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Ii 1 I ii war? 1 SOMEBSET COUNTY FIXTUBES. Dec. 8. Devon Not fixed. Middlesex Weston-s-Mare.

SOMERSET COUNTY CRICKET CLUB. The annual meeting of the Somerset County Cricket Club was held on Wednesday, at the London hotel, Taunton. The Mayor (Alderman Fowler) was voted to the chair, and there were also present Mr. Murray- Anderdon (joint hon. secretary), Mr.

S. M. J. Woods (captain). General Palairet, the Revs.

M. C. Gcodford, T. E. R.

Phillips, and A. P. Wickhum, Messrs. W. A.

Woodley (Clifton), H. Washbourne Gibbs (Bath), Lionel Palairet, R. C. N. Palairet, G.

Fowler, A F. Sweet, C. Bere, E. T. Alms, and J.

H. B. Pinchard, Dr. Maodonald, and others. The accounts which were presented showed that the total income had been £1,835 19s.

and a favourable balance of £lOl 18s. with which the year started, had been reduced to 18s. lOd. It was explained, however, that various alterations and improvements had been carried out on the county grounds at Tauntou, and that very wot weather attended the matches last season. The Hon.

Sir Speucer Ponsonby Fane was ro-elected pi'esident, and Sir Edmund Elton, of Clevedon Court, High Sheriff-elect of Somerset, was added to the vice-presidents. Mr. S. M. J.

Woods was re-elected captain, and Mr, H. E. Murray-Anderdon aud Mr. Woods were re-appointed hon. sees.

The old committee was agaiu chosen. It was agreed that the committee for arrangement of matches and selection of teams should consist of the captain and the secretaries and one other member to be elected by the general committee. The chairman said the committee recommeuded that Nichols should have a benefit next year, in recognition of the excellent services ho had rendered the club during the past ten years, as one of the professionals. The chairman remarked that Nichols had played in nearly every match since he had been in the county, and bis record was a very good one. Nichols had expressed the desire that the benefit should take place before he absolutely ceased playing.

The chairman proposed that the benefit match should be given, it being left to the committee to say which match it should be, and to muke the necessary arrangements. Mr. Woods seconded the motion, which was carried. Mr. Wushboume Gibbs spoke of the advisability of playing some of the home matches at Bath, where ground of fifteen acres had been acquired for cricket and other sports, and was to be laid out at once.

He thought that if the committee could give a couple of matches to Bath many new subscriptions might be got in that city and the neighbourhood. The chairman said the committee would be only too glad to play at Bath if the ground were suitable, but it would be quite impossible to play on a new ground next season. When the ground had bean prepared, the committee would give the matter their favourable consideration. HUNTING. WELLS SUBSCRIPTION HARRIERS Friday, 30th November Wookey Hole, uear Wells Monday, 3rd December Easton Inn.

Friday, 7th December Castle Comfort, Mendip. Each day at 11 a.m. THE SOUTH AND WEST WILTS HOUNDS Friday, 30th November Yarnfleld Gate At 11 a.m. THE WESTON HARRIERS (MR. HARDWICK'S; Saturday, Dfc December, At 11 a.m.

Inn, Kewstoko ADVERTISER FOR SOMERSET. DIPHTHERIA IN SOMERSET. FOOTBALL GOsSIP. THK ENGLISH CUP TIES OF OP THE RUGBY MATCH. The whittling down process in the qualifying round of the English Cup Competition is going merrily on, and last Saturday another score clubs representative of Northern and Southern football had to stand down.

Glancing rapidly over the "happenings in the North of England, one result is worthy of special notice. The defeat of Grimsby, at the hands of a practically unknown club called is another verification of that old English Cup truism, that the best teams seldom meet with their deserts. Nevertheless, it is not often that a Second Division club of the standing of Grimsby be it remembered, on the League table given the order of the push so early in the competition. In fact, a good many people were surprised to find Grimsby in the qualifying competition at all, in consideration of the fact that Woolwich Arsenal were allowed to remain spectators until the real battle commenced. I see that Burton Wanderers defeated their near and dear neighbours of the same locality, and that Leicester Fosse is a greatly improved team, and relieved Rushden of any further anxiety with regard to the next round.

On the whole the Cup tie scoring in the North was very poor, 13 clubs yielding an average goal record of two, while their opponents could only rake up nine between them. ASSOCIATION. STREET RESERVES v. WELLS RESERVES. In the South the matches appeared to be a great deal more interesting, and here again an unusual surprise was created over the defeat of Clapton by Tottenham Hotspur.

Caretul students of the game had all been tipping the East Kmlers to the Spurs have undoub.cdly improved in a remarkable degree during the last few weeks, and a victory by four to nothing will give some tangible idea of their superiority. The defeat of Ili'ord by Luton was exactly according to relative is something unusual in a Cup tie match the same remark applies to the success of the Royal Ordnance and Southampton St. Mary's. On the other hand, there was a decided element of doubt about the issue of the New Brompton v. Millwall tie.

The Chatham men had defeated the Londoners in a friendly game somewhat earlier in the they were not without hope of repeating the dose in this more important engagement. But old birds like Geddes and McKenzie were not to be snared by the Bromptonians, and the visiting team got safely home by two goals to nil, after a somewhat vigorous game. The League championship lacks no good thing in the way of ever-recurring the match between Sunderland and will long be remembered on the banks of the Wear. The fact that Liverpool had only won a single game out of 15 played naturally suggested that Sunderland would have quite an easy task to negotiate, ir.it, as matters turned out, the probable champions of the League only managed to pull the game out of the fire in the last 10 minutes of the game. Up to that, lirr.e Liverpool were actually leading by a couple of goals to nil.

Then a complete change came over the game. Emulating that remarkable dash by which Everton deb ated them at Liverpool some time ago, Sunderland piled three goals through Hannah, Campbell, and Gillespie, and won the match amid a scene of great excitement by three goals to two. Post tuns of up t) Saturday, Xovember 23rd. Goals. WELIS ASSOCIATION OOTBALL CLUB FIXTURES.

Date. Opponeuts. Where played. Dec. 1 Street Street.

8 Wells. 15 Norton Wells. 22 Bridgwater Wells. 29 Old Mannamediaus Wells. Jan.

5 Wells. 12 Clevedou Wells. 19 Wells. Burnham Burnham. Feb.

2 Wells. 9 Theological College Wells. 16 Yeovil. Bristol South Eud Wells. Mar.

2 Wells. 9 Bumiiam Wells. 16 Bridgwater 23 Norton Midsomer Norton. 30 Wincanton. Apl.

6 Clevedon Clevedon. League Matches. Everton also had a narrow squeak at Liverpool, where they met Blackburn Hovers, and it was only by a penalty goal that tliey were enabled to claim their two League points. At tun the Wanderers were defeated the hands of Small Heath by two to one, both the winning goals being scored in the second half through Hallam and Wheldon. The result of this match leaves the Bolton men third from the bottom on the League list, in close company with the Liverpudlians, although Derby County, in spite of their recent victory over Preston North End, are still chief candidates for the wooden spoon.

Aston Villa defeated Notts Forest by four goals after an exceedingly hard game at the commencement. Burnley took it out of West Bromwich Albion, but Stoke anu Wolverhampton both failed to score. So much importance was attached to the meeting of Woolwich Arsenal and Newcastle United at the northern borough that the locals placarded the town with large posters, announcing the match as a North v. South encounter. This was hrleed a compliment to the "Beds," although I tm V.c md to say that the defeat of Newcastle proved in an unmistakable manner that the estimate was a long way from being incorrect.

A game of four goals to two on a strange ground, and in the presence of a hostile crowd, augurs well indeed for the Arsenal, and they now take a fairly commanding position on the League list. In fact, they are next to Darwen, which club, by the way, played a drawn game last Saturday with Newton Heath. Another remarkable success in this division was that of Notts County over Bury, with a score of two goals to one; but, although the Lacemen are now second in the running with two matches in hand and 18 points, Bury are still going strongly with 24. 26. St.

Francis, Bristol Wells. (Boxing-day) 1895. Jan. 5. Bridgwater Wells.

12. St. Francis, Bristol Bristol. 26. Bridgwater Bridgwater.

Feb. 16. Cheddar Valley Cheddar. Wed. 20.

Theological College Wells. Mar. 16. Cheddar Valley Wells. Mr.

William Hay i 3 the captain of the London Caledonians, and it would not out of place to describe him as one of the best amateur full backs in the country. Last Saturday he was assisting Queen's Park in their Scottish Cup tic with Celtic, and it is hardly necessary for me to say that he is a patriotic Scotchman, always ready to lend his valuable aid to clubs over the L'order. Hay is one of the giants of London, and those who knock up against him in a football field live to remember the sensation. He stands 6ft. and weighs 13st.

31b. The subject of our sketch cannot be described as a stylish back, but there are few more effective men in his position. He has a weakness for loftv is net always appreciated by the local crowd at Caledonian Park. A team, miscalled "London," went down to Sheffield, and were beaten by a powerful League team, selected from both the United and Wednesday clubs, by ten goals to nil. The only feature about the Londoners play was the splendid goal-keeping of Raikes and the clever full-back play of M'Gahey.

If Londoners continue to shew such remarkable diffidence with regard to this annual feature, it would be far better to cancel it altogether and put an end to what is nothing more nor less than a farce. Teams representing London and Sheffield have met on 37 occasions, each association winning 14 games, 8 being drawn, whilst that at the Oval in 1899 was abandoned on account of fog when the Sheffielders were leading by 2 goals to 1. The Blades have scored 83 goals to their opponents' 74, so tiiat, generally speaking, honours are pretty even. Previous to Saturday double figures had never been scored in one of these contests, the nearest approach being Sheffield's 8 goals to 2 victory in 1873, and London's 7 goals to nil at the Oval in iBB3. The victory of London Scottish against Cambridge University ia, perhaps, one of the most remarkable results under the scrummaging code in the South of England, and the Cantabs will certainly have to improve on tliis form if they mean to successfully cope with Oxford in the coming inter-'Varsity match.

The Dark Blues are shewing much more consistent form, as their defeat of the Harlequins would indicate. 10 1 mond made a specially good fight with Blackheath, and the appearance of Conway Rees.the famous Welsh International, created a large amount of interest. As was generally expected, Yorkshire defeated Lancashire in the Rugby County Championship by 28 points to 10, and Fallowfield, Manchester, presented a remarkble scene, the crowd reminding one, in a shade lesser degree, of that which assembled to witness the final in ti English Cup tie. The most prominent men for Yorkshire, says a Northern were Rarraclough, Toothill, and Nowell, and the splendid goal-kicking abilities of Donaldson were of inestimajle value on nis side. Kigg at nait-back piayea a grand game, and was far superior to his colleague.

Among the speedy three-quarters, Cooper, Dobson, and Firth were excellent. Ward was safe at full back, though he was not often pressed, but in one or two instances he shewed that he possessed the requisite talent for the position. The annual football match between the Yale and Harvard Universities was played at Springfield last Saturday, and resulted in a victory for Yale by 18 points to four. FORWARD. Wells took a weak team of Reserves to Street last Saturday, and had it not been for the splended goal keeping of Squires, they would have been beaten by more than 4 goals to nil.

Street pressed all through the game, sending in shot after shot. Wells broke away occasionally but conld rot score. Wells goal Makin and Tebbitt, backs Fry, Brownsey, and Bray, half-backs; Coles, Packer, Lewis, Goodiu, and Griffin, forwards. CATHEDRAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL V. STAR CLUB, These two clubs met for the second time this season on Saturday last in thB Recreation Ground.

Both teams were poorly represented. During the first half the Star secured three goals and two in the second half. The School also secured two goals in the second half. Russ, Ford, and Davis played well for the School, and White, Hallidny, and Chappell for the Star. Star Richardson, goal E.

Conduct, and A. Parker, backs; B. Telf, F. Dingle, and Blueford, half-backs; A. White, W.

Chappell, G. Halliday, H. Miller, and H. Swainson, forwards. WELLS BLUE SCHOOL V.

CHORISTERS. This match played in the Recreation Ground on Tuesday last, and resulted in a win for the Blue School by goals to 1. Blue School goal Stiles, Teek, hacks; Dell. Wheeler, and Gunning, half-backs; White, Coles, Oram, Mogg, Walker, forwards. Choristers' Brownsey, goal; Dell, W.

Brownsey, backs; Taylor, Read, and Sharman, half-backs; Moody, Picton, Marsden, Seale, and Ford, forwards. Refree, Mr. Atkinson. 11 SOMERSET SENIOR LEAGUE CUP. GAPGYGS MIDSOMER NORTON V.

GLASTONBURY. iTayed at Midsomer Norton on Saturday, and resulted in a victory for Midsomer Norton by 12 goals to one figQtJ Club. Plyd. Won Lost Drawn F. A.

Pnta. Midsomer 1 4j 21 2 8 Wells 4 4 14 2 8 Paulton 4 2 2 7 6 4 Street .4 1 2 1 4 5 3 Radstock 4 1 2 1 Yeovil 4 1 2 1 3 5 3 Wincanton 4 1 2 1 3 9 3 Glastonbury 4 4 221 0 HEBVEY ROVEBS RUGBY UNION FOOTBALL FJXTUBES. Date. Opponents. Where Played.

1894. Dec. 1. Cheddar Wells. 8.

Castle Cary Wells. 15. Theological College College Ground. The prisoners were remanded. For some little time now cases of diphtheria have occurred iu the rural district of Wellington, in Somerset, the village of Hadley having been especially invaded, and the schools having, as a consequence, been closed for several weeks past.

The sanitary advisers of the authority attribute the spread of the disease to the defective condition of the offices attached to the schools whilst it is, on the other band, held that it is to the general insanitary condition of the locality that the diphtheria is to be credited, and complaint to the Local Government Board is talked of if the sanitary authority do not move in the direction of ameliorating those conditions. The fact, however, remains that since the closure of the schools, day and Sunday, the disease has disappeared and in any case it would seem desirable that any defects on the scholastic premises should be remedied without delay, whatever may have been their relation to the particular outbreak. At Kynnersley, in the same district, the scholars have also been attacked lately to the number of twelve, with two deaths and the schools are to be closed there. This relation of schools to the dessimination of diphtheria is becoming more and tnore accentuated, and is, indeed, pressing itself into a prominence which deserves most serious attention. If bacteriology can only be brought into practical use in the early recognitions of suspicious throat maladies in children much will have beeu achieved.

It is undoubtedly the continuance at school of infectious throat cases which does such a vast deal to spread true diphtheria, these unrecognised attacks often bridging over periods of apparently total absence of the graver malady, and still more often leadiug up to the dissemination of diphtheria by reason of importation of disease which is not looked upon at the time as of a serious Lancet. ATTEMPT TO WRECK AN EXPRESS TRAIN. NARROW ESCAPE OF PASSENGERS. Charles Wyatt, Charles Goddard, and William Hoare were charged at Aldershot on Thursday, with attempting to wreck the Bournemouth express by placing a sleeper upon the line. The court was crowded.

The Bournemouth express is one of the fastest trains on the South-Western Company's system, and has a Pullman car attached. It left Waterloo at 4.55 p.m. on Monday, and three-quarters of an hour later, when nearing Fleet Pond, Hampshire, at a speed of nearly sixty miles an hour, it came in contact with a massive sleeper, which had been evidently maliciously placed across the down rail. The driver, who was almost jerked off the engine by the shock, succeeded in bringing his train to a standstill within a very short time, and he and the guards at onco made a search along the line. Several passengers who had been shaken by the impact also alighted.

The driver fonnd a new and heavy sleeper lying on the inside of the guard-irons of the bogie engine, and immediately in front of the foremost wheels. The guard-irons were very much bent, but beyoud that no damage had been done. It was evident that the sleeper had been carried some distance, and the fact that the engine did not leave the metals afforded ample proof of the strength of its constitution, and the excellence of the permanent way. Had the engine left the rails the smash would have been a fearful one, and the loss of life probably very great. The matter was put into the hands of the police, and as the result of inquiries made by those officials they arrested ou Tuesday a labourer, named Charles Wyatt, who, it is alleged, had been loafing about the neighbourhood of Fleet Pond since Sunday night, and who was unable to give a satisfactory account of his movements.

Following up their inquiries, the police arrested on Wednesday evening two young labourers lodging near Fleet, and the three prisoners were taken before the Aldershot magistrates on Thursday. Deputy Chief Constable Stephenson stated that when Wyatt was arrested his hands smelt strongly of tar, such as was used on sleepers. Sapper Etheridge, of the Royal Engineers, stated that he had Leon arrested on another charge on Wednesday night, and Wyatt was put into his cell. Wyatt tuld him that he, Hoare, mid Coddard had placed a sleeper on the line to wreck the train, aud that they waited to see the result. They placed a second sleeper on the line when no accident resulted in the first case.

The engine driver stated that had the train left the rails it would have been wrecked, and great loss of life would have occurred. Tlie natives of the islands near New Guinea havs risen and massacred the white men at the trading ports. Traces of cannibal feasts were everywhere to be seen. THREE CHILDREN SUFFOCATED. on Saturday morning a fire occurred at a house in Pledge-street, Wapping, London, occupied by several families of lodgers.

The building was soon enveloped in flames and great excitement prevailed. Most of the inmates escaped out of the houses at the rear of the premises, but one man was severely injured by jumping from the first floor window, and two other men were severely burned before escaping. After the flames were extinguished the bodies of three children who had been suffocated were discovered. THE CARE OF PAUPER Sir Walter Foster, Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board, visited Sheffield on Saturday to inaugurate a new scheme of the Guardians for dealing with pauper children, with the object of preventing them becoming connected with the workhouse and being tainted with pauperism. The Guardians have taken several cottages in different parts of the city in the midst of the artisan population, where children who come under the care of the Guardians will be sent.

They will be attended by foster parents, sent to the public elementary schools and places of worship, and in every way brought up like the children of the working classes. Sir Walter Foster said tho experiment was being watched with the greatest interest by the Local Government Board and Poor Law authorities. It was an admirable attempt to get rid of the hereditary taint of pauperism, and he wifhed it every success. UPRISING OF THE SOUTH SEA A Queenstown correspondent telegraphed on Thursday night that, according to the latest advices received from Australia, per the White Star liner Adriatic, a native uprising has taken place on all the islands near New Guinea, and scores of European settlers have been murdered by Kanahas. The steamer Three Cheers, of Sydney, reports calling at Admiralty Island and New Ireland with supplies, and finding the trading ports iu ashes, and whito men nowhere to be found, while the trading schooner was burned to the water's edge.

On the approach of the vessel to Admiralty Island the natives fled to the hills. On landing, the worst fears of the captaiu were realised. Traces of a cannibal feast of recent date were found, and without doubt all the inhabitants of the trading post had met with a horrible death. At New Ireland, the Australian trading post was burned to the ground, and it is feared the entire white population were killed. Massacres are also reported on other islands.

It is thought the natives stole liquor at one of the trading posts, and that had the effect of reverting them to the wild state from which they had so recently emerged. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. will with two codicils, of Mr. Charles Edward Lees, J.P., of Wernoth Park, Oldham, Lancashire, has been proved, the personal estate amounting to upwards of £852,000. The will of Mr.

Vandeleur Benjamin Crake, J.P., of the Highlands, St. Let nard'fl-on-Sea, has been proved, the personal estate amounting to over will of Sir Rupert Kettle, Judge of County Courts, of Merridale. Wolverhampton, has been proved, the personal estate amounting to upwards of will of Mr. Thomas Beaven Rake, of Fordinbridge, in the county of Southampton, surgeon, has been proved, the personal estate amounting to upwards of will, with two codicils, of Miss Mary Charlotte Cook, of 31, Gresham-road, Brixton-road, London, has been proved, the personal estate amounting to upwards of £27,000. The will of Mr.

Robert Meller, J.P., of Higher-house, Royton, Lancashire, cotton-spinner, has been proved, the personal estate amounting to over will of Mrs. Georgina Mary Marriott, of The Boynes, Upton-on-Severn, Worcestershire, has been proved, the personal estate amounting to upwards of will and three codioils of Admiral Arthur Mellersh, C.8., of 43, Ventnor-villas, Hove, have been proved, the personal estate amounting to £3,250. will ol Miss Frances Caroline Elphinstone Goldsmid, of 55. Perham-road, West Kensington, has been proved, the personal estate amounting to lllustrated London News. MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN KENSINGTON.

At an early hour on Monday morning a mysterious murder was reported at Kensington. Soon after midnight, in a quiet part of Holland Park-road, a constable of the division found the body of a woman lying upon the pavement. A cursory examination showed that the throat had been cut almost from ear to ear. The woman was quite dead. Assistance was quickly obtained, and the body was removed to the policestation, about 500 yards distant.

There it was seen by Dr. Townsend, the divisional police-surgeon, who ordered its removal to the Kensington mortuary. The crime is a complete mystery. No cries were heard. Beside the body, which lay near to the kerb of the pavement, was found a walking stick, which the murderer had evidently left behind as he made his escape.

This is at present the only clue in the possession of the police. The body is that of young woman, apparently about 22 years of age. From the quantity of blood found on the pavement it is concluded that she had been dead some few minutes before the discovery was made. ALARMING SITUATION IN MADAGASCAR. PRINCESSES PREACHING A HOLT WAR.

Reuter says that the mail steamer Iraouddy, which arrived at Marseilles on Thursday, brings of recent events in Madagascar. The arrival of M. Le Myre de Vilers at the capital wa9 marked by numerous outrages by thieves and incendiaries. The native police did nothing to arrest or discover the culprits, but seemed rather to protect and encourage them. An agent of the house of Messrs.

Rebut and Sarrante, on the West coast of the island, as well os a native of Mauritius, have been killed with assegais by the Fahavolos, and their dwellings have been plundered. These acts have remained unpunished by the Malagasy Government. On October 19th Kabary palaver was held at Antananarivo, when a proposal to resist the French was carried with acclamation, and the recital of the French claims was received with marks of disapprobation. The Prime Minister laid especial stress upon the intention of France to deprive them of the land of tleir forefathers. The excitement among the inhabitants was very great.

Prince Rakotemana, influenced by an article recently published, has been engaged in spreading the agitation through the city. The English missionaries, having indirectly sought to learn the intentions of the Silver Palaco in their regard in the event of hostilities, have been promised protection. All hope of a peaceful solution of the present situation has now been abandoned. Fanatics have harangued the people in the different quarters of the town, stirring them up against the French. Several of them displayed to the inhabitants the hearts and entrails of human beings, declaring that they had been found in the houses of Frenchman.

On October the Princesses, the sister and aunt of the Queen, who wield great influence passed through the capital aud the neighbouring villages preaching a holy war. On the 22nd the French Resident-General took all possible precautions to protect the French citizens scattered along the coast. On the following day the Council of the Prime Minister, sitting at the Palace in permanence, had under consideration the best means of opposing the French and the question of arms and ammunition. Among the people there is some talk of reprisals. The French are repeatedly charged with having murdered children in order to eat their hearts.

The Prime Minister does his best to maiutain order, but it is possible that bis efforts may not be altogether successfnl. Several members of the Prince of Wales's family, including two of his daughters, are fencers. A suit of chain mail, such as was used about the time of William the Conqueror, often cost £2OO. Illicit gold buying is becoming more common in Johannesburg. One man has been arrested with £2,000 upon him.

Roman swords, recovered from tombs, weigh 61b. to and battle-axes weighed showing the great strength of Roman soldiers. A great number of ducks have been swept away by the floods on the Thames, and there is little liklihood of their coming back again. In Glasgow Sheriff Court on Tuesday a commercial traveller was awarded £lOO damages for being wrongfully dismissed from his situation. The latest applicant of distinction for shelter in General Booth's homes was an accomplished classical and scientific scholar who bad been tutor to an earl." A new association, called the Clerks' Social Guild," has just been formed for the purpose of promoting esprit dc corps amongst wielders of the pen.

It is calculated that if the children under the care of the London School Board were to join hands they would reach from London to Carlisle, a distance of 300 miles. Mr. James Woodgate, a Crimean veteran, and coxswain of the Dover Lifeboat, has been presented with a cheque and testimonial in recognition of 25 years' service as a lifeboatman. There are disagreeable reports on the Continent as to the relations between Princess Waldemar of Denmark Princess Marie of Orleans) and her husband, Prince Waldemar. The word waits" comes from wayghtes," which was the name of the old hautboy.

The stall at Westminster, left vacant by Canon Prothero, is worth £lOOO a year. There is an interesting sketch of Mrs. Oscar Wilde in the current number of To-Day. Ths income of Mr. William Waldorf Astor has been estimated to be nearly £6,000 a day.

The Pall Mall Gazette publishes the draft proposals for the formation of a Navy League. Compared with Liszt, Rubinstein once said, all the rest of us pianists are mere wood choppers." The number of public lamps lighted nightly in England and Wales is somewhere about hundred thousand. The new ship Belford Mackinnon, from Glasgow to Swansea, went ashore at Gorrock Head on Thursday. The crew were saved. The Rev.

Canon Joy, of Benenden Vicarage, Staplehurst, has resigned the honorary canonry which he lately held in Ripon Cathedral. Wilson Charles, a sergeant of the Glasgow Police, while crossing the North British Railway at Glasgow on Thursday was knocked down and killed by a goods train. In consequence of the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease the Board of Agriculture have issued an order expressly forbidding the removal of cows from within the metropolitan atea to places without. While playing in a game of football at Buckingham on Thursday between Buckingham and the Stony Stratford clubs, Mr. Frederick Robinson, of Deanshanger, who was playing with Stony Stratford, sustained a broken collar-bone.

CHINA AND JAPAN PEACE PROPOSALS. report that China has offered as the price of peaee 100,000,000 taels (rather over in addition to the cost incurred by Japan in the war, is probably correct, since a telegram to that effect has been received from Hiroshima, the Japanese headquarters. If Japan merely wished to emerge from the struggle with all the honours of war, with a great reputation for military and naval skill, and with a huge sum of money, perhaps such terms as China is prepared to offer might be acceptable. But the statesmen of Japan not entered upon a contest with their gigantic neighbour with any such circumscribed views, and they would not be the astute men they have proved themselves to bo if they concluded a peace without taking effective steps to cripple their adversary permanently. If this were not done, the inevitable result would be that the whole energies of China would, after peace, be directed to building up a fleet and an army with which to wreak vengeauce upon Japan.

Of this there can be no doubt whatever, and the Japanese know it well. They are therefore bound in their own defence in coming to terms with China to make such dispositions as will ensure them against future attack by a new and invigorated empire. To accomplish this, to reduce China to a condition of permanent weakness, the simplest and most direct method would be to dethrone the present dynasty, and let the Empire be cut up into half a dozen Independent States. At present the great provinces are governed with very little reference to Pekin and with the collapse of the Manchu dynasty they could readily become self-governing communities. Japan has not yet given the slightest indication of the terms she is prepared to accept; but the abdication of the present dynasty will probably be the.chief of them.

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WELLINGTON, SOMERSET. Ever since his retirement there have been rumours that Mr. Gladstone might return to active political life. Just now such stories are particularly rife. Of course (the World says) there is no more real ground for the present than there has been for the previous editions.

But the explanation of their prevalence is worth notice, for it has to do with the state of affairs within the ring which runs the Government Mr. Gladstone has left. A recent visitor to Ha warden was, in common with everybody who has been there lately, much struck by his host's marvellous physical energy and all but complete recovery of his sight, and, half in jest, suggested a return to Westminster. To this Mr. Gladstone, with a seeming seriousness, is said to have replied, Well, well, I shouldn't wonder after all," or words to that effect.

This little incident has naturally grown by repetition, till the.e are now to be found plenty of people ready to believe it implicitly; and their belief has found support in the current rumour that the quarrels of the Cabinet are keener now than at any previous time. With Bfr. Gladstone, coarse, all things are possible, and his re-entry into it would be one way out of what is becoming more and more of an impasse. But it need hardly be added that domestic and other reasons make strongly against the probability of such an anticlimax. The death is announced of Harriet Lydia, Dowager Countess of Portarlington.

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