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THE LIVERPOOL WEEKLY MERCURY SATURDAY JANUARY 30 1875 6 The latest for blonde hair Mr Disraeli is in capital health having lost hia gout and other ailments whioh troubled him General Sir James Hope Grant GOB lies dangerously ill in London Mr Armstead sculptor has been elected an associate of the Royal Academy A jaw eight feet long has lately been unearthed in Wisconsin It is supposed to have belonged to a woman of the miocene age American Paper The Rev Mr Watson late curate at Frome contradicts the report that he had been received into the Church of Rome On 65 cents a week a student in Iowa College is reported to have boarded himself whilst he was engaged in studying 20 hours per day On Wedneuday at Belfast two soldiers named Bond and Campbell were remanded on charges of stabbing a man named Palmer Thomas William Iloriusby aged 14 has been killed at the Warren Vale pit near Sheffield by a kick from a horse Mr Charles Edward Bignold son of the late Sir Charles Bignold was elected on Wednesday to the office of secretary of the Norwich Union FirC Insurance Society vacant by his death Four English sailors belonging to the Aberdeen steamer Lochnagar Captain Melville whioh left Newcastle on Sunday for Bombay have been picked up at sea and landed at Ostend At the Brierley Hill police court on Thursday William Tennant labourer was sentenced to six imprisonment for having attempted to throw a woman named Shakespeare into a canal On Thursday morning the punishment of the lash was inflicted at Newgate on a young criminal named Lloyd aged 17 the leader of a gang of roughs He howled vigorously some time before the punishment began Edward Grain engine driver and Robert Craig brakesman charged with being drunk whilst in charge of a train on the Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway were on Wednesday fined £10 and costs each at the Salford police court It was stated at the special meeting of Messrs John Bagnall and Sons Limited at Birmingham on Wednesday that the promotion money agreed to he paid to Mr Carlton of Manchester was £85000 The treaty of commerce now existing between Russia and Turkey comes to an end next year and the Cabinet of St Petersburg has already givon notice that it will not be renewed without special negotiation At Famworth a pit sinker named Farr has been so dreadfully kicked by some men with whom he had quarrelled that one of his legs is splintered from the thigh to the ankle No arrest has yet been made The total number of messages forwarded from postal telegraph stations in the United Kingdom during the woek ending Jan 23 was 342067 showing an increase of 17467 on the corresponding week last year On Wednesday a parliamentary paper was issued from which it appears that at the late contested election for Manchester the expenses of Mr Birley and Mr Callender amounted to £4945 and of Sir Bazley and Mr Jacob Bright £3933 The number of electors on tfce register was 60222 The Dowager Queen of Bavaria who was recently converted to Catholicism has undertaken to construct for the Catholics of Munich a now church the cost of which the municipal council of that city refused to pay The expense ia calculated at 200000 florins Prince state of health is far fom beinj satisfactory It is so far improved as to admit his superintending the affairs of state and resuming his conferences with the Emperor but not sufficiently to allow his devotion to parliamentary duties At tho Reading police court the other day two hoys charged with refusing to attend church on tho order of their employer a farmor were fined 10s each the chairman remarking that it was the law of the land that everybody should goto church One of those rare occurrences a golden wedding was celebrated on Wednesday last at Bruntyards Gamrie Banffshire We may add that the minister who celebrated the marringe in 1825 was the Rev John Wilsoj who is still doing pastoral duty as minister of Piemnay Banffshire Journal A' seam of coal 2 feet 3 inches thick was struck in the deep winnings at the Ifton Rhyn collieries on Thursday This discovery is considered to bo of great importance as proving the extension of the coal measures At Stratford Henry Murray of No 361 Albany-read Camberwell was convicted of having offered for sale 1003 muskets the barrels of which wore not proved and marked He was fined4d for each barrel with £2 2s costs and the magistrates issued a certificate of forfeiture against all tho muskets On Wednesday the street vendors of flowers in London hawked about large supplies of primroses violets bluebells and other wild flowers in bloom and obtained a ready sale for their goods Lent lilies and wallflowers are already in the market although scarce While Mr and Mrs Vaughan were driving in a cab near Waterloo-place London on Wednesday the horse ran away and the vehicle was dashed against a post The cabman was thrown down and seriously injured Mr Vaughan was also badly hurt and Mrs Vaughan received a severe shock Last week the total number of paupers in the metropolis was 99671 of whom 37025 wero in workhouses and 62646 received outdoor relief Compared with the corresponding weeks in the years 1874 1873 and 1872 these figures show a decrease of 7754 12094 and 24799 respectively Tho sun is all very said an Irishman at a recent Wicklow philosophical conversazione the moon is worth two of it for the moon affords us light in the night-time when we want it whereas the with us in the day-time when we have no occasion for Mrs Prodgers has at length got a cabman in the toils Tho magistrate at Westminster on Wednesday was so much impressed with a point she raised as to tho right of a cabman to discharge himself after being detained an hour that he has reserved his decision At a special meeting of the sessions held at Coleford Henry Robins and Jane his daughter were charged with the manslaughter by alleged starvation of Elizabeth Robins wife of the first-named prisoner who was committed for trial his daughter being discharged The Duke of Richmond and Viscount Sandon on Wednesday received a deputation of English elementary teachers who urged extensive alterations of the revised code Lord Sandon said the department desired to hear suggestions as it was intended to considerably alter the code this year so that no further changes may be necessary for a long time Henry Edward Dobson the boatswain of tho La Plata who with Hooper the quartermaster was rescued from a raft was on Wednesday brought before the Lord Mayor charged with being a deserter from the Royal Horse Artillery The defendant who was evidently in a very delicate state of health was allowed to go home with his brother on undertaking to appear again when required A resolution was carried at the annual meeting of the National Chamber of Trade in London on Wednesday declaring it to be incumbent upon that body to represent to the Government and Parliament the absolute necessity of such measures being adopted as shall secure legitimate trading interests against continued and further encroachments by the civil service co-operative societies At Leeds on Wednesday Albert ClaytOD painter waa committed for trial at the assizes charged with having wounded William Ramsden Cropper a landlord with intent to do grievous bodily harm After having been turned out of house for disorderly conduct he returned with a razor and attempted to cut the throat of prosecutor who was very seriously wounded An elderly gentleman returning home on Sunday from church began to extol the merits of the sermon to his son The following short dialogue tells tho story I have heard said the old gentleman one of the most delightful Bermons ever delivered before a Christian society It oarriod me to the gates of Well I replied Frank better have dodged in for yon will never have such another A gentleman named Ffrance said to be a ward in Chancery and about to come into an income of £7000 a year was brought before the Bow-street magistrate (London) on Wednesday charged with having upwards of £1000 worth of jewellery by false pretences The case was not gone into and a remand was granted the counsel saying he had a complete answer to the charge In presiding at the Canterbury Diocesan Conference on Wednesday the Primate endeavoured to moderate public expectation as to the ecclesiastical legislation of the coming session He showed that as the Convocation of the southern province was not to meet till the 13th of April and its conclusions on the subject of rubrical revision would have to be referred to the Convocation of York it web not likely that Parliament would this year accomplish much in that direction The state barge in which the remains of Lord Nelson were conveyed from Greenwich to Westminster has been removed from South Kensington to Portsmouth It is what is termed on excellent lines and is 36 feet in length The decorations especially at the head and stern are profuse and the wash-streak is richly ornamented with gilt The barge which naturally is somewhat decayed waB on Wednesday Bent on board renowned flagship the Victory and will occupy a conspicuous position under the poop The rights question at Worksop seems to have entered a new phase At the petty sessions on Wednesday several appeared for their with discretionary powers to act for their husbands One woman indeed seemed to have powers of for she pleaded that though her husband had been previously convicted this was his offence under the new and got him off by paying 5s the lowest fine imposed in oases of drunkenness and riotous Sheffield Telegraph In the Court of Exchequer on Wednesday Mr Milner a sporting gentleman sued Mr Lord a veterinary surgeon on an IO for £80 The defendant Eddie intoxicated had been tossing and betting at an hotel at Brighton and the plaintiff it was stated lent him the sum claimed to pay his losses On tne other hand it was pleaded that the money if lent was intended for gambling purposes and ultimately counsel on both sides agreed to drop the case and a verdict for tho defendant waa given At annual meeting of the members of the Manchester AtheniBam held on Wednesday evening the president (Mr Ogden) referring to ths remarks of the Lord Chief Justice of England last week and to comments which appeared in the newspapers to the effect that the Athenaium had uowounycio uuo oncui lunv vuo iuuouiuuiu uftu 3CuriU The death is auotineod of Admiral Laploco tho senior of the 1 admirals Montana announces the discovery of an inexhaustibly quarry of the fiuest white marble Albert Durer tho father of engraving is to have statue erected to his memory in Germany Every railroad depot in Boston is Baid to stand on ground that has been artificially mado Arrangements have been made for defending Halifax Bermuda and Malta by torpedoes Tho negotiations for a reciprocity treaty between tho United States and the Sandwich Islands have been brought to a favourable conclusion Tho strength of tho China army is stated to bo 800000 men and of the navy 1900 ships of all classes The meeting in Taris of tho international conference upon the metrical system lias been postponed till the 1st of March A foreigner who could not speak English was shipped from Norfolk Virginia duly labelled and consigned to somebody at Dardenelle Arkansas Viscount Sanden MP and Lady Mary Sandon aro staying with the Dowager Marehioness of Exeter at Bournemouth Mr Thomas Wilson a gentleman well known at Kidderminster as agent in that district for the Cannock Chase Coal Company committed suicide on Monday by cutting his throat Lord Derby has consented on the request of the secretary of the Edinburgh Conservative Working Association to address a meeting of the working chiBses when he visits Edinburgh In the Court of Exchequer on Wednesday during the hearing of a case the Lord Chief Baron intimated that this would probably be the last term during which he would sit to hear cases During a violent gale in Cork on Sunday young lady named Sullivan was blown down with such force that she sustained injuries which caused her death On Saturday nigh tho Rev James Galloway Cowan vicar of St Hammersmith died from excessive prostration supervening on a sudden attack of congestion of the lungs The Channel Squadron under Commander Rear-Admiral Seymour left the Tagus for Gibraltar and is expected subsequently to proceed on a cruise to Cape de Verde Drawing is now taught in all the public schools of Massachusetts and in those of Cincinnati Chicago Cleveland Columbus Toledo St Louis and New York The Parisian correspondent of the Times maintains that the Duo de Broglie and not Marshal MacMahon is virtually ruler No wonder the Septennate is rapidly becoming an Punch The Honolulu Gazette states that a monument to Captain Cook has been erected at Keala-Kekua Bay where he fell near a century ago It is a concrete obelisk 27 feot in height The subscribers include Lady Franklin Ajlmiral Richards The deputation from the Evangelical Alliance was received on Tuesday by the Minister for Foreign Affairs at Constantinople who promised to take into consideration their request for a personal audience of the Sultan A man died in Venango county recently after having been confined to his bed for thirteen years with disease of the spine caused by- severe punishment received from a school teacher when he was a boy A six-pound tin of beef which had been prepared in 1856 for our soldiers in the Crimea was opened a day or two since and its contents were as fresh and Bound as on the day it was preserved now 19 years ago There was a special service at St Cathedral on Monday in celebration of the conversion of the apostle from whom the sacred edifice takes its name A very large congregation assembled It is estimated that the total quantity of game eaten in Paris in 1873 was 20000 tons of meat 112040 tons 24600 tons of fish 14000 tons of butter 440000000 of eggs and 17000000 of oyBters Mr Hunter Rodwell addressing a club at Bury St Edmunds on Tuesday stated his intention to impress upon the legislature the absolute necessity of making better provision for the education of the middle clqsses According to a calculation made as to the increase of prices of provisions in France the expense of living nnder the third empire was 117 per cent greater than under the Bourbon rule and is now under the republic 10 per oent higher still A brawl took place on Saturday between some men and women in a public house in Cloghan near Parsonstown in the course of which a tinker struck a woman with the tongs She died late on Monday night The Titusville Herald says that the oil reoently found in and Catteraugus counties NY is of an amber colour and very much heavier than tho green oil obtained on Oil Creek or the Alleghany so much heavier in fact that it is used almost entirely for lubricating purposes Mr John Green the mayor of Wexford on Monday commenced an action in the-Courfc of Bench Dublin against the Rev Thomas Doyle local parish priest for an alleged libel said to havo been contained in the statement that plaintiff was a political renegade hiving Seceded from the Home-rule movement A meeting of the general and committee of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was held on Monday on the subject of vivisection Among those present were Lord Har-rowby Prince Luoien Bonaparte Lady Bordett Coutts Miss Cobbe Lord Jocelyn Percy sub-committee was appointed The Spanish Minister delivered on Saturday at the Foreign Office an autograph letter from Kang Alfonso notifying to the Queen his accession to the throne and assuring her Majesty of his intention to promote constitutional civil and religious liberty in the realm which he has been called upon to govern Mr Donist-horpe the inventor of wool combing by machinery died recently at Belvedere Harrogate aged 64 years He was one of those energetic and Belf-made men who like Arkwright and Jacquard have by their genius and inventions rendered eminent services in promoting the industry of their country and in making the fortnne of many who have been benefited by their valuable inventions At the Royal Geographical meeting on Monday Sir Henry Rawlinson stated that the two engineers Watson and Chippendale had arrived at Lake Gondokoro and that particulars of their discoveries on the Somerset Nile of Speke and the Victoria Nyauza were hourly expected The Khedive was much interested in the explorations and had asked for duplicate copies of their reports A female justice of Wyoming was married last week and true to her professional training sho previously notified her friends to be present by a printed form as follows I am about to marry Mr of this county and he will be qualified and sworn in at my office on Wednesday morning next at ten ain You are invited to attend American paper The revisers of tho authorised version of the New Testament mot on Tuesday at the Jerusalem Chamber and sat for seven hours The company considered the proposals of the American revisers in reference to portions of the version of St Luka's Gospel and revised for the second time a portion of the first chapter of the Gospel of St John At the annual meeting of the Cambridge Reform Club on Tuesday night a resolution was unanimously carried expressing regret at the retirement of Mr Gladstone and appreciation of his noble personal character and of the great services he has rendered to tho country Directions were given for the resolution to be forwarded to Mr Gladstone in due course The magistrates at Wolverhampton on Tuesday fined David Haggard and John Daniels retail dealers of thetown £5 each and costs for selling butter adulterated in one case 16 in the other 17 per cent with lard A soda-water manufacturer named Smith was fined 40s for having soda-water adulterated with salts of copper the result of negligence Mr Samuel Moriey MPX speaking on Monday at the annual meeting of the Bristol Young Christian Association said men of science were broadly denying the existence of a God or undermining the necessity for His existence by reducing the whole of our system to one of ohanco The pulpit alone could not cope with the difficulty of the situation and he looked to these associations to help in the orusade against Ritualism and infidelity On Saturday afternoon a son of the Rev Bailey vicar of Martonagod 17 years had obtained permission to use a gun and go out to shoot He seems to have known little of what lie was doing and whilst examining the weapon in the kitchen it accidently went off shooting a girl named Barnett a native of Fence Houses in the county ofDurhatn through the heart Dr Green of Normanby was called in shortly afterwards but life was extinct The lord mayor and sheriffs of London are unable to accept the decoration of the Legion of Honour which was pressed upon thorn by the French Government in consequenoeof theregulation which forbids the acceptance or wearing of any foreign order by a British subject unless conferred for active and distinguished services before the enemy either at sea or in the field Distressing accounts continue to be receivedkson-oerning the famine in Asia Minor It is Btated that in the village of Ahali there were about 1100 inhabitants two or three years ago Since the famine there have boen 400 deaths and 150 persons have emigrated The total population is thus reduced to little more than 5iX) In some cases dead bodies were left unburied for many days and many bodies were eaten by starving dogs and cats The annual reunion of the Roman Catholics of Birmingham took place on Tuesday evening at the town hall nnder the presidency of the Rev Canon The Rev Dr Ullathorne and Sir Charles Clifford Bart took part in the proceedings and spoke upon the edneation question A resolution was passed unanimously declaring the unalterable loyalty of those present the principle of Catholic religious training for Catholio A correspondent of the Dublin Express Btates that one day last week as a man was about to be married in the church of Knocknamukley a few miles from Lurgan the bridegroom put on his hat and left the church When the minister made his appearance the bridegroom could not bo found and some of the family having gone in senrch of him they found him hiding and apparently anxious to get away He was however brought baok and the ceremony was duly performed Amongst the inmates of the Nottingham Workhouse is a blind woman 64 years old who has been in the house 26 years and whose weight is only 4st lib whilst bv her side is an invalid of 21st in weight In another apartment lies an old woman who is nothing more than a living skeleton and in a padded room close by is a woman who for several weeks past with the exception of intervals of a few minutes at a time has been in a fit In the ward is an old pugilist standing 6 feet 4 inches id height named Bamfovt who once beat Ben Gaunt Two men each named James Campbell but not related died suddenly in their lodgings in (oat-bridge on Sunday One of the Campbells who went tobed quito woll on tho Saturday night rose about nine in tho morning staggered on the floor fell and expired The landlady not liking to he alone with a corpse went to awak3 the other Campbell when she waa horrified to find that he waB also dead That Campbell had gone to bed somewhat the worse for liquor and waa heard singirig a song 9pe in the morning--Globe OUE LONDON CORRESPONDENCE London Saturday Mr Gray the solicitor to the Treasury died yesterday and this leaves a post with £250) a year alary at the disposal of the Government It is worth having though the holder of it is not allowed to carry on private praotice I suppose it must now he considered a settled matter that the Marquis of Hartington will be the new leader Lord Granville is understood to prefer him to Mr Forster and the wishes have great weight It is rather against the marquis that he is unmarried The leader of a groat party wants a wife if the heir to a dukedom does not The Liberals ought to make it a condition of their placing him at their head that he will to as the old Anglican divines used to I find that the impression prevails in clerical eircleB that this will not be an ecclesiastical ession after all It is thought that after the very trong and almost unanimous expression of opinion in the rural deaneries against any change the rubrics little or no attempt will bo made to alter them at least with the sanctionof the Government It is thought that the session will be rnuoh more social than ecclesiastical and it is now known that the chief or at least an important measure of the ministerial programme will he Mr measure for providing working men with better dwellings The agricultural interest must not expect too much Mr Read the friend has plainly told them that there is very little doing in his the Local Government so they will have to muddle on as best they can There is most alarming news from Ireland At the recent home rule meeting in Dublin Mr Sullivan declared that it was the intention of tho homo rulers to live in the They have tried the plan of staying away and found that nobody was a penny the worse so now they mean to be always presont and to insist upon dividing on every possible occasion by way of obstructing business and making themselves generally unpleasant There is no doubt they have tho power to do this I remember how a few obstreperous Irish members Borne 25 years ago impeded legislation most seriously Their leaders at all events found the tactics answer for uthen Lord Aberdeen formed his ministry he gave posts to the principal men among them and one not long ago received a peerage Mr Disraeli will find it more difficult to deal with Messrs Sullivan Smyth and Butt' and I do not envy Mr Hart Dyke and Mr Rowland Winn the prospect they have before them I mentioned some weeks ago that tho East India Association of which Mr Eastwiok late MP for Falmouth iB the chairman had presented a memorial to the Marquis of Salisbury complaining that native Indians had no opportunity of getting posts as engineers in the Public Works Department because they could not afford to come to England and study in College Sir Louis Mallet has just replied on behalf of Lord Salisbury and his answer would seem to imply that the association is mistaken in its facts There are engineering colleges all over India to which the natives go and thence pass into the Pnbiiu orks Department Mr civil service inquiry commission is understood to recommend that the corvice shall be treated as a whole with power to transfer employes from one department to another so that the aristocrats of tho War Office and the Office are actually in danger of an incur non from Somerset House or even (horrible to cont emplate from the Custom House It is rocommc mded that there shall be two classes of clerks one receiving £100 a year with £10 yearly increase rp to £200 and the other consisting of a higher and more skilful class who would rise by yearly increments of £15 up to £-100 a year There uld still bo above these the highly paid staff olliei nls conferred for merit alone The idea that Lord Henry Lonno will resign his post as Chief Commissioner of forks prevails at the Office of Works He is by no moans in good health his attendances at the office are rare and ho finds it hard to get on wvth the treasury that is Mr Lingen The secretary to the board Mr George Russell s-to-in-law of tho Duke of Roxburgh whose name -was prominently before the public a little while back in connection with a West End club has received an appointment from the Khedive worth £1200 a year Few memorials have been co influentially signed as that which will be presented on Monday to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals against vivisection It has the names of three archbishops nearly a dozen bishops 70 peers 30 doctors and such distinguished literary names as Mr Tennyson Mr Robert Browning Mr Ruskin Mr Carlyle Sir Taylor and Sir A Helps The memorialists do not ask that vivisection shall be forbidden altogether but they do ask thafit shall be prohibited when used merely to demonstrate scientific facts already known that it shall not be allowed at lectures and that when practised anuethetics shall be administered The Greville Journals have reached a fourth dition which for an expensive throe-volume work is not bad Poor Mr Tiinbs is not getting much aid from his literary friends Tho subscriptions thus far do not reach £80 Tho poor old man is much in need of help We are to have new opera house on the Thames Embankment Mr Maplsson is at the head of the scheme and will have powerful assistance The site is a very good one close to the now St Stephens Club and therefore near the House of Commons The scheme ic in a direct way of realisation tho proposal of Mr Maplesou for the site having been accepted by the Metropolitan Board of Works London Monday Evknixo Who could have thought that Canon Kingsley would ever fall a victim to the Wind of God The NE gale has proved ungrateful to its laureate and has cut down the apostle -of Museulai Christianity as though he had been a poor consumptive a weakling as his own I ton Locke tailo and The fact is Mr Kingsley a vas not tho strong man the world supposed him be In youtli he suffered from grievous hesitation of speech which is usually a sign of weakness and hough he overcame that after much trouble he was not endowed with an extra supply of bodily -vigour He did his utmost to acquire it for was a good oar a good rod and rodo straight to hounds In fact he belonged to two if not to all three of Sydney i three classes of pa raons Ramrods and He was also great ns a naturalist and a geologist and' no mean artist All these qualities and his gra ihic powers as a writer wore marred by what in the eyes of the Pall Mall Gazette is the one uupard liable he Undoubtedly he did so 5e was warm and impetuous and so insured for himse If a sneering obituary notice in tho organ of Admirari-ism But I believe he was a very honest' man a little wrong-headed at times os whan he defended Governor Eyre and when quite recently he pronounced in favour of the Athanasian Greed In his earlier years too ho made some blunders but they were the faults of a generous heart His attempt to establish a society of tailors for the manufacture of clothes on Christian principles seems ludicrous enough to older men and even Mr Thomas Hughes in the interesting memorial of his brother has humorously described the failure of tho experiment in which he had a large part On one occasion Christian soeialtim got him into lather an awkward dilemma Mr Draw incumbent of St Fitzroy-square during the year of the first International Exhibition had a series of sermons preached on The Message of the Church to man of letters toymen of wealth and to working men Ac Robertson of Brighton preached tfcat to non of wealth and Kingsley that to working men In it Parson Lot set forth his peculiar socialijt views As soon as the sermon was over Mr Drew rose and said that ho entirely repudiated the sentiments which had keen uttered that evening and regretted that they had been enunciated Kingsley thus challenged published his sermon it wag answered by a clergyman at Bath destined to become anions ns an orator and as a apiritnal peer the RovW Magee then minister of the Octagon Chape and now Bishop of Potee-borongh Thu hat two occaeiona I heard Canon Kingsley peak were at Rt Georgia Hall and at Christ Cbnrch Marylebono On the first occasion I aat next to him on tho platform and listened with Brest pleasure to a hearty speech in aapport of the two lady candidates for the London School Board who were atawling for Mnrylehone On the other occasion Sir Kingsley preached Inneral sermon on his dearly loved friend Jwedenc Denison Maurice and a very touching arraon it was Hovit was that Kingsley got ecclesiastical preferment when his guide phiioao-pher and friend did nut I do not know However was Kingsley was mado successively regies professor of history at Cambridge canon of chostor and canon of Westminster The last aopointinent ia now vacant and 1b worth £1000 a year It won seem a if Room had too pain-fnl recollections for the Liberal party is no greater grief than the remomlimnL of a ha how in Party mat together to Office it iainmph and return to office it would have been too distressing to meet there again next week in thoir present forlorn oon-dttion So Mr Adam has sent out his circular to-day and the Reform Ciab ia to he the trystiag place and February 3rd is to bo the day in order to settle tho selection of leader in tirno toontitia him to receive the usual courtesy of an early copy of the speech But that courtesy will not I expect be of much service this year The speech has been sent hitherto in order that it might be read at the dinner which the Opposition loaders in tho two houses have been wont to give to their supporters But ho can a dinner he given on the 4th when it will not be known until tho 3rd who shall give it? Doubtless tho cuisine at Devonshire House would bear the strain or even that at 80 Eecloston-square would do so should Mr Forster be chosen but there wiH bo no tune to send out invitations unless indeed the selected leader should give a general invitation to all tb a Liberal at the Reform Club But then arew difficulty would arise How would it bo por aible to stow away 250 guests There is no help for it that I can seo The Opposition in th'3 Lower nouso must go without their dinner or they did last year The Liberal peers will of JUraQ fea8t at Lord new house in Carlton House-terrace ne Daily Ntws has not nrj the os one of your contemporaries declared Once more it sets forth the cltums of Mr Forster and with greater cogency than before Tho strongest point in his favour ia that he ia sprung from the middle classes and is well acquainted with commerce and business which the Marquis of Hartington is not It re moreover only fair to the Liberals as distinct from the Whigs that one their own class should he chosen If the marquis should be selected tho Liberal leaders in both houses will be Whigs and aristocrats That -even Che most extreme section of tho Radicals is not agreed in its hostility to Mr Forstor is shewn by the letter from Mr Cox of Belper which tho Daily News publishes to-day There is no more extreme Radical than he he almost outdoes Mr Chamberlain and was very nearly being removed from tho magisterial bench for an extremely violent political speech which he made yet he protests against Lord Hartington being chosen and would prefer Mr Forster Altogether wo must look forward to a rather excited meeting on Wednesday week It ia once more rumoured that Colonel White is going to resign his seat for Tipperary county same thing was said list session but nothing 'came of it Ho is a home ruler and his seat 'would certainly be taken by one so that his resignation would not lead to any change in tho strength of parties Sir Wyndham Knatchbull will be elected I for East Kent in time to take his seat on tho first day of tbe session He is tho grandscn of Sir Norton Knatchbull an extreme Tory nr-dnister in the Duke of Government a nd referred to in Mr Journals Hia unde Mr Knatchbull-Hugessen was at one Hime Liberal whip but in the late administratior i was successively Under Secretary for tho Horn Department and for the Colonies There is much speculation and n-umour down at Westminster It is said that benidcs Sir Keating and Sir Honyma n'Sir Mellor and ono of the Barons of tho Fixcliequer will retire The third will not have completed his term of 15 years until 1876 and as lie is in good health I should think he would hold c-n long enough to get his pension I suppose Baron Bramwell is the other judge referred to but I cannot say Sir George Cromwell was appointed 19 years ago so that he has well earned hia pension but he is a much younger man than the Chief Baron Sir Fitzroy Kelly the first being 67 and tho second 79 Sir however waa not raised to the benoh until he was 70 bo that he is not yet entitled to pension Your readers will be prepared for the sad news that the Countess of Carnarvon died this morning She was only in her 41st year and leaves four tl3 eldest only nine years old the youngest a babe of a few days Lord Carnarvon is only 44 Tho aged Countess of Cheatorfield -was with her daughter at the last London Tuesday Evening Mr speech has caused profound disappointment Speaking in the very midst of a crisis more serious than the Liberal party ban sustained for nearly half a century he had not a word to say about that crisis delivering it at the moment when the party has to select a leader and devise a policy he uttered not a syllable about the leader and indicated a poli-sy which as he admits himself cannot possibly he brought to a practical issue for many years to come It was unfair as well as most incomplete For instance Mr Bright made a great point of the fact that a certain party in tho church are trying to bring in Romish itual and doctrine and yet he scoffed at the Public Worship Act which was nt least an honest attempt to restrain tho llomanisers He seems to hold the strange notion that if the church were disestablished that is if the ritualists were set-free from the control of the Skate they would do less harm than they do now that they are restrained and curbed by the State Mr Mnckonochie and his friends did not think so when they pronounced for disestablishment Quito irrespective of theeo considerations Mr speech was a lamentable mistake for it treated this question as if it were the Alpha and the nay the whole alphabet politics Yet at this time it is about the last matter which the country as a whole is thinking about Sanitary legislation land tenure dwellings for the working classes local such are the things which really interest ns Yet upon all these he had not one word to say and he evidently thought them beneath his notice The logical deduction from his speech is that the only policy of the Liberal party is disestablishment that this policy is not practicable for many years that until it is practicable the Liberal party must remain out of office and that having come into office expressly to do this one thing they must go out of office again as soon as it is done No wonder that the Conservative papers are jubilant to-day and that the Daily Telegraph admits that this speech the disorganisation of the Liberal No wonder that Mr Gladstone has retired in disgust and that no one has even mentioned Mr Bright as a possible successor Mr Disraeli is understood to have written a very graceful letter to Mr Gladstone expressing regret at the Liberal retirement from the leadership Tho retirement must be a good deal more thorough than is generally supposed if the statement bo true that on the day his letter of resignation addressed to Lord Granville waB published he wrote to Messrs Hansard discontinuing his subscription to their issue of the debates This step would imply that he has no intention of speaking or taking any interest in tho debates The Conservatives have had a small disaster today It will he remembered that last year a petition was presented against the return for Bouton of Messrs Parry and Ingram the newly-electod iberal for that borough who had ousted Messrs Malcolm and Collins and that Mr Parry was unseated in consequence of the large gift3 of coal which he had made but Mr Ingrain waa declared duly elected The Conservatives appealed to-day against the latter part of this decision But the court without calling upon Mr connsel to reply docided in his favour on the ground that the coals had been distributed loforo Ingram was a candidate and that he was in no way responsible for the dictribution Mr Ingram is one of the youngest members of the house being only 27 He is the proprietor of the Illustrated London News which was founded by his father who was drowned in one of the American lak cs The nuisanco is really becoming a seriows matter for politicians I havo before mo a cop of tho resolution which has been passed by the Tichborne Release at Chatham and has been forwarded to Mr Stone who is now standing for that borough in the Liberal interest that the secretary write to Stone Esq the Liberal candidate for Chatham and that ho he asked if he will in the event of being returned would he present (the wording is not mine) to House of Commons (and support the same) a petition for the release of Sir I1 Tichborne Bart from Prison and also for the abolition of Ian and that unless he pledge himself to do so he will not be supported yy the u'emhers of the said association Would you he so kind as to let mo now (sic) by Friday as wo Lave a ante ting in the Almost every newspaper has a different story to tell about tie judgeships As I anticipated would be the case Justice retirement iB declared to be He will I doubt not hang on till next year when his 15 years witi bo up Mr Hawkiiw it is understood has been offered the judgeship to be vacated by Sir Henry Keating and has declined it his practice being bo large that it would be unwise for him to leave the bar for the bench Lord Carnarvon whoso patronage has already been very large is likely to have shortly the chief of all the posts in his department to give away It is belicTed that Lord Dufferin is going to leave Canada for India and that the governorship of the former country with £10000 a year will bo for fome fortunate or rather deserving person It was stated some time ago that Lord Northbrook would probably return to England shortly in order to look after the large fortune and business which his uncle Mr Thomas Baring (who died in October 1873) loft him In fact Lord Northbrook would probably have returned before if it had not been for tho famine If the Indian viceroyalty is given to I-ord Dufferin the appointment will be very creditable to Lord Halisbury seeing that they are political opponents Tliut Lord Dufferin is a very able man and probably tho very best that could be selected there can be no doubt Curiously enough fche two noblemen? are of exactly the same ago both having been born in 1826 Lord offerin was for a time Under-Secretary for Inm A distinguished nglo-Indian Mr Fitzjamea Stephen has ftlocerof more than two pages in this TaV MM GazetUt entitled on Canon I don and Mgr He begins by Baying tr both Anglican and Roman have been talkinr nonBense jn tbe strict etymologioal sense word and he points out that both are really rish worshippers He goes so far as to say I would os Boon see my son or daughter lie or steal as I would see them bow to the host or believe that tho communion is anything hut a bare figure or symbol A moral offence however disgraceful admits of repentance and reform but tho wholo life is poisoned when a person and especially a young person is over to a strong delusion tc believe a It is curious to see how anti-dogmatists like Mr Stephen can become as vehement as the most positive dogmatists He has gone far beyond tho stage at which it is held that opinions matter very little conduct is everything Some time ago if any one had argued before Mr Stephen that it was of more importance to believe the Athanasian Creed than to livo an honest and pure life as a correspondent of the Guardian lately did Mr Stephen would have poured out the vials of his wrath upon that man But he has now got to attach as much importeuco to not believing as some olerics do to believing thus verifying the old proverb Too far css is The death of the Emperor of China was not unexpected He has been for some time in bad health Ho anted when he was 16 a beautiful girl 15 years old daughter of the rector of tho Peking Academy They have no children I believe and I presume the crown will go to one of the uncles cf whom Prince Rung is now the ciiief minister and a very able man I should not surprised to hear of the death of the Emperor of Japan who is about the same age as poor Ch6 far he is in very feeble health By the death of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel Dr Leahy the temperance cause has lost a firm supporter His death had boen expoctod for some time He died this morning at Thurles in hir 68th year London Evening There is almost entire unanimity of opinion about Mr speech The Daily Kaos makes a feeble defence of it sb it was bound to do in order to pacify the extreme nonconformists who just now are very angry with the Kaos and talk of sinking their money in the hopeless project of starting an opposition paper But all the rest of the London papers including the Daily Telegraph condemn the speech more or less severely They think it both narrow and inopportune It showed none of the wisdom of the statesman it was marked by all the bitterness of the sectary To the Conservative party and churchmen generally the speech is very welcome It enables them to say that the church is really in danger of being attacked and that the only policy which has yet been found for the Liberal party is a disestablishment crusade Mr philippic ought to bring in a good many hundred pounds to tho funds of the Church Defence Institution Last night Mr Henry Vincent was lecturing on disestablishment at Mr Tabernacle Ho actually alleged as a grievance inflicted by the church that the bishops being allowed to sit in the Houso of Lords churchmen mado laws for dissenters He seemed to havo forgotten that dissenting ministers may sit in the House of Commons though church clergymen may not that Mr Henry Richard sits there now and probably speaks and votes as often as the whole bench of bishops put together Who would have expected to see an old Chartist seeking to revive civil disabilities for religious tests I have nothing definite to say respecting the Liberal leadership The chances are still in favour of Lord Hartington but Mr friends do not despair The Guardian this evening declares in favour of Mr Forster a fact which disposes of the rumour that Mr Gladstone has recommended the marquis It will be interesting to notice what line that very influential paper takes in politics now that the has retired into private life It always warmly and no doubt most sincerely supported Mr Gladstone and many of its writers like Canon Liddon Dean Church and Bishop Fraser have received promotion at his hands But now that 1(0 is gone will the chief church paper any longer support Liberalism I trow not especially if disestablishment is to be the chief article of the new Liberal programme Mrs Ward Hunt has just presented her husband with another son who if he at all takes after hia father in size must he a very fine baby indeed Mrs Hunt ia daughter of Dr Eden bishop of Moray and Ross and of Scotland Several peerages have been talked of lately but none have as yet come to anything Perhaps they will do so when Parliament meets The latest rumour is that a peerage is to be conferred upon that man of letters of many letters Mr A Dhillie-Cochrane This rumour is so far believed that the Conservatives in the Isle of Wight (which Mr Cochrane represents) have fixed upon a candidate Sir John Commerellthe Ashantee hero This gallant officer was at a recent Conservative gathering in the island when one of the speakers said that he hoped Sir John would shortly be in Parliament Mr Cochrane is the eldest son of the distinguished Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane and married a granddaughter of the Duke of Rutland He has been in Parliament off and on since 1841 having represented Bridport Honiton and his present constituency He Btood for the island in 1868 but was beaten by Sir John Simeon In 1870 however after Sir death he was elected beating Mr Moffatt by 35 votes Last year he beat Mr Evelyn Ashley by only ten votes Mr Ashley has since been elected for Poole and so tho Liberals are not yet prepared with candidate Mr Baillie-Cochrane is 59 years old It is understood that Admiral Elliot now MP for Chatham will be knighted when he hoists his flag at Portsmouth on hoard tho Duke of Wellington on the 1st March Mr Disraeli true to his principle that youth is genius has selected a very young peer tho Earl of Donoughmore son of a former colleague to move the address in reply to the message The earl is only in his 27th year Lord Rayleigh who will second the address is in his 33rd He was a senior wrangler and first Smith prizeman just ten years ago Hitherto he has taken little interest in politics having devoted himself almost exclusively to science London has just lost one of its benefactors Miss Johanna Chandler one of thef founders of tho National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic She her sister and her brothei some 20 years ago found that no provision existed among the great metropolitan oharities for persons so afflicted and they determined to devote their lives to establishing a hospital After arduous exertions -they obtained a site in Queen-square Bloomsbury fitted it up with beds and appointed two physicians This was 15 years ago and the institution now maintains 100 beds and has an extensive out-patient department Both the sisters are dead but the brother survives to carry on the work As some doubt has been expressed whether Mr Hawkins was offered Sir Henry place I can say positively that he wAs offored it and declined it It is now confidently expected that Mr Huddleston will have the post and so generally is this believed at Norwich that to-day it has been resolved in anticipation of the election to postpone the Liberation Conference which was to have been held next woek London Thcbsday Evbxino The Marquis of Hartington acquitted himself well last night under rather difficult circumstancos But he might have done better He might for instance havo shown that he had kept himself better informed upon tho political events of tho laet few months and so avoided one or two blundeus such as ono hardly expects from a candidate for the leadership of the House of Liberals The most remarkable part of his speech was that in which he expressed his dissent from Mr Bright with reapeot to the disestablishment of the church It is not that he thinks the time for suoli a step has not yet come but that he believes bucL a time will never come inasmuch as the church is far too deeply rooted in the hearts cf tho people for them to suffer it to be in any way injured Mr Bright of course says that disestablishment would not injure but Churchmen think otherwise especially when they remember how the Birmingham League has been complaining that the church has got the pull over the denominations with respect to schools because of its the state and largo endowments After Lord speech it is difficult to see upon what grounds rthe dissenters should prefer him to Mr Forster They will find both statesmen alike opposed to their policy and it is quite certain that no statesman who favours it has the smallest chance of becoming leader The most remarkable characteristic of the Lewes gathering wan the concurrent expression of opinion on the part of the speakers that the Liberal party is now doomed to a long banishment from office On former occasions when they have been in opposition during the present generation they have always spoken cheerily and hopefully Tley had Bimply got a fall but they meant to rise stronger than ever for their contact with mother earth But now they admit that they are thoroughly beaten and they cannot foresee the time when they will be able to rise and win back victory In fact they are in a far more hopeless state than they were immediately after the great defeat at the polling booths They have oar lost not only their majority but their leader and the disunion among them ia greater ami wider than The French painter Jean Francois Millet dla Wednesday week at the age of 60 This spring over a thousand orange proves are to be planted along the St John river Florida The death-rate in GlangOw which at the beginning of the year was at tne rate of 66 per 1000 per annum has now receded to 34 A citizen of Syracuse whose name has not been made publio has given $20y000to the university in that place An aged farmer named Richard Moran has been brutidly murdered at Kilbeggin County A tramp is in custody on suspicion The Government will introduce a bill next session providing for the appointment of a public prosecutor Betsy Leatherland who in April last attained her 111th year died a few days ago and was buried at Tring on Saturday Eureka (Nevada) has shipped sixteen and a half million pounds of erude bullion within the past twelve months The deputation from tho British Evangelical Alliance arrived at Constantinople on Saturday morning There was a snowstorm of unprecelented severity at Copenhagen on Saturday The streets were covered to a depth of several feet and all travelling was stopped The Limerick Reporta is authorised to state that the Hon Colonel White MP lias resolved to resign the representation of the county of Tipperary by accepting the Chiltern Hundreds On Saturday five boys were immersed whilst sliding on some ice at a farm near Motherwell Three were drowned the rest were resoued with difficulty Eliza Thurlby servant to Mr Pocklington of Sutterton Lincolnshire has been committed for trial on the charge of attempting to poison the whole family by putting arsenic in a pudding Foot-and-mouth disease is very prevalent in the western portion of the county of Durham on acoount of an unwillingness of farmers to report the disease to the authorities In compliance with the recommendations of the royal commission on unseaworthy ships Sir Ohas Adderley has appointed Mr Walter Murton to be solicitor to the Board of Trade Another dwelling house has been destroyed by underground fire in Hill-street South Shields This is the sixth house destroyed by underground fire which continues burning as vigorously os ever At a meeting of the Jewish Association held in Spltalfields on Sunday Mr Mocatta presiding it was stated that efforts were being made to relieve necessitous Jews in Russia and Roumania The estimated deliveries of tea in London last week were 2419298 lb which is an insrease of 42815 lb as compared with the statement for the previous week The election of Mr Woolfoot Conservative for the North Ward Leeds on the 2nd of November last has been declared void on the ground of bribery by agents Private Samuel Cruise of the 5th Dragoon Guards died' the other day in Dublin from the effects of a rupture sustained whilst exercising in the regimental gymnasium The thirty pay awarded to marines engaged in the Ashantee war has been paid There is talk of raising at Portsmouth a memorial to the officers and men who fell in the war John Moon a pnddler has been committed to prison by the Gateshead magistrates for six months for cruelty to his wife and for a further term of three months for the brutal treatment of his son The national committee for promoting the boarding out of pauper children have issued their annual report in which thoy state that the retrospect of their labours during the past year is such as to encourage them to continue their efforts A considerable amount of damage has been occasioned by the late severe frosts to the whole of the new earthworks constructed by the Royal Engineers during the latter part of the year at Fort Burgoyne and Dover Casfle At the late Franklin Institute Exhibition there were weighed 15810 men aggregating 2314260 pounds 17437 women aggregating 2249379 making the average weightof eachman 149 pounds and of each woman 129 pounds Mr Disraeli as First Lord of tho Treasury and the Duke of Richmond as leader of the ministerial party in London have each issued cards of invitation for a full dress parliamentary dinner on the 4th of next month at their respective residences Reaping had oommenced in South Australia when the last mail left The average yield of wheat was expected to reach 14 bushels per acre which would leave about 200000 tons for export aftor providing for home consumption and seed The expedition under Captain von Homeyer for the exploration of Equatorial Africa left Lisbon on the 5th instant by the mail steamer for Laanda The Portuguese Government has promised it the aid of the Portuguese authorities at all times Two boys named Duncan and Wood quarrelled while crossing the river Deo at Aberdeen two days ago when Wood gave Duncan a severe blow on the stomach Duncan died on Sunday and Wood is now in custody The Scotch papers state that visitors are to be admitted to Abbotsford House between 1st March and 15fch June every week-day from eleven ara till five pm After loth June the house will be open to the public from twelve noon to five pm Attlie Dungannon land session on Monday before Sir Francis William Brady the case of Lord Powersoount against 597 of his tenants for an increase of rent was brought on for hearing bnt his worship said that he had no power to fix the rents The following is an extract of a letter from Glendye estate Kincardineshire NB Strange to say some of my snow-buried sheep have been found and alive They must have been at least six or seven weeks shut up in the snow and without A St Petersburg letter mentions that some ladies there have formed a society with the view of qualifying themselves for the bar and demanding permission to plead after undergoing tho prescribed examination and are arguing hypothetical cases among themselves by way of preparation Patriok Williams convicted at the recorder's court Cork of obtaining £150 from Miss Devitt under false pretences has been sentenced to twelve imprisonment with hard labour The prisoner was a Dublin horse dealer and though married made love to the prosecutrix The Board of Trade inquiry at Hull respecting the loss of the steamer Alpha in the Bay of Biscay in December resulted on Saturday in the suspension of the (Robson) certificate for twelve months on the ground that he had neglected proper means to keep the vessel before the wind At the Wakefield police court the other day Thomas Bass a man employed as a catcher at the Calder Vale Ironworks was committed to prison for three months with hard labour under the Master and Servant Act for criminal negligence in hiB duties which led to serious damage to valuable machinery The Prince Imperial will at his own request undergo an examination in precisely the same condition as the other cadets and the marks he obtains wall he published with the rest The prfnce has advanced his position at every stage hitherto and has taken iq several voluntary subjects in addition to the usual course A Paris telegram says that owing to the serious conflict that has arisen between the two kings of Siam Germany has asked England temporarily to protect its subjects English ships have accordingly been directed if necessary to watch over German interests until the middle of February when two German ships will arrive at Bangkok Tho Dublin town council are about to present a memorial to the Lord-Lieutenant praying that the Government may lend them for the purpose of carrying out the main drainage scheme for Dublin originally proposed by Sir Bazalgette a further sum of £150000 which together with tho £350090 already sanctioned will make £500000 which they further ask at 3 per cent A sad affair has occurred at Attercliffe one of the suburbs of Sheffield resulting in the death of a man named Richard Froggatt On the night of the 18th instant Froggatt who was employed as an occasional assistant at the Oarbrook Hotel went into the kitchen there and became involved in a quarrel with a man named White in the course of which Froggatt was stabbed in the thigh so seriously that he died on the night iof the 22nd About a fortnight ago a man named Andrews died in Leeds after drinking in succession 19 glasses of rum for which Edward Sunman a chimney sweep paid William Taylor the landlord of the York Tavern where the rum was supplied has been summoned under the new Licensing Act for permitting drunkenness on his premises on the occasion and fined £10 and costs The conviction was ordered to be endorsed upon his license The other day in the Sunderland county court after the hearing of Haslin a man and wife case in which Mr Haslin father of the wife sued the husband Mr Pink for her maintenance and in which the judge decided in favour of the defendant the plaintiff became so enraged at the verdict that- he struck one of the female witnesses Mrs Kemp a most violent blow in the mouth causing the blood to flow freely The fellow then ran out of the court and though pursued by the bailiffs made good his escape for the time Alcoholic mania is said to have increased in France to an alarming extent and it is thought to be traceable to the increased consumption of brandy From a return published on a consumption of this liquor during the last forty years we find that tho meam annual amount is stated to have been one litre per head in 1831 and 2'54 litres ki 1869 From 850 to 1860 the mean number of accidental deaths attributable to intoxication has increased in the proportion of 331 to 587: and the number of suicides from 240 to 664 London Medical Record The Old Catholics having claimed possession of tho Church of Notre Dame Geneva built on a site given by the authorities with subscriptions from various parts of the world Lords Denbigh and Gainsborough have addressed a remonstrance to the cantonal government on behalf of the English subscribers To allow such a claim they declare would be regarded by every honourable Englishman as a violation of the principles of justice honour and liberty of which Switzerland had formerly a right to be considered a representative Dublin University which has just elected Mr Gibson QC to represent it in Parliament since the passing of the Reform Act of 1832 has contributed the following members to the Irish bench Right Hon Thomas Lefroy lord chief justice Sir Frederick Shaw recorder of Dublin Right Hon I) Jackson judge of the common pleas Right Hon Joseph Napier lord chancellor Right Hon James Whiteside lord chief justice Right Hon Walsh master of the rolls Right Hon Chattcrton vice-chancellor Right Hon Warren judge in bankruptcy and the Rignt Hon Dr Ball lord chancellor On Saturday evening Mr Clifton one of the members for North Lancashire addressed a meeting at Chorley under the auspices -of the Chorley Working Club In tho course of his remarks alluded to the condition of the army which at the present time was not satisfactory The army and navy were essential to keep up the national honour but latterly it had suffered severely from the great number of desertions and the reason of was that our soldiers wanted more pay It was insufficiently paid in comparison with tho labour market and that was one main reason why men would not place themselves under strict discipline Ho confessed that he should like to see some of the expected surplus applied to tho bettering the condition the British soldier (Applause) light A Texas damsel has sued an admirer for breaking her nose in trying to kiss her against her will Rir Henry Maine 1ms been appointed to the Redo Lectureship at Cambridge The Government of Japan has consented admit foreigners into tho interior with oassnn A New York scientist thinks the motrmito specially designed by Providence to drive from malarial district uua The reports respecting the sufferers from th Shipton railway accident still under treating9 continue to be satisfactory The appointment of the Earl of Bradford Lord-Lieutenant Shropshire vice Viscount Hin deceased is published in Gazitte Mr Gladstone it is reported is pronarins -rejoinder to Dr reply to his Expostuh tion Sixty-one deaths from violence were register! in London las week One that of an iufunt Vf attributed to circumcision The third series of competitive perfornrnM between choral societies solo singers and disbands will be held at the Crystal Palma 0n n7 1st 2nd 5th 6th 7th8tband 10th of July next The Board of Trade hare suspend months the certificate of Robert Watts captain I the Tees of Aberdeen which was lost on the 4th inBtant near Waterford William Barnsby of Cinque Cottage Wimbledon a member of the Uxbridge yeomanry cavalry been committed to prison for 21 days for neriw-HV? to attend the last annual training An order has been issued at Aldershot cmn to the effect that experimental praitiee will be commenced by the troops with tbe Af-wt Henry on the 1st February An American paper describing a duel inform its readers that one of the parties was Kcysrelv wounded in the breast while hia opponent G'-ed in the air A servant of Lord Byron Childs by name is still living at Oxton a village near Newste ni j8 a hale old man and loves to descant on the free and noble nature of the famous poet During the past few days a great many vessel from Scotch ports laden with coals have arrived at the Belfast quays but none from English norta Northern Whig 6 The 116th anniversary of tho birth of Robert Burns was celebrated on Monday by the mual festive meetings of Burns or Ayrshire clubs in various parts of the conntry John Reech aged 75 engine driver for Messrs Horsley and Son gun manufacturers York was decapitated on Monday by falling among the machinery his body having stopped the engine It is said that the Admiralty have in contemplation if they have not already actually decided upon it to allow the privilege of wearing plain clothes to officers of tho fleet when on shore and not on duty Mr Butt and several other Irish were present at a home-rule meeting held on Friday night week in Dublin A resolution was nassed expressing thanks to Irishmen in Great Britain for their fidelity to the national cause The Paris committee for a pilgrimr-e to the Holy Land are organising a caravan to Jenmleia for the Easter festival It will leave Marseilles bv steamer on Thursday the 25th of Fehmary Tho charge is 1360f by first-class and 116ff by the second At the London Mansion House on Tuesday Mr William Cruickshank and Mr Walter John Turner stated to be of high position in the city were held to bail in their own recognizances of £1000 on a charge of attempted fraud in connection with a banking company of which they are director The Bishop of Carlisle speaking at a meeting of the National Education Society at Carlisle on Tuesday vindicated the Bishop of Oxfosd against Mr imputations asserting that the entiro conscience of England was against the teaching of Bishop Colenso Siam Bo wett was on Tuesday committed toprison for Bix months with hard labour by the magistrates at Altrincham for laving committed an atrocious assault on his sweetheart Martha Brad haw aged 16 because she objected to his taking libertieiwith her The Archbishop of Canterbury has sanctioned a service of intercession for at both passengers and seamen in accordance with the Acts of Uniformity Amendment Act 1872 to lie used in churches in stormy weather after tho customary services The conduct of a young man who wan assisting on Monday at a marriage in the parish church Sheffield was so had that he had to be ejected by tho police A spirit bottle conspicnn-s in the pocket indicated the cause of the disturbance Alcester is now suffering under a severe epidemic of smallpox the disease having increased during the past fortnight to an alarming extent A week ago there cases every day fresh eases have been added to the list and now about 22 persons are suffering from the disease In the next and future monthly issues of the Board of Trade returns it is und'ersh-d that an alteration will be made in the present system of exhibiting the exports so that the country to which goods are destined will be credited with fho quantities so shipped and not merely the countries through which they pass in transit Mr Armytage Bake well delivered a lacture on cremation at the London Institution He traced its existence from the earliest times to the incoming of the Christian religion and contended that soon we should be compelled for sanitary reasons to resume a plan which was at once pious and reverential towards the dead while it was free from injurious effects upon the living Lewis Adams a negro was hanged on the 8th instant at Pittsylvania Court House Virginia for the murder of another coloured man named Rice Wilson in June last Adams made a long rambling address on the scaffold expressing bitter feeling towards those who had testified against him together with pi-ms sentiments and a hopo of meeting the spectators in heaven There was an important Liberal demonstration at Bath on Monday night tho occasion being fte formation of a Young Liberal Association Colonel Hayter the Liberal member f-n tko oity expressed a hope that should any great question arise Mr Gladstone might once again be indneed to placo himself at the head of his party and lead it on tho path of progress A young woman who had married her I brother and according to her statement ia ill-used by him asked the Greenwich police magistrate on Monday whether tho marriage was legal because she wished to leave her brother if it was not Mr Baratov answered that he believed the marriage was illegal but advised the applicant to take tho opinion of some other authority The committee for preserving tho jurisdiction of the House of Lords as a court of final appeal for the United Kingdom at their meeting on Monday afternoon at 16 St Lon-1 -t elected the following gentlemen members of the committee Henry Thomas Cole QC MP recorder of Plymouth and Devorport Mr Hardinge GitfarJ QO Sir Thomas Gladstone Bart Mr Charles Sprengel Greaves QO and Mr Thomas Kingian Kingdon QO recorder of Eristol Two or three days ago as Sir Gcor- Kinlooh and family were at luncheon in tho dini room ot Kinloch House Perthshire they were swrtled by the breaking of a window pane a splinter fr which cut Miss Kinloch on tho hand te ex-mi-nation a large pheasant was fonnd lying dead on a sofa A mirror stands opposite the win-low ana the biidhad it is supposed been misled by reflection therein cf trees and grounds The gloss was four feet square and five-sixfeonths an inch thick and the pheasant flew against it almost: with the velocity of a bullet At Rotherham on Monday Isaac Outrun was charged with maliciously attempting to sot fire (y the Holly Bush Tavern Parkgate He -corns -to have been acting in the capacity of music-tin th house and was allowed his board ami tillin' Being remonstrated with for having ia 1 much liquor he declared he would set b-o to th house and carried out his threat by setting nre the cellar to some newspapers towols c-ndles a--He was committed to the assizes for tri ll An inquest was held at Shefiield on M-m-lar nri tho body of Richard William Froggatt an eugmeei living at Brightside who was Hally stabbel a collier named Thomas White living atCarbro'-It will be remembered that tho fatal wound was accidentally inflicted in the course of a fnenaiy wrestle between them in a public house Uic fury returned a verdict of rMJ was committed on the warrant for tn at the assizes The Earl of Essex in a letter to the a vigorous protest against the prevailing pompous funerals Cordially approving tne f-gestionof Mr Seymour Hadtn as to thepromp interment of the dead the Earl of Essex points ouc that much of the delay which generally tuke3 is duo to the fact that the funeral preparations considered necessary of themselves take up time an so far tend to postpone the interment -o'r his lordship inquires are we to he subjected to tyranny of custom and undertakers At tho inquest on the body of Mr Chart Turner hank clerk of Dewsbury it was -that deceased being under the impression tna was not able to perform his duties consults relative about the propriety of giving UPT situation and going out to tho colonies gentleman dissuaded him and premised i him every assistance in his power if be thought a new career was neeessaiy dj10 i man wont home in apparently good spirits Sunday morning was found in bed a corpeo was no doubt whatever that he had co suicide and the jury found that he bad whilst of unsound mind xrnmlav In the Dublin Court of Queen's Bench ou on the motion of Mr Heron Q-p ftnannn for a was granted at tho suit of Michael Le mandamus co mmanding his wife Jaue 1 to bring into court their foin cWtaa daughters and a son Tho applicant Catholic and his wife a Protestant ther that the children with the consent of the mo weaa baptised Homan Catholics but thal she sequently sent them to a rrotestant Dellas and eventually through tho lntiri of a mob took them out of his reach so that a not seen them since Mr Isaac Butt QO MP has pamphlet upon the education question the subject in its different Mffisn the means ho considers requiHo uill of the difficulty No educational he declares ho acceptable to he InJct which rthgious teaching shall nothava and honoured place He advocates ment within Dublin University of Ir0iartl that would fulfil towards by similar functions to those now the Glasgow rsbotl actiDgunwiseiy and shonldnot bo of the opinions of any class but md consider questions dispassionately jj9utes to eserciso thoir influence to amicably fie alluded to co-operation Br largely used in different trades in W-Anderson MP of tin men had not trten peater sd8 lWr opportunity given by high wages to mi social condition name is fantastic THE AND HIS PATIENTS An action of a somewhat novfel character is to he beard in tho Liverpool County Court Tho defendant is Francis Tumbbety 177 Duke-street who advertises himself as the Great American and he is sued by William Carroll oarpenter residing at 2 Liverpool who claims £200 for a libel which he alleges was falsely and maliciously printed of him by the defendant The libel complained of is that the defendant caused to be inserted in the Liverpool Mercury the following ient in reference to the plaintiff My face was covered with pimples and blotches and my blood was very impure Tho Great American Doctor of 177 Duke-strcet has cured me William Car-roll 2 West Derby-road The case was fixed for hearing before a jury on Tuesday but on tiie previous day Mr Devey barrister on behalf of the defendant had made application for postponement of the hearing on the ground that at the present time in consequence of a recent matter in which the name had figured prominently in the newspapers there might be a prejudice in tho public mind with respect to him and that therefore he might not obtain a fair settlement of the present case The judge (Mr Collier) said that the matter had better be mentioned when the case was called In the meantime the legal advisors were communicated with and on Tuesday Mr barrister who is counsel for the plaintiff informed the court that it was agreed that the case should be adjourned for a month and it was fixed to be heard on the 23rd of February The case was remitted for trial at tho county court by the Court of Common Pleas THE EESULT OF AH INQUEST On Wednesday the adjourned inquest upon the body of Edward Hanretty a railway sbeeter who resided at 91 Athol-street was resumed before Mr Aspinall coroner Dr Bligh said he had in conjunction with Dr Samuel made an examination of the head and brain of the deceased He found the brain congested which he attributed to the general condition and not to any special cause He could not trace distinctly that the condition of the brain suggested to his mind that anything in the nature of opium had been taken but tne condition was such as would be produced by an opiate An opiate would have aggravated the condition in which he found the brain but there was nothing in the brain to account for death If he had to certify the cause of death he would certify to the effect that the deceased had died from disease of the heart and lungs He was not able to say after investigation that death was not the result of heart and lung disease from natural causes Mr Murphy who watched the case on behalf of Mr Tumblety otherwise known as American asked certain questions which intimated that Dr Bligh had after asking Mr Tumblety to meet him at a given place and time failed to keep his appointment and consequently Mr Tumblety had not the opportunity of being present at the post-mortem examination on the deceased The Coroner asked Mr Murphy if he wished to say that Mr Tumblety had been precluded from being present at the post-mortem examination Mr Mtrrphy said that he was so instructed and that Mr Tumblety had said he could not expect any at the hands of an English jury and that he (Mr Tumblety) had been informed the jury had been tampered with The Coroner said that Mr Tumblety ought to have been present in court As an absentee he was wanting in respect both to the court and himself (Mr Tumblety) If it was said that Mr Tumblety had been precluded from attending the post mortem he (tho coroner) would cause a process to ho served requiring Mr Tumblety to be present and give an explanation how it wa3 he did not appear at the post-mortem examination In regard to mention mado by Mr Murphy of Mr Tumblety as The American the coroner said sensationalism ought not to be imported It was of no importance whether Mr Tumblety was an American or not It was of far more consequence to know whether he was doctor or not Mr Murphy said that he had no sympathy with imposture He cross-examined Dr Bligh as to certain statements which the latter had made on a former occasion relative to a conversation with Mr Tumblety in which the latter was said to have stated that sold drugs but knew nothin: about Dr Bligh upheld his statemen on those points Dr Campbell Brown public analyst said he had made an analysis of the stomach and contents The stomach was healthy and there was no definite indication of a drug in it If ho had not heard of a drug being taken he would not have stated it hut looking as he did on all the statements made the indications pointed to an opiate but did not conclusively establish its presence After a comprehensive summing up by the coroner the jury retired for about a quarter of an hour On returning into court the foreman of the jury delivered a verdict to the following effect: Death was the result of natural causes but whether it was accelerated by unskilful treatment or not was left an open question jury strongly censured the conduct of Mr Tumblety in administering medicine he being in total ignorance of the condition of his MULTUM IN PAR VO The Globe states that one of her ships has been ordered to the Pellew Island The trial of the Eupion Gas directors was on Monday removed from the Old Bailey to tho Bench The Empress of Russia has sent £10 as a contribution to Mrs Free Convalesoont Home for the Poor at Woodford Essex Two men each named James Campbell but not related died suddenly in their lodgings in Coatbridge on Sunday morning The Home Rule members have decided to take no part in the choice of a Liberal leader next Wednesday During an inspection on board the Warsprite training ship in the Thames on Monday two boys whilst assisting in lowering a cutter slipped fell into the river and were drowned Eight of the crew of the ship Wallacetown for Sydney have been sentenced to various terms of imprisonment at Deal for refusing to proceed to sea Two committees one composed of English clergymen and the other of clergy and laity have been sanctioned by royal decree to organise the interests of the English Church in Belgium Mr Charles Robinson clerk at the West Riding Union Bark Dewsbury committed suicide by shooting himself on Sunday morning Deceased was 28 years of age and for some time past has been in a delicate state of health On Sunday afternoon there was a high tide in Dublin Bay The water in the Liffey was so high that at different parts of the quay the tide came over the wall flooding the streets at both sides The Shakers of New Forest are to receive £200 from the under sheriff as compensation for losses occasioned by excessive distraint made on their cattle in April Captain Degernon a Limerick magistrate and a retired cavalry offioer who fought at Inkerman was drowned on Monday night while crossing swollen stream on horseback in the neighbourhood of Bruff A tablet to the memory of Lieutenant Eyre who fell while leading the assault on Coomas3ie was on Wednesday placad in St Military Church Aldershot by his brother officers At a court-martial at Aldershot on Wednesday Colour-Sergeant Macdonald of the79th Highlanders was discharged the service with ignominy foqhaving ident of the mess embezzled while presidt £94 from the mess funds By an explosion arising from friction in a willey machine at the cloth mill of Messrs Emmanuel and Son Camp Field Leeds on Tuesday two persons named James Binns and Mary Allen wore injured At Bilston on Tuesday Mr Spooner stipendiary magistrate sentenced David Jones a collier to two imprisonment and ordered him to find sureties for six months for having assaulted his mother in a brutal manner The National Chamber of Tradeat a meeting in London on Wednesday passed a resolution in favour of the amendment the Bankruptcy Act on account of the unsatisfactory and equivocal proceedings frequently taking under it wliish were strongly condemned At an anti-income tax meeting held at Bath on Thursday a communication from Mr Gladstone was read in which the right honourable gentleman said his opinions were unchanged on the subject- and he had nothing to add to or take from the expression of his opinions in his election address of last January At the annual festival of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution on Wednesday the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot said the day fixed for the installation of the Prince of Wales as grand master of freemasons was the 28th of April The inauguration will take place either at the Albert Hall Crystal Palace or tho Alexandra Palace John Goodall a guard in the employ of tho Midland Railway Company accompanied the train which left Rotherham at 11 45 on Tuesday night and on its arrival at Sheffield he was missing The engine was rnn hack and he was found dead on the rails with both arms cut off and hiB head frightfully mutilated At the Bristol Local Marine Board on Tuesday the certificate of Captain Broad master of the British brigantine Creole owned by Mr llrust Swansea was cancelled for drunkenness whilst on a voyage from Sestra Lovante near Genoa to Swansea He admitted having a little too much at Sestra Levante and that it affected him Considerably but maintained that he wu quite capable of giving orders He denied being drunk at Genoa Yery severe privation (says a Norwich correspondent) is being experienced in consequence of the effects of the Agricultural Childrens Act which came into operation on the 1st inst by the large families of the labouring classes their weekly income being considerably reduced by the prohibitory clauses In some casevi as much as from 5s to 8s a week is lost to the parents in consequence of their being deprived of their earnings On Tuesday afternoon a man named Thomas Wilkinson a barber in Claypath Durham attempted to cut the throat of his daughter a girl about ten years old Mrs Wilkinson left the house for a few minutes and during her absemce the father remarked to his daughter I have A good mind to cut yonr and seizing a table vnu juul vuiuuv I1U ooiuig it inline knife ne drew it across the throat She saved herself by putting up her hand which was vt-ry much lacerated He was taken into custody Wilkinson woe under the influence of drin'd The Right Hon Edward Horsman MP oa Vjd-nesday addressed hi MMtituents at Liskeard claimed that lie had repeatedly prognosticated the blow which had fallen on the Liberal party as the result of repeated blunders Mr Gladstone had honourably earned his early retirement by his industiw and talents and would now shine in more congenial pursuits Mr Gladstone had gone too far in his denunciation of Roman Catholics for he bad denounced not only their politios but their religion The country was now contented and prosperous commercially and politically It desired reform but not progress but nob destruction ever It will become flagrant on "Wednesday if I mistake nbt Already we are told that the Irish Liberals have resolved to absent themselves from tho meeting As for the extreme nonconformists thoy if Mr Forster should be chosen will probably raise the cry of your twits Mr Cox has boon answering Mr CharaVjr-loin and now the Hon Lyulph Stanley a Radical of Radicals who has fought more than ono parliamentary contest in the extreme Liberal interest writes to the Daily Keios and gives his reasons why Mr Forster Bhould be preferred to the Marquis of Hartington Mr Stanloy has no notion of holding up the penny of disestablishment to hi eye and shutting out from sight all the world sun moon stars and the whole universe of as certain of the more violent dissenters have done He believes that there is other work to do besides that of disestablishing the church and ho would have his party choose a leader who is most fitted on the whole rather than try him only by a single test The Daily News hits the mark to-day when it reminds its renders that dissenters have other interests than those which thoir own journals discuss The opposition to Mr Forster comes chiefly from sectarian newspapers which bear the same relation to nonconformists that trade journals and working class organs do to working men They represent simply the diseidence of But the non-ednformiarts are also men of business and men of the worlff and whole moral and intellectual nature cannot be absolutely bound up in their attitude to the Established Church and thi 25th The Times to-day writes fathor strongly against Lord claims the Daily Telegraph has anything to say for them Even the Nonconformist tells its readers that there is very little to choose between the two candidates Thus Mr prospects are a good deal brighter than they were at the end of last week Strange to say the chief Methodist organ the Watthman continues quite silent upon the question an indication that the Wesley ans themselvos are divided upon it Meanwhile writing from the Temple and who I imagine can hardly he other than- Sir William Vernon-Harcourt points out in the Times that to elect a leader by popular suffrage is a great innovation No doubt it is but we are used to Household suffrage is an so is the vote by ballot so is the resignation of a Ministry after the country has pronounced against it and without waiting for a formal vote of no confidence in the House of Commons would leave the choice to Lord Granville I am very much mistaken if Lord Grenville would not in the present distracted state of the party far sooner leave the choice to tho House of Commons Who killed Cock Robin said the Right Hon Edward Horsman slew the said the member for Liskeard It is to him and not to Mr Gladstone that we owe tho about the Yatioan decrees and the article in the Quarterly Review about Pio speeches So that at last after 68 years of existence and after nearly 40 active participation in parliamentary affairs Mr Horsman has really done something At least he says he has Two years ago seeing an pport unity of turning his hand against his leader he suddenly turned his back upon himself and having warmly commended in the Times Mr Uni-veroity Bill he directly that he found it wa9 going to give rise to an intrigue against the Liberal Ministry joined the Ultramontane Roman Catholics to oppose and denounoo the measure which he had just spontaneously and almost extravagantly eulogised And now having helped to defeat the Liberal Ministry and shatter the Liberal party he goes down to a Liberal constituency and claims that the ally of the docile servants of the has really inspired Mr pen in hia recent writings I suppose we shall be told next that Mr Horsman who opposed the Reform Bill of 1860 was the author of household suffrage in 1867 and that Mr Horsman who denounced the French ommercial treaty 15 years ago is the great apostle of free trade for him he spoke on the same night that the Liberal meeting at Lewes came off so his speech is but little reported in tho London papers and here in town his insufferable egtism will probably escape unrebuked The impression which has lately prevailed that this will not be a very ecclesiastical session is confirmed by the Archbishop of speech at Maidstone yesterday It seems pretty clear that the archbishop thinks a good many reforms are wanted and I should gather also that a' the recent gathering of bishops in Lambeth Palace their lordships were not at all agreed as to the nature of them and thus they are postponed sine die That is unfortunate Every session which passes without the correction of certain flagrant abuses whoso existence every one admits is a fresh argument for the Liberation Society It appears that we shall have new bishoprics next session but nothing will he done to prevent tho sale of livings or to provide for a more equal distribution of church revenues Hardly satisfactory that Speaking of bishops I see that the Rev Frederick Farrer has in part denied the statement that ho had been offered the bishopric of Brisbane The denial seems to refer to the technicality of the statement for I understand he admits that some correspondence has passed on the subject and that it is likely his name will he submitted to the synod of the diocese In point of fact this correspondence does exist and though the bishopric may not yet have been formally offered to Mr Farrer it is not at all improbable that he will have it If all that the newspapers say about Mr Gladstone is true he has plenty of irons in the fire albeit he is no longer leader of the Liberal party For instance he is said to be engaged at the present time upon a work on marriage a reply to Dr Newman a collection of essays on Homer and a dictionary of Homer All this while ho is believe in frequent communication with the Old Catholics in Germany and notably Dr Diillinger and I should not be surprised to find him coming out with an article in the Quarterly Review in defence of that party Meanwhile he keeps himself well acquainted with the current literature of the day He baa read for instance Dr able article on Ecclesiastical in tho London Quarterly Review and the author of it has received a letter of thanks written by tho ex-Premier N0ETH 0E ENGLAND IRON TRADE The annual meeting of the arbitration board of the North of England iron trade was held at Darlington on Thursday Tho report for the past year was presented showing an income of £1299 The expenditure had been £1587 There were 35 works and 32 firms connected with tho board sending representatives and the operative subscribing members were about 13000 There had been very great depression of trade and a largo number of men had not had regular employment which was shown in the receipts Notwithstanding these adverse circumstances and the reduction of wages the report spoke with satisfaction of tho allegiance of the men to the principle of arbitration It was affirmed to be a subject for unqualified gratification that since the establishment of the board six years since there had been no strike on a general scale whilst the relations between capital and labour had been of a more friendly character Mr William Whitwell was appointed president in the place of Mr Dale Some matter in dispute was referred to the arbitration of Mr Kettle IMPROVEMENT IN COURT HOUSES TO THE EDITORS OP THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY Gentlemen Court houses are the primary cause of nmny evils amongst which crime drunkenness and epidemic diseases stand prominent and so long aB the present system of draining and offal removal is continued so long will these evils exist in their full force To endeavour to check brutality drunkenness and contagion while one-fifth of the population are living in a sewer atmosphere compelling them to use stimulants to sustain life is labour in vain It is beginning at the wrong end Every philanthropist would wish to see all such property removed and a better class substituted but the amount is too great to make this possible At present nothing can be worse than the ao-called sanitary arrangements The earth underneath the imperfect flagging of these courts is charged with organic filth the trough closets are perfect fever generators and the sewer drains and ventilating pipes are cleverly fixed for propagating disease Remove all these nuisanoeaand substitute a common-sense system of drainage ventilation and offal removal and these back-to-back houses can be made into mere healthy habitations than the sewer-gas charged houses in the outskirts of the town It is in this direction that the expenditure of a few thousand pounds would work immediate and substantial good and I will eladlv add £1000 to the £2000 already promised for town improvement if the donors will allow their gifts to take this form I do not olect to back-to-back houses they can be easily and efficiently ventilated and I much prefer adding the 150 feet of space required at the side or back of each house to the width of the court as I find small baok yards are generally kept in such a filthy condition as to be worse than useless If a few courts were erected free from sanitary errors I firmly believe that a largo per centage of the worst class of occupants would soon become sober and useful members of the community William Bennett On reading an eminent views of English literature Our English critics their dull wits keep straining When enter Taine and all is enter tuining 1 A ruffian was recently charged at tho Thames police court with burning a face with a lighted candle Thu magistrate probably thinking lhat a light offence deserved alight punishment gave him six weeks When the vivicremator has done his short he might set a few magistrates ep fire Some of them want tightening failed in its primary objects said such an idea was complete mistake The Athenasum had never beek' intended to be a great academic and scholastic institution as Beemed to be supposed but to be simply what it was at present a kind of literary plnb a meeing of Bradford clergymen on Wednes-dav a Jolutium was passed setting forth that it was imnoss to canY out the existing rubric requiring three in hol7 baptism and hopi rabnes were considered by convocu uon the one referred to may be altered by allowing Dne Another resolution sets forth that n8tan" irregularities arise in the endeavour to carrj rubric in the marriage service respecting tn publication of banns and trusting that convocation alter this as to overcome the difficulty.