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THE SHEFFIELD AND KOTHERHAM INDEPENDENT, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1S67 OUR LETTER. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. pss rettter's agency. I them avowedly hostile to the School Board I nothing more than an alarmist cry quite system, and some resolved to avoid expense I devoid of meaning. Tory papers in Eng-at all hazards.

But while the Board stands i land, and Tory speakers hiss out the word still, the population moves on. Houses are Separatist because argument fails them. LONDON MANTLE WAREHOUSE. 16 AND 18, FABGATE, SHEFFIELD, FOE HIGH-CLASS LADIES' MANTLES, AT MO DEBATE PEICES. AFFAIRS IN AFGHANISTAN.

DEFEAT OF THE AMEER'S TROOPS. St. Petersburg, Tuesday. A telegram received here from Merv, of yesterday's date, states that, according to advices which have reached that place from Herat, the Ghilzais had an engagement on the 16th inst. with one thousand of the Ameer' regular troops, in which the latter were severely defeated, with the loss of five guts and their entire baggage traift.

It is added that Daharneil, the Ameer's commander, was taken prisoner, and beheaded by the Ghilzais. Great excitement prevails among the inhabitants of the Province of Herat and the nnatrriTicr bv the feeble unr alities or the the anfMAnlv stretched to flnapsfc possible tension. Mrs. Bernard) Beere has always been an adept in death: scenes. She understudied Sarah Bernhardt for Fedora." but though she died well in i Fedora," she dies superlatively in As a looking glass." Superlatively, of course, is not the word, but it is one of the most terrible pieces of stage realisation that I have ever witnessed.

Nothing like it has. I think, been seen since Charles Cushman's celebrated death scene in Meg Merrilies." Unlike the actress in "Andrienne Lecou Bernard Beere has to represent the death of the person who knowingly poisons herself, and she depicts the mental and physical horrors which might be produced by some such poison as arsenic. This she doe with a grim and unsparing reality of detail which is absolutely horrifying. The fearful spasms, the wild clutching nf3 fk the fall on the sofa almost ungracefully, but with a frightful suggestion of nature in it these and other details have perhaps been learned by the actress from personal suggestions. At all events, they represent the most thrilling scene I have witnessed on the stage since Mr Charles Warner's great scene in The suggestion of an awful, agonising death, unrelieved by a single touch of consolation, is perfect.

The disastrous colliery explosions of last week, in England and Scotland, have led Jttr. Ellis Lever, of Manchester and Colwyn Bay, to renew his offer of -500 for the production of a perfect portable electric miner's lamp within the jubilee year. PROGRAMME OF THE NEW FRENCH MINISTRY. THE CHANGE OF WAR MINISTEKS. I PER RETJTTiB'9 AGESCT-l Paris, Tuesday.

The appointment of members of the New Ministry is gazetted to-day. It is stated that the ministerial declaration to be read in the Chamber of Deputies to-day will be very brief, and will announce the introduction of a new Budget. The Premier will maintain the Military Bill of the preceding Cabinet, and affirm the determination of the Ministry to resign unless obtaining a majority of the Republican votes. Gen. Boulanger has issued an order of the day to the army, thanking all who have co-operated with him to place the country'3 means of defence in a condition to stand any test, and recommending to all officers devotion to their professional duties and fidelity to the Constitution and the laws.

He concludes as follows-: I shall be the first among you to give an example of this two-fold military and Republican discipline." The moderate Republican papers cordially welcome the new Ministry, but the Radical and Independent press is decidedly hostile. Later. M. Rouvier, the new French Premier, read the following declaration on behalf of himself and colleagues at the opening of to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies Called by the confidence of the President of the Republic to assume the direction of affairs at a difficult moment, we feel bound to present ourselves before you with as clearly defined a programme as possible. We are firmly resolved to deal immediately with the reforms which give rise to the recent Ministerial crisis.

In the first line come Budgetary reform, which should be based principally upon a system of real economy, and the simplification of the administrative services. We are resolved that the existing taxes shall yield the full return that they ought, and we shall seek to strengthen the authority of the collectors and energetically repress fraud. The Budget of expenditure for IsaS will, we hope, be brought below the amount voted for 1887, but will in no case exceed it. The organic proposals connected with our military system are set down for discussion in the minutes of the Chamber, and the Government is ready to take part in the debate. Our foreign policy will remain faithful to itself dignified, prudent, and firm.

We the preparations for th Universal Exhibition snan carry on. with rertonh ai-t v.tir bnch are our pians. Cur conviction is that there is a majority that will support a really practical policy, and we have sought, in forming a Cabinet of Republican concentration, the means and the strength to bring out that majority. We invite all Republicans, all patriots, to the work. Tt can only succeed by the co-operation of all.

We are men of good will, jtfid we feel confidence in the judgment which our colleagues and fellow citizens will pass upon us." The Premier's address was received with applause by theCentre, butmet with numerous interruptions from the Left. The Rtdical Left gave notice of an interpellation, which M. Rouvier accepted, demanding that it should be at once brought forward M. Julien thereupon spoke, requesting the Government to define its programme. In the course of the discussion, M.

Rouvier said he did not consider himself condemned to impotency merely because the Extreme Left refused him their co-operation, and he would lay down the reins of office should he not obtain a Republican majoritv. M. Julien subsequently moved a resolution of want of confidence in the Government but the motion was rejected by 280 votes to 139 The Senate afterwards adjourned until Thursday. The Deputies of the Right estimate that their party contributed 130 votes out of the majority of 2S5. Assuming this estimate to be correct the Government, independently of the Right, have a purely Republican majority The Moderate Republican papers give a cordial welcome to the new Ministry, and the Monarchical journals also speak of it in comparatively favourable terms.

The tone of the Radical and Independent Press is, however, decidedly hostile. General Boulanger has issued an order of the day to the army thanking all those who have co-operated with him to place the country's means of defence in a condition to stand any test, and recommending to all the officers devotion to their professional duties, and fidelity to the Constitution and the laws The ex-Minister of War concludes as follows I shall be the first among you to give an example of this two-fold military and Republican discipline." General Ferron. the new War Minister "has issued an order of the day to the army which ab8lte devotion of all and I feel confident that the various arms ot the servxee will continue to make re solute progress The armies which surround continue daily to increase in number- and for military training fcn ana would be a step backward, seriously endani? ing the country's interests Like decessors, I shall unremitting tary reform, and all Sy tiSVS" to increasing the defensive forcesf and the Republic." forces of France THE PRINCE OF MONTENEGRO. Prince Nicholas of MoItS cess Milena mJ received at the rafvJ and we Emir's US? Paar, who was Ad-Jutant-General Count Hofbunr VJIl Proceeded to the for theaw -wnu a4 been, prepared a from our own correspondent. London.

Tuesday Night. Tr. is nnit.p rini hie t.hnt. Wf ma.v rw vn t.rif I eve of another development of the Irish question. It must not be supposed from Mr.

Morley's speech at Norwich, and Mr. Gladstone's letter to a West Birmingham elector, that absolutely no attempt will be made to reconstruct some portions of the scheme for the government of Ireland which the House of Commons rejected nearly a year ago. Mr. Gladstone has certainly thought over a good many points then and now in dispute, and I have no doubt that he is quite clear in his own mind as to the modifications he is prepared to accept. Moreover, the Round Table Conference, though it was more an affair of genial talk thau of formulative demands and acceptances, did a great deal to clear the air of certain minor difficulties; but the real difficulty in the way of a new departure is not.

the spirit of Mr. Gladstone, so much as the temper of the Unionists. I say Unionists." but it must be borne in mind that the Unionist party is almost devoid of solidity. There are Lord Harrington and the Whig Unionists, who are pledged to the Government almost without conditions there are Mr. Chamberlain and his small knot of followers who are similarly placed, out wno attacn larger conditions to tueir engagements to support the present Ministry.

These are the Unionists who are Unionists, I may 3ay, of malice prepense, who desire nothing better than to keep Mr. Gladstone out of office, and to keep the Liberal party dissented. But there are also Unionists of the type of Dr. Dale, Sir George Trevelyan, and Mr. Winterbotham, who are anti-coercionists at heart, and who vehemently desire the union of the Liberal party, and who have no personal considerations whatever.

It is these men who desire an approach of some kind, and who, if they are strong enough and earnest enough, may get it. but what Mr. Gladstone must feel is that he has really an honest party to deal with. He will not allow himself to be led into a mere trap for Mr. Chamberlain's sake He has had no reason to believe that Mr.

Chamberlain's desire for reunion is ingenuous. What he wants to find is a party really anxious and able to approach him with honest terms of compromise their hands. That party is not Mr. Chamberlain's, it is not Lord Harrington's. Under certain circumstances it might be Sir George Trevelyan's aud Dr.

Dale's. There is. I believe, no truth in the story that Lord Salisbury is litrely to accept a dukedom as the Queen's jubilee gift, even if. as I very much doubt, the reward na3 been offered him. A dukedom would add nothing to Lord Salisbury's position, and would rather tend to break the great tradition of which the uescenuant or tne nrst uecii is reasonably proud.

Lord Salisbury will probably remain Lord Salisbury, just as Mr. Gladstone will always be Mr. Gladstone. The Queen, impartial enough in these matters, has more than once made the latter the offer of an earldom, and has always been met with a refusal. Perhaps, indeed, there was never a time when titles were less sought after by men in the very first rank.

It is the smaller titles which are coveted by the smaller men. On the whole. I don't think the jubilee year will witness the addition to the peerage of many distinguished names. It will witness a few steps from one rank to the other, a good many baronetcies and a huge flock of knighthoods. The moral of the Bodyke evictions, of which we shall hear more from the Pull Mall's who, by the way, is not Mr.

Stead, but Mr. Norman, is that the Government are determined to terrorise the tenants and to thoroughly convince them that they will get no help from the plan of campaign. Perhaps I should not go very far wrong if I were to say that the landlords who have been met by the plan of campaign have had excellent assurances that their righta of eviction would be thoroughly secured to them. The struggle at Bodyke will be very severe. The people arc a very independent, though extremely poor, class, and the district is an extremely wild one, and has been noted for agrarian disasters, and those on the spot expect scenes which will fairly drive the Glenbeigh evictions out of mind.

The scenes at Bodyke have certaiuiy Deen long expected, ana every now ud then has come a rumour of compromise, The landlords, of whom there are several, for the most part show an unflinching resistance to the people and their representatives, and the universal belief in the neighbourhood is that this is one of the private assurances for Mr. Balfour and his agents. General Buller's policy has been practically suspended. The Cadi under the palm tree sits no longer, and we are face to face with a ruthless struggle with the landlords and the Government on the one side, and the people and their religious and secular friendsou the other. I am told that before Mrs.

Langworthy leaves England to carry her case into the Argentine Courts, she is likely to figure as plaintiff in at least one action for libel. Some weeks ago certain libellous postcards were sent to subscribers to the Langworthy fund. A clergyman of the Church of England has been accused of the authorship of one or more of these attacks. I hear that Mrs. Langworthy claims 500 damages from this gentleman, who is, therefore, threatened with legal proceedings.

As for Mr3. Langworthy, tue interest in her case is steadily maintained. She has now sufficient funds in her hands to commence the struggle in the Registrar Courts, where her friends anticipate a complete defeat for her husband, and a very substantial settlement for the wife and child. I hear that a large number of insurance companies, as well as a good many of the London banks, have decided to mark the jubilee by distributing some good bonuses to their employes. These gifts will take either the form of a lump sum or of a percentage on the various salaries.

The Imperial, for instance, will give 15 per the London Life gives one year's salary, the Metropolitan 5000 a lump sum. the Guardian. Phoenix, Northern, and National Provincial 10 per and the Prudential oue month's salary. The London and County Bank has also put down the handsome sum of 20,000. A few larger companies, whom it would perhaps be invidious to name, have not yet joined this very generous and public-spirited movement.

But if any little stimulus in the way of publicity is required I am happy to furnish it in this paragraph. To-morrow afternoon will see another of those remarkable dramatic ventures which hav3 given Mr. Irving the name and position which he enjoys. The representation of Werner will be the occasion for a great historical revival. The costumes will be copied from historical models.

The play, too, which is certainly the worst thing that Byron ever wrote, has been handled, according to all reports, in a very successful manner with a view to increasing its dramatic capabilities. Mr. Irving, I think, is sanguine of a great success, and lie will have all the world of fashion come out to applaud him if he accomplishes his wish. One hears of tickets being sold at fabulous prices, and since Mrs. Brown-Potter'B debut at the Haymarket there has been nothing like the sensation which the announcement of the performance has created.

By-the-way, those of your readers who have a love for stage sensationalities of the most brilliant and studied kind should endeavour to see Mrs. Bernard Beere in As in a Looking Glass." The play itself is a poor one, unnatural, crude, improbable, and in some verses lifeless to a degree, but it is sustained throughout by the admirable acting of this beautiful and clever lady. In the final scene iy- In the final scene the which, sua butt become somewhat all fully tenanted, and while there are in the Eckington village 025 school places, there are 1385 children between the ages of 3 and 13. Making the usual deduction, there should be I school nlaees for 1200. and it is to avoid the 1 erection of a new school that all the struggle takes place.

In a spirit of mistaken economy the School Board prefers to leave children to run wild rather than spend a sum needful to honse and to teach them. Some members of the board may not have enjoyed much teaching themselves, but they should at least be anxious that another generation may not suffer as they have done. The Board school at Eckington has accommodation for 273 children and 177 infants. This is full and overflowing. The average shows an attendance much above the number for which the plans were approved, and unless something is done the grant of next year will be endangered.

What is to be done? The Board will not build; the children will come to school, and those who have to conduct the school are at their wits end. The effect of a deficiency of accommodation is disastrous on the district. In the first place it makes it next to impossible to enforce compulsory attendance, and encourages great irregularity among those whose names are on the books. The schools in Eckington village are the Beard school. Camni'a School, and Lady Sitwell's School (girls only).

The average attendance for the quarter ending January last was in the Board school mixed 81 per infants .79 per Camm's School, mired 72 per infants 65 per cent. Lady Sitwell's School, girls 69 per infants 68 per cent. The figures in Camm's and Lady Sitvell's schools are extremely unsatisfactory, and afford some idea of the difficulties under which education in Eckington labours. The educational state of the district cannot be satisfactory till this evil is remedied, and when there is more regular attendance the lack of accommodation will stand out in bolder relief. Quacks matters of education may fancy it an easy thing to reduce the attendance to the limit 3 prescribed by the Department but the matter is not so easy as it looks.

In the bchool at Eckingtou, as is the case in some of our Sheffield schools, the regular upward flow from the infants' department is sufficient to keep the upper school full without any admissions from the outside. A parent who has passed his child through the infants' department, feels it a hardship, if a place is not, in due course, found for the little one in the upper school. He has a right to feel aggrieved, for the law says, You must send your child to school," and the parent says, in reply, to the Local Authority, Provide me a school place and I will send." But the Local Authority at Eckington hesitates and loses time; and leaves matters to drift helplessly. Dare those gentlemen take upon themselves to drive away infants from the school door Unless they do this, and so reduce the infant attendance, the mixed school will continue to be over full and if they do drive children away they will be neglecting the education of their district and should incur the righteous indignation of the Education Department. They are cultivating the art of how-not-to-do-it, and instead of being a Board of Education, are constituting themselves a Board of Ignorance.

Wc speak, of course, of the majority. The Chairman of the Board, who has served the public in tnls department for thirteen years, fights a gallant, but uphill battle. Time is on his side, but nothing can make up for the time wasted, or repair to the children the golden opportunity gone for ever. Our surprise is that the working men tolerate this state of things. It is they who suffer from want of school places it is their children who are robbed of their birthright.

Why, then, do they stand idly by? The Sydney papers received by the last mail report an excellent speech on Home Rule delivered by the Earl of Aberdeen on the 16th April. Lord Abeedeen was Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland during Mr. Gladstone's last Administration, and saw the country under circumstances calculated to call forth the better side of Irish human nature. He went to Ireland as the bearer of a message of peace, and the response from the Irish people was warm, and even enthusiastic. Bands of music, that knew it not before, played the National Anthem, for it had dawned upon them that loyalty to the Queen might be quite consistent with loyalty to the cause of Home Rule.

The Colonists of New South Wales are not less loyal, but more so, because they enjoy Home Rule; and similar treatment would produce similar results in Ireland. It is not a little significant that those who know Ireland best are most convinced of the need for Home Rule. Whether it be a Tory Lord-Lieutenant like Lord Carnarvon, or a Liberal one like Lord Aberdeen, they are at one as to the expediency of conciliating the national sentiment. Lord Aberdeen tells the Irishmen of Sydney they are right when they say Respect for the British Throne, as shown by the people in Australia and Tasmania, is simply owing to the fact that we are a self -governed people. And it is only this same system with the necessary alterations that we ask for our fathers and brothers in the dear old land which we still call If Ireland were treated as the colonies have been, the same results would follow Fenianism and violence would disappear, and we should have a strong Government, not such as Lord Salisbury falsely calls strong, but a Government strong because it rules by and through the consent and good will of the people of the country." The stock alarms produced by the friends of the bad old way are made light of by Lord Aberdeen.

He puts on one side as unsound the pretence that Protestants would suffer from the persecution of a Catholic majority. A guilty conscience may well make cowards of those Protestant ascendency men who so long championed injustice against the Catholics; but they need not fear. Shamefully have they abused their position, and nothing is more natural than for them to measure a peck out of their own bushel but the Catholics are held in check not only by their own good sense, but by the. public opinion of England, which will ever be a potent factor in the Irish question. The cry about separation, too, Lord Abbbdben laughs at as absurd.

The Irish, he says, are not deficient in shrewd ness, ana nanng a keen eye to their own interests, will not break away from their best customer ren they could. Separation i. and they thereby hope to frighten a few simple souls. There always is some such cry as this in every great constitutional cam- paign some catch word or battle cry to stimulate the forces, hut seldom has there been a less effective one than this word "Separatist." Separation is so manifestly impossible that the cry can frighten no one but those who love to be deceived. The task that lies before Home Rulers is to persuade the proud and sensitive English people to try persuasion rather than force.

This should be the easier because force certainly is on the side of England. She can if she be so minded crush the National aspirations of Ireland, but magnanimity, as well as policy, forbid. Lord Aberdeen says a groat responsibility to but most profoundly do responsibility of rei'usiu; "It is doubtless graut Home Rule; i. believe that the it is even greater." To go on in the old way, which has proved so bad and so disastrous for both countries, is the policy of madness. If force could have cured the Irish malady, it would have been cured years ago.

If a mixture of force and sweetmeats could have done it, that, too, has had a chance during the last sixty years. But things are as bad as ever. The lookout is as gioomy as at any period since theDuke of Wellington and bir Robt. Peel were alarmed into the concession of Catholic emancipation, and yet the only Tory suggestion is resolute government." Lord Spencee and Lord Aberdeen know what resolute government means, and they advise us to have nothing to do with it, in the sense of governing the people agaiii3t their will. It is possible to lead when it is impossible to drive.

We have tried to drive the Irish, and made but a sorry business of it. If we try to lead them matters cannot be worse, and may probably be a great deal better. We quoted yesterday a short extract from our contemporary, the Yorkshire Pas', referring to the sudden and premature death of the Bishop of Sotlor and Man. winch il lament. It was a well meant tribute, but a very blundering one.

The Churchmen of Sheffield will be interested to know, on the authority of the oracle at Leeds, that Dr. Rowley Hill found Sheffield almost a preserve of nonconformity." The Established Church was "in a very low estate indeed when the rev. gentleman came to Sheffield, but the new Viear soon set things right; indeed the goes so tar as to assert that Yorkshire Post 1 practically re-established tne Church this town. Comment on such assertions is superfluous they are only tit to be laughed at. The writer, in trying to be complimentary to the dead, has really done his memory disservice.

No one would have been more prompt to reject such misplaced flattery than our late vicar, who was certainly hard working, and had a happy tact ii begging money. But why should his memory be exalted at the expense of all the Churchmen of Sheffield living and dead, who have laboured in season and out of season for more than half a century to extend the work of the Church in this town Thanks to the long succession of evangelical clergymen with whom the town has been favoured through the influence of the Revs. Dr. Sutton and Dr. Sale, the Church of England has not been at a low ebb, but has drawn to itself help from all sorts and conditions of men.

It may console the multitude who used strong language on Monday respectinp our English climate and our insular weather, to learn that the inhabitants of more favoured regions have their troubles too. Thus, in our files of Australian newspapers just to hand, we find exceedingly diamul descriptions of Easter Monday as spent by the people of New South Wales. Nov it may be judiciously remembered by those who like to abuse the old country, how brilliantly-fine was that holiday here but it was far different elsewhere. In the Sydney Tclegravh, of the 12th April, under the heading of "Bain and wretchedness," we read, that Yesterday was a day of disappointment. The stormy weather that had begun on the previous night grew more intense in its unpleasantness as the hours passed by, until what in the inorning resembled the old-country April showers minus the gonial sunshine developed into drenching rain.

One result was that thousands of people, wiser than others, spent their holiday at home. Another will be seen this morning in the various ailments produced by chill and damp in the case of many who braved the elements' yesterday." Nor is it solely in the matter of weather that to our kin beyond the sea life is not all beer and skittles. We have no monopoly here of political troubles and of Parliamentary difficulties; and even all-night sittings our Colonial brethren share our alhictions. In the issue of the same newspaper for April 1G we find an account of a sitting of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, which began at half-past four on the Thursday afternoon and. did not conclude until ten o'clock on Friday morning.

With the exception of about 30 minutes devoted to the answering of questions, the whole 18 hours were taken up in what purported to be a debate on the financial proposals of the Government. The struggle was really between the Free Trade Government and the Protectionist Opposition. It was half-past four a.m. when Sir Henry Parkes, the Premier, rose (the preceding speaker having occupied four hours), and his speech, which lasted for two hours and twenty minutes, was ended in broad daylight. It is stated that one of the Ministers spoke with such spirit that at times he had the whole of the front Opposition bench on its feet, glaring, yelling and shaking its fists across the table." The House of Commons must look to its laurels.

It has strong competitors in the matter of rakish hours and exciting scenes. Mr. Gladstone yesterday received a deputation of hearty Liberals from Crewe, who vigorously denounced the Government Coercion Bill. In this they were at one with the Liberal leader, who pronounced the precious measure of the Government crime." It is both a crime and a blunder, as its supporters will one day find out. THE TITHE WAR IN WALES.

INTENSE EXCITEMENT. The Central News special correspondent, telegraphing from Denbigh last night, says Intense excitement prevails in the district of North Wale3. where sales under distraint for. tithe have been attempted, or ure expected, at Mochdre, where several ar-j under distraint. Some hnndrcds of men, armed with sticks, assembled, it having been rumoured that a pale was to take place.

Strangers in the di3trict were challenged before being supplied with refreshments at the local public houses, and tho cabmen at Colwyn Lay agreed not to drive tho auctioned- to the place of eale should ho arrive. No sale was attempted, and the whole country side is still on th alert, flagstaff and beacons being erected on tho highest hills, and the strictest watch is being kept night and day. Tho exasperation in the district has reached such a pitch that it is extremely probable, in the event of sale. being attempted, that moat serious consequences will ensue. A leaflet is being extensively circulated and eagerly road, charging the arehbishops and bishops with the responsibility of tne distraints, they being a majority of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.

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180, Bond street, London, and all (demists. 106 EVENTS OF TO-DAY. (See Advertisement.) Montgomery TVesleynn Chanel Opening, ic 3. 0 Sheffield Boys" Working- Home Entertainment Theatre Eoyai "Euddipore' 7.30 Alexandra My Sweetheart 7.50 Circus, Tudor street Performance 2.30 7.45 Grovenor Art Gallery Exhibition 10 to 6 Weston Park MuseuiL 10 to 8.30 SALES. Hosiery, Mr.

H. Daw son, Mart, Cainpo lane 6. 0 Lumber, Mr. H. Dawson, Mart, Chapel walk 11.

0 Bom Trees, 4c. Mr. J. Allison, Mart 6.30 Wfyz Jtiftepiitttnt- SHEFFIELD, WEDNESDAY, June 1, 18S7. SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Unsettled weather, with some rain, and f)erhajs thunder, is forecast by the Meteoro-ogical Department for the midland district to-day. The Charity Commissioners have issued a notice to the effect that it is proposed to make an order, within one calendar month, establishing i scheme for the consolidation and future regulation of the Rotherham and Airedale Colleges, including the appointment of governors fo" the same. Mr. Gladstone's Welsh tour promises to be one of great importance. He will leave Saltnev Station, near Chester, en route for South Wales, at 12.30 on Thursday, and will take a somewhat circuitous route, this having been chosen with Mr.

Gladstone's consent in order to bring him in immediate contact with the Liberals of the Principality. The body of a young man was found yesterday on the Midland Railway, near the works of Messrs. John Brown and Kilnhurst. One leg was found some distance away. A child of sir.

years named Butcher was killed last night whilst at play in the street at Dronfield. A frightened horse, while capering about the street, kicked the child on the head. The Annual Movable Committee of the Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity, resumed its sittings at Dover yesterday. The reports of the committees were considered and discussed. The afternoon meeting was occupied in discussing proposed amendments of the rules.

Fraternal greetings were received from the National Independent Order of Oddfellows assembled at Burnley, and the Grand United Order at Pontypridd. The 29th Annual Movable Delegation of the Order of Druids commenced its sittings at Bridgwater yesterday. The report stated that the year's receipts for the sick, funeral, and management funds showed a diminution of 40, and the expenditure for similar purposes a diminution of 101 on the previous year. The membership had decreased from 42,017 to 41,657 during the same period. At the sittings of the National Independent Order of Oddfellows, at Burnley, yesterday, D.G.M.

William Richmond, of Manchester, the only person nominated, was appointed Grand Master for the ensuing year, and P.P.G. M. Ibbotson. of Sheffield, was elected Deputy Grand Master. At the Co-operative Congress, at Carlisle yesterday.

Sir Wilfrid Lawson presided and, in the course of an address, warned his hearers not to be too sanguine of regenerating the world by rapid strides. Mr. Ellis Lever, who figured so prominently in the Salford Gas Works tcandal. has offered 500 for the production of a perfect portable electric miners' lamp. While leaning over the side of his engine at Blackpool Central Station last evening, a fireman named Kirby was killed by a passing train, his head being literally smashed.

It is being represented that if the new Mines Act come into operation in South Wales with its proviso prohibiting blasting while the men are in the mines, 20 per cent, of the collieries will be stopped. Messrs. John Schwartz and Son. sugar refiners, Whitechapel. are reported to be on the point of closing their doors to their employes owing to the foreign bounty system.

The death sentence passed upon Henry Cowley, surgeon's assistant, and Henrietta Powell, midwife, for causing the death of a young woman at Birmingham, has been commuted in each case to one of penal servitude for life. Great excitement prevails in North Wales, where sales under distraint for tithe have been attempted and are still expected. The whole country side in places is reported to be on the alert, keeping watch night and day, and in the event of any further attempted sales, most seiious consequences may ensue. The work of restoring ventilation at the Udston Colliery works was continued yesterday, when two more bodies were recovered in the sump at the bottom of the shaft. A shocking tragedy occurred in Glasgow late last night.

A man named Burns, while under the influence of drink, murdered his mother-in-law by shooting her in the head and neck in half a dozen places, and also shot another woman, who is not expected to ascover. At Sheffield, yesterday, in tl cricket match between Yorkshire and Kent, the former won by four wickets, and at Derby, Derbyshire beat Essex by seven wickets. Advices from Herat, received via Merv and St. Petersburg, announce an engagement on the 16th inst. between the Ghilzais and one thousand of the Ameer's troops, the latter being defeated with the loss of five guns.

Daharneil, the Ameer's commander, was taken prisoner and beheaded by the Ghilzais. The inhabitants of Herat Province are stated to be ready to join the Ghilzai rising. Mr. O'Brien, speaking at a banquet at Boston, on Monday, invited his hearers, when Victory perched on the Irish banners, to assemble on College green to receive the thanks of the nation." He has received an anonymous letter, bearing the postmark of Erie, Pennsylvania, threatening him with death at an early date. M.

Rouvier, the new French Premier, read the declaration on behalf of himself and colleagues to the Chamber of Deputies yesterday afternoon. He said that, called by the confidence of the President of the Republic to assume the direction of affairs at a difficult moment, they felt Sni Preaent themselves with as clearly denned 9 programme as possible. They were refoSn-Tvw dediately wlth the SET! FV.riBe the Minis-SSSPS necessity An extensive landslip has occurred Hear Spinngen, Canton Uri, killing seTeral persons. The difficulties that beset the School Board of Eckington are not peculiar to that place, but are typical of similar difficulties elsewhere. Briefly stated, the case is this.

The cumulative vote enables sects and sections to return men to the board, some of adjoining districts, who are stated to be ready to join the Ghilzai rising. Later. A telegram received this afternoon from Merv, states that advices from Herat confirm the news that the hitter place has been strongly fortified by English engineers. The object is to fortify Herat so strongly that the place will, with ten thousand men, stand a siege of from 60 to 90 days. CANADA AND THE FISHERIES QUESTION.

Ottawa, Monday. The Canadian Senate has unanimously passed a resolution that it is the duty of tha Government of Canada to see that in any arrangement for the admission of United States fishermen to the territorial waters of Canada which may be entered into between the Government of Great Britain and the United States, special provision shall be made that the fishermen of the latter country, when within the waters of Canada, shall be subject to the laws and regulations by which Canadian fishermen for the time being are governed. THE BELGIUM STRIKES. Brussels. Tuesday.

The syndicate of the factory engineers in the Brussels district has decided to join the strike, notwithstanding the contrary recommendation of the Brussels Federation. Anseele, the Socialist leader from Ghent, who was present at the sitting, opposed the decision of the syndicate. A few small bands of strikers were, dispersed last night by the police, but the city was otherwise quiet. At St.Vaast the genoarmes, in dispersing a band, severely wounded one of the strikers. MoNa, Tuesday.

Work was resumed this morning at several of the coal pits in the Borinage district, and it is expected that the resumption will be general to-morrow. No disturbances occurred last night. LANDSLIP IN SWITZERLAND. SEVERAL PERSONS KILLED. Geiteva, Tuesday.

An exfttsive landslip occurred last night near Spiringen, Canton Uri. A mass of rockr became detached from the mountain side and fell into the valley, killing several persons. No details yet received. MR. W.

O'BRIEN'S TOUR. to- Boston, Tuesday. Mr. W. Brien was entertained at a banquet here yesterday evening, at which 250 guests were present, including Congressmen Collins and Davis, Mr.

'Brien, the Mayor of Boston, and General Butler. Mr. W. Q' Brien who appeared much fatigued, delivered brief speech, reiterating the substance of bis declarations on the previous night in the Boston Theatre, and invited his bearers, when victory perched on the Irish banners, to assemble College Green to receive the thanks of the nation. Mr.

O'Brien has received an anonymous letter Erie, p' r-' -rjw" pusiuiars ot uui.iuis, tnreatenuajr him witK ueutn at an early dace. The writer states that he is an American, the son of English parents. RUSSIAN FINANCE. 7 St Petersburg, Monday. thZ hewrnaZ Peterstxnir.j informed that the new Four-and-a-Half per (JenV metallic obligations will be free of th coupon tax.

According to the Bourse GatZ Fu ot tuese oOligations will accepted payment of Customs duties. RUSSIA AND SERVIA. tt- Belgrade, Tuesday. King Milan will this evening give crand banquet honour of M. the Russ.aa Jwfiftfa SerVia" Wh t0-Ua cates tie 7 adversary of his entering the diplomats service.

In political circles toil TXttJr -rerded between Servia and Rusi increased t'nendshii RUSSIA AND BULGARIA. rrr. St- Petersburg. Tuesd iv Theul8emi-omcial Journal dc St. P.tersbnum publishing the text of the recent Turt 7a Circular on the Bulgarian question.

We are not aware what reception the Note may recexve trom the other Powers but regards Russia, her refusal, duly Mu11 and suftio nt.U "EOunced juohmcu, lo treat with the rS nc7-' I not a nature lJlc A urKisn Circular. DON CARLOS. a a Nbw YOR, Tuesdav A despatch from K8ua7- Carlos 'ima states that Don is stayinir KJU- will remain for 1 "uf and wards to Bolivia. Chili, tine Republic. proceedincF Brazil, and the Argen- EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS.

Intelligence aWkQ Ui.ZrT states ocks of earthou. islands of St. Lucia, St. A severe shock was felt at. euaa- r-rT wiiuMimse nave been felr.

at one o'clock yesterday afternoon Aon IRISH EMIGRANTS TO STATES. THE UNITED Eighty-four Irish mi mey were paurwri WU084 uTuru British autfwv. 3 nnully decika that they micThfc and on giving the names and -JdrlZ, of assist ZSff BIRMINGHAM JEWELLERS NT TTTB PRINCESS OF WIEb no movement number of Kivm; initiated a. invoke the aid of use of Tewt.ll. "rr 'aorwwwl PvJlWfc, tuts now Hiiape.

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