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FULlCesoLultit. PoLIOE COCKS. BA General Aral.trong, C. 8., Alderman Banks, Aldermen 'load, and F. Boykett, Esq.

SLEEPING OUT. Thomas Clayson was charg-d with sleeping in an outhouse at Broadmead on the previous night. P.C. Swift said he found the man asleep is a waggon. Prisoner said he wad a nstive of and had had no work siuce September, when he was kicked by a horse.

The Magistrates subs. ribed a sum of Gs. which was handed to the destitute man, and he was recommended to go to the Union if' ho could get no work. William Henty who was summoned for an assault on a young man, did nut appear, and ou tho application of tire. complainant, a warrant was issued for his apprehension.

DRUNK ON LICENSED PREMISES. Anderson Leman, Sidney Ifilson, and Henry Ifil4on were summoned for being drunk on licensed premises, the Bouverie Hotel, on the 23rd December. The last-named defendant did not appear. Alfred Adams, manager at the hotel, said the defendants went to the house about two minutes to eleven un the night of the 23rd. At eleven o'clock he told the waiter to clear the house.

After a short timo he returned and said the defendants refused to go. He went himself and requested them to go, and as they refused ho sent for the police. It was twenty-five minutes past eleven when they left. Corroborative evidence was given by the Waiter, and by Sergt. Ovenden and a police.

constable. The defendants were each fined 10s. and lls, costa. and a errant was granted for the apprehension of the one who did nut answer to the sum none. WEDNESDAY.

Before the Mayor, Alderman and F. Boykett. Esq. QUARRELSOME NEIGHBOURS. Henry Thorns was summoned for assaulting Thomas ttray.

The parties era nextdoor neighbours. Complainant, a farrier, living at 21. Darhy Road, said on Saturday night, the 20th December, he was standing by his own door between eleven and half-past eleven. Defendant, who had previously smothered hie door with mortar, came up end said, "Do you want any more mortar, Dray He asked defendant why he had done it, and then used very abusive language to himself and his wife, and finally knocked him down. Ho had not had any previous quarrel with the defendant.

In reply to defendant, complainant denied putting mortar on his door, and said he did not know who did it. Henry Payne said he was near Darby Road, and heard defendant using bad language to Dray. He asked them what the row was about, and each accused the other of throwing mortar on to the doors. Defendant spat at Dray and then struck him. Dray fell down.

Defendant was fined 2s. 61 and 16s. costs, or in default fourteen days' imprisonment. ENTERTAINING THE INMATES OF ELH A UNION. On Friday last (Boxing Day) the inmates of the shove Union were treated to an excellent entertainment by the Folkestone Black Diamond Minstrel Troupe The programme consisted of songs, duets, jokes, stump speeches, and terminated with a comic negro sketch.

The inmates, young and old, showed their great appreciation by their happy faces, joyous laughter, and applause. The hall and the house generally were beautifully decorated, and the taste displayed rellectatl great credit on the officers of the establishment. The Master and Matron did their utmost to make all these under their care happy and comfortable. The treat will long be remembered by the inmates, and there is no doubt that the Black Diamond Minstrels will be pleased another year to give the same amount of pleasure to their unfortunate fellow creatures. Mr.

Bright, replying to a letter from Mr. Robertson, President of the Ayr Liberal Club, calling his attention to charges brought by Mr. Somerville, at Bothwell, of Mr. Bright's sizing goods and deceiving Africans, says It is remarkable that a man capable of such a speech can be accepted as a caddidate by any Scotchmen. Such ignorance and falsehood are nit met in the lowest ranks of the Tory party." BURNING OF AN AMERICAN American ship Alert, bound for Shanghai in October, was burned at sea on November 14th, about 500 miles north of the Equator.

The crew were rescued by the French steamship Comte D'ffu, from to Pernambaco. The captain and several of the crew arrived at New York on Saturday. The Alert was loaded with 40,000 cases of oil. Daring a squall the vessel was struck by lightning, which shattered the fore royal mast but apparently did no other damage. Half an hour afterwards smoke was discovered issuing from the fore hatch.

After other efforts to quench the fire had failed the hatches were battened down, but were quickly blown out by a terrific explosion. The ship was finally abandoned, but the boats remained close by, and the crew were rescued next morning by the steamship attracted 50 miles away by the light of the bur ni ng vessel. THU RIDISTILIBUTION SCRIM' IN KIWI'. scheme prepared by the Boundary missioners for the new divisions of Kent was issued on Tuesday. It follows almost melt upon the lines of the Petty Sessional divisions, and am of the eight divisions are named after the Petty Sessional areas, tit Sevencaks, the Dartford, and the Mailing, the Faversham, and the Ashford Divisions.

East Kent receives two additional sista, and far these the divisions are to be called the St. Augustine' and the Thanet Dislike. The former comprises the Petty Sessional divisions of Hoare, Iflachans, and Ilkaa, the mnakipal Dover, SHOCKING FATAL ACCIDENT. Ati inquest was held on Sunday evening at the Town Hall, Folkestone, before J. Minter.

Borough Coroner, on the body of Charles Hammond, who was killed at the Harbour early on the morning of that day. Matthew Hammond. father of the deceased, living at Dover, identified the body as that of his son Charles Hammond, aged 39, and said he was a boatman and had been in the employ of the South Eastern Railway Company for about 17 vear4. He was married and had five children. Thomas Diamond, of 1, Raglan Place, aboatman the employ of the S.E.R.

Company. said he was on on Saturday morning at Folkestone I Harbour with the deceased. At five minutes past three they went in a small boat to the east bead. There was then eight or nine feet of water. They started from the quay on the south side to make the head rope fast for the Eborall, which was just then g3ing out.

Deceased made it fast. They had a lamp with them, showing a green light, which had to be placed on the east head for the cargo boat coming in. Deceased had to go np a wooden ladder placed nearly perpendicular a the stonework the boat was laying broadside to the ladder. When deceased was halfway up, witness stood on the gunwale and handed the lamp up to him. He took it iu his right hand, holding on to the ladder by his left.

Deceased went up to the top, and was on the pier. He was standing upright, when his foot slipped and he fell back. wards. His head struck the stem of the boat, and he fell into the water face downwards. Witness was going up the ladder at the time, and he jumped back into the boat, caught hold of dec steed and hold his head above water.

The lamp wei4hed abont 281hs and the ladder was an easy one to go up. Witness called for assist ance, and three men went and took the deceased in their boat 3 the quay. He never spoke after he fell, and witness believed he was dead. John Smith, a harbour porter, said he was on duty ou the south side, and saw deceased and the list witness row in the boat with a light to the east head. Shortly afterwards ho heard a cry proceeding from the east head, A man overboard He recognised the voice as that of Diamond.

He saw some of the crow of the Eborall row off, and saw them come back with the deceased, who was dead. Mr. Edmond James Lawless, licentiate of the College cf Physicians, said ho was called up on Saturday morning to go to the harbour to see a man who had fallen overboard. He went there and saw deceased in the export shed, lying on his back on the floor. A gentleman who was there was practising the usual methods for the restoration of the apparently drowned, and he was informed that the treatment had been going on for 15 minutes.

They kept on for another 15 minutes, but the treatment was unsuccessful. To all appearance life was extinct when witness entered the ailed. Ho made an external examination of the body, and discovered a scalp wound on the back part of the head, jagged in appearance, and about an inch and a quarter long. It was such a wound as would be caused by a fall on the stem of a boat which was iron served. There was also a depression of the skull.

The appearance of the wound would lead him to believe the skull was fractured, and blood was flowing from both ears. There were no other wounds or bruises. Life, in his opiniou, was extinct when he entered the shed, and death was no doubt caused by the force of the deceased's fall. A verdict of Accidental death was returned. The jury, at the suggestion of the foreman, Mr.

Hartley, gave their fees to the widow of the deceased. Mr. Stuart Cumberland and Mr. Labouchere intend offering challenges of £2,000 to Mr. Eglington, the spiritualist, that they will pro duce the same effects by natural means he proposes to produce by spiritual means.

On Thursday morning, about ten o'clock, Mr. A. Brown, steward to Lord Hothfield, distributed Lord and Lady Hotbfield's Christmas gift to the workpeop'e on the Hothfield and Westwell estates, and other dependents. Lady Hothfield took very great interest in the gift, and was present during a great part of the distribution, wishing the poor people the compliments of the season, and hoping they would enjoy their Christmas dinner. The gifts comprised the cut up car'ases of three bullocks, weighing in the aggregate about 100 score, and 100 gallons of bread.

Each man and each woman in a family had 3lbs. of beef, and each child under 15 years 21104, and 2.lbs. of bread were given away to every person irrespective of age. Cats with young families have a new dread added to the cares of maternity. Formerly their kittens were abstracted cunningly, and either given away or consigned to a watery grave in the nearest pond.

Fashion has cast longing eyes on kittens, and decided to use them for decorative purposes. For the first few weeks stuffed kittens, and kittens' heads, were con. fined to furniture decoration; they were seen perched on screets, on the tops of workboxes, mounted on brackets, and otherwise disposed about drawing rooms. Now the milliners have seized tiny cats heads for bats and bonnets, to nestle amid velvet or lace, or hide behind a bench of flowers. In a famous bonnet shop in Regent Street, sweet little kittens may be seen peepiug over bonnet rime, their tiny paws resting on the front.

MADAME the next few weeks many people who visit London for the purpose of seeing the panto. Wines and theatres will be at a loss to know bow to spend the hears which intervene between their arrival and opening of theatres. No better place can be chosen than Madame Tusaand's renowned exhibition, where all the celebrities of the day as well as those of past generations may be interviewed. Amcng the mew portrait models now on view may be nomalissed them of H.M. the Queen.

the two ens ad the Mims of Wales, Sir Moses Modelore, General Gordon, General Stewart, the Mandi, Mr. Hy. Irving as Handel," and Miss Bliss Terry as Ophelia." In the "extra roses there is a portrait et Mts. Gibbons, reeintly sentenced to death for shooting her husband at Hayes. By taking the Metropolitan Hallway, the exhibition is easy rewind from all Arts, and the visitor should bear in mind to "Slop at Baker Street for Madame Tussood's." Mac-Mau Livia Tunes Wks meat limeades for the trustiness ei Misoia.

The see ef a steel sprinr, OS fa Ns gismo, Is avoided, a suit bandage being wan lewd es body, while ibe reektineprwer le applied by the Mee- dale Pad and Palest Leven item sift ni meek ease gad eleesiesa in Its mono be isiegbaL Seed ter descriptive air' gear, with beginembils awl grime. as White sad Co. (Linked) 111 Plenalily. Lades. Do sat at the Tian, Ala FOLKESTONE DISTRICT NEWS.

Henry A. Pierce who was sentenced to six months harl labour for defrauding the Canter. bury Friendly Society, has just been liberated from gaol. Major M. C.

S. Tynte, late Adjutant of the R.E.K.11.R. (Yeomanry Cavalry) is engaged in preparing a record of the regiment. One of the Boundary Commissioners (the lion. T.

H. W. Pelham) will sit at the Sessions House, Maidstone, on Wednesday 'scat to hear any objections to the scheme which the Com. miseioners ham prepared for Kent. Alfred Davis was remanded at Woolwich police court on Friday on a charge of asanalting Charles Payne by pushing him down a shaft, twenty feet deep, whereby he was severely injured.

It was alleged that the prisoner had resorted to this method of revenging himself on an obnoxious workman. On Sunday last the wife of Alfred Ede, a market gardener, living at Fordwich, was delivered of three male children. this of them 'lied on Sunday night, one on Monday, and the third on Teesday. Dr. Johnson gave a certifi cote in the case of one shild, the only one of the three he saw alive; and the case was 'reported to the East Kent Coroner B.

M. Mercer, Esq.) He did not consider an inquest necessary; and gave the necessary order for burial. Mrs. Ede had previously had five children, four of whom are alive. We hear that the wages of the agricultural labourers in the parishes bordering on Romney Marsh have been generally reduced.

The basa men, who have been receiving 2s. 9d. a day, have been lowered to 2s. 6d. those who have had 2e.

6d. a day have been put down to 2s. ad. and 25., but many men of this class have bees discharged altogether. Those selected for dia.

missal were the men who gave trouble at haying and harvest time in the matter of wages. i An accident of a very serious character happened at the Abbey Brickfield, Faversham, last Wednesday morning to William Hoare, one, of the men employed in the field and residing at No. 19 of the cottages there. He was engaged in clearing the shoot, when his foot slipped and he fell into the wash mill. He at once became eutangled in the harrows, and dragged down for some distance.

The machinery was stopped as, speedily as possible, bat not before the poor 1 fellow had been fearfully injured. On Saturday, at St. Augustine's Petty Sessions, Canterbury, William kledgett, lord, of the Grapes Inn, Northgate, was summoned on the information of Heury George, Brenchley and fined for trespassing in search of game on laud situate at Westbere and owned by the Priors and brothers and sisters of St. John's Hospital and St. Nicholas' Hospital.

The imbecile young woman, who was injured at the recent fire at the East Ashford Union Workhouse, succumbed to the shock she received I on Thursday night last. Great difficulty was found in getting her away from the fire, and some water thrown on the burning corner of the ward in which she was fell on her. A project has been set on foot by the well. known volunteer officer, Captain Williams, which is meeting with approval on all hands, and also seems to have been au idea entertained by other valunteers, but who refrained from making their scheme public until Capt tin Williams had put his idea into print. The proposal is to establish au orphanage for the chiidren of volunteers.

On Friday night, just before eleven o'clock, Police constable J. T. Smith Marshall apprehended at the Castle Inn, Ashford, a man named Frank Farman, aged about 30 years, who is charged with stealing a pony belonging to a Mr. Smith, from a field at Rochester. Fassett is well known at Ashford stock market and other markets in Kent, as a drover and dealer.

It appears he has had a troubled life, havingbeen sent to a reformatory in his sad subsequently served seven years' for horse stealing, which sentence only expired last April. A man, named Jarvest, who begged at Sandwich, and when given into custody declared that he was starving, was found to have 1:25 sewn up in his garments. A testimonial consisting of a silver inkstand and candlesticks has been presented to the Rev. R. B.

Knatchbull Hugeseen, on his relinquish. ing his duties as rector of Mersham. The presentation was made by Mr. C. J.

Monk, M.P. (who spoke in the highest terms of the rempiwit) and Lord Yeas was also present. The performances recently given by the Canterbury Oddfellows' Dramatic Company tiesulted in a profit of little under £1 and the amount has been paid over to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital. Lord Sheffield has intimated that if the public will subscribe £4,400 towards the £5,000 required for the purchase of the Sussex County Cricket Ground at Hove by the end of seat month, he will contribute the balance of f6OO. The committee, who are making strenuous efforts to secure this convenient site as a permanency, have already received promises to the extent of A child named Alfred Freeman.

aged one year residing with its parents in Woollett Street, Maidstone, was admitted into the West Kent General Hospital on Monday morning, suffering from burns on the right side of its face. The Wild was sitting in a chair by the side of the firs into which it accidentally fell. A special meeting of the Improvement Commissioners of Tunbridge Wells will be held on Tuesday next, for the purpose of considering the desirability of memorialising the Boundary Commissioners appointed under the Redistribution of Seats Bill, that the name of Tunbridge Wells may be given to that electoral divisive of the county of Kent within whioh Tunbridge Wells will be included. A contemporary says New Year will sommenee gloomily in Ashford and its vieiaity asregards the prospects of the trade. Not el the tradesmen speak of the as altogether unprecedented.

There are as any as eight empty shops is the thoroughfares of the town, three being in New two in Castle Street, and three is the High Street. Some of these shops have Woe ea Irma one to two although once flourishing where flourishing businesses on. A correspoodent at ea. stigmas to the disused soldiers' graveyard below the Battery He says, "Itis a sigma desolaties and isegleet. I sever pees wiliest thinking ot esoderies is the Crimea.

with however, it beers so ampule" es they hire bets rieessiesally looked dter." The Lassoes, is eons remarks upoa the ray of the faell4y, 4 thie ESS, JANUARY 3, 1885 THE NEW YEAR. As time rolls on the existine generation. heirs and successors of countless that have preceded it, and progenitors of countless generations that are yet ti come finds itself still far rem from the realization of what may be regarded as the ever delusive hope of humanity. That hope is au era of pews, on earth and goodwill to men. Now towards the close of the nineteenth century of the Christian religion how far, alas! is the nominally Christian world from putting into practice Vie pretepts of the Divine Founder of Christianity I Some of the European nations, and wo ara bug them, are actually at war, and where they are not at war every one is acting on the.

vici els axiom, Si via pores, Nra kellitee. which has perhaps done the world more harm than any other time-worn adage. The nations of Europe are arming to the teeth. Tracy have spent and are still spending enormous sums of money on standing armies and ships of war, on armaments and fortifications, on monster guns, on artill ry experiments, and an the scientific modes slaughtering human beings and dealing out death to iu the prime of life, and misery to their widows and orph ins. No pen can write, no tongue can tell, the horrors of war, and, unhappily, there is very little effort to describe them compared to the continual boasting of the bravery of soldiers and sailors and the hundred ways in which military glory is ever set before the world.

But the horrors of war are permanent, even when nations are at peace. At this moment the peoples of Europe are ground down with burdensome taxation and prepaation for war that may or may not come. We iu this oonntry are free from the odious indiction of military conscription and compulsory s- rvice, but even wt suffer severely from constantly taxation on the principle of preparing war while desiring peace. But the nett ne of Europe are ground down by the double weight of heavy taxation and compulsory military service and this is the fault of the people themselves. War is a game which, were their subjects wise, kings would not plat at but they are not wise, and will not learn wis tom, however severely they may suffer.

Of one sad fact we may be well the New Year's bells of 1885 will not "Ring oat the thottaani wars of old Ring in the theasant years of peace." It is a common reflection when a year is dying out to look back upon it as one of unusual importance. The immediate past mates a greater impression on us than long bygone days. In one respect the year 1884 has been undoubtedly of immense import ante. We need but briefly note the great political struggle for representative reform, the enormous and excited demoustratious throughout the country, the conflicts in each House of Parliament, the conflict of one branch of the Legislature with the other, the basis of agreement between the heads of opposing political parties, the passing of the Franchise 811, and the almost inevitable certainty of the Redistribution Bill passing without material mod.fieation. Phis has been unquestionaely the greatest political struggle of our own greatest political change since the pas4ug of the Reform Act of 1831.

Of course the vast changes in our electoral system, suppo-ing both are effected, will not materially, affect our position during the year on which we are about to enter; but what has already been achieved regarding the franchiiie, and what will in all probability be accomplished with respect to redistribution, are already exciting enormous interne throughout the country, and virtually we are now entering on an era of full and fair least as compared with the results of which no one can foresee. If the Redistribution Bill pass, it will, in oonjunotton with the Franchise Act, create a complete political bouleversement. It may almost be said that everything will be changed. At any rate, constituencies and members will be largely modified, and perhaps the House of Commons will widely differ from all that have preceded it. We are already entering on this change, or rather preparing for the great transforms tion scene which will be set on New Year's Day, 1886.

Meanwhile, let us ardently hope that the New Year that we are about to celebrate may be nationally a happy one, that our trade and commerce may improve, and that each and all of our readers may have a Happy New Year. SIIICIDI AT CRAZING CllOBB inquiry was held on Saturday afternoon at the Charing Cross Hospital concerning the death of Major James George Ballantyne, of the Ist Battalion Devonshire Infantry, who committed seaside at the Charing Cross Hotel. The jury nalarmsd a verdict of whilst labouring osier temporary insanity. The advocates of Fair-train v. Free trading have dissevered a new grievance.

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they are at the matey of the 6smiand. The albs are and ea ism Awl were ever Medi with werital. IL my daunt eakeiewlial, mobs boogbihr bolt' a very pool onmootok brew It is dealidni Yet gEn is i ais way, war levy be wade an eves if reeipreeity in ether pea ware by law. Weed la livredes i solo 'Aim mall it 'mid he bum itookippo to spopoto two they ewe op mob istilisdl to try. LAWN Toms PLATERS.

lodise tenwillit tbs sea Me. pobiq uel beitialt. rid. THE WOOLWICH MURDER. Information has been forwarded to the Pelifis Prosecutor of an alleged statement made by tbe; prisoner, Frederick Marshall, who is under, arrest for the murder of his sweetheart, Lama, Wilson, at Woolwich, bat, as the statement oil made to his mother, it will not, except gams extreme necessity, be brought op against him.

His parents are well-known and respected in the totality, and there is general sympathy for both the families brought into affliction by this terrible event. The police hare therscghly searched the bedroom in which the murder was committed ia the hope of finding the fatal weapon. but have discovered uothiug. Tile threads of the evidence are, however, being drawn together. and although there were no human witn.sses of the crime beyond the and his victim, it is probable that a clear and correct delineation al the facts will be laid before the jury at the trial.

Mrs. Hewitt, the tobacconist, who is the 'principal witness in the ease, has gives bat small portion of her evidence. She wid be able, to prove that no words primed between the young woman and her murderer before the blow was struck, and it will unquestionably appose that the deceased was awoke by the man enter hog the window and removing the table from bemeath it, that she sprang out of bei and war immediately stabbed by her assassin, who escaped by the window and dropped on to the pavement, having been in the house barely It will also be shown that the deemed and the prisoner were for several months is. gaged to be married, and it was partly on of a complaint by young Marshall as to the gilt not being acquainted with domestic entice-oM consequence of her employment in her father's she went to learn household work is Mrs. Hewitt's service.

At that time, Mel weeks since, when their affairs ran smoothly, Marshall expressed to Mrs. Hewitt a hope twit Laura would speedily learn to keep a house is, order, and Mrs. Hewitt replied, I will keep her, Fred, for a year, and then she will be fit eel be your wife." It was after this that the prisoner's jealousy began to make him somo to the deceased and her friends, and their actual breach of engagement dated back only a few days. DEATH OF MR. EDWARD KNOCKER, OF DOVER.

The death is announced of Mr. Edward Knocker, father of the Town Clerk of Dover (Colonel Wollaston 'Crocker). The news reached Dover on Sat arday, and the flags on the Town Hall and other public buildings wero hoisted half-mast high as a token of respect for deceased. The late Mr. Knocker had attained a ripe old age, but he preserved to the last the full posses.

sion of his mental faculties. On the occasion of the recent visit of the British Archnological Association to Dover, he read an interesting paper on the Archives of the Borough. He had for years taken great pains in collecting and arranging the mnnicipal records. He occupied the position of Hon. Librarian to the Corporation.

As a solicitor he had held a high position. but he retired from practice some years since. He was a Conservative in politics, and he was a Churchman. He took, we believe, an active part in promoting the building of St. James' new church, Dover; and he was the author of a work entitled, The Footsteps of Our Lord." For many years he occupied the post of Town Clerk, and in 1871 he was Mayor of Dover.

He also sat in the Council as an alderman for some years after. ALLEGED BIGAMY AT DOVER. At the Borough Police Court, Dover, on Taesday, Hyden Pritchard, 29, gardener, was charged with marrying Annie Hemmings, his former wife, Rosina Ballard, being Hemmings, living at 27, Limekiln Street, said she first became acquainted with the prisoner about four months ago. He was then living at Godwyne Road, and came to work at their house. tie said he was a gardener, and employed by Mr.

Clark, twist. He also said be was a single mat, and paid his addressee to her, and she married him at Buckland Church on the 29th of Snters said on Monday night, shortly after twelve o'clock, he apprehended the prisoner. He was on duty at the S.E.R. station whet the prisoner arrived by the midnight mail. He asked him if his name was Pritchard, and he said it was.

He then arrested him oa a warrant charging him with bigsmj, and took him to the police station. He produced an extract from the register of marriages at Rolvenden Church, showing that prisoner was married on the 14th November, 1875, to Rosins Ballard, in the name of Ryden Pritchard. Prisoner was remanded till Friday. What curious mistakes lady novelists sometimes fall into with regard to the naming of their characters. lady novelist once took all her names oat of a subscription list in a provincial paper.

In the course of time the novel drifted into that particular part of the country, and when it was therein written that the banker had a liaison with the Methodist minister's wife, that the respectable lawyer had had seven years' real servitude in his youth, that the proprietor it the most rowdy in the town had boos is the Balaclava charge, that the chief ohoorasseger was the illegitimate son of a duke, mot that the consumptive Ritualist curate had lap a London career of hideous crime by nolliiing the Derby favourite, why, the words that we have at our command are not strong enmesh to ezprees a tithe of the sensation that was Journal. Oho following story relates how Lord Walsiegbam alma to a fortune of five millions. nada le mesa sad stage plays, we have bewoe SO seearlosasi to long.lost wills, missing Hoke, mad seas of money, that when we aerometer Asa he real life they are but as imally But we must make an atespilom fa the eon of Lord Walsingham. 0. 1:7 years age the grest-greatgreatof the plane Lord seat 10 Liss, eel shook the paseda tin to ono sslinantago.

a tied la the East, and left 1 01 ble maw to 1110 skew, Miss Jennings, who saddadl la knlawg. News travelled slowly in these lag, the news never reached st an. The money was in the Beak el 1 as a tai mi lbere till this year, whom the dooms I i Itilifhelkgspereoeweeeribrloltas mom with kismet, sow 24151 the pretty am al IVO aims ewer re es eatIMALLT snows Ihne Mtn Cordial molar team risk is maser is Way sollsima.psdkbele— bini I. tie sod seam Itehreies. Nets Wall.

ligaisal ape PAUPER All the theories of political economists are powerless to controvert one crest fact, or perhaps two great that the poplin. the United Kingdom has increased and is increasing. Whether, to follow Burke's celebrated aphorism, it ought I diminished, is a question that admits of an indefinite amount of argument. The popelati in of the United Kingdom was in 1806 is rotted numbers silteen mitlious it was in 1881 thirty-five millions; and must be now considerably over thirty-six millions. And an important fact is that our population increases at compound iwerest hat more important still is the fact that our population increases in a greyer ratio than Urn means of employment.

We hava at the present moment an enormous surplus of people and a painful deficiency of work for them. There is a vast amount of distress all over the kingdom hun trek's of thou: sands of would ke breadwinners ere out of employment, and the paupers in our workhouses are painfally meriastug. We are glsti to see that in many men have been employed in work for the benefit of those embankments, levelling. and so on--at low wages. This is an agreeable alternative to pauperism for the men thus employed, while it will he far better for the ratepayers of those towns thus to employ these men moistest i of keeping them and their families in the workhouse, while, at the same time, they get valuable work done for the benefit of these several towns at a cheap rate.

It is a great pity that this principle is not acted on to a larger extent. There is something tnt crably and radically wrong in our poor law union system wh-n large numbers of able-bodied men aro kept in the workhouses, doing very little real work and of very little to the community, while there is mach work to be done which perpetually remains unaccomplished outside. Oar uhions are filled with paupers who are a useless and heavy burden on the ratepayers, while a large proportion of these ratepayers Right usefully be employed in rough and unskilled labour in our towns and villages, where there is always plenty of work to do, which, somehow or other, is never done. It behoves our ratepayers seriously to consider this matter. They are in the habit of leaving it too much to the guardians of the poor.

'The example of a few of our towns iu employing the unemployed who would otherwise become paupers should be extensively followed but beyond the question should be seriously studied how far those who are actually paupers can be employed on work (or the benefit of the several districts that ceberwise would not be accomplished at all. In connection with our increasing population, our euormous mass of comparatively idle and nun-producing paupers, and the advisability of promoting emigration, a noteworthy fact with regard to pauper children may be mentioned. The Chester Guardians have had an important offer made to them by a Boman Catholic priest, Father Pacificus. He has offered to take the children of his Nth who are now in the anion and send them to Canada, where there is a Home for them and where they will Ists trained to become useful men and women. There can scarcely be said to be any propagandism in this, for the children will merely be brought np in the religion of their parents.

It is a thousand pities, however, that Protestants do not act on the same princip'e, or that indeed our pauper children, irrespective of religions opinioo are not, under proper conditions, deported to Canada, with arrangements for their reception and training and for their Woesquently becoming useful of society. Facts are stubborn and the fame connected with this has been no exception to the rule. The cost of out and the passage of these children to Canada is bat ZS per child, whereas the expenditure for maintaining them as paupers till they are old enough to take situations in England would be at least £6O or £7O per head. The rate, payers will thus effect a very large saving, and they will get rid of children who, having been brought up as paupers, would have a gravitation towards pauperism all their lives. Ratepayers elsewhere ought seriously to study this matter, for it is one which is becoming of increasing But what can be done in the case of children can to a lesser extent be done for men and women.

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