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THE MORNING POST, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, ISHk SHEPHERD'S- GENERAL NEWS. SIB CHARLES DILKE AT BUSH. COLONEL STANLEY ON THE LAND QUESTIOX. class, for the proletariat will not follow middle-class Radicals, because political liberties, Republican institutions, and even universal suffrage, which the latter claim or are ready to decree, do not change the relations of capital and labour. Whatever a LITERATURE.

MYTHOLOGY myths of ancient Greece and Italy, i beauty for those who can comprehend a aaigi arc for most wnHy v.miic people, and this not only on The Nottingham Corporation yesterday, after a stormy debate, generally approved of the Trent Navigation Bill for purchasing the company's rights and the prevention of floods. The cost will be tTB.OOO. man political opinions may be, honesty of purpose is at least his power to attain, and those wealthy ttrinurt mrwnlitv V.t,f olm i individuals: xelin j.k i- ot iw up me poor against me ncn. 7 i 6 ipuic Kiiiieu ou me laoour oi mose idea of arimuate their siffniticanefi. u'" "leuiseives, are unworthy of that respect which the bitterest political opponent is ready to pay to those who endeavour to cm nn in tin.

nrinni- A tocng man named Price, nephew of the landlord of the White Swan Hotel at Ross, Monmouthshire, during a fit of homicidal mania on Sunday, stabbed his aunt, who ia now lying in a precarious condition. xN agriculturist named Slater, well known in the district of Canterbury, was knocked down and killed on the South-Eastern Railway yesterday afternoon. He was deaf and did not hear the approach of the train. fatty -talcs may be constructed from the in the (Jreek mythology, though oivfh is not, in its lf.Miit-i7 -c I nles. bo thov ts.

i .1 mvth is not in its llfialltv as story in question, was attached. In "A Realm of Obi" the author relates the adventure of a South African trader, which, as Mr. Boyle points out, is of special interest in connection with the discovery of "Greek ruins" in the Transvaal. In his account of Sadek Khan, the Ghilzai chieftain whom he had the pleasure of seeing when with General Stewart in Affghanistan, the author gives a very bad character to the hardy warriors of that country, who for mere brutality and roughness have no rivals in the world of his experience. "I have," he writes, "seen the worst savages of every continent, and I aver that there are none so hideous as the Pathan.

In his eye, large but furtive, his marked features and set mouth, the gentie feelings of humanity have no traces of expression. The child scowls and strikes the man has no thought but of plunder and blood. His laugh is ready enough, a hoarse, rude guffaw, which shows the black fangs through his unkempt beard but no one ever saw the Aff-ghan peasant smile." There are several other sketches besides those referred to which will repay perusal, and the book may serve to wile away some odd half hours not unprotitably. njrf nunc ui vuiissei vauve, moueraxe ur i.i,..ini(rht iianordsusoftheKtntp.nfmitirl extreme. which i-Lott tu tu, extreme, which they profes Colonel Stanley, M.P., speaking at Blackpool last night, replied to a number of questions addressed to him on the land question.

If land were owned by the State, he said, tenants would be required to pay something not widely differing from the rent now paid, and if that rent was a fair rent, the tenant would be in much the same position. If it was not a fair rent, the State must be the loser, and the loss would have to be made up by taxation on the rest of the community. If the authorities took the place of the landlords there would be, if not actual jobbery, a colourable pretext for using undue preference. Discussing the possibility of the tenants becoming proprietors, he pointed out that the tenant would require capital, and any one who owned land knew that as a matter of fact it did not return more than a low interest, and no one regretted it more than he. The small holdings, from the inevitable force of circumstances, were decreasing.

He should be glad, however, to see the creation of a yeoman proprietary, and any legislative measures with that object would have his fair and careful consideration. Mr. Raikes, M.P., moved a resolution condemning the foreign and colonial policy of the Government as weak and unworthy, also thanking Lord Salisbury and Sir Stafford Northcote for the prospect of a speedy and satisfactory settlement of the reform question. us i icas of the men from whose imagina- man who talks glibly of fsrroiu We uc- )r ossclt's work on money out of the ruin of socialism and grinds his his competitors in trade hi them declares that, though it is considerably harder work than driving a quill in Mark-lane (which ho had tried), he would not exchange lives for a good deal. Mr.

Hughes has ably edited the letters of his plucky sons, and our old friend Tom Hughes has enhanced the value of the book by his pleasant preface. THE IDYLL OF THE WHITE LOTUS. Whether many people in these matter-of-fact days care to entertain themselves with an allegory is an open question. It is surely the last form of amusement one would choose even on a wet day. Little Schoolmaster Mark is one of the best examples of this class of literature, and M.

C. would do well to study that thoughtful little story, from which so much that is practical can be learnt, before he writes another apologue. The "Idyll of the White Lotus" is not without merit. It is short, not too obscure, and in parts prettily written, sometimes verging on the poetical but, though one cannot altogether agree with Mr. Gradgrind that facts alone are wanted in this world, and that everything else should be rooted out of the minds of young people, one feels that there is nothing to be gained by dressing up a "tragedy of the soul" in such a fantastic form as this, and that unless imaginative work of this sort is done by a master hand it is aDt to fail.

Tho Idyll of the White Lotus. By M. C. London: Reeves and Turner. AnorT 60 yards of the wall of the new floating dock at Penzance gave way yesterday, and the remainder of its length was so seriously damaged that it is feared it will have to be rebuilt.

There is, however, no danger to shipping in the docks. irfaea ilie translator asserts that it has i'" Janlaceon the bookshelf of every culti- commerce is a sham, and as such, however much he may for a time impose on the ignorance and credulity of the masses, his insincerity will in the end recoil upon his own head, and he will have to answer the ui the uk-iiuiiu, sue auopis a iorrn oi popular v. itli advertisers, hut out of place loudly repeated question, Do you yourself practice -Vv While admitting some doubt as what you are for ever preaching Mr. Orpen, in j'i'jncant by a "cultivated home," it is 1 bis supplementary chapter on "Socialism in tlcre are many derman families of England," points out the utter weakness of Mr. The body of a farmer named Body, who resided at Huntspill, Somersetshire, has been found in the river Parrett, near Bridgewater.

He was missed nearly a month ago after attending an entertainment, and it is supposed that he must have fallen into the river on his way home. At nt unnfiin id itnto'c TiMnAf.nl 4 1- xl. 1 1 1. Ms. Chamherlatn received yesterday a deputation from tho Birmingham and District Railway and C.mal Rates Association.

In reply to the statements of tho deputation, the right hon. gentleman said the only course open to traders was to make the strongest representations possible to their members with reganl to the railway bills and to be prepared with evidence to lay before the parliamentary V'" wwm we i i suuh iiio jaw wnicn associates Rut be that as it may, Mrs. poverty with progress, and increases want with ifj well advised in preparing an advancing wealth." The liaw, and it is a vital one, of Dr. Xosselt's book, which is in this problem is that although poverty persists, aiiT-ng the most successful attempts I it is, according to the highest authorities, the mythological legends of the Greeks diminishing instead of increasing. The decrease of far general reading, and at the crime, which is a fact altogether apart from the rise 'jime bnug nmei to young and old the of the population, is a certain sign of the ad lore from a religious or nieut in the material condition of the people, for of fkw.

The work is divided into crime is, to an enormous extent the onpring of Jf rrst Treating of the Divinities of misery and starvation. Mr. George and his and the second of the fascina- i benighted followers eagerly swallow the Utopian pill, M.al history of the Greeks. The that "A civilisation is possible in which the poorest i iw found ith the book under could have all the comforts and conveniences now committee. Yestehpay morning a man named Pelr.hunty, residing at Mullinaval, died from in juries alleged to have been inflicted by John Walsh, a farmer, who, it is said, stabbed him in the abdomen with a knife.

It is stated that the parties were in a public-house when tho occurrence took I place, and Delahunty in his dying deposition says he did 1 not give the slightest provocation to Walsh. The police have arrested Walsh. especially liKciy to cause cojoyeu ny tne rich, in which prisons and alms- THE FIELD OF HONOUR. Duelling," said Sydney Smith, "though barbarous in civilised, is a highly civilised institution among barbarous people, and when compared with assassination is a prodigious victory gained over human passions." Yet this barbarous ordeal is still resorted to in several of the most advanced European States, though it must be admitted that in nine cases out of ten the modern duel is a very poor affair when contrasted with the combats which Charles Lever described so vividly, and which were comparatively common in the earlier years of the present century. The subject is an attractive one, from a literary point of view, however unattractive it may be to the recipient of a challenge, and many readers will welcome Major Truman's history of duelling, containing, as it does, excellent accounts of the Judicial Duel of Europe and the private duel of modern civilisation, with descriptions of the most famous hostile meetings in Europe and America.

The practice originated, in the author's opinion, in the judicial combats of Celtic nations, and was first introduced among the Lombards in although some who alia nouses would be needless, and charitable societies unthou'dit of Such a civilisation onlv waits for I At the Liverpool Police-court yesterday afternoon, James i Calvert, a labourer, was charged with causing tho death of his wife. Mrs. Connor, a neighbour, deposed that she yi ung reauers, is tiie mdiscrnnniate dvi and Latin names of gods and ne ore told on one page of the Aphrodite Venus that As goddess 'ire aB imid her homage, and everything in ivletiged her sway Diana, Minerva. and i ti vlt succumbed to ker power and on 'cnus made a boast before ,1 gods that, with the exception of Pallas, and Hes.i i. all the other immortals I to her ower and loved some tbd she herself had ever remained the social intelligence which will adapt means to ends." And when that intelligence appears has it not appeared already in Birmingham and San Francisco the sweep will go to his work in a silk hat and white waistcoat and with a rare flower in his buttondiole, and the lamplighter will appear in evening dress and lavender kid gloves.

The story of the crossing-sweeper who drove to his work in a carriage and pair surely a great convenience will be verified, and universal contentment will reign heard screams of murder in Calvert's house on Saturday night. Mrs. Calvert then ran out, followed by the prisoner, who knocked her down and kicked her. She was taken to the hospital and died soon afterwards. The prisoner was remanded till after the coroner's At the Birkenhead Police-court yesterday Timothy Galvin, who gave himself up to the police on Saturday, was THE RUSSIAN PETROLEUM INDUSTRY.

This was the subject of a paper read last night by Mr. Bovcrton Redwood at the ordinary meeting of the Society of Chemical Industry, held at Burlington House, Piccadilly. Mr. David Howard, president of the London section of the society, presided, and prior to the reading of the paper drew attention to the loss which chemistry had sustained by the death of Mr. Watts, a well-known writer and editor, and mentioned that a fund was being raised for the assistance of his family.

Mr. Redwood, in the course of his paper, said that any one who had experience in the oil producing districts of the United States could not fail to be struck by the limited area from which oil was taken in Russia. The field at Baku was not more than 3.J. miles square, and there and on other small ppots of ground" in the locality were wells which could for some time furnish the whoie world with lamp and other oils. It had been estimated that there were about 14,000 square miles of oil-producing territory in Russia, but no systematized attempts had yet been made to test the matter, for the reason, probably, thatsufficient oil was at present obtained from the small district to which he had referred.

Although he had seen oil wells in America which were considered remarkably productive, he waa quite unprepared to see such production as at those of Baku. One of the spouters was opened in his presence, and instantly a mighty column of oil rushed up to a height of bearing large stones with it, and continuing to pour until a great lake of oil was formed. One of those wells was stated to throw out about 1,250,000 gallons per hour, while another gave about double that quantity. The system of refining was a sort of continuous distillation, the whole process occupying from 15 to lb' hours, and the sulphur used in the process was also a product of the locality. The consumption of kerosene in Russia had risen from Russian pcund3 per head in to 6T 1 in 1SS2, since which year no exact calculations hail been made, while, owing to the imposition of a duty upon American kerosene, very little was now imported, and consequently nearly all the kerosene used in Ltussia was of home manufacture.

Astatki, tho residuum of the oil, was also largely used as fuel on Caspian steamers ami upon some of the Russian railways. There were, however, several objections to its use, but Messrs. Nobel had recently patented a method for burning thU material by means of which many of those objections were overcome. From it also could be manufactured benzole, napthalinc, and anthracinc, but this manufacture was still in its infancy. A brief discussion, in which Professor Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel, and Dr.

xVrmstrong took part, followed the reading of the paper, and a vote of thanks to the lecturer brought the proceedings to a close. nar'es Hilke presided last evening over a meeting in the Atheneum, Goldhawk-road, Shepherd's-bush, called with the object of forming a Liberal Association in the proposed new borough of Hammersmith. There was a moderate attendance. At the opening of the proceedings, Sir C. Dilke read a letter from Mr.

Firth, M. apologising for inability to attend, and expressing a profound sense of the courtesy and kindness of his Hammersmith constituents in inviting him to contest the proposed new borough. Sir Charles went on to say that the members of the Liberal Council of the borough oi Chelsea might have taken the course of calling upon candidates to address them with the view of selecting those who should be placed before the Liberal electors, and hut for the special circumstances of the Hammersmith district that might very possibly have been the best course to take. But as things stood, the members of the Chelsea Council who sat for the Hammersmith districts had unanimously decided to ask the Liberal electors to select a larger council for the district. They had suggested that the new borough should have a council with one in 25 of the electors upon it, and this suggestion s.iowed the strong confidence in the Liberal or e'ven the Kadical character of that part of the present borough of Chelsea.

In his opinion there was nothing to choose in advanced Liberalism and liadicalism between four out of the five portions into which the borough will now be divided. As regarded Hammersmith, four candidates had already been suggested, and it would be the duty ot the association which the meeting was called to form to make among those candidates a selection, subject to the approval of the electors. In his opinion any one of the four candidates was good enough to carry the scat. The Tories, indeed, seemed to think that Hammersmith was for them the most hopeless of all the four divisions of the old borough. There had certainly been no great rush of Conservative candidates, and he noticed last week that in a letter to a local Conservative paper, signed by a Mr.

William Hunt, who professed to be a Conservative working man, while reference was made to the Tory strength in the borough. Hammersmith was not included in the calculation. The right hon. gentleman went on to say that he had had many opportunities of late of speaking of the probable demands, and the just demands, which were likely to be put forward by the new constituencies at the next general election. Some words of his, uttered at North Kensington, had lately been the subject of criticism by one or two Conservative writers, or rather writers of the olden school of Toryism.

We moved so fast in these times that by this last expression he meant the Toryism of about two months ago. (Laughter.) One of his statements which naturally excited the alarm of writers of that class was that the older Toryism was not likely to survive the next general election. Some who had noticed this remark had misrepresented what he said, and had made him prophesy the extinction of the whole Conservative party. That, however, was not all his anticipation. The Tory party might not often in the future rule this country possibly it might never rule it except by Liberal divisions, but the Conservative party, in a measure, would always flourish.

The Tory possessed in Lord Salisbury aud Lord Randolph Churchill two men of genius although in the second case somewhat erratic genius and it had in Sir Stafford Northcote and Sir Michael Hicks Beach two of the most highly-skilled House of Commons chiefs any party could command and two men of whom any party misht be proud. The expression he had used was that "in the old sense of the word the Conservative party would be extinct, and that the Conservative party of the future would be a rival Democratic party. The Conservative party, in his opinion, knew that its only popularity in the future would be tho popularity of such opinions as those which were put forward in its name by Lord Randolph Churchill such as that in favour of what the noble lord called freely elective Democratic Government that government the acceptance of which by the country was the key of all the reforms which Liberals looked for in the immediate future. (Hear, hear.) A writer in a rather famous periodical pretended to think that when he spoke lately of the robbery of commons he was alluding to the enclosure of commons by Act of Parliament. He need not tell those who were still his constituents that he was a law-abiding person, and that he should not dream of applying the term robbery to the provisions of Acts of Parliament.

The writer he spoke of went on to say that for the last 12 years encroachments had been vigilently watched and scarcely any Enclosure Acts had been forced. To that statement he felt inclined to touch his hat, for during several of those 12 years he had been chairman of the Commons Preservation Society, whose vigilance had mainly prevented the encroachments. The Commons Preservation Society had no doubt stopped many enclosures, but it had not been able to stop them all, anil over aud over again it had failed to prevent enclosures under the ancient statute of Morton, and also many which were altogether wrongful and illegal. On one occasion the society obtained from the judges of the land a declaration of that principle of the retribution of wrongfully-acquired commons which was tha principle for which they were contending at the present time. Soma 20 years ago a Select Committco recommended the repeal of the statute of Morton, but the act had never been repealed, and it continued to be used as a cover for illegal stealing or lobbery of commons.

(Cheers.) This was an assertion which, in spit-i of the comments of over the Western world. The application of ll is true thai parallel columns giving the cnargeu wwu senumg tureatenmg letters to and threatening I to shoot Hannah Rionlon, of county Cork. Ib I appears that defendant turned from America on Wed-I nesday last in bad health, and said he wished to stand hia no ha tu-i imilh. tl.4, I XT- THE DREAM TO COME. Nearly eighty years ago the work of a certain young poet whose poems had far more of promise in them than have those of Mr.

Hunt was criticised rather roughly in the Edinburgh Renew, and that criticism should be read and re-read by the author of "The Dream to Come," most particularly the paragraph which declares that the mere rhyming of the final syllable, even wlien accompanied by the presence of a certain number of feet-nay, although (which does not always happen) those feet should scan regularly, and have been all accurately counted on the fingers is not the hole art of poetry." Lord Brougham maintains that a poem should contain at least one thought either in a little degree different from the ideas of former writers, or differently expressed; but in "The Dream to Gome one hears little beyond the echoes of all the poetry the weary, sad-hearted author has been reading since he left school. Indeed Part VI. is rather more than an echo of "Locksley Hall" without one original notion, the Poet Close must have inspired the following, not Lord Teimyson I thought, when once I was Btrayins afar, 'neath a tropical sky, That savages were not half-hearted, when once their friendship was won. Perhaps 'tis our cirilised state, or the horribly changeable weather, Endows the average young maid with a set of affections in leather." Some of the shorter songs, christened Minima are simpler and more melodious, but surely the absurd "Lonely Life," and the equally absurd lie-united," cannot by any stretch of politeness be called poetry, even by Mr. Hunt's dearest friends.

In tho latter a gentleman, from circumstances that are not loarlo pIajiv has fn Ipsto hia i iyeek and Roman mythological names theories advocated by so many reformers would the oucsut, hut that is no justification result in fearful disaster to those whose interests alternative use Venus and Aphrodite, or they profess to have at heart. Those demagogues, cms uu.ijge. iiB was, a the request of the Cork police, remanded till Wednesday next. and there are unhappily many of them, who have 1 iu the text. That there is sorae- a.

xi. i i uisiyiuiiiusuiut: JL.ros iuiu me hsuauuu uuv lrom incsr irreat love At Canterbury yesterday John R. Green, member of tho 1st Volunteer Battalion of the Buffs, was sumrr.oned under the Volunteer Regulations Act for payment of tha amount of the Government grant, he having failed tu attend the requisite number of drills during the pa.st volunteer year, and thereby failed to feesoma efficient. The prosecution was instituted by Colonel Knocker, tha commandant. The defendant was ordered to pay 3us.

and costs. ka denied, but the general for the poor, but lrom their greater hatred for the is likely tu be greatly puzzled when rich, endenvourr only too successfully in many thai Venus was usually accompanied cases, to blind the eyes of their hearers to the fact Gupid (liimeros), and that if their so-called reforms were carried out tile Coddess of Persuasiveness," and all classes would suil'er together that is, all classes the attendants of Aphro- except those who having nothing to lose, can or Gupid, the Cod of Love, was only benefit if they suiier any change at all. "Is vs Hs. Mrs. Hall has added largely the nation, or are the workers," asks Mr.

Orpen, rjgiiial trk by the insertion of quotations, I prepared to usher in any new rSyhne at the cost have investigated the subject maintain that the duel was known to the Hebrews and other ancient races, and that the encounters of David and Goliath, and of the Horatii and Curatii, were of that character. Marc Antony is known to have I sent "a friend" to Cesar, and Francis despatched a challenge to the Emperor Charles. It is from this latter circumstance that the prac- tice of settling affairs of honour by mortal 1 combat may be said to date, and 1527, therefore, is the birthday of the custom. It may not be generally known that a form of combat known as 1 the Skewer duel" is much in vogue among I French soldiers. French army officers, says the author, "who are not permitted bylaw themselves to meet in mortal combat, claim that it would i be impossible to maintain discipline and dignity in the army without from ten to fifty skewer duels per regiment annually among their men." The weapons are ordinary kitchen skewers, with which the men thrust at each other until one or the other is wounded, and honour is satisfied.

These fights not unfrequently terminate fatally. Gne of the nsiderable length, trom lhad wnoiesaio piumicr aim rapine plunder and ra the Hd of iartb, and other translations. pine, too, not only ui the rich and of the much-abused middle classes, but of hundreds of thousands, nay, millions, of the so-called wage slaves themselves M. Emil de Laveleye's essays and Mr. Orpen's consideration of the great problem of today, so far as it affects our own country and people, form a valuable addition to the ever-increasing library of economical and social literature.

Jiancec. He crosses leagues of restless sea," the xu a i i mythology serves a useful if be carried out with as close a to the original as is consistent with purii cation of particular incidents, itc succeeded better than Dr. Kiisselt in i tic pnetry of the Greek myths in the or at least popularised, by Mr. his edition iJf "Gibbon." Mrs. Hall in translating Dr.

IVosselt'g book. o.c anil lloaian. Translateil from the ui hich By Mrs. Anirus W. Hall.

OF TO-DAY. His as tfese who have closely studied the origin development the unouiet spiiit known to most, revolting duels ever fought was that between Lord Shrewsbury and the Duke of Buckingham, in the reign of Charles when the wife of the former, disguised as a page, is said to have accompanied the iatter to the field, and held his horse while he fought with and mortally wounded her husband. The unfortunate victim of Buckingham's skill with the sword was not, as stated by Major Truman, the Duke of Shrewsbury, but Francis, Earl of Shrewsbury. The duel was on the 16th of January, lbT7-8, and the Earl died of his wounds on the Kith of March. The author devotes a special chapter to the subject of Duelling in the Dark," a practice that has found favour with many fire-eaters, though in many cases the conflicts were not strictly in the dark, but by the light of the moon, or of a tallow candle.

Hyde-park has been the scene of many duels, and notably of that between the Duke of Hamilton and Lord Mohun, in November, 1712, when both combatants were killed, after a prolonged and savage fight. Colonel Hamilton, the Duke's second (and cousin), who was severely wounded by Mohun's second, made oath, according to some accounts, that the Duke of Hamilton received his mortal wound from General Maccartney, which w.as partly corroborated by one of the surgeons, r-tiiL a'e as Soeiansm M. do Laveleye has mi indefatigable worker, and although his leu-i lia maj' not be received in their entirety by h'airree with him on many points, yet and persistency with which he has sis important question cannot be denied who is acquainted with the subject. in.iv be the cause, it is certain that uuNtsus ny oy, wnen suddenly a letter comes bringing woe, A grief untold, A lordly stranger sought to buy Thy love with gold." It is needness to remark that the lordly stranger i3 called "a soulless thing, a lump of earth," and that the poet packs his portmanteau, and starts for England (in a steamer which is carefully drawn, and forms an illustration to the poem), but unfortunately is detained by a cruel storm, which lashes The waves to foam The green seas boiled, and thunders vast Tortured the air. But oh their wildest roar was calm To my despair," and in consequence of the unforseen boiling of the green sea and the roaring of the thunder, he arrives too late, to find the lady not married to the soulless though lordly one, but, oh (as he would say) in her eotfin.

To compensate for her loss is written in flames in the air, Whatever cometh, Death shall be Preferred to shame." The lady choosing heaven, an 1 this curious firework entertainment, to life, and "the lump of earth." The book has had everything done for it, it is prettily bound in white parchment, with gold lettering, has the orthodox rough paper and three or four of the landscape photogravures with which it is illustrated are effective and beautiful, but unfortunately in this case the fine feathers have not succeeded in making a fine bird. The Dream to Come. By William Hunt. London Sampson Low, Marstou, Searle, and Co. At the annual meeting of tho Manchester Chamber of Commerce yesterday, the president.

Mr. J. F. Hutton, said that whilst the state of trade was still very unsatisfactory, ha saw no ground for tho gloomy forebodings which were sometimes indulged in. Mr.

Jacob Bright, 31. and Mr. W. H. Houldsworth, M.I, also agreed that we miadit look for an improvement in trade during the net three months, although the Latter remarked that it was never worse thaa at the present moment.

At the Bishop Auckland Police-court yesterday Christopher Marshall, tailor aud busman was charged with assaulting Mr. Longstaffe, grocer and busman, on the 20th and with setting fire to a haystack three days later. Marshall went into LongstahVs shop while drunk, wntfd to fight, and in plunging about the sho fell through tho window. On the L'Md defendant was seen to set fire to haystack belonging to Longstaffe. For the first offence ha was ordered to pay the costs, and on tho charge of arso was committed for trial at the assizes.

At Hull yesterday a man named Banas, master of a keel, was charged before the stipendiary with exposing his son, aged nine years, while suffering from small-pox. Tho keel arrived at Hull with the boy on board suffering from tha disease, and he was removed to a pnblic-house. Tho directs result was stated to be that 12 cases of small-pox. were admitted into the Hull Fever Hospital. Tiie lad was affect' towards the end of October, and was not taken to tho hospital till the end of November, being exposed at places along the river Trent.

Here the diseaso spread, and ona case ended fatally. The defendant wa3 fined 10s. and costs. At Bury yesterday Robert Creevey, late meter inspector at the corporation gasworks, was committed for trial on two charges of 1 ibel against John Burton, foreman at thn gasworks. It was alleged that the defendant had issued placards charging Burton with having during the past 12 years robbed the works of tons of coke, and of having had his house and two conservatories fitted up by corporation workmen out of materials belonging to tho town.

same charges were, it was stated, preferred about years ago, and inquired into by the gas committee, who found them not proved, and the defendant was informed of this fact. Creevey asserted that he was not so informed, or he would have given up the charre. He declined to apply for bail, ami was removed in custody. Yesterday morning Mr. C.

C. Lewis, coroner for Esser, held an immest at the feose and Crown Inn, Ilford, on tha body of a man unknown, who on Friday evening shot himself on the Clement's Estate. Sergeant F.Isworth deposed that he found the body lyine on Rile grass with a revolver iii the right hand, one chamber of the weapon having been discharged. The body was removed to tho police-station, and examined by Dr. Bass, who found that the deceased had shot himself in tiie mouth.

His ago appeared to be from to 50 years, and he hail upon him a p'iir of spectacles, two pairs of eye-glasses, a gold signet ring, a gold wedding ring, a silver keyless watch, and lOYi. in money. He was of fair complexion, with short curly hair, and beard, whiskers, and moustache turning grey. The inquest was adjourned for a. week to allow of iiuiuiries for tha purpose of the identification.

mions have been widely spread during LETTERS TO GVY. Lady Barker, the author of Station Life in Xew Zealand," a book hich excited considerable a few years ago, now publishes an account oi Western Australia, in the form of a series of letters to her young sou. is certain that the writer (now Lady Broome), owing to her position as the wife of the Governor of the Colony, saw everything under its most favourable aspect. Each town and station appeared in its gala dress when visited by the representative of the Queen and Empress, for hom the Australians entertain a profound sentiment of loyalty. Yet the authors intelligence and habit of observation enabled her to see beyond the flags and triumphal arches, that everywhere greeted the Governor's arrival and these brightly written letters convey a greater amount of information than is found in many a more pretentious book of travel.

A lover of flowers, Lady Barker's description of the flora of Western Australia is full of vi id colouring. During an excursion that led her through the sand plains or the Sahara which lies in the centre of Australia, she was first able to understand the Biblical phrase about "the desert blossoming like a for their journey had been so timed as to cross the desert when all the wild flowers were out." This singular phenomenon is thus described One would come to a patch of heavenly blue flowers, the most beautiful bright blue you ever saw in your life in any flower, and that patch of blue would stretch away all round you as far as your eye could reach for miles and miles, and this out or all proportion to the -sl-r v. of population. Socialism exists in from the comparatively dignified State of Heir Stocker to the wild halluci- FOREIGN MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. REUTER TELEGRAMS.

PARIS, Feb. 2. The upward movement in Rentes continued to-day. The contangoes were again moderate, and were finally quoted 15c. for the 3 per Cents, and 10c.

for the 4A per Cents. For money tiie former were 40c. dearer than yesterday and the latter 15c. For the new account the last quotations were 1 and ex div. The principal movements in miscellaneous stocks and shares consisted in a rise of 4fr.

(ic in Ottoman Bank, 2fr. 50c in Egyptian Unified, ami 52.e. iu Converted Turkish. Suez Canal Shares receded 5fr. Cheques were rather higher at 25fr.

32c. Private discount 2. per cent. PARIS, Feb. 2, 10.5 p.m.

Business was done on the Petite Bourse this evening as follows 4A per Cent. Rente for account, 10i. 18' 3 per Cent. Rente for account, 80.32. 5 per Cent.

Italians, Imperial Ottoman Bank, 18. 75 Egyntian Unified, 34.25 5 per Cent. Turks, 17.223 Rio Tinto Shares, 310.25; 4 per Cent. Spanish, 00 Suez Canal Shares, 1,865. BERLIN, Feb.

2. The Bourse again showed great strength, and witli the exception of Italian Rentes, which were slightly lower, the changes were all favourable. Russian and Turkish Stock were particularly strong. Private discount was easier at 2h per and three months' bills on St. Petersburg, as well as Paper Roubles, were higher.

FRANKFORT. Feb. 2. The Bourse was very firm to-day, and a general advance took place in sympathy with the firm tendency on the foreign markets. VIENNA, Feb.

2. The Stock Market was closed owing to this being a holiday. The unofficial quotation of Hungarian Gold Rente was H8, a relapse of about per cent. Lembergs were quoted 217, an improvement of since Saturdav. CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb.

2. Five per Cent. General Debt, 'X 40. Exchange on London, three months, 110.25. NEW YORK.

Feb. 2. According to the usual monthly return of the Secretary of the Treasury the public debt increased during January bv 120.000. The cash in the Treasury amounts to Sip 340,000. After a very steady opening, stocks became strong.

There was a period of weakness subsequently, but prices again advanced, and at the close were firm. The decline was due to realisations. Erie were, however, exceptionally weak in consequence of the revival of the rumour that the stock bondholders would be asked to pay an assessment for the purpose of liquidating the floating debt, Money easy. Cotton and coffee quiet. Petroleum firm.

Lard firm but quiet. Wheat business chiefly for forward delivery. Flour, sugar, and iron dull. Corn easier. Quotations.

Jan. 30. Jan. SL IVb. 2.

Mr. II en ty George. There is, happily, tuc present a line of demarcation, narrow it i ident, between advanced Socialism dtt rank ommunism which in a more or less manner is preached bv so'me who are ti.e political leaders of a section of kr. i mi siiiiK-n. i lie oicau oi socialism cannot unonha for by any change for the worse in the ui the lower orders of mankind, for the oil i uditi of men is certainly better to-day thai ii at any period, not taking account, (OK, leiiiporan- depression in trade and SMOKE ABATEMENT.

only broken here and there, perhaps, with tufts of crimson flowers, or a hucre patch of pink everlastings, and clumps of feathery grey 'smoke The utter alwence of animal life the profound silence, and then this brilliant world of flowers stretching round about made me feci as if it were who declared that Hamilton could not have received his death thrust from Mohun. Maccartney at once quitted the country, but afterwards returned, and was tried for murder and acquitted, and was discharged of the manslaughter by burning with a cold iron to prevent an appeal of murder. The author's chapters on the romance of duelling, and, lastly, on the "humours and pleasantries of the are of considerable interest, as are those on "Pathos and Sentiment" and "The Remorse of Duellists." The value of Major Truman's book, which gives evidence of much research, is greatly enhanced by a full index. The Field of Honour Being a Complete and Comprehensive History of Duelling in all Countrie3. By Major Ben C.

Truman. London Triibner and Co. TIIE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN. Perhaps one of the best books for boys that has been written for some time is Mr. Stevenson's "Treasure Island," though tender-hearted youngsters who do not care to sup off horrors, and prefer not having every ptige of the story drenched, as it were, with gore, must have found something very ghastly in the hair-breadth escapes of Jim Hawkins, and next to it undoubtedly pnmcs "Tho M.de Laveleye thus sums up his opinion Ik Causes if i he spread of socialistic doctrines.

pnuaaiioD liberty and equality for all lias nil upon which universal let h.osc. This general competition is all ftfogness, the mainspring of our in-v. iii source of all power but it 1 incessant agitation, permanent un-- ral instability. Xolxidy contented 1U uol certain of his future. He who to amass more wealth he who lives The report of the Council of the National Smoke Abatement Institution for is a highly interesting pamphlet, and shows not merely how much the institution has been already able to accomplish in diffusing useful information on the use of fuel, but also how needful it is that the Legislature should hasten the "good time coming when the residents among chimneys may be able to breathe without filling their lungs with carbon.

The report states that the ttsts made in 1SSI in connection with tho Smoke Abatement Exhibition showed ail a dream." Ilottnest, an island opposite the town I of Perth, and fourteen miles from the mainland, has a Government cottage which serves as a resort during the great heat of the summer. In the spring it is the rendezvous of "myriads of moles lest lie lose even his liveli- enipe, who go ui thousands to teed on the salt lakes r. are more deceptions because the island, winch food makes them "delicious aoauauned. All may succeed, but Wild difk also is plentiful, but shy, so Call Money, TT.3 GoTsruroent sa tl: and those who remain below I that "it reijutres to be stalked with much PRODUCE MA II KETS. Testrrday.

The market is dull, and no business reported cane refilling kinds. Beetroot is lower, and very li! tie doing closing March delivery at Its. 1 The refined market has continued inanimate for piece- and cry. stals, lieing to fed. easier.

Gloved is have again be. tt reduced business restricted. Vlcssrs. cut loaf 20s. tillers, 3d.

to ts. 6nY: Tat-'s ani Duncan's enhes, 20s Hutch crushed unchan.d No. 1 in bags. Amsterdam! prompt. tSS.

f.o.b. roKFEK remains dull, and against sellers. tin who have risen above them." ha ascribes the discontent and an average smoke density of 3, whilo those mads in 1SS4 showed but an average of V7r, and it was found that grates of proper construction are now being made in sizes suited for small consumers. In kitcheners in like manner the density, which was in 1881 4 "18, was found at wanness. Altogether, estern Australia, at certain seasons of the year, would seem to possess the WUT of our times to the rise of wherewithal to attract both tourists and sportsmen, grussire Civilisation (with capital A fact which gives a touch of strong local colour to I otner Exchange on London, 60 days' sight Cabla Transfers Exchange on Exchange on Berlin Four per Cent.

Funded Loan Western Union Tele.urrapfi Shares issouri, Kansas, aud Texas Shares i Eno Railroail Shares Second Mortgage Bonds i Ohio and Mississippi Ordinary tnose wno were unacquainted with the fact3, he was prepared to repeat over and over agnin, upon as many platforms as might be necessary. (Hear, hear.) One of tho advantages which he and others expected from the enfranchisement of the labourers was the cessation of future robberies of the kind. He did not believe it would be as easy for lords of manors to illegally enclose land as it had been in the past now that the labourers were to 'have a vote. (Hear, hear.) He advocated, also, activity in other departments of the land question. It was a noteworthy sign of the times that many Conservatives were now writing ou the land question what would have been called a revolutionary manner some years ago.

Again, last week at the conference iu Prince's Hall, while most of the delegates were opposed to what was known as Socialism, and were, in consequence, violently attacked by the extreme party, they went very much further indeed than many of those who were Communistic or Socialistic in their views. There was little doubt, therefore, that the constituencies of 1S8G weru likely to look for candidates of an advanced type, and he believed that while in home ailairs they would look for radical reform, they would in foreign affairs look for that vigour which, in his opinion, meant not war but peace. (Cheers.) Resolutions urging the formation of a Hammersmith Liberal Association, and suggesting that public meetings of Liberal electors be at once called in the various polling districts for the election of the council and committee of the Association, were then proposed and agreed to. The following resolution was next moved by noon son, seconded by Mr. Neighbour, and carried without dissent: That this meeting desires to record its unabated confidence in her Majesty's Government, and heartily congratulates them on the passing of the Franchise Bill, thereby adding 2,000,000 citizens to the roll of voters, and thi3 meeting trusts that the Government will persevere with the Seats Bill until it becomes the law of the land." Sir C.

DfLKE, in reply, said it was one of the objects of the Liberal party to restore the people to the land iii the sense that ownership of land should be more widely diffused among dwellers in the country than was at present the case. He did not believe that Protection was likely to make way in the country even among the agricultural classes, although protectionist landowners and farmers who were only a section of the landowners and farmers were endeavouring to induce the labourers to support their interested views. Those of the farmers who were Protectionists cared only for a duty upon wheat and did not care much for the general protectionist system. On the other hand, the people in the towns who favoured protection were quite determined that no duty should ba imposed upon wheat. That being so, there was at once a rift between the two classes of Protectionists.

The Protectionist orators generally assumed that by some sort of protection against foreign countries we could draw closer the union with our colonies, but, as a matter of fact, while some of the colonies were Freetraders, some were strongly Protectionist, and it wouid be very far from drawing closer the bonds of union between this country and Victoria and Canada to insist upon their adopting any system we might dictate to them. On the contrary, if the attempt were made they would probably at once split off from us. (Hear, hear.) The heresy with regard to raw materials showed how easily the party of Protection miglit be split in twain. There wa3 the greatest doubt on the subject of what was meant by raw materials, for the raw materials of one trade were the manufactured articles of another. For instance, yarns weie manufactured articles in one branch of trade, while they were raw materials in another.

(Hear, hear.) Under these circumstances, it would be difficult to define raw materials in such away as to satisfy all who favoured Protection. (Hear, hear.) As to the Seats Bill, its effect would be to raise the number of members in the metropolis outside the City from 18 to 57, and this enormous increase must give a tremendous impulse to London questions, and lead to a vastly more rapid advance of those subjects, such as metropolitan government and City Guilds. which Londoners hi we are so fond of boast- Ilottnest is that the prisoners there (natives) arc i-aiiuLv heterodox doubt. lut Km i ifuief. sutes reported.

iTTO.V Moderate demand, including Tinntvcllv at 'i l-16d. to oUl. Salem, rough Ifensral, 5 to-63d. per lb. F.

unlet. No sales reported. I set at liberty on Sundays to roam over the island, so "as not entirely to forget how to provide for themselves." The best behaved among them act on other days as retrievers," i.e., they fetch out, spot: can, Wabash, St. Louis, and Pac. Pref.

Shares mux ts troubled many intelligent alter all, the human race is fjr the spnsad of education, the Sll ill.la.-Tl.M. HEM I. The receipts at Manilla i tha mst work iUVenikUML tll vih. AiffaaLm cnrf.on rn.nn Rin.nlo.nJ lnVm. Common Shares Philadelphia and Reading Shares Union Pacific Shares Central Pacific Shares Pacific Bonds New York Central Shares Illinois Shares I Delaware ami Lalcawana Snares knowledge, practical and theo- of travels contained in these letters will L'ive its nave in co JUl'JUO tlXl WAltllVUU "IX I I itllU years of Western life.

Such will contribute to awaken an interest in the fortunes St. Lou and San Francisco PreL Shares Lasce Shore shares i Mdiecis ash whether happiness is really of this fine colony. 8,000 tales, and are telegraphed MjtoQ bales since the 1st of January. Jl'TE inactive. Tn dock, c.f.i., K.

R. 1, sold 13s. R. at lis. and to anive, equal M.

doubts triangle afi lis. lid. C. S. 3, at 10s.

per Londm. remain quiet, but steady, without appreciable cbann TURPENTINE firmer. American ls. on spot So. August per cwt.

METALS. Tin Fine foreisn, cash. Straits. 70 5 to 7fi Australian, 70 7s. Oil, 17s tub: Straits, thre.i months, 10b.

Topper: Chilijbars. jr.o.b.. 47 l's td to 4JM 2s. ed. cash to three, months! Spelter Sdesian, ordinary brands, jtLV.i 17s.

M. to et4 ieid English, ordinary brands, Sio 17s. ML; Spanish, Ms to 10 lis. 3d, Scotch pig iron, lis. Bid.

per ton, cash buyers-41s. cash sellors. QI'IL'KSILVEK, Second hands' rather dearer at 6 14s oar bottle. Chleagoau I North Western Ordinary. Letters to Ouy.

Ey Lady Barker (Lady Broome). London Maianillau and l'o. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," who with his friend Tom Sawyer we have met before, and are delighted to meet again. From the first chapter, in Inch Aunt Polly tries to civilise her young protege, by alternately reading to him the history of "Moses and the Bullrushes and descriptions of the "Bad Place," to the last, where one reluctantly takes leave of most amusing companions, there is never a moment's cessation of fun of a peculiarly fresh, bright kind, not to be found in our land of fosr and cast wind, and which in its wild improbability has much the effect of an admirably managed harlequinade, buttered slides and all. "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted" warns the author in his preface.

Persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot." So Mark Twain's readers must be content to do without either moral, plot, or motive, for the sake of the excellent fooling which occasionally is good even for the wisest of us. Poor lost Columbia, high honours missing, Knows nought of smile, and nod, and sweet handshaking Knows nought of golden promises of kings, Knows nought of coronets, and stars, and strings," sings Peter Pindar, but to compensate for these losses she is endowed with a great sense of humour, jjo. i remrreu snares I Canada Southern Shams Louisville aud Nashville Ord. Chicaao, and St. Paul.

Oom In this march of mind, ur, in the railway, iu the thoughts that -Mu-aiii. 1 lets separately the doctrines of i the Health U-xlnbition to be 2-4. Again, the London gas companies had hired out large numbers of gas stoves. Bakers ovens had occupied the attention of the council, and at tho late Health Exhibition five systems of these ovens were practically smokeless, and very large quantities of bread are now baked in various districts without any smoke being produced. The council consider that the time has come when the institution should endeavour to organise a testing department, and they are also desirous of establishing a practical examination of stokers to whom certificates of competency should be granted, thus affording a recognition of the merits of skilled men, and protection to employers against the wasteful use of fuel.

The council state that the result of the tests made by the institution proves that the recommendations which have been made through the press to adopt the system called "slow combustion' to reduce smoke from open grates arc erroneous. The council prepared a statement, which was laid before the Government in support of a request that a Royal Commission should be appointed to inquire into the means of preventing smoke, but the Government were not disposed to grant the commission. The council hope that at no distant date it may be thought proper to take steps for a thorough investigation of the question, and for extending the operation of the Metropolitan Smoke Act beyond its present boundaries, to include large districts now beyond its sphere also to apply more firmly and fully the provisions of the act to industries in which the abatement of smoke is now much easier than it was when the act was framed. New York, and West. Ord.

Shares Denver snares i Northern Pacific Common Stock Do. Preferred Stonk Canadian Pacific Itailway earlv death a tlir. han.U Von Bacowit.a, his successful CHRONICLER OF NO-MAN LAND. The stories of Asia, Africa, and America included in Mr. Boyle's latest work tire for the most part good of their kind.

Some are historic, some romantic, some a blending of history and romance, but all are at least founded on fact, and some of them are literal records of events of which the author himself was an eye witness. The most "powerful" THE CENTRAL FISH MARKET. in onformity with his doctrines, Vi ended his career so much after sd venturer. Fichtc. the harbinger MicnijBui central Cotton, dav's receipts at U.S.

ports. day's export to Great BritauV day's export to the Continent Do. delivery futures June delivery Do. Middling Ppland Petroleum, crude United Pipe Lino Certihcates Standard White, 70 deg. Abel test Lard, Wilcox's futures, Mar.

Fairbank's flour, extra State shipping brands. to the editor or thp: morning post. Sir, It may interest those of your readers who am suffering from diminished incomes to know where first-rato fish at very low prices may be obtained. I happened to ialism, Marx, and Bakunin, the the chronicles is that which tells of Dr. are also specially considered oeuontas iiuw aim aierceu, in Js ai imi-irtaiii- Mian or t1 Nicaragua.

is known to be one of i often mentioned. 1 nit concern-i ddef components of old C'astilian blood, 3.1f. 3.33 X15 3.35 uuuu ana nistorv most people are and Huckleberry Finn is as good a specimen as can be procured of the national commodity. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. By Mark Twain.

London Chatto and Yv'indus. dark as they are of the objects and I are not exceptionally impressed with the sanctity of 'hinese Hways. Yet it was never I human life, bat there are not, it is to be hoped, JIS -'lead-ouariers were well known, Iuau3 gtwwevwa Nicaragua woo v-juju ueuoerateiy '-ice, but to all who cared to ascer- 1 ttnupt the lives of their sister and her lover at the uorn, exv western Wheat, red winter, on the spot delivery ourr'Mit month Mar. delivery April delivery! Spring wheat. No.

2 on spot fair Rio good Rio good Santos Mar! dehv'ry May delivery Sucar, fair refining muscovados liits; its jtroclamations were signed time, not in cold Hood, be it noted, but with The Intern atioual was started malicc aforethought. Dr. Gates own conduct in had most distinctly at heart. (Cheers.) The proceedings shortly afterwards terminated. be passing the hsh maruet lately established by the Corporation of London between and the Farringdon-road, so I turned in to see tho fish and learn the prices.

I found first class turbots selling at a fine codfish at 3d. a soles at 9d. a and other fish at proportionately ow prices. A mechanic bought a magnificent turbot for 8a, I suppose to divide amongst some of his fellows, and purchased one large enough for seven or eight people for ls. 10.U., including the mat.

Oysters from France, largo and white, and longer than ours, were selling at b'd. a dozen. The omnibuses passing down Fleet-street and over Holborn-viaduct can set down within a few minutes' wa'V of the market, and the fares are so low now that tho cost of going to and from the market is nothing. Your obedien servant, jr Jan. 31.

nature, was a geaaai congress held at Geneva tue though not of a cnmina sixty delegates attended, the nevertheless highly injudicious. It Were agreed to. By the first PaJ attention to two women at the criminal is never wise same time, as Lord Reay ox Land Reform. Lord Reay, laying the foundation-stone of a new Free Church at Galashiels yesterday, remarked that many important questions had arisen of late years which waited for settlement, and they could only be solved on a Christian basis. On the land question he had been asked how the rights in private property could be transferred to the Government.

His reply was that the Government must pay the money value. We must proceed on the morality of the Eighth Commandment, and that was the mornlitv whir!) wiinlil ho nrpachsrf in hia nou. SIR RICHARD TEMPLE ON THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT. was declared to be the nro- rime city tallow Salthusi Tin. Australian Freishtfor (Train, st.

to Liverpl, per (L '-'-Hire ot conillilinintion "'IKmS wen of dilierent countries, i tuna end in view namely, "the joint -aaaie end view namely, "i he seems to have done, and, knowing as he did the i customs of the country, it was a dangerous experi- ment that he tried, and had Yiola's knife inflicted a mortal wound, his own imprudence would have been principally at fault. But the situation in 1 which he found himself demanded that he should finally choose between Viola and Merced, I and if he made a mistake, his rash conduct was at I the bottom of it. From Nicaragua to Sarawak te emanci- church. He was for a time to leave the border county he liiuiuoii, )or uuanei for cotton to Liverpool Iron, Oartsherrie, No. I PHILADELPHIA.

Pennsylvania Railroad Shares Petroleum, standard white NEW ORLEANS. Cotton, niidlliiig Vvnient, and the complete class-" Jt was, in umon for maintaining SHOULD YACHTS BE TAXED? act, to or rais- Last night Sir Richard Temple addressed a crowded meeting of East Worcestershire Conservatives at Redditch, under the presidency of Mr. Victor Milward. Referring to the German annexations in South Africa and New Guinea, he said that it was useless for England to adopt a conciliatory policy towards Germany. It would be far better to take a strong line, to plant our foot down, and if necessary to show our teeth and growl, for depend upon it anything like tho bleating of a lamb was misunderstood by our continental neighbours.

Was Germany conciliated He thought not. Recently one of the first newspapers of Germany was teeming with the most insolent abuse of this country, and showed how useless 10 0-16 10 9-1C resistance, and as such resistance, and yc-ars to a great extent successful. a far cry, but the story of A-Chang and the 'V came over th ls fcau to dieam of BimMwnw Wnrn Chinese secret societies in that State is as full of Mr. Marriott at Brightox Addressing a Conservative meeting last evening at Brighton, Mr. Marriott M.P., criticised Mr.

Chamberlain's recent speeches and sai.l that the Liberal, and even the Radical press found now that the policy he was advocating was not for the good ot the nation, but was intended, by duping and deceiving the majority, to place great power in his own hands. With regard to his views in reference to land, the speaker asked whv did not Air ,5 x. GONE TO TEXAS. This readable volume gives a very fair account of the manner in which hard-working youths who prefer active out-door lives to desk work can manage to make a living abroad, and will do good service, indeed, if it is the cause of sending abroad the right sort of boys, lads who would ultimately get on any whereandiu anything, but prefer doing it in their own way, not the idle ne'er-do-wells, who could not change their natures, but would only go faster to ruin there than they would at home. In one of George Eliot's admirably humorous stories her hero leaves his pastrycook's shop and goes to Jamaica, where he looks forward to a brilliant career among the blacks.

But Fate proved too strong for him. "He had thought to master her inclination, but she caught him, tied an apron round him, and snatching hnu from all other devices, made him devise cakes and patties in a kitchen in Jamaica." In like manner Fate would catch the loafer, even in Texas, and would put a brandy bottle in one of his bauds, and a billiard cue in the other. Young men of the type of the writers of these cheery letters are the ones to succeed, and there must be hundreds such, one would think, who would make something far more profitable out of their lives roughing it in the colonies, than wasting their time in offices and banks. Let them leave such places to the men who can't ride, know nothing of farming, and prefer town to country. Willy, Tim," and the Doctor seem to be prospering in a steady, sober fashion and, indeed, one of Gone to Texas.

Edited by Tom Hughes. London Macmillan and Co. lovea so wen. He knew that he carried with him their beet wishes for his welfare and success, and that knowledge would help and encourage him in the discharge of his duties in India. Public Gardens in St.

Pancras. The Metropolitan Public Garden, Association having, through their chairman, asked the St. Pancras Vestry to permit the general public the free use of Camden Garden, which is the property of ratepayers of that parish, but only available as a recreation ground to a few subscribers in the neighbourhood, and having offered to appoint and maintain a caretaker for the first six months, to present three seats to be placed outside the railing of College-garden, Great College-street, aud to. contribute 100 towards the expense of tree-planting in the thoroughfares of that parish providing the to the editor oy the morning post. Sir, Several letters have appeared in your columns aa to whether yachts should be taxed.

I think I can give very good reasons why they should be taxed. They "are undoubtedly a luxury. They are a imisance in erowded waters like the Solent they constantly get in the way of large steamers, knowing that they have the law on their side. Carriages and carriage servants are taxed. If I happen to be lame and keep a pony carriage and a boy to look after it, both are taxed whereas the ow.ier of a yacht pays no tax or harbour dues lor his pleasure boat, and keeps as many private servants (called crew) on board as he thinks proper without paying taxes for any of them I am, sir, HEAVILY-TAXED BOOR MAN" Feb.

2. 1 the means of production to bicident and of the materials of tragedy as that of It continued to grow, but the adventurer before mentioned; though, of Were resent, and at the con- the word is used in an English sense, for it Sue in la-o personal differences and difficult to say what would appear tragic to a that it was evident that Malay or a Chinese. The murder of a few indi-' lonyer, and indeed tliat con- duals more or less would hardly constitute a "Th-causes of the rapid decline tragedy from a Celestial or Malay point of view. Thai sa aSswaaBan," writes the author "are 6Ccret societies are numerous and widespread in their they are instructive. First ramifications through China, and wherever Chinese 2 It)! strikes, its principal and are gathering together.is commonly known.but their l2 cud, it proved itself timid and and influence are frequently underrated, i various bodies of working though sometimes they may be overrated.

It is at experiment himself by purchasing waste land near nnd it, a- rnarck by insistins upon the recognition of tho Niger as a British river. After alluding to the French acquisitions in Toaquin and Madagascar, Sir Richard referred to the projwsed boundary commission between England and Russia. In regard to the frontiers of Affghanistan, he contended that if the Russians did not send their commissioners England should act alone and fix tho frontiers, which we should maintain at all cost. He expressed his gratification at the successful advances of the English expedition towards Khartoum, and spoke of the late Mr. Cameron, whom he had known at Bombay as a literary gentleman of great experience and ability, who in Southern Affghanistan and Egypt had reflected honour upon the profession of the pen.

He urged that England should not retire from the Soudan until order should be restored, and the dreadful slave trade suppressed. In conclusion he strongly advocated an increase in British naval armaments. slow to riMvMTv Hit nnH 09iv least certain that secret brotherhoods are a dan- vesiry expenaea 200 in a similar manner, have received two letters from the vestry in reply. The vestry decline the offer to provide seats in Great College-street, state that they would prefer to carry out any tree-planting experiments at their own cost and free from any conditions, and I point out that the Camden Gardens were laid out with money obtained from the North London Bailway Company, I which obtained parliamentary powers to cross the gardens, uuh to poor starving men in Birmingham hveu if he lost by it, it would prove the sincerity of his wishes in promoting the happiness of the working classes. It was because he knew that they were all mere devices to raise the desires of the people, which could not possibly be gratified, that he protested against tiie tactics of Mr.

Chamberlain. The danger of such a statesman was that he raised false hopes; the people naturally became discontented, and revolution and ruin to the country followed. Referring to England position in regard to foreign Powers, he said never since 181.r was England so isolated as at the present time. No Foreign Minister had ever acted with such subserviency as Lord Granville had shown during the last two years. If it had not been for our gallant army in Egypt we should have been at tho lowest depths of degradation.

Then lers there was a spirit of revolt Kerous element wherever this authority extends ho belonged to the middle- whether i the East or in the West, whether in the of To-dav. fc Black Hand, Nihilist. Ku Klux Clan, or the SSSZ to which A-Chang, the hero of the English by Goddard The Health Exhibition Ljbrary. Tho Executive Council having decided to present the Health iortion of the works th valuable library to the Parke, Museum of Hygiene and the education portion to the City and l.uilds of the London Technical Institute, the conJnt of i IT nT 1)61118 obtained for thi PPose, and it is hoped that in a ahort time the librarian. Mr Carl Thuam, may be abja to Ututet fcka Ubcatiea, ana nanaea them over to a committee of the inhabitants.

The vestry do not think it advisable to interfere with the existing arrangements, by which the gardens are maintained by a rate levied on the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. Uir; owaahsm in England by the Chronicles of No-Man's Land. By Frederick Boyle..