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ME GLASGOW HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1894. Partice Dean of Guild Cocrt. The follow, ine linings were granted at the Partiek Dean oi light, because it has only been applied for the present condition of St Enoch's Church is a credit neither to the city nor to SORLEY, Jeweuebs asd Silversmiths, No. 1 Buchakan Street. A Selection of Searad-Haud Ornaments and Plate always on Sale.

it has assuredly also given an impetus to the cause of Liquor reform. Never has the whole question been discussed with greater Nineteenth and Twentieth Wards were held last night, The retiring members spoke. The Hamilton Park race meeting, which closes the Scotch circuit, began yesterday. pPPS'S I GRATEFUL. COMFORTING.

BREAKFAST SOTPEE. A. BOILING WATER OK MILK. Jli A ADVICE FREE. SEE WEKKLY HBRAIT).

Malicious Mischief in South Uist. On Saturday last, part of a wire fence which was recently erected by the proprietrix between the crofters of the township of Stoneybridge and Ormielate Farm was found to have been maliciously destroyed for a distance of over a mile. The fence in question was erected for the purpose of keeping the crofters' cattle and sheep from straying on to the Ormielate Farm hill grazing. The matter has been placed in the bands of the police authorities. The Sale Exhal'Sthd Ginger.

At Glasgow Sheriff Summary Court, yesterday, William Hamilton, grocer, 61 Main Street, Anderston, was fined 1 15s for having, on 31st August, sold Jib. of ground ginger, which on analysis was found to contain 65 per cent, of, exhausted ginger. Respondent's representative produced an invoice showing that the article was bought as ordinary ground ginger at6d per lb. and it was stated that he sold it at Sd per lb. Sheriff Birnie said that grocers should always get a guarantee as well as the invoice.

Semoits Occurrence in Coatbrt dge. Yesterday forenoon a horse attached to a lorry bolted in Langioan, and several children were ran down and injured. A boy named Montgomery had one of his thighs badly fractured, while his sister sus as was also Lord Hindlip, the deputy-chairman of the Great Northern Railway, who actively assisted the local railway; officials in dealing with the emergency. Considerable damage was done to the rolling stock and permanent way through the collision of three goods trains near Linlithgow yesterday morning. A collision between a Caledonian mineral train and a pug engine at the Grangemouth docks yesterday did considerable damage.

No one was injured. At Northampton last night the Bishop Chester discussed Mr Gladstone's recent letter en local option, which he said lifted the movement decisively above the level of party politics and emphasised the greatness the evil and the need of legislative reform. The mischief was aggravated by the tied house system, the abolition of which would restore brewers the old footing of fair competition. The Bishop explained the principle of his proposals, which he said was simply the extension to licensed victualling of the familiar English method of placing affairs of exceptional public concern in the public hands, and eliminating as far as possible the motive of private gain. A meeting of Glasgow Town Council was held yesterday.

A deputation from the Trades Council was introduced. Mr Reid and Mr Wylie were heard on behalf ef the deputation, and urged that the Council should endeavour to get a larger share of the residue grant for Glasgow, and should apply a larger propertion of it in the promotion of technical education. At a later stage of the proceedings, when the allocation of the grant was proposed, Mr Shearer appealed for larger support to the School of Art, and Mr Ure for greater liberality to the Technical College. The proposals of the committee were confirmed. Mr Graham withdrew his motion for the adoption by the city of the Free Libraries Act.

The minutes of the Churches Committee contained a proposal for the removal of St Enoch Church and the Tre-n Church. After some discussion, the minutes were taken back by the committee. A good business was transacted on the Stock Exchange yesterday, which had completely recovered tone and overcome the fears of the previous day. In the Home Railway market all the leading lines were bid for, and in some cases the losses of Wednesday were made good. The finish was very firm at practically the best points, and after hours there was a still further improvement.

There was little doing in the Trunk market, and while prices were rather irregular the tendency at the last was favourable. Americans were offered at first, but recovered, and with one or two exceptions, notably Louisville, left off at a general advance on the previous night's finish. Mexicans were rather easier. In the minor sections the tendency was in favour of holders. A quiet business was done on the Pig-Iron Warrant Market.

The feeling, in response to the tone of the other markets, was better, and Scotch recovered the 2d lest on Wednesday. On the Freight Market firmness again prevailed in rates from Calcutta, and San Francisco was the turn steadier. There was no alteration in the condition of the Sugar Market, dealing being of moderate dimensions, and prices unchanged. On the Grain Market the tone was steady all round. Mr Courtney, addressing his constituents at St Clear, Cornwall, last night, strongly recommended, where possible, the choice of the members of the new Parish and District Councils without contested elections.

If the passions Guild Court yesterday John Macpherson, wine and spirit merchant, 75 North Street, Whiteimh, to erect nine cottages at High Balshagrav and J. A. Walker. iS West Princes Street. Glasgow, rc erect a double villa in Abbey Drive.

H. Talbot Crosbie applied for permission to eree 10 cottages in a new street in continuation of Park Drive. The Burgh Surveyor objected to the application, on the ground that the plans dividing walls of only 4i inches thickness, instead of 9. The Court ordered the Surveyor t. lodg his objection within two days, and the petitiorx-r to lodsre answers within two davs thereafter, and continued tile case until the 11th inst.

James Finlav. 30 Gray btreet, who had lmir.2 to ertrct double cottage at High Balshagray, was admoti- hed for having departed rrom tne plans in substituting a 4i inch dividing wall for a 0 inch one. Glasgow Sutherlandshirf. Association. The monthly meeting of this society was held in the Assembly Rooms.

Bath Street, last night. Mr Alexander Bruce, rollokshields, occupieil tne chair. Mr M. M'Leod, Langsitle, read a paper The Cathedral of the Diocese ot Caithn. as Dornoch." Mr Leod treated of the forms tioa of the See.

and gave a historical sketch of its Bishops. He mentioned that the first church at Dornoch was built at tne oeginning or me sev-ntlt century, and was dedicated to Sain Bar, tradition says was the first Bishop of Caithnes This church was superseded by Saint GiiUrr's Cathedral, which was built by Bishop Gilbert irj ilie thirteenth century. One of the central of this church is preserved in the present eniaV-. It was agreed to send a letter of congratulation to Mr Angus Sutherland, M.P., cn his appointment to the chairmanship of the Scottish Fishery Board. Greenock.

The New School Site Question-. The Greenock School Board met in priva: yesterday afternoon to consider the question a suitable site for the new school proposed ti built to replace the Ann Street and Dnrart Street schools. Four sites were under viz. Alan Ker School site, Ann School site, Nelson Street site, and South site. Votes were taken on all four, and it was decided, by 11 votes to 4.

that Street site be taken, provided it could he jot at reasonable price. Grkenook. The Question of Tmkxicai Education. The monthly meeting ef the Ore-nock School Board was held in the Board R. tin yesterday Mr Tom Neill, chairman, presiding.

The minutes of the Board in committee container: a copy of a letter from the County Council of Renfrew, stating that the Educational Commit oe of the County Council were at present engaged ir. framing a scheme for next year for the dispcsal ot the funds in the hands of the Council available for the purposes of technical education, and it had bees suggested that part of the funds might I advantageously applied in assisting committee in charge of evening art classes in the county, or in which scholars from the county are taught, and sking to be furnished with a prospectus or to classes, particulars of the fees charged, a statement of the income and expenditure tut last year, and a list of the scholars in attendance from the county (exclusive of burghs and police burghs), and any other useful information. In passing the minutes. Mr Neill s-aid in connection with this lie should like to say tuat he understood the Education Committee of ch Renfrewshire County Council had handed back their treasurer 575, being the unexpended balance for two years of sums which had been voted iiy the County Council for technical education, purposes. "If his information vas correct, and hr.

believed it was, here was a sum of 280 a year, which would go a long way to assist technic! education in Greenock, and which no doubt have been got or at all events a good portion oi jtfoc Greenock had the local Town Council shown anything lika a generous spirit towards, technical education. Of course they could no expect the County Council to give them a larce grant when their own Town Council would net even give them a 5 nole out of the granj which they received from the Government, a portion of which, although not ear-marked, ws given by the Government to the Town Council the very purpose of promoting technical edin He felt certain if the Town Council would yet look at the matter in a patriotic spirit and would give them 200 or 250 a year out of this grans which they got, the Board could induce theConnty Council to contribute an equal sum, by which means a Renfrewshire Technical College could built, and it would be built in Greenock. 'i'hi-400 or 300 iwr year would pay for the interest and repayment of the cost of a technical college and go a considerable way towards the annual upkeep. They might thus have a first-class technical college in Grecno. which would cost the ratepayers of Greenock practically nothing, and would be of eaorrnous advantage both for Greenock and the county.

Paisley. Pp.opertt Sale. In the County Hotel, yesterday aiternoon. the tenement of well i'ng'-h uuses forming Xo. 12 Sir Mic-haj! was exposed for sale ac the upset price of 230, and was purchased at that figure by Mr Hugh Armour, flesher, Paisley.

The rental of tha property is 1S 10s. Port-Glasgow. -The School Board Ci.ers inp TliEASURERSHIP. At the monthly tn-s; of School Board held last night Mr Russell, cimirman, presiding Bailie Mactar.a-.i gave notice that at next monthly meeting i ti, Board he would move that the offices of clerk ivi treasurer be held by two separate persons. Ave, Dean of Guild Court.

Yesterday, at a meeting ot tne or nunc ourt, nanus were, issued to James Smith's trustees for tenement in Smith Street Mr G. Steele, for to Clyde House Messrs D. Wyllie for new sheds at wonts in oaupann Ramsay, joiner, for new premises in Saiwiia Street. Ayr. School Appointments.

Yesterday, sta special meeting of Ayr School Board, the resignation of Miss Crawford, head mistress in Wallace-town School, was accepted. It was agreed transfer Miss Wilson, the present head mistress ir, School, to Wallacetnwn School, and to promote Miss Agnes Keid. at present in Rus-ell Street School, to be head unstress in School. Kilmarnock. A Warning to Ctci.ists.

Aa action ot oinsiaei-aoie importance tunn-- --disposed of in the Sheriff Small-Debt Curt yesterdav. Annie Steel, mill worker, Square Hnrlford. sued John Allardiee, GaJstnn Road. Hurlford. tor the sum oi compensation in respect of injuries sustained i-y her on SOth June last through being down bv defender on his bicycle on the jroi.lw uad between lturltord and iviimarnocA.

i tier's le" was broken, and she lay in Iviimarn i i Infirmary for six weeks, 'the defender p.c;cr hat he was not at fault. Attar Hearing vto-B- the Sheriff said the presumption every case this kind was that the driver was lams, -no did not think that the evidence had reoutteo in this case. His gave decree iorj- sued for, with expenses. Beith. The Proposed Burgh.

Lst nipt meeting of the ratepayers was held in the 'J 'cellars' Halls-Sheriff Hall presiding to whether the provisions of the Burgh Act of should be adopted or not, Mr C. Harrison posed, and Mr R. H. Sinclair seconded, a that Beith should be declared a burgh. Mr.f.

proposed an amendment that the Ut.ijif cTbt-. not adopted, which was seconded, by Mt Urqubart. On a show of hands an overworn-in'c majority declared against the burgh. Hall therefore declared that Beith wou.u adopt the Bnrgn Act. A requisition m- wards lodged demanding a poll, and the fixed Tuesday first as the date on which th would take place.

A vote of thanks vkecd the proceedings. Kirkintilloch. Proposed Fever Hospital, The necessity for providing a fever bo-vvnj the burgh has repeatedly been urged on tbr-'f missioners by the Board of Supervision, awi time age it was suggested that the Lantern Dumbartonshire and the Western mittee of Stirlingshire should be asked to tn-et. through representatives, to consider the novs-e-bility of providing a joint hospital. At a the other day a site at incnoeuy was considered.

It is on the north side of tit ra-t road leading to iiilsytn, and its aava--that satisfactory drainage arrangements easily be made, that it is within a short of the Kirkintilloch water main and the teiei trunk line, and, particularly, it is the most for th. three areas it is intended to serve. I site extends to about two and a half acres the property of Mr J. Lennox Pearetn. 1 lie committee resolved to recommend the site to mm respective Boards, with whom toe final settlement of the question lies.

Stirling. Keeping Gunpowder without License Before Sheriff -Substitute Buntitie. it yesterday, Mr George Lawson. Robert Lawson, and George Lawson, for the Glasgow Corporation Waterworks, were charged with having kept a qnanti'-' of "liiipowder in a store near Aberfoyte witl-ff havm" a license for the same. Accused pl'-a'i uilty1 and the agent having explained tJ offence occurred, the Sheriff imposed the moor.e-penalty of 5.

Leven. Woman Drowned The body 2 old woman, 74 years of age, named Sara Dear, has been found floating in the docks. Accounts. At Dundee Town Council, MrDavio b-n nerman, the city chamberlain, Mionutwrt annu; that lal accounts ior mis city. i the revenue amounted ro timi r-ito-JQ 1n AA lesvmj and the expeno.i'n --w, deficit of 21 Ss 3d.

The kirk fabric the year with a favourable balance i-. 3s 5d, but the total indebtedness of the the Corporation stands at The stock at 31st July was 83,891, while, the hospital fund showed a owing to the bank of 201. Dundee. Town Council. -The new orders in connection with the rearrangf-m the committees, as suggested by Lord Low under the new Corporation Act.

mitted yesterday at the usual monthly the Town Council. It was agreed toon--them at a special meeting. The bers retire in November First v. aid Mudie; Second Treasurer Willsher Alexander Elliot; Fourth-P. Storne ex-Provost Hunter; Sixth-Bailie Dotg; --ex-Provost Ballir.gall Eighth-NV.

-v-. Ninth Bailie Maedonaid. Eac-n of those men delivered the customary retiring intimated their intention to offer their iwr their respective constituents Counei asked whether, having regard to the as a county, they would he.e-; expected "to address the Lord Prtnc a Lieutenant. Sir Thomas on r. thev should address him as L.i'.l levins: nothing to do im while that of Lord Provost was unequal to that of Lord-Lieutenant.

to the sale of spirits. Undoubtedly it has reduced the consumption of spirits, but concurrently has grown up a new consumption of beer, for the sale of which there is no regulation. But more than that. Mr Courtney has missed the great point, which is this. The present Gothenburg system was established to counteract the evils of the free sale of native brandy, which almost every farmer made and sold.

It is proposed to establish it here in place of what is cvlled a momopoly, and what is at anyrate a species of protection under legal supervision. The conditions are wholly dissimilar, and, therefore, the argument from analogy fails when it is sought to forecast the effects of the Gothenburg, or Scandinavian, system in this country. It seems a pity that ths question of the removal of St Enoch's Church has been mixed up with the more difficult problem of the relation of the Corporation to the City Churches in general. The mention of the Tron Church in connection with the matter that is now receiving attention from both the Town Council and the Presbytery is quite intelligible. It may be assumed that on the part of the Presbytery no claim can be made except thafcjsuitable accommodation should be provided for St Enoch'scongregation in its present place of worship or elsewhere.

Out of the sum that was paid by the Subway Company in thajprospect of possible damage to the fabric of the church a surplus might conceivably remain after the wants of St Enochs congregation were fully met. In that case-the removal of the Tron Church from a position where at the present time it assuredly is not ornamental would be simplified in so far as this is matter of ways and means. Yet a complication arises here too, for divers opinions begin to be expressed regarding the proper treatment of the steeple, and accordingly a fresh burden has been thrown on the Committee, which already had upen its shoulders the care of all the churches. If the Churches Com mittee had been less ambitious in the report which they presented to the Council it is highly probable that more progress would have been made towards reaching a con. elusion in a matter that now calls for a settlement.

Nobody affects a desire to see St Enoch's Church repaired on its present site. The clearing out of the Square would be' a manifest public advantage. From the ecclesiastical point of view an unequivocal opinion has been pronounced by the Presby tery, and a suitable sphere for fresh parochial operations has been indicated. It is expressly stated that a majority of the Churches Committee agree with the Presbytery as to the desirability of the removal of the building. If the simple issue between removal and non-removal were put to the Council it is not doubtful which view would prevail.

It is a matter for regret that there should be further delay in a matter about which all interested seem to be at one. The convener of the Churches Committee acted wisely when he consented to take back his report in order that the subject may be discussed next month. The delay that has occurred might be turned to good purpose by considering whether by an alteration in the terms of the report a distinction could not be made between the subjects mentioned in it as ripe and as not ripe." It may be assumed that the question about St Enoch's Church belongs to the former of the two categories. Yet the consideration of it is not even suggested until a very large subject has been exhaustively discussed. In the first place, the Committee ask powers "to -c'ohsider and report upon the whole question of the existing relations between the Corporation and the city churches, and the best means of having them put on a more satisfactory footing." Only in the event of a possible breakdown in the negotiations contemplated is it suggested that "arrangements should be made under which St Enoch's Church may be removed from its present site." When one recalls the futile endeavours that on more than one occasion have been made to arrive at an understanding on the general question, and the time that must needs be spent in negotiations between two independent bodies that can approach each other only through the medium of committees, one must conclude that nothing very urgent in the affairs of the church and parish of St Enoch's has been found to exist.

Since the days of Lord Bacon it has been held to be a prudent maxim that all who have to face an intricate problem should begin with its simpler aspects first, and then rise gradually to the more complex. The St Enoch's Church question is confessedly a simple matter, and the relation of the Corporation to the city churches is unquestionably a very complex one. If the Churches Committee really mean business they might so alter their report as to give the Town Council the opportunity of tackling the easier of the two questions first. From the remarks that were made yesterday by various members of the Town Council it does not appear in the least likely that anything practical would result from a renewal of negotiations with the Presbytery on the general subject. It was indeed suggested that this reverend body had got "more light" since the time when, somewhat abruptly perhaps, it declined to hold further conference on a matter that for a while seemed to be in a fair way to a settlement.

So far as the negotiating Committees were then concerned the suppression of more than one parochial charge was accepted as the basis of a scheme which was drawn up on the lines of the settlement adopted with good results in Edinburgh. To all appearance the termination of negotiations was caused by a difference of opinion as to the amount of money involved in the contemplated transaction. But in truth the difficulty did not really turn upon money, and the obstacles in the way of an understanding are as formidable now as they were then. It will be hard to convince the Presbytery of the soundness of the principle which some members of the Council hold to be axiomatic, that in the proportion in which parishioners leave the city for the suburbs there ought to be a reduc tion of parochial charges and of stipends. The argument will rather be advanced that there is greater need of churches and endowments when well-to-do people have gone elsewhere.

Nor will the statement be accepted without demur that all the funds which the Corporation received for Church purposes were handed over to Glasgow University. If the late Mr Maegeorge were still among us he would have something to say on this point. A considerable amount of mystery still hangs over the matter of count and reckoning as between the Church and the Corporation. All this, however, deserves mention at the present time only as showing how little probability there is of an understanding between two parties who start from such dissimilar premises. The question about St Enoch's Church does not in the least involve the wider issue, and the two Committees will do well to attend to the simpler matter first, the Presbytery.

THE COURT. Balmoral. Thursday. The Queen went oui yesterday morning, with Princess Beatrice and Princess Henry of Prussia. The Princess of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of York, and Princess Victoria of Wales drove from Mar Lodpe and had luncheon with the Queen, the Duke and Duchess of York subsequently leaving for Edinburgh.

In the afternoon Her Majesty drove out, accompanied by the Princess of Wales, Prince and Princess of Batkenberg, Princess Henry of Prussia, and fnncess Victoria ot Wales. Mer Majesty accompanied the Princess of Wales as far as tlie Castle of Braemar. Princess Victoria remains at Balmoral. Mr Fowler had the honour of dining with the Queen and Royal Famiiy. The Duke of Yop.k in Edinburgh.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York left Edinburgh yesterday morning for Leeds, after staying in the city overnight. As it was known that the Ryal couple would travel bv the ten o'clock London express from the Waverley Station, a great many people gathered before that hour in the vicinity of the Royal Hotel and the approaches to the statiom At a quarter before ten o'clock the Lord Provost called at the hotel, and was invited by the Duke to accompany him in his carriage to the station, which his Lordship did. Before leaving the hotel His Royal Highness expressed to Mr Maephail, the manager, his satisfaction with the arrangements made on his behalf. On the way to the station the crowd greeted their Royal Highnesses in a most enthusiastic and cordial manner. For the Royal party a couple of Great Northern day saloons" were attached to the 10 A.M.

train, which was despatched in two portions, their Royal Highnesses going with the first portion from the south main arrival platform. Here the crimson cloth was laid. The railway manacer. Mr Conacher the superintendent. Mr Denchars and the stationmaster, Mr Paton, were in attendance and Chief-Constable Henderson, Superintendent Bain, and Inspector Christie, with a force of police, looked after the crowd.

Her Royal Highness having taken her seat the tram alone with Lady Eva GreviUe, the Duke exchanged a few words with the Lord Provost, who expressed the hope that their Koyal Highnesses would soon come back again. The Duke expressed the gratification which their former visit to the city had given them, and the pleasure with which they would look forward to another. Further courtesies were exchanged, and the Lord Provost ha ving bade good-bye to the Royal pair, the train departed amid the cheering of a large crowd of people who had followed the carriages to the platform. The Duke and Duchess, who are to open the new medical school in connection with the Yorkshire College at Leeds to-day, arrived at Garforth in the afternoon, and met with an enthusiastic reception. St John's Rectory Fuxn Bazaah, Perth.

Yesterday afternoon a bazaar in aid ni the. Rectory Fund of St John's Episcopal Church was opened in the City Hall by Lord Balvaird, in presence of a large assemblage of ladies and gentlemen. It was explained that the object of the bazaar is to raise 300 or 300 towards the cost of the new rectory which has recently been bought. Drowning Fatamty. Yesterday afternoon Aibert Kohb, nged two years, son of Joseph Kohb, dyker, 4 Watt Street, Forfar, was playing with some children at the West End public bleaching green, when he slipped into one of the basins for washing purposes.

The water was IS inches deep, and the unfortunate child beingunable to extricate itself, was drowned before assistance arrived. Dr Cable was called and tried to resuscitate life, but failed. Bayonet Exercise. A competition which created a good deal of interest, and filled Green-dyke Street Drill Hall with spectators, took place last night. Five companies of the Glasgow Highlanders competed for a cup presented by Captain Miller.

Captain Blackburn, adjutant of the 1st Lanark, acted as umpire, assisted by Col. Clark and Major Graham. There were also a number of company commanders present. The contest, which was opened by the appearance of Company, and finishing with Company, was a very cIosb one, only a couple of points dividing the first two. The winners were Company, Company second, and Company third.

Under the presidency of Major Graham, th first and second teams were entertained at headquarters by the regimental officers. Glasgow Athemcm. Theintrodnctorylcture to this winter's course on mercantile law was delivered last night by Mr A. M. Mitchell, LL.B., writer, Glasgow.

Thers was a large attendance. The subject was the law of sale, with special reference to the Sales of Goods Act, lSfB. The lecturer pointed out that according to Scotch common law a purchaser of goods, even though they were clearly identified, did not become the legal owaer of them until they had been delivered to him, and yet the loss of them through accidental causes, as for instance fire, fell on him. The Sales of Goods Act had removed this anomaly by bringing- in the English rule, under which the purchaser became the owner oh the completion of the contract, and a.s owner took the risk of all accidents. Perhaps the most important change of all was the introduction into Scotch law of the English actio qnanti minoris.

rule which allowed a purehaspr, dissatisfied with the quality of goods, to retain them, and yet claim an abatement from the price in name of damages. The Scotcli common law-allowed no claim of damages unless the goods were rejected forthwith. It would have been better if English lawyers had shown a Iittl more of the spirit of concession, and accepted Scotch rules on more points than they had done. Had they done so, the law of the two eountrit-s might have been properly, instead of only partially, asstmilatt-d, and the statute would have been of greater utility. Glasgow and West op Scotland Co-operation for Trained Nurses.

A meeting of the executive was held yesterday afternoon at the home, 18 Sardinia Terrace, at which Mrs Elder, the hon. president, was present. A number of ladies and gentlemen and of medical men interested in the co-operation met Mrs Elder afterwards on the invitation of the executive. Among those present were Professor and Mrs Coats, chairman Drs Perry and Wallace Anderson, hon. physicians Professor Henry Clark and Dr Newman, hon.

surgeons Professor Murdoch Cameron, Dr and Miss Blaokie, Mr Pose, Mr and Mrs Greenlees, Mr and Mrs James Muir, Mr and Mrs Robert Finlay, Miss Burnet, Dr Elizabeth Pace, Dr Alice M'Laren Miss Rough, lady superintendent Miss Galloway, Mr J. B. Douglas, hon. secretary, and others. Some of the nurses were also present.

Professor Coats, chairman of the oxeeutive, presided. After expressing the pleasure ff It by all in having Mrs Elder present with them on this occasion, Professor Coats explained briefly the progress which the co-operation had made during the last ten months the time during which it had been in working order. He also referred to the number of nurses now on the roll, and concluded by emphasising the fact that this institution was one entirely for the benefit of the nurses, and intended as a means to help them to help themselves. Mrs Elder replied in a few appropriate words, expressing her pleasure at being present and meeting the members and nurses connected with the co-operation, in which, she said, she took a deep interest. She had made a careful investigation of the affairs of the co-operation, and thought MissRoughwas entitled togreat credit for the pains she had taken in carrying on the work, and she predicted that it would not be long before ths institution was self-supporting.

Mr Maylard, as convener of the Medical Committee, explained the mode in which nurses were selected, and the precautions taken to ensure thorough efficiency. Mr Jamas Mtiir, C. hon. treasurer, referred briefly to the financial position, and mentioned the amount of fees earned by-some of the nurses. Professor Murdoch Cameron, Professor Henry Clark, and Dr Blackie having also spoken in support of the co-operative principle as applied to nurses, the meeting separated.

Oprtvis-r. of Coatbridge Town Hall. Yesterdavthe completed Town Hall for the burgh of Coatbridge was formally opened in presence of a very large and influential gathering. Previous to the public ceremony the Town Councillors and other subscribers met in the new Council Chamber for the -presentation of Provost Alexander's portrait, by Mr Joseph Henderson, Glasgow. Bailie Chisholm, the Senior Magistrate, presided and in the absence of the Provost through prolonged indisposition, Mr A.

K. M'Cosh, of Gartsherrie Iron-Works, represented him. The portrait was presented by Bailie Chisholm in name of the subscribers, and in acknowledging it on behalf of Provost Alexander, Mr M'Cosh handed it back to the Council in the Provost's name, so that it may continue to adorn the walls of the chamber as the first Provost of the burgh. (Cheers.) The company then adjourned to the grand entrance hall, where Colonel James Neilson of Mossend, on behalf of subscribers, presented to the Town Council a fine marble bust of Provost Alexander, which is placed in a niche in the wall facing the entrance to the Town Hi.ll. The gift was accepted on behalf of the Council by Councillor Bruce, convener of the Buildings Committee.

The bust is by Mr James Ewing, Glasgow. Another presentation was then made of a portrait of the iata Bailie Gilchrist, one of the most energetic in the work of carrying out improvements in the burgh. The gift was handed over to the Council on behalf of the subscribers by Mr Richard Wallace, and acknowledged by Bailie Sharp. The portrait is by Mr MTCinlay, Glasgow. The proceedings of opening the Town Hall began at three o'clock.

The hoU was filled by leading citizens and representatives of other burghs, upwards of 15(10 being present. Bailie Chisholm, who presided, was supported by Sir David C. R. Buchanan, K.C.B., of Drumpeilier Mr Graeme A. Whitetaw, M.P., the magistrates and councillors of the burgh, Colonel Neilson, of Mossend, and many other leading gentlemen in the district.

The proceedings began with the reading of Scripture and prayer by Rv. J. A. Ireland, after which the 100th Psalm was sung to the accompaniment of th grand organ presented by Provost Alexander at a cost of 320. Sir David Buchanan then declared the hall open.

Mr A. K. M'Cosh, on behalf of Provost Alexander, whose, absence through illness was much wgrettud, then formally presented to the burgh the grand organ by Willis, of London. Councillor Davidson, on behalf of the Music Committee of the Ti.wn Council, acknowledged the munificent gift. Other addresses followed.

A frse fno.ert was given jn th earnestness, and what is hopeful about the situation is that the discussion now turns less than ever on the merits and demerits of Prohibition. But a new difficulty arises when reform is proposed instead of prevention. The conditions of the controversy take a new, shape, for the reformers have to contend not only with use and wont, and with that conservatism of the British nature that is averse from all change, but also with The Trade on the one hand and the Prohibitionists on the other. The Bishop of Chester, who spoke last night at a Temperance Society meeting at Northampton, recognises the existence of both sorts of opposition, but it is doubtful if he has quite realised the strength of either individually, or the strength of both in combination. Such a Liquor Reform Bill as he proposes will have te contend against the influences of those whose interest it is to promote the sale of drink, as well as of those who wish, to abolish it altogether.

This latter class may not be a very large one, but it is usually very "solid" in a voting sense. Among the reformers it is common to speak of the "monopoly" of the drink traffic, and though the word is not strictly appli cable, it must be remembered thatthe number of persons now interested in the manufacture and sale of drink is greater than ever it was. A brewer is no more a monopolist than is a cotton-spinner, and a licensed! publican no more than a licensed auctioneer or a diplomaed doctor. And since the conversion of breweries and distilleries into joint-stock copartneries the manufacture of drink has become a very, important part of our commercial system. Every holder of brewery-shares may be expected to keep a jealous eye on all proposals to regulate in the way of restricting the sale of the commodity in which he has a financial interest.

That, of course, is no argument against efforts at reform, but it affords a strong reason for proceeding cautiously. To excite opposition at the outset will be to ruin the cause of reform. For thft reason something may be said in favour of the Bishop of Chester's suggestion that Local Option may be tripartite. That is to say, he would not limit the choice of localities to the two alternatives of the exist ing system and veto (which is practically prohibition) but he would add the choice of a third alternative, that of transferring the trade to public hands either those ofra Trust Company, as in of the Municipality, as proposed by Mr Chamberlain. Such a combination might reconcile the Local Optionists and appease established interests te some extent but cm the other hand in many, perhaps most, localities it would just result in the retention of the existing system, for the Vetoists would counterbalance the MunicipaJisers.

Mr Gladstone, though "friendly" to Local Option as generally understood, says that it can be no more than a partial and occasional remedy. It cannot be even so much, for the Veto in one locality would merely operate to subsidise the publicans in another. But even if it could be a remedy for the mischief of drink, the Bishop of Chester's argument is a sound one that as to prohibit the sale would be a far more drastic remedy, and a far more serious interference with the liberty of the subject, than to regulate the saie, therefore a heavier preponderance of local opinion would be required to justify prohibition than to justify regulated provision. This argument, however, upsets the tripartite idea, for if three alternatives are submitted to the popular vote the vote would require to have equal weight in each part. Let it be admitted that the reform of the Liquor traffic has a claim to both logical and practical priority to its abolition, and the way will be cleared.

But the Prohibitionists will not admit this, and therefore they will continue to press for Local Option, and so stand in the way of real reform. They may, indeed, by their obstinacy call forth a fourth alternative to be put before the people not for the first time that the sale of liquor should be as free as the sale of food. There are many people who think, and not without some show of reason, that the very exclusiveness of the traffic is one main cause of the evils which surround it. To establish free trade in drink would, no doubt, be an audacious experiment, but would it be any more audacious than to prohibit the trade altogether in a community of rational creatures The Bishop of Chester is not well-advised in dwelling on the thorniness and peculiar dangers of the liquor monopoly the last of all monopolies to be left at the mercy of private greed for in doing so he practically invites the answer that the way to remove a monopoly is not to destroy the trade, but to enfranchise it. The essence of Mr Gladstone's present opinion seems to be that a mere reduction in the number of public-houses is quite insufficient and will not mitigate the mischief of drink.

But this argument can be carried against both the Bishop of Chester's and Mr Chamberlain's proposals. By vesting the sale either in a Trust Company or in a Municipality the number of sale-places would be reduced, were it only to economise the cost of rent and management but what then is to be gained under either system The expediency of transferring the Liquor monopoly from private to public hands cannot be justified on the theory of the insufficiency of mere numerical reduction as a remedy. The real principle of what is vaguely called the Scandinavian system is to discourage the sale by eliminating the element of private profit. Under the Trust Company the interest payable to those who subscribe the capital is limited by law, and is not affected by the extent of the traffic. Under Mr Chamberlain's plan all the profit would go to the Municipality.

But, then, as has already been shown here, much depends on how the Municipality, or other local authority, disposes of the profit. If it is applied in the reduction of rates, or in the payment of charges which would otherwise come out of the rates, then it is obviously the interest of the ratepayers to have as large a trade in, and as much profit from, the sale of drink as possible. The personal element would thus be merely extended. No doubt it is designed so to regulate the distribution that the salesman would have no advantage in pushing the sale, but is it quite certain that publicans and barmen at present materially increase their sales by inviting frequenters of their premises to spend money When men go into a public-house it is with a definite purpose, and licensed-victuallers do not go out to the highways and hedges to drag them in to drink in order to make profit out of them. And when appeal is made to the success of the Trust Company system in Gothenburg it is necessary to remember, as Mr Courtney remiuded his constituents at Liskeard yesterday, that this onlv affords partial Mr Andrew Carnegie was presented with the freedom of Jedburgh yesterday.

The deliberations of the Railway Servants, Congress were continued yesterday. The Town Hall for the burgh of Coatbridge was formally opened yesterday. The list of the British awards at the Antwerp Exhibition is published to-day. The so-called crisis is over. Yesterday the members of the Cabinet, with the exception of Sir William Harcourt, Mr Campbell-Bannerman, Mr Fowler, and Mr Bryce, met in Council, and after deliberating for less than two heurs departed to the homes or holiday haunts from which they had been so suddenly summoned.

It is beyond doubt that the main topic of discussion was the situation in the East, and more particularly in our nineteen Treaty Ports in China, caused by the war between that country and Japan, and that, as a consequence of the meeting, steps were taken to strengthen the British fleet in Chinese waters, the necessary instructions being sent to Admiral Premantle. The Council was not without its comic or at all events serio-comic side. Nearly as much excitement was shown in Downing Street and its vicinity as if the meeting had been held for the purpose of deciding whether we were to go to war with France over Madagascar. This, however, is partially to be accounted for by the fact that two Ministers, Mr Arnold Morley and Lord Tweedmoufch, had been in the Seotch express which met with an accident at Northallerton at an early hour yesterday morning, and spectators were not devoid of anxiety as to whether these two gentlemen were unwounded from the dreadful close. The sudden and almost grotesque collapse of the crisis has encouraged the belief that, after all, Ministers must have had their attention occupied with something more than the mere question of strengthening our garrisons and squadron in the East.

If Madagascar was not under discussion, then the Cabinet must have been wondering what ought to be done the event of France and Eussia suggesting European intervention in the struggle between China and Japan. On this it would I be idle to speculate especially after the sensational esperiences of the past few days. The secret history of Cabinet Councils is occasionally revealed. If this had not been the case, Lord Rosebery's monograph upon Pitt would not have been so piquant as it is. We know that, ere now, these meetings have been called at the instance of fussy or timid Ministers, and without due cause.

In the absence of any evidence one way or another, it would be unfair to "Lord Rose-bery or Lord Kimberley to suggest that yesterday's meeting was the superfluity of precaution. It is highly probable that the Foreign Office is in possession of information which shows that, the possibilities of the future are much more alarming than even such facts of the present as the recommendation of the British Consul at Hankow to the European residents to send down women and children to Shanghai for safety. There can be little doubt that a victorious Japanese march to the capital of China would be followed by the wholesale massacre of foreigners by mobs composed of the scum of the large cities. Such atrocities would, of course, be severely punished as they have been in the past. But prevention is better than punishment.

And may it not be the case that the summoning of a Council of British Ministers to arrange not only for the defence of the Treaty Ports, but for the protection of British residents in the Chinese cities, was expressly intended as a political lime-light effect a warning sent out all over the world, and which even the Ciiinese cannot fail to see and cannot afford to ignore No doubt too pronounced a tendency is being exhibited at the present moment to worship the rising sun, to take it for granted that, because in the first conflicts of the war the Japanese have been victorious, they are to have it as much their own way as the Germans had in the struggle with France, Sir Halliday Macartney may be right the battle in Corea may have been at the worst a Woerth, not a Sedan. In any case the wild schemes for a partition of China, to which allusion is made in our London Correspondence, and which include the appearance of the septuagenarian Li Hung Chang as a conspirator against the throne of which he was, till the other day, regarded as the mainstay, may be taken with a few grains of salt. They may, at all events, be bracketed with the scheme for placing China under British control like India, which was favoured by the late Mr Rathbone Greg, who, modern Cassandra though he was, was also a good bit of a Chauvinist, very much perhaps as a hypochondriac has been known to have an enormous appetite for mutton pies. In the meantime, however, all the news that is forthcoming points to such an advance of the Japanese Army into China as will be followed by the disintegration of all the forces within the Celestial Empire that preserve peace and order. How far this disintegration, with all the dangers that will follow in its train, has gone may be known to the British Minister at Tientsin if it is not known to him it is not known to anyone.

He may have suggested the political "effect" of yesterday. Should it be found necessary for this country, acting in co-operation with France or Russia or both, to interfere between the conflicting Powers in the interests- of humanity or of the commerce of the world, or of both, the precautionary measures which have been actually taken, or only ordered, may prove to be a wise investment of diplomatic energy. They may give us a position of strength for which, otherwise, we might hope in vain. It may be assumed, therefore, thatthe cause of the sudden calling together yesterday of such members of theCabinetas were available was worthy to rank in importance with the step which has actually been taken- In any case, the fact that the meeting was held is no longer to be taken as a symptom, much less as proof positive, that this country has already been precipitated into a serious difficulty with France over Madagascar or some other of the too numerous "outstanding problems." The fear that something of the kind had taken place, simply because a Cabinet Council was called, does not say very much for the boasted stability of the British character, although, to be sure, the interested chatter of the Stock Exchange onght not to be taken for the deliberate convictions of the British Empire. It says still less for the existence of any profound conviction in the minds of British politicians that a war with France is an impossibility.

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AGENTS. CONTENTS. THE END OF THE CRISIS." DIFFICULTIES OF LIQUOR REFORM. GLASGOW CITY CHURCHES. THE WAU IN THE EAST.

PROTECTION OF BRITISH SUBJECTS IN CHINA. fleet to be AMONG FOREIGNERS AT PF.KI.V. ALARMING RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. BAST COAST EXPRESS IN COLLISION-SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED. THREE TRAINS IN COLLISION AT LINLITHGOW THE EVENING TIMES GOLF TOURNAMENT-FIRST DAVS PLAY.

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Shamrock Street U.P. Church Bazaar. The Building Trade in Glasgow. The Lighting of Glasgow Stairs. TENTH PACE.

SCOTCH COAL STRIKE. MR COURTNEY AND HIS CONSTITUENTS. BISHOP OF CHESTER ON LIQUOR QUESTION. LETTERS TO THE labour Affairs. I Belmont Church.

Hillhead, Railway Sonants' Conjress. i Fairs and Stock Sales Kf.KfKKrH PAGK EVENING TIMES" GOLF TOURNAMENT. vity of Dundee as a County. Ecclesiastical. Coursing.

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FRIDAY, October 5, 1S94. At the Cabinet Council yesterday all the Ministers were present with the exception of Sir William Harcourt, Mr Bryce, and Mr Fowler. It seems that the telegraphic summons failed to find' the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Secretary for War, who are both on the Continent, and Mr Bryce received his telegram in Switzerland too to attend. Mr Fowler, who is in attendance on the Qtieen, remained at Balmoral. The Ministerial deliberations lasted nearly two hours, and it is stated that the principal business was the condition of affairs in China and the possible danger to British subjects in that country.

It is understood that arrangements have been made to send reinforcements to the Admiral of the China Squadron, It is reported from Shanghai that five Japanese warships are lying off the Chusan Islands. This statement has caused a scare in Ningpo, as the few Chinese warships available for protecting the coast towns are obsolete and almost useless. Foreign officials in the Customs service who arc married are leaving Pekin with their families, and much uneasiness prevails among the European residents. A telegram reached the Chinese Legation in London yesterday to the effect that a junction had been effected between the Chinese troops from Ping-Yang and those landed at the mouth of the Yalu River. It is said that the Japanese Government has decided to raise a foreign lean.

Additional details regarding the murder of Mr Wvlie, the missionary, are published to-day. The second portion of the East Coast express train which left Edinburgh for King's Cross mi Wednesday at 10.40 p.m. ran into a train at Beadle Junction, near Northallerton, at an early hour yesterday morning. There were two engines on the express, and both of the engine drivers and firemen were seriously injured. Only two passengers jomplained of anything more than severe shaking.

The two engines of the express were thrown off the line by the force of the impact, the guard's van next the engine and third-class carriage were completely smashed, but the next carriage the Pullman car "Iona" was only slightly damaged, and its great weight served to stop the force of the collision to the carriages behind. Lord Tweedmouth and Mr Arnold Movlev, who were journeying te London attend the Cabinet Council, were uninjured, tained bruises, ana ineir mor.ner, wno triea to rescue them, was also slightly injured. A little girl named M'lntosh had her left arm badly bruised. The.y had their injuries dressed by Dr Marshall and Dr Murray in the surgery of the former, aud it was found necessary to send the lad Montgomery to the Royal Infirmary. Stxtehntk Municipal Wabd Committee.

The meeting was held in Fleming's Temperance Hotel, Bridge Street, on Tuesday evening Mr Alexander Younger in the chair. After th formal business was passed. Mr Jamieson, con, verier of the Streets and Sanitary Committees, re. ported that Scotland Street and Melville Street are to be repaved, and that the other sanitary matters in the ward are receiving the best atten tion from the sanitary officials. The secretary was instructed to write the three representatives, asking them to vote against the adoption of the Free Libraries Act.

A letter was read from ex -Bailie Shearer intimating that he had great pluasurp in placing bis services at the disposal of ward for another term. Church of Scotland Abstainers' Associa tion. A general meeting of the Association of Abstainers in the Church ot Scotland was held yesterday in the offices of the Church, 22 Queen Street Lord Polwarth, presidrat of the association, in th chair. Communications were read from the Executive Committee of the General Assembly's Committee on Temperance as to co-operation in their work, and stating that they hoped to be ab! to engage an organising secretary. Statements were also made as to the working of other societies, and it was unanimously resolved that, as th Assembly's Committee on Temperance intended to carry on active work for the promotion of total abstinence, the Associated Abstainers of the Church of Scotland Society should be discontinued as a separate organisation, and should en-operate in the work to be carried on by the Assembly's committee.

Thk Lockerbt Almshouses atLieerton. The formal opening of the almshouses at Burnhead. Liberton, Mid-Lothian, which have been erected under the will of the late Mr Thomas Lockerby, took place yesterday in presence of a large company, the principal part of the cereraonv being petfornied by Lord Provost Sir James Russt-il. Mr Lockerby, who died in 1)387, left about 30,000 for the foundation ofthess almshouses, but with aconmuktion of interest and a further lmqnest of 1000 by a Miss Maeaulay supplement ot the scheme, the capital tunas ot tne trust, including the value of the 12 cottages, amounts to about 35,000. The cottages are erected in the style of double villas, with plots of ground in front and in rear.

Consisting of three rooms and kitchen, with baths and all modern conveniences, they have cost about 450 each, representing a total expenditure of between 5000 and 6000. The beneficiaries, who are to be persons in reduced circumstances through no fault of their own, are to sit rent and these cottages, and to receive in addition 10s per week each. The ceremony of opening the cottages was performed with a silver key by the. Ijora iYovost, wno maae a 5uort.isjjectu commendation ot tne oeneiaenon. Important Factory Act Prosecution.

In the Sheriff Court at Stranraer yesterday a case came up for judgment in which the important question as to whether creameries come under the scope of the Vur-tfirv ind Workshons Acts was dec-idea. ATnrv Mnirhead Paterson. inspector oi factories, sued the Vvigtonshire Urea-mery oom mn at. Stranraer for penalties under the Act, in onnsemience of having employed, on a Sunday in July, a woman ana two young persons con t-raiy the provisions of the statute. The case was heard at a former diet, and Sheriff-Substitute Watson took the case to avizandum.

Yester rlav he delivered an elaborate judgment, wriinh be. reif-cted the plea that had been set forth that creameries did not come under the Act. It had been urged that the work at creameries was for the preservation of dairy produce, and corresponded with the work done in dairies. He had therefore carefully looked through the Act to find if tbfru wan rtnv loonhole to iustifv such view, but he confessed that he had lint been able to do so. He held that the creamery was a factory nnrW the Act.

that the charge was proved, but only imposed the limitod penalty of one shilling for each of ton three persons emploj-ed. Mr Todd, who appeared for the creamery company, intimated a case of summary appeal. Lecture on California. Last night Mr W. A.

Nvli delivered a lecture on California in the hall of the Glasgow Athenaeum. Rev. T. Somer-ville. Blaekfnars Parish, occupied the chair, and i 2 in introducing tne lecturer ne expiaiueu iu uc had spent five years on the Pacific slope, and that he had twice revisited his old quarters.

On each occasion he had marked progress of which we had no conception in Scotland. He described Cali fornia as the modern land of milk and honey, ana nliservpd that all the wealth that had come from under the surface was as nothing compared to the wealth upon the surface. Mr Wygn gave details as to the climate, sou, capaouuies. ami advantages for settlers ot California, which described as being as civilised as any country in Europe. The great secret of their success was education.

Any one wno wisnea to os siromiu rtoilfnrma mnut work hard. A vounsr man who could control a capital of from 130 to 150 could start a home, and make himself independent of anybody within the next four or rive years, ilv the ca.m'ta.1 reouired depended upon the emigrant and the place to which he was going hut it ran from -ou upwaras. xis labouring classes that they must not go to Cah-j fornia at present. The lecture was illustrated by dissolving views. Licensed Victuallers and Mk Gladstone's Letter.

At the half-yearly meeting of the ATo 4 District (Lancashire Cheshire) of the Licensed Victuallers' Defence League at Manchester yfsterday, Mr George Hall of htock-port, presiding, Mr John Hunt said that the recent licensing sessions tended to show that magistrates generally were beginning to take a more reasonable view of matters, and were not acting in the arbitrary manner they did last year. There had been a great change of opinion, and llo i'n the minds of those who made the laws. They had, no doubt, read with pleasure the letter which appeared in the papers a fortnight a0 from the pen ot ijlaastone. J.ney lounu fffct Mr Gladstone bad seen the error of his ways, r-nmine- round to a more reasonable way of thinking. thought that many Liberals would be shid to drop the Local Veto ana tint stnn to the incessant harassing of the trade.

The genial secretary of the United Kingdom AJiiance Jiau ueen Gijuig i.wutrtr. Mc man, and had received a characteristic reply. He could not gtt the old gentleman to say that black was white on this occasion. Mr Gladstone professed to be in favour of the Bishop of Chester's new fangled scheme, but, judging from experience in other countries, this measure did not atford much encouragement to the temperance party. Alleged Serious Robberv by a Soldier.

William Bullen, of the 12th Lancers, stationed at Piershill Barracks, and William Whit-ldon, a civilian grooin, also employed at the barracks, were remanded from Edinburgh City Police Court yesterday on a charge of theft to an amount exceeding 10. Later in the day they were brought before the Sheriff, but the Procurator-Fiscal withdrew the charge against Whieldon, and the other accused emitted a declaration. The charge is a rather serious one. It is alleged that on Tuesday Bullen robbed a gentleman on the road near Piershill Barracks of 00 and a deposit receipt for 200. It would appear that the man from whom the money was taken and the two prisoners were in a public-house close to Piershill Barracks.

All three, it is said, imbibed rather freely, with the result that an unusual amount of intimacy sprang up among tlietn. Bullen and Whieldon, it is alleged, left their new friend in the public-house, but shortly afterwards the latter also went out and proceeded towards the barracks, whereabout one o'clocn in wie murmiit; the guard discovered him asleep. He was led outside the walls, and he betook himself to tne Queen's Park, wher he accosted police-constable, to whom he mentioned that be had over 90 and a deposit receipt for 200, which was contained in bis pocket book. A more coherent statement was furnished at the police station, and due inquiry having been made by Detectives it, Walker, the two arrests were brought about. Bullen will probably be Drought before a sheriff and jury.

Saturday Night Riot in High Strict. At the Centra! Police Court yesterday before 1 once tj Wnf.rls a. VOUH2 man, was charged with having, on Saturday night in High cit Wm Wesh. Alex. Hay, and David Stewart, and kicked Constable Hay on the face.

Accused pleaded nor gu.v, Lbmbar. writer. According to the evidence. Constable Hay was conveving Woods to the Police Office abjut o'clock on Saturday night, on a charge ot ass-m-ing the police, when the prisoner suddenly butted him with his head. Between 400 and nOO persons onumr) them and attempted to rescue the prisoner.

When Constable Stewart came to the assistance of his comrade he was knocked rWn. Hav fell, and while he was on the ground the prisoner kicked him on the race. assaulted. To get pro tection from the crowd the police took refuge in an eating-house, whereupon the mob attacked it throwing what was described as a shower of bottles" into the shop, the result being that the contents were damaged, the window smasnerh and a panel of the door broken. Procurator-Fiseal Neilson remarked that it seemed to have been a regular battle of the Bell of the Brae.

It was proved that Woods had been thrice previously convicted of assaulting policemen. The Magistrate, in imposing a fine of 5 with the alternati ve of 30 days' imprisonment, said that the police were there to protect citizens, and evry well-disposed Tjt-rson should rather assist them than attempt to abuse then). Such a disturbance as had taken place was vrv serious one. of nut crowded str-netS. excited bv contests were avoided, he antici pated great good from the mingling of different classes the deliberations ana wars.

01 tnese bodies, especially of the District Councils, which would administer the Poor Law. He alluded ta the mischiefs which a too indulgent Poor Law administration might cause, and enlarged upon the need in our time aud circumstances of a self-respecting and self-reliant working class population, to tne licensing question, he affirmed that a reform in our drinking habits would do more than all other reforms to improve the country, and fit it to sustain its place in the world. Mr Gladstone commendation 01 tne Gothenburg system had come upon him as an unlooked-for revelation. He would like to see it tried, but as long as parties were so divided upon temperance reform he saw little chance of either this or local option or proportional licensing being adopted. Though Thursday has hitherto been usually observed as a holiday in most of the mining districts of Lanarkshire, many of the collieries were fully manned.

Though enly 30,000 men have gone back to work, the supplies of fuel are already largely in excess of requirements. In Fife the miners' leaders seem as determined as ever to prolong the struggle. Mr B. Pickard, M.P., has issued the annual report of the Yorkshire Miners' Association, in which he claims that the great lock-out of 1S93 was a glorious victory for trades unionism. In the Glasgow Sheriff Small Debt? Court yesterday Sheriff Spens granted Mrs M'Arthur 12 damages from the Glasgow Police Commissioners for injuries which she sustained by falling down a common stair in Main Street, Anderston, about 10.10 p.m.

on 26th June. The Sheriff held that the pursuer sustained her injuries tnrougn the want ot light on the stair, and in his opinion the duty of seeing that common stairs were properly lighted was," by the Glasgow Police Act of 1S6d, imposed upon the Police Commissioners. The opening rounds of the Evening Times Golf Tournament were successfully disposed of over Leven Links yesterday. Thirty-six clubs entered, but five of these failed to put in an appearance. Among the surprises of the day-was the defeat in the first round of the brothers Taylor, of the Carlton, Edinburgh, the iirst holders of the trophy.

At the close of the day's play 16 clubs were left in, and these will to-day and to-morraw fight for possession of the trophy-. Despatches from Key West which have reached JNew York state that about 50 bodies in a more or less decomposed state have been washed ashore near the reefs which abound at that part of the coast. Nothing has been found to establish their identity, but there can be little doubt that the unfortunate people were caught at sea by the devastating hurricanes which have done so much damage in Florida. At Glasgow Dean of Guild Court yesterday-Sir James King, the retiring Lord Dean, made the customary annual statement, in the course of which he commented on the vast improvement that had been effected in the matter of building regulations since it was last his duty to review the business of the Court eighteen years ago. At the same Court a builder was fined ten guineas for deviating from the plans passed by the Court.

At the Baptist Union Conference at Newcastle yesterday a deputation attended from the Anti-Slavery Committee of the Society of Friends, and a resolution was passed urging the Government to take measures to suppress slavery in every place under its control Resolutions were adopted in favour of Disestablishment in Wales, of the Grocers' Licenses Abolition Bill, and of the Local Veto Bill. A letter which Cardinal Vaughan has addressed to a correspondent, discussing from his point of view the validity of Anglican orders, is published to-day. The Cardinal believes that under all the" circumstances the Hoiv See could never accept, as it never has accepted, the ordinations ef Anglican clergymen." At the Evangelical Union Conference yesterday reports on the Theological Hall and the augmentation of stipends were considered. The Rev. Dr Adamson was presented with an illuminated address and a purse of sovereigns in recognition of his services in connection with the chapel debt and building fund.

A British missionary who has resided for many years in Madagascar was interviewed yesterday in London. He denies that there is any anti-French influence in Madagascar, and expresses the opinion that France would obtain more in that quarter by diplomacy and conciliatory policy than by force. Slight showers are probable to-day in the south-eastern and southern parts of the United Kingdom, but no decided change in the weather is indicated at present. The forecast for the West of Scotland is "Varying north-easterly breezes, light fine." At the Birmingham Musical Festival yesterday there was a morning performance of the Messiah," which was largely attended. In the evening Henschel's "Stabat Mater," which was specially written for the occasion, had the place of honour.

In connection with the Dundee new Corporation Act, which came into force yesterday, Lord Provost Low entertained his colleagues and the officials of the various public boards to a cake and wine banquet the Lown Mall. Among the Parliamentary papers published yesterday is a petition complaining ef the grievances of 14,800 British subjects resident in the South African Republic, which was presented to Sir H. IS. Loch at Frctona. A three-days' bazaar in connection with Shamrock Street United Presbyterian Church was opened yesterday in the St Andrew's Hall by Mr Thomas Shaw, M.P., the Solicitor-General for Scotland, The annual meetings of the ratecavers in the.