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THE MORNING NEWS, FRIDAY, MAY TUE MAKING OF- BEAUTY. FIRE AT YORK CAVALRY SECQKD EDITION, I The following appeared in our City Edition of yesterday: ENGLAND AND RUSSIA this case at all event tho xeeativ price are not to be given. -vc- -jy? With respect to what called betterment, I understand your scheme to be that if street is made, everybody within such and such a radius should pay higher rate than tne rest oi tne rate-navinc area? SuDnoainir it can be showu that their property has bean improved by the making of tbe street, c. But would it be easily shown? For instance, if you make a (rood street from the north of London to the south bv the side of a bad street which exists already, you do not only do not improve tho value of tho bad street, but you Uko away iu importance and lower its rents? That may be eo. Would you still charge them for the making of tbe new street? Certainly not.

You stated just now that tbe ground landlord escaped ecot free, and that you did not see why he should do so who receives the benefit of a present improvement, tho occupier or tbe ground landlord Both Tho ground landlord gets bo increase of rent, does ho? No, not immediately; but he has a reversionary benefit a future benefit. And when his future benefit accrues he will have to take his share of the burden which is put npon him in the shape of a deduction from the rent Which may have been all cleared off before then, and very often is. But then he will get no benefit? Pardon me, be will get a benefit just the same. Forinstaneo, to take a very common case of a water company. A Corporation buys a water company, and is forced to repay the wholo cum in thirty yuars.

At the end oi thirty years the water company is worth just as muoh a it was before, if uot more, and the ground landlord may come into that property at that time with nothing to pay for it. That would be a fair eround for charging the ground landlord with his share of tbo sinking fund, but none for charging him bis share of the present interest? He does not pay any part of the sinking fund at present. Yon made a eucrtiestioa which I did not quite understand that owners of town property wore to be prevented from driving artisans away by making improvements in their bouses. Have you at all formulated to yourself in what detail you would carry out that idea? I thiuk the Chairman has suggested that it is rather a matter for moral pleasure than for any very definite legisla tion. 1 should liko if possible to see the sanction of the law eiven to tbe establishment of some obligation upon the part of landlords that where they have a large property of this kind they should not displace any considerable number of the working classes without seeing that some provision was made for them, but, as I have already said, I have not thought of an Act of Parlia ment which would carry that into effect.

Would you not rather be making the preeenc of artisans a very serious danger and burden to the landlord ao aa to in-luoe him to take every opportunity he can of gettiue the artisans ott ttii place one by one If he wanted to evade the law sought to establish it I am afraid he would find a meant of running a coach and six through it. PATENT CHECK FOE TRAMCARS. A patent check, designed to show the number of passenger who travel in any tramcar to which the patent may bs applied was tested at Bene Vue Gardens, Manchester, in the presence of the representatives of various carriage aud tram companies on Thursday. A workiog model of a tramcar, with tho patont apparatus attached. was iun several tmie.i round tbe large oall-rooni.

Iu this model are sixteen scats, soparated from each other ranch aft or the fashion adopted in first-class railway carriages. Each seat rests on mechanism which communicates with a number of rollers in a box at the end of the tramcar. Iu this box is a long roll of paper, perforated by Wheels, which correspond in number with the seats iu the car. When a passenger takes his seat one of tiiesa wheels Is brought iu contact with tho roll of paper when be loaves the car the pressure ou the paper is removed. At Thursday's trial of the pitettt, passengor were represented by weights which were placed on the seats at any point suggested by those who were present.

At the end of each journey the box at the rcre of the car was uufastencd, and a portion of tbe roll of paper was cut off. On each occasion this slip of piper correctly Bhowed the nnmber of seats which bad been uod, and also the length of time each scut had been occupied. The objection to the nyslem that if a passengor in a car fitted nith ihb ptiaut shifted from oaaseat t. anther the roll ot paper would indicate two paacengeRi, one of who hid left the oar at the point where tho other cot on. This defect, it was remarked, was RnfiiJe.it to prevent the adoption of the patent iu Manchester, though it might be found serviceable, perhapo, in towns where tho tram companies have adopted the system of penuy stages.

URG AN. (FROM our CORRESPONDENT.) Lckoan, Thursday. SALVATION" FUNERAL. Yesterday an unusual display of the Salvation Army was bold; here, when the remains of a lieutenant" named Best were interred with all the honours of the army. Behind the hearso wore the chief members of the Lurgan corps.

The coffin, whioh was covered with colours, was then borne by members of tbe army. The band ot the Belfast brigade accompanied the procession, which was very beautiful. ALLEGED CRIMINAL ASSAULT. A man named Richard M'Nicco wa arrested yentorday by Sergeant Fairley for committing a crimiual assault upon a girl aged 8 years. He was brought before Air James JM.alcol.il, 1, and BOARD OF GUARDIANS.

The usual weekly mooting of this Board was held to-t'ay in the Board-room John Macoun, lisq, in the chair. The other guardians presont were: John Johnston, Esq, Dr. Avorell Slullington, Ksq, Malcolm, Eq, L. Stafford Gorman, JulmS noatnon, Thomas Bloakley, Wm Atkinson, John Macoun, ICilinore; Dowuey, Alexander Maxwell, wm urr, a Uuddell, John Morrow, and Allen. A pauper apnea ed before the Bo ml applying for admission to tho house.

He als i ashed tho Board to give him 1 or 2, that he might go before a lady," for the purpose of marrying. He said the lady had pleuty of money. ln claim was reiuned. Messrs Coilcn and Orr, the Voalry Committee. made their monthly report, which wa to the effect that the master kept tbe house in au excellently clean state, and the grounds were most taateiully kept, Mr JJounes proposed that the resolution of tbo Guardians, to the effect that an appeal be lodged against tho decision of the County Court Judge, who gave a decree against tne uuardians tor the sum ot ii is, in tbe case of Dr.

Majennis, Lurgan Guardians, be rescinded. Mr Atkinson seconded the motion. which wa passed. NEWUY. (vbom oo hbpokteb.) Mornino News Office, Nxwky, Wednesday.

PETTY SESSIONS. These Session were hold in tbe Courthouse, before Messrs Warton, Frauds Horner, and A Wyae, M. James M'Conaghy Was put forward in custody, charged with dangerously assaulting Annio Hetlip ou the 18th inst, Mr Matron appeared far the aoousod. The evidence was to the effect that M'Conaghy struok the injured woman with hi clenched hat, Knocuing her down and afterwards kicking ber. For the defence this allegation was denied, and witneiso were: producod to prove that maghy only pushod Ues'lp from him and that she fell against an adjacent stone wall.

M'Conaghy was fined Is and bs costs. Tho remaining uueincss waa routine. Haunted Live," which was prodnoed at tho Theatre Royal on Mouday night, ha met with successful reception duriog the early part of the week, and we bare no doubt that both to-night and Saturday night an even greater amount of lnviaiiDn will om lur iun axoeusui dramatia novelty. The company playing the piece is, as wo have already had oeoaeign It takes one hundred ami fifty years to make a beauty one hundred and fifty years out-of-doors. Open air, hard manual labour, or contmuou excr-l eise, good food, good clothing, some degree of com fort, aft of tbeoe, but moss especially wpeu must play their part for five generation before a beautiful woman can appear.

These conditions can only be found in the country, and consequently all beautiful women come from the country. Let us glance back 150 years, say to 173L and suppose a yeoiww to have a eon sbout that time. That eon would be brod up oh the hardest but it would bo plentiful, and of horn et sort. He would work all day in the fields with the but ho would have three great" over thorn in good and plentiful fool, in good clothing, and in home omifortii. Ho would ido, and join all the atlb'tic sports of the time.

manual labour stiffens the limbs, gymnastic vxenises lender them supple. Thus lie would obtain immense strength from simple bard work and agility from exorcise. Here, then, is a sound constitution, a poworful frame, well knit; hardened an almost perfect physical existence. Ho would marry, if fortunate, at thirty or thirty-five, naturally chooring the most charm-lug of bis acquaintances. She would be equally healthy and proportionately us strong, for the ladies ef thoee days were accustomed to work from childhood.

By custom soon after marrisge she would work bardor thim The house, th dairy, tho cheese-loft, would keep her arms iu tnintng. Really, it teems that there is no work a woman cannot do with the best results for ber-elf, nlwuye provided that it does not throw a train upon the lnins. Healthy ffVldren sprung from snch parent, while continuing ths general type, I'Stia'ly tend towmv.n a refinement of the fmttirci. Under such natural and lusalthy condi-to'oo, if the mother have a sood shape, the Uuuliter is finer; if the father of Rood height, tha son 18 These ehuuren in their turu co through the same open-air training. In the course of year, the family guineas increasing, home comforts insensibly increase, and manners arc polibo.l.

Another generation tho cost of countenance smoothed of its orininal rugnedness preserving it good proportion. The hard cbiu Ijeeome rounded and not too prominent, 1-hn cheekbones sink, the ears ore stnallnr, a softness sreidi itwil vr the whole face. That which wa nly honest now grows tender. Apaiu another reiteration, and it is a settled axiom that the tt'iiily are handnome. like seek ns we Itnow; the handsome intermarry with the handsome.

Ht'll, the beauty bus not arrived nor is it possible to tell whether she will appear from the female or male branches. But in the fifth Beneration appear she does, with the ork-inal features so moulded and softened by time, ho worked, and refined and sweetened, eo delicate and yet so rich' in blood, that she seems like a new creation that hns suddenly etarted into being. No one bos ntcbed aud recorded tbe low process which has thus finally resulted, bocauBe it lias been spread over a century and a half. A stationary home preserves the family intact, so tiiRt the influencei nlmaily. doacrilwd hav time to produce thuir rf ct There is nothing uncommon in a yeounui's family coutinuiiijr, 150 years in the same homestead, Instances are known of 'uch occupation extending for over '200 years cases of 300 years may be found now and then one is known to exceed that, and there is at least one that has cot moved for 600.

Citit-s labour under every disadvantage. First, 'amilies have uo vtatiouary home, but constantly move, so that it is rare to find one occupying a house fifty years, aud will probably become much rarer in the future. Secondly, the absence of fro-h air, aud that volatile essence, as it were, of ivotxis, and fiel'fs, aud bills, wlticb etui be telt but not fixed. Thirdly, the sedentary employment. Let a family Im never eo robust, these roust ulti.

mutely affect tho constitution. If beauty appears too often of the unhealthy order; there is no vigour, uo lichnees of Mood. Bexuty of the highest order is insparablo from health it is tho outcome of health centuries of health and, as I have pointed out, a really Imauttful woman is, in proportion, stronger thau a man. It is astonishing with what persistence a type of beauty once est-iblitihcd in the country will struggle to perpetuate i tueir naiiiBt all the drawbacks of town life after tho family has removed thither. When puch rcs'ills are produced under favourable conditions at tbo yoeman's homestead, no difficulty nrLtes in explaining why loveliness eo frequently appears in the IiuuffS of landed pro-prietor.

Entailed estates fis the family in one xj-ot, and lend, by intermarriage, to deepen any original physical excellence. Constant out-of-door cxerciee, riding, hunting, shooting, tok-s tho manual labour. AU the reCneir.enti thnt ihoney can purchase, travel, cdiicition, are here at work. That the culture of the uuiul can alter the cxprcrcion of the individual is certain if continued for manr gcueriUoiiB, possibly it may leave itt mark upon the actual bodily frame. Selection -certs a mt wonderful influence iu these cases.

The rich and titled have to wide a ranrro to choose from. Cou-i'lcr these things working through i-pntU'iis. peru-ip- in a more or lees direcii innii-cer, since the Norman Conquest. The famo of sxjtue such for liotidsouve features and well-proportioned frame) is dely spread, ko much that a descendant not hanclsotns is hardly l-y the outside world as legitimate. Hut even with all thce advauta.ea beauty in the sense docs not regularly.

Few indeed are those that tan borutof more than ono. It is the best of nil boas' it is almost r.s ii the Iiiiniort-la had favoured their house. Beauty ha no period it. comes at intervals; it cannot be lilted. No wonder the earth is nt its feet.

Tim fisherman's daughter ere now has reached very in the scale of beauty. Hardihood i tho fisherman 'a talent by which he wins his living from the sea. Tribal in his ways, bis settlements are almost exclusive and his descent pure. The win i wanlto'i by the sen enriches his blood, and of labour he has enough. Here are the same constant factors the ttutionary home keeping the atnily inttct, the outdoor life, the air, the eea, the sun.

Hefiuomcnt is absent, but tlie-o alone are so poworful that now anil then leauty The loroly Irit-h girls, again their forefathers have dwelt on the mountain side since tho days of Fingal, aud all the hardships of their lot caunot destroy the natural tuudeney to shape and cncl anting feature. Witout those constant factors beauty cannot ho, but yet they will not alone produce it. There must bo something in the blood wliich tbeve influence ripen. If it is not there centuries are in vain but if it is there thou it needs these conditions. Krratic, lieaiity 1 for bow oiam thousand years loot man been your slave Let mo repeat, the sonti-ment nt tho of a pnrfi-ct beiuty is ns much ama-einei't as admiration, i- It so draws the heart put of itself as to seem like magic.

UR IIAD ONE PROPOSAL. Had a proposal from any of the fair tex since leap year bean, Jones y. 'I have. Brown; I lind a proposal from the daughter my boarding missus. Gitnini you're in luck.

How did wlie muster couraee to make it, and what did you say Well, you see, she keeps the books for her mother so she came to tne the other day and Yes, yes, you lucky dog, go on. She proposed that 1 pay up my arrears or So I got. SHE KNEW SHE WAS RIGHT. Is the gentleman ot the house in lie asked. Tes, sir; be Can 1 see him a No, rir; you cain't see a hide nor hair of 'im.

Why enn madam I I would like to speak If you was a dj in' an Jim war the only doctor in Dakoty, you couldn't sot an eye on him till ho gives in and talks decent. At dinner, a while airo, lie told me to pass him the apple bom, an' I tol' him it wnaiit sons but be kuM ho knowed better, it was eoss, an' I tol him that 1 when he tuk a notion that a little ap pie eass' I fed eoothiii to his stomack to say so, au he said he have that apple eos er die. Then I tol' him 1 defend that ears with life, an' mado a break for the shot-puu, an ho made a break tip through the scuttle inter the loft, Wen his senses come tO him On' hn irivna t.i ttmf mm i.A 1,:.. ttown, but if he make a break afore that off goes the top of his Iwad. Thar sets Ihe snss, stranver, an thar's Jim up in the loft, and that's tho way the matter stands jist now and I reckon you'd better mosey along, an not get mixed iuter this -) I Aa the Kentleman moved away he heard her etc aaylng Jim, en you git tird yer dura foolintr, an' want this aaes, js eoneal ouC And gruff yeic from Ui darktom nrre re ponded, IHE HOUSING OF THE POOR.

LORD SALISBURY AND Mil CHAMBER LAIN. (By Morninu News Special Wraa London, Thursday. Tho second volume of tho report of the Royal Commission on the Housing Of the Poor, Issued to-day, contains the evidence given by Mr Chamberlain, President of the Board of Trade, during the course of his cross-examination by tho Marquis of Salisbury, The principal passages, which are given hereunder, will be found interesting Lord Salisbury I understand your suggestion to be that, wheiever a local authority wanted a property, it should have the power of taking it without paying tho 10 per cont or compulsory sale Quito ae. I would carry it further, but the principle is already established, and established without opposition. The principle is established where there is some default on tbe part of an owner who has allowed his property to get into an unsanitary condition, but yon propose to apply it to the most innocent and most immaonlate owners? I think you are a little mistaken.

The Artisans' Dwellings Act went much beyond what yon suggest. Wherever an area was declared to be unsanitary, all the owners within that area were subject to the terms of tho Act, wbe'her their individual property was unsanitary or not, so that I -might have a property in the middle of an unsanitary area, which I had kept in perfect ordor, aud as to which no possible blame could attach, and yet under the Act as originally framed I should have to sell my property on the same terms as my neighbours, Not under the Act an it passed, I think? Yes, under the Act as it paused. Are you quite confident of that? Yes, lam confident. The difference is this we have got two districts in Biimingham, one of which was i i an unsanitary district, within which we bought all the properties, without allowance for compulsory sale, no matter- what tho condition of the property was. We bought shops and warehouses ou just tho same terms as wo bought unhealthy dwellings.

But then wo have another district called the improvement district, aud it was there that we had to pay the 10 per cent extra. It is a matter for argument, but I say that an owner in tbe improvement district should make the same sacrifice as tho owners who were doing their duty in the unsanitary area had to make for the public good that is to say, they should bo content with the full and fair value of their property without this excessive sum in the shape of 10 per cent, or very often more than 10 per ceat, for compulsory purchase. Do you not think that the weight of unpopularity which you would have to struggle against would be very much heavier than it is i now when there is a certain consideration given to the owner in consequence of his being unwilling to sell? I do not thiuk that nnder any scheme that could bo atrauged the owners would be badly off. I thiuk they would always get more than they: would themselves value their property at. snppoaing uo scheme was in existence, and therefore I do not think the soheme would be very unpopular with the owners.

It would be more unpopular with tho ratepayers. Your view is that the arbitration would to some extent make up to them for the fact of their property being conipulsorily taken by giving them very high values? Values are always speculative, and in the desire to do justice I think the sellers havd always thead vantage. Is thore not always considerable sympathy with a private individual against a large pnbiic body I think there is never any sympathy for the public puree. Would not the tendency of inch a law as you propose bo to discourage uudercakii-'gs by private companies, and to concentrate works of all kinds in tho hauda of the local authority, as tho local authority would be the only people who would be able to buy laud cheaply The railway com- Fany would cot bo any worse off than it is now, do not see why railway enterprise ohould be disconrr.getl by the faot that a corporation- was nsblud to buy at a lower tliau a railway company. Would nut thtt argument be a fclcoug oue limi.

you should uot allow laia railway company do it. because it cau bo doue much cheaper by the local authority But Parliament ha3 not given a railway company aumurity iw luunu uu iui provomcut schome. Uu the same principle euontu uvt tne iww authority undertake to make tramways and similar works They do bo now. The local authority of Birmingham now has tho tramways, very muoh to the advantage 01 the community, in an cases I am la favour of the public authority assuming the absolute contiol ot its own roads, ana mat it can only do by taking possession of tho tram- Mr Broad hurst Ulasgow naa its own iram ways, has It uot I Ulnsgow nns lis tramway and so ba Bristol. The Marquis of Salisbury It ou wisn vne local authority to undertake many of the works which are at present undertaken by private per- i.

I. 1. none? 1 tnlUK tnas everynnug iu mo ounj.u Vi natural or artificial monoply should, it possioio, be undertaken by ihe community. You have no dread oi tue possiunuy tnas jobbery might result from putting so much patronage ana expenuiiure mo iuu vi iw authorities? Not tbo least. I havo never seen the slightest sign ot municipal jobbery or cor- ruptiou.

1 know a great ami about municipal Local Uovernmeni, not uiuy my wu wwu i but in other towns, and I have never heard cf ono singlo esse of municipal jobbery since the Reform Corporationa Act was passed, although we havo hoard, ot cc-itrao, or maiviauais uoing wrong things. I Willi reiercnce to your iormuia, wo prion i which a williuu purchaser would give to a willing! seller, do you thiuk that ia really a definition, which a court ot law could cusuy appjy is there not a rroal dili'erenoo in willingness? Tlioro is not an absolute willingness to buy on the part cf tho purchaser it Is a wining.n to buy if he can got at tho price he likes. There is not an absolute willingness to sell ou the part nf t.i.n nailer: it is a willinffoosa to eell if he cau sell at a price which he thinks sufficient? Yes. but I should think that the definition could be easily interpreted by a court of law, as they very often do oy applying cuuiukmi-cho iu should say in the first place that the price ought to bo the price at which a willing seller would sell, but 1 want to meet the case in which there is no purchaser at all to be found. the property to be unduly depreciated because at the mnnent there is no purchaser, tho corporation or the local autboriiy having intervened between tbepossiblo purchaser ana wie wining seuer If you goto a man ami jruu some laud, his answer may be, i araan.vioa to get rid of the land, and I shall be glad to deal with you," but his answer may be, "1 have no objection to sell the land if 1 i-m tempted by a good price." Which of these two is the willing seller vne man wno requireu hi dc wropieu bv a irood price would not quite come within my definition of a willing seller that is to say, if be will not sell unless he can get a great prone be would not be a willing seller.

But tbe market for selling land is a purely hypothetical torn). When a valuation is put npon land either by courts of law or elsewhere it is usually in these terms, Wo Enow from practice that such and snch au income may be got from the land, and we take so many, years' purchase iu order to capitalise it." But tbe question of willing purchaser and willing seller never comes in. What comoi in is the question of willing letter or willing tenant. Take the ordinary case of land, if it wore proved that in anvr particular county or district the Ordinary price of land was 30 years' purchase of the rental, that wouia os tne pnoe wnion a willing purchaser would give to a wining seller, and that is the price that I want to establish. What I object to is thirty years' purohane boiog the ordinary price, its running np to 75 or 40 years' purchase wben a public authority conns to buv.

years' purchase is the utmost that the Land Clauses Act gives, witn an addition ol 10 per cent, is it not? In provincial valuations it is often 20 per cent. Your objection- goes hot sO much to the ten per cent additional as to that addition made by stress of habit or publio opinion; but I did not Understand how yon thought that any legisla tion Would interfere with that? I think it is Very muoh owing to the habit of the professional people emoloved. and I would try and break that habit by a new formula whioh they would be forced to observe. I want to mark, for their jUMnefiU th intention of th Legislator that la. BARRACKS.

A fire broke out yesterday afternoon at the Cavalry Barracks, York. The 3rd Hussars turned out, and the fire brigade of tbe Gloucestershire Regiment rendered assistance. Several officers' carriages were, destroyed, the toUl damage beipgover one thousand pounds. THE CHESHIRE MURDER. The inquest 0a the body of Hesther Horabin, 65, of Broughmore Farm, Briglawtou, Cheshire, was held yesterday, and resulted in a verdict of wilful murder against the son of the deceased.

THE INSURRECTION CHINA. IN VICTORY OF THE GOVERNMENT FORCES. (BKUTKR'S TKLEdHAM.) Lima, Thursday. The Government troops have gained a great victory over General Caceres' forces at Huanoayo. Caceres himself was wounded.

AN ATLANTIC LINER IN COLLISION. A FRENCH BARQUE SUNK, LOSS OF 22 LIVES. The City of Rome, whioh arrived at New York yesterday, reports having sunk the French fish" ing barque George John, during a fog off the Banks. Twenty-two of the barque's crew were drowned. SUICIDE BY A SOLICITOR.

Yesterday morning, a gentleman shot himself through the head in a cab in Holborn, London. The cabman, observing what had happened, drove to St Bartholomew's Hospital, where the unfortunate gentleman expired shortly after ad mission. He was identified as Mr Walter Foss Smith, Solicitor, 5 Bedford row. MEDICAL RELIEF AND THE FRANCHISE. The Press Association is informed that in accordance with the urgent request of agricultural labourers and others, Mr Jesse Colling will on the reassembling of Parliament introduooa Bill to provide that medical relief shall be no disqualification for the Franchise.

AYLVVARD AND THE CANADIAN REBELLION. Nbw York, Thursday. Mr Aylward has published a statement denying ill connection with Riel's rebellion. MURDER OF A CHILD AT CLITHEROE. Graco lsherwood (twontv-six).

tne wife of a farmer, and Isabella Gardiner, her sister, aged eiguteen.wereyefiterd&y committedlfor trial by the magistrates charged with the wnfui murder, by drowning, of LhomiiS Gardiner, aged two years, the illegitimate sou of the elder prisoner. WHAT I'lWaYuNTED. Ha had beon sboppiujf at ft hotel for day or two, seemingly uunotioafl by ny of th olerli or -raploj-es, autt it sianwk liiin eo quearly that ho down beside a man who uppesrod to be a sjueat, and said i Good many ot ua here tv Some going and some coaling all tUe Ume Yes. I don't see why I eouldu't walk owi and tke the train for homo without paylnw my bill. The othor made no reply, and altar minute the first oue continued 'What is to pravont ma from jumping mybiH, as I have in baggage t' Oh, nothing muoh, except that I'm employed here as a spotter, and have had my eyes on you ever since you registered I' Ten minutes inter the stranger settled his bill tip to the next day noon, but ho continued to carry tlio look ot ft man Tvho'd like to kick somebody.

SOMEWHAT EMBARRASSED. Tho Rev. Mr. was ono ot the moat bashful man in the profeaion, and was constantly getting into sorapss through, his nervous Vt one time he roso in his pulpit to give out the Hymn, ThisW orld is all a fiectrnf; after clearing his throat he struck a high pitch of voice began solemnly: Tliis world is all a ficetinir Everybody smiled except the deacons, and the minister ivos covered with confusion as ho began This world is all a shouting This only made matters woreo aad tho unhRpny man cleared his throat with tremendous force and begn once fy This world is all a floating i Then ho slammed the hymn book down and, wiping his olnmmy brow, said: Brethren, for aomo reason I cannot read that hymn aa it should be read. We will omit it, and the choir will pleasa the grand old lines beginning 'Just as I am, without one FRIENDSHIP.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and bo loved is the greatest happmcBs in existence. If I lived undor the burning sun of the equator it would bo a pleasure to me to think that there were human beings on the other side of the mnfltl who regarded and resuectcd me I oould not and would not livo if I were alone upOn the earth and out off from the remembrance of my fellnw-creatures. It is hot that a man has occasion to fall back upon the kindness of his friends. Perhaps he rnav never experience tae necessity of doing so but we are governed by our imaginations, and they stand there as a solid bulwark against all Oin evils of life.

Friendship should be formed frith persons of all ogee and conditions, and with both sexes. I have a friend who is a bookseller, to whom I have beon very civil, and who would An anything to serve me and I have two or three strati friendships among persons in much humbler walks of life, who, 1 verily Believe, wouhj ao me a considerable kindness according to their means. I am for a frank explanation with friends in ease of affronts. They Sometimes save perishing friendship, and oven place it npon a firmer basis than at first; brrt secret discontent most always end badly. Loss'of trteep, it is said, is making men small -id nmrv.

That is a fact. Just look at the difforpnce in the phyique of a dolicarte scholar and the robust nigtt policeman. FAIR WHITE HANDS. BRIGHT CLEAR COMPLEXION. SOFT HEALTHFUL SKIN.

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Belfast. nelfHt, Friday, 80 Ahoghill Kennedy MORNING NEWS OFFICE Six o'Clock. iSt Mobbing Nws" SPlOIAIi vta and Obdikaby Tblwiraph.) OUR CONTINENTAL CRITICS. telegram.) Viskna Thursday. Ihe "None Frie Presae" devotes aa article to-day to the alleged diss nsione in th Cabinet foil difficulties this monarchy of Federalism, Remember; the mani- created for the by agitations it express rulers of in favour doubt as to whether Mr Chamb erlain and Sir Charles Dilke.

by espoutfjifi: the cause of Homo Rale, will not be going much too far, and either rain thtar own reputations as practical politicians, or else break up their party. The paper adds, "Lord is doubtless right in attributing the diminution of agrarian crime less to a genuine improvement in Ireland than to the salutory operation of those exceptional measures which a section of the Cabinet now wishM to suspend. We cannot but think that the suspension would prove a dangerous experiment." The anuouncea that the Irish Bishops will return from Home, not aa heralds of war, bat as messengers of peace. This paper aLo acknowledges the spirit of absolute toleration which now inspires the policy of the British vovernment towards Catholioism. ENGLAND AND FRANCE.

POST" TELEGRAM.) Pauls, Friday. The Republique Francaise," commenting oa the relations between Great Britain and France, says "The a anoe of the Republic is not one of those which can be purchased by, we know not what kind of diplomatic merchandise. It has no othor price oavo the explicit recognition of the rights of France which, at the present junottrro, are not separated from the rights of Europe. For our part, we cannot but wish that Eugland may last open her eyes to her interests in this matter, which are so conformable to all her traditions." MR WILLIAM REDMOND IN DOWNPATRICK. (SPECIAL TBLEGBAM.) (FROM OCB REPOBTKK.) Dowkpatrick, Thursday.

Mr William Redmond, accompanied by ttev Robert Headley, Downpatrick, arrived here this evening at 5 o'clock from Belfast. At8o'clock the ton gentleman proceeded from the Parochial House to the John street Hall, where he was t0 deliver an 'address under the auspices of the Downpatrick Branch of the National League. The hali was crowded to excess, and great enthusiasm provailed. Prior to the commencement of the proceedings the Downpatrick National String Band, under the -direction of M'Court, discoursed several patriotic airs. Amongst those present were The Very Rev O'Kano, Down-pntrick; Rev John M'EiUio, Downpatrick; FtevRobt Headley, CC, do; Rev MEvoyt CC, Belfast; Rev Andrew Lowry, Hill, town; Rev John Campbell, Killylcagh; Rev Joseph Donnelly, Ardglasa Rev Patk M'trlain, Bright; Rev Father M'Ken-ny, Poiiafcrry Kev: M'Kmlay, Stransford Kev Boylan, Lougnimslaud Messrs Johu Keenan, John Denver, Henry M'lirath, (i Patrick VV Kusseli, John Giimore.

Jama Fitzjitnoua. iun Devlin, Crangle. John Bail, Jtl Ticearc, fially mote Felix O'Uuunor. ot 3i.ruel Pye, Laverty, Wm Starkey, Edward M'Ureevy, Magill, of Saul, Murray, Megraw; Grotty, Hugh M'Cann, Castlewelutn, Pauick Fitzpauiuk, Lis-oamual. Ou the motion of Mr Russell, seconded by Mr John Uilmure, Rev Father Heauly took the chair, and introduced the member lor Hex -VLi Mr Win Redmond, who was received witb enthusiasm, said it was impossible that anyone conld doubt the determination that had at all times animated the Ulster Nationalist, but it had not been the object of the party he represented that night to unite the Nationalists alone.

A part of their programme was alio to induce the farmers who were hot Nationalists to understand that tiiey should support those men 4 in Parliament who, by tueir firmness and eueigy, had won for them excromely great measured of land reform. He believed ihac Ireland would have been self- governed long ago had not tbe Ulster Protestant farmers been too readily capable or be lievmg that -Home Kale meant Roma Rule, he would ask the Orangemen to remember that the men who represented ibtm had doue nothing at all, but it wai to tho Irish rartj tna; they owed that measure of reiorm, though incom plete, that struck a deadly blow at landlordism, Mr Jde'ury M'Gratb, in an able speech, proposed a voU of thanks to Mr Redinoud, which was seconded by Mr M'Mahon, ai.d paused. Tne resolution referred to Mr M'Grath's services to the iiUtional cause, and hoped soon to see- him a member of that sterling band of Iriahmea so wordily represented by Mr Redmond. The proceeding were brought to a conclusion by toe paanuc ol a vi.ts oi thanks to the chairman ami a seui. 1.

dispersed, the baud playing, Uo 6.ve lrejai.u. DEATH OF MR DENIS JOSEPH REARDEN. The death is recorded of a once well-known member ot the House of Commons, Mr Denis Joseph Rearden. formerly for Athlone. He was about 75 years of age, and died at his resi dence at Heodon, Middlesex, on Friday list Mr Rearden was for many years in business as house agent and auctioneer in Piccadilly, and being an Irishman and a zealous Catholic and widely connected with the working of Catholic chariue in London he was returned, mainly through the influence of the local priesthood, at the general election of 1865.

The -cumber of vot. polled on the occasion was for Jir Rear den. 107 and for Mr John Eanis (Liberal), and the Hon George Haodcock (Conservative), the two defeated candidates, 60 and 21 votes respec lively. Mr Rearden retired from Parliament at the end of the Session in 1868, when bia Stat was taken by his former -opponent, Mr obtained a majority of 34 votes over the defeated candidate, Mr Robert Bailey. Mr Rearden in 1834.

Hannah Marv. daughter of Bijr.gs, but was left a widower in 1873; Mr Rearden is brU fly described in "Dod's Parlia mentary Companion as a Liberal in politics. nd as having voted agaibst the suspension of ue naoeas uorpus Act in Ireland in ebruary, ECCLESIASTICAL. Mr Richey, of Cork, his been eleeted as rtpresentative of the Sunday School Committee la la approacniog voniarence, Disinfectanta are most necessary in cold or wet weather. When door and window have 1a bm elMnd.

tha air iodoora beoomee most im an. Ormdv'a Fluid should bo pbtotd in all THE AMEER AND THE BRITISH. DAILY TKLEOEAPH TKLEGBAM.) SiKaor, May 24 (via Meshed, May 24). The Ameer's printed proclamation has been posted on the walls of Herat, and the Mollahs have publicly invoked a blcBsing thereupon. All reports alleging that the Afghans are averse to a British occupation uro unworthy of credit.

The Afghan people expect armed support, and resent its Great indignation is expressed at the rumoured cession of Penjdeh. A Daily News" telegram from Singou, May 24th, via Meshed, 26th, states reinforcements of Cabouli infantry have arrived at Herat. More are on their way both from Candahar and Cabul. The heavy guns presented to the Ameer by the Indian Government are reported to be on their way from Candahar for the defence of Herat. The Afghans are buBy strengthening the defences of Herat.

VICTOR HUGO'S ORSLQUIKS. PROTEST BY THE ARCH-. BISHOP OE PARIS, I. 'KW3 "TELEGRAM.) Paris, Wednesday Night. It was only at tbe later sitting of the Ministers last night, that, following up the decree previously issued for restoring the Pantheon to its lay as a tomb for great men, Goblot, Minster of Pnblic Worship, presented to Grevey for signature a decree that Victor Hugo should be baned there.

The funeral will probably take place on Monday. Saturday would have been a better day, inasmuch as in Paris, as well as London, Monday is the drunkard's second Sabbath in the week, and there are more disorderly persons about on it than on the other six days. The pre uarations for receiving the bod cannot, however. it appears, be completed before Friday night, T' hdlmvA' rnrl 'flat will FlA tiniftfoftj fin fchav have been at moat of tha funerals of advanced Republicans within the last four years, and at nearly all of those which the poet attended since 1851. So long as soldiers and the ouBto-dians of the monuments do not haul down the tricolour, and unfurl the red, there is no reason why the bearers of the latter should be if what they do does not tend to a breach of the peace.

The Government, however, has decided that red banners or red flags bearing inscriptions will not be interfered with. The Archbishop of Paris intends to protest against what the clerical prees terms the deae- ration of the Pantheon, by making it the sanctuary of Free Thinkers. THE COMMUNIST TDRBAJSCES. DIS- THE POLICE CENSURED. (' BAILT CilROSICLE" TELECKAM.) Paris, Wednesday Night.

Last Sunday's riot at Pere la Cnoise came be fore the Municipal Council to-day. A resolution was proposed and agreed to by a majority ol niue vote3 blaming tha police for ftu part they took in the affair, and asserting the right of the demonstrationists to use the red The opinion was also expressed that if Paris were mistress of hoi Police force these scenes could not occur. It is evident from to-day's proceedings that the Paris Municipal Council is more likely than evei to clav its usual role oi embarrassing tne Government. THE TORIES AND FOREIGN POLICY. The "Times" says Sir Stafford Northoote yesterday naturally condemned the frightful blundering and folly that have marked the foreign policy of the present administration.

He exhorts the electors to remember that things are not indifferent to them because they happen away, and that the flag cannot be disgraced in Egypt, or in Afghanistan, or in any place where Englishmen have interests without entailing consequences which, in one way or another, will be felt at every fireside. That is excellent advice, and perfacbly accurate, but there ought ti, bo no need to'givo it at this time 1 of day. What has the Conservative farty been abbu that the great masses of the electors, whethei new or old, are in such ignoi-aEco1 of the wr.y 7 in which nationr! interests together as to look 5 on apatheticallj while money, blood, reputation, and position or flung to the winds in every quarter of the globe? It 13 the essence of Conservatism to teach the people, arid it is only by teaching them these things that it can really fulfil its mission or deserve its name. LORD FITZMAURICE. (FROST.

THE STANDARD OF TO DAT.) It is stated that Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice'e decision not to contest the North West Division of Wiltshire will shortly bis followed by the announcement of bis intention to resign the Under Secretaryship for Foreign Affairs. The noble lord has been in indifferent health foi some time past, arid he has been advised bj his medical attendant that a prolonged perioa of rest is absolutely necessary. THE IRISH BISHOPS ROME. AT MORE FABRICATIONS. chronicle" telegram.) Rome, Wednesday Night.

The Irish Bishops have returned much discouraged by their interview with the Pope. Although the interview Was of a confidential character, it is sufficiently known to the Prelates and Cardinals of Rome that the bishops wore warned that any attempt to foster a rebellion in Ireland would be visited by great severity. The Pops evidently directed hi word especially to Bishop Nulty, and to Archbishop Croke, the reader of tho addresses. The Pope said he understood, and to a certain extdut sympathised with, the brotherhood (fratelletiza) which led them to cling to one another, but warned them that the Catholic religion was not persecuted in Ireland, and that the Propaganda would be doubly vigilant in repressing spurious patriotism. His Holiness added that he bad no fear about the acceptance of bis wishes by Catholio Ireland, and deeply regretted that even one bishop should have given rise to the suspioion of meoaea..