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pittance that the representatives of the people in Parliament should be what the vpeople want than that this one should be a ibrewer, that a cotton-spinner, a third a landlord, a fourth a shipowner, and so on. certain amount of variety is undoubtedly desirable, but it is no qualification for Parliament for one man that he should gain his livelihood in one way any more than it is a disqualification for another man to earn his daily bread in another way. If lawyers are 3S honest, and as earnest, and as talented as any other class of men there seems but kittle reason why a considerable number of them should not ait in Parliament and, on the other there is a very good chance for any of the mors aspiring among them to £jain reputation and at tho same time become benefactors of their fellow men. Tho late Government has ieit au ample store of acreformea aouses behind them, and it is perhaps fortunate that there are a hundred i and twenty men in the new House of Com- 1110113 who are capaolo of dealing witlx the i legal portion of the Tory legacy. The i Criminal Code requires lollj tlie Bank- ruptcv Acts bear with scandalous weight I upon unfortunate creditors, while a reform of tue laud laws can only be orooerly i effected by tnose are thoroughly i acquainted with the skate of the law respecting rea.

property. i he legal members of the House of Commons have now a i chance of showing their zeal for the public welfare, and there is littie doubt that a good prospect is opened of such needful altera- tiens being made in the statute book as are wiled j.er by the state of tlio law and by the lesires of the pe jple. THE VOLUNTEER REVIEW AT SOUTHPORT. Final arrangements have been made about the re A 011 hitOioaday. It will commeuee at twelve noon, instead of several hours later, as was at one tails intended.

iha tiains conveying Volunteers commence running from Liverpool us and tie last train wiil leave at 10.45 a.m. Two of tbs trains wiil run into Southport, and two 1 stay at Lukdale. Ail the 'oluntoer trains will! return from Southport station, tie first traial to leave at 4 p.m. I THE ANTONELLI LAWSUIT. f- ORI Rome reports that the Antonelli- I in trial has been iixed for the 28th iust.

laa jU iitess will attempt to prove that Ler 1 father, Angeio Marconi, never was in i uiae. but was personated at her baptism by his i triovauni Eattista Eailerini, and that Anionietta jjarcoia sever quitted the city for thj two years preceding the birch of the child. jsttrious real xsxoaxnv, it is now asserted, ass year. OPPOSITION TO SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT. biscusaing the opposition to Sir William Har- tb re elect-oa, the says teat the more operate and thoughtful members of the Con- party may bo reminded that when a crvaiive Government comes into power again tacticc may be retaliated, that, without substantial ad van'age for one side 1 they may jc-ad to manifold practical ueates by the most inopportune delays restrictions.

says those who take a large view i interests must perceive that the practice I oppouiag re-election of Ministers must 'avitaaiy limit the choice of politicians for active i ttnee. LORD DERBY INTERVIEWED. ENGLISH rOLICY IN THE EAST. -ee Vienna A I'jcaieiue JZeiiung publishes the tujsiatce an interview between the London of that journal and the Earl of I Jerby. i lordship is reported to have said that Qi not profess to be initiated in respect to the i -urse which me Cabinet meant to pursue as to pontics; he could but give his personal and he presumed that the integrity ail existing treaties will be preserved.

iustna, his lordship taid, Lad a legal footing Bosnia so long as she abstained from i further towards the south. There is con- I no reason why Eaeiand should inter- i i'-eie every uesire to maintain a good aroi-aadiLg vuh Austria. England has but interest in the Luikaa provinces. These latlier concern Austria auu Kussia. England's i centres chieJy in Constantinople.

la -eg-ira to fining the Austro-Gerrnan alliance, would feel but little disposition to such a project. An iutima.e alii- i w.tii Germany would tend to destroy the i.i ranee wn; eh had beon consolidated the pa twenty-five years, and England very highly, lie greatly esteemed eg tisanurck as a statesman, but he would i entrust; English politics to be subject iciluence. Turkey, his lordship holds. £SS" ljueemed tae sooner it comes to an the better, Cyprus must continue to rolls Uii and it xuvkey fulfil hi duties in Asia Minor 1 niust leave her to her own fate. 3 regards the Afghanistan affair as a i jj 1 iu suoaitl inaae a neutral aa 1 a.

rn 1 u. ouiWarK lae lueaof -a ierUii canuoc be enterti aed, being Vc-ik, unreliable, and treacherous. -1 vj remarked iiicicient-Hllv. WiiA. 1 by Oiacistono prior to Ration ci Cabinet couid not serve a u'or tLu pOij.ey to be pursued by England.

AFFAIRS IN CONSTANTINOPLE. 4 CR JSIs IMMINENT. LAWLBSS- A SfESS IN THE CITY. tiao telegram state's that financial this rt Ilj eaimg ilatly. The little revenue 111 aosoroed by wants of tua Ti r.

11 of feeding the troops. omployis have received no pay regular payment of salaries from 01 Marcii was promised. Driven by very police at Constantinople t0 ousebt cslung. Five days ago a entered a house in the day- -t, mirea the owner in tiio library, 1 3 adjoining rooms. Complain'j.

1 iiuess tbo booty, they tt! whereabout the money and ''ooaT proceeding to the upper free'vi' Ur 1 Urt ie area the owner managed to se: $'ing a revolver shou tbo two ikepolka wclc the staircase. On 8 rttsula it the two men were identified police 0110 a and the other a captain of I was suspended yesterday for 0 tae had better begin mg its lys before the English the necessity of putting into eCUUoa hagc.nd baggage policy. COURT NEWS. 1 Me Court Circular.) bin Sunday. The Queen, 'ay fealriC8 i itad Prince Leopold, attended 01 Errol, paid a visit to tbo JJuko Vf UC aS 3 fconnaught at Bagshot Park Hi i 00t ou tbo occasion of his lioyal lir eSSS My.

The band of the liilie in rl njeu selection of music on the lawn ut ot tue ho i. Princess Christian of ,8 tlolSte the Princesses Augusta Br, a ll Matilda of Bcbleswigtvnr 3 the Cueen. Colonel H. P. wm a the 2nd Kegimenfc of Lifo I H.

Clive, commanding of Grenadier Guards, had the tti t'v "'eluded in her Majesty's dinner Pri'tTV'" 1 rrincess Beatrice and if irv? d'iied with the Duke and lier Park. afterwards returned to by the Hon. LadyPonaonby it Prince Leopold remained S'tUevT. 1 and returned to Windsor Castle 'Xi, a by Captain Waller. Div in U(ea id Princess Beatrice attended Jhap rnc this morning in the private tiC 1 ue i rnest Wilberforce, canon of pteac' -f a sub-almoner to the Queen, a Epps's Glycerine teest chsiV a 2 confections are so'd by j' by others, however, attempts are stl bstituticD.

We therefere deem it the public that they can oaly be boxe Od and Is; labelled Jas. Epps and Loudon, ECHOES OF THE DAY. If all be true wo would mean a great deal Porte is preparing another piece of gag." Tha elections over here havo waked up the pashas on more than the Monte negrin question and there has been au unwonted wagging of turbans, with, it may bo imagined, not a few maledictions on Lord Beacoasfieid's ill-luck Tho old game is once more resorted to, and the playiug at inaugurating reforms is astonishing in its activity. As many Constitutions are to be brought out as would stock a new world; and creditors are to present their accounts once more, when maybo tbey will be told when they shall call again. At onco the leopard will change its spots, and tho Lthiopian become as fair of skin as the lily, lnstanter the 1 orie will shoulder and walk briskly olf with, ihe burden of obligations it has so lung lain down bes.de.

Use faults and follies of a generation will be dropped like a mask, and the world shall see and admire the decent, honest, truthful Turk, "liie explanation accompanies tho fable 1 asha is engaged in collecting documents in lefeienee to the organic statutes and reforms to send to the Ambassador in London for communication to the English Foreign Oilice." The English Ouico has heard of that kind of thing before. It air. Herbert Gladstone's filial connection does not win for bim his father's seat at Leeds, his own personal ability and opinions should obtain for him the sufirages of Liberal and Nonconformist Leeds, 'true, he is a very young though it would do unfair as well as embarrassing to hold the Prime Minister of England in any decree responsible for what the candidate for Leeds may think and say, still considerable importance must be attached to the views of tho latter on such a ques- us disestablishment. Fathers and their sons do not always hold the same opinions: but it would seem against human naturo to believe that any young man could be subjected to the daiiy influence in such relation of such a man as the Premier and not somewhat i assimilate in opinion, Strangely enougb, tco, this quest-on is one on which the elder was at his sou's age on the opposite- side, and Mr. Gladstone, could scarcely do better than take in hand and refute the book on Church and State of Mr.

Gladstone, sen. The gioand which Mr. Herbert Gladstone assumes is simply unassailable; it in- volves no abstruse argument, theological debate, mutilation or sacrifice of principles, nor even hair- splittings. "lam a Churchman," he says, "but: if the country declared itself decidedly against the Fstablishment I would go with the country." That is, the Establishment would go, while the Church would remain; she is outside State patronage or Parliamentary disposal. This i 3 really the only question, and one against which there is no argument.

If a majority of the nation declared for disestablishment to morrow, or for any other legislative question not wrong in itself, whatever we might think of its tendency we could not dispute that the nation was acting within its right. One century cannot, or rather ought not to, bind another. The living must not be strangled with tho graveclothes the dead. A nation may set up an Establishment or destroy it; the nation caa neither make nor injure the Church. Those people who always exclaiming that ljQG'i cannot bo male moral Act oi' Parliament may with more or less of profit nota the result sotao temperance legislation in Chicago.

Tbree years it was estimated that the customers of tiio grog-shops of the city included 30,000 children of tosh sexes. consequences may emphatically be declared to be more easily imagined than described. In nearly 7,000 of these young drunkards found their way into the hands of the police. A temperance league was, however, formed to take this mat-tor haul, and in two years the number of criminals was reduced by some hundreds, LOO liquor-sellers were punished, and, wbat was better than all, 200 mor abandoned a trade surrounded by so much danger and sin. If we cannot make people sober by Act of Parliament we need not make them drunk by Act of Parliament; and in such a matter as that of the vice of intemperance it is most urgent that private edort and legislative 'action should together.

V. are delighted that the younger generation of politicians of whom Mr. Herbert Gladstone is so conspicuous an example entertain very decided views against war and its accompaniments. The candidate for Leeds boldly declares that be distrusts the policy ol Prince Bismarck; that the the policy, and the gigantic army go together, stand cr fall in company; and that by its co.tly and oppressive armaments Germany has set a bad example to the rest of Europe. We Lave repeatedly condemned these unnatural armaments as a chief cause of continental troubles; and the felly, extravagance, and worse of the military system seems to us so apparent as scarcely need pointing out to reasonable men.

The money spent on powder, on dressing and feeding men to Le food for powder, would promote no end of wise and charitable purposes educate tue children, teed the hungry, and tend the needy; pay for making the dessert bloom and the waste pitted beautiful. Yv'ar is almost the most brutal and insane occupation 'of a fallen and vicious humanity, and all the gold braid, shaking of pennons, clanking of spurs, and braying of brass bands cannot make it otherwise. Sir. Gladstone, junior, mentions a report that the Continental Powers meditate a now division cf syoil, this time in the dircctier of Holland and Belgium, and he rightly says this country will net i.e a party to it. Put- sue a seizures of territory must always tempt statesmen who have at their command millions of aimed men ready to commit the theft.

The Continental Powers are only weakening themselves, and their seeming strength is the weakest and rottsneat thing in the entire universe, as we shall see before The Tories are so savage at the fact that in the entire coui.tv of Burbam not one of their number has been returned they meditate opposing the re-election of the Solicitor General, Herschell, for the cathedral city where Dr. Bighti'oot wears tiie initio with such universal satisfaction. the names mentioned as Tory opponent is that of ir George Elliot, the Baron of Pipewellgate and lamagusta, who has followed the fortunes of his party with such fidelity at so great a cost to himself. George would only add another to his defeats, and bo is iu no humour to bear another less. Ho waited anxiously for that elevation to the Upper House which has so long been talked about, and the disappointment! must be bitter when in the shower oi political bon-bons almost anyone might have had a titie.

We don't think M-ir George has the pluck it he has the effrontery to go through another contest: and so long as bis talented and eloquent son sits for the little Yorkshire borough cf the Battle of the standard Sir George can. scarcely complain of not being represented in I aruamenti Ihe Bulgarians are in a state of trepidation at the arrivals of Kussiau officers. Somo of the latter have come at the request of Prince Alexander, but more have not; and the newly enfranchised are in terror lest the Prince chosen for them by liussia may entertain designs more in conformity with Muscovite than strictly Bulgarian They have, besides, a mortal terror of Austria, so that between the two fires of Au.it.vian and Hessian ambition the poor people have not a very happy time of it. J.very move and rumour fills them with alarm lost their dearlybought liberties should be in danger and when nothing particular is happening they havo a fear that something is being concocted. With their experience and suspicious natures this alarm is natural; and certainly tho attitude of the greai Continental Powers is by no means reassuring tc weak nationalities.

The hope of the Balkan principalities is in the new English Government, and especially in its Prime Minister, iu whose generou; sympathy with freedom is no guile. Tho noblt attitude which, under bis direction, the country assumes the helpless and struggling, wttu out snatching any material advantage or forward ing any ulterior design for ou; in strong contrast to that oi tne other lowers, who in all they do keep so earnest an eye to main chance. Tho Bulgarians know chat now their liberties and Constitution ate safe that wit! England as their friend none daro infringe the oik nor nibble at the other. There may be no rushiuj of Sepoys to Malta or steaming about of tho fleet a strong Government does not bluster. Put the path of freedom will broaden for the Baikal populations, as free from Muscovite and Austria! encroachments as from Moslem domination.

Royal Geographical silver Medal for Physical Geography has been awarded by the Uoyal Geographical Society to A. L. Humphries, of the Liverpool College. On Saturday afternoon some oxen from Zululand, presented to the Oueen by hir Garnet "Wolseley, arrived at and were taken to the Prince Consort's Shaw Farm. The aaiuaal3 are haadsoma but CHAT FROM THE CAPITAL.

EXTRACTS FROM LONDON LETTERS. Mr. Courtney has declined an oiler mado to him by Mr. Gladstone to occufty the place of Secretary to tho Board of up to Saturday evening, when Air. Gladstone spoke, the subordinate ortice to that of Mr.

Chamberlain had not been hlled up. iNo dn'nculty, however, i 3 anticipated, and the i selection will be mado more easy by the fast that 1 tho member who accepts the place will not havo to appeal to his constituents for re-election. statements have appeared within tho last week rererring in a very decisive manner to the measures which the Government will undertake in the brief session of this year, and it has been very positively declared that the Government will adopt the Land Bills of Lordaims. I have the highest authority to state that these assertions have in fact no foundation, and tfcafc no collective consideration has yet been given by the now Cabinet to the wcrk of this year. Much error has prevailed during tho last few days as to the members of the Government whoso seats have been vacated by acceptance of oir.ee.

j-he Ut has followed the and tho Pall Mall Gazette into the mistake that Lord 1 redonck Cavendish, Sir Charles l'ilkc, and Mr. Shaw-Lefevre must appeal to their constituents for re-election. Tho error in tho case of thejo gent.emen is peculiarly patent, because since their acceptance of office they havo sat on the Treasury bench. The Act of Parliament which regulates the matter distinguishes certain offices as technically "under the Crown," for which re-election is necessary, and tho Lordships of thy Treasury are in- eluded in that category, for which reason, while the Secretary and the two Secretaries above-named do not vacate their seats, Mr. llolnss and Mr.

Cotos aro for the present not i members of the House of Commons. The mistake is again apparent in the case of Mr. Grant Duff, who, so far from having vacated his scat, has been sworn in a member of the house, and together with the gentlemen above-named, received the congratulations of his friends on the floor of tbo house. It would appear that all the new writs caa and wid be moved for to-dav. Lord Hartington was one oi the last members of the Administration elected to Parliament, and the requisite period of twenty-one clear days from the date of his lordship a e.ection expired cn Saturday, and therefore there is no reason why the new writ for Northeast Lancashire should not bo moved fcr by Lis brother, Lord Frederick Cavendish, to-day.

In 1 1 tiie new writs were not all moved for at the same time, because the twenty-one days had not expired in the case oi some of the county members who had joined the Government. Put is reoms probable that all the writs required will bo moved for to-day, and that the house will, if tbo swearing of the members has sufficiently proceeded, bo adjourned, probably to the hist. It is generally believed that Mr. Bradlaugh will be allowed to make the affirmation accepted from those who have religious scruples against taking an oath, and it is to be hoped that what might be an unpleasant difficulty will be obviated in this manner. If, however, tho strict letter of the law is insisted upon, it is probable that a com- lvuttee will be appointed to consider the subject, There will be something like dismay in Pall Mall at the news that the journal which takes its titie froai that thoroughfare is henceforward to be con- 1 ducted on advanced Liberal principles.

The Pall Cfucttc has never bad any appreciable influence outside Sir William Karcours's Yv parallelogram, though its conductors were fully persuaded to the contrary. But of tho views of that section of society in which the prevailing political sentiment is hatred of Mr. Gladstone, it has been by far the most ab 7 exponent, and aristocratic Jingoism will undoubtedly sustain a heavy blow by the loss of its clever journalistic ally. From and after to-day the Pall Mall Uasitie enters upon a new career under tho proprietorship and responsible direction of Mr. Yates Thompson, who is well known in Lancashire for sincere and 1 sympathetic iberalism.

Mr. Thompson, I believe, completed on Saturday the transfer of the paper from the original proprietor, Mr. George Smith, the head of the well-known firm Messrs. Smith, Elder, and and the resignation of tho first editor. Mr.

Frederick Greenwood, and Mr. Joynes, the principal sub-editor, followed immediately. Mr. Yates Thompson is doubtless rc-raembered in Lancashire for his electoral contests in which he deserved, though he failed, to obtain success, and he has also had administrative experience in the capacity of private secretary to Earl Spencer when Viceroy of Ireland. There are already rumours that a new evening journal is to be started on the came linos as those hitherto followed by the and it is extremely probable that such a venture will be launched.

A considerable number of Ritualists, amongst them being a clergyman, the Rev. Horace Kilcoeks, late of Plymouth, were yesterday received into communion with the hurch of Romo at the Bromptcn Oratory. I understand that before long there will probably be a great secession of extreme Ritualists tswthe Roman Church. The self-complacency of tho Royal Academicians and their guests at the dinner on Saturday was quite unaffected by the grumbling, constantly i growing more ominous, which is heard outside, uor from tho self-congratulatory oratory which, as usual, was poured forth so copiously, can one form I any other conolusion than thai the president and his colleagues consider themselves to constitute the best of all possible academies in the best of i all possible worlds, surrounded by noble picture buyers who were invited with au eye to business, and whose profuse admiration might raise hopes of more substantial tokens of appreciation. It is no wonder that the Academicians feel so thoroughly well satisfied with themselves, nor caa wo expect them to waste a thought upon the hundr ds of aitisis who help to make un the r.aoual show, but who are not deemed worthy to nit amongst tho illustrious assemblage, nor even of a place at a side table.

A glance at the iist of naraes will show that I although room was found for all sorts of people i who have no earthly connection with art except in buying pictures, not a sin-do artist not being a member or an associate of the Academy was i invited, although but for the outsiders there could 'he no exhibition at aw Probably not many of them are anxious to go, but the slight offered to those from whose work the Academy so much bene it remains the same. It is strange that the chief London journals should go on year by year gratuitously advertising the Academy by printing a report of the speeches i at tho dinner, to which their representatives, with I one exception, are not invited. The Time- or.ly -receives tie unspeakable, honour of being graciously permitted to send a reporter, who furnishes au I account to the rest, and which appears to bo received with becoming gratitude. When tho lata I Mr. James Grant was editor of the I he regularly inserted a notice to the effect that so long as tho Royal Academy continued to ignore his journal, so long would he continue to I ignore the Royal Academy.

Now-a-days there I does not seem to be much of Mr. Grant's spirit and independence leit. Judging from the cheering which greeted Mr. Gladstone's speech at the Royal Academy banquet, and especially his allusion to Lords Granville and i Hartington, both of whom were present, it would seem that tho Liberal reaction has even reached tho high and neutral ground of the Royal Academy Iof Arts. The Premier was, undoubtedly the hero jof the hour and the guost of tho night; and his light and graceful speech and smiling face showed how thoroughly ho realised his position.

I obi served the Princa of ales, who has shown marked consideration for the new Prime Minister, engage him in conversation on several occasions, both before and during dinner. I In the inland waters of our island there were drowned last year no less than persons. Of this sad array were adult males, considerably I less than half the number being adult females. There were drowned in running water 1, peri sons, in canals in lakes or ponds '7, and in docks PJ-. It will thus be seen, whether as regards suicide or accident, "the dark dowiug i river" has the heaviest score.

The price of bread in Birmingham has to-day been reduced a halfpenny per 41b. loaf. AGKIsEN OLD AGE is it so rare? Why I do the greater portion of mankind die prematurely i Because the laws of health are violated, and dirt, disease, and contagion lurk in cur paths. Until nations demote their energies to the means of prolonging instead of shortening life, let everyone look to himself. Live temperately, and take every morning a bath prepared with Tniman's -Sea Salt Its daily uie renders the system almost disease-proof.

Sold everywhere in bos.es of tiXibs. other sizes, iutu A PRUSSIAN PRINCE INSULTED. rrnice 'enry of Prussia 1 bis suite, who are making a voyage round tli-i world, havo been insulieil by some Japanese functionaries. "While they were out for a day's hunting near Suita their coolies v.ere assaulted by farmers, on the pretence that their presence frightened away the game. The police refused to allow the Prince and his suite to go back by train to Kobe, and on their driving to Teurnan they were ordered to alight and remained under a kind of semi-arrest I till a high official arrived.

The Government haa i apologised, suspended the Governor of Osaka, and dismissed eight policemen. THE NEW GOVERNMENT. MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS. It is announced tuat her Majesty been graciously pleased to approve tho following appointments ail of to bo Under-Secretary of the War Office. Marquis of Lansdowne, Under-Secretary of the India Office.

Lord Mr. Osborne Morgan, Judge Advocate-General. Lord Charles Bruce, Vice-Chamberlain. The Tnucs say that tha post of Surveyor- General of the Ordnance has been offered to Lieutenant-General Sir John Miller. Adye, K.C.8., of the Royal Military Academy as Woolwich.

MR. KNATC MBULL-HUGESSEN. 'i'ho Daily Tcl-cyraph says Mr, Knatchbull- Hugessen will probably assume the title of Lord Brabourne. MR. LEONARD COURTNEY.

The Daily Hews says Mr. Lcouarci Courtney has keen offered, but has declined, the office of Secretary of the Board of Trade. TEE BOARD OF TRADE SECRETARYSHIP. The Daily Neus understands that the of Secretary of the lioard of Trade nas been offered to Mr. i-velyn Ashley.

xjORDS EiFE AND BR CADALBANE. It is probable th.it Lord Fife and Lord Breaualoane wxil receive Ministerial appointments. THE MIDDLESEX LIBERALS. The Daily If as understands that early in une a. meeting on the suoject of Liberal organisa- HGii in Middlesex will be held in St.

James's liiiii, and thai Mr. Gladstone has promised to be present. FIRE IN LIVERPOOL THIS MORNING. About half-past o'clock this saornins a fire was uiscovered in the dwelling-house, 10, JUotanicroad, occupied by Mr. Thomas Holt.

The alarm was immediately sons lo xiatton garden, and Deputy Superintendents M'Williams and pioeeded to i.io spot with a manual engine and a detachment of thvmen. On their arrival ie kitchen of the house was found enveloped in aiees, which, fortunately, ware toon extinguished buckets of water. The kitchen was pretty well burnsd out, but the lire was check-id belore is spread to the apartments above. A reel and ladder from Olive-street also arrived on the scene. Tho origin of the fire is unknown.

hen the inmates retired to rest last night everything seemed perfectly safe. THIEVES AND TELEGRAPHY. EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT IN AUSTRALIA. At tho Police Court, this morning, before Mr. Kaffies.

a respectably dresse 1 young man named i rederhui trick Morrison was charged on remand with ernbe about belonging to his employers, Messrs. J. (J. Dougherty and cattle agents, Melbourne, Australia. The prisoner called at tho Detective Oiiioe a week ago, and gave himself into custody tm a charge of having embezzled his employers' money.

The chief of the detective (department (Mr. Williams) forwarded a communication to Dougherty's aceats in London, and received a reply tuting that the prisoner was wanted in Australia. This morning Mr. Williams telegraphed to Melbourne, and his telegram would reach that distant pars of the world in six hours. The cost of tho telegram is about The prisoner, who gaid nothing, was remanded for a PRIZE FIGHT AT BRIGHTON.

A fight for £5 came oh on Saturday at High Park-corner, on the road from Brighton to Ditchhug, north of the arl of Chichester's park. Tho combatants were local men, and were followed by the town police to the boundary of the borough. They fought lor forty minutes, when one named Penfcld gave in. The victor wa3 a costeriuonger named Stanford. OUTRAGE AT A BALL.

The Da.Hu Telcpranh says striking illustration of the amenities current in liussian military society is aiforded by report, published in the of incident that recently occurred at a ball given in Ivntais, to which the junior ileers of f.he garrison were invited. Prince Mikeladse, an ensign of Caucasian militia, behaved in the course or the evening so indecorously to several young ladies that Lieutenant Eomiu of the Tehernoniona infantry, thu senior officer present, was compelled tu reprimand him publicly for his disgraceful conduct. Enraged by the reproof to which he bad thus beea tie prince drew a dagger and attacked Fomin with fury, stabbing him repeatedly in the faca. neck, and hands. ire at violence had to be employed to get the assailant away from his victim, whose wounds proved so numerous and of so severe a character that the army surgeons who examined them pronounced Lis condition to be hopeless, lieinsc a man in the prime of life, and endowed with e.itv loi'dinary physical vigour, he wis still alivo thred days after his conveyance to the hospital, but not then expected to recover.

It may bo oouiidently believed that in no European army that cf iiuosia could such a scandal as this arise. THE MURDER OF COLONEL COMMERAOFF. It is reported from Constantinople that the Eoseian who shot the itussian Coionei Comnieraolt Le-'ii ilnaliy examined, and tho commission lirua that he i.t and, therefore, respon- Sib.o for his actions, in all probability his execution will take place within few dayu. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN ITALY. Pu'i May 2, Official Gazette I this evening publishes a declaration stating that in of tho voto of the Chamber of Deputies on the '2Jtn tho Ministry gave in their resignation to the King, which his Majesty did not accept.

The iUr.c.tte also publishes two decrees, one closing and dissolving the Chamber, and the other ordering the new elections lor the i 10th and and summoning the new Chamber to meet on the 2uth. THE ATALANTA. i The Admiralty has issued the following reference to the list of officers and men of EC.M.S. Atalanta, published in the newspapers, a seaman of H. 81.5.

Atalanta, who has returned in the Tamar, states that Thomas Westlake (ordinary) aril Stauseii (ordinary) were left at Earbadoes Hospital; M'Cormack (ordinary) and Jessop (ordinary) left in prison at the same place, and Ellis (ordinary) left behind and sent to Tourmaline." ARRIVAL OF THE ROYAL CADETS. Ber Majesty's ship Bacchante (Captain Lord Charles Scott), having oil board the Princes Albert Victor and George ot sons of the Princo of Wales, who have been on a lengthened cruise as naval arrived at Spithead at tour o'clock yesterday afternoon, and at once saluted the flag of the port admiral, the salute feeing returned by the flagship I'uke of Wellington. Lord Charles Scott, captain of the Bacchante, came ashore, and, having paid ilia odieial respeots to the naval commanderin-chief, returned to the vessel. The Prince awd Princess of Wales will arrive at Portsmouth at noon to-day, and will proceed out in one of the yachts to tao Bacchante. At 110 further arrange; meals in regard to the future have been made.

All are reported well oti board, arid nothing has been teen by her of the missing Atalauta. The Bacchante left Portsmouth on her cruise in I September last, the Prince and Princecs of Wales seeiug their sons A correspondent youthful Princes are looking remarkably well, and tne ship has had i a most successful cruise. They liaveshown a great i interest in all the foreign places they have visited, going ashore in the captain's galloy. They aro slightly sunburnt, but not much so, having been protected from the sun's rays by an awning which was always s-iread on board when the weather was i sultry. It is thoughi probable that one of the KoyalPrinces willnowterminatohisconnestionwith the navy, whilst his brother expresses himself I heartily fond of the profession which he has entered, and to which he probably remain i attached." A new road, the construction of which cost was opened at Greenock on Saturday.

The read was commenced to find unemployed tradesmen work. Tne I lumbartonshiic Artillery Volunteers' i 11- hall wrs burred down jeeterday morning, hundred stand of arias atsd a hut.e quantity of clothing were destroyed. The cause of the lire is unknown. THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN All RIVAL OF ROSS AT CABUL. SIR DONALD STEWART IN SUPREME COMMAND.

MISSION TO ABDUR RAHMAN. A Daily Heus Cabul telegram, dated Saturday, says Boss's force, witli the Candahar heavy battei reached Argandeh to-day. General Roberts uiet General Stewart at Argandeh. The lest of the CandaUar force is marching through tho Logar Valley to settle the district. The heading Mollahs and Logar chiefs made submission to-day.

Mr. Griilin has dismissed one hundred Kohistan chiefs home. They guaranteed the safety of two sirdars we are sending to Kohistau. he dispersion of the Kohistan bands haa been ordered, otnerwiso direct punishment is threatened. A Daily XTetcs Cabul telegram, dated yesterday, says tne whole of General iicss's force has arrived.

General Stewart has taken charge, General Boberts retaining his divisional command. Two native gentlemen on Mr. Griffin's stiff have left Sharpur on a mission to A'odur Hahman. The Ghusni fight will probably induce Abdur Rahman to discard hostile ideas. The Times Cabul correspondent says that the force at Cabul is now again so strong that any necessary operations can bo undertaken, and it is hardly likely that it will not be required.

The appearance of Abdur llahman Khan upon the scene has necessarily delayed the settlement, although it may in the end make it easier and more satisfactory. The attitude of the northern Ohikais remains doubtful. The wounded in the I action of the 19th are all doinz well. A Times Jellalabad telegram says nothing particular has occurred recently jtm the Khyber line. The Ghilzais were lately reported to bo collecting in large numbers near Tezeen, but the news of General Stewart's success at Ghuzni will probably have effected the breaking up of the combination.

General Arbuthnot'a movable column has been ordered to concentrate at agdalak. A Times Calcutta telegram says that owing to the aspect of affairs in Afghanistan a reserve division of Bombay troops is to be sent towards the Candahar line. A standard Saidabad telegram says that General Sir Donald Stewart now assumes the supreme command or the British foitses in Afghanistan. He has gone to Cabul. Geuend Hughes, with Clifford as political agent, takes the command of a division to be designated as tho Ghuzni field force, which passes the summer in the Logar Yaliey.

The correspondent had just heaid that Musa Khan and Mahomed an Lave surrendered to our governor at Ghuzni as a result of the action of April 19th and NEW GOVERNOR GENERAL OF INDIA. The Times Calcutta correspondent says the news of Lord Kipon's appointment has been received on the whole favourably. Much disappointment, however, i.i expressed on ail sides that Lord Duller in'a healilh prevented his accepting the offer which is saict to have been made to him ef the Yiceroyalty. dt ia felt that a strong man at the head of affairs: has been seldom more required than now, and ii; is Relieved that Lord Duii'eria had during his tenure of office in Canada shown himself to possessed a capability t'or government, t.he existence of which in Lord Kipon has yet to be proved. Tho native Press, which was at first jubilant over the Liberal victory, is now beginn ing to moderate its transports and to express doubits as to whether the change of Ministry will be followed by an entire change of Indian policy.

Tito fact is that the small number of natives who iaike any interest in English politics arc, with a very Sew exceptions, wholly ignorant of the real of difference between the two parties, and havei as little sympathy with the one as with the other. Theyfavour the party from which, for the thine' being, they expect most. The Daily lie ws says that tho Marqtis of iiipon will probably take his departure for India towards the end of next week. TRANSPORT BLUNDERING IN AFGHANISTAN. The Army and Nary Gazette has ii; on authority that a sum estimated at the very lovnest computation at a million sterling, has been lost by the bungling transport arrangements in connection with the Afghan expedition.

"Our vn correspondent with the Kyber force has show a at what a dear price we buy experience in srtch masters; but tho disheartening aspect of the ill air is, that although we pay the price, we do not seem to get the experience. In the Crimea, in In uia, in South Africa, even in a march from Aiders hot to Windsor, the old story of an inefficient transport service is always repeated. A few German officers might be usefully imported to teach our costly departments their business." ALARMING NEWS FROM CHINA. Paris, May 1. Europe Diplomatique say 3 "Wo Lave received intelligence of an alarming character from Shanghai, stating that a very hostile feeling to all foreigners is prevalent in China.

It is considered iikeiy that there will be a complete change in the system of government, and possibly a revolution in the coun try. All the members of the Diplomatic Body in Pekin have requested their respective Governments to send squadrons to Shanghai to protect the lives and property of their subjects." THE "PALL MALL GAZETTE." In reference to the statement which appeared on Saturday in the Fail Mall Gazttte, that Mr. Frederick (Greenwood, who has had the editorial direction of the journal from the date of its first publication till now, would not be responsible for any political opinions th.it might appear in its pages after that date, we have authority to say that, besides the change of editorship, there is also one of proprietorship: Mr. George Smith, who has from its commencement owned the paper, having transferred it to his son-in-law, Mr. Henry Yates Thompsou, who will assume the responsibility of the direction of the Fall Mall Gazette.

Mr. Thompson held office under the last Liberal Government as private secretary to the Irish Viceroy. Mr. irederick Greenwood, the late editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, writes to explain that his severance from that paper was caused by his being expected by the new proprietor to advocate the enfranchisement of the agricultural labourer, to support Mr. Gladstone's foreign policy as lately proclaimed, and no longer to oppose the disestablishment of the English Church.

He adds that the paper will soon reappear in a new shape. The proprietor of the Pail Mall Gazette emphatically contradicts in the Daily Chronicle the statement of the Observer that the Pall Mail Gazette will henceforth be a Ministerial journaL RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN FRANCE. rARis, Mat 2, Univers of this evening states thai: a committee has been formed in Paris to receive subscriptions towards a fund for the defence of religious liberty and the rights of fathers of families. The committee is composed of members of the Eight in the and Chamber of Deputies and several other political personages. GALWAY AS A PACKET STATION.

It is stated that Mr. J. O. Lever. M.P.

is arranging with the directors of the Midland Kailway Company of Ireland matters connected with a proposed Gahvay line of steamers to America. SOMETHING NEW. Patent Lever Clocks, go in any position, wonderful value, 6s t)d each. Other descriptions in great variety, at low prices, at Barnard Levy's, and 'o-t, South Castle-street. Spectacles and Eyeglasses from Is per pair.

Watches, Clocks, and Jewellery repaired on the most moderate terms. Established 1853. 25 Tobacconists, call at 10, Padding To SvfOXERS. Martin's Fragrant Tincture for the Teeth, 3s (id, 2s Gd, as (id, and 4s tid per bottle. Quadrant, Lime-street, Liverpool, Limerick, 5s Id.

and 10, Padding ton. The Dome differs from the ordinary Kinds of lilack lyad from the fact ot its adhering at once to the stove or thereby avoiding injury to furniture from dust, "iiroaze, t-ilver, and goiu international medals awarded for excellence of quality and cleanliness in use." Sold by groccrs iu (jd and Is boxes. mw Beauty Kemarkaisle bt the op Sozodont. grateful odour, indicative of health and purity, is communicated to the mouth by the sweet, scented Sczodont, which makes the teeth as white and radiant as polished porcelain, and contains no ingredient that is not highly beneficial to both gums and teeth. 'Tis not afable.

The daily demand for is a marvel iu the annals of Dentistry. It exceeds that of allother Oentrihces combined. This famous article is one of acknowledged merit, and those who once use it will always use it -hence its immense sale. It is the cheapest article sold fov the Teeth, and is supplied by all Chemists and Perfumers, or direet from tbe Wholesale Agent, John M. Richards, Great itusaell-street, London.

W.Cf aiwf WEEKLY NOTES ON NATIONAL PASTIMES. BY A COUNTRY SPORTSMAN. gatherings from the garden and ORCHARD-ARCHERY, LAWN TENNIS. AND AT HOME AND PETRONEL'S TWO THOUSAND UNION FOR ATHLETES CENTENARIAN CRICKET CLUB NEW CHESS WONDERODDS AND ENDS. Perhaps there is no part of the year when I country gardens and orchards present a more in- teresting appearance than at the beginning of May.

We have then before us the full bud of promise, and Hope, like Mr. Tennyson's hero in Enoch Arden," holds her head high. There have rarely i been more solid reasons for anticipating abundantly with regard to the fruits of the earth than those entertained at tho present time. Apples, cherries, plums, and pears aro all bursting into beautiful blossom, and if Charles Kiugsiey's so-called brave "NOl -Easter will only acquit us of his blighting presence the fruit harvest ought to pay the debt it owes for its almost complete failure during i several recont seasons. Seeds, too, of all kind 3 are coming up well, and so far the myriads of slugs which last year ate up ovorything are con- spicuous by their absence.

The dry weather has done the business for them, and may they have departed to return no more. Archery, croquet, and lawn tennis These arc the summer sport 3 in which even the softsr sex may join with recreative and social benefit, and we believe that lawns and courts were never ia better order for coming encounters. The Croquet Club championship, open to all England, will be 1 decided on May IS and following day 3, while tho Open Championship Meeting commences at Wimbledon on June 15. Mr. C.

S. Fryer has won the Crunden Extra Target of the lioyal Toxopholite Society, Mr. A. Berrington being his nearest opponent. Tho Lawn Tennis Championship will be contended for at Wimbledon on July 5.

A pair of very old rival rowers, Gibson and Gouwin, have contested another engagement on the Thames since we last wrote. Gibson, when they previously met, suffered an easy defeat, but by plucky sculling he this time turned the tables upon his antagonist. Haalou, Courtney, and rtilsy contend for the Hop Bitters Company's i Prize, on the Potomac, on May 19th. It will be a great race if they all try," a point oa which we incline to be doubtful. A good deal of excitement has recently been caused in Paris by a match i between the juniors of the Paris Bowing Club and the Soeiete Nantigue de la Marne.

The latter won easily. Though there are few who watch the fortunes I of tho turf who W441 not fool great satisfaction that the Two Thousand haa fallen to a sportsman like the Duko of Beaufort; yet it must bo con- i fessed that his representative Petronel, in meet- I ing such a thoroughly greeu" horse as Muncaster, was extremely lucky. This was the first occasion 1 upon which tho in the race had been out upon a public course. A distance from the winning post he had Potrouel a3 nearly as possible beaten, but the hoarse Babel of shouting with which he was met by tho "roaring moon" of metaliicians close at home sent him "all abroad," just, if one may be allowed the simile, as a youthful debutante loses all her nerve when slio hears tho confused hum of her first "house," and gazes in speechless bewilderment at the sea of upturned and down-turned eyes pouring upon her. Should the Duke of Westminster's horso ever again be pitted against Petronel.

then also will the backers of tha latter liavo to be pitied. The racing reader should carry this assertion in his memory. The Two Thousand prophets (and really, speaking numerically, there seeni3 nowadays quite that number of them) were floored to a man, aud we are this season getting quite concerned for their reputation. A bad beginning, however, is said to make a good ending, and as they are a sanguine race, matters may, perhaps, mend for them before the summer expires. It i 3 gratifying to notice that tho amateur athletes of England have at last come to their senses.

They have formed a union for the purpose of legislating upon athletic matters generally. One principle of the institution is to protect i purely amateur competitors at athletic gatherings. 1 Up to the present it has been by no means uncom- I rnon for professionals to enter for and carry off tho principal prizes. Men have actually been known 1 to paint their faces and dye their hair in order to prevent recognition. One follow within our.

I own knowledge went so far as to shave off his i bsard and moustache in order to run for a trumpery teakettle, which, after all, he didn't win. In future, the union will keep a sharp eye i upon such gentry, and when caught they may probably have to try their athletic powers upon i the treadmill. As the Marylebone Cricket Club, the arbiters of our national summer game, hold their annual meeting this week at Lord's, it will be of interest I to learn that this body have had a successive and also a successful existence of over a hundred years. The club sprang from an association of gentlemen who used to play in tho White Conduit Fields a3 I far back as 1750. Four yeai3 after the formation of the club they contested with the county of ft Middlesex, but were defeated, though they had the services of those ancient hrities Beldham and Purchaser.

In the match named the chief performers were the Earl of 1 Winchelsea, Mr. Fennct, the Hon. E. Bligh, Bi3ldnam, and old Tom Lord, the man, we believe, wlio gave his name to the crack metropolitan I cricket enclosure of to-day. 1 Among the many feathered migrants which have made their appearance in this anything but genial spring of ours we may mention the willow wren, the wood wren, the tree pipit, the redstart, the 1 blackcap, the wryneck, the wheatear, the nightin' gsile, and the grasshopper warbler.

Lovers of chess will be surprised to hear that a ne blindfold player has come to the front who pro inises to excel all our present performers in that He is a German law student named Fritz, not twenty years of age. Conducting twelve games simultaneously at a recent exhibition he won eight, drew two, and lost two. What will the admirers of Rosenthal, and Co. think of this I The present is the period of tha trout rodsters' The greentail and the March brown are now thiok on the surface of most rivers containing trout and grayling, and the former aro rising eagerly. -A.

stood artificial imitation of the two flies named will work wonders for the next three weeks in the hands of an adept. Grayling, it is I said, have generally spawned under highly favour- I able conditions. THE LIVERPOOL JOINERS' DISPUTE. An aggregate meeting of the joiners of Liverpool was held on Saturday afternoon at the Lower Concert Hail, lord -Nelson-atreet, to hear the award of Mr. F.

Collier, ono of the County Court judges, whom both men some time ago agreed to appoint arbitrator in reference to their dispute. The following is a brief history of the dispute. For some years prior to the wages of the joiners stood at 6sd per hour of 55 hours a week, in that year there was a dispute and the wages were advanced to in 1874 they rose to per hour; iu 1875 to per hour, and in 18. to B.jd. At that riguro they remained during i and the following year, and ou the Ist of May, 1879, after great depression in trade, a code of Carpenters' and Joiners' iiules were laid before the employers and operatives, aud accepted.

By this code it was agreed that the hours should eontinsue to be 55 in the week, aud that the wages be 7UI per hour, six months' notice to be given on aither ivide in writing. In October, 1879, the employers gave notice of a reduction of Id per hour, which they afterwards reduced to and this reduction they desired should come into operation on tfcie Ist April, 1880. The action aliectcd the masons cud bricklayers, as well as the joiners, but tiiiey came to terms with their employers at a.reduction of Id per hour. The employers urged, three reasons for the reduction, 1. That a 1 arge part of the joiners'work is done by machinery That a considerable portion of their labour is done iu shops under cover and by artificial light, and that they are, therefore, less liable to loss of time than bricklayers and 3.

That they had comfortable meals and little exposure comparatively to bricklayers. On the other aide the men urged three reasons why matters should remain in stulu quo, as follow 1. That work requires men of higher intelligence and of greater knowledge and skill than bricklayers; 2. That joiners require a much more expensive kit," or outfit, than bricklayers. 3.

That the joiner's trade is more dangerous than that of the bricklayer, and more laborious, inasmuch as joiners have to carry a heavy basket of tools to and from their work. As we have stated above, the dispute was placed in the hands of Mr. Collier, who, after carefully considering the evidence adduced on either side, ooncluded by I therefore award and declare that 7id per hour for 55 hours a week is the rate of wages which should be paid to operative joiners by the members of the Master The as may be imagined, was received with satisfaction at Saturday's meeting, and votes of thanks were accorded to Sir. Collier for his impartial services, and to the General Committee. decision the men exactly hi the same position as they were in before the diepute, and before the employers gave notice of a reduction, The Borough may be changed into a City, but the quality of Hartley's Marmalade and Preserves remains unchanged.

Sold everywhere in the City, 21 FACTS AND FANCIES. How to Drown a the water pitch her. Song of the Bishop's My lore is the see." Eeaeonsfield's eyesight is failing him. So is hii foresight. Attachment announcement of a marriage engagement.

Why is a mad bull an animal of a convivial disposition he offers a horn to every ona he meets. A Georgia editor, in speaking of a rival, saya "that a piece of charcoal would make a whita mark on his A circus elephant in Indiana caught the and the people came from miles around to see tha show, under the impression that there was a tama earthquake on exhibition. It is claimed that a man never loses anything by politeness, but this proved to be a mistake, As an old Philidelphian lifted his hat to a lady t'ue wiud curried away his wigj "We protest against the folly of this sonselesi demand that the money of the land should b( kept in circulation. That's just the trouble with it; it circulates too fast. What we are trying do is to stop a little of it.

St. Patrick's to Bridget appeared in a bower of green ribbons in honour ol the day): "If yon're not careful, Bridget, soma jackass will be trying a bite ov you, you're sa "Try it." subsides. When a Deadwood undertaker, says the Boston. Post, gets a new hearse that is particularly tine, the citizens sometimes get up a free fight and slay somebody so as to eee the vehicle in a procession. Deadwood is a live town.

A woman raised to the third power of widow, hood has the photographs of her three departed lords in a group, with a vignette of herself in tha centre, and underneath is the inscription, "Tha Lord will provide. Spain give 3 a Minister-Plenipotentiary 6,010 dollars per year, while a favourite bulllighter receives 30,000 dollars; but then we'd rather plenipotensh for that coumtry for a dollar a day and board than fight bulls at any price. A little girl read a composition before tha minister. The subject was, A Cow." She weaved in this complimentary sentence The cow is the most useful animal in the world, except religion." A scientific article discusses What eyes ara for." It's easy. bright, sparkling for tho purpose of fooling a fellow into marrying a girl who has a mother and three older sisters with ever ready hearts and guiding to boss his household.

A clergyman recently said that many a one, while apparently singing with all his might Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small, was diligently engaged with one hand in his pocket scraping the edge of a three-cent piece to make sure that it was not a dime. Somehow the ladies don't seem to grasp the leap year idea as they should. They ought to ily around and spend their time and money on the boys, who have to do that sort of thing years on a stretch. Leap year was desijpied expressly to give the boys a financial rest, as' it were, and they need it, Tribune. Now, then," said a teacher of elocution to his class, whether you get just the right shade of pronunciation or not depends a good deal on your ears.

But let no one feel discouraged if he much of an ear; for a person with short ears stands just as good a chance here as a person with long ones." Astronomers say that the planet Neptune is so far from the earth that if Adain and Eve had from the first day of their existence started 011 a railroad travelled and night, at tho rate of thirty miles an hour, toward is'eptuue, they would by this time hft.ve traversed only a little more than half the distance to tha vaporous orb. The human race is, therefore, to ba congratulated upon the fact that Adam and Eva did not undertake any such foolish £)tiltilitl, Milton from the is related thai when a popular lecturer, who was exhibiting tha Edison phonograph bofore a select provincial audience, spoke very distinctly into it the immortal lines of But come, thou goddess fair and free, la heaven yclept Euphrosyue," tho incorrigible instrument returned them on hands as "Homo, thou goddess fair and free, iu heaven she crept and froze knee." At an agency tea party Edward Irving, who had just returned from a tour in Ireland, related soma amusing particulars of his perambulatio.ua through tho liberties of Dublin. I entered," said lie, a miserable cabin, in which an old woman was smoking a pipe by the fire. Seeing threo coarse pictures on the wall, I asked her who they were. Sure, that St.

Paul on the And t.his 'All' sure isn't that St. And he in tha And don't you know Pat Donolly, the bruiser'! sure everybody knows him Tuir.uui Chalmers," Norman L. Walker, Ma'm'solles of one the Parisian boulevard theatres, asked leave absence for a few days. She wished, she said, tcf mourn for her mother who had just died. Tha 1 was granted.

The next day the director ol i the theatre met the actress in a ravishing toilet ol fresh bright colours. "It was very bad of you to abuse my confidence iu this manner," he said. "Your mother is just dead, you say, and here I find you in the gayest of costumes." "Monsieur," responded the young artiste, "I declare I did nos deceive you. Martian is certainly dead but then, you see, she died in Bretagne, and you ought to know that custom does not compel one to weaj mourning for a distant relation." ECHOES FOR THE FIRESIDE The London is perhaps to be any cane tho fact is worthy of noticethat all our picture exhibitions, all our besl operatic representations, a considerable number ol our most famous races, and every fashionablt entertainment worthy of the name, must, by inexorable laws of custom, and under penalty ol failure, take plaoe between the months of Aurii ancl August. "Why the limits of the London season should correspond bo precisely with those of period daring whicii oysters may not be eaten ii would be hard to Stoppage of Growth in the Xait.s.

Writing to the Lancet, Dr. Thin gives the following ca.se In August, 1878, when forty nine years of age, he was seized with a severe illness hf was unconscious for three days, his life being despaired of, but eventually he made a good recovery, being iu bed only for a month. Shortly after the attack it was observed that there was i groove on all the nails, both of the hands and thi feet, neither the patient nor those about him having ever heard previously of such an occurrence. The foot-marks disappeared first, but the lines on the hand-nails were not cut away until nine months had elapsed. The length of time occupied by the marks on the foot-nails until they advanced to the edge of the nail was not noted.

My correspondent iufornis me that he has a good circulation, that he usuaily covers his feet warmly, but does not cover his hands, and that his nails and hair grow with unusual slowness, i A Female Howard. splendid reception ia preparing for Linda Gilbert, who is to arrivo in London about the middle of May. This young lady, who may be justly denominated the female Howard, has devoted her life to the consolation of prisoners. As a child she was living iu Chicago, opposite the gaol of that place, and on ber way to i school was accustomed to pause before the gate ta watch the weary disconsolate look of the miserable i inmates awaiting trial as they wandered listj lessly to and fro. One day a venerable-looking old man asked her to let him look at her school books fearlessly she handed theni to him through the grating, and, as he returned I them, he implored of her to bring him something to read.

She promised she would do so, and the I next day took him Washington Irving's Ilistorj of Grenada," which her father, pleased at seeing i the interest inspired iu her mind by what already called tho starving of intellect worse than' starving of the body in the unfortunate prisoner, lent; her from bis library. Every Sunday tho little girl would carry a book to the gaol for the old man ito read. When the weary months of awaiting I trial were about to elapse a message camo to the father of Linda Gilbert saying that the prisoner was about to die, and wished to see the little girl who had been so kind to him. The request was granted at once, and the poor old man, taking the child's hand in his own, blessed her saying that she had saved his soul, I and bidding her, in the name of Jesus, to go forth and do to other poor people in prison what she had dope for him. She promised solemuly te iuilil his dying wish, and ever since then hai laboured to improve the moral state of evorj prison she has visited, not only by gifts and assist" ance, but by the foundation of a Prison Library," which is acknowledged by chaplains and magistrates to bo the greatest boon ever bestowed upon the criminal classes, and as having effectuated greater moral reform than all the Sunday-school teaching ever bestowed.

The Gilbert Library of Chicago Gaol began with 4,000 volumes, and to these was added a collection of good oil paintings, so that the prisoners might be inspired with a more healthy toao of mind than could possibly be produced by the mere communication of the trivial ideas convej'ed in trivial language which form the ordinary conversation within the walls of a prison. The St. Louii County Gaol possesses a Gilbert library of thousand volumes; and to every county gaoi throughout the States has Linda benevolo net been directed in the shape of thousands -inou thousands of volumes. In New York very is endowed with the like blessing through tin exertions of Linda Gilbert, and now sh; busilj engaged in founding a Permanent Bureau of Kmployment for Released Prisoners. She is coming to Europe for rest from her labours in iw own country by visikiua; the different prisoae of Lureua THIS LIVERPOOL ECHO, MONDAY, MAY 8, 1880, 3.