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EEYNOLDS'S NEWSPAPER, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER, 11, 1888. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. THE "WHITECHAPEL WOMEN-MURDERS BEN. TCT A SPECIAL C0STR1BTJT0B, 4- hpve found a ftr rc rift tliiit will lurolT oontont her; divtet ulodso of a lore so endearing, jive millions bullets I've sent her. cue asked me for Freedom and Rijrht, But ill sbe her wants understood TiU cartridges mornimr and niglit Are a oso that win do her more good.

Thus Erin, my love do I show Thus quiet thee, mate of my bod Atl as prison ana hemp are too slow. Do thy business with bullets instead, joiiii Bull to Hbih," bi Thomas Moobe. A GLANCE BOUND, not the east wind, nor the fact that Parlia-already sat for six mouths, that mads tha irA I linsr ou Tuesday so melancholy an affair. It 'eNii na.t knowledge and experience of how little 1 1. done, with great effort and moat weary-' tiou for the good of the people in thoir daily iprv antique ceremonies with which the y-'- iu, these sombre forebodings.

The LA pttittV inSL100 notoaie3-. Sir P.oper Lethhridge, for Phce 01711 serTant HouseT of 0oraraona he is altogether out ot place. He takes no interest in questtons affecting the metropolis, or the dem" fZZ Goldsworthy, again, the fr Hammersmith, asks no questions, makes no speeches upon metropolitan affau-s. Than as Mr msmber for North Camberwell, hl3 appearances in the House are rare, tho 3 n-0 atteBd to oouoera himself about fhni? -2sts i113 mtropolitan constituents. Lord Beresford never dreams of talking upon any ecept naval affail'9- Volunteer Colonel iiugnes, the member for Woolwich, makes rare ap- wan.Ce4! T0t9 for hi9 Par'y- Similarly Mr.

Porrest-Eulton, the member for West Ham, is scarcely ever seen in his place, except on 5 en a S1'84 Prty division is to be taKon. 1 ravel north, south, est, and west, you find te same thing. Mr. Gent-Davis is a woodon figure of no account Mr. Baumaun is a pragmatical little self-afivertning: creature, whose only interest in London was a recent defence in the House of Commons ut, corruPt Corporation.

Sir John Colomb, aitnough representing the East London Division of take? Principally an interest in the marine anuiery, which he formerly held a com-miion, and, being an Irish landlord, also in Aiian questions. Mr. Burdett-Coutts is an absentee and a mute. Mr. Webster has coneerned hira-selt mainly with the Metropolitan Board of Works, wmcn been ticked out of an ignominious exist-i "neof those extraordinary occurrences in xue nistery of politics in this country that the capital sbould return men generally unknown, and feeling no interest whatever in the special question of the concern, 0t London.

But so it will be until the London from his midst" irs blmsalf to remove this reproach CRIME AND EDUCATION, mere was a very meagre attendance on Eriday night tho subject under disousiion the education estimates was one of the most important which can come under tho attention of members. The proceedings opened by a question put by Mr. Conybeare respecting the latest atrocity in Whitechapel. He asted the Home Secretary whether he would not, in view of the incompetence of his friend Warren whom lie was obliged to snub on a previous evening for breaking the rules of his department by writing about police aJtairs without permission dismiss this individual, and replace him by some person adequate to the task of detecting crime. The Home Secretary would not reply, and the Speaker rushed to the rescue of Warren by requiring notice of Mr.

Conybeare'a question to be given, so that lie might subedit it. The remainder of the evening was spent in discussing the Education Estimates. The most notable feature in the annual statement of Sir W. Hart-Dyke, the Minister responsible for this department, was the recognition, in some degree, of the advanced educational programme, which the nation is now demanding. He spoke of tho possibility of free education of the desirability of evening schools and continuation schools of the importance of poor children being fad by voluntary agencies of the necessity of making the school life brighter and more attractive to the children.

In tho discussion which followed, several useful suggestions were thrown out. Much tros3 was laid upouihesupreme importance of teachingcookery in the Board schools, and there was much grumbling at the failure of the Government to carry their Teohuical Education Bill, which they are dangling before tha eyes of the country, simply to deceive people. Mr. Hughes suggested very aptly that ignorant adults should be compelled to attend evening elementary schools. The importance of teaching the principles of agriculture in the country schools was also impressed upon the Government, It seems almost useless to suggest anything, so far as education is concerned, to the present Government.

Thoy promise to attend to what is suggested, but they never, by any chance, do so. Most of tho Ministers were absent during the evening, having gone to dine at tho public expense, and to talk Toryism at tho Guildhall. M. P. 6.

Sept. 30. A woman, unknown, throat cut and body mutilated, in Mitre-square, Aldgate, 7. Nov. 9.

Mary Jane Kelly, twenty-four, her throat cut and body fearfully mutilated, in Miller's-court, Dorset-street. LOCALITY OE 1. April 3. Emma Elizabeth Smith, forty-five, had a stake thrust through her body, near Oshorn-street, Whitechapel. 2.

Aug. 7. Martha Tabram, thirty-five, stabbed in thirty-nine places, at George-yard-buildings, Commercial-street, Spitalfields. ANOTHER FEARFUL CRIME. A WOMAN CUT -TO PIECES AND DISEMBOWELLED.

TERROR IN LONDON. Another horrible addition was made on Friday to the series of crimes that has created a panic in London for many weeks past, and sent a thrill of horror through the country. As in the previous cases, the scene of the latest tragedy lies in the district of Whitechapel, within almost a stone's throw of Hanbury-street, where the unfortunate woman Nicholls was so brutally put to death. The Yictim was another of tho unfortunate class, who occupied a miserably-furnished room in a court oil' Dorset-street, a narrow thoroughfare running out of Commercial-street, not far removed from the police-station. It ia supposed that she met the man who was to be her murderer at a late hour on Thuraday night, and that he accompanied her home.

There ia reason to believe that the murderer was in the house the whole of the night, but that he did not carry out his terrible purpose until a period later than halt-past eight o'clock next morning. At that time the deceased was seen walking along Dorset-street, and it is supposed that she had left the house for the purpose of purchasing provisions for breakfast. She is then said to have appeared cheerful, and looking bright and well. Two hours from this time the unfortunate woman waa found lying in the passage of the house. The woman's throat hud been cut right ncross with a knife that had nearly soverod the head from the body.

The abdomen had been ripped partially open, and both of the breasts had been cut from the body. The thick flesh was literally stripped from the thighs of the victim, and placed on the table in the room. The Ueshy parts of the cheeka were also hacked away, and the corpse presented a spectacle more hideous than anything which has been seen even by the oldest and most experienced of the police officers who are engaged in the case. The surgeon arrived at the scene of the murder at five minutes to two o'clock, accompanied by Mr. Dukes, another doctor, and they at once proceeded to view the body.

The examination revealed a state of things never equalled in the annals of crime. The head waa not lying apart from the body, but was hanging by a mere thread. Both ears and the nose were cut oft'. All the iicah was stripped completely off the thighs, and the woman was not only disembowelled, but the womb and other parts were taken away, similar to the previous murders in this locality. In addition to these mutilations tho forehead and the cheeks were skisned, and one hand pushed into tho stomach.

This murder exceeds in atrocity any of the previous tragedies credited to "Jack the Ripper." The body Was literally backed to pieces, and lumps of flesh wero out out of the limbs and strewn about the room. The head was all but sevored from the body and the stomach ripped open, so sinilar are tho mutilations to those in the other murders. tbj victim's lodoinos. The victim of this monstrous outrage belongod to tho very lowest clan. She occupied a cheerless and dismal-looking room ou the ground-floor of No.

2ti, Dorset-street. The entranos to ker room is from the passage between the house No. 2ti and No. 28 leading into Hiller's-eourt. The room, which was at the back of the home, was very scantily furnished.

It contained little besides a bed, a rickety table, and a couple of chain. Dorset-stroet, the scene of the murder, is almost opposite St. Stephen's Church, Spitalfields. It is a narrow thoroughfare, with barely sufficient room for two vehicles to pass one another. There are several lodging-houses in the street, and there is hardly a house that does not give shelter to lodgers, many of whom come at night and disappear in the morning.

The numerous courts leading out of tho street are also full of lodging-housen, where a night's rest may be obtained for a few pence. The people who find Bhelter in these lodging houses are generally of the lowest class, and it is a somewhat curious fact that the majority of them are women. The entrance to Dorset-court is through an archway running under a private house two storeys high, and the houses in the court are of the same height. Within a few yards of the eutranoe to the court is a poster headed in largo, bold type, "A Hundred Pounds Reward Whitechapel Murder" a reminiscence of the previous atrocities. BLOODHOUNDH SENT FOB.

Inspector Beck took charge of the case, and, having sent out all the constables that could be spared to make inquiries, he repaired to Dorset-street, where he established a kind of blockade at Miller' s-court, refusing either egress or ingress even to the inhabitants. The refusal of the police to allow anyone to enter or to leave Miller's-court was conneotedwith an intention to put the bloodhounds on the track of the murderer, and it was feared that tho scent would be seriously interfered with, if not completely destroyed, if indiscriminate traffic wero allowed. The bloodhounds wero asked for immediately the discovery was made and if they had been sent on at once they would have stood a good chance of running down the author of tho crime but up to half-past four they had not arrived, although expected every moment, and it is feared that it is now too late for them to do much good. ABKIVAL OT SIR CHABiBB WABREN. Sir Charles Warren was kept fully informed of the movements of the police not only of those ou duty in the street, but of those who had been sout out to scour the neighbourhood and as soon as he had assured himself of the completeness of the arrangements for the regulation of the traffic during the progress of the Lord Mayor's Show, he drove up to Dorset-street, and arrived there in a hansom shortly before two o'clock.

He immediately entered Millor's-court and thoroughly examined the room where the murder was committed. Before Sir Charles's arrival the remains had been photographed and examined by a doctor. IDENTIFICATION Off THE VICTIM. The victim has been identified as Mary Jane Kelly, alius Ginger." She was a tall, fair, thin woman, and was between thirty-five and forty years of age. There is no doubt that tho murder was committed only a few hours before the discovery of tho body by M'Carthy.

IS IT "JACE TUB RIPPIB The police have no doubt that the same man had committed all the recent crimes. This suspicion is sharpened by the fast that the scene of his last terrible outrage is only a few minutes' walk from Hanbury-atreet and Osbom-street, and it would seem that the fiend takes a malicious delight in keeping the crimes within a certain radius, in order to give them additional horror. A CLUE TO TUB KUKDEOTB. A Mrs. Pannier, a young weman who sella roasted chestnuts at the corner of Widegate-street, a narrow thoroughfare about two minutes' walk from the scene of the murder, haa told a story which appears to afford a direct clue to the murderer.

She says that about twelve o'clock in the morning a man dressed like a gentleman oaine to her and said, I auppose you have heard about the murder in Dorset-street She replied that she had, and the man grinnod and said, "I know more about it than you." He thoa stared into her face aud went away down Sandys-row, another narrow thoroughfare, which cuts across Widegate-street. When he had got some way off, however, he looked back, as if to see whether she was watching him. He then vanished. Mrs. Pannier ay the man had a black moustache, waa about 5ft.

6iu. high, and wore a black silk hat, a black coat, and speckled trousers. He carried a black shiny bag, about a foot in depth and a foot and a half in length. Mrs. Pannier states further that the same man accosted throe young unfortunates in Dorset-street last night, when they chaffed him and asked him what he had in the bag, and he replied, Something that the ladies don't like." Mra.

Pannier tells her story with every appearance of truthfulness. LATEST SPECIAL REPORT. Further details show that in brutality and studied fieudiehness thia Dorset-street crime far exceeds any of the previous ones that have given such a ghastly reputation to Whitechapel. The discovery was made by a man named Henry Bower, who had been sent by the landlord to collect the day's rent. He knocked at the door, and getting no answer, looked through the window.

What he saw made him call M'Carthy, tho landlord, and they both ran at full speed for the police, who arrived in large numbers. AN AVflUL SIGHT. A terrible sight presented itself to the police officers. The body of the woman, perfectly naked, was Btretched out on the little bedatead, the clothing of which was aaturated with her blood. The unfortunate woman had been cut and mangled by.

the assassin's knife in a manner whioh was beyond all description. Not alone was the fiend not content with taking the life of his victim by severing the head from the body, but he had exercised an infernal in rushfi Id Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH said that might 'be-f but her Majesty's Government had not the information before them which would justify them in referring tha matter to the law officers of the Crown for consideration. Mr. BRADLAUGH asked if the right hon. gentleman was aware that one of the promoters had written to the newspapers to say that one of the objects of the combination wa3 to obtain a more remunerative price for salt.

No answer was given. THE SUGAR BOUNTIES CONVENTION Mr. W. H. SMITH, in reply to Mr.

Picton, said it would not be necessary for the Government to propose any vote for the expenses of the Sugar Bounties Commission. Practically there were no expenses but such as they were they would be borne out of the vote for special commissions, and the ordinary vote for the Foreign-office. Mr. CONYBEARE Do you intend to stand by your pledge to give the House an opportunity of discussing the matter Mr. SMITH The Government aro in the habit ol standing by their pledges.

(Ministerial cheers.) Mr. CONSBEARE Do you intend to giveuaanj opportunity of discussing the matter this session? Mr. SMITH: No, sir. Mr. CONYBEARE: When will the-convention ba ratified Mr.

SMITH Not during this session. SIR CHARLES WARREN'S ARTICLE IN "MURRAY'S MAGAZINE." The Home Secretary, in answer to Mr. Atherley Jones, said his attention had been called to an article in Murray's Magazine written by Sir Charles Warren, the Chief Commissioner of Police. He was assured by Sir Charles that he spoke without reference to party, and that certain passages complained of applied to successive Governments and not to anyone in particular. A rule as to precluding civil servants from discussing publicly matters connected with their departments was not known to Sir Charles Warren, and he had drawn his attention to it.

SUPPLY. Sir JOHN GORST having stated the purport of telegrams received from India respecting-the reported distress, the House went into committee of supply, the discussion on the vote for the Stationery-office being renewed. WOODS AND FORESTS-OFFICE. On a vote of 8,314 for the office of Woods and Forests, Mr. LABOUCHERE severely criticized the expenditure of that office, and asked for a committee of inquiry, failing which ho would move to reduce the vote by .500.

Mr. HANBURY hoped a committee of inquiry would be granted. Tho way the Crown landB were ad' ministered was something passing comprehension, ana he believed the estimates were thoroughly bad from beginning to end. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BRADLAUGH and Mr.

T. ELLIS also sup-ported the appeal for a committee of inquiry. Sir W. HARCOURT and Mr. JACKSON continued the discussion.

Mr. JACKSON said that so long as properties like Windsor Park and the New Forest were administered for tho benefit of the public it should not be expected that any large revenue would be derived from them. He was quite ready, upon behalf of the Government, to assent to the proposed committee of inquiry. Mr. CH1LDERS advocated the holding of an iuquiry.

The amendment was thereupon withdrawn. On the vote of 20,000 for the Department of Works and Public Buildings, Mr. LABOUCHERE objected to a salary of 250 for an inspection of ancient monuments." Mr. PLUNKETT said that the salary did little more than cover the inspector's travelling expenses. Mr.

CREMEE and Mr. ROWLANDS pointed out that inspectors of furniture, and coal, and fireworks consumed 1,000 a-year of public money, when the duties might be performed for a quarter of the sum. Mr. LABOUCHERE called attention to the fact that in Hyde-park tho roadways were reserved for the carriages of the aristocracy, and the people were deprived of their rights of driving through it in cabs and other vehicles. He hoped that the rules and regulations of the park paid for by the people would be altered so that tho privileged classes, otherwise the rich, should not enjoy all the advantages.

There was no capital in Europe or America, Paris, New York, Vienna, Florence, or Rome, where such class rules were maintained to tho detriment of the community. He al60 wished to call attention to the fact that Constitution-hill was not open to private carriages except those of Privy Councillors, and other useless and more or less decorated personages. Dr. TANMER moved the reduction of the vote by 633, as a protest against keeping the people from driving in Hyde-park, and in order to give tha metropoltan members an opportunity to show whether they were the friends or the enemies of the London people. Mr.

BRADLAUGH would not vote for the amendment, because he thought that the traffic would interfere with the playing of the children of the poor in tha park. Sir J. LUBBOCK supported the amendment. Mr. CONYBEARE suggested that all the barriers in London which were laid down merely to swell the ground rents of the London landlords should be destroyed.

Mr. PLUNKETT said Hyde-park wa3 the only public park whero there was a necessity for limiting the traffic. There was only one part of the par? restricted, and it was where the drive was, and ir would be impossible to maintain it if public traffij were permitted. The committee divided Against the amendment 163 For 44 Majority against 119 The vote was then agreed to, and the house adjourned. HOUSE OF COSIMOKB PEIDAY.

The Spef Lur Uu' ifc 3.5, THE JljSUEll "i i CONYBEARE asked whether the Sciutary had seen tho evening papers of to-day that another terrible murder had been committed in East London, and whether he did not think it was time to replace Sir Charles Warren by some officer who would investigate these crimes and The SPEAKER The hon. gentleman should give notice of this question. Mr. CONYBEARE I gave notice of it. The SPEAKER You must give notice at the table, and not viva voce.

Mr. CONYBEARE I will do so. Mr. CUNNINGHAME GRAB AM asked the First Lord of the Treasury whether it was true that Sir Charles Warren was in St. Petersburg! Mr.

W. H. SMITH: No, sir. NEW WRIT. On the motion of Mr.

ARNOLD MORLEY a writ was issued for the election of a mem-oer for the borough of Dewsbury, in the room of Sir ohn Simon, resigned. SUPPLY. EDUCATION ESTIMATES. Tha House then went into committee of supply on tha Civil Service estimates. On the vote of 1,286,077 to complete the sum to defray the cost of public education in England and Wales, Sir W.

HART-DYKE said, as was the custom, ha would give some account of the past year's work. There had been an idea in certain quarters that it wns the intention of the Government to make an onslaught all along the line upon the present system of elementary education. If it wa3 so, he was absolutely ignorant of any such intention. Looking at the whole question, and the present situation in regard to it, any attempt at this instant by her Majesty's Government to overthrow the settlement of 1870 would be a most disastrous result. (Opposition cheers.) Having spoken plainly on that subject, he proceeded to state that the total sum required for this year was 3,507,077.

The vote for last year was 3,438,807. The additional sum demanded was accounted for by an increase in the number of scholars, and an increase in the estimated grant per head from 17s. 5d. to 17s. 6id.

As to the actual expenditure in 1S87, he mentioned that the sum voted was 3,458,807, aud the Bum actually expended was 3,478,000, showing a saving of 7 on the sum voted. The average attendance, which was 3,433,000 in tha previous year, had risen in 1887 to 3,527,000. On tha whole, the figures showed a gratifying and steady increase. So far as the large sum of money which it was his duty to ask the committee to vote was concerned, he sincerely believed it would be profitably laid out for the education of the people. He ventured to think there was no portion of the huge trust confided to the care of Parliament which was more important, and more sacred than the training of children.

Sir JOHN LUBBOCK, speaking aa one of the minority on the Education Commission, said those who hod read the report would see what a unanimity of opinion there was among the Commissioners. The three R's were taught practically in every Bchool. Cut of the 19,000 schools inspected by Government only 12,000 taught geography, 400 taught history, and only thirty-nine taught any elementary science. Sir R. TEMPLE said that the time might come when they might do without compulsion, but that time bad not come yet in London.

Mr. PICTON continued the discussion. Mr, PICTON said that the compulsory by-laws of our school system were treated in a partisan and unintelligent Bpirit by our benches of magistrates. He compared our education processes to those of Germany and Switzerland, much to the advantage of tho latter countries and he expressed the belief that unless we abolished payments by results we should never have any rational or humanizing teaching in schools Mr. SIDNEY BUXTON denied that the School Boards were pressing unfairly upon voluntary schools.

He was sure the system of payment should be modified. Sir H. ROSCUE contended that our education system had not been adapted to modern ideas, and a number of members continued the discussion in tha same strain, the House being very thin in attendance Mr. MUNDELLA believed that the religious in-strnction given at the Board Schools was more critically and carefully imparted than in the voluntary schools, and that the religious knowledge of the children of England had improved since the passing of the Act of 1870. He found that abroad, especially in Germany, the English was generally a fixed and necessary Bubjiict of instruction.

The benefit of thia in connection with technical education and our trade and commerce was obvious. Secondary education was necessary for the middle classes and if we are to expect the countrj to prosper, improvements in our processes must be ma. and speedily, or else we shall fall out of lie line o.f march of the other European countries. Sir W. HART-DYKE, on behalf of the Govern, ment, promised that next session he would introduce educational proposals, which, he was sure, would meet with the good opinion of the House and the country.

Mr. CONYBEARE could not see that much advance could be made in our national instruction unless we had better teachers. Too much attention was paid to the mere laborious book-learning of teachers, and too little to their training. Abroad, where the system of education was very nearly perfect, young men were turned out with an education technical and scientific which enabled them even in our country to force British youths out of employment This was chiefly the fault of the Government, and br hoped people would agitate for free and better education. Mr.

CONWAY suggested as a beginning in technics education that schoolboys should be manually as welr as intellectually educated. Ho recommended that the inspectorships of schools should be opened to the masters. The vote was then agreed to, and at twelve o'clock progress was reported, and the House, having resumed, adjourned. LOBBY GOSSIP. During debates in the summer on prison administration in Ireland it was frequently stated that the system in vogue in Ireland is practically identical with tha HOUSE OI X.OBDS TUESDAY.

Their lordships met on Tuesday for the first time after the recess. At twenty minutes past four o'clock, when the Lord Chancellor took his seat ou the wool-Back, the Marquis of Salisbury was the sole occupant of the Ministerial bench, and the only Opposition leader in his place was Earl Granville. THE GERMANS AND EAST AFRICA. Lord HARROWBY, who observed that alarm had been created by an official notice said to have been given to the Universities Mission, asked whether any fresh notion had been taken with regard to the slave trade on the East Coast of Africa in the shape of co-operation by this country with Germany. Lord SALISBURY explained that the German Government had come to the conclusion that it was necessary to take effective measures for preventing the kind of traffic on which the slave traders had long subsisted as regarded tbat part of the coast which was under German intluence.

It had asked our co-operation in steps to prevent the importation of arms and the exportation of slaves and he thought it right that we Bhould ao co-operate in purely naval action. By bo doing we were upholding the influence of the Sultan of Zanzibar. Then a consideration which appeared to his mind to be decisive was that the arrangement would remove the great difficulty we had to struggle against in attempting to suppress the slave trade namely, the refusal of Franoe to give us a right to search vessels sailing under her flag. Germany and England had approached the French Government on this subject and while that Government was unwilling to depart from the traditions of France in those matters, it had expressed itself content to look upon a blockade such as was proposed by Germany and England as carrying with it the right of searching any vessel, under whatever flag it might be running. The French Government was going further, and would send a vessel to act with us in the operation which was about to be undertaken.

THE SACKVILLE INCIDENT. Earl GRANVILLE I beg to ask whether the noble marquis is prepared to make any statement to the House, or proposes to lay any papers on the table, in connection with the painful incident with regard to our minister in the United States. I do not press either course, unless he thinks it convenient. The Marquis of SALISBURY: I think I Bhould prefer to take advantage of the choice which the noble earl haa given me, and to avoid making any observations on the subject, merely saying that papers are now in the printer's hands. I believe they will be in the library to-night, or, at all events, will be in the hands of members to-morrow morning, and, of course, any discussion that may be raised upon them we shall be perfectly ready to join in.

The House adjourned at fivo minutes before fivo o'clock until Tuesday next. HOUSE OF COMHOITS. TUESDAY. The house met at three o'clock, at which hour the Speaker took the chair. The attendance of members was small.

Most of the Ministers were in their places, but on the Opposition side Sir William Harcourt and Mr. Stansfeld were tho only prominent persons in attendance. THE IMPRISONED IRISH MEMBERS. The SPEAKER, amidst some derisive cries from Irish members below the gangway, announced that since the adjournment of the House he had received official communications announcing the imprisonment of Mr. W.

Redmond, Mr. J. Redmond, and Mr. O'Kelly, members of the house, for offences under the Crimes Act. PERPETUAL PENSIONS.

Mr. BBADLAUGH asked that facilities be afforded for discussing tho Treasury minute with regard to perpetual pensions, as he iutendtd to move to reject the proposals of the First Lord of tha Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and approve the report of the select committee that twenty-seven years' purchase was too high a rate of commutation. Mr. W. H.

SMITH said it had never been the intention of tho Government to act ou the minute without giving the House the opportunity of discussing it. MR. CONYBEARE AND THE SPEAKER. Mr. CONYBEARE gave notice of motion to the effect that the application of the closure on the second reading of the Bann Drainage Bill, in July last, without any debate, and tho refusal by Mr.

Speaker to admit an amendment standing in the name of the hon. member for Camborne, constituted a gross abuse of the rules of the House, which, by Standing Order 25, required Mr. Spexker to use his discretion for the protection of the rights of minorities. (Laughter.) THE RESIGNATION OF MR. MOiJRO.

Mr. PICKERSGILL I beg to ask tho Home Secretary a question of which I have given him private notice. I wish to know under what circumstances Mr. James Monro has retired from the office of Assistant-Commissioner of Police whether he is now in the public service, and, if bo, in what capacity? Mr. MATTHEWS Mr.

Monro, to my great regret, has thought it necessary to resign the office of Assistant Commissioner on account of differences of opinion between himself and the Commissioner on questions of police administration. As to the second part of the question, I can only say tbat I have mads arrangrements to enable me to have the benefit of Mr. Monro's advice in relation to crime when it may be dosirabls. Mr. PICKERSGILL Am I to understand a new office has been created.

Mr. MATTHEWS I can add nothing to tho answer I have already given. (A laugh.) Mr. BRADLAUGH In reference to the answer just given by the Homo Secretary, I beg to give notice that I shall call attention to the matter in moving the reduction of the police vote. SUPPLY.

The House went into committee of supply ou tha Civil Service Estimates, ClaBS II. (Salaries anil Expanses of Civil Department), beginning with the vote of .12,210 for the Land Commission, the reduction of which was moved by Mr. Molloy as a protest against the general administration of the department, but on a division the reduction was negatived by 154 to 69, and the vote agreed to. On the vote of .448,958 for the Local Government Board, Mr. PICKERSGILL called attention to tho harshness of the rules relating to tho detention of casual paupers.

The vaccination grants were objected to by Mr. BRADLAUGH, who complained of repeated prosecutions and the unfair way in which the Vaccination Acts are administered iu different parts of tho country. He moved the reduction of the vote. Mr. PICTON, in a long speech, pointed to the absence of small-pox from Leicester, where the Acts are not administered, as a reason for repealing them.

Mr. RITCHIE, however, quoting statistics to show the enormous value of vaccination as a preventive against Bmall-pox, insisted upon the necessity of continuing the grants, and promised that the most careful inquiry should be made by the medical officers of the Local Government Board into all cases of death alleged to be due to vaccination. Sir G. Hunter, Dr. Macdonald, Dr.

Tanner, Dr. Clark, Dr. Fiticgerald, Mr. Whitbread, and others also spoke, and on a division the reduction was negatived by 154 to 45. Among other Bubjocta discussed were the emigration of pauper children and the removability of paupers, and ultimately the vote was agreed to.

The votes for the Lunacy Commission the Mint the National Debt-office and the Patent-office (.54,305) were also agreed to after some discussion and the vote for the Paymaster-General's-office (.25,609) was under discussion at midnight, when the committee adjourned. The house adjourned at ten minutes past twelve o'clock. HOUS3 OP COHUaOHS WEDITJSSaAY. The Speaker took the chair at 12.15. PERPETUAL PENSIONS.

Mr. BRADLAUGH aaked Mr. W. H. Smith whether he could give three days' notice of the day fixed for the discussion of the resolution on perpetual pensions, as a number of members were interested in the matter.

Mr. W. H. SMITH I will certainly give ample notice and in all probability an arrangement will be made before pnblic notice is given to the House. SUPPLY.

The House went into committee of supply upon the Civil Service estimates. On a vote of .185,977 for the Stationery-office and printing, Mr. LABOUCHERE objected to the way that Parliamentary papers were distributed; and thought that by a more economical distribution 25,000 a-year might be saved. He also complained of the excessive price of Acts of Parliament and Blue Books and contended that public libraries should get them free or at cost of production. He moved the reduction of the vote by .500.

Mr. BARTLEY advocated economy. Sir H. MAXWELL said the question as to selling Blue Books at a lower price was one worthy of consideration, but the experience of the Government in supplying these papers to public institutions was not altogether satisfactory. The printing had been largely done by contract, and as the contracts fell in it would be possible to effect economy.

Mr. AD DISON thought members should pay for the Blue Books they wanted (a laugh) and that would ba the truest economy of public money. Mr. Howell, Mr. A.

Acland, Mr. J. Maclean, Mr. Labouohere, Sir George Campbell, Mr. H.

Wilson, Mr. Jackson, Dr. Cameron, Mr. Molloy, and other members continued the discussion till 5.30, when the debate stood adjourned. The House adjourned at 5.35.

HOUSZ Qj? COSSMOWS. THUBSDAV. The Speaker took the chair at five miuutes past three. THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE. Sir JAMES FERGUSSON, in reply to Sir George Campbell, said that on the 19th of August last he stated that all the information poasessed by the Foreign-office in connection with the slave trade had been presented in an annual report but a Blue Book was in preparation, and would shortly bo issued.

He had laid on the table of the House papers showing the position of the Government on the coast of Zanzibar, and the proceedings they were taking to put down the slave trade. These papers would be in the hands of members in a day or two, and they would give the hon. member all the information he desired. Sir GEORGE CAMPBELL said he would on the estimates call attention to the want of official information on this subject. THE SALVATION ARMY IN SWITZERLAND Sir ROBERT FOWLER asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether tho attention of the Government had been called to the case of Miss Sterling, an officer of the Salvation Army, who had been sentenced to one hundred days' imprisonment for conducting a children's Bervice, and whether the Secretary of State would make representations to the Swiss Government on tho subject.

Sir JAMES FERGUSSON said that her Majesty's charge d'affaires in Switzerland was doing all that was proper in the circumstances of the cases. He was informed that it was not the case that Miss a sentence of imprisonment for holding a children's service, but for holding public meetings and committing other actions violation of the law of tho canton. THE SALT GEORGE CAMPBELL aflked the President of the Board of Trade whether her Majesty Government had considered and taken the advice of their law officers on the question whether combinations of capitalists to establish monopolies and raise the price of salt and other articles by means of "rings" or "trusts" were offences against the laws making penal proceedings in retraint of trade in salt or other articles of consumption. Sir MICHAEL HICKS BEACH said the Govern-ment had no information before it for taking the course suggested by the honourable member. Mr.

BRADLAUGH asked if the right honourable gentleman was aware that there was a case mentioned iu the law reports of a conviction for a combination to raise the price of salt. ens increased 'V i iiJamn nrnnflsmirm to hia chair? tlio m-Arprs. the wasteful wait of half an ii. wfnnins of the proceeding all these wemcil utterly out of place in this supposed assembly. Added to this was the muns miud that the coalition is a in every that the majority do not represent thinner of the country.

"After all, HIV fr S'X mel1 Sai) W'tn 0 ur' There was absolutely nothing to distin-'f 'th'e first day of the autumn sittings from a V- incsday afternoon. The aine men attended 'e kind of speeches about the same kind of maJe. All was lifeless, funereal, out of public interest. The Lords, indeed, pre-t0UCUl a more animated spectacle. They mustered in -inz force, as if conscious how narrowly tho are treading on their heals, and how for them to be circumspect in all their doings.

sarJVtulisl)ury was early in his pluce, looking tired. n-n heartily sick of himself and of office. Earl c-irille' alwavs juvenile-looking, was the only Her on the frontOppositiou bench. Other known were Lord Duuraven, laden with sehemas for ''Ti'Di'i'tioii, in conjunction with Lord liandolph hill of a Try democracy, and Lord Uenman Lii'Jrc ji'ju the purport of which nobody knew, but ho described as the Local Government Electors' ijiih EVIDENCES OF COERCION. Could anvthius he a more striking comment upon of our national politics than the fact that first husiness l'oue "ther House had referonco, 1:0 or indireotiy, to Ireland In the Lords the 0f Lord Suckville by the late President Cleve-tli to conciliate the Irish vote hostile to the coercion litiou was the subject of some remark.

In the fCramons. the Speaker had the intelligence to au-ou'ice that during the adjournment tho Coercion Go-11 -nnipnt had imprisoned throe more members of Siiment-llr. John Kedmond, Mr. W. Bed, on.i and ilr.

O'Kelly. The names of theso tle'nien as mentioned were cheered by their in the House. Then Mr. freshly returned after his vindiotive sus-irtwou, gave notice of a vote of censure upon the t. -saker for having closured without discussion the de-tiiie on the llauu Drainage Bill, which proposed to ijnii over large sums of public money to the Irish One other incident happened in these proceedings, testifying to the character of our ir'toat rulers.

Mr. Pickersgill asked Home Secretary lijf.hewj a question with reference to the resignation ci Mr. Monro, Assistant Commissioner of Police. The liuper friend of mob-mad Warren, in his light and iocose style, said that Mr. Monro had resigned because ami Warren had differences of opinion with respect to the administration of the police; "but," he added, "I have found another place for him." Pickersgill, in astonishmeut, asked whether the Home secretary meant to convey that he had crested aew ollice tit the public expense for Mr.

Monro because he and another public servant had had an office s.subble. "Ah," said the Home Secretary, smiling, 'won't tell you;" and then Mr. Bradlaugh gave rotice that he would call attention to the matter on the police vote. CIVIL SERVICE REFORMERS. The House then went into committee of supply on tho Civil Service Estimates.

The burden of the work both sitting ami on the following day fell on the moulders of a few men, including some of tho most and useful members of the Bauical party, such is Mr. Labouchere. Mr. Bradlaugh, Mr. Connybeare, Ir.

Pickersgill, Dr. Clark, Mr. W. Hunter. They at abiy assisted by several of the Irish members, anon? whom the most prominent were Mr.

A. uCoimor, Mr. Molloy, and Dr. Tanner. Mr.

Cun-i'ahamo Graham moved restlessly in and ont of the H.iise, hut he took no part in the proceedings ijovond voting in a division and Mr. Biggar, waricd with his watch beforo the Special Commission, slumbered peacefully on his bench, this he was unlike other aotors in the scene at the Court of Justice. The Attorney-General, who holds the brief for the Times and the Government, came straight from the courts to the House of Commons, where shortly afterwards he was rejoined on the Treasury bench by the other leading counsel for tho Government, Sir Ileury James. Sir Charles Russell, who bears ou his strong shoulders the bulk of tha contest for the Iriib. members, was also in his place, looking rather tired and Mr.

Lockwood, his colleague, hovered near the bar, with his fresh face, which never betrays any sign of fatigue. Talking of lawyers, it may he noticed that Mr. W. H. Cross, son of Visoouut Cross, who was the sole occupant of the Poors' Gallery, took his seat for the Darby Division of Tory Liverpool.

This Temple fledgling is chiaBy known in public life as one of the volunteer citizens who a yenr ago armed themselves to break the heads of the Loudon artisans and unemployed in Trafalgar-siiuare. As is usual in the fights over the estimates, tie Govei'umont would practically conoede nothing. Tiioy listen to criticisms grievances, abuses, anomalies are pointed out. They either explain thsm may, or take no notice of the complaints, because to the Civil Service means the displacing of their friends from snug offices and for what does the Tory fsi'ty exist, if not to provide their friends with situations at the public expense HOW THE MONET GOES. The first item of public expenditure over which tho fought was a vote for the Land Oom-aaioncrs of England.

Again and again objection haa wen taken to the office of the Land Commission. It ias been pointed out that little or no work is done in 8 department, yet there are three Land Commis-Ucers with salaries of .1,500 a-year each and a large of officials. The Government, through Mr. ackson and Mr. S.

"Wortley, mumbled out the same ti defence. The department was doing more than ifiple imagined they wrote a great many letters wiiu me year. envision was tauen, witn tne result tit 154 Tories and Whigs voted for the job, against uty-uine reformers. A somewhat lengthy discussion t.liowed on vaccination in connection with the vote for Ut department of the Local Government Board, ltd thin came discussions on the education of pauper childron and lunatic asylums. On the jjrmcr subject, Mr.

Ritohie, President of the Local wverament Board, made the important admission Jhat public opinion was ripening in the direction of the Kate taking children from neglectful parents, punish- the latter, and compelling them to contribute to tap support of their own offspring a remarkable ad-Biision, which the Socialists will duly note. Mr. Hartley, on the vote for the Patent-office, made the proper complaint that there was no adequate pro-jsiou made for a National Patent Museum and Mr. Wenniker Heaton complained of the absolute dis-teuragement which the Government showed towards inventors. As both these subjects intimately concern jj as a commercial nation, it was a little too bad to 1 Mr.

Jackson, the Secretary of the Treasury, Eeoh-poohiug them. The so-called Patent Museum is an sseiitients are a force in the State. At twelve 5e-ock, after eight hours' weary conversation, the He-use passed away from committee of supply, and "jouraed ten miuutes later. On Wednesday, the dis-'EsioD turned upon the vote for the Stationery De. tjrtment, which is one of the most expensive branches J' 'he Civil Service.

As Mr. Labouchere pointed out, 5 official takes four sheets of paper to write two 'eras. Again vaot masses of Parliamentary Blue jjwfcsand correspondence are issued to members of "lament, who simply throw them into the waste Pper basket. Mr. Bartley mentioned that he had 'ceived no fewer than twenty copies, on twenty dif-occasions, of the Queen Speech.

How this department is, may be judged from the fact it absorbs nearly 1,000,000 yearly of the public ss. After the Admiralty and War-office, it is the wasteful and extravagant of our public depart-jwats, Xbg economists, led by Mr. Labouchere, did making a combined attack upon it; and Mr. i jOU really no reply to make to the criticisms. up ia rec tape" aotnowl6igeii hi3 helplessness, 1 therefore his uselessness.

KOYAL PARKS AND WOODS, 'ue discussion of the estimates was resumed on Mr. Labouchere, as usual, led the attack-ll'o ef fiuancial reformers. On the vote for the cut am' orest3 ue objected to several items paid ot public taxation for the benefit of royalty. these was expenditure at Ascot racecourse, and tik fon i'or game in the so-called royal 'ie kit'61' i'em amounted to as much as w8500 thf Banbury, who, though a Tory, is one of tj 'lhers of that party least imbued with the old ideas, protested strongly against the of wuat 3 styled the Crowu iJt's. 'hat is, tho national property for whioh, i.p'jstitution, the Queen receives what is called the List." Mr.

T.Ellis stated that in Wales tho u'3 a- een away to favourites, or for a mc'l'e Owing to tho strong opinion "le GTemm6nt felt obliged to sanction the of a committee to inquire into the manage-aif "le Crown lands. An interesting discussion j'J'Jrted by Mr. Labouchere with reference to the 'tis n. in-s of Hyde-park. He pointedout that although is maintained out of the public money, so en'ijjf vehicular traffic is concerned, it is almost t-y monopolized by the classos.

Their carriages fan" "nywhere whereas the poorer people, who 'scent- a.ttr(i to r'de in cabs, are, with tha it (i 1 ono roadway, prohibited from travelling 'le Park. Aoffiin. thn rnadwav in the Green-nark. ij by public funds, is shut np against the Queen and one or two favourites. It "UOWn tlin.1: in ntt.ov tctn exclusion allowed parks kept up out of Mr PlmWt V.O nf Wmh "uld "tho uo explanation of the exclusion Masses and as to the Green-park, he kept a silence altogether, because he knew perfectly C'onstji '''though the Queen only uses the road up too about once or twice a-year, she is i 0 give tlie English public tho right en- Ui tue people oi other capitals.

ir. Tanner, to test the oniniou of the metroDolitan as, 10 the exclusion ot the masses from (art; tl'e same rights as the classes in tlle reuution of the vote, but only tu J' embers supported him a good evidence lnrl ln" tho Present House of Commons "us the people. TheT LONDON TORY MEMBERS. f01' the metropolis form a brigade to the 6 3- Most of their names were unknown "'eawivi0ple, of London until, suddenly, they found se've3 elected. They are faddists, specialists, or 3.

Aug. 31. Mary Ann Nicholls, forty-seven, throat cut and body mutilated, in Buck's-row, Whitechapel. 4. Sept.

S. Annie Chapman, forty-seven, throat cut and body mutilated, in Hanbury-atreet, Spitalfields. 5. Sept. 30.

Elizabeth Stride, throat cut, in Berner-street, WMtechapel. genuity in despoilingthe corpse of its human semblance. Both ears and the nose had been cut off, aud the flesh of the cheoks and forehead peeled off the breasts were cut off, evidently with a sJiarp knife, and placed on the table near the bed the abdomen had been ripped up, and disembowelled, portions of the entrails lying about the bed, the liver being placed between the legs. Both thighs had been denuded of flesh, laying bare the bones, and the excised portions laid on the table. As in the case of those of the previous crimes, tho womb had been taken away, together with other parts of the intestines aud genital organs while, in addition', one arm was almoat severed from tho trunk, and one hand thrust inside the empty cavity of the abdomen.

THE EZC1T1CMENT IN THE STREETS. While the surgeons were making a preliminary examination the excitement in the neighbourhood was spreading, and among the dwellers in the immediate locality amounted to a perfect frenzy. Women rushed about the streets, telling their neighbours the news, and shouting in angry voices their rage and indignation. Notwithstanding tho stolid reticence of all the police ongaged at the scene, the main facts of the crime ooon became common knowledge, and, spreading far and wida, drew a great concourse of people to the scone. Great efforts were made at first to keep the side of Dorset-street clear, in tho vicinity of Miller-court, in the expectation that bloodhounds might have been employed, but though it is understood that a telegram asking for them was sent to Sir Charles Warren, they were not sent.

At four o'clock the body was removed from Dorset-Btreot to Shoreditch mortuary. The mutilated remains were placed in a coarse coffin, which was partially covered with a coarse canvas cloth. The etraps of the coffin were sealed. The coffin was conveyed in a one-horse ordinary furniture-van, and was escorted by several constablea. The windows of the room where the crime was committed were boarded up and a padlock put on the door.

The streets were patrolled by the police all the evening, and no one was allowed to loiter near the place. All the neighbourhood was like a fair, and the excitement and hubbub haa filled tho streets with thousands of idlers. EOVC THE CEIME WAS DISCOVERED. John M'Carthy, a provision dealer, retiding at 27, Dorset-street, and who is the landlord of No. 26 in the same thoroughfare as the house in which the murder was committed, has made the following statement Mary Jane Kelly, the murdered woman, was a person about twenty-five years of age.

She waa an unfortunate. The last that was heard of her was at one o'clock this morning, when she was singing in her room, and appeared to bo very happy. At eleven o'clock last night she was seen in the Britannia public house at the corner of this thoroughfare, with a young man with a dark moustache. She waa thon intoxicated. The young man appeared to be very respectable and well-droned." M'Carthy gave a Press Association reporter the following acoount of the discovery of the body About half-past ton this morning I saw a man named Henry Bower go to Mary Jane Kelly, and ask for the rout she owed me.

Bower went to the house, hut failed to get any answer to his knoeka. He then peered through one of tho windows, and saw tho woman lying cut up on the bed. The bed was saturated with blood. Bower came and called me, telling me what he had seen, and we went and looked through the windows. I cannot fully describe her injuries, for the sight waa too much for me.

She was quite naked. I noticed that both breasts were cut off, and that she was ripped up. The itetinoa wore laid on tho table both ears were cut off, as was also the note. The logs were cut to such an extent that the bones could be seen. Her face was one mass of cuts.

We ran to Commercial-street Police-station, and gave information." The non-appearance of the bloodhounds ia accounted for by the fact that during reoent trials in Surrey the animals bolted, and it is understood have not been recovered. The Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, who have recently relaxed their efforts to find the murderer, have called a meeting for Tuesday evening next, at the Paul's Head Tavern, Crispin-street, Spitalfields to consider what steps they can take to assist in this latter matter. XN ARREST. Saturday, 2 a.m. Up to this hour no information could be obtained from tho polico authorities with regard to the renewal of the horrible atrocities in the East-end; but from another source we learn that a man was arrested last night in Whitechapel on suspicion of being concerned in the murder.

He was given into custody by some women as being a man who had accosted them the previous night, and whose conduot was auspicious. He was taken to Commercial-street police-station followed by an immense crowd. It is evident that every momber of tho police force is on his mettle, and that there is an almost fierco determination on their part to trace out the fiend this time. On the part of the public it ia also clear that a fresh panic has set in that affects individuals in various ways, and is likely to have the effeot of renewing the efforts of the East-end Vigilance Committee. Their operations, which at first were very vigorous, and gave hope of being productive, had been for some time in abeyance, not from any indisposition on the part of its members to continue the inquiry they had willingly undertaken, but simply because tha funds supplied by one generous individual and supplemented by considerable contributions from the treasurer, the chairman, and individual members of the committee had become exhausted, and because no adequate response had been made to a public appeal made by the secretary for further funds.

Tho fresh atrocity has induced a citiaen to come forward with furthor proi'ers of assistance, and if this is forthcoming in adequate amount, several of the leadingniemberj oi' tha committee, in an informal meeting hold last night, expressed their willingness to continue the inquiry. Mr. Lusk, tho chairman, in company with Mr. Aarons, tha treasurer, spent several hours yesterday near tho spot in the investigation of the new crime, and at a late hour tho secretary, Mr. Harris, informed his fellow-oommitteemon 'that a deteotive had brought him information that portions of fleah, supposed to belong to tho body of the woman last murdered, had been aent to ilr.

Luak. Our reporter was unable to procure an interview with Mr. Lusk, for the purpose of verification, and the committee are of opinion that tho circumstanoes, if reported, should be mentioned with all possible reserve. The members present were unanimously of opinion that the time had now arrived for the most vigorous po-uible pressure to be once more brought to bear on the Home Secretary to compel him to offer a very substantial reward for the detection of the miscreant. Chrysanthemum Show at the Cbtstal Palace.

Tho annual exhibition of chrysanthemums was held at Sydenham on Friday, there being a large number of visitors notwithstanding the cold and cheerless weather, The show was in every respect quite equal to ita predeceaiora, and many of the flowers were superior to those displayed last year. The most valuable prize offered by the company was for forty-eight blooma twenty-four incurved and twenty-four Japanese and thia was awarded to Meaars. W. and G. Drover, of Fareham, Mr.

3. Horsefield, gardener to Lord Weytesbury, gaining second honours. The exhibition was olosod yesterday. Another Solicitor Struck oft the Rolls. In the Queen's Benoh, before Baron Pollook, an application, at the instance of the Incorporated Law Society, against George Crowther, an attorney, made under the following circumstances.

In March, 1887, he was consulted by a Mra. Davy, a person in rather humble circumstanoes, a to an aotion for slander agaiiiBt her late employer, a Mrs. Hodgea, a confectioner at Ealing. He received, in the first instance, 1 for expensea, and undertook to institute prooeed-inga against Mn. Hodges, and from time to time there were lettera from him to his client Mra.

Davy referring to the case as being in the list for trial, and aaking for money to pay counsel's foes, and, in fact, he received in small auma over .18 for uch purposes the truth being, aa it turned out, that no proceedings had been instituted by him, nor even had he made any application to Mrs. Hodges in the matter. In one of his letters in June he wrote Your case is likely to be in the list for trial soon, and counsel muat now be retained." Then a few daya afterwards he wrote; I find on inquiry that there are very few casea in the list for trial before yours. It ia therefore desirable that counsel should bo instructed without further delay, and perhapa you will aend me He had already sent a receipt for .15 10a. for small sums received, and, as above stated, ho received altogether over 18.

Iu January the mutter cams boforo the Law Society, who thereupon wrote to him, aaking for explanation. Tho application was made on the last sitting in July, when the attorney did not appear he still did not appear, nor anybody on hia behalf. Mr. Hollunds, who appeared for the Incorporated Law Society, said it was quite impossible that the solicitor could make any defence. Mr.

Baron Pollock said it was a bad case, and pronounced the judgment of the court that the solicitor should be struck off the Roll. THB FJLBIS "GAUSS OSi.HSiBS." The trial of Prado for tho iuurdorof Marie Aguetant, which so excited Paris throe winters ago, began on Monday. There were eight persons in the dock, some of whom are held to have been subsequent accomplices, and others aro merely charged with being engaged with the chief prisoner in a swindling association. The five male prisoners are Spaniards. Tha women ara Eugenie Forestier, of Boulogne-sur-Mor, a rather good-looking blonde an adventuress, named MathUde Dault and a very pretty Bordelaiao young lady of good family, Mauricette Couronneau, who is rather to be pitied than severely dealt with.

Prado, alias Count De Linski, Do Castillon, De Haro Mondoza, is one of those odventurers who proy at caninoa on rich women, representing themselves as noblomon. Marie Aguetant, whom he is charged with murdering, lived with a croupier of a gambling club. As he never came home before two in the morning aud she disliked solitude, ahe used often to step across from her elegantly-arranged lodging to the Eden Theatre, where, owing to the display of made brilliants, she was called ia fvimm aim diamants." In November, 18S5, she picked up Prado at the Eden, and the ixdiot-ment says he straightway tried to murder her, but was prevented from doing so when he remembered that the servant had taken away his hat, in which his name was written but he succeeded on tho night of 14th January, 1886. When the croupier came home at two in the morning, the murdered woman waa found lying on the carpet in a pool of blood with her throat cut. The desk and drawers had been unlocked and robbed of .2,400 worth of debanturos and .200 in money, and of all hor jewels, which ware numerous.

Tha earrings were taken from her ears after the crime was committed. Tha erinrinal alipped away while the police were aaarohing for him. Ho waa iu a lodging which he took for himself and Eugenie Forostier, sot a hundred yarda away. He was agitated on returning home, talked of a fearful crime having been committed in the next atroet, and spent a sleepless night. Eugenie noticed that his cuffs were missing, and that his hands and shirt were bloodstained.

Tha next day ha gave her two bank-notes for household expenses, which were cut as if with the point of a knife. She want out to market, and, on coming in with her purchase-i, saw him burning his shirt and a now pair of boots, for which mad aetion she loctured him. A. day later he went out, and in tho evening started for Madrid, taking Eugenie as far ac Bretigny. She was alarmed at his manner, and afterwards it flashed across her mind that he was tho murderer of Marie Aguetant.

Prado sent for tho woman Foreatier, intending to tnke kor by way of Lisbon to Amarica, but gambled away hia money, and did not dare to realise tha jewels. Finally they both want to Bordeaux, where he hired a furnished villa in the Buburbs belonging to Madame Couronneau, the mother of Mauricette. Prado waa enamoured of her daughter, of whom he eventually became the lover. He protended to bo emittan with the mora mature charms of Madmo Couronneau, who believed him. The intrigue was brought to an end on her discovering his relations with hor daughter.

After robbing the goldsmith's skop at Raynnsiu of goods valued at .400, Prado left for Parhj wiWi the two women, placing Eugnnie at a plaee he had taken to serve aa a tryatiug-place for a ijaag that ha was forming, and taking Mauricabte to an hotel in the Coura de la Reine. When thoro ha tried to rob Lorenso, who waa a fellow lodger, of a box filled with gams. The waitar seeing him with tha box taxed him with having stolen it, on which ha dropped it and ran away. Ha was then captured. On Wednesday tho ohief witnesses ware the woman, Mauricette Couronneau aud Euganio Forostier.

Their testimony was docidedly adverse to tha prisoner, especially that of the latter, who ropeated unhesitatinijly that Prado had revealed to her that he had murdered Marie Aguetant. The prisonar showed great anger at this, and hia manner was so violent that the people in court made a hostile demonstration against him, which was, however, peremptorily cut short by the president of the court. The following dialogue took place when Couronneau was on the witness stand The judge: Prado pretends you and Eugenio Foreatier concocted the story to ruin him you, in order to bo able to marry (a gentleman haa during your imprisonment aaked your hand in marriage) and she, becauae ahe is no longer loved by him. Couronneau No, sir. The judge Prado, what have you to say? Prado To answer that young girl, whom I deplore tosee there, would require a long statement.

Iu tho first instanco I triad to save her but when I knew of her conduct towards mo but she is the mother of my child, and I wish to see her leave this court acquitted, so that she may take care of it till I come and claim it. Couronneau (in a high and energetic tone) You shall never touch it. Your child, indeed It is mine. Prado (with violence) Madame, on the day you jumped over your child's cradle, to demand tho head of its father, you lost every kind of right, even the right to use your maternity to shield yourself. That woman who, less than a month after her incarceration, accepted a proposal Couronneau No it was only a month before being tiansferrad to Paris.

Prado What that unfortunate woman who receives a man in her prison Couronneau (interrupting) Wo wore not alone. He is an honest fellow. You ruined mv character; he wishes to redeem it. I will not permit' you to speak ill him. On Thursday the prisoner was confronted with Madame Couronneau, and on Frday the evidence of Dr.

Brouardel, who examined the body of Marie Aguotant after the murder, was taken. The wound in the neck, he said, had the appearance of having beon made by pulling back the head, and cutting the throat from left to right. Death must have soon ensued at moat thore would be from eight to ten minutes between the infliction of the wound and death. The throat onoe cut, the victim could utter no cry. Employers' Liabisity Act.

Dahages. At the Dartford County Court, Mr. Glyne, barrister, claimed .214, under the Employers' Liability Act, on behalf of a wharfinger named Bohbsy, who wa3 injured while unloading a barge for Messrs. Sharp, of Dartford, on the 30th of April, it waa alleged through a defeot iu the broke of a steam crane. The medical evidence was to the effect that the plaintiff was totally incapacitated.

Tho judge found that the defendants were liable, and gave a verdict for with coats. Mb. Bbadlauoh avd tsi Homb Sicbbtaby. Mr. Bradlaugh has given private notice of hia intention to-morrow to ask tho Home Secretary whether he oan atate by whom, and on what charge, Friederich Schumacher waa arrested on Sept.

13th last, at Leman-streat East Polioe-station whether complaints have reached him that, after being arrested and locked up in a cell, a written paper, and, if so, to what tonour, waa presented for signature to the said Friederich Schumacher, and that ha was told that he would be released if he signed tho paper, and on his signing the paper was thereupon released whether the oharga against the said Friederioh Schumacher was duly entered in tha charge-sheet of the day, and submitted to the magistrate in ordinary course if so, what was the magistrate's decision thereon and, if not, what reason has been given; and whether a private inquiry into his ose was conducted at Scotland-yard, and by whom if so, on what date, and what, if any, action has since been taken in the matter. BBUTAL Will MUBDIR BY A LOCAL PbEACHHB. Superintendent Spenoe, of Pickering, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, received information to the effeot that a Mrs. Pennock, wife of James Pen-nock, a Nortk-Easiern Railway employi, residing at the Bkok Bull Old Station, near Pickering, had been murdered. Mre.

Pennock retired to bed at the uaual hour on Tuesday evening, and nothing unusual was hoard by the family during the night. About Sevan o'alock in tho morning, after the father had left the house, one of the children went to the mother's bedroom and was horrified to find tha mother lying on the bed with the clothes saturated with blood. Her head waa very much cut, and life appeared to bo extinot. Dr. Eoberteon, who waa colled, however, stataa that the woman breathed after he arrived, but expired ehortly afterwards.

Tha crime, it is behaved, waa committed by the husband, an axe staiaed with blood being found in the house. Pennock haa boon missing siuco the tragedy, and tha police are aearching for him. There ara four children. The man is wall known in the district as a local preacher. On Friday, an inquest waa hold on the body Dr.

Walker Pickering, who made a post-mortem examination, deposed that the head waa earf ally smashed, the skull being extensively fractured, and sll the bonea, except the occipital, were broken. Dmring the inquest the police were ongaged in dragging the river in tha district for the suspected murderer, and juat as the jury were left to considor their verdict a telegram arrived announcing the capture of Pennock, near Scarborough, only six or eight miles from the scene of the murder. The jury at once found a verdict of "Wilful murder." The report as to Pennock's capture turned out to be untrue. POLITICAL XTX28S Home Rule tor Scotland. The general council of the Scottish Liberal Association met in Edinburgh to consider a motion on Home Rule for Scotland.

The Earl of Elgin, chairman of the general council, who presided, held that a motion for Home Rule for Scot-laud was premature, because it had not beon suiliciently defined. Ho also contended that the Liberal party at present were ongaged in a struggle which they ought to take part in as a united party without introducing the Scottish question. He moved that the association, while in favour of the application of the principle of Home Rule to Scotland, did not thmk it opportune or desirable to interfere with the independent action of local associations on the subject. Mr. John Wilson, Hillhead, in seconding the motion, said he was as enthusiastic a Scottish Home Ruler as anyone, but he considered the present time was inopportune to foroe this quostion to the front.

Mr. McLorry, Glasgow, moved that tho general council recommend the iede-rated Association to make Home Rule for Scotland a test question to candidates for party honours at all future elections. The chairman's motion was adopted by forty-four votes to eleven. The Unionist Party in Bibjunohasi. A movement is on foot for the formation of a Unionist party in the Birmingham Town Council.

When the Liberal party was uuited, the Liberals in the counoil, who formed a large majority, had a powerful organization, with chiefs and whips. It was usual for the mi-bers to be called together for such purposes as deciding upon the mayoralty, the nomination of aldermen, and the constitution of the committees. What is now proposed is that the Unionists as a whole, including "the Conservative and Liberal sections, shall unite into one party for all such purposes as were formerly carried out by the Liberals. There will be two whips, one a Liberal Unionist and the other a Conservative Uniouist. The present constitution of the Council is thirty-nine Unionists, twenty-three Glodstoniaus, and two independent members.

Half of the present body of aldermen will retire next year, and a contest, in which the Unionists will show then- strength, may then be ex-expeeted. THE EAIE TBADXBS AT WoLYEBHAMPTOW. Tho collapse of the Fair Traders at Wolverhampton Conservative Congress was really comical. Their motion was the first set down for discussion, its consideration having been adjourned. In a thinly-attended conference the next day the previous question was carried by three to one, much to the disgust of some of tho Pair Traders who entered too late.

Mr. Heneage, M.P., will address his constituents at Grimsby on the 24th inst. Mias Balfour is her brother's constant companion in his political pilerimages. He is a bachelor, and she ia an ardent Unionist, with some pretensions to literature. She is, perhaps, more liberal in her general views than her brother, but on the Irish question she is every whit as firm as the Secretary.

Viscount Orauborne, Lord Salisbury's eldest son, demonstrates the melancholy truth that the sons of great men are not always great. He is too conscious of being his father's son. Owing to several important political engagements, the Duke of Portland is not expected at The Limes, Melton, until the middle of November. The Marquis of Hurtiugton is stayins with the Earl and Countess of Dunraven at Dunraveu Castle, Bridgend. The Duke of Rutland will take the chair at the anniversary dinner of the West St.

Pancras Conservative Association, to be held at the Holborn Restaurant on Wednesday, the I4th inst. Mr. Harry E. Graham, the Conservative candidate for the division, will occupy the vice-chair. The Marquis of Salisbury will open the new Conservative club at Scarborough on December the 20th.

The hon. seoretary of the Nonconformist Unionist Association states that the demand for tickets for tho banquet on the 14th inst. to Lord Salisbury and Lord Hartington has necessitated additional accommodation being provided. Mr. Alfrod Hickman, for whose return for West Wolverhampton Mr.

Balfour expressed ao much solicitude, is a local ironmaster, who resides in the outskirts of the town, and who won the seat by a narrow majority in 1SS5, but lost it by a still narrower majority to Sir William Plovvden at the last election. Lord Cranbrook unveiled, in the central hall of the Houses of Parliament, a statue of the late Earl of Idrtesleigh, the work of Mr. Boehm. The Right Hon. A.

J. Balfour. M.P., will preside at the anniversary dinner of the National Orphan Home for Eatherless Children, at St. James's Hall, on December 5th. Arrangements have been comploted for holding a great Liberal Unionist aouference and demonstration in Glasgow on Feb.

12th next. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P., will attend. Lord Randolph Churchill will address his constituents at Paddington (South) on the 17th at the Metropolitan Music-hall, Edgware-road. Lord Salisbury came to town from Hatfield on Tuesday, and had a consultation in Downing-street with Mr.

W. H. Smith. In the afternoon his lordship had an interview with M. Waddington, the French ambassador.

Sir Halliday Macartney, secretary to tho Chinese legation, also visited tho Foreign-office. His lordship returned to Hatfield in the evening. Mr. W. L.

ackson, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, will speak at the meeting to be addressed by Mr. A. J. Balfour, at Leeds, on the llith inst. Sir William Cunliffe-Brooks, M.P., has arrived at Barlow Hell, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, where he remains for a few days, previous to coming to town for the Parliamentary session.

Colonel Duncan, M.P. for the Holborn Division of Einsbury, has been prevented by illness from resuming his Parliamentary duties, as has also Mr. Vernon, Unionist member for Ayrshire. Viscount Wolmer, M.P., and Mr. Anatruther, M.P., are for tho present acting as the Parliamentary "whips of the Liberal Unionist party.

Me. Bamotjb and the Manchester Repokm Club. During his recent visit to Manchester Mr. A. J.

Balfour was entertained by a Dissentient Liberal member of the Maachester Reform Club, Mr. B. Armitage, at dinner in a private room of that Tho proceedings caused intense indignation among the Liberal members, and, at a special meeting held on Friday, Mr. Eoby moved a resolution which, while recognising the right of a private member to entertain personal friends, expressed strong disapproval of the conduct of Mr. Armitage in entertaiuiug Mi.

Balfour at the club on tha occasion of a political demonstration, and communicating the fact to the press. Mr. Armitage explained to the meeting that the visit had no political significance, and an amendment was thereupon passed, acknowledging the disclaimer, and, whilo regretting the occurrence, thinking it "wise" to tako no further steps in the matter. Ik. Sfukcmon's Health.

Mr. Spurgeon continues to suffer severe bodily pain, and is unable to walk. It is his intention, as soon as poisible, to start for his usual winter resort, Mentoue, in the hope that renewed health may ensue. At a morning's service at the Metropolitan Tabernacle a letter was read from Mr. Spurgeon.

In this he said, I have gone through a thorny brake of pain, and I caunot get well, for when the mischief leaves one place it seems to enter another. I greatly longed to preach this day and see inquirers before I I would wait for this oven now but it might long, and so long as I am here my pains keep hold on me. Forgive me, therefore, if I steal away as soon a3 I can. It may be weeks before I can go, for as yet I am unable tp stand. But God heals Yery speedily when so it pleases Him.

Please let friends join tho church all the same. My brothers will see them. Remember the poor to-night with double liberality, for there is much need. Maintain all services and labours in full strength, and may the Lord Himself be with every one of you. Yours in the furnace, C.

H. Spurgeon.".