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rHK HUDDERSFIELD CHRONICLE, SA1UKDAY, JOLT IT, 18M. Thb Congress of Chambers of Commerce, which 10th of the Queen became law on the 23rd of April THE BUCKROSE RETURN. It has been arranged to present a petition against the SCRAPS AND HINTS tarn of Mr H. J.WlUoufot theHolmfitth WvWon has spp.rentl, had the effect of rendering him somewh.t satirical, although how hie RUSSIA. FATAL EXPLOSION OF A SHELL.

16 PERSONS KILLED. ST. PxraSBUBa, Friday. Yeaterday afternoon, aa a waggon-load of old artillery materld, whieh a dedss in toon had bought from the Government at publlo auction. WS? te'as dfeoharged at the purchaser's place of business, a SMn.

shell, supposed, but erroneously, to have been duly unloaded, burst in the midst of a number of people Sixteen persona, including four children, were kit ed on injured WTenl others were more or less seriously UNITED STATES. THE EXTRADITION TREATY. WASHINGTON, Friday. In the negotiations for the extradition treaty the principle la maintained that crimes punishable by common law, whether committed by dynamite or otherwise, will be treated without rega-d to political pretexts. shows that the Blackmoorfoot district Is one of those, the water collectod from whioh is what la commonly called soft, the nature of the strata with whieh they some In contact being suoh as to contain but little of those minerals the absorption of which gives water the character of hardness." There is, however, in the district found some iron pyrites an ore of sulphur ana iron, which, when exposed to air and water, undergoes a chemical change resulting in the production of sulphuric add.

And the evidence is that there was some (not very much) sulphuric add in the water collected In the Blackmoorfoot reser voir. I do not think we need embarrass ourselves by thinking of the other reservoirs, for the water from the drinking of whioh the appellant has suffered came exclusively from Blaocmoorfoot reservoir. I think it must, for the purposes of this oase, be considered as established that the water as brought down to and in the mains was soft water, with some sulphuric add in it. excellent In that state for drinking. But I think It must also be considered as established that this water was such as.

when brouzht in contact with lead, was capable of dissolving it, and producing some salt of lead which, if taken in sufficient quantity for a sufficient length of time, is noxious. The evldenoe of the experts in this case differed as to the modus operandi. Those called for the defendants said that the quantity of sulphuric add in this water was so slieht that It would produce no appreciable effect, but that so far as it did produce an effect it would be beneficial. There Is a good deal of difficulty In making out what the evidence now given is. A good deal of the cross-examination of Dr Tidy, beginning at page 138, consists in reading to him extracts from his evidence in the House of Lords on the Think Water Bill.

He certainly seems then to have expressed an opinion that soft water, when highly rated, would, in running through a new lead pipe, dissolve a very noteable quantity of lead, bnt that after running through the lead pipe for, I think he there say, three months, a deposition would take place, as I understand it, coating the lead pipe with some salt of lead not soluble in water, after whieh the amount of lead dissolved would be comparatively nothing." The inference from that would seem to be that there was an objection to bringing soft water into tuelin towns by means of pipes of lead, which did not apply to bringing in hard water by that means, but that the objection would only be a practical one whilst the pipe was new, and mlgbt therefore be neglected. Dr Odling seems to have formerly thought that it was established as a fact that soft water did after a time ooat the lead pipes with something so as to produce a protecting effect, but now to be less positive, p. 145. and Mr Crooks seems to be now a good deal shaken in that opinion, p. 149.

This all seems to point to a conclusion, rather unpleasant for the inhabitants of towns wmcn are supplied from districts producing soft water, that they oannot use lead pipes without some risk. I do not know that it is necessary to form an opinion upon this question, but it shows how very important the question we are now discussing may be for I suppose there is no doubt that very populous districts are supplied from sources such aa Loch Katrine, Thirl mere, and others might be mentioned, whioh afford oniy sois water, and that In those the supply pipes are often if not always made of lead. I think, however, that the qaestlon what remedy there is mast depend on the true construction of the Aot In each oase. It may well be that on the true construction of ona Act It osM appear that the Legislature Intended to allow the use of water of snob a decree of aoftnMa as will nmilnm anm Injurious corrosion of lead pipes, and to allow it to be supplied through lead pipes, thinking that the quantity of lead taken up would be so small that, though It mlgh Injure a few persons, it was better on the balance that this should be, rather than that the district should be deprived of water altogether, or put to the expense and Inconvenience which weald be caused by preventing the use ot lead pipes, which are certainly very generally used: and Tat that may not be the intention appearing on the construction of another Act. The Aot in the present case is the 32 and 33 Viot, oap.

ox. It provides that the Corporation of Huddersfield may take over the old waterworks erected by Gomrnlaatonen nndav tha 1 nA 8 Geo. cap. lxxx. 14.

With those waterworks we are not in the present ease oonoemed. But the Act also provides for getting a further snrmlv of water and making a further reservoir, and, when that supply is obtained, to enlarge the districts within which the Corporation msy supply water. The appellant's house is in that new distriot. The Aot, 1869. Incorporates the Waterworks Glauses Aots of 1847 and 1863, except the provisions with respect to the amount of profit to be received by the undertakers when the waterworks are carried on for their own profit.

The 17th section of 32 and 33 cap. defines the distriot from which the new supply is to be derived. The reservoir from which the water is brought down to the main to which the service nine rnoDlvin? the appellant's house is attached is Blackmoorfoot, and with that only are your lordships concerned. It was. not vary strongly, arged that the undertakers were in the position of person selling water to the inhabitants of the district, and therefore that they were under an obligation to supply water fit to be used in lead supply pipes.

feoav Being we ordinary mode in which water la used. But I think that the dntv Imnosed on the Gnrnorattnn does not extend so far. It may be that it imposes on them a duty to take all reasonable care and skill, and, if there had been a claim for on tha ground, that they had been guilty of neglect of that duty, It would have been nenaaaarv tn consider this. The Judge, in the exercise of his very wide powers of amendment, might have allowed an amendment raising tnis question, but after the objection of the defendant's counsel, that he was not prepared witn evidence to meet each a case, he would not have done so except on the terms that the trial should be postponed, and be was not asked to mske it. I do not think this a mere technical objection.

Both of athew, on further consideration, and the Oourt of Appeal nI.J nicniiou tuoinw it uepeuued exclusively on tne Act, and, viewing It in that light, held, I think correctly, that the only absolute dnty Imposed on the Corporation was to provide and keep, In the pipes to be laid down by them, which I think Is correctly oonstraed as the mains, "a supply of pure and wholesome water sufficient for the domestic use of the Inhabitants. The supply kept in the main was pure and wholesome, if it was taken as it there was. The only doubt I have bad as to this is whether (as it wss known that the supply pipes were aaeiy to ne maae to some extent of lead, and after the making of the bye-laws it wss known that they would certainly be made of lead), the water which, when passed through the lead pipes, would take up some poisonous salts of lead, can be properly said to be nnre end wholesome." I think, however, it was so. and that the fault, If there wss any, wss in having lead pipes at alL The 32 and 33 oap. section 60.

empowers the Corporation, for the purpose of preventing waste, misuse, undue consumption, or contamination of the water, to make bve-laws. Under these actually made, they deprive the inhabitant, at whose expense they do the actual plumber's work, of all discretion as to the materials of which his servioe pipes are to be made. They prescribe that they shall be lead. I do not see that there is any reason to think that, if the discretion bad been left to the inhabitant, there would have been any difference In the mode In or the material of which these servioe pipes would have been eonstruoted. Even now the only change whioh oan be suggested ts that the iueh.

pipe of the length of 38ft. might be made of Iron wbtoh would no doubt diminish the chance of misohlef by diminishing the quantity of lead. But, whilst lead Is the material from whioh Internal servioe pipes are made, that would only diminish It. I do not know what hope there may be of cheapening the cost of production of aluminium, or in some other way giving the consumers a practical mode of getting service pipes of a material aa tough and flexible as lead, and not having this dangerous quality of poisoning water, or at least soft water when not so devoid of oxygen as to be exceedingly Insipid. If there is such a discovery ever made, the bye-law which stands in the way of the use of it may be repealed.

But now I am not able to see in what way any claim can be made against the Corporation on account of these bye-laws. I do not say none oan, but I certainly do not think any has been made. And I think that till suoh a claim it made in such a way as to give ths Corporation an opportunity to answer it, your lorusmps oannot aeciue it. Lord Watson I take the same view of this ease as my noble and learned friend. Lord Selborne, and that being bo I shall not trouble your lordships by delivering the judgment which I had prepared.

I simply express my entire concurrence in the judgment of my noble and learned menu. Lord Bramwell said I am of opinion thst this iude ment should be sffirmed. The plaintiff's oharsa in him statement of claim is that he, biting entitled to a supply 01 pure ana wnoiesome water rrom tne oerendants, they supplied him with water not pure and whole some, bnt whioh was contaminated with deleterious ingredients. This complaint is not only unproved. but the contrary la proved.

The supply by the defendants Is from the main to the service nines of the plaintiff. The water supplied at the point of supply was pure and wholesome, with no deleterious ingredient. In its passage along the plaintiff's service pipes it became otherwise. It Is impossible to say that water la pure ana wnoiesome, ana ires rrom aeiesenous ingredients, if passed through iron pipes, but not if passed through lead pipes. The pipe is bad, but the water good.

The piaintin, tnereiore, nas failed to make out his oase. It was asked what if, under their powers of compelling persons to take a supply of water, they supplied it through service pipes of lead witn the Injurious oonse queuco tunc nave iouowea in me piaintiit oase. 1 decline to give an opinion on this ml I bear the oase, and will content myself with savins that, if tha defendants would be liable, It would be precisely for the reason wmou aoes not exist nere, tnat the water they supplied was not pure and wholesome. I will oniv add that, in the oase put, they are not bound, only entitled, to foroe a supply. I decline to consider any question of negligence or misfeasance in the use oi lead pipes.

No suoh case is before ui. It may be said this Is deciding tne oase on technical grounds air Justice Wills said that law without technicality was imoosslhln. I content myself with saying that, as long as our law s.vfb that a plaintiff to succeed must do so on ths allegata et probata the decision must be governed by tnem, ana tnem uone. Lord Fitzgerald I bave oome to the same conclusion aa my noble and learned friends (Lords Blaokburn and Bramwell), bat with some and not Inconsiderable hesita tion, tbat the plaintiff has failed to establish any breach of the statute duty or obligation on which alone he rests his action and that judgment should therefore be for the respoadents. My lords, it Is sometimes very desirable tbat your lordships, dealing with oases where several questions fairly arise, any one of which may be sufficient In Itself to dispose of toe aotloo, abould neverthe lets proceed to express the decision of this House on all or moro than one of the questions in the oaue.

As for example, in the very recent case of the Colonial Bank v. Whlnney, where two questions arose on the interpretation of a aectlon of the Bankruptcy Aot of 1883, the decision of either of those questions against the respondent rendered It necessary to reverse the deoi slon of the courts below and give judgment for the appellant. Your lordships, however, decided both aues tions. and adversely to the respondent. These Questions.

though distinct, were fairly and properly raised on the pleadings, there was an issue on each, the courts below dealt with and expressed their decision on each, and it was expedient for the public good that your lordships should do likewise. In the 01 se now before the House It seems to me to be in expedient to express an opinion on the several other questions whioh have been raised only In argu ment, ana wmcn anect tne interests of undertakers for supply of water and of water oompanles ss well at oon earners throughout the United Klogdom. My noble and learned friend (the Earl of Selborne) in his eloquent reasoning refers principally to one view ot the oase. which Is by far the moat important of all, but whioh It seems to me can be properly settled on a firm and just basis by legit htlou only. The statute of the practically reach any consumer whatever could not so reach him without poisonous could not safely be drunk, and would, therefore, not fulfil the primary objects for which the whole supply was required.

Whatever else the Legislature may have Intended, it certainly did not Intend the water to be drunk directly out of the undertakers mains and when the obligation was imposed upon them to keep in their mains a supply of pure and wholesome water sufficient for the domestic use of all the inhabitants," and to give to every Inhabitant demanding and paying for it a sarhoient supply ot water tor his domestic purposes. I oannot think it reasonable to understand this In any abstract unpractical sense Irrelevant to the consumer. and Independent of the proper means ana necessary conditions of bis consumption. It the Legislature bad expressly required all communication and service pipes to be of lead, It Is unconceivable to me that the fitness of the water for drinking while In the undertakers' mains (from whioh it never would or could be drunk) could have been held to satisfy the respondents' obligation, If it were unfit to pass through lead and to be afterwards drunk, by reason of the presence In it of special solvent of lead, although that solvent mlgbt be absolutely Inopera tive and Innoxious to any one who might drink the water before it came in con tact with lead. It Is true that this is a ease of statutory obligation, not properly of eon tract; although Lord Eldon and other great judges regarded Acts 01 ratilament oi this class, giving powers to promoters or undertakers who solicit them, and who are to reoeive remuneration In money for what under these powers they supply, as raruamentary contracts with the public, or at least with that portion of the public which might be directly Interested In them.

But I fall to see wby it should be less necessary or reasonable (unless the words of the statutes exclude it) to regard the ntuess ot tne thing supplied for the pur pose of the statutory obligation as an element of that obligation ltselt, than It is to do so when the obligation results properly from contract, I can, indeed, conceive a possible, though most Improbable, oase In whioh the Legislature mlgbt have absolved the undertakers from all responsibility lor tne quality of tne water sap plied by them; not only authorising them fas here) to collect the springs within a certain area for the purposes cf the supply, but requiring or authorising them to supply those particular waters In their actual state and condition, aa they might be collected In certain reservoirs, without any obligation either to reject or to find the means of purifying them, If they should become contaminated with adventitious matter, rendering them unfit for their Intended purpose. In that oase, however Improvident suoh legislation might be, the consumer would have to take care of himself as best he could the undertakers weald have a statutory Indemnity, whstever might happen. But It seems to me that there Is no ground for so construing those Aots of Parliament with whioh we have here to deal. Another care might have been possible and, Indeed, unless I misunderstand the opinions from whioh I differ, the lesrned judges In the Oourt of Appeal, and some of your lordships also, think that the present is really suoh a case. A clear line of separation might have been drawn between the works of the undertakers, beginning with th six oonduits and reservoirs, and ending in their mains and everything else the choice of material for the communication and service pipes, and the whole system and means of supply from the mains to the consumers' premises might have been placed entirely within the power and under the control of the consumer, at his sole risk, and on his sole responsibility.

In that case, I should have agreed that if the water was Dure and wholesome at the point where all the duties, powers, and responsibilities of the undertakers terminated, the consumer, and not the undertakers, might no solely answerable for whatever might after, wards happen to it while passing through pipes constructed at his own option, and in his own way, of a material chosen by himself. But I cannot agree with those who think that your lordships have to deal here with anything like that state of things, and the reason why you have not is obvious. It would be quite incon sistent with the interests of the undertakers, and would place in great hazard the profits of their undertaking, if their powers of interference and control were to terminate at the mains the hypothesis is an unreal one. inconsistent with the nature and the Indispensable conditions of such an undertaking. It is of little importance, in my judgment, to this question that the legal property in the communication and service pipes may be (as indeed I think it is) in the consumer, after he has paid for them, unless he was free to deter mine for himself of what matenal they ehould be made.

and to exercise, both when they were laid down and afterwards, the substantial control over them, independent of the undertakers and this (as I read and understood the Acts and the bye-laws made by the respondents) he was not. Under the general Act of 1847 the communica tion pipes might, indeed, be laid down by the consumer bat they were to be of a strength and material approved by the undertakers, and to be laid down under the superintendence of their officers, with an appeal, in oase of difference, to justices. Suoh restricted powers differ widely from that freedom whioh may involve sole responsibility. By the 19th section of the Aot of 1863, these restrictions were largely extended. Every consumer wrs prohibited, under penalties, from affixing, or causing or permitting to be affixed, any pipe or apparatus to a pipe belonging to the undertakers, or to a communication or service pipe belonging to tho consumer, and from making any alteration In any such communication or service pipe, or in any apparatus connected therewith, without the consent, in every such case, of the And by the special Act for Huddersfield, absolute power was given to the respondents to make bye-laws, directing the use, and prescribing the size, nature, strength, and materials, and the mode of arrangement, alteration, and repair, of (among other things) all the consumer's pipes.

The respondents exercised that power by prescribing lead as the necessary material for every consumer's pipe, "not being of cast That a practical option was given to the consumer to use oast iron for ail his pipes does not appear to me to be the true effect of this bye -law, having regard to the immediately antecedent context but on this I do not dwell, beoause the respondents, by another bye-law, took upon themselves (as under the 70th seotlon of their speolal Aot they certainly might, with the consumer's assent) the office of providing and executing, In all oases, the whole servioe pipes and works for the supply of water from the mains Into the bouses of the consumers; and they also reserved to themselves the sole and exclusive oontrol and management over the connecting pipes and works trom the street main to the consumer's premises." All the leaden communication and service pipes were, In the present case (and, as I collect from the evidence, In Huddersfield generally), laid down by the respondents themselves, under these bye laws, pursuant to written applications founded upon them, which were signed by the consumers. I cannot be persuaded, under these olrcumstanoes, that any such line has been drawn by the Legislature between that part of th9 means of supply which ends in the mains belonging to the respondents, and that whioh la continued from those mains into the consumer's house by pipes of whioh the legal property is in the consumer, as to throw upon the consumer the sole responsibility for all contamination which may occur in pipes, by reason of the action of any thing contained in the water upon the material of whioh they are composed. I cannot be persuaded that the statutory obligation of the respondents is fulfilled if they deliver from their mains into those pipes water containing foreign or adventitious matter (whatever may be its exaot nature, or the exact chemical conditions under which it has suoh a noxious effect), which in passing through those pipes will cause the water to take up lead, and bo become poisonous, in a way whioh otherwise would not have happenad, although the water containing that matter might have been absolutely innoxious, if it could have been drunk from the mains without passing through lead. Taking this view, I should have arrived at a conclusion in the appellant favour. not on the ground of negligence (as to which no question was open upon the pleacllngBj, but on that of non-fulhl meat of the statutory obligation.

Not only was no uuea- tloa of negligence raised, but I think it right to say that I am unable to see how it could possibly have been raised (consistently with the views of the statutory obligation on whioh I understood the opinions from which I differ to be founded), even if the potenoy of the special solution of lead contained in this water (continuing to be innoxious until brought into contact witn lead) naa increased and aceumu lated to such a degree aa to poison the whole population of Huddersfield. This, happily (as lead is an elective poislon, and as the respondents msy be expected to use tne nest means in tbelr power to counteract the mlsoblef, whether legally obliged to do so or not, and I am not convinced that so suoh means are possible) Is not likely to happen but, If it did happen, the logical result of the views from which I differ seem to me to be, that the Legislature only would be to blame. Although I do not myself think so, I recognise, as I have already said, the weight of the authority opposed to my opinion, In accordance with whieh your lordships' judgment wui now seme tae law. Lord Blackburn said My Lords, this oase was heard before the House, consisting on that occasion of the mil 01 seioorne, Lord Watson, and Lord Fitzgerald. and those noble and learned lords, when considering the case, did not altogether agree in their views, apd It was tnererore aireotea tnat were should be a second argument.

I have had the advantage, besides hearing the second argument, of being furnished with opinions of iiarl belboroe and Lord Watson, printed confidentially. and circulated whilst the oase was under consideration after the former argument. Since the conclusion of this argument, I beve read again these opinions with great care. I have, as at present advised, oome to the con clusion that the judgment of Mr Justice Ma the which has baen affirmed by the Court of Anneal, ouoht to ba affirmed. Bat I feel that it Is a hard oase that the appellant should, without any fault even Imputed to mm, saner a damage so great without redress.

And 1 also feel that not only may the Inhabl tants of Huddersfield, but alio the inhabitants of many other districts who are supplied with watei from suoh sources as produce what Is cqmnionJy called "soft" water, may be in a similar position. There was evldenoe which, I think, would have justified the conclusion that the anantitv of W1 ccuid be taken up by this water from so short a length of lead pipe as that which led from the malnB to the tap whioh supplied the appellant with drinking water would not have produced any noxious effect on most people. The appellant's family, consisting of hla wife and servants and 10 children, the oldest of whom was 10 vaara nM. all drank it with impunity. I do not think It would have baen a fatal objection to his right to recover, if in other resDecta made out, that he was a person of a very peculiar constitution, and that none but persons of that very peculiar constitution would suffer.

But it was a.so proved that other persons had suf rered from same water passing through lead pipes. The general mischief from the nse of lead pipes Is muoh less serious, If the per centage of those who suffer from it is small. It may be important to ascertain bow that Is on some other occasion, but no question as to that was raised In this case. I take It to be matter ot general knowledge that water collected from a fall of rain on a particular district derives Its character from the nature of the strata over over which It flows when collected on the surface, or through which It filters when flowing out in springs, wnion are generally in the local strata. There are, some, times, spiings act deep-seated as to derive their character from other strata.

To take an extreme Instance no one, I think, can doubt that the hot mineral waters at Bath derive their peculiar qualities, whioh certainly render them very unfit for domestic use, from passing throu.h deep-seated stiata very different from those adjoining to Bath. I have no doubt that those hot springs are ultimately fed by rain which has fallen somewhere, filtered down into those hot strata, but I think it probable that the rainfall whioh feeds them has fallen at a distance, has been filtering far, perhaps for hundreds cf miles, and for a long time, perhaps for years, before it comes to the surface at Bath. But there Is no evidence here of there being any suoh deep-seated springs In this district. 1 thins the evidence has just come to a close, will, it Is hoped, have some Influence upon the trade of the country. An important element of the meetings was the pre sence of colonial representatives, the aid and advice of whom at the existing period must be considered most valuable.

A suggestion thrown out by one of these at the closing meeting Is worthy of particular attention. One of the soetal problems of the age Is how to dispose of the surplus population. Politicians of every shade of opinion have expressed their views upon this question, but unfortunately the difficulty has been practically letfc to a great extent un solved. Mr Kobert Reid, cf Melbourne, at the meeting referred to, urged that the surplus population should be sent to certain of the colonies where the people might became consumers of English manufactures. This Idea has been propounded before, and emigration has been frequently advocated as the only panacea for an Inconvenience without a practical remedy That emigration is calculated to relieve the strain upon Great Britain can scarcely be a matter of doubt, but to affect the trade of the country to any appreciable extent It will have to ba carried out on a much more extended scale than It Is at present.

There is doubtless ample room In Australia and other of our colonial possessions for plenty of labour, while certain parts of Africa are already regarded as sites for colonial enterprise of an almost ezhaustless character. But the question of ways and means forms one of the strongest preventives to wholesale emigration, and if the latter Is to become popular State aid on an extended scale will have to be afforded. The question Is one of national lmpor tance, and one worthy of the most oaref ni con sideration on the part of the Legislature THE HUDDERSFIELD LEAD POISONING CASE. MILNES v. THE CORPORATION.

(From our London Reporter.) HOUSE OF LORDS Yesterday. Judgment was given in thb important appeal in the House of Lords today. The Earl of Selborae, who delivered the first judgment, said Uy Lords, after the first argu ment of this important, and to my mind diffi cult case, I had formed an opinion different from that which it, I believe, entertained by a majority of those who heard the second argument. But I thought It desirable that the case should be further argued before a greater number of your lordships, and I am very glad that this has been done. Four very learned judges had concurred in the view taken by both the courts below, and the questions raised might concern, on the one hand, all consumers of water supplied in the usual way by public bodies to inhabitants of large towns where lead pipes are used, and the water may be of a quality likely to take up lead, and, on the other hand, all the public bodies supplying such water.

It is not often that it can be matter of satisfaction to a judge that a case should be determined against his opinion, but in the present ease I should not have wished my opinion to prevail against so considerable a preponderance of judicial authority I nevertheless think it By duty (especially as the subject is one which may deserve and receive attention from the Legislature) to state the view which I have taken, and whioh (If it depended on my judgment) I should still take of this ease but I do not consider it neoesssry to do so in that detail, or with that particular examine-tlon of all the clauses of the Acts of Parliament, and other documents, or of the state of the evidence, which might under other circumstances have been proper. By the General Waterworks Glauses Acts, and the special Act as to Huddersfield, the respondents, being under takers for the supply of the town of Huddersfield with water, are bo and (on certain conditions) to cause pipes to be laid down and water to be brought to every part of the town, and to provide and keep In the pipes to be laid down by them (that Is, as I agree, in their mains), a supply of pure and wholesome water, sufficient for the domestic use of all the and to furalsh to every inhabitant, demanding it on the terms of the Act, "a sufficient supply of water for his domestic purposes." For this they are to receive payment and, if their surveyor or officer of health reports any house within the borough to be without a proper supply of water, they may compel the owner to take and pay for euah a supply. The cause of action, stated in his pleadings by the appellant against the respondents, was that the water supplied to him was "impure and unwholesome," "contaminated with deleterious substances (which in his particulars he explained to be lead, or some poisonous compounds of lead, and acids, which acted upon the surface of the lead pipes through which the water was conveyed to and unfit for drinking and other domestic uses," and that his health had suffered thereby. That his health did suffer, and that seriously, by lead poisoning, through the asa of the water supplied to him by the respondents from their Blackmoorfoot Reservoir, was not contested and the jury at the trial found 2,000 as the proper amount of damages, if be was entitled 10 damages at ail. Some embarrassment has arisen out of the manner in which the questions of fact were withdrawn from the jury but (except on one point which the plaintiffs counsel treated as immaterial, waiving his right to have the opinion of the jury taken upon it) it must have been the intention and understanding of both parties that the court, when deciding the questions of law, should also look at the whole evidence, in order to see upon what state ot facta those questions arose.

The only substantial difference, as it appears to me, betweea the witnesses for the plaintiff and those for the defen dants was as to the exact chemical cause of effects which were really not in dispute, and particularly as to the exact chemical operation of the sulphuric acid which was proved, beyond controversy, to be present in the water as supplied by the defendants. The question treated as immaterial, and. therefore, withdrawn from the jury by the plaintiffs counsel, was this only not whether there was or was not present in the water supplied by the defendants some peculiar and special solvent of lead. It is perhaps to be regretted that this latter question should not have been put to the jury, because there appears to be, even among your lordships, some dlf. ferenoe of opinion about it, and it was certainly a question not of law but of fact.

I cannot, for my part' regard the plaintiffs counsel as having done anything at the trial at all equivalent to an admission that there was no such special or peculiar solvent of lead in the water as brought from the reservoir Into the respondents' mains; and, feeling obliged to consider for myself what is the true result of the evidence on that point, I do not hesitate to say that I take it to be one of the facts of the case whioh were (to my mind without much, if any, controversy) made out at the trial. If there had been no mixture of any foreign or adventitious matter whatever in the water, making its effect upon lead different from those whioh would necessarily and always be pro. duced by rain-water, or other quite pure soft water, the ease would be different. I do not believe that, In that case, the plaintiff and others who suffered In like manner would have been poisoned. But there seems to me to be clear, and, indeed, uncontradicted evidence (1) that, although soft waters do for a time take up some lead, they do not all take it up to an extent or in a manner whioh is noxious to health, in the way in which the water drunk by the plaintiff is proved to have been (2) that they usually (and especially when they contain some proportion of sulphuric acid added to pure water) produce a protective coating in the interior of lead pipes, which In this case was not produced and (3) that in this case the quantity of lead taken up and held in solution went on continually increasing so as to become more and more dangerous, which would not have happened in the same way without the presence in the water of some peculiar and unusually powerful solvent of lead; and (4) that although the persons proved to have actually suffered a8 the plaintiff did were but few out of a large population (lead being what is called an "elective" poison, and not affecting all persons alike), they were sufficient to prove the existence In the water of some special and increasingly noxious quality.

Nor can I regard as unimportant the uncontradicted evidence of the report made to the respondents, some time before the plaintiff began to suffer, by their own public analyst, that the wate supplied, under similar natural conditions, from another of their reservoirs (Deeiblll) bad In 1880 got into each a condition as to make Its oontlnued nse dangeroas, which was not yet (at that time) the case with the Blaokmoor-foot reservoir; and that, in the analyst's opinion, the Blackmoorfoot water also would be liable eventually to get into the same condition, unless certain ochery springs and coal pit waters were kept out of it, which was not done. I have thought It necessary to state, at the outset, my view of these facts, because the questions in the oase are two the first one of law, what was the statutory obligation of he respondents, in respect of the supply of water to the inhabitants of Huddersfield the second one of fact, whether the statutory obligation was duly performed Upon the question of law I cannot for a moment doubt that the objeot with which the genersl and special Acts were all passed ought throughout to be borne In mind. That objeot was that the consumers should be snnslled with water, a prime necessity of life, for drinking not indeed the only purpose, but a primary one, wmen muse db anu wmcn aione need De here regarded. To be fit for drinking the water must be wholesome and not poisonous to these who drink it It la paradox little short of absurdity to suppose that water not alSIHng that condition could be such as the Legislature intended to be supplied. Next, it annaars rdainlv.

from many provisions of the Acts (even if it were not self-evident) that the Legislature contemplated the introduction and supply of water into thj houses of the consumers by the usual, and indeed necessary, means, snat is, uy mains Bringing tne water into the streets from the sources of snonlv. by com munication pipes conducting it from those mains into the consumers' houses, and by service pipes carrying it to tnose places within escu nouse trom which it was ulti mately to be drawn. The water to be drunk must dm through all those means of supply before it could 1547, and in the J9 years whioh have since elapsed experience has taught many lessons, and amongst others the necessity of binding water undertakers and water oompanles with strict and rigid fetters, and of defining very dearly their liabilities towards the public The provisions ot that Aot are soaroely adequate to the exigencies of the present day, and It may be desirable to reoonsider them. It has been already observed that there la no count for negligence, nor any allegation of want of due and reasonable care on the part of the Corporation, and a large question has been raised whether an action lies against the undertaking Corporation in the absence of these averments, and on tbat question I refrain from indicating any opinion. Referring now to the Act of 1869, and to the bye-laws framed under its 66th section, though entertaining the opinion that the entire length of lead pipe from the main to the tap at the rear of the plaintiffs bouse, with the exception of the stop-tap by which the Corporation regulates the supply, ts the property of the plaintiff, though under the control and management of the Corporation, yst I forbear to express any opinion as to whether the material was, on the whole, Improper to be used, or whether the bye-laws whioh prescribed its use were ultra vires, or whether an action lies against the Corporation la any shape for the consequences of thus pressribing lead," or for the mode of supply after the water leaves the mains.

It will be seen thus that the conclusion whioh I have arrived at Is that the water to be so supplied was to be supplied from the mains. As it osme from the mains It was pure and wholesome. It wss conducted from the mains through the pipes of the consumer to the consumer for his use, and It was In those pipes that it took up leA.n In my opinion the plaintiff has failed to sustain this eotlon, and aa to whether he can maintain any other and what action I offer no opinion. Lord Halsbury and Lord Ashbourne concurred with the msjorlty, and the appeal was dismissed with costs. LATEST TELEGRAMS HOME NEWS (ET TSLS1BAPH PEB PB28S ASSOCIATION AND FROM OTHXB 0BBE3B0NDSHT3.

THE GENERAL ELECTION. RESULTS OF POLLINGS. London, Friday. The Press Association says the results of Thursday's pollings show no changes as compared with the previous party representation, there being four Gladstonlan Liberals, two Conservatives, two Nationalists, and one Liberal Unionist returned. The result of one contest that of Argyleahire, had not been received at the time this return was compiled.

The contests of the ohlefest interest on Thursday were In Mid Norfolk, where Mr T. Gordon, Liberal Unionist, was opposed by Mr Toller, a Gladatonian Liberal, whom he defeated by 400; at Eddisbury (Cheshire), where Mr H. J. Tollemaohe, the late Conservative member, was successful In retaining his seat against the opposition of Mr James Tomkinson, Ministerialist candidate Tyrone East and Fermanagh South, where the Nationalist candidates were opposed by Unionists, but succeeded in tetainlng their old seats, though by reduced majorities. In two of Thursday's elections the poll was larger than it was at the general election, thus showing a complete contrast to other contests throughout the country.

These were Lichfield, Staffordshire, where Sir John Swinburne, Gladatonian, waa re-elected by 272 votes more than he had received at the last general eleotlon, and bis Liberal Unionist opponent, Lord Anson, received 752 more votes than Sir John's Conservative opponent polled at the last election and in South Fermanagh, where 118 more votes were polled than at the last general election, these going to swell the poll of the unsuccessful Unionist candidate. The state of parties now la Conservatives 314 Liberal Unionists 73 Gladstonlan Liberals 186 Nationalists 83 Mr Fed, late Speaker 1 By the 412 contested elections 433 members have been returned, namely, Conservative 223, Liberal Unionists 47, Gladstonlan Liberals 145. Nationalists 17. In the 218 unopposed elections, by which 225 members were returned, the total was divided as follows Uonaerva-rives 91, Liberal Unionists 27, Gladstonlan Liberals 41, Nationalists 66. London, 9-30 p.m.

Since the last report the remaining poll taken on Thurs day has been declared, that of Argyleahire, where the Conservatives have gained a seat, Mr Macfarlane, the late Liberal member, having been defeated by Colonel Malcolm. This makes tne state of iparnes aa follows Conservatives 315 Liberal Unionists 73 Gladstonlan Liberals 186 Nationalists 83 Mr Peel 1 CARMARTHENSHIRE, WIST. WE Powell Sir Lawrence CHESHIRE, Eddisbury. Tollemaohe Tomkinson FERMANAGH, SOUTH. Campbell Brooke LEICESTERSHIRE, Boswosth.

Ellis Harrington Hulton NORFOLK, MID. RTGurdonU Toller ROSS AND CROMARTY. Macdondd Grant STAFFORDSHIRE, Lichfield. Sir Swinburne Lord Anson SUFFOLK, Em. Stevenson JCReadeU TYRONE, EasT.

Reynolds, Megaw, YORKSHIRE, Whitby. Beckett, Olayhllls, 4181 19162265 4357 3678 679 3553 2320123 4732 3440-1292 3032 2625- 407 42t3 1197-3066 3398 2765- 633 4544 2938-1605 3813 3375 468 5078 3940-1138 THE POLLINGS. The following polling take place to-day (Saturday) Donegal South and Tyrone South. CONSERVATIVE AND LIBERAL UNIONIST GAINS. Aocrington Argyleahire Aston Manor Ayrshire, South Beds, Biggleswade Bermondsey Birmingham, Birmingham, Bordesley Blaokburn Kidderminster Lancashire, Stretf ord Middleton.

Lanarkshire, South Leicestershire, Harboro Loughborough Liineoin Lincolnshire, Louth Boston 1 Bradford, Eist 1 Bristol, 1 Bow and Bromley 1 Bucks, Buckingham 1 Camberwell, North 1 Cambridgeshire, Wis- beaoh 1 Carnarvon 1 Chelsea 1 Cheshire, Hyde 1 1 1 Chester 1 Olapham 1 Cumberland, 1 Devonshire, Torquay 1 Dorset, South 1 East 1 Dudley 1 Durham, Houghton-le- Spring 1 Essex, Maidon 1 Romford 1 Wdthamstow 1 Falmouth 1 Flnsbary, Central 1 Glasgow, Central 1 Glasgow, St Rollox 1 Gloucester, Stroud 1 Thorn 1 Grantham 1 Hastings 1 Hereford 1 Hereford, Leominster 1 Hull, East 1 Hunts, Huntingdon 1 Islington, East 1 Galnsboro. Londonderry, South Monmouth Norfolk, North-West Nottingham, Oldham Peebles and Selkirk Pembroke Portsmouth Renfrewshire, East Salf ord, Salford, Salisbury Shropshire, Newport ms Somerset, somerset, Frame Southport Stafford Staffordshire, NW Staffordshire, Leek St. Panoras, North St Pancras, East Stepney Suffolk, Woodbrldge Stowmarket Warwick, Stratford WarwIckshlreJoTuneaton west Bromwlcn West Ham, South West Ham, North Wiltshire, Chippenham Yorkshire, Skipton Ripon Rlohmond. South 1 An asterisk denotes that a Liberal-Unionist replaces a Gladatonian. MINISTERIAL GAINS.

Angleses 1 Cardiganshire 1 Carlisle 1 Carmarthen 1 Oum'land, Oockermoutb 1 Belfast, West 1 Lincolnshire, Brig 1 Dumfries 1 Edinburgh, 1 Edinburgh, 1 Elgin and Nairn 1 Fifeshlre, East 1 Ftnabury, East 1 Glasgow, Blackfrlars 1 Hawick 1 Hudderifield 1 Kilmarnock 1 Lancashire North, Lancaster 1 Linarkahhe, 1 Leeds, 1 Leith 1 Liverpool, Exchange 1 Manchester, 1 Manchester, 1 Merionethshire 1 Montgomery Northumberland, Tyne- slde 1 Nottingham, 1 Scarborough 1 Sutherlandshire 1 Wedneabnry West 1 Yorkshire, Osgoldoross 1 1 ey 1 35 THE IRISH WORLD AND THE ENGLISH ELECTIONS. Commenting upon the result of tbe English elections the New York Irish. World says We are for peaceable methods so long as the English do not resort to other methods In Ireland. If they should attempt coercion, we have no doubt Icelind will know how to meet them and It. Meanwhile the hint conveyed by Mi Gladstone In bis remark that co British legislation Is possible until the Irish question Is settled, should be aoted upon.

With 35 Irish supporters and perhaps some English support, Mr Pareell can verify Mr Gladstone's warning. He can prevent the English masses whose votes have just been cast for oppression in Ireland from having any one of the legislative reforms they so much need. He can mike the English working man feel upon his own back the lth of aristocratic rule, without having a single aot of legislation for bis benefit. He can stop the machinery of the House of Commons, and mtke that Alterably the lasghiDg-ttock of the world." return of Mr W. MeArthur for the Buckrose Division of Yorkshire, on behalf of Mr Christopher Sykes, on the ground tbat some of the voters had baen receiving parish relief, snd of Intimidation and Impersonation.

The Leith Burghs Liberal Association last night unani-mously resolved to invite Mr Munro Ferguson, of Novar, to become the candidate for the representation of the constituency. Mr Macro Ferguson accepted the invito" tlon and delivered an address, chiefly In favour ot sir Gladstone's Irish policy. ELECTION OUTRAGE IN IRELAND. It was reported yesterday from Newry tbat on the news of the Nationalist victory In South Down becoming known at Bathfriland, the local Orangemen made a raid on the Roman Catholic burial-ground, and smashed to pieces a large number of tombstones. The crosses over some of the graves were completely broken off and other damage committed.

THE NEW PARLIAMENT. (Continued from page 7.) The following are the results of the elections in addition to those already published. The letters and respectively signify Conservative, Unionist Liberal, Gladstonlan, and Nationalist. An asterisk denotes that the hon. member possessed a seat in the late Parliament C.

U. G. Argyleshire IColond Malcolm 1 Carmarthenshire WRH 1 Cheshire Eddisbury Tollemaohe 1 Fermanagh South Campbell 1 Leicestershire Boa worth Ellis 1 Norfolk Mid Gardon 1 Ross and Cromarty Macdondd 1 Staffordshire Swinburne 1 Suffolk Eye 1 Tyrone East Reynolds 1 Yorkshire Whitby Beckett 1 COMPOSITION OF THE NEW PARLIAMENT. Conservatives 315 Unionists 73 Gladstonltes 186 Nationalists 83 Mr Peel, late Speaker 1 "658 Majority of Conservative and Liberal Unionists over Gladstonltes and Nationalists 119 THB WIMBLEDON RIFLE MEETING. Wimblxdon, Friday night.

The St. George's Challenge Vase and 30 was to-day won by Private J. Marr, 1st Cheshire, with 35 points, the highest possible snore at 500 yards six competitors made 34. and got jewels and lesser money prizes. For the Daily Telegraph, Cap.

Sergeant-Major Worth, 1st Gloucester Engineers, and Captain Davidson, 5 th Lancashire, have tied a second time they and seven others made the highest possible score, in the first instance, at 500 yards for it. Four competitors have tied for the St. Martin's Cup. Tha first prh in tha Battdion Sweepstakes, connected, with the Queen's competition, has been won by the 1st Lanark Battalion. The first prlz3 in the Volunteer Aggregate goes to Sergt.

Barrett, 2nd Lancashire. The English Club Jewel and 10 has also been won by Sergeant Barrett. Some very fair shooting has been made by Indian and Colonial Volunteers. Tbe Prlnoe of Wales' competition began to-day. The highest at 200 yards was Sergeant Tucker, 5th Devon, with 33 points.

Private Lawton, 2nd V. B. West Biding Regiment, in tbe completed stage of the Queen's Competition at 200, 500, and 600 yards, made tbe following scores respectively 28, 28, 25 total 81. THE CRAWFORD DIVORCE CASE. In the Divorce Court, yesterday, the case of Crawford v.

Crawford (the Queen's Proctor showing cause) came before Sir Jamea Hannen and a spedd jury. Sir Walter Phillimore, having opened the oase for the Queen's Proctor, Sir Charles DUke waa called to refute the evidence given at the previous hearing. He denied that he bad ever committed adultery with Mrs Crawford, that he had ever taken her to the house 65, Warren-street, Tottenham Court-road, or that he had ever let her into his own house in Sloane-street. In cross-examination by Mr Henry Matthews, Sir Charles sdd he believed Mrs Crawford's motive in making the accusation she did against him waa that, finding she was about to be discovered In the adultery she had committed, she determined to fix the gulls upon somebody agreed upon by herself and others. He thought It waa a wicked conspiracy on Mrs Crawford's part to get a divorce by coupling his name with hers.

Mis Crawford was very anxloas that her husband's political claims should be recognised, and he had a suspicion that her visits to him were connected with this subject. At this point tbe oourt adjourned. THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SHOW. The correspondent of tho Liverpool Journal of flmmmerrr. nt thn Rnval Aorrlnnltnral Sknn Tvln.rnl.k aaleoranhs Hla Roval Hlflhnftaa tha Prlnrn.

nf W.I..' who la known aa the Norfolk innlm. vlaltnii tha Rn.ai Agricultural Show at Norwich, yesterday, for the third uuie, auu para a apeuini oumpuuieni, 10 me COIOMes Dy visiting the Canadian Government stands, where he was received bv Mr John Dtka. thn Canadian nnuummo.t agent at Liverpool. The great interest evinced In the exhibition was demonstrated by the attendance, which waa 40,036, as compared with 14,009 on the corresponding day at Preston, and 17,690 at Shrewsbury. THE RIOTS IN IRELAND.

The funerals of Private Hushes and the civilian Watterson, who were shot in the Belfast riots, took place yesterday. The remains cf Head-constable Gardiner, the third victim, were removed from the Royal Hospital and conveyed by train to Waterford. All passed off peaceably, and the town continues perfectly quiet. At the Inquest yesterday on Head-constable Gardiner, tha jury found that hla death was caused by a bullet wound deliberately mutated by John Walker, whole in custody GBargea wibu muruer. A THEATRICAL LIBEL CASE.

An action waa concluded last evening in the Queen's Bench Division, in whioh Mr J. F. Limbe, an actor, sued Mr Charles Collette, the comedian, for damages for an allezed libel, tha eomnUint hoina th. a. Collette had written a letter to the Topical Times stating tnas puuncm waa a vaganona who trafficked in stolen versions of popular plays.

The defence was that the statement was true. The jury returned a verdiot for the plaintiff, damages 20. THE BRITISH AND COLONIAL TEMPERANCE CONGRESS. Arohdeacoa Farrar, who presided yesterday morning over this in London, gave a dispiriting account of the spread of drinking habits among inferior races of tha globe, and sdd we had girdled the world with a zone of drunkenness. Papers were read in reference to the drink traffic in Canada and New Brunswick, and in the afternoon the discussion was directed to other colonies.

SHAM FIGHT AT ALDERSHOT. An Interesting sham fight took place at Aldershot yesterdsy, when Major-General Fielding, with the 1st Life Guards, the Scots Greys, and five infantry battalions, attacked a convoy of 650 waggons, guarded by 2.000 men under Major General Donne. Tha fioht lasted some time, tbe troops being well handled, but It was the general opinion tbat dthouah the oonvaw mm. tdned damage, It was exceedingly well guarded and that tne as cacs lauea. THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN CLUB PROSECUTION.

For keenlnff a rll.nrrTo.la hnn.o iL. i Hungarian Club, in Soho, London, John Foster and wno, at. sua luiaaiesex session 3, yesterday, fined 109. and ordered to enter Into reoognisances iu wu una aeoanuea in a like sum to keep the peace for two years. The defendants hsd been in prison SB ISAVUBJUo FOREIGN OFFICE INTERVIEWS.

The Russian Ambassador, M. de Stad, had a lone ISim4a I AW Jj T1L uiwuuow wiui uu nuseoery at tne foreign Office yesterday afternoon. Subsequently M. Waddington, the French Ambassador, saw Lord Rosebery. COTTON STATISTICS.

Cotton statistics for the week ended July 15th, uw iipns, 04.UO oaies exports, 10,328 bales. FOREIGN (BBUTBB'S TIL1QBAMS, PSB PHESS ASSOCIATION.) AUSTRO-HUNGARY. THE CHOLERA Tbihsts, the past 24 hours there hve been elsht cases of cholera nn tfcna a have been six cases of cholera W1U WW urjetHUIh InNSPMCK. Diet of the Tyrol has been hTviTi 1 ou iaB aana to discuss the bUl for ragulatlng the course of the Adige and rendering it navlaahie at 6 ViBua, betrothal of Archduke Otto to m. iuuno.

duinpoi, 01 saxony, la aanounced. BELGIUM. eBUBSBLS, isrlday. The King and Qaeeu of the omgiaus visitea tne JLuc Aumale to-day. EGYPT.

Caibo, Friday. An engineer reporta that the lime Btuuo worm oenma tae eo-ei-JS3an mouimiaa are witn petroleum ou. FRANCE. PAEI3, Friday. A sad accident occurred Iaat night at juyons.

a vow oontauung cwo ramiites, wacching the display of fireworks from the river, waa upset, and two girls, a boy. and his mother, were drowned. Paris, Friday. The funeral of the late Cardinal Guiert took olace this mnrnlnor in uio. auiuux those present were the new Archbishop of Paris, Marshal lusouiauuu, auu apsain aioynier, representing the Presi dent.

GERMANY. Euhuobf, Friday. The remains of Mix Schnecken-berger, author of Wacht am Rhein," were removed today, with religious ceremonials, fcr transference to his native place in Wurtemberg. ITALY. ROVE, the past 24 houra there have been five deaths from cholera at Brindisi.

19 at France-Tilla-Fontata, seven at Latalno, one at Yenfce, and two at Codlf oroy. SWITZERLAND. Geniva, Friday. The Prlnoe and Princess Do JoinvlUe snd the Duo De Penthlevre swivel here yesterday. r-- uumnnr in mr.m vitP.

tti glned ft "wonderful decUre. to be "ncxore majority, end he 19 not PiohiZk a 11 not the 111 Yorkshire j-toDftWy by this time he has discovered that he is not aulta tv. i -nj uw respect, TO tht the electors of Rotberhsa. here retained membec mach larger tI MUkD air wuson coaia nope to obtain XL nff r.nn... 1.1..

r. ff a matter u. yiuioa wnetner a off of 886 aupporters may be considered buumpn, and a largeiy-tteereaeed majority a --vnii viCLory. ju.v Wilson on 'feaneaday was In a satirical vein. Although be admitted the existence of losses In other Place, he believed that each "wonderful victories" as that of Holmfirth would "do good to the heart of the Grand Old Man." Mr.

Gladstone, however, has something more important to Ms attention than we tact that me naa sucoeeded In tetainlng his seat for Holmfirth. The main Issue of the election has been the settlement of the Irish Question, and Mi Wilson tab, th. opportunity of pointing ont that the electors of the Holmfirth uivuioa nave given their answer to It. The point In dispute Is as to the nature of that answer. Mr Wilson argues by the bare fact of his re-election that It is strongly In the affirmative, but jadglng by the fact that he only obtained 6,342 votes out of a total of 10770, it does not appear that his opinions are very heartily endorsed by the electors.

There was a good deal of eommon-plsce chatter indulged in after the declaration of the polL, In which Mr Wilson showed himself eminently fitted to take a prominent part. That members of the Gladstonlan party are ever ready to express their thankfulness for small mercies, Is a fact with which the country Is by this time pretty weU acquainted. Mr Summers, our newly-elected member, has joined In the general chorus, and has sought to revive the drooping spirits of the minority in the new Parliament by retailing the losses which have occurred upon the opposite side. It msy or It may not be bad policy for a Party to seek to forget its own troubles by pointing out those of Its opponents. Mr Summers has endeavoured by this means to carry consolation to the Gladstonlan mind through the medium of a Manchester journal, and the manner In which he seeks to perform the operation Is somewhat amusing.

"How," he exclaims In a kind of eestaoy, are the mighty fallen In the midst of the battle!" Four prominent Unionists, greatly to his delight and that of his chief, have received a oheok, and the same fate would have attended the Marquis of Hartlngton and Mr Peter Rylands had Mr Summers been able to have Influenced the elections. But looking at the return of the two last named In a philosophical manner, Mr Summers Is able to derive gratification even from the manner of their election He ventures to think that they have received notice to quit." If this is the manner in which members of the late Parliament are informed that they are no longer deserving of confidence, what has Mr Summers to say to the scores of cases on his own side, where the Gladstonlan majority has been so greatly reduoed as to render it but barely sufficient to leave Mr Gladstone with a respectable following. For the borough member, with his small majority of 184, to attack Lord Hartlngton, with his majority of 1,450, Is not very complimentary to Mr Summers' mathematical training. He evidently Is prepared to prove that the lesser absorbs the greater With a persistence worthy of a better cause the followers, of Mr Gladstone have exerted themselves to the utmost to persaade the nation that they, and they alone, are the genuine Unionists, and that their opponents have no possible right or title to the name. Mr H.

J-Wilson has displayed as much energy as any member of the Separatist party In propounding this doctrine, and has sought by dint of frequent repetition to convert the electors to his own way of thinking. At one of his recent meetings he declared that "those who called themselves Unionists were sham Unionists, coerclonlst Unionists, paper Unionists, but the Union which he advocated was more substantial one than the one on It would be Interesting to learn what a paper Unionist really Is. We have beard the term so often that public curiosity has been whetted, and a correct definition of the phrase would be very acceptable. It must be remembered, however, that many expressions emanating from the party now supporting Ms Gladstone are absolutely meaningless except to those who delight In their use, and the term paper Unionist Is one of them. Many of the Radical leaders delight In mystifying the country In this manner, and Mr Wilson has been as ready as his chief to confuse the mlnda of the electors by pouring forth a stream of sophistical inanities calculated to catch the Radical ear, but only calculated to puzzle the understanding.

Exnberanoe of verbosity and meaningless phraseology are prominent characteristics of those who walk in the footsteps of the G.O.M.. and judging from the character of some of Ms Wilson's speeches during the course of the election, he may be considered quite worthy of taking his olace In the ranks of those who seek to govern the country by words rather than by action. That the present position of political parties has led to some remarkable changes of opinion in various constituencies has beea exemplified in at least two divisions of the West Biding. At the last General election Sir John Ramsden was chosen member for the Osgoldoross Division by a Liberal vote of 5,153 agftlnst 3.053 polled for the conservative. As a supporter of Liberal principles he then received the confidence of the constituency, and he was considered to possess a safe seat.

A few days since he again solicited the votes of the electors as a Liberal, when he was defeated by a majority of 998. And yet Sir John has only offended a portion of his old constituents In the one particular of ref using to support a measure for the disintegration of the kingdom. He Is still a Liberal In his general political opinions, but he refuses to violate the engagement made last November, and to vote as becomes a mechanical member; therefore his services are discarded in favour of those of a more pronounced Gladstonlan. So much for Osgoldcross. In the mMn TM da) on the chance is still more remark able.

Last November Mr Harker, a Liberal, was returned by a majority of 165 votes, and had the courage to vote against the Home Rule Bill In spite of the pressure brought to bear upon him to support the Government. He and Sir John llamsden were consequently found in the same hla colleague Mr Harker has nfrA fnr re-election. Had he done -W WMLI mr, ha h.va npftorfid a VlOtOCV. SB tQ6 08W member, Mr Wharton, Conservative, has been returned at the head of the poll by ft maiorlty of nearly a thousand. In several other cases a like result has occurred, the electors thereby showing that they prefer to be represented by a Conservative, in the absence of a Unionist-Liberal, to being misrepresented by the supporter 01 a losing cause and an unpopular policy.

Considerable interest nftturftlly attaches to the result of the election in the Buckrose Division, where the old member, Mr Christopher Sykes, hag been defeated by a majority of one vote. For over twenty years tho Yorkshire squire nas rep resented Yorkshire constituencies, and his defeat in the present instance Is a misfortune for which ha will Htaln eenp.r&l avmpatby. In 1865 be was returned for the borough of Sever-lev, four years before it was disfranchised At the genera! eleotlon of 1868 he was returned the head of the poll for the East Riding by a majority of 3.696 votes over the Radical candidate, and ftt the following general election cf 1874 be was returned unopposed. In 1830, in spite of the Radical wave which swept over the country, the East Riding were true tc their memrj -r. and again returned him by a majority of 1,220 In 18BD ne cnacgea his seat ror tdc one he has held, using returned for the Buckrose Division last November by a majority of.

nearly 300. This time he has lost by Insignificant a majority that scrutiny of the votes, if engaged in, may set matters right again. It ts evident that" the supporters of Mr Syker have baen too confident, and that they have aJlowcd the Separatists to steal ft march upon them The late member was eo familiar a figure In the House that his absence would be narticalarly notfcable, and it is there fore to be hoped that no steps will be neglected which are likely to result fn a rectification of the present error, if any, and the restoration of the lata member to his old potlfcloi. POLITICS AND OFFICE-HOLDERS IN AMERICA. President Cleveland has issued an executive order stating that the heads of departments deem, it the proper time to especially warn tho subordln es of the departments and all office-holders against using their official positions in attempts to oontrol movements in their respective localities.

They have no right aa office' holders to dictate lltical action to tneir party associates, or to at: tie 'edom of action within party lines by methods and preventing every useful and justifiable of party organisation. The influence of offic proceeds tho order, should not be felt In the tlon of primary party meetings for the nom. of conventions. Individual Interest and ac nollttaa ara nn maiii. nnryAamnoA nn tho nart otioes "pose iders, I pulsion of it In office.

holders, who are neither disfranchised nor forbidden to exercise poutioai privileges, bus their privileges re not enlarged nor their duty to thdr parky Increased to a per-nidous activity by the fast of their holding nffi THE EXTRADITION OF DYNAMITERS. With reference to the report published yesc.rday to tbe effect that negoetations are pending for an Anglo-. American treaty of extradition whioh would in tcfa the dynamiters, tbe New York correspondent of the Daily News telegraphs At the White House and State Department in Washington denlds are given 'hat a treaty with England, such as is referred to In toe cable despatches this morning, which makes provision for the extradition of dynamiters, has been ue ciated. It Is thought possible that ths American Ml' later, Mr Phelps, has prepared the drafted of a eaty to be submitted to hla Government. -The inlaws of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs also that they have heard of no such treaty.

M- yard, the Foreign Secretary, said later All that sat 1 1 said la that the State Department aan say nothing a to the negoolatlon of any treaty until the negcolail shall have been completed and the treaty ratified aad promulgated. It la necessary to good administration to observe the traditions of tbe Department as to th- decent and orderly conduct of suoh Evidently the report has soma foundation." THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE EXHIBITION. It is proposed, saya the Australian Times and Anglo-New Ztalander, to afford the publlo an opportunity of evincing Its appreciation of the unwearied interest the Prince of Wdes has manifested in toe success of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, At a meeting of tho Royal and Executive Commissioners, hdd on the 14th lnst. It was leaolved, on the motion of the Earl of Iddeslelgh, seconded by Sir Charles Tapper, that a publlo subscription, limited to 2 2s. by any Individual donor, should be opened with the view of providing funds to prevent Hla Boyd Highness with some lasting memorial of the splendid exhibition that he haa called into being.

On the motion of the Lord Mayor, seconded by Sir Sanl Samuel, a committee waa appointed to make all neoesssry arrangements. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE YESTERDAY'S RACING. MANCHESTER MEETING. Hdntibs' Flat Raos. Sceptic 1, Fairfield 2, Comrade 3.

Two-ybabs-old Plats. Shotaway 1, Ballad 2 Pervert 3. MlD SO MM 2B WSLTSB HANDICAP. Selby 1, Buzgo 2, Bonnie Charlie 3. Tybo Fbs Two-yxabs old.

Satirist 1, Casino 2, Qullp3. Flying Handicap. Stechford 1, Good Night 2, Truce 3 Jtjly Pla Nacoi? The Council the Sv-bugelical Alliance have accepted an i-'iai conference this sear at Ryde, in the aafa of Wight. A moderate arlnkar, on receivmce an stict'ssion to his Income, otofcalv nurmcred lomethiag nhoat his bread being given him. and his water being sure.

Don't yon think, 'suggested a teetotal friend, that you spiritualise tnat text too muoh If it be oorreot, as stated by Miss Lvdla Becker at the meeting of the Women's Suffrage Society, that out of the members already returned whose opinions arc known 318 are lavouranie to tne movement, and only 115 opposed to it, the objeot of the society bids fair to be achieved In tae immediate insure. Lord Henry Gordon Lennox's creditors, on Thnrsdar. accepted a sum of 2.500 in full satisfaction of Lord Ziennox's debts, which are returned at 11,500. Ana American losses by fare la the last half-year are reported to amount to 54.000.000 dollars, or 3 000 QUO dollars more than in the c3rresponding period of last year. John Hara, alias Cunnlneham.

waa nn Werinpwfav fined 200, with the alternative of six months' imarlson- ment, for being concerned in the illicit distillation of spirits at south Hackney. floticet of Marriage containing any announeement btyon Hm ura nugsct to toe enargt or a. Oct, each. The am charge it alto mads for Notice of Death, when any special reference i mad to the deceased. Notice of Birth are in all can charged 2m.

Od. On the 15th at the Parish Church. Almnndhnrv. by tbe Rev J. A.

A. Bradley, curnte, Mr Lewis Gordon McMillan, of Huddersfiald, to Miss Jannle Sykes, of umgiey. July 14th. 1886. at the Parish Church.

bv the Rev Christopher Tenant, B.A., George William, tha second eon of Wm. Barlow, Park V1119, Spring-lane, Radcllff to Minnie, youngest daughter of Henry Pollard, Hether Hall, Ualton, near Huddersneld. On the 14th at the Parish Church, Huddersfield, by the Rev Robert Willan, M.A., Mr Arthur William Westrop to Mlas Clara Haigh, both of Huddersfield. Oo the 12th at St. Augustine's Church.

Sclssett, by the Rev Robey R. White, M.A., vicar, Mr Henrv Dodgson, of Sclssett, to Miss Dubath, of Denby. On the lZtb at the Register Office, Mr Charles Wiiliam Swallow, of Aspley, to Miss Sarah Eliz Marshall, of Beast Market. On the 11th at the Parish Church. Huddersfield.

by the Rev Cyril Thomas Croaeland, Mr Henry Turner to Miss Annie Maria Lisle, both of Huddersfield. On the 11th at the Free Wesley an Chapel, Brunswick-street, by the Rev J. E. Jones, Mr Fred Crowe, of Moldgreen, to Miss Emily Hancock, of Newtown. On the 10th at the Parish Church.

Huddersfield, by the Rev Robert Willan, M.A., Mr Fred Siagleton, ot Goloar, to Miss Sarah Maria Ann Pogson, of Slaith -waite. On the 10th at Holy Trinity Church, Hepworth. by the Rav J. E. Brigg.

Mr John Eaye to Miss Hannah Shaw, both of Hepworth. On the 10th inst, at the Register Offioe. Mr George Riston, of Spring-street, to Mrs Sarah Dickinson, of Dale-street. On the 3rd at the Parish Church, Huddersfield, by the Rev Cyril Thomas Crosaland, Mr Joe Hampshire to Miss Mary Hardy, both of Huddersfield. On the 14th inat.

unwl 71 om 1 Henry Hall. Bank Cottle, Wtham On the 14th Inst, aged 4 years. Emily, daughter of Mr George Carter. Salford- On the 14th aged 53 years, Mr George Washington Fiemmlng, Primrose Hill. 42 Mf N011 Kayner, On the 13th inst, aged 34 years, Mary, wife of Mr Abraham Mellor, Armitage Fold, South Orosland.

On the 13th inst, aged 4 hours, Martha Maria, daughter of Mr Joseph Waterfall, Taylor Hill. On the 13th inat. aged 58 years, Mary Walton, Honoria-street On the 13th inst, aged 51 years, Harriet Walton, West Vue, Paddock. On the 13th aged 85 years, Mrj James Walker. 49, Lowerhead-row.

On the 13h inst, aged 4 years, Percy, son of Mr William Shaw, SpringmiU, Linth waite. July 12tii, at Trinity Vicarage, Huddersfield, Mary Amelia, the dearly loved second daughter of Thomas Henry and Emma Molesworth Sharp, aged 33 years. On the 12th inst, aged 70 years, 8arah, widow of Mr Hurafrey Mellor, Leather Hall, Hosley. Ou the 11th lust, aged 63 years, Elfzi, widow of Mr James Dyson, Parkgate. EnHho1mfithl.n',fc', g9d 18 J0Wph Hey eAbB th in8t- cd 17 eai Alfed Waterworth, 16, Cross Grove-street, lnai: aed 5S Ellen, wife of Mr Miahael Fanning, Dawson's-buUdlngs, Linthwaite.

July 10th, at the residence of her sister, 23a, Sussex-square, Hyde Park, Emily Graoe (directress of needlework to Her Majesty's Education Department), eldest daughter of the Rev T. R. Jones, vicar of Codlcote. and late Incumbent of Trinity Church, Hudders-fi jld, aged 43 years. On the 10th Inst, aged 31J years, Mr Wright Brook, Meltham.

1 4 year8 Ebenez3r. son of the late Mr Tom Wadswofth, Victoria-square. Holmfirth. On the 10th Inst, aged 59 rEphraim Taylor, Brow-road. Paddock.

10th 32 years, MaryJPlatt Teal, 20, Fitzwilllam-atreet East. On the 9th Inst, aged 59 years, Henry Broughton Dyson, Fenton House, Lock wood. On the inst, aged 24 years, Hannah, wife of Mr Herbert Heelev, Lane, Holmfirth. On the 8th aged 72 years, Martha, wife of Mr Lake Taylor, Mill Moor, Meltham. On the 8th inat, aged 11 months, Arthur, son of Mr James Albert Roebuck, New Lathe Bank.

Holmfirth. Oa the Sth lest, aged 11 months, Ruth, daughter of Mr Robert Tnrnpr. Crown TTntol 1 On the 45h Inst, aged 66 years, at Lon-field, Rodley, new Leeds. Mr George Gardiner, late of Birkby, On the 4th last, aged 50 years, Mr James Brooke, uooicwoovi-roau, bociwooa. andPubiishcd at tbe Ohsobuoib Os-pics, Lora-street, Hudderifield, in ths West Biding of tha oouaty ol xork, by the Proprietor.

bo. Hahpso, reridiuw at Tho Tsivs, in ifca township ot Locawood, in the saii'fc of AlUGudbUi-v in tha wld Wt Kldinc. Satubpat, Jolt I7xa, 18cS.