISION COURTS. On Saturday afternoon and evening, Mr. H.

T. Baddam, revising Darascer, jieiu courts here in the Town HalL to revise the county and borough voters' lists. So far as the county registration was concerrieu, iv i vjuicu arismz and the business was purely formal makmg the needful corrections, Mr. Alderman Prowse (JNortb Staffordshire Liberal agent), ot Longton, ana iur, y. CorkJ oureraate, represseutca tuo uiutwo Knight, the Conservatives and Mr.

John Massey, the hnmnffh lists came subsequently; itiessra. at-u. appearing for tbe Liberals Mr. J. Massey for the Liberal UniOQISty ITil.

-L. JLL. JJicUO iw uuu Two Conservative claims were made and allowed on the Parliamentary list On the Parliamentary and municipal list five claims were made, the Liberals sustaining two and 1 nrA 3rutnn.2 losing one auu tuc gauicu yut uu iw. vuv. Twelve lodger claims were made, six of each political colour.

tu wit.li r.Tiflir six claimants and the Liberals with five, one being disallowed. To be placed On the list of freemen, five claims were made, three of which were allowed. Mr. W. E.

Cartwright (deputy town clerk) and Mr. J. Turner (assistant overseer) were present. Warwick. Mr.

Edward Lumley, the revising hamster, held a court, at the Shirahall, on Saturday last, for the revision of the list of voters and county electors for the polling districts of Warwick, Barford, and Rowington. Mr. Mawer appeared for the Liberals and Mr. Lloyd Tamberlain for the Conservatives. There were very few objections raised.

The overseer had inserted the names of six attendants at the county asylum as serviee voters, but the barrister held that this was insufficient, and that they must, like lodgers, make the claims avery year themselves. As they were not present to support their votes, their names were struck off. Mr. Kelynge Greenway's name, as the owner of a rent-charge, was expunged from the list, he being an inmate of the county, gaol for a fraud in connection with thebankfaCnre. Medical Hedafcity.

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