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a a a DECEMBER 16, 1879. APPLICATION FOR THE RESTITUTION OF A PONY. -Mr. W. S.

ITalpole applied for the restitution of a pony under the following circumstances. He said that Mr. Smith, the landlord of Ingham Griffin, bad a pony which was stolen from his premises, and the offender had not been found. The pony was left by the person who stole it at Thetford, and since that tite the police had held it. Supt.

Clarke, however, had no objection to give up the pony it the Magistrates were of opinion that he could do so legally, and the matter was of some importance to Mr. Smith, who had all this time been deprived of his pony. Supt. Clarke that there was no question as to the identity of the animal in The Chairman asked whether the present owner would guarantee not to part with it -Mr. Smith, who was present, declared his willingness to guarantee Walpole said that no one bad claimed the pony.

-The Chairman said the Beuch had the will, but it was a question whether they had the power to grant the application. It was, they thought, a matter entirely for the discretion of the police. -Mr. Walpole disclaimed any wish to bind the Magistrates, but he said he should like to bave an expression of opinion from them. -The Chairman said be did not think they were ever guilty of shirking their responsibilities, but they could express no opinion; it must rest with the police.

Undoubtedly the common-sense thing to do was to give the pony was understood that the pony would be restored to its owner, who should, however. guarantee that nothing should be done to it which would make its identity questionable, and that it should be produced at the trial when the man was caught. ALLEGED ASSAULT. Thomas Smith, steward to Mr. Taunton, Coldham Hall, was charged with assaulting Thomas Cornish, the son of James Cornish, at Stanningfield, on the 27th November.

Mr. Woolnough Gross appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. H. J. Salmon for the Cornish deposed: I live with my father at Stanningfield.

I go to school at Lawshall. On the 27th of last month I went to school; there are two ways of going and coming to Lawsball. I went by the coach road through Coldbamn Hall, and then went through the stable yard. I returned the same way -though the yard and the avenue As I was going with some others through the yard, the defendant ran from the fowlhouse and seized me by the neck. He put his hand inside my Decktie.

He said he would lock me up. I clasped the gate to resist he greened me so I could not get my breath. I have been in the habit of constantly going this road. -To Mr. Salmon: The nearest way is through the fields, and I go that way except when it is wet, and then I come through the sard.

know Mr. Taunton does not like me going through ibe yard, but my father me to go that way when it is wet. I did not stone any swans. I was not bruised by the defendant, nor did I abuse him. I never stole any To the Cierk: I was in the yard through the gate when I was caught.

-'The Magistrates' Clerk (Mr. J. Sparke) said that this used to be a public yard. -The Rev. J.

White said that it had been public until nine years ago, when Mr. Lomax shut it up of his own free will. Mr. Salmon remarked that si: Lomax had given the boys a shorter footpath, and the Rev. A.

J. Young corroborated this. -James Cornish, the fatber of the complainant, deposed I know the road through the yard. I have lived in Stanningfield 46 years, and the old rath is the best path. I am not sure which is the nearest: but the road is the best.

The morning after the assault went by the road, and I never was cautioned -Cross-examined I have heard from my children that Mr. Taunton does not like us to go by the road, but I go that way and tell my children to do so in wet -Elizabeth Wright, a weather. httle girl, deposed that she went to Coldham Catholic School, and on the 27th she returned by the meadows, at the back of Coldham Hall. She saw the defendant run after Thomas Cornish as the latter was coming through the public road. Defendant choked Cornish, and the latter cried out.

The groom rapped Cornish's hand with his broom, and defendant dragged Cornish along the I have never talked about this case. I have told the Salmon, in defence, said that his evidence would be contrary to that of the complainant. Young Cornish was a perfect nuisance to the place. -Henry Garrett, the groom, deposed that Smith pursued four boys, amongst them complainant; witness went round and headed them. and Smith caught Cornish.

He caught the boy by the collar, and said he would take him to Mr Taunton. The boy cried and clasped his arms round the top bar of the gate. Smith asked witness to unfasten hisarms, and he did so; he did not hit him. The boy then fell down, and Smith picked up his stick he did not choke bim, nor did witness hear the boy complain. When the boy ran away he called after Smith, but witness did not hear what be said In his opinion nothing that Smith did hurt the boy in the least.

-To Mr. Sparke: He let the boy go, and said he would summon him. -The Bench retired, and on returning into Court the Chairman said there was no doubt but that in a strict legal sense an assault had been committed, for Swith had no right to lay hands on the boy; but they thought that on the whole they would be right to avail themselves of the clause permitting them to dismiss such cases as they thought were too trivial for conviction. But they wished to make it clear that so long as proper legal steps were not taken for setting aside this old road the right-of-way remained to the public, who were perfectly justified in using the application of Mr. Gross complainant was ordered to pay the costs, and was told that be had no right to take the law into his own bands- -Defendant said he was sure he never hurt the Loy -The Chairman You had no business to follow him.

SETTING A SNARE AT HAWSTEAD. -Charles Storey, shepbed, was charged with using a snare for the purpose of taking game at Hawstead, on the 2nd of December. -Charles Riches, gamekeeper to Gery Cullum, said that on the 2nd inst. be was in a field called the Thirteen Acres at Hawstead, and 57 where a hare had been caught; he saw the fleck on the bratulles, and marks where the bare had struggled in the Dow. He traced the footsteps of one person between 300 and and 400 yards from the sheepfold and back.

He accused defendant (the shepherd), and told him he wanted the hare be caught on the previous night. At first he said he knew nothing about it afterwards he owned that he took the hare, but he denied that he set the snare. Witness told him if that was so be wondered he should go so straight to the spot, and be inade no answer. Defendant said he might have the hare, and brought it to him, together with the spare produced.Defendant repeated that he did not set the snare; while he was at his fold he heard the bare skreeking," and went and took it out, and took it home. Riches told him he would forgive him if be gave up the hare up, and would not do it again.

-Riches said defendant told him he had to suffer before for the sane sort of thing, never but he never set that denied this: he had been before the Bench before. -In reply to the Bench, Riches admitted that he told defendant he had better own it, or he would go and tell his master. -Defendant said he had been on the farm 20 years, and no one had ever cotched him at this sort of thing. -The Bench convicted defendant, and ordered him to pay a tine of 58., with 6x. 64.

Cust- if he were brought up again he would be more severely dealt with. CHARGE OF POACHING AT HORRINGER. -Edwd. Beeton and David Elmer were charged with trespassing at Horringer in search of game, on the 2nd inst. -Herbert Pepper deposed On the 2nd inst.

I was watching on the Marquis of Bristol's Home Faru: when I heard the report of a gun. I went in the direction of the report, and saw defendants come through a gap in the fetice on to the road from a field. Beeton stood in the gap with a gun in his hand. I made my way to a gate, and they ran away. We pursued them to Westley, and kept sight of them until we got to a turn in the road, where saw James Minay, who told us their names.

The two defendants are the wet 1 saw on the field. We lost sight of them altogether wt the Newmarket road. It was 20 minutes past six in the morning, and moonlight. -To the Bench: I was not more than yards from them when they came through the gap: the had was between us. I identify the defendants from what I saw of them, not from what Mingay told me.

-William Leeks deposed: On the 2nd of December 1 was with the last wit. Less, and saw two men come from the gap on to the road; I cannot say who were the men. As soon as they saw us they ran away. -To the Bench: I was two or three yards behind Pepper, behind the thick of the hedge. We ran after them, and kept sight of them to Westley, where we saw Mr.

Burrell's can, Mingay, who told us who they were. I did not get near though to defendants to swear to them, but they look like the Cell We lost sight of them for about two minutes just before WE spoke to Mingay: it was then about balf-past six, and we had been running about half an hour. 1 could not see what the men had. I heard the report of a gun. These men were amu: four or tive yards off when we first saw them: there was ily the load between us.

The last witness stood right a gap, but I was behind the thick way, labourer, deposed: On the 2nd of December I was at Westley and saw two men coming along the road -it was thou about 6,45 a.m. The two men now present were the bet I saw: the one nearest me had a gun under his arm.Beeten: You are a liar. -Witness They were not more than two sands from me when they passed. I knew both men by Lulle Elmer was about two yards in front of Beeton. I did but speak to them.

nor they to me. When they got to the call of Mr. Burrell's house they turned for Bury, and then Pepper and the last witness came up following them. They Pete nut more than 80 yards behind. The defendants were walk oz when they passed me: 1 saw them run after the other Led followed them.

We followed them across two fields, and when they got to the Newmarket-road we lost sight of them. I certain defendants are the two men I saw, and Beeton Lad a gun under his -Beeton. You are a Chairman interposed, and told defendant he must not repeat language. -Witness said he had known Beeton ten years Elmer ove or six. -To the Bench: I have worked on Mr.

Burrell farm all my life, and have never had any quarrel with Beeton said he was "as innocent as a and Elmer called a witness named Harry Rolfe, who dej-ped live in Eastgare-street, with my father. Yesterdas week I met the defendant Elmer coming out of his house dear the Horse Shoes. Northgate-street, at 6.30 a.m.: I Went with him into the Shoes, and had half a pint of beer with him. Mr. Johnson keeps the inn, and his son served us with Witness: two half Well, pints of beer.

-Elmer: Colson, you mean.Colson or Johnson, it don't Latter which. We stopped there about a minute: no one else was there. We then went to the and then Tollgate, to see if we could get a job, with weut until up into the town -into the market. I stopped Elmer about 10 30 a.m., when I left him in the Cattle-market. I ain not aware that Colson has more than De soli who serves people.

Whatever his name is, it was the unkeeper's son who served us at the Horse Shoes. I sure am 1 was yesterday week -the Horse Fair day- I would not tell an untruth to save my life. I know it was half -past st in the morning; I can't say exactly whether it was daylight. have nothing else to say -I was with the Sati from half-past six to half-past ten. -Before witness's sition was read over for his signature the Chairman autioned him that be was about to send for Colson.ther Colson attended shortly afterwards, and deposed: My Harry is landlord of the Horse Shoes.

I was at home on 12 Tuesday that week, the Horse Fair day, and was up at half-past morning. -The Chairman: Did two men come into house at that That I can't Truple come in and out. I opened the house about say: six so o'clock. many 4 good many people come in recollection of early. -To the Chairman: I have positively he did Rolfe coming don't in that morning -I cannot ay Sink I have seen him not.

before. I I know Rolfe, although I Secollect his in know Elmer, but don't Magistrates coming that morning- -I can't say he did not. The having consulted, the Chairman stated sat they convicted both defendants on what they regarded as Smpeachable testimony, one of the witnesses (who had ked on the same farm all his life) having known them A previously. The Bench would deal with them as propoachers, who went out from Bury on marauding and ordered them to pay the full penalty of 40s. tach with 11s.

costs between them, in default two months' Lard labour. -Defendants asked for time, which was refused. Daring the hearing of the case Mr. Davies, supervisor of tuse, asked Beeton if he had a licence to carry a gun, the Chairman said he had better defer his Stories until the case had been disposed of. While the Magistrates were consulting Mr.

Davies again asked the L- licence pet on, and Beeton replied in the affirmative, and produced CHARGE OF KEEPING A DOG WITHOUT A LICENCE. for pson. of Great Whelnetham, was charged. on the Surination the police, with keeping a dog without a licence. -Defendant's mother appeared, and said that her son had the of end a man named Halls, who told him he could keep it to of the year without paying for it, as he (Halls) had a for it.

and the boy did not know any better. In taken wut, to the for Bench, dog Mrs. killed Upson said that no lie nice had been Rer fau: bad acted the under was The Bench and th wight defen- the tine of 6d, with a 38. -Mr. Davies, inflicted supervisor of misapprehension, Thingoe and 'Thedwastre Sessions, Dec.

10. Before J. S. Phillips, Revds. Esq.

T. J. (Chairman), Steele, J. W. R.

White, Bevan, and G. F. A. J. Young, THE Excise, who was in Court on other business, applied for half the penalty.

-The Clerk (Mr. Sparke) will have to come after it. I shall pay it to Treasurer. Mr. Davies: You will have a proper noticed The Clerk: I don't intend to run after you for threepence.

Stowmarket County Court, Friday, Dec. 12. (Before J. WORLLEDGE, Judge.) This was an action, adjourned for three consecutive Courts, COOK Hey, SINGULAR ACTION. brought by Messrs.

F. R. Cook and corn merchants, of Stowmarket, against Mr. E. Cooper, corn merchant, of Combs, and formerly agent for the plaintiffs, to recover £8, alleged to be paid to him.

Mr. W. S. Walpole again appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. R.

Hill for the defence. This case possessed some singular features. It was brought to recover money from an agent, who denied that he had ever had the money which it was alleged had been paid to him. The case was Arst heard in the August Court, and then evidence was called on bebalf of plaintiffs which went to show that in the early part of 1877 Mr. G.

J. Johnson, engineer and farmer, of Ashley, was a customer of the plaintiffs, and the clerk to the plaintiffs, named Greenwood, sent an account for corn sold. On May 23rd, that day being Bury market, Mr. Johnson went up to the stall of Messrs. F.

R. Cook and where it was admitted Mr. F. R. Cook and Mr.

Cooper, his agent, were at the time. He said that be paid £20 to a young man, whom he did not identify at the hearing as Cooper; the sum was paid in two £5 notes, and £10 in gold. He bad a receipt for it, which, it was admitted, was in Cooper's bandwriting, and signed, R. Cook and Co." Mr. Johnson denied at the hearing that he had ever said he paid the money in four £5 notes.

Mr. Cook stated that he had attended Bury market on the day in question, and that Cooper received the moneys. Defendant gave him £12 as money received from Mr. Johnsen; Cooper never gave him £20. He (Mr.

Cook) gave Greenwood, his clerk at Stowmarket, the £12, and told him to credit Johnson with it. An action was then brought in the County Court against Johnson, and a settlement was arrived at, Johnson paying all the claim but £8. Cooper then stated that he knew nothing about the money. He (Cook) had a man named Jannings in his employ at the time. In cross-examination by Mr.

Hill, Mr. Cook alleged that he did not remember Johnson speaking to him on May 23rd, 1877. The other witness called was the clerk Greenwood, who stated that on May 23rd, 1877, he received £12 from someone on account of Johnson. Several letters were then produced, two from the plaintiffs to the defendant, and one from the defendant to the plaintiffs. The first from the plaintiffs, dated January 25th, 1879, stated that Mr.

Johnson bad produced his receipt for £20, and he (Cooper) had only accounted for £12; could he account for the rest? On January 27th defendant replied that he did not remember receiving any money from Mr. Johnson, but he would call and see Mr. Cook. He called, and in February defendant received a letter from Mr. Cook, to the effect that Johnson alleged he had paid £20 in four £5 notes.

What became of the £8 he (the writer) was unable to say. Greenwood further stated in evidence that Cooper said be did not recollect receiving the money. At this point of the plaintiffs' case the hearing was adjourned, in order to produce the receipt, and further adjournments took place until the present Court. Mr. Hill now proceeded with his defence, first re-calling Greenwood, who, in cross-examination, said that he made out the account sent to Johnson in May, 1877, and be posted it himself.

Looking at the ledger he saw that at the time be sent the account in Mr. Johnson owed Messrs. Cook only £17 158 6d. In paying £20 Mr. Johnson overpaid his account.

Mr. Hill said he did not want the witness to volunteer planations. Witness (to Mr. Walpole): There were no goods on order at that time; there was nothing ordered other, Johnson until March, 1878. Mr.

Charles Jannings, commission agent, Haughley, deposed was in Mr. Cook's service in May, 1877, and I believe I was with Mr. Cook at Bury market on the 23rd of that month, assisting him. I know Mr. Johnson, of Ashley, very well.

don't recollect his coming to the stall on that day. I did not take any money of Mr. Johnson that day. Cross-examined I generally attended all the markets with Mr. Cook, barring Newmarket.

I used to take money for my principals if I had it offered me. I have seen Cook himself receive the money, and I have signed the receipt. I was in Mr. Cook's service five years, and this happened several times. Mr.

Johnson showed me this receipt of $20 (produced). To his Honour: 1 am quite certain I did not receive any money from Johnson that day. Mr. Hill, in defence, said the position of the case rather reflected on his client's character. The Court had now to decide whether there was sufficient evidence produced by the plaintiffs to call upon the defendant to pay or repay £8.

The issue might come to this, which parties had told the truthCooper or Cook -and both these gentlemen were very respectable tradesmen in the town; Mr. Cooper, his client, was just starting in business. Then Mr. Cooper had nothing to do with the accounts of Messrs. Cook; and did not know at the time that £17 158.

6d. was owing to Cook from Johnson. It was a very funny thing that Johnson did not produce the account he bad sent him when he went to Cook's stall and paid the £20. Then they had the extraordinary fact that the receipt was made out for £20 at a time when only £17 158. 6d.

was owing. His Honour: Mr. Johnson says he paid £20 himself. Mr. Hill: Yes, it is a most extraordinary thing.

Mr. Walpole: Mr. Johnson said that. Mr. Hill: I am not saying that he did not.

I only say that it is a very extraordinary thing. There was, Mr. Hill continued, a great mystery about the manner in which this payment was made. Moreover, Johnson did not identify Cooper as the person to whom he gave the money at Messrs. Cook's stall.

Then, in his cross-examination at the first hearing, Mr. Cook bad said that he did not remember seeing Cooper receive the money, and he further positively stated that he had never received money and left it to his clerk to make out the receipt. To show how defective Mr. Cook's memory was, he (Mr. Hill) would show that this statement bad been directly contradicted by the statement of the witness Janpings, who alleged that he had often made out and signed receipts for money received by his principal.

Then, again, Mr. Cook in his evidence had stated that he did not enter all the moneys he received in his market-book, SO there was the probability of error, to put it in the mildest form. When the letters were first written to Cooper, Cook was evidently in a fog as to who received the money. When, however, he saw the receipt for the £20 signed by Cooper, he became convinced that he had not received the money, but that Cooper had received it. He (Mr.

Hill) maintained that the plaintiffs must show that Cooper received the money or the case failed. As to the receipt, that was signed only F. R. Cook and Co," and if defendant had received the money he would have signed his initials at the bottom of the receipt. These initials were absent, and yet it was said that the defendant received the money.

He called Mr. E. Cooper, the defendant, who deposed I am carrying on the business of miller at the Ford Mill, Stowmarket. went into Messrs. Cook's service in March.

1876, as market man. I sometimes attended Bury market with the plaintiff. I received moneys due to Cook for him. The receipt produced is my handwriting. Had I received the money myself I should have put my initials underneath the signature F.

R. Cook and Co." I do not remember giving this receipt, I had SO many to give. If I had received the money I should have brought it home myself and accounted to clerk at Stowmarket. If I received cash I entered it into the market book, which we took with us in the bag. I have generally written the receipts whether I received the money myself or not.

During my services I frequently did this, and did not receive the money. After I received the letter from the plaintiffs on January 25th, 1879, I answered it, and 1 saw both Cook and Greenwood. told them I did not recollect receiving the money, or seeing Mr. Johnson. I am certain I did not receive it.

His Honour: Why? Defendant: Because I had so little money with me that I should have discovered it if I had had too much at night. His Honour: The oddest thing about this is that Cook At received this part point of Sir. Hill proposed that the case be settled by the defendant paying £4 and all the costs on that amount. Mr. Walpole agreed, and his Honour consented, remarking that he was very glad to be relieved of the trouble of deciding upon the matter.

MAYHEW V. PLUMMER. This was an adjourned case brought by Henry Mayhew, confectioner, of Stowmarket, against a man named Plummer, to recover £2, balance of account alleged to be due. The case was adjourned at the last Court, in order to give the plaintiff opportunity to furnish a full account. The only disputed point was a balance of the amount named left due, and entered by the plaintiff in books regularly furnished to the defendant.

The book on which this balance due was entered, produced by the defendant, but it had been This was explained by the defendant, admitted that he deprived cries cover and another cover had been substituted. had put the cover on because the book had been lost, and found in a torn condition. His Honour gave judgment for the plaintiff for £1 168. 4d. with costs on that amount.

FOLKERD V. BALHAM. In this case Samuel Folkerd, of Woolpit, sued Robert Balbam, of Woolpit, to recover £10 odd, balance of rent due, and to secure an order of eviction. It appeared that the defendant had been in a house frown Michaelmas, 1876, at the yearly rent of £5 4s. There was £10 now due, as the defendant had enly paid a very little of the money due.

Defendant was a yearly tenant. Defendant's wife alleged that she was a weekly tenant, and that there was but little due. She bad agreed to pay only 18. 6d. a-week, and plaintiff approved of that.

Plaintiff denied this, but his Honour said it was perfectly useless to make an order for £10, as the defendant could not pay it. He had no doubt that the plaintiff was right, but he Would make an order for £6 48. the monthly payments from October to March to be 2s. a-month, and 48. a-month for the rest of the year except September, when 108.

should be paid. Defendant must go out in ten days. THE DUKE OF HAMILTON'S BALL AT FRAMLINGHAM CASTLE. -On Friday night the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton gave a grand ball in the great hall of Framingham Castle, which has not witnessed such a ecene of gaiety for many a long year. About 400 invitations were issued to the farmers over whose lands his Grace's pack of harriers are accustomed to hunt, to the members of the Hunt, and to other residents in the locality, together with the ladies of their families, and the interior of the hall was made charmingly attractive.

The wall were draped in cerise and lavender, the Duke's racing colours, and festooned with evergreens, the windows were filled in with transparencies, and trophies of the chase and numerous mirrors were included in the adornments. A new floor was laid for the occasion, and supper Was served in a large marquee erected in coutiguity to the hall. The company included (in addition to the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton) the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, Earl and Countess of Gosford, Lord Charles Montagu, Lady Alice Montagu, Sir W. Lionel Darrell, WAY. -On Thursday the up-night mail train from PeterANOTHER A ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT EASTERN RAILborough to Ely ran into a goods train which had broken down near March.

The guard's vau of the goods train was smashed, and the Greman of the mail train was severely injured. The passengers escaped with a severe shaking. ACTION AGAINST THE G.E.R. COMPANY. In the Peterborough County Court, on Tuesday, the Great Eastern Railway Company were Eliza Jackson, wife of a railway for falsely accusing her of complicity in a of goods in transit from Glasgow to Norwich in April last.

The case arose out of a discovery of wholesale pilfering from goods trains at the Peterborough Station, for which three men were convicted at the last Cambridge Assizer. The plaintiff was one of three women who were summoned on various charges of theft, which were subsequently withdrawn. The Jury awarded her £5 damages and costs. BURY AND NORWICH POST, AND SUFFOLK HERALD. 7 CAMBRIDGE.

MARRIED. On the 11th at St. James's, Piccadilly, N. JOHN LITTLETON, B.A., Camba, and of the Middle Temple, barrister-at-law, only son of Nicholas Littleton, Fleet Surgeon, R.N., St. Leonard's, Exeter, to FANNY ELIZA, eldest daughter of F.

MAYNARD, of Upper Mitcham. Surrey. On the 11th at St. James's Church, Westbourne. terrace, THOMAS MAULKIN NASH, of Foulmire, bridgeabire, to ETHELDRED LOUISA, daughter of the late Colonel JOHN SCRIVEN, of 16, Devonport-street, Hydepark.

DIED. On the 5th 1 at Cambridge, aged 87, MART ELIZABETH, widow of THOMAS CLEMENT FRANCIS, Esq. On the 6th at St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, at the residence of her sister, Mrs. MEDLAND MARTHA LAW, late of Eaton Socon, Bedfordshire, and of Torquay.

On the 7th at St. Neote, aged 82, ANN, widow of RICHARD DICKSON. On the 8th at Fordham, aged 77, ANN WARE. On 9th at Clifton gardens, Maida- aged 2, GOY CHRISTOPHER DOUGLAS, youngest son of the Rev. A.

DOUGLAS CAPEL, formerly of Cambridge. On the 11th at the Rectory, Toft, MARY, daughter of JOHN FOLLIOTT POWELL, and grand. daughter of the late Richard Powell, park, Radnorshire. the 11th at Soham, aged 60 years, ROBERT SIZER. AT A CONGREGATION ON Thursday the following degrees were conferred Masters of L.

Jones, Caius; J. Ohm, H. C. M. Barton, St.

John's; C. G. O. Bridgman, Trinity. Master of Law.

J. Dixon, Trinity Hall. Bachelor of Arts (jure Hon. R.0. A.

Milnes, Trinity. Bachelors of the Natural Sciences Tripos) -H. M. Ward, Christ's. (By the Moral Sciences Tripos)- -A.

Caldecott, St. John's; J. L. Green, King's; C. G.

Wilkinson, St. John's. (By the Special Examinations for Ordinary B.A. Degree)-W. N.

C. Wheeler, King's; C. P. R. Buller, R.

G. Dutton, H. J. L. Evans, T.

Hoare, W. P. Jones, W. J. O'Hara, E.

C. Perry, R. L. Pike, R. C.

Priestley, J. E. W. Wakefield, S. H.

Whitbread, Trinity; P. H. Bowers, C. E. Brooke, G.

J. M. Burnett, C. P. Morris, H.

N. Sharp, T. L. Wright, St. John's; B.

W. Luxton, St. Peter's; F. L. Cartwright, T.

S. Raffles, Sidney J. Soady, Clare; R. Henderson, C. E.

Peck, Pembroke; W. W. Arthur, C. Bailey, H. E.

Brown, T. Brushfield, Evans, H. A. Gasper, A. W.

Haig, H. C. Henriquez, R. L'. Knaggs, C.

H. Morgan, A. Smith, C. J. Tayler, M.

I. Thackeray, T. A. Wallis, Caius; C. K.

Norman, T. L. Taylor, Trinity Hall; W. H. Badger, A.

A. Battcock, P. H. Collins, E. C.

Nightingale, A. Taylor, Corpus; H. W. Farrar, J. Lloyd, Queens'; E.

Bryceson, A. T. Fawcett, C. R. R.

Malone, E. A. Webb, H. P. Williams, Christ's; A.

W. M. Close, F. W. Dodd, A.

Donkin, M. Dyson, W. Slater, H. G. Phillips, P.

F. Tindall, Jesus; A. Peskett. Williamson, Magdalene; H. A.

Beeforth, Sidney; C. R. Bomford, P. G. Bulstrode, G.

C. M. Hall, E. E. Heathcote, T.

R. Horley, T. Horsley, C. P. Montgomery, E.

S. Whelpton, A. J. Whistler, F. Whistler, Emmanuel; G.

Hollies, W. W. Page, M. H. Pope, W.

N. Saunders, J. Tongue, non-collegiate students. LORD RAYLEIGH WAR on Friday elected to succeed the late Professor Clerk Maxwell in the Chair of Experimental Physica in Cambridge University. There was no other candidate.

The new Professor- -then the Hon. J. W. Strutt- graduated at Trinity College as Senior Wrangler and first Smith's Prizeman in 1864. He was an additional examiner for the Mathematical Tripos in 1876.

GIRTON COLLEGE. -The Treasurer of Girton College, Cambridge, has received from the executors of the late Lady Anna Gore-Langton a legacy of £1000. By desire of the teatatrix, the legacy has been paid duty free. THE EXAMINERS for the Natural Sciences Tripos have issued the following class list. The names in each class are arranged in alphabetical order.

Class I. -3 Cutfield, Christ's; Forbes, St. John'a; 1 Garbutt, Clare; 3. Nall, Trinity; 4 Reid and 1 C. M.

St. John's; Thompson, Trinity; 2 Ward, Christ's; 1 Whittam, Caius. Class and Boot, Trinity Gibson, Sidney W. Groom, Magdalene; Habershon, Trinity; Hurry, La Touche, and Lister, St. John's; Trotter, Trinity.

Class III. -R. H. B. Bolton, Trinity; Browne, noncollegiate; Capper and Clark, Trinity Dowson, Christ's; Procter, Trinity Swift, Caius.

THE EXAMINERS for the Historical Tripos have issued the following class list, the names being arranged in order of I. -None, Class Il. -Hon. J. W.

Mansfield, Trinity; Attwater, B.A., Pembroke; Pease, Trinity; Prior, St. John's, Class III. Rolfe and P. E. Clarke, Trinity.

THE Jeremie prizes given annually for the encouragement of a critical study of the Septuagint version of the Old Testament, have been adjudged to William Emery Barnes, Scholar of St. Peter's, and Alfred Newton Johnson, of Trinity College, who are declared equal in merit. THE Crosse Scholarshiphas been adjudged to Frederick Jobn Foakes-Jackson, B.A., and Douglas Sherwood Guy, B.A., both of Trinity College, who are declared to be equal in merit. AT a Court held at Ely House on Tuesday, December 2nd, the Chancellor of the Diocese of Ely gave judg. ment in the case of an application for the grant of a marriage licence.

The ant had gone through the ceremony of marriage in a registry office with a woman now living, but he alleged that she was then a married women. The Chancellor, after reviewing the authorities, decided that he had a diecretion to refuse a licence, such discretion being exercised judicially and for reasons stated, as in the case of the Prince of Capua, reported in the Annual Register for 1830. Upon the facts he determined that it would not be right to grant a licence in the face of a facie existing marriage. ESSEX. MARRIED.

On the 6th at Chigwell, PETER WYATT SQUIRE, of 40, Avenue-road, third surviving son of Peter Squire, of Yorkgate, Regent's-park, and Basmead Manor, St. Neots, to MABEL JANE (TIBBIE), youngest of ALEXANDER BRAMWELL BREMNER, of Claybury. hall, Essex. DIED. On the 3rd at Sawbridgeworth, Herts, in his 84th year, WM.

SHARP, for 32 years one of the Chief Constables for the County of Hertford. On the 4th in her 82nd year, MATILDA, wife of CHARLES HALL, Manifold Wick, Tollesbunt Knights, On the 8th at Stanstead Parsonage, Essex, in his 82nd year, GEORGE NEWMAN. On the 8th at Chigwell, in her 21st year, EMMELINE SOPHIA, daughter of B. E. BRODHURST, Esq.

On the 10th at Upper Teddington, Middlesex, in her 65th year, JANE PATTRICK, widow of the late W. MANTHORP, surgeon, of Bocking. REPRESENTATION OF HARWICH. On Wednesday evening Lord Stratheden and Campbell addressed a public meeting at Harwich on the foreign policy of the Government, urging that it had not been energetic enough in defending Turkey from Russia in the late war, and that it only stepped in at a period when Russia practically in possession of Constantinople. The effect of that war gave a factitious independence to Servia and other small States, With regard to the Afghan war, it would have a disastrous effect upon Indian finance, to say nothing of the murder of the British Envoy.

It was the result of the Treaty of 1856, and the late Ameer had been thrown into the hands of Russia by the action of England. PROSECUTION OF A CLERGYMAN FOR DRUNKENNE Lord Penzance had before him at Lambeth Palace on Saturday a prosecution under the Church Discipline Act directed against the Rev. Charles Miller, Vicar of St. Mary's, Harlow, Essex, who was charged with drunkenness in carrying out his duties. This cue defendant emphatically denied; but Lord Penzance (after hearing Bishop Perry, Mr.

John Perry Watlington and other witnesses) held that a great scandal had been caused. He postponed passing sentence, meanwhile ordering the defendant to pay the costs of the proceedings. Defendant is upwards of eighty years of age. The Fatal Railway Accident at Manningtree. One of the sufferers by the recent accident on the Great Eastern Railway near Manningtree, Mr.

G. W. Stains, of 21, Wallgrave-road, Earl's-court, Kensington, who was travelling from Finningbam to London, was so far recovered on Wedneeday that he was able to return home. Mr. Page, solicitor, of Long Stratton, Norfolk, who was removed after the accident to the White Hart Hotel, Manningtree, was also able to ride out on Wednesday.

He appears to have received some injury in his left leg, which was jammed in the carriage in which he was travelling. No other passenger seems to bave been hurt at all seriously. The stoker, Newman, who WA8 killed, leaves a widow and two children. The engine-driver, Hornett, is doing pretty well, but one of his arms is broken. Saville, one of the guards of the wrecked train, was so much shaken that he has since suffered from an aberration of intellect, which it is hoped, however, will prove only temporary.

The work of raising the engine, which fell down the embankment after it left the rails, has been one of considerable difficulty. It has been necessary to construct a short inclined plane down to the spot where it finally fell over. By means of this inclined plane it will be hauled up again to the main line, after, of course, it has been set on its wheels. The engine fell with such force as to uproot a young oak tree against which it struck. On Tuesday Mr.

W. Codd, Coroner for East Essex, opened an inquest at the Station Hotel, Manningtree, on the body of John Newman, the fireman who was killed on Monday through the train running off the line. The body having been identified by James Moye, the guard, the inquiry was adjourned until the 1st of January, pending the result of the Board of Trade inquiry. A FEW OF THE TROUBLES OF THE SEASON. -ToothAche, Tic, and Neuralgia may be quickly cured by SWEETING'S TOOTH-ACHE ELIXIR.

This Elixir has cured thousands annually for over forty years, and is by far the safest preparation ever offered to the public; it not only cures a decayed tooth of giving pain, but STOPS FURTHER DECAY. If those who suffer from INDIGESTION and NERVOUS give it a trial they would not be disappointed. Mrs. Posten, of Bad Hamburgh, says "I take Sweeting's Elixir not so much for Tooth-Ache, but as the only medicine that supports and strengthens, while it calms shattered nerves." Sold by all medicine vendors in bottles, 18. 14d, and 28.

9d, NORWICH. MARRIED. On the 16th at Coomera, Queensland, HERBERT GREENHILL, third son of the late Rev. SAMUEL WHITBREAD BOURNE, of Winfarthing, Norfolk, to ELIZABETH CAROLINE, fifth daughter of WILLIAM ALFRED BENSTEAD, of Coomera-house, Coomera. On the let at Watton, COLIN BATEMAN, of Attle-.

borough, to SABAH ANN, youngest daughter of the late THOMAS YOUNG, of Thetford. On the 4th at Long Stratton, JOHN STEWARD, to SUSAN ALDRIDGE, both of Tharston. On the 4th at Acle, GEORGE THOMAS, only son of Mr. THOMAS FURRENCE, to THIRZA EMMA, eldest daughter of Mr. JOHN KING, of Burgh.

On the at Riddington, Commander THoMAS SEYMOUR BRAND. R.N., second son of the Right Hon. the Speaker, to BLANCHE, youngest daughter of H. L. GASKELL, of Woodstock, On the 6th at Eaton, HENRY EDWARD COOK, youngest son of Mr.

H. Cook. St. Peter's Mancroft, to ELLEN LOUISA, eldest daughter of the late EDGAR BLYTHE, of South Heigham, On the 9th at Palling, WILLIAM, eldest son of Mr. ALCOCK, of Stalham, to BEATRICE JANE, seventh daughter of Mr.

JAMES RICHES, of Palling. On the 9th at Attlebridge, BENJAMIN RAYNER, of Attlebridge, to JANE SERGEANT, of Hardley. On the 10th at St. Margaret's, Ward End, HERBERT LEAMON, of Yardley, near Birmingham, fourth son late Robert Leamon, Whitwell-hall, Norfolk, to EMMA ANNA SOPHIA, eldest daughter of WILLIAM HUTTON, of Ward End-ball, Birmingham. On the 10th at Heigham, ROBERT PETER, only surviving son of the late Mr.

PETER OLIVANT, to MARY CHARLOTTE, fourth daughter of the late Mr. EDWIN WEBSTER, builder, both of De eham-road. On the 10th at Arminghall, SAMUEL JOAN BELL, youngest son of the late Paul Bell, of I I I Stiffkey, to SARAH MARIA, second daughter of EDWARD WATERS, Arminghall. DIED. On the let at Baconstborpe, aged 79, ELIZABETH ANN, widow of Mr.

JOHN WHITING, builder. On the 3rd Westbourne-terrace, Hydepark, aged 81, JOHN UNTHANK, late Master of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, and third son of the late Wm. Unthank, Heigham. On the 4th at the residence of her daughter, 5, Beaufort- villas, Surbiton, aged 83, MARY, widow of ROBERT COPLAND, of Gressing-hall, Swaffbam. On the 5th at 4, Caston-road, Great Yarmouth, CATHERINE ANNE, the beloved wife of R.

J. BRAIN, Supervisor Inland Revenue, aged 47. On the 5th SARAH, fourth daughter of the late JAMES GOLDING, of the Cathedral Close, Norwich. On the 5th very suddenly, at 3, Calverly grove, Upper Holloway, in his 30th year, GEORGE EDWARD CHARLES, eldest son of GEORGE THOMAS and ANNIE TOWNSEND HALL, Hempnall Vicarage. On the 6th at South Ruston, aged 63, FRANCES BRITANNIA, wife of ROBERT HICKLING.

On the 6th at Gloucester, MARIA, wife of ISAAC SLATER, and youngest daughter of the late Mr. R. Herne, of Hethersett. the 7th at Norwich, aged 60 yeare, FREDK. LAWRENCE PHILLIPS, for many years editor and part proprietor of the Norwich Argus.

On the 8th at his son's, Frederick Fitt, of Distillery-street, Norwich, aged 84, RICHARD FITT. On the 9th Putney, in his 88th year, JOHN CURTIS, formerly of Rudham. On the 9th at Woodlands, Sevenoaks, in her 91et year, SOPHIA CLARISSA, widow of ROBERT BIRD, formerly of Morton-ball, Norwich, and second daughter of the late James Windett, of Thorpe. On the 10th aged 86, AMY BALDERS, Swaffham. 2nd or East Norfolk Militia.

undermentioned gentlemen to be Second Lieuts. Doveton Maxwell, Granville George Keele, Montague Amos Foster. THE REV. CHARLES MARTIN has, on the presentation of the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, accepted the living of Wood Norton, Norfolk, and vacates the wardenship of Radley College at the close of this year. Mr.

Wilson held office as a master at Radley in the years 1863-6. He held subsequently for three years a masterehip at Marlborough. NORWICH GRAMMAR SCHOOL. -The resignation of Dr. Jessopp causing a vacancy in the head of this school, the trustees -having previously appointed a nix most eligible applicants -on Tuesday last elected the Committee to examine the testimonials and a select the Rev.

Osborne W. Tancock, M.A., of Exeter College, Oxford, who has for the last seventeen years been assistant-master at Sherborne School. In his University career Mr. Tancock was placed in the second class by the Classical Moderators in 1859, and in the 2nd class by the Classical Examiners in 1862. A HEAVY WINNER AT THE SMITHFIELD Mr.

Robert Wortley, of Suffield, has been very successful as usual at the Smithfield Show. He won the £25 prize for the beat Hereford in Class 7 and £20 for the best steer in Class 31: was placed second and reserved for the £40 cup for the best Hereford, and also for the £50 cup for the beat ox or steer in the show took the £100 prize for the best animal in the Hereford and shorthorn classes: was awarded the £10 cup given by Mesers. Ayres Chambers, cake manufacturers; and was placed second and reserved both for the champion prize of £200 and the £100 challenge plate for the best beast in the show. DEATH OF MR. FRED.

-On Sunday week Mr. F. L. Phillips, who has, since the establishment of the Norwich Argus, sixteen years ago, been part proprietor and sole editor, died at the age of sixty. He W98 originally intended for a solicitor, but subsequently became an actor, and he remained on the stage until about five-and-twenty years ago, when an unfortunate accident, by which he broke his leg while playing Rob Roy at the Norwich Theatre, obliged him, to turn his attention to other pursuits.

RABBITS AT SANDRINGHAM. The South Eastern Gazette says: prisoner, now undergoing sentence for a poaching affray, states that he formerly lived in the neighbourhood of Sandringham, adding, 'I was never in trouble while I lived there--nor nobody Being asked why, he said it was because if a man needed 8 dinner, and wanted a rabbit, he had only to go to the House' and ask for one. The Prince had given special orders that the men about were not to trespass and shoot for themselves, but that his keepers were always to supply a rabbit to any labourer ou the estate." SEWAGE DISPOSAL. -Ata meeting of the Society of Engineera, held a few days ago in the Society's Hall, Victoriastreet, Westminster, Mr. R.

P. Spice, President, in the chair, Mr. Henry Robinson, C.E., read a on Sewage Disposal." After describing the different systems employed in this country for the removal of the refuse of the community, operation of the Rivers Pollution Prevention Act was considered, and necessity for its amendwent shown, owing to the difficulty experienced in arriving at an agreement as to what was a reasonable system to enforce in the varying circumstances of towns in respect of the purification of He then entered into the laws which governed the disposal of sewage upon land, and gave the average results of 22 towns he had investigated, which were as follows: gallons of sewage per head of the population per day; thesewage of 114 people to the acre of sewage farm; Cost of sewage farm 1s. 10d. per head of population, and 64d.

in the pound of rateable value. Where land could not be obtained as a purifier and utilizer of sewage, he indicated methods of dealing with it by chemical treatment. In conclusion, he said be should abstain from recommending any system, as his experience had led him to advise the adoption of a system for each town according to its own special circumstances, and he considered that those who advised in these mattere, while being free from bias in favour of any system, should be practically familiar with them all. In the course of the discuesion which followed, Mr. Baldwin Latham said be WaS aware that this question of the disposal of sewage was a vexed question.

It had occupied the attention of his father, and he himhad given much time to its consideration, and he should venture to express the opinion that the sewage itself was of no value. By that be meant to say that the cost of realizing the value would always more or less be equal to the worth of the product. He was, of course, perfectly aware that, in some circumstances, sewage farms had been carried on at a profit, and generally he might say that where purification was effected the results were more satisfactory than when chemical: Were used. When land for sewage irrigation could be obtained at the ordinary normal value of agricultural land, he believed that a fair return for the necessary outlay might be obtained, Dealing next with the chemical purification of sewage, he pointed out the impossibility of utilizing the ammonia, and the difficulty of obtaining uniform purity of the effluent water, owing to the occasional flooding of the tanks with storm water, or from the flushing of the sewers, Having some years ago made experiments with various chemical precipitants, he had come to the conclusion that the sewage sludge itself, if charred and sufficiently acidified to neutralize the alkalinity of the fresh Sewage, was the best and cheapest precipitant-an opinion which, be believed, General Scott now aleo held. Mr.

H. P. Stephenson, Mr. J. Shires Will, Mr.

G. E. Eachus, Mr. Williams, Mr. P.

F. Nursey, and Mr. Brooking also spoke on the subject. The Chairman, in conclusion, remarked that it had been truly said they were dealing with a vexed question. The highest authorities were divided.

There was no doubt that the sewage of towns and cities must be carried away by water because water was cheapest carrier; but then the question arose where the engineer's duty was to end and the chemist's to begin. Were he an autocrat, he would not bave the sewage poured into the Thames. It was, however, there; but he thought it should be taken to Maplin Sands, or at least so far down the river as, to be less objectionable than it was at VOLUNTARY -An inquest was held at Brighton on Friday, on an elderly spinster named Morris, who, notwithstanding that she had abundant meane, died from cold and sheer exhaustion through want of nourisbment. A large sum of money was found in ber possession she never had a fire during the eight years she had lodged where she died, and her feet were froet-bitten. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT THE LONDON Tuesday afternoon a body of workmen employed at the wool warehouses of the London docks entered the of the bydraulic lift, on the top floor, for the purpose of cage descending to the basement. These warehouses are about 100 feet in height, and used entirely for storing bales of wool and jute. The men have been constantly warned neither to ascend nor descend by the lift. When the lift had about half reached the basement the chain suddenly broke, and the eix men inside were precipitated to the ground. It was found that they were all frightfully injured, and immediate steps were taken for removing them to the London Hospital.

On arrival there one man, named Edward Green, was found to be dead, and two othere, named William Gage and John Connell, died before their injuries could be surgically attended to. The other three men -Charles Wood, James Long, and John Prosser -are not expected to survive. At the inquest the Jury recorded a verdict of Accidental death" in each case, and recommended that when the lifts were not in use they should be locked up, or other means taken to prevent a repetition of such an occurrence. FATAL ACCIDENT AT A MILITARY GYMNASICM.Sergeant Nadin, Royal Marines, one of the instructors at the military gymnasium, Chatham, has met with a fatal accident. He was practising on the horizontal bar, when he fell and broke his back.

He was taken to Melville Hospital, but nothing could be done for the poor fellow, and he died from the injuries. FATAL SHOOTING ACCIDENT. -At Dukinfield, near Ashton-under-Lyne, at a pigeon shooting match on Thursday, a man named Reuben Hague, waste dealer, took aim at a bird, which, however, did not fly out of the trap. A man named Platt, a butcher, took up stone to throw at the bird, when Hague fired, and, from some unexplained cause, the charge from the gun lodged in Platt's head and killed him. EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT AT A LAUNCH.

An alarming accident occurred on Tuesday morning at the launch of a vessel belonging to Messrs. McMillan and Son in the dockyard, Dumbarton. The workmen were engaged removing the blocks from the ship, when, from some cause or other, she began to glide the water, into" drawing with her a number of the workmen, who were nearly drowned. One man had both his legs broken, another his bip joint dislocated, and both were severely bruised. Some lay on their backs below the vessel, while she was sliding off the ways, and narrowly escaped being killed.

The vessel fortunately was not of large tonnage, or they result would have been far more serious. SHOCKING DEATH. -On Thursday last as Thomas Gregory, of Castlethorpe, was proceeding along the railway line in the direction of Wolverton, he was caught by a passing train, which cut him to pieces, his head being entirely severed from his body. For twenty years the deceased had been in the habit of walking along the line to his work. He was organist at the parish church, and leaves a wife and several children.

ACCIDENTS ON THE ICE. -Emily Watson, aged 20, daughter of bank manager, at Cockermouth, and Joseph Bolton, aged 31, son of a builder in the same town, were drowned on Thursday in consequence of the ice breaking while they were skating on Basinthwaite Lake. A fatal accident occurred on the ice at Ballyalla Lake, near Ennie, on Thursday, when a young gentleman named James Irwin, a pupil at Ennis College, was drowned, The accident occurred near a drainage cutting, where the ice was weak, and it was dusk at the time, Attempts were made to save the deceased, who was only 16 years of age, but without avail. THE INQUEST ON MISS M'LEAN, who died under peculiar circumstances on the 17th of last month at a coffee-house in Seymour-street, Marylebone, was resumed on Tuesday. The chief evidence was given by the wife of the coffee keeper.

From this, confirmed by her husband and other witnesses who bad attended the deceased during her illness in London, it appeared that the man Paine, with whom Mies M'Lean had lived, after taking her to the coffee-house refused to allow any food to be given to her, but insisted, in spite of her opposition, on her driuking raw spirits, which he poured down her throat himself. The deceased was neglected and roughly treated by Paine and by a woman named Matthews who accompanied him, While she was in a dying state Paine wished to remove Miss M'Lean to Brighton, and when the landlady of the house refused to allow him to do 80 he proposed that he should go to Brighton and send a telegram, which she was to show to any person who might make inquiries, saying that he aud Miss M' Lean had arrived there, and that she was going on well. The cook at the coffee-house said that when food was taken to the deceased Paine removed it and would not allow her to have it. On the witness remonstrating and telling bim that the case would be like the Penge case, he threatened her with violence. It appeared also from the evidence of a stockbroker that some time time since he sold some shares for Ming Lean, giving a cheque in part payment to Paine, who endorsed the cheque himself, remarking that he WAS the lady's busband, and that they signed each other's names.

A woman who said that she was Paine's firat wife was also examined. Eventually the case was adjourned for a week. During the evidence of the keeper of the coffee-house, Paine obtained permiasion to leave the Court. He did not return, and the Coroner issued a warrant for his immediate apprehension. DEATH FROM DRINKING SPIRITS.

-On Friday last a Frenchman named Achille, drank so large a quantity of spirits in a public-house in Northampton, that he became insensible, and died without recovering consciouenegs. AN ARTFUL DODGE. -Thomas Jennings was indicted last week at the Middlesex Sessions for stealing 2d. While the conductor of an omnibus was away getting change, late at night, the prisoner called to the driver to move on, saying the conductor would follow immediately. The driver proceeded, and, imagining that the conducter had caught him up, he continued to the end of the journey, when the prisoner, who had collected the fares on the way, made excuse as to the absence of the conductor, departed, but was pursued driver and captured.

He was sentenced to nine months' hard in labour. RESULT OF Wolverhampton, on Thursday, a Coroner's Jury returned a verdict of slaugbter against Sarah Wedge, a married woman, for causing the death of her illegitimate child, three and a half years old. The child was playing on the floor of the house, when the mother, in a fit of passion at being called a 'lying cat by a young brother, threw the poker at him. The weapon missed the lad and struck the deceased on the head, fracturing the skull. The child died shortly afterwards.

Prisoner was committed for trial at the next assizes. STEALING on Thursday morning Mr. Immes, gentleman farmer, of Hereford, was surprised to see three men in bis front garden demolishing a fine large holly-tree. Boughs were being sawn off, one of the men, named Charles Wall, being perched aloft with joiner's saw and busy at work, while the others were gathering the branches as they fell. Emerging from his house Mr.

Immes invited Wall to come down from the tree. The othera, on seeing the owner, had made off. Eventually Wall descended, and a desperate struggle ensued between him and Mr. Immee, the latter proving maater. Wall has been sentenced to two months' hard labour.

BRUTAL OUTRAGE. -A brutal outrage has been committed upon a farmer at Rushton, near Leek. Three men waylaid him as he was returning home late on Tuesday night. Two of them seized and held him while the third took his knife from his pocket and mutilated him in a most brutal manner. The farmer was left upon the road exposed to the cold in an exhauated state.

His condition is dangerous. He bad upon him a large sum in gold, which was untouched. CRUEL BRUTALITY TO AN INFANT. -At the Marylebone Police-court, on Saturday, Charles Shurety, horsekeeper, and Mary Ann Piper, a charwoman, living with Shurety as his wife, were charged, the former with killing Louisa Piper, aged 2 years and 11 months, an illegitimate child, and the latter with being an accessory to the act. The evidence disclosed a shocking course of ill -treatment, more especially on the part of the male prisoner.

Both reserved their defence and were committed for trial on a charge of wilful murder. ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A WARDER. -On Saturday John Gilbert, an inmate of the House of Detention at Clerkenwell, was charged with having attempted to murder one of the wardere, who, baving reported the prisoner to the governor for misconduct, was violently attacked by him. Near the scene of the assault was a gallery 13 or 14 feet high, and the prisoner, according to the warder's evidence, endeavoured to throw him over, and was only prevented by the arrival of assistance. The case was sent for trial.

THE TRANMERE BABY FARM." -At the meeting the Birkenhead Guardians on Tuesday a letter was read from Mr. Moore, solicitor, in reference to the girl Louisa Waller, originally in the care of the convicted Tranmere baby farmers' but now in the Birkenhead Workhouse, and said to be entitled on coming of age £1200. Mr. Moore informed the Board that he had received a letter from the solicitors who drew the agreement by which the child was handed over the Barnes, and that instead of being heiress to £1200 the girl had not been left twelve pence. The gentleman who handed her over died last year and left her nothing.

The story about the £1200 was therefore all mistake, though the Barnses endeavoured to get what they thought had been left to the child. FROZEN TAPS. -A Canonbury correspondent of the will not freeze in an ordinary frost. By lubricating Times a writes: It is not generally known that glycerine taps with glycerine, and covering exposed pipes supply with strips of felt, I find the water comes daily. My neighbours have none." ARMED A marked increase has taken place in cases of burglary with violence in and around the metropolis, and instances in which the police have been shot at by burglars while attempting to arrest them have become no frequent that an opinion in favour of arming the night constables with fire-arms in defence is gaining ground.

It in understood that the subject engaging the attention of the authorities, and that new phase of crime, which has resulted from the exploits of a recently notorious criminal, may probably call special measures of repression, together with special means of protection for the police, The Kent Agitation in Ireland. The agitation in Ireland, which had been flagging owing to the absence of Mr. Parnell in England, has received a fresh impetus in consequence of that gentleman's return. He addressed a meeting of a very turbulent character at Castlerea on Sunday, the 7th inst. While the Chairman, Mr.

O' Donnell, was speaking, there were standing among the crowd two Government shorthaud writers, taking notes of the speech, and guarded by fourteen of the constabulary armed with rifles. Their presence greatly attracted the attention of some on the platforo, and the police, seeing this, drew up together more closely, forming in line. There were cries of Make them shut up their books! Make them shut up their books!" Shove them out!" These cries were received with cheers, and immediately a scene of the wildest excitement ensu-d. The crowd, swaying for a few momenta to and fro in a dense masa, began to move rapidly in the direction of the note-takere, crushing against them, and seeming as if to intend by a rush to obey the commands given. The police raised their rifles, and forwing round the writers pressed back the people with the barrels.

Notwithstanding this the crowd still pushed forward, and the excitement and confusion grew each moment more and more intense. Mr. Parnell, who was enthusiastically cheered, said: The police have just acted in a perfectly unauthorised manner by presenting their rifles at the people. (Cheers.) What we propose is, that there reporters shall be allowed to come on the platform-(A voice: l'ut them down," and cheers)but they must wit separate from the other reporters, and that the police stand further off from the people. SubInspector Newell attempted to address Mr.

Parnell, but was unable to do so in consequence of the uproar that ensued. Forcing bis way through the crowd, Mr. Newell at last advanced near the platform, and, some degree of silence having been obtained for him, he said that he and the constabulary were there that day for no other purpose but that of preventing any breach of the peace that might occur. (Derisive laughter and groans.) Mr. Parnell: All I can say is, that in order to prevent risk of collision between the police and the people, we will allow the shorthand writers to come on the platform, and I will undertake that they shall not be molested.

(Cheers and cries of Shame them Sub-Inspector Newell then said he would withdraw his men to such a distance that there would be no fear of a collision between them and the people, Mr. Parnell having undertaken that on his part the reporters should not be molested. (Cheers.) The Government reporters then ascended the platform amid a perfect storm of groans. A daring outrage was perpetrated on Saturday evening in the porch of the Limerick County Club House by an evicted tenant, whose name is said to be Shea, or O'Shea, OD Lord Fermoy, who resides in County Limerick. The evicted tenant, seeing his lordship standing in the porch, felled him senseless to the pavement with a large cudgel.

Mr. Gavin and Mr. Delamerge, gentlemen who were in the porch at the time, at once seized the ruffian, who was conveyed to prison. It is said he will be tried at the present winter assizes. A man named Garrett Fitzgerald has been arrested on a charge of having written a threatening letter to John Massy, J.P., of Kingswell House, Tipperary, agent for the Smith- Barry estates at Clerihan, in the county of Clonmel, on which Fitzgerald was a tenant.

Mr. Massy a short time ago refused to reduce the rents, and said that he would serve every tenant who did not pay in full with a writ of ejectment. A private investigation was beld at Tipperary on Friday before Mr. Geo. M' Carthy, resident Magistrate.

On the sworn information of Mr. Massy, the prisoner was remanded for a week. Mr. J. B.

Killen, who, with Messrs. Daly and Davitt, in charged with using seditious language, has been admitted to bail, himself in £500, and two sureties in £250 each. The Grand Jury have returned true billa against Mr. Brennan on the double charge sedition and of attempting to seduce the Royal Irish Conastabulary from their allegiance. All four defendants spoke at a land meeting held on Sunday at Carroch-onShannon.

DEBIT AND CREDIT. -An annual meeting of a New. castle Trade Society was held some time and the Treasurer, in reading out the financial statement, after detailing the various iteme, gave the total income and expenditure, which left," be said, a debit balance of £30." Hear, hear; hear, hear," roared one of the members, "I see no occasion to shout ont "hear, said the treasurer the balance is on the wrong side of the book." No matter retorted the other. "This society has so difficulties to fight agen that it's a wonder it hes balance at all." REMAINS IN a meeting of the Society Antiquaries, held a few days ago, at its rooms, Burlington-house, Mr. Ouvry, V.P., in the chair, Mr.

George Payne, of Sittingbourne, Kent, exbibited and described a remarkable collection of objects taken by bim from a Roman grave, discovered on the 6th of last mouth, at Bayford, near that town, 20 yards from another Roman grave, unearthed in 1877, and shown by him at the Society's meeting of May 3 in that year. The antiques last found were of glass, pottery, and metal. To the first category belonged a square cinerary vessel of blue glass, a small pale greenish blue glass jug, a round pale blue glass bottle, fragments of a small vase of white transparent glans, and a pale olive green glass vase. The ceramic objects were a delicate cream-coloured vase slightly ornamented, two urns of Upchurch ware, a pitcher with red clay handle; half-adozen Sanian pater nine Sanian cups, one of them ornamented with a leaf pattern. By far the most interesting metallic object was a fine vase in bronze, bigh, broad at the widest part, at base, 2tin.

at neck, and widening at the rim to 3gin. The handle is of solid metal and very massive; that portion of it which is fastened to the body of the vessel is beaten into a kind of shield in width, upon which is shaped in high relief the figure of a man in a nude state standing in an attitude ready to attack. In his right hand is an uplifted sword, in the left, which is raised to the centre of the body, is the scabbard, and over the arm is thrown the cloak, the folds hanging below. On his head is a cap; his mouth is open as if in the act of shouting. Under the right hand is a decapitated ram or goat, legs uppermost, with blood flowing from the neck, the head having fallen at the man's feet.

Between the man's legs reclines an ox, and outside the left leg is the head of a boar with uplifted snout. Above the man's head the decoration is continued up the handle, which at this point contracts to about an inch here a goat in represented galloping; over it are two animals somewhat indistinct; above them is the figure of a man seated and holding a crook in the right hand. The handle above is encircled half-way round by a band with a thin line of silver in the centre. The rim of the vase is clasped by the heads of two birds, with eyes of silver, and the long beaks are drilled with holes to represent teeth. The necks of the birds are divided by which flows down the handle to the band a scroll pattern, before mentioned.

The only iron object is a lampstand, with bar for suspension. Additional bronze antiques were fragmentary strigils, and a rack with strigil attached by a device resembling our split rings. Messre. H. S.

Milman, F.S.A., and J. E. Price offered remarks on the new Roman find, than which, the Chairman said, no finer bad ever been laid before the Society. A MISER'S short time ago a miserly old lady was burned to death in her house at Roscrea, Clonmel. A box has since been discovered in the burnt building containing £7000 in gold, and several thousand pounds in notes, some bearing very old dates.

A executed will was also found, bequeathing all to rich relaproperly- tives. Deceased lived by herself penuriously for wany years, denying herself the necessaries of life. Parley's Annual for 1880 appears in a Peter gorgeous binding of crimson, blue, and gold, very unlike the sombre hued volumes that used to be issued under this title some thirty or forty yeara ago. The contents are such as to make it an acceptable Christmas present, having, besides several interesting and sensible stories, some well written biographical of Fans Holbein, Dr. Henry Schliemann, Budd, the cricketer, and others who should have a claim upon boyish interest.

the Young of England Kind is the name of new periodical (taking place Words) for that already well supplied class of society boys and girls." From the first ber now before u8 we are inclined to think it more deserving of favour than many. A column on Fishing," to be continued future numbers, will not the attention of the boys; and girls will find, besides escape short papers on various subjects of some eensible remarks on Dresses and Dressmaking." common interest, From the publishing office of Hand and Heart we receive a Tablet Almanac, a neat arrangement of texta and illustrations issued with The Day of Days, a Sunday magazine conducted by the Rev. C. Bullock, who in a little book called Robin's Carol draws attention to what are called the Robin Dinners organizations tending to the gratification of hundreds of needy children in various parts of London. The double number of Metzler's Musical Bijou, for Christmas, is composed entirely of dance music, having a separate part for the violin.

H.M.S. Pinafore Singing Quadrille is sure to be a favourite at Christmas parties, and the Primavera Polka Mazurka is particularly pleasing. Other compositions in the number are by Gaston de Lille, C. Godfrey, and other composers whose names should ensure the production of original and spirited dance music. A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD IN 500 DAYS.

-We have received from Mr. G. Sutherland Dodman a wellprinted illustrated volume in post 8vo. which affords a striking example of modern travelling enterprise. It is not very many of as years since Cook's famous voyage was spoken an unexampled feat in navigation, but 80 great are the changes effected by the introduction of steam that persons of means and leisure have here an opportunity to participate in a tour round the world which is to occupy 500 days at a cost of 9500.

The route party will sail include the Mersey in June next, and the will from Trinadad, Bahia, Rio Halifax de (Nova Scotia), Philadelpbia, San Francisco, Honolulu, Janeiro, Valparaiso, Panama, Fiji Islands, New Zealand, Hobart Town, Melbourne, Sidney, Yokohama, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Manilla, Singapore, Calcutta, Colombo, Bombay, Aden, Alexandria, Constantinople, Atheus, Malta, Naples, Algiers, Gibraltar, and Lisbon, whence the vessel returns to Liverpool,.